Do Your Own Revolution

#110

Screech—!

Along with the horn sound, an armored train heading north was running on the snow-covered tracks.

A prisoner transport armored train bound for the northern prison.

The first car of this train, which gathered all sorts of dregs and vermin of the Kalhyram Empire society, was where I was seated.

“Eugene, look over there! Snow! There’s so much!”

“Yeah. We’ve been seeing it for three days straight.”

The party heading north was much smaller than expected.

There was Irene, bouncing around like a Samoyed seeing snow, and me shaking my head at that sight. Margrave Korhonen sitting across from us with his head down.

“Is there anything you’re uncomfortable with?”

“Ah, no! Thank you…!”

Squeezed in between us was a private first class who had been drafted as an orderly.

Seeing the rookie private maintaining a rigid posture while frozen stiff, a feeling of sympathy naturally bloomed in my heart.

‘Really, this is pitiful.’

When I needed an orderly and inquired with the Special Magic Unit’s administration department, this guy was waiting for me at the station.

Chern Pailled. No, age 16, rank private first class.

Normally, this would be the rank where one would just be finishing their time as the youngest and starting military life with newly arrived juniors.

However, what this fresh rank faced was an insane situation – on one side was a division commander, and on the other was a magic noble ranked within the top 10 of imperial power. ꭆãΝốᛒЕȘ

No, I thought they’d at least give me an officer of second lieutenant rank.

With how much our unit has grown, are we still short-handed?

“The imperial family members have been restless.”

While I was thinking that as I looked at the completely stiffened Private Chern.

The margrave, who had been sitting with his head down silently, slowly opened his… no, his speaker.

“Understandable. Those who were closest to His Majesty during the attack incident couldn’t do anything at all.”

Though I was receiving the Emperor’s favor for preventing the assassination attempt, I was nothing but a thorn in the side of the imperial family members.

Such a person had suppressed this rebellion and achieved such an unprecedented promotion. From their perspective, it was like having fire dropped on their feet.

“Their wariness of you isn’t just for such reasons.”

“Pardon?”

A voice flowed from the automaton’s speaker.

“Those who are especially wary of you aren’t just simple imperial family members, but the princes who hold succession rights to the throne.”

“…Ah.”

Thinking about it, that was true.

Princes my age were just learning military tactics as junior officers or showing their faces in political circles.

Even the strong candidates led by Meldir could only rely on the power of their supporting noble factions, unable to directly lead their own factions.

‘Among them, Prince Baker must be taking it especially hard.’

Prince Baker, who supported and represented the rebels, had completely fallen due to this incident.

I heard that now he’s living a life no different from exile, holed up in a frontier territory.

‘Though they won’t carelessly touch him while the Emperor is alive…’

I had no intention of letting that guy live quietly.

The last of the three traitors who betrayed the protagonist.

Even though he’s fallen now, his own wit and capital as a prince haven’t disappeared.

If given the opportunity, I should kill him without hesitation.

“Strong magical power at a young age. And the Emperor’s favor that seems strange in its intensity.”

“……”

“Keep this in mind. To them, you are no longer just some young hero.”

Are they saying they recognize me as a powerful competitor who will contend for the throne?

Understanding that implied meaning, I opened my mouth with a pleased expression.

“I know.”

The Emperor was raising me as his successor.

The existing succession rights holders figured that out? That’s actually better.

Sooner or later, there won’t be any place for the imperial family in the empire anyway.

***

Whoosh–!

Along with the sound of steam being released, the train that had been running for three days and nights came to a stop.

Korhonen Station.

It was the terminal station of the empire’s transcontinental railway extending northward.

“Eugene! There’s so much snow here too…! Achoo!”

“Yeah, yeah.”

The Korhonen autonomous region located at the empire’s northernmost point.

Looking at the snow-covered city and the massive wall surrounding it, I had only one impression.

Cold.

And intensely so.

Even though I had served frontier duty that only 1% of Republic of Korea soldiers experienced in my previous life, the cold here was of an intensity that defied comparison.

To give you an idea of how severe it was…

“Eugene, look at this! My snot froze!”

“Wow……”

Yeah. Let’s just leave it at that.

After spending some time melting Irene’s snot with magic and wiping it away…

Rumble-!

A half-track armored vehicle was approaching from far off at the station, plowing through the rough snow field.

“Division Commander Eugene Lorentz! Is that correct?!”

“Yes, that’s correct.”

Please save us since that’s correct.

As I said that with a desperate feeling, a man wearing an imperial army uniform appeared, opening the armored vehicle’s door.

“I am Colonel Sandal Denton, officer in charge of the autonomous region’s prison! This way please!”

I received the colonel’s salute with a newly emotional feeling.

A colonel saluting me first.

Coming outside the imperial capital, I finally felt the reality of having received my stars.

“Ah, right. Report.”

While I was thinking that, Colonel Sandal who turned his gaze spoke to the Count Korhonen standing beside me.

More precisely, to the automaton wearing the count’s face.

“Your Lordship, we have properly received the VIP. From now on, we will guide them.”

“I leave it to you.”

An emotionless voice.

However, what the automaton that had been using the count’s voice did next was surprising.

Clunk, clunk clunk.

“Huh?”

The automaton immediately brought its hands to its face and began peeling off its face.

The automaton, now with a plain silver face matching its body, saluted me with mechanical movements.

“Automaton No. 1102, escort duty complete. Returning to regular duties.”

With those words, it turned its back and walked toward the armored train.

“…What is this.”

“An interesting sight, isn’t it?”

As I watched with a bewildered feeling, Colonel Sandal spoke with a bitter smile.

“That automaton is originally one of those monitoring the prisoner transport train. The Count was controlling it separately.”

“Controlling?”

“Yes. He controls the automatons from his mansion located in the city center.”

This was news to me.

According to the original [Revolution Empire], Korhonen in the north was a region that only existed in the setting.

A frontier that naturally joined the protagonist’s forces when the revolution succeeded.

However, the actual Korhonen autonomous region possessed technology that was incomparable to its low importance in the game.

‘Moreover, from what I just heard, that automaton was No. 1102? That means……’

In other words, it meant there were over 1000 such automatons.

Is he saying the Count himself controls all of them?

“You shouldn’t be surprised by just this much. Once you arrive in the autonomous region, you’ll often see even more amazing sights.”

What could be more amazing than this?

While saying that, something happened at the transport train stopped at the station.

Bang-!

“?!”

A window suddenly burst open.

Through that narrow window, prisoners began escaping one by one.

“Hahaha! Freedom! We’re free-!”

“So it was true that the train would stop! This is our chance!”

Looking at the right arm of the prisoner in the lead, a two stroke magic imprint supplied by the Knight Order was glowing.

I had heard they put magical power restriction formulas on them, but it seemed they had managed to break the binding formula inside the train.

“A mage broke the window!”

“Shit, the guards are coming! Quickly escape…!”

The guards who were inside the train were running in panic to stop them.

‘Looking at it, it seems they were able to escape because of me.’

It was something I could understand with just a moment’s thought.

The train that should have gone straight to the prison had stopped at an intermediate station to let me off.

Since things got complicated because of me, I should help to some extent.

As I drew up magical power while watching the guards frantically running from the train’s direction.

“Sir.”

Colonel Sandal stopped me with a bitter smile.

“There’s no need for you to step in, sir.”

“…Pardon?”

Just as he said that.

Click-!

The automaton that had been walking toward the armored train extended its hand toward the escaping prisoners.

More precisely, the end parts that looked like hands.

A faint magical power light was emanating from between the mechanical devices that opened to the sides.

Magical power spewing from the mana core in the center gathered together, and the next moment.

Bang–!

An enormous magical power wave shattered the prisoners escaping from the train into pieces.

“W-what the hell?!”

“What is that?! There definitely weren’t any mages among the guards…!”

“Run! If we scatter, at least one person…!”

Though the prisoners were bewildered by the magic that suddenly struck them, it was already too late.

Because the automaton that instantly closed the distance crushed their faces with its fist.

“…!”

“W-what is this…!”

Blood splattered on the cold armored train’s armor plate.

Steam was rising from the fallen prisoners’ bodies.

What a heartwarming sight to see right after arriving in the north.

Watching the criminals trembling like insects, that’s what I thought.

“The guards’ panic wasn’t because the prisoners escaped.”

“……”

“It was their struggle to save at least one person before the automaton turned the prisoners into that state.”

The one who spoke with a slight smile was Colonel Sandal, who was watching that scene with a familiar expression.

“Having to remove the pieces stuck to the armored train in this cold north is quite troublesome, you see.”

“I… see.”

This guy looks innocent but says some pretty brutal things.

Though that’s what I thought, my interest wasn’t in the prisoners.

‘That automaton……’

Taking down a two stroke mage in one hit, and strength that crushes a human body with one punch.

I let my guard down because I couldn’t sense any magical power, but its performance was beyond imagination.

And there are at least a thousand such automatons?

“Ah~! These bastards, they just had to break out and get themselves killed!”

“How long is it going to take to clean this up again. These damn bastards……”

“Hey! Hurry up and walk!”

While saying that, the guards who rushed out from the train began blocking the automaton and calling the prisoners back in.

The prisoners stunned by the scattered flesh and corpses everywhere, and the guards roughly shoving them back in.

“Brigadier General Eugene Lorentz, sir.”

As I was watching that with indescribable eyes, Colonel Sandal who opened the armored vehicle’s door spoke to me.

“Welcome to the Korhonen autonomous region.”

The snow-covered city and the steel wall surrounding it.

The armored train heading toward the prison, and the criminals’ blood splattered on its armor.

And Colonel Sandal gesturing to me with all that as the backdrop.

“…Haha.”

A hollow laugh escaped involuntarily.

It seemed this place was far more insane than I had thought.

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