Chapter 104 – Politics Is Not for Everyone

“As you instructed, we have taken control of the entire castle.”

“What do you mean? You’ve taken control of the capital…”

The queen is puzzled by the knight commander’s words.

She lightly patted Agnes’ shoulder as if to show off our relationship to her.

“Good job. It came at a good time.”

“Agnes, how did this happen? Could it be that you also defected?”

Agnes, who had been trying to ignore the queen, finally made eye contact with her and responded in a voice that suppressed her emotions.

“I’m sorry. I think it’s time for both the Queen and me to pay for our sins.”

“What is that…!”

“Now, we have to leave quickly, so get dressed too.”

She spoke as she untied the ropes that bound the queen’s hands and feet, but her eyes were still focused on the knight commander.

“You’re repaying the favor I received in this way. You shouldn’t have accepted trash like dark elves-, yaaaaah!”

“Get dressed.”

“Da, are you crazy? How dare you touch the queen’s cheek…!”

“Do you want to be beaten more?”

“Ugh…”

“Get ready to leave right away. And be careful what you say to Agnes from now on.”

The queen said nothing more and obediently picked up her clothes.
She asked when she was fully dressed.

“…Where are you talking about that you have to go out?”

“You should go to the castle elves and inform them of your sins. Use that book as proof.”

As she spoke, she pointed to one wall with her chin.
Through the secret door that was left open all night, the corner of the glass tube storing the prophetic books was visible.

“I thought so too. But you think I’m going to let you do that?!”

“What?”

At that moment, the queen stretched out her hand in the direction where the book of prophecy was located.
I saw the light emanating from her hand and hurriedly suppressed it, but it was already too late as she had a smile on her face.

“What did you do?”

“If you’re curious, why don’t you go and check it out yourself?”

“Agnes, please check if there is anything wrong with the prophecy.”

“I get it.”

Agnes nodded and entered the secret space, and soon a panicked voice was heard.

“No!”

“What’s the matter?”

“The book of prophecy has disappeared!”

“What?”

“Hehe. How important is the Goddess’ Prophecy to elves, but did you think there would be no emergency preparedness?”

They say the prophetic books have disappeared, but they probably haven’t completely disappeared from this world.

As she just said, it was an item of utmost importance, so she must have used magic to move it to another location.

“Where did you move it!”

“Why should I answer? That’s too bad. No one will believe anything a human says without solid evidence.”

The sarcastic expression on his face made me angry and I was about to give him another slap on the cheek, but I quit.
When I thought about it calmly, it wasn’t really a big problem.

Originally, the plan was to make people confess and pay for their crimes, but the order was changed, and all they had to do was punish them first to elicit a confession.

“…Let’s go now. Agnes, please bring this woman.”

So she left the queen’s room with them.

The Queen, who was walking with her wrists tied with rope, muttered as if she did not understand the quiet hallway.

“Why is there no one in the hallway…?”

“You’ll find out soon.”

The place we finally arrived at was the queen’s throne room.
NerMedia’s expression was filled with astonishment as she opened her large door and entered.

“Oh, this can’t be happening…!”

The throne room had been occupied by the knights.

All the elves in the castle, including the servants and maids, as well as the disarmed guards, were gathered and kneeling, and members with weapons were watching them.

There probably wouldn’t have been much difficulty for the knights to take control of the castle.

Except for me, the twenty-two knights all have the best military power in the kingdom.

When I encountered the ogre before, I couldn’t use my strength properly, but that was because the monster I had never seen before used a fatal ability called magic blockade, and I was able to easily suppress the castle guards.

“Oh, queen…”
“Even the queen was captured…!”
“Ah, goddess… Why this ordeal!”

The elves of the castle sigh one by one when they see us coming through the door.

However, the queen’s eyes were not on her subjects.

“Baby!”

Iril is kneeling and lowering her head away from the other elves.
Beside him, Rize stood guard with her sword raised.

“What are you doing to Iril? She is the princess of this country!”

“Don’t worry. Your limbs are fine.”

“You couldn’t have done something stupid to that kid…!”

“No, I didn’t do anything. I just needed a little help getting into that room.”

“What? I was wondering how a human got in there…!”

The queen’s fierce eyes are fixed on me.
Because of the mistaken belief that I had threatened the princess into entering a secret room and reading the prophetic book.

But she didn’t know.
The fact that the princess is being held captive by me is staged.

Not only that, but the messenger who informed the knights of the queen’s sins and took over the castle according to my instructions was none other than the princess.

“Let’s go.”

He took the queen, who was still in shock, and headed to her throne.

Kiella was sitting on the throne to my left, and to my right was the queen kneeling and Agnes holding a sword to her neck.

“Kiella. I should have noticed earlier that you were distracted like a snake…!”

“…”

Kiella does not respond to the resentful queen’s words and just looks straight ahead.

After a while, I shouted to the elves looking up at the throne.

“You all probably don’t understand the situation! Why is the castle occupied and the queen and princess captured? So let me explain!”

“…”

“This woman has committed a sin that should not be committed as a queen! She has committed the grave sin of betraying not only the elves here, but the entire kingdom!”

A heavy silence continued to fall in the throne room, but I shouted regardless.

“Queen Nermedia disobeyed the prophecy of her goddess Louis Noir for her own self-interest!”

“What?”
“Nonsense, Queen…?”

The elves, who had now started to become noisy, became quiet again at the orders of the members to be quiet.

“It was written like this in the goddess’ book of prophecy! Once the demon king who was targeting this land burns away, Harmoniere will completely belong to the hero, and the hero will become the leader of Elora!”

“The hero is the leader?”
“The hero committed himself to the devil…”
“What has the Queen done?”

“But the queen was afraid to step down from her position as leader, so she disobeyed the word of the goddess and she murdered the warrior!”

“Well, that can’t be possible!”
“The queen wants a hero…?!”
“How is it possible to disobey the words of the goddess!”

The voices of the confused elves filled the throne room and grew louder than the members could control.

What put this huge panic to rest, even if only for a moment, was the Queen’s voice that continued.

“Everyone calm down! Everything he says is a lie!”

“Queen…!”

“Just as I announced five years ago, the hero threw himself into the fiery pit together with the Demon King to protect Elora! And this was also according to the goddess’s prophecy!”

Even in this situation, lies are often said. After all, politics is not for everyone.

I was curious to see how far the nonsense went, so I listened in silence.

“It makes no sense for me, who should lead my sisters according to the words of the goddess, to disobey the prophecy! This is a lie from me, who wants to take over the kingdom and fulfill his desires!”

‘As expected, it comes out like this.’

I said that I didn’t think it was worth listening to any more excuses that were not out of the ordinary.

“Then show the goddess’ prophecy to everyone here. Let her prove that the queen is wronged.”

“Ha! You call that a horse?”

“What?”

“You stole the book of prophecy! You even threatened the powerless Iril!”

“Stealing the goddess’s book of prophecy, such blasphemous!”
“Ah, poor princess…”

The elves are shocked when the princess’s name comes out.
Thanks to this, the queen’s voice gained more power.

“You took away the book of prophecy to hide your lies, and then you ask me to prove it? Are you going to insist that what I said is a lie because you can’t prove it? If what you say is true, then bring the book of prophecy and prove it!”

Even though it was a hasty idea, it is a decent idea.

If the queen kills a player like that without knowing where she hid her book of prophecy, I have no means of proving her lie.

And in a situation where there was no evidence, it was obvious that the words of the queen, who had been together for a long time, would be more impactful to the castle elves than to me, a human.

“Yes, the queen wouldn’t do that.”
“It’s a pity that the princess is being used by this author…”
“The queen has been captured, so why aren’t the royal wizards coming…?”

As expected, public opinion leaned towards the queen.
The eyes of the elves looking at me were filled with hostility, as if they were facing a villain.

But.

‘Doesn’t care. No, I rather like it.’

“I do not have the prophecy, but rather it is the queen who hid it! However, since there is no way to prove this, I and her knights will take over the castle until the truth is revealed! So…”

Feeling that all eyes in the throne room were on her, she took a breath and continued.

“The Queen’s personal affairs will be managed by me and the Knights, and Chief Justice Kiella here will lead the kingdom as Acting Secretary of State! If everyone here does not reveal this to the outside world and cooperates with state affairs, we will guarantee the same quality of life and safety as before. I will give it to you!”

The gathered elves are murmuring.
Among them, there were also those who criticized me, saying that my goal was to obtain the kingdom.

But this atmosphere was only welcome to me.

This is a fight between me trying to get a confession and the queen trying to hold out until the end.
When I win this battle, the stronger the elves’ faith in their queen, the greater the sense of betrayal they will feel.

Are you confident that you can get that poisonous queen’s confession?

Of course. Up until now, my dick has won every battle.
It will surely corrupt her queen to her lowest level and cause her to lose everything she has.

“Try as much as you can. I will never lose to people blinded by greed.”

Meanwhile, the queen recited her lines while being conscious of the gaze of her subjects.
She answered with a confident smile, hoping to see how long her mask would hold up.