135 – 28. Absolute Power
“Of course.”
“Hmm?”
“You can’t say that this is the end of everything… You know?”
The afternoon of the next day after an eventful night.
I had been moving non-stop throughout the night, and after suffering mental fatigue from the loop of , I took a nap and woke up at this time.
Perhaps it was because I had suffered a bit through this incident, but the dream was also a bit of a dream.
In the dream, I lost my mind and was completely consumed by
……
‘Well, it’s just a dream anyway.’
No matter how terrible the nightmare is, if you forget it, it is just a one-night dream.
As long as Kim Eun-ha’s job ended well, such an unpleasant nightmare was just a dream.
Anyway, I woke up like that and was sitting across from Kim Eun-ha, who looked strangely dressed up, drinking tea.
Now that I think about it, I’ve had tea time with Rio, Lane, and Eileen several times, but it seems like it’s been a long time since I’ve had a drink with them.
“Are you talking about after-processing?”
“That’s true, but father… There’s still work left for you to do.”
“Are you just calling me dad?”
“I’ve regained my And become perfect, and I’ve worked so hard. Even if I call you whatever you want, you won’t be able to say anything, right?”
“Hmm…”
“Anyway, what I should mention is something my dad did.”
“What do you mean?”
“Of course I ordered you to be killed.”
…… Oh right. Because of that, you came in intentionally acting as a pseudo-act, right?
At the last minute, I had a headache because of the , So I forgot about it.
Definitely, that part needs to be done somehow to be able to call it a complete conclusion.
“Now Your Majesty…”
“You don’t have to call me Your Majesty.”
“…Yes?”
“There’s no need to give an honorific title to the person who tried to kill you, right? Please feel free to call me that.”
“No, no matter what…”
“Emperor bastard, emperor bastard, emperor bastard. Anything is okay. I will allow it in my name.”
“……I’ll just call him emperor.”
“As you wish.”
Well, it seems like Kim Eun-ha has changed a lot.
It was originally a given that my personality would change a bit from the time I regained my
Self, but I feel like I have become strangely more active.
…… First of all, the important thing is the emperor’s business.
“Then where is the emperor now?”
“…? Didn’t we meet before you went to bed?”
“I saw it in the office.”
“They are still imprisoned there. The oppressors and their shadows are also imprisoned separately. My brother took action quickly.”
If I think about it now, the emperor who arrived in the dungeon was forced to escape using the power unique to the
Royal family.
Once the business is over, the natural course is to be caught by the prince’s faction again and be imprisoned.
But.
“But you can’t keep imprisoning the emperor, right?”
“… That’s right, the citizens are still noisy because of what happened last night. The only one who can stop them… Is Dad.”
You must keep this in mind. No matter what the faction fights are, the people’s support is overwhelmingly towards the emperor.
The emperor raised the Korean Empire to the position of a superpower with predictions at the level of future foresight, and to that extent he is supported by the entire Korean Empire.
Of course, this does not mean that the people are hostile to the prince, but it is a different story if the prince forcibly elevates the emperor and ascends to the throne.
Numerous citizens, councils, and organizations will attack the prince.
So even if the prince defeated the emperor, there was only one choice.
“You are planning to solidify your declaration of successor.”
“…I know it so well. It’s surprising.”
“This is probably a guess that anyone with political insight can make.”
Stopping the antagonism between the emperor’s faction and the prince’s faction, and ensuring that the emperor recognizes the prince.
Even now, the next emperor is Prince Kim Seong-il. However, as the name ‘prince’ suggests, he is not the official successor.
Now he will become the undisputed ‘Crown Prince’ and gradually absorb the emperor’s faction, and in the future he will become emperor.
In effect, this ensures the prince’s victory.
And it’s a bit embarrassing, but………
“Then Namgoong Min, you must know that your contribution is the greatest in this matter.”
“…Grunt.”
“It’s a good thing. If it weren’t for my brother’s intervention, even if we had solved that problem, it would have only ended in a tragic ending.”
As Kim Eun-ha said, I barely survived thanks to the prince’s intervention.
No matter how much they use words and acting to deceive the oppressors and their shadows, they are not fools and will not be deceived for the rest of their lives. Even if they do a proper investigation, they will find out that I am an impersonator.
What happens next is obvious.
Deceived high-ranking officials and entered the imperial palace at will.
Laying hands on the princess (even though she meant it in a good way).
If you threatened the emperor.
What is the price of that sin?
“Is it the death penalty…?”
“Do you think you can even go to the adjutant meeting?”
“…I really should be grateful to the prince.”
Of course, Kim Eun-ha will help me after Has been resolved, but the princess who declared political neutrality cannot exert much influence.
At best, wouldn’t it be a reduction from the death penalty to life imprisonment?
I was lucky in many ways.
The prince also made a decision immediately after seeing the game board I had set up in the imperial castle.
I, too, made a fuss in the castle, believing that the prince would notice.
It seems like their senses matched each other well.
“But it was resolved well, so it’s okay, isn’t it?”
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“……It’s not wrong. But you should keep in mind that it was reckless.”
“Of course.”
“You speak well. You’re not alone anymore, so please take care of yourself.”
“…? What do you mean?”
“……………………….”
“Princess?”
“………Now, since you and your brother are in a political alliance, it means that you should be careful, Joe. It has no different meaning at all.”
“Aha.”
It seems like there was a bit of a long silence in the middle, but it’s not wrong.
By clearing this character event, my friendship with the imperial family has reached its maximum and I have grown into a ‘secret power’.
In reality, I am the kingmaker who made Prince Kim Seong-il the undisputed emperor, and I will be treated accordingly.
In other words, it means that it has become inseparable from the imperial family, which also means that one must be careful about one’s actions.
‘The high-ranking members of society probably heard the full story of this incident.’
On the surface, you can roughly put it together, but the actual truth, that ‘the prince’s faction defeated the emperor’s faction, and Namgoong Min was at the center of it,’ is only known to the highest level of each country.
And, that is.
This means that I, who until now was just a simple fortune teller from the Korean Empire, has become a secret fortune teller under the protection of the Imperial Family of the Korean Empire!
…… What is it? Why do you call me a secret fortune teller? My ears are itching…… ?
“Hmm, hmm! Anyway, it will take some time for your brother to clean up after himself.”
“Of course it is.”
“I’ve already given word to the Academy, so there shouldn’t be any problem for the next few days. Once the compromise between you and your father is done, it’s your turn.”
“…I see.”
I feel like my work has been put on the back burner, but given Prince Kim Seong-il’s personality, it’s not like he’s trying to be a bastard or a cold-blooded person.
Isn’t it just because the commotion in the imperial castle last night was so loud that I had to kiss the emperor as quickly as possible and announce something first?
If the response is delayed due to the need to resolve my issue with harsh words, this is an issue that could shake up the entire Korean Empire.
In the end, it was an internal dispute between the emperor and the prince, and it was a civil war.
…… After all, should you have listened to the whole story when you spoke with the emperor yesterday?
‘……… No, I was too tired at that time.’
And then I heard shocking information that another me had disappeared.
Anyway, once the official response is over, I will be able to talk to the emperor leisurely, so it is not a big problem.
But……
“Um, princess?”
“Why are you doing that?”
“……What about ?”
“……………….”
Now she is smiling and enjoying tea time, but what is Kim Eun-ha’s inner self like?
I didn’t eliminate , I just made the pain of loss greater than
‘S murderous impulse.
In other words, in her mind right now, the urge to ‘kill someone’ and the pain of ‘if I kill that person, I will lose that person forever’ coexist.
Of course, it is not a permanent solution.
Kim Eun-ha, who knew that well, closed her eyes for a moment and opened her mouth.
“Well, even if it was someone else, they wouldn’t be able to fool you.”
“That means…….”
“Honestly, it’s a bit…Dangerous. You know when you inadvertently clench your fists every time you meet someone, right? Fortunately, I was able to control myself.”
“……I see.”
f*ck, that’s right.
The original solution in the game was to ‘eliminate By pressing it with combat power.’
So, Kim Eun-ha, who was swallowed up in , Was in the form of a problem that would be resolved automatically if she won against her boss.
‘It’s absolutely impossible for a Like me.’
As if she knew it well, she told her to gather her companions on the quest, but she couldn’t do it.
Only in the game can she try again even if her companion dies.
Because this was reality.
‘Liu, Lane, Lucas, Kim Seong-il, Abel, Raphael. There are many people I can call, but…… ….’
Kim Eun-ha, who was swallowed up by
, Is strong enough to kill all the strong men of the imperial family and go on a rampage.
In the game, if you win the battle, you are automatically subdued, but in real life, subduing Kim Eun-ha is…… It’s almost impossible. Because it would be much more difficult than killing it.
In that situation, none of your colleagues die?
If you get to that point, it’s just a delusion.
So I was alone.
This was possible because I believed in
Numerology and believed in my mental power.
‘Maybe if I had made even the slightest mistake, it would have been like that nightmare.’
My mind was broken, a nightmare in which I believed what was in numerology was reality and was ruined.
There was no difference between what I did in the nightmare and what I did last night. The only difference is how long you can really endure it.
Honestly, I can look back on it like this because it was successful, but it doesn’t change the fact that it was a reckless act.
‘…… Oh, I don’t know.’
If I could live that rationally, I wouldn’t have lived that way with Jisoo.
It is not a reasonable choice to learn under the pseudo-bastard who killed your parents and then go to the police department to catch and punish that bastard.
This is just me.
Human nature is something that cannot be helped.
…… I missed the story for a moment, but anyway.
For now, let’s just think about Kim Eun-ha’s .
“How long can you endure?”
“…I can’t hold on for long. But.”
“………?”
“Surprisingly, when I’m next to you, those urges disappear… And I can be at peace.”
“Is that so?”
What is it? Is there some hidden effect on me? Peace of mind or something?
I don’t know the reason, but anyway, it’s good news that Is being suppressed.
“Then I will stay by the princess’s side as much as possible──”
“So, you can stay by my side 24 hours a day.”
“──Yes?”
Hmm?
What?
“There’s nothing we can do about it, right? It would be a big deal if Recurs while I’m away from you.”
“Well, when I sleep…”
“You can sleep next to me.”
“……Still.”
“Oh, you mean the bathroom? Let’s signal to each other about that. We can just wait on the other side of the partition, right?”
“……………….”
“It may be a bit irresponsible to say, but thanks to you, we are able to coexist with … So you should take responsibility for that, right?”
Kim Eun-ha’s hand caressing my hand while saying those words felt somewhat greedy and seductive.
But before I could wave my hand at the touch, I broke into a cold sweat from an ominous feeling.
‘If we go back to the academy and Rio sees this…… !’
Why does a princess stick around 24 hours a day next to the man who confessed?
No matter how much I am a single mother who has never been in a relationship, the result is obvious.
‘But that doesn’t mean we can say let’s stay away…….’
What if Relapses while staying away from Liu?
This is a real disaster.
…… While climbing a mountain, there is a fork in the road ahead. If you go left, you die, and if you go right, you die.
Then what should I do? Should I just roll away?
‘Please…… !!’
Please save me!
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“…Eunha, really…”
“Your brother also agreed, right?”
“I did it. I did it.”
“Then there’s no problem, right?”
“……The world calls this kidnap marriage.”
“If we continue to stick together anyway, it’s no different than a married couple.”
“What are you going to do with someone with superpowers… And a super-rich person? I heard that the teddy bear instructor’s daughter is also hanging around Namgoong Min.”
“hehehehe, brother. From now on, I’m going to give it to Namgoong Min.”
“Umm…Hmm?”
“What does it mean to have become a community of shared destiny with the Korean Empire’s imperial family?”
“……………….”
“I’m literally talking about what ‘absolute power’ means.”
“…So, you will buy it with power?”
“Originally, men are attracted to competent women.”
“……………….”
“So, brother, just focus on responding. Namgoong Min… I’ll take care of him.”
“…I’m sorry, Namgoong Min.”