NOVEL NEXT chapter 30
30. Your Opinion
The wounds are healed, the aftereffects are freed, the war hero of the Great War is back. The word
, Lethe deliberately asked Lidike not to say it directly.
You want to try the concept of ‘hidden power’? It’s very rare, but it’s not.
Why did Lethe choose that path? It was none other than the demons.
During the Great War, force was everything, and strength was the best, so even if they said sh*t, they did too much.
Thanks to that, at the tribal federation meeting, I openly and directly said, ‘Can I handle it? Is there anyone who can hit better than me?’
Anyway, they were all playing in the political arena. You will know what you want to convey through Ridike. I’m fine now, so don’t worry about the demons. That i can afford
The Four Heavenly Kings I saved will listen to me, and even if I really hit the back of the head, I can turn them into finely chopped demon crumbs, just like before.
I didn’t say it in a round and round way so that I couldn’t eat it. If there was such a thing as a head, it made me understand.
There’s no way there’s a guy here who doesn’t even notice that and fights back. If you’ve done this, you’ll know you’ll have to step back and negotiate. I thought
“I’m sorry, Sir Lethe. What a disappointment!”
“… ?”
Didn’t you hear what you bastard Lydike said? Didn’t the subordinates deliver it?
I only twisted it once so that anyone can understand. Ridike would have passed it on. Why the hell was the excited first prince standing in front of him? And why does this damn bastard keep treating himself like he’s under his control while talking about disappointment and all?
Lethe sincerely wanted to split the human head of this prince.
“Whoa.”
Let’s be patient. He said that if he endured it three times, he would avoid murder. If you’ve endured it once, endure it twice more. If you still can’t stand it, what then… I don’t know.
“Degrading the prince. Why are you doing this all of a sudden?”
“Don’t ask if you know. Sir Lethe. You are a war hero of the Empire. Not the benefactor of the demon lords! At the same time, I am also an instructor at the academy!”
“I know.”
“The Empire was attacked. You should sympathize and be angry that the academy was attacked! How can you side with the demons in the midst of that!”
… Oh i want to kill I really want to kill you intensely. It feels like the madness I’ve been suppressing while living with the demon lords is reviving, but why do I keep scratching it?
I’m not the 2nd prince who saw that the guy standing in front of me was his own mind, but the 1st prince who was in the top 0.1% Of the empire in terms of stupidity.
This is clearly God’s trick. Either that or a terrible ordeal.
What about Lethe? In her heart, she looked around stealthily.
I wonder if this is not the opinion of the 1st prince alone, but also the 2nd prince. I wondered if one of those hairs was being brushed off by a high-ranking child using my brother as a shield.
However, his expectations were wrong this time as well. Not even the 2nd prince, not even his subordinates were visible. That means that all of this right now is an action based on the decisions made by the first prince alone.
‘This bastard Suhara doesn’t dry this? A guy called the prince came to the academy that had been ordered to close school, and even though there were no spectators to speak of, he was screaming this sh*t?’
If it was like this in a situation where there were many students, I might have at least understood.
I’m lacking a lot compared to the Crown Princess, so I’m trying to get some points like this. She said she was trying to take the position of a proud prince who never let her guard down against her demons.
If it was a play like that, yes, she could have been patronizing and hanging out at least once.
But this is neither one nor the other. It’s just running and saying, ‘I’m an idiot.’
“….”
Looking at the 1st prince squawking right in front of her eyes, Lete finally decided to think this way.
She said that the crown princess first took away all of her intelligence, so she became an asshole, and thanks to that, it seems that the second prince took her regenerated intelligence back. Our first prince said that’s why he was like that.
Inwardly, I feel fortunate. It happened because the four demon kings were not by my side right now for their own reasons.
If even one of the four people were here, they might have said that they wanted to pull out their heads, or that they wanted to hold their hearts, or other similar but terrifying words.
That goddamn asshole must have squealed, ‘To whom!’
‘… But is the demon king higher than the prince?’
Lethe, thinking for a moment, clicked her tongue.
If I had known it would be like this, I think I would have done a show of force in front of this asshole.
Still, since she is a member of the imperial family, I thought that if she made any political gestures, she would understand and keep quiet. Could it be that he wasn’t even capable of that?
Lethe’s irritation only subsided after the princess arrived a few days later.
“Your Highness, Crown Princess. Shouldn’t she make up her mind soon?”
“What do you mean, Sir Lethe?”
“Who to embrace and who to throw down.”
Of course, it faded to the end, but it didn’t disappear at all.
“….”
The crown princess’s face hardened slightly. She doesn’t know what Lethe is talking about either.
You can’t go around cheaply because it’s family or younger siblings forever. Guessing the meaning of Lethe, the princess bit her lip and spoke slowly.
“Unexpected. Sir Lethe, you… Haven’t you spared your words in that area until now?”
One of the reasons she trusted Lethe. It’s not too indifferent to politics, but it also doesn’t intervene to the extent that you want to be too much.
On the necessary line, the allies remain as allies, and the enemy stops at the line where it does not become a fierce enemy. A man who could be just right. That was Lethe.
“That is true, Your Highness. No matter how much I am, in the end, the root is one person. And, isn’t there a limit to what people can accept?”
“….”
This means that you have been stimulating yourself too much lately. A decision that I don’t want to tolerate anymore.
Listening to the stories of nobles there, it seems that the war hero in front of me has finally recovered. Now you can show off your former might once again, whoever your opponent is can remain the winner!
“I think I forgot. After all, people feel more about what they see than what they hear. How is Her Highness the Crown Princess? Do you think so?”
– I want to do an armed demonstration to commemorate the recovery. Please allow it.
Perhaps I was mistaken. This man is not a politician who is good at fighting. He is a warrior with quite a bit of political sense. And now, he wants to return to his original place.
“… Could you please wait a little longer?”
Putting aside her pride as the crown princess and the next emperor, she asks for time.
Now, if that giant swings his sword once, more than half of them will be startled and bow their heads in fear.
That’s a good thing. Yes, it’s not bad, but it was a slightly different picture from what the princess wanted.
I want to unify opinions through dialogue and compromise rather than power. Hadn’t he been swayed around and trampled by that power during the Great War?
I don’t mean to look down on force. It has to change now. Only then can we escape from this tragedy and move on to a brighter future. It is the way to regain the pride of the empire collapsed by the demons.
“Sir Lethe.”
“Yes, Her Highness the Crown Princess.”
“My father was in a hurry. The news of defeat that comes every day, the betrayal that comes when it’s worth forgetting, if you think you disagree even a little bit in that situation, you wield the imperial power mercilessly.”
“In an emergency situation, it is the surest way.”
At Lethe’s answer, the crown princess nodded her head, saying she agreed.
Of course I think so. Even if she was herself, she would have been stamped out as power and power in that situation. When the foundations of the country are shaken, there is no time to listen to the voices of sages and tyrants.
But now the emergency is over. There is no war. The demon lords said that, and this man in front of them. The war hero of the empire confirmed that.
Then there is no need to be in a hurry like the emperor. No, it shouldn’t be like that. The princess thought so.
“I am. I am… I want to become an emperor different from my father. Sir Lethe.”
When was the last time she honestly confessed her inner feelings like this? No, did she even exist?
No. Not once, to be sure, never really. This man, Lethe, was the first.
“….”
Maybe Lete also sensed that something was different from usual. He was silent for a while.
She just looked at the crown princess with strange eyes, and all she did was scratch her forehead once.
“If it is false, Her Highness the Crown Princess.”
I owe a lot. She doesn’t deny that she’s been able to get this far thanks to this woman. So, she should take care of what she wants without touching her wishes.
“From now on, I would like to hear your thoughts on this new proposal I will give you.”
“What kind of proposal is this?”
“Isn’t next month Your Highness’s birthday?”
Awkwardly—
I suddenly think that I must have remembered that. The princess barely brushed it off.
“There will be an anniversary banquet. Then, invite the Demon Kings.”