Episode 223
The emperor leisurely took a sip, savoring the aroma of the tea.
His expression was vibrant and vibrant.
I could feel his overflowing vitality.
It was a completely different appearance from the time when he was watching the American expedition indifferently and calmly.
Anyone who knew the emperor well would know when he looked like this.
That was what it was like before the war.
As the emperor took another sip of black tea, the heavy sound of a car engine was heard. Soon the sound stopped and the presence of two people was felt.
The visitor I had been waiting for had arrived.
The emperor finished the remaining black tea in one go, took out a cigarette, and took a bite.
Just as he was lighting a cigarette, the door opened and two people came in.
One is Seomjeon, a close associate.
And another one was a woman with red hair.
Igni, the Demon Lord of Flame, was her.
“Why don’t you sit down?”
The emperor took a deep breath of cigarette smoke and opened his mouth.
“I don’t mind.”
Igni walked over and sat down opposite the emperor.
Seomjeon took a few steps to the side as if he did not dare to intervene in the conversation between the two.
The gaze of the larger emperor looked down at Igni.
Igni stared at the emperor with an indifferent gaze.
“There’s no need to tell each other in full, right?”
said the emperor.
This wasn’t a place for socializing, and this meeting took place anyway because we knew each other.
So, I was saying that there was no need for a useless statement.
“as you please.”
Igni said, sitting down with his legs crossed.
Seomjeon’s eyes lit up as he saw that.
I didn’t know the exact situation, but I could guess that the current situation of the demons was not good.
So it is clear that she is in a more difficult position.
Yet, he appears calm.
And that too in front of the emperor.
It was common for even strong men to feel an instinctive sense of intimidation when standing in front of an emperor who did not hide his true colors.
But I didn’t feel that way about her at all.
It seemed clear that no matter how non-human the demon was, it was not an easy task.
“What is your business?”
The emperor asked bluntly.
“A temporary alliance.”
Igni’s answer came right away.
There was no change in the emperor’s expression after hearing those words.
The emperor asked in a voice that did not show the slightest interest.
“Is there any benefit to Jim?”
“You know. The opportunity to kill the person you want to kill the most doesn’t come that easily.”
This time, her answer flowed right away.
“Who are you talking about?”
“The great sage of both eyes.”
After those words, there was a strange silence for a moment.
Phew.
The emperor exhaled smoke.
Gray cigarette smoke spread through the air.
Meanwhile, the eyes of the Emperor and Igni met.
The emperor’s mouth opened again.
“It seems like I studied the human world properly. It’s not bad.”
“There is a saying in human strategy: If you know your enemy and yourself, you will not be in danger even after a hundred battles.”
For the first time, the emperor moved the corners of his mouth and showed a thin, amused smile.
Igni crossed his arms in silence and stared at the emperor.
The emperor dropped the cigarette he was smoking on the floor and extinguished it by crushing it with his shoe.
“What benefit is there for you?”
“Because we also want to kill that human and the group that follows him right away.”
The emperor sat crookedly with his chin resting on the back of his hand, his face looking like he was thinking about something.
Igni said nothing more and waited for the emperor to open his mouth again.
Naturally, there was silence in the hall for a moment.
Seomjeon, who was standing next to him, thought that he had to accept this offer unconditionally.
I didn’t know that if I continued to stay still, the difference would become so big that I could no longer turn the situation around.
In that respect, this proposal was a golden opportunity.
There was absolutely no human guilt about joining hands with demons.
If it benefits you, you are an ally; if not, you are an enemy.
Even if they joined hands with the devil, as long as they could deal a blow to their main enemy, the Great Sage, that would be enough.
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“Huh, good. I like it.”
Finally, the emperor’s mouth opened again.
Negotiation was concluded.
Igni nodded.
“The geography is not good here, so we will decide the time and place here.”
“I plan to lure them to the desired battlefield and annihilate them.”
“I don’t plan on dragging it on. I have to end it all at once with minimal sacrifice.”
“You know something.”
The emperor grinned as if he liked it.
“then.”
Igni stood up as if there was no need to talk any more.
“I will contact you as soon as the time and location are decided. Until then, prepare well.”
“I will do it.”
After hearing the emperor’s answer, Igni gave him a quick glance before turning his back and leaving.
“your majesty.”
Only then did Seomjeon look at the emperor and open his mouth.
“Assemble all Black Crosses.”
The emperor’s face as he spoke those words was writhing with some kind of heat.
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“Oh my god, oh my god….”
Sihyeon had never seen Rachel so embarrassed.
As soon as she heard that the saint had been found, she rushed to the prison castle.
Because he arrived in such a hurry, his always neat attire was a little disheveled.
She carefully placed her hand on the forehead of the saint who was sleeping on the bed in the castle lord’s bedroom.
“Do you have any problems with your body…?”
“I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem like that. The doctor in Bonbon examined his condition and said that his breathing and pulse were regular.”
“…I’m so glad.”
Rachel breathed a sigh of relief.
She stared at the sleeping figure of the saint with eyes full of complicated feelings, and then looked back at Sihyeon as if a thought occurred to her.
“Prison guard, about the saint….”
“Oh, don’t worry. No one knows except the warden and the council members, much less the outside world.”
Si-hyeon also felt that he needed to be careful because of his social status.
Therefore, only Rachel, the Holy Knight of Iria, was contacted by external personnel first.
“thank you.”
Rachel expressed her honest gratitude.
The saint was not only an important figure in the religious order.
A girl who can create miracles.
There could be no entity that aroused the desire to use and eat more than this.
Therefore, it was an entity that required strict personal protection.
“It was nothing.”
“Now I think I understand what Iria’s guidance means.”
Rachel spoke with her hands folded as if praying.
He was talking about receiving a revelation to stay at Yangji Guild.
Sihyeon, a non-religious person, looked amazed and nodded.
“Do you plan to contact the headquarters immediately when you wake up?”
“Yes, I guess so….”
“I don’t want that.”
A girl’s voice interrupted Rachel.
Rachel and Sihyeon’s gaze turned to the saint.
Before they knew it, the saintess had opened her eyes and was staring at them.
“Ah, saint, are you awake?”
Rachel presented the paladin’s example to the saint.
The saint slowly got up from the bed and sat down against the wall.
“Wake up, Rachel.”
But Rachel wouldn’t get up. She deliberately placed herself at eye level with her saint and seemed to be trying to converse.
The saint, who sensed those feelings, no longer told him to get up.
“But what about what you said earlier?”
Sihyeon asked.
“I don’t want to go back there. It was always stuffy there.”
The saint said with an expressionless face.
However, a certain sense of frustration was conveyed within it.
In this world, the saint has not yet been found by the church.
In that case, it must be talking about memories from the other world.
It seemed like it wasn’t a very good memory.
Rachel opened her mouth as if persuading.
“But saint, this world is too dangerous for you to be alone.”
“Rachel is there. The prison guard is also there.”
“…A prison guard? Is that what you mean?”
Sihyeon pointed to herself with a somewhat embarrassed face.
He was a person who had absolutely nothing to do with the church. Therefore, he thought that from now on he would not have anything to do with the saint.
But I just pointed it out and said it.
“is it so.”
“….”
I said yes without hesitation, but had nothing to say.
Sihyeon made an ambiguous expression.
“Saint….”
Rachel bit her lip gently, as if she knew how the saintly woman felt.
The saint did not think of herself as anything more than one of the many believers who worshiped the god Iria.
Therefore, I did not want to be tied to a group called a denomination.
This was even more so because I knew that there were political factions in the most secular denominations.
“But in order to spread Iria’s teachings to the world, we also need the power of the church.”
“I know that the power of the church is needed, but I am reluctant to go back there on my own.”
There was silence for a moment.
Rachel had a thoughtful look in her eyes.
Then he finally opened his mouth and spoke.
“…Do as the saint wishes.”
“Thank you for your understanding.”
The saintess nodded with clear eyes.
“Iria’s swords will follow the saint.”
He was referring to a paladin of a church called the Sword of Iria.
“I feel reassured to hear those words.”
Sihyeon could not comfortably look at this pious conversation, which seemed like a scene from a medieval fantasy novel, from a third party’s perspective.
When the conversation seemed to have roughly come to an end, he asked with a puzzled look on his face.
“No, but why am I…?”
He is not a paladin, a believer, or anything else, but is just a prison guard and the Holy Lord of the Prison Castle.
However, it was pointed out earlier along with Rachel, Iria’s first sword.
“As I said before, prison guard, you are a being with a very special bond that cannot be established.”
“Yes, I know that, but….”
“I want to see what kind of impact your power will have on the world.”
“Is that so….”
It seemed like it meant that he would be by my side in the end.
It felt a bit burdensome to say that he would be watching his actions, but it seemed like he had no choice but to just do it.
It’s not like I’m going to issue a ban on approaching the saint.
Anyway, if it was positive, it could be seen as positive.
Because you will be able to know things that you could never know on your own with the help of a saint.
Rachel watched their conversation with strange eyes.
Over there, the saint and Poachim had no special relationship.
But here, being intertwined like this felt a little strange.
“Yes, well… I understand.”
Sihyeon answered.
The saintess stared at him intently and said.
“I have a favor to ask you.”
“You tell me.”
“I want to stay here for a while.”
“yes?”
“it can not?”
There is nothing that cannot be done.
In any case, he was not living in the prison castle, but living outside.
Therefore, even though it was the castle lord’s bedroom, it was only in name and was not actually used.
Even so, it was surprising that he suddenly made this request without even a change in his expression.
I still couldn’t figure out what kind of personality the saint had.
It was clear that he was not a person with an ordinary personality.
“Please do me a favor too.”
Rachel added.
The prison castle was actually a castle that was cut off from the outside world.
In addition, numerous guards were standing guard with lights on.
Among them were quite a few strong men.
So there couldn’t be many places safer than here.
“No, well… it’s not really a problem.”
Anyway, I received great help from Rachel twice.
If it weren’t for her, he wouldn’t have been safe from the attack by the emperor’s faction.
Without her, the staff at the detention center would not have escaped without any damage when the two demons attacked again.
Looking at her face like that, Sihyeon didn’t plan on rejecting her.
“Okay, you will.”
“thank you.”
The saint put her hands together and expressed her gratitude gently.
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