Became the Emperor in the Hero Game

57 – Part 2 Episode 13

Rael Arhan.

The only member of the royal family besides me, the younger brother of ‘Laios Arhan’.

To be honest, I don’t have many memories with Rael.

Even before I became possessed by this world, I wasn’t that rich.

It was unlikely that a proper competition could be established between Laios, whose mother was the empress of the Grepha family, and Rael, whose mother was the concubine of the count, but in the end, it was the emperor who decided on the successor.

There were people who flocked to her princess for the slightest possibility, and Laios was wary of such a princess.

It’s not much different after I was possessed.

The beginning of possession, when you haven’t adjusted to this world yet.

Rumors spread that the young emperor had gone mad and that he had already been brainwashed by the demon king’s army.

The opportunity to raise Rael to the throne has come. This is because their momentum has risen.

Duke Triel, who was in fact the second-in-command of the empire, Count Botia, who was Rael’s maternal grandfather, and the nobles who followed them, the nobles who had been pushed out of the mainstream, and even the Holy Kingdom.

‘It was really dangerous back then.’

At that time, the empire was so chaotic that it was difficult to describe it.

It’s not normal for dukes and emperors to send assassins to each other.

At the time, the duke tried to bury me somehow by killing me and putting the princess on the throne,

I wasn’t much different either.

To be honest, I still get dizzy when I think of that time.

I wasn’t even a magician, let alone a transcendentalist, and even my subordinates couldn’t completely trust him.

The situation was so dire that I couldn’t imagine how far the situation would have gotten if Rose Triel, Duke of Triel at the time, hadn’t helped her, who was Lady Triel at the time.

However, even after killing the duke, the situation was chaotic.

Count Botia gathered the nobles and reprimanded me every day, saying that the duke’s death had to be officially investigated.

Some of the neutral nobles joined me after the duke’s death, but some had doubts about me, saying it was right to kill the duke that way.

Outside the empire, the Demon King’s army is advancing day by day, but inside, all sorts of measures are being used to bring me down.

So I killed them all.

No matter how inappropriate rumors circulated, it was only possible because there were people who were blindly loyal to me simply because I was the one who ascended the throne at the time.

For those who directly crossed the line or left evidence, the Imperial Knights, and for those who did not, the Imperial Knights. As an escort, the Duke of Pale or the swordsman of the Pale family.

I killed Count Botia or anyone who supported Rael even a little bit.

At that time, there was a faction that followed Rael even within the Imperial Knights, but the vice-captain who was supposed to lead them died immediately, so Rael’s faction was annihilated by Prio.

“Rael wants to see me.”

There were multiple reasons why I didn’t kill Rael myself at that time.

The first is the reluctance to kill one’s own flesh and blood.

I don’t know if it’s my rejection or Laios’s. It could be both

The second is notoriety.

Because annihilating nobles who rebel against the emperor and killing the imperial family weigh differently.

I wouldn’t know if the ancestor was alive and competing for succession, but in any case, it was a difficult decision to kill another member of the imperial family when he had already ascended the throne.

Actually, it’s a duke. Even the nobles were thinking, ‘Assassination is a little too much, but in fact, didn’t the duke cross the line?’ The words must have come to an end.

To be more honest, my men didn’t want Rael’s death either.

Duke Pale, Peltz, Giel, too.

Since they’ve been watching Rael for a long time, if I killed Rael, even if I didn’t rebel, I would have been able to harbor dissatisfaction.

The third is Rael’s attitude.

I don’t know if Rael actively pursued her throne, but in fact, she was in her position being swayed by her grandfather and the duke, so she had no ill feelings towards her.

I was worried about whether to kill or not, not for emotional reasons, but because I was just wondering which would be more helpful to the imperial authority, killing or saving.

In the end, I decided to keep her Rael alive, and I did not directly harm her.

The title of Count Botia was taken back, but he gave the estate and mansion to Rael to live there, and also provided a servant and an escort, so I was rather patronizing.

Apart from that, she did not look favorably on me for killing my mother-in-law and the nobles who supported her.

Even the last time I saw it.

Aren’t you afraid of me to the point that your face turns pale even though you didn’t say anything?

But why did she find me?

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“Meet Your Majesty.”

“Yes, it’s been a while. Rael. I repeat, you can call me comfortably.”

“… Yes. Brother.”

Rael looked completely different from the last time I saw him.

I’m still a bit nervous, but the way he answered while looking me in the eye was quite impressive.

“You’ve changed a bit.”

“… Yes. Because it has to be.”

It should be, la.

“Because of the dead?”

“… Yes.”

Actually, I was sent to the academy to refresh the atmosphere, but I guess I felt a sense of responsibility.

“For me, many people died because of me. Thanks to many people, I also lived.”

I didn’t bother to correct it because it wasn’t because of you.

Rael is not a short-sighted person, so she must have thought a lot herself, and that’s the conclusion she came to after that.

“Even for them, we can’t sit still. Brother. My brother made me… “

After saying that, Rael paused for a moment as if he was nervous.

The tremors got worse than the first time, and before long, the tremors completely stopped and he said to me.

“If you don’t intend to kill me, please use me.”

“Ask me to use you?”

“Yes.”

“Rael, you wouldn’t know where you are.”

I don’t even have a partner, let alone an heir, and the only member of the royal family other than me is Rael.

Even though it lost all power and was completely pushed out, the fact that it is the only body that can challenge the throne remains unchanged.

Of course, in the situation where the emperor who won the two great wars is alive and well, there won’t be many people who will cling to the princess who lost her foundation, but there are always crazy people.

“Because my brother doesn’t need to check me.”

“Hmm?”

Do you know what it means to entrust you with a heavy responsibility? Or, maybe that’s what you’re after.

The answer Rael gave me was beyond my expectations.

“No matter what important role I take on, no matter how much power I gather. Because it poses no threat to my brother. Even if I have a different mind, you can kill me anytime, right?”

“… That’s right.”

“So, please use me.”

… Has your work at the academy been a turning point for you?

To Rael, who gave a much better answer than I thought, I answered with a raised corner of my mouth.

“Well, that’s good. If you want.”

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Rael asked me to use him.

Actually, there shouldn’t be a lack of ability.

The royal family receives a high level of education from a young age, and Rael himself is not a person lacking.

In the first place, it’s not easy for Arhan’s blood relatives to be lacking.

If you appoint Rael, he must be entrusted with a serious responsibility.

No matter what you do, you’re from the royal family, and you can’t put someone else under someone other than me.

Then can I entrust the responsibility to Rael?

In fact, there is nothing wrong with it.

Because before the war with the demon king was over, the situation between me and me now is completely different.

There is no longer an emperor who could not completely trust even his subordinates.

No matter what position Rael was given, no matter what force he built in that position.

There is no need to worry now.

The imperial family and the imperial family.

The two knights who support the imperial family are completely loyal to me now.

What is the Magic Corps?

Because there is no reason why the leader, Craul, would follow Rael instead of me, who is also a wizard.

The same goes for the feudal lords who can annoy me.

Currently, the most influential noble family in the empire is Grepa, but Grepa was originally my mother’s family.

The owner of that place, Fried, is my cousin.

In the very distant future, if Fried resigns from the position of head of the family, then he might have to keep Grepa in check, but not now.

Fail is next.

In fact, he lost a lot of elites, so if you look at the family itself, he may not be as good as Grepa, but Duke Pale is still the best sword of the empire.

Leaving aside the power of the family, if a war broke out between Grepa and Pale, it would be difficult to predict the outcome even if the Duke of Pale competed against Grepa alone.

If Fried doesn’t use the swords he received from me, Duke Pale alone will wipe out the Greppa family.

Of course that Duke of Pale follows me.

Of course, Duke Pale cares for Rael quite a bit, but loving him and being loyal are two different things.

The heir is a colleague of Shien, and seems to like Shien quite a bit.

I don’t know if it’s a small protest, but since Shien won’t betray me at all, she doesn’t have to worry about the next generation either.

Now that Shien has no territory, only a title, so to be honest, I hope that Shien and the Pale family continue.

Then, let alone the elves, the Holy Kingdom wouldn’t be able to keep an eye on Shien.

And the remaining princes are the Duke of Rose Triel and the Marquis of Pell.

Actually, Pel is still lacking in many ways compared to the other feudal lords.

What is the Triel family? Since he defeated the entire faction that followed the family head of the previous generation, he is now the weakest among the feudal lords.

Also, since Duke Roget is a clever person, there’s no way he’ll leave me alone and stick with Rael.

Isn’t there any problem then?