Episode 88
Episode 37. Natalie’s question (4)
“Rose wine… What do you mean by that?”
“It is literally. You, in my view, are currently insane.”
Saying ‘I’m out of my mind’ to the first princess of the empire was tantamount to committing suicide.
Zishka was a woman whose pride pierced the sky, saying that she was a member of the royal family and the first-ranking heir to the throne.
However, because of the situation, the order of disobedience did not fall immediately. Now, there were no royal guards to carry out Zishka’s orders.
“I’m crazy… If I had known this was going to happen, I would have brought the guardsmen. If that was the case, I could have pulled out your tongue right away.”
“Even three years ago, I was never the type to bring demons into the empire.”
“What do you know! what!”
Zishka jumped up and shouted. He would have been ready to cut out Natalie’s tongue right away if he had had a real lifeguard knight.
“Puhehehe…
Zishka, who had been glaring at Natalie for a while, suddenly let out a grim smile.
Yuma could read the anger, despair, anxiety, and frustration in Jishka’s eyes.
Perhaps it was because he tried to summon the demons using Yohaim after Zeka, but he kept failing.
From what Yuma saw, even if he didn’t destroy Yohaim himself, it seemed that the three crons would not provide power to the princess.
Clearly, Secron wanted his kingdom back, but he seemed uninterested in plotting rebellion with the princess.
Summoning Amanzo was a plan that failed from the start.
Of course, while the entire empire was focused on Secron, there was also a way to quickly seize the imperial castle.
However, the summoned target was a demon. It was an unreasonable card to use only to attract attention.
‘The taste is gone. Seriously, I would have come to this place without a guardsman.’
In this atmosphere, it seemed that things would proceed much more smoothly than expected.
The princess’ remarks about Yoheim couldn’t serve as evidence, but if they were conveyed to Duran, they could have meaning.
“If I hadn’t killed Secron Wolf Asher, your plan would have failed. He wanted to regain the Kingdom of Joheim, but he didn’t even mention the treason.”
Zishka continued to laugh.
“Even if it is assumed that Secron Wolf Asel belongs to you…
It is impossible to usurp the imperial power with that much power. It was at a level where I could organize myself.”
The rebellion of the first princess in the previous life and in this life was completely incomprehensible.
Zishka herself would know the power of the empire better than anyone else.
The present empire was more prosperous than at any other time in history.
Well, if you were drunk, you could make any decision. The more I talked with Zishka, the more I felt that I was definitely not in a good state.
“On what grounds and on what grounds did you plot such a hopeless rebellion?”
“The princess wants to become the emperor, what’s wrong with that? I just wanted to find my place a little earlier.”
“You are just talking nonsense. Did you really not know that there was no way around that?”
“Everybody said I was talking nonsense. No matter what reasonable proposal you put forward. Especially my mother, Empress of the Great God Empire as Tekken Asuka. It’s not me who’s crazy, it’s her.”
“Treason cannot be justified for any reason.”
“under? Do you really think so?
From my point of view, you seem like a lump of ambition to one day swallow this country.”
Yuma didn’t really deny it.
The statement that treason cannot be justified for any reason was just a story taken out of context.
If you’re a dick, you can cause a rebellion, and you can catch them all and run away.
Yuma was a human who thought so.
But the method had to be clever.
Zishka’s rebellion was full of loopholes, and even the possibility of realization infinitely converged to the bottom.
“Think whatever you want.”
“Puhuh, he must be planning to use Duranzac to eat up the empire someday. I also seduced my sister.”
“Unlike lower Zishka, Hella has a sound mind. Why don’t you bring the guardsman? If I had brought only five of them, I wouldn’t have said so carelessly.”
“Then why didn’t you bring Duran Jacques? You could have cut my throat right now.”
I was a little annoyed at the thought of talking to a child rather than the imperial princess.
The Zishka I had seen before was arrogant and grotesque, but she definitely possessed the dignity of a princess.
But now, isn’t it just like a child who gets angry because things don’t work out the way he wants?
Yuma shook her head.
“Yuma.”
“Yes lower.”
“I honestly like you guys. That arrogance is very unpleasant, but there is a strangely coveted corner.”
“Is that so?”
“Even now it is not too late. Be mine! If you and Duran Jacques are added, my era “Degradation. You still don’t know.”
“My time will come!”
“I have failed. If Joachim’s full story is revealed, you will be stripped of your princess status and executed.”
“I’m not a failure…
Ahahaha!”
Zishka then started laughing like a literal madman. If you were a regular merchant, you couldn’t do this.
Bang!
Suddenly, Zishka bent over and took Yuma’s hand.
“You know how?
How to cover Joachim’s work…
What have I done? How many of my people were sacrificed in Yoheim?”
“Lowering.”
“Tell me, how many of my people have been sacrificed to the demons? Did I really put them to death?”
“…Lowering.”
“You must have seen it. I mean, come on, tell me. It was said that it would take a thousand people to summon the demon. They said there are many death row inmates in Joachim!”
Tears were forming in Zishka’s eyes.
It had such an empty expression that it gave the beautiful face nothing but a pale and dark feeling.
“The people of Yoheim that I saw became grotesque monsters and killed each other in the dungeon while going crazy. Don’t say you don’t know. That’s exactly what you did.”
Yuma continued with a calm face.
“Those who did survive were raped or killed by bandit deserters who were unable to leave Yoheim.”
“no! Hayes and Varys said they were sacrificing a thousand vile prisoners! Killing innocent people…
“There can’t be a thousand such heinous prisoners.”
Totally ruined. Yuma felt bitter and avoided Zishka’s gaze.
“Ah, what have I done? Obama… What did you do?”
Zishka sat down and shook her head. Sobs welled up from the depths of her chest.
‘Abama? Are you saying that Archduke Winslting is also involved?’
Hearing those words, Yuma could understand why Zishka had committed such a reckless rebellion before returning.
Archduke Winslting was the actual leader.
He was the only person who had affirmed Zishka, who had been treated as an idiot by the imperial family even before returning.
Despite being her husband, the Grand Duke had a close relationship with his wife. A couple who are no better than others.
It was said that the real husband of the Empress was not Winslting, but Duran.
During her time as a eunuch, Yuma often saw the Empress openly insulting her husband, Winslting, at government meetings.
‘Even Archduke Winslting was from Rolmandi. Winsting Haze Barris.
Could it be that these three planned a rebellion with Zishka at the forefront, and if they failed, they were going to blame everything on Zishka.’
It was also understandable that Baris was the first to identify and punish Zishka’s treason.
At that time, there were many outstanding figures with better abilities than Baris in the Imperial Guard.
Even so, it was strange that Varys was the first to smell it and accomplished the feat of punishing a traitor.
The discovery of evidence that even Milina Spaser, who was Zishka’s escort, could not grasp.
It was only natural that it was Varys Cannon who planned the rebellion together.
Winstelting and Hayes used Zishka until the end to strengthen their power.
Zishka, covered in tears and snot, hit the floor with his fist.
Natalie took a handkerchief from Yuma’s coat pocket and wiped Zishka’s face.
“Hey, what is this beautiful face? Pop! Stop crying and calm down.”
Natalie patted Zishka on the back like a crying child. It wasn’t even funny.
At the touch of the warm palm on her back, Zishka burst into tears as if her sorrow had exploded.
‘What is this…
I came to negotiate with a terrible wicked man, but there was only a foolish woman who was used by her father after hearing about her mother’s failure.
However, the guilt could not disappear. The moment Joheim’s tragedy surfaced, the princess could never save her life.
Pong.
Natalie took a vial from her purse and opened it.
“Lowering. You cried too much.
Take a sip of this and calm down.”
“Hehehehehe… Get rid of it, isn’t it poisonous… Mama tried to poison me too!”
Natalie stroked Zishka’s head and naturally tilted her neck back slightly.
“Stay still.”
Natalie bent down the vial and poured the liquid into Zishka’s mouth.
Gulp…
“Very sweet, isn’t it?”
Zishka fixed her gaze on the glass bottle and nodded. The liquid in the vial quickly disappeared.
Zishka, who had stopped crying, was silent for a long time.
“What did you feed me?
My head is… very clear.”
Soon, she lowered her head with her face flushed red as if she was ashamed of the rudeness she had just committed.
“Ha… I want to be alone for a while.
Go all out.”
“All right.”
As Yuma was about to say something, Natalie stood up, grabbed her by the collar, and dragged her out into the hallway.
“What is the situation?”
“My prediction was correct. If that tastes sweet, you’re intoxicated.
The princess had just been drunk on ‘roses’ and was insane, but she regained her sanity. drink that.”
“Is that yellow liquid a means of determining whether or not the drug ‘rose’ is poisoned?”
“yes. Besides, just taking a sip of that completely frees you from your addiction.”
“what is that?”
“It’s a liquid that normal people wouldn’t drink even after waking up from death.”
The identity of the liquid in the glass bottle was fermented horse urine.
‘Rose’ was a drug whose addiction could never be determined by ordinary means. It was the same even if the best doctor or magic healer in the imperial family did a checkup.
No doctor or healer in the world would feed fermented horse urine to confirm drug addiction.
People who were addicted to ‘roses’ were relieved of their addiction by drinking fermented horse urine, feeling a sweetness that would not exist again in the world.
‘It’s a drug that destroys humans enough to feel that filth as bitter sweetness.’
‘Rose’ was, in some ways, a much more dangerous drug than poison like ‘death’.
“Anyway, since I ate it and my mind, which was clouded by the medicine, became clear, I would probably want to die by now. The first princess of the empire, who is famous for her pride, acted indecently in front of us just now.”
“her.”
“Give me time to be alone for a while.”
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