"I'm sorry...... Mom was wrong! Mom was wrong! ”

Salantos Midknight fell to her knees outside the door and sobbed, snot and tears streaming down her rich fabrics, her hair in a bun unfurled, her crown falling on the carpet.

A large group of servants in the mansion gathered at the corner of the corridor to peek, everyone was heartbroken, at this moment, kneeling outside the door was not a great emperor, just a poor mother, afraid of losing her child.

Prince Maxim inside the door said indignantly:

"In the more than a year of exile, there was one thing that hurt me the most,

It was the coldest time of the year, and a large group of exiled prisoners like me gathered in the crumbling ruins to escape the wind and snow.

I have to thank you for secretly sending padded jackets, dry food and water, but why didn't you save the others?

The crumbling walls could not stop the cold wind, and people froze to death and starved to death every night.

I met a guy on the road,

His name is Pierce, an orphan who has been exiled for stealing and stabbing and instructing people, and he may be a bad person...... Just like me......

But he was only fourteen years old...... It's still a child!

This child is you, the victim of the harsh torture advocated by His Majesty the Emperor of Salantos!

I gave my padded jacket to Pierce and took out food to share with him, but it was too late, the child had already contracted the cold, and he needed medicine and recuperation.

I found the agents who were following me and begged them to save poor Pierce.

But guess what, Ms. Sarantos, what did the agent you sent and me?

They were only ordered to protect me, the prince, from danger in exile, and they didn't care if I lived or died!

Two years later, poor Pierce died in the cold ruins.

With tears in my eyes, I went to the agents and asked them to borrow a shovel to dig a pit and bury the poor child.

What is the answer?

They said in a cold tone, Your Highness Prince Maxim, your mother wants you to taste the ills of the world during your exile, and we will not give you any help other than the food and clothing necessary to sustain your life.

Hum...... Is this your man, whose sympathy has been taken away by wolves? They only know to follow the orders of the tyrant, but they don't care about the pitiful, exiled prisoners! ”

Sarantos Midknight outside the door didn't agree with her son's law, but now she didn't care so much, she just wanted to see her son, hug him, and kiss his forehead.

"I'm sorry...... Mom was wrong! Good son, please, will you give me a chance? For your sake, I will cancel the sentence of exile...... Is that okay? ”

"Cancel the exile, and then you can guillotine all the prisoners, and send you the super-efficient killing device invented by your dog-legged Marshal Dalí, right?

By the way, I remembered, and one more thing.

At that time I had been in exile for half a year, working as a horse maintenance worker in a dirty, smelly stable.

There was no gratuity, no working meals, and as for the pay, my employer only allowed me to live on a straw pile in the stables and promised not to evict me. ”

Sarantos' voice had become hoarse: "Na...... This is also too much. ”

"Prisoners in exile have no human rights, so they can only be exploited like this.

This is the new law enacted by you, our great emperor, in the name of deterring criminals and maintaining order, but not giving criminals a chance to atone for their sins.

I had a lame stray dog in the stable, a Dalmatian, about one and a half years old, with a finely crafted bell collar around his neck, presumably abandoned by a wealthy family, just like me.

I named it John and fed it leftover dry food.

In those difficult days and nights, John and I depended on each other, as long as I had a bite of food to eat and a sip of water to drink, my pet would share it with me, it was my new spiritual support.

However, one morning, I was not awakened by the licking of my warm tongue, my John was missing, and then I went crazy and searched, and finally found the body of the poor dog in the alley around the corner,

Its skull was shattered, apparently killed by a blow with a stick or stone.

A familiar figure flashed nearby, and I immediately recognized it as one of the agents who was following me, and I chased after him, asking him why he was doing this.

He, Your Royal Highness, don't blame us for being ruthless, it was your Emperor's mother who gave the order to make the Prince feel the deepest despair during his exile, so that he can be reformed! Make it a worthy heir to House Midknight!

It was from that moment that I realized that I had to rise up and overthrow your tyrant! ”

At this point, Maxim also lay on the door and said to his mother on the other side of the door:

"That's your exile plan, it's a failure, isn't it. Transform your disobedient son into a rebel leader, my words are over, you can kill or kill as you please! ”

"My dear baby Maxim, you know that your mother won't hurt a single hair of you, and among so many children, your mother loves you the most......"

"Yes, you love me the most, because you are more cruel to other children,

For example, Sister Rosemary, you sold her to Prince Solan, of course, it was all for the sake of your great imperial hegemony, and the happiness of our children is nothing compared to it, is it? ”

Sarantos was poked in the sore spot, she covered her ears and banged her head frantically against the wooden door:

"Nope! No! Please, good son, no more! You're going to drive mom crazy! ”

Maxim wiped away his tears and became firm:

"Since you don't want to kill me, then give me freedom, I only have two reasonable demands."

"Good! Good! No matter what you ask, Mom will follow you! ”

"First, I need a carriage and a coachman, and I need a permit, and I'm going to visit Edgar in the sanatorium, I'm going to visit the second brother of Constance in the mental hospital, and I'm going to the cemetery to visit the grave of my brother Victor."

"Fantastic...... My good boy, you have not forgotten the friendship between brothers and sisters...... Mom was so impressed. ”

"Humph! It's none of your business, don't be sentimental, Ms. Salentos.

Second, I want complete freedom of movement, and I don't want to be constrained in any way, and I don't want agents to be behind me. ”

"That's a must! My darling, I promise you, no one will stop you! I will order the Intelligence Service to recall the agents and agents from your side. ”

"Well, in that case, I'll make some compromises as well.

I promise you that I will never have anything to do with the Kingdom of Solan and the Voodoo Church again, after all, I am also a Varsta with backbone.

Now that I am no longer in exile, I do not need the support of foreign powers and cultists, who have ulterior motives, and I am genuinely for the well-being of the people of Valstad.

I now have a loyal group of supporters with whom I will travel around and perform as a young politician in taverns across the country.

I will set up my own party, which will be a purely civil organization, an opposition party that will not enter parliament, and I have a name in mind, which will be called Valsta New Youth Salvation Party.

I will set up my own newspaper and write articles to implement harsh criticism of your policies

I swear I'll keep getting you in trouble as long as I, Maxim Midknight, are alive.

Of course, you can send someone to get rid of me at any time. In that case, it means that your heart is weak, and my death will be a great sacrifice and a strong proof of the emperor's failed rule. ”

Salantos' tears had dried up, and her eyes were already red and swollen, she pursed her lips and said weakly:

"Well, it's up to you...... At least let Mom take a look at you, okay? ”

"Save it, Ms. Sarantos, don't get close, I don't want to see your disfigured ugly face again, remember, if you want to force me and restrict my freedom, I'll kill myself by cutting my wrists!"

There was silence in the room, and Prince Maxim said no more.

It was a long time before the Empress came to her senses, and she felt that her spirit was about to run out of support, and that she was on the verge of collapse.

Dizzy and barely able to stand on her feet, she stooped down tremblingly, picked up her crown and put it on her head, and despite her young age, a wisp of gray appeared in the iron-gray hair of the Empress's temples.

(It's not fair.) She thought.

She broke her heart for this country, but in the end she was not understood by her own son, and the bitterness and depression in her heart had nowhere to discharge, so she could only swallow the bitter water in her stomach.

She held on to the wooden handrail and walked slowly down the stairs like a dying old man.

The prosecutor in black uniform stepped forward and asked:

"Your Majesty, we have been waiting for you for a long time, what to do with His Royal Highness Prince Maxim? Please let me know. ”

"Let him go, set him free."

"Huh? Wait a minute! Don't go yet, Your Majesty, I don't know what your freedom means? Is it to take His Royal Highness back to Jinhu Palace? ”

Sarantos Midknight turned around, half of his face, disfigured by the battle, covered in iron armor, and the other half of his face was as dead as ashes:

"My beloved son already hates me so much that he doesn't even want to look at his poor mother......"

"Na...... This...... That's too much, isn't it? It's obviously him who is at fault, but you want to back down? ”

"Hey! Never mind...... So be it, I'll go crazy if I keep thinking about it. ”

"Your Majesty, what should we do with your son?"

"Let him go when I'm gone."

"What? Are you sure? ”

"From now on, Maxim Midknight can go wherever he wants, don't stop him, even if he runs out into the street and insults me, don't arrest him, and let his men go.

Damn it! It's ridiculous that I should watch my son form an opposition party. ”

The Emperor left the mansion with her guards, leaving the young procurator standing in a daze.