Chapter 65 – Chapter 65 ― Whose Side Are You on (5)
Episode 65 ― Whose side are you on (5)
Martius looked at Roan, who was in despair, and managed to get up and lean against the wall.
Perhaps realizing that he was going to die anyway, he caught his breath and spoke in a venomous voice.
“Well, I am no longer a baron. I’m a baron. He was deprived of his title because Lose was invaded by demons. There is no end to the wiles of that wicked demon king. The baron was also ruined by it.”
“That…”
Diobe’s face contorted.
Roan was still as stiff as a statue, his hand still holding on to his face.
When invading the border fortress Rose, the Demon King was using a transformation tool. Only a few people around him and Diobe know that it was the demon king himself who ruined the fortress.
However, Martius was looking at Roan with angry eyes, as if the demon king had manipulated everything.
“Even though he was a fallen baron, Ayang was a man who trembled well. He became the son-in-law of the Countess.”
Diobe took one look at Grunent.
It was as if he wanted to confirm his authenticity. Because it is the royal family who knows the movements of nobles best.
Grünent hesitated with a puzzled face, then barely nodded.
“He was a knight whose skills were recognized, so somehow he managed to save his family. But he has no way to go higher. He was once a promising genius of the Knights of the Kingdom!”
And Matthews,
He looked directly at the demon king and said.
“You can truly call it the Demon King.
Even the wise princess and the ardent knight Diobe were all bewitched and turned into your dogs, and made the prosperous knight fall. Now they are trying to trample on the sacred land of humans that the Goddess protects.”
Roan lowered his hand.
Dark eyes stared at Mathias.
The leader of the Knights Templar of the Laurecia Church was startled and shrugged his shoulders slightly, but when Roan didn’t do anything else, he continued to tease him as if he gained some confidence.
“To think that the proud gray knight, Dio Veg, was now sticking to the demons and prolonging her life. Your husband and family collapsed in an instant. It felt like her miserable life was such a waste…”
“Stop.”
I couldn’t hear more.
Roan eventually made the head of the church stop talking.
“Hello.”
“Yes.”
The place where Roan turned his head was the knights who were watching Helen and Martius.
“Take this man to prison.”
“Yes. Your majesty.”
A crunching and grinding sound was heard.
However, Roan no longer paid attention to Martius.
Suddenly, Grunent looked at Roan’s face and bit his lip. Roan gave her orders with a cold gaze she had never seen before.
“Tell the corrections officer to interrogate this man.”
“All right. Your majesty.”
There was a moment of warmth in Roan’s eyes. And he looked at Grunent.
So, Grunent said, her tears were about to come.
Of all the shocking stories, the one that hurts Grunent the most is,
It was the fact that her very own lovely Majesty had a look on her face that seemed to grapple with her pain.
Grünent finally realized what the cold eyes in her eyes meant.
Grünent’s ‘Politics’ is also a skill to find out the true intentions in the context and actions of the other person.
The demon king was afraid.
When his own shameful deeds were exposed,
And fear that it will hurt himself and Diobe and alienate them.
Grünent, who had reached out to comfort Roan, withdrew his hand, thinking that it might be thoughtless to offer a trivial consolation in front of Diobe.
Seeing this, Roan smiled bitterly.
“Grünent.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Would you like to go in with Helen?”
“I will. Your majesty.”
Grünent soon made his wife’s face and withdrew with Helen.
“Diobe.”
“…”
Diobe said nothing.
But there was no anger or irritation in her voice as Roan called her back.
“Diobe.”
She raised her head angrily with her surprised face.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Shall we talk a little?”
Roan moved to the office and sat down with Diobe. In fact, Roan wanted to run away for a while.
‘… Pain.’
There’s no way the excuse that I didn’t do it will work. Roan wanted to cover his face again.
But I know that shouldn’t be the case.
Roan remembered the day he first saw Diobe. She had an expressionless face that seemed to have removed all her emotions.
Diobe’s face is much more vivid now.
That’s why her pain and sadness were all revealed in her expression.
Roan clenched his fist, which he had set down on the table. The power of ‘will’ was faintly felt.
With the power that seemed to comfort me not to run away,
Roan was the first to speak.
“Diobe.”
“Yes. Your majesty.”
“Sorry.”
Dio Ve, who was only looking at her table with her sorrowful expression, turned to face Roan in surprise.
“Your majesty?”
The words she had been hesitant to say before, finally vomited out.
It wasn’t anything I did.
Because it was nothing that could be undone.
I was hesitant about the use of an apology, but the meaning of an apology is not what I am looking for anyway.
Diobe should grant it.
I bowed deeply.
Dio Vega was at a loss as she stood up.
“Your Majesty, you don’t have to do this.”
“I had to do it a long time ago.”
However, the emperor’s body did not move.
It was only after the hesitant Dio Ve sat down in her chair that he seemed weak, and Roan raised her head.
Diobe also made a complicated expression when he saw that the emperor’s expression, which had always been blunt, had become distorted.
“Anyway, are you happy? I’m your husband… Because I didn’t kill him.”
“… Yes. Your majesty. He did not kill you.”
“I still think I killed your husband and kidnapped you… One line…”
A deep sigh escaped Roan’s mouth.
The emperor was looking down at the empty table with his eyes down.
“Diobe, if you still want to go back.”
Dio Vega lifted her head up in surprise at the surprise. Her eyes widened.
It is possible to sneak into Merde if you can find a waypoint and activate it.
It may be impossible to officially start a family with your husband again, but it is possible to meet the rest of your family.
“I will let you go as soon as the war is over.”
“… Your majesty.”
“I know that it is too late and there is no turning back, but…”
But Diove shook her head slowly.
“No. Your majesty. I am not going back.”
At the unexpected words, Roan opened his eyes wide this time.
Diobe had a bitter expression.
“You heard me. My husband… She got a new wife and started a new life.”
“… Sorry.”
“No. Your majesty. Your Majesty will probably lead me… Even if he hadn’t, the baron would have abandoned me and entered the count’s family as his son-in-law.”
“Hmm?”
Roan frowned slightly.
Did she mean to abandon Diove from the beginning?
Finally Diove began to tell her own story.
“My family is a fallen viscount family in a humble province. My father sent me to knight school with what was left of me. He was a good father to me, but he was not a good lord.”
Her eyes look into the distant past.
“My husband is someone I met at knight school. He was from a commoner, but because of his excellent skills, everyone evaluated that he would later occupy an important position in the Knights of the Kingdom.
And at that time, I was also an article with a nickname. She was talented and only in name, but she was the daughter of a noble. So my husband courted me. “
Ah.
For some reason, Roan seemed to be able to guess the story behind it.
A person with skill and ambition.
Acquiring a wife who is a noble knight and noble enough to have a nickname would have brought him great satisfaction.
Until I found out that the family was in fact ruined.
“My father even sold the estate to provide a dowry. So, my husband didn’t know. When her father died and she found out that I, her only daughter, had nothing left, her husband went mad.”
Diobe smiled as if he missed her, as if she was in pain.
A drop of her tear ran down the corner of her eye. Roan hurriedly held out her handkerchief.
Diove silently accepted her handkerchief.
“Still, my husband was an outstanding knight. It was like a stern but upright soldier to his men.
No matter how unremarkable my husband was, I thought she was a respectable person, at least as a knight. That’s why I tried to follow.”
At the sudden cold voice of Diobe,
Roan studied her expression.
Her numb face was blotting out her sadness, just like her ex Roan had when he first met her.
“When my husband received the barony as lord of Fort Rosse, I quit the Knights Templar. And I moved to Rosse. And her husband struggled to have the marriage annulled.”
Roan’s eyebrows twitched at the thought.
There was no flashback like this in the game.
“Language and violence… , Spend the night with the servants every day… As if I want to run away first… But I had no choice either.”
Diove let out her breath, feeling frustrated.
“Because I had nowhere else to go back to.”
It seems that the parent family has completely collapsed.
“That’s how I spent five years at Rose. Because I couldn’t have children, I was on the verge of a divorce soon. My husband came triumphantly one morning with the papers. As long as we have the teacher’s permission, we’ll be South and South.”
I was embarrassed on the inside, but the demon king’s shell concealed the shaking expression to the extent of the movement between the eyebrows.
“And, that day His Majesty came.”
Diobe smiled faintly.
Did they say that the devil originally came with undeniable conditions?
Like the demon king of that day.
“I didn’t like it when a knight didn’t believe in his own skills and set up a shadow warrior. I said that’s what only central politicians do. But her husband survived because of it.”
In the end, Roan’s bewilderment, which had crossed the critical point of filtering, leaked out.
Seeing that Roan opened his mouth involuntarily, Diobe smiled as if he was also funny.
Bitterness, ridicule, and sadness mixed together
It was a complex expression.
“I don’t know how Your Majesty tried to find her husband. However, His Majesty beheaded… , Was a shadow warrior.”
Roan involuntarily grabbed the edge of the table. Unable to withstand the strong grip, the well-trimmed wood grain crumbled a little with a crunching sound.
Okay. It was a memory with a strange atmosphere.
Wanting to quickly get rid of his head and return, the demon king searched for the lord like a demon.
A soldier trembled and accused the lord,
Youngjoo was perplexed.
With eyes accepting the soldier’s self-defeating actions as if he couldn’t help it.
If you think about it, this is not possible.
Normally, in such a situation, the lord would raise a sword or threaten to block the soldier’s mouth.
I don’t know what to say,
Roan was just venting his anger at the poor table. Diobe said in a calm voice.
“But that day I lost my husband.”
Diobe’s olive-colored eyes sparkled.
Was it a bite or a miasma?
“He was a poor husband, but respected him as a knight. But that day. The knight I admired also died.
She says that she has a new life, but there is no such thing as a new life. Knight Martius’ words must be listened to. She is probably a widowed ex, and my husband has gone back to freedom.”
After a bit of silence, Diobe spoke.
It was as if she was driving her own nails.
“The process that brought me here was not gentle. Looking back on my past here, it wasn’t good either. But Your Majesty has changed.”
Diobe’s calm eyes stared squarely at Roan’s purple eyes.
“Whatever the occasion, Your Majesty is now someone I respect. I had no place to return to, so now this castle has become my home. And you are the one who gave me a place to stay.”
And Diobe smiled.
“As I am dead to my husband, so he is dead to me. Your majesty. So, thank you for your apology, but you don’t have to apologize.”
Along with the loud beep-beep-beep sound effect, Diobe’s favorability value began to change.
She was Diove’s favorability that steadily rose slightly whenever she encountered Roan with Grunent.
The number, which had been +20 until just before, began to fluctuate.
+22, +24…
Her likability level hit +45 and stopped.
“The one who took him away from me that day was the husband himself.”
Diove was making an expression she had never seen before. She smiled happily, with a crying face.
As if she had finally shaken something inside her.
