Tamamo Hotaru's utterly unreliable performance successfully earned her Shinji's middle finger.
The next day, Princess Haruna parted ways with the others.
Although the Land of Vegetables had been reduced to this state, and even those who had originally wanted to fight for power and profit had either died in the catastrophe a few days earlier or fled in terror.
Princess Haruna was willing to shoulder this responsibility, preserving the Land of Vegetables' name and the civilians who remained.
For the first time, she chose to take this position not for power, but for the people.
Now that even the Daimyō's Mansion had burned down, naturally no one was fighting her for this mess anymore.
But the large group of people who had been taken away was important. They were hope.
"I'm counting on you."
Princess Haruna said goodbye to Shinji and the others with the few people she had barely managed to gather.
With the Land of Vegetables in this state, Tamamo Hotaru naturally could no longer stay either. Besides, she still owed Shinji a Jade Tablet, so she had to keep following him as a maid.
"We'll do our best."
Shinji gave a brief reply, making no sweeping promises.
Even he could not be certain whether they would find those people.
Princess Haruna nodded and said nothing more.
Making any more demands at this point would have been pushing her luck.
"Where are we going to look for them?"
After they hurriedly left the Land of Vegetables, Tamamo Hotaru asked with great concern.
"If you don't want to die horribly, stop flitting around in front of me."
"Oh..."
Shinji did not want to deal with this woman at all right now. He had wasted his time and energy and even offended Kumogakure to bring her to the Land of