The Villainous Tyrant Has Returned

But it was different now.

Just like in his first life, in that very labyrinth garden.

My empress. I met Olive, the daughter of the Marquis de Chartres.

After meeting the woman he desperately wanted and waited for, her gray world began to shine brightly as he found his true colors.

Because of her, Ludwig once again realized the sweetness of this world.

‘I want to see that face one more time.’

Ludwig clenched his fists and looked out his window.

In his previous life, he would have gone to her house and grabbed her weak points and shaken her. He would have created a reason to force them to meet.

But I couldn’t do that anymore. No, this life will not be lived like that.

‘I have to approach Olive as a person, just as she wanted.’

To meet Olive in a normal, ordinary way, i first needed a reasonable amount of money and power.

She is the beloved daughter of the Charlettre family, known as the intellectuals of the empire.

Now that he is in semi-imprisonment, he has to strengthen his position. He wants to be someone who isn’t ashamed to Olive.

‘It will take at least five years to get my footing.’

It was very disappointing that i ended up reverting back to my 12-year-old body. There was very little that could be done right now.

Ludwig leaned back on the desk and tapped the desk with his fingers.

His red eyes looked into the distance. The corners of Ludwig’s mouth turned up crookedly as he thought deeply for a while.

Jingling – Ludwig rang the bell.

The chamberlain, with his graying hair, opened the creaking brown door and entered Ludwig’s room. The walk was somewhat frivolous.

“A person who rarely calls me, why did you call me this late at night?”

The head chamberlain of Garnet Palace sarcastically didn’t hide his feelings. His words and actions had long since lost courtesy towards the prince.

Ludwig slowly caught his breath and let go of his anger.

“Finn Duke. Your came from the Kingdom of Setene to the Empire and was given the title of Viscount. you got married at 19 and had two sons.”

Duke narrowed his eyes at the prince who was reciting his personal details.

He felt a sense of foreignness. He was different.

I couldn’t explain it in words. However, he didn’t seem like the paper doll he was yesterday.

“You have suspicions and have been abusing your wife for quite some time. Then, when your wife came to visit here last winter and asked you to divorce her, you got so angry that you strangled her to death. The body was dumped behind the stables, in a closed underground water pipe. Am I right?”

A 12-year-old boy who looked like a porcelain doll calmly told Chamberlain Finn duke secret as if reading a storybook.

Duke Finn’s face suddenly became contemplative.

“W-what are you talking about, prince!”

Finn Duke’s hands were shaking. There were many emotions in his eyes, including fear, embarrassment, fear, and anger.

Finn asked this.

‘What would happen if I twisted the young prince’s neck too?’

If he kills that prince, who is a witness, his crime will be complete.

‘The prince is in semi-confinement. Even if I kill the prince, the emperor will still be indifferent!’

Finn, who strengthened his will, slowly looked up at the prince, his eyes flashing like a hunter.

And that thought quickly disappeared.

The strange aura the prince was giving off sent shivers down his spine. Like the well-forged blade the prince is currently holding.

His instincts were telling him that if he moved too hastily, he wouldn’t be able to recover his bones. Can a person change that much without being possessed by a ghost?

Despair filled Finn’s eyes, which had been filled with many emotions.

‘Hmm, that’s pretty interesting.’

Ludwig smiled brightly. He liked the looks that humans made.

“I saw it all that day, Finn. I kind of like that, right?”

“P, prince?!”

Finn knew that Ludwig usually bullied small animals.

But at the murder scene, a child was observing everything with curious eyes. At that time, the prince was only 11 years old.

“It was pretty fun. Most of them were washed away in the sewage, but did you know that the left arm is still there? The arm with the wedding ring you gave her.”

“No, that can’t be possible!”

Finn denied it as much as he could. I wanted to run away right away, but I couldn’t.

That tone of voice, as if he was occasionally checking the corpse, became like a heavy piece of iron and pressed down on Finn’s limbs.

“I’m disappointed, Finn. You’re a murderer and you’re showing such disdain for a child like me.”

Ludwig lowered his eyebrows with a truly regretful expression. If you look at the expression, it is the face of a boy who lost his dog.

Finn got goosebumps and his shoulders shook, as if cold water had been poured all over his body. He said that wasn’t a person, but a devil.

“I brought this up. I want to make some deals.”

with you.

Ludwig pointed to Finn with a nod and slowly approached him, getting to the point. Ludwig’s neat shoes kicked up Finn’s shins.

“Ah!”

Finn dropped to his knees on the floor and smoothed out his swollen legs. Finn was overcome with emotion, but he couldy stand up to the young prince.

‘He’s just a child!’

His chin trembled mercilessly. It was just a feeling. What was in front of me wasn’t a child, but a lion with its mouth wide open.

“Ah, Finn. Did it hurt?”

Ludwig held the tip of Finn’s chin with his hand.

“It’s only when we are at eye level like this that I feel like talking. If your master is only 12 years old, shouldn’t you be able to bend your knee to be at eye level with him?”

“My Sin,…I send my condolences, Prince.”

“Okay. Make sure to keep this in mind when you come to me in the future, Finn.”

Ludwig’s eyes folded nicely and he smiled beautifully. There was no warmth in his doll-like face.

Finn couldn’t come out of Ludwig’s room for a while.

Just as the sun above him hung on the horizon and glowed as red as the owner’s eyes, the hinges of the old wooden door creaked open.

‘The prince must be crazy!’

Finn ran away from Ludwig’s room, limping on both legs and turning blue.

3 months later.

Garnet Palace has changed beyond recognition. Some of the existing attendants went missing, and others were so frightened that they submitted their resignations.

The new servants were loyal to Ludwig, and the palace support money didn’t leak to other places.

Ludwig recovered more than half of the support money that had been stolen by his servants during the nearly 12 years he lived at Garnet Palace.

The amount was large enough to purchase several fiefdoms.

Ludwig created an underground bank based on that money. It was a type of private loan business.

He lent money to nobles and pledged their lands and titles. Aristocrats who were on the defensive despite high interest rates turned to underground banks.

The money increased quickly.

Ludwig, who was born with an extraordinary intellect, but was particularly outstanding in the field of medicinal herbs and medicine, began cultivating various medicinal herbs on the territory he entered under his name.

Among the herbs were some hallucinogenic poisonous herbs and some ingredients for elixirs, but there was no one watching the huge herb garden owned by the prince.

Ludwig manufactured various drugs in large quantities using recipes he had developed.

Drugs that were effective against a variety of diseases quickly circulated among lawmakers, and they became a major contributor to Ludwig’s coffers for the next five years.

By the time Ludwig was 17, the wealth under his borrowed name had grown to the point where it was included in the five fingers of the empire.

Ludwig completely liquidated his business, which could be considered ‘illegal’, and used the money to buy expensive art and jewelry and open an art gallery.

Finn, who was young Ludwig’s agent, was puzzled by Ludwig’s decision to close down his business and advised him.

“Prince, this is a business that can grow even bigger. It would be a very foolish decision to fold now. Elixirs in particular are doing extremely well!”

“What are you doing with such a straight face, Finn? It’s not even yours. Did you become greedy while managing it?”

Ludwig’s red lips smiled brightly.

Finn had been stealing potions and steadily filling up his storehouse, and he knew that he was also addicted to the potions.

The rumor that Finn was using it to enjoy wild parties was bound to reach the ears of Ludwig, who was clutching the dark alleys of the basement, but Finn wasn’t a person who could calculate that far.

“Human greed is truly endless, Finn.”

Ludwig, a boy who wasn’t yet an adult, approached Finn with the face of an adult who had seen all the dirty things in the world. He raised his finger and tapped Finn’s throne.

“That’s enough money. Now I have to show off my upright self, so I’ll summarize everything I said. Right Now.”

“No, where on earth do you have to look good to anyone and everyone…”

Finn, who was kneeling in front of Ludwig, was unable to continue his conversation. This is because Ludwig’s eyes were very cruel.

“Didn’t you hear me, Finn? I told you to sort it out right away.”

The prince, who had an elegant face like a doll, was colder and sharper on the inside than anyone else.

He was no match for the prince, who had steadily trained his body and mastered various martial arts techniques.

‘Someday that prince will kill me.’

At the moment when he decided that if he wanted to survive, he had to put a knife in its back and run away before the beast grew bigger, the prince opened his mouth.

“You’ll be busy with a lot to organize, so get moving, Finn.”

Ludwig removed his dark expression and looked down at Finn again with a friendly smile.

Finn, startled, lowered his head to the floor and left Ludwig’s office as if being chased by something.

Ludwig, looking at the back, muttered softly.

“I’ll have to sort that out.”

The Marquis de Chartres was busy from the morning.

The employees were decorating the mansion’s banquet hall to the fullest for the birthday banquet of Planus, the eldest son of the Chartres family.

Olive, somewhat excited by the busy atmosphere, went to the study where Planus was located.

“Happy birthday, brother!”

At the sight of his sister entering his study with a big smile on her face, Planus put down the book he was reading and spread his arms.

Olive ran up to him and fell into his arms. Planus laughed out loud, haha.

… No, he tried to laugh, but he coughed. This is because the olive touched his throat.

“Cough……!”

“Oppa, do you have a cold?”

“Ehem…No, olive. I just heard something bad.”