Chapter 30

One for the Empire

?’s part

Back when I was a kid, I heard great stories about our country. How a small country like ours managed to stand strong against the foreign interference. How a small country like ours has managed to take over the uncivilized people of the north. How many people from the north were actually thrilled about our entrance. How our country’s great general has executed their evil King in public while the civilians of that country have cheered in joy. Looking at all those from now… I know those are the truth. However… things became a bit lousy after that. Our history says everything we did was right. Some were, however some were not. Clearly. Some can’t be defined neither right nor wrong, because it isn’t the matter of right and wrongs. History is confusing in the sense of morality. Sometimes it’s okay to do things that we think are not okay. Sometimes it’s not okay to do things that we think are okay. Many things that our country is full of evil and chaos. However, it’s not. That’s simply not the truth. Our country is a well functioning society with rules and regulations. Some of the things might not be right, some of the things it has done in the past might be bad. Aren’t all countries like that though? Why should our country be criticized for the things that every other country tries to do? Is taking over other countries bad? Sometimes their civilians ask us to come and overthrow their evil leader. That was how it all started. That was the beginning of the legend. Not the legend of the sentinel, but the legend of the Tal empire.

Well… so um. Want to know who I am? Well, I am actually Harlist Tal. I am a master assassin serving for the Tal empire. I know that many people in our continent think our country is corrupted and chaotic. You might be thinking the same right now. However, as an insider. I can tell you it’s not. Yes we are sometimes cruel to the weak, but who are not? Rogue continent is just that kind of place. If we had plenty of resources and stuff, we might be able to help the poors. However, that’s just not the case. In fact, many studies have shown that our country’s weakest live better than the ones of Coastal Republic, where murders are allowed in many places, or Sentinel where weakest are stepped down and starved to death. Or FGU, where average people, not just poor, can’t have what they want because they don’t have enough money. Or Hab Kingdom, where non humans are severely abused and humans are severely povertized. Or shepard state, the poorest country in the WHOLE ENTIRE CONTINENT. Don’t you think it’s our job to stop those sufferings? Don’t you think we have all the rights to free their civilians from all that evilness? To do that, we sometimes have to step over some decent countries. That’s just how the world is. We can’t pick and choose if we want to become stronger and release people from suffering. Sometimes we have to attack people living in happiness and make some of them our slaves. Only some of them, we let most of the useful people become our citizens and serve our country without being forced to do so. That might sound awkward, but mmm… want to be slave or just pay taxes? I would probably choose the latter. Don’t think we are some evil chaotic terrorists that wants to terrorize the entire contient. We are just a country, an empire. Just like any other, we expand. We make sure most people are living in good condition. We make sure most of the new citizens adapt to our society. It’s not our fault their country is too weak to protect them, it’s not our fault that some of them might have gotten injuries from the war. What we can do now is protect them from further dangers. That’s what we do. That’s what the Tal empire does. We might not be right all the time, but we hold our reasons well. It’s how we are, and it’s how we will always be.