Chapter 822 – 822. A Tyrant For You
‘A Tyrant for You’ was a romance fantasy novel.
The female protagonist of this novel was a transmigrator. She was a person from Earth who transmigrated into the body of a count’s daughter in the novel. For political reasons, she became the tyrant’s wife, the empress.
As empress, she used her knowledge of the original story to care for the tyrant. However, she was eventually assassinated in his place and died. The tyrant, enraged by the assassin and regretting not protecting the female protagonist, regressed, and the story of ‘A Tyrant for You’ truly began.
In short, it was a romance fantasy where a tyrant, filled with regret after regressing, became obsessed with the female protagonist.
‘Thinking about it after searching like this, I remember seeing it as a webtoon before.’
It was originally a novel, but I didn’t remember reading the novel.
‘…Now that it’s come to this. I should watch the webtoon again and read the novel too.’
In the case of ‘A Tyrant for You,’ the webtoon was more popular than the original novel. This was because the webtoon was more immersive.
‘I need to focus more on the novel. There’s more information to be gained from the novel than the webtoon.’
The settings and information that were mentioned in passing in a single sentence were more important to me than anything else.
After gathering enough information, I checked the quest again.
[The True Tyrant.
There are many tyrants in the romance fantasy world. However, none of them are true tyrants. They are merely emperors wearing the mask of a tyrant.
Enter the world of ‘A Tyrant for You’ and show what a true tyrant is! Become a tyrant and ravage the world!
Become a tyrant and achieve at least 1 million tyrant points.
Quest Reward – Given according to tyrant points.
1 million achieved – 1,000 points.
10 million achieved – 20 random stat increases.
100 million achieved – Fragment of Omniscience.
※Multiple penalties exist.
※You can use points to mitigate or eliminate some penalties.]
[Penalty 1. Inventory Usage Restriction.]
[You cannot put items from the world of ‘A Tyrant for You’ into your inventory.]
[30,000 points are required to mitigate this penalty.]
[Penalty 2. Tyrant Quality]
[Tyrant Quality is excluded from the effects of traits and absolute spirit.]
[Your personality will become somewhat violent due to the effects of Tyrant Quality.]
[Your physical abilities will greatly increase due to the effects of Tyrant Quality.]
[You will receive talent boosts due to the effects of Tyrant Quality.]
[50,000 points are required to mitigate this penalty.]
The way to complete the quest was simple. Just act like a tyrant.
‘Two penalties… Hmm. They don’t seem dangerous.’
An enormous amount of points was needed to mitigate the penalties. With the points I had now, it was impossible to mitigate them.
The first penalty was no problem, except that I couldn’t take items from that world out with me. I could use items from reality or other worlds.
The second penalty could be seen as a buff rather than a penalty.
‘My personality becomes violent, but I also gain physical abilities and talent… That’s a win.’
Even if I had a lot of points, I wouldn’t have mitigated this penalty.
‘I’ve checked everything… Shall we begin?’
[Quest accepted.]
[The game begins.]
***
I opened my eyes.
I was lying in bed.
The ceiling was unfamiliar yet familiar. Information about me flooded my mind like a tsunami. I had a slight headache, but it was no problem.
‘I am… Eugene Bellacarus.’
The illegitimate child of the seventh Emperor Bellacarus.
My succession to the throne was 22nd. I had 11 younger siblings below me, but as an illegitimate child, my succession was the lowest.
‘22nd in line to the throne… This setting was originally the male protagonist’s setting… I see. I’m the male protagonist.’
I organized the information. I traced back the past. In the setting, a maid working in the imperial palace was my mother. That mother died when the male protagonist, that is, me, was five years old. Knowing the original story, I knew that she was poisoned by the Second Empress.
I didn’t feel any anger.
I am Sung Yoojin. I wouldn’t be consumed by the settings of a game world.
‘I had my coming-of-age ceremony a year ago… A year from now, the emperor will suddenly weaken, and the princes and princesses will rise up.’
The fight for the throne would begin in earnest. The male protagonist of the original story, Jigg Bellacarus, would lie low as much as possible and then seize the opportunity to ascend to the throne. The first thing he did after becoming emperor was to purge.
‘Looking at the information in my head, it’s before the regression. Well, since I’ve become the male protagonist, there won’t be any regression.’
I quietly looked around. The room was so shabby that it was hard to believe it was a prince’s room. There were mold stains in the corners of the walls, and the wardrobe was so old that it was cracked on one side. My room in reality was better. Even without the information in my head, I could guess how I was being treated in the imperial palace just by looking at the room.
I closed my eyes.
I planned in my head. Using the information from the original story, I could definitely become emperor. It seemed best to lie low for about a year. It would be best to minimize variables as much as possible.
‘…Come to think of it, today was the coming-of-age ceremony of the 13th prince.’
If you only counted the order of birth, I was the 11th. However, my rank was 22nd, lower than the youngest, who was five years old.
Squeak.
The door opened without a knock. I heard the light footsteps unique to a woman. It was Miranda, my personal maid.
“Prince Eugene. The sun is high in the sky, and you’re still sleeping? A prince shouldn’t be like this.”
Hehehe.
I heard Miranda’s annoying laughter. She was a woman planted by the Second Empress. Her job was to monitor my every move and report it to the Second Empress.
Of course, that wasn’t the reason why Miranda treated me carelessly. Most of the servants in the imperial palace treated me carelessly. It was because I had no power.
I was an illegitimate child. A child abandoned by the emperor. I was somehow living in this imperial palace, but that was all. It was normal for me to be ignored by the servants in unseen places. I had no one on my side in the imperial palace.
Throb.
My left side throbbed.
‘…The area where I was beaten by the stableman yesterday.’
The pain in my side quickly disappeared. No, it was more accurate to say it was recovering. It was the effect of the [Tyrant Penalty] I received when I came to this world. The fact that my physical abilities were greatly increased meant that my natural recovery power was also increased.
“Prince Eugene. Get up. Prince Eugene.”
Miranda called me. Her voice was very small. It didn’t seem like she really intended to wake me up.
“I’ve called you several times, but you won’t get up… This is really troublesome….”
Miranda’s presence came right next to my bed.
Drip, drip, drip.
Cold water dripped onto my forehead.
I opened my eyes.
Miranda, with her brown hair braided into pigtails, was pouring water over my head with a kettle. Miranda grinned.
“Did you have a cough, Prince Eugene?”
I could see her uneven front teeth sticking out between her lips. She had freckles on her cheeks, making her look ugly. Her figure was thin.
“How’s the wash? Isn’t it refreshing?”
Miranda didn’t move away even though I had opened my eyes. This was a familiar situation for her. She always woke me up by pouring cold water on my face. The water in the kettle was finished. I got up.
“……”
“Today is Prince Ortan’s coming-of-age banquet. So please stay in this room. It’s the Empress’s order.”
Ortan. The 13th prince.
The empress Miranda was talking about must be the Second Empress.
She went to the table next to the bed. She handed me a dark brown bread on a tray.
“This is lunch for today. Chew it well.”
“……”
I grabbed the bread. It was hard. It was so hard that I doubted if it was really food for humans.
“I can’t stand it.”
There was no plan.
“Huh?”
I hit Miranda’s head with the bread.
Thwack!
“……!”
Miranda fell to the floor without even screaming. The dark brown bread was covered in sticky blood. I got out of bed.
Miranda didn’t immediately grasp the situation and was trembling in pain. Blood was streaming from her head. Her eyes, looking up at me, were filled with fear.
“P-Prince Eugene. Why, why are you doing this? Do you think the Empress will let this go?!”
“Don’t you think it’s strange that the Empress would move just because one maid died?”
“T-The Empress is on my side!”
“You’re being ridiculously dramatic.”
I raised my right hand holding the bread.
“Kyaaaaaaaaah!”
Miranda screamed, tightly closing her eyes. It was a futile attempt. There were basically no people in the detached palace where I stayed. No one would hear her scream. That’s what I thought, but I heard someone running. Soon after, the door burst open.
“Miranda?! I heard a scream from here… but….”
It was a maid with black hair. Her beauty was average. But she was still better than Miranda.
“T-This is….”
Miranda, collapsed on the floor, bleeding from her head. Me, holding a hard, blood-stained bread. Her eyes darted around, taking in the situation.
“Nermi. You stepped on my left foot and laughed at dinner last night.”
She staggered backward and ran away. She was quick to judge, which meant she was smart. But her physical abilities were terrible. Before she could take three steps, I grabbed her by the hair and dragged her into the room.
“P-Prince Eugene. Please spare me. I, I was wrong. I’ll apologize… Aaaaaaaaah!”
I stepped on Nermi’s right foot. Crunch. Bones and flesh were crushed, and blood flowed. Then I stepped on her calf, knee, and thigh, crushing them. When my foot went up to her abdomen, Nermi begged.
“S-Stop… Please stop….”
I put strength into my foot. Nermi screamed and then died. My foot was sticky. I wiped the blood and guts off my foot with the bed sheet.
“Miranda.”
“…Y-Yes, yes, yes!”
Miranda answered, trembling. I threw the blood-stained dark brown bread at her.
“P-Prince Eugene…?”
“I’ll give you a chance. If you eat all of this bread before I change my clothes, I’ll spare you. But if you can’t, I’ll tear you apart and kill you.”
“P-Please spare me. Please!”
“I gave you a chance.”
I turned away from Miranda’s sobbing and headed to the wardrobe. There were a few clothes. But they were in bad condition. There were only clothes that poor nobles would wear.
In the end, what I chose was a black uniform in the deepest part of the wardrobe. When I saw the uniform, information popped into my head. It was the clothes I wore two years ago when my grandfather passed away. It was a tradition of the Bellacarus imperial family for the royals to wear black uniforms for a week when a royal died.
“Tsk.”
I clicked my tongue. It was annoying to put on the clothes myself. Originally, it was the maids’ job to dress me. I missed the maids of the [Baekhwan] world.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
I heard the sound of Miranda chewing on the dark brown bread like a stone behind me.
I put on the black uniform and even the boots. I checked that there were no loose parts of my clothes and turned around. Miranda was chewing on the bread like crazy. Her teeth were broken, and blood was streaming from her gums. Even so, she hadn’t even chewed half of the bread.
“That bread is barely edible if you melt it with saliva. It takes about 15 minutes.”
“Hic, hic… J-Just a little more time….”
“Too late.”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
First, I grabbed Miranda’s left arm and tore it off. After that, I tore off her right arm, right leg, and left leg in that order. I was going to tear her head off, but she was already dead, so I left it.
‘I’m stronger than I was in reality. The effect of [Tyrant Quality] is good.’
I roughly grasped how strong I was now. I could easily tear a person apart and kill them.
I left the room.
I walked down the hallway. The floor and walls showed the passage of time. They were old. The dust on the window frames caught my eye, as if they weren’t cleaned properly.
“P-Prince Eugene…?”
I encountered four servants. They must have been running to my room after hearing the screams.
‘Storm Breaker.’
A spear was summoned in front of me. I grabbed the spear and swung it wide. The upper and lower bodies of the four servants were separated and rolled on the floor. I stepped on the red floor and walked forward.
I killed every servant I saw. There were no beauties that caught my eye, so I had no qualms.
My destination was the Great Hall, where the throne was located. The emperor’s children traditionally held their coming-of-age ceremonies and banquets in the Great Hall.
In front of the Great Hall, 30 imperial knights were standing guard. They drew their swords and blocked my path.
“Prince Eugene. Stop! We have confirmed your rebellious intentions! Drop your spear immediately!”
“I will.”
Pfft.
I scoffed at the imperial knights’ words and let go of the spear.
Just before the spear hit the floor, it disassembled and attached to my body, becoming full-body armor. Even the helmet was automatically put on. When I reached out, a long sword appeared. I used Storm Breaker’s functions of duplication and transformation.
“……Prince Eugene. This is a clear act of treason.”
“Imperial knights. Did you just realize that? You’re slow.”
“Everyone! Execute the traitor!!”
Aura surged from my sword and theirs.
