I Became a Time-Stopper at the Academy

81 – The Last Royalty (3)

We headed straight to the academy.

I was a little worried that Benedetta, Elianne, Delia, and Lena might not be at the academy.

The probability that he went somewhere else to save me was not low.

But it was a waste of time.

When I opened the door to my dorm room, all three of them were sitting there with serious expressions on their faces.

Eliane was the first to wake up.

She then sniffed her nose and wiped her tears with a handkerchief.

“Seo, Seo-Bang… !”

Then Delia lunged at me.

“Joel! Joel Neim!!”

Delia hugged me and sobbed.

As expected, it seemed to have caused a lot of concern.

Benedetta smiled and she came slowly towards me.

“I never thought that you would return on your own.”

“You underestimated me.”

“That’s right.”

Lena also looked up at me and smiled.

“How did you come back on your own… ?! We thought that war was the only answer… !”

“… Wait, war?”

I heard what they did to save me from the four of them.

I had predicted to some extent that they would apply pressure through the Empire and the Kingdom, but I didn’t know that it would lead to an all-out war.

Furthermore, Commander William’s Knights even had a coup….

Isabel behind me,

“Did you say the president is dead?”

She opened her eyes wide.

After a while, he clenched his teeth tightly and shivered.

As if Benedetta had belatedly noticed her Isabel, she looked at her and asked who it was.

All four of them looked startled at the fact that they were the last survivors of the old dynasty of the Republic.

“It’s just amazing how Sir Joel brings together so many great people.”

“I want you to know that I don’t collect them on purpose….”

I told you the journey of how I escaped from the Republic.

The reason why I brought Isabel in the middle.

When I told them that the gangsters, including Knight Commander William, were the masterminds behind this incident, they all nodded with expressions of understanding.

Caitlyn came out in front of me.

She and she bowed deeply to the four of them.

“I’m sorry. This happened because I begged to go to the seminar….”

I told him not to care, but he seemed to keep feeling responsible.

I don’t know about Benedetta, but it seemed all the more so because I now definitely share myself as a man with Elianne, Delia, and Lena.

Delia patted Caitlyn on the back.

“No! The bad thing is that the abdominal wall is somehow Caitlyn’s fault. Above all, it must be thanks to Caitlin that Joel-sama came back safely.”

I reported one more thing to my lovers.

Caitlyn became my lover too.

Caitlyn bowed her head once more.

With her face dyed red.

“Oh, as Joel’s woman from now on? I look forward to!”

… I stumbled in the middle as if I felt that the words were a little strange.

Anyway, now we have shared the information we need to know.

All that’s left is to clean up.

It was about what to do with the war that had already happened.

Eliane cautiously asked Isabel.

“From your point of view, isn’t it better to agree to the abdominal wall wave? You said you don’t want to be king, but I don’t understand it well with my common sense.”

I don’t have any memories of being a member of the royal family, and being a king isn’t easy either.

However, the people of this world will think that a king is still better than a farmer in the countryside or a cook in the city as a commoner.

Isabel answered step by step.

“If I destroy the Republic now, the sacrifices made by my family will be meaningless. I don’t really think the current republic system is wrong.”

She said “And….” She paused for a moment.

“I voted for that president in the last presidential election!”

I was kidnapped unjustly by the gangsters, but even the politicians I supported were assassinated by the gangsters.

He seemed doubly upset.

… Rather than really royalty, he seemed like an ordinary citizen of the Republic.

Eli Anne also nodded her head with an expression of understanding to some extent.

I looked at Lena and asked.

“What do you think we should do from now on?”

She heard my question,

“Um… !!”

And vigorously shook her neck as if head-banging.

The gestures that subtly worry about something are different each time.

As if she had finished her thoughts, she bent her head to the right once and she returned.

“We need to get rid of the justification of the abdominal wall faction… !”

“Justification? You mean the demons killed the president?”

She shook her head.

“More fundamentally than that, we have to stop him from making Isabel the king… ! If Isabel completely denies the abdominal wall, the fundamental justification for the abdominal wall wave will be lost… !!”

The specific method was as follows.

Stop by the Lauris Treaty Headquarters near the academy and present your statement.

Because only the Lauris Treaty Organization in this world has a system that sends all treaty organization member countries at once, including member states such as empires, kingdoms, and republics.

However, in order to do so, Isabel herself must reveal her identity as the last member of the royal family.

At least, it means that you can’t live a life like other commoners like before.

Her surroundings won’t let her go.

“I will… !”

Isabelle answered immediately.

I asked her again.

“Are you really okay?”

She immediately nodded her head.

“Anyway, my normal life has already been ruined. If I could just say one word and destroy those rapists, it would help everyone in the Republic… !”

It’s said that he doesn’t have a sense of royalty, but he looked like royalty enough to me.

It’s something to worry about, but there wasn’t even the slightest hesitation.

Isabel’s will is firm.

She had no reason to delay any longer.

She left the academy and walked to the nearby headquarters of the Lauris Treaty Organization.

***

The former royal palace in Tabin, the capital of the Republic.

The atmosphere in the meeting room of the Countermeasure Headquarters froze.

There was not a single good news.

The strategy of Knight Commander William and the other knights all failed.

It was just consuming available resources.

“Your Excellency, no matter how you think about it, it is extremely difficult to infiltrate Lauris and bring back the woman that the wanted man kidnapped.”

“… ….”

When news reached that Isabelle had crossed the borders of the Republic to Lauris, Commander William immediately issued an order.

Bring her back to her no matter what.

However, not a single knight agreed to that order.

“Who do you think that woman is? Isn’t she still important enough to share the lack of allied power?”

Allied forces, including the Imperial Army and the Royal Army, are advancing toward the capital Tabin without hesitation.

It was close to an irrational number even in the opinion of William Knight Commander.

But without Isabel, she had no means of asserting her legitimacy.

It was because he did not withdraw the order even though he knew that it was an irrational number.

At that time, an engineer entered the meeting room and shouted.

“Your Excellency! An urgent notice has been sent from the Lauris Treaty Organization.”

“Urgent notice?”

For any country that joined the Lauris Treaty Organization, it was a document that had to be delivered to the head of state with the highest priority.

In the absence of the head of state, the supreme commanding authority took over.

William Knight Commander received the official letter and read it.

Instantly, his face contorted.

——

I, Isabel of Welton, declare to the nations as the last member of the old Welton family.

On behalf of the family, I acknowledge all the wrongdoings of the Welton family in the past.

Therefore, I do not have any doubts about the sentence of death given to the people by the members of my family at the time of the January Revolution, and I absolutely surrender.

Some former nobles, including the Knight Commander William, refused to acknowledge the January Revolution and wanted to restore the old regime, kidnapped me and imprisoned me in an abandoned mine in Elvington for a year.

I affirm the republican-democratic system of the Welton Republic now and in the future.

At least, I declare that I have no will to recover from the old system.

I sternly warn the cuckolds in the Welton Republic.

Please do not use me as a tool for illegal usurpation.

I want to make it clear that I will never be crowned king.

One last shout here at Lauris Treaty Organization Headquarters.

Long live the Welton Republic!

Long live republican democracy!

——

William Knight Commander’s lips trembled.

As long as this document spreads all over the world, Isabel can no longer be promoted.

I lost both justification and practicality.

There is no other way to do it.

“… Rest for a moment.”

He rose from his seat and staggered into a makeshift bedroom in the palace.

He then took out the dagger he had stashed in the drawer.

It’s already too late to turn back.

If you think about it, everything went wrong when Isabel resisted unexpectedly.

She thought she would lead them as royalty, but in reality…….

“I’m sorry.”

He remembered his wife and young daughter who were killed by the revolutionary army 20 years ago.

His eyes blushed for the first time since he cried while hugging his corpse without having been properly buried.

I held the dagger in both hands and raised my arms in front of his face.

Then he pulled his arms inward toward his heart.

I thought I would be able to meet my family in heaven.

By the way,

“It would be a waste to die like this.”

Someone grabbed Knight Commander William’s wrist with strong force.

Among the Knight Commanders in the Republic, he was considered the most skilled, and it was impossible to even move his arms.

“Sue, Chief of Staff?!”

Surely, the man who stabbed his heart with a sword is alive and well.

I didn’t know if he had cremated the body correctly because he had his men collect the body.

But of course he thought he was dead.

The chief of staff said with a grin.

“At that time, I was cold. I wonder if my identity was revealed.”

“What… ?”

I recalled the conversation we had then.

-Muh, what’s going on?

-The demons have come.

-Evils, demons?! Wherever?!

-It’s right in front of my eyes.

-Yes… ?

“Seo, no way demons… ?!”

The chief aide didn’t answer, he just laughed.

There really was a demon in front of me.

“It seems very likely that the Commander of the Knights will become one of our compatriots.”

“What… ?”

“That’s why it would be a waste to let them die like this.”

Chin!

The chief of staff hit Knight Commander William on the side of his neck with the blade of his hand.

Captain William’s vision went dark and he collapsed on the floor.

“I need to find out who would be a good successor.”

The chief aide, carrying his body lightly, eventually left the palace leisurely.

***

A week has passed since Isabel went to the Lauris Treaty Organization and made her declaration.

… The vice president, who barely survived and escaped by hiding in the bathroom of the presidential residence, surrendered conditionally.

Please leave the Republic for now, as I will lift the wanted man and will not resist militarily.

The Empire and the Kingdom accepted the terms and immediately withdrew their troops.

From the beginning, it wasn’t really an expedition to conquer the Republic, and since the justification for the expedition had disappeared, he seemed to have decided that there was no need to stay in the Republic anymore.

That’s how I got my daily life back.

Although there have been some changes.

I went to the academy restaurant during lunchtime and Isabel greeted me with a bright face.

“Hello, Marquis! I’ll bring you lunch today.”

I was afraid of being kidnapped again, so I made Isabel, who had no place to live, my exclusive cook.

She herself aspired to be a cook, and she cooks well.

… The coachman who had helped me all along in the Republic was also hired as my exclusive coachman.

Because he is good at driving horses and has a good personality.

And to be honest, I got to a little bit.

Caitlyn came next to me and whispered softly.

With her face blushing.

“This, you know. When are you going to do dirty things with me… ? I’m still waiting….”

It was she who revealed beyond her thoughts.