SWNOVELXO chapter 248
Chapter 248. Valentina’s Corrupted Ending, Part Four (?): Flower Fairy (1)
Let’s rewind time a bit.
When Clotilde noticed Noah’s sudden disappearance.
Noah also returned to the ruined temple first, then teleported to a dungeon in the southwestern part of the kingdom.
The location here is quite close to the dungeon Noah visited with the Princess before, both being in the west of the kingdom.
Though one leans southwest, and the other is straight south.
According to the original setting, these two dungeons are connected.
As for the dungeon a bit north of the west, that’s the base of the depraved cult that worships the ‘Goddess of Beauty.’
Since it hasn’t been wiped out yet, the cult should still be there, and once the Princess eliminates him, that evil god, she’ll probably clear out all the other domestic tumors.
…Speaking of which, the Princess sure is patient. Noah thought she’d want to shake off his shackles ages ago. Looks like he needs to do a few more things to provoke her.
Not now, though.
What Noah needs to deal with now is the anomaly in this southwestern kingdom dungeon.
A monster girl is controlling countless vines, wantonly slaughtering the monsters before her.
The monster girl has a strange, exotic beauty with her blue-green skin, deep green leaves and vines serving as her body ‘clothing’.
From her head sprouts a white flower large enough to cover half her pretty face. You can’t see her feet below the naked legs, because her straight and graceful legs are sunk into a huge white lily from the shins down. The lily’s nectar also appears as a peculiar milky-white, looking extremely alluring.
Though you can’t see the upper half of her face, the visible lower half clearly shows a seductive smile. She’s controlling the vines beneath the white lily, lashing and attacking all other monsters around her.
Her level is near LV80, making her the final boss of this dungeon.
This is the most dramatically different losing route outcome compared to the Princess so far. Not only is her appearance more monster-like,
but her hair has also changed from silver to a somewhat purple pink.
More unusually, her figure has become smaller. Though not to the point of being a loli, compared to her previous semi-adolescent/semi-mature state, she can now only be described as a completely adolescent body.
Naturally, Noah immediately appeared on the scene, standing on one of the vines she was controlling, arms crossed, and mockingly shouted:
“Yo yo yo! Isn’t this the Princess! It’s been a few days, and you’ve gotten so pathetic!”
Noah was sure, it was Princess, not the nun.
Because this was Princess’s territory, and not long ago Noah had faced similar flower demons with her.
Never thought she’d be the one parasitized by that demon flower this time.
She looked like the demon’s ‘brain’ but was just bait.
Even though she was Princess, Noah couldn’t feel any pity for her at all.
Because the Princess Noah knew was a dragon, not some flower demon.
Just a copy-pasted, mind-screwing ‘bootleg’, why should Noah feel guilty about her falling this far?
“…Who are you?”
The flower demon, who had been attacking the monster in front of her, finally noticed Noah’s presence, even though she actually couldn’t see him, she still showed a puzzled expression towards Noah standing on her vine.
Her little head tilted, as if very confused.
“Haha! Yeah! There’s no way you’d know me! Because you aren’t the Princess I know either!”
Amused by the flower demon, Noah pressed his forehead, laughing exaggeratedly, but his eyes revealed a hint of interest.
Who told Princess’s defeated endings to become so interesting?
“…Though I don’t know who you are, you look interesting, can you be my friend?”
Her small head tilted, and the large white lily hanging from her head, partially covering her face, swayed along.
Her light green lips parted slightly, revealing surprisingly pleasant words.
“Friend? Heh, are you sure you want to be friends with me?”
Noah had thought she was interesting enough, but he didn’t expect her to say even more interesting things, which made Noah break into a mocking smile.
Just a trick of the goddess or the world’s will, an existence whose sole purpose is to be a defeated ending replica to oppose Noah, yet she says she wants to be friends with him?
That’s quite unexpected…
“Yep! Because friends are delicious!”
…Okay, not unexpected now, after turning into a demon, even her thoughts followed suit.
Before Noah could even say anything, that pure and lovely flower-like face bloomed with a captivating smile, uttering terrifying words.
“Let’s be friends! Let me eat you! Because you look so delicious, big brother!”
Seeing that Noah didn’t seem to object, the flower demon seemed to assume that Noah had agreed.
She happily manipulated another vine to quickly bind Noah’s body, trying to pull Noah closer to the huge white lily flower at her feet.
This was a familiar experience for Noah.
He had been dragged like this last time, but last time Princess had been there, getting in the way, and had directly used magic to create a blade of light, cutting his vine and sending him flying.
But it seems there’s no need to worry about that today, because Noah had seen the real Princess just now, she was relaxing and enjoying a drink alone in the capital’s streets.
Heh, as expected of a Princess who had defeated the blond-haired guy and the wronged party, escaping her original fate and being reborn.
While she was still a ways off from being a cruel, cold, heartless b*tch of a Dragon Queen, she was already quite successful as an elegant and powerful Dragon Princess.
Just watching her made Noah instinctively want to sweat on behalf of the little prince and the big prince who hadn’t been dealt with yet!
Since the Princess was off there enjoying herself,
Noah figured he might as well enjoy a copy of her here!
And she even called him ‘Oniichan’ and stuff! She really knows how to play it!
Faced with the flower demon drawing ever closer, Noah didn’t feel fear or unease. Instead, he felt a wild grin spread across his face at the prospect of experiencing a monster girl.
“Hehe~ Big brother, why don’t you resist? Do you like me?”
Unlike the flower demon he’d encountered before—which had seemingly been an adult female adventurer—this one, still looking rather green, didn’t immediately open her arms and embrace Noah for some *ahem* activities.
The young flower demon manipulated her vines like tentacles, placing the bound Noah in front of her, not in any rush to start the *big stuff*.
Instead, she began to tease him.
“Ah, of course I like you, like you so much I want to beat you to a pulp and erase your consciousness!”
Noah didn’t even bother pretending to be weak, instead brazenly revealing his savagery, a sneering smile directed at the flower demon.
“Hehe~ Just spouting hot air~ you big fibber~”
Upon hearing this, the cute smile on half of the flower demon’s face quickly twisted into a sneer that matched Noah’s, oozing with malice.
They openly displayed their ill-will towards each other, the clash between them about to erupt.
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PS. This is the third update today, more tomorrow.
(Yep, that’s right, this princess isn’t the one from before.)