I Became the Master of the Empress

85 – Episode 85

I look at Debian, who is sleeping as if he is dead.

-Sreuk…

It’s hot so I wipe the sweat from my forehead with my sleeve.

“Debian…”

He pushes back his wet hair.

It has already been a week since the incident occurred.

I can’t help but be worried as I see him not waking up like a dead rat during that time.

“Get up now…”

“Sister…”

When I turn my head to the sound of Joy calling me, she opens the door and sticks her head out with a worried look on her face.

“I kept calling… But there was no answer.”

“Ah!, Sorry… Come in.”

He nods, enters the room, sits down on the bed, and says.

“Is your brother-in-law still unconscious?”

I weakly nod my head at those words.

“What does the doctor say?”

“The magic stone is absorbed into the body, so it will be difficult to regain consciousness for a few days.”

The doctor said it definitely wouldn’t be a big problem, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried.

Looking at his seemingly peaceful face, I worry that he might never wake up again.

Wake up quickly…

Tears flow again at the thought of him lying like this because of me.

Joey, who is hugging me from behind, speaks in a trembling voice.

“Sister… Don’t cry.”

I quickly wipe my tears and say.

“Hmm… I’m not crying…”

“Hey… But who planned this?”

There are forces that doubt that statement.

When I spoke to Agrippa and asked him a question. Agrippa avoided giving a definite answer, but he felt a little uneasy.

It seems that Agrippa also thinks that Ioannes is the mastermind.

But… Is it okay to tell this child?

I doubt it, but he was the one who was kidnapped…

“I think Ioanes planned it.”

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“I… Really?”

I hear Joy’s anxious voice and feel a small tremor in the arm that is wrapped around my waist.

“Yes. Don’t worry. “When Devian wakes up soon… I will take revenge.”

How dare you target me and my husband and kidnap my sister?

When Devian rises, the forces of the Empire and the Grand Duchy will destroy Ioanes and those who follow him.

“But sister… Didn’t you hate your brother-in-law a lot in the past?”

-Excited…

“Well… that’s right…”

“hehehe… I heard you don’t want to get married like that. See, I’m right, right? “If my sister found out what a good person her brother-in-law is, she would fall in love with him..”

I stiffen at Joy’s unfamiliar words, but Joy pays no attention and rubs her forehead against my back.

“I will be happy when my brother-in-law wakes up. Yes?”

She feels embarrassed by her sister’s words.

***

As Theodora falls asleep, the scene changes quickly.

“Come on! “Hang that traitor!”

At Theodora’s words, he falls helplessly onto the guillotine in front of the city hall…

-Oh my!

The rope tightens Devian’s neck.

“Kwaek!”

His feet were hovering in the air, he was struggling and shaking his body wildly, wanting to survive somehow.

Soon, another me becomes limp.

It was as if he had finally found rest.

It’s terrible.

“Hmph! “Hang him on the gallows like that.”

There is no citizen of the empire who shows respect to Theodora as she stands up like that.

The people of the empire are passionate about the emperor and the royal family, who are popular people in the empire.

Such a scene does not exist in front of me now.

Rather, there is a deep sense of fear and horror in the eyes of the people of the empire.

It would be difficult to look favorably on her, who led her warriors and the remnants of the hateful Grand Duchy and occupied Roman by force in a chaotic situation where the Demon King had not yet died.

Time flies by like that.

“Your Majesty… We do not have the funds to provide food to the soldiers right now.”

At those words, Theodora frowns and says.

“Then shouldn’t we just collect it from the nobles?”

Hearing those words, a man who appears to be a secretary speaks while sweating.

“Even now, the taxes collected from nobles are too high…”

-Boom!

“So you’re saying we should surrender to that devil lord?!”

I listen to what they say and look through the documents scattered on the desk.

Wow… I can feel how bleak the situation is as I see that the annual tax revenue has been cut to 1/20th of the current amount.

Even if we are at war, we can’t handle this, right?

The current situation is very bad.

At this rate… There will be quite a few people who starve to death.

Right now is not the time to discuss war.

I was shocked to learn that there was barely more than 1 ton of gold left.

Well… There’s no need to write about this in the original, but…

“Well… That’s not true… But there will be a lot of backlash. Additionally, people are starving to death one after another in each territory. “You’re even raising taxes.”

“Hmph. Those opportunists should have protested. And now the survival of humanity depends on it. “No matter how many people starve to death, we have to do what we have to do.”

Sharp red eyes.

What she said is not wrong.

The current situation is a war between humans and demons fighting for survival.

But it is foolish to just raise taxes.

This is something that neither the nobles nor the citizens of the empire want.

“And what happened to those who were arrested for treason last time?”

“Well… I already received a message from the Ministry of Justice saying that I should be released due to lack of evidence…”

At those words, Theodora shakes her head harshly and glares at her secretary.

“Tell them to prove the charges right now, even if it means using torture! Right now!”

At those words, the secretary trembles and nods her head.

“Ah… I understand.”

“And confiscate all their territories.”

Aha? Apparently, the imperial family itself does not have money. Are they just randomly turning people into criminals and extorting them?

“Yes.”

And then, ignoring the two discussing the current issue, he leaves the room and heads outside the imperial palace.

This is…

I am entranced by the sight of Roman in such a miserable state.

Ruins with burn marks everywhere.

There is no trace of the high-rise buildings that Roman boasted about.

It was as if I had been hit by a fireball.

The building looks familiar, with the steel bars clearly visible inside.

That’s… The restaurant we went to last time, right?

That’s not all.

A road paved with pretty colored stones.

The roads on which people used to play happily have been dug up or blackened here and there, and the roadsides are full of vagrants.

This… This?

I was shocked by how different the scenery was from when I was hiking undercover not long ago.

Wait a minute.

I look back on the original work that I remember from a long time ago.

You obviously burned the city… In Roman against Valorant and his army, right?

I remembered in my head that the fire of God, the secret weapon stored underground, had burned down the warehouse where it was stored.

Still… It’s almost the latter part.

At that moment, the scenery changes again.

Dozens of people stand on the gallows in the Roman city square again.

“Execute everyone!”

The people who executed Theodora’s words…

[Woo~! Emperor, stop executing!]

[The tyrant must go!]

Imperial people criticizing Theodora.

Watching her ignore that and stare at the people being executed reminds me of her feet.

A cruel and cruel tyrant…

One thing that puzzles me is…

Lee Seo-jun is standing next to him.

Wait a minute? If it were Lee Seo-jun, he would have headed to the Demon King’s Castle, right?

The original story ends with Lee Seo-jun catching the devil in the devil’s castle.

So, is it already after the demon lord was captured?

I feel uneasy as I look at the back of Theodora’s head and see Lee Seo-jun frowning and glaring at her.

Why? Are you glaring at Theodora?

Wasn’t that kind to your lover?

What on earth do you want to show me?

When I think of that, the scenery around me changes.

Burning building.

I think while looking at a familiar interior.

Is this the imperial palace?

“Ugh!”

[It is treason! The hero committed treason!]

[aaagh!]

[Please save me.]

Soldiers wearing colorful armor and decorated with different patterns attack the Golden Knights.

I run to the emperor’s office just in case.

“Everything… You…”

Theodora glares at Lee Seo-jun with a knife stabbed in his chest.

“I’m sorry. Only this way will peace come.”

Isn’t it even worse after the original?

When I think that, the surroundings suddenly become dark.

And it becomes bright again.

What is it?

Day and night change so quickly.

Am I crazy?

The city that was in ruins outside the window is quickly being restored.

Day and night keep changing with the buildings getting taller.

It’s as if time passes incredibly quickly.

“hehehe… The Demon King is resurrected?”

I quickly turn my head back at the old man’s voice.

An old man and a man who appears to be his knight are talking face to face.

“That’s right. “Your Majesty… I received an oracle from the Holy See and it is said that a warrior will be summoned soon.”

The emperor nods his head at those words.

“Whoa… I’m an old man who will do tomorrow today today. I can’t believe you put me through this kind of ordeal in your later years. You are cruel. El…”

“That’s right. I’m sorry. And your majesty… The devil sent a gift to you and the Holy Father.”

“A gift? “What is that?”

– Wormwood! Clink!

“Kak!”

The knight who suddenly harms the emperor smiles darkly and says.

“The Devil ordered me to give death to you and the Pope.”

hahahaha… That’s really crazy.

I feel a deep sorrow as I watch the death of a later emperor.

Well… No matter how hard I try, the Demon King will eventually be resurrected.

Whether you stay up all night or have a nosebleed.

As if I was going through a hard time until I died, nothing would change in the end.

Someday the devil will be resurrected again.

No matter how hard I try, the essence does not change in the end.

At that time, the emperor’s office changed.

Pure white space.

A pure white space with nothing in it.

A pure white horizon is visible.

“No, that idea is wrong. “If nothing really changes, it’s because I didn’t call you here.”

I heard a young boy’s voice and quickly turned my head.

Pure white light stands in the shape of a human being.

“Who are you…?”

“I am I, the primordial being and the first born of all gods.”

There is only one such being…

I was born here.

It is impossible not to know which religion is the most popular among the religions here.

No, a being whose name is often mentioned in the original work.

No way… I never expected to meet such a being.

A being in which sacred light gathers and takes on the shape of a human.

I look at him and open my mouth with a trembling voice.

“L…”

The being nodding its head at my words speaks.

“That’s right. “I’m El.”