Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

Chapter 1237: Tyrant



After that shakedown, the king and generals of the Poppin Kingdom just couldn't remain on the battlefield any longer.

The excuse that he gave was that he had to return to the capital to help rebuild the destroyed parts of the Poppin Kingdom.

But it was clear that they were heading back to discuss this compensation matter with the way that he kept looking at me.

The way that he looked at me was as if he took me as his mortal enemy.

I knew that it would be impossible for him to drop this matter, but that didn't matter.

Though the others were confused why I did this.

Chris asked, "Your majesty, isn't this burning the bridge after crossing it? If you do this, there's no doubt that he will try to take revenge on you."

"Maybe, but what if I said that this is what I wanted?" I said with a smile.

Chris was surprised to hear this before knitting his brows to say, "Your majesty should know that our Holy Empire can only support you to a certain extent. If it becomes a matter that involves kingdoms, we'll have to back down."

I gave a careless nod before saying, "That's fine, I was already expecting that."

"Then why?" Chris asked with a confused look on his face.

He had tried to figure out what his intentions were, but he just couldn't understand why he did all of this.

At the same time...

I could tell from his face what he was thinking, so I asked him, "Do you think that any of that money would have ever even reached the citizens?"

"Huh?" Chris was caught off guard by this question.

He didn't know how to answer it at first as he just looked at me as if he was trying to figure out what I meant by this.

But eventually, Chris said, "From what we've heard about this Poppin Kingdom, it seems like they take quite good care of their people."

"It's the noble lords that take care of their people, the king is different." I said as soon as his voice fell.

Chris knitted his brows once more when he heard this.

The look on his face made it seem like he didn't believe what I was saying, but I just looked back at him with a calm look on my face as if there was nothing to hide.

Chris didn't seem to know what to say in response to this.

He continued to look at me as if he didn't believe what I said, but I didn't waver at all.

Eventually, he asked, "What do you mean by this?"

"The reason why you don't see any of this is because the king has oppressed everyone and made sure that nothing about this leaves their kingdom. But at the same time, the people accept it because they know that things could be much worse. Even if he is a tyrant, he's a smart tyrant that doesn't push his people too far."n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Chris looked even more confused when he heard this.

I gave a snap of my fingers and Shadow One appeared with a folder for me that I handed over to him.

When Chris read it, it seemed like there was a look of understanding that appeared on his face before he knitted his brows again.

After a moment of silence, he said, "If you do this, it'll just make things worse. If he loses this amount, then won't he just make things worse for his people? If this is true, then it means that they'll have to pay even more until he recoups these losses."

"That's right." I said with a calm nod.

Chris deeply knitted his brows once more as he said, "Do you not care about the people?"

"It's necessary. What do you think will happen once that tyrant pushes them too far?" I asked back in a calm voice.

"It'll result in a revolution. They won't take it anymore if their bottom line is pushed." Chris said in a natural manner.

I nodded in agreement before saying, "When the time comes, I'll help them then." Chris looked at me with a very strange look after he heard this before asking, "Did you just admit to wanting to take over another kingdom while the human race is in a crisis?" "When the time comes, will the human race still be in a crisis? The only problem is if there is anyone that will support that tyrant. I hope that I will have the support of the Holy Empire when that time comes." I said with a smile to Chris before turning back to head to the battlefield.

I didn't even pay attention to what his reaction was since I already knew what his reaction would be.

This was the plan that the prime minister had come up with, I was just acting the part of the villain.

In truth, we needed someone to act as a scapegoat if we wanted to change the opinion of the other kingdoms, so that was why we chose to come to this Poppin Kingdom first.

There were other kingdoms that were closer, but this Poppin Kingdom was chosen as the one that we came to help.

That was because of what the prime minister had already found about the Poppin Kingdom. He had the same reaction as Chris when he saw the real face of the Poppin Kingdom, which was why the Poppin Kingdom had been chosen as our target for when this was over.

Partly because we wanted to expand when this war with demons was over, but also because of what the Poppin Kingdom's king was.

Though the real thing that terrified me was how accurate the prime minister's information network was that he was able to find all of this.

I knew that he had already been building one across the continent, I just never thought that it had developed to this point yet.

As expected, the prime minister really was a terrifying person.