After that, Asir somehow escaped the forest and settled down in a human village she happened to find.
The village had received great help from elves in the past, and the villagers doted on her simply because she was an elf.
She ate when she was hungry, slept when she was tired, and played when she felt like it, truly enjoying a wonderful NEET life, satisfying her appetite, lust, and sleepiness all within her room.
However, what kind of existence is an elf to humans?
The mere appearance of one would spread rumors far and wide, and after staying in the village for a whole month, the rumors quickly spread.
As a result, countless people came to see the elf, traveling from nearby villages and even from distant places that took two weeks to reach on foot, forming an endless line of visitors seeking her out.
Of course, the small village experienced an unexpected boom, and they treated Asir, the elf, with even greater care.
However, Asir began to feel increasingly uncomfortable.
She had to greet the numerous humans who came to see her every day with forced smiles, and she was constantly bothered by them.
When a pompous merchant even came to ask her to become his seventh concubine, Asir decided to leave the village.
Having seen the merchant’s lustful eyes and the way he licked his lips, she felt that if she stayed any longer, she would be subjected to all sorts of things by that perverted pig merchant.
So, on the day of her decision, Asir tried to slip out of the village under the cover of night, but unfortunately, her plan failed.
A sudden attack.
In the darkness that followed the extinguishing of the candles, Asir was attacked by thugs who suddenly appeared, and she lost consciousness without even being able to resist.
To be precise, she had realized the attack was coming thanks to her elven hearing, but since she had never fought before, she couldn’t react even though she knew.
Thus, Celebrian Asir, the second princess of the elves, was kidnapped, tied up in a sack, and thrown into a carriage like luggage.
A sudden attack and kidnapping.
Asir, still influenced by modern thinking, finally realized how valuable elven women were, and just as she was about to wet her pants, thinking she was going to be sold as a slave… no, a sex slave (she was practically left alone, so they were all dry by the time she arrived at her destination),
She arrived at the Imperial Palace.
There, she finally met the mastermind behind the kidnapping, Ganix Obina.
Ganix, who also knew the original story, judged Asir to be an imposter because of her actions that differed from the original, and had her kidnapped.
Ganix, who had treated her like luggage at first, immediately treated her like a guest, washing her, dressing her, and feeding her, and just as her heart was softening, he immediately began to explain.
He also had been transported into this world, and since then, he had been working with other transported individuals to live in this world. Ganix naturally coaxed Asir with the same words, making her his comrade.
After that, he immediately began investing in Asir to make her capable of doing her part.
He hired instructors to teach her archery and martial arts.
Academics were not necessary.
If she learned about the ways of the world and became too clever, she would become difficult to handle.
Of course, Asir preferred moving her body to sitting at a desk and scribbling with a quill.
The elven body was surprisingly flexible and resilient.
As she adapted to her transported body, she could jump higher, run faster, see farther, and shoot arrows more accurately.
As her skills improved, her sense of accomplishment quickly rose, and just as she began to feel confident that she could do anything—
Ganix began to use Asir as his bow in earnest.
After the day she killed someone on Asir’s orders, Asir began to recognize everyone except the transported individuals as NPCs.
Once she started thinking, “They’re NPCs, just characters in a novel,” the arrowheads flew even more freely.
She didn’t even question why she had to follow Ganix’s orders.
Ganix’s excellent eloquence was enough to make her mistakenly believe that she, the great Asir, was “helping” him, rather than him giving orders.
And now.
Asir was stationed in the Great Forest due to Ganix’s order-that-wasn’t-an-order.
“Ugh… I’m going crazy.”
The order itself was simple.
Using her status as the second princess, she was to prevent the Freya County from obtaining the World Tree Leaf.
Having become fully accustomed to her elven body, Asir was able to naturally find the Great Forest as soon as she stepped into it, and then she was able to control the World Tree Leaf by announcing her return.
She later realized that the third princess was an imposter, but it didn’t matter.
She just had to hole up in the royal palace, block her ears, and be difficult until the next order came.
About three days after holing up and ignoring the elders’ requests to see her and the third princess’s hints.
“What am I supposed to do when there’s a Black Dragon…”
Tenebric Nox had come to the Great Forest.
She had heard rumors of it since entering the Great Forest, but it was certain.
Right now, the ominous atmosphere felt inside the third princess’s office building, visible through the window, was on a completely different level.
“Is he going to barge in and beat me to a pulp?”
Tenebric Nox was someone who could open—no, not even open the door she was behind right now.
He was someone who could just burn down the entire building.
“…But there hasn’t been anything impossible among the things that guy has asked me to do.”
She was very anxious and her skin was crawling, but Asir had something to believe in.
Ganix was very annoying and unpleasant, but there was nothing particularly wrong with what he said.
“Besides, we have our own…”
Moreover, even if something happened, she had a reliable ‘secret weapon’ on her side.
“…Oh well, whatever! It’ll work out somehow!”
Asir, who had been racking her brain, which didn’t work very well, finally dove onto the bed with a puff of steam coming from her head and shouted.
“Someone who’s good at using their head should be the one to use it. What’s the point of me using it?”
It was complicated, but Ganix would take care of it.
Asir decided to stop worrying about the headache and just stay put.
Then.
Knock knock-
“Huh? What is it?”
[Lady Asir, dinner is ready.]
“Diiiiinner?!”
Asir frowned as she heard the voice from beyond the door saying that dinner was ready.
That damn Front.
The fruit called the Miracle of the World Tree was the staple food of the elves living in the Great Forest, but Asir had completely grown tired of the fruit in less than three days of being in the Great Forest.
Her palate, which had been completely refined by eating gourmet meals in the royal palace every day, had become completely high-class, and now she felt like she was going to throw up just looking at Front.
“I’m not eating!”
[But, Lady Asir… you have to eat…
“No, I don’t need it! You guys eat a lot!”
[Lady Asir…!]
“Ugh! Seriously! You’re persistent!”
She immediately refused the meal and shouted, but the servant beyond the door showed no signs of backing down.
“I’m not eating! Just get lost!”
Asir, frustrated by the servant’s persistence, shouted loudly as if to convey her firm will.
Then.
[…Hey, if you’re an elven princess, you shouldn’t be picky and just eat.]
“Wh-what?! What did you just say!”
Asir, feeling bewildered by the servant’s suddenly gruff tone, shouted back.
[Hey guys, the princess is being picky. She’s not setting an example as a princess of a nation, so we need to fix that habit, right?]
Crack-creak-
“…Huh? W-wait… wait…! Stop!?”
Following that, a very ominous sound and cracks began to appear on her door, as if lightning had struck it.
Soon.
Kwaaaang-!
“Eek!?”
The door shattered into pieces with a literal explosion and a tremendous shockwave.
Asir involuntarily fell on her butt from the wind and dust that flew in.
And.
“What’s going on s-‘
“…..”
“Hey, princess. It’s hard to get a glimpse of your face, isn’t it?”
As the thick dust settled and her vision cleared, Asir looked up to face forward.
Then, in front of her eyes, she saw a man with a huge axe radiating a blue aura slung over his shoulder, looking down at her.
Following him, people began to appear from behind him.
Among those people, she could see the human form of Tenebric Nox, whom she had been so wary of until just now.
“O-oh…”
Asir, surrounded by so many people so suddenly, moved her eyes back and forth and opened and closed her mouth.
Thud-! Creak-!
In that state, Darian, the man at the very front, lightly slammed the axe on his shoulder onto the ground, and a cracking sound began to spread from the point where he slammed it.
“Second Princess of the Elves, shall we have a little ‘chat’?”
“C-chat? S-sure?”
Asir involuntarily nodded at Darian’s face as he grinned a terribly menacing smile.