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"Of course, if the truth is that Mi Zhou and I were wrong, we will both go and apologize to Roswaal solemnly."
Mo Yin said with a smile.
The main reason why he was so confident was that Roswaal's soul was too filthy. To him, the God of Souls, it felt like a bucket of sewage mixed together in a sewer. Anyone who could trample on the soul to this extent was not an ordinary bad person.
Only an extremely evil being who has done all kinds of bad things could be so filthy, so he was sure that Roswaal was not a good person.
Chapter 1053 Roswaal's Trap
Faced with Moyin's proposal, Ram remained silent.
After all, Moyin and Mizhou went back in time to save their parents, which was enough to prove how good Moyin and Mizhou were to her and Rem.
If Roswaal had done nothing, the two would not have targeted Roswaal so much, and there was no point in lying about Emilia's assassination.
There is no point in destroying the relationship between Emilia and Roswaal. After all, any one of Moyin and Mizhou can completely suppress the combination of Roswaal and Emilia. It can be said that there is no need for Moyin and Mizhou to deceive them at all.
But after working for Roswaal for so many years, she felt from the bottom of her heart that Roswaal was not a bad person.
Although his dress and personality are unpredictable, Roswaal has never done anything bad. The people in the border areas he manages live and work in peace and contentment. When disaster strikes, he will donate money and effort to help civilians through the difficult times.
Could such a good guy really be a hypocritical bad guy as Mo Yin said?
However, Moyin has only asked himself to investigate, and has not produced any absolute evidence to prove that Roswaal is a bad person. As long as the investigation proves that Lord Roswaal is not a bad person, all misunderstandings will surely be resolved.
So even though Moyin, Mizhou and Roswaal are not getting along now, Ram is not pessimistic about the future.
After eating the fish made by Moyin, the group started their return journey.
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Ten hours ago, just after Moyin and his party left Roswaal's mansion, Roswaal came to Emilia who was studying the knowledge of the King's Choice.
"Ah, Lady Emilia, I want to invite you to a place today."
Roswaal invited in a strange singing voice.
"Invite me? Where?"
Emilia asked with some confusion.
Because of the previous incident with the Gut Hunter, she was somewhat wary of Roswaal.
But with Parker by her side, she would not be afraid of Roswaal.
"Hahaha, don't worry, it's not a suspicious or dangerous place. I just thought that you have been in the capital for such a long time and have never been to the slums. I want to invite you to take a look at the current situation there and help some people."
Roswaal began to explain.
In fact, there were certain problems with the gospel he held that could predict the future. The direction of the world seemed to be interfered with by |||, and he saw an ending that he least wanted to see... So before reaching that point, he had to do something as much as possible.
His lifelong wish is to resurrect his teacher, Echidna, who is known as the Greedy Witch.
The reason why his soul disgusts the Soul God Moyin is that his soul has existed for more than four hundred years... He is actually the first generation of Roswaal.
When he was studying under Echidna, he was beaten half to death by the melancholy demon Hector who came in search of the Witch of Greed. When he was seriously injured and not far from death, he entered the Forbidden Library many times and found a way to copy his own soul. He then reincarnated his soul into his descendants continuously, and gained eternal life in this way of taking over other people's bodies.
During the long years, he had used every possible method in his quest to resurrect the greedy witch Echidna, whether it was cruel forbidden techniques or sacrifices. Even if the method had only a 1% chance of success, he would sacrifice hundreds of lives without hesitation. It was for this reason that Moyin felt that his soul was filthy.
After years of exploration and searching, Roswaal finally found a possible way to revive Echidna, that is, by having Emilia participate in the royal election, and eventually using her and Puck's power to wait for an opportunity to slay the dragon, and then using dragon blood that is said to satisfy all wishes in the world to revive Echidna.
Of course, he told Emilia that dragon blood was needed to thaw the tribesmen who were frozen by her own loss of control, which made the interests of the two people consistent.
But in the current gospel, not only can the uninvited guests in the mansion, Moyin and Mizhou, not be observed, but even Emilia's future cannot be accurately shown.
This is also the reason why he is worried.
Since the soul can be reincarnated into future generations, he is not afraid of death. However, the future he sees in the Gospels is not death, but complete annihilation and nothingness. This is the first time he has seen such a conclusion. Once he disappears, there is no way to resurrect Echidna, so he decides to influence the future through his current actions.
The first thing is to make sure Emilia will indeed continue to participate in the royal election. If this most basic thing cannot be guaranteed, even if everything else goes well, he will not be able to obtain the dragon blood.
"The slums?"
Emilia was somewhat surprised at the destination proposed by Roswaal. She had been here for so long, but this was the first time Roswaal had invited her to visit the slums.
"Yes, as a king, you generally understand the living conditions of your people in the future. A king has not only rights, but also obligations to his people."
Roswaal began to explain.
"Is that so? Well, let's go and take a look."
Emilia hesitated, then nodded.
The slums were not a suspicious place, and she had entered the slums last time in pursuit of Firut. It was just one more trip, so there was nothing to worry about.
"Then let's set off as soon as possible."
Roswaal gestured for them to come in, and then took Emilia and Parker to the slums near the royal capital.
Emilia was careful to guard against Roswaal along the way, but Roswaal had no intention of taking action.
Emilia's attitude also confirmed Roswaal's inner guess that the direction of the world had indeed changed greatly... Perhaps it was because the Hunter violated the rules of the Killer's Guild and exposed his identity.
But the question is, would a killer's confession alone really lead to this point?
He knew Emilia very well. Based on his understanding of Emilia, Emilia would never doubt herself to this extent just because of the words of a killer.
But since it has come to this, let's just act on the premise that Emilia is convinced that she is the mastermind behind the assassination.
He has experienced all kinds of things over the past four hundred years, and the current situation is not a desperate situation for him.
In fact, he already had a plan... a pit that Emilia knew was ahead but had to walk through.
This is Emilia's only weakness. She is too kind. If she can actually see that people are starving to death in the slums every day, and all this can only be solved if she becomes the king of the Kingdom of Lukenica, then even if Emilia is unwilling, she will force herself to participate in the royal election and become the king.
After Roswaal brought Emilia into the slums, Emilia found that most of the people in the slums looked at her and Roswaal with a respectful and rejecting look. She could understand this, after all, Roswaal was dressed like a clown, and people like them who were wearing fine fabrics came to this place to show off a little, so it was normal for them to be unwelcome, so Emilia didn't take it to heart.
But soon, Emilia stopped... because she saw four children who looked to be in their teens fighting with each other for a small piece of pitiful black bread.
The one with the biggest physique had just swallowed the pitiful little piece of bread when two of the four children punched him in the face, knocking out several of his teeth. Then one of them quickly stretched out his fingers to take out the unchewed bread, stuffed it into his mouth, and turned and ran away.
The other three immediately chased after him.
"Stop!!! That's my bread! I'm going to kill you!"
Hearing this, the children running in front not only did not stop but ran even faster. In less than half a minute, the four of them escaped from Emilia's sight, without even giving Emilia a chance to stop the fight.
"Ah, seeing this sad scene in front of me, I am really too sad. Such a young child actually has to risk his life in exchange for the rations that can survive today. How sad it is, Lady Emilia, don't you think so?"
Roswaal said sarcastically from the side.
"Lord Roswaal, how can you be so calm! Seeing such a scene!!!"
Emilia questioned Roswaal angrily.
"Because this is the norm here. When there are too many tragedies, people will become numb. After seeing so many, I don't care anymore. Keep going inside. Maybe you can save the next child."
Roswaal suggested.
"Compared to that! I think the first thing to solve is to give these children enough food to fill their stomachs. What's the harm if I go to see their current situation? They will starve to death anyway!"
Emilia spoke up.
In fact, as a candidate for the king's election, she is eligible to call on the resources of the Roswaal Border Marquisate that supports her.
After all, the supporters behind the king's candidate are placing a bet. Once the candidate they support successfully becomes the king of the Kingdom of Lukenica, this family will also gain the king's support and become the largest faction in the kingdom.
Therefore, according to the regulations, the king's candidate has certain powers to call on the resources of the candidate's family to do certain things.
On the other hand, things done by mobilizing resources can also be considered positive achievements. Emilia's plan to mobilize food to distribute to people in the slums can definitely be considered a positive deed.
However, since people in the slums do not have the right to vote, they are not even qualified to be called ordinary people in the royal capital. Therefore, although what Emilia plans to do is positive, it will not be of much help to the royal election. Therefore, other candidates will not mobilize a large amount of materials to do such a thankless task.
In fact, there is a deep chain of contempt in the entire Lukenica Kingdom. The nobles look down on the common people, and the common people look down on those living in the slums. Most common people think that those living in the slums are thieves, prostitutes, gamblers, drunkards and the like.
In fact, since there are few means of livelihood in the slums, stealing and selling bodies are not uncommon. For gamblers and drunkards, there are no internal laws of the capital to restrict them, so it is a convenient place to avoid debts and live cheaply. Therefore, over time, the slums have indeed developed in a direction that is despised by civilians.
However, more people in the slums are poor people who have to live here because they have no means of making a living. They originally planned to make money by working, but were trapped in the slums due to various accidents. Later, they were labeled as slum dwellers and could not find suitable jobs. Eventually, they were caught in the vicious cycle like a spider web by the slums.
Because of this situation, even if what Emilia plans to do is a good thing from a humanitarian point of view, it will still not get the support of voters. What's more, the resources in the border territory of Roswaal are accumulated by the civilian class. What Emilia does is likely to be regarded by the voters below as using their hard-earned taxes to support thieves and prostitutes, which will further reduce her support rate and reputation.
But Roswaal didn't care about these. His goal was just to let Emilia stay in the capital to participate in the royal election, and this slum was the shackles he put on Emilia.
"Of course, if we go to see them now, those who are destined to starve to death will still starve to death, but you should at least roughly calculate how much food we need to mobilize and distribute in the shortest possible time to save them from the torment of hunger, right?"
"You know, it takes time to prepare and transport supplies. If you prepare too little, there won't be enough to eat, and if you prepare too much, it will waste time. So if you want to save the people here, it's best to take a look at the situation inside."
Roswaal began to explain.
Emilia thought about it carefully and felt that what Roswaal said made sense, so she quickly walked into the slums.
As she walked along the way, Emilia discovered that there were big changes compared to the last time she came.
The last time she entered the slums, it was almost night and most people hid in their own shelters to prevent being stolen or killed by others. As they were wary of each other, the various conflicts were not too obvious.
But now it is the morning when the sun is at its highest, and those who are almost starving to death after a night of hunger are coming out to look for food, so fights, brawls, and thefts happen frequently.
It can be said that the night scene that Emilia saw before was for the winners who survived, while the losers had been eliminated before she entered the slums.
So it wasn't until today that Emilia truly saw the cruelty of the slums.
After roughly counting the food needed by the people in the slums, Emilia left and took Roswaal with her on the return journey, intending to go back and prepare relief supplies.
But what she didn't know was that she had already stepped step by step into the trap set by Roswaal.
Chapter 1054: Hidden Obedience and Disobedience
"Lady Emilia, actually, since the foreigners in the north of the capital are suspected of making reckless moves, I have to go to the northern region to suppress them for a while. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back for a long time. All the assets of Roswaal Mansion are left to you to use as you wish. If you want to do anything, Frandelica will assist you in executing various matters."
"However, please remember that the financial resources of my Roswaal family are limited after all. We cannot sustain the expenses of the slums for many years. Those people in the slums cannot find jobs because they are labeled as slum dwellers. That is why they have to stay in that dark and dirty place. Only when you become the king and pass various preferential bills for the slums, can you save those people completely."
"Otherwise, once the wealth of the Roswaal family is exhausted, they will be completely eliminated by the world after getting used to you feeding them, just like tamed pet dogs who lose the ability to find food on their own. I hope you can really save them before that day comes."
Roswaal spoke up.
This was the trap he had planned. After letting Emilia see the tragic scene of the slums, she would definitely use the resources of the Roswaal family to rescue the slums. Once she was connected with the slums, Emilia would not be able to simply walk away.
He took advantage of Emilia's weakness in character... that is, she was too kind, and set this trap.
In this way, whether he is in Roswaal Mansion or not, Emilia can only continue on the road to being chosen by the king.
Although this would most likely result in the loss of all the Roswaal family's assets, to him, these assets were far less important than resurrecting his teacher... and the person he loved, the Greedy Witch Echidna.
In order to achieve his long-cherished wish, he can easily give up everything, including his own life.