Chapter 442: Faith for the King (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder)
ps: The author is obsessive-compulsive, and today it is clear that there is a change in three hours, but it was not updated in the last three hours...... So I sent an extra ......
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"Yes, I hope that my hometown will be redeemed, what ...... of dedicating myself to the country as a king" Artoria heard Feng Xue's words with strong mockery, and almost subconsciously retorted immediately, but before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Jin Shanshan-
"Hahaha, did you hear this, this little girl who calls herself the king, she actually said that the king is dedicated to the country!" Jin Shanshan laughed wildly, and Feng Xue also laughed at the right time.
"What's so funny!"
Artoria was answered by everyone's silence, which was the same insult to Artoria as being ridiculed, and she blushed and tried to defend her ideals, "I don't know what's funny, as a king, you should stand up and work for the prosperity of your country." ”
"You're wrong. Rider resolutely and solemnly rejected her words, "You can't get me wrong, it's not the king who dedicates himself, but the country and the people who give everything they have to the king." ”
"What are you talking about" Saber couldn't hold back the anger in her heart any longer, she shouted loudly, "Isn't that a tyrant, Rider, Archer, Berserker, you are a big mistake to be so king!"
"Yes, but we're not just tyrants, even if that guy in black is a demon, because we believe in being kings. Conquest replied calmly, without even raising an eyebrow, there was no need to doubt that the way of the king was the truth, "So Saber, if the king is not satisfied with the results of his governance, it can only mean that he is a dumb king, worse than a tyrant." Although the words were so reasonable, Feng Xue blushed a little when he heard it, because he was just impersonating, but then again, he himself was indeed a big man in charge of all living beings in a world, and he didn't know how strong he was compared to the king of a country, so if he thought about it, his conscience seemed to be able to get by......
Unlike the incessantly mocking Golden Flash, Iskandar fundamentally repudiates the idea of the Knight King.
Artoria locked her eyebrows and retorted in a sharp tone, "Iskander, you...... Aren't you really the slightest bit reluctant to split the empire you created into four parts? Don't you want to do it all over again and save the country?"
"No," the conqueror replied without hesitation, his chest held high, and there was no guilt on his face, and he looked directly into the knight king's stern gaze, "If my decision and that of my courtiers lead to such an outcome, then destruction is inevitable." I will mourn and I will shed tears, but I will not regret it. ”
"How could it be ......" Artoria could hardly believe it, was this what a king should say?
The King of Conquering is approaching step by step, his words as sharp as a blade, "not to mention the folly of trying to subvert history, which is an insult to all the human beings of the era in which I have constructed." ”
Artoria gave an absolute negative to the arrogant words of the conquering king, and she did not deviate from her beliefs in the slightest, and said loudly: "You say this only based on the glory of the warriors, the people will not think so, what they need is salvation." ”
"You mean they want the king's salvation?" Iskander shrugged his shoulders and laughed, as if he was dismissive of Artoria's words, "I don't understand what the point of such a thing is?"
"This is the duty of a king," Artoria said proudly, straightening her chest, "the right rule, the right order, that's what all the subjects expect." ”
"Are you the right slave, then?" asked the King of Conquest, glaring at him.
"If you want to say that, you are worthy to be a king by dedicating yourself to your ideals. The maiden knight king did not flinch in the slightest, nor did she have any doubts, and expounded his way of kingship, "People can understand law and order through the king, and the king should not embody something that will disappear with the death of the king, but something more noble." ”
Looking at Artoria, who was still resolute, the King of Conquest on one side shook his head as if he was pitying her, "This is not the path of survival that people will choose. ”
"Yes. If you are born as a king, you can't expect to live the life of ordinary people. Artoria did not object to this, but nodded as a matter of course.
In order to become a perfect monarch, in order to become the embodiment of ideals, she is willing to give up her body and throw away her personal feelings. The life of a young girl named Artoria changed forever the moment she pulled the sword out of the rock. Since then, she has become synonymous with undefeated legends, hymns, and dreams. There have been pains, there have been troubles, but there is the glory of victory. Her unchanging belief still supports her sword-holding arm.
Therefore, Artoria shouted to the person in front of her, "King of Conquest, people like you who only care about themselves will not understand my beliefs, you are just an overlord who is carried away by desire!"
Artoria, who was reprimanded, immediately widened her eyes and retorted in the same angry tone, "A king without desire is better than a vase!"
The banquet seemed to have turned into a royal duel between the king of conquest and the king of knights, and before Saber could retort, the king of conquest asked again: "Saber, you just said that you would dedicate yourself to your ideals? But who wants to expect to be martyred for their ideals? Who wants to look forward to the so-called saints day and night, who can only comfort the people, but cannot guide them?"
He opened his hands, as if to encircle the heavens and the earth, and pressed Artoria with a momentum that he had never shown before, "Only by showing the glory of desire and eulogizing the ultimate can we lead the country and the people to the right path." As a king, you must have stronger desires than anyone else, be more bold than anyone else, and be more irritable than anyone else. He should be a human being who is pure and turbid, more real than anyone else. Only in this way can the courtiers be convinced by the king, and the people will have the longing that it would be good if I were the king. ”
"What is the justice of such governance?" Saber was not taken by the momentum of the other party, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and asked.
There is no such thing as justice in the way of kings, so there is no regret (I always thought that this sentence in Zero was the most correct). Thus said the King of Conquest.
Such a simple assertion that Saber has become so angry that he has taken the happiness of the people as the basic criterion, but the two have very different philosophies...... On one side is praying for peace...... On the one hand, there is hope for prosperity.
The king who suppressed the troubled times and the king who was involved in the war, naturally the two could not have the same philosophy.
The King of Conquest suddenly smiled and said heartily, "O king who bears the name of a knight, your righteousness and ideals may have saved the country and the people for a while, so your name has been praised to this day." However, you don't know what happened to those who were saved. ”
"You say...... What?" The previous aggressive conquest couldn't scare the girl away, but the other party's lack of momentum at the moment made her face change...... Bloodstained Hill of the Sunset.
The scene revived in Saber's mind once again.