Wortenia Senki (WN)

One man looks up to heaven in the mansion's office with a distressed look on his face.

I wonder how much time he spent in this state without being slight when he got home from the castle.

Ten, twenty, thirty. Or is it already over an hour?

The man's chest was full of unspeakable grief, regret, and powerlessness towards himself.

I've never learned more weakness and emptiness in a man's life than I do now.

(What was wrong? We should have had a little time now... did we see the time wrong... or didn't we have the art of saving this country from the beginning)

Even in his youth, when his adoptive father tore into a power struggle with the Duke of Gerhardt, he had no choice but to pull himself into his territory, his heart had never been beaten more.

For a man, that's all this time was a bet.

"Excuse me. Master Zeleif can see you now. May I escort you here?

The door of the room was knocked lightly, and the voice of an old butler awakened the man's consciousness into reality.

"Oh, I don't mind. Let it through."

The conflicting thoughts of wanting to see each other and not wanting to see each other intersect for a moment in a man's mind.

At the end of your gaze is a bunch of paper placed on your desk.

Until just a few hours ago, it was a trump card to change this kingdom of Roselia, but now it's only as useless garbage as it is to be used for incineration. But how much effort and sacrifice did it take to prepare this pile of garbage? Thinking about it, the man didn't have the courage to see the face of his brother-in-law, whom he trusted wholeheartedly.

Even if he understands that his brother-in-law is not the kind of person to blame for a man.

"You're a non-floating face. Upper Brother-in-law."

Count Zeleif, who showed up with the door open, dives into his eyebrows by looking at Count Bergston's face at the very beginning of the opening.

I wonder how hard my face showed.

"I can't help it. In this situation… na"

Count Bergston responded with a deep sigh to the words of Count Zeleif, who sank his obese body on a couch set face to face.

"I put it in my ear a little bit, but everything was in a meeting, like Her Majesty the Queen was overthrown when she heard the flash report?

Count Bergston unexpectedly stares into the face of his brother-in-law into the words of Count Zeleif.

"Oh, I suddenly lost my mind when I heard reports of a rebellion. I'm resting in my bedroom today. Seems like he was crushing your heart too. But you know that well. I should have laid a warrant on the castle people."

Count Zeleif answered such Count Bergston's words with his shoulders flashed.

It is easy to command you to remain silent, but how difficult it is for it to be carried out. Self-evident reason for Count Zeleif, who specializes in intelligence.

"I just laid down a warrant, it doesn't make any sense. It's hard for God to completely cut people's mouths off.

Yes, not to mention everyone's anxious about the end of this country, especially now... "

Originally, humans were creatures who liked rumors. And it spreads like ripples from person to person. Woven with truth and lies.

It is difficult to hold down with force what should also be the instinct of the person.

"What I can't do..."

I thought you had no choice.

Count Zeleif returns the same words to Count Bergston's inquiry.

Two people staring at each other.

After a long silence, Count Bergston slowly opened his mouth. Now is not the time to worry about Lupis' health.

"I've got it all aligned with you. This has gone to waste too... I'm really sorry that I ended up like this while you asked me to do something wrong"

Count Bergston bowed his head deeply to Count Zeleif, who would sit face to face.

But Count Zeleif's face just has an unusual serene grin.

"Never mind that, brother-in-law"

"But!"

"I have no choice. Because it was a bad bet."

There is no anger in Count Zeleif's face. He has no choice but to divide the outcome of this one.

(Is this guy... or are you telling me I'm still sweet?

To such a brother-in-law's attitude, Count Bergston turned his gaze on the desk again.

This thick bunch of paper placed on the desk is packed with information about the levies now taking place inside Roselia.

Who, what time, in what village, how much money, by what means? And how much of the money you collected as a tax did you put into your own pocket? All of which is clearly documented material.

On the basis of this information, Count Bergston had in mind the solemnity of the humans who would form them into aristocrats.

Because many of the problems now occurring within the Kingdom of Roselia are caused by the aristocracy that has gathered again under Viscount Gerhardt.

Incites dissatisfaction with Lupis, speaks to national defence, and puts pressure on the bureaucrats to stall their affairs.

Though every one of those actions is never fatal, it's also not something you can ignore. And malicious non-cooperation is much poorer in quality and harder to cope with than being directed outright at hostility.

No, to be precise, Lupis Roselianus' position and character had made it difficult to cope.

The easiest solution to breaking this situation today would be to select two or three less politically powerful houses from among those non-cooperative nobles to solemnize the clan royal party.

Crush the house. This is the most fearful and abominable thing for a nobleman who considers himself a special being, whose fears will always bind the hearts and minds of the nobles and dull their spearheads.

After that, we just have to weave them hard and soft and keep the nobles out of hand one by one.

I don't have that much trouble with the reason for Solemn Qing either.

It's only natural that you can't be prettier than you are in charge of politics. It's obvious that there's one or two dark things behind every house, and worst of all, it's possible to make up a sin. It is not impossible for Lupis, who is an absolute power to say that he is king, if he can put up with being somewhat wounded himself.

However, Lupis, who tended to choose a calm and moderate response in character and had not achieved anything since becoming king, could not himself choose to activate power and force them to solemnize their aristocratic human beings.

That is why Count Bergston continued to observe without taking any measures against the aristocracy.

Until then when the aristocratic humans loosen their guard and exposed their abusive fangs and ugly nature under the day.

"I honestly thought I'd be lucky if it worked out. Originally, conditions were too difficult."

Here Zeleif exhales gently once he hangs up his words.

This measure of deliberately freeing the aristocrats and grabbing evidence of their atrocities and eliminating them at once is legitimate, both positive and in accordance with national law, but the timing was difficult for that matter.

Especially the biggest problem was that the aristocrats acted in such a way as to deliberately incite civil dissatisfaction against Lupis' orders.

Their nobleman aim is the rebellion of the civilians.

Even though they are inferior to force, the battered and vulnerable cannot be told until hours.

I don't let him live. I don't kill him. I squeeze taxes.

You don't need to love the people, but you are disqualified as a ruler if you seem to be disobeyed by the people. Such a thing naturally suppresses the knowledge necessary to maintain the territory. The very fact that the aristocrats are moving as they please, ignoring it, is a true representation of their aim.

There are two ways to prevent this, and whether some stigma comes out hard prepared, or grasp their trends and bring the nobles to justice with national law before the discontent of the civilians erupts.

However, all of the measures were returned to blisters.

Just two arrows. That's when he took the life of a tax collector who visited a village.

"Nothing, even for me. Give me the subordinate end of the Kingdom of Roselia. I have loyalty to Her Majesty the Queen. That's why I followed my brother-in-law's request and worked out a plan, and even though I was slightly helpful... But no more is needed."

"Zeleif...... you"

Seeing the intentions of the extraneous seeping Zeleif, Count Bergston breathes unexpectedly.

"My brother-in-law ascended. You can't be unaware."

Every mild grin disappears and Count Zeleif's eyes emit a dubious light.

That was also similar to the Proclamation of the Reaper, who visited under the terminally ill.

"Stop it, Zeleif. That's as subordinate..."

Points that I had cut out. The words released from Zeleif's mouth after this would break Bergston's heart, which was trying to turn away from reality. I don't know that. It's not Bergston.

But Bergston didn't want to hear the words from his most trusted brother-in-law.

Because if you ask, you will have to choose whether you will share the path with your most trusted brother-in-law or whether you will know it.

But I didn't come to this time in a half-baked way with Zeleif.

Even though he understands Bergston's feelings, Zeleif slowly spins words.

"Brother-in-law, let's not lose sight of reality. I should have done enough loyalty to my country by now. Shouldn't we be looking for a way to survive?"

"But... then..."

Do you abandon Lupis? Yes, Bergston's eyes inquired.

But Zeleif doesn't pull. It is visible that if we pull here, there will be a great disaster for him and his family.

Worst case scenario, even my brother-in-law, Bergston, trumps it. That's all Zeleif is prepared for.

"Either way, Your Majesty has no victory buds. If we can't crack down on the rebellion, the civilians won't let His Majesty live, which can be called resentment bone marrow, even if we crack down on the rebellion."

"Gerhardt pushes Princess Ladine up and crushes His Majesty Lupis...? Shield the cause of abolishing the incompetent king."

To Bergston's words, Zeleif nods slowly.

There would be nothing more questionable about the situation or the power of the user than what I said was a great name or authenticity.

Sometimes it becomes the strongest sword and cleaves enemies, but sometimes it also becomes poison that erodes itself.

In the last civil unrest these dogmas were the greatest weapons for Lupis. But the position and responsibility of the king are poisoning her the other way around.

"If you want to negotiate with the civilians,

A peaceful negotiated solution, not a repression by force. This would certainly do with minimal scratches that Lupis would suffer. But Zeleif truncated such a Bergston suggestion without leaving it at his disposal.

"It's no use. There is no way that civilians can honestly believe our words, and nobles will not acknowledge judgments that would give way to civilians."

The secret to national stability, not just the earth world, is to say how much fear can be maintained.

With force, with financial power, with power, or with the power of the law. People follow the state because the state is strong and horrible.

For better or worse, I guess don't say that peace absolutely requires coverage by power.

And now Lupis doesn't have that power. Her words don't make sense because she doesn't have power, because she doesn't have credit.

"Apart from the causes, many humans now question His Majesty Lupis' ability to govern. This revolt in this situation is fatal. All the nobles in the country will support Gerhardt."

"Even if we dictated, can't we?

"You won't be able to. Originally Gerhardt's influence extends to nearly 40% of the nobles of this country. Besides, this is the situation. Unless you have a strong personal grudge, neutral nobles will flow beneath Gerhardt."

The only status is the Orthodox King, who was the advantage Lupis had.

However, in the present situation, I have gone around preaching the matter to the nobles, and it will be sumptuous before the great cause of considering the fool king that Gerhardt would list in the future. Besides, if I can put Ladine on the flag, I can't even complain from the point of view of being authentic.

"No hitter..."

"At least if I had managed to do just about Ladine, I still had a hitter..."

Without Ladine, I can't wipe away the impression of the seizure of the throne, no matter how much Gerhardt has his cause, against the move to say that he will eliminate Lupis.

There would have been some nobles who disliked those dark images behind them, who would have chosen to follow Lupis, who would have listened to the Bergstons, but under the present circumstances it is also difficult.

"Is it all too late? In the end, the decision was fatal..."

Bergston looks up to heaven and sighs loudly.

(We should still have smashed Gerhardt to pieces during the civil unrest ahead)

I can't help but regret that I understand that regretting the past makes no sense. Because the dawn of the glorious Kingdom of Roselia did come at that moment once.

(But it's all too late. A glorious future in glory fell zero out of the palm of my hand. And His Majesty's reign is completely over with this revolt. If……)

Will you perish with Lupis Roselianus, or should you explore your own way of life?

A sense of duty as a subordinate of the Kingdom of Roselia and responsibility to the people and ministers as nobles. Neither of them is a big thing to throw away.

But now I have to choose one.

A long, long silence dominates the room. Zeleif just quietly waited for Bergston's decision.

And when I make a decision, I visit.

"Okay. Let me know what you think. How can I protect my house?

Lupis' judgment. That's not to say I was ever wrong as a single person. Nor is it ever wrong to be a person in charge of national politics. But that's all.

She's not right just because she's not wrong. More precisely, the right choice for politics is the result. It doesn't make sense where you made a choice that isn't so wrong as long as the results are bad.

(Sire...... sorry)

Bergston weeps of blood in his heart. He never hated people who said Lupis.

Although Lupis makes foolish and childish decisions from time to time, he is not a bad character and can be described as a person of good service.

At least, Bergston has served a man named Lupis Roselianus in good faith since the civil war earlier.

However, there is already no choice under this circumstance.

Because Bergston has a family to protect and the fate of the ministers who have made it painful with him for years.

"It's a wise decision. Brother-in-law."

Bergston nodded as he bit his lips into Zeleif's words.