Chapter 144 – Chapter 144 ― Just Bad Luck (4)
Episode 144 ― Just Bad Luck (4)
“Hmph, isn’t it natural that our demons are much more powerful than humans like you?”
One minotaur put her hands on her hips and said proudly.
“Even if we can’t do this, we need a cow…”
The eyes of the human and the Minotaur met.
The man hurriedly shut his mouth,
The Minotaur blinked his eyes.
Fortunately, no human limbs were torn apart.
Today’s work is to spread the fertilizer and turn the soil so that it goes deep into the soil.
What humans could barely do by mobilizing cows or horses, the demons were able to do it by sweating their strength.
In the first place, it is an area that is almost impossible for humans.
The humans who realized the power of the demons were genuinely amazed at first. In the capital, there was not much to use this much force.
However, several days passed with the suspicion of the demons unresolved.
And that time,
It was enough time to turn admiration into fear.
At least it was Diobe who comforted the humans.
“Your Majesty is the one who takes responsibility. Everyone was worried at first, but didn’t they work safely in Basel too? I will make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
“It’s not that I don’t trust Your Majesty. You don’t trust the people here.”
“As long as you continue to doubt, there is no end. The people here and I will be protecting you. Wouldn’t the people here also interact with humans like us someday? Your Majesty dreams of a day when humans like us can roam freely here in Evirgio. Someone has to lead. We are the brave ones.”
Diobe smiled encouragingly, but
Humans just laughed hard.
With one of my colleagues already dead, it would be difficult to let go of my anxiety easily.
We need more means to protect them.
Diobe swallowed his worries and followed the farmers into the fields.
But the original worry is,
Things that are easily seen and contagious even without words.
The demon agents noticed that humans were suspicious of them, and even more afraid of them.
“Uh huh, okay, this is enough.”
“Lily. If you plant it with this attached, it will not bear fruit properly. As I said, you need to space them properly…”
A quarrel ensued.
The demons, who glanced at the emperor while talking to other humans and confirmed that he was not looking at them, lowered their voices and threatened them.
“Human. His Majesty also said it. We are not the ones doing the farming anyway. Do it in moderation okay?”
The kobold scattered a handful of beans in his hand at random. I thought so.
However, at the gesture of a large demon,
The human was frightened and made a sound.
“Hey… !”
It wasn’t loud, but
A sound that makes the people around you turn around.
The kobold also looked around and quietly withdrew his hand.
Dio Vega lit up her eyes,
Roan, who had already been listening intently to their conversation, stood up.
“What did you just do, sir?”
But it was the old farmer, Ackerman, who reacted first than anyone else.
No matter how correct it is, an old man is an old man.
Its skinny size is less than half that of a kobold.
But the old man fearlessly approached the kobold. Seeing that grim look, the kobold took a step back without even realizing it and answered reluctantly.
“I did as I was told, sowed the beans.”
“Didn’t you throw the seed!”
The kobold frowned.
Dare.
He is a person who will fall out with one hit.
On the subject of meat without a taste head
When he was alive, he was arrogant and arrogant.
However, the kobold miraculously controlled his anger.
Originally, most anger management abilities grow exponentially in the face of greater force.
“… Inspiration. Beans don’t grow as long as they get into the soil. Is it something to be angry about just because I sprayed some of it?”
Bloodstains stood on his wrinkled face.
“If seeds grow by being placed randomly, why is this land like this! I have to spend time and sincerity, to carelessly use this precious seed like this… !”
“This inspiration… !”
After hearing the old man’s words, the kobold’s rage also eventually exceeded the limit of his patience.
He was furious when he heard that the land he lived on was a mess.
No matter how much he himself complained to his father and mother every day, “What are you doing if you are a lord in this desolate land?”
It was the land where he spent his whole life.
Just as if you have a family member who is a shame, you will get upset if you are criticized by others.
The kobold’s eyes turned when he heard harsh words about the land of my birth.
The faces of the demons who were looking at this situation also became stern.
To them, this land is no different from a struggle.
“You are fluttering your snout without being afraid…” !”
In an instant, a fist twice the size of a human’s flew towards the old man.
The old man, seeing the fast fist, froze and closed his eyes tightly.
It is human nature to close your eyes when you see a huge object suddenly approaching your eyes.
However, it did not happen that the kobold’s fist would crush the human head like a watermelon.
“Kieeen!”
Instead, the kobold’s pitiful scream rang out.
The eyes of those who were watching the situation were wide open as if they were going to pop out.
Dio Vega, who momentarily cut off the arm extending toward the human, pulled the kobold’s upper body and walked on his legs.
Moving so fast.
The Demon, whose center of gravity was tilted to the side, helplessly floated and fell to the ground.
His screams were all the more sad because the shock must have been as great as the weight.
At first glance, Dio Ve, who had knocked down a figure that doubled in size in an instant, quickly grabbed his arm and pulled it up to his body, wrapped his leg around the demon’s shoulder and began to press it.
A louder scream than before began to be heard.
“… Stop it, Diobe.”
Diobe’s expressionless face, who was armbaring, turned to Roan.
“Your majesty.”
Diove, who had a hard face and did not move even when the demons screamed, slowly let go of his hand holding the demon’s arm only when he saw the expression on the emperor’s face.
Roan let out a sigh, washed his face dry, and spoke dryly.
“Your boy. Did you mean to kill a human right in front of my eyes?”
“Lungs, lungs, your majesty.”
“Don’t you know that humans are my property?”
“Song, I’m sorry. .”
After looking into the kobold’s complex eyes for a moment, Roan sighed.
It was only when I saw his behavior of throwing away seeds that I realized.
He got it wrong
The conflict you are seeing right now is actually not a problem caused by demons and humans.
The difference in attitude towards that small bean
Those with power and those without.
Those who are supported and those who are supported.
It is a communication problem between those who have lived full and those who know hunger.
Even if these demons met the same demon farmers, they would have treated them the same,
These human farmers would have equally suspected and feared the children of human aristocrats if they found themselves in this situation.
Problems stemming from such inequality may actually be happening all over Evirgio.
Because this country’s culture takes the difference between the haves and the have-nots for granted,
Roan’s attempt to make up for this temperature gap itself is strangely accepted.
How should I solve this?
Roan, who came up with a lot of thoughts, decided to focus on the demon in front of him for now.
“You. I’ve never been hungry.”
“Yes? Yes?”
It was a question as if the emperor himself was like that, but no one pointed out such a contradiction.
The kobold was taken aback by the emperor’s question.
However, Roan waited patiently, and the demons, realizing belatedly that the emperor was waiting for an answer, replied in a panic.
“Uh, no…”
“Then do you know how many villagers are starving?”
“… Ah.”
The kobold’s face contorted.
He was the third son of the lord, but he had heard that the people of the territory had been starving to the point of not being able to eat human meat for a while.
His father, the lord, and his eldest son, who was taking lord lessons, used to complain about the food situation. That’s why I sent him to this place.
“Yes, yes… Before last fall, about a tenth… But in winter, the wheat comes down…”
“A part of the food you eat in the land where you live was given by the people starving.”
At the harsh words of the emperor, the kobold stared blankly at the emperor with its mouth open.
However, Roan looked around at the other demons with a tone that didn’t seem angry at all and said.
“Perhaps you are similar.”
The demons, who had been looking at the emperor with expressions similar to those of the kobolds, stunnedly lowered their heads.
“Hunger is painful. You guys are lucky I inherited a great body from great parents and a chance to eat. What is their sin of starving? They were just out of luck.”
Roan’s voice was calm, but
It was like sparks were flying in his eyes.
The demons blinked in fear and listened to the emperor’s words. Fear focused their attention on the Emperor.
But in fact they were difficult to understand.
Are the people starving? So what?
The humans were also taken aback by the emperor’s words.
Because his words seemed to represent the hearts of those who did not have them.
However, no matter how badly he personally does things, he is the emperor of the demons.
That’s why humans couldn’t understand the emperor’s heart.
Because ‘politics’ conveyed that it is not easy to be understood by anyone,
Roan became lonely.
“Then you lucky ones wouldn’t feel pain if they didn’t put something in their mouths even for a day.”
Everyone knew the answer.
But no one answered.
In silence,
Roan closed his eyes and slowly opened them.
Still holding Roan in her hand, Fiora, feeling his boiling anguish,
[Calm down.]
Because he whispered
After a while, Roan said calmly, as if he had finally calmed his anger.
“Okay. This beggar world isn’t fair. It may be difficult to understand why I have to worry about the lives of the people. However, even if you rule over someone and enjoy wealth and glory, your fortune is not eternal. Even luggage. Literally, it’s not a fair world.”
The demons opened their eyes wide at once.
If the emperor himself hadn’t said it, he would have been considered treason.
But Roan’s words continued.
“That’s why those who rule someone should make sure that the luck goes evenly among the people. In order to lead someone, show a better world, and keep people from starving, those with power must take the lead. That is the price of luck.”
It is very difficult for others to understand others. Even so, Roan struggled.
The skill ‘Applause’, which blossomed through his efforts, conveyed his agony to the demons and humans who stood here with all his might.
Because we can’t understand each other
You must not remain unaware.
You shouldn’t give up either.
Because change comes from uncomfortable and painful things.
After enduring the present discomfort,
Because everyone might see a better tomorrow.
Roan’s troubles and pain slowly seeped into their hearts.
And the gap in the heart that started to be influenced like that, ‘charisma’ started to squeeze together.
“Planting here is for the people of the Eastern Emperor. Are you going to leave this Eastern Emperor desolate forever? If you rule over an insignificant land, a dead land where nothing grows, the people and you will eventually die.”
There was no answer.
The emperor’s words to make the demons understand sounded like his sorrowful sighs,
All the people standing in the field were listening to the emperor with sad faces as if possessed.
“You think little of these humans. But their courage is something you do not have. They could have stayed and worked safely in Basel. They are the ones who don’t care whether they starve or not. But at the risk of coming here, I am imparting knowledge to you. Do you know why?”
A small sigh flowed from the mouths of several demons who expected an answer.
“Because these farmers knew that the people here were fighting a barren land. Those who are human understand your people better than you who are full.”
Because I felt ashamed.
“So these are my helpers and teachers. I will not forgive people who do anything recklessly just because they are weak. Their knowledge is as precious to us as your strength.”
The demons had to listen to Roan, unable to breathe properly due to shame and fear.
“It is not always easy to take care of family members. Keep your head down and learn what you don’t know. Be responsible for your luck.”
A heart-wrenching warning from the Emperor.
Roan’s words contained his experience and sincerity, so Diobe, who stood up and shook the soil, smiled.
Diobe was proud of her emperor.
