How to Live as a Tyrant’s Spoiled Brat Chapter 314

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The battle is over.

The conquest of the island is only just beginning, but tonight's battle is over.

Cariosa entered the mansion where Aquila had been staying as the new owner, placed her throne in the large conference room overlooking the sea and the harbor, and received reports from the knight officers under her command.

“Your Majesty. Of the 11,000 eroded prisoners, 7,000 have been defeated. The Dragon Knights have been dispatched and are conducting a bombardment using a single-use flame magic tool. We will use the adventurers to deal with the remaining ones later.”

“Well done, Jules. Do that. You handled the unexpected situation well. I applaud you.”

He ordered the aftercare of the prisoners covered in barnacles.

“Your Majesty. Of the 1,355 fish-men who invaded through the underground passage, 1,288 were killed. Thanks to your Majesty’s defeat of the great fish-men sorcerer-.”

“I hate flattery. That’s it. Those things that are not satisfying even after chewing them up have come back here. I’ll have to show them a lesson.”

We dealt with the fish-men coming up from underground.

“The pirates and their gangs are fleeing in all directions. According to our aerial reconnaissance, there are about 54,000 torches heading east of the island. The actual number is estimated to be as high as 90,000.”

“Tell the Black Dragon Fleet. This time, there is no need for capture or surrender. I will make the storm around the island even stronger. If anyone breaks through, sink them all.”

I made an example of the pirate remnants.

“An octopus giant guardian and a starfish sea maggot appeared from the harbor breakwater. They were defeated by Sir Tentia of the Platinum Knights and His Highness the Grand Duke Valencianus.”

“I owe you another debt. The landing ships could have been damaged. I’m afraid that bastard will ask for something. Okay. I’ll personally congratulate you and express my gratitude.”

I acknowledged the efforts of Lord Tentia.

I entered the splendid conference room, dragging Arinth, whom I had hidden in the underground cave, and the purple priest I had caught on the breakwater.

“Valencianus! Thank you and I’m sorry.”

As the wind and rain raged behind the glass windows, Cariosa suddenly got up from his seat at the end of the long table and approached me with his arms wide open.

She hugged me tightly, and I cautiously placed my hand on her back, keeping an eye on the surrounding Eastern knights.

"majesty……!"

Fortunately, the surrounding knights did not react in the same way as if they were saying, “A scoundrel from the capital is harassing our lord!”

Cariosa chuckled in my ear as if she knew what I was thinking.

“You think too much.”

“Ha, hahaha.”

“Do you think they will ignore my judgment?”

“That’s true too.”

I hugged her with a little more force.

Her leather coat and iron armor were damp and hot, and the fresh scent of the sea wafted from her neck.

Cariosa ran her fingers over the scales on my neck.

“It almost broke.”

Her fingernails slid long over the scales and caught on a crease in the middle.

I took a deep breath.

“I couldn’t help it. I was cut with a mana blade while my hands and feet were tied.”

Cariosa sang in anger.

“One more reason to kill all those damn sea maggots.”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

I answered in a crawling voice.

It was an atmosphere in which it was impossible to even bring up the question of saving Tarti.

Cariosa released the hand that was holding me and pointed to the seat next to her on her right.

“Sit down for now. Oh, I’ll pack something extra for your knight. I’m surprised. Fighting the giant octopus guardian head-on.”

I sat down and smiled.

“You shouldn’t tell them to come east.”

Cariosa shrugged and chuckled.

“How could I not do something so childish?”

“Was that a slip of the tongue? Isn’t ‘How could I do that?’ the correct sentence?”

“You know the saying, ‘I’m going to stab a fish that can’t eat it.’”

“You can’t eat it, so why are you poking at it?”

We made eye contact.

I still have vertical pupils, and she originally had vertical pupils.

“There aren’t any babies.”

“The king is not a human being. Why are you doing this when you know that?”

We looked at each other and giggled.

As the laughter died down, Cariosa asked.

“So what do you mean by mermaid and elf?”

* * *

In the large conference room, there were fifteen high-ranking knight officers, including Cariosa's adjutant Jules.

They were a community of destiny who shared life and death with Asenortha, and they were essential cogs in the machine known as the Storm Fleet.

Even if I had sent them all away and told only Cariosa, everyone would have known while Cariosa was coming up with a plan.

So, without any hesitation, I called Lord Tentia.

“Sir. Come here.”

Sir Tentia entered the conference room.

The platinum helmet was tucked at his side, and his short red hair was damp, showing off his boyish beauty.

She was holding onto a chain, which didn't suit her princely appearance.

Clang, clang.

The chain contained the elven archer Arinth and the mermaid purple priest.

One of the two had a limp leg, and the other had no leg.

So, the two of them did not come walking on their own feet, but were dragged along, bound by the mana seal magic tool shackles.

I pointed to Arinth, who had blond hair and long ears, and the purple priest with black hair and a colorful tail.

“Let me introduce myself. This is Arinth, an elf and pirate admiral. This is a mermaid, pirate admiral, and a violet priest who summoned the fish race.”

Cariosa opened his mouth wide.

"under."

The sight of its sharp teeth bared was terrifying, but I knew it was an expression of absurdity.

The Eastern officers and knights all stuck out their tongues.

“No. Are they real elves and real mermaids?”

“Isn’t this the first time in hundreds of years that it’s appeared?”

“Shouldn’t we be tearing off the ears and tail? Couldn’t they be made of leather and playing with it?”

“Why are these guys pirating?”

“Your Majesty, isn’t there a mermaid among the ancestors of the Your Majesty family?”

“It’s also in the Gyeong family’s progenitors. Among the Eastern knights, who doesn’t have mermaid blood?”

“A few months ago, a sailor told me he had seen a mermaid, and I told him not to talk nonsense…….”

This race persecuted humans until a thousand years ago, and is still hostile to humans.

Therefore, their perception towards foreign countries and their subjects was the worst.

“Don’t enter the big forest without permission. They say there are monsters that look like humans that will eat us.”

However, the perception of the alien races was somewhat complicated among the imperial nobility and knights, as they were also their ancestors who had inherited their powers and traits.

In particular, elves, along with ogres, were a blood that was essential to knightly families, and mermaids were aspirational beings for sea men in many ways.

So even though the two revealed that they were pirate admirals, Cariosa did not throw them into the cauldron of boiling oil.

"ah……."

Cariosa tried to say something and then closed his mouth several times.

But, as befitting someone destined to become the ruler of the Anchor Islands, she quickly regained her composure.

“First of all. Elf. You said Arinth, right?”

Arinth shook her head and bowed to Cariosa.

“Yes. Yes. Your Majesty.”

“Can you consider the fact that you’ve been pirating here as the will of the entire elven race?”

“!”

Arinth's green eyes fluttered open.

His already white face became even whiter.

Elves are already the most notorious of the different races.

If a high lord like Cariosa had made this public and declared that he would burn the elven autonomous region together with the church, the elves could have gone extinct.

“No! That’s not it.”

“Then tell me. Why are elves in this sea?”

* * *

There was silence for a moment.

Arinth closed her eyes tightly and opened them.

“I am an explorer who has come out to find a new land.”

“Exploration team?”

“As you know, our race lives in the Southeastern Autonomous Region thanks to the Empire’s grace.”

"okay."

“But recently, a large demonic realm opened up and we suffered considerable damage. That was when the neighboring lords invaded and kidnapped the children. I thought we needed a new land where we could live more quietly.”

“So you committed piracy?”

“I came to the Anchor Islands because I needed a base to go up to the Ship Graveyard Archipelago. And so, I ended up going all over the place……. -. ”

Arinth trailed off.

Cariosa clicked his tongue.

“You became a pirate admiral by chance?”

That was nonsense.

But Arinth raised her head as if she had something to say.

“I, I have never participated in plundering. I was recognized for my archery skills and was put in charge of hunting during the reclamation work, and after the Eastern Kingdom and Aquila began their cooperation, I was put in charge of the Winged Island Ballista Battery. And that ballista… it was completely destroyed without being fired even once. Daughter of the Storm, Great White Shark. Please believe me.”

Boom! Boom!

He hit his head so hard that blood came out of his forehead.

The eastern knights frowned.

“…….”

It was unclear how much of it was true and how much was false, but it seemed true that the elves wanted a new land.

Of course, I couldn't just believe the story that he had suffered damage due to the Ma Kyung incident.

Although elves are not a race that is friendly with eroders, they are also a race that is good at erosion.

It could be that some hardliners, trying to take revenge on the empire by using their power to erode it, ran wild and caused chaos.

Cariosa also seemed to be thinking the same thing, with a dubious expression on her face.

“Valencianus. I would like to ask your judgment as a member of the Imperial Family. The Imperial Family is the ruler of the five races.”

“I never thought the day would come so soon when we would rule over other races besides humans.”

I sighed softly.

Arinth looked at me with eyes that looked like a rope lowered from the sky.

“……First of all, it seems necessary to investigate the activities of this species.”

Cariosa nodded.

"yes."

“We don’t know yet whether the events of a thousand years ago will repeat themselves.”

“That too.”

“Then how about keeping them alive until then? Since they’re elves, it’s okay to lock them up for about a hundred years, right?”

Arin's face alternated between joy and embarrassment.

“Your Majesty? I have to go back to my hometown-.”

I reached out with one hand and lifted Arin's chin.

“You served the pirates of your own volition, didn’t you? You must pay the price. Besides, who would dare to leave the land we gave you? Don’t you know that if a serf runs away, he will be put to death?”

A twitch came over his docile face.

"this person!"

I pulled his chin down and closed his eyes.

Cariosa raised an eyebrow.

“Aren’t you taking it with you?”

I looked back at her and nodded.

“You are the owner of this land. If you really didn’t plunder… how about you serve time for aiding and abetting?”

“Service?”

“You can mix my blood to create a new magic family, or hire me as an instructor to train spirit archers or spirit knights. It’s up to you. Of course, you have to be careful.”

“That’s not bad. Just treat them like pirates with weak crimes, right? That’s clear.”

Cariosa smiled coolly, showing his teeth.

I had complicated thoughts while listening to that cheerful laughter.

Cariosa is a nobleman who can speak English.

Since you've allowed me to have elves in your court, I'm sure you'll allow me to take Tarti and Saya Yen with me.

Arinth looked at me with eyes filled with a myriad of emotions.

“……!”

I put my finger in front of his lips.

“But I saved your life. Smile.”

He gritted his teeth and smiled.

A tear rolled down his cheek.

I immediately looked away from those tears.

“Okay. Now that the elf issue seems to be resolved, shall we discuss the mermaid?”

Cariosa grabbed the back of his neck with an exaggerated gesture, as if he was frustrated just thinking about it.

“Yes. In fact, mermaids are more of a problem in the ocean. It’s not even clear what kind of relationship they have with the fish race. Is it an individual’s deviation, or is the fish race a slave species to the mermaids, or is the two the same from the beginning… I don’t know anything.”

“Then let’s just keep him quiet. We’ll figure it out little by little.”