How to Live as a Tyrant’s Spoiled Brat Chapter 332

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The four-horse chariot of Jaylilith was painted white on the outside, decorated with gold trim, and had a red flag.

She rode in a carriage escorted by platinum knights, and I tried to call my own carriage.

“You?”

Jaylilith looked back at me as if asking why I wasn't following her, with one foot on the carriage.

There was pure question in his golden eyes.

“Yes, yes?”

In an instant, countless calculations raced through my head.

We can't seem too friendly, nor can we seem too uncomfortable.

Even if they are twins, it is very friendly for a grown man and woman to ride in the same carriage.

This is in front of the Sunday Cathedral.

A huge crowd of people was looking at us.

Rumors could easily have spread that the Emperor had thrown the Archduke out of the carriage, or that the Archduke had refused to ride in the carriage with the Emperor.

I thought about it for a moment and then followed her.

widely.

I could hear people murmuring until the moment the door closed.

“His Majesty the Emperor… has brought Archduke Valencian into his carriage.”

“Isn’t that to prevent me from running straight to the red-light district and committing more sins?”

“Oh. As expected of His Majesty the Emperor. Even if you are his relatives, he is not the type of person to let you run wild as you please.”

The reaction wasn't as bad as I thought.

Or… … maybe the windcatchers are working hard.

“What are you thinking about?”

Jaylilith looked at me intently and asked.

I'm worried about what people will think of our relationship.

If you answer like that, the answer you'll get back will be, "Why are you worrying about what other people think?"

I answered as the words came to my mind.

“Come to think of it, Your Majesty’s carriage has the exact opposite color scheme from mine.”

She nodded.

“I have heard the rumors about the black carriage in the capital. It is painted black, decorated with gold, and has a small purple flag hanging from it. Come to think of it, it is the same color as your clothes.”

Jaylilith loved black dresses embroidered with gold thread and purple jewels.

“Ah. Let me ask you. Is it perhaps a reflection of your inner desire to drag your luggage around?”

“!?”

There was a strange playfulness and a heavy sense of pressure in the languid voice at the same time.

Her red lips curled upward slightly, revealing her fangs.

If I said the wrong thing here, I could be labeled a traitor.

And you'll be held accountable for it and given a nasty job.

I chose my words carefully.

“This carriage is white with gold decorations and a red flag hanging from it. But no one can say that this reflects Your Majesty’s desire to drag me around.”

“Ha. How did you know? I reflected exactly that feeling.”

“Your Majesty, there is no need to project such feelings onto the carriage. Can’t you already drag me around and send me here and there in reality?”

In light of my knowledge before the regression, when Jaylilith smiled that sadistic smile, it was surprisingly very boring.

Compared to the emperors of the past who threw extravagant banquets, held chariot races in the Colosseum, or started wars because they were free, this was a very healthy way of expressing themselves.

… … I wonder if Jaylilith is similar in that she wants to go to war if she’s free.

How many times have I heard the story about meteorites today?

I shook my head for a moment to clear my mind of distracting thoughts.

Anyway, if you answer in a boring way in this situation, she will quickly lose interest.

“From the highest mountain in the North to the abyss of the South Sea, I will go wherever Your Majesty desires, so please do not let the color of the carriage dictate your convictions.”

* * *

As I expected, Jaylilith no longer accused me of being a traitor because of the color of the carriage.

Instead, I leaned back against the backrest and tilted my head back.

I straightened my posture so as not to make any rustling sounds, as if I thought he was taking a deep breath.

Then she muttered listlessly.

“The saint is wise. He is trying to conquer the Amir emirate by borrowing the power of the royal family.”

I answered calmly, without panicking.

“Yes. It will look like it will be used properly.”

“If you serve the old, you will eventually come into conflict with me. I intend to uproot them from this land.”

If someone were listening, they'd probably think we weren't having a conversation, but confirming something they already knew.

“I’m sure you won’t listen to my advice to start by cleaning up the invaders and the alien races first.”

“You know very well. I don’t intend to put off until tomorrow what I can do today. … Besides, they will only grow stronger as interest increases. I must finish them while I am still stronger.”

That was what Jaylilith said.

“You are right.”

The numbers were speaking.

The number of eroders, the number of demonic realms, and the number of foreign substances coming out of the demonic realms were all increasing every year.

It is incomparable to that of a thousand years ago, and it has clearly increased compared to that of a hundred years ago.

… … It was as if the world itself was becoming increasingly vulnerable to the old.

“While the church is creating public opinion for war, we need to sort things out internally.”

“Are you talking about the Red Admiral and the mermaids?”

“You may think that you have forgotten the thousand-year oath. Nonsense. Neither I nor the late emperor have forgotten it. Even during the civil wars when the emperor changed five or six times a year, that oath was never forgotten.”

“You are also planning to use sea routes for the invasion.”

Jaylilith turned her head back and looked at me.

The posture with the neck stretched out was eerie yet beautiful.

“Yes. That way, we can exert pressure by both sea and land.”

She raised both hands and drew in the air a desert area connecting the southern part of the empire and the Southern Continent.

“There is a sea to the east, and a desert to the west. It is impossible to maintain a supply line while passing through that desert. We must advance by occupying the eastern coast of the Southern Continent.”

“Your Majesty, I understand what you are trying to say, but the line isn’t drawn by waving your hand in the air… Please don’t use your Aura for that.”

“Give me a hand.”

widely.

She grabbed my right hand without even looking this way.

I hastily absorbed the 'Invisible Hand' magic tool glove into my body.

She grabbed my hand and made a '7' shape.

As befitting the perfect body of a Sword Master, her hands were smooth as porcelain and soft as a carpet.

She continued speaking brightly.

“This protruding peninsula will be the biggest battleground. We should attack it while also digging in along the coast below.”

“It looks like we’ll need both the Cheonchang fleet and the new privateer fleet you brought in. This time, I’ll go with you. Don’t ever stop me. It’s the emperor’s order.”

“At that time, you should stay in the palace. If I leave the capital, all sorts of things will crawl out. You should kill those bugs.”

* * *

To be honest, from the moment I held your hand, I couldn't hear a word you said properly.

I barely understood the last word and answered.

“Your Majesty, the moment I am left alone in the capital, all sorts of suspicious eyes will be upon me.”

Jaylilith clicked her tongue.

“I’m sick of hearing that you might usurp it. If you had intended to do so, you would have done so long ago when Jim disappeared into the demon realm.”

"your majesty."

She looked at me with an indifferent smile.

The golden eyes shone transparently.

“If you wish, try to call yourself emperor once. After you have devastated the Southern Continent and returned, you can take back your position. Since you even have the right to pardon, wouldn’t it be great to try it once? If you succeed, you will sit at the top of the world, and if you fail, you will be able to live?”

She had said this before:

-A world that can be obtained at any time.

In her eyes, this world might look like a sugar craft.

I bowed my head in horror at the momentum.

“Please don’t even joke about that. I’m really embarrassed.”

She dropped her hand, which she had been holding up, as if it was not funny.

“Okay, I understand.”

Her hand fell onto the carriage seat, still holding mine.

I thought about it for a moment and then asked.

“But Your Majesty.”

“What is it?”

“Will you not let go of my hand?”

It seemed like she answered whatever came to her mind.

If you had thought about it and answered, you couldn't have said that.

“It's cold.”

It is now August, the month when heatstroke is rampant, and Jaylilith is a warrior who has long since reached the state of invincibility in Hanseo.

But she still held my hand tightly.

I was at a loss for what to say, then I remembered that I was in a carriage with no one around.

“Yes, Your Majesty. I am cold too.”

"under?"

An indescribable exclamation escaped Jaylilith's mouth.

The golden eyes turned into white eyes, and the red lips also trembled.

It was an image I wanted to preserve in my memory.

Soon she tilted her head back again.

“I’m tired. Don’t wake me up until I get back.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

Her neck and ears turned strangely red, then a blood magic-specific light sparkled within her blood vessels, before quickly returning to white.

I tilted my head back without saying anything.

Holding hands tightly.

I pretend not to notice the weight on my shoulders that is slowly creeping up on me.

* * *

If I try to insult my ancestors with my own mouth, it will only be spitting in my own face.

But I've already had my face spat in quite a bit, so I'll just be honest.

The past emperors of the Soletaras Empire were the thugs of thugs.

It wasn't because they conquered foreign countries, killed all the prisoners of war so that they wouldn't become corrupted by the shock of defeat, or conspired with the aristocrats and squeezed the people.

They essentially did not trust people.

It has been like this since the first emperor.

He married a dragon, rose to the pinnacle of the half-blood noble bloodline, ended the long-running race war with a human victory, and founded the Soletaras Empire.

Naturally, all humans at the time were in a celebratory mood at having been freed from the tyranny of a different race.

'Long live humanity!'

'We are finally liberated.'

'Now we can live well too.'

He foresaw that in such a situation, a fight to the death would break out between humans, and he kept the other race alive in preparation for this.

'Peace is a lie, and the more consciences gather, the more ruthless they become. In the end, only desires exist. It doesn't seem like violence and oppression will disappear just because humans gather together.'

'Both knights and wizards are of mixed race. If knights and wizards are consumed during the war, they should be able to be recreated.'

This was the mindset of the emperor who ended the tyranny of the other race that had lasted for thousands of years and opened the world of humans.

Having fought his whole life, it would have been natural for him to become intoxicated with the peace he had created, but he did not.

He preserved the heterodox race and created knights as a race, spread the religion of Gwangmyeong and gained cultural hegemony across the continent, and sponsored the ivory tower to preserve precious knowledge.

And, decisively, he overhauled the inheritance law to legislate primogeniture regardless of gender, thereby suppressing civil wars over inheritance.

Thanks to that, our Soletaras has continued to reign as a powerful nation even after a thousand years.

I don't know much about him as a human, but he was the best as an emperor.

He has bound foreign races to this land in various forms.

The elves, who had been the subject of much resentment, were sent deep into the forests of uninhabited areas, the water people were allowed to settle on the borders of other countries, forming a sort of neutral zone, and the dwarves were given a separate autonomous territory.

But the mermaid was a little different.

In fact, unlike the three previous races, mermaids did not socially persecute humans.

There are many cases of them coming ashore, pillaging coastal villages, and kidnapping people. It was a sad time when people even ate other people, and even then, they were like angels compared to other races.

Basically, humans live on land and mermaids live in the sea, so they have less chance of intertwining with other species.

But the first emperor had foresight.

The empire would expand, and only those who controlled the rivers and seas would survive.

He cornered the mermaid king.

The Emperor's companion bubbling with great power to the deepest depths of the sea.

Eventually, he summoned the King of Mermaids to his sanctuary and made him swear an oath on a full moon night.

Don't come up on land for another thousand years.

Protect our seas for the next thousand years.

Do not antagonize the imperial family for the next thousand years.

There isn't much time left.

They are still dreaming and waiting in the deep sea.

We haven't forgotten either.

Everyone thinks they've forgotten, but we haven't.