Chapter 584
Heinrich’s expression was determined, and Louise was mesmerized.
Of course it has to be. The culprit behind all of this, and the demon king who deserves the hatred of everyone in the world, secretly visited his son.
And the son has never told anyone about it, let alone himself.
Heinrich explained everything.
Before he found out that he was an illegitimate child, when he was having a hard time in a situation where he did not know the truth and hatred of his brothers, he received an unknown letter from who sent it.
“My brothers will try to kill me… … . It was a letter.”
“!”
“maybe… … . I think he knew I was an illegitimate child. I don’t know how you know… … .”
Naturally, Heinrich regarded the letter as someone’s joke and did not believe it. However, Heinrich was confirmed to be an illegitimate son through the mouths of his older brothers, who were actually his uncles.
“He came that day. She seems to have been watching from somewhere.”
“The Demon King… … . You must have come directly… … ?”
“Yes, it definitely showed up in person.”
The Demon King proposed to Heinrich.
If you want to live like this, follow me.
If you remain here, you will be killed, or you will have no choice but to want to kill your brothers.
“and… … . I promised to tell you everything if you follow me. what has happened so far what can be done in the future. What can I do there… … .”
The more Louise listened, the more the hairs all over her body stood up.
Unbeknownst to him, the demon king was digging up allied information, and even his son was being watched by the demon king.
Is this how it feels when the blood in your body dries up?
But it was fortunate.
The son did not follow the demon king, but is now here, in front of her eyes.
“The demon king tried to seduce you.”
“… … .”
“I’m glad, I’m really glad. Because I didn’t follow the devil. really well chosen You were wise.”
There are three people who were fooled by the demon king’s three tongues and followed him.
Harriet de Saintoine.
Liana de Granz.
Olivia Ranze.
It could be said that there were only three of them, but all three of them were sons of prominent nobles or were considered to be the future of the empire.
I don’t know where or what they’re doing, but that in itself was already a shocking event.
The devil tried to snatch his son while Heinrich was in fear and confusion.
He made an offer he couldn’t refuse in a situation where it would be strange that Heinrich wouldn’t go over.
Louise was so proud and thrilled that her son rejected the Demon King’s offer.
Because he refused the Demon King’s offer in a situation where he could neither refuse nor reject it.
How elaborate and terrifying such a demon king is.
“Sister, it’s not that I didn’t follow the Demon King because I didn’t believe in him.”
Heinrich looked at Louise with a firm expression.
“what… … Called?”
I didn’t follow the devil.
However, Louise’s hands began to tremble as she saw her son trying to say that he believed in the demon king, something he was afraid to even say.
“I know what your sister is thinking. Maybe the demon king lied to lure me in, or maybe I was enchanted by the lie and said these things.”
Heinrich swallows and says.
“Even if the demon king comes again, I have no intention of following the demon king, and I have no intention of cooperating with him. You can rest assured in this part. But no matter how you think… … . No matter how much you try to doubt it… … . I’m the devil… … . I don’t think Reinhardt is evil.”
“Maknae, the demon king tricked everyone. Didn’t he deceive everyone by wearing a mask of kindness and gentleness? Didn’t you see those who were deceived by that mask and followed the demon king and helped the demon king up close?”
Even in this situation, Heinrich couldn’t help but lose his temper at those words.
kindness and gentleness.
Those who saw the Demon King from the Temple days up close couldn’t say it.
“… … sister. The Demon King was far from kind and gentle. Technically, he was a madman.”
“that… … . is it.”
“Yes, he was a madman who had all sorts of accidents. He did all the things he shouldn’t have done on the subject he had infiltrated.”
The Demon King did too many things that he shouldn’t have done if the purpose was to infiltrate and capture them.
However, Reinhardt became friends with many people and made friends. However, it was more like something that happened due to coincidence and coincidence.
If subduction was really the goal, the Demon King would have no reason to act that way.
It is too consequentialistic to say that the purpose of the process would have been like that because the result was like that.
The demon king lived a temple life like a madman. In fact, Heinrich is also on the side of the victim.
However, Louise is only afraid when she sees her son talking about the demon king.
I couldn’t help but be afraid that I might have already fallen for the devil’s candy coating or deception.
“Sister, don’t you think that the allied forces seem to be advancing too easily from a certain point on?”
However, Heinrich knew what to say to his sister.
“… … no way.”
“Even though it’s winter, the weather is too good, and the warp gates of small cities have already been suppressed without any strategy. Didn’t you see a scene that seemed like someone had already swept through it once in the Battle of Serandia?”
Obviously a strange situation.
But things nobody cares about.
“I hope that… … . that is… … .”
“It is certain that the forces of the Demon King are helping us advance and fighting ahead of us.”
A secret or strategy that the empire is hiding.
I was just vaguely thinking that it might be something like that.
However, saying that it was all the help of the demon lord was something I didn’t want to believe, regardless of its possibility.
“The Demon King… … . Why do you mean you have to do that? causing a gate crisis. Why are you helping us?”
“I do not know. Why does the devil help us? Why is the Empire keeping this a secret? I don’t know what the demon king really wants… … . One thing is certain.”
The Demon King caused the Gate Incident to destroy mankind.
“There is something about the gate crisis that we don’t know about in the first place.”
Heinrich is a person who no longer believes in that great proposition.
* * *
Ludwig was on his way to Tuan’s temple.
The fact that he can do something is a small consolation to Ludwig, but Ludwig feels helpless in the snow as well.
And Ludwig heard from Rowen that the collapse of the shack was a bigger deal than the cold from the snow.
Ludwig could see people clearing the snow from the roof as well as those clearing the streets.
The guards and the imperial family were also keen on snow removal, but the citizens were also eager to clear the snow.
That’s why the streets of the ecliptic, which had been cold since the Gate incident, had people for the first time in a long time.
However, there would be many people in the refugee camp who did not have the energy to do this.
Purification work is also important, but is it meaningful in this situation? It’s a shack that can’t properly block the cold wind, but without even that, people would shiver in the cold and die.
Wherever this land goes now, only this kind of agony overflows.
Both Rowen and Ludwig knew that the cleanup work was only a stopgap measure.
What Rowen is doing now has nothing to do with hope. It is only a temporary solution to despair, and has nothing to do with saving the world or bringing peace.
But it’s something you have to do because you can’t do it.
In an era where even the slightest hope has become a luxury, the only thing that can be done is to painfully block the hole in the dam of despair.
Even Rowen is not an ordinary priest, but an archbishop, and Ludwig is also a superhuman, even though he lost an arm.
The current reality is that even such people can only do small things. So there is no place for the smaller ones.
Great things are the work of great beings.
Big ones like Ellen, Heinrich, and Louise von Schwarz, who I had breakfast with this morning.
Individuals who are very strong, or who can move huge armies, will end this gate debacle.
Finding hope is the role assigned to them.
When all these things are over and the era comes when peace can be talked about in small ways, even small things will find meaning.
The moment when those who somehow survived face the task of peace and reconstruction. What Ludwig and Rowen are doing now has the meaning of saving countless people and giving them a future.
That’s why Ludwig walks.
With the hope that one day everything will work out.
Rather than despair and give up, there is still something you can do, so to do it.
Ludwig still doesn’t give up.
while walking like that.
Around the time the temple where Rowen is staying is approaching.
-Where do you sell this?
– Aren’t there some nobles who want to buy it?
Ludwig could see people running through the streets with sacks.
that wasn’t the only one
Those who seemed to be part of the group or not were moving in groups of threes and fives as if they were running away.
– Shit, I wish it was something to eat.
-It was all stolen a long time ago. Where did you even get this?
-By the way, in a place called a temple, you can’t even see gold and silver.
– I must have sold it a long time ago. Where did you get even this much from the temple of a poor man like that?
-Oh, but I’m glad it’s over with a bit of hair.
– We are better. All the guys who go in now are going to die.
Ludwig could see smoke rising from the sky across the alley.
– It’s fire!
“… … !”
Before he could fully understand the words, Ludwig was running.
* * *
In the pouring snow, Ludwig could see grayish-white smoke rising up from red flames as if defying the sky, covering the entire temple.
-Kurrure
Numerous people gathered around it, staring blankly at the gigantic burning horse.
The temple of Tuan where Rowen stayed is engulfed in flames.
– Ugh support!
There was the sound of something breaking and collapsing.
-I think it’s about to collapse… … .
-What about the guards?
-Can I turn it off… … .
-It’s a punishment. Heavenly punishment fell on those who conspired with the demon king.
-Yes, this man. What a punishment for what the refugee camp homeless did!
Only then did Ludwig know what the people he had just passed were.
plunder.
‘Sometimes people try to set fire to it.’
and arson.
Someone set fire to the temple, and took advantage of that time to plunder the temple’s goods.
“Rowen!”
Ludwig jumped into the temple as if possessed.
As soon as the temple was burning, those who were watching happily kicked their tongues as they watched Ludwig leaping into the fire.
However, Ludwig could not hear the onlookers’ thoughts or the sarcastic comments about the Tuan Church.
“Ugh!”
-Kurrrrrrr
Inside the temple, full of smoke, was a mess. Everything that could be burned was burning, and it was difficult to distinguish an inch in front.
– Squeaky
And as if it had reached a state on the verge of collapse, the sound of breaking trees and cracking walls began to grow louder and louder.
who the heck why.
No matter how much I hate the Tuan Cult, do I still have to do this?
Ludwig could soon be seen through the acrid smoke.
‘no way… … ?’
Inside the temple, people Ludwig did not know but dressed as priests were lying all over the chapel.
Although he couldn’t afford to look closely, Ludwig could only intuit that they were all dead.
-bang! Awesome!
Lift up the collapsed pillars that are burning, and lift the collapsed stone pillars to find something.
I held my breath knowing that inhaling smoke is dangerous even for superhumans.
find
who should be here.
How long must I have wandered around the burning chapel in the smoke?
Ludwig soon saw someone sitting in front of Tuan’s stone statue.
“!!!”
Archbishop Rowen.
Rowen was there, wearing a white robe, not the usual gray, faded robe.
However, the white robe, which was originally white, was dyed bright red.
“Rowen… … !”
Rowen’s whole body was indescribable except to say that it was a wreck.
No matter how many times he was stabbed and hacked, it seemed better to call the white robe a red shroud.
Ludwig trembled and knelt in front of Rowen’s dead body with his eyes wide open.
“Priest! Priest! Wake up!”
But even as Ludwig spoke, he knew that his calling could not bring Rowen back.
Even in death, Rowen’s eyes were wide open, and he was deprived of something that could never be returned.
Holding Rowen’s shoulders, Ludwig’s eyes were wide open even in the heat of the flames that seemed to burn his whole body, and tears were pouring out.
“this… … . what the heck is this why. this… … . why… … . why?”
– Eugeojijik
The temple continued to burn.
– Pop!
And, with the sound of something breaking that shouldn’t be broken.
-Kurrureung!
The temple collapsed.
