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Chapter 1, the female chancellor betrayed by Rusley Highspear is stabbed before the throne and learns that the children she tried to protect have been burned. On the verge of death, she makes a contract with a mysterious being, agreeing to make Nenya Padorin the sun of the empire, and returns ten years into the past to the city of Rutel in the year 1362.","key_events":["The woman regresses 10 years to year 1362 in border city Rutel to search for Nenya Padorin.","On her deathbed, the woman contracts with a mysterious being to place Nenya Padorin on the Platinum Throne.","The regressed woman intervenes to save Nenya from bandits and vows to trust no one.","Nenya, saintess of Rutel, is targeted for kidnapping by bandits while buying flowers for the temple.","Rusley Highspear kills the female chancellor who made him emperor and declares himself the sole sun of the Empire."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"THERE WAS A TIME...\nWHEN I BELIEVED YOU WERE A SUN THAT SHONE SO BRILLIANTLY.\n\nTHEN YOU SHOULD BE PLEASED.\nEVERYTHING HAS TURNED OUT EXACTLY AS YOU WISHED.\n\nRAISE YOUR HEAD AND LOOK AT THE THRONE.\nWHO IS THE MAN SITTING UPON IT NOW?\nAS OF THIS MOMENT, I, RUSLEY HIGHSPEAR,\n\nAM THE SOLE SUN OF THE EMPIRE.\n\nTHEN LET ME ASK YOU ONE THING, YOUR IMPERIAL MAJESTY!\nAFTER I WORKED LIKE A DOG FOR YOU, WHY DID YOU TURN MY STOMACH INTO A SWORD SHEATH?!\nWAIT...\nTHEN TIRIEN... WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN...?\n\nDON'T TELL ME THEY'RE ALL...\nEVERY LAST CHILD YOU TRIED TO PROTECT WAS BURNED AT THE STAKE.\nALONG WITH THAT MAN.\n\nDO YOU SUPPOSE THEY SCREAMED YOUR NAME AS THEY BURNED ALIVE?\n\nI'VE WANTED TO SEE THAT LOOK ON YOUR FACE FOR SO LONG.\nI'VE WATCHED YOU DROWN COUNTLESS POLITICAL ENEMIES,\n\nYET I COULD NEVER SEE INTO THE MURKY DEPTHS OF YOUR HEART.\n\nYOU SHOULD'VE CHOSEN ME OVER THOSE LITTLE BIRDS FROM THE START!\n\nTHE EMPIRE'S SUN CASTS NO SHADOW.\nGLORY TO THE PLATINUM THRONE.\nGL-GLORY TO THE PLATINUM THRONE!\n\nGLORY TO THE PLATINUM THRONE!\n\n...SO THIS IS HOW THE WOMAN WHO ONCE HELD THE ENTIRE EMPIRE IN HER HANDS MEETS HER END.\n\nEVEN THE HIGH AND MIGHTY DIE WHEN THEY BLEED, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.\nEVERYONE WHO MIGHT HAVE MOURNED YOU IS ALREADY DEAD, BUT MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.\n\nIS THIS TRULY THE END?\nIN THE END, I COULDN'T ACCOMPLISH A THING...\n\nWHERE DID MY PLANS GO WRONG?\n\nWHICH CHOICE SENT THIS STORY DOWN THE WRONG PATH?\nFROM THE VERY BEGINNING.\n\nWHO...?\nIF YOU WERE GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE,\n\nWOULD YOU START OVER?\nPLACE THE RIGHTFUL RULER UPON THE PLATINUM THRONE\n\nAND MAKE AN EMPEROR ONCE MORE.\n...YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO ASK!\nI REFUSE TO DIE LIKE THIS! IT'S TOO UNFAIR!\n\nIF YOU'VE GOT THE POWER TO DO IT,\nSEND ME BACK RIGHT NOW!\n\nTHIS CONTRACT CANNOT BE UNDONE.\nYOUR SECOND LIFE WILL BE A CURSE IN ITSELF.\n\nIF SHE DIES, YOU WILL RETURN TO THE PAST.\n\nBUT NEVER FORGET THAT THIS POWER IS FINITE.\nYOU HAVE ONLY ONE TASK:\nMAKE NENYA PADORIN...\nTHE SUN OF THE EMPIRE!\n\n!\nEXCUSE ME, ARE YOU ALRIGHT?\n\nWHAT YEAR IS IT ACCORDING TO THE PLATINUM CALENDAR?\nOH, UM... IT'S 1362.\nYou're soaking wet...\nTHANKS!\n\nMY BODY'S COMPLETELY FINE... NOT A SINGLE SCAR, EITHER.\nI REALLY DID COME BACK... TEN YEARS INTO THE PAST...\nTHAT MEANS THE WAR OF SUCCESSION HASN'T EVEN BEGUN YET.\n\nTHE UNDISPUTED LARGEST NATION ON THE CONTINENT:\nKARIA, THE PLATINUM EMPIRE.\nITS LANDS WERE SO FERTILE THAT PEOPLE BELIEVED THEY WERE BLESSED BY GOD,\n\nAND IT BOASTED A FORMIDABLE MILITARY FORCE LED BY ITS KNIGHTS.\n\nBUT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD LASTS FOREVER.\nTHE REIGNING EMPEROR WAS POISONED TO DEATH WITHOUT LEAVING AN HEIR.\n\nTHE GREAT NOBLES KNOWN AS THE SEVEN GREAT HOUSES\nSEIZED THEIR CHANCE AND LAUNCHED A WAR OF SUCCESSION TO CLAIM THE IMPERIAL THRONE.\nTHAT WAS THE BASIC PREMISE OF THE STORY.\n\nAND AFTER BEING TOSSED AROUND IN THAT WHIRLWIND OF HISTORY,\nI MANAGED TO MAKE A NEW EMPEROR.\n\nTSK. THAT WORTHLESS BASTARD.\nJUST HOW LONG HAD HE BEEN PLANNING TO STAB ME IN THE BACK?\n\nANYWAY, NENYA PADORIN...\nACCORDING TO THE ORIGINAL STORY, SHE WOULD’VE BEEN ASSASSINATED ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.\n\nSHE WAS, QUITE LITERALLY...\nTHE WEAKEST CONTENDER.\nAT THE VERY LEAST,\nI KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.\nJUDGING BY THE SCENERY AND BUILDINGS AROUND ME,\n\nTHIS IS RUTEL, A CITY ON THE BORDER.\nJUST BEFORE THE STRUGGLE FOR THE IMPERIAL THRONE BEGINS,\n\nNOMADIC INVADERS WILL REDUCE THIS CITY TO RUINS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE EMPIRE'S TURMOIL.\nAND NENYA, WHO WILL BE AMONG THE REFUGEES,\nWILL UNEXPECTEDLY BE REVEALED AS AN ILLEGITIMATE DAUGHTER OF HOUSE PADORIN, ONE OF THE SEVEN GREAT HOUSES, AND GET DRAGGED INTO THE SUCCESSION WAR.\n\nTHE FACT THAT RUTEL IS STILL STANDING MEANS NENYA MUST BE HERE.\nTHOSE WATER GHOSTS SURE KNOW HOW TO TREAT A CUSTOMER.\n\nWHAT'S THIS?\nLOOKS LIKE YOU'VE COME TO THE WRONG PLACE, MISS.\nOR ARE YOU HOPING TO BE SOLD INTO SLAVERY?\n\nI NEED YOU TO FIND SOMEONE.\nSHE'S A YOUNG WOMAN WITH PLATINUM-BLOND HAIR AND EMERALD-GREEN EYES,\nAND SHE'S STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL.\nHERE'S YOUR FEE.\n\nIT'S BROKEN, BUT IT SHOULD STILL FETCH A DECENT PRICE.\nDEAL?\n\nBURNET FLOWERS?\nMORE INJURED PEOPLE AGAIN?\nYOU'RE TAKING THIS TO THE TEMPLE, AREN'T YOU? YOU'VE GOT SUCH A KIND HEART.\n\nOh, not at all~\nHERE YOU GO, NENYA!\nTHANK YOU!\n\nI'LL STOP BY AGAIN!\nSURE! GET HOME SAFELY!\n\nHEH HEH HEH...\nYOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I’VE WAITED FOR THIS DAY...\nI’LL HAVE MY FUN WITH YOU, THEN SELL YOU OFF TO ONE OF THE SEVEN GREAT HOUSES.\n\nBOSS, MESSING WITH THE SAINTESS OF RUTEL IS A BIT...\nWOULDN'T THAT TURN THE ENTIRE CITY AGAINST US?\nWHAT ARE THOSE EYES OF YOURS FOR?\nTHIS PENDANT ISN'T AN ORDINARY TRINKET.\nWE'VE ALREADY STRUCK GOLD. WE CAN WORRY ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES LATER.\n\nALL WE HAVE TO DO IS TAKE THIS WOMAN AND GET OUT OF RUTEL!\nPLEASE...\nSOMEONE... HELP...\nJUST AS I THOUGHT. YOU KNEW ABOUT HER ALL ALONG.\n\nTHEN AGAIN, A FACE LIKE HERS IS HARD TO MISS.\nJUST LEAVE.\n\nBECAUSE TODAY, I'M IN A GOOD...\nMOOD...\n\nWH-WHAT THE HELL?!\n\nAH... AHH...\n\nTHANK YOU FOR SAVING ME...\n\n...WHY?\nTHERE'S SOMETHING I NEED TO CHECK.\n\nI MADE UP MY MIND EARLIER.\nIN THIS LIFE...\n\nI WON'T EVEN TRUST THE DEVIL.","bubble_count":125,"pages_count":55,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"In Save the Sunfish Princess!","spoiler_summary":"In Save the Sunfish Princess! Chapter 1, the female chancellor betrayed by Rusley Highspear is stabbed before the throne and learns that the children she tried to protect have been burned. 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