I Became the Father of a Degenerate Emperor

Episode 34. When alcohol goes in, wisdom goes out.

Episode 34. When alcohol goes in, wisdom goes out.

This is the Hall of Seven Wings.

Since you are sitting on the throne on the podium, you can see the vast hall at a glance.

I was sitting at an angle with my chin resting on the armrest, legs crossed.

In case you didn’t know, the secret palace was also leaned next to the throne.

Right next to it was the empress’s chair. It was lavishly decorated with various jewels and gold.

However, only a cold wind was blowing at Estill who was sitting there, and she didn’t even look at her until she sat down on the throne, as if she was sighing.

As a result, I was in a very painful state with intensely sad emotions.

Prime Minister Henri Carceau was standing under the podium, gazing straight ahead.

He didn’t look tired at all, even though he must have put in a lot of effort.

The hall was very bright, thanks to the dazzling sunlight pouring in through the large windows.

The golden pillars and huge statues lined up in rows by the window were also showing off their grandeur in the golden ringing.

The wonderful appearance naturally compelled piety, and no one spoke.

A long red carpet from the entrance.

Nobles were seated on the left and right.

Most of them had already sensed my change and were watching me carefully with disbelief.

Among them, you can also see Duke Shade, who is all black except for his face.

Now he was in the shape of an old man with a bent waist, but something seemed quite uncomfortable when he looked at his red-hot face.

With the exception of Bright and Aegis, the rest of the dukes stood behind Duke Shade.

All of them were staring at me with puzzled expressions.

Soon after, Marinene’s envoys entered and walked slowly, and after a while they stopped not too far away.

The man in the lead was talking with a cunning smile, but I wasn’t interested in that nonsense right now.

It was because the main character of the original work came to mind.

Elodie.

She was a mixed race, born of an elf father and a human mother. She

She looks like an ordinary human on the outside, but she is a genius among geniuses, surpassing even Kratus’ lineage in her ability to control mana.

Later, she leads the revolutionary army to the imperial palace and directly kills the emperor.

That’s why the title of the original novel was also ‘The Blade of Rebellion’.

At this point, she would have escaped with other children from being abused in an orphanage and wandering around the Empire.

If I had known the location of her orphanage, I might have gone to pick her up first.

It was because there was a need for early education to prepare for the future.

Perhaps the tragedy in the novel can be easily avoided by just being friends with the three princes.

Actually, Elodie was able to control her mana from a very young age, so it wasn’t too difficult for her to protect herself.

But that didn’t mean absolute strength.

She wanders around the Empire and loses one or two of the children she fled with, which eventually becomes the catalyst that accelerates her hatred for Kratus.

Then, at some point, I heard the Prime Minister’s voice.

“Your Majesty?”

The chancellor turned and looked at me. He was looking at me now, demanding an answer.

While thinking about something else for a while, Marinene must have said something.

I looked at each and every aspect of the Corps of Four without moving.

Among them, there were a number of stout-bodied and stern-looking people, who looked just like knights or mercenaries.

As I continued to look, I also found a man standing with a particularly desperate expression on his face.

An anguished face that doesn’t suit precious clothes at all.

Only pessimism remained speckled throughout his distorted expression.

That’s why he looked like someone who had been abandoned by his father.

Perhaps that man is the first prince of the kingdom of Marine.

If you can use the author, things might be easier than you think.

I said in a sullen voice, still holding my chin.

“Who is the Prince of Marinene? Come closer.”

A man shakes his shoulders in amazement at the word prince.

As expected, my guess wasn’t wrong.

He carefully checked the leader’s eyes.

Then, after checking his nodded head, he cautiously steps forward.

To move after receiving permission from a vassal was a humiliating treatment that a country’s legitimate prince should never have accepted.

That’s why the words suddenly come out without my knowledge.

“In Marinene, the prince seems to be seeking permission from his servants.”

At that unconventional mockery, the leader groaned and tried to make an excuse.

“That, it’s not like that… ….”

I couldn’t find the right answer, so I quickly blurted out the end of my words.

Then the prince’s footsteps came to a halt, and some of the people standing behind put their hands in his arms. He must have been holding something like a dagger.

They were going to assassinate the prince right away, if it was necessary.

Anyway, the Kingdom of Marine wants a war.

What they need is a justification for starting a war, so if the prince dies while having an audience with the emperor, that would be enough.

Unfortunately for them, the Chancellor had already predicted this situation.

I slowly raised one hand.

Then ten members of the Imperial Knights who were hiding behind the statue sprang out as if flying and drew their swords at once.

Sureung! Suseureung!

In the blink of an eye, the blade reached the neck of each member of the Shinigami.

The leader shouted with a puzzled face.

“We have a grim reaper! What do you mean?”

Some of the nobles of the empire also begged with anxious faces.

“Your Majesty, please fix it.”

“The thing that touches the god of death should never happen.”

I was definitely not wrong.

The moment you kill even one foreign envoy, you will completely lose the trust of the foreign country.

After that, no country would send envoys.

However, on this vast continent, no country was currently friendly to Kratus.

There was no trust left to lose in any country.

I said it sarcasticly with a smile on my face.

“I am really curious. Did you think that a crazy emperor who kills even loyalists would be saved because he was a death god?”

At that one word, the nobles of the empire and the envoys of Marine all became dumb.

I was shocked when I realized belatedly that no words would work for a madman.

“Or have you prepared some other way not to die?”

As soon as I chin, several of the Imperial Knights begin searching the bodies of the gods of death.

Rolled paper was found on several bodies, starting with the leader.

“Your Majesty, this is a teleportation scroll.”

If the prince died, they must have been thinking of running away with only me alive.

Besides, it would only be certain if the prince died after having an audience with the emperor, so he must have waited quietly all this time.

I couldn’t do it because it wasn’t a really elaborate plan. If it hadn’t been for the prime minister’s insight, I might have been unknowingly victimized as well.

But as a result of the chancellor’s foresight, the worst case of the death of the prince could have been avoided.

With that alone, Marinene’s cause for leading the war would be greatly shaken, and the solidarity of the kingdom union would also become unstable like a pavilion built on sand.

Cooperation will be difficult because they are trying to keep each other in check, and if you are lucky, the alliance may break or you may end up biting each other.

For their own benefit.

That is why justification was very important in war.

But now that I think about it, it didn’t matter to me whether they had a just cause or not, or whether their solidarity was solid.

Because I have the surest way to prevent war.

Of course, it all depended on Max.

“Bind all the envoys and put them in prison.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

After the Imperial Knights responded with a booming voice, the guards entered as if they had been waiting.

But at that moment, something strange happened.

“Please save me!”

“Please kill me!”

Two conflicting answers.

“You can’t treat a god of death like this!”

“Please kill me on the spot!”

Someone was crying out for help, and someone else started crying out for death.

Even the prince was crying and begging.

I beg you, please kill me.

I was curious. Probably everyone here was curious.

“Why do you want to die?”

A man right behind the prince spoke in a trembling voice.

“My family is being held hostage. If we do not die, my wife and daughter will suffer.”

To hold his family hostage and drive his servant to death.

At this level, Marinene’s king might be no different from her mad emperor.

But I had another question.

Even though his servants do, why the hell does the prince want to die?

“If so, why does the prince want to die?”

The prince of Marinene started to look around the nobles of the empire without any answer.

And after a while, she said with a stern expression.

“Among the nobles of the empire, there are many who are attached to Marinene. I can’t say anything in front of them.”

In other words, it meant that if Marinene had no one to confess to, he would tell the story.

Then one of the nobles suddenly roared.

“How dare you talk nonsense about safety!”

Soon after, several other nobles followed suit and shouted.

“That’s right, trying to antagonize the enemy, the Prince of Marinene, in Kratus’s palace!”

“Your Majesty, we must decapitate him immediately.”

First of all, three people stepped out without fear.

Unfortunately, the territory of all three was close to the kingdom of Marine.

I wonder if at least one person has a line attached to Marinene.

As soon as I chin, the imperial knights rushed in and fell to their knees at once.

“Your Majesty! Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

I cut off the words of those who argue.

“Thoroughly investigate allegations of colluding with Marine.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

With just this, even the hidden snitch would have to give up.

I looked at the prince of Marinene again.

“Is this enough? So now answer my question. Why are you trying to die?”

The prince looked very surprised.

It seems that he didn’t know that I would take action right away.

“Currently, His Highness the King of Marinene has been poisoned and is in a situation where she is on the brink of death. I was threatened to take my father’s life if I didn’t go to Kratus and die.”

“Then, whose decision was it to send the envoys?”

“Poisoning His Highness, poisoning the first queen, who is my mother, and sending out such ridiculous envoys to start a war are all the fault of the second queen, Melissa.”

“How far have the war preparations progressed?”

“In three days, all the kingdoms surrounding the empire will start attacking at once. In addition, the countries along the coast of Pasus will send troops, so the fall of the empire is already a fait accompli.”

A great commotion arose among the nobles upon hearing those words.

“Three days later… ….”

“Oh my God… ….”

“What was Duke Shade doing without knowing this fact?”

Even in the face of such ominous news, the dukes didn’t move a single bit. It was a cold-hearted analysis of the situation.

As expected, it could be said to be the six wings that support the empire.

The prince went on with his words.

“The coalition of kingdoms that have occupied the empire will eventually split apart and bite each other. In order to share even a little more of the empire’s land. And the war, once ignited, will burn more and more and destroy everything.”

“If this war could be prevented, and if you could poison your father, what would you do?”

The prince asked with a surprised expression.

“You mean you can do that?”

I just nodded once.

“If that is indeed possible, I will offer my courtesy to Your Majesty.”

“Does that mean that she will take Marinene with her own hands?”

“There is no hope for me right now anyway, so if a miracle happens, there is nothing I can’t do.”

If you do well, it might be possible to subjugate the Kingdom of Marine to the Empire without much trouble.

Of course, Duke Shade’s help was definitely needed in the process.

*

Duke Shade was full of confidence until he entered the Hall of Seven Wings.

It was because even then he was less sober.

Actually, she was in a bad mood last night.

It was because seeing the emperor, the affectionate image of her with the empress did not leave his mind.

So she didn’t even have time to savor the scent of wine. I just wanted to swallow it and get drunk quickly.

So, she and the emperor drank wine over fever.

Even the wine she brought was quite strong, so the emperor fell asleep shortly thereafter. And she, too, soon reached a state of intoxication.

After that, she continued to drink wine alone.

As she looked at the Emperor in her mood, her well-hidden desire erupted like an active volcano.

‘I want to sit next to him, even just once. I want to lean my head on his shoulder.’

So, going to the seat next to the emperor and leaning my head against it just once was enough, my eyes slowly closed and I fell asleep.

Yes. I was drinking until that point, so I was able to cover it somehow.

But even after waking up alone on the couch in the morning, she was still awake.

She was still in a state where her mind was excited and her brain was controlled by her mysterious coming.

So she couldn’t make the right decision.

As a result, he even wrote such a terrible memo.

With her brain drenched in wine, she had no idea how such a record would make her look and what kind of misunderstandings it would create.

That’s how things went wrong.

I swear to heaven, I had no intention of causing any misunderstanding between the emperor and the empress.

Everything was just a mistake caused by alcohol.

Moreover, the emperor, ignorant of the circumstances, might consider himself a madman.

‘Damn it! Is war important right now?’

I’m so ashamed that I don’t think about cooling off my face.