chapter 229
229.Troublesome Guy, Dangerous Guy, Shitty Guy (1)
The loser of the continent must have a certain level of dignity.
Knowing that fact, the current loser of the continent gradually grew his originally shabby capital city, creating a huge city that is now almost as big as two or three cities combined.
Harshwald, the capital of the empire located at the heart of the continent, was a city created that way.
“It’s so wide.”
“Like you said, it’s terribly wide.”
“You have to take a carriage to go to the candy store! “It would be nice to have it in front of my house!”
“Hey, Amy. “There are guests, so you have to be polite.”
“But I’m bored!”
You look like young Millia. She said that if Millia had been a child she would have been like that all the time. Still, she’s a kid, so she might be cute. She is still loved by Karina.
Thinking of Milia, who must be struggling with books in the library right now, preparing for second grade, I looked out her window.
…It’s so gorgeous.
Calon City was also a pretty fancy city, but Harshwald went one step further, filling the city with so much splendor that it made the outside of the windows sparkle.
Is this the emperor’s taste, or is the city itself naturally like this?
Anyway, the price of one house was a land that looked scary. I wonder if I can buy a house in Calon City by selling a small piece of land less than 10 pyeong here.
“It’s really gorgeous.”
“Isn’t it thanks to His Majesty’s reign?”
“I see.”
If you think about it, this person, Hwangsilppong, was a person who was filled to the bone. I’m a reasonable person for such things, but I still chose my words appropriately so as not to say anything that would get on people’s nerves.
“Now that I think about it. Do you know about imperial etiquette?”
“I learned something from Karina, but I don’t know the details.”
When I brought up Karina’s story, I remembered Karina holding my hand and looking up with worried eyes.
Children also look at me with worried eyes.
Everyone seemed uneasy about my visit to the imperial family, but all I could tell them was to take it easy. That’s how I came up to the capital with the former commander of the Knights of Kalinz.
Maybe it was because we were working together in the West, but he volunteered to show us around the capital himself.
It was an unprecedented thing for Mr. Kalintz to step forward and guide me, but I have never been luckier than this.
Even if an annoying guy sticks to me, if the former knight commander sitting across from me says “Go!” He will run away like a dog with its tail down.
What kind of crazy person would be mad at the former duke and even the former knight commander? Unless you’re a complete idiot, you wouldn’t even dream of doing something like that.
Of course, you may not recognize the Duke of Carlinz… But if you don’t recognize the Duke of Carlinz’s cute clothes and the carriage with the Ryan Duke family symbol on it, you should leave.
“I will briefly teach you the royal etiquette. “Once we arrived at the Duke’s house.”
“Thank you.”
“And I guess I’ll have to get some new clothes too. It’s not that knightly conquest doesn’t suit me, but… It just doesn’t fit with the latest capital fashion.”
Do knights even care about that? When I looked at him with doubt, Master Kalinz smiled and opened his mouth.
“Even a knight cannot completely ignore such a trend. Since you are a person before you are a knight, you should know what is trendy when it comes to presenting yourself. “There’s no need to worry about an old man like me, but you’re not, right?”
Are you trying to help me not look ridiculous? I said with a smile on Carlinz’s message.
“Thank you.”
“Grandfather! I’m scared!”
“…Hmm, you’d better stop smiling like that.”
What’s wrong with my smile?
But I couldn’t help but nod my head at Carlinz’s serious gaze
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“It’s been a while. “Is it only two months?”
“It’s true that the year has changed and the first semester of the second year is just around the corner.”
“Time flies… It seems like only yesterday the capital was abuzz with talk of war.”
Duke Ryan closed the cap of the fountain pen he had been teasing with and inserted it into his chest. I couldn’t tell if he was done with his work or if he put his fountain pen away to talk to me.
“Thanks to you, the West is quickly stabilizing. It will take a few years to restore the first line of defense… But the area around the second line of defense is now normalizing to some extent.”
“Thank goodness.”
“It’s thanks to you. Honestly, I still can’t believe I beat that devil in a battle of brains…”
“Is that so?”
“To be honest, you seem far from being smart.”
…I was born ignorant.
He has a strikingly large body and a rather scary face.
Still, for something so scary, doesn’t he have a pretty good-looking face? It’s a bit unfair.
“But how can you tell a person by their face? “If you look at the face alone, the 3rd prince is… Hmm.”
Are you talking about the 3rd prince who has a face like an angel? I frowned, remembering the 3rd prince in the original. It wasn’t my intention, but even if I only remembered fragments, it wasn’t difficult to remember that he was a completely unresponsive idiot.
“It seems you also know the 3rd prince.”
“How can you not know when you live in an empire?”
In fact, I only know because I saw the evil he committed in the original work, but I couldn’t tell the truth, so I just equivocated. Fortunately, because he was such a famous 3rd prince, he did not doubt my words.
I just took a deep sigh.
“How could such a b*stard be born into the imperial family…”
“Is it that much?”
“Don’t even talk. This time, they cut off the right arm of a pleading young knight. “I’m just going to set it up like a scarecrow in the name of training.”
…As expected, the 3rd prince is a fool. From the beginning, the buds were yellow and rotten. This makes it difficult to even get a single leaf out. Especially since the 3rd prince is the queen’s son.
“…If you encounter one, be careful. That’s because he’s a guy who really enjoys teasing people with pointless excuses.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
“Ah, First Prince, be careful too. “He is such a narcissist that if you don’t please him, he will become violent.”
To please the pig that cheekily grabbed Karina’s hand
…If it weren’t for the prince, I would have taken him somewhere dark and buried him alive.
“What about the 2nd Prince?”
“Hmm… We probably won’t run into each other anytime soon. “I want to stop you from getting too close.”
Still, among the three princes, the second prince is the best, but the problem is his origins… Among the current princes, he is the only one who came from a concubine. Oh, isn’t she called a concubine here?
In any case, since he was not the queen’s son, but a concubine, he lacked legitimacy compared to other princes. Still, among the princes, he has the best personality and is the most popular among the people…
He wasn’t a normal guy either.
Based on the setting, he was discriminated against and checked so much that he was a guy who hid his true feelings and pretended to be nice?
In the original work, if you push the second prince, he was a conniving guy who would try to punish the main character after he became emperor. In fact, he was the one you had to be most careful of among the princes.
He was a person worthy of being called a hypocrite, so no matter who he becomes the next emperor, he has no dreams or hopes.
In the original work, the ending was that no matter who became emperor, the empire could not regain its former power.
“Thank you for the advice.”
“Well… I’m just worried. “You’re not going to run into them anyway, right?”
“I hope so.”
“What?”
“I’m just unlucky.”
“…I wish you good luck.”
[What are you talking about that only you know about? Let me know too!]
Don’t look at me with pity. It looks like you’re really going to be harassed by the princes.
I sighed and picked up a cookie on the table and ate it.
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“You know, let’s do it~”
“Are you saying you sprained your back while showing off your sword skills?”
“Yes!”
Why is he clinging to me?
I looked back and forth between the fidgeting maids and at Amy, who was sitting on my lap and repeating the same story over and over again.
It’s hard to say anything because I’m a guest, and I can’t do anything because I feel like I’ll cry if I make a mistake.
“Amy I’m sick of it! Uncle, tell me a funny story!”
“You mean a fun story?”
“Huh! “I want to hear the saint’s story!”
“It’s a story about Karina…”
I thought of Karina, who would be preparing for her second year at Yeomyeong Hall right now.
It’s been a month since I went to the dungeon.
Since I was busy preparing for second grade, I guess I was studying with other students in the library. Thinking back to the library where I had unintentionally become an honor student club, I made eye contact with Amy who was looking up at me.
“Seaweed!”
“Amy…”
“Hmm, Karina-sama…”
What you can and cannot say.
I began to tell a bundle of stories by appropriately combining Karina’s past from her original work and the things I had experienced.