Wanting to Save More People Than He Killed

Albert was greatly startled. "So the Red Prime Minister finally rebelled after all?"

Strangely enough, he wasn't surprised by this...

Instead, he felt a sense of Just as I thought and He finally went through with it.

After all, Albert's patron was the Earl Leipzig, so he had come into indirect contact with the Red Prime Minister to some extent—though of course, he wouldn't dare meet him directly.

Albert himself wasn't good at speaking, while the Red Prime Minister was notoriously hot-tempered, eccentric, and unpredictable. If Albert accidentally offended him, he might end up as a Blood Slave in the Red Fort.

Others cared about his talents—after all, Albert was not only the second-youngest Fourth Level transcendent in Stannum, but also a gifted inventor and an exceptionally skilled Calamity Splicer. He was highly likely to become Vice-Headmaster of the Spirit Tower and succeed the next Black Prime Minister.

...But the Red Prime Minister alone would never fear him.

Albert had even heard that a member of the royal family had once angered him, only to be drained dry on the spot.

The matter was kept secret. Later, that royal family member's funeral was held under the explanation that they had "died of illness." Even so, no one dared ask about it... This was a story the Earl Leipzig had personally told him.

The "Red Prime Minister" in the Earl Leipzig's stories was a willful, reckless, arrogant egotist.

He cared about nothing and thought only of his own pleasures. He even looked down on his own Children.

He was like an overbearing old man with immense authority in his household. Whenever he saw something he disliked, he had to comment on it—and the problem was that he seemed to dislike everything he saw. He was always making conceited remarks such as,