CH 218

Earl of London (3)

ordinary people.

Most of them did not know Roman Dmitry's face.

As you may have heard rumors, recognizing Roman Dmitry in the land of Redford was another matter.

By the way.

"Roman Dmitry!"

"It's that guy! Count Rondon is now working with the Dmitrys and trying to steal Redford's fortune! Maekookno guys! Even if you live like that, aren't you ashamed of the sky!

Some of the crowd suddenly raised their voices.

It was an embarrassing situation for Jacqueline.

He recognized Roman Dmitry because he was at a party, but had no intention of provoking him.

Roman Dmitry is a rumored aura swordsman.

Knowing just how strong a monster is, it was originally planned that he would not touch Roman Dmitry, as long as he could get into an extreme situation.

that was the plan.

Ruined by a sudden action.

To the remarks provoking Roman Dmitry, Jacqueline was unable to back down and reacted with considerable difficulty.

series of situations.

Roman Dmitry saw those who raised their voices.

'The agitators are mixed.'

revolt of the common people.

It was an expression of repressed anger.

However, Jacqueline's reaction and his specific provocation by recognizing himself made it easy to guess that the forces that encouraged them were mixed.

It was as expected. The Kronos Empire prepared a weapon to attack Count Rondon.

In Cairo, he used patriots who wanted to devour the country, assassins called shadows against him, and the anger of the people to bring down the Rondon family.

It was fun.

The Kronos Empire spread chaos across the continent in many different ways.

Without actively utilizing the power of the Empire, the enemy created a situation where it would collapse on its own.

Car-Do-Milling Classification (借刀殺人之計).

That was the way of the Empire.

Roman Dmitry said.

"I am a vulture who sells my country. Is there any clear basis for that statement?"

"I don't need any evidence! Roman Dmitry! If you truly know justice, don't mind our business and get out of Redford! Redford's riches you want to take. It was earned through the blood and sweat of the people. The vicious Rondon family is living a luxurious life alone, consuming all their wealth, but what is it if that isn't tyrannical slavery!

succumbed to evil

As things went wrong, Jacqueline showed no sign of backing down.

Hwareuk.

gurgling.

like a burning fire.

It was not a strange situation when a fight broke out.

their words.

their facial expressions.

Roman Dmitry looked around the people.

It's not that difficult to deal with worms who can't face reality, but whether it's worth intervening directly in Redford's problems is another matter.

In fact, the way to calm the angry public that came to London was very simple.

truth.

That one was enough.

If Rondon were to talk about what they've been through, they wouldn't be able to speak the word raccoon anymore.

However.

squeaky.

The door opens.

A knight of the London family came out and spoke in a quiet voice so that no one could hear it.

" Roman Dmitry. Count Rondon wants Roman Dmitry not to get caught up in our troubles. So just go in. We will take care of the anger of the people and take care of it."

at that word.

Roman Dmitry had no more reason to confront the commoners.

* * *

let's go inside

Count Rondon said with a slightly bitter expression.

"I'm sorry for getting you into a fuss. In fact, this is not the first time something like this has happened. There have been several occasions where hungry people attacked the top I run. Of course, there has never been an extreme situation that strikes the mansion as it is today, but it seems that people's patience has finally reached its limit."

this day.

I hoped for a peaceful solution.

Rondon's knight went out and offered a compromise with leftovers from the party and financial compensation, and the public's anger had to subside.

Except for the agitators, no one wanted an extreme situation.

They didn't know what would happen to Roman Dmitry, who was rumored to have actually started a battle, so they chose to retreat from the line of achieving a certain purpose.

Rondon's way.

It was really stupid.

If it was Roman Dmitry, whatever the reason, he wouldn't have gracefully returned those who took the sword.

but.

This is Redford.

Since he wasn't Dmitry, he just followed Redford's way.

Roman Dmitry asked.

"Why didn't you tell the truth? The London family is not at all responsible for the poverty of Redford. No matter how much you become a target of patriots, revealing the truth is not for the Rondon family. Sorry to say. The King of Redford needs to take responsibility for this matter."

Roman's words.

It was a common sense reaction.

Everyone who knew the truth said so, but the Earl of Rondon couldn't afford to tell the truth.

" I know what it's like to work for Rondon. But I don't think that's for Redford. We are now living in an age of hate. When a problem arises, people find responsibility for the problem in others in the harsh reality. If it turns out that His Majesty started all the troubles, what do you think will happen to Redford?"

From then on, things are different.

If people's wrath is directed at the royal family, they will fall into an irreversible abyss.

"If those who are freed from their jobs only by blaming someone aim at His Majesty. I don't know what this country will be like then. People will rise up, and perhaps fall from within before even fighting the Kronos Empire. So I can't tell the truth. If people's anger is directed at an aristocrat like me, not the royal family, their anger ends up blocking the ascent and attacking the mansion. After all, I too am only a being under the rule of the royal family. Their wrath will not spread throughout the kingdom."

He is also human.

The criticism was not pleasant.

Seeing people swearing at me, I once wanted to tell the truth dozens of times a day.

However.

The gains from that were negligible.

People would praise Count Rondon's progress as a hero, but his anger towards the royal family was sure to shake Redford's foundation.

If that were the case, what would the name of a hero mean?

If the country collapses, if there is a rebellion. All the efforts I had made in the past were in vain.

suppressed the truth.

Laughing hard, he looked at Roman Dmitry.

"Redford's problems are not the sole responsibility of His Majesty the King. Even if they take responsibility and bring him down, the forces that instigated His Majesty's deviance, and those who neglected the current situation, Redford will be engulfed in further chaos. I'd rather take people's accusations. At least for me, I have the strength to accept people's criticism and stay safe. So, the people must not know the truth until Redford has laid the groundwork for survival."

past years.

It was the weight of life that Count Rondon carried.

Looking at him, Roman Dmitry recalled the face of a figure in his memory.

* * *

Yoohyeon, a magician student.

He was a very unique person.

In a world that speaks of the weak and the strong, humans are basically beings who believe that they are born with a good side, and unlike the position of the heir to a prestigious family, they do not show great greed for power.

Maybe it was because he was living a very different life from Baek Joong-hyuk.

The two felt an unknown attraction and often spent time together.

Baek Jung-hyuk asked.

"I heard that he went to the slums and helped people. Why the hell did you do that? You may have simply acted in good faith, but from then on people will wait endlessly for you to come. And if you don't show up again, you'll be angry that your only good intention was sympathy.

There is something people misunderstand.

poverty and wealth.

The belief that conflicting values represent character.

The world in which Baek Joong-hyuk lived was not like that.

Some described the poor as poor people living helping each other, and the rich people expressing their poverty as exploitative villains.

But is it really the truth?

Being rich doesn't necessarily mean being evil, and poor people aren't the kind of people who know human emotions just because they're poor.

bottom of life.

People's selfishness was gleaming.

In the sight of them beating people as if to kill them to eat one onigiri, Baek Joong-hyuk saw the underside of human beings.

poor or rich.

Humans are just humans.

Personalities formed in the same environment are different laws, and Baek Joong-hyeok did not make hasty judgments according to the environment of the other person.

what you saw and felt.

He thoroughly judged his opponents based on experience, and only those who accepted him were worthy of Baek Joong-hyuk's trust.

Yoohyeon said.

" Well. Like you said, people may resent me, but I just do what my heart wants. If there is someone like you in the world Wouldn't it be balanced to have someone like me?

smirked,

even that look.

Baek Joong-hyuk couldn't laugh.

Because Yoohyeon and the way he lived are different.

Although he is the son of Cheonma, he started from the bottom of his life, and Yoohyeon was born as the heir to a prestigious family and grew up only seeing the good things.

A good heart may have been born from such a background.

At least, if I had experienced the same life as Baek Jung-hyuk, I would not have been able to say that humans are born with a good side.

still.

I didn't hate the person named Yoohyeon.

Time with him seemed to give a ray of light to his life wandering in darkness.

and a year later.

Yoohyeon was found naked in a slum.

* * *

Yoohyeon and Count Rondon.

They were similar types of people.

Living their only life, they believed and followed a value that was more important than their own safety.

Roman Dmitry, separated from Count Rondon, went out and looked up at the black sky.

"Foolish bastards."

The day Yoohyeon died.

Baek Joong-hyuk upended the entire slum area.

It was only after finding all the people who had been in contact with Yoo-hyeon, and driving so many people to death, that the culprit who killed Yoo-hyeon was discovered.

At most, he was a boy in his early to mid-teens.

When he looked at him bleeding with both ears cut off and asked why, the boy said with a look of horror on his face.

" Everyone, we were afraid that they would never visit us again."

A visit after a month.

The hungry did not remember grace.

Rather than coming to the slums to help them, Yoohyeon's clothes, who left after giving a favor, looked expensive.

He turned around and cut Yoohyeon in the back of the head with a stone.

Even as blood splattered and people moaned, the boy grabbed his clothes with eyes glistened with lust.

The boy and Jacqueline.

It was no different.

If you had looked at the world a little wisely, you would have known what the Earl of Rondon had done for the people.

Not knowing the truth was no excuse.

The fact that Jacqueline had invited her to a party so she could work even for a short time, or brought her a little bit of food after the party, would have been enough to express her gratitude if she hadn't been angry at the fact that the nobles were simply having a luxurious time.

like that.

Jacqueline was taken advantage of by the agitators.

The reason he visited Count Rondon's mansion was probably because there was a precedent of taking care of people's atrocities.

Yoohyeon.

Count Rondon.

A being that you would not normally even dare to look up at.

They were forced to make sacrifices for the sake of people.

It was stupid.

I didn't like it.

However.

'It's not my business.'

even in a previous life.

And even now.

Roman Dmitry had no intention of imposing his values on the lives of others.

If Count Rondon was willing to make a sacrifice, he knew how foolish it would be, but he didn't bother to touch it.

This time to Redford.

It was his role to even solve the Golden Bank problem.

took a step back

As I looked up at the sky, my mind was entangled in a complicated way.

So the night was over.

Time passed, and the day that Golden Bank announced it was bright.