Chapter 19

【 Defre's POV 】

We've been walking for a while.

The wounded have been tended with bandages and been carried by the skeletons.

Still, we've been walking and no sign of any base or house, even a campfire would be noticeable, but nothing at all just trees.

"Is it still far?."

"We are almost there, it's just that our Hime take our home to a far place." (Vox)

What does he mean? The princess take their home?

I turn around and look at my comrades.

Xerxe's still devastated after her comrade have been taken.

The others still the same but due to Xerxe's crying, the mood has been lessen.

"Oh!" (Vox)

"Hmm?"

"What is that?" (Zello)

"This?" (Vox)

A cabin? A carriage?

Its structure is somewhat obscure...

"This is Hime's skill, or more like a magic item!" (Vox)

"A magic item?"

Now that he said that I can feel magic from it.

Though I'm not an expert on it, I sense it.

"Let's move forward! The destination are up ahead." (Vox)

I nodded in response.

The magic item get ahead of us.

If the destination is up ahead then that place is where flowers gather, an open prairie.

I've been there for many times since the view is magnificent and the stars at night can be seen.

"Where here!!" (Vox)

"But? I don't see any people or any sort of building...” (Zello)

"Just wait!" (Vox)

If you’re not my benefactor I would've punch you.

Still, this is weird. Not a single structure, just flowers.

"Hime!" (Vox)

"OKAY VOX-SENSEI!!" (???)

"Where?"

A voice resounded from the obscure carriage.

The voice seems from a woman.

"The house of spirits and the dead shall welcome those souls, thy abode shall become your shelter. I welcome thee, Second form release 【 Spirit lantern mansion of the Undead Empress 】" (???)

Again that voice.

The carriage glows and transform to a huge building.

A wide house with tiled red roofs. Lantern everywhere and a bell on the entrance with a hanging tag on it saying souls.

It's like a big residence.

With the flowers on this prairie the building is out of place.

Then, a woman in her teens appeared wearing in somewhat weird clothes.

"Welcome!! Wanderer clan!" (???)

"We are on the presence of our Hime-sama!" (Vox)

The man named Vox declared and kneel, the skeletons also kneeled.

In order to be respectful we also kneeled.

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【 Velvet's POV 】

I used the second form of the spirit carriage.

It transform into like a shrine colored in red and black.

And it's very wide when you look it from the outside.

From the inside, well, it's like from before.

The various wide rooms, the first floor are the only one that change.

The first floor have been replaced by a wide variety of rooms like an inn and also at the entrance there's a reception desk. Beside it are two separated rooms, the one on the left are the way for the rooms on the first floor and the right side are for the stairs going to the second floor. At the entrance also theirs an aquarium filled with glowing carps, I think there some sort of spirit, and the outside is decorated with lanterns with eyes on them. It's like a haunted house or some sort.

Then I prepared myself to welcome them.

I requested a kimono from Vera-san but with more complicated designs like clothes of some emperor, because this mansion is named with the undead empress I should look like one, a royalty.

When I welcomed them they all kneeled when Vox-sensei declared so.

"Bring forth the wounded."

The skeletons carried the wounded gently.

I hold my summoning staff firmly and raised it so I look like I'm one of those shrine maiden, while I'm doing this I think I've heard someone said a divine maiden but I've let it be.

"Forest Light and the Souls of the Druids, 《 Wisp of the Forest 》"

The wisps fly out of my staff and each of them go to every wounded person three at a time. Though when separated the healing will be slower but the healing of my wisps is already average from the priest of the light clan.

"My wounds! It's gone!"

"Thank goodness! I'm healed!"

"I thought I was done for!"

The healed persons remove their bandages and felt joy seeing their body healthy and wound free.

"Empress-sama! Thank you very much for your assistance with the whole undead clan!! If your clan didn't help us, we could've died!" (Zello)

"Eh...no...uhmm, then the pleasure is mine...”

I was perplexed when a man approached me and called me empress-sama.

Being called Hime-sama is enough for me though.

"Well, your stamina haven't recovered yet, why stay for a while on my mansion and greet the others too."

"We will take the offer of Empress-sama." (Zello)

"..."

"Isn't that a good one? Since Hime-sama are now crowned as the ruler of our clan, calling Hime-sama as Hime-sama might lower her own stature. Empress-sama is good though." (Velvet)

"That's good too! Yeah we should call her that! Empress-sama!!" (Seleca)

This bunch...

Well, as long as they're happy I couldn't care less.