Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjo, Aruiha Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen - Volume Secret File-03 - Chapter 4.5

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A month passed.

I arrived in the center of the Empire, the Imperial capital of Yunmelngen.

Everything had gone according to Kelvina’s notes. All that I experienced there was novel to me, including the place I visited over three miles underground.

There, I met them. The supreme authority of the Empire that had the country under its thumb.

“You did well coming here. Joheim Leo Armadel.”

We were in a dark assembly room.

I looked up to see eerily glowing monitors covering an entire wall.

“Welcome.”

“What do you think of enacting a drama in which a man abandons his astral crest and country to join the Imperial forces as a Saint Disciple? We could even work killing the Lord into it.”

“…”

In the past month, Elletear had told me everything. Including that, in the core of the planet, there slumbered a calamity that transcended the astral powers. It seemed Elletear and the Eight Great Apostles had conspired to use that power.

……The Eight Great Apostles supposedly died a hundred years ago.

……And they want to use the calamitous power to out-plot the Lord and Founder.

It didn’t matter to me.

My duty was to be loyal. I needed the Eight Great Apostles’ absolute power to enter the Empire.

Now I would keep silent and act like a dog.

“Then it’s decided.”

I heard a content voice from the monitors. I would allow them to put me through the humiliation and abuse of using me as their hands and legs. In another place, Elletear was fighting agony way beyond my shame.

“We’ll recommend you to Imperial headquarters.”

“Joheim Leo Armadel, we will recommend you to become a Saint Disciple. You will be a gem in the rough we discovered outside the Empire.”

And that was how I became a Saint Disciple after the Eight Great Apostles recommended me from outside of the Imperial forces.

There were those who were jealous of me, of course. I received looks from the Imperial forces and even the other Saint Disciples. But luckily, I came when Lord Yunmelngen was asleep. Without a word from the Lord, no one could object to the Eight Great Apostles’ recommendation.

“Congratulations, Saint Disciple Joheim.”

“Now you have the right to go anywhere you wish within the Empire.”

I had an Imperial forces ID.

It was something I’d always wanted. Now I wouldn’t be suspected, no matter where I went within the Empire. I used that privilege to pay a visit to Kelvina’s lab.