My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

"As long as I can keep my throne, I will agree to whatever Osenti's conditions are. If that doesn't work, you can ask him to arrange a neutral location so I can talk to him in person, okay?"

"And Elsa, except for the throne, I can give Elsa everything, including the territory, the army, the gold coins, and even the inheritance rights of my descendants. I can also give them to Elsa's line."

Arthas's tone almost became one of pleading. Rosaline felt distressed, but she also realized Arthas's current situation.

He has always been like that, obsessed with power, so when he is about to lose those things, Arthas becomes very scared.

When he is extremely frightened, he will do many unexpected things.

Rosalin looked at Arthas' panicked eyes and finally nodded painfully.

"I understand, Your Majesty. I will help you talk to Orson. If the conditions are acceptable, I will come back to report."

"Well, if the conditions are acceptable, there's no problem with you just agreeing to them!"

Hearing this, Rosalin stood up, straightened her clothes, and walked to the door.

"His Majesty."

At this moment, Rosalin suddenly turned around.

"What are you going to do if Orson doesn't accept it?"

"..." Arthas was silent. He glanced at Rosaline and then shook his head.

"If he really doesn't accept it, I can only..." As he said this, he smiled bitterly and glanced at the beams, as if he had found his position.

Seeing this, Rosalin also showed a bitter smile.

"If that day ever comes, I will never betray His Majesty and live alone."

Hearing Rosalin's words, Arthas felt warm in his heart. He came to Rosalin and hugged her tightly. After a long time, the two separated again.

"I know there may be many reasons why you like me, but now, I want to believe that it is the purest and most pure love."

Rosalyn returned the kiss.

Perhaps, this will be the last kiss between the two.

……

At the Imperial Academy, Orson had handled most of the matter these days. After alleviating public opinion, calculating the compensation, and assuring the students that the Palace Magician Corps would be withdrawn from the Imperial Academy, the students' indignation gradually subsided.

And at this moment, the door of the student union office was knocked by another person.

"Please come in."

Orson was sitting in the chairman's seat and said this when he heard a knock on the door.

Then the door opened and Rosalyn appeared in front of Orson.

At this moment, Rosalin had taken off her gorgeous dress and changed into the uniform of the Imperial Academy.

Even so, after Orson recognized that the person coming was Rosaline, he couldn't help but tease:

"Isn't this our Queen? I wonder what brings you to my humble abode?"

Rosalin ignored Orson's teasing and sat on the sofa arranged for guests. Then she slowly said:

"Orson, stop it, that's it."

"I really don't understand what Her Majesty the Queen said."

Orson began to act dumb.

"We are willing to apologize for wrongly accusing you and framing you before, and Arthas himself is willing to apologize to you in person and help you restore your reputation."

"Oh, and then what?" Orson asked.

"Besides that, as long as you can keep the throne of Alsace, you can propose any other conditions. As long as they are not too excessive, we can accept them."

"So, I understand that Your Majesty, you are here to seek peace this time?"

"Of course, whatever you want to understand."

Rosalin shrugged, but she was not inferior to Orson in momentum.

"In fact, there is no clean side in this political struggle. Didn't you use some dishonorable means to help Elsa? It's just that you hid it well, so we don't have direct evidence to prove you."

"puff."

Orson laughed when he heard this.

"Your Highness, should I say that you are naive, or should I say that you are outspoken and speak your mind for justice?"

"You should know that the reason why you gradually lost the support of the people was because you had locked me up without any evidence. I am dissatisfied with this and want to lead the people to restore my reputation. Is that okay?"

"That's absolutely fine," Rosalyn said.

"Then you should also know that if you continue to dwell on this matter, you will be the ones who suffer."

After Orson finished speaking, he sighed again and continued:

"Since you are here to seek peace, I will tell you our terms."

Orson said this and raised his index finger.

"We have only one condition, and that is that Arthas abdicates and Elsa takes the throne."

Rosalyn frowned when she heard this.

"Orson, I came to negotiate with sincerity. I don't want you to act on impulse and make trouble unreasonably."

"Of course I am not acting out of impulse or being unreasonable. Your Majesty, you have been with the Emperor for so long, it is impossible that you are unaware of his flaws. He cannot be a good emperor. The reason I am rebelling is entirely for the sake of the empire. I hope you can understand my painstaking efforts."

Hearing this, Rosalyn stood up angrily.

"So, we have nothing to discuss?"

"...Originally, if it was earlier, when the late emperor was in a coma, maybe there would still be something to discuss, but since that incident, there is nothing to discuss anymore."

Orson sighed and said slowly:

"Your Highness, too many people have been involved in our dispute. Whether it's the people of Saint Laurent City, the people of the royal direct territory, or the people of other duchies, they are all watching this farce."

"Too many innocent people have died because of this. If we stop here, no one will buy it."

"Also, you can stay in the Imperial College for a while longer these days. Just consider this as my advice to you."

As Orson said this, he stood up, pointed to the door and made a "please" gesture.

"I have other things to do here. If Your Majesty the Queen has nothing else to do, please allow me to take care of my own affairs first."

Rosalin heard this and nodded.

When she reached the door, she suddenly stopped.

"Orson, let me give you a piece of advice as well."

"please say."

“Don’t expect everything to be perfect. Not everything will go as you expect.”

"Really? Then we'll just have to wait and see."

……

On the other side, after seeing Rosaline off, Arthas sat alone in the room for a long time. Finally, a knock on the door brought him back to reality from his fantasy.

"come in."

Arthas' tone was quite weak.

Then, the door was pushed open and the sound of light footsteps was heard.

"Your Majesty, I am sorry to have kept you waiting."

The person who spoke was unexpectedly the raven that had been released earlier.

"Well, did you rest well?"

"Thanks to your majesty, I am full of energy now. I am just waiting for your majesty to assign me a task."

"it is good."

Arthas nodded, then looked up at the raven.

"I want you to burn down the Imperial Academy. Can you do it?"

"..." Hearing this request, Raven was stunned for a moment, then revealed an awkward but polite smile.

"Why did you burn down the Imperial College? It is at least the property of the royal family."

"The Imperial College is against me. Their board of directors and student union are against me. I cannot tolerate such an organization taking root in the heart of the empire."

"But if it is burned like this, other people in the empire will feel bad."

The raven seemed to be still trying to persuade the somewhat irrational Arthas.

Unexpectedly, Arthas ignored these persuasions and said directly:

"If I'm not even on the throne, why should I care what the rest of the empire thinks?"

These words shocked the raven.

"So, Your Majesty, have you come to your senses?"

He asked tentatively.

"Well, if Orson wants to come, let him try and see what the consequences will be for disobeying the king." After saying this, Arthas summoned out the scepter that symbolized imperial power.

Now, Arthas, who has royal blood, successfully inherited all the functions of the scepter after Odysseus' death.

The royal family has been able to sit firmly on the top throne of the empire for thousands of years, so naturally they have their own trump cards.

There is an ancient legend circulating among the royal family.

Legend has it that the first emperor of the country added a function to the scepter, which symbolizes imperial power, in order to ensure that his descendants would not be usurped by powerful ministers in the future.

That function is to awaken the guards in the dozens of imperial tombs under the city of Saint Laurent to protect the safety of the royal family.

Of course, this was the original design, but later, in order to prevent the monarch from abusing power, an emperor modified the scepter so that certain conditions had to be met when it was activated.

However, in the thousand years of the empire, no emperor had ever used this function. Even Arthas himself was curious whether the function of the scepter was true.

However, with the idea of ​​giving it his all, Arthas chose to believe in himself once.

When the raven saw that Arthas agreed, he became excited.

He knew that he was about to witness a miracle.

……

The next day, in the city of Saint Laurent, the people in the royal-controlled area were woken up by the army early in the morning and then driven into the area controlled by the coalition forces.

The people in the royal-controlled area claimed that they had "no food and were starving", so they had no choice but to surrender to the coalition forces, but everyone knew what the other side was thinking.

There are definitely real civilians among them, but the vast majority are scouts disguised as civilians, preparing to collect intelligence from the coalition's rear, and may even have an impact on the coalition's facilities.

Why did the coalition forces know this? Because they were the first to do so.

At that time, the coalition forces started out as "rebels" and were basically located in poor and backward areas. Therefore, some people who "luckily" escaped spent a lot of money in the hope of getting a good night's sleep in the royal-controlled area.

Many guards of the royal army believed this statement at the time, and then many spies from the Allied Forces took the opportunity to sneak in.

Faced with this situation, Litt, who took office as temporary commander, only gave his subordinates one order, which was to hurry.

Yes, the coalition forces will not accept anyone who escapes, regardless of whether they are civilians or not.

Firstly, the coalition forces themselves have very limited supplies, and secondly, it is to prevent the enemy's spies from infiltrating.

The coalition forces have reaped many benefits from the intelligence war, so they certainly cannot relax in this area.

Finally, an interesting scene occurred at the border between the two sides' control areas.

The royal army was driving the refugees towards the coalition's territory, while the coalition remained fully armed in the face of the refugees. At this time, there was chaos in the royal army's military discipline.

In order to prevent the refugees from escaping, some soldiers even drew their swords to threaten them, and there were even scenes of murder.

Afterwards, most of the refugees squeezed into the neutral area in the middle and barely survived.

The citizens of Saint Laurent City never imagined that they had lived a stable and healthy life in Saint Laurent City in the first half of their lives, but their second half of life would be suddenly shattered, causing them to feel a huge sense of disappointment.

At this moment, seemingly due to improper use of fire, or as if someone did it on purpose, a fire broke out in the neutral zone. The fire directly covered three streets. Even the imperial people outside the city wall could see the flames in Saint Laurent City that night, and for a moment they thought that the magicians were fighting.

The conflict between the two sides finally evolved from avoiding harming civilians to directly harming civilians, treating civilians as a burden and shifting the blame to the other side.

With such an undignified way of fighting, the loser in the end will definitely be nailed to the pillar of shame in history and criticized forever.