Part 1
After I completed my revenge, I began making a plan to escape the castle.
This is the princess’ room, but someone’s bound to come in sooner or later. Since I’m taking a big baggage, the hurdle of the escape is increased.
It’s easy enough to escape alone, but it’s harder to escape with someone else.
“Well, for now, I’ll get some money before I leave.”
I take the maids’ wallets, and I also go through the room to get a lot of jewelry that I can easily convert into cash. I also took the royal guard captain’s wallet as a gift.
As expected of people close to the princess, they’re carrying a lot of money without a care in the world. I won’t be having trouble with money for a while.
It’s easy enough to make money using my healing powers, but the more money I make the more attention I’ll draw to myself. At the very least, I want to avoid making a fuss until I leave the capital.
I put on the royal guard captain’s armor. If I have his appearance, it’ll be easy to escape from the front gates.
Aah, the royal guard captain really went and did it. His subordinates will testify that he went to the princess’ room, so he’ll be forced to take all the blame for this mess. I won’t be caught, since I’ll change my appearance as soon as I escape. The royal family will probably kill all his relatives.
“Now then, I should do something about this woman.”
Even as the royal guard captain, it would be too suspicious to be seen carrying a naked woman.
So I’ll put on some of the armor’s inner wear on Flare, who was still completely naked and unconscious. Flare’s clothes are not in this room, there’s probably a separate room for it. The maids’ clothes are dirtied with blood and are unusable.
Since I used Transformation Heal to change her face, no one will recognize her as Flare. If someone asks, I’ll just say some noble’s daughter got a little too drunk and I’m taking her home.
I’m ready to escape. I use Transformation Heal to change back into the royal guard captain’s appearance.
I also take a lot of flammable items and place them in good spots. I pour plenty of oil and light it on fire. A small flame is born and smoke starts rising.
I’ll adjust it so that it really becomes a fire about an hour from now. By the time the fire is noticed, we’ll already have escaped the castle. This is both a distraction and a way to destroy evidence. Magic used in investigations is not as foolproof as it seems. They would be able to find our traces in this room and use it to follow us if I don’t do that.
I committed the serious crime of killing the princess and setting fire to this room. How much punishment would I receive if I’m caught? Well, it doesn’t really matter. The punishment is all for the royal guard captain.
I feel like I forgot something, but I should hurry. I don’t have time to waste. I leave the room while carrying Flare in a princess carry. I was a little nervous as I left the room, since it’d be very hard to explain myself here.
As expected, I was stopped and questioned on my way out, but I was able to talk my way out of it with the excuse I prepared in advance. It doesn’t matter if they were suspicious that I was having fun with a woman I’d brought with me.
On my way out, I saw one of the maids who had assaulted me in order to raise her level, so I took revenge on her by killing her while transforming myself into Flare. Now I have a body to fake as Flare’s.
After leaving the castle and entering the city, I entered the river that flows inside the city and got rid of my armor, leaving only the sword. But the sword is a little too big and heavy for me to use properly.
Since I’ll keep it, I’ll use alchemy to change it into a form more suited to me. While doing that, I look toward the castle. The fire was burning brightly. I really did a good job.
It’s dangerous to leave the city at night, so let’s stay in an inn for now. I wonder what kind of face I should give myself with Transformation Heal? Probably a gentle young man’s look, reflecting my inner self.
Hmm, yeah, this is good. Just like I wanted.
I look at the surface of the water and see a young man with a good looking face.
After that, I stayed in an average-quality inn with Flare. I knew the money I got would come in handy. I’ll put the money to good use.
Part 2
I spent the night at the inn. In the meantime, I was thinking about what to do in the future.
I have three main objectives I want to achieve from now on:
The first is to continue my revenge. I have to repay the Sword Hero and the Gun Hero for their kindness. The Sword Hero is a beautiful woman who dresses as a man because she’s actually a lesbian, every time Flare would talk to me, she’d get jealous and beat me up. The Gun Hero is a homosexual pedophile who abused me at any given chance. I can’t forgive either of them, I’ll give them their comeuppance. Enjoying the story? Read on at novelping.com.
The second is that I want to meet the Demon Lord. I have nothing against her, but I’m curious about her last words. I want to know what it is that she was trying to protect. It could also be fun to end the war between humans and demons.
The third is to become as strong as I possibly can. To tell the truth, right now, I’m still too weak. I want the strength that can fight any problems that I might face.
During the night, I suddenly realized what it was that I had forgotten. I didn’t kill the royal guard captain that I’d transformed into me. I made him unable to hold a pen and I smashed his throat so hard it can never be healed by ordinary means, but his identity will be immediately discovered if they use an Appraisal on him.
Once that happens, they’ll realize I have the power to change my appearance and that I was the royal guard captain that left with a woman in my arms that night. They could also make the connection that that woman was Flare.
They probably won’t use an Appraisal right away, but they’ll surely do it after he doesn’t heal anyone for a while. There’s also the possibility they’ll give him an elixir and he’ll insist he’s not me.
“It’s too risky to sneak into the castle now.”
Now that the princess has been killed and her room was set on fire, the security system is unprecedentedly tight. I shouldn’t be taking unnecessary risks. The safest thing to do now is to flee to another country.
But I’ll have to dedicate the whole day for Flare to be reborn as I want her, so we’ll depart tomorrow.
Once we go, we should head east. I hear there’s a very liberal city that way, where people come and go at will and public management is loose.
Next to me, a woman starts moving. It’s Flare. I slept in the same bed as her last night.
She has finally woken up. I wonder if the memory erasure went well.
Flare gets up and starts looking at her surroundings restlessly.
“Huh? Where am I? What was I doing?”
Then, a puzzled look showed up on her face. After trying to think for a bit, she starts holding her head.
“I can’t remember anything. Who even am I?”
She pondered anxiously and frantically. But it’s useless. She won’t be able to remember anything, her memories have been completely erased.
No, it’s slightly different. It’s more correct to say she lost the key to her memories. Even with magic, it’s still impossible to erase memories, so I just made it impossible for her to remember.
Eventually, after we reach a point where there’s no going back, I’ll allow her to remember. For example, it would probably be interesting to see her reaction to regaining her memories after she completely falls in love with me and I made her destroy her own country, which she believed was evil.
Well, putting my fantasies aside for now, I should get started.
“You woke up. I’m so relieved.”
I tightly hug Flare, as if I’m her lover.
“W-who are you?”
“You can’t remember me?!”
I make sure to react in a way that shows I’m very surprised.
“No, I can’t remember. I don’t even know about myself.”
I release Flare from my embrace and firmly hold onto her shoulders.
“No way?! You don’t even remember your own name?! Your name is Freia. You are my servant. Even though we loved each other so much, you say you’ve forgotten everything…”
I stare right into her eyes while using hypnotism magic. I’m also using alchemy to vaporize the rest of the drug inside my body. A duet of hypnosis and drugs. It works very well on people with no memories and with their head in a blank state. This chapter was copied from g.com without permission.
I can do this thanks to all the knowledge I have.
Freia is Flare’s new name. It’s best to change the name as well as the appearance. The reason I kept it close to her original name was to reduce the unconscious discomfort she would feel.
“We were… lovers.”
“That’s right. You were deeply in love with me. You fell unconscious around 3 days ago with a high fever. To think you’d lose your memory when you finally woke up. Poor Freia.”
It’s a rough setting and acting, but it should be enough for the current Flare. The proof is in her eyes, her drowsy eyes are telling me she’s slowly believing everything I’m telling her.
I set things up in an interesting way. Freia, aka Flare, is a woman who takes great pleasure in serving me. She would gladly give her life for mine and is an obedient sow who is willing to follow even the most horrible commands.
“I am Freia. Your servant, your sow.”
Flare repeats to herself with eyes devoid of reason. No, wait, it’s Freia now.
“You might remember if we join our bodies like we usually do. Freia, beg me as you usually do.”
Just like that, I created a past that never existed. I created a sex life we’ve yet to have. During it, I was able to finish putting Freia in a hypnotized state thanks to all the pleasure she was feeling. After we finish, we lay down together on the bed.
Freia interlocks our hands. Heh, there’s no doubt in her mind that I’m her master.
While lying down, Freia looks at me with a passionate look and opens her mouth.
“Fufu, my memories haven’t returned, but I can tell you’re someone very important to me. I forgot to ask you something important. What’s your name?”
Now that’s troubling. I haven’t thought of a new name yet.
I’ve changed my appearance, so I might as well change my name. I want a strong-sounding name.
“My name is Keyaruga. Don’t forget it.”
I am reborn as Keyaruga, much stronger than the weak Keyaru.
Part 3
I spent an entire day making Flare into Freia, my lovely servant. The next day, we were getting ready to leave the capital.
The former princess is currently my baggage carrier, and with a smile on her face. It’s quite a sight to see.
Once we reach the next town, I want to buy a slave. I want at least one person on the vanguard. I can only change my own talent values, and the mage Flare isn’t good as a meat shield, so I definitely need a vanguard.
A demi-human slave is good. If I use a certain method, I can be sure they’ll never betray me. Humans can’t be trusted, you never know when they’ll betray you. I’m a good person who has decided to only use brainwashing on my targets for revenge, so I have no choice but to get a demi-human slave.
And if I’m going to buy one anyway, I want a woman. It’ll be more convenient for me to raise her level cap. It’s also possible to do it with a man, but I won’t feel good.
While I was thinking about this, I saw a bulletin board.
“Ahahahahahahahahaha!”
I burst out laughing. As expected, it was a wanted poster for the royal guard captain. There’s a high bounty on him, since he committed a major crime.
Looking around, I see that his wanted poster is plastered all over the capital. They’re looking for the wrong guy, like this, I can easily escape.
Now, while this country is showing its stupidity, let’s go to the next town and make new friends.
The sun was setting as we were shopping for the things we’ll need on our trip. We will stay in the inn just one more night and depart tomorrow.