CH 63

“Should I read a newspaper?”

I opened the newspaper, World Daily, with a peaceful mind.

Then, while holding a rusk, I murmured and looked at the headlines first.

‘Please let there not be anything special today.’

‘May the beautiful world peace be maintained.’

‘Well, much later… The news that Sislin has become the Crown Prince will be spread around the world.’

Considering the original—

‘It will take about seven years.’

Even after that, if Heinrich is not charged with treason and is safe, it would be the completion of the happy ending I had devised.

So it was just a few years away.

That’s why I subscribed to the World Daily.

“Huh?!”

But reading today’s headline, I couldn’t contain my shock.

「The hidden prince of the El Dorado Empire, ‘Sislin von Axelferion’ ― officially ascended as Crown Prince!」

What did you say, sir?

Why was this article now out…?

Feeling a tingling sensation in the back of the head, I dropped the rusk I was nibbling on.

“Why is it so advanced from the original?!”

It was an ominous sign.

‘Without my knowledge, what the hell is going on?’

—In El Dorado.

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It was dawn in El Dorado.

In the auditorium of the Axelferion Imperial Palace, the real powers were having a meeting.

While Gerard and other key ministers were having this meeting, deaf maids attended to them.

The emperor should be sitting on the throne and leading this arrogant crowd—

But there was no emperor now.

Instead, a green-haired, red-eyed man was sitting on the throne.

A few years ago, he took over the throne as deputy instead of the emperor, who collapsed due to an unknown cause and became paralyzed.

Derek von Axelferion.

The younger brother of the current emperor and Gerard’s ‘puppet’.

“We’re deciding on important matters, so don’t we need to call Prince Sislin…?”

Derek asked, shifting his eyes anxiously.

The agenda of the meeting was to decide whether to go to war for territorial expansion, and they were gathering opinions about Sislin leading the war.

It was a meeting in which the person concerned was pushed into death without knowledge.

“Once a decision is made, it must be followed.”

Gerard continued to speak leisurely.

“This meeting is attended by my uncle, who is acting on behalf of the Emperor. Failure to comply would be disobedience to the decree, and rebellion against the Axelferion imperial family.”

To force him into a battlefield where his life would be at risk, and if he didn’t follow it, he would be committing treason.

Gerard, who set the trap, laughed like a snake.

“—I wonder if the prince would do that.”

Bang!

Just then, the door opened and a guard ran in and shouted.

“Big, b-big trouble!”

Gerard’s face hardened.

“What’s going on?”

“The Third Prince just… He’s been killed!”

“……!!!”

The meeting participants roared with shock.

“Si, Prince Sislin came out of his bedroom at dawn and suddenly did such a thing—”

Trembling, the guard spoke.

“His eyes were crazy. He’s out of his mind. He’s coming this way! Everyone, you should avoid…!”

In an instant, the meeting participants were terrified. There were a bunch of people trying to run away.

At that time, a heavy voice that could never be ignored came, crushing the people. It was Gerard.

“Nobody leaves.”

“Ha, hah, but if he tries to kill us too…!”

It was at that moment when Derek was pleading and wondering what to do.

Thud—

The heavy door opened wider, and there was a horrifying, creaking sound of the hinges.

“……!!!”

As soon as everyone looked towards the door, their heads stood still.

There stood a muscular man who was close to 190 cm tall.

He was fresh out of his bedroom.

From the broad shoulders to the exposed chest, and from the waist down.

Black silk flowed down like a wave, following the overbearingly trained body.

Additionally, he was drenched in blood. Obviously, it wasn’t his.

Everyone in the room kept their mouths shut. No one was even breathing properly, let alone talking.

“…….”

They were feeling déjà vu. It was like going back to years ago, when Sislin first began slaughtering his brothers.

Ripping their necks off, killing them.

In the middle of the night for no reason.

On that day when the life of the fifth prince, who had the support of the emperor, was so easily taken, his mother fainted and the imperial family was terrified.

Since then, Sislin had been punishing those who were fighting for power.

It was not unfamiliar, of course, for princes to kill each other to become the crown prince.

―Still, there was something cruel about him.

Like an unpredictable and ferocious beast.

“You all just so happen to be here.”

A terribly low voice escaped freshly bloodstained lips.

Ja-chak, tak—

While he walked barefoot, blood dripped onto the marble floor, leaving bright red footprints.

The glint in his red eyes that could hardly be seen as sane looked at the crowd.

“What were you all talking about?”

“……!”

Flinch.

The guilty ministers lowered their eyes.

“Oh, Prince…! What brought you here?”

Derek mustered up the courage and spoke in a rather serious voice.

“I woke up early in the morning and I was bored.”

The red eyes under the black hair curved.

“I brought a present for my uncle.”

“Oh, thank you.”

Sislin handed over the sack himself.

Derek, who had received it with a calm face, as if not trying to provoke the madman, checked the inside.

And immediately, he hurled the sack away, screaming like he was experiencing a seizure.

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

Tuk, tukkk—

Whatever that was in the bag rolled very well, over and over. Derek had a look of complete exhaustion, and the maids, who had a foreboding of what the gift was, could only let out tearful, silent screams.

‘That crazy bastard.’

Gerard gritted his teeth.

It had only been a month since Sislin came back from the battlefield. He couldn’t stand it and wanted to see blood?

This was a meeting that was held with peace of mind, thinking that his body had not recovered.

Gerard tried to throw the hateful guy back to the battlefield with the deputy’s power. But the plan was thwarted, and this mess left him furious.

He stepped forward, saying,

“Prince Sislin! Why did you have to make such a fuss at dawn?”

“…….”

Hazy red eyes looked at Gerard.

“Now we’re the only ones left with the same mother.”

All the rest of the princes were killed. All that was left was the first prince, Gerard, and his brother, Sislin, who were said to have been born by the first empress.

Those red eyes twitched

“Brother.”

His languid voice seemed even more threatening.

“I am willing to slaughter even my brother who’s born of the same blood.”

“……!!!”

“Do you have any will to become the emperor?”

It was a straightforward question.

It was also a threat.

The audience looked nervously at the two princes in turn.

The last princes of the Axelferion imperial family.

One of the two would become the crown prince.

All this while, there were many princes who could succeed the emperor, so the discussion about the crown prince continued to be delayed.

But now things were different.

If there was only one crown prince candidate, the stable state administration could quickly appoint the crown prince in this situation where the emperor was not conscious.

Thus, Gerard’s answer now was more important than anything else.

In Gerard’s mind, he would like to face Sislin a hundred times more, but…

His strength was still insufficient.

‘If I confront him here, I will die a dog’s death.’

Gerard responded with a shiver of shame and vomiting blood.

“I have no desire for imperial power.”

His beast-like younger brother grinned.

It was clear that he knew in advance what Gerard’s answer would be.

“Then, I think we should choose the Crown Prince right here.”

“……!”

The unexpected losers hardened in an instant.

Sislin alone sat in a chair with a calm face, beckoning leisurely as if telling them to start.

An unprecedented emergency meeting has begun.

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The office of the Marquis of Hyacinth.

Heinrich frowned upon hearing about what had happened in the Imperial Palace from his aide.

“Tch, that savage bastard. I can’t do business anymore.”

Heinrich was wearing a gorgeous jewel cravat, and his rosy lips were shining.

“He did everything he could to find Sister, and in the end, he even ate the crown prince’s position.”

His aide asked.

“…Does that have anything to do with Miss Annette?”

“Of course.”

Heinrich said it as if explanations were unnecessary, and looked at his face in front of the mirror.

“Everything he does has to do with Sister.”

In the mirror, a handsome man with white, smooth skin and raised purple eyes were facing him.

The fancy attire suited him more than anyone else.

He was over 180cm tall, and his lips were red to the point that he looked erotic.

Like he grew up eating only precious things.

Heinrich swept his silver hair in satisfaction. Then he mumbled.

“Perhaps he’s searching for her every moment, even as he breathes and rests?”

“…How do you know that?”

“That bastard’s way of thinking is obvious.”

His cheeks gleamed in a beautiful way, and the corners of his red lips twisted.

The eyes on his beautiful face shone gently toward the aide.

“He’s just like me.”

“……!”

Those eyes were terribly crazy.

A look that only those who had longed for and had been obsessed with one thing for a very long time could have.

For a moment, Heinrich frowned as if the thought had suddenly come to him.

“But what happens to my title of Grand Duke if that young beast becomes Crown Prince?”

Heinrich was to receive the title of ‘Grand Duke’ today.

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The meeting to decide the crown prince was quickly over.

Gerard advised Derek to postpone the decision, saying, ‘You can’t decide the crown prince’s position hastily,’ and ‘don’t give up power easily’.

Derek said, trembling.

“Oh God, what good is power when you die! I’ll just give up… I’m so scared, it’s so scary, Prince Sislin is insane.”

Thus, the Crown Prince of El Dorado was decided.

The person who would represent the imperial power in place of the fallen emperor.

It was Sislin von Axelferion.

Derek made the announcement himself, and everyone applauded.

―Inwardly, he was suppressing the desire to run away.

Sislin received the crown directly from Derek and placed it on his head.

Then he sat at an angle, almost lying on the throne, and laughed.

“That dressing and posture…”

Gerard clenched his fist and gritted his teeth.

“What an attitude for the throne. It is disrespectful.”

“Am I ungodly?”

“…….”

“I think I’ll get what I want soon… I’m excited.”

‘Haven’t you already got what you want?’

That was what everyone thought.

However, what Sislin wanted to obtain was not the seat of the crown prince.

It was to use this position to finally find Annette.

Sislin picked up the grapes from the silver tray, popped them in between his white teeth, and chewed them.

The sweet juices covered his tongue, and his Adam’s apple bobbled as it passed down his throat. He was simply chewing the flesh, but somehow it had a deep erotic feeling.

Soon, he said,

“Everyone, go.”

With a low breath, Sislin’s bloody hand moved.

His strong muscles passed through his tight lower abdomen and finally landed on his thick thighs.

“Because I have to do a lot of blasphemous things to commemorate my seat on the throne.”

Like a dog marking its territory.

“……!!!”

Everyone contemplated upon his unfamiliar demeanor and ran away from the scene.

Ame: HOLY SMOKESSSS!!! Sislin and Heinrich are back and— HOTTER THAN EVER!! *Pterodactyl screams intensifies* Annette might not be ready for them, but who cares??? 

Tassie: I literally was not ready for this chapter.  HOW DID HE BECOME SO HOT AND JUST MY TYPE OMGGG IM SOBBING THROWING UP PUNCHING THE WALL BARKING SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE I WANT HIM