Revolutionary Period –
After initial negotiations with the two princesses Maximilien Isidore and Nicolas Brissot and other republican figures, we returned to the territory.
It was an informal meeting from the beginning, but the negotiation was held suddenly due to their own circumstances, and they did not expect it to be concluded right away since they had to obtain the consent of the National Assembly as they said.
According to the information sent by Christine, as soon as Maximilien Isidore returned to the capital Lumière, he and Nicolas Brissot massively condemned Benoît Reverie and his associates and had them removed from office.
It seems that the ‘Incorruptible One’, even though he was a radical, could not tolerate the immorality of selling humans to the devil and enjoying luxury and pleasure.
As a result, as Christine and I had hoped, the influence of the moderate faction became stronger, but the fairness of Maximilien Isidore, who was strict even with the same faction, was praised by the citizens, so we achieved only half of the goal we had originally hoped for.
Christine happened to have prepared something for us, so now we have to wait and hope that the seeds we have sown will bear fruit.
But I had some business to attend to before we fully joined the Republic.
–
I said hello to Jenny and Sir Beaumont, whom I hadn’t seen in a while, and entered Eris’ room.
…And as soon as I did that, I had to wonder if I should turn around and get out of her room.
“Have you been there~?”
Eris, who was lying face down on the bed, looking at a book and shaking her bare feet, didn’t seem to care at all, so I quit.
“Huh Eris. “Where is Her Majesty the Princess’ body?”
“I left it behind when I escaped from the palace.”
As I let out a deep sigh, Eris’s leisurely movements suddenly stopped.
“Black.”
…? What’s happening all of a sudden?
“Huhhhhh!”
Eris burst into tears endlessly.
I tried to think about what I had done wrong and quickly gave up.
“…Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
“The story is so sad…”
No, this princess is the real one.
I was so dumbfounded that I walked over to her and lifted the book she was holding in her hand.
“No way! “It’s a climax!”
what’s this. … Romilo and Julien?
Is it a novel?
I sighed lightly, returned the book to Eris, and opened my mouth.
“Hey artist. It’s good to be sensitive, but let’s talk for a moment.”
“…I’ve read almost all of it. Can’t I just finish reporting it?”
Ah, the back of my neck.
Luckily, Eris saw my expression and quietly closed her book and got up.
Well, I guess I shouldn’t expect much from this free-spirited princess who is looking up at me while sitting on the bed, but has a weightless soul.
I placed my hand on my forehead and opened my mouth.
“A proposal came from the Holy Church.”
Eris frowned.
“It seems like your reputation has spread quite a bit. “I want to call you to the Holy Church and test whether you are worthy of being recognized as a saint.”
“I’m not a saint or anything.”
“I said it before, it’s important what people think. “I think your abilities are attractive enough in the eyes of the Holy Church.”
Eris grumbled with the most disgusted expression she had ever seen.
“It sounds good, but she is recognized as a saint, and she is probably only thinking of putting her in the hands of the church and using her divine power to strengthen their authority.”
“that’s right. However, once she is recognized as a saint by the Holy Church, her authority cannot be ignored.”
Right now, the religious authority of being a saint can alleviate much of the problem of her legitimacy as an illegitimate woman.
“And as you probably understand, testing a foreign girl who doesn’t even know the basics of her status as a saint is quite unconventional by the standards of those arrogant priests. That means I want you that much, and if you reject it, you won’t react very well.”
Of course, from the government’s point of view, since she is a foreign girl whose fundamentals are unknown, they covet her without any worries.
Once you bring her into the arms of the Church and make her a saint, you can use her as a weapon for the Church.
Unfortunately for them, since they are having fun making her a saint, a situation will arise where they say she is actually a hidden royal family.
“…Is the Marquis’ plan to put me on the throne still valid?”
“that’s right. I didn’t bring it up right now because I couldn’t make such a proposal to a republic that was fighting just by joining hands with nobles. However, once King Louis disappears, there is a high possibility that a foreign country that is related to him will take the throne of Franzia. And that’s when you need to step up to undermine their cause.”
After compromising with the Republic, we will have to actively work to secure influence within the revolutionary government, but Eris’ ascension to the throne will strengthen the bond between us and the Third Estate along with weakening the justification for invasion by foreign powers.
“I think that the status of a saint is necessary for your legitimacy for that time and to ensure your safety from the church before that.”
A girl with enough power and popularity to show interest in the religious world ignores the religious world and uses up her sacred power? This directly leads to a weakening of the authority of the church.
Even so, there is no way the Church, which has lost face by sucking its fingers while the Republic is plundering the clergy who are the first class, will leave a relatively easy-going girl alone.
In fact, before returning, he discovered that Eris was a princess and indirectly killed her by accusing her of being a witch.
Eris remained silent for a moment and then opened her mouth.
“Can I tell you what I think?”
“However much.”
“If my ability is truly ‘divine power,’ then it must have been given by God, but I wonder what qualifications those who call themselves servants of God have to admit such a thing. “I think it’s very… arrogant.”
As Eris said that, her purple eyes were a little colder than usual.
“Even if I need to qualify as a saint, the people of Francia whom I should help are suffering right now. Is it really right for me, a princess, to leave this land for profit and waste my time pleasing the church? How will the honor of being a saint thus earned be viewed by the people of Francia, who already hate the Church and its corrupt clergy?”
A girl who is revered as a saint, but claims that she does not believe in God.
She probably said this even before her return and did not respond to the Church’s call.
I smiled and raised both hands.
“good. “There is no need to go to the Church of Christ, Eris.”
Eris blinked her eyes slowly and her face became completely surprised.
“…yes? “Simple as this?”
“Yes, isn’t it okay if the archbishop over there comes directly to test your sainthood?”
“yes yes?”
Eris was embarrassed and hesitated, but I pushed ahead without giving her any time to waste.
“You don’t want to leave the suffering people of Francia alone and go to take the test for sainthood to please the Church, don’t you? So, if you can qualify as a saint here, there will be no problem.”
“Uh no…”
Eris was embarrassed and jumped up from her seat.
“Is that possible? how? “That arrogant church would do something like that?”
Because I prepared a gift so valuable that I could personally invite the high priest of that arrogant church to come.
A stupid high-ranking devil just waiting to return to the Abyss Corporation.
“There is a way.”
“How and when?”
“In about a week?”
Eris opened and closed her mouth as if embarrassed, but her face soon turned into a bewildered one.
“Well, it was already decided, right? liar!”
“I didn’t lie, Your Highness. “It is true that the Church tried to summon His Highness for the sainthood qualification examination.”
Eris gave me a look of great disbelief, so I shrugged my shoulders in response.
“If the archbishop had told you from the beginning to take the test to become a saint because the archbishop was coming, you would have refused.”
“Ugh…”
Eris couldn’t bear to refute, so she gave a dissatisfied look and blurted out one word.
“…this fraudster.”
I answered with a smile.
“What do you want to know now?”
–
Germanburg, the capital of the Germanian Empire,
Kaiser Otto II, Emperor of the Germanian Empire, went out to the balcony of the towering imperial palace.
His lifeless skin and dark circles under his eyes could not be completely erased even with makeup, but they would not be visible to those below.
The Kaiser silently looked around at the officers saluting him in front of the imperial palace and the troops lined up looking at the imperial palace even further away.
Then, with the support of the court mage, he opened his mouth in a voice amplified by magical power.
“I believe you all know that a shameless rebellion has occurred in the homeland of Kaiserin, beloved by the people of the empire.”
Infantry armed with muskets and countless cavalry units, including the empire’s proud hussars, were looking at him, but the Kaiser’s face was not very satisfied.
“Go and suppress those ruthless rioters as the honorable army of the Empire. Remember, this is our chance to show our might to those who dare to doubt the might of our Empire. “I will await news of your victory.”
“Heil Kaiser!”
In response to the soldiers’ response, Otto II finished his short speech and turned his back on the balcony.
“The soldiers must have been impressed by Your Majesty’s speech, Your Majesty.”
Otto II listened to his empress Caesarine Cecilia’s words and waved his hands around with a tired look.
Everyone retreated and the Empress was the only one left, and Otto threw away the cumbersome emperor’s cloak and flopped down on the sofa, holding his head with both hands.
“It’s only 30,000. “Only 30,000 troops were surrendered by the feudal lords to the Kaiser’s order.”
“your majesty.”
Cecellia knelt down next to Otto and held his hand.
“This is all because of that bastard from the damn Kingdom of Krafte. Because of him, the prestige of the empire was ruined.”
“your majesty. Although the Empire is now going through dark times, if Francia, which once humiliated the Empire, is brought under its influence, even the arrogant and disloyal Electors will look up to Your Majesty.”
“Ah, Cecilia. “It is your homeland, and you…”
“From the moment I came to this country, I am not a princess of Francia, but a woman of His Majesty and the Empire.”
After hearing Otto’s words, Cecilia responded with a soft smile, and the moved Emperor hugged her with tears in his eyes.
“Oh my dear Cecilia. Only you understand me. I can only rely on you…”
–
Cecilia, who had comforted her husband for a while, came out into the hallway with extremely graceful steps, and a general with a medal hanging on his chest was waiting for her and then showed her respect.
“See you Kaiserin.”
“Archduke Leopold.”
“Please give me your name, Kaiserin.”
Cecilia smiled secretly at the extremely polite attitude one would have for an empress from Francia who had historically been a mortal enemy.
“I believe you understand the situation, Grand Duke.”
“Of course, Kaiserin.”
“The Empire is 30,000, the Northern United Kingdom is 10,000. “It is only a matching force, but if it is combined with King Louis’s army, it will be enough to wipe out the Frangian rebels, who were devastated by the long civil war and had no system.”
“Kaiserin is right.”
After listening to Archduke Leopold’s polite words, Cecilia rolled her eyes and smiled elegantly before speaking.
“That is troubling. The Archduke… please keep the Empire’s army intact and pass the damage on to King Louis’s army. Discord due to old resentment between the two countries… “That would be sufficient justification.”
Archduke Leopold looked at Cecilia for a moment, but then lowered his head.
“As Kaiserin ordered.”
“Then I will wait for you, Grand Duke.”
Archduke Leopold politely turned his back on Cecilia.
If he were to just say this much, he would understand.
The good news she was expecting was not a victory, but a loss for her incompetent and foolish brother.
The name of the princess of Cecilia Frangia was Cecilia.
The war between the Germanic Empire and the Frangian Kingdom ended with the nominal victory of the Frangian Kingdom, and her father was called ‘King of the Knights’ for his victory and praised as a great king.
However, in reality, that war was a war that showed that the golden age of knights and cold weapons was beginning to come to an end, and it was only barely won by relying on a single Irregular named the Blue Knight.
The gunpowder weapons introduced for the first time by the Empire caused serious damage to the army of the Kingdom of Franzia, which had poor magic power while the knights of the Kingdom of Franzia fought against the knights of the Empire.
If the Empire’s knights had not collapsed due to the Blue Knights, the Empire would have won the war.
However, as a result, both countries found it difficult to bear the damage and wanted to end the war, and she, who was a young first princess at the time, was married to the crown prince of the empire as a sign of peace between the two countries.
Cecilia slowly walked down the hallway and gave a friendly smile to the Germans who were extremely courteous as soon as they saw her.
It was not at all easy for her, who came from a country where Cheolcheon supported her position, to hold this position.
As it happened, a great king called an unrivaled genius appeared in the Kingdom of Krafte, one of the empire’s electorates, and inflicted another defeat on the empire.
I endured countless days.
He ridiculed the challenge of an electorate, calling it formidable, but was defeated cruelly, lost confidence, suffered a victim mentality, and lived a life dependent on alcohol. He comforted and gained the trust of the pathetic emperor.
She abandoned everything in Francia and completely acted like a member of the Germanian Empire and assisted the ugly emperor. Eventually, she reached a position more respected than the emperor, and in fact ruled the empire on his behalf.
Cecilia tried to recall the faces of the ugly brothers she had seen a long time ago, but failed.
Fortunately, she was able to easily access the portrait of her father, who was praised as the King of Knights, and was able to clearly recall the face that was praised as great in his home country.
In the name of preventing conflict between the two countries, her father abandoned her as a child in the heart of an enemy country and did not pay any attention to her.
Cecilia twitched the corner of her mouth and let out a sneer.
When other countries saw the same war and entered the age of gunpowder, they argued that gunpowder weapons were ineffective and that more knights needed to be trained, so they were a dark cloud over the future of their country.
His homeland was on the verge of being overthrown by rebels after being left in the hands of his foolish father and incompetent brothers.
The subjects of such a pitiful homeland would be happier under her wise rule.
Therefore, the power of the empire should be projected to that tattered kingdom only after her incompetent brother dies.
Kaiserin of the Germanian Empire and queen of the Kingdom of Francia.
Cecilia smiled as she rolled around in her mouth the title that made her happy just thinking about it.
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