Lilly sighed "So let me get this straight, to bind the two countries together we need an alliance between rulers, you however are in love with the demon countries princess who although is much cleverer then her brother is unfit to ruled to lack of strength?" the princess nodded still a deep shade of red "yes,"

Lilly sighed while Navir let out a laugh "At least it's not completely hopeless," he said smiling "we can still marry the two princesses together to show bonds and help make peace. The problem is the brother, even if he's willing to step aside other nobles may be torn between successors creating internal strife, and a bond between the two means nothing if it's not between the ruling class."

Lilly nodded "true, but how accurate is our measure of the princesses strength anyway? I mean it's been two years she may be stronger now." Navir nodded thoughtfully "good point, now we know this kingdoms future ruler wants peace we need to make sure the other countries does too."

"um," said the princess interupting causing the two to look at her "yes?" asked Lilly "well um even if me and Luna want to get married our parents still won't agree." Lilly nodded awkwardly, although the king was a bad ruler he was still the princess's father and she would not take kindly to the news they were planning to assassinate him, so they just had to make sure she never found out.

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." said Navir shrugging off her concern as if it was irrelevant "however even if we bond the two countries together we need to make sure there's no amnesty between the two countries when we do." Lilly nodded then smiled "I have an idea, but is need the princess's help." the princess looked at her with a nod "What do you need me to do?"

Lilly grinned and whispered her plan into the princess's ear while Navir looked confused "Think you can do it?" asked Lilly drawing away from the princess, the princess nodded grim determination in her eyes "I can, I suppose you're going to go and see Luna now?"

Navir grinned "Correct," he stared at Lilly "It'll be your turn to wear the cloak next." Lilly laughed "true enough." the princess grabbed a piece of paper and wrote a quick note on it then handed it to Lilly "please give this to Luna from me, tell her it's from Anna and she should understand. She might also be able to help with your project I left the coordinates on there."

Lilly smiled "Thanks for your help, we'll end this war. One way or another." the princess smiled "Thank you." nodding both Lilly and Navir exited the room to find Noir outside. "You two done in there?" Lilly nodded "yup, thanks for your help Noir, tell Kai I'm going on a trip for a couple of weeks. The guild card updated so he should already know I completed the Johan request."

Noir nodded "its alright he knows, and I'll pass on the message. See you around Arachne." Lilly smiled "see you." as she walked out of the castle with Navir she saw him frown "What's wrong?" she asked "I don't like him." Lilly looked at him confused "why?" Navir looked at Lilly then looked away "no reason." Lilly shrugged but carefully hid a grin from him, the ex-general was not skilled in hiding his expressions.

"Anyway," said Navir trying to change the subject "What did you ask the princess?" Lilly grinned "secret, you'll find out later anyway." Navir grumbled good naturedly but followed anyway, finally they reached the house and quickly settled in "I'm gonna get some sleep," yawned Lilly as soon as she entered the house "night Navir." Navir grinned softly "night Lilly."

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Unknown hero POV

The hero slammed his fist into the wall "Damn," he cursed as he drew back his fist in pain "that damn Arachne finally I had the chance to be a hero, to be great, but now he's filled all the others heads with that peace mumbo jumbo." he cursed some more "if I can just convince them the demons are evil."

Suddenly an evil look swept into his eyes "That's right I just need to convince them. After that I can fight the demons and then finally get rid of my classmates with no suspicion, and then," the boy licked his lips as a disgusting look appeared in his eyes "I can take that bitch of a princess." the boy started laughing as a plan slowly formed in his mind.

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Lilly's POV

The next morning Lilly awoke feeling refreshed, quickly getting up she knocked on Navir's door "Navir I'm going out shopping quickly, do you need anything?" Navir walked out of his room topless "no I'm good." Lilly stared at his chest blushing "What, what is it?" Lilly looked away "nothing, I'm gonna go now. Bye."

Lilly ran out while Navir just looked at where she was standing confused "What was that all about?" Still blushing slightly Lilly laughed at herself "that guys an idiot in some senses." still smiling Lilly walked to a market she had passed with Navir the previous day, though she already had a few good knives if they were travelling through demon territory she wanted a more familiar weapon and for her that meant a fan.

Although a fan looked useless and ornate, when made specifically with razer sharp blades it made quite the convenient weapon, in her original world Lilly had had to assassinate many high class targets upon which a fan looked highly commonplace amongst them. Smiling as she walked Lilly soon arrived at a blacksmiths, entering the empty shop Lilly called out "hello, anyone there?"

"Just a minute." came out the voice of an older woman, several seconds later a discreetly muscled forty something year old woman emerged from the back of the shop "sorry for the wait, what do you need?" Lilly smiled "I'd like to commission a weapon to be made by the end of the day."

The woman's eyes widened slightly "That's a tall order, what do you need." Lilly smiled "a fan." the woman looked at her slightly annoyed "look missy this's a weapon shop, I don't do accessories." Lilly grinned "it's not for an accessory I want sharpened spikes in the fan and folded spider silk for a binding."

The woman's eyes widened, spider silk was a rare material that was both durable and flexible as well as being unknown to most, a perk of knowing an ex-general is that he'd given some pretty detailed descriptions of the weapons of this world. "well now I take it back, this is an interesting request and an expensive one at that. How much you got."

Lilly gave a serious face "I'm going to be honest with you I've not got much, only ten gold coins but if I bring you the spider silk myself would you be willing to make it?" the woman paused for a minute considering it "usually the request would be fifty gold coins however most of that is for the cost of acquiring materials, the work itself is only worth seven gold coins however if you want me to acquire the metal it's worth twenty however I'm willing to give it to you for ten if you let me have any excess spider silk you procure."

Lilly grinned "deal, I'll bring it by the end of the day and on return I'll extend the deadline till tomorrow." the woman laughed "thanks for the generosity, the names Alysa by the way and you are?" Lilly smiled "It's Lilly, nice to meet you. I'll be back later with the materials." Alysa grinned "I look forward to it."

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Author's note

Hi guys sorry for the wait on the chapter I'm inbetween exams now and figured I'd write it up, hope you liked the chapters feel free to comment or write a review so I know how you feel about the story :)