Book 2: Chapter 5
Grinahae Antgadull viewed his position as an Imperial marquis serving the Earthworld Empire as completely involuntary.
My father was pathetic… He played up his role as the wise man, forgetting his pride as a king and giving up his own throne!
Grinahae was a direct descendent of the royal family, destined to be king. And yet, his predecessor—the former king of Antgadull—had offered vassalage to the Empire and consigned his line to the humiliating rank of marquis.
And what has that brought us? The Empire stole half our land. The allied nations see us as traitors. The Imperial nobility snub us as newcomers. This is a titular role with no say in Imperial politics.
These were the seeds his father had sown. And Grinahae was left cleaning up this absurd mess—Grinahae, the person who should by all rights have been in line to be the next King of Antgadull.
If he’d stayed in the alliance and crushed the Empire, Antgadull would have made even greater strides under my rule.
This was Grinahae’s ongoing pet theory.
—But children tend not to understand their parent’s intentions.
King Antgadull had seen through the fact that his child lacked the wisdom required of a ruler. And that with the fall of the Empire, the Eastern continent would fall into an era of rivaling warlords, and Antgadull would inevitably end with his son’s reign.