Chapter 216 – Hyo-Nyeo (1)
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The emperor watched the setting sun from the balcony.
The sun, once dazzlingly brilliant, is setting red.
The same was true of the Emperor himself.
The meaning he had as the emperor of the empire was blocked.
It wasn’t enough that the emperor himself had become a puppet, and now the empire was on the verge of being destroyed by war.
‘William. Come back soon The declaration of war is not the end. There is a shadow and ‘a being holding hands’…’
It was the information I was able to find out after William left.
I want to have another servant convey new information, but it’s not easy.
It was because the shadow, sensing the impure movements of the emperor, purged all his loyalists.
The Emperor had his limbs cut off.
The reason William didn’t die was that the shadow only raised William’s spirit his.
Now, the only person the emperor can trust is William.
It was then.
A shadow appeared along with a sense of heterogeneity that I could not adapt to at any time.
The shadow said in a cool voice behind the emperor.
“…Where did the old knight go?”
“I went to my hometown for a while. To take care of my family.”
“…Does it bother you at this time?”
“It’s this time of year, so I have to go. Shouldn’t I take care of my family before the war breaks out?”
“…”
It was a lie.
William should be conveying his plans for the future to Lina and the others.
The emperor swallows dry saliva.
‘I’m not the kind of person that such a clumsy lie would work on…’
“Are you up to something else?”
“…You’re decorating? I’m preparing for war as you told me to.”
“Yes. I admit to making preparations for war diligently.
But for some reason, I can’t get rid of the thought that the declaration of war is being forcibly delayed.”
“War is fought after thorough preparation.”
The shadow giggles and laughs.
The emperor didn’t like that laugh that looked like he was putting it down.
“Let’s declare war on Astria tomorrow.”
Shit. After all, there was no way the shadow would be easily fooled.
The fact that it took so long was thanks to that guy’s composure.
“It’s unreasonable to do it right now. I have to make an official notice and spread it so that people will come.”
“Didn’t you prepare that much… Tsk. How much time do you need?”
“It takes at least a week.”
It was true.
Even mobilizing the entire staff of the imperial family, it took a week. It’s something you can figure out with a little research.
The shadow nodded. Fortunately, I was able to get a week of time.
It was time for William to return.
“Emperor…Are you happy to buy time?”
“!”
‘Did they all get caught?’
Where did you get it from?
Only Nogisa and the Emperor are aware of this operation. It was a strategy that was carefully tucked away in my head.
“I don’t know what you’re up to, but… Give up.”
“…”
The emperor soothed his frightened heart.
He didn’t know the plan, it was just his guess.
“You can’t get out of my hands anyway.”
Maybe. Maybe not
“Do you think that our ancestors were all fools and never rebelled?
It just didn’t go down in history. There have been a few idiots who have rebelled against me.”
“You guessed it. I did everything you asked.”
“By the way, your father was wise. He didn’t rebel against me and lived like a rat. Hehe.”
The emperor sharpened his teeth.
‘It’s only now that I’m proud of myself. You can no longer dominate me.’
The Empire will not be swayed by the shadows.
I will not shed innocent blood as he wills.
‘Shadow. You can’t have an empire The Empire is not yours.’
The empire will belong to that adventurer… Kerry.
It was time for the emperor to hold back his rising anger. Suddenly the shadows disappeared.
The emperor looked at the setting sun.
‘If I could see the hero at least once… It would be nice. Probably not.’
What is the warrior doing now?
Wouldn’t it be like having a fun banquet with that adventurer Kerry?
‘Adventurer… I’m envious of him for selling him.’
He’s a guy who feels like he’s better off than the emperor of the empire. No. Now that he is the man who will become emperor, isn’t that right?
“Have you saved a country in your previous life…”
The emperor murmured enviously.
*
It was in Scandavia.
There is a mother and daughter talking while looking at the sunset like an emperor.
They were Titania and Arwen.
“It’s an old story you’ve learned about. It’s about the family relationships of the high elves back then.”
“An old family relationship?”
“Okay.”
Arwen remembered what she had learned in history class.
Hundreds of years ago, high elves insisted only on close relatives.
The reason was clear.
To protect the noble lineage of the high elves.
However, the high elves realized that inherited income causes genetic diseases.
I was taught that Titania broke that tradition.
‘It’s an old story…Why did my mother tell me that story?’
“We high elves allowed only incestuous marriages.
It was not at all unusual in those days for siblings or cousins to become husband and wife.
Arwen. You’ve learned it, so you know it well, right?”
Arwen nods her head.
“I’m glad I didn’t doze off in history class.”
“But isn’t that the law that Mother repealed herself?”
“…It did.”
Titania bit her lip. Why did she abolish the law with her own hands?
If it wasn’t for that, she wouldn’t have to try so hard to convince Arwen now.
At the time, it was taken for granted, but now it feels like a painful mistake.
Now the ‘premise’ has been laid.
Little by little Titania began to bring her point to Arwen.
“Arwen… Do you like Kerry?”
Arwen nods her head.
Arwen, her pure eyes shining and her cheeks blushing, had something that could shake her man’s heart even in her mother’s eyes her.
“Do you want to marry Kerry?”
“!”
Arwen hesitated to answer.
Arwen was a Scandinavian princess.
Even an ordinary elf loving a human is something to be punished for, but she is a princess, let alone a princess.
Arwen’s ears drooped.
She probably thought it was right for her mother to say no to her marriage her.
“Arwen. She has to be honest. Don’t think about anything else, just say your true feelings.”
“…”
“Do you want to marry Kerry… ?”
“…Yes. But I know very well that, as a princess, I cannot marry Kerry-sama.”
It was then. Titania shouted.
“What do you mean! Who says that nonsense!”
“Yes, yes? But I’m a princess… I can’t marry a human man…”
Arwen was confused.
I couldn’t understand why her mother was so angry.
Titania calmed her excitement and said,
“I’m sorry. I’m so excited, Arwen. It’s not that I don’t understand what you’re thinking.
She must have a sense of responsibility as a princess.”
“Mother…”
“But you don’t have to either.”
To the Queen, Titania, her princess responsibilities her seemed minimal.
After all, it was Titania who ruled Scandavia.
“The timing is right. Isn’t Kerry the man who will become the Emperor of the Empire?”
“!”
“If you and Kerry get married…That fact alone will protect us elves.
You don’t have to be afraid of being kidnapped by elves anymore.”
“Then… Then… Can I marry Kerry-sama?”
“I can. I can’t marry Kerry.”
Arwen jumped up from her seat.
“Then I want to marry Kerry. I really want to marry you!”
Arwen only knew that she would never get along with Kerry. But she wasn’t like that.
All of her was her own over-worry of her, and rather her mother her wanted to marry Kerry.
Even now, isn’t Titania stroking Arwen’s hair and praising her as if she were proud of her?
It was the first time in her life that Arwen had received so many compliments from her mother her.
“Cancer. That’s how it’s going to be. My daughter.”
“Mother…”
Titania releases Arwen from her arms her.
Then she met Arwen’s eyes and said.
“My daughter… Marrying Kerry. It’s very difficult.”
“Hehe. Wait and see. Mother, I will definitely do it. I will definitely marry Kerry.”
Although there was a strong competitor called the warrior party, Arwen’s eyes shone her.
Titania nodded her head.
“There’s nothing to worry about. Unlike elves, humans follow polygamy.
Besides, what man would dare to deny my lovely daughter?”
Arwen’s ears rang at her mother’s praise her.
When her mother her, who was originally short on praise, followed suit today, Arwen felt good as if she were about to fly.
“You and Kerry’s marriage is as good as it’s been decided.”
Arwen nodded her head in agreement.
Although there remains an important question as to whether she can really become a ‘first wife’.
But Arwen continued to wonder.
Why is her mother telling stories like this?
I know you’re happy being married to Kerry, but that’s it.
It was then.
Said Titania, her bizarre aspirations burning in her eyes her.
“Arwen. If he marries Kerry… Won’t he be part of our family?”
When a man and a woman get married, it is common sense that they become her family her.
Arwen said she did without a shadow of a doubt.
“That’s right. In fact, Kerry-sama is already like my family!”
“Ah. No way.”
Titania whispered in Arwen’s ear.
“The truth is… Arwen. Don’t get me wrong, listen. In fact, I love Kerry too.”
“…”
Titania spoke slowly and clearly.
But maybe it was because she said something shocking.
Titania’s words were not heard by Arwen. Her voice didn’t reach her.
“… Arwen. Are you listening?”
“…Yes? What did you say?”
“So. Actually, I love Kerry too…”
Beep-
Her tinnitus her rang loudly, as if her body she refused to listen.
She had already heard it with her ears her, but her head her seemed to reject it.
Titania said several times.
I love Kerry too.
But Arwen couldn’t understand her.
Eventually, Titania wrote a large piece of paper on her ‘paper’, which she unfolded to Arwen.
[I love Kerry too. Arwen. She wants to be loved by him.]
“Ah…”
Only then did Arwen let out a sigh of incomprehension.
Titania continued her words with a sad face.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you earlier… “
“Mother…”
“But now I have to be honest.”
“How… Are you?”
“Because I was afraid Kerry would alienate me.”
How many times in the meantime
Titania flirts with Kerry, sending her signals to her.
I want you to come to bed today.
But Kerry got away with making excuses of hers.
Why?
There was only one answer. As expected, Arwen was the problem.
It’s because Kerry became close with Arwen.
Titania said she had been worried about this situation the first time she met Kerry.
So she was ‘jealous’ of her young and innocent daughter her, Arwen.
But now I know. That she doesn’t have to fight for love.
“As I said at the beginning… Arwen.
It’s not unusual for families to mix their bodies. And Kerry is our ‘family’.”
“Yes? What the hell is that…”
Although the high elves had an incestuous tradition, Arwen was born after that tradition died out.
Of course, she is less repulsive than a normal human being.
At that time, the high elves who married her brother and sister were still alive.
Arwen knew from an early age that her aunts and aunts were her siblings and cousins her.
“Her four aunts and aunts also married into the family. And even now, we are happily in love with each other.”
“But mother… “
“So. Aren’t you going to marry Kerry soon?
Then Kerry is also part of our family now. Right?”
“…”
“So. Won’t you tell me
We high elves don’t find it strange to mix ‘family members’.”
“Yes?”
“Because if I tell you, Kerry might not believe me… “
Arwen was embarrassed.
The situation itself is what her mother is talking about.
‘Why did my mother miss Kerry… ‘
She loves a man like mother and daughter.
It felt like a tragedy too great had come to Arwen.
“No. I don’t like it… Kerry-sama… Kerry-sama is my man.”
At that moment, a tear falls down Titania’s cheek her.
“The elves’…Love…Is as long and as fierce as our lifespan.”
Arwen was well aware of that.
“Hundreds of years of suffering from the loss of her husband… Now she has found a new love…”
Titania looked at Arwen eagerly and said.
“…Are you really trying to push me back into the hell of solitude? Is it like that? Arwen?”
“Mother. I love Kerry…”
“She doesn’t love her mother her?”
“…”
Arwen slowly hugged her mother her.
“It can’t be.”
Arwen seemed to know her mother’s pain in her.
Arwen also knew that she would not be able to connect with Kerry because of her status until just now.
If she had broken up with Kerry, it would have broken her heart.
Arwen did not fully understand her mother’s words her.
But she, Arwen, was a ‘filial daughter’ who loved her mother her.
