Chapter 684
“Are you ready?”
“of course.”
At the calm reply, Charlotte looked at Reinhardt with a warm expression.
“The preparation I think is completely different from the preparation you think, so I’ll ask you again. Are you ready?”
“Is it okay?”
still unreliable
I checked the clothes, and there is no problem with the dressing.
So all you have to do is go out like this.
But there was always something other than the clothes that mattered.
Finally, Charlotte checks the emperor’s outfit and puts her arms around her waist.
“You, do you remember getting scolded by us for things like weddings?”
“… … Uh, oh, you know.”
The emperor said he wanted to proceed quickly, but he was still scratching the surface because he had done such a dissatisfying wedding.
Especially when it comes to weddings, Harriet still stirs up a game.
“If you don’t want to make one more of that, then you are good.”
“okay… … .”
“I agree with you that speeches don’t have to be long, as you usually say, but they don’t have to be doggies. Your speech is definitely dog-like.”
“I’ll be fine… … .”
“They say you’re good only with words, always.”
“I’ll do really well this time… … .”
“Did you always hear about that?”
Even after being scolded like this, in the end, when you stand in front of people, you talk bullshit.
The emperor’s habit of being in debt for a single wrong word has not yet been corrected.
“… … Then can’t you do it?”
“what?”
“Oh, of course I should! uh!”
The emperor, feeling the threat of death just by looking at him, shook his head.
Even after that, the emperor was ripped off until the preparations were finished, or to be precise, right up to the start.
Like that, after the time of endurance has passed.
– Click
The door to the waiting room opened, and a red-haired knight entered the room.
“Your Majesty, the time has come.”
“Oh yeah.”
The emperor’s knight, Scarlett, led the way, and the emperor followed suit.
Charlotte’s glare followed, as if to see what he was doing.
* * *
In the huge plaza of the temple, many people stood with tense expressions.
The first thing the Empire did was reopen the Temple.
Although it was not as large as it used to be because the number of people was absolutely reduced, a huge number of new students entered the temple.
There are no benefits as much as before, but the tuition is not as astronomically expensive as before.
The template is running.
That’s enough.
Since the empire no longer belongs to the Gradias Imperial family, the temple is no longer called the Gradias Temple.
Saying that a temple could just be a temple, the emperor did not bother to add another modifier in front of the temple.
like that.
Elementary is elementary, middle school is middle, and high school is high.
It’s not even just humans anymore.
Although it was a small number, there were definitely demons.
There are demons that are infinitely close to human form, and there are also demons with slightly unfamiliar forms.
All beings who are educated and have the intellect to understand may enter the Temple.
It’s been a long time since demons started mixing in the ecliptic, so it’s not something you can only see at the temple.
But, of course, it’s not like there aren’t people who feel offended by the sight.
like that.
Everyone was staring at one place in the plaza where the new students of various races gathered.
The place where the emperor will appear.
With the sound of a huge horn, a song announcing the emperor’s position begins to play.
The voice of the imperial mage, who took on a social role, echoed.
some worship him
some are afraid of him
some hate him
“now.”
“He is the representative of the gods.”
“Let’s be the owner of the Holy Empire.”
“He is the conqueror of the Gradias Empire.”
“He’s the founder of the Magic Council.”
“He is the guardian of human self-government.”
“At the same time as the terminator of the gate crisis.”
“Arcdemon.”
“so that.”
“He is the ruler of all demons in the world.”
“He is the rightful ruler of all mankind.”
“Also the savior of the world.”
“Wu God.”
“Invincibility.”
“Immortality.”
“The demon king of flames.”
“Emperor Reinhardt is coming in.”
Reinhard the Great.
that is the emperor’s name
The Continental Emperor appears in front of people.
There are no fancy coffins or halls.
The modestly dressed emperor stands on the podium, looking down at the people lined up. Behind him, Scarlett, the emperor’s escort knight, stood in a straight posture.
The congratulatory speech for new students at Temple is an annual event.
Every time he stood in this place, the emperor met his eyes with various meanings.
Hate too.
envy too.
Awe too.
There is also fear.
That meant that the emperor hadn’t yet united the continent, and still hadn’t united mankind.
-hmm… … .
The emperor’s voice resonated in the plaza.
-that… … . I mean I do this every year.
-Maybe that, Gradias Te… … . No, Gradias shouldn’t stick anymore. Yes, just a template.
-You gave a speech when the temple was reopened and the first freshmen were accepted.
– I can’t do this for a long time.
-So, at that time, I only said one word.
– Go to school.
-I’m done with that.
– Then, that… … . Something very regrettable happened… … .
The emperor looks somewhere and notices lightly. um, big After clearing his throat several times, the emperor looks at the faces of the people.
There were people who were taken aback by the emperor’s tone.
-So, after that, I tend to squeeze something out. But maybe it doesn’t match the nature, it doesn’t work well.
– I am me, that. The one in front of my name… … I mean, long modifiers are a bit inconvenient.
-It’s unnecessarily long.
– I feel ashamed because I feel like I am bragging about myself with my own mouth.
-But, well, being an emperor is a position where you have to endure that kind of thing.
-You have to know what I’ve done and what kind of person I am, and that’s not really a lie.
-The ruler of all demons, right?
– Even the ruler of all mankind is right.
-As the owner of the Holy Empire, this is also true.
– Since I still have two holy relics, it is also true that I am the representative of the gods.
-So it’s a bit embarrassing to say that, but it’s true, right?
– Why should I be ashamed to tell the truth? After thinking about it, I’m not ashamed of it.
-okay… … . There’s a reason why the adjectives “bulpae” and “bulsani” are put in front of it like that.
-I explained that I was great at length.
-Know what a great presence you are facing. what do you mean by this
-I am listing the grounds for my greatness.
-Yes, there are children here, so maybe you don’t know what I mean.
-Such children might not yet know what the magic meeting is all about, right?
– So, for the sake of the children, I will personally summarize.
-I’m fucking great.
You are now facing the greatest and most dignified being in the world.
– So, be very honored.
At those words, the atmosphere in the hall stopped a little.
No matter how emperor you are.
i know i know
You say that with your own mouth?
Regardless of whether the emperor was good or not, the very thing that he said.
It’s very unlikable.
In such an atmosphere, the emperor looked at the silent crowd and spoke.
-What are you doing, these guys?
-You should clap.
At the words that sound like an order, everyone starts to clap mechanically forced.
– Clap clap clap clap!
Everyone claps because they want something like this, but everyone’s expression is getting weird.
– You saw it?
However, the playfulness on the emperor’s face rather disappeared in the applause.
– Greatness is like this.
– Some of you hate me.
-Some of you will hate me.
-Some of you would like to stick a knife in my back.
-But, when told to clap, you guys have to clap.
– No matter what you have in mind for me.
– You cannot disobey me.
-As if the remnants of humanity who had rebelled against me eventually knelt at my feet and lived miserably on the dog food I gave them in the fence I built, called the Dominion.
-They still hate me, but like a representative of the Dominion kowtowing at my feet for aid.
-You can’t disobey me.
-All those who disobeyed me either died or became beasts begging for food.
-That’s why I’m great.
What happened to hatred, hatred, and anger?
Clap for the word clap.
I will kneel when told to kneel.
Domination is complete with just that.
It would be nice if there was loyalty, but it would work if there was only obedience.
The Emperor now knows that.
But it doesn’t fit at all in this place.
That’s right, though.
So what do you mean?
This is not a speech given after the conquest of mankind, it is just a temple entrance ceremony.
At the temple entrance ceremony, the emperor reciting that I am great is boasting in an outlandish place.
-By the way, such a great me.
-There is one way to become greater than this great, noble and absolute Emperor.
– Rebuilding the collapsed Pandemonium, conquering humanity, and ending the Gate Crisis, accomplishing feats impossible for anyone and rebuilding civilization.
-There is only one thing that even this Demon Lord, who accomplished this great feat, could not accomplish.
Everyone is confused when he says that he has accomplished everything, but then suddenly says that there is something he could not do.
-graduate.
-I still haven’t graduated from Temple.
Everyone couldn’t help but get lost in the spirit of the young nonsense.
The Demon King couldn’t attend the temple in the first place.
All the students at Temple at the time were like that. Because operations have ceased altogether.
But in the end, facts are facts.
The Demon King did not graduate from the Temple.
And as the temple reopens, some of those who served in the allied forces have graduated from the temple that started reopening.
Among the Demon King’s classmates and the Temple students of those days, there were those who graduated after returning to school.
Anyway, the fact that the demon king did not graduate is as true as the modifier attached to the demon king.
-Soon, you can do what I couldn’t.
-I don’t know anything else, but I can live a life with only one thing that is better than this great demon king.
-Wherever I go, I can say that there is one thing I’m better than the Demon King.
– How grateful is this?
-I graduated from a temple that even the devil couldn’t do, and I have a life in front of me that I can proudly say.
-Wherever you go, you can live a life where you can say that the demon king is an asshole who has not even graduated from the temple!
-So, study hard.
– Graduation safely.
-more.
Everyone was staring blankly at the back of the demon king and emperor of the empire who disappeared like that.
There is no applause or cheers for the departing demon king.
Everyone was bewildered.
No matter what you think of the demon king, one thought is stuck in everyone’s head.
The thought that Reinhard the Great was a very strange bastard was imprinted in everyone’s mind.
* * *
-I told you not to do that!
-Ah, no, you made it longer this time!
-Did I tell you not to shorten it? I told you not to be like a dog! Today is the best, no, not the best, and the second one is like a dog! Second!
-That, is that enough? didn’t do well… … .
– Aaaaaaagh!
Scarlett stood in front of the door and listened to Charlotte’s hysterical voice coming from the waiting room.
This is familiar to Scarlett, who has been by the emperor’s side longer than the empresses.
And, of course, there were several knights of the emperor’s escort because they had come for an event rather than peacetime.
Since Scarlett is the emperor’s escort knight and the imperial knight commander, everyone was Scarlett’s subordinate knights.
one of them asks.
“Captain, would you rather have a script?”
Wouldn’t it be better for Charlotte to write the script instead of frying it like that?
“… … If there is a script, they don’t read it.”
Scarlett’s habit of being respectful to everyone was still the same.
The emperor tried to correct that habit several times, but it was impossible to change.
“Exactly, you can’t read it.”
“You can’t read?”
Of course, the emperor is not black-eyed.
“If you have a script, um… … . Dear fellow citizens… … Should I say that he reads it that way?”
“ah.”
“Unexpectedly, he is very nervous.”
There seems to be no tension at all.
However, I was so nervous that I couldn’t read the script properly, and even bullshit came out because I was nervous.
That’s why Charlotte has been trying for five years to somehow cure that strange chronic disease, but every time it fails, she threatens after everything is over.
– What’s the matter? just die? will we die together?
-Why are you so angry that you couldn’t do that… … !
– You’re not getting any better! You don’t do growth!
– Growing up at this age is a disease… … !
-I can’t say a word. This is it again?
The other escort knights also heard the emperor’s scraping through the door.
There are no articles that surprise me because it is a common occurrence.
Scarlett said with a faint smile.
“Still, isn’t an emperor who can’t speak better than an emperor who loses?”
At that, everyone nodded their heads with ambiguous expressions on their faces.
Musin
Undefeated.
immortality.
Those titles were earned the day he single-handedly subdued an army advancing for rebellion.
The Emperor has never been defeated.
They didn’t even need an army.
After the declaration of the New Empire, there were several wars.
It was a war that inevitably broke out after all dialogue and compromise had collapsed.
The Emperor took only Scarlett to all of those battlefields.
No one else accompanied them.
Even Scarlett didn’t fight, and was put on standby on the other side of the battlefield.
‘Should I go alone?’
The emperor faced the advancing enemy armies alone.
‘We have to instill fear in those who do not obey.’
‘That I will not die.’
‘If they knew that even I, who was alone, couldn’t kill them, they wouldn’t be able to rebel against me or the empire anymore.’
‘Then nothing like this will happen in the future.’
‘Isn’t it kind of certain that there won’t be any?’
‘At least, it will decrease.’
To crush with terror those who do not accept rule.
The emperor went out alone.
And the emperor’s enemies learned why the emperor was an apostle of the god of war.
