Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 312 >

“Hey, just hit it!”

“……What?”

“Um, is it too blatant to be attacked? Just let me date you.”

“No… that’s…”

“No, honestly, what’s wrong with that girl?”

As if frustrated, Lef pounded his chest.

“Is your face ugly? do you have a bad personality? Identity issues are no problem if you’re going to be a lover, and I’ve been a ghost!”

“that…..”

“No, seriously, let me ask you, don’t you?”

“I don’t like it… it’s not. Okay, thank you, like me…”

“Are you like?”

Lev, who heard the most amazing sound in his life, grabbed the back of his neck.

“Hey, are you like that? Are you not self-objectifying now? do you have an ugly face no property? low status? ability depends? We’re all not as good as our father, but we’re still higher than everyone else, aren’t we?”

Whether it was because his father was so handsome, he had low self-esteem or something, the amazing Lev was pounding his chest.

“Still, I have a partner who is getting married next month… If I am not faithful to my marriage…”

“Oh my gosh, this burn!”

Lev got up from his seat and kicked Nikita’s shin.

“Come now and suddenly you become a good life man and you are crazy! You rode a chariot in the last war! Doesn’t the bible say not to kill? You didn’t kill?”

“……”

“Look at your brother or father, how many lovers and how many mistresses? Right now you…”

Nikita’s face hardened slightly.

In fact, there was also the fact that Nikita was passive in relationships between men and women.

Should I call it a reaction against my father? Or is it the complex about his birth, the fact that he is a child born out of an unblessed relationship?

– You must love your wife. You must not look at any woman other than your wife.

To put it bluntly, it is a norm that no one adheres to in the upper society of the Russian Empire.

Of course, it is a norm that I do not understand what the logic of the high society norms of the Russian Empire is ‘events, separation, but not divorce’.

Of course, it was Lev who was always hanging around with him who was going crazy and fluttering.

“Zegna is married this time, so go and ask her! Damn, come to think of it, he didn’t even know he married the bride.”

Their half-brother Zegna married his cousin Sverlinna. In aristocratic societies, marriage between cousins was common, so it was not even an issue, but it is not appropriate to be considered as an example of arranged marriage.

After groaning for a while, Lef came to a conclusion.

“Ha, damn, I’ll take this mugwort… No, I’ll have to go to my father this time, I have to ask him to change his position!”

“Father is busy.”

“Cancer, you must be busy, but the person who should be busier is you. I mean, go ahead and do some preliminary work while you’re still looking at the suspension design.

Lev, who grabbed Nikita halfway by the collar and almost kicked him out of the building, looked at the secret blueprint as soon as the door closed.

“Hey, what kind of glory am I going to get?”

Lev, who had folded the design of a trial suspension made by overlapping disk springs, said to have been made by a German engineer, picked up the phone.

“He is the deputy commander. Connect to the secretariat.”

***

What are some must-visit places in St. Petersburg?

It will be different for each person, but if you are of the royal family or are in a position where you can have the highest-ranking royal family beside you, it is better to settle the meal at the palace.

In the first place, it is less likely that a chef at a regular restaurant will have a higher level than a chef at the Imperial Palace.

Of course, as the capital was moved to Moscow in order to drain the power of the existing established powers due to the purge of the nobility, it became a bit absurd, but it is different now.

After the end of the Great War, when power was firmly established, the royal family returned to visit or even moved their residence to St. Petersburg among the high-ranking royal families.

Examples include Archduke Nikolai and Archduke Lev. No, to be more precise, the majority of the married Grand Dukes reside in St. Petersburg.

First of all, it’s a much better place to live than Moscow. To borrow the words of Archduke Lev, it is a place that ‘smells more like people living than Moscow’.

I don’t know if it’s a joke or not, but there was a saying that I can’t tell if I’m at work or at home when I’m in Moscow.

Even if not necessarily, she also had no objection that St. Petersburg was a much more beautiful city than Moscow.

However, it is clear that even though the coffee is roasted and brewed by a person with the best skills, it tastes like boiling sand.

The same goes for food, it tastes like the chewing sand from the finest sweets.

It is awkward. Uncomfortable.

He obviously rejected himself.

But she didn’t want to give up.

Both know it.

‘That’s why I didn’t want to come out.’

I remembered the warning of my own deputy commander and half-brother Lev, who was loaded with a PPK pistol for the decoration and returned from a business trip with his secretary to St. Petersburg, and said that he would shoot if he did not return within today, or if he did not come back after rectifying the situation.

Of course I know. I know that Lev is doing it for himself too.

And what I’m doing now is pathetic and stupid.

‘Or organize the relationship neatly, or have a relationship.’

Like his father, he wears octopus legs.

For such things, Lev is famous for being a pure and docile person only to his wife, without any common rumors…

“that…..”

“I……”

The timing was bad.

Even if I try to talk, I open my mouth at the same time, so I hesitate, and then the conversation is blocked again.

“Oh, tell me first.”

Worst.

With my head empty, I just opened my mouth to break this unbearable silence.

What are you talking about? Usually, when we talked about our upcoming wedding at this time, everyone laughed and agreed with us, but his head was enough to predict that if he said that, he would hit the mine detonator properly and explode violently.

Then… a work story?

To be honest, Nikita was a difficult person to talk to comfortably. The main reason is because of the stories of things that come out without even trying.

Of course, Nikita was not unaware of that reputation. No, it was rather encouraged.

As a person who doesn’t like speaking in front of many people by nature, it was also a measure of his own so as not to get caught up in a troublesome situation.

At least it doesn’t bother me that I can’t get enough rest during my break.

Well, it’s an appropriate story, and there’s something to talk about, so that’s all you need to decide.

If you’re prepared to go back and get a shot in the knee. Nikita remembered a lef who was going to rip it off while ranting that it wouldn’t hurt much because it was a weak shot, and in less than half a second, he erased that part from his mind.

“Once upon a time, this place was so much more beautiful.”

As if something else had moved his mouth, Nikita was startled at the thought that came out of his mouth without knowing it, but he continued.

“I have never seen it myself, but my mother had fond memories of her childhood with her father and sisters here.”

“Why did you disappear?”

“Your father took it away.”

He purged the nobles who were hindering them from gaining power, weakened the influence of the St. Petersburg-affiliated bourgeoisie who supported them, and raised his allies, Moscow-based tycoons.

Of course, now it is trust and naval, and his father’s power was to dismantle it with a single snap of a finger, but it was proof that there were many unstable parts at that time.

But I had no intention of bringing up such a long, tedious, bloody, bloody power struggle, or the dark side of the Empire.

“If you were a father who was always a few steps ahead of us, I just think there must have been a reason.”

such a being

The reason why not only their children, but everyone they knew did not dare to touch ‘him’.

Because he did not dare to think that he could replace or imitate a superman.

Few have attempted such a thing. Even that was close to failure.

The living proof sat right in front of him.

“I’m…..”

she said softly.

“It’s something they were trying to ‘create’ to be like him.”

Failed work, unfinished work.

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Maybe it was fate.

It might not be a coincidence that his biological offspring saved the girl who was created to be like him from a harsh fate.

Rather than artificial, like some kind of attraction?

And, she believed in fate.

“It’s a coincidental and pleasant coincidence. Just as I was born as a child of a father and mother.”

On the other hand, Nikita did not believe in fate.

“There is a saying my father often said, that there is no such thing as fate.”

Words repeated over and over again, sometimes with confidence, at other times to calm the mind, and sometimes with irritation.

‘There is no fixed destiny, our future is only what we make.’

Of course, there are basic rules of the world created by God. If the basic principle of how the world works is called fate, it could be called fate.

But meeting someone, falling in love with someone, loving someone… is that also fate?

‘It wouldn’t be.’

Then, a voice came from behind.

“brother?”

“…….uh?”

Startled by the voice of a girl, the two turned their heads, and there stood a girl with reddish blonde hair with her hair tied to the left.

“Carina?”

Seeing her half-sister, Nikita hiccuped.

“What, why?”

“Hey, I was surprised that it suddenly popped out…”

“Is the person next to you a lover?”

“Hey, out of nowhere, what does that mean?”

However, Nikita noticed.

That Karina’s blue eyes were full of playfulness, like a cat that caught prey.

“Hello, my name is Karina. I heard your name. M… Mr. Ryan.”

“This is ‘Mo’rian. It is an honor to meet you. Karina.”

“No way, am I not imperial?”

Of course, an illegitimate child of the king and an illegitimate child clearly recognized by her father would be treated as aristocratic and had a much higher status than the nothing Morian, but Karina approached her friendly with a smile as if she didn’t care at all.

Sweat dripped down Nikita’s back.