Emperor (Three Chapters Combined)

PS: I got the chapters mixed up today, so I added all the missing parts and dumped in the entire stockpile.

The First Prince Alec no longer had the bearing of an imperial prince. His face was deathly pale. The acts of murdering the king and his father had taken place in the imperial palace hall, before countless ministers. There was no way to conceal such a thing.

After a night had passed, he had been tormented by these thoughts the entire time, yet he still lacked the courage to resist Abel.

Throughout Denan City, knights of the Duchy of Camai could be seen everywhere. Even most of the servants in the Imperial Palace had been replaced with servants from the Duchy of Camai, and Steward Bobichi had replaced the former palace steward. Having once served as a duchy's palace steward, he was the only one who could barely manage the position of Imperial Palace steward.

Under such circumstances, First Prince Alec was even less daring to make a move. He had murdered the king and his father to save his own life.

A prince who had never faced a threat to his life while growing up, a prince who had never tasted defeat—when confronted with the threat of death, his actions were always beyond what others expected.

As a noble and a prince who was about to inherit a vast empire, after losing everything, most people would have expected him to wield a longsword and lead the knights to reclaim the throne.

That would have been the stuff of a legendary tale. But reality was not a story. Faced with the threat of death, the First Prince had chosen to murder the king and his father, then voluntarily handed over imperial power in exchange for Abel's promise.

He now