203. Heretic Questioner (1)
The Heretic Questioner came to the system.
A total of two people arrived and reported to the Imperial Palace.
With two people, it was a power that could face a decent battalion.
I wondered why those guys came, so I looked at the reports they posted and found this.
-The interrogation of the captured Asylum followers and their transfer to the Holy See will be overseen.
It was a very plausible reason.
Except for the fact that usually the Heretic Questioner doesn’t move because of this.
“I didn’t say anything else. By now, I’m sure you’ll be in the prison where Asylum’s followers are kept.”
“·······.”
Arya’s hand gently landed on my shoulder.
She turned around to see what she was doing, and Arya cleared her throat and withdrew her hand.
I put on the twenty thousand janggye and stood up.
“It looks like they’re up to something.”
“Jim thought the same way.”
“Your Majesty. Please grant me one permission.”
“What do you mean?”
As she lowered her head, Aroni Aria tilted her head.
It was not a matter that I could decide on my own.
It’s only a facade, but since he’s in a high position, he had to discuss such an important matter with Arya first.
“If there is a conflict with the Heretic Questioner, can I kill them?”
“Do you have any resentment towards the interrogator…?”
“I made a mistake. I asked if it would be okay to kill him if it was unavoidable. Of course, I will not kill him if he surrenders.”
The fact that the Heretic Questioner came at this time must have been a political message.
Arya utterly disregarded her traditional coronation ceremony, and she crowned herself.
She was most likely her demonstration of force in response.
Of course, it would be nice if she just went back after an armed demonstration, but…
She had to be prepared for the unexpected.
For example, if the Heretic Questioner does something stupid and needs to be subdued by force.
“Before you grant permission, I have to ask you one thing.”
“Ask me anything.”
“What do you fight for? Tell me what you value most.”
“Of course I fight for you. Nothing is more important than your well-being and the peace of the empire.”
“I am well aware of your loyalty. So rather than talk like that, speak honestly.”
“·······.”
Arya pressed me with a mysterious expression.
If it were another monarch, I would have run away the moment I was really honest here.
But the opponent is Aria.
A superman who knows how to separate flattery from reason, and has mental strength beyond human limits.
Since it’s such an aria, you won’t be offended if I tell you a really honest answer.
On the contrary, if you flatter me even here, then I will be really angry.
“Peace on the continent.”
“Peace on the Continent? That means if the Continent can survive only if the Empire perishes, are you going to sell the Empire?”
“Unless your Majesty orders otherwise, yes. I intend.”
“hahahaha! You’re so out of your mind!”
Aria grabbed her stomach and began to giggle.
She was nervous, wondering if she had made a mistake, and then Aria removed her lips again, wiping away her tears.
“Okay. If you can’t avoid it, I will allow a battle with the Heretic Questioner assuming death. When you engage in such a battle, it will be when the Heretic Questioner threatens the peace of the continent. Jim said Am I wrong?”
“You are right.”
Thank you for Arya’s calm insight.
From the point of view of a third person, I was making a ridiculous request after cutting everything.
However, Arya was able to figure out all the details, including the circumstances and intentions of my request, all at once with one question.
“So, do you think you can win against the Heretic Questioner two by one?”
“Until then… I hadn’t thought about it.”
“You mean you didn’t care about your own life and just thought of attacking me? You’re willing to give your life for the continent. Huh.”
“·······.”
I bowed my head again at Arya’s mocking tone.
It’s because you can’t see the proper ending when the continent is destroyed.
Arya won’t understand.
For me, the challenge to see the right ending is the last chance in my life.
Aria will never be able to understand that if that opportunity is lost, I will not even be able to find a meaning to live.
“Yes. With your answer, I think I know your true identity.”
“Your Majesty?”
“You are not from this world.”
“·······!”
I can’t believe I looked this far?
I was startled and looked at Arya’s face, and she was looking up at me with a very curious face.
“That… How…”
“It’s obvious. You’ve been acting as if you had multiple lives. Also, everything you’ve done has gone bizarrely well. On top of that, it’s like peace on the continent, not caring about your own safety or the glory of the empire. “When you look at an absurdly lofty goal, there’s only one answer. You’ve been looking into the future. It reminds me of an old text about a man who went back and forth endlessly. You’re definitely one of those people. Jim’s wrong.” Do you?”
“·······.”
The process seemed plausible.
However, in the last stage of reasoning, I got it wrong due to a slight deviation.
But I had no intention of correcting it.
If Arya believes that I’m really from the future, I can make her think that all my judgments are correct.
“You are not wrong. You are correct, Your Majesty.”
“Hmm. But something doesn’t make sense. I don’t like the way you kindly admit it.”
“·······.”
Even in the midst of that, Arya’s touch was fierce.
If I had slipped a little further, Arya might have even figured out the true identity of this world.
From now on, Arya should be more careful with her mouth.
“It’s quite embarrassing that I’ve been shut up all this time, but I won’t ask for guilt because it’s for a good cause. However, I can say it now. What is the reason for killing the Heretic Questioner?”
“That’s something I don’t know either. Because this episode is very different from the last episode… I’m just preparing for the unexpected.”
“Hmph. You look like a useless guy. Then answer this question. How many times has Jim died in the future you’ve been to?”
That was a pretty annoying question.
Because I had to make a setting for how many times I regressed on the spot and set the number.
If I answered here and later forgot the number and said something else, I would be caught lying.
So it’s better to answer as simply as possible.
“Your Majesty has passed away from all the futures I have seen.”
“·······.”
In the original story, Arya dies.
The results were applied to all rounds and answered.
***
“aaa! That’s ridiculous!”
Kung kung kung kung.
Throwing herself onto her flat bed, Emilia buried her face in her pillow and stamped her feet.
She then inhaled and exhaled her breath frantically.
She was just thinking about what happened yesterday.
She didn’t make a sound, so of course she assumed that no one was in her room, and she was doing the laundry in a carefree way….
“Ah! I’ve been taking out the laundry just fine the whole time! Why do I have to!”
Among them, the time he had to put his nose in Schluss’s clothes and breathe in her was only a fraction of it, but he ran into the saintess at that timing.
She got down on her knees right away and took a promise to keep it a secret at the empty end.
From noble mtl dot com.
Since it was the promise of her saintess, it would of course be kept, but it was really embarrassing to show that sight to someone.
She doesn’t do it often, she only takes it when she thinks of it once in a while.
If you are in charge, you will feel at ease.
“By the way… What the hell happened between you two?”
Emilia returned with a serious expression and crumpled her pillow.
Recently, Saint Iris has obviously been acting strangely.
However, seeing that there were no bad rumors about her saintess in the world, it seemed that she acted strangely only to Schluses.
“Of course I thought it was an empty dream…”
Every time Schluss openly showed his liking, he laughed inwardly.
They said that even if it happened a hundred days, there was no way the saintess would fall over.
But looking at Iris’ reaction yesterday, she seemed to be on the verge of falling over.
She said maybe she didn’t just confess, she might have passed it all.
Thinking so, Emilia felt her insides boil.
“Why do you have to be a saint?”
My turn would be at the end anyway, so it didn’t matter who came in front.
A noble daughter or anyone…
However, how could they capture the people who should not be touched the most?
It was obvious that the moment she announced her marriage to the saintess, a chaos would break out.
“Could it be that this pervert only seeks forbidden love…?”
It was a reasonable doubt.
He promised to marry me first, saying that he would never touch a minor.
And she is a saint who must keep her virginity for the rest of her life.
At this point, she seemed confident.
He was a guy who went out of his mind to attack only opponents with a higher level of difficulty, and if he succeeded, he would target an opponent with the next higher level of difficulty.
Thinking that way, everything started to make sense.
The peace on the continent and the alliance with the intelligence agency were all excuses.
An excuse to satisfy one’s desire for capture.
“Crazy…”
How can I fix that insanity?
Maybe it will heal itself after having children and starting a family.
She was Emilia who had once thought about the possibility after remembering that she had succeeded in taking sleeping pills before.
“Haa…”
I can’t hold back Schluse like that right now.
That had to be a last resort.
Emilia sighed and got up and started straightening her bed.
Because Schluss will be back soon and go to sleep.
She had to make it exactly the same as the first one so that she wouldn’t know what she was wallowing in here.
Oh boi…