I Returned As the Governor of the Country That Abandoned Me

49 – Bible

“This is the will left by His Highness the Crown Prince to the royal family.”

The servant who served the crown prince delivered the last will he left to the second prince. The funeral hall instantly turned into a sea of cries, and people began to bow their heads, wondering if the death of the crown prince had finally come to their senses.

“Aran Youngsik..”

I lent my shoulder to the 5 princesses. She was burying her face in her shoulder and her chest, and I could feel her clothes getting wet, and she must have been in tears.

I don’t really know what she might be feeling. The last will and testament left to the separated family. However, it seems to come with a pretty big resonance for those concerned.

“Go out for a while and come back.”

The 2nd Prince, who seemed unmoved, also began to shake. This is what family means. Maybe the prince wants them to feel the emotions they are feeling right now.

However, the prince’s wish cannot come true. No matter how much the royal grandsons want family friendship, there is no way people around them will be watching it quietly.

“Nobles, pay your respects to His Highness the Crown Prince.”

Starting with the eldest, the elder elder, countless nobles began to bow to the crown prince’s mortuary. At this moment when the prince was sent away, politics continued.

“Your Highness the Prince. How much do you feel heartbroken?”

The person the Minister of Government approached was the 3rd Prince. The two held hands and started talking.

“Thank you, instead. Come this way.”

3 The prince went outside with him. That’s how the competition to show off one’s factions began.

There are four royal descendants gathered here. With them at their center, the nobles begin to divide the group into four exactly.

For them, this position is very important. On the surface, it’s a place to mourn the death of the crown prince, but in reality, it’s a place for each faction to discuss future measures.

“Your Highness, the Princess. Are you okay?”

Soon, my father came over to us and said. As a result, numerous gazes from the surroundings turned to this direction.

“Oh, godfather.”

A princess who dares to use the title of godfather instead of a military leader. Her position as Minister of the Military and the influence of Count Robert Tane cannot be ignored. That’s why the princess deliberately used the title of godfather to show off her status with her father.

“How heartbroken you are, Your Highness..”

“Aunt..”

My mother, who followed my father, said. Tears began to well up in the eyes of the princess who saw her mother’s face.

“Come this way.”

The princess guided the two of them to the outside of her mortuary. When I went outside, I saw countless nobles gathering and talking to each other.

“This way, Your Highness.”

In the funeral home, the princess guided the two, but it was different outside the funeral home. Her father began to guide her princess.

At the place where I arrived after following my father, nobles who followed the 5 princesses were gathered.

“Meet Your Highness.”

One of her men bowed her head and greeted her. He said he came out of the mortuary for a while, but he is clearly in mourning. I couldn’t raise my voice that loud.

With the princess quietly nodding her head, she accepted his greeting.

“I’m sorry to all of you who came here, but…”

Soon, she looked around at the nobles gathered here and said.

“I have no intention of inheriting the throne.”

A firm declaration. She would have communicated her own will through this place of hers.

“I cannot abandon my older brother’s last will.”

The princess said with an effortless smile. Upon hearing that, the nobles simply nodded their heads calmly.

5 Princess. In the first place, the royal family was in a position far removed from the imperial authority. From the moment she decided to follow her, they would have already given up on her idea of imperial power.

Actually, what they wanted was to establish a relationship with the military minister through the business card of the faction of the 5th princess.

“I will be leaving the Empire for a while. Everyone, please buy yourself.”

Of course, the princess does not know that they truly follow her. Even so, they are bound by their own names.

Even if she didn’t follow her wholeheartedly, the princess didn’t want them to get hurt.

“Please take care of yourself.”

“I will wait for the day Your Highness returns.”

“For the precious little moon.”

It was then. After hearing the princess’s words, they all lowered their heads and began to speak.

Looking at them, the princess trembled slightly as if she was embarrassed, but she held her heart together and smiled.

“Thank you, everyone.”

The princess looks at them with a bright smile.

‘Did I really follow you more than I thought?’

Looking at them like that, I thought. They must have approached the 5 Princess at first to establish a relationship with the military minister.

But not now. Look at them How could this be the attitude of those who do not sincerely follow him?

Dozens of people bow their heads, and one person smiles brightly at them. If this relationship was a false one, it seemed that I would no longer believe in a relationship between people.

“What do you mean.. Did I do something wrong.. No. It’s not my fault.”

It was then that the condition of the 2nd prince began to become strange immediately after hearing the will of the crown prince.

“No. Are you okay. It was the right choice.”

He started muttering alone. His strange condition continued throughout the funeral.

The night of the second day of the funeral. The royal grandsons who guarded the mortuary went into their respective rooms to sleep, and I and a few knights remained in the mortuary.

‘Maybe it didn’t come after all.’

The rest of the royal grandchildren except for the 2nd Prince, 3rd Prince, 1st Princess, and 5th Princess. They did not come to protect the end of the crown prince.

After finishing cleaning up the funeral home, I started to move towards the residence where the 5 princess is staying. And then, it was at that time that I began to feel a bleak aura behind me.

“Captain of the Knights of Aran von Robertein.”

“Again, you guys.”

You can tell just by feeling. These are black people. They appeared before me again.

“Didn’t I tell you last time? The shadows are everywhere and nowhere.”

I turned around and looked at him.

“It’s a shame you don’t have a sword.”

Of course, wearing a sword during mourning is prohibited. If I had a sword, I would have cut his throat right away.

“The proposal I gave you last time. Have you thought about it?”

“Not even worth listening to. How dare you say that you will make Her Highness the emperor?”

I can’t trust them. No, regardless of whether you believe it or not, I consider them enemies.

“Of course, the shadow cannot do anything alone. Only with the movement of you, the light, and Her Highness, can we, too, move.”

“Not even worth listening to.”

I ran to him, ignoring his words. What if there is no sword? What you need to do is hit it with your fist.

But this time, he still only received my fist as it was.

‘This time too.’

I immediately took off the black hood, but of course what was inside was a person who had already died.

“If this continues, the empire will perish.”

“What do you mean?”

“While operating in the Commonwealth Kingdom, we stole the ‘Bible’ from a mercenary. It contained information about the history of the empire and things that had yet to happen.”

Soon, a book fell from the sky.

“Read it. This is a copy. We didn’t believe it at first either. However, the things the captain did in Hailan, even the death of the crown prince, this book accurately guessed.”

“What do you want to say?”

“The empire is about to enter the path of destruction. By the second prince who went mad.”

“What do you mean?”

“According to the Bible, it says that the second prince will become the crown prince, and sooner or later he will go mad.”

2 Prince is crazy? What a funny saying. If he really goes crazy, I want to see him.

“The second prince will go mad. Reaping with his own hands, guilt towards his younger brothers.”

“No way…”

At his words, I instantly had an ominous feeling.

The imperial descendants who did not come to the prince’s funeral. 2 What measures has the prince already taken on them?

“Not yet. However, someday it will happen

.”

His voice started to fade. It seems like it’s about to disappear like last time.

“Where there is light, let there be shadows. Think carefully about what your choice is for the empire.”

With that last word, no more voices could be heard.

A copy of the book he handed to me left behind next to the dead body.

I picked up the book and opened it once.

‘Mind Map..?’

A page that starts with the title Mind Map. There was a huge circle in the middle, and branches spread out in all directions around that circle and reached another circle, and letters were written inside the circle.

‘Empire, destruction, 2nd prince, crown prince, guilt.’

Did you infer from those words? What a great delusion.

Looking at them in the shape of a strange magic circle, I thought.

‘5Th Princess, Ascension, Bloodlord, Aran von Roberteyn.’

I also saw a circle with my name and the 5th princess mentioned.

[Aran Youngsik!]

‘A bloody lord.’

I thought, thinking of the 5 princesses who always smiled brightly, calling me. The blood lord and the 5 princesses. The two didn’t match at all.