Epilogue (Volume 4)

Epilogue (Volume 4)

Morning came, a fleet from the capital was approaching, in it were the three dukes Razel knew.

One of them, Duke Luinberg, approached Razel and Cid for questioning.

They said the same thing they told the professors who had them in custody.

"We came to buy."

The duke looked at them with a face that implied he didn't believe them at all.

Cid presented some documents, in those documents was Casimiro's plan and other things Gerhardt was planning.

Of course, some of it was a forgery as Amy made things up, which happened to be real.

The dukes took Duke Granville prisoner and sent him to the chamber of ministers.

The chamber of ministers.

A large room where those who are normally at the top of the country were judged.

To the left and right were those with the status of marquis and dukes, even the prime minister and the emperor himself.

A tall, muscular man with long golden hair.

He had his hand on his chin and was looking at him in a disinterested manner.

Next to him was a man similar in appearance to him. He was the prime minister.

The prime minister finished reading the report.

While the emperor said.

"So, Duke Granville, what can you say?"

Casimiro was sweating.

"Your Majesty, that's all a vile lie!"

"I would never do such a thing as that being a duke!"

Then, the emperor laughed.

His disinterested look changed to one of anger.

"You think I care?"

Casimiro was breaking out in a cold sweat.

"What is written there is what was going to happen. I don't need any more proof. You and that guy were conspiring against the empire, which means you were conspiring against the emperor. Against me!"

"What's more! According to the report, there were several nobles linked to the black crows!"

Such a mention caused the nobles who knew about their existence to converse amongst themselves.

The emperor smiled.

"Arrest them!"

Knights ran straight to many ministers and officials present.

The prime minister said.

"They were investigated for a long time, but we did not have enough evidence. Now it is different, we will not allow more rats than there are, take them away."

The ministers and officials were taken by the knights to the torture room.

They were screaming in agony for mercy.

"Now, duke..."

The emperor looked at Casimiro.

"Your end is one not even worth seeing. Both you and your heir will be executed in a public manner, this instant."

"But Your Majesty! If you do that, there will be one duke less in the empire! Our enemies will see that as weakness!"

"We have the sword saints, no matter if there is one or no duke left. The empire will be safe as long as they are here."

The emperor didn't really care about the Granville duchy.

That was because originally the dukes and the imperial family were on bad terms.

But this was also an opportunity to get rid of not only them, but also those who were poisoning his country.

Knights grabbed Casimiro and took him away.

He was crying and pleading.

"Next business."

Once the traitors were led to their execution.

Other people came in.

They were the ones who generated the most mystery.

The emperor's angry face changed to one of interest.

"We meet again, frog-face."

Razel and Cid arrived in fine suits.

They knelt.

The emperor said to Razel something strange to many.

He remembered his face.

Normally, such an event was strange even to the prime minister himself, his twin younger brother.

Not even his own heir, whom he carried as a baby, remembered his face or his name.

The emperor said.

"I received a report of what the witnesses said, and... tell me. What the hell were they doing there?"

Razel and Cid proceeded to tell them what they were doing.

The same thing they told them all.

The emperor just looked at Razel as he spoke, then...

"Right. Let's move on to the rewards."

He went straight to the rewards.

Many didn't understand such a strange act. There were mysteries related to his appearance there that needed to be solved, but the emperor passed on them.

"First you, my son."

"Many saw you climb that tower, so you are the star here of what happened."

"Your reward will be that the destroyed lands of the former Granville Duchy will now be yours. It is your responsibility for repairs."

Cid had a confused look on his face.

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The emperor tapped his temple as he thought. After a while of doing so, he said with a cheer.

"I got it, a reward worthy of an emperor!"

"You will be promoted to the 6th highest rank. You're a baron aren't you?"

In the game, this was known as imperial court ranks.

Lily was ranked in the unranked category, where commoners and outsiders to the palace came in.

Until a few years ago, Razel's family were a knightly house, so they were in the 7th rank, now that he was a baron, he moved up the ranks by skipping the lower 6th rank.

The ranks served to know who was of use to the empire.

Razel didn't protest. The top 6th rank is in the category of an ordinary civil servant.

Once they had thanked each other, they withdrew.

When everyone left, there were only three people left inside.

The prime minister sighed and said.

"Your Majesty, what was that?"

"What are you talking about, little brother?"

"Why did you give Cid-kun the duchy? If what you wanted is for the empire to take over those lands, you should have sent one of the uninherited princes or officials."

"It is irrelevant to us that territory. At the end of the day, all that mattered was that we were able to uncover those rats."

The emperor was aware of the black crows sneaking limbs into the inner palace.

But they could do nothing. He could order all the ministers killed.

But that would be a nuisance. So he waited for something like this to happen.

The emperor smiled.

"This Cid guy is minuscule to me. I only gave it to him so that no one would notice my true objective."

"True objective?"

Said the prime minister.

A hooded person was walking through the destroyed lawless city.

He was collecting samples from the battle.

In his hand he held a strange circular device.

"There is no doubt, this is a great amount of magical power. Someone with great power was fighting here. But who?"

Then, he received a call.

In his trousers, something was vibrating.

It was a small device that he placed it to his ear.

"How did it go?"

Said a voice speaking from somewhere.

"No clues or anything to indicate reincarnates. But there is definitely someone strong around here."

"Reincarnates are of no interest. It's just a mania of mine to think of problems that occur by being present."

"Let me guess. Do you have any traumas with them?"

"Yes... and many in fact."

"I'll continue with my research."

"Please. Report back to me if you find anything out of place."

"I will. Since we need strong people and I don't know if the locals would be our allies."

"Goodbye."

The communication cut off and the hooded man continued on his way.

The second school semester was over.

Cid and I ended up in trouble as we not only missed an important day for our academic grades.

They also made us take our exams on a weekend.

My brain wants to get out of my head.

There are a lot of irritating things going on in my life these days.

Like discovering that I have a strange vampire virus in my veins.

Or that right now I'm sitting and being watched with menacing eyes from my girlfriends.

Eli and Lily were looking at me in a terrifying way.

Lily's eyes were black while Eli's eyes were looking at me like I was a small being.

They told them what happened obviously.

And that's why I'm here.

"It's amazing what you did, but beyond that. It's what you told me."

Slaves have no place in this country. I mean, they're just property and not human.

So their lives have no reason to exist anymore.

I felt a little sorry for them and told them that if they wanted to, they could come and work in the Rosenberg territory.

They were happy to hear the word "work" and that they would be paid.

Eli and Lily were really angry about that for sure.

"I'm sure you're thinking we're mad about bringing in slaves."

My shoulders blanched when he said that.

Then they hugged me, it was so weird this.

"We were mad because you went to do something more dangerous than we expected."

"She's right, what do you think we would have done if something happened to you?"

This feeling was confusing.

I had a flashback to my previous life.

From Shishigami Naoto's life.

I would arrive at a dark house and there was no one there. But if there was someone there, it was to criticise me.

But this is different.

"I'm sorry. I won't do it again."

I said to be forgiven.

They stood up and then went into the mansion.

"There's a lot of paperwork to do, so you'll stay there as punishment for misbehaving."

I smiled in a silly way.

Even though they said that.

I couldn't stay here quietly.

Yukihime also came and was waiting for me outside.

She said she wanted to live with me as her savior.

I hated these clichs.

But I didn't care if it happened because if a beautiful girl wants to love me even though it's the first time we met, it didn't matter.

It's my life and no one else's.

As I went outside the mansion, some men were talking to her.

This was bad, she had no papers so they could arrest her.

I rushed to her, but-

"Knight-sama!"

The men dressed as guards looked at me.

I was about to ask what happened.

"Razel Bartlet, right?"

"Eh? Yes, is something wrong?"

"You're registered as an adventurer, right?"

"Yeah..."

I took out my adventurer's credentials and showed them to him.

Nothing bad should happen if they just want to verify that it's me.

"Right. That's him."

"Err... is something wrong?"

"Yes. A war has broken out on our borders and adventurers are being called to duty."

At that moment, I didn't know what to say, as my brain froze.

War.

A frightening word to me.

"There is no time to waste. We must send you quickly to the guild to board the carriage that will send you to your destined place."

"Huh?! Hold on a second! This is very hasty, I-"

"This was also an order from His Majesty, that you be sent immediately to the battlefield."

"Knight-sama!"

Yukihime was following me.

What a good girl.

No!

This is bad.

"I don't want to go to war!"

"Damn you, emperor!"

"Save me, Eli! Lily! Cid! Mooooom!"

And so my peaceful days were short-lived as I was sent to fight in a war that didn't involve me.

But which involved the villainess of a very irritating event.

As a background character, will I survive?

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Reincarnated in an Otome game as the ugly background character volume 4 end.

Lawless City Arc, end.