Chapter 156 – 156. Daughter-in-Law

At Makina’s words, the witches made faces as if they were perplexed. No, is she the emperor? A witch occupies the emperor in a human country? Is that really possible?

It was unbelievable. At least, it was even more so for witches who had been ostracized for hundreds of years.

“No, what is that… What? Who is the emperor?”
“You are my original, the great Makina-sama!”
“Original…Then what, you are not Makina, are you this?”
“Yes. Not really?”

Kirik Kirik-Machina, who rotated her robot hand her, let her know that she was not a witch or human, but a machine.

The mechanical witch succeeded in mechanizing herself. Beyond that, she seemed to have succeeded in mass-producing androids that replicated her own memories and personality of her.

It was hard to believe, but this was the future. A place where things that were believed to be absolutely impossible happen.

“…… John?”

And—Aris, who had heard the words of Makina 33, carefully looked at John.

Surprisingly, there was a man she knew who had the same name as her grandfather’s real name.

A suspicious being who says he came from the past decades ago.

“No, I can’t- I can’t……”

As if imagining something, Aris began to point his finger at Yohan while trembling. Seeing the trembling Aris, John let out a sigh and shook her head.

“Yeah, I’m not sure, but—”

I am your grandfather
John declared that to Aris.
The elite agent of the Grand Witch Special Forces, who said he would never kneel to anyone, fell to his knees at this moment.

* * *

“Ahahaha-! You mean something like that happened?”

After hearing what had happened to the group and how they had flown to the future decades later, Makina 33 started laughing differently from her body.

Unlike her her body her, which has no emotion like a machine due to her curse her, her machine her, which was made to imitate her, shows her emotions in a human way.

Makina 33 older brother wiped away the tears from my eyes, and she looked at the party and asked again.

“Therefore? Where is the witch who caused this accident?”
“Over there.”

Evangeline pointed to the room where Margaret was locked up. She was humanized by John’s magic, so she couldn’t do much damage, but she was locked in her room with her magic just in case.

“How did you come up with the idea to do this? That’s interesting.”
“The strange thing is on our side. A witch took her place as her emperor, what did she do?”
“Oh, is that?”

Upon hearing Hecate Rina’s question, Makina 33 made a pi-ri-ri-rick-mechanical sound, and took out her body her ‘s memories of her.

Makina 33, who replayed her distant past her, recited the memories of her engraved in her own head her.

“Hmmmm, decades ago, right after the demon dragon died and you disappeared- the queen and I, the two-person dictatorship system was somehow managing the empire well.”
“Two-person dictatorship…… You don’t know what dictatorship means.”
“Anyway! That’s how the queen grew old and decrepit day by day—but the body that was beautiful, strong, and even smart wasn’t like that. Because the queen was human, and her body was a witch .”

Here, the difference between humans and witches appeared. Humans will one day grow old and die. Even strong human beings grow old someday and the time comes when they have to hand over their place to the next generation.

But witches don’t. Once a witch, always a witch. She does n’t die of old age If a witch who has no problems living with humans takes her power her, that power lasts forever.

Indeed it was. Machina is a witch with a mechanical curse. She doesn’t feel any human emotions, but she does, and that’s why she’s fit for the position of ruler.

She has no emotions, she rationally and calculatedly controls humans and wields power. Unnecessary noise in the process is resolved with her magic.

“Empire has conquered the whole world, but no noise. No, it couldn’t happen. Because the technology gap was serious.”

Moderate skill gaps can be overcome by other means. Resources, quantity, or time.

However, the overwhelming difference in technology. Any resistance is meaningless in the face of an overwhelming difference in technology to the extent that civilizations should be called different.

Compared to the Imperials, whose soldiers all had automatic rifles, the other kingdoms had at best perfected outdated cannons.

“It’s annoying to conquer the whole world like that and rule it yourself, so I made it into an autonomous country, and later started filling all of the empire’s vassals with self-replicas.”
“It’s a crazy year.”
“A reasonable thing.”

Tok tok, Makina 33 patted me on the head and said that.

“‘I’ will never betray the main body. Why? Because I am the body, and the body is me. Of course, the details of self-consciousness are all different, but… Because it was originally made based on the main body, it doesn’t commit stupid things that run amok or cause rebellion.”

Just like that, the empire fell into Makina’s hands. A country filled with Makina herself, from the top emperor to the retainers under him.

If Makina had such a mind, it would be very easy for her to turn the world into a sea of ​​fire.

“Anyway, that’s why-witches are annoying even for such a main body, so I made a special anti-witch unit…….”

While saying that, Makina 33 looked at the room where his troops were locked up. I even trained them with expensive equipment, but I never thought I’d be robbed without doing anything.

No, should I praise you for doing well, even with standing seven witches?

“—Machina.”
“Yes? Why?”
“The Grand Witch Corps… Isn’t that a paladin? Why did you make that?”

Evangeline said that while looking at Makina. I’m going to clone Android anyway. Even if she died, Makina 33, who knew that she would not die again, told the truth casually.

“Of course, to kill the witch—”

Poo-!

Her machina’s face her is smashed, and about half of her head her is blown off. Makina, who showed her the fact that I was a machine, stared at Evangeline as if she was embarrassed.

“What are you doing….”
“A witch makes an army to kill witches? Is that like a paladin that uses holy power?”
“Necessary, one thing….”
“I needed it and slept, and I was just annoyed so I slapped it.”

After saying that, Evangeline put her chin on her chin and said, Now tell me why she needs the Great Witch Corps.

However, the 33-type Makina, whose head was smashed more than half of her head her, could not give a proper explanation.

“Kyaaah-!?”

Seeing the exploding Makina, the witches started screaming and making a fuss.

Evangeline didn’t say anything and she scratched her cheek in embarrassment as she watched Makina burst out.

“…… What is so weak about being a robot?”

I just had to make excuses like that.

* * *

“Tea, are you okay?”
“…… Yes.”

Outside, while the witches were chattering wildly while listening to Makina explain this and that – John was talking with Aris alone.

After brewing her expensive tea and placing it in front of her, Aris gratefully handed her the teacup and she began to carefully touch the surface of it.

Yohan, who was sniffing at the tea, tilted her head as she looked at Aris, who did not speak to her tea.

“Do you hate tea?”
“No, not like that…… I can’t drink anything hot.”
“Okay?”
“Yes, it’s hereditary…… Didn’t you know?”
“…… Didn’t Elesis drink something hot too?”

When Yohan said that, Aris began to look at Yohan with a pitiful expression, as if she didn’t know that.

Realizing belatedly that he didn’t know anything about Elesis, Johan lowered her head as if he was embarrassed and laughed haha.

“Actually, I’m not familiar with her.”
“Why?”
“It wasn’t a very long relationship. Because she was a Holy Knight of the Holy Kingdom, and I was a disciple of a witch.”
“…… Are you a paladin? Granny, were you a paladin?”

As she looked at Aris, who asked as if she had never heard of it, Yohan realized that Elesis hadn’t talked about him.

Even so, how could she not know that her grandmother was a former paladin?

“Yes, Elesis- your grandmother was a paladin. She is a pretty good paladin.”
“John, no- your grandfather was a witch’s apprentice…… Huh? A witch’s apprentice?”

Aris, who belatedly realized that there was something strange about her, began to look at Yohan. She’s a witch’s apprentice, where on earth do you think She’s a witch’s apprentice?

No matter how you look at it, John was a man. His uvula was sticking out, his shoulders were broad, and to anyone’s eyes he had the appearance of a man.

But how can one become a witch’s apprentice? In the first place, it was unheard of for a witch to take a witch as her apprentice.

“What is that…… Grandpa is a man, right?”
“Yes, a man.”
“How can a man become a witch’s apprentice?”
“So it happened. Curiously.”

As Yohan said that, he realized that dealing with Aris was very awkward. Hey, seeing a granddaughter of my age- I couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

And- Aris knew very well that John was shy. Because she couldn’t live without notice as a member of society.

Aris, who looked into John’s eyes for a while, carefully brought out a story that John might want.

“Me, Grandpa?”
“Why?”
“That… My mother, would you like to go see it?”

It was a story about going to see the daughter John gave birth to.