Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 36 – PUNISHMENT SISTER NAUGHTY
“Pak.”
The glove was right about Leon's cheek.
Helios in his anger kept his rationality in check by trying to smile as calmly as possible.
“Leon, grab that handkerchief.”
Helios said with a smile to Leon, but his facial expression was not at all implied the meaning of the word friendly in the slightest.
“Oh, you challenge me to a duel huh, Big Brother Trash?”
“Yes, it's a duel. If I manage to win, then assume today's problem never happened. But if I lose, then whatever punishment you were going to give to my maid, then I alone will bear it as her master who is not good at taking care of his own maid.”
Helios' words clearly hinted that he would not be afraid to accept the penalty of beheading in place of his maid if he lost the duel.
Obviously Albert and Yasmin would have balked at the careless decision made by Helios. How can those who are supposed to be in charge of protecting the life of their master be protected with a life bet by their master.
It would obviously be advantageous to the contenders of the throne like Tius and Leon if they were indeed completely insane for power when one of their competitors was successfully removed.
However, a look full of anger on Leon's face. Even without Albert and Yasmin needing to insist on further placating his master and forcing him to overturn his rash decision, it was Leon who made the sound first.
“Who wants a useless head from a scum like you! Alright, if that is what you want, Big Brother Trash, I will accept the duel, but in exchange, if I win, you will have to retreat as the leader of the Painfinn.” City region
“How is that fair? However, after the incident of the king of undead, surely I will still be demoted as the leader of the city even without me asking for it.”
Helios did not know even with his many familiar scattered throughout the royal capital that the atmosphere of his own kingdom had changed. The king is now more likely to pay attention to the achievements of Helios who managed to solve the root of the problem of the strange attack of monster waves in the monster forest and his various achievements in the field of alchemy and herbs that greatly helped the kingdom's economy rather than its failure the king of undead incident.
And although it was said to have failed, in fact, the king of undead who usually needed an army of the entire continent to eradicate it, was able to be conquered only by relying on the combined forces sent to the city of Painfinn alone. Despite having to sacrifice more than a thousand lives, no one can deny that it is also a prominent war achievement.
Leon knew about it and could predict what the king's next decision would be if no opposition decided against it. That was the true purpose of Leon put forward the conditions of such a challenge to Helios in order to separate Helios from its glory in the city of Painfinn.
Although it is actually ambiguous as to why Leon did not agree to the first condition of Helios alone since if he won against Helios and Helios had to give up his life as a condition of defeat, as a condition of defeat, isn't that more efficient in getting rid of Helios in the throne?
That if of course Leon's goal is really only to the throne. But apparently, there was still a little left in Leon's conscience about his affection for his trash brother.
That was after the reason that Helios said, Leon continued to insist on applying the same conditions that if the king really lowered him first from his position as leader of the city of Painfinn before Helios could ask for it himself, then Leon will ask for the value of the bet if he really wins.
Then, the duel between the two princes was determined.
The supposedly lively and happy atmosphere that contained congratulations to Ilene for her graduation in the royal academy was immediately sidetracked by the news of the duel of the two princes.
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In the morning, the royal square that is usually crowded is now increasing in numbers. Not only were the ordinary citizens and the palace attendants who were carrying out their duties gathered there, but there were also many faces of nobles and young knights there. Everyone was about to witness the historic moment, the battle between the master of the sword, Leon de Meglovia, against the would-be tyrant, Helios de Meglovia.
“Hey, who do you think will win?”
“Then it must be His Highness Prince Leon, right? There is no chance for him who has never obtained an official education like his other brothers and sisters to win the fight.”
“Agreement. Even I hope that the person will be injured and die alone in the arena so that there is no more disaster for the kingdom in the future.”
Unfortunately, almost all of them were hoping for the defeat of Helios even some of them did not hesitate to express their intention to let Helios die alone in the arena.
Such is the position of Helios today in the midst of the association of nobles who are the most hated figure in the kingdom thanks to the prophecy of the holy temple plus Helios who almost never appeared at all in the company of the royal family nobleman matters the restriction of the sacred temple.
There was Albert, Yasmin, the research members of the royal magic academy who were getting familiar with him, and most of all, Talia who usually kept herself locked up in the library, now desperately willing to face the outside world that is unusual for him after receiving news of the duel from his father, all in order to support his beloved fiancee, Helios.
Everyone was screaming for Leon's name in the arena. Seeing all the support falling on him, Leon looked at the older brother with a humiliating look.
“Heh, look at all this support, Big Brother Trash. No one expects you to win. How about I give you a little of my kindness, Big Brother Trash? Just give up before you get humiliated by me. If you do, I promise I won't bother you. I also no longer need to waste my energy to beat you all out.”
Leon then deliberately lowered his voice so that his sentence spoken this time could only be heard by Helios alone, “In addition to the pain of slicing the sword, it hurts more than you might think.” Said Leon with an absolutely provoking look.
However, even after hearing Leon's insults and provocations, Helios remained calm.
“Mas Lou, fight!”
And his determination grew stronger again since his usually shy fiancee to speak in public, came out of her shell boldly shouting in public like that for the sake of encouraging her. Talia's cheeks were still flushed like ripe tomatoes after doing something unusual for her.
Leon also glanced at Talia. Their eyes met, but Talia immediately lowered her gaze, unable to bear Leon's frightening expression.
“Ck.”
Leon finally turned around and clicked his tongue after witnessing what he thought was unimportant had been done by Talia. But once turned around, it was now the turn of a determined eye from Helios witnessed by Leon.
“Leon, you seem to be overconfident with your skills. You believe, I will defeat you in just three magic spells.”
Hearing Helios' provocation, Leon's teeth immediately gnawed in annoyance at the humiliation.
With a majestic sword in hand engraved with blue rubies that were artifacts that strengthened his fire magic, Leon advanced confidently. Yet beyond his expectations, Helios advanced without a single weapon in his hand, not even he carried a magic wand with him which was an obligation for every magic user to have when fighting.
“What does all this mean, Big Brother Trash?! You intend to fight with your bare hands or you have resignedly beaten all out by me?!”
“Take it easy, my sister. I am an expert in magic even without a magic wand though.”
Leon looked at Helios more intently after hearing his words and prepared to attack him.
Then with the cue from the referee of the match, the match between the two princes began.
Leon charged towards Helios with his sword.
“Mana Shield.”
Helios did not dodge at all and used just any shield. The sword aura and shield clashed against each other, but there seemed no flaw in the shield that belonged to Helios even after clashing strongly with Leon's sword.
“Twelve of Hands.”
Huge hands made of ice magic then came from underground and urged Leon to retreat. Even with his fire magic that he was so confident in him it was unable to melt the solid ice made from the Helios magic.
Then, something unexpected by Leon happened.
“Punishment of the naughty brother.”
Thousands of small hands made of ice magic came out of the hands of the big ice and touched Leon's forehead thousands of times until Leon was helplessly sprawled in the arena and there was nothing again signs to be able to rise again.
As he said, Helios was able to win that duel in just three of his magic spells.
All the eyes of the audience who witnessed the match were instantly stunned. No one would have thought that the prince of the future tyrant who had been restrained in the seedy palace could have such incredible magic power.