LIGHTNOVELONLINE 83.
[the new noble, became the heretic of the church, Ren Artega freed a large number of slaves and has them hidden in an unknown place]
that was the news that appeared in the newspapers.
the nobles who hated the slaves, and used spies instead of the newspapers with their exaggerated news, discovered that the brat wanted to take the slaves and free them for some kind of penalty.
but the most ignorant people, which was the general public.
I take it literally, and I take it blasphemously from the goddess.
according to the church, demihumans were something to abhor, and to be used by, humans.
and that belief makes the people loathe ren for it.
while ren's public image grew and got pretty screwed up.
in the Holland territory, Kiyoshi was sitting with a frown.
finding that spacious desert island and making sure it wasn't on the map was no problem.
It was also no problem to screw up the satellites to prevent them from locating the plane.
nor hide the slaves to be taken to the docks and taken to the island.
Kevin led Kiyoshi's forces so no one would find out.
what concerned Kiyoshi was the public image of his sensei.
In the networks Ren was already being insulted hundreds of thousands of times, even the church was sending letters to Ren acknowledging that the wrath of the goddess will fall on him.
Kiyoshi was scared.
Not that Ren will be sent to the gallows or locked up for the rest of his life.
Although he sounds idiotic, the church has written that slaves will always be slaves and should never be given rights and I ren violate that directly.
And how can that be possible, you may ask?
so simple.
say that an apostle hated slaves.
tell them that the apostles of the angels command them.
since if an apostle of the angels appears, it is like being under the confidence of an angel.
for example, if Uriel's apostle went to church, he would be received as if they received the goddess.
that's how important they are, but although the church says that the beastmen must be punished and enslaved sent by an apostle, nobody knows that the last apostle of a goddess appeared more than 500 years ago.
since then there has been no other apostle and the angels do not interfere in the human kingdom, since it would be like declaring war on the secret protectors of the planet.
but back on topic.
This slavery that Ren wants to undo is quite problematic.
he was being blasphemed from all sides, and even if he manages to defend them and win the trial, still his public image will not improve.
Kiyoshi worried about that, and also...
Looking to the side, he saw his butler with an older face named Kevin next to him, Kevin also looked at him and smiled calmly at him.
he sighed at the calm, stoic look on him.
something that he learned in the time that he was with him and with ren was something strange, the solution if ren loses will be simple.
If Ren loses, he will leave the country.
although he sounds crazy that with the technology of now ren can escape and hide.
Kiyoshi remembered that he had been living with ren for 1 month, Kiyoshi being taken by ren every day from his house to the city avoiding the guards and escaping often sometimes carried by ren.
Kiyoshi is the most wanted in the Holland territory, Ren was able to make Kiyoshi still able to walk around the city, using his infiltrated clones, annoying the patrols.
And it's not that his duke's men are useless as Ren believes, Kiyoshi learned that even the duke sent his shadows for him, but Kiyoshi was never found to be an air user, targeting sentient shadows.
even after ren left, he was still not found by the duke.
he knew that if ren wanted to disappear from the map, it would be difficult even with all his technology to find him.
He doesn't even know if Naomi could find him, Naomi being the strongest and most sensitive woman, although the narrator thinks that if Ren leaves, Naomi currently has a 50% chance of finding him since the presence that supports Ren is very possible. I gave a concealment ability to ren.
that ren leaves never to return, which terrifies Kiyoshi more.
He has great affection and gratitude for Ren, he even sees him as his older brother, although he does not know what will happen to Kevin if Ren leaves the country.
he doesn't know if Kevin will vanish from losing connection with his master, or stay and glare at Kiyoshi.
he just knows that he has to do the best he can to help ren.
Kevin, who was standing behind Kiyoshi, smiled inwardly discovering the thoughts of the boy in front of him.
Kevin had absorbed the memories of the body of this old man, the second in command of Duke Holland, despite not being awakened, the man had a great deal of knowledge from all fields, for Kevin it was difficult to kill him, if not for the difference in strength, quite possibly Kevin takes a couple more minutes and is discovered.
the elder follower of duke holland followed duke holland for almost all of his life, obviously, he has rich experience in life and a kid like Kiyoshi couldn't fool him.
but like Kiyoshi, Kevin did not know that he would Ren if he lost his mind, unlike what Kiyoshi believes, he knew that his king would not take him from Kiyoshi's side, nor would he blame him.
Kevin was more worried that he would make Rose and her radical style, as well as the other girls who got a special attachment towards Ren.
looking at the screen in front of him, it showed a camera in the capital showing Kazuma talking to his grandfather as they walked to his private plane in the capital, the destination of the Kitamura territory where the trial will take place.
another camera showed Akane's parents trying to dissuade Akane's daughter Rose Scarlett from going and supporting Ren.
I got a message on his phone.
Seeing the sender, he was one of Ren's clones.
- the message to the child has already been delivered.
after seeing the message, Kevin deleted it and also deleted the number, once the signal was sent, all evidence that he had contact with someone from the Kitamura household had to be deleted.
returning to Kitamura territory.
The guard, after delivering the letter to young Ryan, went to an alley in the city, where he threw the corpse of the soldier he was copying, it was the soldier who hit Ren a few days ago.
after leaving a random murder scene, the clone disappeared into the smoke.
at Ryan's mansion.
the young man could be seen sitting in his office with the letter in his hand.
He knew he was about Ren's trial for sure.
Ryan remembered Ren, a young man who seemed ignorant to the eye, he didn't know something so important about what his dukedom was or his mines full of history.
Frankly, Ryan didn't want to open the letter.
something that his grandmother told him since he was a child, was human greed and especially the greed of the nobles, as they all had hidden motives in addition to hiding their garbage by doing noble acts.
he judges what he sees, but he also judges what one will do in a desperate situation.
When he saw Ren, he saw a calm and friendly young man.
After Ren showed him the evidence of the slave trade in his territory, with the evidence that they enslaved humans, he was going to deliver the information to put the Marquises behind bars.
he thought it was unbelievable, but he couldn't help but suspect that ren would ask something out of tune.
like an astronomical price for the crystals for example or a medal to be promoted in rank.
which frankly, the Kitamura territory could afford, to have the crystals back after years of drought, their only recourse being to stock up on the guilds that sucked the Kitamura territory out every time they traded with them.
It would be to give them back the history lost years ago.
When he heard his soldiers' report of how Ren led his soldiers and the adventurers of the [Scarlet Rose] guild to contain the monsters in the dungeon and even prevent much destruction from the adventurers, being shocked little, even concluded that ren was a hidden general from somewhere or something.
he was going to convince his grandmother to immediately accept ren's business offer, it wouldn't matter if ren gave a high price.
but now.
when she found out that he secretly kept demi-human slaves and moved them to another part that is still unknown to the authorities.
he felt quite insulted and angry.
Ren didn't know but Ryan and the Duchess, they hate slavery, they can't make it public because of the reprimands of the church, since the church has its roots throughout the territory, and Shiro didn't tell Ren because it was more like a family secret.
His grandmother in particular had a lot of pity for the slaves, although they are believers in the goddess, they do not like that belief in slavery, but now that they reported Ren as the man who kidnapped them...
Ryan felt insulted by how Ren was able to move a large number of slaves under his nose, not only, take them out of his territory, but maybe to a worse life.
and now that he has enough balls to send a letter, surely to ask his house for support to defend him, it was like an insult.
when his hand moved to his personal letter opener, he placed the blade on the corner of the paper about to rip it open.
Ryan's mind was already doing many calculations to reject and even add to his condemnation.
Pulling out the envelope, Ryan thought.
'I'll make him pay me with all his crystals.
smirking in his anger, he was thinking of the after-trial petition for ren to reveal the location of the slaves and then bring them here where they could be given at least a decent life in a corner of their city without being mistreated by the village.
but when he opened it and saw the contents of the letter, his expression completely changed.
he only had a few sentences, but that changed everything.
- please, use my favor to avoid the disaster in your territory in the trial to support only the slaves who were imprisoned, and if possible prevent them from being traded again.
- Oh right, sorry for lying to you, at that time I wasn't sure I trusted you, but just yesterday your sister contacted me, besides I remembered the talks I had with your sister and I decided to bet on you.
-postscript: there I leave you in the ring the files this time complete of the entire business, including the beast people, and the other crimes that the 3 marquises did, hopefully, it will help you to clean up some garbage, I recently found out that you hated slaves, if I knew, I would have contacted you earlier.
Kiyoshi's hand began to shake.
'Why use your favor like that?
instead of using his favor which is equivalent to a medal to defend him and be able to continue with his life instead of being jailed or hanged, he preferred that they save the slaves.
honestly, with those 2 sentences, his perspective of Ryan changed completely, he felt bitter for having assumed things before reading the letter, he was confused, he didn't know if this was true, but seeing the sender from prison, he had to believe it.
he ran to see his grandmother before she goes to court.
On the way into the mansion, he saw her older sister all dignified and elegant walking at a brisk pace towards the same place Ryan was going.
"sister!?
-Ryan?
Shiro turned around and saw his younger brother with her mouth open holding a leaf.
Both brothers ran to hug each other.
Ryan woke up faster.
" Sister, we have to go quickly to see grandma, I got the letter from ren.
- Ren Artega? He was just going to Grandma's.
" do you know him?
-Of course, he is my dear student, could you lend me that letter?
" Sure.
Shiro quickly flipped through the letter.
and he smiled before telling his brother only.
- Let's save my student.
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returning to the capital, in the hub of ren.
2 people could be seen meditating, one had the appearance of a beautiful woman with her legs crossed and the other had the appearance of a child no more than 10 years old, both meditating.
the difference was that they were both in an incredibly frozen theme.
those were the clone of ren and Eira.
they were both in a frozen room.
Now, anyone would wonder why.
and the reason is simple.
A few days ago, Ren's clone was cooking for Eira as usual at this time.
Eira could be seen at her table with a calm face looking at the pot where the clone was cooking at all times.
At one point, Eira out of nowhere felt mana moving inside the clone's body.
the pot that should be hot, began to freeze starting from the clone's hand.
"What's happening to me!? Miss, what's wrong with me!? I'm scared, please help me miss!
Eira immediately ran towards the clone.
he watched as everything around the clone began to freeze
"Shhh, calm down, hug me.
the clone immediately hugged Eira and allowed himself to be carried by her.
He watched as when he touched Eira's back, she began to show signs of frostbite until a few moments later the ice disappeared from her.
it was as if she showed "you can't freeze me"
The clone hugged Eira tighter.
he was scared, but at the same time happy to evolve from being a simple clone.
Eira heard the voice of the clone in the body of a child.
- I made it! evolve!
Eira heard the boy's happy cries in his embrace.
without realizing it she smiled.
when ren went on a trip, he didn't forget about her and made a clone to cook for him.
when ren asked her if she wanted something special in the clone, she thought about it for a while but in the end, she told him.
"I want it to have your personality, but without your seriousness all the time.
Ren thought about it for a moment and did it, removing all the seriousness and calm that she usually has and giving the clone his cooking knowledge.
but what the idiot ren did not know or did not remember was that by taking away the seriousness and calm that he got from the experience of years of being sent on missions many of them where he had to kill to survive, ren after years developed a calm for situations natural.
take that away from him I...
He showed the image of a very happy and jovial young man.
the personality that ren had when he was a child, which any person has, but had to change because when you are older, that joy that children present tends to disappear or be hidden to keep up with adults.
and Ren left Eira with an 8-year-old boy in the body of a 15-year-old.
At first, the clone was cheerful and very playful, Eira didn't mind since the little boy was respectful.
Eira left in the morning for the academy, the boy was left playing alone or making a mess with toys.
he then cooked for Eira in the afternoon and went to play, then he cooked at night while Eira went to sleep.
but after 1 week, the boy got bored of playing alone and invited Eira to play.
At first, Eira completely refused, but after much pleading from the little boy, he agreed.
And it turns out that Eira loves racing games more than anything.
he surpassed ren's clone in a few days, which gave the boy a reason to improve himself.
now every night, they play for hours before Eira sleeps with the boy in the same bed separated by a wall of clear ice that doesn't freeze.
because the boy is afraid of ghosts and the dark.
don't ask me how he made ice maiden general Eira of the demon king's army her name known for being a cold woman who freezes every battlefield she enters, can sleep with the boy, but it was literally sleeping with an innocent 5-year-old year, without wishes or anything, just looking for the protection of a mother.
and unintentionally the little one woke up the maternal side of Eira that had fallen asleep long ago.
when Aiko was little, Eira used to take care of her when her masters were busy, which was most of the time.
but as Aiko grew older, the care she gave her dwindled.
And now since he had no other place to dedicate that love and care, he decided to pour it out on the Ren boy.
even the clone reduced his body to look like a 10-year-old boy, which secretly filled Eira with tenderness.
but at the same time, she confused her.
this version of ren is so humble, sweet, and adorable, he wondered what happened in his life so that expression of so cheerful and happiness for little things that secretly melted Eira's heart every time, turns into someone who only smiles after doing He joked around or gave a well-practiced fake smile to almost everyone but his friends.
Returning to the present, Eira secretly saw the new meat clone.
The boy told that her teacher woke up from imbuing her lightning with ice which made the clone evolve, which surprised Eira.
but she decided to teach him to control it.
the first step, enter a frozen place to be one with the ice.
Eira trained him these days, and the boy followed Eira without complaining once.
Unlike many of her soldiers who cry like girls after running through Eira's city once, the boy wasn't complaining about the training.
obviously, he wouldn't make him run around the capital with her, Eira knew how to measure herself and train him according to her rank.
and the little one was barely E rank.
she decided to teach him at the request of the little one, but at the same time, she was worried about ren.
During this time of living with the little ren, she saw some similarities with the original ren.
For example, they both like jokes, they both like food and relaxation with music, and the little one especially likes hugs.
Eira without realizing she was mixing the mind of her caring for the clone with ren.
which matched her concern for the ren's trial.
Secretly in her heart, Eira swore to welcome Ren to the demon realm. If he was found guilty here, if necessary, she would not let him step foot in the human world again.
when Eira thought about the reason why they judge him, the walls of the cube froze even more than they were because of her anger.
what woke her up was the voice of little ren.
-Miss Eira, is it okay? Excuse my fault, but please don't get mad, I swear I'll train harder, but please calm her anger.
Eira saw the little ren with tears in her eyes blaming her for misunderstanding the reason why Eira got angry.
her heart couldn't help but melt at the sight of this helpless and innocent little boy about to cry for her.
Without saying a word, Eira hugged him.
in Eira's heart that determination to take Ren out of the human world was growing stronger.
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