chapter 17: Surprise!!!!
Later on, it was siad that it was a divine punishment for killing his own son. However, the truth behind this gruesome event was quite simple. Tired for trying to awake the moral conscience of king James, his loyal bishop Gui lost his stress. The problem is that he won, instead, a schizofrenic schizofrenia. Steiner, who was unable to get rid of him in the traditional way -it was a cold winter and all the windows in the castle were closed, so there was no way to help Gui to fly-, attempted to get himself busy. So he killed a paradoxian fellow, Lord Spain (1). It was nothing personal but a sheer case of contradiction. How an English lord could be called Spain "What if Lord Spain Failed to Control the World?", he asked, so he killed..
Then something silly took place. The duke of Provence died, poor him. The big surprise came when his last will was readed and good old king James became his heir, so near half of the south of France was incorporated to the Catalan kingdom.
Even Petiniebla didn't know what to do about it
King James was amazed and Steiner happy. The duke of Milan, who saw himself surrounded, wasn't so enthusiastic about the issue.
Meanwhile, Gui's illnes go from bad to worse. Now he said that he was talking with angels and that God had send him an special angel called Canonized to guide him to put order into the world.
It was madness, but not Sparta. Then, suddenly... Steiner found the love of his life. It was the very Catalan Queen. As James was busy with his 16 lovers, she got bored to sobs and... stop! Don't look at me! The chaste one is Gui, not James nor me! And Gui is crazy, by the way. Take your own ideas aobut the issue.
The Queen after recovering her happines.
And some sad day...
Jaume, king of Aragon, of Mordor and...
er...
Jaume, king of Aragon, Castille, Jerusalem, León, Navarre and Portugal, duke of Badajoz, Catalunya, Coimbra, Petra, Pronvece, Switzerland, Seville, Schawabelnad, Tunis, Valencia, Castille and Morocco, and count of Barcelona, Valencia, Cadiz, Algeciras, Provence, Castellón, Dènia, Tarragona, Malaga, Seville, Lleida, Urgell, Granada, Empuries and Rosselló, died when being 51 years old, leaving to his son, Ramón Berengue, his kingdom, his treasure and his hareem.
And to Steiner.
Well...
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Psst... Judas...
Tell me, Kardinal Petrus...
What about us...
Soon we'll resurface...