Noble Reincarnation: Born Blessed, So I'll Obtain Ultimate Power (貴族転生 ～恵まれた生まれから最強の力を得る～)

I bring you a tip.

The crown prince, Second Prince Albert,

plans to lead a coup tonight...

and force His Majesty to abdicate the throne.

Born Blessed, So I'll Obtain Ultimate Power

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Episode 12

Nobility

Albert?

No, wait a minute.

You said your name was Olivia?

How do you know this?

I am the daughter of Coil, a member of former First Prince Gilbert's household.

Coil, his butler?

You were born into the household?

Yes.

Born into a household...

That refers to a child born between two servants of a prince's house.

Since that's the environment they grow up in,

it's easy for them to swear absolute loyalty to that prince.

I know all about how you managed

to spare the First Prince's life.

And yet, that man...

I see. At the time, my father was probably...

So I swore revenge and approached him...

with this body my parents gave me.

And then I heard it.

Before the official proclamation of his disinheritance,

while he was still the crown prince,

he would mobilize soldiers and take control of the palace.

What does Albert intend to do to His Majesty?

Force him to abdicate and become an emperor emeritus, he said.

I beg of you!

My body, my very life...

They are yours to use as you see fit!

Just, please... stop Crown Prince Albert!

Please...

All right.

What did you do at Gilbert's house?

I-I was an apprentice butler under my father.

Then you'll do that here, too.

You'll be paid the same as you were there.

From tomorrow on, you don't need to do anything special.

Why... would you treat me so well?

When you lost your master, you tried to avenge him.

I merely acknowledged your loyalty

in serving your master to the end, even after his death.

How remarkable you are...

I humbly offer myself in your service!

Dark

Master?

I'm going out for a bit.

A-All right! Um... A carriage, then?

No. I'll go alone.

Huh?

B-But it's so late...

Gigi.

We shall await your return, Master.

Right.

Please be safe.

If Albert intends to use his right of command,

there's only one force he could lead.

It's stationed at the Ministry of Military Affairs.

A thousand men.

Since they're permanently stationed,

they've been trained to obey the orders

of the superior officer in command without a second thought.

Hear me!

Are you familiar with the saying, "Even water can rot"?

Water that forgets to flow and stays in one place too long

eventually stagnates and becomes a home for all manner of vermin.

The same can be said of a nation!

His Majesty has forgotten to flow for far too long,

and now, vermin swarm around him in the form of disloyal, treacherous retainers,

trying to rot this country from the inside!

Justice sides with me!

I will return the empire you love to the hands in which it was meant to be!

Please hold, Brother!

Ah, Noah. What brings you here at this hour?

Please refrain from doing anything senseless!

There is still time!

Who told you?

That doesn't matter!

Brother, if you take this step, you will bring about your own ruin!

What of it?!

I refuse to die while sitting around doing nothing!

Die?

You haven't read His Majesty's edict regarding your disinheritance?

You don't know the agony His Majesty felt writing that?!

No matter what you may have done, he did not disclose it publicly.

His Majesty wants you to live!

He agonized over a way to allow you to keep your life!

So I should be content with just being a prince?!

Thirty-five years...

I waited thirty-five years!

I believed that I would sit on that throne one day...

that I would rule this empire!

And this is what I get?!

His Majesty seems to value his own life above all in his old age.

If he insists on clinging pathetically to the throne,

I will oust him with military might, as is befitting of a military nation.

Content with just being a prince?

From the perspective of the common folk,

as well as my own, the status of prince is most noble.

They do what they think is best,

and have the power to act in the interests of the people.

A prince is born blessed.

But since Albert was once the crown prince,

being reduced to that status must be akin to death.

This vast difference in values must mean...

You insist on trying to stop me?

Yes.

I see.

Well, that's the kind of younger brother you are.

Apprehend Noah!

He's a traitor!

A thousand of them.

They still follow orders faithfully, even if ordered to attack a prince.

They are indeed well-trained.

All the more reason I can't involve them in this!

Come!

Master.

Summon the power you desire by its true name.

The power... I desire...

Go, Luthier!

No...

Bahamut!

Flowing water allows no contamination.

A breath of wind becomes the eyes and ears that know all.

The earth is the foundation to support the feet that move forward.

And flame...

manifests here as the power to burn all to ash!

Wh-What is that?!

That's enough.

Don't kill any soldiers.

It's over, Brother.

You'll kill me? You? You?!

No. I will not take your life.

His Majesty would most certainly be sad if one of his sons killed another.

So...

Poison?!

Precisely.

I will not kill you myself,

but I will not stop you from killing yourself.

Be serious! Who do you think you are?!

Have you considered?

If I kill you, then you and all your family and subordinates

will be executed as traitors.

But if you kill yourself now,

the story will be that you led a force to attempt mutiny,

but stopped at the last moment and killed yourself instead.