The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 528

Chapter 528

It is only speculation that Heinrich might be an illegitimate child.

However, if you think that way, the loose strings of events are completely connected.

Why didn’t he send Heinrich to the academy inside Kernstadt?

Why did he have to kill Heinrich, who was gradually becoming a hero in this situation?

An illegitimate child with no roots may be mentioned as the heir to the throne, overtaking the hero of Kernstadt and even Louise von Schwarz.

For pure-blooded royalty, that would be absolutely unacceptable.

“Perhaps if this is true, Heinrich wouldn’t even know about it.”

I don’t know if this is really true or not.

“Solenin, the current Queen of Kernstadt, is a very clean person. Obsession with etiquette, dignity, and protocol is no joke. It’s funny, but is Bertus and I supposed to learn that? I haven’t actually seen it that many times.”

the queen of the kingdom. However, the queen has better manners and dignity than the empire.

However, in the end, it amounts to a façade, and no one considers the queen of Kernstadt equal or superior to the imperial family.

“By the way, illegitimate child… … . The mere presence of such a scandal would trigger a seizure. No, if such a scandal goes around the world, it is more than creepy, and it is a person who even hangs himself with a rope.”

“therefore… … . Rather, an illegitimate child… … . Maybe he accepted it as his own child?”

“It would have been easier to kill and get rid of it, but the King of Kernstadt, Konstantin von Schwarz, is also famous for his personality. It may have been the same for the treatment of the illegitimate child. But I could have accepted it, but I couldn’t have loved it. Even King Kernstadt couldn’t have done anything about it.”

After talking, Charlotte drinks the rest of the tea and exhales.

“In the end, it’s all guesswork. In reality, it may not be an illegitimate child or anything, but the royal family loved the fourth and fifth children who died so much that they could only hate the youngest.”

It’s just a possibility, a reasonable possibility, says Charlotte. I’m just going to tell you exactly what Temple assumed.

But isn’t that a very cruel possibility? It is a possibility too cruel to be close to the truth.

Can Heinrich understand or accept this?

“This is all I can tell you. I’m not sure how to convince Heinrich.”

you are an illegitimate child

So he might be killed by his brothers. No, the brothers must kill you. Killing you before you can be treated as a greater hero means there’s no chance of passing the throne to an illegitimate son.

An illegitimate son who killed two pure-blooded royalty.

Isn’t it rather strange that he doesn’t hate Heinrich?

Even now, he has become so strong that he cannot be ignored, and is even treated as a hero in Kernstadt.

They were squashed in a corner and put in a temple to live unnoticed.

Billionaires will be on the verge of collapsing.

“Hmm, if I go to Heinrich and tell him that since you’re a sasaeng, you’ll die if you don’t stand by my side, you can’t help it even if you roll your eyes and try to roast me?”

“It is true… … .”

Charlotte laughed helplessly.

* * *

The midnight consultation is over.

I didn’t get the answer I was looking for, but I knew what to do.

I was able to infer some facts about how the loose frameworks I put together were put together.

I ate rice and drank tea.

But for some reason, I felt sorry for Charlotte as well as myself.

It’s not personal, but it seems like it’s been a while since I’ve had a conversation like a conversation with Charlotte.

We sat on the terrace in a daze, unable to do anything.

it’s something to be said

“… … Would you like to go for a walk?”

“uh? ah. huh. good.”

As if waiting for those words, Charlotte nodded vigorously.

* * *

Charlotte and I left the castle and walked on the plains outside Razak.

On the left side of the road, there was a refugee camp on the right side of downtown Razak.

As Charlotte had planned, the presumed vigilantes were occasionally seen walking around with torches.

those who are bound to corrupt.

Charlotte’s cruel plan to purge them and form a new vigilante group when the time is right.

It’s cruel not because Charlotte pushes them to corrupt.

Because the vigilante’s corruption is the sin of their choice. The corrupt vigilante, who will later be punished, cannot escape the bondage of choosing evil.

You are just being used, but you will be judged without even knowing that you are being used.

Charlotte knows how humans act in certain situations.

Because there are people who crawl into the predictable quagmire without being instructed, because they will be replenished by others.

That is why this policy is cruel.

I’m not sure what stage it reached.

It is no longer necessary to secure survivors from the continent and bring them back.

As a result, Edina’s population would no longer increase due to external inflows.

You only have to manage the people who are already left in Edina.

We saved a lot of people.

But that’s only a handful after all compared to the actual number of people who have died.

Because of the chain of other things that happened because of that, at the end, something I didn’t want to think about happened.

Out of the torches coming and going to the refugee camp, Charlotte and I watch from afar and walk together.

“How’s the regency job?”

“I don’t know if I can do it or not, but I think I’m doing something. Now I’ve come to understand Edina’s overall situation to some extent. Things will get better.”

“I’m glad.”

There was nothing left to do but get better.

It sounded good, but it also sounded like the situation was so bad it couldn’t get any worse.

Am I too twisted

“Above all, it’s fortunate that there are no complaints from the demons. if… … . Under normal circumstances, the resistance from demons would have been greater than humans.”

“but.”

Even though there is no reason for demons to live with humans, they obey without saying anything because the demon king ordered them.

Therefore, the rule of the demon king is both ideal and bizarre.

In a society composed only of demons and not humans, the demon king could carry out lifelong dictatorship without opposition from anyone.

Didn’t Elleris say that when he was an Archdemon? Then, he said that his horn was broken by his son, the only demon who could resist the demon king, and he was banished.

Devil.

and the princess.

Charlotte, now my regent.

When we first met, was the future like this predestined?

“shallot.”

“huh.”

“I have no memory of living as a demon prince.”

Charlotte stopped at my words and looked up at me.

“I was thrown into the world knowing only that I was the son of the demon lord Valie.”

Suddenly, on the day I was talking about that time, Charlotte was looking at me without saying a word.

“I didn’t know who you were when I met you.”

“… … .”

“I won’t bother making excuses that I couldn’t help the many lies I told you.”

Charlotte was just listening to my story.

“but… … . I should apologize.”

“… … .”

“I’m so sorry for all the lies I’ve told you so far.”

I don’t know how to apologize to show my sincerity.

I don’t think I can be forgiven for deceiving Charlotte with just this one word.

But I think we should talk properly.

I think it’s something that shouldn’t be put off any longer with the excuse that there are too many things to do just because you’re busy.

Charlotte smiles quietly as she sees me apologizing.

“Three times.”

“third time?”

“Once in the Demon Castle, once in the Spring Palace, and once this time. three times like that.”

Charlotte sees me.

The number of times I saved Charlotte.

seemed to say that

“At this point, I have to die somehow because the world hates me, but I think you saved me every time. There’s something else going on next time. I wonder if something happens again where I have to die.”

It was a cloudy night, so the moon was not visible.

“You are strange.”

“… … .”

“You must hate me.”

“You hate me?”

“huh.”

Charlotte looks up at the night sky.

“You saved me several times, but I couldn’t believe you. Even if it was a situation where I had no choice but to think that way. You saved me, but you saved me with pure intentions, but I couldn’t believe you and cursed you.”

I thought it could.

Numerous lies piled up to create a tower of misunderstanding, which was more persuasive than the truth.

So, I thought it was inevitable.

I don’t hate Charlotte.

“It was a situation that had no choice but to be.”

At my words, Charlotte smiles bitterly.

“You saved me and protected me many times, but you have to resent and curse me for not trusting you. If you did, that would have been inevitable.”

To resent Charlotte for not understanding my feelings.

Was that even possible enough for me?

“I did it in a situation where I had no choice but to resent you, but you did not resent me in a situation where I had no choice but to resent you.”

“What’s the difference… … . I think it is very big.”

“You are the one who did what I couldn’t do. And every time I feel that he still doesn’t resent me in the slightest, I feel a little strange.”

“What am I? I didn’t do anything to you, I always got help, and even dropped you into hell at an important moment. But, of course, he saved me as if he had to… … .”

“I do not know.”

“So now you feel distant.”

“I don’t know if I can do anything for you. I don’t think I will be able to pay it back even if I pay it for the rest of my life.”

It’s what Charlotte has to do for me.

The work that Charlotte should do for me, not the work of the regent.

There is no such thing.

There is nothing like wishing for anything.

“I just need to live a healthy life.”

“I thought you would say that.”

Charlotte covered her mouth and giggled.

Should I have said something more?

I need you, even if it’s not like a regent’s job. I wish I could always be where my eyes reach.

should have said that

Charlotte is the first life I saved after arriving in this world.

Because of that, it was true that he felt a completely different attachment to Charlotte than anyone else.

“There is something I want to do with you.”

Charlotte tells me quietly.

“What do you want to do together?”

“Yes, I can do it right now.”

What do you want to do with me at this time?

Staring at me as if asking what I was, Charlotte rummaged in her arms and pulled out something.

“Let’s eat this together.”

It was a biscuit wrapped in a paper wrapper.

It is an object that symbolizes the first time we met.

Are you carrying this in your arms?

To eat together when we have a conversation like this one day?

“It’s good.”

Charlotte laughed at my answer, then unwrapped the biscuit and cut it in half.

It was like that even then.

He cut the biscuit he had given Charlotte to eat, cut it in half, and handed it to me.

Seeing Charlotte handing half of it to me because she couldn’t eat herself even at that moment when skin and bones were in contact with each other, I felt a strange feeling.

I wonder if Charlotte was thinking that way when I handed her the biscuits.

The actual situation was different, but watching me give away everything that was too wasteful to eat at that moment.

Charlotte halved the biscuit and put it in my mouth, and she bit it too.

Carrying biscuits to give to me someday.

That’s how much he wanted to talk to me, and he must have always been ready to talk.

In the end, it was only now, after quite some time had passed since Charlotte came to Edina, that he was able to bring up the story from their first meeting.

We eat biscuits while leaning against each other on a hill overlooking Razak and the refugee camp.

Of course, it’s not the same biscuit as back then.

“It tastes different than back then.”

“It has no choice but to be.”

Charlotte and I talk over biscuits.

The situation is also a situation, but objectively it is not as delicious as what I ate then. Of course, it was a high-quality item that the prince of the underworld carried, and the biscuits you could get from Edina couldn’t help but yawn more than that.

A high-quality biscuit that I ate when I couldn’t help but eat something delicious.

An ordinary biscuit eaten when not particularly hungry.

It may not taste the same.

Charlotte thought that no matter what she ate, she couldn’t eat anything better than the biscuits she ate then, so whatever she ate after that, she just said so. He said he didn’t really care what he ate.

That happened in the ecliptic.

It’s not the same taste as back then.

Still, we were able to eat biscuits together.

You can turn around and end up together.

We no longer resent each other or hate each other.

I don’t have to lie to Charlotte anymore.

“Reinhardt.”

“uh.”

“What are you going to do when all of this is over?”

Charlotte asks, taking a bite of a biscuit.

after everything is done after the gate incident.

Until after I survived the last fight and the affair with Ellen was somehow finished.

If I’m alive by then.

What should I do?

“I don’t know.”

In the current situation where I don’t know if I will be able to exist until the very distant future, it’s too much to think about the future later.

I am not a person who can even think of an overly distant future that is not even certain.

Heinrich was about to be assassinated right away, but while he couldn’t even find an answer to him, it was after everything was over.

“War… … . It’s probably unavoidable.”

“… … Is that so?”

“Okay, after everything is over. It will be known to the continent someday that we are settling down in Edina. I don’t know when it will be, but it will definitely happen.”

Charlotte serves as the regent.

It’s a place where you have to think about the future. And that’s also a question that I, the king, must think about.

After the Gate incident is over, humanity will deal with the remaining monsters on the continent and lay the foundation for reconstruction.

We can make our own paradise while holding our breath here far from the continent.

But we can’t avoid running into each other forever.

No matter when, the conflict between mankind and Edina is bound to happen.

Charlotte’s word war is not particularly new. Because I’m thinking about that too.

But that war cannot be avoided.

The more humanity is rebuilt, the better the situation will be, because humanity’s vengeance to kill me, the culprit of this situation, will want to be resolved.

If the story that the demon king has settled down in Edina spreads, the moment will come when we will have to fight the conquest army of mankind.

If you think it won’t happen in the short term, it will definitely happen.

Charlotte taps me on the shoulder when I seem to be struggling.

When I turned my head, Charlotte was looking at me with her head tilted slightly.

“Can I tell you something funny?”

“… … what?”

“Because you are with me. You can claim to be the heir to the Gradias Imperial Family.”

What is he talking about?

“And you have two relics. I can fully claim my influence over the Five Major Churches. Or, reforming the Five Major Churches into the Holy Church, putting Olivia Ranche at the forefront, and then absorbing their forces. That kind of thing is possible.”

“What are you talking about?”

It was a terrifying story.

“Of course, the demons will follow your rule. Nothing to say about that.”

Charlotte looks at me.

“Reinhardt.”

What are you trying to say?

My spine was about to tear.

“You can become the ruler of the whole world, not an empire.”

He is neither the emperor of mankind nor the king of demons.

ruler of the world.

“Because humans hate you and hate you. So you think I won’t accept your domination?”

Charlotte had a subtle smile as if she knew without saying anything.

“I don’t live as a subject of the Gradias Empire because people support the Empire.”

“… … .”

“Dominance is passive. Whether the one at the top is the Gradias royal family or the demon king they hate. There is no need to persuade in the first place. I have never been persuaded.”

Domination is just dominance.

It does not require the support of the crowd.

“The ruler only needs to be strong. As long as it is strong enough that the lower ones do not dare to look over or overturn it. It is as if you are the oppressor of mankind disguised for rule, oppression and terror by the way you protect the people of this Edina.”

hatred of mankind.

If it attacks me someday, is it okay for me to attack them first?

If a war is going to happen someday, rather than fearing it, we should consider confronting it head-on or invading it first.

“Bertus… … . What?”

At my words, Charlotte says with her head buried between her knees.

“I’ll save you… … . I believe so.”

Continental Emperor.

king of the world.

It’s not like that wasn’t in my opinion.

Nor did he think that the rulers of mankind must be empires.

However, Charlotte said that she had to think about such a big topic now.

“just… … . You seem to be thinking about what else you will lose after everything is over like this. It seems that you are only afraid of that.”

“… … .”

“It’s not about losing something, you can have something.”

It was a word that was quite far from the scope of my thoughts.

Charlotte sees me.

“I just wanted to let you know that you can be so determined to have everything and not miss anything.”

After the Gate incident, a war breaks out and someone else dies.

Edina loses someone.

That’s not it.

You can try to have everything in the world.

Charlotte was saying that.

Can there be a country where all the people hate the king?

Can such a thing be achieved?

Even if it can be established, can such a thing exist?

Speaking of possible and impossible, it will be possible.

By turning hatred into fear, that domination can be established.

If the fear of Me is greater than the hatred of Me, no matter how much mankind hates Me, I can place them at My feet.

But can I afford it?

Even this small island country can’t help but leave it to Charlotte.

Is there even the slightest little bitch that would do such a crazy thing as becoming the king of the whole world?

“… … .”

Can I try to have everything because I don’t want to lose a single thing?