Episode 374
Episode 123. The way the empire forgets its sorrow Asuka Rose’s death was announced as a chronic disease. While the whole country was already in an uproar, the fact that the death of the former emperor was due to an assassination could not be announced as it was.
Of course, it was best to delay the announcement as much as possible, but there were dozens of eyes watching her death. Not only imperial figures, but also leaders from other countries who came to celebrate the coronation were mixed.
It was Hella’s position that it was too harsh to announce another tragedy to the people who were still grieved by the tragedy in Rochshire.
In the process, Duran raised his voice to Hela for the first time.
“your majesty! How can the death of the Sun Emperor be covered up with lies!
I am Your Majesty’s mother!”
It was three days after the death of Asuka Roze.
In the meantime, Duran didn’t sleep a sigh, and tears poured from his red eyes the whole time. It was the first time Duran suffered so much after the funeral of his wife Gwyneth Jacques.
who would imagine To think that such a huge man would cry like a sad beast until his voice was all hoarse.
“Your Majesty, I cannot do that. I have to clearly announce the end of the preemption and slaughter those who will tear them to death myself!”
Duran stood straight in front of Hella, who was sitting on the throne. It wasn’t directly radiating energy, but the deep anger I felt from him seemed to make the air heavy.
No one raised their heads.
The appearance of Duran using evil was an act of ignoring the example that the emperor should have. Whether it be a servant or someone else, it is right to step in and stop him.
“Lord Duran! I deeply sympathize with your sorrow, but please be polite to His Majesty…!”
Among the servants gathered in the central hall, it was the elder of the Hujin family who uttered a word to Duran. He was a weak old nobleman, but he had the spirit of a giant, unique to Hujinga.
When the elder stepped forward, the other nobles clicked their tongues inwardly. It was because pointing out Duran, who was so angry, meant death.
It was a conviction born from experience.
Duran in his youth was a person who was far behind than he is now, and the only person who can strongly stop him, the Sun Emperor, is no longer there.
“What did you just say?”
Duran walked fearfully toward him and said. Compared to the hunched back of Hujinga, Duran looked like a giant.
The elder breathed heavily, as if his chest was stuffy at the mere sight of Duran approaching. Meanwhile, Hella was sitting on the throne with an expressionless face.
“I told you to be polite to His Majesty. Prince Duran.”
“dare! I am Duran Jacques. For the prosperity of the empire, he devoted his whole life to killing and conquering! With this very hand! What did you do at that time, making fun of me with my insignificant snout?”
“I am well aware of how great your achievements are. But even in front of His Majesty…
“I’ll rip off your snout.”
Duran almost looked like a madman. Even if his children die, it will not shock him more than Asuka’s death.
There was only one thought in the heads of the aristocrats who kept an eye on them.
Why is Baron Drake not here? If he had been there, he would have been able to stop Duran, but at least Catherine Jacques, but the word that he would rip off the snout was never a ‘threat’. Duran, like a wild beast, raised both hands and stretched them out toward the elder of the Jin family.
“Stop, Lord Duran.”
“Please properly inform us of His Majesty the Elector’s death.”
Duran’s eyes were still on the elder.
“I told you to stop.”
“This old man! I just can’t understand it! I must kill them and end this disloyal old man who failed to protect His Majesty!”
It was such a loud cry that the ceiling of the central hall shook as if an earthquake had struck. Hella Rose barely managed to control her miserable feelings. Her thin inner eyebrows were quivering.
“Everyone leave except Lord Duran. A royal knight, a eunuch and a lady-in-waiting. Let all of you leave your seats.”
As if waiting for those words, everyone quickly walked out of the central hall as soon as Hella’s words ran out.
Duran stood stunned in the middle of the hall, unable to hold his breath.
When the two of them were left alone, Hella finally shouted in a wet voice.
“If you go all the way to the ball, what am I to do… She is my mother. Is your sorrow deeper than mine? Are you really deeper than I am and are you tormenting me this much?”
Duran couldn’t answer.
When the servants left, it was Duran, not Hela, who burst into tears. Duran sat down on the floor like a child and screamed until he fainted.
Hella closed her eyes for a long time and thought about what was to come.
* * * From the beginning, the target of the blue dagger was not Hela, but Natalie and Asuka Rose.
It was a goal setting that was unrelated and inappropriate.
Empire and Yuma pondered over whether the target was set for a while, but couldn’t come to an easy conclusion.
“I think the blue dagger was aiming at me without a request.
You want to leave a message. that they have returned Heisl was the bait from the start.”
Natalie, stabbed in the thigh and back by daggers, was fortunately spared serious injuries. Even the blue dagger’s poison didn’t work on her.
There was no poison that could kill Jangmihoeju other than loneliness and the extreme poison of the demon realm.
“And the reason you tried to kill me probably had something to do with your relationship, Yuma.”
“Because you are my lover?”
“Yeah, I don’t know about the blue dagger, but the demons connected with it must have business with you. I never thought the emperor of the empire would die like that…
Apart from the official announcement, the empire conducted a massive search. It was to find out who the person who commissioned the assassination of Asuka Roze to the blue dagger was.
“I didn’t know that old Marka was still alive. no, he was still alive Is it a state of being possessed?”
Natalie’s expression was disturbed when she said Marka’s name.
“That woman is the teacher of Hakila, the most notorious rose drinker of all time.
But its strength is nothing compared to something like Hakila.”
According to Natalie’s explanation, Marka was a top-notch warrior among high-ranking sword masters. It was not well known outside the world during active service, but even Haseo’s first sword, Cherkin, was afraid of the retired Marka.
“To the extent that Cherkin was afraid?”
“Yeah, Marka retired before I even joined, but it was after King Haseo asked Hugo to cut off one of her arms. That dark-looking Marka looked fine, but.”
“Even so, it doesn’t change that I find them and tear them to pieces.”
The Empire’s search for the person involved with the blue dagger had not yielded any significant results. All nobles were thoroughly investigated, but there was no progress.
The same was true of the imperial family’s special entrustment team, the special investigation team, and the Zach family’s search party. However, Yuma was able to get one piece of information from a completely unexpected person.
“Yes Pouang.”
“Spin said he heard some strange news recently. It is about the assassination of His Majesty the Elector.”
“Spin? Isn’t that friend traveling around the trading port for relief work these days?”
“Yes. By the way… I heard that rumors like this are circulating among foreign merchants gathered at the trading port.”
It is said that the leaders of more than ten Western countries, including Helga and Haseo, requested the assassination of Asuka Rose.
After telling the story, Puang let out a deep sigh.
“Merchant organizations are the most sensitive to information. I don’t know about the empire, but merchants from small countries are especially close to the leaders, so it’s probably a rumor that’s almost certain.”
“Come to think of it… They said that right in front of the throne was written in the blood of His Majesty the Emperor. ‘This is the revenge of the downtrodden’.”
For a moment, Yuma recalled what he had read about in the Imperial Household Records of Rosé’s youth.
Tekken. It was never a name made up of virtue and wisdom.
It was a name that was created through a lot of blood, war, and ‘conquest’.
Why is an empire an empire?
Asuka Roze was the third most conquest emperor in the history of the Empire. More than 20 small countries fell to her aggression.
The battle of Ahmad, where Yuma first met Duran Zak, was also the same.
At that time, the kingdom of Ahmad broke the agreement with the empire first, but the empire destroyed them without giving them a chance to recover. Of course, it was Asuka Roze’s decision.
Ahmad was rather better. There is also a reason that it is a fatal mistake of violating the agreement.
In his youth, Asuka Roze simply sent troops to conquer the coveted land.
In the name of the prosperity and development of the empire.
It is true that he took good care of the lands he had taken and looked after those who became his people much better than the previous leaders.
It couldn’t wrap the ‘invasion’ as an ethical act.
‘If the rumors of foreign merchants are true, then it’s His Majesty’s fault…
And it didn’t take long for the rumors to be true.
Special leases from the imperial family spread across Western countries have discovered secret documents of national leaders involved with the blue dagger.
The content of the document was a confidential agreement. The content of the countries that requested the assassination of Asuka Roze guaranteed each other’s existence.
And Yuma confirmed that Hela had figured out the fact through Randel.
“Are you here?”
It was Hella’s voice. Yuma was about to come to the central hall of the imperial castle after receiving her call.
Asuka Rose’s blood that flowed on the floor was still not wiped off.
All investigations have been completed, but Hella has ordered not to erase it.
Yuma couldn’t easily offer words of comfort.
And I was worried. I was worried about her heart, and I was worried about what she would do in anger.
If, at this precarious time when the underworld demons might start a full-scale invasion, if she turns the entire Western continent into a battlefield ♦… “I know
what you’re worried about.”
When Hella spoke, Yuma lowered her head apologetically.
It is said that Asuka is getting back the karma of the war of conquest in her youth, but in any case, from Hela’s point of view, she was a mother.
It’s strange to lose your temper and not get angry.
“I remember what you said to me that day. Now I am the Empire.”
“your majesty.”
“If I raise an army with Lord Duran and turn all their lands into ruins, your position will be embarrassing. Regardless of your situation, it would be good only for the demons.”
couldn’t say anything Yuma was about two steps away from her with her eyes closed.
If that happens, Yuma will eventually stop Hela. Destroying all over 20 countries will make her a more tyrannical tyrant than she was in her crazy days before returning.
“I decided to endure it. I will not destroy them until the war with the demons is over. But…
“Your Majesty…
“It hurts so much, I don’t know how to endure it. Someone is cutting out my chest with a knife, but there’s nothing I can do about it. So I am going to give you one command.”
Erase them completely from this world and come.
That was the best result Yuma had hoped for. Leave the countries that participated in Asuka’s assassination alone and punish only the blue dagger.
However, the words that fell from Hella’s mouth the next moment reminded her of her last appearance before returning.
“However, after the war with the demons, you took the lead in killing the people who killed my mother and those who commissioned me to kill my mother.”
Hella stayed close to Yuma and continued talking.
“Even their blood relatives and their dogs. it’s all you have to kill Until then, I will not forget this sorrow. Not even leaving a piece of the ground they were stepping on, Yuma couldn’t hear it anymore and hugged her into his chest.
Even though I’m spitting out such venomous words. Transparent tears flowed ceaselessly down her white cheeks.
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