The Place Where I Was Sold as a Slave Was the Imperial Palace

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The child was not even ten years old. Eight at most? The body is small and slender.

Even though it was spring, it was still cool when the sun went down. It wasn’t hot enough to take off.

However, the child was wearing only one thin pair of pants. They are wearing straw sandals with holes in their feet.

Shoes made with woven straw soles are mainly worn by poor farmers and people living in remote areas.

These shoes were hard to find in the capital city of Putegrin, and especially in this imperial capital.

The thin skin of the child’s naked upper body stuck to the body as it was, and you could see with your own eyes the shape of the bones that make up the human body.

The pale lips and the child’s protruding eyes gleamed under the torchlight.

The child glared at Rudy with red bloodshot eyes and ran straight ahead.

In the child’s hand is a piece of iron that seems to have fallen off somewhere.

The weapon was just that.

However, it seems that he does not even know that what he is holding is a piece of iron that cannot even be called a weapon.

There were dozens of soldiers between Ai and Rudy, but even those were nowhere to be seen.

A soldier raised his spear at the child who had not even come close.

Unknowingly, Rudy opened his mouth to stop the soldiers. But when Boris stepped forward to cover Rudy, as if to protect him, he fell silent.

Rudy realized he was arrogant.

Although Boris and the chief chamberlain warned him several times, Rudy thought in his heart that the power of detoxification he possessed would be enough to save the children.

When he saw the poisoned children, he intended to order the soldiers to only faint.

But it was only when he saw the children with his own eyes that he understood what Boris and the chamberlain were saying. I finally realized the meaning behind the word tramp.

Slaves are fed food to sell. Even if they were fed worse than cows and pigs, they were able to consume enough food to sustain their lives.

However, the life of a tramp has no value as a commodity.

Children thrown out on the streets have nothing to do with ordinary people, whether they live or die.

Homeless and unaccompanied children cannot even prepare a single meal unless they find a way to live on their own.

Couldn’t that child be rather alive because he was addicted to drugs? Herbs gave dying children more vitality than their bodies, and made them move. I could see it at a glance.

‘Ah, that’s right.’

forgot for a while This world was a harsh place for the weak.

Rudy looked at the child with a devastated heart. The child in front of him was no different from a living corpse.

It was a bit strange to see him running and jumping. There might be a broken place somewhere in the slender child’s body.

If the poisoned medicine loses its effectiveness, it will most likely result in more severe pain than death. Perhaps to the extent that killing is rather mercy.

The child who was heading towards Rudy was knocked down by the soldier’s spear.

Another child jumped out of the crowd. I was doing almost the same thing.

Rudy pulled the horse’s reins. The black horse cried loudly, raised its paws, kicked the air, and jumped forward according to the owner’s will.

The Excalibur in Rudy’s hand made a hum and cried.

Suddenly, he jumped off the horse and cut the body of the child who jumped out. The child’s head was detached as it was running. Suddenly, his head fell to the floor.

“It takes time to stab with a spear. It will be painful even when the child dies. Leave the child’s life to me from now on.”

When Rudy said, the soldiers around him quietly lowered their heads.

The child who attacked Rudy first was stabbed by a spear and fell forward.

I haven’t stopped breathing yet. He let out a weak moan, but somehow managed to stand up and twitched his little hand to kill Rudy.

A piece of iron has already fallen from his hand and is rolling on the floor with blood, but he doesn’t seem to know it at all.

Rudy approached the child and raised his sword. With a light blow, the ground dug deep and the child’s little head fell off.

The child’s body twitched just a little bit and finally stopped moving.

When I looked up and looked around, many of the rioters had already been subdued.

The followers of the temple are ordinary people who are insane because of drugs, but have not experienced combat. In front of the spears and knives of the skilled soldiers, he was helplessly cut and fell.

Across the street where corpses piled up, I saw several men dressed in exceptionally clean clothes from afar. They seem to be on the same side, although they mingled among the commoners at a considerable distance from the mob.

There were dozens of mercenary men around them.

Boris said in a low voice from the side.

“They are priests and knights of the temple. They are not wearing the mark of the temple.”

Rudy jumped off again and climbed onto the back of the horse.

“I’m going to catch it.”

As soon as Rudy’s words fell, the soldiers around him put their spears forward and started running.

Rudy’s horse galloped through the streets, outpacing the soldiers.

The flames were completely extinguished and a pair of phoenixes flew over Rudy’s head.

I saw people on their knees looking up at the phoenix in every corner of the screaming streets.

I passed them and ran in front of the priest and the temple knight.

Seeing Rudy and the phoenix, the priest and temple knight turned and ran away.

However, two phoenixes leaped into the air and blocked their path.

The male phoenix flaps its wings to block the priest who was leading the way.

It seems that the phoenix has poured fire energy on a part of its body.

The priest’s hand, which had lightly touched it, was distorted in an instant and suffered burns.

“Quaaagh!”

The priest screamed and fell backwards.

The other priests and mercenaries get scared and stop walking. Some were even sitting on the floor, bowing their heads to the ground and praying.

The dark horse jumped through the air and landed next to them in one go.

Rudy grabbed the reins and stopped.

The gruesome corpse of the child he had just seen floated before his eyes. They are wicked people who use children. Anger welled up from the depths of his stomach.

Rudy put his hand on Boris’ waist. The whip he always used hangs from his waist. Boris, realizing Rudi’s will, handed over the whip.

Whiririk, swung the whip high in the air and hit the body of the priest.

A long whip mark was left on the face of the priest along with the sound of “cheak”. His flesh was cut and blood was splattered all over his face.

A single whip knocked out the priest, and Rudy’s whip pointed at the priest and mercenary right next to him.

The whip hit the ground with a chump, chump sound, hitting the priest and the mercenary one after another.

“Keep dirty people away from Your Highness!”

In the meantime, one of the captains shouted, and dozens of soldiers gathered around Rudy and built a wall of people.

Boris stands right behind him, silent from beginning to end.

Thanks to that, my hot head calmed down a bit.

“Take them prisoner. Boris, let’s go to the third prince.”

At Rudy’s words, the soldiers moved quickly. A few tried to escape or wielded their weapons, but the priests and mercenaries were captured without even a decent resistance.

Rudy rode back down the dark street, watching as several soldiers tied the group of crusaders to the ground and made them kneel on the ground.

The heavy footsteps of the soldiers passed through the streets of the city.

***

“What the hell is this!”

The 3rd Prince rushed out of the building to find out the situation and found a person in charge of the temple.

However, there was no official who reported the news of the uprising.

Only one of his aides followed him to this mansion. A person I have been with since childhood.

An aide came towards him with quick steps.

“Your Highness, inside.”

“What’s going on? Where is the person I called from the temple!”

“Your Highness, please go inside. We will explain inside.”

“why.”

An aide grabbed the third prince’s arm as he was about to speak. An aide whispered softly in my ear.

“The mansion is besieged by soldiers.”

“What?”

The 3rd prince, who had looked beyond the garden in dismay, had no choice but to follow the guidance of his aides.

“Let no one approach the study.”

An aide made a request to the slaves and maids and urged the third prince to head to the study.

When I hurriedly entered the study, my aide shut the door.

“What’s going on! Explain. What the hell is the rebellion, and where did the person who contacted you go?”

However, instead of answering, the aide quietly approached him.

“Your Highness, why didn’t you drink the drink the maid brought you a while ago?”

The aide who came right in front of the 3rd prince said a little sadly.

“what?”

The moment he asked, the hand of an aide covered his mouth. In an instant, the body of the aide turned around behind the back of the 3rd prince, and their bodies were glued together.

I tried to get out, but I can’t move. Was this man’s power this strong? I didn’t know.

But why? why all of a sudden

The third prince, who had thought that far, suddenly realized as his mind gradually faded.

oh, that’s my father This man is my father’s pawn. His father made him stay by his side since he was a child to kill himself.

It couldn’t have been just this one man. There were several more people who had been by his side since childhood. Were all those people the father’s breath?

Among the slaves they bought, maybe even the slaves working in this mansion were his father’s servants.

‘I get it now. You’re trying to get rid of me by tying up with the rebellion in the temple. Father, did you already notice my thoughts? Did the empire think I was a hindrance?’

This aide often ghostwritten the third prince’s own correspondence. When the documents were created, only the signature was done by the 3rd prince himself. Maybe even that was what my father intended. For the day when I will manipulate the papers someday.

hahahaha. I really can’t beat my father.

The body, which had not been able to breathe for a while, gradually lost strength.

An aide muttered.

“I wish I could have taken that medicine. I could have sent you to sleep without any pain.”

After the words of the aide, the third prince’s consciousness fell completely into darkness.

***

The 3rd prince’s mansion was completely surrounded by soldiers. It would have been difficult for one ant to escape.

“Arrest him.”

Upon Rudy’s order, the soldiers forcibly open the mansion’s door and enter.

However, the third prince had already committed suicide.

The 3rd prince was lying face down on the desk in the study, spilling a little poisonous liquor from his mouth.

On the desk, a suicide note was written in the form of a letter to his father, the emperor, to the effect that he committed suicide after realizing that his conspiracy had been discovered.

There were only a few slaves and common servants in the mansion, but no one else.

Rudy left the study without saying anything. Boris quietly follows.

“Everyone did a good job. But don’t be careless. There are still remnants of the temple. Arrest every last one. Don’t increase the damage to the citizens any more.”

The soldiers responded bravely to Rudy’s words, and many of them headed back into the city.

Rudy didn’t look at Boris. Looking at it now, it seems that he will say something thorny. The bitter feeling of being deceived and being used remained.

From the first time I heard this story, there was something wrong with it.

At first glance, the story fits round without corners, but somewhere was awkward. It was only now that I realized the true nature of the sense of incongruity.

‘The third prince’s death was made.’

I don’t know the exact reason. However, the emperor decided to eliminate the third prince and did this. I don’t know how long I’ve been preparing, but there was no doubt about it.

Everyone, including Boris and the chamberlain, must have known. Rudy is the only one who doesn’t know. I knew he was a puppet today, but the aftertaste was bad.

A few hours after that, the operation of the day ended only after the soldiers arrested all the priests on the list.

Leaving a few soldiers behind for probation, before dawn, Rudi and the soldiers returned to the imperial palace across the city.

Rumors of a phoenix emitting brilliant light had already spread, and people were pouring out into the streets to overflowing.

Cheers burst out at the sight of Rudy and the phoenix.

Long live the empire, long live the emperor, long live the new boy emperor, many words came to Rudy’s ears.

Children were often seen among the crowd. Chubby children, skinny children, children wave vigorously.

There were no children who appeared to be tramps.

Even in places like this, are such children unable to approach and alienated?

said Boris in a low voice.

“Your Highness, it is an honor that only a few times in a lifetime it is to see Your Highness to these people. Please wave your hand.

Rudy smiled at the crowd and raised his hand.

As if the streets were leaving, loud cheers broke out. People waved their hands loudly to get Rudy’s attention.

Rudy waved at people and said, without looking at Boris.

“Boris, I kept wondering what kind of emperor I would become. But now I’ve made up my mind.”

“Your Highness is the most benevolent and cold-hearted person I have ever seen.

Two phoenixes fly over people filling the streets.

As if to comfort Rudy’s heart, whenever the phoenix saw the children, he lowered himself and gently bumped his wings into their hands.

Between the cheers of the people, the high-pitched laughter of children was heard.

＜ Yes, this world was a harsh place for the weak ＞

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author’s words

12/4 Changed some typos and expressions (mistakes). thank you

＜ Rudy, make your own country ＞