Pretending to Be Human Is Exhausting Again Today - Chapter 91

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Pretending to Be Human: Episode 091

Meanwhile, the Emperor swiftly calculated the gains and losses from this affair.

‘If damage reaches this level, those fools in the Nobility Council will certainly notice. Their power poses no great threat, but they’ll prove tiresome if they interfere. I must feed them something to keep them satisfied.’

The suffering of the Empire’s people was never a consideration for him.

Suppress information adequately, declare it a natural disaster, and silence the masses’ opinions. This had been the Emperor’s method of governing the Empire for decades.

For such an Emperor, the Demon Clan—beings capable of unleashing catastrophic disasters—represented a power worth obtaining even at the cost of thousands of imperial lives.

“B-but, Your Majesty.”

At that moment, the Young Priest standing beside the High Priest found the courage to speak.

“Even if we lure them in with resentment as bait, I doubt the Demon Clan will heed human words. They are far too warlike in nature….”

“How insolent. Do you dare disregard my authority?”

The Emperor’s brow furrowed. The Young Priest hastily bowed his head again.

“I-I apologize….”

“There is no miracle beyond my reach. You lack the wisdom to distinguish words that should remain unspoken.”

“That was not my intention!”

“Can you gather back the words you’ve already spilled?”

The Emperor slowly approached the Young Priest, who remained prostrate. He raised his hand above the priest’s head and spoke.

“How fortunate. I had intended to punish one of you for this failure, and you seem suitable.”

“Pardon? What do you mean… Aaaahhh!”

In that instant, the Young Priest felt searing heat radiating from the crown of his head.

Platinum light flowing from the Emperor’s palm began scorching his head with the temperature of molten lava.

“Aaaaaahhhhh!”

The Young Priest tried to rise and escape the Emperor’s touch, but his legs remained rooted to the ground as though fused with the earth. The platinum light would not release him, and soon it consumed his entire body, searing from head to toe.

The High Priest witnessed this horror and shrieked in terror, stumbling backward.

“He’s… he’s withering!”

The Young Priest’s skin cracked like parched earth ravaged by drought, and those fissures spared neither flesh nor bone.

The soil beneath his feet, the flowers, the grass—all simultaneously lost their moisture and began to crumble to dust.

Any devotee of the Sun God would recognize this sight.

‘The Sun God’s wrath… transforming all life into desert sand…!’

I never imagined I would witness with my own eyes the terrible power inscribed in the scriptures.

“Haa… aaahhh…!”

The Young Priest collapsed to the ground, now emitting only faint, labored breaths. Had his skin and veins simply ignited in an instant, the suffering would not have been so unbearable.

Yet this power granted no mercy of death. It was a terrible punishment that inflicted agony while preserving life.

The High Priest trembled with terror.

‘Such a miracle without incantation or divine power… Is the Emperor truly a god?’

I had heard that he could borrow the Sun God’s power, but what unfolded before my eyes transcended mere borrowing. It was as though the Sun God himself had descended…

Then the Emperor withdrew his hand from the Young Priest, now nothing more than a breathing corpse, and spoke.

“Do not doubt my power to vanquish evil.”

“H-hiii…”

“Before me, all humans and Demons stand as equals.”

No one dared contradict those words.

In the deep night when the sun closed its eyes, the true ruler of this realm was unmistakably the Emperor.

The Emperor turned his back on the silent Priests and gazed toward the opposite side of the Garden—toward the Outskirts of the Imperial Palace, where Deina’s Villa stood.

‘Save for one exception.’

That single one who had defied his will. The necessary sacrifice for the Imperial Family.

The Emperor murmured with a faint smile.

“I hope you bring me fortune once more, Deina.”

Whether his expectations would be rewarded this time, no one could know.

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