166 Each person’s happiness
It took only a few hours to capture the capital of Chania.
Although the number of soldiers was greater than in other cities, discipline seems to have been poor. There was no one who could fight properly against the imperial army, probably because they had hardly trained.
Even so, as soon as he saw the appearance of the imperial army, he was busy running away.
Rudy pointed his chin at the cleanly cut head of the second prince.
“Hang that one on the castle gate. Find the neck of Count Bibo and keep it with you.”
“Yes, Your Majesty!”
A nearby captain grabbed the second prince by the hair. Grab your head with one hand and walk out of the building.
“Oh, wait!”
Rudy frowned slightly, but immediately hid his expression.
“Leave the prince’s body outside the palace. Give it to the people.”
“All right.”
The captain called his subordinates without any particular reluctance and took the prince’s body outside.
Levin, who was next to him, tilted his head.
“Your Majesty is sometimes strange.”
“what?”
“Because he is so kind to the people, but rather cold than usual to nobles and royalty.”
Levin muttered, shrugging his shoulders.
“If you see what you do to common people, you don’t think you can even hit someone, let alone cut their throats.”
Rudy’s neck twisted slightly.
no, that’s not it You and I trained together. Didn’t you always do something about cutting people’s throats?
Boris placed Rudy and Levin among common soldiers in each battle. Of course, I lived in the middle of people dying and dying.
At first, after killing a person, he threw up or couldn’t eat, but he gets used to everything in the world.
Later, even in fields full of corpses, they could eat.
It can’t be fun to slit someone’s throat on the battlefield, but there’s no resistance to such an action now. It really feels like something new.
But I don’t think Levin meant that. I knew it after hearing the muttered words.
“Giving the body of a royalty to a commoner, not many people do that. At least I haven’t seen it.”
Whether it’s royalty or commoners, from Rudy’s point of view, there is no difference. They are human beings of flesh and blood. There was no perception of who was more special and noble.
However, it is different from Levin’s point of view.
Perhaps it is because of the belief that is rooted in this world that kings are divine beings.
Rudy looked at the busy soldiers and said.
“If this continues, the anger of the people will end without properly fading.
Levin grinned at Rudy’s words.
“Your Majesty is really strange sometimes. I don’t know if he’s weak or strong.”
“…”
Sometimes Rudy doesn’t even know himself well. The common sense of the earth and the senses learned in this world were mixed together, and I felt like I had a double personality before I knew it.
It seems that the residents, who had been running rampant around the palace for a while, are now slowly coming to their senses.
The crowd that could not distinguish them from the Kania soldiers and tried to attack the Imperial soldiers was no longer there.
Rather, there were people who saw the imperial soldiers and ran away.
Rudy watched the scene quietly and asked Levin abruptly.
“I heard you proposed to Tyra.”
“yes.”
“Do you love her?”
“…”
Of course, I thought the answer would come back soon, but there was no word. Strangely, when I turned my head, Levin was laughing quietly.
“why?”
“Your Majesty, Tyra is more like a younger sister than a woman. I’ve seen her since she was little.”
Same goes for Rudy. There was a little bit of that feeling.
But that wasn’t the answer he wanted from Levin.
As Rudy frowned, Levin continued.
“When I first met Your Majesty, there was a younger sister who was a toddler.
Levin’s eyes narrowed as if he remembered his brother.
“Tyra is the same age as the youngest. It’s a little different if you love her as a woman, but I want Tyra to be happy.”
“…”
“It’s okay if Tyra marries me. There’s probably no one in the world who can make her happier than me. With me by my side, she doesn’t have to give up. She can live forever with what she wants in her heart.”
“…”
“Well, you probably won’t be able to wish for children until you die, but that’s not the only happiness of a woman. You can adopt an adopted child or have a concubine give birth to you. Even if I do that, Taira won’t be hurt.”
If you listen to that, even Rudy can understand what it means.
He knew that Tyra harbored a faint love for him when he was young. But as I grew up, I thought it was gone. I didn’t show that kind of expression, but it was because I was very close to Lilitha.
“sorry.”
When Rudy said, Levin grinned.
“It’s not like there’s no benefit to me either. There are very few women who would understand my work and stand by my side if it weren’t for her.”
Levin laughed cheerfully.
“It’s a bit hard to say with my mouth, but I’m really popular. Whoever becomes my wife will probably love me desperately. They’ll be jealous and bitter. But she…”
Levin gave a small smile.
“We will be good companions to each other. We have the same understanding, but our personalities are quite compatible.”
Rudy turned his gaze to the front of the palace building.
A carriage was coming in across the road lined with beautifully formed trees.
It is the wagon that the Witch of the West rode.
Why?
It seems that more and more unhappy women gather around him.
I don’t know if I’m making women unhappy, or if a woman born with that fate comes to my side by chance.
Levin murmured, as if he knew Rudy’s sinking heart.
“Happiness is different for each person. I don’t know how it looks when His Majesty sees it, but Tyra is happy. This is the best way. She values the Empress just as much as Her Majesty.”
“…”
As the carriage drew closer, Rudy descended the stairs of the building.
The secretary attached to the Witch of the West opens the carriage door.
The Witch of the West put her crow on her shoulder as usual and leaned out. Tilt your upper body slightly in a slightly slow motion.
Rudy stepped in front of him and stretched out his hand.
The Witch of the West smiled shyly and took his hand.
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During these years of war, Rudy got to know her a little better.
she is a timid woman
Maybe it’s because I’ve never been happy, and I live in fear of misfortune when it comes.
Unlike Rudy, the Witch of the West had few good memories even on Earth.
When she heard that the happiest years of her long life were the years she spent with Sijo, Rudy’s heart was a little choked up.
Rudy was worried that the Witch of the West might hostile or harm Lilitha, but he also learned that there was no such concern.
Hating someone takes energy. The Witch of the West was not strong enough to do such a thing.
Perhaps tired of life, she wants to lean on and rely on someone.
The reason why I kept trying to summon the founder was because, after all, the desire to lean on rather than love was too strong.
Knowing that, Rudy couldn’t treat her as ruthlessly as before.
Feeling Levin’s gaze from behind, Rudi sighed.
Some of the soldiers seem to suspect that a witch has seduced and charmed the emperor by using a love potion or some other strange trick.
As if he was worried, there was someone among the aides who secretly looked at him.
There can be no such thing. No, maybe not, but at least Rudy doesn’t. I didn’t feel like I loved the Witch of the West.
‘but.’
I felt pitiful.
If you stay together for a long time, it becomes difficult to show only the masked side. What you see will be revealed. This is especially true for someone who is actually clumsy, like the Witch of the West.
The Witch of the West seems to be trying to look coquettish when she’s with Rudy, but the fact that it’s fake is already exposed early on.
‘ha.’
He said he treated her like a daughter and granddaughter in a previous life, and I think I know why.
She was weak rather than good.
When I’m with him, I’m like a child, how to say. It’s like a lost puppy that notices the person who finds it because it has nowhere to go.
Like an abandoned dog, she glanced at him slightly, and as if being pushed on her back by a crow, the Witch of the West came into contact with Rudy very little.
I feel like Cinderella trying to be loved by her stepmother.
Rudy looked at the Witch of the West, who held her hand and walked slowly.
“Are you feeling well? I heard you had a cold a few days ago.”
“Yes, Your Majesty. I’m fine. I just had a slight fever.”
The Witch of the West bowed her head shyly.
Rudy smiled bitterly.
Levin was staring at him quietly. His gaze seems to pierce the face.
“Levin, have you found a witch named Deborah yet?”
“Yes, Your Majesty. As soon as he found out she was gone, the clown set out in pursuit, but we haven’t heard from him yet.”
If you find a witch, you are promised to inform the spy in each area. However, it is said that no one has received any news yet.
“It is said that once a witch hides, it is very difficult to find.”
Rudy grinned at Levin’s words.
“Well, I heard that it is. But there are witches here too. How about you, can you find them?”
When Rudy asked, the Witch of the West made a calm expression.
“Of course, Your Majesty. We’ve been tracking it for several days already. We’ve found traces.”
As if conscious of Levin, the Witch of the West raised her lips and smiled seductively.
“We can determine the whereabouts in the next three or four hours, no, in about an hour.”
“You say so.”
Rudi said and walked into the palace.
The Witch of the West’s fingers on his hand tightened slightly. It seems like he’s happy to be able to help Rudy.
However, that bewitching appearance may be okay to those who do not know it, but it really does not suit those who know the essence. I wish I could quit.
***
Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off.
The toad cries with a short crackling sound.
Blinking his eyes, he slowly turned his body and looked in one direction.
And again, I cried and cried.
There is magic possession in a place far away from here, a place where you will probably have to walk for several days.
Toad said so.
It was only now that he had received the signal of the toad that was barely far away.
thank god.
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Deborah took a long breath.
Many witches hide in the mountains or remote villages, but Deborah is not that type.
Unlike witches, who use medicinal herbs or animal parts as medicine, those who minister to animals require tremendous magical power.
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Deborah doesn’t have that magical power.
Instead, she came into contact with the possessed magical powers and pulled them out and used them as a source of power.
That’s why it’s important to know the whereabouts of magical powers. If you run out of mana, you have to start looking for the next mana possessed.
That’s mainly what Deborah’s toad does. Finding magical possession and reporting it to the owner.
Toads spread throughout each region mark humans with magical powers. And when Deborah gets close, he’ll let you know.
However, if the distance is too great, she and the toad cannot communicate. Because of that, Deborah didn’t know which area possessed magical powers. I had to go near it to find out.
The good news is that toads can convey each other’s intentions even at a rather long distance. It was this method that Deborah mainly used.
For a while, it didn’t go well at all. It was because the toad that sent the signal was too far away from the royal road.
‘But it’s over now. I found magical possession.’
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Deborah looked in the direction the toad was talking.
To get there, you have to climb the mountain.
‘There might be a pursuer.’
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Deborah sighed.
The toad crawled and looked up at her face. The toad’s behavior seems more dreamy than a few days ago.
‘also….’
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Deborah’s face blurred.
When I was with the king, my body was light.
King Kania didn’t possess tremendous magic power, but nowadays, few people possess that level of power. I wanted to be with him for as long as possible.
But no matter how much you save, the end will come. As the king grew older, his magic power gradually decreased.
The person who seduced him to make up for it was the Countess of the Court of Bivou.
Bibo was a person who earned the title of countess of the court simply because she possessed magical powers.
As such, he possessed magical powers to some extent, but still did not reach that of the royal family. I’m already running out of strength.
‘At this rate, it will be difficult to minister toads. What should I do?’
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Deborah moved her sore leg a little.
Magic power is also magic power, but it took too long. After entering the mountain, my body was a little tired from walking without rest. Maybe it’s time to take a break now.
‘For now, let’s go to the Spirit Mountain.’
It’s a little different from the mana possessed by humans, but sometimes there are more power than possessed by mana dormant in the mountain where spirits are said to have stayed.
If you stay in the Spirit Mountain for a while, replenish your strength, and reduce the number of toads, it might be okay until you find the next magic possession.
‘Besides, even if I go now, the possession of magic might still be there.’
There is a high possibility that magic possession will shift due to the invasion of the empire.
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Deborah sighed and turned. The Spirit Mountain is not far from here.
After making that decision, I walked a little, but suddenly the toad jumped up and down. I turn around and stare into the air.
“!”
something comes
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Deborah lowered herself in embarrassment.
Her ability is mainly to trap or take away the mana in the human body.
Other than that, it was all about using toads.
It does not have the ability to instantly react to someone’s physical attack.
There were four of her toads around.
As Deborah hid herself behind a tree, a toad came close to defend her.
The toads stared into the air between the tall trees nervously.
After waiting for a while, a loud sound was heard in the distance.
cack, cack.
It’s a crow.
‘The Witch of the West, it belongs to her.’
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Deborah’s eyes lit up with anger.
