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'I don't know?' 'Yes... I'm sorry, Mr. Kangwoo.'

Iris bowed his head and rubbed the tips of his feet on the floor.

a guilty look Rain kicked his tongue and shook his head.

"No, it's nothing to apologize for."

It's the first step toward reviving the Empire.

It is now eradicating corrupt aristocrats who suck the blood of their nations within the Empire.

'It's not as easy as I thought.’

The current political system of the Arnan Empire is dominated by the centralized way of governing each land by the emperor.

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It is not going to cause any free revolution here, but it will be a problem if you just beat your neck just because you are an aristocrat.

Land that has no existence to govern becomes a more terrible hell than the days when corrupt aristocrats were in place.

It's not good to be weak.

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In order to fill a position where no nobility has disappeared, they will start biting and trampling on each other.

Think about what a terrible catastrophe an anarchic nation has faced on Earth.

It is insane to strike out all the nobles from the present imperial system. You can't take away all the authority that the nobles have."

When I left the orphanage and was just rolling in the labor field, I remembered an uncle who shouted in a husky voice that the members of the National Assembly should not give money and make them work unpaid.

'Words are good.'

It's a good thing to hear.

Moderate adjustment will be necessary, but giving that amount of power and remuneration to the privileged is a necessary evil.

Where in the world is there a moron who'll do it without pay? 'You'll look like a class president.'

How many people actively raise their hands to become class president?

The reason for not raising hands is simple. Give responsibility, work goes up, but there's no real pay.

If they take away all the power from the nobles, they end up doing nothing at all.

'Then after all, the corrupt aristocrats and the aristocrats who maintain their proper vested interests.

I'm saying we have to distinguish.’

The problem is that Iris is not good enough to distinguish such aristocrats.

She was not stupid, but there was too little data to judge because Fidelio intentionally hid the information.

This made it impossible to clean up the corrupt aristocrats, called the 'Fidelio Line.'

"Some of them are rumors, but they're just rumors."

Iris said carefully.

The rain nodded its head.

A rumor is a rumor after all.

A rumor alone cannot determine whether any aristocrat is corrupt or not.

"I need someone who knows the situation of the Empire.'

But who?

Such a man has already been handed over or demoted to Fidelio because of his years of tight control and rule over the empire.

You have to ask Fidelio yourself.

It's not a very good choice.

He is a clever man. The moment you find out you have an advantageous hold of information, you will try to take advantage of it somehow.

'There's a way to force him to open his mouth.'

It is also difficult to obtain certain information.

In the end, it is Fidelio himself who tells the information.

to distinguish a corrupt aristocrat based on his eye level and judgment.

It's like asking the shithead who's dirtier.'

It is also necessary to have someone who is well aware of the situation in the Empire. "Do you know anyone who's bright this way?"

"Hmm. Wait a minute."

Iris closed her eyes as if she was organizing her thoughts.

Then, he opened his eyes with a short exclamation.

"There is."

"Who?"

"He used to be the chief wizard of the Empire. He would know the details of the Imperial situation."

The rain was tightlipped. I didn't know for some reason who Iris was talking about the chief wizard of the Empire.

You pervert." You know the state of the Empire in detail? I remembered the face of a wizard who shook the overall user rating with Leira.

Just thinking of him made me sigh from my mouth.

"Sigh."

I thought for a moment if I had any other choice, but I couldn't think of such a convenient way. 'I'll call him...' 'No, thanks."

Rain shook his head and took out a communication crystal ball from his arms.

Iris' eyes were round. "Do you know anything about Douglas?

Was it sour?" "Well... It just happened to be a connection.

G."

The heavy rain smiled bitterly. In fact, calling Douglas a helper would be a welcome thing for the rain.

Ida.

'No one knows more about HiLF than Douglas does."

To make Kim Si-hoon a hero of the continent, to save Iris (I don't know if it's salvation), to revive the empire, to eventually bring Heilf to the continent.

It was.

If there is a scholar who has been working on HiLF for a long time like Douglas, there is nothing to think about that would be of great help to the plan.

[What's going on?]

The voice of Douglas came from the communication bead.

The rain glanced at Iris and continued.

"Mr. Douglas."

It's time to get back to work. Stop looking at the erotic.

"Flower, Lady Hwang..."

Douglas, who returned to the capital as soon as he was contacted by the rain, hardened his face as soon as he saw Iris.

His wrinkled face was a mixture of regret, guilt, and anger.

"...I heard about Fidelio."

The news that he was Lucifer's servant has spread all over the continent.

living alone in a tower

Even Douglas heard the news.

"I knew he was a greedy and evil man, but he was a servant of evil spirits!"

Douglas dropped his head on his knees in front of Iris.

"I'm sorry. I... I should have protected her no matter what."

a never-ending past

Regret was late at the earliest. Douglas looked at Iris with a sad look.

Iris he knows is a good and tender woman. Even if Fidelio ran away, it wasn't hard to predict that his trauma would make his mind and body so damaged that his daily life would be impossible.

'No, I'm fine, Douglas.' '...'...the Queen?'

Douglas' eyes grew bigger. Iris, who thought he would suffer from Fidelio's nightmares every day, seemed far from what he thought.

"I'm still angry at the thought of being beaten by that little bastard who wouldn't be able to chew and kill me."

"Flower, Lady Hwang?"

The thick madness and living emanation from Iris makes Douglas cringe.

tremble at

The kind and tender woman he knew was no longer there.

There is a beast armed with flesh and blood who tries to tear down the enemy.

'What the hell is going on earth.

How can a woman who was shaking her head when she met Fidelio's eyes change so much?

Douglas looked at Iris with eyes that were hard to understand.

"She overcame her fear of the Fidelio Chancellor with a firm will."

"It's all thanks to you."

Iris smiled brightly and hugged Kangwoo's arm.

"Well, I don't know what the hell happened..."

I don't know why Iris, who has always been blunt and nervous except for Reynald, is kind to that young man named Oh Kang-woo.

"It's really... fortunate," said Douglas with a smile of relief.

It was much better to see now, though a little radical, than Iris, who was shaking with fear.

"Thank you for coming back, Douglas."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Thank you for calling the old man back."

Douglas bowed his head on one knee.

Kangwoo grinned as he looked at the Douglas with his head down.

I'm glad you didn't say you were going to continue living in seclusion.’

For Iris, who has almost lost his support, Douglas will be a strong ally and a force.

"By the way, what are you calling me for?"

I'm not sure what happened to Douglas.

I didn't deliver it.

Kangwoo continued by sticking out a document containing a list of the imperial nobles he received through Liris.

"If I had enough time, I'd like to throw you a party, but I'd like to get started right now."

It was a little bit on my mind to grab Douglas and make him work right away, but now I couldn't afford to relax.

"Before the aristocrats lose Fidelio, they catch his tail."

The nobles, also called the Fidelio Line, were cutting their tails quickly as soon as it was revealed that Fidelio was a servant of the evil Lucifer.

He started playing the media by suddenly lowering tax rates or releasing goods to the citizens, hoping that the fire wouldn't splatter on him/her. 'We can't just wait and see.

A man who has once realized the sweetness of desire cannot truly reflect on himself and atone for it.

No, even if you really atone for reflecting on yourself.

'It doesn't mean that the price of a crime that you've already been committed.

Already they have pushed countless nations into despair.

I can't believe I can open my eyes and watch you pretend to be good.

"You can choose the aristocrats who were attached to Fidelio. Oh, even if they didn't stick to it, all the nobles who were tyrannical to the people of the Empire."

"Well."

Douglas drooled with difficulty.

I was worried that even Douglas didn't know much about the situation of the empire, but fortunately, what he said was another word.

"I'm sure there's a lot of numbers."

"That's all right."

The mass extermination of the corrupt aristocrats could cause temporary confusion, but it was several times better than leaving them alone.

'I'll have to choose the right one and punish it.’

I was going to show some flexibility as the situation is.

I knew that it was too dreamy a fantasy to wish only good, clean aristocrats would rule the land.

"Okay, then I'll first sort out the nobles who were attached to Fidelio."

The work on Douglas has begun. He proceeded without a hitch with complicated paperwork, proving that he wasn't the chief wizard of the Empire with his form.

"First of all, Duke Delphio and Marquis Vander.

These guys were the worst."

He quickly sorted out documents containing the identities of the nobility.

The Fidelio line also included Belen, whom Rain first met when he came to the Ernoir continent. "I've only picked out the Fidelio loyalists."

'That's quite a lot.' '... the devil was a devil for nothing."

Douglas continued with a deep sigh.

"All the nobles who go against themselves.

He either purged it or sent a demotion."

"Is Mr. Douglas one of the victims?"

There was no answer back, but I could get it without saying it.

"Then the treatment of these nobles..."

Rain turned to Iris.

She answered in a voice without hesitation.

"It's death penalty."

eyes full of life

Douglas looked surprised as if he had not expected such a bold choice to come out of Iris' mouth.

'Well, all of them?' 'Yes, kill all the nobles who have any connection with Fidelio."

He spoke with a firm voice, and then went to Kang Woo and shined his eyes.

Like a puppy waiting to compliment.

Kangwoo nodded with an awkward smile as if he felt burdened.

"Considering what they've done, it's a proper punishment."

"...is that okay? The private forces of the aristocrats would be tough."

'That doesn't matter,' the rainfall shrugged.

Now, the power of the rain party is overwhelming unless a divine being appears.

Private forces of the aristocracy, worry.

There is no reason to decide. "First of all, we punish the nobles who are related to Fidelio, and then later..."

It was when I was speaking.

Click!

A sudden visit was made.

Coming into the room is a handsome young man who is so handsome that his eyes are wide open.

"Sihoon?"

"Mr. Si-hoon?" Kang-woo opened his door and opened his eyes wide looking at Kim Si-hoon who came in.

I heard that he would come back soon, but I didn't expect him to come this soon.

'Yeah, good timing. Hey.

Rain looked up at himself and looked down at Iris, who was still blinking.

I was waiting for someone who could pull off the sticky ice.

Si-hoon.

Kang Woo gave Kim a wink and pointed his finger at Iris.

This was the best chance for Iris to score.

He must have noticed his eyes, but Kim entered the room without hesitation.

'Yes, there you go!'

Here you go, hugging Iris!

If you say, "I missed you, Hwangnyo," it will come to you right away.

Kangwoo smiled happily, expecting a return of emotion between Kim and Iris.

Kim Si-hoon, who was walking without hesitation, is a heavy rain.

I passed Iris as expected.

'Huh?'

You went too far?

Crack!

"I missed you... Brother."

No.

Not me, you punk.