Chapter 31: The Cruel Execution of the Slow Slicing
In Prime Minister Honest's opinion, in this entire empire, the only person who could fight against Great General Budo was Esdeath.
Esdeath was his best helper.
Fortunately, General Esdeath was currently not in the imperial capital, so she had not been brainwashed by that mysterious fake person.
As long as he left the imperial capital and found General Esdeath, there would be a chance to turn the situation around.
However, the journey from the imperial capital to the frontline of the army was very far. Currently, he was heavily injured and had difficulty moving. The only person he could rely on was Ogre.
Therefore, he had to pacify Ogre, give Ogre empty promises, and must not let Ogre know that he had lost his identity as the Prime Minister.
Just when Honest was thinking about how to use Ogre to go to the frontline, a loud commotion suddenly echoed from outside.
Ogre instantly became furious. Right now was his chance to curry favor with Prime Minister Honest.
To think there was still someone who dared to come and cause trouble in his territory.
This was completely disrespectful to him.
Ogre instantly decided to capture the group of people causing the trouble, torture them cruelly, and show his actions to Prime Minister Honest.
Bam.
However, before Ogre could stand up and walk outside to capture the group of people causing the trouble, the door to the security squad's room was kicked open by someone.
A group of soldiers rushed inside like wolves and tigers.
Seeing this group of soldiers breaking in, Ogre was stunned for a moment because he discovered that these soldiers had eyes like wolves, and their gazes when looking at him carried an unprecedented greed.
This gave Ogre a bad feeling.
"You... who exactly are you guys? Why did you break in? Do you know what kind of place this actually is?"
Ogre stood up straight and interrogated these ordinary soldiers valiantly.
However, the soldiers did not answer this question. Instead, they swarmed forward and directly captured Ogre.
It wasn't that Ogre didn't think about resisting, but the problem was that he was all alone, and he was not an Imperial Arms user either, while his opponents were over a dozen soldiers experienced in battle. The moment Ogre resisted, he was immediately beaten down to the ground by the soldiers.
Even his menacing face was punched several times until it was swollen and bruised.
"What exactly do you want to do?!!!"
Ogre lost control of his emotions. It should be noted that this place was the headquarters of the Imperial Capital Security Squad. For a group of soldiers to dare rush into the security squad headquarters to capture him, this was truly incredibly bold.
Did they not know that with a single order of his, he could call a group of his subordinates?
However, the soldier leading them instead smiled coldly, "Ogre, right? I advise you to surrender obediently and don't make useless resistance."
"The Prime Minister has passed down an order to cut your body into pieces and execute you with the cruel method of slow slicing. Your subordinates couldn't possibly offend the Prime Minister for your sake."
"The Prime Minister? What Prime Minister? Which Prime Minister?" Ogre couldn't help but ask.
"Of course, Prime Minister Honest."
Hearing this name, Ogre went dazed. He couldn't help but look toward Prime Minister Honest, who was lying on the bed.
He served Prime Minister Honest with full loyalty, but the result was that Prime Minister Honest turned around and wanted to finish him off?
What kind of logic was this?
Wrong!
In the next second, Ogre suddenly realized something. After Prime Minister Honest was thrown out by someone yesterday, he brought the Prime Minister back and took good care of him.
Throughout this entire process, besides himself, no one else had ever come.
He also wouldn't let anyone else interfere, and moreover wouldn't let anyone else help.
The entire process was done by himself; his goal was to increase Prime Minister Honest's good impression of him.
After all, ever since Prime Minister Honest woke up, he had always been by the other party's side without going away.
Prime Minister Honest besides himself had absolutely never met anyone else. How could he possibly kill him?
Even if the other party really wanted to kill him, that order wouldn't be able to be delivered outside.
"Wrong! You guys are wrong! You must have misunderstood!"
Ogre couldn't help but shout loudly, "Prime Minister Honest is right here! How could he kill me? He couldn't possibly kill me!"
Hearing Ogre's shouts, the soldiers couldn't help but look toward the real Prime Minister lying on the bed.
But the problem was, for them who were ordinary soldiers and also soldiers from the lowest layer, how could they have ever seen Prime Minister Honest? They didn't even know what the Prime Minister looked like.
Moreover, that fat man lying on the bed was in a dying condition. No matter which angle he was looked at from, he did not look like the majestic Prime Minister Honest.
In addition, the order to kill Ogre was delivered directly from the imperial palace.
How could Prime Minister Honest appear in a place like this?
The soldiers couldn't help but burst into loud laughter, thinking that Ogre had truly gone mad, to the point of looking for any random person and saying that person was Prime Minister Honest. Truly a madman.
"Take him away, take him away, take this madman away from my sight."
The soldiers no longer believed Ogre's words. Instead, they captured him and took him away from the Imperial Capital Security Squad headquarters.
Throughout the process, not a single person dared to block them.
Ogre looked toward Prime Minister Honest, who was lying on the bed, in despair. He couldn't help but shout loudly, "Prime Minister, save me! Prime Minister, quickly save me!"
However, Prime Minister Honest did not say a single word because he understood very well that this group of soldiers did not recognize him at all.
If he dared to say that he was Prime Minister Honest, he would definitely be captured by this group of lower-layer soldiers and tortured cruelly just to curry favor with that fake Prime Minister.
Right now he was heavily injured. If he was tortured like that again, he might really die.
Therefore, he would not speak. Instead, he watched with his own eyes as that group of soldiers took Ogre away. He ignored and didn't care about Ogre's pleas for help.
Not long after, Ogre died.
He was dragged by the soldiers to the square, and in front of the crowd of people, he was executed with the cruel method of slow slicing.
The crowd of people witnessing this scene all clapped their hands and cheered happily.
For the ordinary citizens around, the figure of Prime Minister Honest was too far away from them.
Therefore, the evils committed by Prime Minister Honest were basically not felt directly by them.
However, Ogre was different. He was the Captain of the Imperial Capital Security Squad, the party that interacted most frequently on a daily basis with this group of ordinary people. He always acted tyrannically by relying on his position.
On ordinary days, he often troubled this group of ordinary people, and who knew how many people were made bankrupt and lost their families by this person.
Now that Ogre was executed with the cruel method of slow slicing, everyone cheered happily.
No one noticed that inside the crowd of people, an assassin from Night Raid had actually slipped in.
Leone, who saw this scene, suddenly felt it was strange.
She knew Ogre, but she didn't understand why the imperial capital security squad captain, who usually acted tyrannically, could be captured by a group of soldiers and executed with cruel slow slicing.
What had this Ogre done to actually fall into an end like this?
Driven by curiosity, she sought information from the people around, then discovered a strange thing.
The person who issued the order to execute Ogre turned out to be Prime Minister Honest, who committed all kinds of evil.
This thing...
A person like Ogre actually had the courage to offend Prime Minister Honest?
True or false?
Therefore, she took advantage of a moment when one of the members of the Imperial Capital Security Squad was alone, then kidnapped him and interrogated him cruelly.
Through this interrogation, Leone discovered an absurd thing.
Yesterday, precisely yesterday, Ogre actually led the members of the Imperial Capital Security Squad to surround Prime Minister Honest's residence.
And the even more absurd thing was that the person who issued this order was no one else.
But Prime Minister Honest himself.
Not long after that, Prime Minister Honest also brought the empire's Great General Budo back to his residence.
Then after a few moments passed, Prime Minister Honest was thrown out from his own residence in a condition full of injuries all over his body.
Finally, he was brought back to the Imperial Capital Security Squad headquarters by Ogre.
The result on this day, from inside the palace suddenly came a piece of news that Prime Minister Honest personally issued an order to capture Ogre and execute him with the cruel method of slow slicing.
To be honest, when obtaining this information, Leone felt as if her head became dizzy from thinking hard.
What did it mean that Prime Minister Honest ordered people to surround his own residence, and what did it mean that Prime Minister Honest full of injuries was thrown out from his own residence?
The even more absurd thing was that Honest was clearly at the Imperial Capital Security Squad headquarters. Why could the imperial palace deliver an order from Prime Minister Honest to execute Ogre?
What exactly was the meaning of all this?
It didn't make sense. This was truly too absurd. She had never heard of an absurd problem like this.
Her intuition told Leone that inside this matter there must be a secret, so she immediately ran back to her secret headquarters to meet her direct superior, Najenda, as well as a few of her friends.
Then she informed her superior and friends of this news.
Najenda, after finishing hearing this news, immediately sank into thought.
"This matter you spoke of is indeed a bit hard to believe, and contradicts between the beginning and the end. However, if we change the perspective of thinking, maybe all of this can be explained."
Leone asked with curiosity, "What kind of thinking?"
"What if two Prime Ministers appeared in this world?" Najenda said.
Leone smiled and shook her head, "How could that be? How could there be two Prime Ministers in this world?"
However, right at this moment, Akame couldn't help but say: "What the BOSS means is, of these two Prime Ministers, one of them is fake."
Lubbock's eyes instantly lit up. He clapped his hands and said: "I get it! There is a fake Prime Minister occupying the Prime Minister's residence. Then after the real Prime Minister found out about this, he ordered Ogre to surround his own residence, then brought Great General Budo back to capture this fake Prime Minister, beat him up, and threw him out of his residence."
"Ogre thought this fake Prime Minister was the real Prime Minister. In order to get close to the Prime Minister, he brought this fake Prime Minister back to the Imperial Capital Security Squad headquarters to be cared for."
"Then this matter was found out by the real Prime Minister, so the Prime Minister issued an order to capture Ogre and execute him with the cruel method of slow slicing."
Leone, after hearing these words, suddenly understood, "So that's how it is. This thing becomes logical. But speaking back about it, to think there is still someone who dares to disguise themselves as the Prime Minister. Who is this person? Why is he so bold?"
Najenda said: "Among the forty-eight units of Imperial Arms, there is one Imperial Arms unit named Phantasmagoria: Gaea Foundation. The person holding this Imperial Arms can change into another person at will, and can even also change into an animal."
Bulat said: "You mean someone used this Imperial Arms to disguise themselves as the Prime Minister, and the result was exposed by the real Prime Minister? Then got beaten up cruelly and thrown out?"
Najenda shook her head and said: "Based on your understanding of the Prime Minister, if the Prime Minister found out someone was disguising themselves as him, what do you think he would do?"
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