Chapter 95: The Prime Minister's Truth
"What did you do?"
Butler sneered and waved his hand at the light screen around him.
"You should ask what she did to those people, look, Wall and Hoss, and the barbarians of the South, they won't understand what happened and why! Zero, blow up 31 and 39!"
As the runes on the parchment scroll lit up, the puppet-like chestnut-haired girl raised her hand again, and two streams of magic were injected into the ring loop on the ground, and soon, white light and flames appeared again on the two suspended light curtains.
"Look, what a wonderful power," Butler's tone was like that of a proud father, "this is magic technology, this is progress!"
Cheruth raised her eyebrows slightly, she was really surprised that an old man who had assisted Prud, the country of bravery, for decades, would say such a thing.
"I don't know much about Prude, but it seems that the Prude don't like magicians. β
"Most of the Pruds don't like wizards, but," Butler shook his head, "I hate the arrogant warriors even more. β
"You became the prime minister of the three dynasties of the Purud Empire. β
"That's why I hate them!" Butler's expression became agitated for the first time, "whether it is the fool of Peter III, or his shrewd but young father, or his grandfather, the taciturn old emperor, all of them are so arrogant and ignorant! Outside of the slogan of 'bravery', they only know what aristocratic duel to do, what to find the first warrior of the empire! What a group of damn bastards, do they think that they can still support an empire's fighting spirit era with swords and shields, and it is the year 796 of the era of magic guidance!"
"But you're the prime minister...... There should be many other ways to change this empire, shouldn't you?"
"I thought so before I became Prime Minister, but I knew it countless times when I saw even those ordinary people enjoying the magic lights of the arena with peace of mind and taunting the magic circuit I brought in from Loris," Butler's wry smile could be seen to be sincere, "This empire that has existed for more than 600 years is just the last trace of resentment left on this continent from the thousand-year-long era of vindictive energy. β
Is this guy a radical changemaker......
"You don't really look like a Prudent. β
"I'm a Prudian...... However, I hate from the bottom of my heart for this empire that was able to use this as an excuse to trample on the dignity and life of the gladiator's family under the high-sounding banner of dishonoring 'bravery and glory' because the gladiator was carelessly killed by a few slaves in the arena. β
The root is here, Cheruth pursed her lips, she didn't want to judge who was right and who was wrong, and she had no way to judge, the traverser was just the protagonist in her own story, but she had no right or obligation to tell her what about the history and process of this other world.
"If you wish to win my sympathy with this, I can only say that you have failed," said Chelus, looking at Butler, who seemed to be very angry, "I am only here for my friend, and I can sympathize with your obsession, but this is not a reason for me to abandon my obsession." β
Butler's somewhat impassioned expression vanished.
"You don't look like a little girl...... But you still don't understand, or you don't know, what Zero is that you think is a friend. β
With that, Butler slowly walked over to the parchment and raised his hand to touch the paper.
"You want to save your friend, but you don't know it, this is what your friend really is. β
Cheruth pouted.
"The control center of the city's magic circuit?"
"She's not human," Butler replied calmly, "or rather, once human, but now, just a 'tool' with a human form." β
"Anyway, I'm going to save Nanoha, Nanoha is a kind child who values friendship," Chelus said, smiling, "but without the Heart of the Rising Sun, she doesn't know what the best way to make friends~friends~." β
Butler's brow furrowed, he didn't know what the Heart of the Rising Sun was, which worried him, but he quickly suppressed it.
Obviously, she didn't even know the true identity of Zero, how could she know something she didn't know, she was deliberately disturbing herself.
With the thought that if Cheruth knew about it, he would complain, and Butler sank his face.
"As I said, she's just a 'tool', I just let her play her due value, even if you have to be friends with a 'tool', it's natural to let the 'tool' play its due value, isn't it. β
"No, Nanoha she's not happy. β
Cheruth shook her head.
"I know she's not happy. β
"'Tools' don't need to be happy. β
"Look, so there's no way you can convince me," Chelus said, "I don't have complicated ideas, I don't have many friends, so I hope they will all be happy, but obviously we both have different definitions of happiness. β
"It's ridiculous," Butler looked at Cheruth coldly, "it's just a little girl, and the friendship with the 'tool', huh...... It's naΓ―ve. β
"Seeing that he couldn't be convinced, he began to accuse, grandpa, if you do this, it will make people laugh at your lack of cultivation. β
Cheruth smiled and said something that made Butler's temples ruffle, although it was twelve years ago that the last time he sprayed people on the Internet, how to poke people's pain points is not too unfamiliar.
"I thought I could try to calm you down...... As long as you and your sister can help me in this war, I don't mind handing over Zero to you after this. β
Butler spoke in exasperation.
"But, you me off. β
"I'm sorry old man," Chelus didn't bother to use any more honorifics, now that she had torn her face, "I don't want Tool Zero, but to save my friend Nanoha." β
"It's all the same!"
Butler said, his hand on the parchment moving away and shouting at the same time.
"Guardian Command, Magic Shield!"
The parchment emitted a bright light, and Zero raised his hands in an instant, and two bright magic light pillars shot at both sides of the ring loop, and suddenly, the magic energy with a concentration no less than the space in the tower below filled the entire control room, and all the light curtains disappeared at once as if they had been disturbed by something, while the magic guide circuits on the ground and on the wall emitted a brighter light than just now.
"Hmm......"
Cheruth **, this sudden change in the density of magic energy caught her a little off guard, her head was a little dizzy, she didn't have time to think about it, Cheruth hurriedly dispersed the ability of the old tree that was left after using the ability to self-heal in her body, but her weak physical state still made her a little dizzy and knelt on the ground.
"Hehehe, whether you're a human or an orc, this environment must be uncomfortable for you magicians. β
Despite his pale face and seemingly uncomfortable, Butler still stood there, looking at Cheruth on her knees.
"You, are you all right......?"
Cheruth looked up at Butler, who was standing there.
"I don't have a talent for magic, and even my fighting spirit can't be cultivated because I was beaten and injured by those martial artists when I was a child," Butler's tone carried a chilling resentment, "I'm just an ordinary person, a Prud who was originally not recognized by this empire because I didn't have a fighting spirit, but so what, the high magic energy field will greatly interfere with the magic energy and spiritual energy in the living body, and only ordinary people like me will be fine here...... Haha, magic guidance technology is really a good thing, that's right, ordinary people can also beat those martial artists, better than magicians like you, I will create such an empire, I don't need any stupid bravery, no decadent glory!"
Looking at Butler, who was completely different from the beginning and laughed a little presumptuously, the heaviness in Cheruth's heart was a little less, if the other party was really just a tyrant who was cold-blooded and cruel but did not hesitate to rebel for the sake of the people of the country and pursue progress, she might still be a little entangled in her heart, but the old prime minister in front of her, although he also had the idea of making Prud progress, was an out-and-out paranoid, a poor man who spread resentment to a country because of his own experience.
Vindictiveness may indeed be weaker than magic technology in terms of social dominance, but Prude's centuries-old history cannot be discredited. Wizard Loris, the brave Proud, maybe Prud's generations of emperors are a little stubborn, but the brave spirit as a national symbol should not be used by Butler as the object of his resentment.
It's not that I want the Prud people or Horth or anything to thank me, it's just that people always hope that they did the right thing, right?
Cheruth looked at Butler in a half-kneeling position, in fact, after disabling the ability to copy, Cheruth was no longer disturbed by this dense magical energy field. The reason why the Nolans can't use the Dou Qi magic is that they can't invoke the spiritual energy in the body and can't sense the external magic energy, so if they don't activate the replication ability, Cheruth, who is just a Nolan, won't even have the discomfort of ordinary people in the high-energy magic field, just like a magic insulator.
It's just that,Because of the removal of the ability,Cheruth is now really a soft cute Lori who has no other means of attack except for selling cuteness and spitting (?),Although the other party is also an old man who can't magic and has no fighting spirit,But Cheruth doesn't think she can beat him...... Hey, old man, you're cheating!
Looking at what looked like a pistol that Butler had escaped from his arms, the corners of Cheruth's eyes twitched.
Hey, hey, hey, everyone is just a soft loli, and you still have to use a gun? You're enough to feed the old man!