My Wife the Empress is Becoming Frightening

57. If you do your best

Episode 57

Marianne returned to the bedroom, tired from the long meeting, and lay down on the bed as if she was about to collapse.

Although it was a new imperial castle, it was nothing more than a suitable building being used temporarily. Of course, O’Brien is a good place in its own way, but it can’t be compared to the imperial palace where I used to live.

But, more than anything else, the thing that bothers Marianne is the longing. It was a longing for her husband Isaac.

“Isaac… ”

Tears were about to come out as she shouted the name of her husband, whom she missed so much, but Marianne gritted her teeth and endured it.

Crying doesn’t change the situation. Crying was something I could only do when I got him back and cried hard in his arms.

Now, as the empress of the empire, she had to do it. It was the fastest way to get Isaac back in the end, and he hoped for it too.

“… I will definitely save you.”

No matter what happens, I will get Isaac back. To do that, you’ll have to kill Selemin first.

‘And Haria. You’re next.’

Haria and I had agreed to join hands to get Isaac back. Like herself, Haria is also working for it.

The fact that the move to O’Brien was able to proceed so quickly was largely due to the fact that she and the Duke had persuaded the local lords of the empire in advance.

If they had distrusted the Empire before, they would never have cooperated meekly. If this situation had been used as an opportunity, the empire could have truly collapsed.

However, after correcting their allegiance to the Empire through the Imperial Council, all of them were migrating to O’Brien at Marianne’s request to survive.

It was clear that it was of great help. Even if we both know that this is only a temporary cooperation.

‘It’s really fortunate that I can accommodate all of that as O’Brien, even if it gets past that. Of course, we shouldn’t consider it fortunate that many people of the empire were sacrificed, but… ‘

Even if not as much as the system, O’Brien also had to deal with a lot of damage from the monsters of the void.

Because of this, countless imperial citizens who originally lived in O’Brien were sacrificed, and those who came from the Islands and other regions were filling the void.

“But this alone is not enough. I need strength, strength.”

It required great power. Even after killing Selemin and removing Haria, she needed absolute and unshakable strength to live with Isaac.

The emperor’s power alone was not enough. Marianne thought there had to be something that would hold on to Isaac no matter what the moment.

“There’s no way something like that would be thrown right in front of you.”

Marianne’s thoughts were constantly spinning as she lay in bed and stared at the ceiling. It was time to focus on other thoughts in order to suppress the feeling of wanting to sob right away.

—

Shika’s current leader, Rayman, silently lowered his head and replied.

“All right. Then I will tell the other blood relatives the same.”

Leaving behind the Senate, who nodded in satisfaction at his attitude, Rayman stepped outside and walked away from the crowd.

He has been killing his emotions since childhood, before his ego developed.

As usual, Rayman tried to kill his simmering emotions. However, his chest, which became hot like lava, was not well controlled by himself.

“damn.”

Having lived only by killing emotions, on the contrary, meant that I was poor at expressing emotions. Although he was used to acting, Rayman didn’t know how to respond to his real feelings.

Swearing for no reason and throwing a dagger at random was the greatest expression of emotion he could do.

‘What the hell is the Senate thinking? What’s the point of being an assassin if all of humanity is destroyed!’

Regarding the situation on the continent, Shikada senses changes faster than anyone else. There was no one to follow them except for the black snake. I don’t know if it’s the imperial intelligence department in its heyday.

‘I’m crazy. Do I really have to just watch this?’

His birth as an assassin is far from justice. Therefore, the reason Rayman and the majority of Shika were dissatisfied with the Council of Elders was because it was a matter of their own survival.

‘Don’t do anything, just stay still. The Senate is mistaken. They think they will become the masters of the world if other humans disappear.’

On top of that, the Council of Elders was also arrogant. They thought they could make a deal with the Goddess of Creation.

Having stayed at the top position of the Shika Elders for a long time, ironically, while being Shika, they became unable to properly see reality.

‘Do I really have to wait for my turn without doing anything?’

According to the information that Sika risked her life to infiltrate the empire, the Empress’s younger sister Selmin Blata had become the new body of the Goddess of Creation.

To be precise, Selemine Blata stole some of Morior’s powers and used that power to redeem Isaac Mayer, then gathered monsters and incarnations together to wipe out their influence on them in order to destroy mankind.

Rayman only recently came to know about it by devouring Shika’s old books, but it was hard to imagine that the Goddess of Creation, who hated mankind, would give them special treatment.

Even if ‘it’ exists.

“hmm?”

Rayman, who was just standing there in frustration and unable to return to his place of residence, realized a sense of incongruity belatedly.

“The dagger I just threw… … Did you hear a falling sound?”

it didn’t come out Rayman, who immediately began to sense all directions, was soon astonished.

“Looking for this?”

“radish… ?!”

“Shh. quietly.”

Rayman felt a chill run down his neck at the sound of a voice coming from behind him. No matter how violently he changed, he was caught off guard, but he couldn’t help but be astonished at the fact that he was caught behind him.

‘No, no. It’s all excuses for not being vigilant because it’s agitation of emotions or because it’s the main camp.’

Rayman questioned him, admitting that the man behind him was obviously an assassin one level above him.

“Seeing that he didn’t kill right away, it looks like he has something he wants to hear from me.

A low laugh came from behind Rayman’s words. Although it was so much fun that it was more like a growl of a beast than a laugh.

“Chief Rayman Sika. Before we can have a conversation, there are things we need to check first.”

“What?”

“Since each other is busy, I ask directly. Can you kill the Senate to save Shika?”

With a thunderbolt in his head, Rayman’s thoughts spun rapidly. The assassin with the weapon pointed at his waist clearly understood Shika’s situation.

Also, his words suggested that depending on whether he answered or not, he could hold hands. Therefore, Rayman answered him as an assassin and the head of a clan.

“I want to kill. sincerely. But you cannot kill.”

It was impossible for simple old people to freely manipulate an assassin like Shika. The more you suppress it, the stronger the backlash is because it’s no different than assassins.

Nevertheless, there was a reason why the Council of Elders was able to maintain its power from Shika’s birth until now.

Rayman was about to continue talking to explain the reason, but the man threatening him spoke first.

“Is it because of an ancient artifact? It was a taboo among things made during the chaos. The King of Shadows, the strongest and worst artifact known to have been destroyed by the human nations at the time.”

Realizing the weapon was gone, Rayman couldn’t move.

It is a story that all Shika know that the Council of Elders rules over their blood relatives with special means, but the only person who knows the exact name should be the current head, except for the face of the Council of Elders.

“You know that, what the hell are you… ?”

Rayman cautiously turned his head, and what caught his eye was the Hound Mask. Recognizing the symbol of the hounds, the direct bodyguards of the Imperial Empress, Rayman still seemed puzzled.

“Did Haria tell you? However, Haria was the lowest among her blood relatives. You couldn’t have figured out the identity of the artifact, right?”

“Information is slower than expected. Recently, a person with details of that lineage came to the empire.”

Rayman’s eyes narrowed at the man’s words. It wasn’t that I doubted what he said. She was just blaming herself and her blood relatives for not being so complacent.

“That means you are the Derrigan of the Black Serpent. As an assassin, even though he’s not on active duty, he’s at this level. I was lucky not to have met you when I was on active duty.”

“It is overrated. And now it’s not a snake, it’s a hound. Anyway, this isn’t a good place to continue the story, so I’ll tell you the details tomorrow. If you don’t change your mind about wanting to get rid of the Senate and save Shika, come here.”

What was written on the small piece of paper handed over was the location of the meeting place tomorrow. As soon as he handed it over to Derrigan, who disappeared into the darkness, Rayman hurriedly asked a question.

“Oh, wait. how did you find out here? Haria must have known that Shika’s main base changes periodically and never stays in the same place again, right?”

“I’d like to say, “Don’t underestimate the hunting dog’s sense of smell, but honestly, the snakes helped a lot this time.”

“snake?!”

“Unlike Shika, they came over to the Empire a while ago to survive.”

Eventually, when even Derrigan’s faint sign disappeared, all that was left there was Rayman, who was standing there blankly and suddenly breaking apart, gritting his teeth.

—

At first, Valentino did not understand Louis’ message to come to O’Brien, but now he could understand it properly.

‘… It’s embarrassing.’

After rushing back to the continent from Pandaemonium at Louis’ request for help, Valentino had been looking for the little wizard friend.

I didn’t want to waste unnecessary time, so I ignored the void monsters rampaging. For that reason, the first misjudgment was to think that the monster of the void was at most a slightly stronger witchbeast.

Thought Valentino the moment he jumped off the cliff and punched one of the void monsters.

Oh, this is much harder than I thought.

I realized that it would be impossible to annihilate such a number alone, but I wanted to reduce the number and go.

That was the second misjudgment.

The incarnation of Morior appeared between the monsters. Unlike when the incarnation appeared as if it were rising from all over the continent, the dispersed powers were combined into one by Selemin.

In other words, it meant that the incarnation that appeared in front of Valentino had the same power as the one that Isaac fought in Meyer Kingdom, except that he did not have the energy of death.

Valentino had no way to know that fact, but there was no change in the fact that Hwashin was strong, and as a result, he was stuck upside down on the ground and was in trouble.

“Where is it? Write it down, there’s nothing you can do about it. I have no choice but to do my best.”

The aura of Valentino, who pulled out his upper body and stood up, began to fluctuate again.

Seeing Valentino correcting his stance without giving up even though he has already suffered a significant injury, Hwashin took a stance as if paying homage.

‘If you do your best… … possible.’

When the two explosively increased auras collided, the ground shattered and screamed. In a situation where you don’t know if the game will be covered at once depending on who moves and how.

“ha-!”

Valentino screamed with a spirit that shook the world and turned around and ran out.

Valentino Knox, a half-devil and a heroic strongman with a reputation as a demon hunter, fled with all his might.