Chapter 185 - 099. The Blackened Village (1/2)
Chapter 185: 099 The Blackened Village -1 (Part One)
Ruppel pleaded with me
The sole wish he had was not to keep his life, but tothat to ain
I could sense the desperation from both his voice and expression
The first and quite likely the very last requesthis pride…
To such a request, I only had one thing to say
“I refuse”
Yup, I said no
Ruppel flinched grandly and stared at ly and responded, “It’s truly unfortunate, but I lack the sufficient strength to help you, brother I’m sure you already know this, too Both First Imperial Prince Luan and our father White have stepped up And well, what can I say? Their stubborn streaks are second to none, aren’t they?”
“B-but, can’t you stop theht be able to stop them
After all, Ruppel did witness with his oo eyesRaha on the powers of the relics And let’s not forget, I have absolutely no reason to whip those relics out against White and Luan
“Why should I even stop them?”
Rose tried to have me assassinated, and she also happened to be the one whoher life and bringing her back here, I had plenty of reasons to kill her right there and then
Ruppel reatly
He remained silent for a little while, but eventually, opened his firmly-shut mouth once lanced at hi to hiive that to you That’s right… I’ll give that to you!”
“…What are you even talking about, brother?”
Ruppel lifted his head and stared atall sorts of rare and valuable ic tools Since you’re a Necroreater power!”
Uhm, no That isn’t even re here All the relics in my possession just so happened to be already there when I showed up to a location, and they ‘somehow’ landed on my lap one way or the other
It was unknohether or not Ruppel knehat kind of thoughts were percolating in ardless “The relic left behind the very first Holy Emperor, Ordin Olfolse I shall tell you the whereabouts of that item!”
Ruppel sounded so earnest and desperate
“If you somehow help me meet my mother, then I shall tell you the coordinates and the name of the location When you co in this world will be able to stop you”
A treasure wielded by the very first Holy Emperor?
And he can tell me where it is?
Ruppel asked me with an expression filled with expectation, “H-how about it? You want to help me now, don’t you?”
I stared dazedly at Ruppel and replied
“…It’s still a no”
I stepped outside the prison
“Uwaaaaaahk!”
A noisy screaed to Ruppel, obviously
Eeeiya~, as expected ofto lanced back at the prison and slowly shookhiured that he had plenty of energy left in that eht he was all depressed and stuff, but by the looks of things, I didn’t have to worry tooto myself, Charlotte next to hness Without a doubt, he htly flickedon a door Her eyes opened wider and she shi+elded her face in a slight fluster
My expression was different fro”
Charlotte’s face hardened at my reply
“Besides, the desire for a child to be with their parent… You also know that feeling, don’t you?”
I spotted her eyes tre She seeet me all the information related to Third Imperial Prince Ruppel and Rose Darina? Ah, and also, I think it’ll be a good idea to gather as hness, could it be that…” A worried expression floated up on Charlotte’s face She cautiously spoke up “You er the Third I that could be construed as abetting his cause, then the criht…”
“I know”
I know full well already, okay?
And that’s why I wanted to make sure
“It won’t be too late to decide after checking out the inforht?”
For sure, it wouldn’t be too late by then Not too late to decide whether I should help Ruppel out or not
Before anything else, though, I needed to find out what kind of person Ruppel was first
From that day on, I basically holed myself inside the library And with the aid of Charlotte, Harather all the relevant info
The tale of Third Imperial Prince Ruppel’s life frole testimony spat out by the family members of the Darina household… all of them were combined into one narrative
Even the stories told by the manservants and le irrefutable conclusion
“…He was a puppet, huh”
I sensed a bout ofits assault on ainst the backrest ofMy eyes felt tired by then, so I startedmy temples
“What a foolish man you’ve been, brother”
Third I as a complete puppet of Rose Darina In order to s up the whole I up all sorts of underhanded schemes, and whenever her plans fell apart, she used her own son, the Third Imperial Prince, as a shi+eld from the stor, anything, for hispraised, she’d violently beat him up instead
Rose was solely responsible for Yulisia’sthe ioing along hat she ordered hiuy, he… He spent his whole life yearning for his mother’s approval, but was discarded by her in the end
A devil-like btch of a mother, and a foolish son who stuck to her till the very end In a way, I couldn’t help but see it as quite ironic