episode_0088
by fnovelpia
There are easy solutions and hard solutions.
Is this choice an easy solution or a difficult one?
I didn’t want to overthink it. I just took the opportunity. The opportunity to stop this woman from getting involved with Carl. Otherwise, it would be a bomb that could explode at any moment. So it doesn’t matter if it’s an easy solution or a difficult solution.
‘First of all, it prevents you from thinking about anything else.’
Daniela’s mind is filled only with thoughts of the Allies.
Is that even possible?
‘Forget about the academy, abandon your desires, and don’t even think about your sword. The only life you’ll be allowed is that of a consul. Accept that you can’t afford to dream of ordinary happiness like ordinary people. Then, I’ll lift up your puny alliance.’
For a very brief moment, I saw Daniela tremble in agitation. Her reddened eyes became clear again. That was because what I said seemed so surprising and unfamiliar to her.
If the ruler of the empire changes, it is beyond common sense. It is also an extremely blasphemous thing to hear here in the heart of the empire, the Academy.
Anyway, the die has been cast.
It’s time to figure out how much I should reveal and where I should start hiding. I’m worried about whether I can trust this Allied nation’s young lady. The opposite is also true, I don’t know how much Daniela will trust me.
She called my name in a trembling voice, thinking she had misheard me.
“Beatrice?”
“Just imagine, the world has been at a standstill for too long. The Empire won the Great War and that was the end of it. The hierarchy between nations remained unchanged.”
“……”
“You, the Allied Powers, are the victims. Humanity has achieved a thousand years of peace, but the Allied Powers alone are bearing the cost. Isn’t that right?”
“… Yeah.”
It instills a new awareness in me so that I cannot think normally and ponder the intentions of my impure remarks. To be precise, the irrationality that I had in my heart but could not dare to say out loud.
I stood up on Daniela’s right and looked down at her sitting on the bench.
Her gaze shifted from below to above, examining my shadowy figure with my back to the light source.
“I suddenly had that thought. Do people who enjoy everyday happiness as if it were a given really know what sacrifice is?”
“Do you know?”
“… sacrifice.”
I smiled bitterly.
Sacrifice, I know that very well. It is thanks to sacrifice that I am able to stand here.
The price of my helplessness was indeed a dear sacrifice.
Theo… .
“The breath I inhale and exhale, the eyes that allow me to see the world… It was all obtained through someone’s sacrifice. So I’m proud to know.”
“It sounds like a lie. Your kingdom is a place where you can enjoy everything. Fertile soil, beautiful nature, stable politics… .”
“Well, I apologize if it sounded that way. But know this, I didn’t get here easily either.”
We can’t understand each other. She knows what I’ve been through, and I know what she’s going through. So there’s no need to ask why I don’t understand. Come to think of it, I was angry at the entrance ceremony for a similar reason.
Calm down. This time is different. There is no need to provoke her. You have to put aside your personal feelings to get what you want.
“Come back, the flow of history that has stopped has now ended. The royal family is back, right?”
“It was the same as it is now before they disappeared.”
“That’s right, because for a long time they were indifferent to the outside world. They left the governance of the empire to the administrators.”
Daniela’s eyes grew wider as she thought that at best, she would complain. She had already experienced it firsthand at Karl’s engagement ceremony and had already seen the speeches of the saint and the duke in the auditorium, which had imprinted a negative image of the royal family.
“They call it the Silent Revolution? The decision of the Empire to overthrow the royal family 10 years ago.”
“That’s right.”
“Before, I only knew that there were days like that, but I didn’t know the details. But now I know. They didn’t disappear naturally.”
“It’s shocking that the Empire and the Church punished him. But treason? That’s not a good expression… .”
Daniela asked back, feeling a sense of discomfort. But I don’t want to correct my expression.
They call treason revolution, and betrayal execution. As if we were some kind of demonic group. So they did it out of necessity, as if it was for a just cause.
Abominable things.
“… And nothing changed. The royal family was gone, but the empire was still the same. Time just kept flowing, and it just kept repeating itself. ”
“The Empire is the Empire, the Allies are the Allies.”
“Yes, it hasn’t changed. Your sacrifice, and the wealthy nations of the continent that reign over it.”
“……”
Daniela’s eyes turned red again. She was so angry and resentful about the situation she and the Allied Forces were in, and tears welled up because no one seemed to notice.
“If anything changes in this vicious and cruel stable, it will be because of the royal family.”
So I handed Daniela a handkerchief. An expensive handkerchief I had bought at a department store in the commercial district.
Daniela accepted it without refusing, wiping away her tears. She didn’t want to show weakness, but the tears that had already welled up wouldn’t stop.
She cried silently.
“If they rule the empire again, if they succeed in their revenge… wouldn’t it be different than before?”
“!”
“I will not be locked up in the palace like before and share the ruling power. Because I was betrayed. I will establish a new order. I will take care of those who helped me drive out the enemies.”
Daniela, wiping away her tears, is shocked by the subversive conversation that borders on treason. Perhaps it is already a sin to have heard it.
“This might be our chance.”
“… Us?”
“To countries that failed to become great powers, such as Premiera and Lugo.”
“You’re more ambitious than you look. What you’re saying now is very dangerous.”
“You can tell the Duke of Maynor, he’s your son’s friend, and I have something to tell you. That’s a good way to score points.”
Daniela wiped away her tears and narrowed her eyes. As if to tell her that she would never do something so cowardly, as if to tell her not to think of her that way.
“Dahlia’s Beatrice, you are still the daughter of the Countess. Is there no need to take such a big risk for Primira? You could settle down in the Empire if you just graduated from the Academy… I underestimated your patriotism.”
“I don’t want to be just another stranger in the Empire. At best, I’ll be getting marriage proposals from the Empire’s border officials or baronial families. And-”
“?”
He made up a series of lies. He made up a plausible reason for me to be having this dangerous conversation. But the next thing he said was not a lie.
“I’d rather take it.”
He said it with such a sincere smile.
“… You want to take away the empire?”
“Not all, just enough rewards to advance our Premier to the next level.”
“You’re crazy.”
“You can’t say that without being crazy. If the empire is turned upside down because of the royal family, it’s an opportunity for other countries. Daniela del Rio, your allies too.”
Daniela, whose tears had suddenly stopped, asked with a serious and heavy face.
“I knew you were an extraordinary second class, but I didn’t think it would be this much… What do you want so badly? To receive the title of Duke of Primira?”
“Well.”
“… Are you aiming for the queen’s seat?”
“……”
I was momentarily speechless at the absurd conclusion.
“Oh my goodness…! So you want to go back to Primira, not the Empire? To become a queen… .”
“What the heck is that-”
“I heard that King Charles II, who graduated from the Academy, was also an extremely ambitious and strategist. If you and him are together, you will surely become a force to be feared by no country.”
I tried to deny it immediately, but Daniela had already made up her mind. How dare you associate me with that tasteless king’s brat. The one who kissed the back of my hand… How dare you, a man.
“… Think as you please. What matters is that an opportunity will come to you soon. An opportunity called chaos. ”
“Chaos… .”
“Chaos that will destroy the old order. The royal family.”
“But you see, you know. Is it right to join hands with that masked, sinister group?”
“It might be dangerous. But if you don’t do anything, nothing will change.”
Daniela stared into space, lost in thought. Karl’s engagement and her own feelings had all but faded into the background, as she was faced with more important and serious issues.
In fact, this is the fundamental reason why she secretly became dissatisfied with her desires, the reason why she longs for love. The heavy burden of being the daughter of a butler. The situation where she has to struggle alone in the unchanging structure of the world.
Her life, which she had no choice but to go with the flow, was like a calm lake.
I throw a stone to break the silence now. The sound of “Pongdang” resonates loudly inside her. The waves that spread across the surface will spread endlessly. To escape from the helpless present.
… I will thus remove this heroine from the sword.
Daniela frowned and clutched the book in her arms. Her distress seemed to deepen.
“Unknown was an unclean wizard.”
“……”
“You heard in the lecture hall, right? He uses magic that is close to black magic. The reason he killed the royal family in the first place was because they were enemies of humanity.”
This woman believes the lies of the saint and the duke. Like an idiot. No, everyone does. She believes only the words of the traitors and misunderstands us.
“… Do you believe that?”
“Yes?”
“History is the sole property of the victors. That’s what those who betrayed the royal family say. They must have needed a justification to justify their treason. What if they came up with a plausible reason? They were slandering the defeated royal family, saying they had no choice but to drive them out.”
“That, that’s… That’s what the saint said… .”
Christopher Maynor, I was impressed by the cunning of that wicked man.
“That’s what they were aiming for. They’re justifying their rebellion by relying on the authority of the church and the saint. No one would ever imagine that the holy church would lie.”
“Beatrice, you’re lucky I’m the only one here. You’re going beyond profane to sacrilegious.”
“I’m just being honest.”
Daniela laughed bitterly.
“The sin of deceiving humanity with black magic. Manipulating the subjects of the empire into slaves, and eventually turning all the people of the continent into puppets… How could that be possible?”
“……”
“I can’t believe it.”
Yes, ‘global mind control magic’, that’s our crime.
They say that we are terrible beings who take away people’s free will.
… .
They just say it.
Without knowing anything.
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