CH 190

Ambition's end

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Sitting at the foot of the large table, facing the King, I could see everything Havre Calvine was doing.

Raising his left arm in a large motion to guide the gaze of those present, he drew a sword from his waist and decapitated the King.

[ Eeehhh, where did he get the sword from ... ]

[ It's a dark weapon called a belt sword. It's a sword that bends well and doesn't break, but it's sheathed in a belt-like sheath, but if you don't have a lot of training, you shouldn't be able to handle it that well. ]

At the beginning of this rally, they must have been meticulously prepared to kill the King.

As evidence of this, when Havre raised his left arm, every last person sitting on Camilla's side turned their gaze towards the lowest seat, but those sitting on Havre's side were facing the upper seat.

The people sitting on Camilla's side didn't seem to be able to understand what was going on for a few moments, even when their eyes returned to the King.

Who could have imagined that the King would be cut to death while he was out of sight for just a moment.

"Fa, Father!"

"Your Majesty the King!"

An unexpected person yelled at the people on Camilla's side who jumped up from their seats in astonishment.

"Quiet!"

Zaa, Kasha, Shaa, Jaaki!

In line with the Commander's shout, the knights in armor, who were lined up by the wall of the room and held up their swords while holding the tip of their swords, changed the direction of their swords with a single undisturbed movement, and gripped the hilt and readied their swords.

"Knight Commander, what is this. Will the Knights point their swords at the Royal Family?"

"Camilla-sama, we knights have decided to take up swords for the sake of the people. Indulging in pleasure and spending all their time fighting for power is outrageous!"

With angry eyes and a voice that sounded like he was commanding a knight, the Commander commanded the atmosphere, causing the people on Camilla's side to stand up and stop moving.

"As a Knight Commander, it is heartbreaking to point my sword at the Royal Family, but I can no longer leave the current situation of being threatened by the sands of the desert and the thieves of Barshania. I, to create a new Resenburg, where government is for the people, by the hands of the people, have decided to become the sword of Havre Calvine, who threw away his status and property, and risked his life to start a revolution. Camilla-sama, be prepared ..."

"Wait, Berdets! You are being deceived by Havre."

"That's right, Commander, it's just as Camilla-sama says."

"Commander, please come to your senses. Havre Calvine is the root of all evil."

"Shut up! All of you who belong to the Royal Family who repeat acts of misbehavior, apologize to the people with your death!"

Zaa, Zaa, Zaa!

Commander Berdets raised his right hand, and the armor-clad knights began marching in step towards the attendees on Camilla's side.

"Come on, you guys, stop!"

"Listen to me, at this rate, you'll do exactly as Havre wants!"

The Royal Guard Commanders Magdalos and Oswald, who attended on Camilla's side, also did not carry weapons in front of the King.

Even so, Camilla, Count Gleisner, and Count Saruel stood in their way, but there was no chance of winning against a knight in full armor with bare hands.

[ Then, everyone, please follow the plan ... ]

A shield of darkness covered the windows and ceiling, and the Chamber of Proceedings was enclosed in darkness.

I've been training myself to take on Gryphons, so this was a piece of cake.

"This, what happened!"

"Turn on the lights, what's going on!"

"Maou-sama!"

"Damnit, yesterday's mouse."

"Don't panic!"

A white square wall suddenly emerged in the direction of the lowest seat of the large table.

"You stubborn knights, open your eyes and look."

Of course, the white square wall was illuminated by a projector, and the image and sound were played immediately after.

The video began with a secret conversation between Havre and Havre's right-hand man, Nestor.

As the conversation progressed, it was revealed that Havre was pulling strings behind the scenes, even communicating with Barshania, and was trying to get rid of the Princes and take over the country.

"Havre-dono, what the hell is this?"

"I, I don't know, that kind of thing is a hoax, it's definitely some kind of illusion."

"It's an illusion? I've never heard of an illusion where this many people see exactly the same thing?"

At the request of the Knight Commander, Havre fell silent because he was at a loss for words to respond.

The video then showed Havre beckoning a man wearing a deep hood in.

"Auu ... Stop it! Stop that illusion!"

"Shut up! Don't act so disgracefully!"

"Guu ... Aaahhh ..."

After being shouted at by the Knight Commander right beside him, the Prime Minister collapsed and sat down in the chair that he had once stood up from.

[ What's going on, Havre. It's a different story, isn't it. ]

[ I am confused about that as well. ]

[ Not only is Alphonse alive, but none of the leaders of either faction are dead. What are you going to do? ]

[ Even if you ask what I'm going to do, I just heard the news today, so I can't take action right away. ]

The footage uncovered Havre and the Prime Minister's conspiracy to seize control of the country and control its wealth.

And finally, the appearance of Havre, who was acting violently towards Camilla, was shown.

[ Hou, did you suspect even that, yes, I ordered everything. But, is there any proof? It's true that I ordered them to be killed, but how can you prove it. No matter how much I tell the truth here, if there are no witnesses, it won't prove anything. ]

The figure of triumph while overpowering Camilla, it looked really stupid.

[ Fuhahahahaha ... There's no way such a person will ever appear. The strong, the wise will get everything. That's the truth of this world. This castle, this country, and this body belong to me. Come on, let's have a lot of fun ... Goaa! ]

I stopped the video when Havre rolled awkwardly to the floor.

At the same time that the light from the projector was turned off, the shields of darkness were also released, and the brightness of the Chamber of Proceedings was restored.

"Hello, everyone, my name is Kent Kokubu."

"Maou-sama!"

"It's an intruder, seize him!"

Havre yelled, but none of the knights moved anymore.

"Just now, the video you saw was actually taken by my hands. Knight Commander, I don't know what that man has instilled in you, but you'll regret it if things go on like this."

"That's right, Commander, please reconsider."

"Commander, the enemy of the people is Havre Calvine!"

The Commander ordered the knights while piercing Havre with an angry gaze.

"Everyone, put down your swords and stand back."

Kasha, Jaaki, Zaa, Zaa, Zaa, Zaa ...

The knights who received the orders from the Knight Commander held their swords by the tip again, retreated to the wall, and stopped moving.

The Prime Minister sat down in his chair, lowered his head, muttered something, and didn't even move.

From the other side of the long table, Havre was glaring at me with bloodshot eyes as if he wanted to curse me to death.

"Well, Havre-san, what are you going to do?"

"A brat like you ..."

Havre turned his gaze from me to the right and rushed towards Camilla with a blood-stained sword in one hand, I blocked him with a shield of darkness.

"B, bastard, you're a dark-attribute magician after all! Damnit, Nestor! Come in!"

When Havre gave the signal, the front and back doors were filled with thug-like people with weapons in their hands.

"Siege defense, double time!"

At the command of the Knight Commander, the knights grabbed their swords by the hilts again and prepared a defensive system surrounding Camilla's attendees who had retreated to the window side.

I was pushed by the momentum, and even I was surrounded by the protective circle.

Even though they were armed with full armor, there were eight knights.

On the other hand, it seemed that there were about 50 of Havre's subordinates, even if you roughly counted them.

Havre calmly moved to the wall with a triumphant smile on his face.

"Fuun, you stupid brat. To think that you're here to be killed, did you think I wouldn't do anything about it?"

"Excuse me, please let me out for a moment."

I went out of the knight's enclosure and moved to the area where the Knight Commander was, and stood across the table from Havre, who was acting triumphant.

"By any chance, Havre-san, do you think you've won?"

"Fuun, I won't fall for your lies anymore. The guards are all locked up in the training grounds, and the only people around this room are my subordinates. Even if there is the Knight Commander, it won't be a match if there are no weapons."

"What are you going to do with us?"

"That's obvious ... The dead don't talk."

"Haa ... I wonder ... I thought you were a more formidable person, but I'm disappointed."

"What's that ... Huh?"

Seeing Murt suddenly jump out of my shadow, Havre put on a dubious expression.

When I petted it on the head, it gleefully wagged its tail.

"Fuhahahaha, you're called Maou, just when I wondered how many people you had, it was just one Kobold!"

Drawn in by Havre, his subordinates also let out laughter.

He didn't know that Murt's appearance was a signal that the Kobold Corps had overwhelmed the surrounding Havre forces, and he was carefree.

"It's baaaad, Havre-san, this guy is too dangerous, gyahahaha ..."

"Hey Hey Hey ... My stomach hurts, it's just a Kobold ..."

"I don't need a weapon, I'll just killed it with my bare hands."

"Goshujin-sama, are these guys enemies too? Beat them?"

Murt's words stopped the laughter.

"Haa, did a Kobold just speak?"

When Havre and the others tilted their heads, a distant thunder-like sound began to resound in the room.

Doro doro doro ... Doro doro doro ... Doro doro doro ...

At the eerie sound, the knights who were protecting Camilla and the others tightened their expressions as they looked warily at their surroundings.

Doro doro doro ... Doro doro doro ... Doro doro doro ...

When I put out a shield of darkness behind me, Nero slowly appeared from there and snuggled up to me, purring in good spirits.

"S, Storm Cat ..."

"It's bad, it's seriously bad ..."

Putting both hands on the table, the triumphant Havre, ran to the wall all at once, in addition, some people rushed to the exit, which I blocked with a shield of darkness.

"Havre-san, what should we do?"

"Don't panic! You see, take a good look. You see, that Storm Cat can't move. That guy is Camilla's shield after all."

No, it's completely different, but the subordinates were nodding their heads.

"As expected of Havre-san, we have different points of view."

"Okay ... Okay, at my signal, everyone attack all at once. You see, if that's the case, even a Storm Cat can't withstand it. Okay, this side, get ready ..."

"Guruuuuuu ..."

As if to drown out Havre's instructions, a growl resounded from the shield of darkness that blocked the door behind them, and Zeta suddenly appeared.

"G, Gigawolf ..."

"It's bad, step back, step back!"

The minions who were near the back door all backed off all at once, and even Havre was pushed and staggered.

"Hey, go back further ..."

"Idiot, don't push ..."

"Guruuuooooo ..."

"Hiii, even from here ..."

"Hey, back off! Hurry, hurry uuup!"

The minions panicked as Eta emerged with a roar from the shield of darkness that blocked the front door.

"Havre-san, Havre-san! What do we do."

"Shut up, don't make a clamor!"

Havre and his minions were pinned against the wall, frantically watching to see if Nero and Zeta-tachi would attack together.

Murt asked while watching the panic of Havre and the others.

"Goshujin-sama, are we going to beat these guys?"

"Hmm ... I don't know what to do ..."

"Wait, wait a minute, why don't you team up with me? I'll give you Camilla. Half of Resenburg ... No, I'll give you two-thirds. Two-thirds anywhere you like, it's not a bad story, is it?"

Havre's face was dripping with sweat.

"That's right ..."

"Hey, that's right, it's not a bad story. Right, I'll add this castle. OK, OK?"

"I don't think it's a bad story, but in the first place, neither this castle nor Resenburg belong to Havre-san, right? Giving me land that doesn't belong to you ... Is there anyone who would be happy to hear that?"

"Damniiiit ..."

While talking to me, Havre frantically searched for an escape route, moving his gaze to the right, to the left, and up and down.

"Benito, Jose, Cleo, Tamir, lend me your ear ..."

Havre called his minions and started a meeting.

Seeing that, Camilla called out to me with a tense tone.

"Maou-sama, he's plotting something. It's better to catch him now ..."

"Yeah, maa, it's fine. There's no problem."

The four people Havre summoned gathered a few more and entered the center of the cornered group.

Then, they started chanting all at once.

"Mana, oh mana, oh mana that governs the world, gather, gather, gather in my hands and penetrate the earth, penetrate, penetrate, penetrate the earth, drill!"

All of Havre's subordinates chanted an earth-attribute magic that digs a hole, and when seven or eight of them activated it all at once, the floor collapsed.

"Maou-sama, they're planning to escape downstairs!"

"Don't worry, don't worry, they can't escape."

They must have thought of going downstairs from the collapsed floor and escaping, but the area around the meeting room had already been checked.

Breaking the wall and escaping into the hallway, smashing through the window and escaping outside, and smashing through the ceiling to escape.

The meeting room was on the second floor, and the downstairs was the dance hall.

Havre and the others, while competing with each other, jumped into the collapsed pit.

The only entrances to the dance hall were the large central door and the glass door that leads to the garden.

I had Theta waiting at the door that Havre ran over and opened.

"Guruuuuu ..."

"Damnit, go around to the garden!"

When Havre returned to the center of the hall, I put out a shield of darkness in front of the glass door and sent in Zeta and Eta.

Nero followed from behind Theta as she stepped into the hall through the door.

"Knight Commander-san, please solidify the perimeter of the dance hall. For the time being, I will ask them to surrender."

"Alright. Hey, send the first squad."

The cornered Havre-tachi gathered in a mass in the center of the dance hall, and Nero and the others were circling around them.

Through the shield of darkness, I descended in front of Havre.

"Well, Havre-san, what are you going to do?"

"Shitty brat ..."

"You can choose to surrender or dance with these girls, whichever you prefer."

"Don't joke around ... How much I've worked so hard to get to where I am ... Do you know how much time and effort went into making this plan!"

"No, I don't know."

"Just because they were born into the royal family, just because they were born into an aristocratic family, they live a luxurious life without any hardships, and continue to fight petty battles over the next to sit on the throne. If you have good family background, you will be given power, and if you have power, you will be allowed to do most things. I was born in the womb of a noble on the frontier, was not given enough money, and grew up smeared with dirt in a mine. Raised in the mountains, trained in the mountains, I built personal connections, learned how to outwit people, kicked out my shitty stepbrothers who only knew how to indulge in pleasure with the money they were given, and banished my shitty father and obtained a noble household! This world is about power, and the one who has the power and cleverly knocks down the enemy takes everything. What's wrong with that!"

Havre glared at me and shouted in a loud voice that echoed through the hall.

"Answer me, shitty brat, what's wrong with that!"

"That's right ... It's inconvenient for me."

"Haa? Something like being convenient for you bastard has nothing to do with it. Why do you have to interfere with my plans just because it's inconvenient for you bastard."

"Because, Havre-san, you said it yourself, the one with the power gets everything."

"What is that, even so, you bastard ..."

"According to Havre-san's logic, if I'm stronger, if I have more power, then it's okay to do whatever I want, right?"

When Havre stared blankly at me and fell silent, one of his subordinates, who had waited for the timing, crawled under Eta's stomach and ran through.

While everyone's eyes were focused on him, Murt popped out in front of the subordinate.

"You're a hindrance, the likes of a Kobold is ... Guaa!"

The sword that the subordinate swung with one hand, Murt flipped away with the toy-like dagger it was carrying without being able to see when it drew it, and threw a side kick into his stomach and blew the group away.

When Murt showed a power that didn't match its appearance, and furthermore, when the Kobold Corps burst forth, Havre's subordinates lost their fighting spirit, threw down their weapons and sat down.

While his subordinates had expressed their intention to surrender, only Havre and Nestor had not abandoned their resistance.

Zeta-tachi stopped walking around and glared from the surroundings with the Kobold Corps.

Nero sat next to me, rubbing its big face against me, purring.

"A shitty brat ... a brat who doesn't know how hard it is ..."

"It's not like that. I had my guts pulled out by Goblins, and my stomach was skewered with a sword by a knight of Resenburg, and even before this, I almost had my head cut off."

"Fuun, at that time, you should have died quietly ..."

Havre threw away the sword smeared with the King's blood, picked up a two-handed sword thrown away by his minions, and swung it to see how it felt.

Beside him, Nestor also re-gripped his sword.

[ Kent-sama, we are ... ]

[ Sorry, let me do it today. ]

[ As you wish. ]

[ Kent-sama ... show me what you've got ... ]

With a pat on the back of its neck, Nero moved away from me.

"Hou, are you not going to ask for help from monsters?"

"I don't need to."

"Then, Nestor, you too ..."

"Both of you, go ahead ... even if I look like this, I'm an S-rank adventurer."

"Fufu! , you're just a brat who's been fooling around. Then, I'll turn you bastard into a bloodbath, break through the blockhead knights' enclosure, and run away. Let's go, Nestor."

"As you wish ..."

Havre and Nestor started walking side by side and started running at once.

As the two closed the distance, I first aimed at Nestor's legs with a blade of wind.

Since I just waved my arms without chanting, they may have thought that I was just taking a stance.

The blades of wind slashed through both of his thighs, causing Nestor to fall over.

Maybe he caught Nestor's fall at the edge of his vision, and at the moment when Havre's momentum slowed down for a moment, I strengthened my body and stepped in at once.

Havre raised his sword high and waited, then swung down without hesitation the moment I entered the range.

I used a shield of darkness to block his arm from swinging down his sword, and into the defenseless body of Havre, I used wind-attribute magic in addition to physical enhancement to accelerate with a left hook with all my might.

"Kaha! ..."

I could feel his bones crunching and breaking, and his body bent into the 'く' character.

When the giant Havre's head was lowered, I threw in a right hook that was also accelerated with wind-attribute magic.

My fist caught Havre's left jaw, and I felt the sensation of bones breaking again.

As I swung my fist straight through, Havre's body, which had let go of his sword, slid about 10 meters along the floor of the dance hall, and remained motionless.

"Angyaaaa ... It hurts, it hurts, my fist, my fist brooooke ..."

I went and did it, I didn't strengthen my bones enough.

Broken bones were piercing through the skin in places.

Healing, healing, I quickly tried my best to self-heal.

Aaahhh ... I looked so uncool at the last minute.