Chapter 19: Move On to the Next Journey

"Just completely forget about conquering humankind", I tell Ishida with a dismissive wave of my hand while meticulously adjusting a stray lock of my vibrant pink hair. "They are all absolute, irredeemable weirdos anyway".

"You are just terribly mad because the ugly old King miraculously gets the absolute best girl", Ishida laughs incredibly loudly, finding endless amusement in my profound misery.

We quickly decide we definitely want to permanently move on to our next chaotic journey, far away from this bizarre romance. We systematically gather Amiya, Meiyi, and the ever-clueless Diana in the quiet, sun-dappled castle courtyard. Before we can finally leave this completely crazy, logic-defying place, Ishida and I unexpectedly meet Princess Claire near the massive stone archway.

"We want to move on to our next grand adventure", I bluntly inform the shining holy knight, eager to finally escape.

Claire quickly halts our hurried departure by politely raising her armored hands.

"Please wait", Claire says softly, her tone carrying a hint of genuine royal grace. "Let us formally meet the royals, especially my father, before you officially depart our lands".

We look blankly at each other, silently weighing the annoying options, and finally all agree reluctantly to the highly polite, unavoidable request. We walk slowly through the grand, heavily decorated marble corridors and finally arrive at the imposing entrance of the main King Hall.

The incredibly heavy, solid golden doors slowly swing open with a dramatic creak, and we instantly freeze completely in our tracks. We completely and horrifyingly behold the aging, bald King and the terrifying, fiery demon lord having absolute fun together directly on the main, jewel-encrusted throne. They are shamelessly acting incredibly lovey-dovey, intimately feeding each other highly sweet, peeled grapes exactly like being a sickeningly cute, overly affectionate couple on a magical first-time date.

"Say ah, my incredibly handsome, perfectly round dumpling", Ignis giggles happily, her cheeks flushed with a deep, entirely genuine blush.

"Ah", the old King blushes brightly, eagerly eating the juicy grape with a massive, completely foolish smile stretched wide across his deeply wrinkled face.

I am rapidly getting infinitely more annoyed by the agonizing second, physically feeling a massive, throbbing headache violently forming right behind my tired eyes. Beside me, Ishida immediately points a highly disrespectful finger directly at the royal couple and laughs incredibly hard at the absolutely ridiculous, deeply pathetic sight.

Utterly mortified by her own family, Princess Claire forcefully clears her throat incredibly loudly to abruptly interrupt the weird, deeply unsettling romance.

"Father, the brave heroic team is officially leaving our kingdom right now", Claire informs to her father, her face burning with secondary embarrassment.

Startled back to reality, the King quickly and clumsily straightens his heavy golden crown and smiles genuinely warmly at our chaotic group.

"I am absolutely, forever grateful and deeply thankful to you incredibly brave heroes", the King says proudly, completely oblivious to our evil nature.

Ignis gracefully stands up from the throne and walks eagerly over to us with a bright, incredibly clumsy smile.

"I also truly want to deeply say thanks to Ishida and Lisa", the supreme demon lord adds happily, clasping her hands together. "Your incredibly brilliant, highly tactical win-win plan last time magically fates both the wonderful King and me to hopelessly love each other romantically".

Ishida laughs loudly once again and enthusiastically gives her a highly confident, entirely shameless thumbs up. I just desperately smirk evilly and tightly cross my arms over my entirely flat chest.

"It is absolutely no problem at all", I lie incredibly smoothly, perfectly pretending it is all originally a highly calculated part of my genius master plan.

The generous King sharply snaps his wrinkled fingers, and several highly trained royal servants instantly rush frantically into the grand hall.

"To officially show my deepest, most sincere gratitude, I personally give you three incredibly luxurious, custom-built horse carriages", the King announces grandly.

The bowing servants simultaneously present a massive, towering stockpile of incredibly delicious, exotic foods and multiple extremely heavy, wooden chests completely filled to the brim with shiny, pure golds.

Amiya and Meiyi instantly and hopelessly fall deeply in love with the massive, glittering piles of precious golds.

"We can easily buy so many incredibly cursed, highly dangerous dark artifacts right now", Meiyi violently chants excitedly, her chūnibyō delusions running wild.

"I can finally, affordably pay someone incredibly strong to purposefully drop a very heavy, jagged boulder directly on me", Amiya breathes heavily, her unhinged masochism reaching brand new, terrifying heights.

Ishida and I carefully look at the incredible, overwhelming royal wealth and slowly share massive, completely evil smirks. We are absolutely, undoubtedly completely rich, and we miraculously do not even have to actively fight a single, grueling real war!

Feeling generous, Ignis gracefully raises her slender hands into the air, and a surprisingly warm, deeply powerful dark aura completely surrounds our entire, highly dysfunctional team.

"I will gladly give you my absolute special demonic protection", the terrifying demon lord declares incredibly kindly.

She effortlessly casts a highly advanced, ancient dark magic spell to significantly, permanently improve all our offensive spells and massively boost our overall defensive stats.

Everyone is incredibly, undeniably happy and laughs loudly and cheerfully right in the middle of the bright, opulent throne room. We enthusiastically carry our heavy, stuffed bags and carefully load the massive piles of shiny, heavy gold directly into the three beautiful, sturdy wooden horse carriages. We politely wave our hands in the air and loudly wish all the hopelessly in-love royal weirdos our absolute final goodbyes. The majestic white horses neigh loudly in the crisp morning air, the heavy wooden wheels slowly begin to roll across the cobblestone courtyard, and our brand new, highly unpredictable, and utterly chaotic journey finally begins.