Chapter 1 (1/2)
TL: Keriv136
Ed: Keriv136
This chapter is only around 2100 words in English but it was a pain to translate. The author uses weird phrases and idioms on occasion which are a pain. Anyway, here is Chapter 1. I fixed it up and added a little flavor from what the author wrote for better readability. Let me know your thoughts on the translation! Thanks for reading.
Chapter 1 – Return (back in time) First Prince
”Imperial Highness!”
”Imperial Highness!”
His consciousness had returned. He had obviously had his head cut off by a guillotine. It was such a vivid feeling having his throat penetrated by a sharp blade.
Have I arrived in the afterlife?
”Your Highness Eurius!”
Hmm?
It had been a long time since he had been called Emperor.
Where the h.e.l.l is that annoying voice coming from?
”Now you're treating this old man like he's nothing!”
”Lord Marius!”
Eurius, the emperor that had been executed, stared in shock at the owner of the voice.
”Did you come here because you're dead? Even in the afterlife you're still just a grumpy old man!”
Eurius was beside himself with joy. The old man, Marius, who was looking directly at him was someone who had taught him since his childhood. However, unlike what Eurius remembered, the old man's face was much more wrinkled.
”Are you making fun of this old man's convictions?”
Does he still have a bad temper? I feel like I've returned to my childhood.
It would be great to say this was all a joke, but there wouldn't be a good reaction from him. At the moment that Eurius attempted to apologize for calling him a grumpy old man, he was interrupted.
”If you continue to act like this I will tell the Emperor!”
”Who is the Emperor?” Eurius found himself asking curiously.
Wasn't he the Emperor? Apparently he had been called your highness, but not Emperor. Marius's face began to change, becoming more and more purple as his anger grew.
”You haven't been paying attention! I clearly explained all this in your lesson today!”
He stood up energetically, in contrast with his age, and left the room.
Emperor? Lesson? Conviction?
Eurius was puzzled as he looked around the room. This looks familiar. As he looked around the room his attention was suddenly drawn towards a mirror.
What the h.e.l.l?
In the mirror, reflected back at him was not the man who was executed in his thirties, but a 15 year old boy.
”There's no one here!”
Eurius hurriedly rang a bell. What if he was right?
”Did you call me?”
A servant enters the room in a hurry.
”What is today's date?”
The servant was puzzled for a moment but then gave a reply.
”No way.”
Again, the answer was the same.
Eurius, after hearing what the servant said, plopped down on his chair. The date was twenty years before the day of his execution. He had gone back in time to when he was fifteen years old.
How could this happen…
Eurius grabbed his head in surprise. Was everything that he had experienced just a dream? No, it couldn't be! It's impossible to have such a vivid and lifelike dream. This is undoubtedly a reality.
Now what?
Hope begins to emerge in Eurius who had been living in despair. In this second life, he could undo all his regrets. He knew most of the events of the next twenty years. Things like, who knew what, who was loyal, and important people who would stand out.
Leonhart.
He thinks of his younger brother who forced him off the throne.
It won't be so easy this time.
No, this time he must survive.
Above all, I need to raise everyone's opinion of me.
He made many mistakes in his past life.
I was just too young.
Born as a member of the Royal Family within the blessed environment of the Imperial household, he was able to inherit a vast empire without doing anything. He thought that no one could stop him from becoming Emperor.
It was all a big mistake.
His blessed environment was all an illusion. No, he was indoctrinated to believe that. The provincial forces turned their backs on him and those he thought he could trust left him. He was inexperienced and had no way of stopping them from leaving him.
Though it was too late, he attempted to regain the people's trust, collect talented people and strengthen his authority.
Within four years of his ascension to the throne, the empire was divided in half and a decade of intense civil war began. The land was devastated and the national power of the empire fell.
The result of this is something he already knew.
I failed and ended up being executed by my own brother.
At first he resented his brother, but now he realized that it was only natural for it to happen. Although the truth was all around him, he failed to see it and instead looked naively forward into the future, but this time it would be different.
Sitting in his chair, Eurius's head spun with plans for the future. However, he couldn't help having troubled thoughts.
[Player's rights acquisition has been completed.]
[You can now view your status.]
”Status?”
Elsewhere
”Your majesty, Prime Minister Marius entering!”
Marius bravely walked into the throne room and stood before the throne. Seated on the throne was the Emperor whose hair had turned gray.
Although he appeared old, he was filled with vitality. His body was covered in muscles and he possessed greater strength than one would normally have at his age.
[Theopold the 2nd]
He led the Empire during the great war and built up the Empire into the great power it was today. He conquered the northern provinces, which had been a bane to the Empire, and brought peace and prosperity to the people while stabilizing the security of the nation.
During his reign, there were no exceptions made even to those who helped him become Emperor. Anyone who abused their position or committed a crime, even if a minister, would be dismissed immediately and their punishment would be harsh.
His nickname was the Blood-Iron Emperor!