The reborn aristocrat is ambitious! "You've got pretty good status, give em to me"

March 25.

There will be a farewell parade for Mathias on this day.

It was important for King Elias of the Kingdom of Lead to do so on the same 25th day as the anniversary of the agreement on 25 December.

To make the people think that "the modern king is a fine man" by showing them his friendship with the elves who lived during the founding years.

Unless Mathias stayed in the Reid kingdom, he strongly hoped to return to the village.

For this reason, we were only going to have another parade before we left.

- It's all for Elias to look good.

Saying that the King's authority is immense rarely gives him the opportunity to freely wield that power.

Even though he was called King Xian, he had no record of highlighting it.

At best, it would be enough to have taken a moderate route avoiding a war with a foreign country.

In terms of visible performance, Isaac and Morgan are better off having resumed their interactions with the elves.

That's why he dares lift Mathias up to the "hero of the founding era," sitting next to each other in a carriage without a roof.

- To illusion that I'm a great person too, sitting next to a hero.

It's easy to laugh at being a pathetic person.

But how many people in the world would have confidence in themselves?

Elias was also born as a prince of kings, and he is human, even though he became king in due course.

This way parading can also be described as a ritual to feel confident in oneself.

I didn't just have to fool the people, I had to fool myself.

If we don't do that, maybe we can't stand the throne of power called the King.

The line of parades leads through a section with government offices and further straight down the boulevard to the outside of the city.

The incident occurred as we proceeded to near the city gate.

"Your Majesty, listen to what you have to say!

One man runs out in front of the king's carriage through the gaps of soldiers who were blocking the boulevard for the parade.

The man was immediately seized by the hand of a knight who was under the king's protection.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!

"Yeah, shut up!

The knight tries to silence him by hitting him.

Look at that, Mathias speaks to Elias.

"Is direct prosecution still prohibited?

"Of course, it is forbidden to complain about your request without going through due process."

Appealing directly to the King severely hurts the face of a nobleman standing above the civilian population.

'Cause it's no use talking to you, I'll tell the king directly,' but it's an act of equivalence.

Besides, if I had listened to a lot of civilian appeals, even as a king, I wouldn't be able to do anything but listen without giving an answer.

If you want to sue, the law requires you to follow the due process at the bureau and submit the documents.

Most importantly, in that case, since almost all the officials are related to nobility or nobility, documents with contents that are inconvenient to nobility are disposed of along the way as "inappropriate".

"Then you must have tried to sue me with so much readiness. That's all I want to tell you."

"... Indeed. Bring him here."

I guess there was something about Mathias' words.

Elias ordered him to bring a man who was about to be dragged away and taken somewhere.

"Your Majesty, it's dangerous. Don't."

"If you're an assassin, you've already been shot with a bow and arrow. Besides, you're here. I'm not worried."

I can't argue with the knight of the escort saying, "I'm relieved you're here," either.

If we say "dangerous" any more, we don't think we're confident in our arms.

That is dishonorable as a Kingsguard knight chosen to defend the king.

I am commanded, but obey as I am commanded, and in an emergency I am firmly determined to give up my life and protect the king.

The identity of a man pulled before the king is a miserable word.

Compared to the poor in the king's capital, they will be in the lowest ranks.

I would have washed it with water to at least clean it, but the holes and rubbed off fabrics in the clothes stand out because it became half clean.

Dirt stained with clothes also gives a nice dirty look.

Perhaps punishment will be imposed from now on.

The crowd was silent when they could not hear what the king would say.

"I'm guessing there's a good reason why you should file a direct lawsuit? Speak."

Elias' words were unexpected to the civilians around him.

Direct charges are no stranger to being killed without question.

- The king is about to listen to the voices of the civilians.

Pretty big case.

Instead of just listening to a word leak, I was trying to make my eyes look like plates and miss this scene.

For civilians, this event alone will be a good story for a month.

You may say you were lucky to be a witness.

I didn't want to miss that luck.

"Your Majesty, my name is Jim, and I work as a miner in the Marquis of Wallick."

The punched and swollen cheeks hurt.

It seems hard to talk about because of it, but I started to talk about it in a desperate shape not to miss this opportunity.

Loud, as you can hear it all around you.

"Did you know that taxes on the Marquis Territory of Wallick are very heavy? That tax rate is roughly 80%. We civilians live to the fullest. No, it's getting tougher to live already!

"If they take so much tax, they can't live!

"That's too harsh!

"It's a demon in a man's skin!

Surprising voices rise from among the folks watching by the street.

Reacting to that voice, the others begin to bother.

Once he was still, Elias' ears also heard the voice.

"To keep my still young daughter alive, my wife starved to death by sharing her share of the meal"

"Pathetic..."

"Can't you even eat to live at least..."

"Too harsh..."

People around them react to what the man named Jim says.

Elias listens to Jim with a strange face, while also listening to his surrounding reactions.

"Your Majesty, it's not that I want luxury. We civilians just want to live. Allow me to lower the tax rate on the Marquis Territory of Wallick. Allow my daughter to continue to live. For that, I give this life. How dare you!

Now there was no popular reaction.

Everyone is paying attention to Elias' every step of the way.

"Why don't we just migrate? No one thinks."

The inhabitants are the property of the lords.

Even if civilians are allowed to travel, they are never allowed to move on their own.

Everyone is gathering their eyes to see what decisions they make.

Elias felt it.

Elias gets out of the carriage.

"Sire!"

"It's okay."

Try to stop Elias walking up to the front of the gym where he remains seized.

But you can't hold the king and stop him.

I couldn't stop walking, I just had to pave the way.

"Let him go."

"No, but..."

"Let him go."

"Ha."

Now I command you to let go of the hand that is holding Jim back to the knight who was holding him down.

The surrounding knights put their hands on the sword and stood ready to cut and kill the gym at any time.

I intend to cut it off as soon as I see a bare gesture of harm to the king.

There is no stopping all this from trying to be commanded by the king.

Because for them, there is nothing that takes precedence over Elias' life.

Behind their worries like that, Elias took Jim's hand himself.

The knights watched with a sad face, "Don't do anything dangerous".

"I'm a bad king"

Sadly Elias says.

"Your Majesty, such a thing..."

"No, he's a bad king. I couldn't protect the people I was supposed to protect. Sorry."

It was not the head that bowed, but the king apologizes to the civilians - those who are also at the bottom.

The incident had a great impact on those present at the scene.

"I can't bring my already dead wife back to life. But I don't want you to lose your daughter's life. I have a son, too. Just thinking about starving your child as a parent is unbearable. I will order Lord Wallick to lower taxes from me."

"Your Majesty..."

- I got your wish.

For doing his job, Jim cried with big tears.

"Hail, Sire Elias!

From among the people who were listening, a voice begins to rise in honor of Elias.

"Long live His Majesty the Wise King!

"Long live Reed Kingdom!

The voice propagated around him, and everyone praised Elias with their mouths.

Elias waves and answers, seemingly stinking at the voice that honors him.

"Your Majesty, what will this man do?

Trying to get back to the carriage, the knight asked about Jim's treatment.

In this kind of air, it's hard to say, "Well, you sued me directly, so execute me".

He tried to escape being affixed a rettel called "the unreadable man of the air" by turning to the King's judgment.

"Give him the road bank and miss him. Without parents, my daughter would die wild, not far away. Then it doesn't make sense to sue directly."

"Ha."

The order was not heard by the people by the drinking, but what Elias ordered was conveyed when the knight did the trick of giving Jim money and "just go home".

Big applause happens.

The voice honoring the king also grows so loud that I wonder if it will hurt my throat.

"I don't have to think it's too sweet, but it was a brilliant decision. The ancestors would also be proud of His Majesty."

Mathias praises Elias for returning to the carriage.

"No, it was something we should have resolved before it mattered like this. As long as you're still immature and embarrassed."

However, unlike what I was saying with my mouth, Elias didn't seem to be complimented either.

He was praised by someone who knew the great first generation who once founded the Reid kingdom.

You can't be unhappy.

Mathias laughs when he sees how Elias looks like that.

This is not a smile because I think it smiles.

It's a grin of relief.

If you hadn't told Elias in advance that there was a direct complaint (...), he would have said to Elias, "What, what's that farce? I might have said."

(It's a little cumbersome, but should I make that kid more pills and give him a gift?)

That boy Mathias thinks (...) is Isaac.

Within yesterday, "I have a little ceremony (...) in the middle of the parade," he was sneaking up on me.

He hasn't done anything fatal since he came to Wang Capital, but Mathias had done little things.

Mathias cared about it in person.

Thanks to what I had been taught in advance, I didn't have to expose myself to the ugliness of making a big break during the parade.

"It was a real act as if my family's life were really at stake," I even had room in my mind to appreciate.

(Totally...... Even if you don't do this, you can feel it from the city air that it's a good country...)

Isaac had told me that the acts that take place during the parade (...) will take place for Mathias.

"If you are a war-resistant king, you can be proud of your accomplishments, such as" you beat O00 ". But it's hard for a normal king to be proud of his accomplishments. So" I am a good king who thinks of the people, "as Mathias will understand, there will be a little event in the middle of the parade. Try not to interfere with that event and praise His Majesty when it's over. That way, everything will be fine. And please keep it a secret that I taught you. It was a surprise event."

I didn't even say what worked, but as far as Mathias can tell, the acting went well and Elias is in a pretty good mood.

I'm sure he said this to make it work.

"In the past, some terrible kings imposed heavy taxes on the whole country. Now the people are blessed with good kings."

"No, no, that's not true."

In the words of no push, Elias becomes unable to hide his grin.

I have never stood out as a king before.

I have been able to appeal extensively to Mathias and the people to be a good king, so I get really annoyed.

Because of this, I had completely forgotten to think "why could the poor, who should not have received a decent education, have used polite language".

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"Lord Wallick is dead. Tomorrow, there will be a funeral, so go to bed early today."

Mathias farewell party that should last until late at night.

But while the sun was still rising, the adults returned to the mansion and told Isaac and Nathan the facts of the shock.

"What, you still looked fine..."

I had a little problem at the party.

To Nathan's surprise voice, Morgan begins to explain.

The party began and early in the beginning Elias declared that he would "bring the taxes on the Marquis Territory of Wallick down to 50%".

- 50% tax rate.

The five public citizens were the tax rates taken in many territories, including the Crown's direct jurisdiction.

So I was going to encourage Donald to restrain himself too, thinking that that would be enough.

But there was no way Donald could have accepted it.

I don't even know what's going on in Marquis Warrick's territory, I just can't be convinced that he told me to "lower my taxes".

Besides, he's a representative in the Wang party who contends for one or two.

I never thought I would imitate the king himself, who I support, like stabbing him from behind.

Instead of arguing rationally, my emotions exploded and I put it in a thorny way.

When that happens, Elias also becomes unacceptable to the objections.

If they say disrespectful things in public and overlook them, they will undermine the majesty of the king.

And he believed that he was saying the right thing.

"Don't unjustly take taxes and torment the people," he said back.

The two heated up and it happened when they started to get emotional bumps.

All of a sudden Donald fell in like a broken puppet.

Those around him rushed and took him to the infirmary, but there was no sign of healing.

I rushed to Mathias for treatment, but by then it was already too late.

"Even if you can heal your injuries, you can't just bring the dead back to life. I wish I could have moved on to treatment in the first phase, but this one is upset too..."

It was Mathias himself who said that.

He said, "It's because I praised Elias too much. Failed again," he regrets overpraising.

I regretted not being able to help Donald because I thought he had one of the causes of his fall.

"Angry death......, is that the one?

"Maybe."

Morgan agrees with Isaac.

It's a common way of dying in the Three Kingdoms.

Reminds me of the contents of a comic book I called in my previous life.

Donald's death was probably due to an even too severe stroke of anger.

It may have been helpful to treat Mathias with his magic immediately, but it seems that it was only too late for the amount of time he carried him to the infirmary.

Exactly. This is totally unexpected.

Isaac is puzzled.

- Lower his taxes.

- I can't do that.

Because I only thought of it as a return of interest to let him interact and make him feel uncomfortable.

I wasn't thinking about killing Donald at all.

(Shit, shit. If the Marquis Lord's guy dies, doesn't that sound like a later development?

Isaac starts to fear what he's done now.

I just poked at what seemed like a weakness in Wallick Marquis territory.

I had no idea that that bold and simple way would lead to such a result.

Really just a little bit, I was just hoping I'd be harassed.

"Marquis Wallick is bullying the people by imposing heavy taxes."

I just thought "get your pussy slapped" to such an extent that I did.

Who would think that on such a farce, Elias would really order me to lower my taxes?

(Did the sakura mixed with the audience work too well?... let's not tell anyone about this)

If we find out about this, it's not just the Royal Family and the Marquis Wallick.

Even the Windsor Marquis, in a friendly relationship, would try to crush Isaac if they just found out it had something to do with the cause of his Marquis owner's death.

The cause is Elias, but he's a king, so it's hard to blame.

If we find out there's anyone else involved, we should be able to get some intensive fire on you.

From just a little fire play, Isaac was chilling his liver, like a kid who had burned the whole house.

Unlike when I framed Dennis or the elimination of Nathan and the others that are now underway, I didn't go prepared and ready to go around the prep.

Even though I wasn't ready, I was freaking out because I had unexpectedly had big results.

"Though there are factional differences, the opponent is the Marquis owner. Everyone goes to the funeral. Don't oversleep, stay asleep early today. Dear Mathias, you're not bad. Don't let it get you down."

Leaving that behind, Morgan went out again with Randolph.

Lucia and the others, those who remained, also have alcohol in them.

I asked the servants for water in an attempt to remind me of the intoxication at all.

Mathias was accompanied and comforted by Claude.

"Dear Isaac, I was wondering if I should try the clothes I'm going to wear tomorrow"

Norman speaks to Isaac.

"Right."

Isaac takes Norman to his room.

You can do it later, so don't forget to tell your servant to help you get dressed.

As he walks down the hall, Isaac tells him what he remembers.

"Speaking of which, the promise of this time is between me and Marquis Wallick, not between the Marquis Welrod and the Marquis Wallick. If the other guy dies, it's a counteraccident, right?

"Yes, I was wondering if I could think of that. Could it be that Isaac..."

Norman suspects Isaac's involvement.

Because it was too good a time for Donald to die.

"No, not at all! Because I'm not leaving this mansion, am I? Norman used to talk to people."

"You did. Sorry, sir."

Norman is ashamed to have doubted Isaac even for a moment.

When it comes to outside people I've met, it's about the Wight Chamber of Commerce and the confectioners who work at the store delivering the ingredients to the confectionery.

I was present myself, so I would have figured it out if I had given suspicious instructions.

Besides, there's no way they can do such a big thing.

It was clear that Isaac was not involved.

"More than that, you think you can wear last year's mourning?

Isaac, who thought it would be a bad idea to continue this story, returned the story to the funeral.

"What do you think? I think it is a little tight because it is also stretched out. I hope it's easy enough to fix it...... I'm just a kid, so I think you can forgive me for the dress."

"Right. That's right. It's been a year since I made it."

When Terrence, Nicole's grandfather, found out it was "time to be dangerous," then rushed the mourning to make it.

At a sudden funeral like this one, rushing a needle won't make it overnight.

"Nevertheless, this is a huge incident... I've never experienced anything like this before..."

"True..., you've made a big case..."

They were two people who spoke emotionally, but the implications were very different.