Episode 648
“It was when I was at the academy. I was working as Melon and killed some bandits. At that time, I was ordered to do community service because my hands were too much.”
It is a truth among truths that few people do not know.
“At that time, Thanos, who was the head of the school, pressured the Dean to do school service. It was truly regrettable, how he used his power like that. In the end, the Dean followed Thanos’s words and wrote an official document. At that time, the document had the seal of Duke Gunnar, who was the vice-head of the school, and your seal and Thanos’ seal stamped together.”
“… … So what’s the matter? The headmaster actively asked the dean to do volunteer work on campus, and even put the name of the school on the line. Your Highness knows that too. The headmaster of the school needs my permission as the vice-headmaster to act publicly.”
“Yeah, I know. First of all.”
Daniel reached out and pulled out a piece of paper from the subspace, then threw it on the floor. The paper was the Academy’s disposition report. The report was not for the Dean to announce to the Academy, but to send to the Emperor.
It was stamped with the seal of the Dean, the seal of Duke Dennis, the Adjutant General, and the seal of Thanos.
Daniel continues.
“Anyone who knows Thanos would be surprised at his overreaction. From your perspective, you would want to find out the reason. You, who had a desire to rule the conduit before, probably began to have doubts from this point on.”
“… … .”
“Where on earth did the commoner Melon come from? He was a commoner born in the former Kingdom of Ishmael. And you really wanted to make sure of this. You didn’t order your subordinates or give separate orders to the consuls, but rather took action yourself.”
“… … .”
“I’m just curious, but did you think you could hide yourself by changing your face and body shape?”
The expression on Duke Dennis’ face, which was becoming increasingly hardened, and the faint smile on Daniel’s face were in perfect contrast.
“Before you were a lieutenant, you were a duke. Who would welcome a duke hiding his identity and going on a long journey? At least, the ‘Minister of Aveiro’ always had someone planted in you.”
Daniel opened the subspace again this time. He took out a folder from there and threw it on the floor. Of course, he didn’t just throw it. He poured mana into it and threw it.
The file was naturally scattered in front of Duke Denis. The contents of the papers were nothing special. It was a photograph taken from a distance and a report from an investigator who had personally seen Duke Denis change his face and body and go around the former kingdom of Ismail asking if anyone knew about a man called Melon. Beneath it was the seal of the Prime Minister of Aveiro.
“This is the second time. Your doubts must have grown. Thanos intervenes because he is a commoner with many abilities? It could be true. However, if the background of his status is too perfect and artificial, you will think differently. Who on earth is Melon? Why is Thanos watching him so closely? Why is he intervening? You have been wanting to solve these questions, and you have finally solved them. This will be the third time.”
Daniel took a piece of paper out of his pocket.
It was a letter.
“When I first went to the Eastern Continent, I traveled by ship. I didn’t go alone, but with Thanos, who was hiding his identity. Although very few people saw it, the captain who was sailing the ship was definitely there. And I heard that the captain died while sailing the ship back. I didn’t know, but he was a warrior of the Taoist temple, and a warrior who follows you.”
“… … Surely that letter… … .”
“That’s right. It’s the letter the captain sent you back then. To be honest, I was skeptical, but I didn’t know it would be here. I dug around just in case, and found a family. He said he wrote another one for the family in case something happened, but if you’re going to do it, you should have pulled out the roots and cut down the weeds.”
“… … .”
“Let me summarize it briefly. ‘My lord, I saw Inspector Melon and the disguised lord talking to each other on the deck while setting up a tent. And before setting up the tent, I clearly heard the lord calling you ‘Master.’ It certainly seems like the tent was set up after the word ‘Master.’ Here, you have found the perfect answer.”
in other words.
“You have known for a long time that I am the crown prince.”
Duke Dennis frowned. It was strange to hear him say this quietly.
“Your Highness, may I say something?”
“Try it.”
“What kind of causal relationship is there between me finding out that His Highness the Crown Prince is using a false identity called Melon and you trying to destroy our Duke Dennis family? Do you really think I should die just because I found out about his false identity? You said you would give me a justification, but this is not it. This is not even a justification. This is nitpicking.”
Daniel laughed. It was genuinely funny.
“I was going to give you that excuse now, but listen to it over and over again. After this ‘fourth’ time, you’ll understand everything.”
Daniel picked up his backpack again.
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“In the Eastern Continent, I went to the Hoecheon Church myself to bring it down and put a bounty on my head.”
“… … .”
“But something really funny happened. I definitely requested it ‘once’, but someone else requested it again.”
Duke Dennis closed his eyes.
Daniel continued speaking silently.
“At first, I thought it was either Cheonha Seongju Ryu Jin or the current Central Inspectorate Director, Carl Sagan, but it wasn’t.”
Daniel took a step forward.
“I searched the entire world. I searched every nook and cranny. I found all the ledgers in a week. Of course, I found the slush funds. It was enough money to run the Milos Empire for almost 10 years. However, in all the ledgers, there was no record of 200 million gold coins being spent. I asked him directly, but it wasn’t Ryu Jin. Then what about Carl Sagan? Carl Sagan was also not there. He was clean.”
“… … .”
“Duke Dennis, you should have managed the Three Warriors properly. Why did you neglect them like that?”
“… … I don’t know what you are talking about.”
“Same as the previous captain. I don’t know if it’s a trend these days, but there seem to be a lot of people who take out insurance. I have evidence that a bribe of 200 million gold was paid to ‘Inspector Melon.’”
Duke Dennis’s eyes widened. Daniel walked up to him and stretched out his hand to open a subspace. What he caught there was a small crystal ball.
Daniel didn’t say much and just pressed the crystal ball, injecting mana into it.
Then, a voice comes out from within.
-Your Majesty, can you really spend this money like that?
-You don’t like it?
-… … It’s a pity. On top of that, he’s an inspector, and spending 200 million gold coins on that inspector’s head… … . I think it’s a huge expense.
-He is a man who could become an enemy of the future Milos Empire. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to kill him with the help of the Hoecheon Church. Oliver.
-Yes, my lord.
-Go to Hoecheon Bridge and submit a request. Inspector Melon was trying to clean up Hoecheon Bridge, but he ended up getting killed along with her. This is the scenario that will be used in the future. Do you understand?
-……yes.
-Then let’s go to the Eastern Continent right away.
-Your honor.
It is a world where all sorts of extraordinary things happen. The communication crystal ball was created before the Milos Empire was founded and has been developed for over a dozen years.
It doesn’t make sense that there is no recording function in the first place. It’s a very simple magic that only requires capturing a voice with mana, and it’s even more strange that a Red Master can’t do it.
“Now let’s organize the story a bit.”
“… … .”
“I asked to kill Inspector Melon. That alone won’t be enough to destroy the Duke’s family. To borrow your words from earlier, it would be nothing more than nitpicking. No one knows that Inspector Melon is the crown prince. However, if someone who knows that Inspector Melon is the crown prince asks to cut off Inspector Melon’s head, what crime would that be?”
Daniel’s eyes sink deeply. There is no laughter.
He looked at Duke Denis with a cold face.
“It’s treason. Since the bribe is on the Crown Prince’s neck, there’s no way to get rid of it. Duke Dennis, didn’t you say earlier that you needed a justification?”
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“… …Your Highness the Crown Prince… … .”
“Now I have a proper excuse.”
Daniel continued in a quiet voice.
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“The crime of privately operating the Imperial Guard unit called the Do-Gwan, the crime of causing discord within that unit, the crime of arbitrarily omitting information that should have been spread throughout the world and throwing the continent into chaos, and the crime of daring to kill the Crown Prince. Do you understand what is about to happen?”
Duke Denis didn’t hesitate. He knelt down in his seat.
“I’m sorry. Your Highness, please forgive me just this once.”
He shook his head.
Because it was meaningless.
I pulled out the Heavenly Demon Sword from the subspace.
Today, the Duke of Dennis’s family is destroyed.
* * *
The most famous newspaper in the Milos Empire is Time.
Time is divided into daily, weekly, and monthly magazines, and the title of the daily magazine released today was very shocking.
‘The real crown prince returns.’
The content was even more shocking.
Melon, a commoner who graduated at the top of his class from the academy.
After graduating from the academy, he was assigned to the Eastern Continent Inspectorate. This must be confirmed. The most talented person among those who graduated from the academy at the top of their class is going to the Eastern Continent? This was originally an unthinkable course of action.
It would be normal for someone of that caliber to be sent straight to a central government agency. At the very least, he would be assigned to a position like the Central Supply Office or the Central Inspection Office’s Inspection Research Officer, but Melon was not one of them.
Anyone who looked at it could see that this was a demotion and exile.
But there, Melon does something no one could have imagined.
It’s a fundamental question.
Why is being transferred to the Eastern Continent Inspectorate an exile?
It was simple. A considerable number of those who were assigned to the Eastern Continent committed suicide.
Accidents and incidents were rampant, and most of those assigned there were quick to apply for a change of position.
That’s the kind of place it is. The Eastern Continent.
As soon as he got there, Melon investigated the suicide cases. He then uncovered the corruption of Raymond Beck, the former head of the Eastern Continent Inspectorate, and killed the key figures in Cheonhaseong who were related to him.
They just killed him, without any formalities.
It was to the point where I thought he was crazy, but later reports showed that it was plausible.
Because Melon was attacked first.
That is, even if they were taken by surprise, they had the guts and strength to kill them all in return.
After that, he captured all the evaders who had faked their deaths and destroyed the families that tried to stop them on the spot. He uprooted the Hwecheon Sect that had secretly ruled the Eastern Continent, and killed Cheonwol, the vice-leader of the Cheonmasingyo Sect, one of the great enemies that had opposed the emperor in the past, and Melon.
The Heavenly Lord Ryu Jin attempted a ‘rebellion’, and there was Yeongjeong, the leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect who was the enemy of the emperor in the past, Hyukjin Kang, the leader of the Heavenly Heaven, and Heynckes Beckerman, who was called the First Sword of the Tulcan Empire.
These three were resurrected.
Melon stops them again this time.
He completely destroyed Cheonha Castle, killed Yeongjeong and Hyukjin Kang. Heynckes Beckerman was killed by Dragon Lord Cell.
This is the truth.
This information was initially transmitted correctly, but at some point it became distorted. As the gap continued to exist and the information continued to flow back and forth, the ridiculous situation of the residents of the Western Continent and the Eastern Continent falling into confusion occurred.
Who did all this?
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The Gunnar family, who were the lieutenants of the Dojo, did it.
The truth, which would have been fully known if the Gunnar family had not interfered, has now been properly revealed.
The world was in an uproar.
It’s a first in history.
The current emperor, Jack Milos, did not discriminate between nobles and commoners.
In the case of fraud, for example, if the victim lost more than half of the household assets due to the fraud of the perpetrator, the perpetrator also lost half of the household assets.
If the victims were duplicated, the pillar itself was pulled out. It did not matter whether they were nobles or commoners.
At least that means there was no talk of fairness.
But this time it was very different.
Should we call this issue an issue?
In the history of the Milo Empire, there has never been a ‘duke’ who caused such a mishap. Even the duke was of the Emperor’s blood.
What to do.
Will the Emperor punish them as he has done so far? Or will he just let it slide like a hypocrite?
Attention was paid to the future course of action.
And on this matter, the Emperor himself spoke.
‘In this matter, I have left everything to the Crown Prince.’
It was only one line, but it was unusual.
And because of that one line, the Milos Empire became nervous.
If the ‘crown prince’ who has been active in official events up until now was an actor and the one who is currently active as Melon is the real crown prince.
All of the previously held perceptions about the Crown Prince had to be changed.
Melon is known as a cruel and merciless man.
The power he possesses cannot be ignored either. His bloodline is his bloodline, and the world he has walked through was a proper path of Asura that did not suit his young age.
Will they be active in the Western Continent as they were in the Eastern Continent?
So, people paid attention to what was happening at the Gunnar Duke’s house.
There were also those who wanted to see it for themselves.
They all headed to Duke Gunnar’s house.
This is definitely a must.
The date the newspaper came out, and the time the Emperor himself wrote the sentence and sent it.
All of these things happened ‘after’.
The whole situation has already ended.
Those who arrived at Duke Gunnar’s residence could not help but be shocked at what happened there.
Some even collapsed on the spot.
A man was watching the scene from a distance.
* * *
I silently looked at the smoke rising from the Gunnar Duke’s residence.
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There were six duchies in total in the Empire of Milos.
The Dukes of Valantier, Cierran, Leopold, Ismael, and Sagan.
Finally, the Gunnar Dukes.
As of today, the Gunnar Dukedom has completely fallen.
The building of Duke Gunnar’s house was very large and tall.
On top of that peacock’s head, there were five necks hanging.
Dennis Gunnar with his two sons, Edin Gunnar and Calvin Gunnar, and his daughter Jane Gunnar and Duchess Seline, who was the wife of Duke Gunnar.
There were five of them like this.
It could be seen as excessive.
I have now wiped out the Gunnar family.
At least now, there is not a single person in this world who uses the name Gunnar.
A feast of severed heads was also being held under the necks of the five.
They are the family members who worked for Duke Gunnar’s family.
Some stayed as guests, while others were privately raised by the Gunnar family.
The number is roughly over a thousand.
I turned my head and stared blankly.
Behind me, exactly 120 men were waiting on their knees.
He looked at the man with the most impressive white hair and said:
“Antonio.”
“… … Yes, Your Highness.”
“Do you think I’m being excessive?”
“… … No. It was an enemy that threatened the safety of the Milos Empire. I don’t think it was excessive. Also.”
“also?”
“There are no big feelings or anything.”
I had a small question about this part. No emotions?
Antonio continues.
“It’s just that those who committed sins were punished. If there were to be feelings, it would probably be ours that felt guilty.”
“Of all the emotions, why guilt?”
“The dead officials of the Taoist temple clearly made bad choices, but they are people who had some kind of relationship with most of the people here.”
I looked blankly at Antonio.
“They were my companions since childhood, and they were the ones who swore together when the Taoist priests who lived on the island came out into the world and swore to serve His Majesty. Some joined in the middle, but the majority are from the early Taoist priests. It is only natural that we failed to stop their desires, and we, who were closest to them, ignored them even though we knew about it. I think the only emotion that should be felt in this situation is guilt.”
That makes sense. I can understand it.
Behind Antonio, he asked the hundred or so officials who were kneeling with their heads bowed.
“Do you think the same?”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
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“I’m a little different.”
Everyone raised their heads. He looked at them and continued speaking.
“This is happening because the fundamental problem has not been solved.”
“… … .”
“The founder of the Taoist temple was Gunnar. Your Majesty’s blood and mine are mixed with Gunnar’s blood. It’s an undeniable fact. Yes, this is a factional fight. A factional fight between those who are not entangled with Gunnar’s blood and want to move forward, and those who are entangled with Gunnar’s blood and seek power. From the perspective of the dead, both of them must have been ambiguous about which one they followed, since they were both Gunnars.”
Clicked his tongue.
“If you look at it another way, it would be easier to just kill all of you here.”
