The Author's POV

Coming into the Pillar of Gluttony, I expected things to be rather serious, but I was surprised to see that the situation wasn't as dire as I expected it to be.

In fact, the situation was a lot more advantageous then I thought it to be.

"Is this your doing?"

I turned to look at Liam who was hanging on the bridge of the Princess's nose. He seemed battered, and tired, but the moment our eyes met, his expression relaxed a little.

"Oh, hey Ren. How have you been?"

"You did a good job."

Ignoring his light hearted greeting, I lowered my head to stare at the cheeks of the Princess which were currently inflated. I could feel a certain energy from within, and when I turned my gaze away, I locked my eyes on a certain figure in the distance.

'It must be her doing.'

There was only one person that was capable of producing such pure and powerful energy.

Although Liam was strong, he wasn't at this level just yet. It could only be her.

"I see… I think I understand what's going on."

Rumble! Rumble!

At the same time I realized what was happening, the Princess trashed around and destroyed everything that her feet stepped onto to. Gradually, however, she was able to somewhat stabilize the injury that she sustained in her eye, and the energy inside of her started to calm down.

"We can't be having that."

If there was anything that I couldn't allow, it was that, and as my vision blurred, my feet touched something soft.

I was standing right on top of her cheek, and the moment I appeared over there, I felt two eyes lock on me.

When I turned my head, our gazes met, and I lowered my hand and pressed it against her cheek.

Her expression changed drastically at that point, but it was already too late.

Exerting a lot the mana inside of me, her cheeks started to inflate even further, and the energy that she was trying to keep in check became even wilder.

Rumble! Rumble!

"Hmmmmm!"

Her trashing increased, and it became hard for me to keep myself steady as a result. A large shadow cast behind me, and I knew exactly what she was trying to do. Thus, frowning, I opened my mouth and imbued my voice with the laws.

"Stop."

Her body stopped at my words and her expression changed once more. Golden runes and words clamped her hand above me, and covered every inch of her body.

"Mhhh… mhhhhhmm…"

seemed to be saying something, but I honestly

as I continued to imbued her

her cheeks swelled even further, and their size grew to

were puffed up to such an extent that I could see the skin on

"Don't move."

she was about to free herself from my restraints, I'd speak

would start to flicker in and out of existence and accompanying it was an agonizing pain, but I resisted through the pain and continued to inject mana into her

within my body into hers, the golden runes

"Mhh!!!! Mhhhhmmmhhh!!"

but I paid them no attention and

cheek deepened, and blood started to leak down

back, I was met with two eyes

before pressing my

"Let's go."

took,

her, and when I looked around and saw that the place was safe, I

BAAAAAAAAAAAANG—!

explosion

moment I snapped my fingers, the Princess's body inflated rapidly, and her cheeks finally

and pieces of flesh fell

wave of concentrated energy burst out from that direction, shredding

and erecting a barrier around the two of us, we were able to avoid getting injured

felt the energy. It was quite overbearing, and

she was able to suppress this

one of the seven clan heads without a reason. She as indeed

now, I'll finish up

off Liam, my vision blurred once more and what appeared in my vision was an enormous crater that

small light entered the hole.

she didn't die

my fingers, a body burst out from the hole, and I

Clap!

case, I tapped onto the barrier and a small white ripple formed, creating a

'Just in case.'

at the body before me, I relaxed when I saw that the Princess had fainted. While her cheeks had burst, they were slowly healing, as her fleshed wiggled and

sight was quite

could tell that she was about to wake

any time and stretched my hand

'I'll make this quick.'

a wave of warmth entered my body and I found

feeling was pleasant,

sensation before, I'd have fallen into a deeper sense of depravity, but I held my focus

"Uagk."

felt a sharp pain course through all

able to suppress the pain was a testament to how painful it was,

as I gritted my teeth

Cr… Crack!