Infinite Dendrogram: Volume 13 by Sakon Kaidou

Author:Sakon Kaidou [KAIDOU, SAKON]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2020-12-08T00:00:00+00:00

“No.”

“I’ll refrain.” The ones who’d replied were King of Beasts, Behemot, and Leviathan. As befitted hired bodyguards, they were watching over Claudiah even as she was bathing.

“It is rather uncomfortable being the only naked one here,” she said.

“Why are you bathing in the first place?” Leviathan asked.

“Eh? Because we have the peace talks tomorrow. If I am to meet Altimia, I must clean myself, no?”

“...I’m not sure if a bath with corpses is fit for that purpose.” Leviathan’s gaze traveled to one corner of the bath.

In that corner, a human-shaped stain was still visible — likely left behind by a person who’d died and decayed there long enough to leave a mark before becoming an undead and walking off.

It was a sign of death that couldn’t be easily washed away.

However, Claudiah didn’t seem to mind. She bathed happily, as if the stain didn’t bother her at all.

“What of it?” she asked. “I’ve had corpses fall directly on me before. This is nothing.”

She tilted her head and moved her fingers around.

Behemot and Leviathan both noticed that she was making the same kinds of motions that she did while wielding a spear.

“Even during last year’s civil war, I had blood and guts on me so many times that I lost count.” Claudiah played with her pinned-up hair as she sighed, thinking back on the past.

She was referring to the imperator accession civil war — an event that had happened because of two specific people.

The first instigator was the previous imperator, Xanafald Wolfgang Dryfe.

He was over eighty years old before the war started, but he had yet to cede his throne to his crown prince.

In fact, he hadn’t even decided who the crown prince was.

At the time, there were two princes worthy of the throne — the first prince, born to a concubine, and the second prince, born to the imperator’s legal wife

The imperator hadn’t yet declared which prince would take the throne after him. In fact, he actively had them fight for it, implying that the one who survived would be named crown prince.

However, no matter how fiercely they feuded, neither of them killed the other. The first to perish ended up being the third prince and his wife, who weren’t even involved in the conflict

Xanafald’s life finally ended before he named a crown prince.

He had written down all of his thoughts in his will, but they seemed to be pure madness

“Fight over the right to the throne. The one who stands at the top will be the next imperator.”

Through this will, his implication had become a statement.

Basically, he’d ordered his family to fight each other. It was unclear whether he was sane when he wrote those words, or if age had taken away his reason. Those who knew Xanafald before his health started to decline, though, would claim that he could have easily written those words while of sound mind

Every single person in the imperial family who had any claim to the throne gathered for a meeting at Dryfe Imperstand in the heart of Vandelheim, and there they were all presented with his will.

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