Chapter 36
Chapter 36
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 36
Chapter Title: Banishment and the New Kingdom
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In front of the Adrian imperial castle.
A massive crowd had gathered, craning their necks.
Today was the day the crown prince's punishment would be decided.
Conceptual Post) Crown Prince Frederick's Execution
(Farmer thumbs-up meme)
Many views
- Finally, my dopamine hit!
- Judak, sell some popcorn.
ㄴ For real lol, no popcorn? Lol.
ㄴ (This guy's corn~ farmer meme)
- Can I have some chicken today?
ㄴ If you're an Adrian loyalist, have as much as you want.
ㄴ One bird~
ㄴ You held out well. Make it two~
On the wooden platform, Lloyd—who had somehow become Adrian's representative—stood.
In front of him, Frederick stood with his head held stiffly high, bound tightly with ropes.
“Then we shall now begin the execution of the criminal.”
“Waaah!”
- Oh lol, looks like it's starting.
- Boo, trash.
- Shake your butt and wave your hands!!!
Cheers erupted from the Gallery and the real world alike.
Frederick spat curses at the onlookers with venomous eyes.
“You betray the imperial family and cling to foreign powers? You worthless leeches worse than parasites! You'll all starve to death!”
His resentment burned hottest toward Judak.
“I curse you, Judak! Even in death, I'll await the day you die!!”
- Lol, he says he curses you~
- This bastard's like this to the end...
- Ha... guess he hasn't seen my personality yet.
- Oh man!! So scary!
ㄴ You're going to hell, how you gonna wait? Lol.
ㄴ Judak's going to heaven! Don't wait!
ㄴ Why do you decide that?
ㄴ He saved my mom, so heaven for sure.
ㄴ Lol, yeah, can't argue that.
- Lmao, humans are super hyped.
ㄴ This makes three human executions I've lived to see already.
But the criminal Frederick, no longer crown prince, had lost all his former dignity.
Lloyd signaled to the soldiers below the platform, and they dragged Frederick away somewhere.
The direction seemed a bit off, though.
“Isn't that not toward the guillotine?”
“What, they're not killing him?”
It looked more like punishment without execution.
As the already inflamed Adrian public opinion began to murmur, Lloyd raised his voice.
“The criminal, at the empire's most dire moment, was found guilty of corruption, misjudgments, burning all food supplies, and 56 other heinous crimes.”
If it had just been bad politics, they might've let it slide.
How many like that were there?
But in this ruined world, he trolled, and when cornered, burned the empire's granaries.
Even as crown prince, he'd tried to starve his own people to death.
“This could have led to mass starvation if not for Judak.”
Lloyd spoke calmly, eyes leaving the paper.
“Thus, we deem the guillotine insufficient punishment and sentence him to exile.”
The crowd murmured again at his words.
“What, exile?”
“Just exile for that scum?”
As the mood grew tense, the people would soon learn.
That facing exile was far worse than the guillotine.
“...Fuck, this ain't right.”
Frederick muttered a profanity.
Ahead of him loomed a rift.
The passage to the monsters' domain—the ‘outside’.
Even if its interior was censored black, Judak had proven it was such a passage in a post.
“Kill me instead! Kill me!”
Frederick cried out, sweat beading coldly.
But the soldiers showed no mercy, and soon Frederick was hurled through the rift.
“Uwaaaah!! I curse you, Judak! I...!”
Before he could finish.
Frederick vanished completely into the rift with that word.
“...Did they get him?”
- Humans' punishments are more brutal than I thought.
- So they cut him off like that?
As the crowd fell silent in shock at the unexpected punishment, Lloyd slowly turned.
With a resolute expression full of determination, he posted something in the Gallery.
Tap... tap tap...
Title: Time to Move Now
Author: Lloyd
(Frederick being thrown into the rift meme)
(Knight yelling "Let's go! To the beyond!" meme)
As announced before, we're leaving Adrian to establish a new home in the Kelton Kingdom.
Anyone who volunteered or wants to join now, please join the procession anytime.
Departure: In 30 minutes
Destination: (Former) Kelton Kingdom
Alright~ Everyone, let's go~
As the new post appeared and the crowd checked it with widening eyes!
“To the Kelton Kingdom!”
Lloyd shouted, thrusting his hand skyward.
“Waaah!!”
“To the land of freedom!”
With Adrian's corrupt regime banished, Adrian split in two.
Half stayed to rebuild.
Half left for the Kelton Kingdom for a fresh start.
“They're coming here? Even better.”
Of course, it was good news for me.
*
The Kelton Kingdom is no more.
But it lives on in our hearts!
Yeah, the Adrian folks were coming to build a new dynasty on the kingdom's ruins.
Enter the Kellirton Kingdom.
Inheriting Kelton while announcing a new kingdom's founding.
And during that time, I...
“Guess I should help these guys out.”
Planned to lend a hand in the founding.
How many threats had there been to my safety?
Frederick's orchestrated murders.
The rabbit beastkin's attempted double suicide.
The ever-looming monsters one bite away.
“This is getting way too much.”
Three strikes and it's really over.
I planned to fortify my warehouse personally, but needed extra protection.
A sturdy Kellirton Kingdom—not ruins—fit into that plan.
“And they're trustworthy.”
Lloyd, the leader type, was that knight who'd poured milk on wounds—he's a good kid.
The reason he was recognized as leader by the people? I often summoned him in the Gallery.
Accidentally became camp knight + friends with Judak? Can't resist that.
- Ah fuck, this is insane lololol
- Locked in my room sleeping my ass off...
- But how can you hole up after hearing that chest-thumping line?
ㄴ Fr, no guarantee no dictator pops up again.
ㄴ Adrian's long gone, Kellirton is the answer... yeah.
“Seems like they're coming along fine for now...”
Lloyd's group was diligently heading to Kelton.
They had decent forces to fend off most monsters, but the issue was elsewhere.
- So who's gonna be king?
ㄴ Lloyd'd make a good knight-turned-king...
ㄴ But no legitimacy, dude! Legitimacy!
No legitimacy.
Kelton Kingdom lay in ruins, but survivors and buildings remained.
They naturally planned to inherit it, but Lloyd was born and bred Adrian.
Legitimacy problem.
“They've probably got it figured out.”
Not too worried, though.
No way they'd blurt out founding a kingdom without thinking this through.
Lloyd's group alone numbered over 100,000.
No way that huge crowd followed blindly...
- Oh fuck, you're right.
- Wait, then what are we?
- Invading foreigners settling in a ruined foreign land?
- No Kelton natives in our party?
- 10-year home guard Kelton native here, possible?
ㄴ Lol, possible my ass.
ㄴ We're screwed for real.
Not good?
I could see the migrating Gallery folks panicking.
- What do we do now?
- Lloyd) Fuck, didn't think of this lol.
- Ah fuck lmao
- Legend of legends...
- World's just too chaotic.
The real problem: Lloyd was right there in the mess.
“Are these guys really okay coming here?”
For a moment, doubt crept in about backing Kellirton.
But the kid's good-hearted.
Didn't seem like he'd backstab after help.
Even if he tried, breaching my 21st-century fortified warehouse to kill me? Unlikely.
I showed up in the Gallery right on cue.
Conceptual Post) Come here about Lloyd.
Author: Judak☆
Mm-hm.
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[Replies 9999+]
- Lloyd) Oh! You summon this lowly one!!!!
ㄴ Judak☆) Mm-hm, yeah yeah.
ㄴ Lloyd) I am eternally grateful!!!!
ㄴ Lmao why's this guy like this?
ㄴ Sb we're about to be homeless on the streets lol what now?
ㄴ Goddamn always trusted Judak!!!!
ㄴ Judak's here to save us!!!
Had I helped like this a few times before?
The second I posted, massive recommendations poured in, and Lloyd appeared like he'd been waiting.
Not like I had some genius plan, of course.
“Just need someone sane and moderate.”
Anyone not weird works.
On that note, I knew just the high-ranking Kelton noble at the perfect time.
A good guy who couldn't do evil.
ㄴ Judak☆) No one's around? Recommend anyway?
ㄴ Lloyd) As Judak says...
ㄴ Lol, just bless our Kellirton...
ㄴ Do as told lol.
ㄴ Judak, without you the founding's doomed...
ㄴ Judak☆) Ok, listen up then.
I caught my breath and wrote the name.
ㄴ Judak☆) Fallen Noble Lady gets my rec.
The friendly (for real) one who'd traded me a bed and tuna cans before.
*
Evelyn Ophelia.
The only ducal house lady in the Kelton Kingdom.
She'd lost track of how long she'd been locked in her room.
Today too, she was killing time counting floor and ceiling patterns.
ㄴ Judak☆) Fallen Noble Lady gets my rec.
“Pfft!”
Her lifesaver was stirring up trouble.
“Judak, what on earth does this mean...?”
Months locked away just Gallery-surfing had turned her into a perfect shut-in loner.
Her one merit: great appetite, eating only tuna cans without complaint.
And now suddenly queen?
“My father's maybe still alive...”
What bolt from the blue was this?
- Fallen Noble Lady) Um, Judak...?
- Fallen Noble Lady) Thanks for saving me, but queen? What? ㅇ︿ㅇ
- Fallen Noble Lady) What about my say...? ㅠㅠ
Evelyn had no noble superiority complex or thirst for higher power.
She found joy giggling at fun Gallery posts, savoring tuna.
“I don't have ambitions like that...”
She protested timidly, but the Gallery was cold.
- Judak☆) Lol, already decided.
ㄴ What, skipping the person involved?
ㄴ Debating national founding, where's the main character butting in?
ㄴ Fr arrogant; just be Kellirton queen obediently.
ㄴ Full Elf★) Human politics always so chaotic...
Somehow, Evelyn had become queen.
- Judak☆) Plus already sent people lol.
- Fallen Noble Lady) ??
- Judak☆) You're queen now.
Knock knock knock.
“Mommy!”
At the same time, knocking sounded.
Startled, Evelyn shrank her shoulders as a voice came from beyond the door.
“Oh, come to deliver good news.”
“Mind opening the door, next human queen?”
“Eek.”
Evelyn felt more terror than facing a monster.