I’m Going to Destroy this Country

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Meanwhile, the Skeleton King’s expression was souring.

Because of the spectacle unfolding right in front of him.

“Oh, it’s been a while! Your Majesty!”

“Yeah, how is the imperial knights doing? They’re not causing any inconvenience to His Majesty, are they?”

“Yes, yes! Uh, probably…!”

The imperial knights were greeting the knight of Eshua.

While laughing awkwardly.

Like watching a priest who is about to be executed.

‘Somehow. They say they are exceptionally on my side.’

At first meeting, they believed in him as a Saint, and the feeling of hostility towards the Bishop was a bit too sentimental.

‘So those guys, they’re from Eshua?’

They must have been knights affiliated with Eshua, or those who had been taught in Eshua.

That’s why they were dispatched to save him, even though they were from the imperial knights?

Now that he saw it, he saw a bit of blue items among the items possessed by the imperial knights. Like the trinkets attached to the swords.

‘The blue house of Eshua.’

When he thought about it, there was definitely something divided by colors in the holy faction.

‘Blue faith.’

‘Red faith.’

‘White faith.’

‘Gold faith.’

‘Black faith.’

Beings like kings leading all the priests on the continent.

Certainly, these were the colors of the five great ducal houses.

Because he hadn’t cared about humans and had lived without thinking about them for a long time, he had forgotten about it for a long time, but when he saw the blue of Eshua, it suddenly came to mind.

‘The knights covered in blue, they were pretty strong.’

Even his loyal Skeleton King’s subjects used to get excited just by seeing the color blue.

Well, that much, he doesn’t know what family it is yet, but he likes it when he looks at the abilities and first impressions…

‘Why do they do such things…’

“Look, young master! If you do this, the Skeleton King’s head flies off!”

“How about it! You like it, don’t you!”

Continuously giving him toys that kill him and glowing with excitement is somewhat uncomfortable.

For some reason, he felt like these guys were particularly obsessed with killing the Skeleton King. Is it an illusion?

‘What did I do to deserve a toy like this becoming a trend.’

Honestly, what’s unfair is that he… Damn, he’s destroyed the divine faction a lot.

‘Yeah, who told them to invade first and piss me off.’

Moreover, he swept away the papal army, and even sent back the Saintess, who was in a similar position to gods, after severely punishing her.

‘Uhm, let’s avoid meeting the Saintess as much as possible.’

Anyway, he was determined to avoid her in this life, but he was almost an enemy with the Saintess.

That’s also true, is a divine being created by the gods who couldn’t stand it to subjugate the Skeleton King.

Since she was born to eliminate the Skeleton King, he had nothing but bad blood with the Saintess from the first generation. Honestly, he did a lot of things he couldn’t do.

That’s how much resentment against the Skeleton King will grow.

Well, that was okay.

What’s so strange about the newly priests hating and trying to deal with the Demon King?

Rather, that wasn’t the problem now.

He has been feeling watched for a while.

It wasn’t the priests making a fuss, nor was it the half-penny(?) paladins.

‘That prince bastard. Why has he been staring at me?’

The problem was the black-haired prince next to the Emperor.

Seeing that his gaze wasn’t one of admiration, unlike the others, could he have been found out?

Although he was cautious, he did use magic to send the Bishop to hell.

Thanks to that, the Skeleton King was dripping with sweat.

The Skeleton King seemed to avoid the prince’s gaze, hugging a female paladin of Eshua with a grimace.

The Emperor was very upset at that sight.

“He seemed to like us a lot until just now.”

Of course. Because you’re the money source!

The Skeleton King looked dissatisfied at the imperial family.

Well, originally, he was planning to cling to the imperial family, but that’s when they did pick him up at home!

Does he need to live uncomfortably in a place that’s not even home!

But the Emperor didn’t seem to want to give up.

“I owe that child a debt. I will deliver him directly to Eshua, but what do you think. That child, would you tell him that I want to raise him in the imperial family?”

At that, the captain of the Eshua knights didn’t show any expression, but he seemed a little choked up, looking up at the Emperor.

“Your Majesty. You’re going too far.”

“It’s not a joke. That child will be targeted both internally and externally in the Holy Empire.”

“!”

“Of course, Eshua is one of the five major ducal families of the Holy Empire. But can the faith of the present really protect that child?”

At that remark, the Skeleton King furrowed his brow.

Hmm? What does that mean?

‘Does it mean that the family is in decline?’

But the Emperor’s eyes sparkled as he looked at the Skeleton King’s hair.

“Especially, the Pope would dislike that child the most. And it seems that the ‘Skeleton King’ is after that child as well.”

The atmosphere of the paladins, who were insensitive to the name of the Pope, suddenly chilled at the name of the Skeleton King.

“Already, when it comes to the , Eshua would be the most scared. You might have to face him again. Are you okay?”

What?

These guys, did they have something to do with me in the past?

But I don’t remember?

‘…Did my subordinates cause trouble?’

Or did they lose greatly to some dog-like demon and lose their honor?

If these guys can be beaten, they must be pretty strong demons, right?

It doesn’t matter who the opponent is. He could smash anyone and take revenge.

He’ll not just smash, but grind and drink them to restore the glory of the family.

The captain of the Knights gritted his teeth at the Emperor’s provocation.

“It’s okay.  In a way, it could be related to the Skeleton King.”

Yes, it’s a connection because we met.

So…

“Because it’s our mission to deal with the Skeleton King.”

…Hmm?

Wait, why is my name coming out?

More importantly, I’ve heard that phrase somewhere before??

Wasn’t it a woman who came to subdue me who kept saying that?

At that, the Emperor burst out laughing.

“Indeed, if you face the Skeleton King’s subordinates, Melisa might be happy.”

No, wait a minute.

That name is too familiar, right?

Wasn’t it 50 years ago, before I went to the divine realm?

It’s a name that’s too similar to the Saintess with whom I had the worst relationship when I last met.

“But you will need the power of the imperial family. So think about it. If you hand over the child, I will raise him as a child of the imperial family.”

No, give me money!

It’s great, but just shut up for a second!

I need to figure out who my ancestor is now!

That’s when it happened.

Bang!

The door of the temple reception room suddenly opened.

A few knights drew their swords in response as if it were rude, but the Emperor waved them off with a smile.

A silver-haired young handsome man entered.

“I couldn’t just let the conversation go by, so I came in without notice. Please forgive me. Your Majesty, I regret to say that the child is of our Eshua lineage.”

“Sit down, Lord Eshua. I didn’t expect a direct descendant of the Saintess’s family to come in person.”

Damn it!

Was really the Saintess’s family?

“Yes. We can’t entrust the direct descendant of the Saintess to someone else.”

And it’s the child of the Saintess! (tl/n: not exactly the son of the Saintess, but rather the son from the “family” of the Saintess, her blood)

If it’s the Saintess’s family, I understand that the Empire’s people respect them, and they’re on par with the Pope’s family!

“It’s okay, child. We heard everything. Even if you are cursed, we don’t care.”

No, it’s not okay! I’m not okay!

“It’s okay. Thank you just for being born. Your grandmother and your mother said it would be fine as long as you didn’t grow up like that terrible Skeleton King.”

“…”

The Skeleton King twitched his eyebrows.

Ha, damn father and mother.

I’m sorry, but it seems I committed a sin as soon as I was born.