Chapters Chapter 238: Rothschild on a Rampage (1/2)
“Keuk, keuk keuk keuk...”
Kang Chul-In laughed.
“Y-your Majesty...”
“...”
“Your… Majesty?”
His subordinates were flabbergasted.
Looking at Kang Chul-In now, he was covered with bruises, as if all his muscles had torn.
His lips were blue, and his face was pale. In other words, he was completely fatigued.
“Hahahaha~!”
Nevertheless, Kang Chul-In was visibly overjoyed with a cunning smile on his face.
“Y-your Majesty...”
Lucia approached him cautiously.
“You must be really tired, so why are you laughing so much?”
“It’s entertaining.”
“D-Did you say … entertaining?”
“Isn’t it? Cough!”
Kang Chul-In vomited blood.
That wasn’t all.
His nose was bleeding, and his eyes were blood red.
Despite all of this, Kang Chul-In still laughed.
“Keke!”
“Y-your Majesty!”
“Bullying that Rothschild bastard… is always entertaining.”
“...!”
“I wonder if there’s anything more entertaining than that. Kekeke.”
“…If you say so, your Majesty.”
Lucia closed her eyes and replied.
“What good weather.”
Kang Chul-In laid down on Zeppelin’s deck and mumbled.
It was autumn.
The autumn sky was clear and vast without a single cloud.
“Good weather to screw with Rothschild.”
“Y-your Majesty...”
“I’m satisfied.”
“...”
“And… I shall take a nap.”
Having said that, Kang Chul-In closed his eyes.
He could no longer endure his acc.u.mulated fatigue.
“I...”
Lucia gazed at Kang Chul-In affectionately and mumbled.
“… can hardly hold your Majesty back. How are you this mischievous?”
She was right.
“And also… that moustache… it doesn’t suit you at all.”
Kang Chul-In had forgotten to take off his disguise before falling asleep.
***
“Urgh… Urghhh...”
Rothschild fell sick after Kang Chul-In’s escape.
“Kang Chul-In… Kang Chul-In!”
Even on his sickbed, he shouted his nemesis’ name and shuddered in anger.
Of course, his blood pressure shot up whenever he did that.
Brrr…!
He trembled with rage.
“Your Majesty… more bad news, I’m afraid.”
Sadly, this wasn’t the end of Rothschild’s misfortune.
“Our people are showing signs of rebellion. Many soldiers are running away as well.”
The new chief of staff, general Akül, rubbed salt into Rothschild’s wound.
He was just doing his job.
“So?”
Rothschild replied in a chilling voice.
“Your Majesty?”
“What am I supposed to do?”
“W-Well...”
“Just kill them all.”
“I beg your pardon?!”
Akül couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
“Y-your Majesty!”
“Why? Can’t do it?”
“It’s not that...”
“Can’t you just summon new citizens and soldiers?”
“...!”
“Akül.”
“Yes, your Majesty...”
“Don’t let those lowly existences act however they want.”
“...”
“They are destined to obey. I have never granted them any permission to complain and rebel. Just kill all of them.”
It was a stone-hearted comment.
He seemed to have no hesitation committing a genocide.
It indicated that Rothschild viewed the native Pangaeans as nothing other than meat shields. They were consumables to him.
“However, your Majesty, with that sort of violent method...”
“Are you telling me to leave those traitors alone, Akül?”
“...”
“Think of it as starting afresh. And...”
Rothschild looked at Akül and spoke.
“I will reward you 100,000 gold and appoint you as our territory’s key officer if you handle this well.”
“...!”
“Show me what you are capable of.”
“Yes… your Majesty...”
Akül succ.u.mbed to the enormous amount of gold proposed.
Kang Chul-In, in order to get my revenge on you… I think I can even sell my soul to the devil...
Rothschild had almost given up by now.
There was no light at the end of this tunnel.
He struggled hard to survive and was slowly recuperating, while Kang Chul-In ruined everything and ran off. He was extremely fatigued.
But what could he do?
All he could do now was invest gold to rebuild the territory.
For Rothschild to survive, he absolutely had to be as resilient as a c.o.c.kroach.
***
While Kang Chul-In had left his place, Laputa’s key officials were preparing busily for his crowning.
Drakan and James were in charge of expanding Laputa’s territory.
Drakan led his army and roamed around the Ishtar region, conquering many small and big free cities. Meanwhile, James planted multiple rocks engraved with Kang Chul-In’s seal on unclaimed land, declaring that those areas belonged to Kang Chul-In.
Other officers were busy as well.
Timothy, Kimura and Podolski were responsible for administration and finance, construction of new cities and agricultural land, and training new intelligence agents respectively.
Kwak Jung had also returned from Dorado.
“You’ve come.”
Kang Chul-In greeted Kwak Jung as he laid on his sick bed.
“Yes, your Majesty.”
“Where were you fooling around during a critical period like this?”
Kang Chul-In reprimanded Kwak Jung.