Chapter 187 – The Race for the Throne
A country where the sun never sets.
If a country has such a nickname, it must be a country that is truly wealthy and strong enough to make the modifier look like a plain list of facts, not an expression of flattery.
Because that’s an expression that can only be established when a certain country gets its hands on more than half of the world.
The realm of effective control is so wide that day and night do not coincide with each other at the two extremes of the country.
Of course, it is never easy to achieve such a sphere of influence, so throughout human history (including subhumans), such a great empire is at most once every few hundred years. It has appeared with a rare frequency enough to be counted.
There was a country called the country where the sun never sets for over a thousand years.
Solarium Empire.
A giant of the era with power so strong that he regards the entire continent as his territory and reigns as the strongest hegemonic nation in the present era in name and reality.
Only one person can stand at the peak.
The supreme and sun of the empire.
If it was to inherit a brilliant position where he could get his hands on the whole world if he wanted to.
Even those with the noblest lineage were ready to jump into the path of Sura at any time.
Even if at the end of the road, a tragedy of bone and flesh conflict awaits.
Twilight Palace.
In a place where day and night coexist, the second prince Lupercal looked up at the sky.
Brilliant blonde hair symbolizing the royal family lineage, and strikingly blue walls resembling those of the empress.
The horizon of the evening sky brushes through the pupils of the young man, as if painted in a painting.
“Your Highness the Prince. Lord Iskandar is asking for an audience.”
“Stop by.”
Iskandar Van Clau Bellaryon.
The second son of the Duke of Velarion and a loyal confidant of the second prince bowed moderately.
At that, her second prince smiled languorously and shook her hand.
“Welcome, my dear friend. Did you visit this gloomy palace for some reason?”
“Excuse me, but I have something important to tell you when I meet you in person.”
“Hmm…”
The second prince was troubled.
It was nice to see her confidant and close friend after a long time, so he wanted to open up her heart for a while and have a small talk.
Unlike usual, his attitude is quite serious.
A cold sweat drips down his thinned face.
She resembles her father and seems to be self-indulgent with her violent temper, but the sly side of her with a sharp dagger inside of her was someone she liked and kept close to her.
It was such a matter that he lost his composure. In front of me too.
I wondered what the hell was going on, but the meeting with her old friend was also indispensable.
If so, you should do both at the same time.
“Let’s go inside. Hello, prepare a banquet for Lord Iskandar.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
The second prince, without hesitation, put her arm around the shoulder of her best friend, who was much taller than me, and headed for her banquet hall.
It was Iskandar who seemed embarrassed by him and tried to dissuade the second prince.
“Your Highness the Prince! Haona, my ears to hear…!”
“It’s okay, it’s okay. Could it be that… You don’t trust me?”
When the dark blue eyes, cold and sticky as if they contained the darkness of the abyss, turned to me, he intuited that he had made a mistake and shut his mouth like a clam.
As if it were a loyalty test, he was the 2nd prince who sometimes made sudden accelerations in unexpected places.
In times like these, it’s best to just follow without saying anything.
An unexpected banquet took place like that.
— Haaa… !
Soon after, in a banquet hall full of debauchery full of strange moanings of drunken, half-naked dancers and various delicacies.
“Clear it up. Isn’t that the mood right now?”
“Sorry.”
Iskandar opened his mouth again with a serious expression, without hesitation, shaking off the dancer who grabbed his hand and tried to insert it between his hot and humid crotch.
“Your Highness, this is not normal.”
“Why is that? Don’t you like the banquet I specially prepared for you?”
“No. It’s not like that…”
“It’s just a joke. Then tell me. I enjoyed this enough.”
Then, the second prince, who showed great interest in the strawberry whipped cream cake made of strawberries that exquisitely covered the dancer’s nipples and whipped cream that covered the areolas, calmly snapped her fingers.
—Fuck!
In an instant, the prodigal banquet hall turns into a decent meeting room in an instant.
The dancers, who had just been naked, spreading their legs and shaking their buttocks from side to side in a lewd and vulgar dance, had transformed into a squad of maids dressed in neat black uniforms.
“You just had a great idea, Lana. Get the same ready and go to my room later around midnight.”
“Glory to you, Your Highness.”
In particular, the eyes of the dancer who showed off the chest strawberry whipped cream cake are even covered with horn-rimmed glasses that give an intelligent feeling, making the gap even more severe.
What kind of bizarre hobby is this? Every time we meet, the strange hobbies increase.
A weird guy who can’t figure out what he’s thinking.
Iskandar thought so while breaking out in a cold sweat.
“So, what is the agenda that makes my best friend rot?”
“It’s no different, Her Highness is showing suspicious movements.”
Also, even though he finally revealed why he came here.
“Alicia, is that child…? Ay, no no. If it’s that sneaky older brother, I don’t know. My cute little sister can’t be like that. Didn’t you get something wrong?”
The 2nd prince was just laughing and not taking it seriously.
She tilted her head in disbelief and shrugged her shoulders.
—Pajik
Then Iskandar, who finally exploded in his temper, cried out with blood vessels in his temples.
You can’t have a conversation like this.
In my experience, at this point, I needed to put something down together.
“Damn it, Lupercal! Please listen carefully to this important talk! That proud little sister might stop acting like an idiot and covet the throne at any moment, but will she just keep fooling around?”
“Puhaha! Oh, calm down. Calm down, buddy.”
“I’m going crazy, really.”
Everyone has a gap between when they are serious and when they are not.
However, for the second prince, there was almost no such distinction.
They say that those who are born with a noble lineage always have at least one screw missing somewhere, as if to prove that they are also human beings.
However, there are times when his master and ball friend go beyond slightly missing screws and sometimes anger people like this.
—Quaang!
Iskandar, who slammed the table a couple of times, desperately let go of his anger at that thought.
“So, why do you think so?”
“…First of all, as you know, Princess Alicia took as her husband a monster who was a former apprentice of the general and who was sure to be reborn as the strongest of the Empire in the future. It’s already too late, but to be honest, I should have kept an eye on her from then on.”
“Ah, Wolfgang von Schwarz. That’s it. My sister’s taste is also very unique. She shunned men so much that I thought she was a lesbian. In fact, she prefers brutish men rather than pretty ones. Hmmm… How is this a bit suspicious? Actually, I get beaten up. Don’t you know you like it?”
“Please, Lupercal. Please stop talking crazy.”
Through her ridiculous slander, she suddenly made her sister a perverted libido, but unlike her earlier, it seems to be a relief that she seems to be listening to her words.
“Anyway, that’s all. You can look at me as cute as you like. But now, he’s blatantly trying to build his own faction. You know that, right? My stupid big brother who’s infatuated with the venomous bitch of Count Schwarz’s family.”
“Ah, I know that well. Oh, poor dear friend. To have your place as heir taken away by a mozilla for being born only a year late. What a pity.”
“Yeah. Well… I heard what that moron said at first glance, but it seems that Count Schwartz decided to side with the princess at all. They didn’t take an official oath of loyalty, but they said they couldn’t even take it off.”
The second prince’s eyes widened as he gulped down the wine on the table.
“Hmm. That’s going to be a bit of a problem. The Schwartz family isn’t just a count.”
“…What, did you know?”
“You know me as an asshole? You know that they’re playing a complete fool, and at the same time quietly spreading their influence behind the scenes.”
“Then you should talk quickly. You get the rough idea now, right? What do I want to say?”
—Wheek!
At Iskandar’s words, the second prince suddenly threw the wine glass into the air.
The glass that was spinning in her air soon stopped in her place as if time had stopped.
“…Ah.”
Soon, hundreds of thousands of glassware were hovering around the ceiling of the banquet hall, reminiscent of stars embroidered in the sky, in exactly the same shape.
— Clink!
The 2nd prince’s gaze shattered everything at once.
Soon, countless shards of glass flew like snowflakes and covered the banquet hall.
“This is really. It’s getting into trouble.”
As the 2nd Prince gazed at it, he lightly gestured, and numerous glass shards gathered in one place and transformed into a bust resembling a certain woman.
The 2nd prince swung at its heart and threw her dagger.
Then, shards of glass rolled across the floor and began to bleed red as if they were alive.
Of course, the color of the carpet and the exquisite reflected light combined to make it look like that, but it was definitely a pretty terrifying sight on the outside.
“You…”
“For now… You have to keep an eye on that side for the time being, okay?
Iskandar gulped his saliva as he gazed at the artistic horror.
The glass bust that was shattered and rolled on the floor was obviously very similar to the imperial princess.
* * *
That time.
“Heechwi!”
“What’s wrong, Alicia?”
Seeing Alicia sneezing and sniffing in his arms, Wolfgang asked rather worriedly.
She was born with a very healthy constitution and had never had a single illness.
Back in the days when she was no different from an ordinary person who didn’t know mana, she met Wolfgang on her first night, but didn’t she get sick for a while?
“Ugh… I don’t know. All of a sudden, my whole body tingles!”
“Then let’s just rest today.”
“Are you taking a break…?”
She was Wolfgang who hesitated while holding onto Alicia’s wrist, wondering if she was seriously ill.
—Cheolgreuk
“You’re not going to do anything? Really?”
Soon, the handle of her chained leash was snapped into her left hand.
Alicia, naked, on her knees, looks up at him mournfully.
In the end, he had no choice but to pounce.
“…No.”
“Keheuk…! Master pervert dear…!”
Wolfgang thought as he shook her waist with both of her hands holding her voluptuous breasts, and lightly choked her as Alicia wished.
Just once. Only once.
It was difficult to stay up all night because tomorrow was the inauguration ceremony for new titles.
Of course, that decision was never kept.
