Chapter 218 Earl of Rondon (3)
Ordinary people.
Most of them did not know Roman Dmitri’s face.
It was a familiar rumor, but recognizing Roman Dmitri in Redford’s land was a different matter.
however.
“It’s Roman Dmitry!”
“It’s that guy! Count Rondon is now plotting with the Dmitri family and trying to steal Redford’s fortune! Traitors! Aren’t you ashamed of Heaven even though you live like that!”
Some of the crowd suddenly raised their voices.
It was an embarrassing situation for Jacqueline.
He recognized Roman Dmitri because he was at a party, but he had no intention of provoking him.
Roman Dmitri is a rumored aura tester.
Knowing how strong a monster he is, it was the original plan not to touch Roman Dmitri so that he could go to extreme situations.
plan that was.
It was ruined by sudden action.
Jacqueline couldn’t even back down at the remarks that provoked Roman Dmitri and showed a very difficult reaction.
set of circumstances.
Roman Dmitry saw the guys who raised their voices.
‘The instigators are mixed.’
rebellion of the common people.
It was an expression of suppressed anger.
However, it was not difficult to guess that Jacqueline’s reaction and the way she recognized herself and made a specific provocation were mixed with the forces that instigated them.
It was as expected. The Kronos Empire prepared weapons to attack Count Rondon.
Cairo used traitors who wanted to devour the country, assassins called shadows against itself, and angry public sentiment to destroy the Rondon family.
It was fun.
The Cronus Empire spread chaos all over the continent in a variety of ways.
Without actively using the power of the empire, the enemy created a situation where it collapsed on its own.
Chado Killing Gye (借刀殺人之計).
That was the Empire’s way.
said Roman Dmitry.
“You are a traitor who sells out the country. Is there any clear basis for that statement?”
“I don’t need any evidence! Roman Dmitry! If you’re a man who truly knows justice, don’t mind our business and get out of Redford! Redford’s riches you want to take. It was earned by the blood and sweat of the people. The vicious Rondon family monopolizes all their wealth and lives a luxurious life alone.
succumbed to evil
As things turned out, Jacqueline showed no signs of backing down.
Hwareuk.
Roaring.
like a blazing fire.
It was not strange when a fight broke out.
their words.
their facial expressions.
Roman Dmitry looked around at the people.
Dealing with idiots who couldn’t face reality wasn’t such a difficult issue, but whether it was worth directly intervening in Redford’s problems was another issue.
In fact, the way to calm the angry public sentiment that came to London was so simple.
truth.
That alone was enough.
If Rondon told them what he had done, they would no longer be able to say the word traitor.
but.
Sigh.
The door opens.
The Rondon family knight came out and spoke in a quiet voice so that others could not hear.
“… Roman Dmitry. Count Rondon wants Roman Dmitri out of our troubles. So just go in. We will take care of the public sentiment of the people.”
at that point.
Roman Dmitry no longer had a reason to confront the commoners.
* * *
Let’s go inside.
Count Rondon said with a slightly bitter expression.
“I’m sorry for getting you into a fuss. In fact, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened. There have been several occasions when starving people have attacked my caravan. Of course, there was no extreme situation that hit the mansion like today, but it seems that people’s patience has finally reached its limit.”
this day.
I hoped for a peaceful solution.
The Knight of Rondon went out and offered a compromise with the leftover food and financial compensation from the party, and the anger of the people who had achieved their goal was bound to fade.
Except for the demagogues, no one wanted an extreme situation.
They did not know what would happen to them by Roman Dmitri, who was rumored to have been fighting, so they chose to withdraw from the line of achieving their goal to some extent.
London’s way.
It was foolish indeed.
If it had been Roman Dmitri, no matter what the reason, he would not have returned the people who took the knife back.
but.
This is Redford.
It wasn’t Dmitri, so I just followed Redford’s way.
Roman Dmitry asked.
“Why didn’t you tell the truth? The Rondons are not at all responsible for Redford’s poverty. No matter how much you become the target of traitors, isn’t it for the Rondon family to reveal the truth? I’m sorry. The King of Redford needs to take responsibility for this matter.”
Roman’s words.
It was a common sense reaction.
Everyone who knew the truth said so, but the Earl of Rondon couldn’t bear to tell the truth.
“… I know very well what it is for Rondon. But I don’t think it’s for Redford. We are now living in an age of hatred. When a problem arises, people seek responsibility for the problem from others in the harsh reality. What do you think will happen to Redford if it turns out that His Majesty the King started all the trouble?”
From then on, things are different.
If people’s anger is directed at the royal family, it will fall into an irreversible abyss.
“If people who can only be freed by blaming someone are aiming for His Majesty the King. We don’t know what will happen to this country then. People will rise up and perhaps collapse from within before even fighting the Kronos Empire. So the truth cannot be revealed. If the people’s anger is directed not at the royal family, but at a noble like me, then their anger will be limited to obstructing the ascension and attacking the mansion. After all, I am also only a being under the rule of the royal family. Their anger will not spread throughout the kingdom.”
he is also a person
Criticism was not welcome.
Seeing people swear at me, I once wanted to tell the truth dozens of times a day.
but.
The gains from it were insignificant.
People would praise the Earl of Rondon as a hero, but it was clear that anger towards the royal family would shake Redford’s foundation.
If that were the case, what would the reputation of being a hero mean?
If a country collapses, if a rebellion breaks out. All the hard work I had done so far had no choice but to become meaningless.
suppressed the truth
I smiled and looked at Roman Dmitri.
“Redford’s troubles are not solely His Majesty’s responsibility. Even if they were to take responsibility and bring him down, Redford would be engulfed in further turmoil due to the forces that encouraged His Majesty’s departure and those who were not watching the current situation. It is better for me to bear the blame of people. At least I have the strength to accept people’s criticism and be safe. So until Redford has a foundation to survive, the people shouldn’t know the truth.”
past years.
It was the weight of life that the Earl of Rondon was carrying.
Looking at him, Roman Dmitry recalled the face of a person in his memory.
* * *
Yuhyeon, a student at the Demonic School.
He was a very unique person.
In a world that speaks of the rule of thumb, humans are basically believed to be born with a good side, and unlike their position as heirs to prestigious families, they do not show great greed for power.
Maybe it was because he lived a very different life from Baek Joong-hyeok.
The two felt an inexplicable attraction and often spent time together.
Baek Joong-hyeok asked.
“I heard that you went to the slums and helped people. Why did you act like that? You would have simply acted like that with good intentions, but from then on, people will wait for the day you come. And if you don’t show up again, you’ll get angry, saying that your one good intention was only sympathy.”
There are things people misunderstand.
poverty and wealth.
The belief that conflicting values represent character.
The world Baek Joong-hyeok lived in was not like that.
Some people described poor people as helping each other and rich people as villains who exploited their poverty.
But is it really the truth?
Just because they are rich, they are not unconditionally evil, and poor people are not those people who know human emotions just because they are poor.
bottom of life.
People’s selfishness was glistening.
Baek Joong-hyeok saw the bottom of human beings in the way they beat people to death just to eat one rice ball.
whether poor or rich.
Humans are just humans.
Even in the same environment, the character formed is different, and Baek Joong-hyeok did not hastily judge the opponent’s environment.
what you saw and felt.
Thoroughly judged opponents based on experience, and only those who accepted it were worthy of Baek Joong-hyeok’s trust.
Yoohyeon said.
“… well. Like you said, people may resent me, but I just do what my heart wants. If only there was someone like you in the world. Wouldn’t it be balanced if there were people like me?”
I smiled.
Even in that look.
Baek Joong-hyeok couldn’t help but laugh.
Because Yoohyeon and his life are different.
Although he himself is the son of the Heavenly Demon, he started from the bottom of his life, and Yoohyeon was born as an heir to a prestigious family and grew up seeing only the good things.
A kind heart may have been born from such a background.
At least, if you had experienced a life like Baek Joong-hyeok’s, you wouldn’t have been able to say that humans are born with a good side.
still.
I didn’t hate a person named Yoohyeon.
The time with him seemed to bring a ray of light into his life, which was wandering in darkness.
and one year later.
Yoohyeon was found naked in a slum.
* * *
Euhyeon and Earl of Rondon.
They were similar types of people.
Living a single life, they believed in and followed values that were more important than their own comfort.
Having parted with Count Rondon, Roman Dmitri came out and looked up at the black sky.
“Stupid bastards.”
The day Yoohyeon died.
Baek Joong-hyeok overturned the slum area.
In the meantime, I found all the people who had been in contact with Yoohyeon, and it was only after driving countless people to death that I was able to find out who killed Yoohyeon.
At most, he was a boy in his early to mid-teens.
Looking at him with both ears cut off and bleeding, when I asked him why, the boy said this with a terrified face.
“… I was afraid that they would never visit us again.”
One month visit.
Starving people did not remember grace.
It caught my eye that Yoohyeon’s clothes looked expensive when he left after giving grace rather than coming to the slums to help them.
Turning around like that, he hit the back of Yoohyeon’s head with a stone.
Even though blood was splattering and people were moaning, the boy took care of his clothes with eyes glistening with desire.
The boy and Jacqueline.
It was no different.
If you looked at the world a little wiser, you would have known what the Earl of Rondon had done for the people.
Not knowing the truth was no excuse.
Jacqueline’s invitation to the party so that she could work even for a short time, and even a little food after the party, would have been enough gratitude if she hadn’t been furious at the fact that nobles were spending their time in luxury.
like that.
Jacqueline was used by demagogues.
The reason he visited the mansion of the Earl of Rondon was probably because there was a precedent that he had tolerated people’s atrocities.
Hyun Yoo.
Count of London.
An existence that I would not normally dare to look up at.
They were forced to make sacrifices for the sake of the people.
It was stupid.
Didn’t like it.
but.
‘It’s none of my business.’
Even in a previous life.
And even now.
Roman Dmitry had no intention of injecting his values into the lives of others.
He knew how foolish it would be if the Earl of Rondon offered to sacrifice himself, but he didn’t bother.
This time to Redford.
It was his role to solve the problem of Golden Bank.
I turned my steps.
As I looked up at the sky, my mind was complicatedly entangled.
The night was so late.
Time passed, and the day that Golden Bank notified was dawning.
