42. Are you playing me again?

The dangerous script did not disappear just because the Rosia Empire’s arrangement for the negotiation was very “meticulous”. Although everything seemed calm and peaceful in Lubyanka Academy in the coming days, Letty’s dangerous script still existed. So I had no other choice but to risk my own death script and accompany her personally.

Later, when the agreed time arrived, this hard-won “negotiation” began in a remodeled training room in Lubyanka Academy!

On Letty’s side, it would be a lie to say there were no arrangements. Sister Rasputin, who was also worried about Letty’s safety, had already “booked” the entire academy, fearing that something might go wrong later.

At this moment, at sunset, Letty and I, who had been waiting here for a long time, finally saw the appearance of Leyev and a group of people from the so-called “National Salvation Organization”. And I finally saw the moment when Leyev could meet Letty with her “true face”. After all…

[Letty is hesitant about how to deal with Leyev.]

[Leyev is hesitant about how to deal with Letty!]

The script is like this. The previous attack was probably due to a moment of anger from both of them. In fact, neither Leyev nor Letty had such great hostility towards each other. As long as they could negotiate peacefully like now, the demands of either side could be resolved.

The premise is… nothing unexpected happens.

“……”

After silently looking at each other, Leyev sat down with a complex expression. As for Letty, in such a situation, she had to maintain the posture of the Great Emperor of the Rosia Empire. For a moment, the tense atmosphere made me more aware of the group of extras behind Leyev who already looked very unhappy.

The venue was chosen by Letty, but some “additional requirements” were proposed by Leyev. The first requirement was: to prevent this from being a trap, everyone could bring weapons. Thanks to this, although the negotiation was agreed upon by both parties, the danger level of the negotiation increased sharply.

To prevent the atmosphere from becoming more tense, I could only act as a “mediator”.

“Ahem, Miss Leyev, if you have any opinions or thoughts about Emperor Ivan Letty, you can speak out directly. If you keep silent, Emperor Letty won’t know what you’re thinking. Letty is not a ‘tyrant’. Give your childhood friend a little more trust.”

My action of speaking for Letty immediately drew hostility from the group of extras behind Leyev, as well as the death script aimed at me.

[A minor character, in a fit of rage, stabbed O’Keefe to death!]

[B minor character, because…]

Directly ignored; after all, danger is danger, but at least the situation has finally opened up.

“Ivan Letty.”

Although Leyef’s words were stammering and tense, she clearly seemed prepared, awkwardly articulating her thoughts in a cold voice, “Release them first. Those comrades you’ve captured are surely still suffering! Let them all go, without exception!”

Miss Leyef, do you have even the slightest awareness of your side’s mistakes? Could you not be a bit more sincere and humble in your tone? Those who attacked Letty, if they were in the Great Yng Empire, would likely have not only been punished but their entire families would have vanished from the Great Yng Empire’s genealogy.

I didn’t have time to remind her, and Letty seemed too indifferent to care about such trivial matters; perhaps in Letty’s eyes, those criminals were hardly worth mentioning.

“Whatever.”

Letty rested her chin on her hand, squinting her eyes. The black coat draped over her small frame made her appear even more cold and ruthless at that moment.

“Anyway, their parents already know what they’ve done. Letting them go is letting them go; how their parents will discipline these idiots when they return is of no concern to this Emperor. I’ll agree to your request.”

“!”

Leyef gritted her teeth, looking utterly unwilling.

Clearly, this was a huge favor; Letty had shown mercy to those who couldn’t keep a secret just this once. Why was Leyef still putting on that frustrating expression as if she were “punching into cotton”?

“By the way, I should tell you, Leyef, they all implicated you without exception; the longest anyone held out was just three days.”

“Enough! You don’t need to flaunt what kind of torture you used to make them confess!”

Leyef’s face was filled with anger.

However, there really was no torture, Miss Leyef. All Letty did was lock those people up and serve them three simple meals a day, and just like that, none of them lasted more than three days before they confessed… the “comrades” you found are truly a bunch of weaklings.

“Next!”

Frustrated, Leyef managed to hold back her urge to argue with Letty, and her next statement, from my script’s perspective, was the “main course.”

“Ivan Letty, I want you to make concessions for your autocratic ways and hand over the Rosian Empire to its rightful people to decide!”

“People?”

Letty’s cold laughter made Leyef shudder, but since she was here, Leyef was clearly prepared; this time, she didn’t back down!

“Y-yes! Just like the parliament of the Great Yng Empire! Do you think your Emperor can do as he pleases? But don’t act like a tyrant controlling everything in Rosia!”

This time, Letty truly couldn’t hold back, her gaze striking Leyef like a bolt of lightning, filled more with sympathy and helplessness.

“The Great Yng Empire… Leyef, do you really understand the Great Yng Empire? Your ideas are utterly unrealistic because all empires in this world are the same. In comparison, this Emperor is far more straightforward than that whore with layers of armor on her face.”

“Nonsense!”

The two women found themselves at a stalemate once again.

Fortunately, this time it didn’t fall to me to mediate; the negotiation itself already represented both sides’ unwillingness to continue fighting, not to mention that the script had already indicated that their relationship wasn’t as terrible as imagined.

In the next moment, the script appeared, and I let out a sigh of relief.

[Letty chooses to temporarily concede!]

“Enough, are we done? Then it’s my turn.”

Leiti slammed her hand on the table. “Since you think I’m so ‘brutal,’ for the time being, you’ll follow me. I’ll let you witness the ‘brutal’ things I’ve done. When your mind, which has been fooled by the Great Yīng Empire, clears up a bit, then come back and talk to me about ‘tyrant’ Buleite. This is my condition. Do you agree, Reyef?”

“…”

【Reyef chose to temporarily concede.】

Though she still looked quite displeased, Reyef wasn’t foolish enough to misunderstand Leiti’s meaning: this was an invitation for her to conduct a “field study.”

So, in the end, Reyef’s response didn’t disappoint me.

“Okay… I can do that…”

As expected, the script unfolded!

【The negotiation ended successfully! Reyef and Leiti reached a reconciliation!】

However, watching the two stand up to exchange a symbolic handshake, I, acting as the “host,” couldn’t feel at ease.

In the script, Reyef had no issues left, nor any reason to attack Leiti, but…

That didn’t mean danger had vanished! Because even now, even with the negotiation successful, the dangerous script from Leiti and Zeus still existed! My death script was the same!

So, if it wasn’t Reyef, who couldn’t think straight, then it had to be!

In the next moment, just as Leiti stood up to shake hands with Reyef…

【The national salvation organization’s extras were dissatisfied with the negotiation results and launched a riot attack!】

The group behind Reyef, who had harbored a “death script” against me from the very beginning, suddenly drew their weapons in unison against Leiti and Reyef!

“What kind of bullshit negotiation result is this, Buleite!”

“The tyrant of Rosia and his lackeys! Go die!”

This was premeditated! No, it should be said… it was a “private scheme” belonging solely to this group of extras, disregarding Reyef!!?