Even if Your Regret Holds Me Back (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 178

He could tolerate nothing more than those who coveted his rightful place. Those who dared assault him without knowing their station needed to be made aware of their position all the more.

Thus, Belzebuth shattered Ian’s sword every time it came into view.

Yet Ian, stubbornly persistent, kept grabbing new blades and stirring up the training grounds—until finally, with limbs broken, he seemed to grasp something and began hiding instead.

The old man’s interest in that briefly flickering talent cooled swiftly. Belzebuth no longer needed to endure the annoying sight of that glinting silver tail.

However, with each passing year, the thorns in his side multiplied, and Belzebuth longed for a position where he no longer had to tolerate such irritation.

So he resolved to act.

It began with the Third Imperial Prince. He was pushed off a cliff, disguised as a carriage accident.

Next came the House of Duke Eren, maternal relatives of the Second Prince. On the day of his cousin’s wedding banquet, Belzebuth released a viper into Lady Eren’s dress.

Then followed his meddling uncle, the Fifth Prince’s fiancée, the Emperor’s loyal knights, and powerful nobles who opposed his words….

He systematically erased them, casting deep shadows over the imperial palace. Since he wielded his sword before speaking, ruling through fear was effortless.

Belzebuth wished to stand as inevitability itself—and the day he severed his own father’s head, he fully became just that.

“Please don’t resent me, Father. It was always mine by right.”

Once he reclaimed the tainted imperial crown, he finally noticed the insignificant vermin he’d previously paid no mind to.

How skillfully they’d hidden and survived—all of them, chips off the old block.

No schemes were necessary; Belzebuth drove his blade in without hesitation.

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