Chapter 34. Requiem for the last solo (1)
The whole son-in-law became quiet.
“… … .”
Diego with an expressionless face,
“… … .”
The members of the Sud Knights, who gritted their teeth and looked away, did not say anything.
“please please… … .”
Only Carlo’s crying pleas filled the air.
“You’ve already got everything, haven’t you… … . No, aren’t you the one who could rule the entire continent if you wanted to?”
“There is an answer to what you said.”
I smiled and answered Carlo’s words.
“I will get these things with my own hands anyway, so wouldn’t it be absurd to say I am offering them?”
Carlo’s shoulders trembled.
Kuuk-
The moment his fingertips on the floor gained strength,
“… … “Your Majesty is absolutely right.”
Carlo continued speaking with difficulty.
“That’s why I’m asking for mercy.”
The tone was extremely polite. It was not used even by Emperor Theodore during his lifetime.
“Your life, the great emperor, has no meaning or value.”
“… … .”
“Please show mercy and allow me to live under Your Majesty’s grace.”
“hmm… … .”
I silently looked at the back of Carlo’s head. As if he was lost in thought after listening to his words.
It was then.
“your majesty. please! “I beg you!”
“Your Majesty, you can take our lives!”
“Please, at least Cain!”
Heartbreaking pleas began to come from all directions.
Like Carlo, they were members of the Sud Knights who were bound and kneeling.
Thump-thump-
Eventually, one driver started banging his head on the floor.
“Mercy! please!”
His forehead burst open and blood flowed out.
thud! thud!
Still, he didn’t stop moving.
thud! thud! thud!
Other knights who were influenced by him also started banging their heads.
thud! thud! thud! thud!
In an instant, the whole place was filled with a dull sound. It was a solemn and solemn act that risked one’s life.
chuck.
“… … “It’s noisy.”
Let’s raise one hand,
“Stop!”
“shut up!”
Members of the Ovest Knights bound their bodies.
“Ugh… … .”
“Your Majesty, please…” … .”
The members of the Sud Knights cried until their mouths were covered. Not for his own life, but for Cain’s.
“… … under.”
They were literally like fanatics.
He believed in and served the sun called Cain, but ended up being burned by its rays.
And I was an atheist trying to extinguish that flame.
“This, indeed.”
This makes me feel like I’ve become a villain.
A heinous villain who weighs Cain’s life in front of their noble sacrifice.
‘He’s a villain, right?’
Of course, I didn’t feel any guilt about that fact.
No, if this is a villain.
I was willing to be a villain as much as I wanted. Thoroughly and mercilessly.
Sze-
I took the Requiem from Carlo. And he began to walk around him slowly.
“… … .”
The Sud Knights blinked and stared at me. Only a desperate wind filled my tear-soaked eyes.
It was a really funny and pointless wish.
“I understand your loyalty very well.”
I exhaled slowly, enjoying their anxious gaze.
“Well, it’s very tearful. Can you see it? “It brought tears to my eyes.”
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The way I spoke of emotion didn’t mean anything more than ridicule.
“… … .”
The shoulders of the Sud Knights members stiffened when they felt this.
Whiiing-
A chilly, ominous wind tickled their heads.
“There is no other way to be moved.”
My calm voice poured down on Carlo’s head.
“This is a situation where I am begging you to save the leader of the rebel army.”
“… … .”
“There is no separate school of sin. “I’m so bored that I’m almost in tears.”
Beneath his calm tone, there was a feeling of anticipation that pierced his bones.
“Anyone who commits treason shall be punished at least by death, but at most by three generations.”
I could see Carlo’s neck tightening.
“But, yeah. mercy. Mercy… … .”
After a long pause, he added slowly.
“Isn’t mercy one of the good virtues of a monarch?”
“… … .”
“For the start of a new empire, it doesn’t seem like a bad choice.”
Jeez.
I stopped walking and stood in front of Carlo.
“I will accept your request and spare Cain’s life.”
Swish!
The sound of heads raising could be heard from several places.
“-!”
Carlo’s eyes widened in surprise,
“—!”
The Sud Knights struggling with relief,
“?!”
It was Diego who looked like he was talking nonsense.
“ha… … .”
However, some members, including Hayden, covered their foreheads. He guessed what I meant.
“Your Majesty… … .”
“Gam-euphap… … .”
The moment when sighs of joy burst out here and there,
“-step.”
I smiled bitterly and parted my lips.
“I will cut off both wrists and ankles of the bastard and gouge out his eyes.”
In an instant, a cold silence enveloped the surroundings.
“Oh, and I’ll have to cut out my tongue too. “I think this is merciful enough.”
I looked at Carlo, whose face was ashen, and smiled.
“Anyway, isn’t your life saved?”
Carlo’s eyes were shaking as if there was an earthquake. It was an intense agitation that was not visible even when the Mare Guild incident was mentioned.
“… … .”
“Huh… … .”
The members of the Sud Knights were shocked and their lips trembled. Shock and fear were etched on my gaunt face.
Next moment,
“Abel Kindreal!”
Carlo couldn’t stand it anymore and jumped up.
“Inooooom!”
The knights who were a few steps away moved hastily.
“your majesty!”
“It’s dangerous-”
Their urgent cries are,
Jump!
The sound of me scratching Carlo’s cheek was drowned out.
“Hehehe!”
Carlo rolled over several times and fell to the floor.
“Ugh… … .”
He stuck his head on the floor and couldn’t move for a long time. It would have been a heavy blow for an ordinary person to handle.
“Like that, like that.”
I giggled and walked leisurely.
“Huh, huh… … .”
Carlo slowly raised his face. The side of his cheek where he had been hit by me was red and swollen.
“It’s a tough situation.”
They scolded him mercilessly.
“If I was serious about it, I would have died instantly.”
Tub-
I grabbed the guy by the collar and lifted him up.
“Why don’t you like my mercy?”
When I looked him in the eyes and asked him, Carlo’s whole body was shaking and he couldn’t say anything.
The inside of the mouth must have burst and there was a lot of blood.
“I can’t help it even if I don’t like it. “You have no choice.”
“… … .”
“Besides, do you think your son will accept this mercy?”
He slyly spat out one word at a time.
“The death of the gasols and the fall of the family. “I wonder if I can tolerate myself surviving at the cost of that.”
“… … live,”
The moment Carlo barely opened his mouth,
Struggle, thud.
The blood that flowed from his mouth wet the back of my hand.
“As long as you stay alive. “There are as many opportunities as there are.”
Carlo could barely speak while coughing up blood.
“… … “The opportunity comes.”
“Oh, are you discussing revenge in front of me?”
He giggled and spread his hands.
“Wook!”
Carlo fell to the floor and bit his lip.
Kuuk-
He said, pressing down on the guy’s neck with his foot.
“The opportunity you hope for will never come.”
Tick.
He gestured to the members of the Ovest Knights.
“I don’t make regrets.”
fault!
The Ovest Knights understood my gesture and began to move.
Slurp!
The sound of swords being drawn all at once can be heard from all directions,
“Turn it off!”
“Oops!”
The screams of the Sud Knights rose one after another.
“… … .”
The knights’ faces darkened when they saw their dying comrades.
But they maintained their pride until the end. They did not beg for their lives like the ragtag group before them.
Just accept death calmly.
“Send it to me right away.”
This was the last tribute I could pay to them.
To those who simply served the wrong sun and had to face death because of it.
Patter.
Hot blood is sprinkled on the frozen ground.
Boom, boom.
Motionless corpses covered it one after another.
“Ugh… … .”
Carlo closed his eyes, unable to bear to see the end of the Sud Knights.
“No, no, no.”
I smiled low and tapped Carlo’s cheek with my foot.
“Don’t look away. “It’s your choice.”
Grumbling-
Blood flowed from Carlo’s clenched lips.
I could feel the scent of despair. The sweetest blood scent I’ve ever smelled.
thud!
A body with its heart pierced fell to the floor. He was the last member of the Sud Knights.
“Any last words?”
I asked Carlo, who had the complexion of a corpse.
I was genuinely curious. Because I was the last breath of many people.
Carlo, what is your will?
Is it a regret like Lowell, a curse like Emperor Theodore, or a confession like Siena?
or not… … .
“… … please.”
Finally, tears flowed from the corners of Carlo’s wrinkled eyes.
“Please, let us go without suffering.”
It was neither repentance nor pessimism.
“Don’t leave it in shame and pessimism, just. just… … .”
It was a lingering feeling for my son who would be left alone.
“As a human… … “So I can close my eyes.”
And, it was atonement for himself for making his son like that.
“As a human… … Please send it.”
After speaking, Carlo closed his eyes. He was the one who could not bring himself to ask for his son to be killed.
There was no subject, but I understood who it was talking about.
“… … .”
Cain is probably running towards the Sud territory right now. The cadenza waving in his hand flashed through my mind.
“Think about it.”
Whether Cain will die as a human or not. Maybe it wasn’t my business.
chuck-
I aimed the Requiem at Carlo’s heart.
A slight wave of thought arose in my heart, thinking, “I’m finally going to kill this person.” Because it meant that there wasn’t much left until the end.
“… … .”
I could feel Diego’s breathing getting a little rough as he stood next to me.
Carlo Ardante, who had tormented him so much and was obsessed with everything.
Diego watched without blinking as he begged me with his miserable appearance.
He didn’t say anything, but there was no way his heart could remain silent.
“Diego.”
When I called him, Diego’s eyebrows rose.
“… … yes.”
“Do you want to do it yourself?”
He asked, looking at his beloved sword Ebony hanging on his waist. A mix of honorifics, half teasing and half serious.
“I will give you a chance. “Last chance to clear up old grievances.”
“… … .”
“This is not an opportunity that comes easily. “It is a special gift given only to the ‘great’ emperor’s father.”
Carlo’s face with his eyes closed twitched. Conversely, Diego’s face relaxed slightly.
“… … .”
Diego clenched and unclenched his fists and looked at Carlo and me alternately. A faint conflict passed over his scarred face.
After a while,
“… … “I decline.”
Diego answered in a low voice.
“I think it would be personal revenge if I cut him down.”
“… … .”
“But if your Majesty does it, it is only the monarch’s disposition.”
It was an answer that was not like the Diego I knew. I thought I would keep things from the past in my heart and try to resolve them.
“… … haha.”
I let out a small laugh.
I liked the changed title, the more polite way of speaking, and everything about it.
“Why are you laughing… … “Do you like it?”
Diego asked in a rough voice. He seemed uncomfortable using honorifics toward me.
“no.”
I withdrew my smile and turned away from him. And then I approached Carlo, who was kneeling upright.
“Goodbye.”
Jang!
I held up the Requiem in the midday sun.
“Carlo Ardante.”
Hung-
And then lightly swung to the side.
The moment the Requiem touched the back of Carlo’s neck was brief.
wickedness-
The familiar sensation of cutting pudding continues,
Boom!
Carlo’s head rolled on the floor.
“… … .”
Carlo did not groan even until the last moment.
Chi-Ik-
Black flames went up from his neck and burned his entire face.
Saat-
What was left there was an unidentifiable head. His headless body fell down next to him.
That’s how Carlo Ardante, the father of Cain Ardante, the main character of the original, passed away.
It was a death that did not exist in the original.
“I will quickly organize this and then leave. The target is Sud territory, where the remnants of the rebel army are hiding.”
He spoke to the Ovest Knights who were standing upright with their swords in hand.
“This will be the last battle. “Don’t relax until the end.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
“I follow your orders!”
Not only the knights under my direct command, but also the Obest Knights began to move busily.
“Oh, keep that away.”
I lightly tapped my chin against Carlo’s head.
“I have something else to use.”
A mischievous, yet vicious smile flashed across my face like a child.
It was a smile directed at someone who must be fretting right now.
fantasy,
