Rebirth Just Before The 10th Circle

“Please take a look.”

"Convenience?"

“I want to do some continental business, but to do that, I think I will have to go through an empire.”

"so?"

“I’m asking you to give me some tax exemption and help in various ways.”

“·················ogue.”

The Emperor stared at Merlin.

As a person who runs a country, he could fully predict how much profit the Dwarven-related business would generate.

The tax alone would be an astronomical amount.

the emperor asked in a low voice.

“What benefits can I get from it?”

"profit? Alas! There is.”

Merlin grinned at the Emperor's question.

“I will give you life.”

"What···?"

There was no reason for Merlin to act quietly in the yard that had already been discovered, perhaps when it was hard to hide.

“This is also a transaction, so of course there must be something coming and going. I'm exempt from taxes, and that's two lives."

“·················ogue.”

“The neck of the emperor of the empire and the next great emperor. And a very small tax. Which of the two is more valuable? Do you think I am a losing business?”

The Emperor was at a loss for words as he watched Merlin spit out threats casually.

And Merlin's threats were not over.

“If you graciously give up your tax exemption, there will be no bloodshed.

“·················ogue.”

The Crown Prince was astonished at Merlin's words and opened his mouth wide.

He was at a loss for words, even the emperor.

There is silence for a moment.

“👀…”

A small laugh escaped the emperor's mouth.

“Ah ha ha ha!”

The small laughter soon turned into big and small.

“Kkahaha”

A really crazy smiling emperor.

He was genuinely happy.

He smiled happily for a long time and said, wiping away the tears that were welling up.

“It’s fun. it's really fun This is the first time in my life that I have received such a threat.”

“Hmm… is it? Life has been very boring.”

“I don’t know if there is someone who makes such a pointless threat in front of me…”

“It’s nonsense… do you want to bet? Aren’t my words really just a threat?”

At the same time, a heavy momentum spread from Merlin.

Merlin was planning to blow up half of the imperial palace if she did.

But Merlin's momentum soon faded.

"good."

"Five?"

“Accept that deal.”

The Emperor readily accepted Merlin's intimidating deal.

“It’s a good choice.”

Merlin grinned and nodded her head.

It seemed that things worked out quite well, so I was satisfied.

That was then.

“But there are conditions.”

"Condition?"

Merlin's eyebrows furrowed.

He looked at the emperor with purple eyes.

Then the emperor turned his gaze again and looked at the prince.

“Take that guy.”

“Huh?”

Merlin looked at the Emperor and the Crown Prince alternately with astonished eyes.

But the prince was surprised as well.

‘Lungs, Your Majesty?!’

While the Crown Prince should be bewildered by the unexpected situation, the emperor's voice like the blue sky continued.

“Take that guy and use it with him for a year.”

"...where do you use that ignorant, high-nose guy? He's an eater who can't even do his part."

“The condition I want is for him to do his part.”

"Hmm···."

Merlin scratched his cheek at the unexpected suggestion.

I thought I was involved in some troublesome work.

he said as an excuse.

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“Then I’ll have to send more.”

“I might die, right?”

“If you die in such a place for less than a year, how can you lead this huge empire? He was not qualified in the first place.”

“...the next great emperor?”

“Don’t worry. There are many collateral blood relatives in the imperial family.”

“Hmm… that’s right.”

Merlin shrugged his shoulders as if he had no choice but to see the emperor as if he had made up his mind on something.

“Obviously you said it. He said he could die.”

"Of course. If you wish, I will leave you a handwritten letter.”

"···good."

The prince's complexion faded to pure white in the conversation between the two leaving him like that.

At that moment, Merlin tilted her head slightly.

“Come on… when I think about this, the conditions are strange.”

“What did you mean?”

“Obviously, this transaction was a business that I had a hard time with, but you put conditions on it, right?”

"···so?"

“I will add one more condition.”

“Huh…”

Merlin's eyes lit up and she licked her lips slightly.

In the meantime, admiration stood in the Emperor's eyes when he saw Merlin trying to take profits again.

He looked at the prince who looked like he was about to cry.

‘If I only roll under a guy like that for a year, I’ll be able to do a good job.’

Of course, if you can come back alive.

Unfair transaction (3)

Unfair transaction (3)

The Emperor turned his gaze back to Merlin.

he asked, smirking slightly.

"Add condition... What else do you want?"

“Isn’t there at least one intelligence agency that runs an empire?”

“…but?”

“I want to use it.”

As an emperor, it could not have been a very questionable statement.

“Where are you going to use it?”

“What I can say for sure is that it will not harm the Generium Empire.”

Merlin's reason for wanting the Empire's intelligence service was simple.

‘We need to find the base of the denomination.’

Why did Merlin do business in the northern part of the continent?

It was to rake information about the denomination from all over the continent based on his business.

But Merlin's business was just beginning.

No matter how influential he was, it took time for him to expand his power across the continent.

If you could use the imperial intelligence agency, you would be able to gather information about the denomination more quickly and easily.

In that sense, this transaction with the Emperor was a transaction that could never be fruitful for Merlin.

"Hmm···."

The king was worried.

He apparently had an intelligence agency run by the Empire.

However, it was too risky to lend it to a commoner.

Worrying for a while

"Huh?"

The emperor suddenly smiled.

"good."

“...you look cool.”

The Emperor never once refused to accept Merlin's offer today.

Again, to the point that Merlin was embarrassed.

The emperor continued his words with a smile on his lips.

“Of course, I don’t mean to just give it away.”

"then?"

“Give Lucian the right to use the intelligence service.”

“Are you going to use it this way?”

Merlin muttered as if he had barely noticed.

“Think of it as a gift.”

“What is the present…? it's a bonus No, is it a tie-in? If you want to use the intelligence service, do you need to raise that half penny properly and use it?”

“Whoops.”

“There must also be an intention to monitor where I am using my intelligence services.”

“If you know, there’s no need to explain more.”

Merlin stuck out his tongue as he looked at the serpent-like emperor.

The emperor's negotiating ability, which was strengthened by the imperial battle, led Merlin's conditions to his advantage in that short time.

He couldn't help but admire.

Of course, the Emperor was also surprised to see Merlin.

'You've got my intentions right.'

A wisdom that accurately grasps the meaning of the word passing the authority of the intelligence agency to the Crown Prince.

It was hard to believe that it was from such a young boy.

The two had a snowball fight for a while.

It was Merlin who raised the white flag first.

"good. Accept it.”

Of course, Merlin did not fully accept defeat.

He took a piece of paper from his arms and flapped it.

With a sinister smile on his lips.

“Then, shall we write a contract?”

“···········?”

If Avalon and all of them had seen it, he would have been terrified.

***

“When are you coming...?”

“Hey, isn’t that what you’re talking about?”

Winston and Zeppelin stared at the door anxiously.

It was because it seemed that the door would be broken at any moment and the imperial knights would come.

I couldn't do this or that and I was rolling my feet to and fro, then two seals fell from the air.

“Come out!”

Merlin, who appeared waving warmly, and the Prince who lost his soul as if his soul had escaped.

At that moment, the people gathered in the office created a harmony with their appearance.

The relief was so great that the Marquis Allen's legs were weak and he was about to stumble.

People flocked to Merlin's side.

“Did you go well?”

"then!"

Merlin answered Vivian's question boldly.

At the same time, the eyes of the left turned to the Crown Prince.

“Ugh…”

It was unusual to see the Crown Prince drooling like an idiot with his pupils relaxed.

All of Avalon looked at Merlin with trembling eyes.

“Did you hit me? No, I hit him earlier, already. Then... did you hit me again?”

“Is the condition serious for something like that? Maybe torture?”

“Ummm… that’s a reaction that only happens when the brain is overworked with mental magic.”

It was the voice of Winston, Sasha, and Vivian sequentially.

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