Chapter 905 – Ep.903 the Collapsed Empire
“This is the second gift prepared by the teacher to save our students from trouble.”
“Gift?”
“Gift.”
It’s a gift from a fox beastman who is casting an excellent Joarigi technique that turns into a completely naked Dogeja by just taking off the clothes he’s wearing.
It was a too provocative gift for a hot-blooded man.
“You said it was the second time. “Is there a third and fourth one?”
“It’s a shame, but that’s the last time.”
“… “I’m not disappointed at all, so I’ll just accept it next time.”
She didn’t answer.
She just quietly lifted the corners of her mouth and looked down at the fox beast lying on her floor.
‘… ‘He really is an unpredictable person.’
If she could, she wanted to take a peek into her head. She looked at the top of Marie Elle’s head for a moment, then asked the fox beastman who was trembling with her whole body.
“Are you in charge here?”
“Okay, okay, I’m buying it…” … !!”
What on earth did he do? As soon as I started talking to him, the fox’s tail, which was already frightened and curled towards its buttocks, puffed up its fur, clearly showing its unstable emotions.
“… There was a Black Cat child trapped in the basement. Do you know anything about him?”
“Every. “Mo, momo, mo, this was all done by a girl blinded by greed!!”
“… ?!”
The fox beast, who had been sleeping in fear, suddenly raised his head and looked up at me, and with his face covered in tears and snot, he screamed and crawled towards me and grabbed the crotch of his pants.
“I will tell you everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything!!” So, please, please, my life, ah, no! Spread it out, eat comfortably──”
“Until there.”
“Keg… !!”
The fox beast, who was holding onto the crotch of my pants with an inexplicable earnestness that I desperately felt, had only opened her mouth as she was standing next to her, and suddenly, making a sound like an animal would make when it is threshed, it jumped up on its own and fell to the floor. Crouched down.
… Shhh.
Oh my god.
For a moment, I thought I hadn’t heard because of the rough breathing and shaking noises.
Not long after, I could tell from the foul smell that passed her nose that the fox beast curled up on the floor had urinated.
“Master.”
“It looks like the packaging was done too roughly.”
I don’t think it’s a packaging issue?
No, is it necessary to say that the metaphor of packaging itself is creepy?
“… In fact, it would be the opposite.”
But after a moment of deliberation, I eventually decided to take her side.
“Well, since Master took the trouble to ask, actually, the question itself would be a waste of time.”
“… So?”
“Yes. You were with me in the basement, right? If the prisoner lying face down and trembling had not committed a crime, he would have greeted me sitting on that chair instead of on the floor in the first place. “I don’t know anything else, but I know that Master is very generous to innocent people.”
Half a day at most.
This is not enough time to get to know someone.
But she was special.
She was a complete powerhouse, with the ‘power’ to change everything to her liking. Therefore, I think that what she showed last night was all her sincerity.
Because she had no reason to hide herself.
Because if she had to trick someone into acting like her, that target would definitely be me. And if he had tried to deceive me, instead of suddenly being friendly to the children, he would have played the role of a teacher based on the memories of my true teacher who was asleep and kept his distance as indifferently as before.
“And Master.”
“… !!”
‘… ?’
What.
I looked away for a moment to gather my thoughts, but… If I’m not mistaken, it looks like the woman who was looking in this direction just as she turned her head opened her eyes wide and avoided her gaze.
“Master?”
“Why.”
She answered without looking at me, looking down at the fox beastman who was lying flat on the floor and was trying to become one with the floor.
“No. “Now that’s done, let her go back.”
“… Are you okay with the interrogation?”
“Later, when he wakes up, she’ll just check to make sure things are in sync.”
“… ?”
When I held out her hand, she turned around and closed her eyes.
“Since the fire is urgently put out, let’s go for a walk to cool her head. “Don’t you like it?”
“… Phew, I don’t like it.”
The corners of the mouth gently rise.
“Aren’t you too attached?”
“You don’t like it?”
The woman who tapped her shoulder tilted her head and asked.
“That can’t be right.”
“Me too.”
She responded with a smile, following me laughing.
“I will call you again, so please wait here quietly.”
“Mu, mumu, mu, of course I come…” … !!”
The fox beast, who had been curled up with her body on the floor and struggling, jumped up and nodded her head frantically.
“Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
So she left the upper building with another Marie Elle, and the road back to the imperial palace was very quiet.
**
“Huh…”
[ Master. ]
“Ah, thank you…”
Rita came closer and carefully wiped my face with a cold towel.
As the cool thing touched her cheeks and other areas full of heat, her stuffy head seemed to feel a little refreshed.
Exactly 12 hours have passed since the prisoners were safely rescued.
She thought she would be able to catch her breath a little yesterday, even as she walked through the quiet streets and returned to the imperial palace, feeling like she was taking a walk with another Mariel.
… Of course, it was all my mistake.
‘Ha, I don’t know why you want to do something like this.’
Standing on top of someone meant having to shoulder the burden of those below.
It took me about four hours to understand how absurd that was.
“Mariel… “What about Master?”
The main culprit who left me with no time to take a breath.
[He is taking care of the beastman girl brought by the owner along with the twins. ]
“… “It’s a shame to take care of it.”
At least one of the twins will be the one really taking care of him, and he will be having fun with the other twin in his arms.
Knock. Knock. Knock.
“… Come in.”
“Excuse me.”
Melbourne, who had become a decent servant in just two days, quietly came inside.
“This is an interim report. The total number of rescued prisoners was 4,633, and 618 were classified as seriously injured. “It seemed like the rest of the crew would be able to hold their swords if they rested for a few days with a proper meal.”
“It’s a slander… Specifically?”
“A small number of people have problems with movement due to broken or twisted bones left untreated for a long time, and the rest have diseases.”
“I’m glad.”
“That’s right.”
I may have seemed crazy for a moment, but as Melbourne just agreed, that’s how I feel about slanderers.
This is because if a priest or high-ranking priest heals the bone to its degree of distortion, it can quickly return to its original appearance.
The same goes for disease.
If the condition is not serious enough to kill you right away, you can now rest here in the imperial palace and gradually recover.
“… “How long until noon?”
“There are two hours left.”
“Oh, I want to sleep.”
In response to Melbourne’s calm response, I slid under her chair and grumbled slightly at her and Rita.
Upon returning to the imperial palace, I had to hear reports from the personnel who had gone to rescue the prisoners, and I had to order another investigation to find the undiscovered chieftain-level demon.
Okay. Originally it should have ended there.
However, another Mariel said that it was a gift for me, and then she suddenly passed on to me something she had done unexpectedly without my knowledge, just like when she enters and exits the bathroom.
Still, as if he still had at least some conscience left, he immediately agreed to come forward at noon today, as he had promised yesterday to the citizens.
‘… ‘What do you think I should do with so many people?’
What can I do if you come forward?
Ultimately, I have to decide what to say to the citizens.
She quickly asked Marvius for his opinion, but Marvius, like her, seemed to be truly disillusioned with the citizens who had become associative with her invaders, and left everything to me.
“Father.”
“… Uh, okay. “I have to wake up.”
First of all, we had to find out about the number of prisoners, which was smaller than what we had surveyed, and we had to identify those who had enslaved them and decide what kind of punishment they would publicly punish them.
Other than that, the policy after I leave here… Well, all of those things had to be decided in the next two hours.
“No. “How can I urge you to do so?”
Melbourne, who was now able to come to my side quite naturally, handed Rita a new towel, which I don’t know where she got it from, and retrieved the one she had been using to wipe my face.
“I just thought it was too difficult for you…”
“It’s difficult. “Numbers are no joke.”
“… “As expected, your father is kind.”
She spoke with the most natural smile I had ever seen.
“It may be presumptuous, but if I were to express my opinion, I think the fact that he entrusted the treatment of the island’s citizens to your husband was probably an apology for doing this without consulting you.”
“… “Apologies for passing on the work?”
“That’s the point. He probably never thought that your husband would be in such trouble over this.”
“… “A little more detail.”
“When he entrusted the treatment of the citizens to his husband, he did not mean to test his wife or pass on the work, but simply to give permission for his wife to use them as she pleased.”
“No way.”
From what I observed, she seemed to have a great deal of attachment to the empire.
In fact, she was harsh towards traitors and was very kind to Irina, who sacrificed her life to protect the empire until the end, as well as the knights and her soldiers who were her prisoners…
“Yes. “It is like that.”
Was it all revealed on her face?
“… Damn it, my hard work was in vain.”
Yes, she was infinitely cold to traitors, and warm like spring sunlight to loyalists.
And the citizens who casually mingled with her invaders, the demons, and the adventurers who openly stabbed her in the back were, to her, not the people she was supposed to protect, but just the same traitors.
“Thank you.”
“I am glad that I was of help to you.”
Melbourne quietly walked away with a genuine, selfless smile.
“You take good care of the injured kids.”
“I will do my best.”
“Go and do your work,”
“Yes. Then.”
She bowed to me with her hands neatly placed on her lower abdomen, then turned around and opened her door.
“Oh.”
“… ?”
But Lili’s voice came through the open door.
Melbourne politely stepped aside, and Riri bowed her head towards Melbourne and came inside.
“Why? “Master, what do you need?”
“No!”
Lily shook her head from side to side and hurried over to her desk.
I came closer and stroked Lili’s head, and Lili continued to speak while shaking her head.
“The little boy the master told me to take care of has woken up!”
