The revolutionary autocrat,
an autocratic revolutionary,
or perhaps he should be called
known as Reinhard von Lohengramm
traditions of the Goldenbaum Dynasty,
had discarded most of the evil precedents and
but there was one that he could not get rid of.
being a target for assassins.
This was the precedent of the kaiser
as such occurred on August 19th of that year.
An incident that future historians would describe
attended the dedication ceremony
On that day, Kaiser Reinhard
for those who had fallen in battle.
for the newly established graveyard
sign that he suffered from frequent fevers,
At this time, Reinhard did not show the slightest
sign that he suffered from frequent fevers,
At this time, Reinhard did not show the slightest
Sieg Kaiser! Sieg Reich!
from his sickbed for even a little while.
or of how weak he became when he was away
Sieg Kaiser! Sieg Reich!
from his sickbed for even a little while.
or of how weak he became when he was away
with government affairs as vigorously as ever.
Instead, he appearted to be dealing
Seig Kaiser!
Sieg Reich!
Thank goodness that you seem to be doing well.
Seig Kaiser!
Seig Reich!
Seig Kaiser! Seig Reich!
You golden-haired brat!
Insubordinate bastard!
Are you another of those Church of Terra fanatics?!
I'm not anything of the sort!
Have you forgotten Westerland?!
of just three years ago?!
Have you already forgotten that tragedy
Westerland?
Some kaiser! Some wise ruler!
from bloodshed and deceit?!
Doesn't your authority come solely
Thanks to you and Duke Braunschweig,
burned alive on Westerland!
my wife and child were
Come on, kill me!
the two million innocent civilians of Westerland,
Just as you and Duke Braunschweig did
kill me!
Burn me away with your thermonuclear weapons
who never meant you any harm!
like you did to those children and babies
Those who live on are dazzled by your splendor,
like Westerland, right?
and have forgotten about things
But the dead won't forget!
burned alive for all eternity!
They'll be asking why they were
Your resentment towards the kaiser is misplaced.
allow the thermonuclear attack on Westerland.
I'm the one who advised that His Majesty
You should have aimed for me, not the kaiser.
and you may have even succeeded.
There would have been less to get in your way,
You did?!
Duke Braunschweig lost all popular support.
With the Westerland Massacre,
collapsed from the inside,
He lost all sympathy and the noble alliance
to an end three months sooner.
and at the very least this brought the civil war
If it had dragged on for another three months,
another ten million casualties.
there would certainly have been
By using Duke Braunschweig as a representative
to expose the true nature of the noble alliance,
those ten million deaths.
we were able to end things without needing
to massacre non-combatants?!
So is there some law saying it's fine
You people in power are always that way!
to sacrifice the few to save the many!
You justify your actions by saying it was necessary
included in those sacrificed few?!
But were you or your loved ones
Even once?!
Reinhard the murderer!
Reinhard the butcher!
The noble throne is soaked in a sea of blood!
with his defeat and death.
Duke Braunschweig atoned for his sins
You lived, but you'll pay for your crimes someday!
longer reach than me throughout space!
There are countless people with a
have been better off being killed by me!
You'll realize soon enough, that you would
Take him to Military Police Headquarters.
I'll interrogate him myself later.
Hurry up and take him away!
You murderous golden-haired brat!
You'll get what's coming to you someday!
Remember that!
be judged by the law?!
Kesler, how will that man's actions
warrants the death penalty.
Attempting to murder the kaiser
That's the law of the Goldenbaum Dynasty, isn't it?
Indeed.
on the matter has not yet been decided,
However, the Lohengramm Dynasty's law
so it would be best to abide by the old laws-
Your Majesty...
to preserve his honor,
If you're thinking that you wish
then shouldn't you instead have him executed?
Please order his death by firing squad at once.
No, We will not permit his execution.
if you attempted to spare his life.
He himself would refuse
Empire would be doubly harmed.
In that case, the authority of the
minister of military affairs' opinion on this matter.
Your Majesty, I agree with the
I won't say that it must be an execution.
chance to choose an honorable suicide.
I believe it would be acceptable to give him the
No, you mustn't!
Not one more Westerlander may be killed!
Are We clear?
You mustn't kill him.
We shall decide on his treatment in due course.
How can this be?
For the kaiser's shoulders to drop like that...
that they shouldn't have,
The high nobles did things
what was necessary, Lord Reinhard.
but you've never done anything except
Why do you demean yourself so?
Lord Reinhard, please, win the universe.
Fräulein Mariendorf?
It's just as that man said.
We are a murderer, as well as a coward.
Your Majesty!
if We'd tried, but We didn't.
We could have stopped it
committed a great evil on his own...
That fool Duke Braunschweig
to monopolize the profit from it.
And We took advantage of that evil
We see that now.
We are a despicable person...
the acclimation of the soldiers,
We are not even worthy of
let alone the title of kaiser.
Your Majesty, even if you committed a crime,
I think that you've already paid for it.
to greatly reform politics and society.
And you've used that as a basis
Regardless of crimes or punishments,
still be left after you're gone.
I believe those accomplishments will
I beg you, don't be so hard on yourself.
were saved by your reforms, after all.
There are certainly people who
Fräulein!
Yes, Your Majesty.
Please don't leave.
Stay here!
We don't believe We can bear to be alone tonight.
Please, don't leave Us alone!
Yes, Your Majesty, as you wish.
Lady Hilda, where were you last night?!
I'm back.
You're early today, Hans.
Good morning.
Right, good morning.
weren't you, Hilda?
You were with His Majesty last night,
Father, I...
Yes, I know.
Or I at least believe I do.
So, you don't need to say it.
I just wanted to confirm.
I'm sorry, Father.
Count!
Master! There's a visitor right now, in the foyer.
When I opened the door, H-His Majesty...
His Majesty, the kaiser, was standing there!
with the count and the lady!
He said he desperately wished to meet
Hilda...
Father, I can't even stand right now.
something to discuss with you.
I believe His Majesty has
I'm sorry, but please, Father...
Your Majesty.
A-ah, Count Mariendorf?
but on what business are you here?
I'm greatly honored by your visit,
you so early in the morning.
Ah, no, We're also sorry for disturbing
We wished to give these to Fräulein Mariendorf.
My! I'm grateful for your kindness.
Marshal Mittermeyer told Us.
he brought a splendid bouquet of flowers.
When he proposed to his wife,
Indeed.
And so, We thought We'd also like to do that...
No, We thought that We needed to.
and brought them here.
At any rate, We selected the flowers
Does the Fräulein like flowers?
I don't believe she dislikes them.
Count Mariendorf!
your daughter as Our kaiserin.
We should very much like to have
Will you grant Us your permission to marry her?
Fräulein Mariendorf without taking responsibility,
If We were to do... that sort of thing with
lewd kaisers of the Goldenbaum Dynasty.
then We would be no better than those
We... We have no intention of becoming like them!
Your Majesty, you needn't feel any responsibility.
to be with you of her own will.
My daughter surely chose
That girl would not wish to use a single night
the whole of Your Majesty's life.
as a weapon in order to tie down
But...
Please, leave here for today.
She hasn't yet sorted out her feelings,
she might be at a loss for words.
and if Your Majesty were to make your offer,
so once things have settled,
You have already shown such graciousness,
visit the Imperial Headquarters.
I will be sure to have her
Though I'm much obliged, please,
leave this to me and head back for the time being.
We understand.
We shall leave it to you, Count.
morning and asking for an immediate response.
We're sorry for disturbing you so early in the
We'll call again later.
We hope that you'll pardon Our rudeness.
Give Our regards to Fräulein Mariendorf.
M-master...
No...
It was as you most likely imagined, Hilda.
for you to be his kaiserin.
His Majesty said he wished
Me? That's outrageous!
be the one to marry His Majesty!
There's no way that I could
Or so you say, Hilda,
assume the position of kaiserin.
but someone must ultimately
In the 17th century AD...
who was called the "Swedish Meteor".
there was a king of a small country
He was enthroned at the age of 15
of neighboring countries again and again,
and defeated the large armies
and so he was called a military genius.
Until his death at the age of 30,
desires, either with the opposite sex or his own.
he apparently did not engage at all with his carnal
must always be lacking in some other way.
It seems that those of unusual ability
that's what I think.
When I look at His Majesty Reinhard,
unusually strong in the opposite direction.
Well, as a ruler, it's good that he's not
His Majesty doesn't love me.
I at least realize that the kaiser's marriage proposal
of duty and responsibility, Father!
is ultimately from his sense
That may be so...
But what about your feelings, Hilda?
My feelings?
Do you not love the kaiser,
with his childish sense of duty and responsibility?
I don't know; I...
respect him!
as a man and a woman...
But as to whether I love him,
I'm just not sure.
Good grief, it seems it isn't limited to His Majesty.
I feel it would be better if my lovely daughter
rather than her thoughts once in a while.
were to also honor her feelings
Not always, but once in a while.
and rush to a conclusion.
Well, there's no need to get flustered
Take some time off and consider it.
Still, I wonder if those two were able to do it right?
for someone like me.
Hilda, you're too great a daughter
It may be unavoidable,
ordinary man of modest ambitions to love,
but if you set your sights upon a more
and would've let us live out a modest life.
that may have been more suitable for me as well,
Master?
to today's business, so...
It's nearly time for you to attend
Right, see to the preparations.
I began serving as minister of state.
It hasn't been that long since
without getting married.
Kircheis departed from this world
In order to save my life, he sacrificed his own.
sacrificed and I live on alone,
And yet, even though Kircheis was
now I'm trying to get married!
Can such a thing be forgiven?
Even if the living forgive me, will the dead?
Fräulein Mariendorf, then I...
But if I do not take responsibility towards
commissioner is here to see you.
Your Majesty, the military police
Let him through.
to assassinate you yesterday
Your Majesty, the man who attempted
committed suicide while imprisoned.
You didn't coerce him, did you?
I did not.
Kesler's denial was not a lie.
to guard against the suicide.
He simply did not make any effort
Kesler knew that even if the man were acquitted,
he'd have no choice but to kill himself, after all.
but he was unable to blame Kesler.
Reinhard also sensed that,
was Reinhard's lack of determination.
This was because the crime here
Bury him in private, and with respect.
Sir!
were here at a time like this.
If only Fräulein Mariendorf
for Hilda in her role as advisor.
Kaiser Reinhard certainly wished
more than anyone else may have thought,
That may have been because,
Reinhard was aware of his own inexperience.
Universal Calendar 800,
Neue Reich Calendar 2, September 1st:
Kaiser Reinhard moved the Imperial Headquarters
The Last Roses of Summer
of the former Fezzan government.
to the reception hall
Is your sadness yours alone?
Is the solitude you shoulder all there is to your life?
It's true that life is born without permission
Without meaning or worth attached
Your whole life is just a minute grain in the universe
But that brilliance reaches all the stars
So, let's take these lives led in full
The suspension bridge of the age
And cast these lights in colors beyond the rainbow
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On Heinessen,
There, an incident that claims many victims occurs.
break out one after another.
With that as a start, riots and uprisings
Who is it that incited this?
And just what is their objective?
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Episode 90:
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