Return of the Princess
It had been a while since the last time I had been to Onigashima, and the island was tense.
Well, if the Blackbeard Pirates, who are not usually present, were wandering around in the waters they controlled, pretending to be their own, it would probably make them tense.
Moreover, Mary, their greatest strength, was also away.
I don't think they would lose if they fought each other seriously, but there would be a lot of losses and deaths, so even Anne, the queen of Onigashima, could do nothing but stand by and watch.
Moreover, it seems that the former members of the Mylene Pirates, who are now members of the Golden Skull Pirates, were sent to Onigashima by the Drake Pirates, and when we entered the port, they lined up to greet us.
"Did the alliance between the Mary Anne Pirates and the Drake Pirates go well?"
I asked a low-ranking member of the Golden Skull Pirates whose name I don't even know.
"Yes. At first, they were fighting each other, but recently it has been decided that the Drake Pirates will completely surrender and become part of the Mary Anne Pirates."
"Is that so?"
"Yes. All of a sudden, they started to take a reverent attitude towards the oni people, although it’s not so much towards the ogres.
They started calling Anne-san [princess-sama], which is a little creepy."
Probably, the vampires came under the control of the oni people around the time that Drake and his daughters were screwed over by Anastasia.
Drake and his daughters also suddenly started calling Mary [princess-sama] after Anastasia had straightened them.
Well, Drake seems to be able to use telepathy with his vampire subordinates, so he probably contacted them.
But why are Anne and Mary princesses?
Originally, from Drake's point of view, Anne and Mary are the grandchildren of the Ancestor, so do they have a higher status than the Drake parent and child who were simply given the blood of the Ancestor?
Well, I guess Anastasia had forced them to be polite.
Be respectful to people of high status!
We headed to the mansion where Anne was staying while talking to the low-ranking members of the Golden Skull Pirates.
Let me explain Onigashima once again.
I may have given a proper explanation up until now, but when I asked Mary about it, I learned that the population is 1,000 ogres, 30 oni people, and about 300 other pirates under the Mary Ann Pirates group.
The island is about the same size in Japan as Hachijo-jima, an island used as a place for exile during the Edo period.
It is one of the largest islands in this area.
The mansion where Anne lives is the castle of Onigashima.
Although it is called a castle, it is actually a two-story Japanese-style mansion.
It is just like a Japanese castle without an actual lord living in it.
The lord actually lives in the Honmaru Palace below the castle, not in the castle tower.
Onigashima is a natural fortress island.
The island is surrounded by steep cliffs, and there are only a limited number of places you can enter the island.
According to Mary, the inside of Onigashima Island has never been attacked.
Therefore, there is no need for a castle for siege.
That's not to say that they don't have the construction technology to build a magnificent castle.
Having said that, it seems that Onigashima was actually attacked only once by a foreign enemy.
Well, the person who invaded was the Ancestor whom the oni people and ogres worshiped.
The Ancestor simply wanted to stay on Onigashima for a short time, but at that time, the ogres, who were hostile to humans, attacked the Ancestor.
Well, even if they attacked, Onigashima at that time was in danger of being wiped out by an epidemic brought by adventurers from Europe.
Even the hero Ancestor had no desire to confront them, so after lightly punishing them, she treated the epidemic, and then formed a reverse harem.
Yes, the Ancestor became the harem hero I aspire to be on Onigashima.
I'm truly envious.
This is the history of Onigashima.
Are we in the castle? When I arrive at the mansion, I am taken directly to the large hall.
Anne was sitting in the elevated room of the great hall, and on either side of her were elderly vampires with the same faces, dressed as butlers, standing to serve her.
It might be something like a Western butler who served a female castle lord during Japan's Sengoku period, or something like this, a fusion of Japanese and Western style.
Well, Anne is a Gothic Lolita oni girl with blue hair in vertical rolls, so it is more like a princess and a butler than a fusion of Japanese and Western style.
Well, as a fan of Re: Z*ro, I think a maid outfit would be a good fit for the twin sisters Anne and Mary, the red and blue oni, but if they were that similar, it might get complaints from serious fans of Re: Z*ro, so I guess this is the author's limit.
In the lower room, Onigashima's main oni people and ogres were sitting cross-legged, and on both sides of the room, people who appeared to be the main vampire aristocrats were standing upright and motionless.
"What has happened while I've been away for a while!"
As soon as Mary arrived at the Great Hall, she sat down next to Anne, who was sitting in the elevated room, while cutting down on the vampire who was standing upright and motionless in the lower room of the Great Hall.
"I don't understand it either. The vampires who came here to form an alliance with us, but who had been so arrogant to us, suddenly started to bow down to us a few days ago, and said they would be our subordinates."
Anne, too, seemed to be having a hard time grasping the situation.
"The Drake family also started thinking about Mary after Anastasia straightened them as a princess, isn't that the same thing?"
I'll also tell Anne about the changes in the Drake family.
"Even the pureblood Drake family changed?
So, Drake and his daughters aren't coming?"
"Drake and his daughters went after Anastasia to the Amru Fortress City."
"Anastasia-sama? Anastasia-sama must be an amazing person to be able to reform the Drake family."
"Yeah! Master is an amazing person!
I too have become very strong thanks to Master's training!"
When Mary said that, she released her suppressed Touki.
The oni people, ogres, and vampires in this great hall are all higher-ranking species, so they don't faint, but they cower due to the tremendous Touki.
"As expected of the princess who is a direct descendant of the Ancestor-sama!
It is exactly like the Ancestor-sama's Touki!"
The two elderly vampires on either side of Mary and Anne shed tears as they bowed to Mary.
"Have you guys met grandmother?"
At these unexpected words, Mary looks twice at the elderly butler who is bowing on either side of her.
There were two people with the same face on either side, so she just turned her head.
"Yes. When we were still serving in the Crusades, we were serving the hero Artoria-sama."
Artoria, Atlesia continent, Anastasia.
Another complicated name that could be mistaken for something else.
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