"Your Majesty, such an outrage cannot be permitted!"
"Fool! The gods have granted me permission. How fitting — I shall show these assembled ones the fate of those who defied me!"
And so, Yulian unleashed her skill, [Royal Grudge Reversal].
[Royal Grudge Reversal] was a skill that consumed the accumulated period of grudges held in storage to permanently enhance its user.
Decades' worth of stored grudge catapulted Yulian's physical abilities by dozens of times over and granted her new skills as well.
Enveloped in a dark aura rising from her entire body, Yulian slowly approached Kerut.
"This dark, murky, loathsome aura... So you've finally shown your true colors. You — no, Yulian — I must put you down right here! Brace yourself — HYAAAH!"
Kerut sank his hips low and thrust straight at his opponent.
THUD — Kerut's signature straight punch struck Yulian square in the chest.
Everyone expected a hole to be blown clean through Yulian's chest as she went flying — but...
"Doesn't work."
Yulian's body didn't budge an inch.
Then, as if nothing had happened, she closed in on Kerut, seized him by the scruff of the neck with her right hand, and — utterly indifferent to his thrashing — began to choke the life out of him.
"Guh... Yulian... where did this kind of power... come from..."
"It's Lady Yulian. You fossil!"
The grip on Kerut's neck tightened even further, and with a sickening crack, the bones in his neck snapped.
Yulian then tossed Kerut aside like a discarded ragdoll.
[Royal Grudge Reversal] grew more devastating the more grudge had been accumulated.
The power that Yulian had kept suppressed by the Electors for so many years had grown truly formidable.
It was precisely for this moment that I had endured all those petty harassments from the Electors.
"You're too weak! Did I accumulate [Royal Grudge Reversal] for too long? If it was going to be settled this easily, I should have crushed all three Electors together much sooner! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!"
Yulian's triumphant laughter echoed across the council chamber.
Yulian gazed down once more at the motionless Kerut.
"I would have liked to strangle the other two with my own hands as well, but I suppose it can't be helped. There should be no one left who dares oppose me."
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"Oh, Senpai, there's even a hot spring! Let's go in later!"
I had brought Sophia to Farmus-san's [House Territory].
At some point, in addition to the Starblue fields, a hot spring had been built as well.
"Man, this saved my skin. Who would've thought the gold coins Alan brought from this world would sell for such a high price over there! Go ahead and soak as much as you like!"
"Thank you very much, Farmus-san."
Gold coins from another world don't exist in my previous life, so of course they'd sell for a high price.
The [House Territory], which was connected to my previous life's modern world, apparently had hot spring purchase rights among its lineup.
I could soak in the hot spring to unwind, lounge on the sofa, and take my time reading manga and light novels.
And if I got sleepy, I could stay overnight in a private room in the detached building.
This was going to make me so decadent I'd never want to leave.
Items obtained through the [House Territory]'s mail-order function couldn't be taken outside.
As a test, I first stored a light novel in my space-time storage, then stepped outside, but the light novel had vanished from the space-time storage.
They weren't going to allow any backdoors like that.
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Commemorative short story for the manga adaptation, "Agris: The Prequel ④," will be posted on "(Spinoff) Failure Skills~" at 18:00.
Yurian Radius
Skills: [Fist God][Arrogance][Servility][Delusion Disorder][Solipsism][Dark Magic][Royal Grudge][Tyrant King]
[Tyrant King]... A skill specialized in destruction. Allows you to overwhelm any disliked opponent with overwhelming power.
※[Royal Grudge]does not disappear even after use, but you will need to build up grudge from scratch once more. Additionally, effects obtained once will persist even after activation (otherwise it wouldn't be worth accumulating over a long period).
Thank you for reading!