episode_0085

I look at Devian, who is sleeping as if dead.

-Sreuk…

It’s hot so I wipe the sweat from my forehead with my sleeve.

“Debian…”

He pushes back his wet hair.

A week has already passed since the incident occurred.

I can’t help but be worried as I see him not waking up like a dead rat during that time.

“Get up now…”

“Sister…”

When I turn my head when I hear Joey calling me, he opens the door and sticks his head out with a worried look on his face.

“I kept calling… but there was no answer.”

“Ah!, sorry… come in.”

He nods, enters the room, sits down on the bed, and says.

“Is your brother-in-law still unconscious?”

I weakly nod my head at those words.

“What does the doctor say?”

“The magic stone is absorbed into the body, so it will be difficult to remain conscious for a few days.”

The doctor said it definitely wouldn’t be a big problem, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried.

Looking at his seemingly peaceful face, I worry that he might never wake up again.

Come on, wake up…

The thought of him lying like this because of me brings tears to my eyes again.

Joey, hugging me from behind, speaks in a trembling voice.

“Sister… don’t cry.”

He quickly wipes away his tears and says.

“Huh… I’m not crying…”

“Hi… But who planned this?”

There are forces that doubt that statement.

When I spoke to Agrippa and asked him: Agrippa avoided giving a definite answer, but felt a little uneasy.

Agrippa probably also thinks that Ioannes is behind this.

But… is it okay to tell this little boy?

I doubt it, but he was the one who was kidnapped…

“I think Ioanes planned it.”

“I… really?”

I hear Joy’s anxious voice and feel a small tremor in the arm that is wrapped around my waist.

“Yes. don’t worry. When Devian wakes up soon… I will take revenge.”

How dare you target me and my husband and kidnap my sister?

When Devian rises, the forces of the Empire and the Grand Duchy will destroy Ioanes and those who follow him.

“But sister… didn’t you hate your brother-in-law a lot in the past?”

-Excited…

“Well… it was…”

“Hehe… I heard you don’t want to get married like that. See, I’m right, right? I heard that if my sister found out what a good person my brother-in-law is, she would fall in love with him…”

I stiffen at Joey’s unfamiliar words, but Joey doesn’t pay any attention and rubs his forehead against my back.

“I will be happy when my brother-in-law wakes up. Right?”

I feel embarrassed by my younger brother’s words.

***

As Theodora falls asleep, the scene changes quickly.

“Come on! Hang that traitor!”

At Theodora’s words, he falls helplessly onto the guillotine in front of the city hall…

-Sigh!

A rope tightens Devian’s neck.

“Kwaek!”

Devian struggles, his feet hovering in the air, and shakes his body wildly, trying to survive somehow.

Soon another me becomes limp.

It was as if he had finally found rest.

It’s terrible.

“Hmph! Hang it on the gallows like that.”

There is no citizen anywhere who shows respect to Theodora as she stands up like that.

The people of the empire are passionate about the emperor and the royal family, who are popular people in the empire.

Such a scene does not exist before me now.

Rather, there is a deep sense of fear and horror in the eyes of the people of the empire.

It would be difficult to look favorably on her, who led the warriors and the remnants of the hateful Grand Duchy and occupied Roman by force in a chaotic situation where the Demon King had not yet died.

Time flies by like that.

“Your Majesty… we do not have funds to provide food to the soldiers right now.”

Theodora frowns and says those words.

“Then wouldn’t it be okay to collect it from the nobles?”

At those words, a man who appears to be a secretary speaks while sweating.

“Even now, the taxes collected from nobles are too high…”

-thud!

“Does that mean we should surrender to that devil lord?!”

While listening to them, I look through the documents scattered on the desk.

Wow… I can see how bleak the situation is as I see that my annual tax revenue has been cut to 1/20th of the current amount.

Even if we were at war, couldn’t we handle this?

The situation is very bad now.

At this rate… there will be quite a few people who starve to death.

This is not the time to discuss war.

I was shocked that there was barely more than 1 ton of gold left.

Well… there’s no need to write about this in the original, but…

“Well… that’s not true… but there will be a lot of backlash. Additionally, people are starving to death one after another in each territory. They’re even raising taxes.”

“Hmph. Those opportunists should have protested. And now the survival of humanity depends on it. No matter how many people starve to death, you have to do what you have to do.”

Sharp red eyes.

She’s not wrong.

The current situation is a war between humans and demons fighting for survival.

However, it is foolish to just raise taxes.

This is something that neither nobles nor citizens of the empire want.

“And what happened to those arrested for treason last time?”

“Well… I already received a message from the Ministry of Justice saying that I should be released due to lack of evidence…”

At those words, Theodora shakes her head roughly and glares at the secretary.

“Tell them to prove the charges right now, even if it means using torture! Right now!”

At those words, the secretary shakes and nods.

“Ah… I understand.”

“And confiscate all their territory.”

aha? Apparently, the imperial family itself does not have money. Are they just randomly turning people into criminals and extorting them?

“Yes.”

Then, ignoring the two of them discussing the current issue, he leaves the room and heads outside the palace.

This…

I am entranced by the sight of Roman in such a miserable state.

A ruin full of burn marks everywhere.

There is no trace of the high-rise buildings that Roman boasted about.

It was as if I had been hit by a barrage of fireballs.

The building looks familiar, with the steel bars clearly visible inside.

That’s… the restaurant we went to last time, right?

That’s not all.

A road paved with pretty colored stones.

The roads on which people used to play happily have been dug up or blackened here and there, and the roadsides are full of vagrants.

This… this?

I was shocked by how different the scenery was from when I was hiking in secret not long ago.

wait for a sec.

I look back on the original work that I remember from a long time ago.

Surely they burned the city… in Roman against Valorant and his army?

I remembered in my head that Roman’s secret weapon, God’s fire, stored underground had burned down the warehouse where it was stored.

Still… it’s almost the latter part.

At that moment, the scenery changes again.

Again in the Roman city square, dozens of people stand on the gallows.

“Execute everyone!”

The people who executed Theodora’s words…

[Woo~! Emperor, stop executing!]

[The tyrant must go!]

Imperial citizens criticizing Theodora.

Seeing her ignoring that and staring at the people being executed reminds me of Valorant.

A cruel and cruel tyrant…

One thing that puzzles me is…

Seojun Lee is standing next to him.

for a moment? If it were Seojun Lee, he would have headed to the Devil’s Castle, right?

The original story ends with Lee Seo-jun catching the devil in the devil’s castle.

So, is this already after the demon lord was captured?

I feel uneasy as I see Seojun Lee frowning and glaring at the back of Theodora’s head.

why? Are you glaring at Theodora?

Wasn’t that kind to your lover?

What on earth do you want to show me?

When I think about that, the scenery around me changes.

A burning building.

I think about looking at a familiar interior.

Is this the imperial palace?

“Ugh!”

[It’s treason! The hero committed treason!]

[Aaaah!]

[help me.]

Soldiers wearing colorful armor and decorated with different patterns attack the Golden Knights.

Thinking something might happen, I run to the emperor’s office.

“Da… You…”

Theodora glares at Lee Seo-jun with a knife stabbed in her chest.

“I’m sorry. Only this way will peace come.”

It’s even worse after the original?

When I think of that, the surroundings suddenly become dark.

And then it gets brighter again.

what?

Day and night change so quickly.

Am I crazy?

The city that was in ruins outside the window is quickly being restored.

Day and night keep changing with the buildings getting taller.

It’s as if time passes incredibly quickly.

“Hehe… The devil is back from the dead?”

I quickly turn my head back at the old man’s voice.

An old man and a man who appears to be his knight face each other and talk.

“That’s right. Your Majesty… I received an oracle from the Holy See and it is said that a warrior will be summoned soon.”

The emperor nods his head at those words.

“Phew… I’m an old man who says tomorrow is today. I can’t believe you put me through this kind of ordeal in your later years. You are cruel. El…”

“That’s right. I’m sorry. And Your Majesty… The Demon King sent a gift to You and Your Holiness the Pope.”

“Gift? What is it?”

– Wormwood! Clink!

“Kak!”

The knight who suddenly harms the emperor laughs darkly and says.

“The Demon King ordered you and the Pope to be given death.”

Haha… That’s really crazy.

I feel a deep sorrow when I see a later emperor dying.

Well… no matter how hard I try, the Demon King will eventually be resurrected.

Whether you stay up all night or have a nosebleed.

It’s like dying, but in the end, nothing changes.

Because someday the devil will be resurrected again.

No matter how hard I try, the essence doesn’t change in the end.

At that time, the emperor’s office changes.

Pure white space.

A pure white space with nothing in it.

A pure white horizon is visible.

“No, that idea is wrong. If nothing really changes, it’s because I didn’t call you here.”

I quickly turned my head when I heard a young boy’s voice.

A pure white light stands in the shape of a human being.

“Who are you…?”

“I am I, the primordial being and the first born of all gods.”

There is only one such being…

Since I was born here.

It is impossible not to know which religion is the most popular among the religions here.

No, it is a being whose name is often mentioned in the original work.

No way… I never expected to meet such a being.

A being made up of sacred light and taking on the shape of a human.

Looking at him, I open my mouth with a trembling voice.

“L…”

The being nods its head at my words says.

“That’s right. I am L.”