It is said that when the flag of the Pirate King fluttered outside the Empire's largest port, Mingfuster, a certain general of the Imperial Navy was so scared he pissed his pants.
At that ti, Mingfuster Port had fewer than twenty warships in repair, while the returning pirate fleet consisted of a formidable array of 300 ships, powerful enough to flatten the Empire's largest port. With a rapid march along the port, they could have stord into the Empire's capital, Strasbourg, in just one week.
In that bustling port city, every resident, every rchant felt as if the end of the world had co, with not even half the soldiers mustering the courage to fight.
When the flagship and the vessels under the Pirate King raised the surrender flags, Mingfuster Port erupted into joy as if it were the grandest festival, with everyone imnsely happy, and countless people dancing and singing in the streets.
Zimrman Robin led the pirate fleet back ho, returning to the Empire's embrace, his reputation unmatched at the ti!
In just a few short years, Zimrman Robin's renown plumted to the lowly depths before skyrocketing, reaching heights even his unprecedented talents should not have been able to attain in a lifeti!
His young life was truly the stuff of Empire legends.
In that year, Zimrman Robin's renown even rivaled that of his ancestor from five eras before, Saroses Robin, deed the most untad figure of the tis, destined to be immortalized in history.
When the King granted an audience to Zimrman Robin, he said with a smile, "You can ask for any reward from , except for the throne!"
At that ti, Zimrman asked for sothing no one could have imagined. He declined to return to the Robin Family, instead requesting from the King the surna Axel, thus changing his na from Zimrman Robin to Zimrman Axel Robin!
After leading the fleet back to the Empire, Zimrman Axel Robin seed to have achieved all his life's goals, undergoing a peculiar change in personality.
Before leading the fleet in rebellion, Zimrman Axel Robin was a man of few words, engrossed in his studies, considering all forms of entertainnt unnecessary, strict in self-discipline, and traditional in his ways. His ntors described Zimrman as a man whose daily routine was as precise as a clock, whose life was as disciplined as a saint, this guy, except for his studies and truth, was oblivious to all else!
The Zimrman who returned to the Empire, however, seed to have cast aside all pretenses, transforming into the Empire's most seasoned playboy in just a few days.
nierman Sui, also known as Charles's legendary senior sister, was once Zimrman's fiancée.
One day, when she went to visit her mother, she witnessed Zimrman "toiling" on her mother...
The scene at the ti was considered a great disgrace by nierman.
Enraged to the extre, The Empire's First Rose drew her side sword on the spot, deciding to duel this philanderer.
Charles saw an entire day's worth of things he should not have.
He understood why Miss nierman wanted to burn those docunts.
If it weren't for the widespread spread of this affair, Charles even doubted whether his senior sister might resort to murder to silence it.
Given his senior sister's family background and social status, killing a few lowly first-grade clerks was not considered a serious cri in the Empire.
The duel did not go ahead as planned, after Zimrman Axel Robin brought Mada Sherlie to the pinnacle of bliss, he rolled over, smashed through a window, and disappeared from nierman's sight at top speed.
The Empire Rose had no chance to stop this shaless, lecherous bastard.
The next day, nierman issued a public statent, not only tearing up the engagent but also challenging Zimrman Axel Robin to a duel to the death.
The most outstanding of the Empire Roses had innurable faithful servants willing to run errands for her, challenging her forr fiancé on her behalf.
Within a single day, Zimrman Axel Robin received hundreds of duel challenges, and wherever he appeared, soone would block his path and demand a duel on the street.
As a descendant of the Robin family, Zimrman Axel Robin inherited profound swordsmanship skills, and his ferocity and ruthlessness even surpassed those of his ancestor from five hundred years ago, during his pri.
Zimrman won several duels on the street with overwhelming victories but, during the eighteenth duel, he was provoked by a challenger and killed a man on the street.
After that duel, he showed no rcy in all his challenges, fighting a total of one hundred and fifteen duels and killing one hundred and fifteen enemies, thus offending most of the Empire's nobility.
After all, those who were qualified to challenge him belonged to the noble offspring of the Empire, born of noteworthy nobility.
This widely impacting series of duels ca to be known historically as the Empire Rose Incident.
It marked the dividing line in Zimrman Axel Robin's life, as well as the beginning of his great fall.
Zimrman seed to beco unreasonable overnight, not only defeating his enemies on the dueling ground but nearly every ti after a duel, he would go on to provoke the older won of the challenger's family, including but not limited to: mothers, aunts, maternal aunts, elder sisters, female cousins, and so on…
If there were no other options, sisters, female second cousins, even daughters of family friends were not spared.
From being a noble of the Empire, he fell to the status of a criminal charged with: murder, rape, arson, robbery, theft, kidnapping, intimidation... totalizing two hundred and fifty-seven offenses.
He even set a new Empire cri record!
If not for his previous great achievents, His Majesty the Emperor would not have signed seven pardons in a row, and Mr. Zimrman would have found himself on the gallows long ago.
As Charles went through the records, there ca a slight pause, and suddenly he felt that this, indeed, was what life was about.
Compared to Mr. Zimrman, even with his additional experience of transmigrating, his own life seed rather dull, tedious, and utterly uninteresting.
Zimrman Axel Robin is now imprisoned in Kilmainham Prison, awaiting either the Emperor's eighth pardon or an execution order for hanging.
Charles rubbed his temples and decided he couldn't force himself to drink this world's tea anymore; he resolved to buy so different tea leaves tomorrow, like the flower tea transported from the Eastern Li country.
After putting down his teacup, Charles took off his clothes, climbed into bed, and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
The next day!
Charles woke up in the morning light, rubbing his eyes.
He had slept comfortably through the night, got out of bed, freshened up a bit, changed into clean clothes, and packed up his dirty clothes at the front door.
The maids from the Savings Association Apartnts would take away the dirty clothing left by tenants at the door, wash, iron, and return them clean, with the cost added to the rent, settled once a month.
After tidying his room a bit, Charles, who didn't have enough ti to dispose of the ladies' clothes at ho, hurried out of the apartnt because he had so work procedures to go through today.
In this era, office automation did not exist, and all official procedures needed to be done manually.
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