Lionel knocked on the emperor's bedroom, but there was no response from inside.

"Knock again and if you don't hear back, we're going in."

"Do you have any precautions?

"Yes."

That's what Lionel said, taking the big shield out of the magic bag.

"You don't know what's out there, but you're going to go in with a big shield standing there?

"Yes. I thought this would do the least damage. I apologize to Master Luciel, can I ask for an area barrier now?

Learn to get caught up in the phrase "less damage”.

Even though the usual Lionel would be a more luxurious but somewhere smart looking combat freak (Battle Junkie), this time it felt like the appearance was fading.

"... I don't know what's going on inside. That's not enough."

I hung an area barrier and activated sanctuary armor just in case.

"This was then...... thank you. Now I have no more worries."

At this time, Lionel felt nervous for some reason.

"There's still a lot to learn from Lionel. And if anything happens to Lionel, I can't face Naria. So what do we do?

"I would like to ask Luciel to join forces here, see the state inside, and then activate the sanctuary junction additionally."

The instructions are calm, so I think they might have been worrying.

"Okay. It doesn't look like we're going to use magic after we're done here, and I'm going to use it with the intention of depleting it, so if you get hurt at all, just tell me."

"Thank you. Ketty, Keffin, Estia, if it's a battle, be sure to protect Luciel and Paula."

"No, that's not enough. And I will protect Master Lionel in exchange for this life."

I'm a little surprised that Ketty didn't say "nya" at the end of the story, but it was a non-listening word, so I'll correct it immediately.

"Where I am, none of my people will let me die alone. So don't say anything about redeeming your life."

"... I'm sorry."

"Ketty, unlike then, I'm with a really trustworthy companion now, so my heart is hot and my head acts calmly"

"Yes...... nya"

Apparently Lionel doesn't have a problem.

Or you must have calmed down when you saw Ketty.

Now it seems safe to concentrate on the tasks assigned to us by Lionel.

"Keffin and Estea, too, but we can't deny the possibility that some soldiers are not demonized. So act like it's something you have no connections to."

"Ha."

"Paula has to have the golem produced in the worst case scenario. Just in case, I'll give you this demonic stone that was in the lab. Just in case."

"entrusted"

Nico laughed and received the Demon Stone from Lionel looking important.

"Didn't you hear there was a demon stone?

"I won't give it to you"

"I'm not... ha-ha-ha. No. Lionel, I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't be as impotent as you can be."

I look at Paula, who turned away pussy, and I can't say anything.

I'm sure this is an operation too......

"I will do you good."

Lionel laughed and bowed his head before knocking on the Emperor's bedroom door again.

And the lack of response prevented Lionel from opening the door.

Apparently, they rigged the same door that was in the laboratory underground.

"... Dear Luciel, I'm sorry..."

"[Dispel]"

"Thank you"

Lionel's temper erupted the moment he regained his mind and opened the bedroom door. But that wasn't all.

Intense temperament and tonality… A spear made of dark attributes magic flew in.

I thought all the spears that flew would be inhibited by the sanctuary junction, but in fact penetrated the sanctuary junction and concentrated on Lionel.

Because we confirmed that penetrating spear, or simultaneously demonized people tried to jump into Lionel to feed on the sanctuary junction, and there were those who scorched themselves in the blue and white flames and those who looked abominably at the sanctuary junction.

"Are you all right?

I worry about the injury, making sure there were more than ten spears flying in just counting, but Lionel nods and answers immediately.

"Of course. Apparently, he had the magic of the dark attribute wrapped around his spear, but the dark attribute disappeared in the sanctuary junction and was just a thrown spear. I'm not working out as softly as I get hurt."

Lionel is laughing, but I was concerned that he was grinning furiously, not in a gentle way as usual, but I decided to do what I could too.

When the purification wave was activated because I thought I had to extinguish my temper first, the purification wave containing the power of the sanctuary junction caused the intense temper to disappear, surrounded by a blue and white flame.

And what came into my eyes was an evil plant that was exhaling the temper that was causing this temper.

"To this point..."

Evil plants were shaking their bodies violently because they received purification waves.

I immediately activated the enclosure purification magic in the sanctuary junction and burned the Evil Plant, and Keffin and Ketty jumped out of my side.

Soon Lionel's appearance also moved to the bedroom, and I entered the Emperor's bedroom with Estia and Paula.

There were about ten demonized soldiers in the bedroom, but they were purified by the flames of purification or subdued where they were suffering by the hands of Keffin and Ketty.

And Lionel was facing a man in his mid-forties or so dressed in flashy armor.

"It's been a long time, Your Majesty. I am delighted to hear that you are doing well."

Lionel bowed her head gently as she remained respectfully vigilant.

Apparently, that's good for the emperor.

"Hung, I really didn't expect you to come back and show up before me again, Lionel."

The emperor told Lionel that with a seemingly abominable eye.

... Apparently the emperor wasn't being manipulated.

Lionel also guessed it, his strength falling off his shoulder as if he'd been somewhere depressed.

"... Your Majesty, I've always wanted to ask you something. His Majesty tried to assassinate me until he used my son?

"Have you noticed? So you're aware of the answer, too?

"... I'd like to hear it from His Majesty himself."

Boringly, the emperor told him so, but Lionel asks the emperor again to push and kill all sorts of emotions.

"Well... then I'll tell you. You simply got in the way... No, you've been in the way for a long time, Lionel. I am the supreme power of the empire. But to the point of my summer, you have overwhelmed its name at home and abroad."

"... have you truncated me for all you've served since childhood... that's all?

"That's all you got”? That's enough reason! Everyone, even the previous emperor, treasured you more than I, his son. That's why I always hated you. "

That was total jealousy, but it should have been a fairly deep-rooted problem since childhood.

Why didn't you lay your hands down until Lionel went up to the General and made that position a stone's throw...... oh well! Did the former emperor make Lionel a general?

Then Tsujitsu seems to fit.

"... then the promise we made after the liturgy of adulthood... when there were still a number of small nations, His Majesty became emperor and built a land of peace for the emperor people, and that promise that I would be guardian over the country from external enemies..."

"I didn't know you really believed in that promise. That would be convenient to send you to the battlefield. At the time, he admired you very much. I did everything I could to get you to give up."

"... What is craftsmanship?

"Some of the smaller nations that were still around the empire were noisy at the time, so I made some advances to the former emperor to get you to move."

……

Lionel had stopped opening his mouth anymore.

"I sent you to war to get you to kill your freshly grown man because you excelled in martial arts, but you came back with great results by betraying your expectations. After that, we sent them to the inferior battlefields, and the Empire kept winning."

Why are you so upset about this asexuality when you're being asked about Lionel's martial arts?

"The former emperor was all angry with me, including electing him to the general in recognition of your achievements. That's why I decided to get the support of the people by asking the former emperor to retreat and lay down good governance for my emperor. But the people already believed in you more than I did."

Did you even assassinate the former emperor... was the empire already quite worn out? And if the emperor had admitted to Lionel and taken his hand, how awesome a country would it have been?

When Lionel heard the emperor's words, he shook his head from left to right.

"That's not true. Since the fall of the former emperor, His Majesty has served the people and received instructions from the people."

"Naturally. Hand out medicines developed in the country with the Guild of Pharmacists to the people who have broken their bodies, judge the aristocrats who have done whatever they want, and do what they need to do as emperors."

So what didn't make it good was the emperor's distortion?

"I've been looking at opportunities, but I didn't visit such opportunities. Until a man named Reborn shows up."

Intense shocks, like when confronted with evil gods, ran through the body in that word of the emperor.