dognovel Chapter 375 Yeka's Request
Chapter 375 Yeka's Request
"I have a question: Why did you choose this path when you took over all of this?"
Yeka looked at Alice, Alice, Alice, her petite body and flawless face. Putting all that aside, as a girl, after that war of unification, she had already become a great symbol of the demon nation. Like many people in history, she would become the most authoritative king, the most unquestionable emperor.
But she—Alice, the Alice who ushered in the "Age of Common People," the Alice who initiated the "Revolution of the Common People"—chose the path she has taken today. She stripped herself of power and prestige, forging a social system based on a recognized political process—after which came today's proletarian social revolution—she returned, returning the means of production and wealth to the most ordinary people. She chose the most idealistic path.
Every choice Alice made brought unimaginable bloodshed to that land. Some were killed, some were imprisoned, and some died, but many more survived. The survivors cheered, they sang praises of Alice, they lived better lives, and they defended what they had gained.
In the last choice, the Crimson Empire became the Amerlan West Federal Republic. Those kings, princes, ministers, princesses, nobles, gentry, and landowners who were once taken for granted, these once noble figures, the "embodiments of virtue and greatness," turned into dust in the Republic era. New industrial power and human miracles forged by natural science crushed the faith in God to dust.
She could have become a goddess, she could have been high above, like Catherine, with no one able to question her. Catherine admired strong people, and before she achieved what she had today, she hoped Alice would become queen, and she hoped to be Alice's most loyal subject; she had always planned to do so.
Alice became "President," which she didn't understand at first. But soon, she went through the laws and realized that although Alice still had power and prestige, "President" was different from "Emperor." Her position and power could be replaced, and her will could be vetoed. She couldn't understand why such an arrogant person, someone so noble in her eyes, would do something so self-destructive. People were ready to welcome a great emperor.
Yeka looked at Alice again—she asked, “I dreamed of becoming your most loyal subject. Miss Raffis and Miss Vera by your side are actually people I once dreamed of becoming. I dreamed of bringing this world to you.”
Alice was taken aback—she suddenly felt a heavy emotion pouring over her. She had never imagined this would happen, but it wasn't the first time a king had confided his feelings to her.
"In fact, it was all Alice's doing that made an insignificant second daughter of a family become Her Majesty Yekater today. I once studied everything you published day and night, and I tried to create coincidences so that we could meet, but alas, alas, time always moves forward and ruthlessly abandons those who are not prepared."
"So I want to become... worthy of you. So I followed your example, trained an army, purchased weapons, introduced industry, and killed those families who once wanted to use a second daughter as a commodity to exchange for cooperation with another family. So I consolidated industry and launched an offensive. The Far East has not yet learned advanced tactics, but I will never forget everything I have learned day and night."
But I don't understand, why?
"why?"
Alice shook her head, making Yeka dizzy with desire. She seemed to shout and lunge at Alice, but she was careful. She wanted to prolong this brief moment and make sure it wouldn't end because of her.
"Yes... Why? Some people say we're dreaming, others say we're just all talk."
Alice let out a long sigh as she looked around Yeka's room—the marble reliefs were exquisite, the gilded ceiling was covered with paintings by famous artists, the room used the latest magical heating technology, and the tea was delivered from the distant frontier. For a monarch, all of this was perfectly normal.
If Alice had grown up in an upper-class aristocratic family, she would naturally have thought all of this was normal.
But Alice became "Alice" because she was not born "Alice".
"Perhaps it's because we weren't born to do this."
Before Alice was Alice, or even Fidel, he was just one of the millions of students. He was once known as the "small-town test-taker," just one of the millions of ordinary students facing countless questions on paper. He was just a different name on the internet, and an unremarkable young man who satirized glamorous social celebrities.
He had seen countless ordinary people struggling to make a living, only to be ridiculed for not being as well-off as others. He had seen middle-aged fathers laid off from their companies, and people forced to lose their jobs due to accidents. He had seen countless young people, middle-aged people, and countless ordinary people struggling.
That's why she can't empathize with those who are born to step on others. She's still young, young enough that her passion hasn't cooled, and passionate enough to still speak out against injustice.
She couldn't accept that in this world where she had power, she was still witnessing such tragedies, still witnessing a hypocritical, distorted, and corrupt society. She couldn't accept all of this, just like her former self—the self who was still a man—she wanted to do something.
For the person I once was, who gritted their teeth in the face of injustice.
Alice told Yekater, “Because we have seen, seen the disasters brought about by all the hypocrisy, rotten and twisted lives, seen those who have left their homes and lost their loved ones, those ordinary people, those struggling mortals, and seen those faces, those foul, twisted, and arrogant faces. If one day our blood no longer burns with anger for this, then that will be the day we die.”
Yeka was stunned for a long time. Her views were different, but she could feel Alice's determination—she suddenly froze—she seemed to know why she was so fascinated by little Alice.
"Is that so... Several vampire relics have been excavated within the Empire. These are top secret within the Empire and are generally unknown to the public. But I do know that vampires are generally not 'born' but rather transformed. Is Alice the same?"
"I was once a hero of the church, nothing more."
Yeka nodded, recalling that the first major thing Alice did after establishing Amelia was to completely destroy the church.
Alice and I were the same kind of people after all! Yeka laughed loudly. If Alice was her ideal woman before, now there was no one or anything more important in her eyes.
She suddenly understood Alice a little. Like herself, Alice was an indomitable person. However, what Alice was indomitable against was not a few specific enemies, but the norms of human society over the past thousand years, those hierarchies, those beliefs. She fought against them all and destroyed them, leaving only the "new world" she dreamed of!
Yeka was eager to see what kind of world Alice would eventually build. Even though Yeka was the ruler of a country, she had already achieved her goal. She only felt truly alive three times in her life: when she met Alice, when she killed her enemies, and now.
The snowstorm in the empire was still too cold, even for its monarch.
“Then, as the emperor of the empire, I… have a request.”