FILWTV 33rd Update


Akuyaku Reijou ni Koi Wo Shite:
“The Value of What was Lost.”

Among all the audience rooms within the castle, this particular one could be used for unofficial meetings where the protocol was a hindrance. It was not strange for the King and the Queen to be here, it was unusual for the other party to be Royal Guard Commander, though.

Normal briefings the Commander took part in happened in his office, an audience room was usually not required. The official reason why they met in one this time, was that the King was about to grant audience to someone and the three of them had matters to discuss beforehand.

But that was actually an excuse, the meeting place was chosen with discretion in mind, neither of them wished for outsiders to hear the particulars of their discussion. Regardless of how trusted they were considered to be otherwise.

「To summarize, both Vincent Woodville and Ariel Woodville are completely innocent.」

「That much is obvious. Those high treason charges strained credulity from the start. Tell me what did they actually do before things got to that point.」

「That was not a figure of speech, they are completely innocent.」

「…They what?」

The King thought that, even though the high treason was an exaggeration, they must have committed some sort of crime. But now the Commander said that they were completely innocent, which meant they had done nothing.

「I’ll start by explaining how we ended up with high treason.」

「Please, do so.」

「It started with persistent minor harassment, so-called chastisements, of the Royal Academy student named Maria Theodore. A girl rumored to be the missing princess as you both surely know.」

Both the Commander and the King looked at the Queen inquisitively. But she only shook her head lightly. Maria Theodore was not her daughter, she was sure of that much without the need of detailed investigation.

「…The complaint letter that triggered the case treated those rumors as facts and, with this, framed the treatment she suffered as a disrespect towards the royal family.」

「That’s a very crude stitch-up.」

「Weren’t you aware from the start that the whole thing is a made-up pile of nonsense?」

「I… Yes, I was.」

The Commander was unexpectedly strict with the King. His sense of duty to nurture him into a good ruler was as strong now as it had been when they were children.

「Anyway, even if Miss Theodore was of royal blood, the Woodville siblings were completely unrelated to her ordeal. The only connection was from some of the actual perpetrators selfishly borrowing Ariel Woodville’s name and authority in the beginning.」

「…Alright. That makes me understand why they got charged even less. So?」

「There was a person who made Ariel Woodville into a scapegoat.」

「Do we know who?」

「We have yet to find out for certain. This information comes from that thing, but the identity of the mastermind was not divulged.」

「…In that case, we should probably assume it’s completely unreliable.」

The testimony came from Rion. It would not be strange to see him protect Ariel, rather it was safe to assume he would definitely do so.

The King shared that opinion, however, it was immediately discounted by the Commander.

「There is evidence that was gathered when that thing noticed that Ariel Woodville Windhill… That’s a mouthful to say all the time, I’ll shorten it to Ariel from now on. So, when it noticed someone was attempting to implicate Ariel in a crime, it started gathering counter evidence to use at future date.」

「Have you verified that evidence?」

「No, I was politely informed not to waste my time on things that would now change nothing. There also seemed to be some sort of personal debt in play and the thing was unwilling to reveal the culprit as a result.」

「Change nothing…」

The first sentence was clearly scathing sarcasm. It was obvious that the thing had no intentions of clarifying what really happened.

「This didn’t stop me from speculating, though.」

「And?」

「The mastermind is either Maria Theodore or Charlotte Lanchester. Both were deeply involved.」

「So the perpetrator acted out the main role in her own little play?」

「One can certainly feel that from this whole story. After all, she never fought back while under harassment, no matter how harsh it got. However, I believe the real culprit is Charlotte Lanchester.」

「Your reasoning?」

「That thing clearly loathes Miss Theodore, it was obvious during the execution. It would never protect her like this.」

「I see. What would be Lady Charlotte’s aim assuming you’re right? 」

「Dissolution of your son’s engagement most likely. As for her motives…」

The Commander did not finish his thought out of consideration.

「….Ah, youth. There are no other ladies of marriageable age in any of the three houses after all.」

If the engagement with Ariel was called off, the only other fitting unmarried lady would be Charlotte. However, presently the King decided to overlook her candidacy as punishment.

「That is all we know about the circumstances of the high treason accusation. Now we need to broach the supposed disrespect towards the Crown Prince. A rather delicate subject」

「What makes it so sensitive?」

「All that is required for this accusation to be true is that your son considers it so.」

「Now that is just…」

All the King had to shield himself from the Commander’s severe sarcasm was a bitter smile. It was not hard to decipher the implied meaning of those words, this strife was entirely induced by Arnold.

「But just in case I investigated the rumors about insurrection brewing in the Academy. What I found was not rebels, but a bunch of hard-working students from poor backgrounds passionate about the future of the Kingdom.」

「Are you certain?」

「That is how I see it.」

「…I’ll have those captured during the attempted raid on the execution grounds released.」

However you looked at his words, the Commander clearly wanted this to happen. So the King met his expectations.

「By your will.」

Hearing the words he wanted to hear, the Commander was satisfied.

「How about the other students? I have heard some of them boldly rebuked Arnold in public.」

「The antipathy towards your son has been growing for quite some time now, that much is true. However, its root cause was his obvious and public mistreatment of Ariel.」

「…Alright. What kind of aftereffects will this event bring?」

「The worst kind. Vincent and Ariel Woodville enjoyed an overwhelming support from the students of lower social status. And we had both of them charged. Furthermore the whole student body is aware that the accusations were a sham.」

「I see…」

The results were worse than the King expected. Because of this incident, the royal family lost the trust of many excelling commoner students. It was now an open question whether any of them would devote their strength to the realm in the future.

「To be blunt, this incident was a catastrophe.」

And on top of that, the Commander delivered the finishing blow to the King.

「I know.」

「No, you actually don’t. If you truly grasped the scale of the disaster, you would be crushed right now. Do you really not see what the crown lost this time?」

The Commander was nowhere close the end of his lecture, he was just warming up.

「What else could there be?」

「What else? Firstly, you lost the prospect of having the most popular and loved Queen in the history of the kingdom. I’m sure you know better than most what effects would that have.」

「…You’re right.」

The support of the people. This was the strength of the royal family. No matter how much power the nobles had, that power was based on the population of their own fiefs. As long as those commoners were supportive of the royal family, the aristocrats would never be able to use their strength against the crown. Not just militarily but even on the political arena.

The royal family lost the opportunity to gain that popular support. By extension, it lost a chance to increase the authority of the King.

「Secondly, you just executed a future lord marquess that was loyal to the crown even when facing death. If my memory doesn’t fail me, the last time there was someone like that was during the founding days of the nation, correct?」

「That… Is probably true.」

Although the three marquess-rank Houses could be rightly called the pillars of the kingdom, it would be as valid to call them a thorn in its side. They, like all nobles of influence, acted with interest of their House above all else. And naturally, whenever a noble family gained power the authority of the royals waned.

The concept of noble Houses offering all their loyalty and support to the King had a reflection in reality only in the very early years of the country. Afterward, it turned into little more than a window-dressing.

「And like this the crown, willingly, threw away something it will not be able to obtain on its own even with decades of effort. Reflect on this, please.」

「…Alright.」

The responsibility for allowing this to happen lied not only with Arnold, but also with the King who indulgently allowed the events to develop in the manner desired by two marquess Houses, without trying to understand the situation. In the Commander’s eyes, this was tantamount to dereliction of authority in the face of crisis.

「Now you have the full picture, more or less. What do you wish to do? 」

「Before that, a final question.」

「Yes?」

「That thing’s power, how did you feel fighting it?」

「That was not a fight. I fully exploited the fact that it was preoccupied with the Crown Prince and his group. Showing an opening like that is a clear sign of inexperience.」

「I see.」

「However…」

「Hmm?」

「Something made me think that I had to make use of that opening right then. That thing had yet to take an offensive action. I struggle to imagine what would happen had it been allowed to do so.」

「…I think I understand.」

A person having an affinity with more than one attribute was something mentioned only in legends. However, Rion had demonstrated such a prowess. Even if all he displayed was just multiple small, dragon-shaped flames and human-shaped water of unknown capabilities.

「Well then, shall we hold an audience?」

「Yes. Bring that Rion here.」

「At once.」

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Some time later, Rion was dragged into the audience room, with “dragged” being a very apt word. Like in Vincent’s case, there were manacles on both his hands and feet. In such an uncomfortable state, he was carried into the room by two guards on his flanks.

The Queen looked heartbroken by this sight.

「Good work. Now withdraw.」

「Sir?」

「My presence is enough. There will be no problems.」

Seeing the knights hesitate, the Commander pressured them to withdraw. He wanted the upcoming audience kept as confidential as possible.

「Raise your head, boy.」

But Rion, slumped on his knees and looking downcast, did not respond to the Commander’s request. His face stubbornly kept facing the floor.

「Raise. Your. Head. Do not make this any more unpleasant than it has to be.」

Finally, responding to the implied threat, Rion raised his head. He had no eye-patch on. The red and blue eyes were on full display and were clearly seen by the royal couple.

The King groaned inadvertently. Not because of the heterochromia. It was due to seeing Rion’s face up close for the first time.

The Queen, observing from her husband’s side was not even surprised by Rion’s eyes. Just from one glance, one could easily see that the resemblance between her and Rion was uncanny. His well-proportioned, androgynous face was something he clearly inherited from his mother who was said to be the most beautiful in the kingdom.

The Queen couldn’t hold her emotions any longer and had tears flowing down her cheeks. At this point, the royal couple was certain that Rion was their child. Nevertheless, neither the King nor the Queen would name him such.

In this world, it was widely acknowledged that heterochromia brings misfortune. Not even the King could laugh it away as a foolish superstition. There were many tales from the past reinforcing this view and now everyone believed it to be a fact. Also, the population of this world viewed science with suspicion and hostility.

And finally, the lord Rion was serving ended up executed. This alone would lead many to believe that it was a misfortune brought by his heterochromia.

The crown cannot recognize as royal someone that would be expected to bring great misfortune to the nation. If that was possible, Rion wouldn’t have been cast out of the castle in the first place.

He was not abducted. He was abandoned by his mother, the Queen, after she had learned she had given birth to a child with the sinister heterochromia. This was solely her secret at first. The King became aware of this much later after nearly a decade passed.

「Rion. Is this a real name?」

The King and the Queen were already confident that Rion was their child. But the Commander, despite being aware of that, was in mind to find some more clear-cut evidence. He considered that his duty as the third party present.

「…I don’t understand what are you asking about.」

「Wasn’t this name something given to you later in life?」

「…Yes, by Lady Ariel.」

「In other words, you had another name before that. That name was?」

「Irrelevant. Those names and the people they belonged to passed away already. I am Rion.」

Flay had already died in the slums. Ryou had already died in a traffic accident on his former world. Even if their consciousness was still with him, somehow, the fact that they died was the truth. Rion was a mix of their personalities in one body, even if his personality had arisen from theirs, he was neither of them.

Rion was honestly telling an implausible truth, unsurprisingly he was not understood.

「…Regardless, I will have the names of the dead.」

The Commander simply took Rion’s answer at face value and matched his next question accordingly. There was no specific reason for this. He just thought that asking in that way would make Rion reveal more.

「Why?」

「Because I need to know.」

「…Flay.」

And so Rion spoke the name of Flay. It was because he knew that the name “Ryou” would not be conveyed properly. As a result, he said what the King and Queen wanted to hear.

「Is it now…」

With this, the Commander was also certain. The name of the abandoned prince was something only the Queen and the midwife that was entrusted with taking the baby out of the castle knew. She and the King decided to name the child Frey[1] had it been a boy and Fia if it was a girl. But to mislead the search effort, the King was told a princess was born.

Thus, whenever someone appeared claiming to be the missing princess, the Queen immediately knew that that person was a fake. She was not actually wounded by the fakes claiming to be her child but rather she was tormented by the guilt of abandoning her son.

「Fine. The King, in his mercy, decided to commute your punishment to a short-term imprisonment. You shall be released today.」

Even after being told by this, Rion’s face showed no signs of happiness. He just kept listening. silent and expressionless.

「Now, We shall hold a discussion about your future.」

The King took the reins of the conversation from the Commander. This would probably be the first and the last time in his life he would speak with a criminal.

「Lord Marquess Windhill asks for you to be returned to his House. What do you think of this?」

「…All my ties to that place have been long severed. I have no reason or duty to accede to his wish.」

Hearing this the King now knew that Windhill’s request was just for the sake of form.

「Have you thought about joining the Royal Guard? You certainly have the power required.」

「…It would be best for you not to do that.」

「Why is that?」

「Because your precious Crown Prince would die as a result.」

「Not a word more, you insolent fool!」

The Commander shouted in anger before the King even got to say anything. Rion clearly stated his intent of killing the Crown Prince given the chance. That was something the Commander could not forgive.

「Then run me through with your sword! Don’t just let your prince be disrespected unless your loyalty is all talk!」

…But Rion shouted back with a vigor not losing to the Commander’s. The older man was surprised and overpowered by the force of the spirit carried by that voice. Perhaps that was because he already knew Rion was of royal blood. But whatever the reason, he was rendered speechless.

So was The King. The monarch also became anxious about releasing Rion, he was no longer sure it was a good idea.

Seeing her husband’s unease the Queen decided to act.

「Do not say things like that.」

「…I wish to find atonement.」

「And how will you do that in death? I was there on the execution day, I heard your precious lord, he did not want this.」

The Queen was present at Vincent’s execution. She didn’t want to attend and watch the proceedings at first, but for some reason, she started to feel she had to be there after a while. And as if being led by fate, Rion had appeared. It was her who asked the King to spare Rion’s life.

「…I swore to protect him even if it was to cost my life.」[2]

「To whom?」

「My…」

「Is that person not important to you?」

「…She is.」

Due to the Queen’s words, the expression on Rion’s face turned into anguish. He was at a loss as to what he should do and conflicting desires tormented his mind.

「Do you not need to protect that person? Wasn’t that the last wish your lord entrusted to you?」

「…I do not know how to face her. I let someone important to her die.」

「You don’t want to face her?」

「…No.」

「Well, you should go anyway. If you want to meet her with a smile, then smile, if you want to cry, then it’s fine to do so. Be honest with your feelings, wouldn’t that be the best way to show sincerity to that person?」

「…Yes.」

For some reason, his heart answered honestly to the Queen’s words. Whether it was brought about by their connection as mother and child, Rion had no way of knowing.

「We want you to give your utmost searching for Ariel Woodville starting now. You are to inform Us immediately upon locating her.」

The King ordered with no more hesitation on his face. Seeing the heartfelt conversation between Rion and his wife, he couldn’t make himself consider killing him any longer.

「…I know where she is.」

「What? How…?」

The King was confused. How could Rion know the location of a girl that couldn’t be found by a combined effort of the army sent to search for her.

「Once I obtained the information she would be sold into slavery, there were many ways available to handle the situation.」

「Even so…」

Being able to pull the strings required a certain amount of power. Rion was able to obtain that power despite his young age and meager position of a valet. That was surprising. And made the King afraid of him again.

「Lord husband, wasn’t there another way to move forward you had in mind?」

Again, the Queen with a great timing acted in order to stop her husband’s train of thought from going in that direction. Something she was able to do because of how long have they been married together.

「…Yes, dear. The truth is, We have an idea for your future, boy.」

「You have?」

「There is a territory belonging to the crown on the eastern border of the kingdom. Can We leave that in your care?」

「…Eh?」

「You will not be a castellan. We shall grant you the rank of a baron with the territory as your fief. You lack meritorious deeds for anything more. It would be best if you did not expect much, though. That location is strategically important and requires high military expenditure. Thus, there is no investment, the land doesn’t flourish and living standards are low leading to low tax yields. Poor, yet expensive to maintain, that kind of fief.」

Hearing the King explain this much forced Rion to pause for a while to comprehend and organize the monarch’s words. That was not the sort of proposal usually directed at freshly released criminals.

「…Is this serious?」

「Obviously.」

「Even though I have no achievements to justify it?」

「…That’s…. We have Our reasons.」

A truly royal behavior. Rion decided that was the King’s way of compensating for the false charges levied on Vincent and Ariel. However, in reality, with the King not being able to recognize Rion as his child, he wanted to at least give him a fief to support his future. It was his way of showing parental love.

The King never lied about his reasons. Rion just misunderstood it on his own.

「I think you should accept it.」

The Queen also wanted Rion to take the land regardless of whether it may be right or wrong to do so. She thought that this was the only way to keep her connection to Rion from being severed.

「Why is that?」

「Can your precious person cope with the life of a commoner?」

「Ah…」

Her words accurately touched the sore point of Rion’s worries. There was no way that Ariel, who lived all her life as an aristocrat, would be able to bear the life of a commoner. After all, she even needed the help of maids to change clothes.

As a result, Rion had accepted the King’s offer. He would do anything to be released and he thought to himself that if he got sick of the barony, he could always run away.

Having chosen to live, he wanted to meet Ariel as soon as possible.

The Queen left right after Rion as she secretly wanted to see her child off.

「It appears I can’t stop telling you off, sire.」

「What do you mean?」

「I feel like this is a very bad outcome.」

「…Bad outcome, eh?」

The King knew what the Commander was trying to say. He also felt the same.

「Yes. Somehow, I feel it would have been better to kill him no matter how much it would wound the Queen.」

「I know how you feel. But this is not an order I can issue, even if I am the King. He is still my own child. And my own feelings aside, just seeing my wife making that kind of face…」

「…I feel the same.」

There was one more thing that was lost. The two men no longer saw a chance for Arnold to grow into a wise ruler they expected him to become until now.

Once they arrived at that conclusion, it was natural to consider erasing Rion’s existence but they felt unable to proceed with that train of thought.

The World now needed Rion even if just a little bit.


Translation’s Corner:

Reading the mother-and-son talk was quite touching. With this chapter, the origin of Rion is now revealed. Two princes have again fought over a woman, just like during Francois’ time.

Anyway, Kung Hei Fat Choi to our Chinese readers.

Foot notes:

[1]

*We can’t be really sure which form did author intend to use, both write the same way in JP.
*We liked Flay for early chapters, it did fit.
*We kinda like Frey more from now on, it fits better.
*We do not want to retconn all the early chapters now.
*We can rationalize this as Rion forgetting the proper form of his name at early age and that’s what we decided to go with.

[2]

The author might have made a mistake on this part. Originally it says “でも俺は大切な人を命に変えても守ると誓っていて” which translates to “I swore to protect that important person even if I have to change my life ” which doesn’t make sense. It must’ve been “でも俺は大切な人を命に賭けても守ると誓っていて” which roughly translates to “I swore to protect that important person even with my life on the line.”. Anyway that’s how I took it.

87 Replies to “FILWTV 33rd Update”

      1. She still has some degree of plot armour currently so it probably has less of an effect than you think.
        But yes, she has slaughtered any chance she had of being socially respected long ago. And I don’t think one comment from Maria will remove her from the “protagonists role”

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      2. Well, the plot armor only protects her until the actual plot ends, which is when the evil mastermind or such is defeated. After that, she’s dead, both literally or socially.

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    1. Since Rion did change destiny against all odds of the world
      * Staying alive when he was supposed to die in the slums.
      * Bringing the slums under his control.
      * Making commoners love the villains of the story.
      * And finally making an appearance before the only person who would recognize who he is.
      I think that since it affected many people not directly related to the story but still relevant to the whole plot the “world” had no other choice to acknowledge him a little… like while the world was so focused on making the story progress as planned and making corrections to the main players of the story, it ignored everyone else and it ended in him being needed a little since to the world he still is irrelevant to the “main story”.
      But World-chan will still be a b*tch later on im sure.

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      1. I wonder what’s your image of World-chan as you call her?
        The question is, why does the world need him even with the “protagonist” at play and what for?

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      2. @Gwylon
        The World doesnt need Rion, but for the people in it it became an existance that cant be ignored, therefore the world let Rion live in order not to deviate the plot more than it could.
        For example, the king and queen already gave up on their first son thinking he was dead, but seeing him was quite a blow for the queen, and if she let him die there it would be hurting her way too much (by how the king and the commander speak) therefore leading to a decline in the country and a heavier decline in royal power than it currently is experimenting, which would place the country lower than it was in the game, so being counterproductive to the main protagonists of the story and a scenario different that the original starting point of the adventure… or something like that.

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        1. After rereading previous chapters and this chapter I have come to a realization and must correct a part of your statement; that Rion is older than Arnold. He is, in fact, younger than Arnold. By a year,according to the previous chapter

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      3. @sekihanato
        Ah, but the last paragraph directly says “The World now needed Rion even if just a little bit.” Now the fact that Rion’s influence is to great to be ignored is true, but the World surely has many ways to balance any effect he has in the plot. Just look at the entire school arc. Even action has a countermeasure, sometimes more severe than the original story…

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    2. I wonder if it has to do with Maria’s inability to be popular among the common folk or because she wasn’t able to wrap her team well thus being necessary having Rion as a backup plan (his own team, he can cover Maria’s and Arnold’s and the other bastard part, Ariel instead of Erwin, and Charlotte that wasn’t won by Maria + commoner and lower nobility with good abilities…. I wonder if they will actually follow Rion to his domain…), or just because Rion was too overwhelming even with them all together against him alone~
      Or maybe it has to do with the stability of the country since there will be lots of revolts because Arnold is an ass and there’s a need for a new ruler?
      Or because the world thinks that since Maria’s power is not enough that Rion should dwindle the number of demons or help out by blocking in the frontier?

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      1. I think the “world” just wants the story to progress as in the game, either by good or bad ending, with the main protagonist (i just cant call her by her name, it leave a bad after taste) and her “fiends” (i mean friends) fighting and either wining or losing.
        Rion is just a thorn on its side so it let him alone for now so to not deviate the story more.

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  1. rion need to tag team to the demon lord and destroy the kingdom or rion is the demon lord or vessel so the world needs him…..So what world will awaits when the world is destroyed(or the system of the world)

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  2. thx for the translation, it lifted my foul mood, at least the king and queen are wise ones, though they are kinda shitty for abandoning their child due to superstitions in the first place but maybe if they r not royality maybe chances of not abandoning Rion in the first place will increase
    Have a happy Lunar New Year! And thx agn for the translation

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    1. > the king and queen are wise ones

      …… I want to have whatever you were smoking when you wrote that.
      They definitely one of the worst ruler I’ve ever read. Too much influenced by personal feeling and underestimating everyone below them as a royalty.
      I don’t know what kind of plot armor that bitch Maria has, but the royalty definitely won’t left unscathed in the future conflicts, based on their stance they took against Rion.

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    1. In my humble opinion, the setting of a otome game and school life has always come second to me, and while interesting, I don’t really like the story only focused on those aspects, I really find it fresh it being just a prologue to the story, since most of the time, the otome game setting is either the body of the story and other times it’s the climax.

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  3. 10 comments so far on such an amazing chapter and what’s more, on such an amazing novel?!?!?!
    Preposterous!!!!
    I wish more people would read this, It’s such a well written and interesting concept, what started as a generic villainess girl novel took a turn for the best suddenly and boosted this novel to my top 1 and, even while being so early on in the story I feel like I’ve read hundreds of chapters and I don’t even know why.

    Thanks for translating, seriously thanks.

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  4. I swear is it just me who want to see the entire royal family (except Rion) being executed on public?
    Their arrogance definitely on the top rank even surpassing that c*nt.

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  5. Wow if you don’t want your own child you can put him on adoption or send him to live on the country side under the care of a loving couple to give him all the attention, safety and love. At least be responsible. ?

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    1. Her kid has the sinister heterochromia, it’s questionable whether orphanage would take him. The best she can probably do is take him to a place where there is no such thing as “heterochromia that brings misfortune” belief.

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      1. Like, for example, the slum.

        … yeah, right. Why not just strangle the newborn till death instead of throwing him away into a living hell? Ah yeah, ofc it’s for the sake of killing those irresponsible assholes. GG, God.

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        1. Her hands are tied. She’s a queen, and bearing a child with dichromatic eyes, the public and nobles would expect her to kill Rion off rather than bring misfortune to the kingdom.

          Sacrifice the few for the many. It’s one of the things Ariel and Rion had a hard time answering.

          Also, when she gave him off to the midwife, she likely just finished giving birth, so she’d understandibly be exhausted. She needed to get him out before ANYONE saw him and so that she could say it was a daughter.

          Heck, maybe the midwife was loyal to the queen, but hated Rion just on principle and she could have lied to the queens face about the child being well taken care off.

          There are very, very few people who looked favorably on Rion. And I just hope to count the queen in that.

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  6. Thanks for the chapter !
    Really want to know what will happen when Ariel and Rion will reunite, will they cry and show their weakness to each others? Will they put a strong facade and overcome their losses? Or is it something else ? Kinda hope that the kingdom will fall before the demon and Rion, with his new territory, come and destroy them but I really doubt that.

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  7. ” Just from one glance, one could easily see that the resemblance between her and Rion was uncanny. His well-proportioned, androgynous face was something he clearly inherited from his mother who was said to be the most beautiful in the kingdom.”
    So, Arnold, he never looked much on his own moms face? Or was he born from a concubine and got his right because Rion was sent away? The hell man! Seeing Rion up close so many times and didn’t get the feeling that he resembles the queen?!!!

    And I was right about Maria and Rion’s case~ They did that to avoid him!

    So, did the royal couple catch that Ariel is with Rion or just the queen? Serious, that king has a pit on his head! Hope that she helps him, wait, has Rion not looked at them much and didn’t see their resemblance? The most beautiful woman and most beautiful young man’s own resemblance?

    Now is time for fief development and show of abilities of our favorite couple~

    And Arnold never was much wise, his relationship with Maria shows it very well!
    It’s good to have Rion as backup plan~~

    Thanks for the chapter~!

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  8. I swear even the king and queen are major a-holes. Worst parents ever, especially in the fact that they let Vincent do as he pleased and thought that throwing Rion into the slums was a good idea. At least ship him out of the country or something > >)”…I want anarchy! Rebellion! Where is that demon lord? Mostly, Rion better take Ariel as his wife and make her happy > 3 >) Thanks for the chapter though~ it was a good read!

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  9. Alright, alright, alright, can we expect the full effect of romance tag now?

    Also Rion, Ariel, I want two boys and one youngest girl. It’s fine if you want more though

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  10. Will we hear more about what happened to Ariel, I wonder? The story of her being saved from the slave auction (I’m assuming) should be good.

    Thanks for the chapter !

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  11. …Even if you let him live, giving him a noble title to a castaway prince that is more competent than your crown Prince and also hates him seems like they’re just asking for a rebellion. He even controls the underworld of their capital city, though they don’t know that.

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    1. …Even if you let him live, giving him a noble title to a castaway prince that is more competent than your crown Prince and also hates him seems like they’re just asking for a rebellion. He even controls the underworld of their capital city, though they don’t know that.

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    2. Well, what do you expect the queen to do? Its already stated she regretted not being able to protect her son when she gave birth to him. She had already set her course, and this is the extent she could reasonably help him without both nobles and unaffiliated commoners screeching “burn the witch” because Rion has dichromatic eyes.

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  12. From my understanding, since this is a world mixing otome with Persona, plot armour only lasts until:
    1 – Good ending: defeat Demon King with friends (boyfriend varies along choices made)
    2 – Bad ending: team defeated and world destroyed (boyfriend varies along choices made)
    Most likely, since the core team doesn’t exist anymore, replacements had to be made, and most probably Arnold dies… leaving Rion as a substitute… Now that’s gonna be a riot…

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  13. Wow the king and queen are such trash. Does Rion realize that he is their child? Ugh I want to shank everyone in this story (except our precious protags keke). Thanks for the chapter!~

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  14. Thanks for the chapter. The chapter makes you kind of feel sorry for Rion even more. I would not be surprise that the territory that Rion has will be a big help when he fights against the Devil and his legion and be together with Ariel again.

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  15. I hope Arnold dies.

    Now! It turns into a fief-building prosperity-building novel?!? With fluffiness with Ariel???? I hope it does. Also seriously, this is a crapsack world. And isn’t there a demon king or something still running around somewhere?

    Thanks so much for all your hard work!!!

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    1. Oh yeah. Demon king.
      Would Rion be purposely involved with the war since he was given a fief that is strategically important? Although it may turn into an asylum for those escaping the demon’s invasion.

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      1. I agree that the place he will make will be similar like an asylum but it will be more like for the people who live in the slums. With the knowledge from Japan he can bring in new farming, technology (like the waterwheel), forts, and etc. And probably will teach the there people about magic since he figured out how to bring forth the fairies which boost that person power.

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    |  THANKS FOR THE CHAPTER!!!
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    ⊂  ;゙  
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    |U”” Can’t wait to see Ariel an d Roan being together at peace for a moment

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  17. Damn it. Did the Windhills want Rion back to shut him up or make him serve the other illegitimate heir (that little sh*t)? *sigh*
    The king and queen hardly look like they’re up to the job, without the commander babying them. C’mon commoners, it’s time for you to revolt against the kingdom ~ And destroy Maria along with it ~

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  18. Damn, the story progress so badly…
    Back then the most serious part can get are killing mobs and get fuck in the ass…but now..fucking lost a great person, RIP Vincent.

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  19. Wait so the queen knew that the child was a male all along? So why did she faint when she saw Maria, and assuming she mistook her for her effeminate son or something (or was actually reacting to a glimpse of Rion idk), isn’t it weird she managed to keep up the act by saying “daughter” instead of son while fainting? <— Was what I thought about the chapter, until I realised it's not the shoddy writing of the author, it's rather the patchwork world shaping of The World, and that's actually really clever. It sorta feels like The World has written itself into a corner and it's now trying to back out of it.

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  20. so ? the crown prince received no punishment ? is that really the case? he was the leading person of the false charges. this is utterly bockmist my fucking god this author sucks so hard

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  21. I had thought far too many times to drop this as from my point of view its garbage how the so called drama and solutipn goes its filled with stupidity and inconsistent logic. Im trying to read more to see if it gets better but again ill most likely go find something where you dont stir lowered brain power to give more happenings.

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  22. I am slightly of blame towards Ariel on this matter, I was expecting something like a trump card when she admitted her wrongdoings and all. But it is also contradictory for Vince to say he commited treason when he said he was loyal to the throne?
    And right now if i was in rions place or anyone else was they would want revenge against the world, maybe if Ariel were to die too but i really liked vince and his death kinda shocked and made me rage i think that marie killed him… I didnt hate her or like her but now i do.
    Also i dont think this moves the plot forward at all… There was no anger from rion maybe it will come later? But if it was normal he would impeach the throne that made his best friend die

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  23. I honestly can’t tell if the cliche of Rion being the missing Royal child is intentional on the author’s part (i.e. The World finding a use for Rion and retroactively changing the past to keep canon events on track) or just terrible writing. It’s made pretty clear that if Rion was truly just a random orphan, he would’ve been executed without a second thought. I’m inclined to believe that this is a result of ‘Fate Shenanigans™’ mainly because Rion’s criminal connections and copious blackmail gave him alternative solutions to escaping imprisonment that didn’t rely on the King’s whimsy.

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  24. They are ruthless enough to abbdandon him in the slum, when he was a toddler, to prevent him being a king because of his eyes. But now they dont care about it anymore and give him a land fully know that there will be a possibility him coming back to kill their second son. And also dont have any punishment for him despite him trying to kill the prince.(just a remind they didnt recognize him as their son when he was born, but now they talk about parental love)

    Now this part is a bit illogical and maybe I think this is what truly called a plot armour.
    (this is just my opinion, i just want to point out the detail bothering me and I want an explaination to keep the story cohesive, it is still a good story though).

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  25. King at this series is useless, incident that connected to children of three big house if that Kingdom, but the king didn’t know anything, he didn’t care about it and he just let the fucking useless investigator did work.
    But when something bad happen they make it as if the King care and act as if he sad.
    Is this king even do any work?

    Stupid, really stupid.
    I am sure at future chapter, author will make kingdom destroyed.

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  26. The King deserves to be toppled with the level of negligence he showed. Kings in real history have been toppled for less, not even close to outright treachery to their most loyal.

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  27. Okay, this is a totally nonsensical turn of events. Rion just attacked royal guards trying to stop an execution the king ordered, expressed violent emnity towards the three biggest houses in the kingdom, later threatened to kill the crown prince, has a wildly reviled physical trait thought to invoke misfortune, showed previously unknown powers only thought to exist in legend… and they’re just going to let him go and give him a nobility title? Even though the king and queen are sure he’s their kid… how the fuck would anyone else let this happen? As far as most of them can see, even if Rion was right to want to stop the execution, he is *way* too much of a risk. And in addition, everyone involved has acknowledged that the charges were absolutely batshit crazy, but Ariel is still somehow a commoner?

    (Also, can I say I *hate* this whole idea of “the world is trying to course correct”? It’s literally bad writing.)

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