“Did you know, Princess? Don’t panic… Calm down. All you need to do is respond normally.”
“Now… what does all this mean?”
A few days after the great war between the Kingdom of Cloud and the Empire.
“Are you so sudden? Well, when I first heard the news, it was really…”
“No, no. Not that.”
Clana, who was about to attend the rice paddy festival held at the imperial family, asked Serena, who had rushed to her, with a surprised expression on her face.
“Fray… you’re trying to claim that you’re a hero in this non-gong march?”
“Yeah, really shameless.”
Having said that, Serena muttered with a disgusted expression on her face.
“What a disgusting human being. He must have started this war, how could he make such a crude claim…”
“……?”
For Serena, who did not know Frey’s identity, it may have been a natural reaction.
‘It has to be hidden… wasn’t it?’
However, Clana, who was almost certain that Frey was the ‘Masked Hero’ who appeared in the Empire after a thousand years, had a slightly different meaning.
‘Why all of a sudden? Come now…?’
I’m not entirely sure yet, but if Frey is really a ‘hero’, he probably has a ‘reason’ to hide it.
That’s why Clana just watched Frey, holding her curiosity up for a few days.
But, now that you are suddenly revealing that you are a hero.
If so, what are the evil deeds you have committed so far, and why did you hide your identity?
“Ugh…”
“Don’t worry, Princess.”
Clana, who could not understand the situation at all, moans, and Serena, who mistook her for an angry look for the same reason as herself, strokes her shoulder with a soft smile.
“As I said before, a crisis is an opportunity.”
“……..”
“If you just do what I ask, by the time the peddling of rice paper ends today… the princess will become the center of the empire’s power in an instant.”
Clana heard those words and raised her bowed head and asked a question.
“The proof that Frey isn’t a hero… is it ready?”
“yes?”
“If he really is a hero…”
“You don’t have to worry about that. It never happens.”
Clana hesitated and tried to tell the truth about Frey, but she had to keep her mouth shut at Serena’s confident voice.
“Because we have perfect evidence on our side.”
“Wow, that’s the perfect proof… that’s what…”
Just when Serena, who had been ranting, smiled, and Clana, who was confused, hesitated.
“It’s time to enter.”
The maid, who was guarding the entrance to the place where the non-gong peddling was held, bowed her head and announced that the time had come.
“Now, let’s go change the future of the empire.”
“……..”
“Please take good care of me, Princess.”
Serena checked the watch on her arm, bowed her head politely to Clana, and started walking towards the entrance.
“Umm…”
After making a shaky expression for a moment, Clana followed her.
“What kind of evidence did you prepare…”
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Ministers of the imperial family, high-ranking nobles. Envoys from other countries, and even reporters from different countries.
“Nice to meet you, everyone. This is Serena Luna Moonlight, the commander and general in charge of this war.”
Even at the place where even the emperor of the Empire was present, Serena’s voice began to resonate.
“Thank you very much for attending this event.”
Serena, who was looking at the hundreds of people, bowed her head and spoke politely, but the atmosphere was completely different from her attitude toward Clana just before.
“Actually, I didn’t expect everyone to be here like this.”
“””……..””””
“It’s because they didn’t even show their nose when they asked for support like that.”
Her last murmur, though it rang so low that not everyone could hear it, the faces of some were already distorted.
“Hmm…”
“Just tell me the point.”
“In the first place, I don’t understand why the commander was making a statement in a non-gong banquet.”
Originally, it is customary for the emperor to take the initiative and speak to everyone at the place of the non-gong peddling.
Therefore, even as a commander, it was quite unusual to have the right to speak before the emperor before the banquet began.
“There’s a good reason.”
Serena, who silenced the sound while staring at those with a sharp gaze, starts talking again.
“Even though this war ended in our victory, it is practically lost.”
“What…”
“Because the bare face of our empire has been exposed to the whole world.”
As her poignant words echoed everywhere, the atmosphere instantly freezes.
“Actually, this trade is not as good as not doing it. From the beginning to the end of this shameful, substandard war, there are very few people who have done something that deserves an award.”
“…Mi, you’re crazy.”
“Are you crazy?”
Serena, of course, had a considerable reputation as a commander who led the war to victory.
However, it was quite problematic to make such a statement in a place where the world’s attention was focused, even the emperor was present.
“Umm…”
Unsurprisingly, the emperor started stroking his beard with a very unpleasant expression on his face.
“Even though she won’t last long…”
“I don’t know. It might be found dead tomorrow…”
The servants who knew his ferocious personality all too well began to bow their heads, tired of blue.
“…Gi-gong, what do you want to say?”
In such a dizzying atmosphere that something is about to explode at any moment, the emperor finally opened his mouth slowly.
“I did not give you this time to undermine the dignity of the Empire.”
Although he spoke softly, his meaning contained a clear warning message.
“I’m sorry.”
It was a dizzying situation that an ordinary person would have immediately bowed down and asked for forgiveness, but Serena did not blink an eye and began to answer the emperor’s words.
“I mean, nonetheless, at the end of the war, a prize-winner has appeared.”
The moment when the emperor quietly tilted his head to her calm answer, and wondered in everyone’s eyes.
“Look at the data video.”
A space in the field of non-gongs that was instantly darkened without any notice.
“Wow, what is it?”
“Woah, protect His Majesty the Emperor!”
“Ho, escorts!”
“…noisy. Sirs, please sit quietly.”
There was an incident that caused a commotion among the royal officials for a while, but the case was quietly concluded with a single word from the emperor’s languid voice.
– Supportive…
In the deadly silence that began like that, the video shot by the recording crystal ball began to appear in everyone’s eyes.
“Three, my God… Does that make sense?”
“I, the enemy leader, the Ice Princess, is also great… But the person who confronts her is hardly human.”
“How dare you move so calmly even after being stabbed in the back…”
The content of the video is none other than a battle scene between Aishi and the masked man.
“If that’s enough… wouldn’t it be too much for all of our Kingdom Knights Commanders to attack?”
“In the first place, there has never been a strong person who could defeat the princess of the Cloud Kingdom.”
“Is it the birth of a new strongest person?”
Serena, who had been contemplating the atmosphere that had suddenly become noisy as if it had been silent, sends a hand gesture to stop the video playback and starts the story again.
“You may not know that you were locked up in a safe place with no interest in war, but the reason the Empire won this war was only because of this man’s existence.”
Serena’s remarks had become more aggressive and insulting than before, but this time, no one pointed it out.
“Therefore, this non-gong peddling should only be done for him. That’s why I’m here.”
It was because everyone was drawn to the new superman, wielding a huge sword in the still image.
“So, the true identity of the author, what is it?”
In the exuberant atmosphere that had been going on for a while, the emperor asked a question with an interesting voice.
“If you’re like that, you can only guess one thing.”
“you’re right.”
Serena, who had glanced at him, gestured again to illuminate the darkened room again.
“His true identity is that of a warrior.”
Immediately after that, the words that came out of her mouth really caused a stir.
“To be precise, the second generation of the hero. He is the true successor of the first hero who appeared for the first time in a thousand years.”
“Stand, maybe…?”
“I wasn’t a legend…?”
The eyes of the imperial people are thrilled, and the faces of neighboring countries darken.
“I tried to raise the hand of the Cloud Kingdom as much as possible…”
“That would be a different story.”
The re-appearance of the ‘Hero’, now treated as an old legend, had a ripple effect.
“…By the way, the fact that Hero appeared, is it even the Demon King?”
“Wait, maybe…”
“But, the hero has also appeared again… there’s no way that he can’t appear as the Demon King…”
However, in the midst of that ripple effect, a creepy ominous story spreads.
“That’s not what I was talking about.”
“yes?”
The emperor, who gently raised the corner of his mouth, continued his speech in a noisy atmosphere.
“The face inside that mask.”
“……..”
“Not the position of a hero, but about the true identity… I think I have a guess.”
Serena’s expression on hearing those words froze coldly at that moment.
“Isn’t that right? Frey?”
The emperor, who had a smile on his lips, looked to the side and said something like that.
“…I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”
Receiving those words, Frey got up from her seat with a characteristic arrogant smile.
“Your Majesty can’t be deceived either.”
At the time when everyone’s eyes were focused on the suspicious sight, Frey declared with a confident voice.
“That’s right. I was the hero in the previous video.”
After that, a long silence began to flow.
“Well, it’s not really surprising. There’s only one descendant of a hero in this world, Frey Raon Starlight…”
“Really… a worm-like human.”
Serena began to look at Frey with a contemptuous look at her calmly speaking in the silence.
“I think I’m going to vomit. My stomach is bloated.”
“What?”
“On a fake topic that has deceived everyone.”
Then she looks at Frey with fierce eyes and says something, and Frey asks with a smirk.
“Can you take responsibility for that?”
“When this place ends today, you will fall miserably.”
Hearing that, Frey, who smiled while stroking his chin as if in anticipation, provokes Serena.
“Then, prove it.”
“It’s simple.”
In that instantaneous situation where no one dares to intervene.
“…can you take off your clothes for a moment?”
“What?”
“Did you know, the hero suffered serious injuries to his back in the war.”
“……!!!”
At Serena’s confident voice, Frey gave a slightly bewildered expression.
“that…”
“Take off your clothes right now! Frey!”
“…refuse.”
“Ha! I knew you would.”
As Serena smirked at Frey’s refusal to step forward, the crowd began to murmur, realizing that things were taking a turn for the worse.
“…why, why the hell are you lying?”
Only Clana was muttering in a trembling voice with her head bowed.
“Frey, you had a scar on your back… obviously.”
Emperors and Empresses. A vortex that would determine the fate of the two forces was raging fiercely.