Viscount Rangel and Count Tail, who worked as secretaries to the Emperor, stared at the necromancer for a long time, seemingly unfazed by the intrusion of nobles.
Black hair, red eyes. Everything looks exactly like the necromancer described in the book. But it's very different from the book.
Countless books somehow portrayed necromancers as evil, hideous, eccentric, and vicious, to fit the trend. As a result, many children thought of necromancers as monsters that would take them away at night if they didn't listen to what was said.
But what they were seeing now was just that of an ordinary human being.
Even though she didn't seem like she had learned any manners, she tried to be polite and greeted people.
What? Just by meeting someone, you slaughter them, curse them, what? Hang them upside down and drain their blood to death?
From the moment he saw Simone, Count Tail had only one thought in his mind.
“...You’re young.”
She was much younger than he thought. Of course, he didn't mean she looked like a child, but rather she looked like she was in her late teens.
In her late teens, she was the same age as the youngest daughter of the Count of Tail.
A child born as a necromancer in the Luan Empire and living in hiding for many years.
Is it really okay to treat a child so young with such prejudice?
Images of his three lively daughters flashed through Count Tail's mind.
It can't be done. Prejudicing this child is so narrow-minded that it's embarrassing to see it in front of his daughters.
“Yes, I was surprised when I saw her too... But be careful. There’s talk of kidnapping people, cutting out their flesh, and using that to make a contract with their souls-”
“Enough, Lord Rangel.”
"Yes?"
“When people are caught up in prejudice, they can’t see the jewels inside. Doesn’t it just look ordinary? We can be suspicious, but we can talk to them ourselves and decide whether or not we should execute them.”
“Huh?... Well, that’s true.”
Why are you suddenly like that? Just a moment ago, you were whispering that you would execute her as soon as you finished your work.
Strangely, as he grew older, Count Tail would often become more emotionally attached to his daughters' peers.
Count Tail did not respond to Viscount Rangel's words and walked a few more steps toward Simone.
“First of all, since His Highness says so, I will cooperate for now.”
Starting with Count Tail, each of them looked at Simone and expressed their intention to cooperate.
“Ask me anything. If I must cooperate with the necromancer for His Majesty, then I must do so.”
“There isn’t much time, so hurry up.”
Simone looked at Louis, surprised at the nobles' behavior, which was much more cooperative than she had expected.
What did you say that made these stubborn nobles cooperate so readily with a necromancer, a condemned criminal whose mere existence was considered ugly and filthy?
No matter how serious the Emperor's problem is, she never thought of such a proactive and gentle attitude.
Louis just shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't know what was going on with the nobles.
'Is it because I greet people well?'
In any world, it seems that being good at greeting people is important.
Simone leisurely sipped her tea and was lost in thought even in front of the most powerful figures in the empire.
In fact, Louis was also taken aback by the nobles' more cooperative attitude than he had expected.
'This is as expected...'
Although they had no choice but to cooperate with the necromancer by the Crown Prince's order, it seemed unlikely that these stubborn people would ever tell Simone the truth about the Emperor's condition.
So, Louis decided not to resort to any other methods and instead had a face-to-face meeting.
Because when they met Simone, they didn't feel any ominous feelings or anything.
In addition, Simone's attitude of being quite polite at the first meeting also played a part.
In addition to this, she has an appearance that directly breaks the prejudice against necromancers. Louis expected that thanks to all of this, the nobles' wariness towards Simone would be broken down.
He never thought they would be this cooperative, led by Count Tail.
Simone stood up from her seat.
“I won’t take up too much of your busy time.”
They may not have much time, but Simone and her party also had a lot on their schedule today.
So, short and to the point.
“Those of you who have seen His Majesty the Emperor’s strange behavior, please just tell us what you have seen.”
“If I just say that, can I go back to my office?”
“Yes, of course! That alone would be a great help to us.”
This is a very important matter.
Whether that which now sits upon the throne is the true body of the Emperor or is the soul itself that has created a form can be determined through the testimony of the nobles.
It was necessary to confirm whether the person had done anything that would lead to death as a human being, such as turning his neck completely, standing upside down and hitting his head, or suddenly twisting his arms and falling from a high place.
If the Emperor had done such a thing, it would not have been in the Emperor's physical body, but in the form of a ghost like the Viscount Delang.
On the other hand, if he simply acted strangely, it would mean that the real Emperor was possessed by a ghost.
Depending on which side it is on, the solution will be different.
Usually, when a ghost revealed its form, Simone would resolve it by exploding it, burning it, or cutting it down.
However, if that thing is inhabiting the Emperor's body and playing with it, then to protect the Emperor's body, such an aggressive act is impossible, and it would have to use an extremely powerful method of threatening and driving it away with stronger mana, like when Osasanisasao descended.
“We don’t have much time, so please don’t explain at length and just tell us what you saw.”
At Simone's words, the nobles looked at each other and began to reveal, one by one, what they had seen.
“The cook who brought the meal had a pale complexion, so I asked why, and he said that His Majesty had been eating raw meat in the middle of the night.”
“He... didn’t sleep at all. He stayed up with me for two whole days and I felt like I was going to collapse, but His Majesty was fine. He hasn’t slept at all since then. Even now.”
“I was passing through the hallway after finishing my work to ask His Highness the Crown Prince something when I heard a woman’s humming coming from His Majesty’s room. His Majesty was using a woman’s voice.”
There were many other things as well. He would suddenly run or scream, do strange dances, or suddenly try to take off his clothes. He would laugh out loud at the crack of his mouth while everyone was asleep, and run around the employees’ space barefoot. Sometimes he would just stick his eyes out through the crack of the door and watch people.
The story he heard from the nobles was so absurd that Louis couldn't bear to listen to the end and just left.
“...”
“How could this be...”
After sharing their stories, the nobles looked speechless and confused.
Simone thought it was strange, but when she heard it all together like this, it was beyond strange, it was so bizarre.
Simone's indifferent voice broke through the silence of the shocked nobles.
“Then the body is indeed His Majesty’s. It’s not the ghost itself that has been materialized. Isn’t that fortunate?”
The nobles stared blankly at Simone. What on earth could be so fortunate about this? The situation was so dire.
Simone smiled faintly at the questioning gazes.
“At least that means His Majesty is not in eternal sleep. His Majesty is alive. How fortunate that we don’t have to search for his body.”
Of course, Simone had to take a more complex direction, but it was still much better for the victim of the curse to be alive and holding on than dead.
“Thank you for your time. You may go back now.”
“Is this all?”
One of the nobles asked in vain. It must have been because the gathering was so grand and the work was over very quickly.
“Yes, that’s all. From now on, we’ll take care of it ourselves.”
The nobles hesitated and left the room, bewildered by Simone's answer.
Then, as Count Tail was leaving the room for the last time, he looked at her and asked.
“I hope His Majesty is alright?”
Simone smiled at his loyalist's question. There are few things she can be certain of, but this much she can say for sure.
“It’s okay. I’ll definitely save him.”
The Emperor of the Luan Empire lives unconditionally today.
That's the original story, and it will be the last card that the warrior Abel uses to defeat the Demon King, and more than anything, it's for Louis.
At Simone's confident words, Louis, along with Count Tail, looked at her with surprised eyes.
For some reason, her words had such power that he felt that if Simone said that, his father would really live.
Count Tail left the room in relief, and Louis turned to Simone. Then he bowed his head.
“Thank you so much, Simone.”
He doesn't know how much comfort it meant to just be told clearly that his father could live.
Simone, who was suddenly thanked by Louis, hesitated, then shrugged her shoulders and spoke to the group.
“Yes. let’s get started. Your Highness, lock the bedroom door. Tell no one to come in. I’m going to turn this room upside down.”
“...Please take it easy.”
Louis headed for the door with a reluctant smile, while Abel and Bianchi prepared to trash the room with excited expressions.
“I’ll try using my detection magic. I think those two will be enough to turn it over, right?”
Orkan turned to the wall to cast his detection magic, and Simone began to open the drawers and cabinets in the room, thinking that this scene looked like a search and seizure scene she had seen on the news before.
After searching like that for a while.
“Uh, this is...”
Simone found a familiar object in the drawer of the bedside table.
A transparent, golden-colored gem. A beautiful gem is similar to the Saint's Tears and the gem found in the mansion of Viscount Delang, although the color is different.
“There’s a very suspicious jewel here?”
“Huh? Where?”
Simone informed her companions and picked up the jewel.
And at that moment.
"...Uh?"
The group that was approaching her disappeared like dust.
Black hair, red eyes. Everything looks exactly like the necromancer described in the book. But it's very different from the book.
Countless books somehow portrayed necromancers as evil, hideous, eccentric, and vicious, to fit the trend. As a result, many children thought of necromancers as monsters that would take them away at night if they didn't listen to what was said.
But what they were seeing now was just that of an ordinary human being.
Even though she didn't seem like she had learned any manners, she tried to be polite and greeted people.
What? Just by meeting someone, you slaughter them, curse them, what? Hang them upside down and drain their blood to death?
From the moment he saw Simone, Count Tail had only one thought in his mind.
“...You’re young.”
She was much younger than he thought. Of course, he didn't mean she looked like a child, but rather she looked like she was in her late teens.
In her late teens, she was the same age as the youngest daughter of the Count of Tail.
A child born as a necromancer in the Luan Empire and living in hiding for many years.
Is it really okay to treat a child so young with such prejudice?
Images of his three lively daughters flashed through Count Tail's mind.
It can't be done. Prejudicing this child is so narrow-minded that it's embarrassing to see it in front of his daughters.
“Yes, I was surprised when I saw her too... But be careful. There’s talk of kidnapping people, cutting out their flesh, and using that to make a contract with their souls-”
“Enough, Lord Rangel.”
"Yes?"
“When people are caught up in prejudice, they can’t see the jewels inside. Doesn’t it just look ordinary? We can be suspicious, but we can talk to them ourselves and decide whether or not we should execute them.”
“Huh?... Well, that’s true.”
Why are you suddenly like that? Just a moment ago, you were whispering that you would execute her as soon as you finished your work.
Strangely, as he grew older, Count Tail would often become more emotionally attached to his daughters' peers.
Count Tail did not respond to Viscount Rangel's words and walked a few more steps toward Simone.
“First of all, since His Highness says so, I will cooperate for now.”
Starting with Count Tail, each of them looked at Simone and expressed their intention to cooperate.
“Ask me anything. If I must cooperate with the necromancer for His Majesty, then I must do so.”
“There isn’t much time, so hurry up.”
Simone looked at Louis, surprised at the nobles' behavior, which was much more cooperative than she had expected.
What did you say that made these stubborn nobles cooperate so readily with a necromancer, a condemned criminal whose mere existence was considered ugly and filthy?
No matter how serious the Emperor's problem is, she never thought of such a proactive and gentle attitude.
Louis just shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't know what was going on with the nobles.
'Is it because I greet people well?'
In any world, it seems that being good at greeting people is important.
Simone leisurely sipped her tea and was lost in thought even in front of the most powerful figures in the empire.
In fact, Louis was also taken aback by the nobles' more cooperative attitude than he had expected.
'This is as expected...'
Although they had no choice but to cooperate with the necromancer by the Crown Prince's order, it seemed unlikely that these stubborn people would ever tell Simone the truth about the Emperor's condition.
So, Louis decided not to resort to any other methods and instead had a face-to-face meeting.
Because when they met Simone, they didn't feel any ominous feelings or anything.
In addition, Simone's attitude of being quite polite at the first meeting also played a part.
In addition to this, she has an appearance that directly breaks the prejudice against necromancers. Louis expected that thanks to all of this, the nobles' wariness towards Simone would be broken down.
He never thought they would be this cooperative, led by Count Tail.
Simone stood up from her seat.
“I won’t take up too much of your busy time.”
They may not have much time, but Simone and her party also had a lot on their schedule today.
So, short and to the point.
“Those of you who have seen His Majesty the Emperor’s strange behavior, please just tell us what you have seen.”
“If I just say that, can I go back to my office?”
“Yes, of course! That alone would be a great help to us.”
This is a very important matter.
Whether that which now sits upon the throne is the true body of the Emperor or is the soul itself that has created a form can be determined through the testimony of the nobles.
It was necessary to confirm whether the person had done anything that would lead to death as a human being, such as turning his neck completely, standing upside down and hitting his head, or suddenly twisting his arms and falling from a high place.
If the Emperor had done such a thing, it would not have been in the Emperor's physical body, but in the form of a ghost like the Viscount Delang.
On the other hand, if he simply acted strangely, it would mean that the real Emperor was possessed by a ghost.
Depending on which side it is on, the solution will be different.
Usually, when a ghost revealed its form, Simone would resolve it by exploding it, burning it, or cutting it down.
However, if that thing is inhabiting the Emperor's body and playing with it, then to protect the Emperor's body, such an aggressive act is impossible, and it would have to use an extremely powerful method of threatening and driving it away with stronger mana, like when Osasanisasao descended.
“We don’t have much time, so please don’t explain at length and just tell us what you saw.”
At Simone's words, the nobles looked at each other and began to reveal, one by one, what they had seen.
“The cook who brought the meal had a pale complexion, so I asked why, and he said that His Majesty had been eating raw meat in the middle of the night.”
“He... didn’t sleep at all. He stayed up with me for two whole days and I felt like I was going to collapse, but His Majesty was fine. He hasn’t slept at all since then. Even now.”
“I was passing through the hallway after finishing my work to ask His Highness the Crown Prince something when I heard a woman’s humming coming from His Majesty’s room. His Majesty was using a woman’s voice.”
There were many other things as well. He would suddenly run or scream, do strange dances, or suddenly try to take off his clothes. He would laugh out loud at the crack of his mouth while everyone was asleep, and run around the employees’ space barefoot. Sometimes he would just stick his eyes out through the crack of the door and watch people.
The story he heard from the nobles was so absurd that Louis couldn't bear to listen to the end and just left.
“...”
“How could this be...”
After sharing their stories, the nobles looked speechless and confused.
Simone thought it was strange, but when she heard it all together like this, it was beyond strange, it was so bizarre.
Simone's indifferent voice broke through the silence of the shocked nobles.
“Then the body is indeed His Majesty’s. It’s not the ghost itself that has been materialized. Isn’t that fortunate?”
The nobles stared blankly at Simone. What on earth could be so fortunate about this? The situation was so dire.
Simone smiled faintly at the questioning gazes.
“At least that means His Majesty is not in eternal sleep. His Majesty is alive. How fortunate that we don’t have to search for his body.”
Of course, Simone had to take a more complex direction, but it was still much better for the victim of the curse to be alive and holding on than dead.
“Thank you for your time. You may go back now.”
“Is this all?”
One of the nobles asked in vain. It must have been because the gathering was so grand and the work was over very quickly.
“Yes, that’s all. From now on, we’ll take care of it ourselves.”
The nobles hesitated and left the room, bewildered by Simone's answer.
Then, as Count Tail was leaving the room for the last time, he looked at her and asked.
“I hope His Majesty is alright?”
Simone smiled at his loyalist's question. There are few things she can be certain of, but this much she can say for sure.
“It’s okay. I’ll definitely save him.”
The Emperor of the Luan Empire lives unconditionally today.
That's the original story, and it will be the last card that the warrior Abel uses to defeat the Demon King, and more than anything, it's for Louis.
At Simone's confident words, Louis, along with Count Tail, looked at her with surprised eyes.
For some reason, her words had such power that he felt that if Simone said that, his father would really live.
Count Tail left the room in relief, and Louis turned to Simone. Then he bowed his head.
“Thank you so much, Simone.”
He doesn't know how much comfort it meant to just be told clearly that his father could live.
Simone, who was suddenly thanked by Louis, hesitated, then shrugged her shoulders and spoke to the group.
“Yes. let’s get started. Your Highness, lock the bedroom door. Tell no one to come in. I’m going to turn this room upside down.”
“...Please take it easy.”
Louis headed for the door with a reluctant smile, while Abel and Bianchi prepared to trash the room with excited expressions.
“I’ll try using my detection magic. I think those two will be enough to turn it over, right?”
Orkan turned to the wall to cast his detection magic, and Simone began to open the drawers and cabinets in the room, thinking that this scene looked like a search and seizure scene she had seen on the news before.
After searching like that for a while.
“Uh, this is...”
Simone found a familiar object in the drawer of the bedside table.
A transparent, golden-colored gem. A beautiful gem is similar to the Saint's Tears and the gem found in the mansion of Viscount Delang, although the color is different.
“There’s a very suspicious jewel here?”
“Huh? Where?”
Simone informed her companions and picked up the jewel.
And at that moment.
"...Uh?"
The group that was approaching her disappeared like dust.
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