Chapter 295 – Chapter 295 ― Demon King of Misery (5)
Episode 295 ― The Demon King of Misery (5)
“Help, to whom?”
Roan answered Naor’s question with a question.
“Can you really help me?”
“What?”
Naor’s expression darkened.
Until he abandoned the emperor’s body and lived as ‘Naor’, he had never willingly said that he would ‘help’ someone.
So he hesitated.
Because I was ashamed.
He was not used to it, although the act of extending his hand toward someone in good faith was certainly commendable.
Roan didn’t laugh.
It’s because he lived like that just last year.
Now he knows that it takes a lot of determination and courage to help something. So Roan willingly waited for Naor’s answer.
Naor, who hesitated, replied hesitantly.
“Uh, what. The Goddess trusted me anyway, so I have no choice. Hmm.”
While avoiding his gaze, he took a breath and looked at Roan, his original face.
“Okay. I will help.”
A smile spread across Fiora’s face as she watched. Roan nodded his head broadly.
“Good. Then tomorrow is the meeting.”
Naor’s expression crumpled.
“What did you do now? Isn’t it a meeting?”
Then Roan looked at him blankly.
“What I did today is persuasion and conversation to get your permission. Meetings are with people who will do business.”
Naor opened his mouth in bewilderment.
“Who are you meeting with?”
Even when he was emperor, he hated meetings.
Roan, who had his memories, knew that. So he spoke sternly to Naor. As if admonishing him.
“The people of the small meeting are competent. Your body is one, and you cannot do everything alone. Because knowing and doing are different.
There’s certainly merit to merging multiple views, but they’re likely to know something you don’t. If you want someone to do something, you have to do it together.”
Fiora chuckled inwardly.
He didn’t even pretend to listen to Kiruina’s nagging, but he seemed to agree with what Roan said.
‘It looks like I’ve met the owner, Kiruina.’
The former Empress Kiruina was always worried that she seemed to Roan that she had no friends.
It seemed like I wouldn’t have to do that anymore.
**
The next day, the small meeting gathered in the conference room unscheduled. It was an emergency call.
“I thought this week would be relaxing.”
The treasurer grumbled. Even the chancellor, who would normally throw a scolding, was quiet today.
After the wedding of the same emperor as her grandson, she had a leisurely thought of thinking about retirement.
The wedding has been a mess. Her mind was complicated.
She was sure when the emperor entered the meeting room with two strangers.
‘He’s trying to do something big again.’
The first human brought in in the past was a human princess who was held captive. Now she has become a very important presence in Basel’s commerce, and is the mainstay of the wealth earned by the imperial castle.
The next stranger who entered the meeting room was a person with holy powers that Evirgio did not have. Since the woman appeared, she has another power in His Majesty.
Even after that, the emperor would occasionally excavate and bring people to meetings that the small meeting had never thought of, but clearly possessed the ability.
I didn’t know that it was based on the description of the game character, but I knew very well that the people the emperor brought were creating amazing new achievements.
Maybe these people do too.
“Your Majesty, would you please introduce them?”
Sheik Viena floated her luck.
Originally, the difficult question is the role of the youngest.
Roan opened his mouth with a feeling of disappointment floating around in the small meeting room—probably because he was holding a meeting now, when it should have been a festival-cum-holiday—and doubts and interest.
“Perhaps Corrections Officer, you know. This is Naor, who was helping the guild. A distant relative to me. I haven’t been in touch in the meantime, but I recently decided to work closely and brought him.”
“What do you mean you work closely?”
Roan answered Lee Ron’s question.
“It’s related to the Grand Duke of Darkness.”
For a moment, a completely different tension lingered in the meeting room.
The questioning Liron corrected her posture, and Aranya’s thorns began to snap.
However, Roan continued with his unchanging, relaxed voice.
“And this is a friend who has been helping me with my work. It is called Fiora.”
“Friend… Are you?”
Aranya scanned Fiora with her suspicious eyes. It was a face I had never seen before in the castle.
Before Roan was born, Aranya, who had been in the imperial castle all the time he was growing up, was the first person he saw. Are you friends?
However, the emperor is a friend, but I have no intention of throwing up there. Aranya took her eyes off Fiora, who smiled brightly. With a calm expression.
“Did this person also help the grand duke?”
“Fiora helped save the world.”
“Yes?”
Oops.
Aranya questioned involuntarily and stung inwardly. I think I’ve already passed it a hundred times already, but maybe it’s because of my age, this casual questioning was not as well controlled as my heart.
However, the emperor smiled generously and explained.
“The reason we asked to gather today is to save the world.”
I didn’t know that Aranya’s gaping mouth would close.
Lilon’s jawbone also fell down.
But the surprise was just the beginning.
The lord of the Southern Dark Spirit teamed up with a human court mage, and the mage is said to be a mixed race between a demon and a human.
The purpose of the wizard to use the demons to exterminate humans and the purpose of the grand duke to become the emperor of the demons meshed together, and the two joined hands, and the power they were trying to use together was none other than the power of the demon ‘greed’.
The story that the emperor has been going to and from Sprouse through the ruins to find out.
The power of ‘greed’ almost encroached on the imperial castle through the hands of the Grand Duke and Erenia, but even the fact that Roan found out and blocked it with the power of holy power.
As the emperor’s story progressed, everyone seriously pondered whether or not to believe the story.
Everyone knew that the Grand Duke of Darkness coveted the position of emperor. It was nothing new. He was a person who had the qualifications and skills to challenge, and to the demons, that was more of a compliment.
Besides, he was ambitious and had a sincere side. His personality was a bit picky and cold, but that much was not a flaw to the demons.
But was his obsession with the emperorship such that he had to borrow the power of humans or even humans?
Was that enough?
Aranya and Liron’s eyes deepened. Although not close, the two had communicated and worked with the Grand Duke for decades.
Having lived for a long time, I thought that people’s eyes weren’t bad, but what did I miss? The two elderly servants were silent with their thoughts.
“Is Her Highness’ disposition okay with that?”
Minoreus asked in a heavy voice. Then Shikvienna explained. As a corrections officer, she is the one who organizes the laws and regulations for everyone staying inside the imperial castle.
“According to the law, the rebellion of the demons is not punishable by association. However, there will be nobles who will argue over this, and the political power of the Swinhoe family will be weakened.”
The reason why Erenia became Roan’s fiancée was because her assets, possessed by the Southern Dark Spirit Lord, her junior, were more helpful to the emperor than her own ability.
However, when Shykvienna asked if there was any meaning in maintaining the marriage now that it was useless, Roan answered calmly.
“Okay. Now I know why her chancellor chose her as her fiancee. He must have wanted to solidify his unstable position.”
Upon hearing that, Naor’s eyes widened.
After a moment of surprise, he immediately averted his gaze to the other side. As if he was trying to hide the shame of discovering the chancellor’s intentions belatedly.
Aranya, who heard Roan’s words, just nodded her head with a happy face.
“I’m glad you know that, my conviction.”
“But now, even without the dark male spirit, I can protect the crown. Isn’t it?”
The West Blood Lord, who was one of only two in the country, and two other great lords support Roan. At least, there is no reason for the imperial throne to become unstable due to clashes with the great lords.
Aranya answered satisfactorily.
“Of course. His Majesty’s reign is more stable than ever, and he has no one to challenge the feat Your Majesty has established.”
“He must mean that no one will object to Jim’s decision.”
“That’s right.”
Naor knew that this was Roan’s answer to Eleanor.
She has already been betrayed by her dozens or hundreds of times. Naor knew all too well about her twisted affection, but he was also well aware that the current Roan had created a new phase unlike him.
Perhaps,
It might be different with this guy.
The appearance of this small meeting unfolding before my eyes was also a scene that I could not have imagined.
Naor slowly closed his eyes and opened them.
It’s as if he’s willing to accept Roan’s words.
“There are two problems facing us.”
When the affair with her empress was settled, Aranya opened her mouth.
“One is that we have to somehow find the Grand Duke of Darkness.”
With the justification that he should be held accountable,
It’s because he doesn’t know how to abuse the power of ‘greed’. Furthermore, you can join hands with humans and aim for Evirgio’s weakness.
Roan was worried about one more step here. The last time Schlaner was aiming for was a ‘crack’ in the Dark Forest.
If ‘greed’ remembers what happened last time and advises Schlaner to aim for the Dark Forest sooner, the truce will be broken sooner.
The Dark Forest spans two places: West Blood and Southern Dark Forest. No one knows more about the Southern Dark Spirit than the Grand Duke of Darkness.
He can effectively attack the Dark Forest by digging into the weak spots in what was once his territory.
“And it is to separate humans from the objects that Merde’s sorceress has or intends to have.”
It was a neat arrangement.
As Roan nodded in agreement, Aranya led the meeting with familiarity.
“The two agendas are linked, but at the same time it seems to be a problem that cannot be solved by one team. Since you two will be seeing our meeting for the first time, it would be good for you to listen to the conversation between His Majesty and our small meeting and add your opinions.”
Naor and Fiora made strange faces.
I didn’t want to because I was the emperor, but he was forced into the small meeting room once or twice.
And since Fiora was a sword, she often entered this small meeting room through Roan and listened to the meeting.
Neither was the ‘first’, but I couldn’t reveal it here.
Fiora hid a laugh, and Naor opened his mouth shyly. Anyway, he’s quite familiar with ‘social life’ now.
“All right. Your Excellency.”
Roan smiled lightly, imagining what kind of complex mind his inner circle was going through.
