A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

291 – Bloody Engagement Ceremony (2)

One day, the Habsburg emperor said this to me.

-The more threatened by assassination, the more the king must show a firm appearance.

It was the emperor’s regalia.

Assassinations are bound to happen all the time, and the king said that there is a need to deal with these assassinations in various ways.

On the outside, resolutely.

But thoroughly afterwards.

Analyze the action principles of assassins and suppress them by mobilizing assassins who are better than the assassins as shadows.

That’s how the Thersian Empire grew.

It was an empire of the might of flesh and blood that could not survive unless it was killed, and that was the Habsburg way.

Do you deny this?

No.

I do not deny it.

I always try to take advantage of any situation that is beneficial to me, so I am willing to accept it if necessary, even if it means killing the emperor.

Like right now.

“It’s been a really long time since I’ve been here.”

Anchor the airship.

Rather than just anchoring on a wide plain, the ship is centered on top of a high-rise building and placed on the roof so as not to shake.

“Sir Robert, do you know that? The rooftops of the Orosol Academy and Gibraltar Scholarship Foundation buildings were built from the beginning with the assumption that an airship would land.”

“I don’t think there was a plan for a battleship that would go longer than 50m.”

Sir Robert pointed directly below where the golden airship landed.

“Wasn’t it originally assumed to be a blimp that was much smaller than this?”

“It’s you, after all.”

Originally, it was a place where anchorage was not possible.

A place where placing it on the roof of a building is limited.

However, when looking down from the air, there is a symbol that is exactly in the shape of an ‘H’ in a circle, and the golden ship anchored on the roof of a straight building with its center of gravity exactly aligned with the H shape.

“The golden slaves…”

“No one else appears other than Zeros, who is desperate to die, so let’s leave him alone for now.”

In the last few days.

Except for Zeros Barcel, the frequency of golden slaves appearing has become rare.

Perhaps because it is time for the year to change, the number of golden slaves is decreasing.

“Couldn’t they be gathering troops?”

“I guess so.”

Has the frequency of appearance decreased?

There is a way to explode that reduced frequency at the last moment.

“There will be a lot of guests at the engagement ceremony. People coming to congratulate us.”

“How should we deploy troops?”

“You and I don’t have to worry about anything.”

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I already pointed to the Orosol Academy Scholarship Foundation building and the students lined up around it.

“Because the guards are already lighting up their eyes.”

Among the students, there were also those who were about to graduate in a few months.

Compared to their first year at the Academy, their skills have greatly improved, and many of them have grown enough to immediately join the Knights after graduation.

“There are knights wearing student uniforms, and there are many shadows who enrolled as students. There are also many people disguised as faculty.”

“Yes. This engagement ceremony is the same as being prepared in Morgania.”

It is different from Lemberi.

If Lemberi was a hopeless event that was ruined by a person with limited ability and a limited budget, this event is an unprecedented event where all the budgets of the continent are gathered in one place.

“It would be great. Have a splendid engagement ceremony like this.”

“It’s called an engagement ceremony and it’s called a wedding.”

“Oh, you’re not going to have a separate wedding?”

“No way.”

For the first time in a long time, I sat on the chair in the scholarship foundation’s chairman’s office and slowly closed my eyes.

“I’m going to have a more extravagant wedding than the one I had this time.”

“What on earth do I have to do to have a wedding more extravagant than this?”

“I’ll keep that a secret between Astasia and I.”

“I understand. But, master, are you going to keep leaving that alone?”

“Well.”

In the direction Sir Robert pointed with his finger, on the tea table were Somnus tea leaves in a glass bottle.

Dried somnus petals that can be brewed into warm somnus tea by taking out the required amount at any time and placing them in a ceramic teapot.

If there’s a problem, it’s that the petal is different from what I usually drink.

“After leaving Orosol Academy for a long time, something like this happened.”

“What should we do about this? Should we use magic to find the person who prepared this and destroy it?”

“Well, it’s been a while since there’s been a classic assassination attempt, so it’s quite interesting, but just leave it alone. That level of poison won’t kill me anyway.”

There is poison in the dried somnus petals.

To be exact, it is not the somnus petal, but the inside of the lid of the glass bottle containing the petal.

“I think it’s something mixed with the poison of the helmet flower.”

They probably tried to assassinate me based on the information that I personally drink somnus tea.

“Who would it be?”

“Would you like to guess?”

“…Master.”

“It’s just a joke. But if I even tell you, you’ll go straight to the person and try to kill him. How dare you do that?”

I lightly slit my own throat.

“Smile. The only time you reveal your true feelings to your enemy is after they are clearly dead.”

“Politics is complicated.”

“Politics in a bad sense.”

The sadness of having to laugh in front of those in power.

“Or would you like to take a look at the expressions of those who flew in? On the outside, they said they were congratulating Gray Gibraltar on their engagement, but who was the person who secretly tried to poison them with somnus flowers? Among those who even flew on the airship sent by the Empire as a convenience, Who is trying to kill me?”

“It’s scary. They’re smiling on the outside, but behind the scenes they’re trying to kill me like this.”

“Do you know what’s scariest? It’s why they’re trying to kill me.”

“Do you know why?”

“You know.”

“Would you like to tell me everything?”

“Well, it’s simple.”

I opened the glass bottle containing the somnus flowers, immediately wiped off the poison with a handkerchief, and then placed it in the bottle containing the scented candle.

“It’s because I’m jealous because he’s engaged to the most beautiful woman in the world.”

“I give you 10,000 points.”

“It’s not a joke.”

“I’m not kidding either.”

“…”

“…Really?”

“Uh.”

Engagement.

Astasia becomes my woman.

“Jealousy is not just about status, power, or property. Rather, it is jealousy in a more primitive sense.”

There are still many idiots on the continent who think they can take my place when I die.

“Even though that ability is lacking.”

* * *

[At that time, over the Sirene Strait, an imperial airship.]

“Your Majesty. I am reporting. This is information about the poisoning directed at Gray Gibraltar…”

“Leave it there.”

In the captain’s room of the airship, the emperor, shirtless and swinging a large greatsword forward, paid no heed to Shadow-Franz’s report and only swung the greatsword.

“It’s Gray Gibraltar’s poisoning, aren’t you interested?”

“There is no way Gray Gibraltar could have been poisoned.”

“Isn’t it possible that he was poisoned by a poison made of gold?”

“You don’t really want to kill me, do you?”

“…I won’t deny it.”

“Huh.”

The emperor put down his great sword in response to Franz’s honest answer.

“There are many people trying to kill Gray. It has been the same so far, but the number is increasing in real time. Would you like to tell me? Who are the people trying to kill Gray Gibraltar?”

“First of all, there are probably the Habsburg Emperor’s illegitimate sons. Starting with me, your Majesty’s bloodline who, without Gray Gibraltar, would have at least one chance to inherit the position of successor, even if it would be the lesser evil.”

Franz spoke openly and sarcastically, but the Habsburg Emperor just grinned and nodded.

“Again.”

“Aren’t the rest all kingdoms? Those who still can’t accept that Gibraltar is marrying the princess of the empire. Those who lost power because of Gibraltar. The remnants of the former Marquisate of Barcel.”

“Who is it this time?”

“…It’s a little unexpected, so I’m giving you a report.”

Franz continued speaking while scratching his cheek.

“I was just an employee.”

“I’m just an employee.”

“Rather than having a political intention, it seems that the purpose was to ‘kill Gray Gibraltar who is trying to defile her her maiden her her her, Astacia.'”

Haha!!”

While the emperor was wiping off his sweat, he held his stomach and burst into laughter.

“Yes! It’s nostrum that there are crazy people like that. They are even trying to put it into practice.”

“…”

“Franz. Take this opportunity to take a good look.”

The emperor pointed out the window of the airship.

“How ugly and unpleasant the humans of Nostrum are.”

“Isn’t there Gibraltar in the Nostrum?”

“Gibraltar escaped from Nostrum by opening and digging a canyon on its own. Magically speaking, they were the ones who freed themselves from the curse of the Golden Dragon, and ideologically speaking, they broke the shackles of Nostrum’s traditions and ideas and opened their hands. To a new world. They are the ones who have stretched out.”

Outside the window, you can see the castle of the County of Sirene.

“When they fail, they ridicule them, but when they succeed so spectacularly, they become jealous.”

And there, as if he had been waiting for the emperor’s airship, Count Seirene, who was boarding the imperial airship, was raising his hands and cheering while looking at the emperor’s airship.

“The problem is that if I were to say that the jealousy is in the ‘present,’ I would be the same, but the jealousy is based on the ideals shown by false gold.”

The emperor strongly grasped the towel he had wiped off his sweat with his.

“That idiot is so appalled by the fake world shown by false gold that he wastes all the effort and time he has accumulated so far. Is this world and this time worth living in?”

“…The Count of Sirene swore allegiance to His Majesty the Emperor, albeit unofficially.”

Franz glanced at the parchment on the emperor’s desk.

On the parchment was written an oath of loyalty to the emperor written in red ink and blood rather than regular ink.

In imperial language.

“Count Sirene, shall I kill you?”

“No killing now.”

The emperor cast a contemptuous look at the parchment and shook his head.

“The Count of Sirene is still useful. It is good to eat up false gold, and it is most valuable to pass on information about the false world to us.”

“…”

“Carmen Morgania becomes the wife of Crimson Gibraltar, and Gibraltar is a world line with two women as wives. Hehe, that’s interesting. The person who wanted the false world of gold the most was Queen Carmen, but she was not deceived by the lies. “I’m looking at the present.”

Goo goo goo.

The airship takes to the sky.

“I don’t hate people who live in reality. Whether Queen Carmen was influenced by Gray Gibraltar, or she rose up by her own will, I like how she is faithful to the present and oriented towards the future.”

Black dragons rose near the airship carrying the people of the Count of Sirene, and black roses were spread across their uniforms and armor.

“Are you going to embrace it?”

“Me? What are you doing? Isn’t the daughter you’re giving birth to, Naria? Geniuses don’t always give birth to geniuses.”

“…”

“If I think about giving birth to Gray, I can even think about turning back time and having her when she was a virgin. If only I could give birth to Gray.”

“…”

Franz looked away for a moment and looked at the wall, but the emperor just chuckled and put aside the oath of loyalty written in blood.

“Anyway, the conclusion will come out at this engagement ceremony. This nostrum…”

Tuk.

“Should we leave it as is, or should we destroy it all?”

The parchment on which the loyalty oath was written went into the trash can.

“I have been patient until now because of Gray Gibraltar, but if you keep trying to kill Gray Gibraltar, I have no choice but to erase all Nostrum.”

The emperor smiled as if he was thrilled just thinking about it.

“Don’t let anyone assassinate Gray Gibraltar.”