She stabbed the broken hilt into her own palm. Her blood, royal blood—the blood of the jailer lineage—reacted with the shard. And for the first time, the real power of the Hero bloodline awakened: not sealing or destroying, but rewriting .
Milia ran. Not from cowardice—from calculation. She fled into the castle's hidden archives, the place her late mother had forbidden her to enter. There, she found the truth: her ancestor, the first Hero, had been a coward. Unable to defeat Veylan, he tricked the demon lord into a sealing ritual, then rewrote history as a grand victory. Every "Hero" since had been a jailer, not a warrior. The holy sword's glow was just a leaking of Veylan's power.
Her power surged. The broken sword reshaped itself—not into a blade, but into a mirror. Veylan looked into it and saw himself as he once was: tired, sad, human. Yuusha Hime Milia
Veylan, expecting epic resistance, was baffled by bureaucratic annoyance. His power, fed by terror, began to fray. People started laughing at his shadowy monologues. A child threw a radish at him. The radish stuck.
Milia picked him up. "You'll stay in the castle. And you'll learn what it means to be helped, not caged." She stabbed the broken hilt into her own palm
Milia touched Veylan's chest. Not with violence—with understanding. She saw his memory: he hadn't started as a demon lord. He was a lonely prince of a fallen kingdom, cursed by grief, twisted by abandonment. The "evil" was a wound, not a nature.
She had Guruk forge fake "holy swords" from scrap metal—each one ugly, practical, and glowing with cheap alchemical light. Lila and Nila infiltrated Veylan's occupied castle and replaced his "fear edicts" with absurd proclamations: "All citizens must laugh at the demon lord's fashion sense" and "Thursday is now officially 'Annoy the Demon Lord' Day." The mimic, disguised as Veylan's throne, refused to let him sit unless he said "please." Milia ran
And Milia? She never wore padded armor again. She wore a simple tunic, scuffed boots, and a smile. On her hip hung the broken hilt—now a reminder that the strongest weapons aren't the ones that cut, but the ones that choose not to.
Enraged, Veylan cornered Milia in the ruined throne room. "You have no weapon," he snarled. "No power. You are a princess playing dress-up."
Milia stared at her reflection in a dusty mirror. She was wearing a ruined dress, not armor. She had no sword, no magic, no army. She had only one thing: the demon lord thought she was useless.
"You're right," she said. "I'm not a hero because of a sword. I'm a hero because I refuse to be a key in someone else's lock."