Chapter 74 – The Imperial Family (4)
I’m not kidding, there are more and more reasons to really look for memories with each passing day.
Things I don’t know keep coming out.
After the business at the imperial palace is over, I should have a conversation with the goddess through Iris. If she’s a goddess, she might know what it takes to find memories.
Shouldn’t she have asked when we talked before?
“Speak comfortably, comfortably.”
The emperor said while touching his shaggy beard.
From the emperor’s point of view, they’re only a little, no, very different on the outside, but in reality, they’re the same age, and they’re on an equal footing, so they’re probably telling you to speak comfortably.
I don’t remember it, so it was a little strange because it seemed like I was just talking to an old man.
Besides, it’s a situation where he’s his girlfriend right next to him and he’s brought the youngest daughter of the old man.
“… I will.”
Still, it’s strange to say that I don’t like it here, so I decided to nod my head calmly.
Iris. Give me strength
She gave her power to the hand that held her against her, and her emperor’s eyes twitched.
“… So, are you saying that you two are really dating?”
The eyes looking at me were like, “You bastard? Do you have a conscience?”
To be honest, I was a little embarrassed.
How could anyone think that that face and me are the same age?
However, I couldn’t say it out loud, so I replied with a smile.
“After…”
The emperor wiped his face with the palm of his hand, looking tired. He was also saddened to see the Auror Master, who had gone well in the past, fade away over the years.
Aging is the shadow of death that approaches more clearly than anything else for a superhuman who is at the level of an Auror Master.
Unlike ordinary people, who grow slowly, reach their peak, and then slowly age again, an Auror Master who has reached the stage does not age until he dies.
It is to make the transcendental power dwelling in the whole body deflect from the flow of time.
And when that power eventually runs out, the flow of time that has been avoided so far weakens the body of the superman at once.
The emperor dies the next year at the earliest, the year after that at the latest.
I don’t know if I come now and break through the wall that leads to Grand Master again, but that won’t happen.
In “The Garden of Blue Roses”, The emperor died lamenting that he had not been able to cross the wall until the end.
Along with jealousy and resentment towards Nikolai, the swordsman who crossed the wall unlike himself.
In addition, in the end, he left only regrets and resentment for his life until the end, causing the empire to suffer from civil war.
His youngest son, Luke, and his eldest son, Edwin, who held the position as crown prince for a long time, though they held up the title of hero and support of the Holy Kingdom.
In the first place, Luke has no interest in the throne, but somehow the Holy Kingdom tries to establish him as an emperor, and Edwin, who is wary of such a Holy Kingdom and fears Luke, and the rest of the imperial family who try to eat Kongo while separating the two.
I’ll do my best to prevent that from happening, but if the situation flows as if it were a set flow, Iris will suffer as the axis of the civil war. From her boyfriend’s point of view, since she’s thinking about getting married, it can’t be good from her prospective husband’s point of view.
If you think about it that way, the emperor, who can be said to be the culprit, is not a very pleasant opponent…
“Don’t you like me?”
“Then do you think you’ll like it?”
“I don’t know because I don’t have a daughter yet.”
Somehow, having a conversation makes me feel at ease.
Unbeknownst to me, I end up dealing with the emperor in a comfortable tone. The emperor frowned at my eloquence and gestured to me to sit across from me.
“Don’t just stand there, sit down. Iris, you should sit down too.”
I sat down first, and Iris hesitantly sat down next to me. Seeing her take my side very casually, the emperor snorted in awe.
“They say it’s no use raising a daughter.”
“Well. I think I raised him better than the other sons.”
“… Hmm.”
As if that was the case, the old man nodded.
True to her words, Iris is in a state where she can reach the level of an Aura Master at any time, if she has the opportunity, and in addition to that, she has the protection of her holy sword.
Among the brothers and sisters who do not have exceptional talent, it was not at a level that can be explained by the word exceptional.
“How could a bloodline that has been going on for hundreds of years only be connected to that child?”
That’s what it says. If Kroychev in the north had the talent of a “Sword saint” Passed down from generation to generation, then the imperial family also produced Aura Masters from generation to generation. No, most of the direct descendants of the emperor became Aura Masters.
This was the difference from the “Sword Saint”, Which was handed down to only one person.
Multiple Aura Masters. If there are more than one or two superhumans who can change the battlefield even if there is only one person, it can become a deterrent by itself.
Thus, the Arcadia royal family could be the imperial family and maintain the unified empire of the continent.
Even so, Iris was the only one who showed exceptional talent among Claudius II’s children.
“I am always grateful. To you.”
I figured out how things were going.
Until Iris was born, even though she gave birth to countless children, she had no children with the qualities of an Aura Master.
Of course, the authority that would have governed the empire with the specialness of the imperial family, that ‘all direct descendants of the imperial family are Aura Masters’, is of course cracked.
On top of that, the fact that a person who could not even become a Master to come and become the crown prince and inherit the crown to the next generation would have generated considerable resistance.
At that time, if Chepes, who had originally shown the imperial family to check each other, would rather support the imperial family.
“… I will ask you one thing.”
“Listen.”
The emperor’s hushed voice. I was anticipating what he would say.
“Does taking Iris as her wife mean supporting the crown prince?”
At the moment, Iris sighed next to her. If it wasn’t for the Emperor’s eyes, he would probably hold my hand tightly and look at me with wide eyes.
Well, it wouldn’t be because Iris coveted the position of emperor.
Rather, if the emperor’s words are true, it’s probably because he’s sad that I’m having such political considerations while meeting Iris.
I felt the need to reassure her iris.
“No.”
“… No?”
“I’m just meeting her because I like her, and she has no political ulterior motives.”
Iris’s face turned red in an instant.
The expression on the emperor’s face disappeared for a moment.
And.
“Where is your conscience?”
Oh well
On the surface, it’s not you and me, but me and Iris are the same age?
“The richest guy in this empire is a thief.”
The Emperor mocks me with her sulking face.
That’s true
*
The conversation with the emperor is over.
Seeing the two of us at the end, the emperor called Iris to his feet.
“Iris.”
“Yes, Father.”
“… Are you happy?”
It was probably more like a question he asked as a father rather than an emperor of an empire.
From the moment we entered this audience room to the end, it was the face of a father who was genuinely concerned about his daughter, even putting aside the dignity of a ruler that had been hidden behind us.
Were you a human who knew how to make a face like that?
After a moment of hesitation, Iris replied with a small smile.
“… Yes.”
“…”
The old man, who had been staring at Iris for a moment with her mouth shut, then turned her gaze to me.
The way he looked at me didn’t look very sweet. I’m not too fond of you
“… Okay. As long as you’re happy, that’s fine.”
The emperor, who seemed to have a lot to say, seemed to have chosen to be Iris’ father rather than the emperor in the end.
The emperor’s last words were uttered in a low tone, and even Iris’s expression became complex and delicate.
I can’t say for sure because I don’t have memories, but the emperor’s personality probably didn’t treat Iris so kindly.
Instead of opening her mouth, I squeezed her strength into the hand that held Iris’s.
“Brother…”
Iris also smiled faintly, and gently tickled the back of her hand with her finger. I’m glad she seemed to be feeling better.
Like that, after closing the door, Arnold, who had guided us to this place, approached us.
“Have you come out!”
“Arnold Knight Commander.”
I only saw him briefly earlier, but he was a really energetic person.
“This Arnold will guide you to the place where the Duke will stay!”
“What about Iris?”
“Ah… May I follow my brother, Arnold?”
From what I’ve heard, it was a very slightly misleading statement. Arnold’s expression went blank for a moment, and then burst into a hearty laugh.
“Haha! Of course! The two of you seem to be on very good terms, so I’m very happy!”
This must have been misunderstood.
I wanted to correct it, but I decided to just leave it alone. It’s not even a very wrong misunderstanding. Besides, Iris…
“No, that, no, oh…”
I’m bewildered.
Seeing her flustered and not knowing what to do with her is quite interesting, and as I was planning to have a more honest conversation with Iris on this occasion, I decided not to correct her misunderstanding. Did.
It was then.
“Who is this! Iris, when did you come back!”
A sharp, booming voice. When she turned her head to see who it was, a man with gray hair, closer to gray than Iris’s silver hair, strode forward from the end of the hallway.
“If you had returned to the palace, you should have come to see this brother!”
“… Ah yes. Brother Aaron…”
Iris’ shy reaction and the familiar name.
I could recall
This bastard, I thought he was on Luke’s side in the original story, but it turned out that he was a spy planted by Edwin.
