"Have you heard? A murderous demon king is about to reach the Royal Capital with a witch!"
"I've heard people say that murderous demon king has three heads and six arms, a blue face, and fangs! He even eats children!"
"No, no! He has strange black hair, and there's a maid following him whom he keeps as a slave! Heavens, I can't imagine how much those girls he's tamed must be suffering."
"You're all wrong. I heard that demon king is actually quite handsome, and the witch beside him looks more like a tomboy."
"Huh? How could that be? I heard this from a bard! That demon king is a monster just like the Eldest Princess!"
At a street corner in the marketplace.
Those who traded in hearsay spouted nonsense here.
Lisette's gaze was exceedingly dangerous. The spikes behind her slowly turned into Second Hand's Flying Arrows, sending those who called her proud master a monster tumbling to the ground. Had her master not been beside her, requiring her to maintain the image of a perfect maid, falling down would not have been all that happened to them.
One man and two women.
Ye Qiyan walked down the street. The pedestrians on either side unconsciously cleared a path, none of them realizing that the black-haired foreigner they were discussing was passing right beside them.
"Just up ahead."
The place where the Sword in the Stone stood, surrounded by knights, was an ordinary spot among these streets and alleys.
Anyone could see this sword, and everyone wanted to draw it.
But the corpses of several men and women hanging at the market entrance were the most silent warning.
They were King Selection Candidates who had yearned to draw the sword.
After failing to draw the sword, the Eldest Princess had dispatched