Chapter 435 - Receiving the Crown 2 (2/2)

-Don’t know? How can you not know, Your Majesty?! Didn’t Your Majesty send those men to kill me and my companions who were going to return?

Indeed, Mayers sent Aegis fairies to kill Count Bazzo.

The reason why he had to use Aegis for the assassination was because very few people knew about their existence apart from Mayers.

Although Aslan was present, he had no idea of what they were used, and he was sent to Variand Mountains after the war as a commander to the fort.

-It is unfair! How could you do this to me?!

“Uahh!”

He had to keep listening to the same words again and again. As time went on, they started to get on his nerve.

Even if it was a good song, it wouldn’t have mattered, but it was a ghost, complaining right into his ear.

In addition, Mayers, who was in a slump because of his last defeat, reached the peak of his patience.

“Yeah, I killed you. What can you do? And you call it unfair? You are a man who was below me and enjoyed riches because of me!”

-Your Majesty, I devoted my body and mind to fulfill your dreams…

“Really?! It was because you were so loyal to me that I killed you! The right justification to wage war on the Marquis Rakan!”

At those words, Count Bazzo narrowed his eyes.

-Was the cause more important than me?

“Obviously! Whether you give your body and mind to me for years or not, you are just another servant under me! If I want you dead, you need to be dead!”

Mayers, who was in a bad mood, screamed at Count Bazzo.

“I am the nation! I am the absolute existence that determines the life and death of the millions under me! If you were truly such a man, you wouldn’t be crying over like this. You should rejoice that you were the base for the long-awaited burden! Even from hell, you were helping me!”

-Do you really think so? Would the other nobles agree with Your Majesty’s ideas?

“Huh, what does it matter if they agree or not? If needed, I can use the same method any time. Anyway, the nobles and soldiers are just long term baggage.”

-Hahahahahahaha!

All of a sudden, Count Bazzo burst into laughter.

Suddenly, his bloody figure turned neat.

-You have no blood or tears. I knew that. I won’t bother you anymore. There is no need for that to happen.

“What? What do you mean…?”

-Keuk. I hope the nobles understand this well, Your Majesty. That is if they don’t want to see the country fall.

When Mayers, who wondered about the last words of Count Bazzo was about to ask again, Bazzo disappeared.

And in the blink of an eye, his surroundings changed.

‘No, this is the outside of the tent, how…?’

He was sure that he had fallen asleep in the tent, but he was outside instead, wearing his nightgown.

In addition, there were many nobles there, including Reynold.

The problem was their gaze, which was unusual.

The feelings of agitation, disappointment, contempt, and anger, were all mixed together.

And for Reynold and Reynard, they seemed bitter and cold.

If eyes could kill a person, they would have killed Mayers and cut him into a thousand pieces.

‘Did they just hear the entire conversation he had with Bazzo in his dreams?’

Mayers recalled the knight when he had killed a guard in his tent.

Just as then, Bazzo seemed to have done another trick.

“Your Majesty, did you really kill Count Bazzo? Did you kill him so you could justify this war?” Marquis Volant asked with a shocked face.

“T-that…”

“And were you serious when you said that you would take us down if necessary, just like a piece in a chessboard?”

Mayers wasn’t able to answer because of how confused he was.

If he admitted that he was serious, he would face backlash from the nobles who were supporting him till then nor could he give up an awkward lie with no truth.

‘Damn it, what should I do…?’

As Mayers hesitated without answering, the eyes of the nobles only turned colder.