Chapter 666 – [The White Church]
The party at Baron Valentine’s House was just okay.
There were no other problems, and the event was not too disturbing. Ordinary, but so quiet.
The day after the party, I came to greet my older brother as it was time to return to the ecliptic.
“Ah, are you leaving already? It would be nice to stay a little longer.”
“No matter how big my brother’s family is, it’s not even my house, so if you stay for a long time, it’s going to cause trouble. Besides, I have a schedule to visit the Daesamrim area.”
“It can’t be helped if there is a prior agreement. I’ll return to the ecliptic next year or so. I’ll probably see it in spring… No, it’ll be around summer.”
“I look forward to hearing good news”
Haha! The only good news here is to buy and play before the wedding!”
I subtly put a message inside the horse, but my brother didn’t notice.
It’s not even my house, but if you stay for a long time, it will cause trouble. That story wasn’t something I said, but something I wanted to say to my older brother.
Anyway, isn’t he, now the crown prince, staying here too long?
The strange feeling I felt for Helene von Valentine also gave me a strange feeling when I connected it to this.
“Then see you next time, brother.”
“Okay, see you next time”
Break up with him and return to the ecliptic. I talked to Ruminus separately.
It’s not just a simple story, but as if she felt the strangeness I felt, I appealed for her strangeness a little.
“Don’t you think it’s a little strange?”
“I already noticed”
“There wasn’t much of a foreign feeling, but it’s still a bit strange. Originally, high-ranking nobles often do tests on mental self-fantasy…”
“It’s not that absolute.”
There are various self-fantasies, and among them there are self-fantasies that affect the mind.
The fortunate thing is that such self-fantasy has not been handed down until now because it has no form left. If that was the case, there might have been some kind of tool with a hypnosis application installed on it.
Anyway, even if you can’t prevent it, at least you can test it, so if you were affected like that, it would have come out in that test result. But even there was a gap.
A typical example is Kormada.
Being able to roam around even her imperial surveillance with her own self-fantasy without the Zantman-made sculptures was proof that her self-fantasies were not absolute.
If you think about it, not all self-fantasies can be of the same rank, so wouldn’t it be possible to escape the influence of lower self-fantasies if they were higher-level self-fantasies?
“What should I say? It’s probably not your older brother who has a problem.”
“Is that so?”
“At least my brother was sincere.”
If there is a problem, it is Helen’s side. Because she sensed it from the beginning.
I just want to kill him all over the place, but if there is no evidence on the surface, I’m the one pushed. There is no clear evidence right now, so what is the white church country putting on the plate for a while?
But at least you can prepare.
“Hello, Your Highness”
“Ah, yes. Leticia. I’m sorry that you started talking about work right after you got home. Do you have time?”
“I don’t have any plans for today, but…”
“Give me a minute”
I decided to call Leticia and let her work.
I originally intended to do that, but after meeting Helen, I’m thinking of pushing back my schedule a bit more. Besides, I cut off some of the seeds that Sandman planted, but not all of them.
I have a hunch that this kid will explode sooner or later. In order to prepare for it, I had to be prepared even now.
“How much money do we have right now? Oh, except for anything else, cash only”
“First of all, the current savings is about 300 gold coins.”
“I made quite a bit of money.”
“Thanks to the business going well. Besides, that amount is minus the amount invested elsewhere.”
It is said that if one gold coin is roughly 100 million won, it is about 30 billion won. It sounds crazy to earn 30 billion in just a few years in the restaurant business, but it was possible in this era.
This is because the position occupied by the third royal in the current era is not just a restaurant, but the only social gathering place and a leader in food culture trends.
If you pay around 1 million won for a meal without alcohol, you might question whether it was plastered with caviar or foie gras, but the class system still remains here, so nobles are the main targets. For an ordinary person, 1 million won for a meal is a luxury, but for an aristocrat, 1 million won for a meal is a reasonable price.
Thanks to that, business was better than running a restaurant in modern society. It’s like profiteering, but it’s easiest to rip it off from the original ones.
“First of all, organize the things that need to be seen in the long run among the things you have been doing for nothing. Even if you lose a little, it’s okay.”
“You think something will happen in the near future.”
“That’s right. And when things go wrong, cash is better than bonds.”
“Originally, cash worked everywhere and in any era… Well, maybe if you organize it in a few months, the loss will be minimized and the surplus funds will be about 350 gold coins.”
Worst of all, if a civil war breaks out. The most important thing was cash.
Unless human society itself collapses and trust in currency disappears. No, rather than that, the currency of this era is gold, so it had value even if society collapsed because it had gold in it.
Anyway, gold is best. If you take a step back and look at it from the perspective of a transcendentalist, it’s about the metals in the universe, but gold is the best anyway.
The tongs boss did the same! Money is always right!
“Are you ready to fight?”
“No, get ready to bounce”
“Yes?”
“Fighting isn’t the best skill. Besides, our forces are heavily concentrated.”
Except for me, Zion, and Sun, our forces are there. I had no choice but to kneel in front of a large number of troops.
I don’t know much about strategy compared to the time I’ve lived for a long time. No, to be honest, I, who is in charge of society and can cut that society for a second, must learn how to win among the conflict between society and society called war?
Anyway, so I don’t know the strategy, but I know one thing.
Thirty-six series of lines. It is true that losing or running away is ugly, but it is better than dying.
I didn’t create a private soldier to show I wasn’t interested in the position of Emperor. Most of the people guarding the Emerald Palace are soldiers, not even knights, and their salaries come from the budget allocated to the Emerald Palace by the Empire, so strictly speaking, they belong to the Empire.
“My people… So, if you want to evacuate not just acquaintances, but all the people under me, it might be a bit difficult with the 【Bridge Connecting Space】. You can evacuate a few people in a hurry, but you don’t know during wartime.”
“Yes, a surprise attack taking over the Institute of Science and Technology and infiltrating the main base using the [Bridge that Connects Space] Is fatal anywhere.”
“Has it happened often? Oh, I heard about it when I was studying continental history at the academy.”
“That’s why the immigration screening has become stricter.”
It’s because the unit price doesn’t match when it’s used for moving a small number of people. If the goal is to win, not money, like a war, 【Bridge Connecting Space】 is a great tool for war. If you have enough imagination power, you can send an army.
However, the only drawback is that both parties must agree to connect. However, the disadvantages can also be solved by planting spies.
“I’m going to plan an evacuation route just in case. In preparation for the pursuers, I think it would be better to make three…No, five or so to cause confusion.”
“If the distance is close, you can set the destination to the great forest or powder or highlands, but it’s too far, so set it to the Duchy of Bistra.”
“All right”
When a civil war broke out, people had to stick to the most secure bread. In this case, Duke Bistra is better than me, who has strong personal strength.
To be honest, I’m going to end up killing them all, or that’s best…….. How are you going to live in the Empire after blowing up half of the Empire?
Of course, if my kids touch it, I won’t use any powers and tear them apart one by one.
Running away is to buy time to be safe when I’m not around.
There is nothing more upsetting than losing someone close to you after letting it go.
* * *
He ordered this and that, and kept it a secret.
Even if this kind of thing is known, it will only give the other party an excuse. Few people knew enough.
“If something happens, the nanny will follow Leticia, okay?”
“Yes. Don’t worry.”
I have never received parental love in most reincarnation episodes.
The only thing I received was the first round of reincarnation, but after that, my parents either died early or were worse than not having them.
Roughly, it’s good to think of the emperor, one of the parents of this episode. He always takes my side, but that’s only because it’s worthwhile for me… In the end, it’s a machine that discusses gains and losses.
My parents are just such people. But on the contrary, if you are the only one like that, you can’t grow properly, so you need someone to take care of you instead.
So, there was someone who loved me more than blood relatives, even though they were not blood relatives. One of them was the nanny in this episode.
“Honestly, I didn’t expect Your Highness to grow this big…”
“I’m glad I have a nanny too. At least I’m better than my shy parents.”
Even if the nanny initially came because of the oracle of the Gray Temple, she could be said to be sincere because it was her motherly love that raised me.
When I thought of my nanny, at least I thought of my parents. Do you really think the nanny is more important than the emperor?
“In a few years, His Highness will be getting married.”
“……Honestly, I’ve done everything except marriage.”
“Originally, it is normal for aristocrats to become women early. In the case of women, they know the knowledge, but they don’t because they know the value of virgins, but men are different.”
For nobles… No, especially for noble ladies, virgins are important.
Before talking about gender discrimination, it’s understandable because it’s a place where there’s no such concept. This is because the value of conquering a woman’s beginning is effective by stimulating a man’s desire for dominance.
No, rather, since there is no concept of gender equality, it was a virgin to sell women at a higher price in order to survive. It’s pretty confusing when you think about it.
“It would be nice to have a child, but it’s a bit vague whether or not it will happen.”
“Duke of Bistra, it must be difficult for her to have children because she has the traits of a beast race, right?”
“After all, it’s just a matter of time”
In this world, different races can have children, but the odds are different. If it is the same race, it is relatively easy, but if it is a different race, the possibility is low.
Honestly, even human to human, the odds of pregnancy are ambiguous. I’ve been trying to get pregnant in the past, but I’ve never been pregnant in years!!! To be honest, it’s the absolute fault of fate!!!!!
Oh, of course I have no intention of impregnating a child. That’s enough even after you become an adult.
“A lot has happened, and a lot of time has passed. Still, I’m still far from being an adult.”
“Ah, that’s right. Come to think of it, Her Highness is still a teenager. You’ll still have to wait almost ten years before you turn twenty.”
“……Honestly, I doubt if I can ever become an adult.”
“What’s up?”
“Little”
Drinking, eating rice cakes, and to be honest, doing things that a child shouldn’t do or that puts a lot of pressure on them, so it’s quite a hindrance.
Maybe this episode won’t live long…… I kind of feel like that.
And most of all, something unusual was lurking on the other side of this continent. Not just an opponent, but a presumed transcendent, Zantman, and the seeds of conflict he sows.
Even if I dealt with it, it was too much to deal with it all. In the end, it will explode someday……. It was highly likely that it would explode while I was alive.
“What the hell is that guy’s purpose?”
“[Sorry, I can’t answer that question]”
At that moment, something like a nurse’s voice, but not a nurse’s, reached my ears.
Looking back, there was a nanny with a strange halo shining on it.
……… My nanny is doing my nanny, but she is originally a believer in the Gray Temple. I don’t know what level it was, but at least it wasn’t normal level.
Right now, she had only one god who could descend upon her and tell me her story.
The Gray God, one of the three great gods enshrined in the Gray Temple.
Neither he nor she, but her self finally appeared in front of me.
“Okay, now we can talk a little bit.”
But he’s good too.
It’s because it’s Advent and Nabal, and it’s quite difficult to appear in front of opponents who can be beaten if they reveal themselves anyway.
“Let’s talk slowly, the gray god will be better”
Oh, by the way, no ill feelings. These believers are so good that I have nothing but a crush on them!
God aside, there aren’t many guys I have good feelings for!!!!
