193. Rebellion’s statue (2)
“Please drop in.”
Kung······
The door to the audience room opened.
Schlus Heinkel stood upright in front of him.
A knight appeared with a black eagle on his left chest in a dark blue school uniform and a long sword on his right waist.
He soon walked proudly across the carpet and bowed his head before Emperor Gustaf.
“Schluss Heinkel sends greetings to His Majesty. I received the letter asking if you are all right. I think it is not the duty of a servant to respond in writing to this, so I am visiting you like this.”
“·······.”
Gustaf’s expression slightly distorted, but by the time Schluss raised his head, it was back to normal.
‘Dori became a servant? You’re talking funny things.’
If you were a man who knew how to keep the duty of a servant, you wouldn’t have issued a slave ban all of a sudden in the south.
I wouldn’t have executed Lorraine without a word either.
Even ignoring the messenger who came with the letter telling him not to execute him.
If he had even noticed, he would have saved himself after that, but Schluss Heinkel was raging here and there, slashing ancient monsters and asylums, attracting the attention of the entire continent.
At this point, he wondered if he was going to go to war.
So Gustaf decided to grant Schluse’s wish.
They attacked him with a detonator that could kill even a demon.
“As you can see, I’m fine, Your Majesty. You don’t have to worry.”
“That’s right. I’m very fortunate.”
But Schluss survived. He
He survived intact, and he came to the imperial palace like this and was playing around.
“Thanks to the great commanders of the Imperial Army arranged by Your Highness, my life was saved. I heard that the rebellious 1st Division commander died in an explosion inside the airship… It’s really a good thing.”
“·······.”
There was no way Schluss was unaware that the emperor had secretly issued an order to the commander of the 1st Division to launch the airship.
He must be well aware that it was not the emperor who sent Roman.
But he dared to pretend he didn’t know, and he was exalting the emperor.
Gustav seemed to be getting angry slowly.
“I heard that you were hit directly by the annihilation cannon. Is the area that was hit okay?”
There was something strange about the question.
Is the part hit by the opponent hit by the annihilation cannon that kills even demons okay?
Even so, Gustav didn’t stop asking questions.
I wanted to see at least the sight of Schluss complaining that one hand was crippled.
“Yes. Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with the right hand that fired the annihilator. I am sorry for the concern, Your Majesty.”
The right hand that fired the annihilation cannon.
Hearing that, Gustav’s eyes twisted slightly.
I was sure to receive a report, and I heard that the shells of the annihilation cannons were supposed to hit the Schluses directly, but then suddenly changed their trajectory.
After hearing that, I naturally thought that someone else’s magic had intervened, or that there must have been a problem with the annihilator’s shells.
But Schluss said he had apparently thrown the annihilator away.
The ultimate weapon that cannot be guaranteed to survive even if you get hit by a demon…
Now I want to believe that it is a bluff.
I didn’t want to admit the birth of a monster that surpassed Sergei, or maybe even Gawain.
If I admitted that, I would have to tear up all the plans to kill Schluss Heinkel that the Defense Research Institute had made up until now.
“Dear Schluss Heinkel.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“You have no intention of accepting the dukeship of the southern colonies right now.”
“Yes. I will decline.”
“Then what would it be like to rise to the position of Imperial First Sword?”
“·······.”
I could see Schluse’s shoulders tremble slightly.
It looked like he was perplexed.
The Imperial First Sword.
It was a position bestowed upon the strongest and most trusted by the emperor.
The Imperial First Sword is the most respected person in the Empire next to the imperial family, and the family that produced the Imperial First Sword has received tremendous benefits from generation to generation.
However, it was a de facto honorary position in which all political power and right to speak were castrated.
“I have a lot of shortcomings. I will decline.”
However, Schluss Heinkel kicked even this position.
He resolutely refused to give up politics and be placed under the imperial family.
At this, the emperor closed his eyes tightly.
“I have to look at government affairs now. Go out.”
“Yes. I will go back, Your Majesty.”
Schluss Heinkel cocked his head once more, then jumped to his feet and started walking.
Soon the door closed and Schluss Heinkel disappeared.
At that moment, Gustav drooled and squeezed his painful temple.
“Keep······.”
Would it be possible to kill Schluss Heinkel if he mobilized all the forces of the imperial guard right now?
Gustav’s intuition said it was possible.
However, the cost to be paid in the process was a problem.
Even if the Imperial First Sword is sortied, can we guarantee his survival?
How many knights of the Imperial Guard, said to be the most elite, will lose?
Can I be safe just because it’s an imperial building?
And in the worst case, the imperial guards might not be able to protect the crown prince from the rampaging Schluss Heinkel.
“Damn it…”
It was full of unpredictable things.
How do you analyze the power of a guy who kills an ancient monster in the first place and deflects an extermination cannon casually?
Its strength was always slightly above the standard line.
It’s as if his limits will be revealed if he sets a higher baseline than this.
However, Schluss Heinkel did not know how to show his limits until the baseline rose and continued to rise to an absurd level.
I even got a rather terrifying thought that perhaps he possessed powers that were incalculable by human standards.
“Your Majesty. The captain of the guards is waiting for your orders. Are you going to attack?”
“No. Let it go.”
“Yes. The operation has been confirmed.”
Even when the head of the research institute first conceived this strategy, he would have drawn a picture of quickly attacking Schluss Heinkel and taking care of it quietly.
It’s not a picture of the imperial palace burning and the guards taking devastating damage to attack Schluss Heinkel.
Now all he wanted was for Schluss Heinkel to leave the imperial palace quickly.
“Wait. Where is Hwang Tae-son?”
“I’m not sure, Your Highness. I’ll check it out.”
“No… Just leave it alone.”
He went to see Hwang Tae-son again.
Since he is a cunning fellow, he will surely try to blow a strange wind on the prince.
But the clever and intelligent Hwang Tae-son won’t be able to shake it off.
He seems to be a bit overly interested in Schluss Heinkel, but decided to leave it entirely to the Crown Prince to decide what is right and wrong.
Because he has to ascend to the throne soon.
***
“I think I understand now what my father meant by looking at this lake.”
A quiet lakeside.
I walked along the road in silence beside Arya.
If I feel like I’m a little ahead of myself, he waits for me, and if I feel like I’m falling behind, I catch up.
“May I ask what that means?”
“Of course. I guess Jim liked the silence itself.”
“You mean the static itself?”
“At that time, my father was in a politically precarious position. He was in a state of faltering due to ridiculous scandals from the aristocrats. Perhaps he was fed up with the noisy and ever-changing political scene, and this lake that will never change and will never change. I can only speculate that he may have come to see it.”
“·······.”
That was the correct answer.
Aside from the fact that the aristocrats’ attack on the crown prince was legitimate criticism, not absurd slander, it was a guess.
The aria in the original story didn’t even come close to her answer.
In the end, she ascended the throne without knowing anything about the secret of her father’s death.
She didn’t even need to know in the first place.
However, the aria in this world was gradually getting closer to the correct answer, to the truth.
She’ll just need a really, really light push on her back.
“It must have been very difficult.”
“Don’t just say that you have a pierced mouth. How could you express your father’s feelings… Ah.”
Arya stopped her words with her mouth open.
She then looked up at me and smiled.
“You understand the law, you bastard. If you add more than your father’s position, it won’t be worse.”
“I didn’t understand what you were talking about, Your Highness.”
“Yes. It’s just my own words. So you just have to remain incomprehensible.”
“·······.”
“Even to me, Your Majesty’s measures are excessive. You might as well say that you are making a fuss. You are truly endowed with the prize of rebellion, but I think that is not a reason to die.”
“·······.”
Chasing after Arya as she lightly steps out, I didn’t even open her mouth.
Because I didn’t understand her aria at all what she was saying.
She was supposed to just listen.
“My coming-of-age ceremony and installation of the crown princess are just two weeks away. Now that His Majesty is old and ill, he will have no choice but to hand over the throne to me when that time comes. So hold on a little longer. Perhaps Your Majesty will You’ll be surprised by your potential and won’t think of touching it for a while. If you survive for just one month without dying, I’ll make sure Jim takes good care of you.”
“·······.”
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It was good news among misfortunes.
Arya realized that her position was completely different from that of her emperor, and that this persecution would end once Arya ascended the throne.
‘Is there any reason to postpone this any longer?’
Arya said that the Emperor was surprised and said that he would not attack for a while, but I thought a little differently.
Since the annihilation cannon failed, wouldn’t they be trying to develop and mobilize even more terrifying weapons?
The Emperor Gustav I know is still there.
So we couldn’t postpone the execution of the operation any longer.
If it was today, then it was now.
I spread awareness-lowering solutions around me.
A very hard guy that is hard to break.
Arya, who is not sensitive to mana, kept walking without knowing anything, and behind her, she saw surprised courtiers and knights running towards us, shouting eagerly.
However, because it was a two-way sound blocking barrier, the sound did not reach Arya.
“Your Majesty.”
“·······.”
The moment she sang that, Aria’s body trembled and her steps stopped.
“Puheup… Yes, you bastard. You just made a mistake. How could you confuse Jim with His Majesty-“
“It was the emperor, Gustav Friedrich von Freyja, who killed your father.”
“·······!”
Arya’s eyes widened.
As soon as she shook her hand to break the barrier that hindered her perception, her courtiers and knights shut up and surrounded Arya.
“What was the barrier just now!”
“Answer me, Sir Heinkel!”
“Let’s go back, Your Highness. And the installation ceremony, I look forward to it very much.”
Ignoring the knights scolding me in anger, I left.
Even until she was far away, Aria was staring at my back with her mouth open.
The die is cast.
It is now impossible to turn back.