Episode 170
[You saved the ancestor of the vampire clan who was on the verge of disappearing and made him your person. You saved Cell, who was facing a dark future, and made that child your person as well. You gave them both a future.]
The teacher quietly picked up a piece of meat and fed it to my mouth.
[I guarantee you that you will be called either the worst tyrant of all time or the greatest king of all time, and more people will mourn your death than you can imagine. Isn’t that enough?]
This time, I picked up the meat and put it in the Master’s mouth.
Now that the cooldown is almost over, let’s ask.
“More, actually, do you have any thoughts?”
[… … .]
“Can’t you just watch until the end to see whether I will be called a tyrant or a saint?”
Finally, the master laughed.
A laugh that meant that only then did he realize why I had suddenly brought up such a strange topic.
Then, the teacher puts down his spoon.
[50 years.]
The teacher’s clear and transparent eyes.
It sparkles when it receives light.
[If it’s about 50 years, I think I can live a little longer.]
“50 years?”
[Yes, 50 years. I want to see the person you will love, and I want to see your blood descendant child. I also want to see you get married. Aren’t I your teacher?]
Looking at the teacher’s bright smile, I smiled too.
“Probably, you will see it. My ‘wife’ and my ‘children’.”
My laughter like that, um.
What should I say?
fairly.
Should I say it is meaningful?
I guess only our teacher doesn’t know.
You’re still smiling.
It feels new, but our teacher’s laughter feels different from other people’s laughter.
too.
Should I say it’s bright?
It’s blinding.
* * *
It was a very good atmosphere.
In that atmosphere, my older sister looks at me with serious eyes.
You’ve had that look in your eyes since a while ago.
I guess he has something to say.
I wasn’t the only one who noticed that.
[It looks like you have a lot to say, would you mind stepping aside?]
“Ah… … No, Valentine. Just.”
[just?]
“I have something to say to my little brother.”
The teacher smiles faintly and turns his head towards me.
At that moment, my eyes met with those of my teacher, and we both smiled.
I don’t know what it was, but it seemed like my older sister had something to ‘ask’ of me.
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“What is it?”
“hmm…….”
Even the ending of the words is vague.
What on earth are you asking for?
“You said it before.”
“which?”
“If you need anything, just tell me.”
He smiled brightly.
“That’s right.”
My sister spoke to me while putting an iron plate on my face.
“I need money.”
I wanted to ask how much I needed, but I couldn’t.
My sister told me right away.
“That too, a lot.”
My older sister.
Now you look a bit like a nobleman.
Look at him ripping it off without hesitation.
haha.
* * *
And so the ‘breakfast’ ended.
Although Clark Valantier’s shit was cleaned up as best as his sister and Aveiro could, it wasn’t enough.
Because.
It seems like my older sister is going to start a pretty big business.
They say they’re going to create an art district, but honestly, I’ve hardly ever seen the people of Yeongji smile.
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We also invite artists such as performers and orchestras to support the cultural life of the residents at the territory level… … .
This is good.
Next, he said he would rebuild the walls and recruit new soldiers.
That’s okay too.
And crucially.
They say they will lower the tax rate.
The existing tax rate was extremely high at 70 percent.
In fact, it had to be high.
February or March this year.
Around that time, the king raised the taxes he was collecting from the nobles.
It goes without saying that if the taxes that the nobles have to pay to the king increase, the taxes that the nobles collect from the people of their fiefdoms also increase.
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And, I don’t really like this whole situation.
It’s not that I don’t like the idea of lowering or raising tax rates.
In the first place, I don’t like the idea of having to pay taxes to the king.
Why should I, or rather why should we pay taxes to Tesla?
Shouldn’t the king be grateful just for the existence of ‘me’ within the kingdom?
If you received money, you should have received it. It’s ridiculous to pay it.
so.
I told my sister.
In the future, don’t pay taxes to the king.
If you integrate the Mantis Counts, don’t give the money they earn to the King.
My sister asked if that was okay, but I said that if I do it, everything will work out.
I did a good job of persuading her, and she fell for my persuasion.
And of course, the money my sister asked to borrow was easily resolved.
I went to the continental battlefield and received a blank check.
When I gave it to my sister as is, she was surprised.
So, at around 10 o’clock in the morning, a new project was announced to start at the Valanti estate.
When the people of Yeongji heard the news, they cheered enthusiastically, and I also joined in the cheering.
When I shouted, ‘Long live the Marquis Elizabeth,’ everyone shouted along.
Ron, who was far away, was looking at me with a bewildered expression.
And our little kids who didn’t know anything were also running around and shouting hurray, and they really seemed like little kids back then.
And now.
I was watching them from the basement of the ‘top building’ where all the anonymous members of the organization were located.
The number seems to be at least 500, but when I asked Aveiro next to me, he said there were 620 people in total.
620 people who moved under Aveiro’s command.
It is diverse, regardless of gender or age.
And, I didn’t say anything, but this is my first time seeing them.
I had encountered them a few times when I came to the upper building here and there, and there were a few trainee knights and trainee magicians of the Iron Blood Knights, but this was the first time I had come face to face with all of them like this.
“I don’t know what you guys have seen, and I don’t know why you blindly believe in it. In fact, isn’t it strange to know? This is almost like meeting for the first time.”
I laughed heartily, but no one else laughed.
He shrugged.
actually.
“Human happiness is all the same. Some people get a pretty wife, some get a handsome husband, have children who look just like them, and live happily ever after.”
Aveiro has also said before that his dream is to live happily, and I think so too.
Power? It’s all useless.
“But look at the world now.”
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Then, he pointed at a man with his right index finger.
“You, tell me.”
“Wh… what?”
“How is the world today? Do you think it’s a world worth living in?”
“… … .”
“Silence… … If that is an answer in its own way, then it is an answer.”
This time he pointed to the woman next to him.
“you?”
“… … At least it doesn’t seem like a world worth living in.”
Those who have not seen the inside and have only seen the cross-section predict the inside according to their own preferences.
That is the nature of all intelligent beings, including humans.
And those in this place are not people who simply look at the world from a cross-section.
Inside.
Those who have glimpsed a little bit of its inner self, even if they don’t know for sure.
Those kinds of people are gathered here now.
“It’s not a world worth living in… … That’s right. That’s not wrong.”
The world now.
Even though it may seem peaceful on the outside, the world is by no means peaceful.
The people did not know.
The fact that a civil war almost broke out not long ago, and that if a civil war had broken out, they would have been mobilized as soldiers and would have risked their lives fighting for a king they didn’t even know or for someone who opposed the king.
I stopped it, but what if I hadn’t been there?
A third of those present would be dead.
Let’s broaden our horizons.
Continental War.
No.
There is no need to mention this big topic of continental war.
One man’s ambition drew those around him to commit murder, conspiracy, rape, war, arson, and more to make his dream a reality.
The entire continent is just engulfed in flames.
And in this process, the ones who suffer the most damage are not the nobles or mana users, but the ‘commoners’.
Because.
Because it’s so damn easy.
I raised my head.
“As you all know, I was rarely happy in this Marquisate when I was young.”
It is the truth, not a lie.
Idiot, idiot.
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Those present here are the people of the Valanti territory who heard the rumor from closer quarters.
They all know.
In this estate, a boy named Jack lived a very pitiful life.
“Shouldn’t the children you’ll have in the future or the children you’re raising now at least be happy? They shouldn’t live a miserable life like me.”
“… … .”
This may sound like a joke, but unfortunately I’m serious right now.
100 percent pure sincerity.
“If there are kids who want to ruin the world, there should be kids who want to make the world a better place. I want you to be one of the latter.”
I slowly got up from my seat.
“I can’t promise that I’ll think of that organization called Anonymous as my family.”
I’m serious.
Even if it’s a private organization.
Even if Aveiro made it for me.
Thinking of them as family is a separate issue.
I can’t say that even in empty words.
“But I promise you this one thing.”
Anonymous member of the organization.
He looked down at them all and said:
“If you work for me or die working for our sister.”
Mana, pulled up.
Phew-!
The wind blows and the collar flutters.
“I will risk my neck, I will risk my everything to take revenge. If your family is alive, I will give them wealth and honor, and if your entire family dies, I will make the target of your revenge’s family the same. A child, a newborn, a three-year-old, it doesn’t matter. I will take responsibility for you and erase you from this world without leaving a single bloodline behind.”
Obviously, I was sincere.
He looked at the hundreds of nameless members for a moment and then slowly turned around.
at that time.
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Behind, a sound of someone falling is heard.
I turned my head and could see.
And I could tell.
that.
That it wasn’t the sound of falling, but the sound of kneeling.
The man who was first pointed out to me knelt down, and the woman next to him also knelt down.
that is.
It was the beginning.
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No one was paying attention.
Everyone.
Hundreds of people in this place knelt down of their own free will.
And then, they all bow their heads toward me.
When a king is born and a new king ascends to the throne, all the nobles, including the residents of the capital, gather in the capital.
and.
He kneels down before the king on that spot.
But that’s just a formality.
now.
The courtesy they are showing me is the best courtesy.
Not something done formally, but with sincerity.
Some people even shed tears, but if you say that this is a formality, then that person should go out and die.
I looked at them for a moment.
I am.
Once a promise is made, it must be kept unconditionally.
Whatever it is, I will protect it unconditionally.
That’s a promise to those who work for me, even though they’re not my people.
It’s not difficult.
Yes, I slowly turned my body.
At that moment, Aveiro, who had been lying down, quickly stood up and followed me.
We left the building together.
Sunny weather.
I stretched in the sunlight.
“Hoo-”
The weather is nice.
The weather is really nice.
Except for the hot gaze of Aveiro felt from the side.
It would be better.
