Chapter 188: The Fangire Queen, the Birth of Despair
"What exactly is going on? What happened?"
She didn't know. Haruno Haruka had no idea at all.
All she had seen was Kanata, suddenly acting as if faced with a formidable enemy, attacking her without a word. Her own instinctive movement had instead seriously injured him.
Why had things turned out like this?! And... hadn't I already freed the final castle and saved Hope Kingdom? Why was the dark miasma still filling the area instead of fading away? It even... seemed to be getting bigger?
"Kanata, Prince Kanata!"
Realizing that the person lying on the ground was in much worse condition, Haruka hurried over and helped Kanata up again. "I'm sorry! My instinctive reaction somehow turned into this... Why did you attack me, Kanata?"
Seeing him struggle to open his eyes, Haruka finally let out the breath she had been holding. Thank goodness, he hadn't lost consciousness! Whatever misunderstanding there was, they could slowly clear it up afterward.
"Let go of me!" But his first reaction was far beyond the girl's expectations. His face filled with terror, he struggled and shoved away Haruno Haruka's outstretched hand. "Stay away from me, monster!"
Huh...? What monster?
"Have you forgotten? I'm the Princess Pre--"
"Princess?"
Staring at the pink monster before him as she waved at him and prepared to "attack," Kanata desperately grabbed the scepter from the ground and pointed it at her. "That's right! I absolutely won't let you lay a finger on the princesses!"
"You thing, you're the one who doesn't suit a princess at all!"
Haruka felt as if something had pierced through the back of her head in an instant.
Why?
When I was lost at the beginning, weren't you the one who trusted and supported my dream of