88. Audience
After leaving Noah saying he was cute, Baekho went straight into the mountain and fell asleep.
Empress, who had been hiding nervously about what might be done to him who shot the magic cannon, passed without a word and breathed a sigh of relief as if fortunately.
“Whew… Summoner… I’m tired… .”
“What did you do?”
“just… Can I go in and rest?”
Even after seeing the Empress entering the pattern without permission, Ian did not say anything special.
In fact, I just didn’t get it out of my mouth, because I already felt hungry and tired to some extent.
“… Noah, did you hear me?”
“Uh, huh? what?”
“God says you’re cute too, hey. Envy you?”
Saying that, he pinched his cheeks very softly, and then Noah realized that he was making fun of him and began to get angry.
Leaving her alone, Ian remembered what Baekho had said.
‘I said it was solved.’
It’s hard to believe that all of Ian’s problems were resolved with just one kick, but… … I couldn’t help but believe that, so Ian turned to Khorne and said.
“The Count. wake up.”
“… What did you just do?”
“It saved mankind. No problem.”
“Are you saving humanity? I just knew very well that you don’t have that kind of altruism.”
Recalling what Ian had said earlier, when he said that there was no point in saving humanity and that his life was more important than anything else, Khorne changed his polite attitude and responded coldly.
He was not the protector of mankind or a hero. I don’t know why I’m acting like that, but I’m a selfish person whose safety is the most important thing in my life.
“therefore?”
And- Ian, who heard my heart, looked down at the count and asked her.
Yes. He did not have an altruistic mind in saving mankind. Because he saved humanity as a means, not an end.
However, it is reliable because it is a tool.
“I save mankind. You can’t save yourself, so I’m not struggling like this.”
“… what it is.”
“How can you believe in a hero who moves to save people? Even though I am an enlightened Buddha, there are trashy people everywhere that I want to kill.”
Realizing that all humans are not worth saving, the hero falls. That’s because the hero’s purpose is to save humans.
However, he already knew that humanity is garbage. There is no equal value for all humans, and there are enough humans who deserve death.
However, nevertheless. Ian unilaterally saves mankind for his own purpose.
“Shut up and trust me. Even if we can’t save everyone, we’ll save the greatest number of humans.”
Follow me.
I will not take any objection, question, question, or anything.
just follow act blindly
In this way I will bring salvation to you.
After hearing Ian’s words, Khorne fell into silence for a long time, then quietly took out my summoned beast.
* * *
“… It’s really buried.”
Returning to her original position on the roof, Ian realized that all the tunnels they had found had been buried.
From the tunnel in the nearest place in the Baekho Mountains to the end of the earth in Ian’s estate. All of them were completely submerged.
Realizing that, Ian felt a goosebumps going up his back and shuddered. No matter how created he was, he swears that he put his head on a being with this kind of power.
“Well, then now… Are you going back to the Imperial Castle?”
“I have to report. Even for follow-up… .”
“Uh, uh- will you come with me this time?”
“of course.”
Hearing Ian’s words, Noah widened her face and started to smile. Ian could not have dared to guess how much he had suffered in the imperial palace in such a short period of time to be able to make such an expression.
“So- Korn, work hard until the end.”
“… I am the count, but be polite.”
“Yes Yes. Count, please.”
Korn bit his lip and silently acted as a wing. Ian looked at Noah who was muttering alone after getting on the back of the summoned beast.
“So… Once in front of His Majesty the Emperor… .”
“Noah? what are you doing?”
“Yes, practice etiquette. Ian too soon… Oh right. Ian, you were a nobleman.”
“… Did you teach me that?”
“Uh, yes. A commoner who doesn’t even know the etiquette can’t get him to meet His Majesty the Emperor… .”
“—Who is it?”
Ian looked at Noah with his eyes shining. You dare say that to Noah, to a multi-summoner with a 3-star pet?
It couldn’t have happened unless the gangster got out of the boat or was a hard-headed nobleman with a status higher than a marquis.
Unfortunately, Ian didn’t even know what kind of nobleman there were in the imperial family. However, with the knowledge of ‘Ian’, it could be expected to some extent.
‘Those bastards… … .’
There are two kinds of nobles in this world.
A class who becomes a summoner and becomes a noble.
The power of the family, or the class of people who become nobles by becoming officials.
Of course, the majority of nobles belonged to the former, but not a small number belonged to the latter. In the first place, most of the summoners were always fighting demons at the forefront of the human realm, so where would they have time to leisurely engage in administrative work?
The administrative work was handled by a small number of nobles living in the imperial palace.
As a matter of course, the born aristocrats who managed to rise to the ranks of nobility after undergoing all kinds of education and tests from a young age did not like summoners.
Summoners who have been protecting the empire for several generations are better, but commoners who have just become summoners are very depressing. Noah must have been there.
‘Maybe I’ll do something similar.’
He has a number of 4-star and 3-star summons, but now he is the son of a baron who has only one generation.
They probably think that they can cook and cook very easily if they are rolled in the Imperial Palace.
If you think so, I’m very happy. If you put your teeth at yourself like that, it’s easier for you to catch it.
“it’s okay.”
“yes… ?”
“Because I am a very polite youth.”
Of course, only for those who are kind to me.
Whoa-!
Daebung begins to slow down slowly. In the distance, the residence of His Majesty the Great Emperor is revealed.
We finally arrived at the Imperial Palace. Ian got off the landing pad prepared for the flying summons and looked around.
‘Come to think of it… It’s my first time coming to the Imperial Palace.’
Come to think of it, it was the first time I had ever come to the imperial capital. I calmed down a bit of anticipation and went inside.
* * *
“The Count of Coron.”
“… Marquis Evaton.”
Afraid to step into the Imperial Palace, they encountered the nobles who were waiting for them. The marquise, whose white hair stood out, glared at Ian and the others.
“Sir Noah, and… .”
“This is Ian Clark.”
“Oh, are you the one?”
When the Marquis saw Ian, he immediately let go of the horse, and a smile bloomed on his face. Just looking at him, he looked like a kind-hearted old man, but… Ian did not miss seeing Noah trembling slightly when he saw him.
“Yes that’s right.”
“Then why are you here now? .”
“To meet His Majesty.”
Hearing this, the Marquis looked at Ian and the others with a fishy smile. After a while, that smile changed to a benevolent smile again, but he did not miss that brief moment.
The Marquis, who reached out toward them as if welcoming them with their arms wide open, began to praise Ian and Noah as if praising a great hero.
“Oh, that’s great. Yes, you came to see His Majesty the Emperor?”
nod.
“… I heard that you are the son of a baron, but have you learned a level of etiquette that would not make anyone in your family?”
“enough.”
“If you don’t know, I’ll take a look at you before I go to your Majesty.”
The Marquis said so and ordered him to show courtesy to him quickly. So that meant treating yourself like an emperor.
Perhaps Noah was caught here by the marquis and received unfair criticism. Because he was a commoner, he would have made me mentally exhausted by constantly arguing.
“I don’t like it.”
“… What?”
I didn’t mean to be beaten by the obvious numbers. If he had been a ignorant commoner like Noah, or the son of a true baron, he might have gone as he said.
But I am not that handsome nobleman.
“I’m a little busy right now, so I’ll just leave.”
“… Now, are you going to show yourself like that in front of His Majesty the Emperor?”
“no? Did you learn it properly?”
“So, give me a demonstration first… .”
“Why should I do that?”
Ian took out the decree that the emperor had handed over from his pocket. Even Noah, who was handed him directly, didn’t know what was written inside until he opened it.
No matter how high the nobleman in front of me, I don’t know what kind of content it contains.
“Marquis, aren’t you saying you’re busy? Can you afford to waste your time like this?”
“… No, no matter what—”
“There, do you think you are the Emperor? Your Majesty decides whether or not you are disrespectful to the Emperor, not you.”
“—Dare you.”
“How dare you?”
As if Hansi was busy, he waved the shochu once more, and the Marquis frowned slightly and stepped back.
Passing by him, he went inside, sending Khorne a notice to guide him. Korne, who was watching the scene from behind, clings to Ian’s side and murmurs as if worried.
“… The Marquis Evaton was a prominent figure in the court. If you pretended like that.”
“Even if I kill him now, the Emperor cannot touch me.”
“… What nonsense-.”
“Are you going to throw away your sword if it cuts your hand in war?”
Ian walked up to the audience with a confident attitude. To the place where the emperor usually appears in front of people, where there is a huge throne.
Standing in front of the audience door, Ian opened the door as it was, holding Noah’s shoulder.
“Emperor! Your messenger is back!”
It was a pity that I couldn’t even call him a son, even if it was a joke.