After many twists and turns, Shinji and his companions finally arrived in the Land of Vegetables.
Then surprise and gravity appeared on their faces.
"This is... the Land of Vegetables?"
In Shinji's imagination, the Land of Vegetables should have been a country of beautiful scenery and simple, honest people, with fragrant rice paddies and wheat fields everywhere.
But what lay before them now was scorched earth, mutilated corpses, and bloodstains that had yet to dry.
"Impossible... impossible..."
Princess Haruna murmured in a daze, then suddenly broke away from the others and ran forward, running and running.
Clearly, something else had happened in the Land of Vegetables during this time, something none of them knew about.
Otherwise, even civil unrest could not have caused devastation on this scale.
Because this was their home!
No one would be stupid enough to burn the fields and slaughter civilians.
If anyone really did that, never mind becoming the Daimyō-the people around him would probably be the first to want him dead!
By the time Shinji and the others caught up, Princess Haruna had stopped and grabbed a terrified little boy who was trying to flee.
She was desperate to know what had happened to this country, so she completely failed to notice just how unstable the little boy's emotions were.
"Ah!"
After the little boy bit her hard, Princess Haruna was finally forced to let go.
But the little boy still failed to escape.
Shinji easily lifted him up, then said softly, "Calm down."
Under the power of [Cursed Speech], the little boy, who had been struggling desperately, finally calmed down.
Then Shinji handed him over to Princess Haruna and the others for questioning.
He had only intervened out of curiosity.
Before long, after revealing her identity, Princess Haruna managed to learn some of