ReadingHeart(핀하트)
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It was quite enjoyable to chat about old stories. Of course, it wasn’t as great as reading books. As we chatted away in the library, the topic quickly shifted to “books.” When book lovers get together, it’s only natural for the conversation to get lively with tales of authors and their works. Naturally, there were some subjects that had me stumped on how to respond. “The author Homer must be an angel sent from heaven!” “Isn’t that a bit… exaggerated?” “Exaggerated?! It’s not even…- 591.7 K • Ongoing
- “Ugh, I feel like I had a nightmare…. Did I sleep poorly?” I woke up feeling pretty stiff. I can’t remember much, but I think I had a bad dream. It’s probably the carriage sickness. I purposely chose the carriage because I had to change trains a couple of times, but now I think I’ll just take the train back. Reading a book in a carriage is just not a human thing to do. They say the Empire has good roads, but that bumpy ride was unbearable. “…But what am I doing here again?” Ah, right. I…
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- A few days after Eric’s wedding. Ed got introduced to the Duchy of Cafeter by his Aunt Julia. Her husband, Viscount William Reinhardt, worked as an official in the duke’s court. A rather unique sort of official, known as a Vice Chancellor… basically the same level as a modern-day prime minister. The only catch? The imperial court, not the Duke of Cafeter, is the one who appoints this Vice Chancellor. To get this all straight, understanding the complicated history of imperial nobility would help, but…
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- Count Frieden’s sister─. Julia Frieden was a diligent person. Working as a bureaucrat in the western part of the Empire, she was quite the competent administrator. Although her personality didn’t quite mesh with the council, so she kept a safe distance from the center. In that sense, Julia Frieden was a very “Frieden” type of person. Keeping a distance from central nobility had been a long-standing tradition of the Frieden family—dating back even before the Empire had a thing called…
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- After such a long time, the Frieden family mansion looked just the same. The walls were overrun with ivy, the origin of which was a mystery, and by the gate, the servant tasked with guarding the place was dozing off with his head bobbing. So, things were clearly running a bit haphazardly. I decided not to bother waking the snoozing servant and just slipped inside. He’d end up getting an earful from Sion or one of the other attendants anyway. With my stuff in hand—mostly books—I was headed to my…
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- No one seizes power with the intention of giving it up. But at this very moment, in Harren, the person in power was using that power to relinquish it. In a way, this was an opportunity. A last-ditch chance to prevent anyone from “seizing power for the sake of seizing power” in the future. And the conclusion reached by the various intellectuals of Harren—those bureaucrats following the Lazy King—was this. “Republicanism is not an alternative! Even if you fully hand over the rights of this land to…
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- If Sion were here, he would have helped me out quite a bit. In the Kingdom of Harren, I was all alone, so I had no choice but to solve most things by myself. The clock chimed once, signaling that meal time had passed. It was only then that I realized I hadn’t even packed a lunch. Well, it’s pretty common in this world to have only two meals a day, so it’s not a huge problem. What mattered more was that at this very moment, I had finished a new manuscript. I gathered my scattered manuscript pieces and…
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- “Well, I didn’t really expect a solid answer when I asked that question. In the end, it’s more about history than wisdom, and the Harrenites will just need a bit more time…” “…Yeah.” The evidence that the Lazy King has dragon blood sparkled in his vertically slitted pupils. The royalty of Harren doesn’t need any laws, violence, or authority to rule the Harrenites. The right of the dragon’s descendants to reign in the skies of Harren was a divine privilege established the moment King…
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- If we were to divide the bureaucrats of the Kingdom of Harren into two groups, we could call them “monarchists” and “republicans.” However, let’s not be mistaken: the republicans do not deny the king’s divinity. They acknowledge that the king’s rights are sacrosanct and that obeying the order under his reign is indeed the path to peace. They merely argue that, despite such order, revolution is a necessary endeavor. The reason republicans could form a faction was quite simple. “It’s been a…
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- I gathered up the manuscript I had been working on and took it to the publisher. The unbound “mountain of paper” landed with a thud on the publisher’s conference table. “This is the novel I want to publish.” “…No way, it’s too thick! I didn’t expect a novel to be this hefty—.” “I don’t want any payment.” “Let me read it first.” As the editor-in-chief noted, Les Misérables was indeed a behemoth of a novel. Fans even dubbed it “The Brick.” This is all thanks to the…
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