episode_0160

There was a genius. He showed great talent in martial arts from a young age, and his family was also one of the most prestigious in the empire.

However, he had no interest in the work of a knight. Instead, he showed interest in dancing, singing, and acting, and even declared that he would become an actor or a minstrel when he grew up.

However, his fiancée wanted him to become a knight. On that simple word, he went to the wandering demon lord to ask for his teachings, and after receiving his teachings, he stole the weapons he had made and returned to the empire.

After training for only one year and beating others who had worked their entire lives, he became both the head of the household and the Minister of War.

‘Leave it and come back … If you were sitting, you wouldn’t have tried it from the beginning …!

‘Do you enjoy watching us try in vain, you pervert!’

‘… a womanizing bastard.’

Of course, he was met with a barrage of criticism, but he paid no attention to it and even apologized to them by transferring his land to them.

Although he rose to the second highest position in the empire, his married life was never smooth. Because of his wife’s extravagance and spending habits, he always had his head wrapped, and the woman did not like her husband who did nothing but do odd jobs.

Eventually, the woman had an affair with the man who was her servant and ran away with the family’s treasures, leaving the man behind in the mansion, burdened with nothing but obligations and without his love and dreams.

All that was around her were children who resembled that woman. Her heart, soaked in betrayal, told her to snap their necks and kill them, but the faintest trace of paternal love stopped her from doing so.

As a result, he did his best to ignore the children and treat them as invisible people so as not to kill them.

“… That curse is really bad.”

After the Demon King, who he once treated as his teacher, went mad and a war broke out, he treated his daughter as his disciple, raised her as a weapon, and sent her out to the battlefield.

It was not that I did not feel sorry, but the soldiers who were going to die on the battlefield were also like sore thumbs to someone. I could not give them special treatment.

After many twists and turns, the war ended… but the Demon King returned. With powers that were even more powerful than before.

It was a pity. I didn’t know that such an upright and peaceful person could change so much.

“What I wish for is not so great. A world where we don’t throw stones at each other’s children… a world where such basic morality is maintained. I just help humans for that.”

The person who said such things has fallen so far.

Besides, there was a daughter and her beloved bastard nearby.

It was an opportunity to do both the role of a father and a failure disciple, both of which I had not been able to do before.

So, he risked everything and blew the season to create an opening for his disciples to attack the Demon King.

So that all the vices and sins you have committed can be forgiven at once.

“… But.”

When General Heron woke up and saw the nightmarish sight before him, he doubted his eyes.

“What the hell is this fucking nightmare? I didn’t commit any sins that deserved this horrible hell.”

The Emperor was strangling Raoul despite the objections of the surrounding inspectors. No, upon closer inspection, the inspectors were preventing Raoul from resisting.

“배, 백작은 지랄…! 이 개새끼야…! 가뜩이나 복구 사업으로 할 일도 넘쳐나는데 거기에 일을 추가해…?”

“Peace…”

“Your Majesty is a piece of shit. If you think of me as your Majesty, you wouldn’t do that. You probably think of me as just an enemy, not the head of the country. Put everything down and die here.”

“Cough…!”

“With your dull mind, you probably won’t even understand why you’re dying. But just die anyway. Death is something you can’t understand in the first place.”

While Raoul’s throat was being strangled in real time, the Empress and Camilla were having a private interview beside him.

Of course, the empress seemed to be seriously contemplating whether or not to pull out the sword that had been tightly sealed.

“Camilla…?”

“… That.”

“I don’t have the right to open my mouth right now… Seriously, I can’t even swear in a place where there are two kids. ”

“This incident is entirely due to our ignorance.”

“Don’t pretend not to know. There’s no way you didn’t know. Isn’t that just to somehow get the marriage done as quickly as possible?”

“I don’t know…”

“Can I help you remember it again?”

“… Sorry?”

“Ah, seriously, I can’t even strangle this…”

Who would have thought that the Empress, who would normally have snapped Camilla’s neck without a problem, would have been conflicted?

That too was a rather uncommon sight, and Heron ended up laughing.

What the heck is going on…

“If I wasn’t really pregnant, I would break the seal and dance the sword dance here.”

“What?”

Everyone’s thoughts stopped as they heard the soft voice that echoed.

“Master, wake up…”

“Everyone, answer correctly before I break your brain. What is what?”

“… That’s it.”

While everyone was hesitating, Camilla took the lead and swung her sword at him.

“Yes, I did. I got it because I was so sick every day while my father was lying down. Do you have any complaints? Yes?”

Although she usually didn’t even speak politely to her father, she showed her respect in her own way, adding to her sorrow and protest at the neglect she had suffered.

The Emperor, surprised by Camilla’s polite speech, even forgot to strangle Raoul.

“Do you even care now that you treat me like a non-existent person, let alone your daughter? My brother tried so hard every day to be treated like a human being by you, and then he died?”

“… I never ordered it.”

“And then you pretended to fight for us in the end and fell, so you thought you could undo all those sins?”

“I never thought of it like that.”

“Still, it’s a good thing you woke up. Thanks to that, I was able to avoid taking on annoying responsibilities. So now, you can do what you usually do and drink. Don’t worry about what I do.”

“…… I’ve always done my responsibilities without you saying anything.”

Although it was a position he didn’t want to occupy in the first place, he always fulfilled his duties at important moments.

“Yes. Then just keep living like that. Don’t act like a father now.”

“… Anyway, she’s bold. Does she resemble me? Or does she resemble that woman?”

“No one resembles me. Not you who ignores your children, not the wind, not me, not that woman.”

“I guess so.”

He sighed quietly and grabbed Raoul’s neck, which was being held by the Emperor’s hand.

“5 minutes. Let’s talk for exactly 5 minutes. I’m the one who paid for your food and lodging, so I think you have that much right.”

“That was just as I had hoped…!”

“You must have forgotten. I am a human being who lives as I please.”

Raoul, who had been dragged to a secluded place, looked down at the military minister Heron, who was quietly drinking his drink.

“… I still can’t quit. This is a magic potion that will make this disgusting world beautiful.”

“It’s just a liquid called alcohol that makes you a drunkard. ”

“Where in the world is there a person who sees the world as beautifully as a drunkard?”

“Seeing a disgusting world as beautiful can also be called crazy.”

“Anyway, you’re a guy who doesn’t have anything I like about him.”

“That’s fortunate. We’re in the same situation.”

“I don’t like that mouth, that mouth.”

Heron pressed the bottle against Raoul’s mouth and showed his needless irritation.

Even though the promised five minutes were running out, not a single word of useless talk was said, not even the common polite remarks.

Raoul was prepared to hear things like, “I can’t give my daughter away.”

Raoul, who had planned to put her in a coma if she had said such things, had no choice but to calm his trembling hands because of her silence.

“Well, whether I get married or not, it doesn’t really have anything to do with me. I never intended to be treated like a father from the beginning, and unlike your mother, I was prepared for it from the beginning.”

He took a gulp of his drink absentmindedly and looked into Raoul’s eyes.

It was a deep and complete eye, completely different from the one he had expected and been betrayed by.

“I ran away because I hated all that conflict. I didn’t want to bump into anyone, I didn’t want to hurt them with my own hands, and I didn’t have the confidence to try to love them. In the end, abuse was abuse no matter what.”

He ignored his children with the sole intention of not wanting to kill them, but that was an act that killed their egos.

Of course, he could make the excuse that he didn’t know because he was young at the time, but he didn’t like excuses.

He just thought it was right to admit that he was an idiot and a foolish father.

Even if you bring up the dirty stories hidden behind it, to others it would just be someone else’s story.

“I don’t particularly agree or disagree. You guys are adults with big heads, so you probably did well. It’s a bit stupid that you got pregnant first, though. That’s not my place to get involved.”

He stared at the empty bottle for a moment, then turned his head towards Raoul.

Together with Camilla, who is far beyond that.

“Still, I’ll tell you this one thing.”

I knew that I had no right to tell you to be happy or to be unhappy.

But even so, there was at least one thing he could say.

I mustered up my courage and decided to say it.

“Don’t live like me.”

Raoul also saw through the courage contained in those words.

I wasn’t stupid enough not to know what those words meant.

That’s why Raul also answered with the corners of his lips slightly raised.

“Please come to the wedding. You are also a teacher.”

“…… Okay, thank you.”

“And how about taking care of your health first? You will need physical strength to take care of your grandchildren.”

“…………. Why am I taking care of your kid, you crazy bastard.”