I’m Going to Destroy this Country

Isaac, weak to money, widened his eyes. Cardinal Berit, as if relieved, immediately picked up the paper.

“I’m glad the deal is concluded. Then step into our side right away. Don’t tell Eshua yet.”

“Nope. I won’t say anything.”

In response to Isaac’s subtle smile, Cardinal Berit flinched. At the same time, the Cardinal, who seemed to realize something, approached the door and opened it as if to break it.

Bam!

“Ah!”

Someone was eavesdropping outside the door.

It was none other than Shuri.

“…Ah, ah!”

Shuri, who had been caught off guard, was startled. When he made eye contact with Cardinal Berit, he turned as white as if he had seen a ghost.

‘Oh, man. Kim Shuri must be feeling dizzy, really dizzy.’

But well, he understood.

Doesn’t Cardinal Berit look like a blood-sucking vampire? He looks like Count Dracula, and students would get excited just by looking at him.

“Shuri.”

“Ah! I didn’t hear anything!”

Shuri got up in a hurry and ran away.

Yeah, that’s right. You have to run away well to emit a strong aura and divert Cardinal’s attention. You did a good job participating in the plan to raise the value of my ransom.

Eventually, when Shuri disappeared, the Cardinal sighed deeply.

“Well, it doesn’t matter. What’s important is your decision, even if Eshua finds out…”

“Hey. I said I’ll think about it; I didn’t say I’m going.”

“…What?”

Cardinal Berit opened his eyes wide, but Isaac was coldly smiling.

Actually, there was no other choice.

‘Would the crazy Pope want to take me?’

Of course not. Isaac knew better than anyone how much the Gold hated and stubbornly rejected impurity and things that were not pure.

With their obsession and arrogance, the Pope’s family killed like insects what Isaac held dear in the past.

-For you, I can even throw away my life.

-Isaak, if it’s you and me, we can break these shackles.

One killed his allies because they were demons, and the other killed their own allies just because they had interactions with demons.

But bringing someone like him, who possessed the demonic magic power, as an adopted son?

Even a passing dog would laugh!

‘Whether you take advantage of me and discard me, or imprison me somewhere in the Papacy and leave me alone.’

Then, in the end, he will be accused of a crime that didn’t exist and will be killed.

They have always been like that since ancient times. Well, since this is what their ancestors did in the past, Isaac had no intention of applying the guilt-by-association system to the descendants again, but wouldn’t the Pope’s family look pretty?

Moreover, the sacred technique of the Gold already rejects magic power, who knows what harm it will cause to the body that has the magic core?

‘So, you guys have to come forward if you want to mess with me. Wherever.’

That’s why Isaac’s expression changed.

“Even if I die, I won’t go to the Pope’s house.”

At those words, Cardinal Berit seemed somehow startled.

“Even if you die?”

“Yes, even if I die.”

The Cardinal finally burst out laughing.

After his laughter, Isaac was taken aback. It was because the atmosphere of Cardinal Berit had completely changed.

It wasn’t the usual cold gaze but a lively and intense aura that seemed like it could tear Isaac apart.

“How can you say the same thing with a face that resembles your mother so much?”

“…!”

Isaac trembled.

Damn, did I step on a landmine?

No, I mean, you, father, whose face I haven’t seen. Why did you take away someone else’s fiance? Why did you take her away?

Now your child is in trouble! Damn it!

“Surprising. I thought you had no affection for Eshua, considering your actions.”

You guys are less affectionate than me. Damn chauvinists.

“I’m sorry, but the Blue is cleaner than the Gold.”

Isaac liked them because they’re just fools.

But Cardinal Berit laughed. There was no mercy left in the smile.

“Don’t be cocky. If you don’t follow my words right now, you will be immediately expelled, and you can never become a priest for the rest of your life. Not to mention the Pope, you won’t even become a Saint. No, using the authority of the Pope, I could prevent you from ever stepping into the Holy Empire. Do you understand that by talking such nonsense now?”

This was a threat. It meant that if he didn’t comply with their words, they would eliminate the means to go up at all.

And in this Holy Empire, there was no one who wasn’t afraid of permanent expulsion. Properties are confiscated, no facilities can be used, and, in the end, they are expelled from the Holy Empire.

Even the noble Bishop couldn’t escape it. Even crying out, begging not to do that, as long as it doesn’t involve expulsion from the Holy Empire, wasn’t enough. How much more frightened would a young child be?

But laughter burst out of the child’s mouth.

“Then I’ll make a country that doesn’t need priests or Popes.”

“…!”

Cardinal Berit looked at Isaac as if wondering what he had just heard.

However, instead of shaking at the threat, Isaac was pressing down on the Cardinal with his eyes.

“To begin with, it’s strange that a single country had two heads. Anyway, since it will be my country, it feels repulsive, doesn’t it?”

“…!”

Cardinal Berit quickly caught the meaning behind Isaac’s words. It wasn’t a statement about overthrowing the imperial family, but rather about blowing away the Papacy.

So, just as the Cardinal was about to respond to the sensed danger-

“Shouldn’t one have this level of courage to capture even the Skeleton King?”

“!”

Isaac laughed like a child, as if asking when he had provoked him.

“I’ll pretend I didn’t hear this suggestion. Is that not good enough for you, Your Excellency?”

This bastard?

“At first, I wasn’t interested. But thanks to you, I’ve started to be a little interested.”

There was no need to ask what was the reason.

“It’s because of the ordination ceremony, right?”

“!”

“Exactly why did that Pope want to involve even the direct descendants of an enemy family while avoiding the eyes of people? Now that it’s come to this, I really have to find out what I have exactly.”

“…!”

Isaac accurately grasped the fact that he now had something that not even the Papacy dared to provoke.

And also, the handle of the sword was directed not at the Pope, but at Isaac himself.

“The Empire’s people will be very curious. And once they find out, I might be able to do ‘something’ to the Pope’s family.”

Do something? This guy… Is he threatening the Pope’s family right now?

“Threats are something Your Excellency initiated first.”

Has this guy mastered mind reading?

The Cardinal was flabbergasted.

Even though he was a child of the Saintess’s family, he thought he might be dealing with a tiger cub. But what a tiger? This was almost like a devil.

However, Isaac stopped as he opened the door.

“Ah, and I almost forgot.”

“?”

“I’ll consider the cost of silencing and the mental compensation for the threats as opening ten chests of gold.”

“Huh.”

This crazy guy.

Not only did he insult the Pope’s family but what? Ten chests of gold?

“The words you should be saying right now aren’t that, right?”

“Ah…”

Isaac, seeming to have caught onto something, bowed deeply as if he was deeply sorry.

“I would appreciate it if you could provide it within three days.”