The crowd trembled at the power of the Emperor, the Primera.
A life extinguished with just a single gesture.
The appearance was like a god.
“T, the great Primera!”
“It’s Primera!”
Axion burst into laughter as he watched the crowd in awe of the emperor.
‘Yeah, you came out in person to put on a show like this.’
Axion, who had been looking around helplessly, paused.
Cheshire’s face while he standing next to him.
‘…What’s that expression?’
He was different from others who were amazed and afraid of the emperor’s power. Cheshire was as if he were enjoying himself.
He wasn’t mistaken.
Because he was trembling for a long time from the boiling emotions right now.
‘Lilith, now I know why you were so afraid of that man.’
Enoch, who is the strongest as far as Cheshire knows, and Lilith, the Primera.
They were strangely afraid of the emperor’s ability.
Even though Cheshire was hard to understand because he had never dealt with it before, he felt it deeply when Lilith fell into a holy fever.
A strong being who can threaten you with just one gesture.
A devil who can hold and break the wings of angels mercilessly.
Cheshire saw his face and wanted to engrave it on his chest.
Killing him.
A driving force that will move him forward.
***
The High Priest died.
The Capital was overturned, and the next two months passed quickly.
“Phew.”
In the meantime, the year has changed, and I’m eight years old.
‘Still, I lived pretty hard for over half a year after coming to the Capital…’
Of course, the emperor is not an easy person, so I have been a bit depressed these days.
Of course, it was a thief who tried to carry out a revolution in half a year that would have taken more than a decade.
‘Ha, it’s not easy…’
I lay down helplessly and solved the homework Oscar gave me.
“Are you not going to sit up straight and solve it?”
“Ack, Master!”
Oscar appeared, slamming a book as thick as a blunt weapon in front of me.
“What are you doing ?”
“Is that the homework I gave last week? Stop solving it and read this from today.”
I opened the book.
And I was surprised.
‘…P, Projective geometry?’
This is the math I learn at university!
This puts a strain on my head, and I can’t figure it out even if I think about my past life.
Because I wasn’t a math major.
“M, Master…”
“Let’s get to page 30 of that today.”
Oscar spoke calmly, sat down with his legs crossed, and began to look at his book.
“D, do I really need to solve this…?”
“Yeah. I told you I would teach you movement magic. If you know that, you can use it.”
“Ah! I see. But do I really need to know the movement magic formula? No one knows anyway, so if only I knew…”
“Hey, something dangerous will happen later. It’s easier if you use your abilities to escape. But won’t you be suspicious if you use magic that doesn’t exist?”
“…After listening to it, you’re right.”
“Solve it quickly.”
He told me to solve it without even telling me.
Of course, it’s because I know everything.
“Master, of course. I have something to confess.”
“What?”
“I was in the liberal arts department…”
“What? What is that?”
“I wasn’t a math major.”
“….?”
I smiled brightly as I looked at Oscar’s puzzled look.
I’m not a genius, but I solved the problem because I had a lot of memory, and even Oscar knows it roughly, but…
I’m so embarrassed to say it with my own mouth.
“I… In the world I lived in before, I knew about Vector while tutoring the kids…”
“….”
“This thing you gave me today, this projective geometry… I don’t know much about it because only my friends who major in math in college solved it. Because I never learned it…”
Oscar’s lips twitched as if he could partially understand what was being said, even though the sound was hard to make out.
“Oho. So what you’re saying is that I need proper teaching from this teacher, unlike what I’ve been doing so far?”
“M, Master.”
Oscar laughed evilly.
He seemed willing to work hard and teach me.
“Wait!”
Fortunately, there is bribery.
I handed over the pretty gift box that I had pushed to the corner of the desk.
“It’s a gift!”
“What?”
“Open it.”
Oscar tilted his head and opened the box.
What came out was a pretty quill.
“Ahaha! This is very expensive! I bought it with my pocket money that I saved up!”
“…Why are you suddenly giving me this?”
“Because today is Master’s birthday! February 18th!”
Oscar’s eyes widened.
I grinned.
“There’s nothing I don’t know about Master anymore~!”
“…”
Oscar looked at the gift for a while with a strange expression.
Fortunately, he seemed to like it.
“Happy eighteenth birthday! Next year, the next year, and ten years from now, when Master will be twenty-eight, thirty-eight, forty-eight, fifty-eight…”
“Stop, stop.”
“…Anyway, I will congratulate you on your birthday, Master!”
Oscar, who was quietly looking at me with deep eyes, said, “Yeah.”
I smiled and whispered.
“Master, Master! To celebrate your birthday, should we have fun today instead of studying?”
Oskar laughed, brought his face close to me, and tapped the tip of my nose.
And then he said,
“Open your book, princess.”
“…Whoa.”
* * *
Central, Temple of Valterac.
He could see the back of a man sitting alone in a large prayer room.
As Joseph approached, Enoch, the man who was praying, turned around.
“You’re here?”
“It’s been a while since I saw you here. It was where I first met Your Excellency. How have you improved your poker skills?”
“Not at all. I’m not good at it.”
Joseph, who was holding poker cards in his hands, chuckled and sat down next to him.
Then he started speaking with a sharp expression, as if he had never laughed before.
“The power of the temple has been reduced. The emperor lost something big because of this incident.”
The high priest who deceived God by spreading false revelations has died.
The emperor himself put on a show to punish him, showing his power to escape the crisis…
Still, he clearly took a hit.
“It turns out that God’s will is peace. Therefore, the emperor cannot hastily create an atmosphere of war right away.”
“I suppose so.”
Enoch felt like he could breathe a little.
“From now on, the emperor will work hard to redeploy the temple’s personnel, rebuild the fallen authority, and reorganize the atmosphere of the capital.”
“….”
Joseph added with a smile.
“It’s a pretty good opportunity for us. Your Excellency, there is no need to worry about war for the time being.”
“It will also be a time when we have to move constantly.”
“That’s right. The ultimate goal is not to hit the emperor’s neck but to shake the class system that dominated the foundation of the empire and eventually cut it out.”
The two men exchanged plans for the future in serious voices for a long time.
Enoch, who was about to leave.
“But aren’t you going to quit on that?”
He laughed, pointing at the card that was fluttering and moving brilliantly in Joseph’s hand.
“Ah, it’s been a while since I came to the central region, so I’m going to play a game. How can a sparrow pass by a mill?”
“People really are the same.”
“Still, I quit smoking?”
Enoch chuckled. After laughing together, Joseph added, his eyes turning serious for a moment.
“Your Excellency.”
“Hmm.”
“I don’t bet on games I can’t win.”
“….”
“Of course it will be a long fight, but I jumped into it because I saw a future where I would definitely win. So be firm and don’t fret.”
Joseph grinned.
“Your Excellency will smile at the end.”
Conversations with Joseph always made Enoch feel relieved.
He felt grateful.
“However.”
Enoch nodded, removed the anxiety from his expression, and spoke in a playful tone.
“Did you really jump in in the first place because you had a chance of winning? Didn’t you decide to help me because of my princess?”
“Ah. I can’t say no, but…”
“Ahahaha!”
The two laughed for a while.
Joseph got up and waved the card.
“It’s been a while since you came, how is it? What about one game?”
“No. Do it alone. I am.”
Enoch shrugged.
“I can’t do that without my princess.”
* * *
Now, one of the emperor’s arms has been cut off due to the death of the high priest.
This period, when the emperor was holding his breath to restore it, was Enoch’s opportunity.
It is time to bring about a wind of change.
“Princess!”
Enoch looked at the blue sky and smiled as he called out to his daughter.
Being a parent.
Once again, he thought it was a really amazing thing.
That he can do anything for his children and that he can become as strong as he want…
“Dad! I love you so much!!!”
A sincere voice rang out as if engraved in the peaceful sky.
The man once again confessed to himself the promise he had always made.
Princess.
For you,
Dad will do anything.
* * *
Imperial Calendar 1783, March.
A day in early spring when life is sprouting.
The Duke of Antrase was noisy in the morning.
“I’m so handsome.”
Leon Antrase couldn’t leave the mirror for a long time.
Lilith told him to keep his hair nice and tidy every day, so he did, and he surely looked different.
“Tsk tsk. The kid won’t fall in love with me, right?”
Leon smiled arrogantly as he ran his hand through his neatly swept bangs.
Is it because his facial lines are strangely sharper than those of his twin, Theo, who looked exactly alike as he grew up?
He looked more mature than his age.
“Butler, cloak!”
“Yes, Young Master!”
The butler waiting behind him put a red cloak on his back.
A red cloak and black armor with the imperial military emblem majestically emblazoned on it.
It was the symbol of the magic swordsman.
“I really look nice.”
A grinning Leon wore a ruby earring on his right ear and a sword on his waist.
“Now, I’m going to go… Aaah!”
Leon, who was about to leave the room, was stuck against the wall.
“Butler, please take a look.”
“Yes.”
The butler looked at the wall where Leon was standing with his back to him with trembling eyes. There was a scale engraved on the wall showing his height.
“Young Master, put your tiptoes down…”
“I didn’t do it this time!”
“Yes, yes.”
The butler, who was looking at his height, shook his head.
“178…”
“Aaaah!”
Leon screamed.
“Young Master, please don’t be upset. How on earth can you find someone this tall at your age? You’re two centimeters taller than Young Master Theo.”
“Cheshire! That punk! He’s already over 180!”
“That’s why Young Master Libre is so strange.”
Is it because he used his body inappropriately for his age and went to war? The boys grew abnormally during their growing years.
The butler couldn’t understand the Young Master, who wasn’t satisfied, even though he had grown to a height that everyone envied.
“I always eat two bowls per meal, so why am I not getting bigger? Why!”
“You will grow more.”
“What do you mean by grow more! They say men grow up when they turn 16! Dad told me he’s as tall as I am now when he was 16!”
“No. You will really grow taller. If you’re that worried, from today onwards, eat three bowls instead of two. First of all, it’s late, so please leave quickly.”
The butler comforted Leon.
An urging voice was heard from outside.
“Son, come out quickly.”
“Leon, what on earth are you doing? Come out quickly! We’re going to be late!”
The voices of his father, Alexei, and his twin brother, Theo.
“I got it! I will go!”
Leon then let out a sigh, burst open the door, and smiled.
Leon Antrase, 16 years old.
Today is the day of the official ceremony in which he receives the title of knight.
The crowd trembled at the power of the Emperor, the Primera.
A life extinguished with just a single gesture.
The appearance was like a god.
“T, the great Primera!”
“It’s Primera!”
Axion burst into laughter as he watched the crowd in awe of the emperor.
‘Yeah, you came out in person to put on a show like this.’
Axion, who had been looking around helplessly, paused.
Cheshire’s face while he standing next to him.
‘…What’s that expression?’
He was different from others who were amazed and afraid of the emperor’s power. Cheshire was as if he were enjoying himself.
He wasn’t mistaken.
Because he was trembling for a long time from the boiling emotions right now.
‘Lilith, now I know why you were so afraid of that man.’
Enoch, who is the strongest as far as Cheshire knows, and Lilith, the Primera.
They were strangely afraid of the emperor’s ability.
Even though Cheshire was hard to understand because he had never dealt with it before, he felt it deeply when Lilith fell into a holy fever.
A strong being who can threaten you with just one gesture.
A devil who can hold and break the wings of angels mercilessly.
Cheshire saw his face and wanted to engrave it on his chest.
Killing him.
A driving force that will move him forward.
***
The High Priest died.
The Capital was overturned, and the next two months passed quickly.
“Phew.”
In the meantime, the year has changed, and I’m eight years old.
‘Still, I lived pretty hard for over half a year after coming to the Capital…’
Of course, the emperor is not an easy person, so I have been a bit depressed these days.
Of course, it was a thief who tried to carry out a revolution in half a year that would have taken more than a decade.
‘Ha, it’s not easy…’
I lay down helplessly and solved the homework Oscar gave me.
“Are you not going to sit up straight and solve it?”
“Ack, Master!”
Oscar appeared, slamming a book as thick as a blunt weapon in front of me.
“What are you doing ?”
“Is that the homework I gave last week? Stop solving it and read this from today.”
I opened the book.
And I was surprised.
‘…P, Projective geometry?’
This is the math I learn at university!
This puts a strain on my head, and I can’t figure it out even if I think about my past life.
Because I wasn’t a math major.
“M, Master…”
“Let’s get to page 30 of that today.”
Oscar spoke calmly, sat down with his legs crossed, and began to look at his book.
“D, do I really need to solve this…?”
“Yeah. I told you I would teach you movement magic. If you know that, you can use it.”
“Ah! I see. But do I really need to know the movement magic formula? No one knows anyway, so if only I knew…”
“Hey, something dangerous will happen later. It’s easier if you use your abilities to escape. But won’t you be suspicious if you use magic that doesn’t exist?”
“…After listening to it, you’re right.”
“Solve it quickly.”
He told me to solve it without even telling me.
Of course, it’s because I know everything.
“Master, of course. I have something to confess.”
“What?”
“I was in the liberal arts department…”
“What? What is that?”
“I wasn’t a math major.”
“….?”
I smiled brightly as I looked at Oscar’s puzzled look.
I’m not a genius, but I solved the problem because I had a lot of memory, and even Oscar knows it roughly, but…
I’m so embarrassed to say it with my own mouth.
“I… In the world I lived in before, I knew about Vector while tutoring the kids…”
“….”
“This thing you gave me today, this projective geometry… I don’t know much about it because only my friends who major in math in college solved it. Because I never learned it…”
Oscar’s lips twitched as if he could partially understand what was being said, even though the sound was hard to make out.
“Oho. So what you’re saying is that I need proper teaching from this teacher, unlike what I’ve been doing so far?”
“M, Master.”
Oscar laughed evilly.
He seemed willing to work hard and teach me.
“Wait!”
Fortunately, there is bribery.
I handed over the pretty gift box that I had pushed to the corner of the desk.
“It’s a gift!”
“What?”
“Open it.”
Oscar tilted his head and opened the box.
What came out was a pretty quill.
“Ahaha! This is very expensive! I bought it with my pocket money that I saved up!”
“…Why are you suddenly giving me this?”
“Because today is Master’s birthday! February 18th!”
Oscar’s eyes widened.
I grinned.
“There’s nothing I don’t know about Master anymore~!”
“…”
Oscar looked at the gift for a while with a strange expression.
Fortunately, he seemed to like it.
“Happy eighteenth birthday! Next year, the next year, and ten years from now, when Master will be twenty-eight, thirty-eight, forty-eight, fifty-eight…”
“Stop, stop.”
“…Anyway, I will congratulate you on your birthday, Master!”
Oscar, who was quietly looking at me with deep eyes, said, “Yeah.”
I smiled and whispered.
“Master, Master! To celebrate your birthday, should we have fun today instead of studying?”
Oskar laughed, brought his face close to me, and tapped the tip of my nose.
And then he said,
“Open your book, princess.”
“…Whoa.”
* * *
Central, Temple of Valterac.
He could see the back of a man sitting alone in a large prayer room.
As Joseph approached, Enoch, the man who was praying, turned around.
“You’re here?”
“It’s been a while since I saw you here. It was where I first met Your Excellency. How have you improved your poker skills?”
“Not at all. I’m not good at it.”
Joseph, who was holding poker cards in his hands, chuckled and sat down next to him.
Then he started speaking with a sharp expression, as if he had never laughed before.
“The power of the temple has been reduced. The emperor lost something big because of this incident.”
The high priest who deceived God by spreading false revelations has died.
The emperor himself put on a show to punish him, showing his power to escape the crisis…
Still, he clearly took a hit.
“It turns out that God’s will is peace. Therefore, the emperor cannot hastily create an atmosphere of war right away.”
“I suppose so.”
Enoch felt like he could breathe a little.
“From now on, the emperor will work hard to redeploy the temple’s personnel, rebuild the fallen authority, and reorganize the atmosphere of the capital.”
“….”
Joseph added with a smile.
“It’s a pretty good opportunity for us. Your Excellency, there is no need to worry about war for the time being.”
“It will also be a time when we have to move constantly.”
“That’s right. The ultimate goal is not to hit the emperor’s neck but to shake the class system that dominated the foundation of the empire and eventually cut it out.”
The two men exchanged plans for the future in serious voices for a long time.
Enoch, who was about to leave.
“But aren’t you going to quit on that?”
He laughed, pointing at the card that was fluttering and moving brilliantly in Joseph’s hand.
“Ah, it’s been a while since I came to the central region, so I’m going to play a game. How can a sparrow pass by a mill?”
“People really are the same.”
“Still, I quit smoking?”
Enoch chuckled. After laughing together, Joseph added, his eyes turning serious for a moment.
“Your Excellency.”
“Hmm.”
“I don’t bet on games I can’t win.”
“….”
“Of course it will be a long fight, but I jumped into it because I saw a future where I would definitely win. So be firm and don’t fret.”
Joseph grinned.
“Your Excellency will smile at the end.”
Conversations with Joseph always made Enoch feel relieved.
He felt grateful.
“However.”
Enoch nodded, removed the anxiety from his expression, and spoke in a playful tone.
“Did you really jump in in the first place because you had a chance of winning? Didn’t you decide to help me because of my princess?”
“Ah. I can’t say no, but…”
“Ahahaha!”
The two laughed for a while.
Joseph got up and waved the card.
“It’s been a while since you came, how is it? What about one game?”
“No. Do it alone. I am.”
Enoch shrugged.
“I can’t do that without my princess.”
* * *
Now, one of the emperor’s arms has been cut off due to the death of the high priest.
This period, when the emperor was holding his breath to restore it, was Enoch’s opportunity.
It is time to bring about a wind of change.
“Princess!”
Enoch looked at the blue sky and smiled as he called out to his daughter.
Being a parent.
Once again, he thought it was a really amazing thing.
That he can do anything for his children and that he can become as strong as he want…
“Dad! I love you so much!!!”
A sincere voice rang out as if engraved in the peaceful sky.
The man once again confessed to himself the promise he had always made.
Princess.
For you,
Dad will do anything.
* * *
Imperial Calendar 1783, March.
A day in early spring when life is sprouting.
The Duke of Antrase was noisy in the morning.
“I’m so handsome.”
Leon Antrase couldn’t leave the mirror for a long time.
Lilith told him to keep his hair nice and tidy every day, so he did, and he surely looked different.
“Tsk tsk. The kid won’t fall in love with me, right?”
Leon smiled arrogantly as he ran his hand through his neatly swept bangs.
Is it because his facial lines are strangely sharper than those of his twin, Theo, who looked exactly alike as he grew up?
He looked more mature than his age.
“Butler, cloak!”
“Yes, Young Master!”
The butler waiting behind him put a red cloak on his back.
A red cloak and black armor with the imperial military emblem majestically emblazoned on it.
It was the symbol of the magic swordsman.
“I really look nice.”
A grinning Leon wore a ruby earring on his right ear and a sword on his waist.
“Now, I’m going to go… Aaah!”
Leon, who was about to leave the room, was stuck against the wall.
“Butler, please take a look.”
“Yes.”
The butler looked at the wall where Leon was standing with his back to him with trembling eyes. There was a scale engraved on the wall showing his height.
“Young Master, put your tiptoes down…”
“I didn’t do it this time!”
“Yes, yes.”
The butler, who was looking at his height, shook his head.
“178…”
“Aaaah!”
Leon screamed.
“Young Master, please don’t be upset. How on earth can you find someone this tall at your age? You’re two centimeters taller than Young Master Theo.”
“Cheshire! That punk! He’s already over 180!”
“That’s why Young Master Libre is so strange.”
Is it because he used his body inappropriately for his age and went to war? The boys grew abnormally during their growing years.
The butler couldn’t understand the Young Master, who wasn’t satisfied, even though he had grown to a height that everyone envied.
“I always eat two bowls per meal, so why am I not getting bigger? Why!”
“You will grow more.”
“What do you mean by grow more! They say men grow up when they turn 16! Dad told me he’s as tall as I am now when he was 16!”
“No. You will really grow taller. If you’re that worried, from today onwards, eat three bowls instead of two. First of all, it’s late, so please leave quickly.”
The butler comforted Leon.
An urging voice was heard from outside.
“Son, come out quickly.”
“Leon, what on earth are you doing? Come out quickly! We’re going to be late!”
The voices of his father, Alexei, and his twin brother, Theo.
“I got it! I will go!”
Leon then let out a sigh, burst open the door, and smiled.
Leon Antrase, 16 years old.
Today is the day of the official ceremony in which he receives the title of knight.
