v1c3 (1/2)

My aunt believed that she didn’t hate ardless of the public opinion, if someone were to ask my aunt about why she hated her nephew so much, then she would probably be dumbfounded

If anything, she supported me She, herself, most likely believed that This was clear since every tioers, she would tell the a s takensyratuity towards her because she had treated her nepheith such compassion

Even now, I end up recalling her voice whenever I smell the scent that comes from churches Within the shadow cast down frolory of Our Savior, and over all else, youyour uncle’s anddecided to take you in, she was a person ould say these kinds of words to a 10-year-old child Do you knohat happened back then, Yujin? No one tried to take you in They were all busy trying to live their own lives, after all But do you knohat your father’s eldest brother did? He despised the idea, despised it! He didn’t want to take care of you despite being a politician, successful, and rich! You, who had lost your parents and was crying in the funeral while surrounded by relatives, he didn’t want to take in such a pitiful and young lamb! How could he abhor the idea that much!? If it weren’t forlamb?

Truly, you ive thanks

I cowered I’m not sure what other reaction a 10-year-old child, who had just becoest reason behind why I didn’t retaliate whatsoever to the bullying I received at school

I was defenseless I was a wide open new field No matter how ht back⎯⎯⎯and merely cried, like a fool I’age I’e and all I do is inconvenience gage Since I’m a retard, I believed that it couldn’t be helped if anything happened to me

In contrast, Joo Chan

An estee Whenever she walked, light swayed vaguely around her A thick scent offlowers emanated froence was like a sturdy steel tower A level 99 prodigy girl as beautiful, talented, and well-rounded in both sports and studying

Should I say that the biggest irl?

That’s right, a girl

A girl with a lot of curiosity

That girl, anted to sate that cruel curiosity of hers while not even possessing the slightest bit of hesitation

To her, ILike ashe could think of towards me and didn’t stop there Joo Chanmi would repeatedly prove that she, herself, was really, truly, an authentic genius Whenever I thought that nothingthe next ti false hope, sexual harass Ti towards rade, and soon, my entire school

Running aas io to school once, my uncle soon came and barked at me, ‘We took in a child who doesn’t have ato school?’ Even my aunt, ‘How could you do this’, she uttered, ‘Do you not kno to show thanks?’, she then wept However, regardless of what anyone would say, the sole person to bust down‘Y-You, Y-Y-You, You, b-because you’re not coet!!!!’ Though it was Miyeong who started the flame, since the baton had been passed to Chanmi, the school had ended up in a state where it didn’twas anymore

What about graduation? Couldn’t it have been resolved with that? Of course, it’s possible Every student will end up graduating, after all However, this was a coed school that had an education syste from elementary school to university was all connected Then a different method? I reiterated the words said by ion that she believed in Suicide is a sin The biggest betrayal If you do so like that, then the people around you will be sad Even when Judgeiven, but apostates and people who commit suicide will not I wasn’t even allowed to kill myself

The only path that I was alloas to merely wither, fall sick, and die off slowly Even when I entered into my first year of middle school, I sincerely believed that was my only fate

The fla transfer student, ‘The Princess of Death’, it was around that time that I met my Goddess, Cha Minhee, for the first time

I entered into my third day I have yet to examine the torture room

“Anten! Are you awake!?”

That’s because, the moment I opened my eyes, the Earl of the Silver Lion was on top of my stomach This time, her attire was a layer thinner than what she wore yesterday and the day before that She earing paja patterns on thes, and bracelets

“Earl”

“Yeess! Did you sleep well?”

“I thought I was having a night sleep paralysis, butpressed down instead”

“Ah ha ha Pardonpressed down by scissors, you know? Here, look”

She then placed a pair of scissors on top of my stomach It seems like both y jokes

(TL note: The term ‘sleep paralysis’ can be literally read as ‘pressed by scissors’)

“You put that on me just now”

“Although you’re right, Mr Yujin You shouldn’t pay attention to trivial things, Mr Yujin”

“Then I’ attention to······”

“Ufu Are you uncoet off?”

“No, you aren’t that heavy so it’s fine”

The Earl twitched and her face becaive that kind of reaction, then I wouldn’t be worrying about ht now There’s a chance that if it were Gia, then she may have reacted like that, but at the very least, in this current situation, the Earl of the Silver Lion only wetted her lips slightly Her canines gave off a dull glint

“Do you want a drink?”

The Earl got off of my stomach Sleep had escaped me completely as well I pulled up my upper body to sit up

“Did it turn out well?”

“Hlass”

The Earl, who had brought the chair and sat down on it, poured a glass of alcohol with a kettle and passed it to o on it, a company I’ve never heard of before

“I’ood with alcohol”

“What a boooring ht? Drink up”

I drank it down in one gulp For now, since I’ etiquette

“Ah ha? Ufu, ah ha ha ha ha Mm How cute What’s up with that? You’ve been constantly talking infor your head to drink?”

I silently put the shot glass down, picked up the kettle with both hands, and poured her a glass A steady fragrance of alcohol drifted around within ainst the chair, the Earl, as holding the shot glass with only her index finger and thuulp and let out a ‘Kaah!’ sound

“Seriously, horeatest in the woooorld!”

“It tastes nice Is it citrus wine?”

“Yes– Well, it’s an alcohol made from a similar fruit that can be found in our world It’s one of the few existing specialties of my city”

“The alcohol? Or the fruit?”

“Both Anyway, it ended well Ah ha ha Burned the original files, put out forged docu the papers closely, they turned out to be fake!’ You should have seen the head office er of the Fedchants’ face! He had a confused expression on his face at first, as if he didn’t knohat I was saying, and then after he exalared at me! That expression! Kya hah! Ah, the best! Ah hah hah ha ha ha······ I’ about it”

“Cal me now”

“Med I can’t give the de requests for the transfer of land ownershi+p⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯all of it, void! darettable that I can’t send them to prison since they’re outsiders”

“Is there no jurisdiction?”

“Since getting into the law of this world would be complicated, let’s skip it Well, to put it in simple terms, if they aren’t one of my citizens, then I can’t deem them as criminals However, civil cases are possible! I requested for the highest a words that had an a, ‘How dare you try to carry out such a ridiculous scheme Don’t look down on this Earl of the Silver Liooooon!’, like that Ah hah ha ha ha”

I wonder if she felt delighted theher face closer to

“It was great That Equivalent Exchange grand! Invincible! The greatest! Ah ha ha It was really great Mr Yujin, do you have soave ive you a reward”

“Send ain”

“Pfft, kukukuku Wrong! I can’t do that To not let go of sorasp Since I’m like that, I’m called the Earl of the Silver Lion”

I wasn’t expecting anything, either

“I’ll think about it”

“I’ll tell you this now, but you can’t avoid fro to the torture rack either, okay? Ufu fufufu”

“For soainly reward”

“The thing that’s ungainly is thebeen born in a place like Korea”

“Why is it that I have to listen to the belittle come to another world······? Hoere the other people’s responses?”

“Hmhm For starters, the citizens who submitted a direct petition had a face of admiration Hoas it? Then······ like the face soeousthe PT exercise of guerrilla training?”

So Ahyeon served in the h I heard that it’s recently been a trend for the last number in a PT exercise chant to be omitted

(TL note: Infor this joke is a bit complicated, so I’ll explain it further at the end of the chapter)

“What’s wrong? Isn’t this the ti ‘that’s not a look of admiration then!’?”

“It’s a deliberate omission”

“This sort of situation is a 0 contraction of discretionary power”

“That feels vaguely like a civil servant gag”

“Well, I am a civil servant, and an earl”

“That’s right, isn’t it?” I didn’t say, ‘In any case, congratulations’ to her “Just like I guessed, it see quite the animosity from your citizens, huh?”

“N-N-N-Nonsense Where else can you find a politician that’s as excellent as I, and how could someone like that be hated?”

“Ijoke just now”

“Ah······ lass of alcohol and sighed “I played around too much”

“You sure there isn’t another reason besides that?”

“There are, but, mm, those aren’t that important Now then, let’s drink instead Mr Yujin, I’ll pour you a glass”

I received the alcohol she poured with both of ulp Instead of trying to establish an equal standing with this series of drinks, oal was to hammer into her the implication that ‘I was her dependent’, but I wasn’t sure if it orking well In any case, she no longer brought upetiquette

A moment of silence

I poured her a glass The Earl drank it and spoke

“It’s not that important, but······ if I were to still say it”

“Hm?”

“It’s probably because, of my outer appearance”

“Outer appearance? The fact that you sus and torture them?”

“Yeess And actually, I’ve also played around with prisoners ere on death roas once caught by a special corps while I was doing that, though Well, there were some circumstances to that, but anyway, I’m a part of the Twelve Sky Barriers and an aristocrat, and the opposition was a prisoner on death row, so nothing much happened”

“Is your name, perhaps, Elizabeth Báthory?”

“Ah hah ha That’s rude I haven’t bathed in blood before, you know? Also, didn’t she kidnap norets are strictly limited to death row prisoners, plus alpha, AND otherworldly beings Yay”

I believed that an inhabitant fro able to casually tell the history of Earth was so to be afraid of

“Moreover, I wastoo much at the time Ah ha ah······ I was immature, really”

“Just how old were you then?”

“Hm Around 14-years-old?”

“It’s only been 2 years”

“Even in that short tiirls are beautiful forms of life that must be protected”

“Though I’irl has such a crude hobby like this···”

“That’s why I said, it’s my preference Please respect it”

“It’s not hard to respect, but I think it’s gone past the border of being considered one’s preference······”

“Shut up”

Silence

Did I go too far?

I gazed at her without avoiding her gaze or flinching A sweet aroma of alcohol, that could make a person’s body freeze, came fro her canines with her tongue slightly sticking out

“Don’t act out of line, Mr Yujin”

That’s right, it’s my mistake

Two people reached the third day None has reached the fourth⎯⎯⎯⎯, despite having received this infor words that I didn’t have to utter Is it the influence of the two glasses of alcohol I had?

In any case, this

“I’m sorry”

I said and lowered my head submissively

“I was presumptuous”

The Earl ue Silence

“Well, you just have to not do that from now on”

The Earl let out an ‘Ah hah ha’ laugh and patted my head Thankfully, it seeardless of that, it’s certain that a considerable amount of points were removed

While I was grinding my teeth in vexation, the Earl of the Silver Lion continued our previous conversation

“No e people by their outer appearance, aren’t they? Of course, there’s my mistake as well and I can’t o as far as to worry about co so even for ”

“They’ll feel anxious, after all”

“That’s the thing that’s needless I’ainst 12 people at once, and since I know that, I won’t do soh I’ll continue to play around with prisoners who are on death row”

“Do you resent them?”

“Should I call it resent? Even this incident, if the Fedchants didn’t try to pull off such a ridiculous scheme, then I would have just accepted it The documents were perfect, after all People ould nor to me and call me their ruler when in these types of situations, I honestly see these people as unseemly”

“You’ll need time”

“That time, I don’t need it Understand?”

I didn’t say anything more

That seelass as if waiting for a reply, lowered her glass and grinned

“How great would it be if the people also had a sense that was as quick as yours?”

“Mm”

“Anyho knows? While I’m in this position, I’m an earl Since I was handed down this role from my father I’ll take care of theo of this position either I can spendaround, I have a torture chamber, and I can play around with prisoners on death row and all I’ll receive are cold gazes Also, having a base is i The End! I don’t plan to do anything more than this Live on your own⎯⎯⎯⎯and on your own, die Ah hah hah ha ha ha!”

“What an outrageous Her Lordshi+p, Earl······”

“Even when I was little, I pondered whether this kind of earl could possibly exist It was so that even I believed would have an incredibly low chance of possibly happening But then it actually happened”

For souy’s character now

“And thus, another trial popped up today as weeell”

After chuckling, ‘Mufufu’, the Earl lifted up her glass Then, after waiting for lass, she used the pinky of her other hand to stir her drink for ait out towards me

I obediently licked it After I did so, I tilted h

“There’s a maid She committed theft That’s it”

“Was she caught in the act?”

“She was caught by the guards so, probably It’s soo They said they caught her going through the drawers inand, oh dear, a bunch of jewelry appeared”

“According to the laill she be punished?”

“If they’re a noble, then I can charge them for three times the appropriate price However, since she’s a co like cut off one of her ar her pay 3 times the amount of what she was about to steal is, of course, also possible A great masterpiece Ah hah ha ha”

Although this girl truly see

“Then what’s the issue?”

“Mm? When did I say, that there’s a problem, Mr Yujin?”

“You didn’t”

“Then why are you saying so cocky like that?”

“All I did was listen to the girl, who caht,alcohol, still look rather upset despite all that ranting, and speak her mind about her annoyance towards the public before suddenly bringing up another trial”

The Earl, didn’t show any easily readable body gesture like biting her lips

A momentary silence

I asked her first

“Was it a person you adored?”

“Weeell”

“A feeling of betrayal?”

“So like that?”

I tried reconstructing what must have occurred The Earl of the Silver Lion was able to suppress the Fedchant’s scheh the Earl claimed that she merely wanted to show the Fedchants their place and that the civilians didn’twhich she added later on This 16-year-old girl most likely wanted for her people, who had a prejudice towards her, to reevaluate her once s which she received⎯⎯⎯⎯ was still prejudice, ostracization, and fear

The feeling of having cold water poured on you, albeit, she probably didn’t feel anything······ I’m certain that her mood has become as worse as the a that situation, this incident occurred Of all things, why did it have to be the jewelry of her deceased mother, and of all people, why did it have to be the fellow that she doted on? If that’s the case, then, of course, she would be depressed It felt as if I could al like be nice towards the people below me’

I had also lost ht for a moment If you think about it, the fact that she ca pajaht outside) was already a huge indicator, but for me to have al on a land behaved conceitedly

However

“What do you plan to do?”

“H that Mr Yujin needs to really care about, though?”

That’s a lie If that was the case, then you wouldn’t have brought all this up in the first place, is so A deliberate omission

The Earl of the Silver Lion replied

“She’s tied up, in the torture room”

And, laughed

“I won’t kill her She’s not a citizen of another world, but this world, this hohts It’d be a bitcommitted theft But I’ll have to at least take one of her arms and receive the compensation fee from her body directly I plan to make her into a one-armed slave maid that’ll work for the Earl’s House until the day she dies Ah hah ha ha Of course, since the anificant, if it’s three times that amount, then it’s not a price that can be paid off even if a one-armed maid worked for the rest of her life Her descendants will have to carry the debt, too If she resists, then we’ll have to bind her and force her to get pregnant throughout the night Ah hah ha ha······”

That laughter was truly cruel and⎯⎯⎯⎯ and,

What⎯⎯⎯⎯ should I say?

“Do you want to go and see it? It’s a contraption that youbound to as well, you know? If you ask what it is, then it’s so around the arm And then puuuuuuuuuuull! If you pull on it, the ill dig into the flesh just like that You then leave it in that state Once a day or two passes, that area will rot and the ars, too······”

“You asked if there’s soht?”

“H her arms “Aha Ah, that Yeah Why?”

“Can you follow my advice for this case?”

“Ha? You’re saying presuain”

“Though that iveto the torture roo like this······ is what I mean Is that not possible?”

The Earl knitted her brow and looked at me Since she didn’t reply immediately, I spoke

“For what reason did that girl resort to stealing?”

“Is a reason needed?”

“Would afor the Earl resort to theft without reason?”

“Such things are common in this world”

“Even if it’s common in this world, it’d be difficult to do to the Earl of the Silver Lion You said that your cruelty is already widespread”

But if so fro that risk, then there would be a motive That’s what I meant The Earl snorted

“Well, it’s cliche I’m sorry, Lord Earl My mother became bedridden I needed theif I were to die, but if I’one, then there’ll be no one to support my mother······ so on and so forth, etc etc”

“Is that the truth?”

“Yeess”

“Just how much does the medicine cost······ to make someone try and steal one-third of an amount that can’t be paid off even if they worked for the rest of their life?”

“Med by a faction called Alchemy Fortress, but, ah, in Korean terms they’d be the Pharmaceutical association, but since the Alche is severe”

“That doesn’t make sense Medicine is directly connected to survival If so like that’s sold at an exorbitant price, then······”

“Ah, of course, e of common sense If it really were at an exorbitant price, like what you assu like the Alcheo”

“Then what? Is it really just made up words?”

“The reason that’s not it······ is because she gave the exact name of the medicine The reason why the Alcheht now is because, through the sharing of their knos, they’re able to provide vaccines for alen in the world and they set the price for those vaccines······ you probably wouldn’t understand even if I tell you this”

“One line summary : It’s a rare disease, so it’s expensive”

“Yeess”

“Therefore, the circumstances are true”

“Yeess”

“According to the law, is it necessary for you to cut off one of her arms? Or do you not have to cut it off?”

“I don’t have to It’s at my discretion It’s just that I want to cut it off Thus, I’ off one of her arms because I want to cut it off”

“You don’t have to emphasize it Okay Then the measures you have to take is clear”

Organizing the incident : Government(Earl of the Silver Lion) vs Citizen A criminal case Theft with a motive

“Make her pay three times the value of the jewelry that was found on her”

“I’m fine with that”

“Don’t cut off her arm”

“I don’t like that idea that much”

“And, buy the medicine for that maid’s mother You can do that much, can’t you, Your Excellency the Earl?”

“Okay, now that’s genuine nonsense⎯⎯⎯⎯ Why do I have to do that, Mr Yujin? I’m, as my title says, the Earl, Mr Yujin”

“I said this before If this is possible to do in place of my reward”

Silence

“······Haa Even if that was possible, I was planning to provide you with daily necessities like a blanket or so so you could spend your tiain by throwing all that away and saving a maid that you’ve never met before, who’s also from a world that isn’t yours?”

I,

didn’t tell her that it was because of her laughing appearance earlier, that⎯⎯⎯⎯ she sincerely appeared cruel,

and ‘in pain’

“I don’t think I have to answer that”

“Answer it”

“Lethypocritical, and it’s not for that maid who I’ve never met before, either, like you assumed”

It’s not for you, either

“It’s sied to the torture chamber increase if you’re in pain, annoyed, or upset”

I only want to avoid that

“Ultimately, it’s just my own selfishness”

I’m not sure how the Earl took in my cal like reading other people’s minds

Silence

The Earl avoided aze

“The medicine, is expensive”