The Second Coming of Gluttony Chapter 219:

Chapter 219

‘How should I explain this situation?’

Seol Jihu fell into deep thought . Roselle was still frozen with shock plastered all over her face .

“Princess, there’s something I want to ask you . ”

Seol Jihu leaned toward Teresa, who was sitting right by him and whispered a question .

“Is the Empire collapsing that shocking?”

“Yes . ”

Teresa answered without a shred of hesitation .

“It’s not just humanity . Their magic engineering far surpassed every other race in Paradise, so much so that they weren’t even mildly comparable . Including the native races that are part of the Federation, the Empire reigned over all of Paradise for well over a thousand years . ”

Teresa spoke with strength .

“A country where the sun never sets . That was the Empire as a nation . ”

Seol Jihu smacked his lips .

“But… the invading force is a god…”

“It wasn’t as if the Empire didn’t have gods on their side . ”

Teresa shook her head .

“Even if the Parasite Queen was stronger than the Empire’s gods, the Empire still fell too quickly . I had a similar reaction when I first heard that the Empire fell . I thought some fool was cracking a joke . ”

‘It was that absurd…?’

Seol Jihu turned to Roselle once again .

Clang! Ah, the teacup fell and broke .

“Um…”

Just as Seol Jihu was about to rekindle the conversation…

“Wait!”

Roselle quickly pushed her open palm out . She looked extremely anxious .

“P-Please give me a more detailed explanation…!”

Perhaps because she had read everyone’s minds, she seemed to be certain that the fall of the Empire wasn’t a lie .

Seol Jihu looked back at Teresa . When it came to history, it was much better to have someone who had experienced it first-hand to give the explanation .

“You don’t have to say anything . Just recall what happened slowly and in-order . ”

Teresa calmly closed her eyes . Seol Jihu observed Roselle’s face during this time, which was rather interesting .

Shock, doubt, disbelief… By the end of the imagery, her eyes rolled back to her head .

Now unmasked, Roselle displayed emotions with rich expressions . The only downside was that most of the emotions she showed were negative .

Soon…

“How foolish!”

As Teresa opened her eyes, Roselle shot up from her seat . The slender white face reddened like a ripe apple . Then, she turned around before wandering back and forth in the garden .

‘Wait! That action!’

It happened when someone really didn’t like something . For example, Seol Jihu had done the same thing when Gula gave him his old class name .

Her eyes narrowed, Roselle wet her lips with her saliva…

“What… another universe? But still… Hah!”

And she muttered while fiddling with her fingers . She even picked up her tray forcefully and slammed it down .

‘Why is she angry?’

Seol Jihu tilted his head . He could understand her being taken aback, but Roselle was someone who hated the Empire . He felt like she should be clapping her hands in joy knowing that it had fallen .

“Damn it! For what reason did I…!?”

But when he saw her tilting her head back and shaking her tightly-clenched fists, he finally understood .

Roselle must have waited for hundreds of years for a chance to exact her vengeance . But the target of her vengeance had crumbled like a sandcastle and vanished . The difference between personally exacting vengeance on her sworn enemy and having it done coincidentally must be like the difference between heaven and earth .

“… . ”

Seol Jihu couldn’t fathom the sense of loss Roselle must be feeling . It wasn’t until 40 minutes later that Roselle stopped fidgeting and showed signs of calming down .

During this time, the expedition team shut their mouths and maintained their silence . Roselle was seething so much that they feared she would break something if provoked .

“Huuuuu—”

After an earth-shattering sigh, Roselle swept her forehead up in frustration before pausing . Looking at the expedition team sitting awkwardly around the table, she lowered her head in embarrassment .

“I apologize for my unsightly display . ”

“No, it’s totally fine . ”

Rather than unsightly, her actions were rather funny . Seol Jihu and the rest of the expedition team knew they shouldn’t laugh, but they couldn’t help but find this situation funny .

“We should be apologizing for saying something unnecessary… . ”

Roselle shook her head .

“No, not at all . I’m glad I found out… Yes, I’m glad, but…”

Roselle covered her face with her hands, unable to finish her sentence .

“Empire, you son of a gun…”

She muttered to herself, but everyone clearly heard what she said .

“…Ah…”

After a moment, Roselle slowly took her hands off and spoke powerlessly .

“You… You said you were here to take the Rothschear House’s inheritance, yes?”

“Yes . ”

Seol Jihu replied immediately .

“Promise of Temperance and a blood-related soul of the Rothschear House… There’s no room for doubts… haa…”

This was already the second time she was sighing . After hesitating for some time, Roselle nodded her head and spoke .

“By the name of Roselle La Grazia— no, I’ll skip the formalities since I’m fuming . For now, let’s go ahead with returning the inheritance . ”

‘For now?’

Just as Seol Jihu was about to raise a question—

Chak! A clap rang out .

At the same time, the scenery changed once again . This time, no one was surprised . Everyone fell on their butts because they were transported while they were seated, but no one let out even a tiny groan .

They seemed to be in the basement of the palace . Although the place was generally dark, there were several stones on the ceiling illuminating the ground, so it wasn’t difficult to see .

The only problem was that there were countless rooms around them, so much that they couldn’t begin to count . It felt like they were standing in the middle of a maze of doors .

“Let’s see… the Rothschear House’s inheritance…”

Roselle looked around the doors, then snapped her fingers . Then, something surprising happened . The tens of thousands of doors began to rotate in a clockwise direction before abruptly coming to a stop .

Looking at a white door at the front, Roselle nodded her head .

“Here it is . I remember expanding the storage room quite a bit because of the volume of the items . ”

Seol Jihu’s expectations went up, hearing that there was a large volume of the items .

When Roselle walked up and caressed the door, the door opened on its own . Seol Jihu looked on with a beating heart as his eyes tensed up .

As soon as the door opened, a murky fog flowed out before a multicolored light shot out .

No one had entered the room and its inside was still invisible, yet a brilliant light illuminated the entire space .

‘Just how much is in there…?’

The inheritance buried here was the ‘Spear of the Empire’ and the Rothschear’s secret techniques . There shouldn’t be much gold, yet it was shining so brightly?

Seol Jihu doubled his efforts in calming his beating heart and stared at Roselle .

Roselle quietly backed off before gesturing at the room .

“This inheritance is yours . You do not need my permission to take it . ”

Several gazes fell on his back . Everyone was clearly eager to go in .

‘This particularly stinging gaze must be Miss Maria’s . ’

“Alright . ”

Seol Jihu wanted to run inside, but he kept himself in check and walked slowly on purpose . Maria’s aroused panting was getting on his nerves, but he forgot about her the moment he entered the room .

“… . ”

He almost couldn’t breathe .

A mountain of treasures .

He couldn’t describe the scene in any other way . Gold, silver, and all sorts of jewels were stacked on top of each other, forming a hill .

Seol Jihu walked in as though he was entranced and reached out . When he grabbed a handful of riches and then loosened his hand, a colorful waterfall trickled down .

Tok, tok, tok! Drrrrr… .

The sound of riches striking the ground enhanced the emotions he was feeling . What shocked him even more was that these weren’t gold coins, but gold eggs . They weren’t the egg-shaped gold nuggets he found at the emperor’s villa, but prettier spherical eggs .

‘My god… . ’

This was meant to only be a fraction of the Rothschear’s wealth . Seol Jihu finally understood why the emperor got so greedy .

A rectangular glass casket was placed in the middle of the room, and lying inside it was something that was wrapped in a blue cloth .

Next to it, Seol Jihu could also see a fairly big, faded treasure chest . The symbol engraved onto the side of the chest caught Seol Jihu’s eyes .

‘The Rothschear’s insignia . ’

He recognized it instantly as he had seen it before in historical records .

That wasn’t all . On one side of the room were ten rectangular wooden chests neatly organized like parcels .

“What a mess . It’s because I never tended to them after I received them… . ”

Following Roselle’s voice, the mountain wiggled .

Clang, clang!

Along with the pleasant clattering of riches, gold bars and gold eggs separated themselves from the mountain and moved to the left .

Swish!

Next, the various jewels all shot up and moved to the right .

‘A mountain of gold, a mountain of silver, and a mountain of jewels…’

Seol Jihu trembled .

“This young lady will step aside for a moment . ”

Roselle’s voice rang out . Judging by her cold voice, she still seemed to be in shock . By the time Seol Jihu turned around, Roselle was nowhere to be found .

Only then did a loud cheer burst out .

“PIEEEEEEEEEEK!”

Maria howled and charged into the gold mountain at a frightening speed .

“Ha… ha… it’s real… . ”

“Dream… this must be a dream… . ”

Chohong speechlessly stared at the mountains with her jaw dropped, and Marcel Ghionea rubbed his eyes in doubt .

“Uwoaaaah!”

Hugo roared .

“Moooooom!”

And Teresa searched for her mother before running into Seol Jihu’s embrace .

“I’ve never seen anything like it… . ”

Kazuki muttered in a daze before glancing sideways and asking .

“Did you know about the inheritance?”

Seol Jihu pushed the clinging Teresa away and narrowly smiled .

The expedition team’s minds were all over the place . The three mountains were quite a bit smaller thanks to Roselle cleanly separating the huge mountain, but the expedition team’s shock had not diminished in the slightest .

Maria, who was lying in the mountain of gold eggs and jamming her mouth with them, rubbed her puffed up cheeks with sparkling eyes .

“It was my dream to try this!”

She then got in a diving pose, catapulted herself into the mountain, then started swimming .

“Argh, fine!”

Chohong threw herself at the mountain of jewels . Meanwhile, Hugo was grabbing handfuls of silver and throwing them into the air .

“Uhehehehe!”

“Kuehehehehe!”

Elated didn’t begin to describe them .

Haha, hoho .

Seol Jihu smiled, seeing his overjoyed comrades, and then clapped his hands . Hearing this, everyone flinched and looked back .

Because of Roselle, they seemed to be conditioned to respond to claps .

“Ah, jeez~”

“You surprised me~”

Normally, they would have thrown a fit at his prank, but the bountiful rewards must have broadened their hearts, as Chohong and Maria both smiled adorably .

Seol Jihu spoke while laughing .

“As you all know, Lady Roselle didn’t seem to be in a good mood . ”

Maria, who was gracefully doing backstrokes in the ocean of gold, abruptly stopped .

“Since she is exercising courtesy as the master of this palace, we need to do the same as her guests . Don’t be too loud . Let’s get what we came for and hurry back . ”

Seol Jihu could tell at a glance that everyone fully agreed . They had experienced first-hand how absurdly powerful Roselle was . Leaving this place as soon as possible was clearly a thousand times better than staying unnecessarily and potentially offending her .

Now that they had obtained such unprecedented wealth, they would be too bitter to ascend if they died without spending any of it .

At last, the expedition team began to bag the riches by category . As Seol Jihu had prepared several large, weight-reducing backpacks, there was no need to worry about not being able to bring them all back .

Just as everyone was busy stuffing the bags, the ceiling began to tremble faintly .

Rumble…! Thud…!

Listening carefully, it sounded like things were breaking and crumbling down . A few members looked up at the ceiling in a daze .

—Kyaaaak! Kyaaaaaaaak!

—FUCK! FUUUUUUCK!

Screams and heavy curses were fired out loud .

Seol Jihu, who was in the middle of bagging gold bars and eggs, furrowed his brows and warned solemnly .

“Maria, didn’t I tell you to quiet down? I understand how happy you are, but you don’t have to curse like it’s your last—”

“Huh? I didn’t do anything!”

Maria rebutted resentfully as if to ask why he was accusing an innocent person .

‘It wasn’t Miss Maria?’

Seol Jihu tilted his head .

In any case, the sound subsided, and everyone went back to work . Because of the sheer amount of riches, packing them all up was taking a long time . However, no one uttered a single complaint . In fact, they worked hard not to leave out a single thing .

“Don’t just stuff them in like they’re rocks on the side of the road . If anyone gets even a single scratch of any of them, expect to get smashed by my mace . ”

Chohong even gave an intimidating warning while laughing .

“I’m looking . I know I’m not the one to speak, but let’s not fill up the wrong pocket today . ”

Hugo also growled with his eyes lit up .

Seol Jihu was astonished inwardly . This was the first time he saw the duo so focused and passionate .

‘Master Jang would be overjoyed if they acted the same while training…’

After the team bagged more than half of the riches, Seol Jihu suddenly felt something poking his side . Teresa was pointing at the door .

Seol Jihu saw Roselle standing outside the door, watching them quietly . From the way she was staring at him fixedly, Seol Jihu figured she had something to ask .

Seol Jihu gave the bag in his hand to Teresa, then walked to the door .

“You seem to be having fun . ”

“Ah… haha . ”

Seol Jihu laughed awkwardly and studied Roselle’s face . Her eyes were faintly curled up to a smile .

She seemed to have calmed down a bit .

“I apologize for leaving so suddenly . What I heard was just too shocking…”

“No, it’s totally fine . I fully understand . ”

“I thank you for your generosity . ”

Roselle sighed . Then, she looked up with pitiful eyes, like a tragic heroine of a story .

“I thought about it while watching the serene lake at the silent flower garden . ”

Seol Jihu glanced at Roselle . For some reason, rock crumbs were littering her tiny shoulders . Roselle dusted her shoulders off in a startle .

“Ah, please ignore these . I fell down while staggering . ”

“Oh, my . ”

“Anyway . ”

Roselle changed the topic immediately .

“I’m sorry to bother you while you are busy, but can you give me some time? It won’t take long . ”

Roselle’s expression lacked the composure it once had and was very serious . Seol Jihu’s intuition told him that Roselle would make another request .

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