How to Live as a Tyrant’s Spoiled Brat Chapter 15

How to live as a tyrant’s spoiled brat Episode 15

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One of the knight’s virtues was his cruelty.

Some might call it mercy, but he was half right and half wrong.

The knight’s mercy was given only to those who surrendered.

It was very important for a knight to grind down his enemies so that they would not dare to rebel and so that even his enemies would be in a state of mercy.

And Sir Tentia was a knight among knights who had received an elite education.

Bam! The toe of the iron-plated combat boot mercilessly plunged into the stomach of the embezzler’s attendant.

“Ouch! Aaaah! Aaaah!”

“Hold on. If your abdominal muscles give out, your peritoneum will rip. Then you’ll have to call a blood mage or a priest. You know that. You can’t call someone like that here.”

Even at the screams of the innocent-looking boy, Sir Tentia did not even blink an eye.

It was understandable, considering that the most noble and lofty job one could achieve in the empire with just one sword was almost lost due to a single false accusation.

‘Should I stop now? It looks like a few ribs have definitely been broken.’

Valencianus frowned and worried.

At that moment, Banton gave Valencian a venomous look.

Valencian winked at Tentia.

“Your Majesty. The sinner’s eyes are alive. It seems he still does not want mercy.”

“Yes, Your Highness. I thought so too. I will show you the dignity of platinum.”

Tentia, who said so, lifted her heel.

“Eek!”

“Grit your teeth.”

The beatings continued until fellow knights entered the quarters.

“Sir! Hold on!”

“First of all, we need to get a confession!”

“Let go of the desire to live! Let go of the desire to live!”

Two fellow knights and one senior knight held back the blinded Sir Tentia.

“You must let me interrogate you!”

“Are you really angry? But it’s not knightly to vent your anger like this.”

“Isn’t it because of that guy that our Platinum Knights almost lost control of the West Palace to the Black Iron Knights?”

“… … Fold it in half.”

The senior knight slapped the half-ton cheek that was being raised by his own hands.

“Die!”

“kyung!”

This time, Valencianus had no choice but to intervene.

“I’m sorry, Your Highness. I got excited.”

“I know this is very important to you. Please punish that sinner severely. Do not fall for the tongue of that devil.”

“Yes, I understand.”

“Ah. I heard the nib was already sold. It seems he was just a low-level person who was in charge of execution.”

“!”

My eyelids flinched as the sagging half-ton was dragged away.

Sir Tentia met the eyes of the senior knight.

“I hate to say this, but.”

She spoke first. Valencian had a rough idea of what it meant.

“If the pen tip flows into the back alleys of the capital, it is virtually impossible to recover it.”

Nod. The senior knight nodded.

Sir Tentia continued, looking back and forth between Valencianus and the senior knight.

“He embezzled public funds for entertainment and even touched the imperial relics. I guess that’s the right way to look at it.”

“Put a bounty on it, but give up the chase. How long can something that can’t be melted or resold stay hidden? It won’t be long before it comes back.”

“Let’s focus on exposing the corruption in the West Palace.”

“That’s right. Let’s not waste our energy on relics that we can’t even find.”

The senior knight and Sir Tentia had an off-and-on conversation.

It was an act that could be seen as manipulating the direction in front of the emperor’s blood relatives.

But Valencian just laughed.

With this, I was able to repay the debt to Tentia.

Besides, you need to have that level of guts to be called a tyrant’s knight.

‘Everything went well.’

For now, Rudy should be safe.

Valencian was satisfied with the two knights’ thoughtful conclusion.

The nib of the quill pen was a rare magical tool.

The use of finding secret passages in enemy forts has always been appealing.

However, the Empire had such overwhelming military power that it no longer needed to find and attack its opponent’s secret passages.

Its performance was not good enough to even create maps as intended.

Unlike ancient times, we now live in an era where wyverns can be tamed to fly through the sky and detailed maps can be created without magic.

It was a precious relic, but it wasn’t something worth obsessing over.

Since everyone knew that it was an imperial relic, it was obvious that no force would be able to use it openly.

There was a force suspected to be behind it, but it was not someone to be messed with right now.

“Lord Tentia.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“I’ll invite you back when this is over. Let’s have some wine that we haven’t had yet.”

“Then I will also bring some good alcohol.”

“I’ll wait.”

Valencian stepped out of the maids’ quarters.

I saw a familiar brown hair.

Rudy was waiting for him with his coachman by the garden.

“You came in bravely. It must be thanks to bringing Lord Tentia,” he muttered, and climbed into the carriage.

“Go to sleep. It’s all over.”

The carriage headed towards the Red Moon Palace.

I noticed the coachman yawning repeatedly.

I don’t think I’ll cause an accident while driving while drowsy, right? Valencian bit his lip.

“What happened to Banton?”

Then Rudy asked casually. Valencianus answered nonchalantly.

“I was beaten to death by Lord Tentia. I won’t be treated well because I’ve been treated as evil as I can. I think I’ll die in prison before the death sentence is handed down.”

Even the quality of the prison in the palace is extremely miserable.

“… … .”

Rudy made a strange expression.

“Is it on your mind?”

“No. I just thought that you can never know what’s inside a person.”

“okay.”

“Did he ever think of me as a friend?”

“There are some guys who think they can use us because we’re their friends.”

“yes?”

“There are a lot of weird people in the world. Don’t worry too much about each one.”

Valencian recalled his past life when he was 56 years old.

It’s only been two months since I returned, but it feels like a long time ago.

Sometimes it felt like I wasn’t regressing, but rather had a precognitive dream.

‘Just because my body has grown younger, has my mind also grown younger?’

But even in those blurry memories, there was an image as clear as a flame.

These were the people who mainly showered him with looks of resentment and curses.

And Valencian, the tyrant’s beloved favorite, kicked them into the pit of hellfire without batting an eye.

He was a man who lived with a burden to the emperor that he could never repay.

Considering that, he may have really been the ‘weird guy’ since he did such things without any sense of guilt.

‘Because I chose it.’

Rooney looked at the face of His Highness the Grand Duke, who was three years younger than him.

Suddenly, he felt endlessly reminiscent.

It wasn’t the expression of a man with a childish and strange desperation coexisting behind his seemingly artificial frivolity.

She had seen that face from a distance a few times.

Veteran knights who returned from countless wars made that kind of expression at the drinking table.

“Your Highness?”

“Uh, uh.”

“Why are you like that?”

“No. I was just thinking about something else. I was wondering whether to go to Hope Casino or Future Casino tomorrow.”

“majesty!”

* * *

But I couldn’t go to the casino.

As soon as the sun rose, the Platinum Knights stormed into the room in the Red Moon Palace.

“Your Majesty. What is this?”

“… … .”

The knights remained silent.

They all wore helmets with their faces covered, making it impossible to read their expressions.

“Your Highness. Is there something you’ve done that I don’t know about?”

Rudy’s green eyes trembled like aspen trees.

I haven’t had any accidents recently.

Is it because of the half tone?

There are too many people here to just listen to the situation.

There were eight knights who appeared to be at least as skilled as Sir Tentia.

I reflexively checked their chest epaulets.

A platinum full moon badge. It means Sword Expert High-Level.

A ‘real’ knight who can freely use the Mana Blade.

They were capable of single-handedly putting down even the most serious of rebellions.

They were not the type of people who would be mobilized for a minor incident like embezzlement.

“!”

I moved my frozen hands and called Rudy.

“majesty?”

“Help me change my clothes.”

“yes?”

“Even if I were to get dragged out by chance, I wouldn’t be dragged out in my pajamas.”

I took off my clothes without hesitation.

The knights did not turn their eyes, and I was not ashamed of their gaze.

It was quite common for men of high status to show themselves to those of lower status.

I put on the shirt and pants Rudy had given me, put on my fancy uniform, and put some thick perfume on my hair.

As I was putting the ring proving my title of Grand Duke on my thumb, I heard a familiar sound of footsteps.

“Okay.” The chief attendant of the main palace stopped and began a solemn and dignified introduction in a low voice.

“The ruler of the five races, the youngest sword master in history, and the great wizard acknowledged by the Ivory Tower Lord!”

no.

wait for a sec.

“Owner of the Eternally Frozen Mountains, the Giant Desert, the Golden Octo, the Dragon Archipelago, the Steel Valley, and the Giant Forest!”

This is not it.

“Platinum, silver, brass, and black iron. The ladies of the four knights!”

Why are you coming here?

This never happened before the regression.

“You are the lord of the Golden Throne and the 47th Soletaras!”

A clattering sound of footsteps was heard.

Although his gait was light, unlike the knights’, his presence was greater than that of any of the knights gathered in the room.

The attendant shouted one last time.

“Bring your Majesty the Emperor Jaylilith!”

Rudy, his face turning blue, fainted.

I quickly helped her up and hid her behind the bed.

At the same time my sister stepped into the room.

Jaylilith was wearing a golden brush as dark as my eyes over a thin white dress.

With every step she took, her long, white thighs would repeatedly move in and out of the hem of her dress.

Her platinum hair was dazzling and her golden eyes sparkled like a dragon’s.

The candles hanging on the wall and the sun outside the window seemed to have lost their light.

“Your Majesty the Emperor! May you live long and prosper.”

I knelt on the floor and bowed my head.

As they are the closest blood relatives, there was no need to be so polite.

But now I was really scared.

From lust, embezzlement, assault, binge drinking, to eating too much.

Even though I had done things that were beyond my control in my past life, she never came to see me.

Surely you didn’t get caught? This can’t happen because of a maid.

He was an emperor who would cut off anyone’s head if he thought they had deceived him.

Even she found it cute that her deviations were motivated by affection rather than desire.

So, in order to avenge my lord, I allowed the maid who poisoned his wine to commit suicide.

So please.

“Archduke Valencian.”

It was a voice that seemed to know a lot.

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“Get up. I didn’t come here to look at the back of your head and your back.”

I immediately got up and raised my head.

A slightly slender face that looked just like mine was smiling with interest.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen your face.”

“It is indeed so, Your Majesty.”

“I missed you. Did you miss me too?”

There was no high or low in his voice, so it was hard to tell whether he was joking or not.

But fortunately, I lived next to this voice for 40 years.

“Yes, Your Majesty. Every night, I think of Your Majesty’s face and jade voice.”

“I’m glad. But as I said, secrets don’t make men attractive.”

The Emperor’s voice rose slightly at the end.

The corners of his mouth were pleasantly quirked.

He had an expression on his face as if he was contemplating whether to kill him or not.

“Archduke Valen. Responsibility comes with the consequences. Do you understand that?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

“But there is my prestige. There is the prestige of the knights. There is your prestige. So now I cannot say that the nib has gone astray. Don’t make that face. I think you know what I mean, my clever brother.”

Their eyes met in the air.

There her words ceased.

The golden eyes, like those of a dragon, flashed dizzyingly.

After thinking about it for a moment, I started lying without even wiping my mouth shut.

“Another way? I don’t know what Your Majesty is talking about.”

“Are you saying it was Jim’s mistake?”

“What did you mistake?”

“You are truly pitiful.”

Jaylilith burst into laughter.

“Jim is a person who values affection highly.”

Yes, that’s right.

“Your maid is your support and your leash. You wouldn’t let her be broken by the burden, would you?”

“That is indeed so.”

Jaylilith nodded.

“Then it is enough. Since the result was good, I will let you live.”