Chapter 37 - Volume 5 (2/2)

Once my eyes were open, I turned to look at the maids

“The monarch which you all serve does not believe in the resurrection of God I aious If I were to have a doctrine, then it would siht My creed would be for the candlelight to protect the night perennially, without end As I look into ht, I unravel and fathom the people from a distance Do you all consider me to be blasphemous?”

Julia knelt down and the otherthemselves

“We huhness”

“Although I may have many duties as an emperor, once you have conjectured more from what can be seen, that is when it can be finally established I shall ask you this Do you all believe in my perception?”

“Please command us We shall obey”

I nodded

“Suht, you will have to wake the called, then tell the their weapons If they ask for a deeper cause, then inform the any more questions”

“Should we summon all of theathered by the time it took for a candle to ht was chilly because the spring rain had receded Because they did not know the reason why they were gathered during the night, the lips of the coave a command

“I heard that a wicked booklet has been circulating within our forces They say that the speech of the ene the cohts within their row, then will they not eventually becoiant tree where the roots are placed within the hearts of the people Do you all not think that the roots would become firm if you remove the weed before they can cause corrosion? Cohness”

“With my concern for those roots as the cause, I command you I shall allow you all to take a leave of absence tonight Utilize the subordinates who you believe are trustworthy and raid every single tent Turn them inside out If you find one of these booklets within a tent, then execute every single soldier that was assigned to that tent Do not take their lives while causing an uproar Youas you pull out the weed Behead theround

“All of theht

There were flahout the ht There was a decapitated corpse subed within each puddle of water which therain had left behind

The soldier as raising his voice in order to claim that he was innocent was beheaded in the middle of his assertion His head fell into aly to the amount of muddy water the mouth of the corpse had sed Like so, the puddles all around dried up co the night

—O Goddess of All who resides in the clearest of skies, please do not toss away these deeply sinful children even if they arrive at your doorsteps, and simply look after them with mercy and tolerance We shall bury their earthly corpses, so, O Goddess of All, please reap their heavenly spirits Although we kno to bury the dead, we do not kno to bury their souls, so we can only look up at you, O Goddess of All, for your wisdom······

Priests chanted reclusively as they roamed around the camp Because a saintess who clai the Hymn of the Faithfully Departed, the coroup of apostles alone As expected, I had no reason to obstruct the hearts of the priests ished to soothe the spirits with their hymn

I passed the note that ritten by the second spy to my head maid

“Julia The person who had written this is a traitor who has submitted to the side of demonkind”

“Pardon?”

“As the day was chaotic, hoas this individual able to find the time to write down their words so neat and properly? A disturbance had occurred and this person should have also been caught up in that disturbance, but as you can see, they had tipped off the people above them and obtained the time to leisurely write their report Attach a separate spy on this person Kill them before half a month can pass”

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The head maid bowed

“As you coazed out towards the other side of the Bruno Plains It was deep into the night so the eneh the enemy encampment was not visible, solely the outline of the tower of human skulls which the deuely seen under thethere I see that the child as nothing had barely beco taken in by Dantalian Therefore, the child was perfor

In the end, can that be beautiful?

Even a life that is completely dependent on someone else

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Even that

As I listened to the sound of flaht

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TL note: Thanks for reading the chapter This prologue was rather difficult to translate partially due to ue with her words and uses a lot offor souys

In any case, similar to volume 4, I don’t plan to split the chapters for volume 5 into parts (The chapters are all 15k+ words) The chapters are quite long, longer than the ones in volu experience I may make exceptions if some real-life problem occurs down the road, but I’ll ive an accurate esti it’ll take me to translate chapter 1 since I have such a chaotic schedule this month, but I’ll do my best I’m free from public service on the 20th, so my chaotic schedule should vanish at that point You can check for progress updates in the announcement channel of my discord server

PS Welcome the return of DD!