Rebirth Just Before The 10th Circle

"Yeah. I'm really billion. fence. ha. Doesn't that mean you couldn't sleep properly because of the pain?"

“As you said, it must be a shameful thing.”

Seeing the emperor flirting with Merlin's chatter, the attendants who followed him looked puzzled.

Who is their emperor?

He was cool and deliberate in everything he did.

I couldn't believe the fact that he was just listening to the little boy and even giving him a smirk.

Those in the hall held their breath and watched the Emperor and Merlin.

“So what happened?”

“What should I do? I don’t have the strength, so I have to deal with it.”

Merlin confided in every word of his story.

The emperor also listened to this without reproach.

Sasha once said something like that.

Merlin is not a duke, but a person who sheds his snout in front of the emperor.

Her prediction was not wrong in the slightest, and it was exactly right.

“Haha, you must have suffered a lot.”

“Ouch. It is an honor for Your Majesty to understand the heart of a man like me.”

Emperor Merlin's exaggerated Abu turned his head and looked at the Earl of Powells.

“Is this child true, Count?”

As the Emperor's gaze fell upon him, Earl Far Wells shrugged his shoulders.

He looked at a man named Merlin standing behind the Emperor.

The moment Merlin meets the Earl's eyes.

fresh-

Merlin smiled softly.

Earl Powells felt his blood welling up.

'This, this...!'

The present situation was not what Earl Powells had anticipated.

He didn't worry too much when the guy he had expelled, Merlin, was stuck next to the warden.

After all, he was well aware that the warden was stalking him, so how would a big guy play with his mouth in front of the emperor?

But when the warden introduced him to the emperor as the chief researcher.

Also, when he showed the Emperor a bizarre technique he had never heard of.

Anxiety creeped up from one side of the Count's chest.

And the anxiety became a reality.

‘How dare you talk about expulsion so openly!’

A man named Merlin was a man whose liver had swelled more than he had imagined.

'This... a Thunder Naked Guy!'

Count Powells gritted his teeth inwardly.

But he answered the Emperor's words with an outwardly gentle smile.

“No, Your Majesty. I think he's misunderstanding something."

“Are you wrong?”

"That's right. The reason the child was expelled from school is because the child's past behavior caused a big problem. Obviously, the fight with my grandson was the starting point, but that was also just one of the behaviors that caused the child's problem! It is a clear misconception that the child was expelled from school just for the incident with my grandson.”

“Hmm… is that so?”

As he listened to Count Powells' story, the emperor gave a sullen expression on his face.

There was a memory that suddenly crossed the emperor's mind.

‘Maybe earlier this year?’

I remember that there was a conflict between Count Powells and his lab around that time.

Because he was the one who reported it and intervened.

The Emperor, who had thought about that, turned his gaze to Merlin.

‘It was this guy.’

I knew that the conflict between the institute and the academy was caused by the expulsion of a boy.

But it must have been this boy in front of him that started the incident.

A strange light flashed in the Emperor's eyes as he looked at Merlin, who was too imposing even though he was imposing.

'He's a clever guy.'

What Merlin did now was to rekindle the embers into the flames the Emperor had captured.

And he was using himself as the emperor to throw the embers.

It really couldn't have been more absurd.

At the same time, interest arose.

‘He’s a funny guy.’

The Emperor looked away from Merlin and looked at Count Powells again.

The Emperor's face, which had a faint smile when he looked at Merlin, turned cold the moment he saw Earl Powells.

‘Because their stories are contradictory, it must mean that someone is telling a lie to me.’

The emperor's sense was saying that someone was Earl Powells.

The count's countenance turned pale in the eyes of the cold emperor.

gulp-

Seeing Count Powells swallowing dry saliva, the emperor scoffed at him.

Perhaps Count Powells is also aware of the fact that he has received reports of conflicts between the two groups.

Still, Earl Powells lied because he thought the emperor was ignorant of the details.

‘You fool.’

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he asked, looking at Merlin.

“Did you say Merlin?”

"Yes."

“What kind of human do you think I hate the most?”

“Hmm… well.”

“Give me a hint. I really hate talkative guys.”

"Hmm···."

At the Emperor's words, Merlin gave a slightly worried expression.

Suddenly, she asked me to guess the type of person she didn't like, and the hint she gave was, 'A guy who talks too much.'

This is simply to say that I don't hate people who talk too much.

Merlin, who had understood the emperor's disposition, replied with a grin.

"Okay."

“Huh? Already?”

“It happened by chance that the kind of person you hate and the kind of person I hate seem very similar.”

“Is that so? So what type of person do you hate?”

“He is a little guy who speaks out loud without saying anything about his abilities.”

“·················ogue.”

At Merlin's words, Earl Powells shrugged his shoulders.

On the other hand, the emperor smiled brightly.

“Haha, yes. I also hate that kind of guy very much. haha!"

The emperor, who was laughing out loud, suddenly looked at the count with cold eyes.

At this, the count's chatter became cold.

‘·······················ogue

The Count noticed.

The emperor's eyes are a warning.

“Earl Powells.”

“Yes, lungs, Your Majesty.”

“Please report the facts related to the expulsion of this child in detail.”

“He... Your Majesty, your Majesty, you do not need to check all of these things at all...”

“Can’t you?”

“Ah… no.”

“I’ll give you a week.”

"Okay."

At the end of the emperor's eyes, the count with a white flag bowed his head.

Meanwhile, the warden, who was watching the situation, struggled to contain the burst of laughter.

‘Merlin is this guy!’

The warden, aware of her Merlin's ingenuity, was well aware that he was not openly talking about his expulsion.

Watching Earl Powells be deposed for that reason made me feel like I was in the middle of a blockage.

The Emperor was staring at Merlin while the Warden kept his mouth shut.

Those eyes looked as if they were asking if it was what you wanted.

Merlin shook her head softly.

“Huh…”

The emperor, unable to contain his curiosity and curiosity, asked a question about the young boy who seemed to be looking inside.

“How long have you been in the lab?”

“Um… it seems like it’s been about a year now.”

“How did a cadet from the Knights Academy come into the lab?”

“At first, I was on a tour of the Sirius, but I liked the institute, so I volunteered to practice. After that, I was able to settle down in the eyes of the director and the deputy director.”

“It’s a tour of the Sirius…”

When Sirius was mentioned, a strange light appeared in the Emperor's eyes.

Merlin knew her eyes well.

‘Ah… it must be annoying.’

Doesn't that look like the eyes of debtors when they come to collect debt?

‘You’ve been tuned to my rhythm so far, so now you’re in your own rhythm, right?’

Merlin's thoughts didn't go astray.

The Emperor asked Merlin a question with a strange smile.

“Okay, so what kind of thing do you think the Sirius you saw here was?”

“·················ogue.”

The emperor's question was really out of place.

But there was no one there who did not know that it was a test.

It was the same kind of test that was given to the Crown Prince.

At this, the prince's complexion hardened.

"Hmm···."

Merlin thought a little.

Ordinarily, a normal nobleman would say something that does not deviate from the answer given by the Crown Prince as much as possible in order to be seen well by the Crown Prince who will become the next great emperor of the Empire.

But Merlin was different.

He was not a nobleman with a backbone, and the emperor, who held the real power of the empire, was more attractive than the still young prince.

‘Yeah, if you’re going to grab a string, it would be better to have a used but thick and proven performance rather than a thin new product whose performance is unknown.’

Merlin, who had organized his thoughts, answered bluntly.

“Sirius is a huge chunk of gold.”

As soon as Merlin finished speaking, the crowd expressed their doubts.

Merlin's answer was quite different from the answer of the Crown Prince who said, "Is it the shield of the empire or the sword?"

The emperor showed an interesting expression on his face.

“Does that mean it was made with the imperial people’s taxes?”

"Well, that's not too bad, but that's not what I meant by a gold nugget.

"···if so?"

Merlin opened her mouth as she received the emperor's gaze.

And the Emperor wasn't the only one focusing on Merlin there.

Everyone, including the Crown Prince, listened to what the young researcher who had the Emperor's attention had to say.

Merlin opened his mouth, receiving everyone's attention.

“I said that because I thought Sirius could earn quite a bit of gold if I played well.”

It was a very Merlin-like answer.

But not many of those present agreed with Merlin's ideas.

“Me, me!”

"this guy! You see Sirius created with the blood of the Empire just as a means of earning money!”

"sire! Such frivolous hair is not even worth listening to!”

The Emperor's attendants vehemently opposed Merlin's story.

This is because they could not listen to Merlin's story of Sirius, who said that the symbol of the empire and the imperial family was simply a means of making money.

But the emperor had a different idea.

"quiet."

As soon as the emperor's command was given, Lorden grabbed the hilt of the sword.

Then a heavy energy poured out towards the attendants.

The attendants shut their mouths, tired of the aura that put pressure on them.

Leaving them behind, the Emperor turned to Merlin.

“Go on.”

There was a strange anticipation in the eyes of the emperor.

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Receiving the emperor's eager gaze, Merlin continued.

“Perhaps everyone knows. The symbol of the Sirius is that it is a strong national power. This force exerts a strong deterrent, and this deterrent is bound to be money.”

“Hmmm…”

“Isn’t that what original power is? Most of them are used to get what they want or to keep what they want.”

“·················ogue.”

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