Chapter 443 Dignity and Victory

"Yes!"

As if he didn't feel anything wrong with the "father and daughter killing each other" scene in front of him, after hearing the old king's order, the waiter behind him immediately responded, then stood up and rushed towards the fallen princess, ready to control her, but...

"boom!"

There was only the sound of iron sheets colliding, and the fallen princess raised her metal arm with some burn marks on it and slapped the waiter hard in the face.

With the creaking sound of metal twisting, the iron waiter's neck immediately twisted 180 degrees in the opposite direction, and the body below the neck instantly lost control, and he fell to his knees in front of the princess with a plop.

"You are so cruel."

After trying to stand up twice, but unable to do so because the joint of her right leg was stuck, the Iron Princess said with a sad face:
"No matter what, I called you father so many times, and you actually shot me directly?"

"..."

He looked at the iron guard who had his head twisted and knelt on the ground, and then looked at the others who were all outside the study and indifferent to his orders. The old king in the wheelchair was silent for a while, then raised his head and responded coldly:

"Stop pretending. No matter how many times you call me father, you are not my daughter!"

"Well, since you are the king of this country, then naturally what you say is what counts."

After shaking her head slightly, the Iron Princess staggered toward the door, reached out and took out the thick ceremonial sword from the waist of an iron guard, and then walked towards the old king while holding the sword, asking curiously:
"If I'm not mistaken, there was a moment when you actually believed what I said and really thought I was your daughter, but in the end you still shot me... Can you please tell me why you changed your mind?"

"..."

Looking at the iron-skinned princess walking towards him with a sword in hand, the old king's iron-skinned face twitched slightly, and then he nodded and acknowledged:
“For a moment, I believed that Veronica had really figured it out, but after thinking about my own life, I immediately knew that you could never be my daughter.

Whether it's me, Veronica, Joshua, or anyone else, for us royal family members, once we make up our minds about something, there is no possibility of "thinking it through". For hundreds of years, no one has been an exception. This is a curse that runs in our blood!"

"I see."

After limping through the study and arriving in front of the old king, the princess holding the sword nodded thoughtfully and said:
“No wonder you only tried to persuade me once or twice. After you found out that I always insisted on my own ideas, you never tried to persuade me again and directly started to prepare for Joshua to succeed to the throne.

Is it because you feel that persuading me is useless and will only make me wary and start to guard against you, so you simply don’t persuade me and instead try to support me as much as possible, so that I will think that you agree with my ideas? "

"not only that."

The old king in the wheelchair sat up straight and said coldly:

"What I'm really worried about is that after Veronica finds out that I'm very determined, she will pretend to be submissive for a while, and after I hand over the throne to her, she will continue to do her own thing and cut out the royal family's flesh and blood to give the kingdom a blood transfusion...

Monster! Tell me! How do you know this? I have only advised Veronica a few times in private, and no one else should know the details. Who the hell are you?"

"I told you, I am your daughter."

The metal finger pressed the spring, threw off the gorgeous scabbard, and then Princess Veronica raised the unsharpened ceremonial sword and asked gently:

“By the way, although your legs can’t move and you can’t escape from me, aren’t you going to resist a little longer?

Father, actually, I have wanted to see your fear, despair, or regret since a long time ago. Can you please fulfill this little wish of your daughter before you die?" "..."

After hearing the princess' malicious question, the old king simply closed his iron eyelids, covering his two cloudy gemstone eyeballs. Then, a fierce sound of breaking wind sounded from his ears, and the dark world in front of him spun around...

……

"Father, you are too old."

After chopping off the Ironhide King's head with a sword, Princess Veronica couldn't help but shake her head as she looked at the slumped body in the wheelchair. She pointed the tip of her sword at the attendants and guards outside the door and said:
"If you were younger and had clearer eyes, you would be able to see the strangeness of the guards outside."

Those soldiers?

Hearing the princess' words, the old king's head rolled to the ground and suddenly opened his eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"What I meant is that in order to prevent them from obeying your orders and helping you attack me, I had to cut off their ears in advance."

The Ironhide Princess explained with a smile:
"You should have guessed what happened to you, but what you don't know is that my 'rules' are things like status, position and power. Within the scope of my rules, people with higher status can forcefully order people with lower status, and even I am not exempt from this."

From this point of view, the queen is actually much more difficult to deal with than you. After all, if I want to pick up the sword to kill her, as long as she screams "no", or even cries and begs me for mercy, begging me not to kill her, I will have to stop immediately.

But you are different. Your dignity does not allow you to do anything that is undermining royal demeanor. When I walk towards you with a sword in hand, you will neither scream in panic nor cry for mercy. You will just close your eyes and wait for death, letting me chop off your head.

When I chop off your head, your 'status' and 'power' will die, and it also means that no one in this kingdom will be able to disobey my orders anymore."

"..."

As the old king seemed to understand something and suddenly showed a trace of annoyance, the Iron Princess smiled with satisfaction and said:
"Dear father, thank you for your dignity, which allowed me to win the final victory."

"..."

"Are you saying this just to see me regret it?"

After looking at the princess who was looking down at him, the old king's iron head said coldly:
“I don’t know why you hate me so much, but you haven’t won yet!
The twelve kingdoms have an agreement with the Cleanup Bureau. Only people with the same blood as us can be the king of the twelve kingdoms. So even if you kill me, it will be useless. When the people from the Cleanup Bureau discover the abnormality in the palace, you will be immediately..."

"The Cleanup Bureau won't do anything to me."

Lifting the thick-backed iron sword in her hand again, the Ironskin Princess smiled and said:

"I didn't lie just now, I am indeed your daughter Veronica.

And you yourself said that according to the agreement between the Twelve Kingdoms and the Cleanup Bureau, only someone with the corresponding bloodline can become the king of the Twelve Kingdoms.

So, if I move fast enough and kill all the royal bloodlines in one go before they get here, what do you think the people from the Cleanup Bureau should do?"

(End of this chapter)

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