Chapter 454
Just as Liana came to visit me before the end of a long day, I thought I should talk to people once in a while.
The people in the castle who ran into me hurriedly lowered their eyes and ran away, or their complexions turned white and trembled.
I don’t think it looks particularly scary except for the horns.
Perhaps, he was afraid of me because he imagined something beyond what he saw in me.
Now my party was planning to stay in the VIP room in the palace.
After deciding where to go for the remaining royals in the palace, everyone will have a proper room and place to live.
I’ve decided to become a king, but I don’t know what a king is supposed to do. That’s why you need the help of the people around you, as well as the help of the former royal family.
Without preparing anything, he took away the country as if he were going to be king.
It’s bound to be an absurd day.
After descending the spire and entering the area where the VIP room was located, there was Harriet staring blankly from the terrace in the castle.
Feeling the presence, Harriet looked at me and sighed.
“ah… … ! OMG… … . Reinhardt… … .”
Of course, I would not be used to the appearance of the demon king.
“this… … . Is that your real self?”
“what… … . as it were.”
I’d like to know what it means to be real.
Harriet seemed to be trying to take a closer look at my face.
“Something… … . Because it’s you, I think it’s you… … . It’s different, but… … . It doesn’t seem that different… … .”
Harriet looks at me cryptically.
“I don’t know. You’ll get used to it when you see it.”
if you look
The words made a strange echo.
You’ll always be by my side, that’s what it means.
Harriet and I stood side by side on the terrace.
My words to Harriet weren’t too long.
No matter what, please believe that I tried to save everyone.
How could I possibly believe such a thing? Compared to what I said, the work I had done and my identity would have been difficult to handle.
And this situation, in the end, wasn’t it because of me?
I don’t know how this will turn out in the long run, but Harriet has made herself an enemy of humanity.
“You seem to be having difficult thoughts.”
Harriet looks out the window and speaks quietly.
It’s fine if it’s my job. The problems that happen to me or the things I face are things I have to deal with.
But it’s a different matter when those who choose me have to share the pressure on me because of me.
“I don’t think now is the time to think too much.”
Harriet said and took my hand.
“I don’t know what other people think. Because I only know what I think.”
Harriet looks up at me.
“I’m fine. So don’t worry about me.”
Harriet smiled at me, as if she couldn’t alleviate all the burdens on me, but she could alleviate just one.
I must be worried about what has become of the Duchy, but Harriet comforts me in this situation.
Come to think of it, Harriet was seriously concerned when things got serious.
It was the same during my duel in the early freshman year, when the relationship was filthy bad.
Harriet, who had been watching the duel expecting me to be beaten badly, worried about me when I was really badly beaten.
He was always by my side when it was decisive, and sometimes I helped him.
From one day on, I was always getting help from Harriet.
“I can’t say that everything will be fine, I think.”
Harriet holds my hand tightly and looks out the window. The situation is too dire, and people are dying even in our moment of rest.
It can’t be all right. Because many things are already late.
“There are still things we can do. There must be something only I can do.”
Harriet sees me.
“There must be something you, too, can do because it’s you.”
So instead of blaming ourselves and feeling sorry, let’s find something we can do.
Harriet said so.
That was exactly what I was thinking too.
However, just knowing that there was someone who thought exactly the same as I did gave me a certain, strange comfort.
“thank you.”
Harriet is the most gifted mage, and will find out what she can do.
As the Demon King, I should have found what I could do.
* * *
After talking with Harriet, I went to see Olivia.
“Ah, Reinhardt.”
Olivia looked at me and hugged me.
“I didn’t have time to talk properly because of the situation. I’m really safe. I’m so glad.”
“Thank you, sister.”
I also hugged Olivia.
I thought Olivia would be by my side even if she knew I was the Demon King. But actually seeing Olivia stand by me was a different matter.
Olivia did what she could.
Without Olivia, I could have been disposed of quickly. If so, the gate crisis might not have happened.
In the end, what Olivia did stretched my lifeline for a few days, and the gate situation might have happened because those days were dragged on.
But I can’t blame Olivia. Just because I die doesn’t guarantee that the gate incident won’t happen.
Olivia tried to save me and played a decisive role.
There is no reason to blame Olivia for the Gate incident because I lived there.
Because I lived, because I survived, if I can do something, it must be because of Olivia, I have to think that way.
I had to think that risking Olivia to save Olivia led to a situation where I could live in a situation where everything was ruined.
Olivia and I sat in chairs.
“Honestly, I’m really, really glad you’re okay, but I’m against all of this.”
“… … .”
“That you were the Demon King is really shocking, but… … . Now that I know this, I don’t understand.”
It had no choice but to be.
“There is no reason why you should protect humans. As a result, this happened, but you tried to stop it. And it’s amazing that they came all the way to this distant southern country and took it away overnight… … . Let’s say you can deal with a gate incident or something. What then?”
I couldn’t help but know what Olivia was going to say.
After that, everything was resolved.
“In the end, it doesn’t change that we are the culprit behind the gate incident. No matter what you do to save humans, people will hate us. And the empire will propagate that the demon king is the culprit of everything in order to control the confused public sentiment, and it’s actually not wrong.”
Elleris was the one who started Akasha, so it’s not exactly black propaganda that the Empire is talking about us being the culprit behind the Gate crisis.
“The Empire won’t admit that this wouldn’t have happened if the Empire had believed you even a little bit, and there’s no reason to do so. They will inevitably point all the accusations against us.”
“I guess so.”
“As a result, the Empire and humans will try to kill you to make you responsible for all of this. No one will ever know how many people we tried to save or how much you really didn’t want to do this. No one will understand, and no one will admit it. because you are the devil With that single word, he will try to bury the whole truth.”
Olivia sighs.
“Let’s do nothing. The impact of the Gate Crisis will not reach this southern island nation. So here, just leave the work of the continent and the work of humans as they are. Let’s keep quiet among ourselves. You really don’t have to do anything like a king. There will only be trouble. So let’s just take our people and stay somewhere quiet. I don’t see why you should risk your life to do this job that will surely not get anyone’s approval.”
Olivia, a human, tells me to stay away from humans.
Since I am the main culprit of the gate incident, everything I do ends up not being acknowledged by any human beings.
When the gate crisis is over, the empire will target me.
I will stabilize the situation with my hatred of the demon king and promote the unity and unity of mankind.
It’s all so obvious and obvious that it’s going to happen without thinking too long.
These were things that Olivia knew even if she didn’t say anything.
So Olivia is saying let’s live quietly.
“I wouldn’t have even started doing it if I had done it because I wanted someone to acknowledge me or someone to know about it.”
I had a choice.
to do something or not to do something.
It was Sarkegar’s opinion to enter the Temple, but even within the Temple, he was able to remain quiet.
I didn’t. I was trying to do something, I was trying to achieve something.
However, in the end, such actions resulted in a gate incident.
So, should I turn away from everything, saying that it was right to do nothing now?
It can’t be.
I’ve decided to do something, so if the result of my actions is a gate incident, then I have to do something else about it.
It’s not because I want someone to know.
No, and it’s not that everyone doesn’t know.
“And, they know the people who need to know the truth. That’s enough.”
At least there are people who know that it was not my intention.
It is bound to receive a lot of misunderstanding and hatred, but those who need to know know.
Even if the empire pointed all the arrows of criticism at me, at least it would not deny that my intentions were pure. If it wasn’t for that, I wouldn’t have told you the only solution to this situation so scary that the gate situation would happen.
Even so, the empire will try to make me a scapegoat, the target of all hatred.
So they will know that my intentions cannot be denied.
That’s it.
“And, if the purpose was to do nothing in the first place, I wouldn’t have become this close with my sister.”
“… … .”
“It wasn’t all bad things, there were good things too. clearly.”
Just because a huge negative result came out doesn’t mean that everything I’ve done so far has come down to this situation.
Harriet, Lianna, and Olivia decided to trust me and followed me.
It wasn’t necessarily all bad things.
If I hadn’t done it because it was something I didn’t have to do, there would be no reason to save Olivia in the first place.
As a result of taking the risk to save Olivia, I was able to survive.
“So, the things I will do from now on that I don’t need to do don’t necessarily come back as bad things to me. There will be good things, and these things can be good things for me later. Just like my sister saved me. That kind of good thing.”
“… … .”
Olivia looked at me quietly to see if I had anything to say.
“I never thought you would listen to me. you are always selfish Because he rescued me arbitrarily and did various things on his own accord. No matter what I say, the seeds will not be eaten.”
Olivia smiled at me.
“But from now on, no matter what you do or what we do, there will be no secrets?”
“of course.”
As if that was enough, Olivia smiled brightly.
If the Gate incident is over, a collision with the Empire may be scheduled next.
Rather, it may cause hopeless damage to mankind, or rather, there may come a future where I die in a more miserable way.
Olivia, Riana, and Harriet.
Everyone who helped me could die miserably.
I will never let that future come.
I failed because I tried to do something, so I won’t sit back imagining that my attempt to do something will end in failure again.
Even if I do nothing, even if I do something, the world will hate me.
Then at least, I’ll try to do something.
