How to Live as a Tyrant’s Spoiled Brat Chapter 43

How to live as a tyrant’s spoiled brat Episode 42

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The waterway was deeper than most basements.

The only light there was a pale green glow from the luminescent moss.

The god of the Gwangmyeong Church is likened to the sun or light, so the places where light does not reach are places where the eyes of the god cannot reach.

This was the underground sewer where the scoundrels of the royal family, nobles, and the underworld of the capital ran wild, and where the corrupt plotted their plots in the labyrinthine darkness.

“Huh, huh?”

“oh my god.”

“Oh, light.”

Dazzling sunlight poured into the culvert.

From the collapsed ceiling, rubble, brick fragments, and boulders of all sizes rained down.

“Ugh!”

One eroder was crushed by a huge amount of sediment and disappeared.

“Whoa!”

I staggered back, blocking the bricks that were falling on Rudy’s head.

“Your Majesty! Are you alright?”

“Lord Tentia. Step back. It could collapse even further!”

Tentia Kyung stepped back, blocking the falling bricks with her body.

The strange bugs and worms that had clung to her plate armor had all been transformed into chunks of flesh.

“Your Majesty. What just happened?”

Sir Tentia, who was standing close to me, asked.

“A miracle happened in answer to the prayers of a faithful believer.”

She knelt down on the spot and prayed with a look of emotion in her eyes.

Sereraji frowned and sighed as if she didn’t like it.

“He is also indifferent. He leaves the truth that I must pursue to the author.”

Rudy, who was not a mana user, could not even see the light properly and had an expression of ecstasy.

“Valen, come and bask in the light.”

Just by touching the light, the scars and erosion of the contamination disappeared along with the feeling of being healed.

In the middle of that pillar of light stood Mateos.

“Let me be your fire, your hammer.”

Her curly, light brown hair was dyed from the roots to a glossy black, darker than ebony.

The deep and kind brown eyes turned into a stern black with a fierce look.

His height, which was similar to mine, was now about half a span taller, so his wrists and ankles were sticking out beyond the sleeves of his cassock and the bottom of his trousers, which had previously fit him perfectly.

The impression that reminded me of a faithful and kind turtle dove also changed.

The determination in his dark eyes now reminded him of a hawk rather than a dove.

I looked at that sight and let out a sigh of awe and joy.

The Black Saint, La Mateos Tomor.

It was the birth of a saint whose mere presence in the capital added strength to the legitimacy of the Jaylilith.

I gave him a push on the back just in time.

Surely God would not let a future saint die in a sewer like this.

“O ungodly one.”

Mateos blurted out something as if he had read my mind.

Just that syllable made the surrounding lower-level eroders tremble in pain.

The eroder priests who had been assisting with the ritual in the waterway opposite us had either already fled or were suffering without even the slightest intention of running away.

I thought I saw yellow eyes behind one of the masks.

It was clearly royalty.

“shit!”

Cheeeeeeeeeeek!

As I was swearing, I could smell the burning meat.

As our wounds were purified and healed, the bodies of the lesser eroders were burned.

“Kkaaaaaaah!”

“Why, why, why!”

Leaving them screaming behind, Mateos approached his old friend.

A giant vomit-colored slime shaped like a polyhedron with 60 vertices also burned in the light surrounding Mateos.

But Dismas did not back down, even though he was in pain.

“You know we failed once, right?”

“It started with good intentions. It went through good processes. But the results were disastrous.”

“If you were here with me. If you saw everything. If you saw the young nobles burning down the shelter! Would you say that it was also the light’s intention to test our faith?”

With each word Dismas uttered, a spiky spider leg sprouted from his back.

“It was not a mistake of light, but ours. If the result was not right, it must mean that the process was wrong. We should have known that they lived lives that were as prone to compromise with evil as they were to good nature. Relief alone was not enough. Guidance and self-reliance had to be achieved simultaneously.”

“Why was our good will not repaid? Why did not light shine on that street? The lack of light brought me here!”

Eight eyes began to sprout like corn on his forehead.

“That’s not it, Dismas. That’s not it. It wasn’t the light that was lacking, it was us.”

Mateos looked at him with sad, determined eyes.

Wherever those eyes touched, white flames burned.

The flames burned the bodies of the vomit-colored mutant slimes and freed those captured as sacrifices.

The wounds of the child whose tendons had been cut to prevent him from running away began to heal, and the polluted spirit beside the invaders was purified with a single burn.

“Lord Tentia. Go and drag them out.”

I said, barely overcoming the shock of witnessing the royal encroacher.

Now that Jaylilith’s concerns have become reality, there’s no telling how big the aftermath will be.

“yes?”

“We worked hard to save them, so we can’t just let them all drown in water, right?”

Me, Rudy, and Tentia ran in a hurry to save the people who had fallen from the vomit-colored slime.

Meanwhile, I kept a close eye on Mateos and Dismas.

Dismas’ spider eyes and legs burned and shriveled when touched by Mateos’ light.

He reached out with one hand and took Dismas’ hand.

White flames spread and Dismas’ hand began to burn.

“Kkaaaak!”

Black smoke rose thickly from his hand.

Dismas, who was trembling, spat out in a faint voice.

“Mattheus, my brother, I have one last thing to say.”

As the black smoke cleared, a bit of fire seemed to return to his eyes.

“I will listen.”

Even the gaze of Mateos, who had been so firm, became softer.

At that moment, I handed over the child I had just pulled up to Sir Tentia and, kicking off the edge of the canal, rushed towards Dismas’ side.

“Listen, what are you talking about?”

Crunch!

I grabbed the sharp spider legs that were quickly emerging from behind Dismas’s robes with all my might.

Phu, phuk, phu!

Only after I caught it did I realize that it had a hard shell with numerous thorns.

But without slowing down, he pulled out a dagger from his waist and stabbed Dismas in the neck.

Normally, it wouldn’t have been able to eat even a single seed without the Mana Blade, but the body of the bastard, from which a considerable amount of black smoke had escaped, was so weak that even my power as Sword Expert could pierce through it.

“uh.”

Mateos looked at me in confusion.

When he saw the spider leg in my hand, his expression was a mixture of self-reproach and anger.

‘The memory remains the same. The perspective just changes.’

I think he remembered what I said.

At that moment, I quickly kicked the red heart whistle that Dismas had summoned and sent it towards Sereraji who was standing behind me.

I swear it was footwork like Mateos had never seen before.

Now it was time to fall.

with a plop!

I held on to the spider leg that was sticking out of Dismas’s back and stuck my dagger into his neck, and we both fell down to the sewer intersection.

* * *

“Lord Valen! Please don’t do that again! Why are you stepping forward when there is a saint!”

Rudy swore at me as I covered myself with the blanket.

I raised both hands above my head and bowed my head several times.

As we climbed up above the collapsed sewer intersection, we encountered a huge crowd of people.

The police and soldiers who came running out of breath controlled the surrounding area, the Black Iron Knights sent by Jaylilith jumped down into the underground water to catch the escaped encroachers, and the priests and paladins of the church knelt before Mateos.

“I saw a pillar of light.”

“Oh, noble one.”

“Be obedient, all of you! For this is the promise and the voice of the Lord.”

A man with curly black hair, determined black eyes, a shining stigmata engraved on his forehead, the fire of God and the hammer of God, still with a bit of boyish charm.

The Burning Man, the Black Saint, Mateos Tomor.

He was a precious person who would burn all the local invaders in the name of God on behalf of Jaylilith in the future.

When the old priests, whom he had only seen from afar as a seminarian, gathered around him, bowing their heads, he looked quite embarrassed and floundered in an uncharacteristic manner.

Then he looked at me for a moment, then nodded with a determined expression on his face.

I don’t know if he meant to thank me for not letting him kill his friend with his own hands, or if he meant to thank me for letting him know that he couldn’t coexist with an invader who was always looking to betray him until the last moment.

I think maybe it’s both, maybe it’s neither.

I glanced at Mateos’ back as he disappeared toward the central church, surrounded by high priests, and muttered quietly.

“The reason I came forward when there was a saint was because I had to pay off a debt to that saint. There were also two things I had to smuggle out.”

Sir Tentia walked away, dragging Dismas’ mutated corpse.

She exchanged some words with the senior knights of the Black Iron Knights and the Platinum Knights, then nodded in satisfaction and handed Dismas’ mutant body over to the senior knight of the Black Iron Knights.

“I’ll go in first. My eyes are tired because there are priests everywhere. You work harder.”

“Okay, sister. Go in ‘carefully.’”

Sereraji smiled and put a fist-sized lump wrapped in cloth into the inside pocket of his robe.

I thought I saw a red color shining like ruby.

Rudy’s mouth opened wide.

“Lord Valen. That… … .”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

“And Lord Tentia… … .”

“We went through all the hardships, and the saint woke up and solved everything. This can’t be happening. We have to take something with us.”

Rudy’s green eyes widened and he looked like he didn’t know what to say.

“You packed everything you needed to pack and left.”

“Of course it should be like that.”

This was all about me and Jaylillis eating well and living well.

“Let’s go back quickly too.”

“Is something urgent?”

“I have to report to His Majesty, and if I delay any longer, I might end up having to shoulder the cost of restoring the groundwater.”

“Huh? No, this is the light.”

“Administrators believe in light, but administration does not believe in light.”

Rudy stuck out his tongue.

“That’s what you worry about.”

“King Tentia. Welcome!”

* * *

“I heard that Grand Duke Valen blew up the culvert.”

“Do you know what they were doing there?”

“I don’t know. I’m sure he was up to some dirty and filthy plot. Something like selling drugs, buying people, selling them, or hiding corpses.”

“If we look at the eroders found inside and the saint defeating them, it seems that… … .”

“Even if he was a scoundrel, he probably wouldn’t have touched the erosion. Then, did Your Majesty let him live?”

“You don’t know? Maybe he thought he could leave it to the saint to be purified and kept it.”

“Rather than that, I am truly glad that the saint was born. How many decades has it been since then?”

“You were born just one year after His Majesty Jaylilith ascended the throne… … It seems as if the light is blessing His Majesty.”

“Hey! You bastard. No matter what, you’re blessing a murderer who killed his father, mother, and siblings. You must have sent him to restrain him instead! Did you get paid by any chance?”

“No, why are you saying that?”

My vacation ended with such rumors spreading throughout the capital.

Dressed in my white uniform, I headed to the audience room to report my return.

A place where huge pillars over 25 meters high stand on both sides, and the floor is paved with marble and colorful crystals.

The audience room has a dark blue ceiling and thousands of candles hanging from glass lanterns.

It was a place where looking at the flickering candles made me feel like I was looking at the night sky.

Jaylilith, sitting on a throne high above the stage, was looking down at me and smiling sadistically.

The black dress with gold embroidery matched the atmosphere of the audience room.

“You did a great job.”

“I didn’t know it would get this big.”

“I originally wanted to draw attention to the occupiers. That way, I could clean up the slums and red-light districts and restore order to the capital under the pretext of eradicating them. But now, everyone in the capital is busy talking about the saint.”

“Your Majesty, I could not have predicted that the stigmata would suddenly descend upon a seminarian.”

Jaylilith nodded as if to say that it was true.

“Yes, Jim didn’t expect that either. I can’t blame you.”

Besides, she continued, her voice cracking.

“It’s true that you found the den of the predators, so you deserve credit. And since you were on vacation, you should be given a generous reward.”

The attendant came to me and tied a red belt embroidered with gold thread on me.

“Your Majesty. What is this?”

The red band symbolized military power and the right to arms.

“I grant you 100 gold coins and the right to use magic weapons, and the right to permit the use of magic weapons. I heard that you have a deep wound in your thigh. Wear good armor and make sure that such a thing does not happen again.”

“Your kindness is truly infinite.”

I thought about Rudy’s gun for a moment.

Perhaps you heard the report from Lord Tentia.

I gave him a magic gun to give him the power to resist the invaders, but if you asked me how I managed to get it wrapped up tightly even in the magic tower, I would have been speechless, but it ended well.

thank god.

As I let out a sigh of relief, Jaylilith gestured as if to bring up the subject.

Clank, clank, clank, the joint rings that wrapped around the long fingers like gauntlets moved in a ripple-like motion.

“Rumors are spreading that you are an encroacher. Do you know that?”

“It is all because of your immoral beliefs.”

“You know very well.”

Well, I had nothing to say.

“It’s not necessarily a bad thing that the story about the royal family and the invaders is coming out. It’s the best excuse to keep them in check, who might mutate without you knowing it.”

The attendant approached once again.

He was carrying a thick envelope of documents.

“I would like to take this opportunity to cut off this long and tiresome lineage.”

“What should I do first?”

“Take all the illegitimate children with your sister. I plan to move after cutting out all the variables.”