The Place Where I Was Sold as a Slave Was the Imperial Palace

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Thank you for being with us.

＜ That child’s weakness is Jung ＞

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On an empty night, the person I was waiting for arrived.

“You can wait inside, what are you waiting for here?”

Chamberlain Reynolds cast his gaze into the darkness as he heard the man’s voice.

In the secluded garden of the imperial palace, Boris suddenly came out from among the trees.

“Boris!”

“The job is done.”

“…”

Reynolds smiled bitterly.

It’s been a while since we met, but there’s no proper greeting.

It wasn’t that he didn’t know the etiquette of the nobility or the imperial court. Even though he was more skillful than anyone else, he acted rough and crude.

I know better than anyone that it’s a loss, but I don’t know why.

When I was young, I remembered the face of Boris who forced me to kill someone if I wanted to live.

Now I know that it was necessary. If Boris hadn’t taught me that, I wouldn’t have survived to this day.

But at the time, I hated this man enough to die.

Come to think of it, this person has always been like that.

You teach the other person what they really need, but at the time, they don’t tell you why they need it or why they have to go through such pain.

So after a while, you realize how grateful this man is.

It is a character that suffers loss.

Reynolds turned around.

“I will go to His Majesty.”

Boris asked, walking slightly behind him.

“Isn’t His Majesty already going to bed?”

“He wanted to see for himself. He told me to wake him up.”

Boris’s report today is a very important event that I have been waiting for for over a year. It was natural for His Majesty to want to ask questions after hearing it for herself.

However, the truth is that he would also like to meet Boris.

Emperors are human too.

Everyone needs someone they can talk to and lean on from time to time.

She and Boris were one of the few people the emperor could deal with with ease.

I walked through the dark garden and arrived at the building.

Some attendants were walking around the palace late at night, and when they ran into each other, they quietly bowed their heads.

The attendants standing in front of the emperor’s room quietly opened the door.

The bed that occupies the middle of the room is raised convexly. Every time the emperor breathed, the blanket moved up and down.

Boris stood still and watched as Reynolds went to bed and woke the emperor.

A little nervous.

It was like going back to the time when I was being trained by Boris as a child.

“Your Majesty, Boris has arrived.”

After repeating the same words several times, the emperor slowly opened his eyes.

The big belly moved and moved, and the blankets fell down.

The emperor stood up and said, wringing out his beard.

“Oh, Boris! You are old.”

“Your Majesty, long time no see.”

As Boris grinned and bowed gracefully, the Emperor chuckled like a boy.

“Boris, it tickles my stomach when you greet me so politely. stop.”

“The position is different from before, Your Majesty.”

“I feel like bugs are coming out of my ears when I hear that majesty.”

“…”

Boris laughed silently, then his face became slightly calmer.

“Since when is that beard?”

“…”

The Emperor shrugged.

“Are you gaining weight on purpose, Your Majesty?”

Boris’ voice is exceptionally soft.

The emperor shrugged his shoulders as if he couldn’t help it and got off the bed.

Reynolds placed the robe next to the bed on the emperor’s shoulders.

The emperor moved with the long gown on his shoulder. I sat down on the chair at the foot of the bed and chinned the chair across from the table.

“Sit down and talk.”

“…”

As Boris sat down, the emperor shrugged slightly. Reynolds brought the wine, and after taking a sip, the Emperor opened his mouth.

“It has been like this for quite some time. From a few years ago, I started to lose a lot of weight from my face.”

The emperor smiled and took another sip of wine.

“This is Reynolds idea. Because he cares quite a bit about his appearance. He said that with a beard, no one would notice.”

“Do you know the name of the disease?”

It was Reynolds who answered Boris’ words.

“No, I don’t know. It was only shown to one of the most talented doctors in the medical department, but I raised my hand saying I didn’t know. If he doesn’t know, no doctor in the world will.”

“…”

“Now, doctors who are well-versed in poisons and herbs are secretly procured. Thanks to him, my pain and condition improved a lot.”

There was a soft light in Boris’s eyes as he gazed at the Emperor.

“That’s why you struck down the Duke of Watoringu in such a hurry. Uncharacteristically for Your Majesty, I wanted to rush things.”

“I missed it in the end. A healthy mind resides in a healthy body. My head is not clear because my body is sick.”

“…”

When Boris fell silent, the emperor laughed loudly and leaned back in his chair.

“Well, enough of my story. Let’s talk about work.”

“It worked out well.”

The emperor had long sought to reduce the influence of the motherland of the empress.

It’s almost finished.

Most of the ore he needed was able to be procured from other countries, and he also caught many of the country’s spies spread throughout the empire.

Many domestic aristocrats who supported the empress and crown prince were appeased, or those who could not do so had their powers removed.

There was still work to be done, but the empress and the prince were tied hand and foot. Even if they run amok, you won’t get hurt on this side.

After making that decision, she touched the last line of the empress’ motherland.

He collected the testimonies of those who had been harmed by him, and finally, he was accused of tampering with the property of the emperor and expelled from the country.

Of course, everything is private.

Everything the Ambassador did was true except for the last one.

Things went smoothly because the other side didn’t want to reveal those figures either.

That ambassador will never come to the Empire again.

Of course, those who would bite the ambassadors with many enemies were also prepared. With a little money and a little encouragement from behind, everyone came over easily.

Upon returning home, the ambassador is betrayed by his successor and forced into seclusion.

The successor ambassador who came next was a person who had been touched by the empire. I don’t know the king of that country at all, but he’s been working behind the scenes for so long.

The emperor asked Boris, who calmly reported the incident.

“Rudy, what about that child?”

Boris grinned.

“It was fine. He has qualities, and he has excellent eyesight and judgment. If you teach anything, you learn it easily, and you are good at controlling your emotions. It is also an advantage that the eyes are better than the body. He is good at weapons, but his eyes are better than others. Excellent observational skills. That child will become a good emperor who lacks nothing.”

“okay.”

As if relieved, the emperor exhaled deeply.

This time, Boris was entrusted with a year to determine whether the child really has the qualities to become an emperor.

You can’t become an emperor just by having strong magical power.

If that’s all there is to it, it’s enough just to mate with the princess and bring her into the imperial family.

In order to pass the empress and crown prince and take the seat of the emperor’s successor, it was necessary to go beyond the ordinary.

The Emperor thought Rudy had enough of those qualities, but Boris’s eyes were more certain. Because he was the one who raised the current emperor.

“but.”

Boris opened his mouth again.

“The child has a weakness. It is very lethal.”

“…”

The emperor was nervous and bent forward.

What is it?

Reynolds was also curious.

Was there anything that could be said to be a weakness in that child?

Eyes inappropriate for his age came into his mind. A weakness for that child… It doesn’t seem like it at all.

Boris said quietly.

“That child is weak.”

“…”

“He’s very wary, so he doesn’t open up easily. If you know the other person has a political side, you’ll probably be fine. But if you think the other person is a pure person, your heart will be loose. And after spending some time together, you fall in love.”

“ah···.”

The emperor nodded.

It probably reminded me of the first time I met Rudy.

At that time, the child risked his life for Nadiagra rain and fought against an opponent who was so strong that he could not be compared to himself.

And he proved how valuable he was.

If he had hesitated to kill the opponent at that time, the emperor would have put the child into the royal family as a puppet, just as someone else’s spouse for the princess. And I must have thought of another way.

Seeing the child kill the opponent at that time, the emperor concluded that it would be better to make the child his successor rather than use it simply for possessing magical powers.

‘but···.’

Certainly.

The fact that the child risked his life for Nadia is nothing more than a weakness for the emperor. could not be an advantage.

“Conversely, it makes sense that there are no weaknesses other than that.”

The emperor grinned.

The belly, which was bent downward, rose and fell with each breath.

He seems a little excited.

Boris grinned.

“It is.”

“Yeah, so what?”

The emperor’s eyes narrowed.

“Boris, what do you think is good?”

“The best thing to do is to create an environment where the number of people the child can be affectionate with is minimized and no one else is shown affection.”

“If you become emperor, of course it will be like that. That child is perfect for an emperor. very good. Let’s make that child a precious person. No, even three or four would be fine. It will be the leash that ties him to this country.”

As the emperor smiled contentedly, Boris let out a slight sigh.

“Your Majesty, you must be careful when handling the child. As I said before, the child is very wary. If you know someone has even a little bit of a political side, you notice it in an instant. I will step out soon.”

“…”

“The child is already attached to the Princess and to Mama Nadia. But I don’t know what will happen if I find out that Your Majesty is trying to use it as a shackle. You must not forget that Rudy is unusually intelligent.”

“okay.”

Boris sighed at the emperor’s reply.

“You have to take a long time to let the child fall on his own. It’s best to proceed without His Majesty’s intentions. Take your time.”

The emperor leaned back in his chair and thought for a moment. He stared at his wine glass and said abruptly.

“Boris, teach him well so that he can survive. Create a foundation so that we can skillfully avoid the conspiracies and tricks rampant in the imperial palace.”

“…”

“When that child comes out of the concubine, heir class will begin. You should take them around and teach them how to fight and show them how to run a country.”

“···your majesty.”

When Boris opened his mouth, the Emperor raised his hand to stop him.

“Of course I take your word for it. I’m not going to try to artificially control that child by using either the Princess or Nadia. I’ll be careful not to let him see my intentions.”

The emperor’s eyebrows dropped slightly.

“But I have no choice. If you miss him, you may never have another chance.”

The emperor laughed helplessly.

“I don’t have much time left. A few months ago, I was examined by Pablo, who put me in a medical clinic. he said that Even if you don’t know the name of the disease, you can guess how much time is left by looking at the condition of the body.”

The emperor took another sip of wine.

The emperor’s wine contained a small amount of the medicine Pablo prescribed. That is improving the emperor’s condition a little.

“Ten years, no matter how hard I try. maybe shorter than that I won’t live until the child becomes an adult. I want to teach you everything before that.”

The emperor leaned his head against the chair and stared at the ceiling.

“Boris, if no more magical powers are born, this country will end. You will be eaten by the people around you in no time.”

Almost every country’s ruler and venerable aristocratic family have magic tools that have been passed down from generation to generation.

Among them, of course, were weapons.

The Putegrin Empire was able to prosper for a long time because it possessed superior weapons than anyone else.

A legendary weapon feared by all neighboring countries.

But now no one could use it. That’s because most of those weapons require a huge amount of mana.

Even the emperor could only use it for a limited time when he was young, when he had the most magic power.

“I will do my best.”

Boris bowed deeply.

＜ The child’s weakness is Jung ＞ End