How to Live as a Tyrant’s Spoiled Brat Chapter 37

How to live as a tyrant’s spoiled brat, episode 36

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He caught a carriage, harassed the coachman, and ran straight to the market, easily ignoring the speed limit in the capital city.

There was no problem as the royal family was exempt from speed limits as a privilege.

It was a mess, a mix of city guards under the chief constable, market vigilantes, and church priests.

“How on earth did this monstrosity show up in the market in broad daylight?”

The church priest laments.

“It is possible that they followed us in from outside territory.”

The guard manning the gate bows his head.

“This is evidence that a high-level corruptor is active in the capital. We must immediately blockade the market and conduct a thorough investigation.”

The vigilantes raise their voices.

“Is that maid the only witness?”

The elites under the Chief of Police turned the pen.

“To be honest, I think I need to investigate that maid a bit more. Isn’t the knowledge of the Demon Realm spread just by witnessing it?”

The deacons and priests of the church exchanged words with the elites under the Chief of Police, increasing the number of sympathizers.

“That’s true. I also wonder how he could have encountered that monster and survived.”

“From the beginning, I witnessed a melted corpse… … .”

“Oh, how can you believe that so literally?”

Perhaps it was to somehow reconcile with the witness.

… … Even if I think about it in the best possible way.

And I saw Rudy standing among them, pale and tired.

He was holding onto his body with both hands crossed, perhaps afraid that he might brush shoulders with those around him.

She couldn’t let those guys, blinded by the process and performance, intimidate her.

“Rudy!”

I immediately called her name and ran into the crowd.

“Get out of the way.”

“Ugh!”

“Who are you?”

“You must not enter the site without permission.”

“Who would dare to set foot on a land where traces of darkness remain?”

“I am the witness’s guardian!”

As I shouted, the elites under the Chief of Police and the deacons who followed the priest immediately formed a wall of uniforms.

“The witness still has a hearing scheduled!”

“It is necessary to conduct a thorough examination to ensure that the mind is not contaminated by darkness.”

I showed them my white hair and golden eyes and said the words that the Musashians fear the most.

“I am Emperor Valencianus. Should I summon the Archbishop and General Barbatus to the palace and scold them before we can open the way?”

“uh?”

“yes?”

“ah!”

“What are you guys doing!”

Step by step, the road opened up like a scene from an absurdist satire with the sound of footsteps.

I ran through the gap, grabbed Rudy’s hand, and ran away from the market.

“If you need to hear the case, come to the Red Moon Palace!”

It meant not to even think about coming.

As we got back into the carriage we had come in and closed the door, Rudy collapsed against the backrest.

“Lord Valen.”

“Yeah. I’m here. Are you hurt anywhere? If you’re even a little bit hurt, tell me. I’ll get the holy water right away. Abomination is a pretty high-level undead, so if I do something wrong, it could be a big problem.”

“I killed that guy.”

“ah…….”

I couldn’t comfort her easily.

Murder has been justified for many reasons: honor, erosion, class, belonging.

If a commoner threatened or insulted a noble, he could be beheaded without any problem, revenge between noble families was praised as an honorable act, and stories of knights slaying a thousand men on the battlefield were revered as legends.

The church burned down entire territories where the invaders had occurred to prevent the spread of mental contamination, and the local nobles were always waging wars, big or small, against themselves or other nations.

My emperor, Jaylilith, sat on the throne after killing three or four of her relatives, and I was her loyal subject.

Because contraception is difficult, the birth rate is high, and thanks to the church’s baptism, protection, and relief, the infant mortality rate is extremely low, so the fact that people are common also contributes to the light perception of life.

however.

therefore.

That’s why even more so.

It’s horrible to get your hands dirty for the first time.

I was like that too.

For a while, I couldn’t forget that red color even when I opened and closed my eyes.

I placed my hand lightly on the back of Rudy’s trembling hand.

I was surprised at how cold it was, like an ice rink, even in late summer weather.

“Thanks to that, you are here by my side now.”

“It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like that.”

“Yeah. It’s not something that most people would see.”

“I know. I killed those people even though I couldn’t. Otherwise, I might have been retaliated against.”

“Good job. That’s right.”

“Is that why you came back? To get revenge on me? That I was wrong. Should I have just subdued you and let you go?”

Stories of the dead returning with vengeance were common.

“No. Even the most innocent people don’t immediately turn into monsters. If that were the case, the palace would be filled with monsters of royal descent. They already had a connection with the Encroachers.”

Maybe they’re the real masterminds.

As I thought about that, I squinted my eyes for a moment.

“I’m not a good person anymore.”

Rudy muttered weakly.

“A good person, as far as I know, is someone who treats well those who spend a long time with him. Even if you spare those crazy guys with knives, they’ll act the same no matter where they go.”

“I am not a judge. The right to kill or save a person is… …!”

“I am.”

“yes?”

I cut him off firmly and said,

“All members of the Imperial Family who have received a title have the ultimate right and duty to protect the Empire and its territories, and any action necessary to do so is the right thing to do under Imperial law. I will interpret it as the right thing to do to eliminate such people.”

This was a provision that was created to provide a legal basis for successors to receive assistance from local lords in situations where the empire collapsed due to invasion by foreign enemies.

I too was subject to this provision as I was given the position of advisor to Jaylilith.

“Those who come to stab one of the five are cowards, so the honor and vengeance clauses do not apply. If you knew that you were a maid of the royal family who had received a title, and yet attacked them, you would have been charged with treason and blasphemy. Since you were corrupted, all five of you would have been interrogated to the point where it would have been worse than going to church and dying.”

This was something he said to me too.

It was my fault that she ended up getting her hands dirty.

I made her, who was like family to me, get blood on her hands.

I’m out of breath.

At that moment, Rudy smiled faintly with a surprised look on his face.

“Your Majesty Valen is strange.”

I was able to continue saying truly selfish things thanks to that smile.

“… … Even if you’re not a good person, I’m okay with it.”

The last words were muttered almost in a whisper.

“I’m not a good person either.”

I regretted it as soon as I said it.

So it was a strange statement that I couldn’t tell if it was an invitation to do bad things together or if it was saying that since I’m a bad person, you’re a bad person too.

I couldn’t tell if I wanted to sincerely apologize to her or if I wanted to placate her and keep her.

… … I was clearly a loser.

Rudy laughed weakly.

My heart stopped beating.

“I will go down in history as a gambling addict, a filthy murderer, and a maid to the royal family.”

“ah.”

That’s what I said.

“I think now I know how scary and heavy those words were.”

“……okay.”

At this point I thought Rudy might want to quit his job.

And if that were the case, I would erase the fact that she was a maid who served me to the best of her ability.

“I will serve your Majesty. Even in death, and after death.”

But Rudy said so with shining green eyes.

She bowed her head to me, backlit by the late summer sun streaming in through the carriage window.

I felt sorry again for underestimating her at that moment.

I couldn’t help but nod my head at that force, imbued with a strong, bone-like determination.

“Okay. Please take care of me in the future.”

* * *

“Thank you for your effort.”

“Coolook!”

After finishing my training with Tentia Kyung, I collapsed on the training ground.

Today, I focused on practicing the second stage of the Imperial Swordsmanship, Never Forgetting, which I used in Wyvern Pit last time.

Immortality was an auto-counter, a reflexive and continuous defensive technique. If you mastered it with polarity, your body would automatically counterattack even if you were half-conscious.

However, the training wooden sword of the Tentia Lord clearly broke through my defenses that were unfolding and struck me like a lump of iron on an anvil.

“I’m going to die.”

“You did a great job. I feel like I’ve grown a level as well.”

“Then I guess I’ll get beaten up from now on.”

Sir Tentia laughed and said, “Haha.”

“So that’s how it is again.”

“Did you hear what happened in the market?”

She nodded.

“Yes. I remember how much they resented the Black Iron Knights being called to the palace and getting beaten up. I heard that they’re no joke these days. The upper classes are sending assassins to each other to contract for harvest quantities in advance, the slum gangs are fighting over the contracts, and the wealthy class, who are anxious because of that, are demanding that patrols in their neighborhoods be increased… .”

“Ultimately, the security vacuum will grow in places where there are many poor people, and the already high crime rate will rise even higher?”

“Yes, that’s right. That’s what I was going to say.”

I was lost in thought for a moment.

This year’s crop wasn’t very good in my previous life either.

However, it was not to the extent that the security was ruined because of the knife-wielding gangsters running wild over the quantity contract.

I remember this clearly, having been in two of the most unsafe neighborhoods.

If there are two things that have changed significantly, they are:

The pen tip of the crayon was recovered, and Aquinas did not die.

There is still no force among the invaders that will openly oppose the empire.

Even back then, if only he had full-body plate armor, even if thirty bug knights came, Sir Tentia would have been able to defeat them all by himself.

At that time, three bug knights died.

Their ultimate goal is destruction, and the means to achieve it is chaos.

In the previous life, Aquinas died and a war broke out.

War is one of the ultimate chaos, and if a few invaders die in the process, it’s a jackpot by their standards.

But this time they failed.

Both the Marquis and the royal family only grew hostile and wary of them.

I asked Lord Tentia.

“Did they say they found the body?”

“No. They dispose of the bodies by throwing them into the sewer. Didn’t you dispose of the two bodies that way, Your Majesty?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

… … Undead are common in this world.

If they are not buried in the church cemetery, they almost inevitably rise again and try to repeat their actions from when they were alive, and as time passes in that state, their hostility towards the living grows stronger.

So, they released giant slimes into the sewer, risking that the biggest piece of evidence in the murder case would all become slime food.

Because we don’t want hordes of zombies and skeletons overrunning the city.

So it’s natural that people who are dead or missing are not visible.

But what if they weren’t all slime bob?

… … Sacrifices are the easiest way to gain strength.

“Sir. I’m sorry, but I’m done with work. Would it be okay if I introduced you to a wizard?”

“I am truly concerned about what a strange wizard he must be.”

“It’s much more normal than I thought.”

* * *

A few days have passed since I returned from the ivory tower.

In Sereraji, we recreated the new lightning induction technique we were exploring in several ways.

First with the order, then with the number, then with a mix of order and number.

“This is the last one.”

The Imperial Palace Magic Workshop was literally a workshop.

It was a wizard’s instinct to endlessly explore magic, so he didn’t stop them, but the emperor who funded the research wanted a usable tool.

In particular, Jaylilith considered that any magic could be properly completed if it could be produced as a magical tool using a magic circuit.

In Sereraji, mana was gradually injected into a silver wire and engraved onto a wax plate.

Within a moment, the complex magic circle circuit was completed and the magic circle emitted a soft glow.

She swallowed and fired a thin bolt of electricity.

Chijichijijik!

The lightning that fell on the magic circle spread out like ripples on a lake instead of digging into the ground.

“Aaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The cat, whose tail tip was struck by lightning, screamed and jumped onto the desk.

“You succeeded! You succeeded! I knew it!”

In Sereraji, both hands were raised in the air and gold and silver rings shone in the air as they cheered.

“Really? What was successful?”

A voice was heard from the entrance to the workshop.

She threw open the door and shouted.

“Listen. This is a lightning diffusion technique.”

“huh.”

“Until now, when you cast lightning, it was a huge waste of mana. The range was too narrow compared to the power.”

“yes.”

She spoke quickly and passionately.

“So, for area attacks, most magic uses flame. But flame has a short range. Since it has to be sent by carrying wind magic, the time it takes to cast the spell increases, and since the two have to coordinate, it becomes more complicated, right?”

“Yeah, yeah.”

It was a wizard’s instinct to want to share his discoveries with others.

“But if you apply this technique, you can quickly strike lightning from a distance and spread the lightning to a wide area. That means you can wipe out a lot more enemies from a much farther distance! This is a discovery that will change the battlefield!”

And she was a natural born magician.

“Ah… … Valencianus, why have you come to see me?”

After saying everything I wanted to say, I finally remembered that my last meeting with him wasn’t a very good one.

Valencian introduced the knight who followed him.

He also had ten layers of iron plates placed over his face.

“Hello, Sister. This is Lord Tentia. I am a knight of the Platinum Knights.”

“My name is Tentia. Your Highness the Grand Duke of Sereraji.”

“I came here to ask you something. May I come in?”

Only then did Sereraji realize that she had not even thought about what had happened that day.

“Just stand there for a moment. I can’t keep you standing there, but I don’t want to let you in right away.”

She is a natural magician, a dreamer, a pursuer and a longer.

I declared that I would not fall into a well if I only looked at the sky, but that did not mean that I would not look at the sky.

She looked at the workshop for a moment, the cat, and the freshly finished recipe.

No matter what, it was this dark younger brother who got her out.

“Would you please never try to move me around on your own again? I’m going to want to roast you.”

“huh.”

“Please don’t lie.”

“……no.”

* * *

“I haven’t studied eroders myself, but I can definitely see the potential for them to be used as offerings. If they are eroders who are already connected to the old ones, then the boundary could open with just the will to treat them and the offerings.”

“I think it would be better to take a quick look around.”

“Don’t follow me, Sister. It’s dangerous. You can’t do close combat.”

Sereraji shook her head.

“Shut up. You have no right to tell me what to do.”

“Ugh.”

And he said with a fresh smile.

“Besides, it’s not easy to get the opportunity to study the Encroachers without His Majesty’s permission, right?”