Episode 106
“It opens in the end.”
“How long has it been since this?”
“Will there be a conclusion?”
Buzz.
A conference hall that is entirely occupied by one of the palaces of the Grand Palace.
The forum of nobles discussing the history of the Kingdom of Grandia was crowded with an unusually large crowd.
The Grand Noblesse, which for the past 200 to 300 years had been open to only great nobles of earl rank or higher, opened its doors to all nobles as it welcomed an unexpected state funeral.
As all the nobles gathered, there were so many people that even simple entry and seat assignment took a considerable amount of time.
Because of that, the chairman finally raised the gavel two hours after the official meeting time.
earth. earth. earth!
“The Grand Noblesse will begin soon. Nobles, please take your seats.”
A conference room with seats arranged in a fan shape around a podium, like the audience seats at the Colosseum.
Most of the nobles were sitting divided on the left and right by the two men who looked similar to each other sitting directly in front of the Prime Minister who was striking the gavel.
Even though there is no open fighting or shouting, a bloody atmosphere fills the space.
“Unfortunately, the late King Samuel von Grandia I passed away without being able to decide on a successor. So now, we must decide on a successor who will become the future of this country. If you have any opinions, please feel free to speak up.”
Starting with Prime Minister Pluto Levine’s declaration, the conference hall became noisier than the mayor of a large city.
“Of course His Highness Rohter….”
“Of course His Highness Romain!”
“What!”
The conference hall immediately became a mess with shouts coming from all over the place.
Father Patrick McLane and a small number of neutral nobles were watching the faction nobles with dark eyes.
Logan was also watching the movements of the nobles, unable to hide his nervousness.
‘I heard about it, but it’s worse than I thought. I don’t think there will be any variables…’
The nobles gathered in the conference hall may have roughly guessed it, but this meeting will never end today.
And in a previous life, a brawl broke out on the third day of this meeting.
It all started when Viscount Hail Terat, a member of the First Prince faction, raised his middle finger toward Jordan’s Walter Maiim.
As a result, the brawl between the small and medium-sized nobles grew out of control, causing even the elites to clash directly, which was the starting point of the civil war.
The incident is also called ‘the finger incident that ruined the country’.
The instigator, Hail Terrat, would later be reviled by the refugees of Grandia.
‘Who would have done it in this atmosphere?’
Even if the meeting went ahead without a fight, there was no way the other side would meekly accept who was chosen as the successor.
Just looking at the current atmosphere, the outbreak of a civil war should have been considered certain.
‘It will happen that way even if I don’t intervene. But…’
I knew that the civil war that broke out from a simple melee would take place only a month or two after both parties had completed their preparations to some extent.
And if things go according to memory without any special variables.
‘Bipros could crush us while it is preparing for its civil war.’
In a more urgent manner, a civil war had to break out without any time to prepare.
Logan’s gaze went beyond the two princes who were engaged in a fierce war of nerves at the front of the conference hall and towards the nobleman who had just begun to speak on the podium.
‘Count Larry Klett….’
“When did the principle of giving priority to the eldest son disappear, and are you invoking an old-fashioned custom? Moreover, if the difference is not even a few months, isn’t ability ultimately the issue? In that respect, the relationship with the empire “I think it is right that the brilliant His Majesty Romain, who suggested a solution to the trade problem, should become king!”
“That’s right!”
“Oooooh!”
There are sharply different reactions to each statement.
Although his complexion may have changed, Larry Klett smiled and only looked towards his faction, the 2nd Prince.
Although he himself was a secretary who failed to become Minister of Finance, his family is a prestigious family that has served as the 9th Minister of State for the Kingdom for four successive generations.
It was still a family that was considered a fart to the capital’s nobles.
Moreover, if the second prince became king, he could become a minister for five consecutive generations instead of four.
‘On behalf of that incompetent and lucky Falun Davis.’
He expressed enthusiastic support for the second prince, Romain von Grandia.
The cheers of the 2nd prince group got louder and the boos of the 1st prince group got louder, but he kept smiling while looking only at the 2nd prince.
Logan, who was watching him from afar, couldn’t help but laugh.
‘You’re saying that if you do it like that, you’ll later switch to the 1st Prince faction. Moreover, it maintained its position even when it was occupied by the empire.’
Logan had no idea what power there was in that pleasant-sounding nonsense, but the author proved the power of that ridiculous flattery with a tough line that survived civil wars and imperial wars.
In his previous life, he was the 9th ranked target of the Grandia Liberation Front to be killed. Codenamed ‘Parasite.’
‘Let’s meet a little sooner in this life, Mr. Bug.’
It was Logan who cut his strong strings in his past life.
* * * The first day’s meeting ended with both factions raising their voices against each other.
Prime Minister Pluto, who advocates neutrality, declared the meeting closed when voices became louder than expected, and naturally the meeting was postponed to a day later.
And the next day.
Logan ‘accidentally’ bumped shoulders with Larry Klett, who was just entering the conference room.
“Ugh!”
Quadang.
“Oh my. I’m sorry. Are you okay?”
“What are you doing now?! You can’t look straight ahead!”
“Excuse me.”
Logan politely lifted Larry up after he fell and bowed his head again.
In the process, no one noticed that the ring on Logan’s hand had created a wound on Larry’s shoulder so small that even the person involved could not feel it.
The meeting started again, and five or six meaningless hours passed with the battle running in parallel again.
“His Royal Highness Romain has shown interest in various aspects of national affairs and has shown results. As he should…”
Larry Clet was fervently praising the second prince, just like yesterday.
Then at some point.
“Shouldn’t it be… ugh? It’s so sudden… ugh!”
Uddangtang!
He, who was suddenly wiping the blood from his nose, rolled his eyes and fell backwards, tumbling down the podium.
“count?!”
“Count Clet!”
“What is this?! Call the priest!”
The conference hall suddenly became noisy.
Logan was watching the commotion from the back of the conference room with an expressionless face.
‘It’s effective….’
Lethe’s grass.
If this precious herb, famous as a hair loss treatment, is injected with force, dried and concentrated for 3 days, its medicinal properties become hundreds of times stronger.
Its weakness has become so strong that when used by an ordinary person without even an ounce of force or mana, it acts as a fatal poison that bursts blood vessels in the brain.
However, it was 15 years later that this fact was revealed.
It was discovered by chance by the Grandia Liberation Front, which was looking for numerous ways to assassinate high-ranking officials of the empire.
It’s a poison that doesn’t work on knights or wizards, and the unit price is too expensive, so there wasn’t much use for it, but it was definitely effective.
‘Goodbye, Count Parasite.’
Logan quietly expressed his pretense of condolences as he saw the same person who died in the same way as in his previous life.
“It’s already too late. The brain damage is serious. I don’t know what kind of poison it is, but this…”
Those words from the priest who was urgently called in brought a storm to the noisy conference hall.
“Rochter! How dare you poison my subordinate?!”
Second Prince Romain von Grandia loudly criticized his brother.
1st Prince Rohter von Grandia, who heard the verbal abuse, screamed with a red face.
“You! Do you know who would be fooled by such a self-made play?! What benefit would you gain by killing a treacherous traitor like that!”
“What? You traitor?!”
It was not only the princes who were excited by the sudden event.
The faction’s nobles each unleashed their ferocious murderous spirit behind the prince they supported, and it quickly escalated into a physical conflict.
Quaaaang!
“Let’s see the end today, Roxina!”
“Chloe the sea I was hoping for!”
The northern rival family, known as the kingdom’s famous enemy even more than Bipros and McLane, clashed first.
The aftermath of the physical conflict caused by that old grudge soon became an opportunity for everyone nearby to raise their force and mana.
The majority of nobles classified as fiefdom nobles, samurai families, or wizard families, although not counting the civil servant nobles who account for one-third of all nobles, are force users or magicians.
Just as the conference hall was suddenly engulfed by an evil force and a fierce conflict was about to break out.
“Everyone stop!!”
A loud voice echoed through the conference hall, attracting all attention.
“Both princes, please calm down for a moment. This situation must be properly investigated and the cause and effect determined fairly. It is not something to deal with emotionally.”
Swordsman Felix Esperanza timely poured cold water on the intensified atmosphere in the hall.
However, even in this situation, the two princes’ opinions differed and shouting broke out again.
“How dare you reveal fair cause and effect when the situation is so clear, Duke!”
“Since there is no justification, just cut off a useless limb and stage a self-made play. I wholeheartedly agree with the duke’s words!”
“That’s ridiculous! What if you wrote a mean male and female? An original play?!”
“You probably can’t consent because there’s something stinging.”
The faces of the two young men with platinum hair and emerald green eyes, who resembled each other, were distorted viciously.
“What? Ha! Investigation? Fine, fine! Let’s do it. But if it turns out that this was your work, the throne will be mine. Of course, you will accept it, right?”
“It looks like they are planning to use some trick again during the investigation. Such childish provocations…”
“Hmph! You used a mean trick and now you are turning away?”
As the conversation continued, voices only grew louder, and it seemed like no agreement could be reached.
“You two, princes. Calm down and say what I say…”
The swordsman who had tried to mediate stepped forward with a stern expression on his face.
But then the gray-haired giant and the blue-haired mage simultaneously took a step behind the princes.
Wooooow.
I don’t know what to do.
A clash of forces created by the confrontation between the only three dukes in the kingdom.
A shape that seemed to distort space around the princes clearly appeared, attracting attention from all directions.
Hehehehe.
“Please don’t come forward, Geomgong.”
“No matter how you do it, it will be difficult for the two of us.”
“…Do you realize what you are trying to do now?”
Hearing the words of the dukes standing behind the two princes, the swordsman asked with cold eyes.
“You know that this pointless meeting is meaningless anyway, right?”
“It’s not a bad idea to come to a conclusion like this.”
“Hey, these crazy people…”
Perhaps they were just waiting for the right justification for the already decided procedure, and in the end, they were headed towards the worst outcome that the swordsman had tried to prevent at all costs.
“I don’t want to cause more trouble within the palace, Sword Master.”
“We also have no intention of turning the capital into a battlefield. So, please be considerate, Duke Felix Esperanza.”
As the superhumans competing for second and third place in the kingdom’s military hierarchy united and pressured the swordsman, there was nothing he could do.
At that time, the second prince, who sensed that the time was ripe, pointed a finger at the first prince and became angry. He let out a loud voice,
“You are no longer my brother from now on, Rohitter. I will prove with my power who is truly worthy of the throne!”
“It is me!”
In the end, the confrontation between the two factions led to a blatant declaration of war.
When the Duke of Swords looked at the sky with a miserable expression.
The two Dukes glared at each other and were on opposite sides at the same time. From that point ,
the princes also turned and left the conference hall, and the nobles who were watching also split into two groups and followed right behind them.
West and East.
Coincidentally, similar to the distribution of factions, they were exiting in opposite directions. See
their backs. There were literally only a few people who looked at me with grim expressions.
“Master. It was something that could not be helped. Please calm down.”
Logan’s consolation was sincere.
Although he had made a big deal out of it, it was true that it was going to happen anyway.
The greed of the two dukes that had been building up for decades was not something that could be prevented by the teacher alone.
” “What can I do with this? I will show my Majesty’s face…”
The swordsman could only look at the sky with a dejected expression.
And behind them, Padric, who had not said a word throughout the two-day meeting, looked at his son with a strangely stern expression. was looking at
