A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

Chapter 278

278 – The Golden Disaster, the Great Depression (8)

After Zeros Barcel (Golden)’s aerial assault, no other drakes appeared.

It is still unclear whether Saint Geo is preparing a separate large-scale army to target me, or whether he abandoned his plan to attack after sending only one Zeroth Barcel and failing.

However, as we flew across Nostrum on a golden ship, we were able to look down on the ground through the magic screen that looked down from inside the airship.

“What do you think of them, Astasia?”

“…Do you think it’s dangerous?”

Astasia shook her head at the people reflected on the screen.

“If just one gold coin were to fall from a height of about 250 meters above the ground, it would become a weapon to kill people, but standing with your arms raised like that means you want gold, right?”

“Maybe so.”

While heading towards Orosol Academy and then turning south and flying, many kingdom residents looked up at the sky and raised their hands.

Because I was surprised by the golden airship?

It may be surprising.

However, the reason they spread their arms and followed like golden slaves was because they were very worried about the sight of a lump of gold flying in the sky.

“They all hope that gold dust will fall from the sky. There are countless golden slaves, but civilians cannot easily suppress them.”

“Because most of them are Nostrum heroes… You can’t catch them unless you’re at least a high-level knight.”

“Yes. That is why the lives of ordinary people have not changed.”

Gold is so overflowing that it greatly shakes the empire’s economy and requires the emperor to personally step in to curb it, but even after two months, it has not spread to the general public.

Because it is dangerous.

If the Golden Knight were to die obediently, you could have killed him by hitting him in the back with a frying pan or stabbing him with a sword, but if you did that, the Golden Knights would immediately counterattack.

He will probably be recognized as Gibraltar’s minion trying to interfere with his plan to kill Gibraltar.

“It is aggrieved and unfair from the people’s point of view. Aren’t the entire nation suffering damages due to St. Geo Nostrum’s ‘declaration of traitors’?”

“That’s right. Even at Orosol Academy, there was a time when a golden spirit emerged from the lecture room and the lecture was interrupted.”

“Some people were upset when they saw it rising from the cemetery and seeing their supposed ancestors become slaves and go to Gibraltar to die.”

“I was trying to stop them… But there were quite a few people who suffered bad things. I feel sorry. And at the same time, I feel unfair.”

“It was our ancestors who became gold, but why are gold hunters who don’t even know where it came from taking over it?”

If newspapers like the Imperial Newspaper had been fully activated in Nostrum, the entire Nostrum would probably have known about all the unfair situations occurring on the border of Gibraltar.

“Everyone would probably be shocked. If they saw their ancestor’s tomb suddenly burst open and their bodies filled with gold inside, heading towards Gibraltar.”

The golden undead image of a dead ancestor.

“Whether it’s magic or some kind of miracle or whatever, if your ancestor falls and there’s gold left, who will own it? Will you try to bury it back in the grave, or will you dispose of it to buy food to feed your starving children?

Even if it is false gold, a desperately poor family hopes to get at least that gold and sell it so that they can live on at least a piece of bread.

“I will rationalize it. Although our ancestors were resurrected as gold by the order of Saint Geo Nostrum, they left all the gold for their descendants. They say they are trying to take care of us even after death.”

It’s nice to know that one of your ancestors was a hero who protected Nostrum, but doesn’t that mean that the family’s declining fortunes will turn around right now?

“Right now, as money needed for the house.”

If poverty is a disease, the medicine that cures the disease is gold.

It is a law that teaches the poor how to catch fish, not fish, but it is a law that makes fish porridge in their mouths and feeds it to those who do not have the strength to move right away.

“Gold is certainly a lump, but in Nostrum, it is currency. It is a tradition and history that has been passed down for 500 years.”

Gold is like that.

“But what if the gold passes on to people other than descendants, especially ‘those who hunted’?”

“I would be angry and feel unfair.”

“Yes. Even though they do not have the power to send their ancestors, who became slaves of gold, back to the underworld or to attain Buddhahood.”

“Even if they claim ownership, neither Nostrum nor the Empire has any interpretation of the ownership of the gold filled in the corpse’s body, at least not right now. Since it is urgent right now, it will be disposed of by the hunter who captured the golden heroic spirit. I tend to leave it to them.”

The only people who can defeat a Golden Heroic Spirit that reaches the level of an advanced knight are those who can operate a large number of knights or hunters with that level of power.

“Many noble families hired gold hunters. The Golden Dawn has fallen, but some of the knights who were attached to it are still alive, and there are gangsters in the empire who are loyal to the imperial family but are mercenaries rather than soldiers.”＜ Br＞

“I understand that the former was absorbed into the Marquis Roland, and the latter entered Nostrum in the form of private mercenaries hired by the Count of Sirene.”

“That’s correct. In a pure sense, the only people who want to stop the flood of false gold are those dispatched from Iperia Industries and the Knights of Gibraltar.”

“Yes. Even in Morgania, it is a situation where ‘we must save the gold, even if it is a lie.'”

Even Morgania agrees with the idea of preventing the overflow of gold, but is of the opinion that the gold should be stored in Morgania’s empty warehouses to prevent it from immediately spreading out on the market.

If it were an enemy, it would have made you laugh, but since you are an ally, you can overlook it.

Basically, if I do it, it’s a love story from a fairy tale, and if someone else or an enemy does it, it’s just a s*xual drama that needs to be headed right away.

“Astacia.”

In other words.

“Gold is still a symbol of wealth and power.”

Currently, all the gold is going to those in power.

“The entire economy may be shaken by concerns about gold itself becoming too much, but gold is not spreading to the private sector. Rather…”

“Isn’t it ‘real’ that gold is spreading among the private sector?”

“Yes.”

False gold goes to those who hunt golden spirits and collect their golden blood.

The real gold goes to the miners who worked hard with pickaxes in the Barcelona gold mines.

“Of course, now I am not sure whether the gold mined from the ground in the conventional way is real gold or not. The fact that it has to be analyzed one by one is itself evidence that the status of gold is shaken.”＜ Br＞

“…Isn’t the Empire in a position to say anything about that issue?”

Astasia smiles bitterly.

“How much gold has been secretly stolen as counterfeit currency?”

“If we were to go that far, wouldn’t we have to go all the way to the pirate island in the southern strait of Sirene, where they operated a navy called pirates and captured and stole ships?”

“…That’s probably hard to mention?”

Astasia answered with a sullen face.

“His Majesty Habsburg is such a capable person that he leaves no room for such flaws.”

“It’s a shame. If I had used that as a weakness and fell, I might have been able to set off one of the bombs on Sirene’s side.”

“Did you do something to Seinere?”

“I can’t say it’s a masterpiece yet. I can do it if I want to, but I’m too smart to do that.”

“Who noticed?”

I pointed to Astasia without saying a word.

“Me?”

“Yes.”

“Doing something with a woman…Aha.”

Astasia snapped her finger right at me as soon as I pointed at her.

“You were trying to seduce the ill-fated count’s daughter?”

“The beauty world always works.”

“But there is Astasia, will she come over?”

“The persuasion will be driven by a desire for revenge for her father within her. Although there is another person who killed General Hayreddin, it was her father, Count Seirene, who drove General Hayreddin into a situation where he died.”

“Hmm… I don’t think the cause-and-effect relationship really makes sense.”

“If you look at it objectively, causality has no meaning, but according to the Countess’s opinion her her, the root of all evil was her her father her her her, who separated her from the man she loved because their countries were different.”

“…”

Astasia looked at me with a slightly uncomfortable expression.

“Why are you doing that?”

“No, um, well, what should I say.”

Astasia paused for a moment.

“…I wonder how far Gray would have gone if I hadn’t been there, if he hadn’t noticed me.”

I asked very carefully.

“Hmm.”

“What if, this is really a story of what ifs. If I hadn’t met Gray when I was 13, and if I hadn’t come to study at the academy and met Gray when I was 20, what do you think Gray would have done?”

“First of all, I think I need to nail down one thing and talk about it. I found out about Astasia when I was 10 years old through an imperial newspaper that came from the direction of the empire.”

“Really?”

“Yes.”

She often headed to the canyon gate to look for something like that, and she succeeded in securing it.

“I still have it. I consider it a heirloom.”

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.”

“It is a secret that I have not told anyone, and has never revealed to anyone. I am only telling it to Astasia.”

“Hmm. So?”

“She fell in love at first sight with someone named Astasia, so she had no intention of creating a scandal by saying ‘she dated someone before’ until she met her woman named Astasia.”

“…”

“I guess what Astasia wants to hear is ‘Grey Gibraltar when Astacia didn’t know she existed’?”

“Right…?”

“Hmm.”

How to do it.

“Probably, she would be much different than she is now. For her own purposes, she would have been a person who played with and exploited women’s hearts.”

“…”

“Yes. He would have been no different from Habsburg von Tersian. There is only one difference between him and me.”

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I am a human being whose tendencies are 99.9% similar to that of Habsburg von Tersian.

“But there is just one difference.”

“Hmm, let’s guess?”

Astasia paused for a moment.

“…Family?”

Just one word, it made me laugh.

“Astasia. How many points do you want?”

“Yes?”

“For this answer, you can take as many points as you want.”