Chapter 96 Coup

Translator: Isekai Shousetsu

The sixth month. The cease-fire agreement expired so its certainly about time to invade the Rosyth Kingdom.

Then it happened.

Ggguwahhh

My King!, My King!!

King DeMorgal grasps his chests and falls.

The sorcerers immediately gather around him and begin treating him.

However, their efforts have been fruitless and the king has stopped breathing.

All these without having named the next king

In the DeMorgal Capital, in Aldo DeMorgals estate.

Inside is a 15-year-old boy as well as a woman in her early twenties.

The boy is wearing extravagant clothes, so you can see that he has quite the high social status. Its only natural. Hes the lord of this room after all, Aldo de Morgal, himself.

On the other hand, the woman is wearing extremely crude clothing. From her beautiful blond hair, you can see that shes a Germanis.

Furthermore, her chest area is quite stocked with fat.

If Almis were to see her hed definitely give judgement along the lines of this ones a heavy cruiserno, this ones battleship class. Not a dreadnaught class butaround a Mikasa-class, huh

However, what ruins all that is her face.

Her face is by no means ugly. Rather, its even fine for you to say that her appearance is in order.

However, her birthmark stands out.

Furthermore, above all, whats pathetic are the shackles on her feet and the choker on her neck.

A chain that stretches from that choker is in Aldos hands.

Aldo shouts.

AA!! Dad has died!! How happthats not it. How dreadful!! Now then, what should we do from now.

Even if you ask me, I dont understand.

Shut up!! How impertinent!! Even though youre just a spider!!

Aldo kicks his slave.

He kicks her repeatedly in the stomach, rides her, then smacks her in the face.

While getting hit, the slaveAlice thought:

I wonder if I need to stand this for five minutes.

Exactly after five minutes have passed, Aldo separates from Alice after he grew tired of hitting.

Oi, Alice, Come and kill Pax.

That againits quite novel yes?

Its quite like Aldo to suddenly order the assassination of a very important person but, its also quite like Alice to not veto such an order.

Its as if assassinating is the same as going to a picnic.

However, wont that make you suspect? If Prince Pax got killed under these circumstances, no matter what you think, wont the culprit be you?

Under these circumstances, the next king would be Pax. The most indisputable point is his length of service after all plus the fact of the matter is it was he who was to become the supreme commander of the invasion of the Rosyth Kingdom that was supposed to happen. Furthermore, I want to become king. Rather than spend several days waging a civil war and then killing Pax, Its better for the sake of the country to kill him now, right?

As expected, Alices eyes widened at Aldos expression.

Aldo, on the other hand, laughs heartily.

Then after that?

Ill kill everyone with hostility in the royal capital. Ill use my private army. If I were to succeed to perform a surprise attack, then we should be able to do such. Ill have you kill those great clansmen that have their own huge private armies. If it loses their head, an army should suffer command paralysis.

Is that so?

Alice gives off a sigh.

In the end, the one who will bear the full brunt of the danger would be her.

By the way, what about Prince Carlo?

That guys secluded in a mountain far away from here. Theres no way we can kill him and Pax at the same time. Well send separate soldiers to kill him. Even I wont give such impossible orders. Im a good lord after all.

Well, a good lord wont be hitting a slave to a pulp.

Although Alice thought that Arent you always giving me close to impossible tasks?, she just kept silent.

Although shes gotten used to it, its much much better if she doesnt get hit.

What do we do with what would remain of the Pax Faction and Carlo Faction? Although I dont think theyd honestly obey.

If they obey, then Ill forgive them. If they dont then its capital punishment for them. Great clansmen mostly obey if they manage to secure recognition and guarantee of their possessions.

If you heard their side at the very least, then its something that would probably go well.

Although the key to the operation lies in Alice assassinating Pax and the many influential greatclansmen that possess their private armiesAldo trusts that she would be able to achieve such.

If she did it in the dead of the night, then shed be able to do it with certainty.

However, what should they do after that? Instead of a just cause, only a bad reputation will remain with Aldo.

Its not hard to think that youd succeed with the assassination.

The problem is its easy to guess whos the culprit by thinking about who gets to profit in the persons death.

Your reputation will increase if you destroyed them in battle fair and square, but itll only be a scandal if you settle the matter through cowardly means.

It would only be a huge stain on your honor.

Therefore, assassination is only a last resort used when there are no other options available.

Although King DeMorgal only has Carlo, Pax, and Aldo as his sons, there still are a lot of other people that share their blood.

Rather than the kinslayer Aldo, theres enough possibility that theyd pull a fast one with another member of the royal family.

As Aldo himself said with confidence, what nobility desires from a king is the recognition and guarantee of their hereditary estates.

As expected, how many great clansmen can rest easy thinking about when will the sword, of a man who had killed even his own brother, befall them.

Itd be fine if hes a slow and gullible person.

Aldo, however, imprudently makes his wits work so hed be difficult to manipulate.

(Well, that doesnt concern me)

In any case, Aldo is not one to listen.

If he couldnt even lend his ear to his fathers advice, then theres no way hell lend them to Alice.

Shell only get told off with Dont get ahead of yourself spider woman and get hit as a result.

Understand? Well carry out the plan a week later. Prepare yourself until then. Ill also complete preparations on my end.

Yes.

Alice quietly nods.

Midnight a week later.

Alice is on top of a roof of a house near Prince Paxs manor.

You can see the manor about 20 meters away.

Now then, shall we do it

She stretches her arms before her making it clear that her aim is the roof of Prince Paxs manor.

*Bishuu*

While making such a stupid sound, a thread comes forth fromo Alices finger and hits the princes roof.

Its thickness is around a centimeter.

She then rubs the thread at her feet to fix it and make a 1cm bridge.

She then calmly jumps on top of it and walks through it while skillfully maintaining her balance.

Just like that, she managed to cross over to the princes roof.

Now thenif I recall correctly, Prince Paxs room is the third room from the right on the second floor, right?

The princes manor is three storeys high so its necessary to go down another floor.

Alice places her hand on the roof. With those hands, she makes a sticky thread and used that in order to slowly lower herself.

And just like that, she arrives at Prince Aldos balcony.

Although this goes without saying, the door is locked. This is a measure against insolent people like Alice.

Theres no key hole ((on the outside). Even if its assumed that people will come to the balcony, the same doesnt go with coming from the balcony.

A locksmith should be able to open it anyway, so it wasnt furnished.

Its an ironwall protection. Except to people like Alice, at least.

How annoying.

Alice twined some thread around her finger and made a drill-like object after a durable steel like thread had accumulated.

Torya

*Thud*

While making a slightly loud noise, Alices finger penetrates the wooden door.

It was quite a loud sound, so it woke up the sleeping Prince Pax.

Hmm? Wha? What In theGGGhhHH!!!

A thread from Alices finger wraps around Paxs neck.

She pulls on this which tightens the hold on Pax.

For a while, Pax struggles through pulling and scratching on to the thread. Nevertheless, a while later he stops moving.

Now then, I need to come back. Itll become troublesome if I get discovered after all. Well, Im not in the mood for getting caught even if they do discover me.

If she gets home, shell get hit.

She doesnt like pain.

With Alices true power, itll be a walk in the park to kill Aldo and escape, but its imprinted on her to not be able to go against Aldo.

Then Alice hears a great noise. When she looks at the source of the noise, she sees a blaze rising.

Aldo seems to have started mobilizing.

Unless she gets there quickly to reinforce him, shed get accused of playing truant and get hit again.

Alice heads for the direction of the noise with great haste.

Thanks to the appeal for reconsideration in the previous war, Carlo was exiled with close supervision from the capital to a slightly distant mountain.

But then again, such a life was quite a comfortable one.

In any case, he was placed under house arrest in a villa maintained by a great clansman of the Carlo faction, so the experience is very comfortable.

There, Carlo did nothing but read books and flirt with women slaves, go hunting then flirt with female slaves, read poetry and go flirting with women slaves, and the like.

By the way, Carlo has a fiance and their relationship is favorable.

In that fateful day, Carlo went to the town at the bottom of the mountain.

Even if you call it a town, its to the extent not that different from a village.

Carlo got teased into going by the slaves because they wanted to go and play outside once in a while.

Even he had grown tired of the greenery, so he hid himself, went to the town to play, and stayed there for the night.

What woke him up from his wonderful travels in the dreamworld was a worried soldier that had followed them secretly.

Its terrible Prince Carlo! A coup has occurred in the royal capital! Prince Aldo has murdered Prince Pax! Even the villa in the mountain is already receiving an attack from Prince Paxs soldiers. The soldiers are fighting as we speak! Although they dont know that Your Highness is hereplease hurry and escape! Ive prepared a carriage!!

Eeh!! Whyno, Ill hear the details later. Lets escape immediately!!

Carlo hurriedly wakes the female slaves and leaves the town.

And thus, Carlo unexpectedly manages to escape from Aldos hands.

Authors notes:

Although Aldo properly closed the sliding storm shutter and checks it several times, hes the type to forget to close the gas tank.

King DeMorgal comments of him from the Sanzu River that Although his head and thoughts are not bad, hes not thorough enough or rather he made a fundamental mistake

By the way, I intended Spiderman to be the joke material for Alice. However, I didnt know Spidermans name since Ive never seen the movie even once although I did read the wiki page on it.

Well, I wouldnt mind if you think of her as having the same specs as Spiderman. Incidentally, divine protectionsand the likeshe doesnt have any of tho