Chapter 480
“It wasn’t that I wasn’t persuaded. I tried to convince you with lies. But even if you send it to Edina, you will eventually learn the truth.”
“I don’t know what you two think.”
“People hate the demon king a lot more than we imagine.”
“It’s common to hate someone so much that you want to kill them.”
“I hate you so much that I want to die.”
Both Harriet and Charlotte knew that people hated the Demon King to such an extent that they wanted to kill him.
But I could have hated it enough to want to die.
What you do to save someone is bringing someone’s death.
kill someone to save someone
kill someone to protect something
I had to kill the people I somehow saved with my own hands.
Liana had been hiding this story for a very long time.
about a year ago.
As a result of sending those who were clearly destined to become impure elements to Edina, many assassination attempts were made against the demon king.
Edina may be overthrown in the long term if the forces of extreme opposition to the demon king increase.
Ever since I noticed information about Fort Mokna and Edina spreading.
Liana has actually killed people who would rather die than fall under the rule of the Demon King.
In Liana’s stern expression, there was a strong determination that could not be broken or damaged.
No bitterness, no despair.
Know that when you start to get entangled in such things, you will only struggle in bottomless despair.
He seemed determined not to think about it.
“Whatever you wanted to know, this is the truth.”
Liana looks at Charlotte and says.
“So, what are we going to do now?”
Charlotte looks at Liana in silence.
“Why didn’t you tell Reinhardt about this?”
At Charlotte’s question, Liana crosses her arms.
“Do you know what Reinhardt was like for two years?”
“I don’t know.”
At Charlotte’s calm reply, Riana narrowed her eyes and looked out the window.
“I’ve never done anything like a hard expression.”
“… … .”
“The one who should have had the most trouble among us has spent two years without even a hint of it. He said he only went forward, thinking only of what he had to do, and not getting any rest.”
Liana looks at Charlotte quietly.
“I think it happened because of you. But since he didn’t say anything, I knew better. It’s so hard that I can’t even speak.”
“… … .”
If you save people, you will kill as many people as you can.
“If Reinhardt knew about this, he would have told me to send him to Edina, since he would take care of the assassination threats and internal affairs.”
“I don’t want Reinhardt to suffer any more like that.”
“I’m not going to say that this is the best option.”
“step.”
“I don’t even think this was the worst choice.”
“Can’t I see that no matter how you try to solve this problem, there are only dog options? So, as the Marquis of the Demon King and the commander in charge of the front line, I made a decision. I will never let Reinhardt know about this matter. I don’t intend to put a bigger burden and anguish on this guy, who must have already been rotten inside, knowing about this problem.”
Liana didn’t want to give another worry to the demon king, who was already going through a hard enough time.
Liana didn’t want Reinhardt to be in danger and Edina to be in danger.
That’s why, among the people he saved, he actually killed those who hated the demon king enough to want to die.
Rumors of the carnage here did not reach Edina. Because Liana handled people in secret, the survivors who went to Edina did not know who had disappeared around them.
like that.
As Liana saved people, she killed because she saved them.
Rather, they would have lived a little longer had they not been discovered by Liana.
Liana did not explain at all what it felt like to kill such people with her own hands.
Just as Reinhardt hadn’t shown a hard expression for two years.
Liana says nothing about the inevitability or pain of slaughter.
I did it because I decided to do it.
Riana de Granz is so solid that even a needle won’t go in.
The Demon King’s Change Bag.
Charlotte stares at Thunder King.
“You must be Reinhardt’s friend, right?”
Charlotte asks Liana with a calm expression.
“yes.”
“But before that, you must be aware of the relationship between the ruler and the subject, right?”
“… … okay.”
Before being a friend, you must think of the relationship between the ruler and the god first.
Although they started out as friends, Charlotte had no words to dispute when Charlotte said that she had to abandon that way of thinking to some extent. Charlotte stares at Liana in silence.
“For the sake of the ruler, the servant deceives the ruler. Would that be such an argument?”
It was a word that overly crushed Liana’s situation and Reinhardt’s situation, but in the end, it was true that the situation was not much different from that.
“okay. So to speak, so it will be.”
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“Then, if Harriet here, me as the regent, Olivia as the head of the church, and Airi as the succubus queen have such arguments, then they can deceive the monarch, right?”
“… … .”
“In order to alleviate the burden of the monarch, the responsibility and guilt of the monarch, the monarch should not know about the miserable and dirty things that happen in the country. Is this because it is okay to deceive the monarch?”
Charlotte looks at Liana in silence.
“If you cheat like that, cover the eyes of the monarch in the name of serving the ruler, report only what is good, what is pretty, and what is pleasing to the eye, hide the dirty things and not show them. And if the monarch knows nothing, he thinks that everything is going well and knows nothing. What do you call such a monarch?”
“Am-kun, isn’t it?”
Liana looks at Charlotte with a hard expression.
“Riana de Granz.”
“Your intentions may be those of loyal subjects, but in the end it is the ways of treacherous subjects.”
“The moment a subject dares to be considerate of the monarch and tries to hide this and that and cover his eyes, you’re making Reinhardt incompetent, even if you didn’t mean to.”
“Inevitably, Reinhardt will not suspect you. So everything you said is true, and you won’t wonder what’s hiding behind it. why? because you are public Because we are friends.”
“Whatever your intentions, you proceeded arbitrarily without discussing important matters with the monarch. for a very long time.”
“Reinhardt trusted you, but you suspected that Reinhardt might collapse.”
“As a result, you betrayed Reinhardt’s trust.”
“I have no intention of discussing whether your response to this was wrong.”
“But you should have talked to Reinhardt about this, by all means.”
“That is your fault and your mistake.”
Whatever the intentions, there may be two or three times since you have started deceiving the monarch.
Liana herself has cheated the Lord, so if there are others who cheat the Lord for similar reasons, she has nothing to say.
like that.
Assuming that each follower of Reinhardt has one or two things to hide for Reinhardt’s sake.
Reinhardt is an incompetent monarch who doesn’t know anything he needs to know. Charlotte stares at Liana, who is still and silent.
You can be a friend, but you shouldn’t approach it from a friend’s point of view.
Liana knew that Charlotte’s words weren’t simply to confirm the top and bottom.
“The monarch needs your loyalty, not your consideration.”
In order to be considerate of your friend, you can do it without knowing what you need to know.
However, to be considerate of the ruler and not to know what he needs to know is tantamount to treason.
“The problem and responsibility for good and evil stemming from the state is taken by the monarch. You can’t and can’t decide for yourself that you judge from below and then do whatever you want.”
“… … .”
Charlotte’s words that as a result, Reinhardt will become an incompetent monarch.
The intention was never important, and if things like this piled up, it would only turn Reinhardt into a dark army.
At those words, Liana couldn’t find anything to say.
He had to admit that his choice, regardless of good or evil, was a mistake that endangered Reinhardt’s ability as a monarch as well as the relationship between the ruler and god.
“So, in conclusion, what do you want to say? Do you want to disarm me? Or are you going to tell Reinhardt that I must be punished for my infidelity?”
Although the hostility is young, as a result, Charlotte calmly responds to the words of admitting her mistake.
“I didn’t know the specifics, but I thought something similar would happen. All I want to say is, under no pretext, there should be no secrets of this kind in the future.”
Liana hadn’t said anything about the slaughter of the survivors so far.
The important thing is that he did not discuss with the monarch what to discuss and proceeded alone.
I’m just pointing out the problems it will cause.
“I will report this to Reinhardt. However, given Reinhardt’s personality, there won’t be any words to punish you or remove you from your position.”
“… … .”
“And this is my judgment as regent.”
Charlotte looks around.
“Until Reinhardt returns and gives orders, we’d better stop searching for survivors in Fort Mokna.”
The possibility of securing survivors has not completely disappeared.
However, securing survivors inevitably results in the slaughter of some of them.
Some of the survivors may be saved, so there may be an option to continue this search for survivors.
However, you may have the option of leaving no one alive because you may have to kill someone innocent.
There is no completely right decision.
There is just a decision.
“So from now on, activities other than base defense are suspended.”
Until Reinhardt’s new decision, Fort Mokna is restricted from activities other than base defense.
That was the new decision of Regent Charlotte de Gradias.
“Can you understand my decision?”
At Charlotte’s question, Riana stares at Charlotte.
In the end, Riana had no choice but to admit her mistake.
“… … yes, do that.”
That’s why, I had no choice but to accept the regent’s judgment.
After finishing the story, Charlotte got up from her seat, and Harriet hesitantly followed Charlotte from her seat.
“hey.”
And, Liana silently calls Charlotte, who is about to return.
“… … huh?”
“You know I hate you, right?”
“… … .”
At Liana’s words quietly, Charlotte looked at Liana in silence.
“There is no reason to like me, only reasons to hate me. I don’t think so.”
Charlotte just stared at Liana as if that was what it was.
“Don’t you think so?”
“… … what?”
Liana bit her lip and widened her eyes.
All of a sudden, Liana’s swollen eyes were bloodshot red.
Liana, who had been silent for a long time, murmured as if throwing up.
“I am you And that you have no right to hate the Empire… … . That thought… … . Aren’t you?”
“… … .”
Charlotte sees Liana’s eyes red and bloodshot.
Liana, who was endlessly casting empty gazes somewhere.
watch quietly
Riana knows what caused her father’s death.
The empire killed Liana’s father, Duke Grantz. And it was overturned by the devil’s actions.
The reason is that Duke Grantz was one of the key figures in the revolutionary forces.
Revolutionary forces were able to plunge entire continents into a whirlwind of war.
Even, the place where Duke Grantz was was a place he knew and headed to as a meeting place with demons.
The revolutionary forces tried to join hands with the enemies of mankind for the sake of the revolution.
to avoid war.
In order to avoid numerous sacrifices, the Empire killed Duke Grantz, and even disguised it as the work of the Demon King.
That’s why Liana hated the Empire and hated everyone involved in her father’s death.
For that reason, he hates Charlotte, who is an imperial member of the imperial family.
But now.
Under the pretext that Liana is for Edina.
In the name of avoiding war with the Empire.
In the name of being for the devil.
killed innocent people
It was as if Liana had confessed to Charlotte that she hated the empire and was tormented by the feeling that she had no right to hate the imperial family.
The logic behind the Empire’s killing of Duke Grantz.
The logic behind Liana’s massacre of innocents is exactly the same.
Because the logic is the same: to avoid more sacrifices.
Liana knows that her hatred has now lost its legitimacy.
Just as Reinhardt hadn’t complained of despair, Liana was also suffering from despair as she did such a terrible thing with her own hands.
“well… … .”
deserve to be hated.
deserve to be hated.
“I don’t know if hatred and hatred require qualifications.”
Hatred and hatred do occur even if the basis is weak.
In fact, isn’t it just a misunderstanding that people hate and hate the demon lord?
“So even if you continue to hate me, even if you hate the empire, it’s just unavoidable. Thinking if you deserve it… … .”
Charlotte stares at Liana in silence.
“Thinking about hatred and the moral purity of hatred itself… … . How to say.”
Charlotte tilts her head.
“Isn’t that too arrogant?”
Previous hatred and hatred were morally pure, but now may not be justified.
When Charlotte asked if it was arrogant to worry about him, Riana bit her lip.
“I don’t like you either.”
At Riana’s reaction, Charlotte smiled.
“It is not good for a regent to get along too well with the king’s most important people. For me, for you, and for Reinhardt.”
So I added that it is better for you to be accepted as someone who is unlucky and uncomfortable, but cannot be ignored.
“But, no matter what you do, it won’t change that you guys are incomparably better than me.”
People who believed in Reinhardt.
myself I didn’t believe in.
Charlotte knew very well that the gap could never be crossed.
With those words left, Charlotte left the Fort Mockna headquarters.
