He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 189

Became the Greatest Crazy Emperor – Episode 189

Became the Greatest Crazy Emperor 189

“You don’t seem very surprised.”

“Should I be?”

“Usually. But well… you don’t seem like an ordinary person, so it doesn’t matter.”

The Baron said that and looked at the doll that resembled his daughter.

I asked him.

“Did you make it using Elves?”

“That’s right.”

“Not a very beautiful hobby.”

“Do I look like a monster to you?”

“Would you be disappointed if I said yes?”

While subtly questioning him, I wondered why the Baron was showing me such a secret so openly.

The Baron shrugged and said.

“Usually, I would be. Well, it doesn’t matter if you actually see me that way, as long as you keep your promise. After seeing this, do you still want to meet the Dawnlight Society?”

“What if I do?”

“Whatever else, you’ve got guts.”

The Baron turned his gaze from the doll back to me and said.

“Doesn’t it occur to you that I might harm you for showing you this?”

“Not really. If you wanted to, you would have attacked without asking. Of course, I have no intention of being defeated. Conversely, I want to ask you. Why are you showing me this? Aren’t you suspicious of me?”

At this point, I wanted to ask him in return.

The Baron nodded and said.

“I was suspicious. I’m still questioning your identity, but even if you’re from the Counterintelligence Knights, it doesn’t matter.”

“Why?”

“Why, you ask…”

He chuckled.

“Even if you’re their stooge, and I get caught or killed because of it, it’s hard to turn back. I have no regrets anymore, so to speak. Because the original purpose has already been achieved.”

I could guess what his purpose was. The daughter I saw earlier, who was alive and moving, came to mind.

“My daughter died during the civil war.”

“Then what I saw earlier was?”

“A doll. Exactly like my daughter. A fake.”

“…….”

The way he spoke about the girl didn’t seem like how he would treat his daughter. He certainly seemed like a caring father when they were together earlier.

“At first, I thought it was real. But soon I realized. This is fake. That’s how contracts with demons are.”

“Someone taught you that.”

“Isn’t it obvious? This is not something humans can do.”

“I agree.”

Because it’s too much of a distasteful thing for a human to do.

“Anyway, let’s confirm our deal. You want to meet the Dawnlight Society, and I want your cooperation. Is that correct?”

“That’s right.”

“I’ll do that for you. In return, do what I want.”

“What do you want?”

As I asked that, he smiled brightly, as if he had been hiding it until now.

“A true reunion.”

* * *

“Pretty sisters, how is it? Everyone is pretty, right?”

“…….”

The Elf slave that Franz brought was led by the Baron’s daughter, or rather, a doll in the form of his daughter, to the workshop in the basement of the mansion.

There, just like the room in the Baron’s reception room, were dolls. Quite a few were in the process of being made.

The doll said.

“Beauty disappears quickly when it’s alive. No matter how beautiful a face you steal, it cools down someday. So I thought, is there a way to be beautiful forever?”

While saying that, the doll picked up a crude iron syringe from one side of the workshop.

“And soon I found it. A way to be beautiful forever— Huh?”

But when she turned back, there was a completely different person standing there.

“Still playing with dolls, Rose? No, Marionette.”

Instead of the Elf slave, Mirror, who had undone her transformation, was there. From the start, the one the Emperor brought was Mirror disguised as a slave.

“Oh, Mirror? What are you doing here?”

“Just happened to be. More importantly, what are you doing here? Was the Baron the new puppeteer this time?”

“Yeah, I change them every time I get bored.”

“This time it’s a daughter role, that’s disgusting, you.”

The Doppelganger [A shapeshifter or mimic] Marionette shrugged at Mirror’s words.

“What about you? Why did you become the Empire’s dog? A proud Doppelganger?”

“I forgot about that hollow talk a long time ago. You guys should come to your senses. Aren’t you tired of living as the Demon King’s lackeys?”

“……Heh, you’ve completely turned human.”

As Marionette said that, she threw the syringe in a surprise attack.

The syringe, thrown like a dagger, aimed at Mirror, but Mirror quickly dodged it.

The syringe was instead stuck in the doll behind it. Mirror hid among the dolls.

“You’ve always been good at running away.”

Marionette picked up a large saw and chased after Mirror.

But Mirror was nowhere to be seen, perhaps she had already transformed.

“That’s why I was the best at espionage.”

Swish!

Instead, a voice was heard. Marionette mercilessly swung the saw in the direction of the voice.

The head of one of the dolls flew off. But it wasn’t Mirror.

“Too bad, it was a cute child.”

“Why are you making so many dolls this time? What are you plotting?”

“Who knows? Why don’t you come back to our side if you’re curious? Stop being the Empire’s dog?”

Swish!

Again, she guessed the direction of the voice and swung, but again it was a miss.

“I’m starting to get angry.”

“Shall I guess? Is it something related to the resurrected Spirit King?”

“Hmm, I won’t answer.”

Swish swish! Slash! Thud!

Marionette indiscriminately cut the dolls.

But none of them were Mirror.

Before she knew it, there was only one doll left in the workshop.

The doll moved and said.

“No, it’s not just related. That guy, you resurrected him, right? As a doll.”

“You’ve always had an unnecessary good sense!”

Swish!

The head of the last remaining doll flew off.

But even that wasn’t Mirror. From the start, Mirror wasn’t there.

“Oh, were you remote-controlling it? You’re pretty good?”

-I was better than you.

The severed doll’s head mouthed Mirror’s voice.

Crack!

“You’re always unlucky. If I see you again, I’ll definitely kill you.”

* * *

“Hey, you. Why did you come out? You’re supposed to be undercover?”

“Ugh. I almost died? More importantly, I have something to say.”

As I left the mansion, I met Mirror, who had escaped, unlike the plan.

Originally, Mirror was supposed to infiltrate the mansion and find out all the information inside, but it seemed the plan had gone wrong.

Well… if the daughter who took him was fake, as the Baron said, she might have been a dangerous existence.

“That girl was a Doppelganger. With the Baron as her puppeteer.”

“Puppeteer?”

“Yeah. Marionette… there’s a quirky Doppelganger. She enjoys transforming in a more special way.”

“That’s… you don’t mean a doll?”

“That’s right. It seems like this is her doing.”

Mirror soon told me everything she was guessing.

“So… the resurrected Spirit King might be a doll? Not a Doppelganger transformed?”

“There’s not much difference between a doll and a Doppelganger transformed. Both are fake.”

“Hmm… but there weren’t just one or two dolls. Why do you need so many?”

“I don’t know either. Did you find out anything on your end? How do you know about the dolls?”

“Um…”

I recalled the ‘deal’ I made with the Baron and wondered if I should tell Mirror about it.

“There is something. I’m still half-doubtful, though.”

“What is it? What is it?”

“I’m going to keep it to myself for now. I’m reluctant to tell anyone else about this.”

“Hmph, do as you please. So what are you going to do now? According to your usual way, I thought you would burn down that mansion right away.”

“Who do you think is a violence addict? Well, I might have done that normally.”

This time, it was necessary to be careful. It was not enough to just remove what was visible on the surface.

I had to find and ferret out the more deeply involved things. Like catching those Dawnlight Society guys.

“Hendrik, are you there?”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

As I called out, Hendrik immediately appeared from the shadows.

“Thoroughly monitor the mansion.”

“Do you want to monitor the Baron?”

“No, not just the Baron, but everything. Surely other movements will be detected.”

“I understand, Your Majesty.”

After Hendrik left, I muttered quietly.

“If you want to put on a puppet show… I’ll gladly join you, Baron.”

* * *

“Ah, annoying. Baron. What about the guy who came today? He brought a tail, didn’t he?”

“…What’s wrong?”

“There is something! The Empire has caught our tail. We have to leave.”

“Hmm, let’s do that.”

The Baron coldly cut off the conversation with his daughter, or rather, Marionette, who was getting angry, and called the butler.

“Butler, burn down the mansion and leave.”

“Will we go to the safe house?”

“Yes. The slaves… dispose of them roughly.”

“If you allow it, I will silence them all.”

“That’s fine too. But do you want to do that? Aren’t they your own kind?”

The butler is an Elf. The Baron’s subordinates who follow the butler were also Elves.

But they showed no sympathy for the Elf slaves or the Elves who were sacrificed when making dolls.

“It is an unavoidable sacrifice for the greater good. Moreover… they are also those who betrayed that person once.”

“Well, if that’s what you guys want. I won’t interfere.”

The Baron waved his hand as if dismissing them, not feeling even a little affection for them, who had no sense of kinship, or rather, had it twisted.

Then the butler bowed politely and left.

“Baron, you know what the plan is, right? You mustn’t make a mistake. You have to do exactly as I taught you?”

“Of course. There is no mistake.”

“Okay, okay. I’ll grant you everything you want in return. Shall I revive your wife next time?”

“…I don’t really want my wife.”

“Really? Were you not on good terms?”

“…….”

Instead of answering, the Baron just smoked his pipe.

“Hmph, how taciturn. Don’t just be like that in front of others, be a little nicer to your daughter.”

Marionette grumbled, but the Baron didn’t respond.

As Marionette left, losing interest, he muttered quietly.

“Eliza… Loretta…”

Those were the names of his lost wife and daughter.

Soon, he took out something precious that he had hidden in one side of the mansion.

He watched over it, a glittering jewel, as if it were his precious daughter.

“Not much time left.”

Recalling the man he saw today, he thought that perhaps the plan might go even better.

That’s why he leaked information to him. Because he felt something different from him.

It didn’t matter whether he was from the Empire’s Counterintelligence or a strange person really looking for the Dawnlight Society.

“Until we meet again, please wait for me, my daughter.”

Because it was enough for him if he could reunite.