On the way back.
The unsettling feeling. The answer is a happy sign but yet, the method is too cruel.
Taking one life is cruel enough but to save another, any would do. Even humans kill others to save a family of theirs.
The four wonder if they should tell the answer or not. If they tell, no one would know what kind of method that princess would do. She is driven to save the country, no matters the method, no matters the lives. She can take one easily with just a blink of an eye.
Upon the gate, the first people they see are none other than her highness and her loyal guard.
Getting closer. The anticipation, whether to lie or to tell her.
She knows the weary looks and the exhaustion but does she know about what they found?
"By the looks of yours, either you haven't found the answer after it collapsed or the answer was too disturbing to be shared. Now, I don't want to know. It is better to be kept unknown to me than letting me know. Right now, we have found another answer to the daughter of the church's situation. The church calls for it. That is the only perfect solution. The only one that can do this swiftly is me" - The teary eyes of her highness - "Feh, it was an honor to call her my best friend throughout these 10 years… I… want… but… "- Her fists clench -"See you in the next life then, my friend"
The first time ever in the eyes of the people, the princess is so emotional. Executing humans should be easy for her but the only humans she executed were the criminals, thugs, disgusting beings. Yet, her own friend? Fate is cruel
"We know the answer to this but…" - Tiary glooms
"Enough… No more… I will take that life! I am Jenesse Balkineer, the third born. I am the Bloody Princess. One life is not that hard." - Her hand readies a dagger then she cuts her long hair - "Who defies my commands or my way shall be headless."
The announcement, the four cannot move. The knight follows her steps. She walks back to the Southeast where South Wind town lies. She is getting further and further until the four can no longer see her figure and of her knight.
The four collapse, then take a step going to the gate. Each step feels like dragging a boulder up.
The only true solution.
Who knows whatever comes to their way of life.