Chapter 558
It is true that we went to the castle with some expectations, but in the end we returned empty-handed.
Still, seventy-five Death Knights were secured, and according to Olivia, they were of the highest quality.
They were much more powerful Death Knights than the existing Death Knights.
Although not a war hero of the Empire, even the heroes of the Templar Knights, who were promoted as saints, would never be able to fall to the level.
After returning to Edina, he shared the progress of the operation with the Senate and others who needed to know.
“The mausoleum is empty?”
“Oh, not all of them are empty. The graveyards in the Hall of Heroes seemed almost empty.”
It was no wonder that Charlotte’s reaction was the most astonishing.
Charlotte couldn’t shut her mouth when she said that the empire seemed to be doing what we were trying to do.
“What are you trying to do… … ?”
“Around the time when I thought I had reached my limit, I would use that force. I don’t know when that will be.”
It is a very powerful army, but it will be an army that has no choice but to have side effects as soon as it is used.
Bertus would not bring out the army unless it was in a desperate situation where he had to endure such side effects.
It would be nice if there was no such army going out until the end.
A cornered mouse bites a cat, but cornered mankind will do anything.
Even if it is to spit on the ethics and morality so far.
You have no choice but to do something to survive, and this will be one of those things.
* * *
I thought it would take a few days, but surprisingly everything was completed in one day.
It was partly because we had an unexpected situation, and it was also thanks to the help of Kono Lint.
After sharing the situation, Harriet, Olivia and I had a late dinner.
Harriet quickly finished her meal and immediately rose from her seat to say she would go see Lucinil.
It seemed that Harriet was going to learn about the vision of dealing with souls from Lucinil all this winter.
“Your sister should go and get some rest.”
“I don’t have many things like this, so I want to be with you a little longer. no?”
Can’t Olivia? no? While doing so, she tilts her head.
Even if you pretend to be cute, you can’t help but look cute.
I think I’ll get used to it, but there are things I just can’t get used to.
“Well, yes.”
“Would you like to go up there? A place you often go to.”
I was thinking of going for a walk, but Olivia seemed to have a place she wanted to go.
* * *
Olivia and I climbed the spire with hot tea in cups.
I often look down on Edina in this place. Even now, when I have nothing to do, I spend time blankly. Of course, it’s seldom the case when it happens.
– Whoa!
It was winter, and since it was a high place, a cold wind blew from the top of the spire.
“Oh, it’s a bit cold.”
We aren’t affected too much by things like the cold, but the cold couldn’t be helped.
Olivia took a sip of the tea from the cup and shivered.
“It will be pretty when it snows. yes?”
Olivia says as she looks down at the landscape of Razak in the winter night.
“People will only get tougher. I wonder if it would be better not to come.”
“Would you like to?”
When it snows, the frozen ground will only make people’s lives more difficult.
Olivia looks at me with a coy gaze.
“… … why.”
“No, it’s because you’re a bit curious about thinking about that.”
“… … .”
is it.
Rather than thinking about how beautiful this landscape will become when it snows, I think about how people’s lives will change when it snows.
At what point did you lose your sentimentality and start thinking only about practicality?
I’m not fit for a king, and I’ve actually given up on that job, but I can’t help the changed mindset.
“You were originally an Archdemon, so is it right to think that way?”
“… … well?”
“It’s not strange.”
Olivia sits next to me and rests her head on my shoulder.
“Thinking about it now, you had a lot to hide during your Temple days.”
“… … sorry.”
“I didn’t mean to ask for an apology. just… … . I said so.”
“… … .”
It was a time when everything from one to ten was a lie.
The lie then made the situation and relationship like this, and made the world like this.
“I feel like you from the Temple days are the real you.”
“… … .”
“Like this, Reinhardt, who became the Demon Lord, somehow seems fake.”
Olivia looks up at me blankly.
“There’s no such thing as a secret, but rather you feel like a fake without a secret.”
“anything.”
“As if you were trying to force it somehow.”
“To force myself to wear clothes that don’t fit me. It looks like it is.”
“Since you are the demon king, this should be your original appearance.”
“I do not know.”
“I think it would have been better if you were just Reinhardt.”
“He has a bad temper.”
“The words are harsh.”
“Violent though.”
“When someone asks for help, he frowns but says he can’t help it. In the end, everyone helps out.”
“I think that Reinhardt is your true self.”
“I think it would have been better to live like that, to live as it is without anything happening.”
“like now.”
“You who only think about the pain and try to endure the pain somehow… … .”
“sad.”
The essence of being a demon.
Olivia seemed to know that that and I didn’t get along at all.
I wore a mask at the temple, and this look should be my real self.
In a way, Olivia is correct in saying that everything in the moment she lived under a false name must be fake, and everything now that she has returned under a true name must be real.
However, my appearance at the temple is my real appearance, and this appearance now is a fake appearance that I am just trying to imitate.
I can neither become a demon king nor a king.
But I’m forced to do it because I have to.
It was exactly the same as I usually think.
Everything is difficult because I try to force myself to wear clothes that don’t fit.
I didn’t think anything of it, but my appearance at Temple is a little closer to myself.
“Maybe.”
Olivia smiled at my simple answer.
“Did I look like a crazy person today?”
“… … I think the problem is that I don’t normally think so.”
“What?”
Olivia raised the twin wicks in her eyes.
no that’s right!
Noona is usually a crazy bitch!
If you don’t know that, it’s even weirder! That’s even crazier!
It’s true that I’m also a crazy bastard who asked me to go to the castle of demons… … .
“Sheesh, you’re only mean to me. That kid, Charlotte, and Ellen more. You know they always do this to me while prettier, looking at me, and forgiving me? am i sad? Can you tell me everything you’ve accumulated so far? say it?”
“… … I was wrong.”
“But you know what?”
Olivia hugs me tightly around the waist.
“I don’t really like that kind of thing?”
“Why, why are you like this… … .”
“I think you are actually the most comfortable with me. Actually, it’s a little bit better.”
I’m accepting that being a little rough is because it’s more friendly.
“Maybe not really. Thinking like that puts my mind at ease.”
“… … Uh, what rhythm are you trying to match?”
I don’t know what to say when I look at the expression that goes from sullen to sunny and then depressed again.
“It means you’re trying. I don’t want to be sad.”
“… … .”
There are many things I feel sorry for Olivia.
Even though there must be a lot of sad things, I try not to be sad.
Olivia said she would be by my side even if the whole world abandoned me, and she keeps her word.
Not everyone in the world abandoned me, but that didn’t change the fact that Olivia was on my side forever.
“Actually, isn’t it a little strange that you’ve saved my life so many times and you’re feeling sad?”
“Your sister also saved me.”
“That is that and this is this.”
Isn’t that what you should say in the opposite situation?
When Olivia was discovered that I was the Demon King, she tried to save me by using her position and influence to play a game. And obviously it worked.
Of course, there are various things that Olivia realized the moment she realized that I was the demon king.
The question of why the demon king killed Leverrier Ranche and let himself escape.
Now that that was resolved, I had no choice but to believe in me more after learning that I was the Demon King.
In the case of Ellen and Charlotte, it was inevitable to feel betrayed, and Olivia was the opposite.
“When I think about it now, it was a very good thing that you couldn’t go to the Miss Temple contest because of me.”
“No, life is at stake, so how do you go to the Miss Temple contest in that situation?”
In the end, I didn’t see Ellen wearing a dress, but the seriousness of the situation was different in the first place.
Even if I go back to that time, I won’t be able to go to the Miss Temple contest without saving Olivia and Adriana.
“Anyway, you came to me. That’s what’s important.”
Olivia hugs my waist tighter.
“Come to think of it, I don’t know now, but back then, couldn’t you beat my adoptive father? Reinhardt, you said you weren’t hiding your powers or anything like that.”
“It was.”
People on my side, of course, know that I wasn’t hiding any powers at the Temple.
I was really incompetent. It is true that most of the strength and skills I gained were raised at the temple.
Olivia did not see firsthand how I fought.
“How did you win?”
“I used a magic sword.”
Not only was it safe in the storm of flames and lightning, but it was a monster that regenerated even if its heart was pierced.
If it wasn’t for using the demonic sword Tiamata, there wouldn’t have been a way to kill Lebarrier Ranche.
“Um, I wouldn’t have been able to become an opponent just because I used that.”
That is also true.
I shouldn’t have been able to beat Leberier Ranche. Of course, there was a lot of help, including situational conditions, and I wasn’t the only one fighting.
However, no matter how much the magic sword was in my hand, Lebarrier Ranche was an enemy I could not deal with.
“Well, somehow it worked.”
It happened like this and that and this and that.
I had nothing to say except this.
In the end, I went to face an enemy I couldn’t face. And won.
It was reckless, but I did it somehow.
He risked his life to save Olivia and Adriana. At my words, Olivia lets out her sigh.
“You are a strange child.”
“I’ll only do my sister.”
“Yeah, because you did something to me, even if you hate me like this, I’ll let you go.”
So Olivia hugged me tighter, saying that she was trying hard.
Shouldn’t the topic of Le Barrier Ranche actually come up between the two of us? After all, I killed Olivia’s adoptive father.
But the situation is very special.
Olivia couldn’t help but hate her adoptive father.
He even revived the adoptive father’s body as a Death Knight.
“No matter how much I think about it, my adoptive father and you are bad ties. yes?”
“… … After all, that guy just ate shit from me from beginning to end.”
“Is it surprising?”
Commander of the Knights Templar, Leverrier Ranche.
He was removed from the position of Commander of the Knights Templar because of the truth I revealed.
Then I tried to play a puppet with Olivia at the fore while doing things like the Millennium Empire, and she died at my hands.
And now you have to rise up as a Death Knight and fight for us.
Is there a bad relationship like this?
At this level, even if Leberier Ranze came back from the dead and pointed a knife at my throat, I wouldn’t have anything to say.
Aside from the wrongdoings that the nobleman did, it is because he is taking advantage of a person’s life and even death.
“But it’s absurd that all of this wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t touched your sister.”
“Is that so?”
Olivia was also the medium of all the bad relationships with Lebarrier Ranche.
Twice to save Olivia.
Once because of Olivia’s request.
It’s funny and creepy.
LeBeria Ranche was, of course, not a good father. If he had been a good father, he wouldn’t have died at my hands in the first place, and he wouldn’t have made Olivia a Death Knight.
Olivia’s life was about being forced to be a good kid, forced to live up to expectations.
I lived a life where it was natural to sacrifice myself for someone else.
Of course, Olivia is no longer that kind of person.
The person who was called the saint of Eredian eventually became a twisted and twisted person at the end of this and that.
He became selfish, violent, talkative, and even willing to do terrible things.
“My father wanted a thousand-year empire. know?”
“It was. It was because they were trying to make the church independent, with the Knights Templar as the main axis.”
“I mean, I didn’t want to do that. it was discolored It’s God, it’s nabal, and I’ve lost interest, so why did you ask me to do that?”
Olivia calmly looks down at the landscape of Razak.
“But, funny enough, my father died and the world was ruined. Rather, I became the head of what is called the Sacred Religion, a combination of the five main religions and the demonic religion.”
“… … .”
“Sometimes I find it amusing that I am now doing things of my own will that I didn’t want to do that much, that my father tried to force me to do but refused to do.”
“You don’t want to?”
“I don’t know if I hate it, but I don’t like it very much, do I?”
Olivia looks at me.
“It’s similar to how you play the devil.”
I don’t like it, but I have to.
It’s not forced.
Olivia and I do things we don’t really want to do because we have to.
I just try to force myself to wear clothes that don’t fit me.
“Rather, if things go like this, we will go to war with the empire, and either destroy or absorb the five main religions, and become the master of the five main religions. I think about that sometimes.”
It wouldn’t be called the Millennium Empire.
But what Lebarrier Ranze wished for Olivia.
Somehow, Olivia was getting closer to it.
Is it really possible to plant a new faith in this land?
Olivia Ranze dominates it all.
It wasn’t that there was no possibility that Olivia would become something like the first boom of such a world.
“How happy would my father be if he were alive and saw this?”
Olivia says so.
It was just a terrible joke that contained nothing of sincerity.
“Stop talking crazy… … .”
“why? Isn’t it like the main character in a common story that didn’t understand and didn’t listen to his parents, only to come to his senses after his parents died?”
“So stop… … .”
I don’t know anything else, but my sister is definitely not a filial daughter!
Just because Lebarrier Ranze was such a scumbag adoptive father doesn’t mean your sister is a filial daughter! On the contrary, now my sister is more terrible!
“anyway.”
Olivia takes my arm.
“It’s windy.”
As I said, the wind was cold.
december.
Now, it will be colder.
* * *
No matter how much power is increased, it cannot be said to be sufficient.
However, the primary force reinforcement was completed, and we began to build internal stability in preparation for the next Allied advance.
Olivia seemed to be struggling with the priests and paladins of the Holy Church about how to strengthen the already made Death Knights or turn the monsters into undead permanently.
Charlotte was still working as a regent, taking care of Edina’s state affairs. Harriet did her usual magic research alone, and she also did it with Lucy Neal.
And I didn’t have much to do in Edina except for image training with Airi.
Since Charlotte already knew more about Edina than I did, she was already my perfect upward compatibility, and I came to the point where I wondered if her existence would be a hindrance.
So I arrived at the Allied garrison to do what I had to do next.
-Aug
black cat.
what has changed
how things are going
I intend to check it with my own eyes.
