I Became the Childhood Friend of the Northern Duchess - Chapter 210



210 – Decision of the Day

To find out what prompted Edgar to make this decision, we had to go back to the day when all the evidence proved to be correct.

“What are you talking about? “You want to visit the emperor?”

Ariel was the first to respond in surprise at the topic that Edgar brought up in a gathering with others.

That’s because she couldn’t believe what he said, to the point where she momentarily wondered if she heard her was wrong.

“Literally. “Before we attack Albrich in earnest, I must meet her majesty.”

“Have you forgotten what you said? “I heard that guy is in the same league as Albrich.”

“Know. That’s why I’m saying it.”

At Edgar’s calm reply, she just tilted her head, even more puzzled.

In response, it was none other than Helen who stepped up to help Ariel.

“Ed, I don’t understand either. “Is there any reason to meet Your Majesty at this point?”

Ariel, who had become convinced that the two would be together, was already calling Bartheus ‘that b*stard’ or ‘that man’, but Helen was still using the same honorific title.

Whether it’s because of a glimmer of hope or because she just feels like a member of the empire, only she knows.

“Yes, I am.”

“Is it because there is a possibility that Your Majesty is not our main enemy?”

“No. Honestly, I am convinced that His Majesty has become Albrich’s ally.”

But I don’t understand it even more.

If his assumption is correct, the emperor would probably be a more dangerous main enemy than Albrich in the current situation.

But the purpose is not to kill, but to meet?

“Actually, since I thought of this reasoning, I had one doubt. Even if I could somehow understand everything else, there was something I just couldn’t understand.”

“What is that?”

Yulken, who had been listening to the story in silence, asked.

Edgar’s reasoning was consistent with most of the circumstances he thought, but it was surprising that there was one point in particular.

“It’s purpose. “If Your Majesty truly took Albrich’s side, wouldn’t there be a reason?”

“Well, I guess that’s something I found a bit strange. But it wasn’t it a well-established opinion that it would be difficult to find out the inside story?”

From the beginning, when you think about it in terms of common sense, there were many benefits that the emperor would bring to Albrich, but nothing on the other side came to mind.

However, upon hearing this fact, Minette refuted it, saying that since the opponent was the best wizard in the empire, he might have offered some benefit that could not be obtained through wealth or power.

To put it bluntly, he went so far as to say that if he tried to make an elixir of immortality, he wouldn’t be able to make it.

Therefore, he concluded that the priority was to proceed with the case, saying that he would not know until the inside story was clearly discovered.

However, Edgar still had doubts about that.

“Actually, the story my father and Her Majesty the Empress told me made me question it.”

“If your Majesty the Empress… “When the three of us talked together?”

“That’s right. “When I think about that conversation overlapping with the story my father told me, there are many strange things.”

The emperor judged himself a sinner.

And Beatria expressed that the emperor still loved her, but at the same time he was distant from her.

From that contradictory relationship, Edgar came up with an inference.

I wouldn’t have been able to come up with this reasoning easily if it weren’t for the curse on Kelagh’s body.

“This is what I think. “What if Your Majesty, for some reason, fell victim to Albrich’s scheme when you were young, and based on that, your family members were taken hostage?”

“Wouldn’t that be too speculative? It’s not like the power of the royal family has fallen to the ground, so is it possible at best to be swayed by threats like that?”

The power of the Hellvenir Empire was quite spread out rather than concentrated in a central power, as befits its name.

A representative example was the case of the Robeheim family.

However, that does not mean that the power of a single magician like me to wield the royal family was too shabby.

Rather, it is not something to be looked down on at all, considering that even though there is a prominent family like the Robeheim family, it clearly maintains its power.

Therefore, Ariel first expressed considerable skepticism about Edgar’s reasoning about her, but was left speechless by his subsequent words

“You know because you’ve been through it too. Even if you are one of the most powerful families in the Amman Empire, if you have a lot of affection, you have no choice but to be swayed by the existence of family.”

“What are you talking about… Ah.”

Ariel, who was about to ask when something like that had happened to her, realized the meaning behind his words her her her her.

It was like that. If you think about it, she was the one who felt those emotions more keenly than anyone else in the room.

It was during the incident that took place in Whitewood.

“… I can’t refute that. Well, at the time, all I could think about was what would happen to my father and offering him a symbol of domination.”

If you change your position and think, the previously invisible scenery becomes visible.

Ariel recalled herself that day and expressed those feelings to Bartheus.

As Edgar said, it seemed like she would give in if she thought her entire family and her was being held hostage.

“I understand what you want to say. But wouldn’t it be difficult to ask them to talk and embrace their entire inner story with just that feeling?”

“You’re right. Honestly, it’s safe to say it’s a gamble. If it were me in the past, I might have tried to ignore her, thinking that I should give up what I had to give up. But…”

Surprisingly, Edgar is very concerned about efficiency and reality.

Even when Yulken was captured by Kelagh, the only reason he tried to rescue him was because he thought it would be more efficient than offering a symbol of domination. Of course, there was no reason for him to be the father of her lover.

Anyway, from that perspective, this choice could be said to be uncharacteristic of him.

It would have been easier to keep this speculation buried in a corner of one’s heart and deal with the entire royal family and the Bertus family as the main enemy.

Nevertheless, the reason why this thought occurred to me was because the words Ariel told me a while ago lingered in my head.

“… Ariel said so. “If everyone gives up and says it can’t be done, what happens to those who are abandoned in the name of reality?”

“…”

That was a story Ariel told after discussing what would happen to the relationship between the Carbita people and the Robeheim family, and furthermore, the Carbita people and the Helvenir Empire, when everything was over with Kelagh.

With her honest feelings, she also knew that it was a difficult road.

The karma accumulated by the Karbita tribe by harassing the northern residents, and if we go back in history, the first Robeheim family oppressed them in the name of conquest.

Since those two things are aligned, hoping for a day when both sides can laugh together may be a vain hope.

But that was Ariel’s dream of her.

It wasn’t for any grand reason, she just hoped that the people of the northern part of the country she ruled would find true peace.

I didn’t know that the category of residents might also include the Karbita people.

“And at the same time, I also had this thought. “If we point our sword at someone just because they are our enemy without finding out the whole truth about this incident, what will be left in the end?”

“War is always cruel. “You can’t live by giving meaning to everything.”

Yulken experienced several times or dozens of times more battlefields than Edgar, but the result was always the same.

She couldn’t save everything, couldn’t understand everyone’s situation, and peace didn’t come as dramatically as she had thought.

Some people praised him as a hero, but Yulken never thought of himself as a hero.

Just drawing the faces of those who could not be saved makes me feel helpless, so what is a hero?

‘No, maybe I didn’t even intend to do it.’

When his thoughts reached that point, Yulken shook his head and sneered at himself.

To begin with, he was far from a hero. If there is someone he cannot save, he tends to turn his head away.

But if you look at it from the other side, he may be a half-penny that he never even thought of saving.

‘Is this man different?’

Yulken inadvertently shifted his gaze to the two people sitting across from him.

Her daughter trying to hold on to the reality that even she had given up on, and her lover her trying to reach out to her friend who even he had given up on.

When I saw them sitting side by side, I felt something stirring and rising from Mokuldae.

“… Is there a way?”

Edgar’s face brightened at the question, which was practically a request for permission.

The method probably refers to a means to ask Bartheus for a conversation without reaching Albrich’s boundaries.

Since it was something he already had in mind, he nodded right away.

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“I have thought about it to some extent.”

“Really… “You are amazing too.”

Yulken laughed as if he had raised both his hands and feet.

This incident alone must have been quite troubling to him, but on top of that, he was looking for other directions as well.

The more I looked at him, the more I realized that he was truly a man worth sticking out.

“Perhaps the memorial service will be held at night. I will break into the imperial palace and come see Your Majesty.”

“It’s to prepare for just one emergency.”

“Yes.”

Even though he did n’t know why Albrich was targeting him, he knew that it was dangerous to show his face his officially at the current imperial palace.

Even if there was no harm to him, the alert index would rise significantly as soon as news spread that he would visit and meet the emperor.

If that happens, it becomes quite difficult to hear Bartheus’ true intentions.

“Are you going to do something dangerous like last time? That’s not possible.”

However, as he expected, Ariel expressed total opposition to this plan.

Even if you understand the circumstances of the imperial family a hundred times over, how dare you break into the imperial palace alone in the middle of the night?

Even if you have ten lives, it’s a dangerous thing to do. In the first place, its defenses would be stronger than those of Robeheim Castle.

However, Edgar expressed confidence with his characteristic mischievous smile.

“It’s not particularly dangerous. “It’s not like I’m coming back after killing someone, I’m just secretly talking and coming back.”

“Do you think I’m stupid? “Are you going to fall for that kind of persuasion?”

“I said it’s okay. “In the first place, is there anyone more expert in this field than me?”

He was very joking and encouraged Ariel to think back to the past.

Even as a fifteen-year-old, he managed to avoid the tight security and barrier of the Robeheim family and sneak into Ariel’s bedroom her.

It wasn’t even once, she visited him often when she was lonely, so her infiltration skills were considered unrivaled.

“Besides, back then, if I made a mistake, it was over, but this time, if I make a mistake, you can protect me, right? “With the power of the Robeheim family, I don’t think that much is possible.”

It may be possible since he did not assassinate the emperor, but the crime of trespassing into the imperial palace without permission is a serious one.

Even for Amman Ariel, it might be difficult to blindly take sides.

Nevertheless, Edgar, in his natural spirit asked her, ‘Are you going to help me?’

“… You idiot. I know that if I make a mistake, I will die even if it comes back.”

“I think I’ve heard that before, but when I came back, they saved my life in the end… Huh!?”

Ariel tried to jokingly retort by roughly pulling on his tie her and threateningly threatening him from a position where their lips seemed to touch her at any moment.

“I’m serious this time, so make sure you do it without mistakes. If you get caught and get caught, I will rescue you, tie you up in the castle, and not send you anywhere.”

Edgar was about to make a pointless joke, saying that she wouldn’t kill her after all, but when her eyes flashed red for the first time in a while, she started and hurriedly threw up her hand.

I felt like I had one more reason not to make mistakes.

“Okay. This time, I agree with Ariel. “If something goes wrong with you, what kind of face should I look at Katria?”

“It’s okay, mother. Because one mistake is enough. “I will return safely.”

Edgar truly thought so.

To that end, he asked Minette for advice, and he planned to memorize the structure of the imperial palace by the day of the rebellion.

The only variable was that he was a guard, and there were some measures taken against him.

“… I hope you arrive safely. And it’s shameless to ask this, but if there’s something hidden inside my friend, please listen carefully and tell it to me.”

“Yes, father.”

This was a few days before Edgar left for Hilldeck.