How to Live as a Tyrant’s Bastard Brother

How to Live as a Tyrant’s Bastard Brother Episode 1

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Flames rose here and there in the imperial palace.

Maids and servants were running way screaming, and the sound of swords clashing could be heard everywhere.

I grabbed my sword and ran to the throne room where the golden throne was located.

Please, please, just stay alive.

“Your majesty!”

When I reached at the throne room, I leaned against the wall and took a deep breath.

I was in a terrible physical condition because I had fought dozens of times with rebels calling themselves revolutionary.

“You’re late. Did you come here to get my head too?”

White hair that looked like it’s made up of melted platinum, and deep yellow eyes that looked like they’re made of gold.

A woman was sitting with her back straight and her legs crossed, was looking down at her partner as if showing off her slender body and tall height.

An arrogant and confident monarch with a dragon-like appearance.

The youngest sword master in the empire and an archmage recognized by the Lord of the Ivory Tower.

A person who started a rebellion at the age of 16, slaughtered her relatives, and took the throne.

A war hero who suppressed nine rebellions and led five great wars to victory in 40 years.

A tyrant who accrued resentment by levying taxes bordering on plunder.

The emperor of an empire that rules the continent.

And my twin sister.

J.Lilith Soletaraon Soletaras.

She sat on the golden throne on the platform and looked down at me.

“What are you saying?”

“Then why didn’t you run away?”

I paused for a moment and then answered.

“I have nowhere to go.”

“You have no place to go?”

“Would the rebels accept me after enjoying all the 50,000 luxuries next to Your Majesty?”

“Aren’t there many other allied kingdoms, noble leagues, and merchant alliances, can’t you join one amongst those?”

“That’s there, but I am Your Majesty’s closest associate. So I am also in the list of number 1 in kill rankings.”

“Who decided that you are my closest associate? I don’t have any close associates.”

She said with an expression that made it hard to tell whether she was joking or was serious.

I couldn’t answer and was silent for a moment.

“Then why didn’t your Majesty run away?”

Words that shouldn’t have flown out of my mouth, came out naturally.

“That’s rude.”

As soon as I heard the emperor’s words, I trembled with my shoulders and looked around.

Because I knew very well that the blood always flows after those words were spoken.

“But the executioner I appointed has long run away, so he won’t be able to punish you. I will especially skip it for now.”

She chuckled.

“This way!”

“Gather in the throne room!”

“We must all rush in together.”

“Everyone, don’t be nervous! It’s just a woman!”

“If you don’t do anything, you’ll all die.”

The voices of a group of rebels calling themselves a revolutionary army were heard outside.

“Did you ask why I didn’t run away?”

She said, picking up the sword lying next to the throne.

At the same time, the wide front door of the throne room and the eight side doors burst open.

“let’s go!”

Hundreds of people poured in with shouts.

All of them were radiating a fierce energy from their entire bodies, as if they had just come out of hell.

The traitorous prince did a great job by gathering such talented people.

With that in mind, I held my sword tightly.

The hair on my entire body stood up from the tension.

However, the woman who sat highest in the throne room smiled like a tigress, who was facing a pack of dogs.

“Where shall I go if I abandon my home?”

She stood up and drew her sword.

The golden eyes and translucent blade became dark purple.

A force far beyond that of a human flowed from that slender body.

The man at the forefront of the rebels took a step back.

It was a man who came in with his face red with hatred and anger.

His face turned white in an instant.

“Do not be afraid. Yes, it’s only one person!”

At that time, a dozen more people came in through the wide door in front of the throne room.

The man in the lead looked at the emperor, his golden eyes flashing like mine.

“It’s been a while. J.Lilith.”

“Don’t speak loudly towards the Emperor!”

“Then. Your majesty. Now is the time to step down. Please leave the throne and the seal and surrender obediently.”

The man who ran shoulder to shoulder with the commoners was my half-brother, a traitor, and a people’s hero called the traitorous prince.

Justinian Soletaraon Soletaras.

“Good. But I have some other plans.”

J.Lilith laughed like a white devil.

“All of your companions will become food for the drakes. And you will stay by my side for the rest of your life.”

The traitorous prince smiled with a determined expression.

The emperor shook his head and came down from the throne.

“Let’s see if you can smile like that even if your legs are cut off and a leash is tied around your neck.”

A black-purple aura overflowed from her body, casting a dark shadow over her face.

The next moment, a fight began between thousands and one.

The moment the fight started, I raised my sword and rushed towards the traitorous prince.

Anyway, anyone below Sword Expert can’t do anything in this fight, so I had to cut off their heads first.

Honestly, it wasn’t that I didn’t understand him at all.

I, too, have seen all sorts of things I shouldn’t have seen next to J. Lilith.

But I cannot allow treason.

“I can’t let you pass from now on.”

I wrapped the mana blade around my sword and struck it down.

It was a blow that cut a huge cliff in half.

But the traitorous prince snuggled into my side, his black hair was flowing vigorously.

The speed was difficult for me to follow with my eyes.

The next moment, his sword burned blue.

Unlike the Mana Blade I made, there was no shaking or cracking.

It was an auror blade, not a mana blade.

This is ridiculous.

That guy rose to the rank of Sword Master.

“Get out of my way you stupid headsman. Shame on your bloodline.”

The traitorous prince struck back my sword.

A firework flashed in front of my eyes along with a popping sound.

* * *

“Ah.”

When I came to my senses, my head started hurting.

I was blown away by the blow and pinned against the wall.

It felt like only a few seconds had passed since the shouting continued.

“Ughhh.”

I staggered to my feet, shook off the stone dust, and put my missing arm back together.

Before my eyes, a battle between half-gods and half-demons was taking place, accompanied by heavy blood shedding.

It was a speed that most people couldn’t even see properly.

Among the rebels who attacked her, there was a man with his sword hanging down with a vain look on his face.

“We were going to fight something like that?”

A sword shining an ominous black purple light and a sword shining a brilliant blue light clashed with sparks flying.

“It’s time to pay for the four years of tyranny!”

When the traitorous prince kicked the ground, the floor of the throne room made of marble and crystal was cracked and gouged.

He pushed J.Lilith up to the thick pillar with his sword.

Lilith trembled after being hit hard on the back.

But there was still a leisurely smile on her lips.

“How dare you? To smile even when your death is ahead of you…”

The next moment, her movements became as natural as water.

The heel of the mana-infused shoe was lodged precisely between the joint and muscle below the traitor prince’s knee.

Justinian’s balance suddenly fell, probably from quite a bit of pain.

At the same time, she rotated her left foot around the axis and swung her sword in a circular motion.

If only one breath had been taken, it would have been a blow that would have torn the traitorous prince’s torso.

It will be suppressed easily.

With that thought in mind, I cut down the two rebels running towards me.

There were nine rebellions that bordered on civil war. Minor uprisings were an annual event.

It is amazing that they have now gathered such a large number of troops.

However, the emperor also won against three similar sword masters.

I can stop the soldiers’ tricks.

The traitorous prince Justinian dies here.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

At that moment, an ominous energy was felt in the southern sky.

It was like an execution site with rotting corpses everywhere, and it was a feeling that made you shiver just by being next to it.

“You… you.”

J.lilith must have felt that energy as well, and her face hardened.

For the first time, the smile disappeared from her lips.

“What have you done!”

The voice was so urgent that it was hard to believe it came from someone who was so arrogant and relaxed.

The traitorous prince, holding his bleeding stomach, staggered back and laughed.

“Okay. With this level of skill, you wouldn’t be able to disgrace my decisions.”

J.lilith gritted her teeth and ran out of the throne room.

I also followed her out of the throne room.

The rebel soldiers just looked at us with empty eyes, as if they already knew everything.

A warm wind blew our platinum-colored hair, like before a storm.

“Your majesty.”

I called her with a trembling voice.

“Yes…”

Her voice also trembled.

Flames and black smoke were rising from all over the splendid capital of the thousand-year empire.

Black clouds and fog rolled in like a tidal wave and covered the fire.

Between the clouds and fog, monsters that were neither dead nor alive could be seen.

“The border has been opened.”

“Yes.”

“It looks just like it was written in the old books.”

“It did.”

The traitorous prince who followed us answered monotonously.

I asked, while my teeth was shaking in anger and shock.

“Weren’t you a people’s hero?”

The traitorous prince said, while ruffling his black hair.

“Okay. But once I realized that I couldn’t win no matter what I did, it didn’t really matter.”

A dragon came down from among the black clouds.

Even if only bones and scaly skin remained, it was still large enough to cast a shadow over the entire imperial palace.

Blue flames flickered from its maw, which was large enough to swallow a whale in one bite.

As if to resist, J.lilith gritted her teeth and gathered mana.

At that moment, the traitorous prince rushed towards her.

As a sword expert, it wasn’t something I could do.

J.lilith urgently counterattacked.

Her left arm and the traitor prince’s head tumbled down the stairs.

The rattling sound came one beat late.

“… … !”

She spit out an incongruous hexagram and gathered mana again.

A translucent Auror shield wrapped her body in a spherical shape.

However, even she couldn’t perform a technique that needed to be used with both hands with one hand.

The auror shield flickered and disintegrated.

I stood in front of her, creating a mana blade on my sword.

“Your majesty.”

“Please step aside.”

I can’t help it.

This must be my grave.

She looked at me like she had seen someone crazy.

“What can you do in the face of that dragon’s fire? This is Hwang Myeong (The legendary dragon) take your luggage and run away. The end of a tyrant is always loneliness.”

“J.Lilith.”

“!”

I called her name.

It was the name that I have called for the first time in 40 years.

“I just wanted to try something like this once.”

“You… … !”

“I am your older brother.”

It’s too late to survive if I run away.

I gritted my trembling teeth and aimed my sword at the dragon.

“Brother.”

At that time, an awkward voice came from behind me.

“I just wanted to call you that once.”

You are the emperor, I am the fool.

Their faces still look like those of teenagers, but the names they call each other and the places they stand have changed so much.

The sea dragon breathed blue fire.

It was a fierce fire that my Mana Blade, which was not even an Auror Blade, could withstand even for a moment.

In an instant, my eyes turned white.

I didn’t feel any pain.

The sword in my hand still felt clear.

A distant lantern unfolded like a painting.

As a child, I ran around the lawn of the imperial palace without knowing anything.

You held someone’s hand and left somewhere.

Your name was heard like a legend in the stories of adults.

You sit on a golden throne, holding a bloody sword.

You carried out brutal purges and sadistic rule as if you had become a different person.

I can’t leave your side and I can’t properly remain beside you.

I wandered around for a while.

I was ruined by alcohol, women, and gambling.

A harmless bastard in power, he became a member of the royal family and survived numerous purges.

I finally regained my senses and began rehabilitation.

It was too late to learn swordsmanship properly and become a sword master, or to learn magic properly and become an archmage.

I shouldn’t have lived like that.

I should have lived like a royal, not an idiot.

Then maybe we could have stopped this fire today.

I felt like my whole body was heating up like iron on an anvil.

If given another chance.

I’ll make everything work properly then.

I will protect you and this empire.

I could definitely say it. It was the most powerful wish I have ever had in my life.

At that moment, I felt all the mana remaining in my heart flowing out at once.

It felt like blood was flowing backwards throughout my body.

Is the mana dissipating?

Then I am really dying now.

I lost consciousness with the feeling that everything was falling apart.

* * *

“…Sir.”

A faint voice called a familiar name.

“Mr. Val?”

Val. It was a nickname I was called that when I was young.

“Valen. wake up.”

Isn’t it over yet?

It’s longer than expected.

“His Highness, Archduke Valencian Soletaraon Soletaras. Get up!”

There was the sound of a curtain being pulled and a window opening. The dazzling sunlight and cool breeze poured down on me.

It’s too vivid for a light bulb.

But it’s not bad.

I opened my eyes thinking that.

A bed with red curtains and a gorgeous chandelier caught my eye.

“Are you awake now? I guess you were tired yesterday. You usually wake up before I even call your name.”

A maid with green eyes sparkling like emeralds and neatly tied up soft, wavy brown hair spoke to me.

It looked so similar to someone I knew that I almost screamed.

“That can’t be possible.”

“Yes?”

“You are dead.”

“What are you saying all of a sudden?”

“Rudy is already dead.”

After you die, will you continue to recall memories from when you were alive?

Then it is a very miserable afterlife.

“What are you saying all of a sudden? Did you have a nightmare? Why am I dying? I’m here next to His Highness the Archduke.”

“No way. How can you be alive? How many years has it been now?”

It’s not a magic light or an afterlife?

So does that mean I’m alive too?

It means I have survived, how on earth did I survive that fire?

It’s the sea dragon’s flames that even J.lilith couldn’t stop.

“The year is 1073rd year of the imperial calendar. It is the spring of the first year since Her Majesty J.lilith ascended the throne.”

“So I’m seventeen now?”

“Yes. of course.”

Rudy looked at me as if I was asking something stupid.

I hurriedly got up and stood in front of the mirror.

A white-haired, golden-eyed boy who still had a youthful streak was making a surprised expression in the mirror.