My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

The decorations on the cabinets were also shaken to the ground.

After a long time, the two separated their fists.

"I'll have someone clean this place, Orson."

Arthas said this, turned around silently, and left the room.

Orson turned his head and looked in a direction outside the window.

As expected, the secret sentry there met Orson's eyes.

Orson showed a playful smile.

The next second, a golden figure flashed by, and the secret sentry who was distracted by looking at Orson instantly disappeared into the shadows.

Orson witnessed all this, then sat back in his chair and started reading his book again.

"Alsace, you and I may be in good agreement in military affairs, and I have given you the opportunity to retreat to the second line."

"But since you value the throne so much, then you must be prepared to lose everything in order to fight for the imperial power."

"The thread is tightening step by step. The more you struggle and the more you want to resist, the easier it is to fall into the abyss."

Orson muttered to himself, as if he had known the fate of Alsace in advance.

Chapter 47: Usurpation (4K)

In the police station, Elsa wanted to see Orson, but was stopped by several high-ranking knights.

"Sorry, Your Highness Elsa, His Royal Highness has ordered that in order to prevent Orson from colluding with outsiders again, Orson must not see anyone except His Royal Highness."

Seeing this, Elsa angrily put her hands on her waist and looked at the knights in front of her.

"Oh, that means that the emperor is now trying Orson 'alone', right?"

"That's right."

"Can I understand this as a coup, or a persecution of meritorious officials?"

Several knights lowered their heads, and no one dared to speak.

"I say again, the power of justice was given to me by my father. Not only the police station, but also the court is under my control. If you stand in my way again, I will ask the court to take you away and convict you of treason!"

"We can't ignore the order of His Royal Highness." One of the knights said.

"If Your Highness Elsa insists on doing so, then we can only wait for you to call the court."

"Okay." Elsa nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

She was almost unable to suppress her anger.

She didn't expect that her father was just unconscious, and her emperor brother seemed to be unable to sit still.

She turned around and walked out of the police station, but did not go to the direction of the court.

She knew that in this situation, it was meaningless to go to court again. She had to gather all her forces in Saint Laurent City to prevent her brother from launching a surprise attack on her.

Fortunately, Odysseus had left her the leadership of the court magicians before. The combat effectiveness of this group of magicians was not weak at all. With their help, at least she was not powerless to resist.

As for Orson, she could only wait to rescue him later.

The next period of time would determine the fate of the empire for at least several decades in the future.

It was midnight, and the army outside the city received the orders of the generals and began to march towards Saint Laurent City, while the army in the territory ruled by Alsace also began to march towards Elsa's territory.

He had to solve everything within the next forty-eight hours.

Before that, the first thing to do was to make everything he did legal.

Alsace came to Odysseus's bedroom. At this time, Odysseus had woken up a little, but his body was extremely weak at the moment because he had only liquid food for several days.

Hearing Arthas's footsteps, Odysseus turned his head and looked at his son.

"Father, I came here this time to ask you for instructions on something."

"You said..."

Odysseus' tone was very weak.

Seeing Arthas's expression now, he already knew what happened.

"The reason for your fainting has been found out. Elsa ordered the chef to put a slow-acting poison in your food. She saw that she had the hope of becoming the heir. In order to prevent you from changing your mind, she couldn't wait to murder you and put the blame on me, wanting to consolidate her position."

Unexpectedly, Odysseus just smiled when he heard this.

"You said this... do you believe it yourself?"

Arthas certainly knew that Odysseus would not believe his one-sided words. He originally planned to take advantage of his father's just awakening to gain his trust, so that he would not have too much trouble in doing everything.

At that time, get rid of Elsa, let Odysseus be a puppet emperor for a few years, and the throne will naturally pass to him.

Of course, he was prepared for Odysseus not to believe him.

"I certainly didn't expect my father to believe my one-sided words. I didn't come here to gain your trust this time. I just wanted to get back what I lost."

Arthas said this and took out a very gorgeously decorated edict.

This is an edict that can only be found in Odysseus' study, and it is specially used to convey the emperor's will.

"This is a succession edict. Your father is in poor health now. For the future of the empire, please determine the candidate for the heir to the throne now, otherwise the empire will be unstable, and there may be a conflict between Elsa and me. I don't want to see a breakup between brother and sister."

Hearing Arthas' words, Odysseus nodded and stretched out his hand.

"Give it to me."

Arthas handed the edict to Odysseus.

The latter took the edict and glanced at the content on it.

Sure enough, the so-called establishment of the successor was just a means for Arthas to force the emperor to abdicate.

Odysseus looked at the content above and smiled.

"Do you think that if you do this, others will believe in you as the legitimate emperor of the empire?"

"Of course, there is also your scepter, I haven't forgotten it."

Arthas took out Odysseus's scepter again.

"You can pass it to me on your own initiative, or it can be invalidated after your father's death, and then I will reactivate it."

Odysseus sighed when he saw that Arthas was determined to do things thoroughly.

"Arthas, in your eyes, relatives are nothing anymore?"

"Father, did you treat me as a relative?"

Arthas looked at his father and asked back.

"I thought that in your eyes, there was only Elsa."

"Arthas, you have lost your mind."

Odysseus wanted to persuade his son again.

"Anyone with a discerning eye can see who I favored in the past twenty years."

"I gave you military power, and I never said anything when you attended those noble banquets, all for the purpose of training you to be the emperor of the empire, and you did a good job."

"But after seeing Elsa's growth, you gave up your previous investment in me, right?"

"...I was just compensating her. As her brother, you have been exposed to many things earlier than her. If she also wants to be an emperor, it would be unfair to her."

"Is that fair to me?"

Alsace's questioning was like an iron fist torturing Odysseus' heart.

He finally lowered his head, looked at the contents of the edict, silently raised his hand, and slowly wrote his name on it with a pen.

"Arthas, I know you won't listen to me now, but as a father, I will give you one last piece of advice."

"Don't let others use you. Others may only be around you because you are still useful to them."

"Once your usefulness disappears, you will be deserted by everyone."

"So, if you want to succeed, think carefully about how to keep yourself in the best interests of most people in the empire."

"Also, I have one last request from you. Please tell Elsa for me."

Odysseus said this, his tone getting weaker and weaker, and his voice getting lower and lower.

After signing the edict of succession, he seemed to have reached the end of his life.

"In any case, I... don't want to see you two brothers and sisters killing each other. At least in the end, please leave each other a way to live."

Odysseus handed the edict in his hand to Arthas, and then his hands fell weakly, and his eyes slowly lost their luster.

Arthas looked at Odysseus in front of him, who had lost his vitality, with a blank expression on his face.

He walked out of Odysseus's bedroom.

At this moment, all the guards in the palace had been replaced by his trusted subordinates, and no one could take the news out of the palace.

Long after Arthas left, a black cat crawled out from under Odysseus' bed, jumped onto Odysseus' bed, turned around his stiff body for a few times, came to the window, turned over, and jumped out of the palace through the window.

The next morning, a shocking news spread among the residents of Saint Laurent.

Emperor Odysseus was surprised by the last assassination, and the chef poisoned his daily meals, causing his health to deteriorate. He died late last night.

The night before his death, Odysseus left a will to make Arthas the new emperor of the empire.

The people of the empire had no objection to this.

Although Elsa has emerged recently, she is too young after all. In the past ten years, Arthas has always been firmly in control of the heir to the throne. It is still difficult to change the public opinion of the empire in a short period of time.

But then, a piece of news made Saint Laurent City explode.

At noon, the police station interrogated the chef suspected of murdering Odysseus, and the chef confessed that Elsa was the mastermind behind the scenes.

If someone knows, they will know that the chef and Elsa don't even know each other, but it doesn't matter. After hearing the official review report, the people can't believe that Elsa murdered the emperor, but they don't have much objection to what Alsace will do next.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a political struggle. If Alsace succeeds, Elsace will be described as a vicious woman who murdered her father and brother for power in future history books.

Similarly, if Elsace succeeds, Alsace will become a clown in history books.

This war concerns the reputation of the two camps, and no one wants to lose.

The new emperor Alsace almost immediately declared all of Elsace's status illegal, ordered his army to take over Elsace's territory, and deprived Elsace of the judicial power she exercised in the empire.

In Saint Laurent, Elsa had no one to rely on except the court magicians and the field magicians in the city defense force.

After learning the news, Elsa spread the news in the court magician's residence, saying that all the accusations against her by Arthas were all rumors, and it was Arthas who really killed the late emperor.

She also said that Arthas forged the will to usurp the throne.

After Elsa's news was released, even the peasants knew what had happened.

Alsace and Elsa are both extremely ambitious people, and they must have been plotting for the throne for a long time.

When Odysseus was alive, he could suppress the idea of ​​fighting for power between the brother and sister, but when he died, the accumulated conflicts between the brother and sister broke out instantly.

When the news reached the Dukedom of Antica, Lucius was still resting in his room.

After hearing the news of Odysseus' death from his subordinates, Lucius was stunned for a moment, then trembling his hands, and asked again in disbelief:

"You said, His Majesty the Emperor died?"

"Yes." The butler nodded. "The news came just yesterday, and the magic communication was expedited here. Now Prince Alsace is the new emperor of the empire, and he seems to be fighting for power with Elsa..."

"Okay, you leave first."

Lucius waved his hand and asked the butler to leave the room and be alone.

As the sound of the door closing rang out, Lucius could no longer suppress his grief.

For him, Odysseus was undoubtedly his nobleman.

In order to reward his military merits, Odysseus risked weakening the monarchy and established the Duchy of Antica, conferring him the title of duke.

Later, in order to establish the prestige of his family, he took him to host banquets many times.

Originally, no matter how high his military merits were, there was no precedent for rewarding a duchy. After all, all other duchies were "old trees with twisted roots" that had existed for hundreds or thousands of years, and Odysseus could have rewarded him in other ways.

It can be said that Odysseus was the founder of the current status of the Stranic family.

Therefore, the relationship between the monarch and his subjects has always been good, and the Duchy of Antica has always been jokingly called a "direct jurisdiction without direct jurisdiction."