Santairiku Eiyuuki

"Also, sorry!!! Please, let me atone with this life!!

No, I don't need your neck.

The poison was found only in melons, and neither Erkür nor Carolina took care of it.

Mellon was transported to the table, where he was cut apart.

This would mean that poison had been planted inside the melon since the beginning.

"You mixed it in with a needle or something. Well, I can't help but notice. I didn't think it was poisoned from the beginning. From now on, be careful."

"Ha, yes!!

The chef lays flat on Elquille over and over again.

It's depressing, so Erkühr pushes his hands away tightly before...

"Well, Galphis. Christos. Lucanos. Carolina.... Actually, you know who the mastermind is. Guess who?

Hearing the noise, Elkür asked the three gathered and Carolina.

The three of us and Carolina face each other...

"Is that you?"

"You're the guy in the example."

"It must be him..."

"Except for that guy, that's impossible."

That guy who shouldn't give his name...

I mean, that's what I'm saying.

"Lucanos, you need to check the poison containment route. Just don't let them notice you. And don't do anything. I can swim this time."

"May I?

"Anyway, I can't make it."

It makes little sense to trace the strings that will cut along the way.

"Your Majesty Elkhur!!!

As we had that conversation, a woman's voice echoed into the palace.

Only one human being in this country is allowed to be disrespectful in calling Emperor Lemuria, the emperor of the Lemurian Empire and the deputy of God on earth, by name.

"This is, Mother. It's a sudden visit. What can I do for you?

Empress of the Lemurian Empire.

She is Elquille's mother and the one who hits Christos' sister.

"Your Majesty, I'm listening.... What are you going to do?

"Happy or unhappy, you won't get to the killer (...). Well, I'll do my best to prevent recurrence. I don't want to die."

Elquille flaunted her shoulders.

The Empress is Elquille's mother...

She is also the mother of Hadrianus.

Erkür and Hadrianus are years apart... but brothers born from the same belly.

And... the Empress loves the latter in Erkür and Hadrianus.

Because he was the first son born, and he was adorable with his husband, Hadrianus III.

Meanwhile, Erkür was deliberately pulled away from his mother, the Empress, to avoid repeating Hadrianus' educational failure, and Hadrianus III did not dare to try to converse with Erkür either.

My son, who was smart from birth, handless, unsweetened, brilliant, and barely had parent-child conversations, and my son, who was not very brilliant, was made to hang his hand, and if there were gaps, he was made to be sweet and sweet.

Rather than the former, it would be natural as a mother to love the latter.

Although it is also self-evident that the latter is no longer human and that the former does not love his parents.

"So you're saying you don't do anything?

"Well, you can't do anything this time. But I can't leave you like this either as an emperor (...). I'm going to put it on my sieve soon."

"... sieve, is it"

The Empress does not know what the sieve is, says Erkühr.

However, I somehow understood that the other son would die as a result of that "sieve".

"Can't you do something about it?

"There's nothing I can do. I need you to do something about it."

Elquille flaunts her shoulders.

The Empress held her hand strong.

"Please, do whatever you can."

"Yeah, I'll try. If you can."

The Empress will understand.

Elquille's intentions in response.

"Your Majesty, I intend to enter the monastery"

"Abbey, is it?

"Yeah, I'm going to live a life of prayer to God.... for the blessings of my husband, and for the sins of my sons, and for the atonement for my sins, which cannot be stopped"

To the Empress's words, Galphis, Christos, Lucanos, and Carolina make a gnawed face.

No matter how many emperors my mother gave birth to, there are statements that are forgiven and unacceptable.

I cannot read the Crown Princess's statement that the sins of...... sons (...).

But Elquille seemed fortunate enough not to care, he just had a bitter laugh.

"Well, if that's what your mother decided, you have nothing to say from me.... Already, where are you going?

"... Yep, then the Emperor (...) Your Majesty. Goodbye."

Against Erkür, the Empress bowed her head deeply and left the spot.

Silence dominates the area.

"You're pathetic. True, pathetic. I'm so sorry."

Erkühr said to sympathize sincerely.

But the voice was flat and somewhere else behaved.

The four ministers looked to their families with pity for such a collapse.

Later, Erkühl convened the Senate.

Senate.

It was once an organization that served as the supreme organ of state power when Remlia was republican.

There is no real power nowadays, it is just an honorary position and a decorative organization...

A place where nobles still sit in rows on many key positions.

The influence is immeasurable.

"Fathers, and newcomers. I know very well that some of you have distrust of me. But I want you to listen. A critical state crisis is now upon us. If you look past this crisis, only doom awaits our country"

It was not until the time of his reign that Elquille convened the Senate.

The sudden convocation and the senator give this statement a bewildered look, while still listening to Elquille.

(First, did you grab it?)

"It goes without saying what a crisis is. Surrounding our country, both barbarians, heathens and heretics!! Both the Beasts (Warbeasts) reside in the land that our ancestors conquered, cultivated, and cut open to build a nation. The Son of God is after men and other paranoid savages who still target the territory of our country, which is the kingdom of God"

Beast Clan……

Once a species lived in a large forest area that stretched outside the Lemurian Empire.

It is a race that caused massive ethnic movements and broke inside the Lemurian Empire to determine the decline of the Lemurian Empire.

Its combat abilities and ferocity are not drawn to the Long-Eared Clan (Elves).

And most importantly...

I am the same Messianic, but I believe in a different doctrine...... heretic.

"From the north, all the abominable Bulgarians demand contribution payments, as they do every year, invading our national territory, depriving our people of their property and committing assaults on women. This is not something you can look at!!

Common sense does not apply to the Bulgarians, who are nomads.

For them, looting is normal.

However, the side to be plundered is not an enjoyable thing.

"And the Farth kingdom, our nation's greatest enemy!! Pagans who believe in cults and believe in evil gods!!

They are plotting to increase the number day by day and destroy the Messians who are of our God!!! "* I'm not plotting anything else (by holy fire)

Raise the specific threats one by one, Elquille.

Those threats were something that everyone knew… and that everyone didn't try to think about.

"As gods we must fight!!

Yes! Yes!

The senators give their endorsement to Elquille.

It is the priests of the Church who have been given their seat in the House of Lords who have expressed their agreement with Elquille.

From them, it is the duty of the Emperor to protect Lemuria, the kingdom of God, from pagans and heretics equal to the devil, and it is the Senate that supports it.

"Our country has been stripped of its territory and ravaged its fields by its enemies for the last few hundred years. Some of you may have suffered.... Indeed, I imposed a great deal of tax on your land. But if we don't, even the land we have now will all be ravaged and taken. Then all that remains in our hands is a people who have lost their land and lost their place to live and a corpse who has endured starvation and death!

I say I had no choice but to raise taxes.

And if you don't, you'll suffer more damage than that. and Elquille insists.

This was convincing.

In fact, the lands of the nobles have been taken and devastated with the passing of the years.

A lot of the great nobles, yeah, nod and show.

(Appeal first to faith, then to merit. There's no problem so far. And then...)

"We have to fight. To protect the Lemurian Empire. And we have to take back the land our fathers got from bleeding!! our homeland, our homeland!!!

"" Ohhhh!!!!

Some senators cheer.

Some of them wept.

They are the nobles of the Long Ear Clan (Elves) and the Coal Miners (Dwarves).

Some of them with long life spans have a past where they spent their childhood in territory once taken from them by barbarians.

The tombs of the ancestors are also on the western side of the Lemurian Empire.

But now the barbarians can't even dedicate themselves to visit.

For them, it is a grief to drive the barbarians back home.

Erkühr appealed to the senate's sentiments, which have great influence.

(I grabbed the flow. And then...)

"Fortunately, the cost of war is secured. What I seek is loyalty to your fatherland and to God! Once again we will see our country ravaged by barbarians, heretics, pagans, or before that we will crush our enemies and reclaim our homeland!!

Claim that the nobles are less burdensome and gain the support of the nobles.

On top of that, I forcefully bring it to endorsement, demanding that it be very 'denial and hard': loyalty to the Fatherland and to God.

"The boulder is His Majesty, isn't it? Making those difficult aristocrats care about it. I hope you show that motivation from time to time......"

Elquille to speak and the nobles to hear it.

Looking aside at it, Carolina says as impressed.

"First he complains of threats, then he appeals to faith, preaches profits, then he appeals to emotions, then he approaches the decision with two choices. If things you don't agree with aren't loyal enough to your country and to God, you're branded. No, it's a terrible talent."

Galphis, who also has his own Senate seat, highly values Elquille's speech.

The air in the Senate is completely dominated by Elquille.

"Ha, handsome, political genius, military talented, and picky speech? God says he doesn't give two things, but it sounds like a lie."

Darios groans with a bitter laugh.

"But not yet. Still no endorsement of the nobles"

"Right. One more push, you'll need it."

Meanwhile, Christos and Lucanos have a tough look on their face.

People are not creatures that move by profit alone.

Not yet, not enough push.

That's what they were thinking.

To be perfectly clear, it's easy if you just say it.

What matters is whether or not it can be done.

If you force the bleeding, and you defeat it, it'll only break your bones.

And that's what I was thinking, as was Elquille...

"We have enough chances!! Our country has traditional strong cavalry, and archers. Newly organized infantry. It has a strong standing army. Those are the elites who endured rigorous training! We are going to teach the barbarians the real war!!!

"Your Majesty says, you're persuasive."

"Well, I don't know what you think on the inside. That would be persuasive enough, though. Your Majesty said you took over the mercenary captain Darios... excuse me, you're alive."

"Don't kill me on your own. I mean, the Emperor's Majesty. You were going to give this speech from the beginning, and you came to take me down? I was made into stock, you mean? That's an honor. Ha..."

Christos, Lucanos and Darios say it orally.

Carolina says the continuation of Lucanos' words.

"It's convincing to hear you say His Grace, who defeated the famous mercenary captain Darios,"

"Well, my country kept losing. I won only recently...... I just have to believe"

To Carolina's words, Galphis nods in agreement.

And...

Elquille enters the final finish as the ministers watch.

"Once we conquered the world and achieved world peace (Pax Remuliana), it can't be better for us to remain defeated with the savages and heretics who do not know civilization and the infidels who serve the evil gods!! Don't we feel sorry for our fathers like this! Aren't you guys ashamed!! I am too embarrassed to sleep at night!!" * Sleeping well.

Erkühr speaks of the glory of our own ancestors and of our past.

Yes, that's pride for the Lemurians. Never, a thing to lose.

Remulia must be the last paradise, the kingdom of God, which will remain present on earth until the last judgment is visited.

It has to be a world empire.

And...

"I show the strength of Lemuria more than this with the barbarians, the battle to regain our territory and our people...

"War on Land Recovery".

Now.

Here.

Declare!!!!

"Finally, the former glory of Lemuria, and the purpose of this speech…"

Carolina, who overheard it, raised her admiration.

Neglect politics, even Carolina can tell.

That this speech is a calculated thing.

"That's His Majesty the Emperor. See, those nobles."

Lucanos points to the nobles.

There...

"Whoa whoa!!!

"Long live Lemuria! Long live the Emperor!!

"You fight God's enemies!

"Give us our homeland!!

"Teach the barbarians how brave Lemuria is!!

There was no such thing as nobles complaining about heavy taxes.

In this day's speech, the support of all long-eared (elf) aristocrats.

And Erkühl gained the support of most non-long-eared (elf) nobles.

Most of the nobles who were forming themselves into the Hadrianus faction and the nobles who were shaking between Erkür and Hadrianus became entirely Erkür.

The first sieve was a success…

Hadrianus' supporters declined to the original third.

Later on, Erkühl also gained the support of the civilian population by giving a similar speech before the citizens.

And as the stage for the first 'War on the Recovery of the Land', a small country founded by barbarians sitting within the territory of the Lemurian Empire,

It declared an invasion of the Principality of Travizos.