The Archpriest and the Truth About the King

The Archpriest and the Truth About the King (神官長と王の真実, Shinkanchō to Ō no Shinjitsu) is the twenty-third episode of the Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts anime series.

Plot
Leonhart demands that they open the gates. A guard is telling Set that there is an emergency and Set orders him to summon the guards and wonders why he has come to him and wonders if he is aware of the creature existence.

Sariphi wonders if its started and Lanteveldt tells her any moment and says that they should hurry to find the diary and get out of there when suddenly Sariphi's ring starts to glow and tells him that there's something nearby.

They then walk towards and sees a creature and Lanteveldt wonders what it is, Sariphi runs towards it but Lanteveldt stops her and tells her that he hasn't seen a monster like it before and Sariphi tells him that its not a monster. Sariphi then asks Bennu if he can heal it and Bennu says he can't since its not alive anymore much to Lanteveldt's disturbance.

The creature then wonders why Sariphi posesses the king's magic, Sariphi then walks towards him and wonders if that was his voice, her ring starts to glow again and he tells her that the king has chosen her. Lanteveldt wonders why she's talking to herself, Sariphi asks if he can't hear him and the creature says that speaking is beyond him and that he is speaking to her directly in her mind, he then introduces him to her and tells her that he was the former archpriest, Capel and that he has guarded the king's secret for a century.

Lanteveldt says suprisingly that the archpriest is the second most powerful guy in Ozmargo and that he disappeared when the former king reigned and that they never replaced him. Sariphi then wonders how he got in this form and the capel tells her that he knows a concerning secret about the king and says that he ensorcelled himself and then hid but then Set discovered him, much to Sariphi's shock she then wonders if he was the one who gave him the wounds. The Capel asks her to give her hand, Sariphi's ring then glows again and the Capel tells her that to protect the king that he will entrust her with the secret of his birth since he has guarded it since the former king reigned over Ozmargo.

Jormungand knocks out a guard and asks if Leonhart is hurt, Leonhart apologizes and says that his human form isn't a match for beasts he then walks towards Jormungand which he tells him to leave the rest to him, he refuses and says that his duty is to stop Set's rampage and Set says from a distance that there's no need for it. Set then uses a magic shield and says that he is amazed that he returned, and that he thanks him to refrain for violence in the palace, Leonhart then calls out to him.

Capel tells Sariphi that the former queen had always been sickly and passed away shortly after and the former king was in disappointment since they had yet to have a heir, the former king tells the capel to keep the matter a secret and Capel confusingly asks what he means. The former king then tells him to find him at all cost and bring him back to Ozmargo and that he is the only one he shares his blood with. The Capel asks if he means to bring back his exiled younger brother for a heir.

Sariphi is shocked when the Capel tells her that the former king had a brother and he tells her that when twins are born the older one is heir and the younger one was exiled from the palace right after his birth and only the king and him was the only one who knew about it, he then tracked the younger brother and made a shocking discovery that in the mid battle with Yoana he had fled to there and secretly fathered a child with a human.

Sariphi then wonders that the child must be the current king of Ozmargo and Capel tells her that it is and that the former king's brother had already passed away with no other choice he took the infant away from his mother, and the infant was revealed alongside the former queen's passing and the people of Ozmargo greeted him as the child, that the former queen had given her life to birth him.

The former king of Ozmargo wasn't able to accept that his heir was a human's son and as time went on his mind went ill and he passed away and he then tells Sariphi that is the only truth he knows of the king's birth history. Sariphi then wonders since the king is human's child and a royalty too. Sariphi then hugs him and tells him that she will tell the king everything he entrusted to her. Lanteveldt tells her that if she wants to tell the king that they have to hurry and join him.

The Capel tells her to wait and says that he has another truth he must tell her.

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