The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 677

Chapter 677:

Allied forces are like gigantic beasts.

Existence itself requires enormous daily supplies.

So, it is best to disband as soon as possible when the purpose is fulfilled. And fortunately, because of Harriet’s presence, we can disband the Allies in the shortest possible time.

It brings several effects.

Distributing humanity’s remaining energy across the continents makes it impossible for them to unite.

Herriot’s power is itself the power to send legions, so it is impossible for enemies to attack us, but it is possible for us to attack them with armies.

After splitting humanity apart, it exerts its influence on each of them.

We are too strong an enemy to resist, and even if there is an intention to rebel, it is irrational to realize it.

thus strengthening the effectiveness of governance.

After earning allegiance to each, the allied forces are disbanded.

The fact that soldiers can return home without a long march will be enough.

And just knowing that it was thanks to the demon lord that I was able to go back would have a positive effect to some extent.

Of course, you can’t win everyone’s heart.

Divisions will occur, and clues to them are all over the place.

However, there is work to be done before disbanding the Allied Forces.

headquarters barracks.

Sitting to my left was Charlotte, and to my right was Olivia Ranze.

Heir to the Empire and now my left arm.

The symbol of the main church and my right hand.

And before me sat the representatives of every remaining group of mankind.

“Nice to meet you, everyone.”

I say while looking at the still frozen crowd.

At this moment when I sit here, no one can resist me, even if they cast uncomfortable and fearful glances at me.

I fall asleep and can’t even get up.

“I am the demon lord Balie.”

This sight means that I have already become the ruler of the continent.

* * *

Until now, Charlotte had taken over my role, so they knew that the demon king’s rule had begun, but the moment they saw me as the demon king, they seemed to recognize that everything had really fallen into the demon king’s hands.

Countless people who had already decided to be on my side were sitting in this seat.

Louise von Schwarz of Kernstadt, who led the effort, was also sitting near the high table, and of course, the commander of the Knights Templar, Rowen.

Naturally, the Archduke of Saint-Ouan was also sitting here.

The funny thing is that his seat, which was originally close to the bottom seat, has moved closer to the upper seat.

Because his daughter sided with the demon king, he was pushed to the last of the last seats. Of course, the Archduke of Saint-Ouan probably didn’t sit there because he wanted to.

However, now that her daughter sided with the demon king, she was seated close to the seat of honor. It will also have nothing to do with the will of the Archduke of Saint-Ouan.

From being a traitor to humanity, to becoming a public servant of a new empire.

From the solemn expression of the Archduke of Saint-Ouan, it was evident that he had no interest in his new position.

how to say

No matter how you look at it, he’s the same person as the other side.

Even though he seems to be a person living in a place that has nothing to do with the interests of the world.

daughter fool.

I am also a strange person.

Actually, when I passed out, the Archduke of Saint-Ouane was the first to find Harriet and hug him.

At any rate, many of the representatives of this seat decided to side with me even before the end of the war.

Louise von Schwarz took over the role.

The Imperial forces belonging to the Allied Forces are already in our hands. Of course, not only the emperor was present here, but also many commanders of the imperial army.

They had already turned against the Empire because of the great treachery at the Battle of Diane.

And Charlotte completed the process of recruiting all Imperial officers and commanders.

They are no longer imperial troops.

“The Gradias Empire will disappear, and I am the owner of the continent from now on.”

“I hope this is not accepted in the tyrannical and rigid way of a relationship of absolute domination and loyalty.”

“okay.”

“Think of it as a ‘promise’.”

“I will help you guys when you need it.”

“So you guys help me when I need it.”

“It won’t change much.”

“The important thing is that monsters still roam the continent.”

“It will take an immeasurable amount of time and money to rebuild a broken civilization.”

“Of course, because you are all loyal to me, the gaps of distrust and resentment that have accumulated so far are so deep that even the races are different.”

“So, whatever you think in your heart, it’s something I can’t help.”

“The first thing you have to do is not to offer anything or excessive loyalty to me.”

“To do the best for each person in their respective positions.”

“Rebuilding civilization and restoring destroyed livelihoods.”

“That will be the task you will have to accomplish prior to your loyalty to me.”

“You don’t have to offer anything to me.”

“I have no intention of forcibly taking it.”

“Just accept me.”

“And above all.”

“live well.”

“That is the highest loyalty you can have.”

They are not the ones who can give me anything.

To live well by scattering like this.

To rebuild and rise up a fallen civilization.

The reconstruction and revival of a broken civilization is my goal. Therefore, the loyalty they can do is not a few pennies of tribute, but to rebuild the foundation to live on their own.

Did he expect some terrifying words to come out of the mouth of the demon king?

You are all gone now.

Give back what you receive.

Foolish humanity will now pay the price of defeat.

Or that if you disobey me, you will get a huge bloody revenge.

Had I been waiting for something like that to come out?

However, when they said that they should live well in their respective positions, everyone looked puzzled.

“Don’t think this is an easy command.”

“In these hopeless times, I give you the toughest orders.”

living well.

is that easy?

In fact, he gave the most difficult orders to those who had to live in a broken world.

In this reality where monsters still roam and most of civilization has been destroyed, living well would be the most violent command.

It was only then that I added that everyone’s expressions darkened as if they were thinking about what they should do to live a prosperous life.

In fact, he seemed to understand now that this is the most severe and difficult task.

Everyone is tired of talking about death and blood.

I don’t have to warn those who don’t serve me and those who betray me.

It is not too late to discuss such things after they have actually occurred.

“I said I would help you guys.”

it’s a happy day

“I’ll give you what I can for the first of them.”

the war is over

“For now, everyone goes home.”

Let’s go home, wipe our feet and rest.

no one without exception.

* * *

Everyone was not taken aback by the fact that the allied forces were preparing to withdraw as soon as the recovery of all troops was completed.

It must be because it was considered a procedure to do things like withdrawal, return to the imperial capital, and occupation war.

However, when I explained that the withdrawal I was talking about was literally the withdrawal itself, everyone’s expressions became puzzled.

In addition, everyone opened their mouths when they said that they could immediately move to their hometowns at once.

You can go back to your hometown in just one day.

There are many people who have lost their hometown, but everyone has a place to return to.

And wanting to go back isn’t something that only soldiers want.

Everyone looked as if they had been hit by lightning while sleeping.

There is no need to fight the Empire.

You just have to go back like this.

just live there

Everyone is astonished at the price of accepting my rule.

no this is not a prize

A sweet fruit that can be received by accepting the rule of the demon lord.

The price is so sweet that you have to doubt whether it is a poisoned chalice.

“Didn’t you tell me? Go back and do your thing. But there are no more supplies to feed you. It won’t be easy to survive on your own.”

It’s never easy.

It’s only then that everyone starts to think about it as if they realized that being able to go back isn’t always a good thing.

“I have nothing more to say. As soon as it is ready, prepare to withdraw and report the prepared units and return them immediately.”

Among those sitting there were some with determined expressions on their faces.

I saw expressions as if they were prepared to say something huge and were ready to die right here.

There were definitely some people who wanted to talk about dirty tricks and all.

But because of the meaning behind my words, I can’t bear to open my mouth.

Overwhelmed by the very idea of being able to go back immediately, he seemed to have forgotten what he was trying to say.

Those bewildered expressions were quite refreshing.

“Go back and live well.”

That was the first edict issued by the new continental emperor.

But one of them raised a hand.

“I… … . Devil… … Come on.”

I don’t know who.

“what?”

He had a bewildered expression.

“If the Allies withdraw… … . How will you conquer the empire… … . Are you thinking… … .”

Seeing as I wondered if that was possible with only the remaining Imperial and Demon King forces, the author seemed to be in a position to support me.

Occupy the Empire.

“Can I tell you about that part?”

Rowen opens his mouth before I can say anything.

“The emperor has already fled.”

This is what I have already heard.

But the words that the emperor ran away.

At those words, I could feel that even the last loyalists of the empire who might have remained in the seat had disappeared.

Both the throne and the imperial palace were empty.

We just need to enter the empty palace.

* * *

Bertus slowly regained consciousness inside the wagon, which moved at a constant speed.

“… … omg!”

In the dark wagon, Bertus hurriedly got up.

Where are you?

My whole body was as heavy as wet cotton.

I don’t know how long I’ve been asleep.

They are just moving somewhere in a dark wagon.

Bertus traces his last memory.

The battle of Diane is over.

So Bertus prepared.

As the last emperor of the disappearing Gradias Empire, make preparations.

He betrayed humanity and prepared to pay the full price as the culprit of everything.

We need sacrifices for the new era.

Therefore, as a symbol of hatred, the empire disappears along with the absolute evil emperor.

With the Emperor, the true source of all evil, hanging from a pole, all hatred must burn away and a new era must open.

That’s why it was built up.

So Bertus was preparing.

Prepare to surrender everything to your new powers.

And the attitude that a being who must die should have.

But Saviolin Tana is back.

The order Bertus gave didn’t end with blowing up the basement of the Magic University.

After that, you don’t have to listen to my commands anymore.

You are not my knight now.

Don’t come back, stay alive.

The empire will disappear now, stop the articles of the disappearing country.

Live according to your will.

Even breaking the oath of allegiance that had bound her like that was an order.

However, Saviolin Tana returned several days after the Battle of Diane.

‘Sir Tana… … ?’

I told him not to come back, but the returned knight put the emperor to sleep.

‘I’m sorry, Your Majesty.’

That faint voice was the last thing I remembered.

In the dim interior of the wagon, Bertus groped for himself.

clothes had been changed.

Her own clothes in the dim light obviously didn’t look very classy.

-Thump!

After tapping the driver’s seat a few times, the carriage stopped with a slight rattle.

Soon there was movement from the driver’s seat.

– Knock!

When the door opened, it was there, of course.

“your majesty.”

“Sir Tana… … .”

There was the face of Saviolin Tana.

“this… … . What is this?”

I told you to live free, I told you to survive.

The emperor’s knight did the absurd thing of kidnapping the emperor.

Saviolin Tana also looked miserable because she knew what she had done.

“This… … . It can’t be like this. It shouldn’t be like this.”

Tana can’t help but know what Bertus is up to. Even if the emperor didn’t say anything, he knew what the emperor was doing and what he was preparing.

The emperor dug a grave.

Now all you have to do is go in.

The moment was right in front of me and I had already made up my mind.

We have finished preparing for a new era that should open by embracing everyone’s sins and welcoming the death of the symbol of evil.

Saviolin Tana’s actions at the last moment upset all calculations.

Bertus didn’t even know how far the carriage had come or where it was heading.

Plain clothes and unadorned carriages forced Saviolin Tana to know what she was up to.

“I have to go back.”

It was the time to do that, and all the conspiracies and conspiracies to do so.

“Why do you have to?”

Tears eventually form in her eyes.

“I must die. Someone has to take responsibility.”

With the death of the emperor, all the embers of hatred will not disappear, nor will all sins disappear.

But at least a little will disappear.

Everyone resents the emperor, and only when the emperor, the symbol of that resentment, dies, will the number of people resent the new era diminish even a little?

“That’s not courage, Your Majesty.”

“… … .”

very young.

The knight whom he had seen since he was a baby, and who sometimes played with him when he was little, finally shed tears that Bertus had never seen before in his life.

“That, too, is about running away.”

It is to leave the world to someone else and run away by death.

That I had paid my own price.

In order to die contentedly, in the end, he also does not take responsibility, but avoids it.

“Do you have the courage to die, but not the courage to run away and live? why… … . Why?”

Death doesn’t end everything.

Death can’t solve everything.

why do you want to die

Isn’t it courage to endure the life of an ugly and dirty fugitive?

In the end, isn’t Bertus greedy for death a way to find his own honor after all?

If you want to find your own solace in dying in false guilt.

Why not live the life of a really cowardly and dirty fugitive?

Wouldn’t it be better to live with real dishonor than to seek fake honor?

“Sir Tana… … . I am… … . I don’t want to. I am… … .”

-Thumping

Saviolin, Tana ends up banging her head on her knees.

Although he was a knight he had always been loyal to, it was the first time even Bertus had ever seen him kneel while throwing his whole body to this extent.

No matter how much she is a servant, she has a class.

Even the emperor could not dare to ask her for such a level of slamming her head into the ground.

Then she puts her head on the ground and weeps.

“please… … . please… … .”

“I’ve lived my whole life just taking orders.”

“Loyalty doesn’t require a price, though.”

“This Saviolin Tana. The Emperor’s sword.”

“It is not a reward for this loyalty of a god who devoted his whole life to the empire. I want to get something in return.”

“your majesty.”

“Please live.”

“Even if it’s an ugly life, even if it’s a coward’s life.”

“I hope you are alive.”

“That’s what this god wants to receive… … . It’s the only answer… … .”

“Didn’t you tell me to live according to my will now?”

“This is my will… … .”

Bertus looked at his knight, who was not on his knees with his eyes wide open, but on his stomach and weeping.

He devoted his whole life to the sword and devoted his whole life to the empire.

She was a woman who lived her whole life only for the sake of the empire.

Even before Bertus was born, she was a knight of the Empire.

No, even before the previous emperor was born, she was an imperial knight.

She didn’t want anything from the Empire.

She is the oldest loyalist of the empire, the person who served the empire the longest, and served the imperial family closest to the imperial family.

I have done all kinds of dirty and necessary things.

I lived like that without any protest.

Although it is the virtue of a knight that there is no price for loyalty.

if she

Anyone who has been around for as long as she has.

You will definitely be entitled to a price.

They even say that it is a reward because they are afraid to use the word price.

I only want one thing in return for being loyal for so long.

live on

“please… … . your majesty… … . please… … .”

cowardly life.

Would it be better for the last emperor who betrayed mankind to hang on a pole, or would it be better to run away and survive somewhere?

It was impossible to focus hatred on the dead demon king.

Bertus was delighted when he learned that there was a surviving heir to the Demon Realm.

He said that without even knowing that he was speaking to the demon king’s successor.

The existence of the demon king is rather necessary for the unity and maintenance of the empire.

The last demon king lives somewhere.

That alone made people tremble in fear and focused all their hopes on the Empire.

He concentrated all the power of mankind in the Empire.

Because he used the Demon King as a symbol of hatred.

Is it time for the emperor to fulfill his role?

The life of a fugitive becomes the life of a cowardly, ugly loser.

Rather than the reality that the emperor died, the reality that the emperor ran away.

Is it better for the new era?

Bertus did not know.

but.

His own article is sobbing.

A person who lived his whole life for the empire.

Now, after losing the empire, he wants to protect the emperor, the last remnant of the empire, so he throws his whole body and begs to live.

Bertus clenched his teeth and prayed earnestly for Saviolin Tana.

He was just standing in a daze, unable to catch on to the last knight of the Gradias Imperial Family or even knock it off.