episode_0140

After eating with Agrippa, I go out and walk around the city center.

-The Grand Duke, step down! Go away!

-The Grand Duke, return to the Grand Duchy!

Agrippa’s face turns pale at the sight of the imperial people marching through the streets.

“Your Highness the Archduke… What is this?”

“How about it? Isn’t it fun? That’s the protest I made.”

When I laugh at that, Agrippa turns his head and looks at me with a blank expression.

“Grand Duke… This is a protest organized by His Highness?”

-Nod.

“Yes. Because there is opposition from the people of the empire. There were 100 more controllable protests than uncontrollable protests, right?”

“What… strange logic is this?”

I say, ignoring the frozen Agrippa.

“Shall we follow that too? Come here. I’ll show you something more interesting.”

I say so and join the protesters, raise my right hand and shout.

-The vicious traitor must step down! Go away!

“Bad traitors, step down! Go away!”

“Ah… vicious… half… but… what is this?”

I giggle and say this to Agrippa, who cannot bear to repeat the radical slogans next to me and speaks softly to me.

“What is it? You’re protesting.”

The person they are overthrowing is me. Let me join in and protest… Agrippa’s pupils shake.

“Ho… Have you ever developed a mental illness?”

Are my actions that bizarre?

“No, not at all?”

As they calmly chanted slogans and headed towards Roman Square, Agrippa and I followed along, and a huge stage was set up in Roman Square.

A familiar person appears above it.

-iced coffee! everyone! Can you hear me well?!

-I can hear you well!

-Wow!

Although he is quite far away, his voice and appearance resemble Lucius.

I wonder if I’m the only one who thinks that way…

“Huh? That person…? Lucius?”

Agrippa also has a puzzled expression.

Lucius… why is he there?

I heard you have an important meeting today? Is that the gathering that condemns me?

“Haha… This is ridiculous.”

When I think like that. Lucius continued speaking in a loud voice.

-My name is Lucius and I work at the Archduchy. everyone!

-Why did the Archduke’s dog appear here?! Get out of here!

-Wooo~!

As soon as he revealed his affiliation with the Grand Duke, the audience started booing.

-Now… wait! Even though I am in the Grand Duke, I am being exploited by the Grand Duke!

The booing stops for a moment at Lucius’ heartfelt words.

-My parents own a small arms shop at 134 Fifth Avenue. This is probably a store that everyone around here knows. From a young age, I was good at studying, so my parents spent a lot of money to send me to the academy, so I was able to graduate with the last class.

And then Lucius opens his mouth immediately.

-Then, the Grand Duke Ministry told me that they were hiring people, so I applied and was selected. At that time, I thought the joy of my life had come. But that wasn’t it. Grand study. That place is no different from a torture chamber. A torture room where they cruelly torture me every day, without sleep, and overloading me with work. I work 18 hours a day at the Grand Duke’s Office, working overtime and all night long like crazy!

-My teeth tremble as I see the Grand Duke being treated like an animal. The Grand Duke is abusing us, making us civil servants of the Grand Duke work day and night, making them do ridiculous things!

The hall becomes quiet at Lucius’ words.

-everyone! Even if I hate the Archduke, I won’t hate him as much as I hate him! Do you know how much I want to kill the Archduke? Subject younger than me! Everyone, you have a high title and a job that is close to torturing people! Do you know why there are not enough people in the Ministry of Education? That crazy, evil archduke… war has broken out and he’s trying to stop us and kill us! everyone! Do you know why you can’t eat everything you want? Do you know why you suffer from hair loss? All of this is because of the Grand Duke! everyone! You are my hope! I wonder how much my hair is falling out because of that wicked archduke…

As the gossip about me takes a slightly strange turn… the people behind Lucius subdue him.

“Let go! I still have so much to say to let this go!”

Even on the way down, I wonder if a lot of things have accumulated in me…

“Please kick out that damn bastard who will burn me in hell!”

-What is he saying now?

-That’s right. Aren’t you elite if you’re studying majors?

-Have you gone crazy from working too much?

I want… It’s not like I’m watching some kind of black comedy movie…

When I think like that.

Goran stands on stage and speaks.

“Da… The next person to speak is Professor Engels, Professor of Philosophy at the Academy. Please come up quickly.”

As the atmosphere cools down, the next person is urgently called in.

A man with gray hair that sticks out in all directions as if he doesn’t wash it often, and a long white beard that gives the overall rounded look.

He stands on the podium and speaks.

[Workers of the world! Unite!]

As soon as I heard those words, I ran to the black carriage on the main street.

“Hey! Karl! How on earth do you work?!”

I scream when I see Carol leisurely drinking coffee in the carriage!

“Yes? What is it?”

“Who told the protesters to bring in communists like that?!”

[everyone! The workers have no homeland! Until our working class takes over the empire, we are all family!]

“What is a communist?”

I shout, looking at Carol who looks embarrassed by my words.

“Catch that bastard and throw him in the palace dungeon!”

Where are you trying to spread communism here?!

“Yes?!”

no. Since we are currently protesting… rather than taking such drastic actions…

“Tell the intelligence agency agent to kidnap that bastard when he goes home!”

As someone who knows how scary the communist revolution is, I want to catch that bastard and throw him in jail right now…

Then I thought it would get really extreme so I did it when no one was around. He ordered the kidnapping and headed to Agrippa…

“Huh? Oppa?”

“Brother-in-law?”

“How are you doing here?”

I ran into Mary and Joey.

How did it come out?

All members of the royal family currently in the imperial palace cannot leave the palace.

This is because Ioanes could attempt assassination again, and it would be difficult if he kidnapped Joy, Theodora, or his mother-in-law and held them hostage.

Moreover, it is difficult to say that public security is good because there are protests going on right now…

When you think like that.

Mary comes forward and speaks.

“Oppa, don’t say anything to Joy. Because I asked you to come out. You really don’t think that something dangerous will happen to Joey when I’m here, do you?”

Well, there’s a monster like that hanging around. It won’t be dangerous.

When I think like that.

“Mary? Hello princess.”

Agrippa leaves the square and says hello to Mary and Joy.

[everyone! This society is wrong!]

-What is he saying now?! Quickly, bring that crazy guy out!

-What nonsense are you talking about?! Aren’t you scared of El?!

[Religion is the opiate of the people. We must liberate ourselves from the nobility and property owners who monopolize the means of production.]

-Ooooh! Get out and die!

-Get out!

That’s right… They live in the city of Romania, and if you look at the entire empire… they can be seen as the bourgeois class.

Preaching communism in front of people like that?

This is a person who does not know reality.

Still, we cannot allow communism to spread here.

We must kidnap that bastard.

“Hehe? Did you see anything interesting over there? Sister, shall we go there?”

When Joey becomes curious about the noise coming from the square, Agrippa smiles awkwardly and says,

“Princess. You must not leave the imperial palace. merry? Let’s take the princess and go to the imperial palace. And you know I’m leaving today, right?”

“Chet. I can’t believe I’m saying this because it’s been a while since I’ve seen you…”

Joey’s eyes widen at Agrippa’s words.

“Uh… Sister? Where? Where are you going?!”

Mary seems embarrassed by Joy’s words, lightly scratching her cheek with her finger.

“Me? Going to the battlefield?”

“Uh…?”

Joey doesn’t understand what Mary says.

Her red eyes tremble violently.

It was as if he had never imagined it.

“Sister? Why go to the battlefield? It’s dangerous there, right?”

Mary shrugs her shoulders at Joey’s words.

“It’s dangerous, though. I’m also a knight, right?”

“That… Still your brother-in-law? What should my brother-in-law say? A battlefield.”

Mary and Agrippa are the main characters in this war.

Besides, I am the one being sent to the battlefield.

To be honest, I don’t want to send her away either… but I think I have to send Mary to protect Agrippa and to avoid any possible danger.

No matter what anyone says. Because she is the strongest general in the empire.

So I try to come forward and speak, but Mary stretches out her hand in front of me and says,

“I’m sorry, Joy. It was fun so far. Because I will come again later. Don’t look so sad.”

“Unni…”

-Suddenly.

Joey, who is taller than Mary, hugs her tightly.

Who would look at that and think Mary is her older sister?

“Hi… Do you have to go?”

“Yes, I will go and kill Ioanes and then come back. So just wait.”

“Sniff…”

In the end, Joy can’t hold back her tears and cries.

And that evening.

After taking Mary and Agrippa to the port, Joey and the two head to the imperial palace.

“Sniff… My brother-in-law is too much. How can you send such cute and fragile Mary… to the battlefield?”

I don’t know if it’s cute, but it’s not fragile.

It makes me wonder what kind of weak woman would throw her to the ground after hearing words that even a grown man couldn’t hear, but that’s how she says it.

“Well… even if he looks like that, he’s the strongest military officer in the empire, right? Don’t worry too much. Mary is strong.”

Joy wiped her tears with a handkerchief after hearing my words.

“Still… what if I get hurt?”

It hurts…

In the original work, Mary received a large scar on her face during a fight with demons.

Well, there aren’t any demons in this war, so I don’t think there will be any.

“You don’t have to worry, it’s okay.”

“Heeing…”

A thought comes to mind as I see Joy crying.

I was trying to get Ioanes’ son to marry me. Don’t you know that?

You already know Theodora and your mother-in-law. When I see him acting so warmly, I think it’s because he doesn’t know, so I start the conversation cautiously.

“That… Joy. Didn’t you hear that?”

Joy questions what I said.

“What are you talking about?”

“I was going to get you and Ioanes’ son engaged.”

Joy says, her red eyes blinking at my words.

“I heard.”

Unlike Theodora, who heard this news, and her mother-in-law who came to visit after hearing the news, Joey was puzzled and continued speaking as he spoke casually.

“Don’t you hate me?”

Joy says, looking slightly troubled by my words.

“I don’t hate it. And… a lot of noble women get married by convenience, right?”

Rather, Joy is calm.

“Of course… I’m a bit disappointed that I promised an engagement without my knowledge… but hasn’t it already broken off?”

It’s stronger than I thought…

“That’s right, it broke down.”

As Joy said, the war with Ioanes had already broken out and the engagement was over.

Of course, you could argue that it would be valid if Ioanes won, but there is no way for him to win.

Rather, I am concerned that the imperial faction is still alive and well because it won so overwhelmingly.

“Then I don’t care. You don’t have to worry about your brother-in-law either.”

Seeing Joy smiling with a tear-dried face… my heart aches.