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Chapter 5 - A Loyal Knight “This is terrible.” Outside the castle gates, I looked at the battlefield where princess Mephia suffered utter defeat and whispered to myself. My words, however, did not include any frustration, sadness, or pity. For me, mountains of corpses left behind as traces of conflict weren’t a novel sight at all, so I simply described the reality I saw. “You don’t seem very surprised though, Your Highness” “It’s just your imagination.” Not knowing my circumstances…-
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Chapter 1 - The Trash Prince A man who wielded the sword to live. A man who lived by the blade. There is no better way to describe me. The feeling of gripping a sword was always present in my hands. Whenever I raised my hands, I felt the urge to swing a sword. The desire faintly grows within me. To such an extent, my life has been devoted to the blade. However, in this life, I haven’t swung a sword, not even once. The reason I wielded the sword before was that not doing so meant death. It was a life…
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Chapter 2 - I Don’t Want To Go “You’ve finally come, Fay.” “Actually, it’s more like I was dragged here..” Fay Hanse Diestburg. That is indeed the name of the infamous “Trash Prince”; the middle-aged man speaking is my esteemed father, king Philippe Hanse Diestburg. “I see you’re as foul mouthed as always.” My esteemed father, after a sigh, kept looking at me (sitting on the ground) and his eyes narrowed. The mastermind behind my kidnapping was standing next to me, unmoved. “My…
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Chapter 3 - Reception “Okay, I guess this much is fine.” One day has already passed since father assigned me the task. Using a flying boat, we headed northeast from Diestburg — to the Afillis kingdom. Father had sent a missive notice of the dispatch of reinforcements, but, despite being early morning, soldiers gathered in this remote area near the border to greet us. As soon as the flying boat landed most soldiers approached. The moment they knew that the leader of the group was this “Trash…
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The Empire’s Red Rose 8 【POV: Marquis Dagon】 “Damn it! That fool of a woman…!” Drinking alone in my personal residence in the capital, I smashed my fists against the table. I, Sargue Dagon, am the head of the prestigious marquis house of Dagon, one of, if not the most, renowned long-standing clans in the empire. The cause behind my current irritation was the woman who recently took the title of empress. Rossellia Baal…fourth child of the previous emperor, the sole princess among the imperial…
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The Empire’s Red Rose 9 【POV: Marquis Dagon】 Dyngir Maxwell… Picturing the name of the man who impregnated Rossellia Baal made me grimace and click my tongue. He was what caused the fall of two of Baal’s imperial princes, as well as the cause of the decline of my House of Dagon. The fact that he also turned out to be the father of the child of my current worst political enemy, Rossellia Baal, sounded almost like a prank of fate. (It was quite the stroke of luck to learn about the identity…
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The Empire’s Red Rose 4 【POV: Raine Halphas】 My name is Raine Halphas, oldest daughter of the Halphas family, a relatively newly established noble family, serving the Baal Empire since three generations ago. I used to have two older brothers. Both of them were army strategists: they served under Lars Baal, the firstborn prince of the previous emperor. However, both of them lost their lives in a battle with a neighboring country. Because of that, House Halphas entered a path to ruin. The Halphas…
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Interlude - Flowering Maidens The Empire’s Red Rose 1 Roughly six months before the current events… The Baal Empire, the largest power of the continent, was struck by an unprecedented crisis. The first trigger that led to those events was the passing of the emperor at the time, due to a fatal illness. The following power dispute between the three imperial princes aiming for the throne created a conflict that involved even the neighboring countries. The armed forces of the empire attempted an invasion…
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