Chapter 720 – #96. Jinhaesol (24)
The prince’s palace has turned upside down!!!
The news that the prince finally stretched out his crouched body and began to move in earnest quickly spread as a rumor.
In addition, nobles heard that the first thing the prince did was to clean the interior.
“It’s a pity. I didn’t know that the internal crackdown would be so quick.”
“He was quite quiet, and he must have known that he would die if he didn’t move.”
“Can you do anything great with that? After all, Lord Oddman will take his place.”
Among the nobility, the royal family emerging as the heir was Prince Oudman.
What was important was that he showed his will to move himself, defeat the prince, and rise to his place.
Prince Oddman had shown a lot of aristocratic behavior a long time ago.
He was the kind of person who would share his interests with the nobles as long as he could ascend to the throne.
“Duke Oddman must be the successor.”
“That’s right. It should be.”
Lord Oddman, he was also in a situation where the fire had fallen on his feet.
When the king wakes up, Oddman must be charged with treason.
Therefore, the prince had to be disposed of before the king woke up, and the king had to die without waking up from the bed.
“Lord Oddman seems to have endured a lot in the meantime.”
“It’s not something I prepared for a day or two.”
“Or… The death of the youngest prince…?”
“Keuheum, stop! Don’t make unnecessary assumptions.”
“Hmmmm!”
Realizing that it would not be good for the nobles to take it out, they shut up.
Prince Odman reached out to the nobles who needed a face madam to push the prince out and take the throne, so they had to make him king.
Being a little older was no problem.
At least he didn’t get sick like the king.
“How would you like to deal with the prince?”
“Prince Oddman says he has never met the prince yet. He says he will meet and talk with the prince before deciding.”
“If the prince were alive, he would only be an annoyance…”
“I think it would be right to listen to Lord Oddman now.”
The nobles, who had much to receive from him, agreed not to tackle Duke Oddman’s actions.
Isn’t it natural to be nice to people who have a lot to earn?
“Anyway, let’s focus on what the prince is doing.”
“This time, the prince has cut out the people inside, making it difficult to keep an eye on.”
“We have to let people in again.”
“Why don’t you try your hand at the knight side? A prince is not a king. He is not the object of loyalty.”
Had the king been sane, he would have handed over the ‘contract’ hanging over the knights to the prince.
However, now the king has lost his mind and has not received proper succession.
“…Not a bad way.”
“Isn’t this an opportunity for them to choose the next great king? Rather than the prince, Prince Oddman will be respected as an adult in the royal family.”
The nobles once again got a good target to tinker with.
While the aristocrats who seized the opportunity are increasing the size of their greed again.
Elsewhere, a meeting between the Prince and Oddman was taking place.
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“Finally we’ll meet.”
“Nice to meet you, Lord Oddman.”
“Oh hey, I’m sorry to use such an affectionate title. Call me Uncle Oddman. Nephew.”
It’s quite warm to say it with the eyes of someone who wants to kill me.
“Do you know what your brother is doing? You should overcome your illness and wake up…”
“You’re still not showing any improvement.”
“Did you say there was no hope?”
“You should rest, but they say that overdoing it caused a lot of trouble.”
“Well… What should I do with this…”
Unlike me, we have real bloodlines, but when the king says he won’t wake up, he wants to die.
Of course, I am working hard on my own acting.
I mean ‘Smoke’, who is very sad and struggling with the king’s inability to wake up.
However, it was a useless act in front of me, who was making a living through acting.
I already knew that he was acting, and I knew that he wanted the king to die like this.
“I didn’t care, so I only found out later. The criminal Baron Wenon framed the Duke of Ordman.”
“Ah~ yes yes. You don’t know how embarrassed I was because of that. Why would I frame my nephew for anything!”
“Is that so?”
“Isn’t the result of the investigation not so good? In the first place, I have never personally met that vulgar nobleman! Even the results of the investigation have come out, so I’m sure you’re still misunderstanding this uncle, right?”
He calmly passed on his sins and brought up the main topic with his eyes shining.
“Since Her Highness passed away, I was not in a hurry, so I didn’t even think about it.
“Yes, my nephew must have been very surprised. I heard that he didn’t come out well because he was not in a good mood.
It must have been regrettable that my mind was not relieved.
“Perhaps he’s still crazy because he’s worried about his brother. Don’t worry about things outside. Until he wakes up, I’ll protect my nephew instead of him.”
It was an unreliable sound.
I can clearly see that he is looking at the liver to know how to kill me.
“I’ve heard that royalty can’t stay in the palace for long.”
“Isn’t it the current situation. There are no adults in the palace, so it’s a situation where the vassals play the game and the country is shaken. In such a situation, it’s the right thing for me, a member of the royal family, to step forward. Cancer.”
I met Oddman, a member of the royal family, and tried to figure out whether he should be eliminated or if he was a person that could be left alone.
“I’m going to work hard with my old body, but if I don’t step up, who will step in. Don’t worry about my nephew, but until my brother gets well, do your filial piety. I’ll leave it to my uncle.”
It was a word full of greed.
The whole time I was listening to that, I felt embarrassed that my ears would rot.
And I could see that this person’s greed for the throne did not happen for a day or two.
‘I’ve only seen it in dramas, but there are people who are really obsessed with power.’
That was the meaning of what he just said.
‘I won’t kill you if you hold the king’s barber.’ In.
But even that will have a grace period.
Killing me right now would be too obvious, so at least until the king dies.
‘My eyes are gone. He’s someone who will do anything if left alone.’
Have you ever seen the eyes of a man mad with power?
There is life in people’s eyes.
He looked like a person who was bristling his hair, saying he would not let me go if he touched me.
If you pretend to be scared here and agree to obey his will, you’ll be comfortable moving around, at least for a while.
But.
‘I don’t need to buy time.’
I’m not here to do politics.
I had the rather troublesome task of making three thousand concubines.
But I couldn’t do anything without politics.
Didn’t women stop visiting my palace because of the political situation?
You have to become a king to make the women you meet here into concubines.
‘I’m willing to hand it over because I’m not interested in the throne, but if I finish all the missions, I’ll have already accepted the day I’m going to die.’
In the end, it’s unfortunate for that person, but he won’t be able to ascend the throne.
If it wasn’t for me, he might have been destined to become a king.
“I don’t think that will work.”
“What?”
He said that he would take the place of his older brother, and threw away his plan to sit on his ass in the palace.
“It’s because Your Highness entrusted the country to me, not Duke Oddman.”
“Ha! You’re only 20 years old, and you want to rule the country? Yeki! That’s nonsense. I know you’re greedy, but it’s better to listen to the elders on this matter.”
“Of course, it’s not enough compared to Your Highness. But until when can’t you avoid it just because you’re not enough? Your Highness will be happy if I fill the vacancy.”
“You don’t know how heavy the throne is, you’re delusional like a child! The nobles will never cooperate with your nephew!”
He was saying that he was going to somehow move the nobles away from cooperating with me.
“Fortunately, Your Highness has taught me how to deal with nobles.”
A declaration that I will take care of the nobles who are cooperating with you.
Oddman’s face distorted at my bold words.
His face, which pretended to be a good person, was finally peeled off.
He said in a bleak voice, as if he had no intention of hiding his desire by pretending to be modest.
“Nephew, you can enjoy power if you live.”
Hey, the dialogue is amazing.
If I appear in a historical drama later, I will recommend that line to the writer.
I replied with a smile without blinking an eye.
“You’ve already failed once, but will you succeed again? Besides, didn’t you use someone clumsily and almost get hurt? Be careful.
For example, a sad story of a younger brother passing away before his older brother.
“You… You… You were acting innocent in front of your brother. You were hiding your real face!”
“It’s not something I hid. People are different, so the way they treat me is different. Anyone could see that they were eager to kill me, but there’s no way they could treat me with a good smile, right?”
A person who grew up finely will suffer a little in the middle of the day.
He was a person who felt that he had lived a beautiful life all his life, but how was he going to endure that hardship?
‘When the king wakes up, he will have to ask.’
What should I do with my younger brother?
This will be the first and last filial piety to the king who worked hard for me.
Of course, if you’re trying to kill me…
‘I have to endure it until the king is alive.’
There will be no need to be filial even to the dead.
‘The king is still safe because the knights are guarding him.’
A king with little life left.
He wasn’t just asleep, he was recovering his lack of stamina.
‘When the king wakes up, it must be a necessary moment.’
When you really need it.
In other words, I was planning to wake up the king when I could drive away the nobles who were against me and take a blow.
When he wakes up, he will give me a clean finish and put me on the throne.
