"Looks like she's causing you a big problem, as always."

"After all... The subject of fate is always ill-fated, and Loga and his bearers may soon be 'deviating' from what she sees - and of course, this is certainly a good thing, at least we don't have to worry about Loga's faith anymore. ”

"Of course—my lord, I don't mean to warn you."

Looking at the star-language communication on the databoard, the Imperial Prime Minister said to the Emperor with some schadenfreude.

“… Fate is a ship that sways with the wind and waves, so I'm not surprised, Machado. ”

"Besides... It is also better to change than to watch the established things get closer day by day. ”

Looking at the whole story of the Colchis incident recorded by the encrypted intelligence in front of him, the emperor sighed, but did not show any significant displeasure.

Although Johnson's decisiveness came as a slight surprise, on the whole, nothing went wrong.

Elaine has done the best she can to reconcile the contradictions between the two legions with Iron Man and Chaos, and despite the extraordinary amount of information she has, the undeniable fact is that the Twelfth Legion and herself are not in very good shape—even the sharpest jagged teeth will wear down if you overforce her like Perturabo.

Merely...

As the Emperor's gaze swept over the message about the Iron Man [Silent One], his stiff eyebrows gradually tightened.

"But this [accident] was indeed beyond my expectations."

"—like a familiar past, isn't it?"

After seeing the emperor's reaction, Makado had a helpless look of 'I told you a long time ago'.

"A 'big trouble' comes from an era that everyone has actively forgotten, from an era of madness and hysteria."

"And the truth is within her reach."

"In front of a long-buried treasure, no one can refuse the truth, but when the truth is meaningless..."

"—no, she won't."

The Emperor shook his head, denying Makado's speculation about Elaine.

"There is a price to open Pandora's box, and there is a price to know the unknown, whether that makes sense or not... And she had already tasted this price once, in the endless despair, the thousand-year-long reincarnation desperate situation, wandering in the narrow space between illusion and reality, when I was called by that desperate cry for help... She was almost in tatters. ”

"They wanted to take her once, and that time was unforgettable."

"Because of this, her hard-tempered, thick and heavy soul can withstand the many tests along the way."

With that, the Emperor's gaze moved back from the stars to Terra.

In the blink of a conversation with the Prime Minister of the Empire, the consciousness of the most powerful psychic in the galaxy had crossed tens of thousands of light-years, witnessing first-hand how the daughter he knew and knew was with Iron Man and delivered trust across time and space.

In the Emperor's view, as the Lord of Mankind, he has a limit - as a human being, he will neither perform all-knowing miracles nor accept any wholehearted and wholehearted faith.

Merely... His authority is no different from that of a god, his existence is a rival to the supreme being, and even his identity as a human being may have been far removed from him for too long.

Therefore, among his twenty-one heirs, the emperor is still looking forward to something ordinary after all.

There is a blood bond between parents and children, plain, but full of passionate trust.

“… I thought you were going to prepare a punishment for her for crossing the line. ”

"But now it seems that she bears a considerable resemblance to Horus."

Machado was a little surprised by the emperor's true feelings—it was only in conversations with the sons of the first return that the emperor showed such a rare look.

Among the twenty-one original bodies, only Horus's experience gradually transformed from a mortal boy to the current wolf shepherd god, so that the strong human color in his body was so prominent and prominent among his original brothers that when a second Elaine with a similar experience with him appeared, the emperor regained his expectation and trust in human nature.

It is precisely because of those mortal pasts, when they transformed into genetic prototypes, that it is especially evident that the precious power in their hands is particularly valuable, and it is enough to support the name of the [Battle Commander] who stands up as the emperor's right and left hand.

"It's not so much Horus as it reminds me of Opezon."

"During her time in Nucheria, Elaine and I talked about the trivia after the Great Expedition – after that, she wanted to return to her old bland, laid-back, carefree life."

At the mention of that 'friend', the Emperor couldn't help but sigh.

Once upon a time, there were things called 'friendship' and 'trust' around him, instead of the endless responsibilities and burdens that he has now, and the fate that almost overwhelmed him.

Of course, he has no position to direct those old friends who have gone against his own views, and despite the heavy betrayal he has suffered at one time, the Lord of Mankind still trusts everyone around him unconditionally.

"For such a person, punishment is neither necessary nor meaningful."

"From start to finish, she knows what she's doing, she knows what the price comes when she touches a threat, she knows what kind of crisis she's dealing with, she knows who she's going to trust."

"If we knew from the beginning that she would never touch a dangerous border, why should we prepare for something that is impossible to happen?"

As the Emperor spoke, the psionic light in his eyes gradually extinguished, symbolizing the end of a conversation that had spanned a long distance.

After fading the sparkle of psionic energy, the emperor's appearance at this time was nothing more than an ordinary, ordinary burly man, just like what he had considered to be an ordinary human for thousands of years.

"Trust is a good place to start, my lord."

Makado nodded slightly with some relief at the emperor's willingness to communicate with his heirs.

Although the subspace storm in the Colchis system has not yet completely dissipated, it has never been difficult for the Emperor.

Moreover, a simple psionic meeting is undoubtedly the best way to solve the problem quickly.

As one of the strongest psionic beings in the galaxy, Makado naturally sensed that the churning of the subspace storm had been forcibly quelled by some great force.

Of course, of course, the work of a [human].

……

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(End of chapter)