Twin Reincarnation: Epics Of The Worldline-Chapter 357 Path of tomorrow

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-Knock, knock.

At the same time when El was consoling Cathy with the other girls, Lucy had reached the dorm of the person that had hurt the heart of his dear friend.

-Crrrrk.

"I knew you would be here... please, come in."

Prince Rex opened the door for him, and he was the only person here, unlike all the girls that had gone to be with their dear Cathy.

"Excuse me then."

He went in without much thought since he knew he would be waiting for him, and after looking around the familiar room, he followed the prince to the living room and they found a place to sit down.

"You know why I did that already."

"And yet I’m here."

He was expecting to see him here since he himself knew what he did wasn’t the best thing someone in his shoes could have done.

But, then again, under the circumstances that he was in, he wasn’t capable of having the only person he truly cared about get mixed up in the political mess that would arise from them being together.

"Why do you think I’m here, sir crown Prince of the great Barnacle empire?"

They had gone through enough shit recently that Lucy had no intention of beating around the bush anymore.

Besides, the two of them were already sponsoring him, so he knew the kind of power, knowledge, and influence these two held.

And, now that the things had come to this point, he knew what he wanted them to do. He knew what was needed to be done.

"You know I’m going to start the plan. And you’re here to offer your assistance."

"Hmm."

Lucy simply nodded at his answer.

Which was correct, for most parts.

"We will help you take down the emperor."

He had started planning for his revenge ever since his ’father’ became the reason for the death of his dear mother.

He hates him for many reasons already but the way his mother’s death didn’t mean shit to him was the biggest reason he hated him to the core.

He was a monarch with many children and he was a absolute that one could not take down even with the forces comparable to the entire continent’s rulers.

He was that strong a being with that kind of influence in this world.

But just like how even the immortality ends... the absolutes fall one day.

"However..."

There was a curse and there was a result of that cause.

He wanted to kill his father, but that wasn’t simple thing.

His father wasn’t the only being that was stained in his path to this revenge.

He wasn’t the only person that hated that bastard, but he was certainly the only one that actually had the plans and balls to kill him.

But, standing in his way and the way the way of that bastard was a sword, a bow, three mages, and a spear... the Knights and mages of the emperor that were absolutely loyal only to him.

They were raised directly by him ever since they were infants and they only knew one thing: elimination of any threat that came in the way of the absolute they servered.

For them, he was god.

And for them, there was nothing else in this world that defined their existence.

"What do you want?"

He knew he couldn’t do it on his own. He wasn’t strong enough to even go against the (Hands) of the emperor, much less the absolute being himself.

That’s why he had created a serious of plans that were carefully intertwined to create the death trap that the emperor was going to fall into... and with the help of a swordmaster that could defeat a demon on his own, and a mage that had almost reach the highest level any being of this world had ever reached, he knew this was going to have even more changes of success.

"It’s simple, actually."

Nothing was free in this world, support from two individuals such as those two was certainly not going to be something cheap either, he knew that very well.

That was the reason he had been preparing appropriate rewards for them ever since he had met them and they had the first breakfast of their lives together.

"We want the empire."

But, just like how he knew from this one sentence alone how there was going to be a long discussion between the two of them, he knew there were only a few things that were going to help him in this negotiation.

"You cannot have it. It’s not going to remain an empire after the fall of the emperor anyway."

"That’s where you are wrong though, mister crown prince."

He had prepared for this day, mentally and physically. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

There were various things that he had on him that would have helped him in this negotiation. He was confident that if he did well and stuck to the conditions, even he could win against someone like him.

But... the opponent unexpectedly had weapons that he had never thought they would possess.

"I’m not offering you help because we want to take down the empire. You need to take down the emperor and that’s where we have similar interests, that’s all."

Lucy snapped his finger, and the appearance he had changed on its own into something that the Prince strangely recognised.

"We are offering you a hand because the empire is as valuable to us as your revenge is to you."

He was now in a complete white suit with a mask black covering his face.

There was nothing much attractive to his attire itself, but the mysterious feeling that he felt from him was the same as the feeling that he had felt while watching that certain raid on the safest locker of the entire world.

"You... those thieves...?"

"When you have us, you won’t only have the two of us, you will have entire new force that will be strange enough to help you go against the empire empire, and the empire content if you so wish for it.

We don’t fear an all out frontal war against those beings. Absolute or not, they will be the same before the knight ghost that even the combined had not been able to defeat after so many years.

You will have one price to pay... the empire.

You will have to sit on the same throne the very person you hate sat on and governed the land.

You are the only person that could do it in this empire, this world anyway.

There will be enough people for you to command, enough powers that you will have difficulty controlling them all by yourselves.

You will have all the power you had always wanted and the price of all that... your presence on that throne.

You can also have the love of your life this way."

There was only one problem blocking him and Cathy from being together, his greedy father.

He was not satisfied with all that he had right now and even right now, he waged wars with powers that weren’t even close to what he had.

There were many places that he had his eyes on still, and as long as he was alive, he knew that greed and that superiority of his was not going to subside,

He had to die for the two of them to come together... but, if he had to pay the price of his own self... if he had to spare the empire, the very thing that bastard father cherished the most, he did not know if he could do it.

"I need time-"

"You would think you need more time to ponder over this matter.

You will believe that all the calculations you had made until now needed some kind of correction and you aren’t wrong.

You certainly need time to think this over, but that doesn’t mean you have to remove anything from your calculations.

We are additions that you had never expected, just like Cathy.

You don’t have to fear what will happen when having a force like this one at your command. As your friend and someone that truly wants the empire and the power it holds, I want you to succeed this no matter what and I will make sure to obtain the empire even without your help if you back off this time.

But, that will not be as effective as we want it to be... so even if you think that you will be playing in our plans while doing this, even if you consider this to be a one sided deal, you will get to kill that father of yours yourself.

You might even be able to torture him if you wish when he has worn out and lost all his powers that makes him an absolute so, isn’t this a good deal?"

When he looked at the blue eyes hidden behind that black mask, the only thing that came to his mind was the face of the devil...

He knew what he might be walking into by agreeing to this absurd deal... but, the positives far outnumbered the negatives.

"Alright."

The nation that was controlled by a shadow organisation even when his own blood was sitting on the throne would be more humiliating for him anyway.

It would make his soul burn even more in whatever part of hell he ends up in.

"Let’s do it... friend."

He did not like the idea that he would have to take the very position he hated, but he did not mind it.

Not when he had the opportunity to get the backing of the individual that conquered the hellish artificial dungeon, the ones that owned the sky island, and the leaders that orchestrated all that.

He had always known the two of them were something else... something unfathomable.

But knowing that they were soothing this crazy... only made the dark expression on his face even worse, and more grave than it was already.