I am the Monarch Chapter 261:

Silence .
No one opened their mouth .
No, couldn’t open their mouth .
Everyone with their eyes widely goggled stared at Roan Lancephil .
Within a very short amount of time, too many unbelievable events had happened .
Roan alone incinerating ten ogres, the ones called Amaranth Taemusa Troop appearing and annihilating the goblins, and Roan himself announcing himself to be the monarch of this land .
The Lare Village’s people dryly swallowed with dumbfounded expressions .

‘M, monarch?’
‘King?’

They couldn’t fathom just how they should react .
If he had become even just a general, no, a great general, they would have clapped and cheered .
They would have greatly praised him saying he achieved his dream .
However, Roan became not merely a great general but a monarch .
Even more, he became a founding king that raised a new kingdom .
An event they hadn’t dare even imagine .
No, to say it honestly, it was something they couldn’t believe even now .

“I, is that really true?”

Bas, who was hiding behind a wooden hut, showed himself out onto the vacant lot .
Melly followed his back and came out .
Roan brightly smiled and nodded his head .

“It is all true . ”

A gentle voice .

“I do not lie . ”

There wasn’t even a little deceit in his eyes and expression .
Bas and Melly, who watched and raised Roan since he was born to the year he turned eighteen, could tell that everything was the truth .
The two people kneeled before Roan .

“Y, your majesty . ”

Their voices sharply shook .
Roan, with a shocked expression, pulled up Bas and Melly .

“I couldn’t tell you because I knew you would do this . ”

A bitter smile hung on his mouth .

“B, but how could w, I, I mean us peasants dare……”

Bas, unable to do this or that, formed an awkward smile .
Roan, in a small voice, spoke as if to whisper .

“Whether some poor handyman, beggar, soldier, general, or a monarch…… I’m Roan . I haven’t become someone else . ”

He gently held Bas and Melly’s hands .

“I have always remembered your kindness . You not only took me, whose parents had passed away and became an orphan, into your family but also watched over and raised me up like your own . ”

It was a difficult world to live in .
It absolutely wasn’t something easy .

“You always worried about and awaited the kid who simply left his home one day . I came back home after so, so long a time, but……”

Roan couldn’t easily continue his words .
As much as his voice, his eyes watered up .

“You two were still waiting for me here . ”

That someone was waiting for him .
That someone was always looking at him with the same feeling in their hearts .
That someone loved and trusted him unconditionally .
There was nothing more that could make a person happier . Meanwhile, the village people that had ran from the monsters and hid began to gather in ones and twos .
Everyone had half-dumbfound expressions .
But their eyes at least were all looking clearly at Roan .
Roan stood in front of them and in a calm voice began to recount the events that had occurred up until now .
From the rank-and-file spearman of the Rose Troop to the moment he became the Amaranth Kingdom’s monarch, that grand and tortuous story continued without an end .
The people swung between and let out gasps and sighs .

“…… and like that, I became the monarch . ”

The story ended .

“Ah……”

The people let out quiet exclamations .
Not only them, but the members of the Amaranth Taemusa Troop filed behind him too couldn’t hold back exclamations at Roan’s story .
They had newly understood .
That a great existence that would leave a mark upon history was before them .

‘So he’s really a king?’
‘Ah……’
‘Just what did we……’

The faces of the few village people and the gang that followed Bekeil bleached blue .
Them having sneered at and deriding Roan all through the last night floated up in their minds .
Few girls exhaled deep sighs .

‘Ah, I could’ve become a queen if I’ve acted right just before……’
‘If I can marry Roan……’
‘Could I live a fabulous palace life?’

Each fully filled their heads with reddish and innocent delusions .
They were simple thoughts possible only because they were countryside girls .
Roan faintly smiled and looked at Bekeil .
Bekeil, still with a dazed expression, merely blinked his eyes .

“Bekeil . ”

A quietly calling sound .
Bekeil unconsciously shuddered abruptly .

Gulp .

His throat roughly moved up and down .
Roan quietly stared at Bekeil’s eyes .

“You touched my bag, no?”

The instant his words ended .

“Gulp . ”

Bekeil began to hiccup .
Even his breaths turned rough .
A greatly panicked look .
That was also the same for the gang lined up behind him .
Their faces were now beyond blue to bleached white .

‘Bekeil . I have no thought of leaving you alone . ’

The light in Roan’s eyes sank down .
The betrayal he experienced in the last life .
He had resolved to definitely get revenge if met again .
But even so, he couldn’t simply cut off his head all of a sudden .
His betrayal was something that hadn’t yet happened .
If he were to kill Bekeil here, he and his gang as well as even the Lare Village’s people would form an unnecessary misunderstanding .
They would merely think that Bekeil’s head was cut off for touching Roan’s belongings .
It wasn’t quite a good look for a monarch of a kingdom .
Furthermore .

‘In the first place, I didn’t want to kill him that easily either . ’

Having his head cut off in an instant without knowing why was far too pleasant a death .
Roan wished to let Bekeil feel all of the dejection and pain that he had felt .

“Y, y, you are going to kill me? N, no I, are you going to kill me, sir?”

Bekeil sharply trembled his entire body .
It was miserable .
A look endlessly powerful before the weak and endlessly cowardly before the strong .

‘So this was Bekeil’s true appearance . ’

Something like the dominating look that spread fame as spear ghost in the last life simply couldn’t be found .
Roan slowly shook his head .

“There’s no need to unnecessarily touch blood with my hands . Since you……”

His voice quietly sank .

“Will soon die . ”

Boom .

Instantly, Bekeil kneeled down on the ground with a greatly shocked expression .
He sharply shuddered his entire body .

“D, die? W, what do you mean, sir?”

The look that poured sneers and derided Roan just until before couldn’t be found any longer .
Roan answered with a calm expression .

“There is poison on my belongings to prevent theft . ”
“P, poison?!”

Bekeil sharply raised his head and screamed .
The gang behind him lost strength in their legs and fell onto their bottoms .
For they too had stolen Roan’s belongings .

“P, poison……”

Bekeil looked down at his hands and whimpered .
Roan snorted .

“Did you really think that a monarch’s belongings are guarded so laxly?”

Those words were logical .
Bekeil kowtowed flat upon the ground and begged .

“S, save me! Please save me, sir!”

Following behind, the gang that stole his belongings together approached up next to Bekeil and dropped to the ground the same . (t/n: “the same” or “the same way”?)

“P, please save us!”
“We were wrong, sir!”
“I don’t want to die yet, sir!”

Already, few of them were bawling .
They rummaged through their clothes and took out shabby objects .
They were all Roan’s belongings .

“H, here it is, sir . ”

Bekeil too a moment behind took out an object .
Roan quietly looked at that sight and then extended out his right hand .

Spat!

Suddenly, the objects were sucked into his hand .
An amazing and awesome scene .
It was a type of psychokinesis using mana .

“The poison on these objects are so strong that only I can touch them . ”

The instant his words ended, a dark-red flame rode his hand and erupted .
The fire burned ferociously, but did not burn the objects .
Likewise an amazing and awesome sight .
Thanks to that, Bekeil and his gang came to believe Roan’s words like a stone .

“Please save us!”
“I’ll do anything at all if you save us!”
“Please forgive my immature, dumb, foolish actions of last night!”
“Please forgive me . I was a fool!”

The gang begged and begged until their hands turned into feet . Bekeil too was the same .

“I’ve dared to disturb your majesty’s mood without knowing my place! P, please forgive me! Save me!”

Desperate voices fully filled the clearing .
Roan quietly looked at that sight, then spat out a line .

“It isn’t that there absolutely is no way to live . ”

Instantly .

“Eh?!”
“W, what is that way, sir?!”
“P, please teach us! I’ll do anything if you would just teach us!”

The gang including Bekeil cried with desperate expressions .
Roan waved his hand to calm them down, then spoke with a calm voice .

“There isn’t an antidote, but a medicine that could suppress the poison exists in the capital, Mediasis . If you consume that drug every thirty days, then you can live on no different from like until now . ”
“Ah……”

Everyone let out a sigh of relief .
A hope that they could live floated up fully on their faces .
Roan looked directly into their eyes and added on .

“I will send a man the moment I return to the capital to send the medicine . ”

The instant his words finished .

“Aaaaah!”
“T, thank you very much sir!”
“Truly thank you very much!”

Cheers burst out .

“But……”

Roan waved his hand and made them close their mouths .

“If your forms and actions are narrow-minded and base like today, then I will immediately stop that medicine . ”
“Ah……”

Bekeil and the gang that were greatly rejoicing let out exclamations with stiffly hardened faces .
A conditional time-limited life .
It meant that they could easily die if misstepped .
But in either case, there was no other way .
They could only follow Roan’s words if they didn’t wish to die .

“W, we’ll remember, sir . ”
“I’ll commit myself for the village people . ”
“I will be a good person . ”
“I’ll follow village head’s words properly . ”

 

Empty promises full of hot air overflowed .

“I’ll definitely become a good person like your majesty said . ”

Bekeil too raised his voice with a determined expression .
Roan looked straight into his eyes .

“Remember it well . If you renege on your promise……”

An edge rose up in his voice .

“You will soon die . ”

Gulp .

Bekeil and his gang dryly swallowed .
The presence and pressure exuding out of Roan’s body suffocated their breaths .

“Uuuuh . W, we understood, sir . ”
“We will definitely keep up our promise . ”

They all laboriously nodded their heads .
Roan only then pulled away his pressure and looked again at Bas and Melly .

“Should we share the rest of the story at home, Ms . Melly?”
“Y, yeah . Let’s do that . ”

Bas confusedly nodded his head .
Roan ordered the repair and guarding of the fences to the Amaranth Taemusa Troop’s members, and then returned to the house together with Bas and Melly .
The three people, in the old and small wooden hut, shared long and long stories until the day brightened .
After the day brightened, he gathered all the village people together and laid out his many fun and happy, sad and painful stories without restraint .
The people all immersed deep into Roan’s stories .
They especially reacted excitedly to the story of the newly founded Amaranth Kingdom .
Few village girls even openly flirted with Roan .
Roan, as if he had been waiting, took out the story of the most beautiful and lovely woman in the world, Aily .
In the end, the village girls that dreamt vain dreams could only turn back with dispirited expressions .
Roan stayed two more days in the Lare village .
He had stayed longer than the original plan .

“Roan . Even if often is difficult, do please come visit even occasionally, very occasionally at the very least . ”
“Don’t get hurt anywhere and be careful . Alright?”

Bas and Melly held Roan’s hands and repeatedly insisted and insisted again .
Even if Roan was a powerhouse counted among the best, he was no more than an endlessly young and frail child in their eyes .
Roan brushed the back of the two’s hands .

“Whenever there is time, I will absolutely come visit, Ms . Melly . ”

He didn’t say it just for the sake of it .
He turned his head and looked at the village people .

“And I will invite everyone to the capital soon . ”

At those words, few adults and children raised up their arms high and cheered .
Purely rejoicing and happy looks .
Roan felt his heart becoming pure .
He whispered in Bas and Melly’s ears in a small voice .

“The next time I come too……”

His voice was gentle .

“I’ll come again not as monarch Roan Lancephil but as countryside boy Roan again, Mr . Bas . ”

At those words, Bas and Melly faintly smiled and nodded their heads .
Proud, so proud, they simply couldn’t speak out any words . Roan lightly hugged such two people and then stepped back .

“Murray . ”

At the quietly calling sound, the Amaranth Taemusa Troop soldier that was standing nearby walked up .
It was one of the Taemusa Troop adjutants, Murray .

“Yes . Your majesty . ”

Quiet but powerful voice .
Roan quietly looked at Murray and then spoke whisperingly in a small voice .

“You lead nine taemusas and protect the Lare Village for thirty days . At the same time, precisely and meticulously analyze the situation of the Grain Mountain’s monster . ”

The appearance of ten ogres and the assault of more than hundreds of goblins .
There was a need to grasp what kind of reason there was for the monsters’ abnormal actions .

“Yes sir . I will carry out the order . ”

Murray nodded his head with a solid expression .
However, that was not the end of Roan’s order .

“And……”

He, for a while, gave through a whisper a long order .

“Would they possible even go that far?”

When Murray asked back with an unbelieving expression .

“He is a **** that will easily do more than that . ”

Roan formed a bitter smile .
At that look, Murray exhaled a short sigh .

“If he really act like that……”

A cold light flowed on his eyes .

“Then he would be digging his grave himself . ”

At those words, Roan wordlessly nodded his head .

‘The trap has been set . ’

Whether be caught, or not caught, was his choice .
If not caught, then he could preserve his life .
But .

‘If he were to betray like the last life……’

Then he would become caught in the snare and meet a horrible end .
Roan exhaled a long sigh .
Now really was a time to go back .
He waved his hand towards Bas, Melly, and the village people .

“Bye!”
“Take care on your way back!”
“Come again for sure!”
“Don’t forget to invite us to the capital!”

The village people too waved their hands and saw off Roan leaving .
Everyone were of happy and joyful expressions .
Of course, the expressions of Bekeil and the gang squeezed between them were stiffly hardened .
No, to be precise, they were forcibly smiling .

‘Damn it . What the **** is this!’

Bekeil looked at Roan leaving and bit his lower lip .
He felt wronged .

‘Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!’

If possible, he wanted to at the very least spit out curses until satisfied .
But because of the ten Amaranth Taemusa Troop members staying in the village, he couldn’t even act as he wished .
That day, Bekeil emptied his drink cup alone under the watchtower until deep into the night .
A gloomy night when neither the moon nor the stars rose up .
Without even thinking of going back home, he laid down in the dark and tempted sleep .
At that moment, Murray and one Taemusa Troop member quietly approached and stood below the fences .

‘What the?’

Bekeil tried to stand up throwing a fit, but abruptly stopped his movement .
Murray and the Taemusa Troop member, seeming not having discovered Bekeil, conversed in quiet voices .

“Did you passed it on exactly to the other members too?”

At Murray’s words, the Taemusa Troop member nodded his head with a slightly tense expression .

“Yes sir . I have passed it on . But is that really true? There……”

He specifically looked around their surroundings once, then cautiously added on .

“There really was nothing like poison in the first place?”

*****

“Has it all been cleaned up?”

A quiet voice .

“Yes . For now, I’ve cleaned up just the necessary things . ”

Likewise a quiet voice .
A young man and a middle-aged man secretly conversed on with their heads together .

“But must we really do it even like this, master?”

The middle-aged man asked again with a powerless expression .
The young man nodded his head as if to show it cannot be helped .

“We cannot expand the business any further in here . ”
“But master, that sir isn’t known to be that obstinate a person……”
“I know . He’s definitely a magnanimous man among the magnanimous men . But we cannot view even all his subordinates as magnanimous men . ”
“That ‘s……”

The middle-aged man couldn’t continue his words any further .
Because he couldn’t find the words to fittingly counter the young man’s words .

“In the first place, we have to go to the Estia Empire if we want to do a really big business . Let’s instead think that a good opportunity has come . ”

The young man formed a bitter smile .
Although his words did say so, his mouth tasting bitter couldn’t be helped .

‘I thought at least my eyes for people was exact, but……’

One of the abilities that he himself prided in .
Because of that very ability, he couldn’t help but pack up the company he had grown his entire life .

“Huu . ”

A long sigh naturally flowed out .
The middle-aged man who was watching that sight laboriously formed a smile .

“Please don’t be so down, master . If it is Master Clyde’s ability, you will soon develop an even bigger company . ”

They weren’t words just for the sake of them .
An expression and voice full of certainty .
The young man, Clyde faintly smiled and nodded his head .

“Thanks, Goden . ”

Clyde and Goden .
The two people were the very Clyde Company’s owner Clyde and his right-hand man Goden .
Clyde funded and supported the Third Prince Kallum Rinse during the throne succession war .
He thought that among Simon Rinse, Tommy Rinse, and Kallum Rinse, the person could climb to the throne was only Kallum .
No, he was certain .
But in actuality, the one who ended the throne succession war and saved the imperiled kingdom was not the three princess but Roan Lancephil .
Roan, instead of the Rinse Kingdom that already had expired its time, had founded the Amaranth Kingdom and then climbed to the throne himself .

‘Receiving everyone’s support and cheer despite having brought down the originally serving kingdom and newly founding a kingdom, it was an unprecedented coronation . ’

But because of that, Clyde’s position instead become complicated .
By Roan’s personality, he wouldn’t get harassed nor hindered because he had supported, funded Kallum, but even so he couldn’t receive support either .

‘The Sale Company that had close relationship even before the throne succession war is endlessly rising and expanding its business . ’

Meaning it was impossible to fight for contracts against the Sale Company in the Amaranth Kingdom .
Furthermore, as said before, those among Roan’s subordinates with excessive loyalty could lay a wedge on the Clyde Company .
For various reasons, it was an uncomfortable situation to take a seat in the Amaranth Kingdom .

“Even so, it was fortunate that we laid connections on the Estia Empire and the Holy Palace’s side until now . ”

Goden formed a bright smile as he packed up .
At that very moment .

“It has been a while . ”

An unfamiliar voice pierced into the two’s ears .

 

“Huhph!”

Clyde and Goden swallowed empty air at the abruptly heard voice and moved back .
There definitely were just them in this large secret room .
The two people’s gazes dizzily swept the secret room’s inside .
At that moment, darkness at a corner of the room wavered and soon people deeply worn black robes showed up .
Their numbers were altogether three .
They were existences that whose presences, despite that they were looking clearly right in front of them, couldn’t be felt .

“Hm . ”

Clyde, who had momentarily panicked, quickly calmed his breath and regained his composure .
He had experienced all sorts of things while managing his company .
Through the countless experiences, he knew very well just how important it was to keep his heart steadfast .

“Who are you?”

Lowly sunken voice .
At those words, the one who was standing the most forwards took off his robe with his own hands .
The face that suddenly appeared .

“You are……?”

Clyde formed a slightly surprised expression .
The trespasser’s face was that of a well-familiar person .
Clyde once again calmed his breath and then passed his greeting with a calm voice .

“I haven’t ever imagined meeting at such a place, at such a manner . Troop Commander Sir Keep . ”
“To know my face and name, it’s as expected of Mr . Clyde . ”

A clear voice that plant into the edges of the ears .
He was in fact Tenebra Troop’s Troop Commander Keep .
Clyde made a bitter smile .

“Good eyes and memory are the absolute necessities for becoming a grand merchant, sir . ”

He deeply breathed in .

“What brings Troop Commander Keep of the so-called special forces, the Tenebra, here, sir?”

Clyde asked with the most composed and cool expression .
But in actuality, he was completely nervous .

‘Is he perhaps to harm……?’

The excessively loyal one among Roan’s subordinates that he had worried of could be Keep .
At that moment, Keep gently extended out his right hand .

“Mr . Clyde is absolutely needed in the Amaranth Kingdom, so I have come to **** you . ”

At those words, Clyde let out a laugh .

“Hahaha . I’m needed?”

A relaxed expression and movement .
They were actions to hide his completely tense insides .

“I’m merely a fallen merchant, sir . What kind of a help could such an I……”

The moment his words reached about that point, Keep faintly smiled and spat out single line .

“Holy Palace . ”

Instantly, Clyde’s expression stiffly hardened .
That was an expression knowing that the inevitable had finally come .

<Hometown (4)> End .

Translator: CSV
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