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 couldn't understand a single word that she

as I continued to imbued her cheeks with

cheeks swelled even further, and their size grew to such an extent

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

"Don't move."

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

start to flicker in and out of existence and accompanying it was an agonizing pain, but I resisted

the laws that were contained within my body into hers, the

"Mhh!!!! Mhhhhmmmhhh!!"

rang throughout, but I paid them no attention

deepened, and blood started

I looked back, I was met with two eyes

my foot

"Let's go."

which Liam gladly took, and pressed my

a fair distance away from her, and when I looked around and saw that the

BAAAAAAAAAAAANG—!

was an explosion unlike any

moment I snapped my fingers, the Princess's body inflated

sky, and pieces of flesh fell all over the

same time, a wave of concentrated energy burst out from that direction, shredding everything that was within its

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

was quite overbearing, and if not

able to suppress this much

seven clan heads without

here for now, I'll finish up

and what appeared in my vision was an enormous crater that seemed

entered the

expected, she didn't die

fingers, a body burst out from the hole,

Clap!

once I clapped my hands. Just in case, I tapped onto

'Just in case.'

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 overlapped

was quite

trembled, and I could tell that she was about to

any time and stretched my hand which passed through the two layers and reached

'I'll make this quick.'

body and channeled them toward me. Almost instantly, a wave of warmth entered

feeling was

felt this sensation before, I'd have fallen into a deeper sense of depravity, but I

"Uagk."

the same time that I retrieved all of the laws, I felt a sharp pain course through all parts of my body, and

to suppress the pain was a testament to how painful

bit of me to suppress my scream as I gritted my teeth with everything I had, and my body flickered wildly at that

Cr… Crack!