chapter 3
This goddamned mania since childhood has prevented me from making good judgments.
If you try to think deeply and make a choice, the string of rationality is cut in an instant. When I came to my senses, it was always after crossing an irreversible river.
as shallow as possible. I had no choice but to think one-dimensionally.
War was the least complicated of all.
Some might consider it the most complicated thing, but the emperor is a being who ‘commands’.
If I put down complicated justifications and said I would do so, the conquest came naturally.
It is a very rational thought to say that it is justification and mercy.
Rational people cannot understand, and cannot even defeat, those who do not think rationally.
‘War was my only method of ruling.’
A rotten empire that is already rotten.
If left alone, it will fester.
War was also the only option that could sustain the empire.
There were more nobles than expected who liked war without a justification.
It is because all the arrows return to me even if I take care of my own self-interest.
Successive emperors feared being recorded as tyrants in history.
He always set up an angle of confrontation with the nobles and avoided turning arrows.
I couldn’t do that.
I was dragged around by the nobles and approved the war with all arrows pointed at me.
As soon as the arrows were returned to me, the nobles released their stored power and went wild.
As a result, he was called the demon emperor and tyrant.
Of course, no one would have expected that a monster like Malfiel would appear.
With the appearance of the King of Heroes, Malfiel, the nobles opened the gates of the imperial palace without regret.
‘They would have thought they would be able to live if they offered me as a sacrifice.’
Malfiel caught and killed all those nobles.
All of them, even newborn babies, said to have dirty blood.
Don’t you think life is about not knowing what’s ahead?
It really was.
‘Do you mean try living again?’
On the topic of bugs, he tells me, the emperor, to live again.
He clenched his fists tightly.
How long does it take to see the world with such a sane mind?
‘I will not live being swayed.’
Whether it was madness or nobles.
I will live my full life.
I will judge for myself and walk the path I have chosen for myself.
“Are you the one who turned back time?”
[Meaning unknown. Nanomachine Zero does not have the ability to turn back time.]
Who if not worms?
Did God intervene?
“Since when has it been in my head?”
[Unknown. I don’t know. It has been documented that the self-powered program moves feebly with electrical stimulation of the brain. The first stimulus was 16 years ago.]
The first stimulation came when I was 3 years old.
My first memory started when I was 3 years old, so it seemed to match.
I don’t know if it came before that. Meaning you don’t know how you got there.
“Where are you from?”
[‘Nano Machine Zero’ was born by Park Moon-sik, a scientist at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.]
“Park Moon-shik? It’s an unfamiliar name.”
[master. I’m trying to transfer the general information about me and how to use it. Master’s approval is required.]
“Try it.”
It’s a bug that has plagued me for decades.
But now I was a rational human being.
I can judge for myself whether the other person is hostile to me or not.
At least Zero wanted to have a different relationship from the past. Accordingly, if my approval is required, I may do so.
-Jing.
A slight tingling sensation came along with a tickling sensation in the brain.
Other people would vomit and make a fuss, but it was a very familiar feeling to me.
[Protocol conversion complete. Words are recombined based on the data recorded in the program. 3 seconds to complete language conversion. 2 seconds. 1 second.]
“Mmm.”
He shook his body with a slight moan.
At the same time, there was a ‘memory’ that was forcibly injected into the brain.
Disparate content that is clearly distinct from my memory.
It was as if someone had carved letters into every crease in my brain. It wasn’t very good.
“Nuclear war? radiation? What kind of magic is pictured in my head right now?”
The problem is the content.
Even if you instilled knowledge, understanding it was a completely different realm.
A golden city completely different from the continent I knew was swept away in an instant, causing a huge explosion.
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Just like Meteora fell.
[It’s not magic or fantasy, it really happened. And ‘Nano Machine Zero’ is a prototype of nanomachines created to restore human health contaminated by radioactivity.]
“That the gigantic, incomparable buildings that are pictured in my head right now… really existed?”
It is bigger than the imperial palace.
It seemed to be even bigger than the tower of the Holy Church, which was said to be the tallest on the continent.
There were countless such structures.
[Yes. Humanity’s architecture has reached beyond the sky.]
“Did things that high and huge get swept away at once?”
[That’s the nuclear fear. Due to the world war, all of human civilization’s favorites that had been built for thousands of years were swept away in just ten minutes.]
A war weapon that destroyed the continent at once.
With that core, it seemed like it could kill even the immortal Malfiel.
“Can’t you make that nuke?”
[No information about him has been entered.]
Too bad.
Then, he immediately shook his head.
Is this why I can’t give my dog a bad habit?
However, I learned some important information.
‘Nanomachines are not of this world.’
I don’t know why or why the nanomachines fell into this world and came to me.
But I was ready to take advantage of anything that would help me, not just pain forever.
Even if it is the enemy of Cheolcheonji.
[master. It is difficult to fully heal the master’s body with only the authority given to me. Master’s approval is required to purify the poison accumulated in the brain and body and improve the constitution.]
Nanomachines are only made for human treatment.
And there were many poisons accumulated in this body.
The drugs he took every day to calm down and relieve pain are rotting his body.
I pondered for a while.
Now was the crossroads.
Will the information delivered by the nanomachines be completely trusted?
Is it something you can trust?
However, the information that the nanomachines gave me also included a ‘command’ that caused the nanomachines to destroy themselves and be ejected.
It also reminded me that there was nothing I could do without my orders.
If it was a real enemy, he wouldn’t have told me about his weaknesses.
“… I approve.”
I gave the worm in my head another chance.
dubious. He wondered if bugs could heal this drug-ridden body.
“ha······.”
Sitting at a table in the nicely decorated garden, Isabella sighed.
A luncheon with the prince?
If anyone hears it, they will make a fuss about envy.
Getting married was the greatest pride of women from aristocratic and social circles, so if they were to get married, they would have been talking to the point of getting bloodstained in their ears that life was blooming.
‘Reinhardt, of course.’
The problem was that the target was ‘Reinhardt’.
There were too many words to describe him, almost impossible to count.
crazy prince.
Mental patients, playboys who are crazy about women, blood demons who go mad at the sight of blood, and so on…
“Miss Isabella, have you heard? Prince Reinhardt only has wrinkles on his face. I frown every day. I heard no one saw you frown?”
“noisy. And judging people by their appearance is a bad habit.”
Reigns’ chattering words went through one ear.
Isabella was far from the usual aristocratic girl.
I wanted to hear that Isabella herself did well and lived well, rather than hearing that she got married well and lived well like anyone else.
I didn’t have the hobby of making flower arrangements like the other girls.
He liked swords from a young age and longed for knights.
It might be the influence of his father, who was highly regarded as a noble knight.
So, if I ever met him, I wanted him to be such a classy man.
In that sense, Reinhardt was a complete opposite.
‘I don’t even want to meet a man right now.’
It was a place where I was forced to come out because I couldn’t overcome the coercion of the elders in the family.
‘It must mean that people with problems should meet well.’
The adults in the house thought that Isabella had a flaw. It was clear from the fact that he threw himself like this at the prince, whom everyone was reluctant to do.
However, Isabella hated this position so much.
This is because the thought of being offered as a living sacrifice for a political marriage is strong.
‘Let’s refuse as best we can.’
good. I will smile and refuse as much as possible.
Even though the appointment time has passed, I can’t understand it with common sense that I’m later than myself who ran from afar!
He forced the corners of his lips up.
“His Highness the Crown Prince is entering!”
The soldiers guarding the garden blew their trumpets and made a noise.
I wondered why he was holding that trumpet.
Wouldn’t that be such a childish idea to show off one’s prestige?
“ah······.”
fussing unnecessarily
The corner of his mouth, which he raised with great effort, came down.
This kind of man, it’s obvious without looking at it.
That was the moment.
“Since when did the Golden Knights become clowns?”
<Lunch at Noon> End