190 – Faith (8)
This is it.
The book that Faust, no, Faust, gave me really touched my heart to the point where I could definitely say that this book was what I wanted.
The saying not to incur hatred towards the people was very true to me who is hostile to the nobility and the church and lives for the people, and the saying to become an object of fear if you don’t want to be loved also means love to the people until now. Those were very shocking and touching words to me, who had never received them before.
So, I decided to first fix a society that was not working properly.
By wiping out all the criminals who are the scum of society like sweeping leaves, stabilizing public order and gaining the love of the people who suffered from the criminals, and at the same time fearing the people who saw the harsh punishment meted out to the criminals. I wanted to be the target of.
But… Why?
“Your Majesty, avoid!!”
“The gate is open!! There is a traitor!!”
“Stop it!! Do whatever you can… No, there are too many…”
Why on earth are they so angry?
Prevented taxes from being absorbed by the church and incompetent nobles. The mercenaries that were meaninglessly wasting the national treasury were disbanded. By eliminating criminals, we brought safety to society. The situation broke up the nobles who had been divided after the death of His Majesty and the Señor of Seraphia, making it impossible for them to unite. It prevented nobles and clergy from tyrannizing against the people.
No matter how much you think about it… You didn’t do anything to be hated.
But what does this situation mean?
The people hate me. He hates me so much that he wants to kill me.
Why?
Where did it all go wrong?
“Your Majesty, Your Majesty!!”
Gooooo
The book, the book Faust gave me, is shining purple.
As if he was telling me to look at him quickly.
Even as soldiers are pounding on the door from outside, the emperor picks up the book and opens it, trembling as if he is possessed by it.
[Humans are willing to replace their rulers in the belief that they can live a better life, and this belief makes them take up arms and revolt against their rulers.]
[If a monarch cannot win love, he must make himself fearful in such a way that he can avoid hate. Because being an object of fear and not being an object of hatred can go together quite smoothly.]
[If possible, we should avoid turning away from what is good, but we should also know how to become evil when necessary.]
And then, as if I had been waiting, letters emerged from the book. The letters, made of purple light, float and buzz before the Emperor’s eyes, as if this is your fault.
The emperor is even more incomprehensible.
Why is this… Wrong?
No matter how much you think about it, the emperor himself was not an object of hatred. He lowered various tax rates to enable people to live better. By punishing only criminals, he did not become an object of hatred for the people, nor did he turn away from what was good.
And… Was there a phrase like this?
I read this book over and over again, but I couldn’t find a passage like this. What on earth is this?
Kwasik!!
“It’s here, it’s here!!”
“I found the emperor!!”
At that moment, the emperor heard the sound of the throne room door being split and the shouts of the people.
The emperor took his eyes off his book and looked around, and the soldiers who had clearly been there just a moment ago were nowhere to be found. In fact, the emperor alone remained silent in this throne room.
“Ugh…”
And the people who received the emperor’s gaze momentarily flinched and held their breath.
Because the emperor’s gaze was so vague.
It was as if all my life force had been sucked out of that book.
No matter how much one hates an object, if that object has such blank, lifeless eyes and facial expressions, anyone will instantly flinch and hold their breath.
“I… What did I do wrong? I…?”
“…It’s because they don’t know morals.”
“Morality…?”
After hearing the words of the young man in front, the emperor tilts his head.
Was morality important in the lives of the people?
It was also mentioned in the book. As politics and morality must be separated, it is possible to develop high-level thinking skills as a result of the separation of facts and justification.
Acts that appear immoral can be very useful in governing.
But does that mean the people are so angry because of such actions? To the extent of rebelling against oneself?
[When killing people, there must be a clear reason and appropriate justification.]
The young man’s appearance is obscured by the purple text from the book.
It seems as if the book is laughing at the emperor.
As if you are telling me to look at this, as if you have failed.
When the emperor saw that, he became even more dazed.
‘Are you saying that being a criminal wasn’t a clear and appropriate justification?’
What human rights do criminals have, and what mercy should we give them?
If you steal, you should cut off your wrists, and if you lie, you should cut out your tongue.
But… What on earth?
People can get this far with just that-
“…Huh?”
The emperor, who had been constantly thinking like that, saw the pitchfork being struck through the purple letters, and his vision darkened.
In his darkened vision, the emperor only saw the book humming in purple light.
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‘…I made too many enemies.’
And Faust was looking down at the whole scene while using the stealth spell.
Everything from the emperor being so preoccupied with books that he completely ignored the soldiers’ requests to escape, to being attacked by the people who broke into the throne room.
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‘That book probably responds to desire.’
I didn’t expect this.
I made a copy of the monarchy theory using memories from Earth that were so vivid, as if I copied it with a copy machine, and gave it to the emperor. Unfortunately, it seems that it was not a simple copy, perhaps because I, the devil, made it.
Literally, it responds to the reader’s desire.
If it’s about that desire, everything is told, and if it’s information that has nothing to do with that desire, that is, if it’s information that the reader won’t pay close attention to, it’s not even told at all.
In other words, that book only allows the reader to face the future quickly and violently, but does not allow the reader to avoid that future. It doesn’t matter whether the future is catastrophic or rosy.
That means… The emperor wanted such politics? Do you think we would have had a future like this without me?
The emperor, who was begging for help to save his people by burying his head in mine, actually didn’t know what the people wanted… Well, such cases are not rare, but when I actually saw it with my own eyes, it was very unbalanced. Yes.
Of course, these results did not occur solely through the will of the people.
There were many complex reasons, such as the purged nobles and clergy holding a grudge and inciting the people, or opening the castle gates arbitrarily, but the failure to carry out the purge carefully was also due to the emperor’s lack of ability, so… It’s just a shame. All I can say is
Roaring roaringㅡ
The people who defeated the emperor appear to have no idea what to do next. He just wanted to deal with the emperor, who was the culprit of all this, and didn’t seem to have thought much about what happened after that.
Well, it makes sense. It was just a riot that occurred unconsciously to make life better, but there was no way they had thought about what happened after that.
“Everyone.”
At that moment, Pierre suddenly appears among the people who are confused and do not know what to do.
The people, who had taken a hostile attitude toward the emperors, naturally bowed their bodies and assumed a reverential posture toward Pierre, expressing with their whole body the fact that they respected him.
Pierre trudges through the broken door of the throne room, stands in front of the emperor’s still warm body, and looks around.
The throne on which the emperor sits is high up, so Pierre can see everyone in the throne room just by looking around.
[If the emperor is killed by the people… Can I dedicate this country to Faust?]
[…Dedicate it?]
[Yes, since the churches are taking over the work of the state and there is no problem with this, I thought it would not be a bad idea for the church to become the state itself.]
I remember what Pierre said to me earlier.
The emperor has already lost public support, and that public support may explode in a direction that Pierre did not expect.
If that happens, he is making a very ambitious request to leave this country in charge of him. No matter how you look at it, he would have been more successful if he had become a politician instead of a priest.
Oh, this isn’t the modern era, so if he’s not a nobleman, can’t he be a politician?
“The fallen emperor died, and the empire lost its head. Just as a person cannot exist without a head, so can a nation. Don’t we all think so?”
“…Is that so?”
“Uh… Well, isn’t that right?”
The people, who could not even imagine life without a leader, become more influenced by Pierre’s words the more he speaks.
Even though it was the people themselves who defeated the leader, the people do not know how strong their power is. I just shake my head up and down at Pierre’s words.