Chapter 150 – 14. Courtship Competition (Complete)
The king, with graying hair hanging down, grabbed a handful of his hardened opium and chewed it. Likewise, a pipe with coca leaves, a native of Aragon, was occasionally burnt. Even with a body soaked in strong drugs, her still-burning eyes her flashed and rose from the throne.
“There are so many people looking for luggage these days.”
The country, which was the basis of the Continental Apostolic Church, was experiencing an unprecedented heyday. It was because a man who was called a madman killed all the rulers and carried out an iron-blooded dictatorship. It was because he executed the incompetent nobles and took only those who would follow his will.
“Now everything is clear. That is why he had to lose his father who was like the sky and his wife his who was like the sun. There was only one reason why Jim’s poor reader should have ended his life atrociously without ever emerging as the star that led Aragorn.”
In the bleak palace, seven solemn generals stood around the owner of the faded silver throne. With the declaration of an ambitious neighboring princess, she strongly suggested the second crusade to begin in the future, assisting a certain lord with her enemy her.
“Because of the beautiful sun, the pitiful fate that Jim’s love his, Mercedes, was born with.”
The maniac who flipped his hair back with a clattering prosthetic hand was amazing. Then, he glanced at the man who had brought a message from the Grand Duchess of Tarn in southern Gaul, and then, with a serious expression, broke the pipe he was holding.
“Did you say you wanted peace, Lion?”
“Yes, yes.”
The Lion of Tarn prostrated himself and replied. Contrary to what I had heard of being the most beautiful building on the continent, I sweated profusely in the royal palace, which had fallen into ruins. It was because the spirit of that crazy king who was drunk with hallucinations and blinked his bloodshot eyes his was at a level that even a petit bourgeois himself could not bear.
“It’s not that I don’t know the desire to return home. Peace is a very noble wish. But if the powerless man takes hold of it, he must pay a very high price.”
“Of course, Your Majesty.”
“You’d better not listen to Jim.”
“It is worth thousands of dollars. My master is willing to pay enough…”
“If so, would you be willing to give up that old man’s life?”
The startled lion raised his head. The iron-clad generals like the castle glared at him and silently put pressure on him. Even so, he couldn’t avoid his gaze because of the topic the king had spoken, and he looked up at him with a very puzzled face.
“Yes…?”
“You can give me the life of Lucien Tarne.”
“Your Majesty, how can you… !”
The lunatic who had been giggling just before sighed and brushed his face. It was bipolar. Even so, it was a side effect caused by the madness that had been getting worse since the loss of his family, the prosthetic arm that was often treated as heretical even in the Apostolic Church, and the opium and coca leaves he smoked to forget the pain in his heart.
“Please fix it! Your Highness, the Archduke, is willing to help you avenge your Majesty, along with continuing tribute to Aragorn! As proof of that, the preparation to give the truth to the list of Aquitaine, which only a few people know even in Gaul… !”
“Three hundred and ninety-five.”
The lion flinched. The madman, who had been weeping at some point, spat it out in a spirited voice.
“There are 395 official illegitimate children of Eugène de Gallia, who was called Dear King, including since he was a prince. She had only one daughter, Jeanne Dieu Donet de Gallia, her queen her, but she conceived her three siblings and reserved them as her heirs her.”
“Uh, how…”
“The first was Jacques de Gallia, the now deposed Crown Prince, who was Eugene’s favorite child, but fell due to his ambition to conquer the continent exposed by Emilian, the heir to whom Alexandre, Duke of the Millennium, had secured. In exchange for preserving the status of the hardliners who followed me, I accepted exile for nearly ten years.”
The remaining candidates are the second and third.
“The princess was not very popular with her people because of her personal scandals with her. Looking at her abilities alone, she could be said to be a woman as outstanding as the rest of the princes, but unfortunately, the times and various conditions did not follow her.”
Dear King Eugene’s sudden death, the prince who was the last in the ranks of Gallia ascended the throne.
“However, even so, the three siblings were outstanding without any lagging behind, and they fought fiercely for supremacy to this day.”
The owner of Aragorn, whose expression was distorted, stumbled. Even though it was late at night, unlike a royal palace, in a dreary place with candles and other lights, he stretched out his hands to the sky like a man who had fought for the position of the strongest on the continent in the past.
“Foolish lion, do you dare discuss Aquitaine in front of me?”
“This cannot be. Even the wise king who reigns in the country of his convictions he remembers all of them …”
“Do you really see Jim as a delusional man who claims to have received a revelation from the Apostle?”
A flash of light flashed in the lunatic’s grip. The mana that changed its shape every moment, exhaling red color, shimmered and was reborn as the sword he would use. As it was, it resonated with the owner’s emotions, became angry, and howled.
“Eugène fathered thousands of children over several decades. I found out belatedly, but he was the unofficial craftsman of Aragorn. I don’t know about Alphonse, who is desperate to protect the throne, but I remember the names and whereabouts of 395 people clearly.”
“That, such nonsense!”
“Did you want to test Jim? Did you want to prove it!”
The lion shut his mouth tightly. Yet the madman exclaimed in a furious voice.
“Angelique Aquitaine, who became the wife of Alexandre Dior and fell ill! Blanche Aquitaine, who died giving birth to Lucien’s son, who is also your master! Diana Aquitaine escaped the assassination of her political opponent her and became the mistress of that island nation, the Lion King! There is also Ursula Aquitaine, whose name was stolen and banished to a distant land! She was the nanny who raised Constantina, who was in the same situation as me, the wealthy son of Rus, to become the empress she is today!”
The seven generals, who had been silently lining up, drew their weapons after every word he said.
“Her wicked mercenaries her infiltrated her quarters her in Ursula Aquitaine, raped and killed her! She was the owner of Alexandre Dior! Just like when Helen, Queen of Hellas, killed my dearly beloved half-sister, Sophie Aquitaine! Does Jim not know that the slaughter started with those two?”
Chang, the first general drew his sword.
“When the millenarian, who would not be enough in hell, died, there were only twelve Aquitaine survivors!”
Kung, the second general hit the floor with his spear.
“The one who abandoned the family and fled survived? It was just made up like that! You bastard, who knows the existence of that list, tell me! How many of the women who were Aquitaine at this time are still alive!”
Boom, the third general banged his metal knuckles.
“Henrietta Aquitaine, the LeBlanc of the East! Oriane Aquitaine became Lemoang of the North! Esmeralda Zafiro Aquitaine as the Rose of the West! Are there any other women alive in Gaul except for these three?”
Bung, the fourth general swung his mace.
“The great snowfield beyond your frozen land, Hoelun Aquitaine who defected to that Camag! Diana Aquitaine, who fell into Britannia’s mistress again! My secretary, Monica Aquitaine, an avowed political ally of Wilhelm Kohl of the city association of Brullin! Are there any other women alive on the continent other than these three?”
Fung, the Fifth General cast a spell with his staff.
“I know, I have known all along! How could such a prominent family in the center, which had prestige but failed to seize real power, enjoyed the same power as it does now! Do you think I didn’t know that Dior’s honor was founded in blood?”
Suddenly, the sixth general whipped the whip into the air.
“A person claiming to be the successor of Millennium Gong sent me a letter and said. They deserved to be sacrificed for the peace of the kingdom. Don’t be funny. Even though I am called the madman of the people, I rule Aragorn wonderfully. Your intentions were not because Aquitaine was a threat to the royal family.”
The gong, the seventh general struck the shield and rang.
“They were too many. That was the problem Because that number of illegitimate children has little legitimacy against the royal family. I couldn’t use it if I left it alone. In other words, the royal family didn’t have to worry too much about it. A king who would be endangered by not dozens, but hundreds of women, would have collapsed long ago…”
It was the king’s turn.
“Alexandre, who wanted to increase the prestige of the famous family, came up with a trick by marrying Angelique Aquitaine as his wife. The number of women bound by her family, that is, the lineage of the King of Dear, would threaten the kingdom, and she steadily reduced the number over a long period of time.”
Bang, boom, boom!
“A self-explanatory prophecy indeed! Aquitaine’s rapidly diminishing women have become a real threat to the royal family, as the Millenarian said! I can’t save you unless I appease you! Thanks to that, Dior’s Angelique and Tarn’s Blanche have a rare value!”
The furious man’s red flash lit up the royal palace in a dizzying light.
“Is it feasible to purify the central noble family and the southern grand ducal family at once? Not even Jim would have dared to exterminate them! If I use all sorts of advantages as an excuse to persuade you to become a loyalist, I wonder if you will know!”
Facing the fear of death for too long drives you crazy. The lion was no exception, so no courage could keep him sane. After all, the lunatic already knew everything.
“Yes, it was an Aquitaine crony competition after all!”
The reason why he almost tried to exterminate the three hundred and ninety-five women.
“That was the future Alexandre Dior hoped for! Blanche Aquitaine welcomed by Lucien Tarn of the South! Henrietta Aquitaine welcomed by Arnaud Leblanc of the East! Or even Oriane Aquitaine, welcomed by Gérard Lemoyn of the North!”
With his family as the focal point, he colludes with the powerful families of the three regions and gains power and trust from the royal family using Aquitaine’s legitimacy as an excuse. And ultimately, he takes off his mask of loyalty and establishes a new dynasty with the name of Dior and the legitimacy of Aquitaine.
“… Because of your greed, I had to lose the sun.”
Gaul’s real threat was not Aquitaine. They were Prince Alexandre, Archduke Lucien, Duke Arnault, and Marquis Gerard. And since the death of my wife, the King of Aragon, obsessed with vengeance, has taken over the truth with all his means.
“I will send you alive for today, who came with the purpose of even destroying you.”
Trembling, the lion looked up at the king who had stopped in front of him with disbelief eyes.
“There is no need to praise mercy. Just go and tell your master, Lucien Tarn. Tell the same to Arnaud LeBlanc, Duke of the East. Even if we were betrayed by the darkness that succeeded my father, the four of us would not stop seeking revenge.”
The mad king of the apostolic kingdom!
“This is a declaration of war from Yusuf of Nasr, who lost Warda al-Shazzar Aquitaine, Helen of Hellas, who lost Sophie Aquitaine, Constantina of Rus, who lost Ursula Aquitaine, and Albenis of Aragon, who lost Mercedes Aquitaine.”
Surprisingly, he who suppressed my madness was clearly brainwashed.
“My conquistador, will you show me what revenge is for Arsene Dior, the dark lord who inherited his father’s evil karma? Even if Romuald, Lumière’s invincible and Limousin’s enemy, came, would he be able to withstand it?”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
Finally, the seven generals shouted loudly.
“Then let’s begin.”
“I answer the apostle’s call! Everything for Her Highness her Queen Mercedes!”
“… A second royal competition to comfort the souls of the dead.”
