I’m Going to Destroy this Country

What?

Marriage?

Isaac’s eyes widened.

‘…What did I just hear?’

Did I mishear? Now that I’ve reincarnated as a Saint, has my hearing finally gone crazy?

But at Sapien’s words, an ominous demonic energy was felt from the side.

“Marriage?”

It was Shabnak.

“Marriaaage?”

It seems I didn’t mishear after all.

Shabnak’s eyes were rolling back as if wondering what she just heard. So it’s a bit unsettling, but still, Shabnak was the number one loyal retainer.

She’s usually not one to act emotionally, so she doesn’t cause trouble… Hey! Why are you going berserk!

“How dare a mere Sacred Dragon to such a person.”

Shab? I know your magical power is overflowing because you’re a True Demon, but won’t you suppress your demonic energy? The half-dragon is about to collapse foaming at the mouth.

“Master, may I kill this arrogant salamander?”

No, you can’t.

Don’t take off your gloves! Don’t crack your fingers either!

Meanwhile, Isaac was flustered.

No. That’s because, marriage!

What nonsense is this!

On the other hand, perhaps thinking something of the angry reactions of the two, the half-dragon was rubbing his face.

“What is this to the priests…!”

A face as if he had finally caused trouble.

Sure enough, the half-dragon hurriedly tried to deal with it.

“The words just now were a mistake in saying the leader will kill the Skeleton King! So…”

“I’ll marry him!!”

“Leadeeer!!!”

As the half-dragon tore at his hair, Isaac’s eyebrow twitched. Seeing that reaction, it can’t be denied now. So Isaac could only be dumbfounded.

‘A Sacred Dragon wants to marry the Skeleton King?’

Crazy. What kind of clergy is sitting there saying they want to marry the Demon King?

“…You’re joking?”

“Jokiiing?”

Sapien, who opened her eyes wide, was somehow extremely displeased.

“Do my words look like a joke?”

“…”

Instead of answering, Isaac glanced at the half-dragon. At the glare telling him to explain, the half-dragon banged his head against the wall.

“Well… Lady Sapien is a once-in-a-generation genius, but she’s a bit unique…”

“I’m what?”

“No, it’s the truth!”

Sapien was the youngest leader not just among Sacred Dragons, but among all dragon clans, but she had some peculiar aspects.

Her talent and grades were overwhelmingly excellent, surpassing Lord-level dragons even as a hatchling, but she disliked amusement, disliked going out, collected strange things instead of jewels, even showed interest in black magic, and beat down other dragons who were jealous of her.

-She’s an overwhelming genius in ability, but her hobbies seem a bit strange.

How bad must it have been for adults to say this to Sapien when she was a hatchling.

-Sapien! If you keep disobeying, we’ll marry you off to the evil and dirty Skeleton King!

-Don’t you know how vulgar the Skeleton King is?

Of course, until then, Sapien thought the Skeleton King was really an idiot. Yes, until she saw the Skeleton King in person!

And it was when Sapien was still a young hatchling!

-Aargh! The Skeleton King has invaded!

-Even the Silver ones were all defeated!

-This cruel and merciless bastard!

Although relatives and family elders were swept away by the Skeleton King, strangely, Sapien fell in love at first sight with the Skeleton King’s overwhelming power.

So after that, when she heard they would marry her off to the Skeleton King-

-I’m so happy! Send me off!

The impression from that time was so deep that she, who was a hatchling, diligently nurtured her feelings for the Skeleton King.

But hatchlings can’t leave their group and are raised preciously while confined. Just as she honed her patience and finally became an adult dragon and thought she could go see the Skeleton King in person!

-Hooray! The dirty Skeleton King was sealed by the gods!

-That cursed bastard! We finally got rid of him!

You’ve got to be kidding?!

Unfortunately, when Sapien had just become an adult dragon, the Skeleton King was sealed in an insect. That was just 150 years ago.

Sure enough, Sapien trembled as if she got chills just seeing priests.

“Those dog-like gods. How dare they seal who? The Skeleton King?”

…Yeah?

“And those Holy Empire bastards who follow such gods are the same! May the Holy Empire perish… no, just die!”

Isaac looked at distant mountains.

A Sacred Dragon who hates gods and clergy.

Is she a heretic bastard?

[Ooh, so that’s why she didn’t appear to the Imperial Family? The Holy Empire Imperial Family deserves to perish!]

Isaac’s eyes became even more distant.

…Shit. So it turns out this is all because of me? Is that really it?!

His trembling pupils showed no sign of stopping. Sweat seeped out profusely as he recalled Shablis suffering.

But whether she knew that feeling or not, Sapien glared fiercely.

“Even now, I’m holding myself back from invading the divine realm and smashing everything. Those gods, sealing the Skeleton King in a mere insect.”

“Ha…haha.”

More importantly, that sealed guy is right here?

Isaac hid his guilty feelings and confirmed:

“Then is not showing yourself to the Holy Empire due to resentment over the Skeleton King being sealed?”

Then Sapien let out a hollow laugh.

“Well, it would be a lie to say there’s no resentment. But that’s not the reason.”

“Huh?”

“The previous generation Sacred Dragon who contracted with the Imperial Family died.”

Isaac immediately knew who it was.

[The previous generation would be the dragon contracted with the Emperor, right?]

Right. Sacred Dragons contract with the Emperor.

To be precise, the person from the Imperial Family who contracts with a Sacred Dragon becomes the Emperor.

“I heard the Emperor’s Sacred Dragon died 18 years ago… when the Crown Prince was young…”

“That dragon was my uncle.”

“!”

Isaac looked at Sapien in surprise.

“He was a grateful person who raised me in place of my lost parents. Although he became disabled while protecting the Imperial Family.”

“Then did you resent the Imperial Family because that uncle became disabled…?”

Then Sapien snorted.

“That’s infuriating too, but he injured himself for humans, so what can I say about that? He was a fool who only bragged about his contractor like a doting parent. I accept that.”

“Then why…”

“When my uncle was dying, he sent a letter to the Imperial Family. Asking for treatment. Although he could no longer help the Imperial Family like before, he asked considering the loyalty and righteousness he had dedicated to the Imperial Family over the years.”

“!”

Sapien’s eyes flashed with hatred.

“It was an injury that the contractor could have easily treated. But no reply came. The Imperial Family didn’t come either. In the end, my uncle died believing until the end that the Emperor would come. It was a dog’s death.”

Such a thing happened?

“Since it was strange that not even a reply came despite everything, I went to visit after holding the funeral. Thinking the contractor would miss the dragon, I went to deliver the remains and news. But what I found out there was the real reason why the Imperial Family didn’t come. Do you know what that reason was?”

“What was it?”

She let out a sneer as if disgusted.

“They said they couldn’t go out because it was when a plague was going around, and it could harm the young Crown Prince.”

“What did you say?”

“A dragon that’s already disabled, it no longer had any value so there was no need to care about it. In the end, their own bloodline was more important than the contractor.”

But Sapien said that wasn’t the end.

“I was so upset that I asked the Imperial Family to at least return my uncle’s belongings. But then there was a reply to that?”

“What did they say?”

“That they couldn’t return it because it was Imperial property. And now they talk about contracts? Is there any reason to protect such selfish beings?”

Whisper immediately recoiled in disgust.

[Wow… It turns out these Imperial Family bastards are real sons of bitches? Not being able to summon is just reaping what they sowed, isn’t it?]

‘Well, if it was really the Imperial Family who sent that letter.’

[What?]

Isaac smiled as if it was detestable.

‘The Imperial Family aren’t fools. If they had done something, there’s no way they’d wonder why they can’t summon.’

In fact, Isaac asked the Emperor various things about the previous generation Sacred Dragon. Because it was an important reference point for why Sacred Dragons couldn’t be summoned.

But the Emperor didn’t say anything special.

-The previous generation dragon retired after being injured in my place. The Imperial Family wanted to take care of him until the end, but he wanted to return to the Sacred Dragons’ nest, so he eventually returned despite our attempts to dissuade him. They’re a reclusive bunch, so we couldn’t meet after that, and only received news of his passing.

[Then…]

‘Well, we’d have to hear both sides’ stories for details, but someone in the middle must have diverted the letters and sowed discord.’

[Who?]

‘Who else? The side that wants the Imperial Family to lose power.’

[Don’t tell me…]

‘It’s most likely the Pope.’

[Wow!]

At the same time, Isaac understood the Pope’s attitude.

‘No wonder that Pope bastard. He was strangely confident that we couldn’t bring Sacred Dragons.’

Of course he’s confident after pulling off such a scheme.

But Sapien brushed her hair back as if she was done with old stories.

“Anyway, those Imperial Family bastards aren’t important anymore. You, what’s your relationship with the Skeleton King.”

Ugh. Is this how it’s going to be?

However, Sapien glared at the baby skeleton Isaac was holding.

“This child too! Whenever I use skeleton summoning magic to try to summon the Skeleton King, this one appears!”

[…Master. Why do I feel deja vu? Didn’t something like this happen in the Crown Prince’s palace too?]

…Huh, huh huh. Did this one put on a show trying to summon the Skeleton King too? More importantly, why is this one summoned by such summoning circles?

Then the baby skeleton cheerfully shouted.

[I thought I could meet Master if I got summoned!]

Isaac understood.

Ah… Come to think of it, I met this one when they summoned a skeleton at the Blue Pentagon too.

Is that why? It seems this one deliberately got summoned by jumping into any skeleton summoning circle that appeared, in order to meet him.

“You… You’ll really be annihilated doing that.”

Who knows who might summon you.

“Anyway, it was a familiar one I kept seeing, so I saved it when it was summoned for the priest’s test and have been raising it!”

…So that’s why it was here?

“It’s one that only reacts to the Skeleton King!”

This kid really isn’t in her right mind. Raising a demon.

However, Sapien looking at Isaac was serious.

“Why do you think I put the Skeleton King’s body in that human Princess in Julius?”

“!”

It was actually bait for Isaac. Because she seemed to be a child related to the Skeleton King.

Of course, rather than saying she put it in herself, it was an incident that happened when a thief ran away with that body fragment. She thought it was fortunate.

If they had the Skeleton King’s power, they would extract it without killing the Princess, and if it was someone else, they would have killed the Princess.

So she had to ask.

“You, what’s your identity?”

Isaac scratched his head.

‘This is troublesome.’

At this point, it’s not just a matter of whether he can tempt her with jewels or not. No, to be more honest, he wasn’t even curious about the backstory.

For Isaac, bringing this one back within 3 days was more important for now. Not only dethronement, but his own status and position were at stake.

The relationship between Sacred Dragons and the Imperial Family? Misunderstanding? Who cares? Those are problems for after grabbing her by the collar and dragging her back.

‘Well, given the situation, the problem is that she can’t be easily taken back.’

What should I do?

‘Should I just reveal that I’m the Skeleton King?’

Would she follow if it’s the Skeleton King’s words?

‘No no no. She said marriage.’

If I say it, it might become troublesome in a different sense. I can’t fully trust the other party either.

In the end, Isaac sighed.

‘I have no choice.’

“Sapien was it? You must come with me to the Holy Empire.”

Then the half-dragon widened his eyes, and Sapien emitted killing intent as if it was ridiculous.

“Did you not hear what I said? Even if dirt enters my eyes, I will never set foot on Holy Empire land.”

Then Isaac lied with a serious face.

“Actually, the Crown Prince has the Skeleton King.”

At those words, Sapien flinched.

…What?

“It’s a secret, but it seems he’s hiding the Skeleton King and meeting him secretly.”

Whaaaaat???