85.触れてはいけないもの
「私をどうする気ですか......」
「さぁ? それはあなたを受け取る帝国次第ですね」
「......帝国に私を売るのですか?」
確かに人の心を持たない化け物とか、割と酷いことは言われてますけど......それがどうしたというのでしょう?
「親の顔が見てみたいですね?」
「私のお父様は素晴らしい統治者ですが......あなたのお父様はろくでもなさそうですね?」
「あ、それには同感です」
「自分の娘すら矯正できずに、傍で止めることすらできないなんて──」
「──黙って!!」
「がっ?! ......げほ、アナベラは......どうでしたか? あなたの母親に似ていましたか──」
「──彼女は母様ではない」
えぇやめます、本当は売るだけにするつもりだったんですけどね? あんまり私の神経を逆撫でしてくれるものですから......。
「あなたの名前と身柄で帝国に宣戦布告します」
「ふふ、父親である国王が最期に会った人物があなたで、その後直ぐに帝国に宣戦布告......後世の歴史になんて記されるのでしょう?」
「......やめなさい」
「父親殺しの汚名と国を戦争に巻き込んだ大罪......母親である王妃様はどうなってしまうのか」
「やめて、ください......」
歴史なんていくらでも改竄できますし、多少無理があるところもねじ込めば後世の歴史家が資料が足りないとか、事実は小説よりも奇なりとかで理由付けてくれるでしょう......それに現実の地球の歴史でも理解が及ばない愚行をする人物は枚挙に暇がありません......案外、違和感なんてないかも知れませんね?
「おね、がいします! どうか!」
「......私の母様は相手が謝った時はどうしたらいいのかを教えてくれました......なんだと思います?」
「許してくださるんですか......?」
「......たとえ相手が謝ったとしても、許せなくて納得できなかったり、気持ちの整理がつかないのなら......無理に許さなくてもいいと教えてくれたんです」
「謝っただけで許してもらえると思うのは傲慢な考えだと、個人的に思うんですよ?」
床に額を擦り付けながらの王女の泣き声をBGMに、戦争の段取りを計画します。
Chapter 85 - Things You Shouldn't Mess With
"What do you intend to do with me...?" The princess suddenly said. It's been three days since I kidnapped her, but that's the first time she said anything. I wonder what changed her mind to make her open mouth...
"Well, that depends on what the empire wants to do with you." I replied.
"... Will you really sell me to the empire?" She asked.
"Your point being...?" I asked back. I did hear things like monster and lack of humanity, but why is she suddenly bringing that up?
"Can you even look your parents in the eye?" She said.
"My dad is a wonderful ruler... but yours? He's just crap, isn't he?" She said.
"Oh, he certainly is." I agreed. After all, that man that I am related by blood to has only kept me around because of my talents. I wouldn't even be allowed to talk to people otherwise.
"She couldn't teach her daughter, nor stop her when she was doing something wrong." That brat said.
"Shut up!" I shouted as I grabbed her neck and threw her on the floor with just enough strength to not kill her.
She coughed once, then said, "So that's your weakness, huh?" I did not reply, but I stomped her back. She made a small scream of pain, but then continued, "... What about Annabella? Did she resemble your mother perchance?"
"She's not my mother!" They're definitely different. They may have a few similarities though, maybe she might have been able to grow close to mom if she was alive... Is this what this girl is trying to imply?
"... What are you going to do then?" She said... She seemed worried... Rightfully so. There's no way I'm going to simply sell her after she annoyed me this much.
"I'll declare war against the empire by using your name." I told her.
I giggled, "You were the last person that your father, the king, met... Soon after, you declared war on the empire... I wonder what will be left in the historical records of the kingdom about you."
"S-stop it..." She begged.
"The stigma of killing her father, the deadly sin of putting the kingdom in a war against a nation as strong as the empire... I wonder what will be told of the princess mother, the queen?" I continued.
"Please stop it..." She said again.
It really isn't hard to tamper history when you're making it. Historians won't have enough material to judge the truth behind things, and they'll just explain things by blaming it on human stupidity.
"I-I'm really sorry! Please stop this!" The tied up princess begged as she lowered her head to the floor and started sobbing.
"... You know, my mother taught me about what to do when someone apologized to me... What do you think she said?" I asked her.
"... Could you please forgive me?" She asked back. She doesn't understand it, so she can say this kind of unreasonable thing, but still...
"Mom told me that, even if the other person apologizes, if I'm not convinced that they're sorry, if I still can't forgive them, if I don't feel better about the matter... Then I don't need to force myself forgive them." I explained.
"I personally think that it's a really arrogant notion to assume that one can be forgiven just by apologizing, don't you agree?" I asked her.
And, while using her tears and sobs as background music, I started planning the war out.
Genocide Online ~Playtime Diary of an Evil Young Girl~
ジェノサイド・オンライン 〜極悪令嬢のプレイ日記〜
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