While Leverticia was imprisoned, Kaiers was elsewhere.
If there was one good thing about the appearance of the monster of chaos, it was that you could freely roam around using the monster excuse.
Thanks to him, he got out of the imperial palace meeting without an answer until dawn, and he was satisfied and put down his teacup.
Then the president of the newspaper company sitting across from him opened his mouth, restless.
“Hey, what are you doing up to here at this hour, Duke?”
Kaiers attacked the empire’s largest newspaper. Reporters, who were busy until dawn due to recent incidents, all focused on him.
“No surprise. I’m here to make an offer that will benefit them.” “Any suggestion?”
“okay. I heard that you are writing an article about my wife.” “ma’am… Oh, yes.”
The president was surprised for a moment, but captured his expression.
He was a duke of Valtail with a ferocious image that no one could approach, by terrifyingly capturing the warlocks and blatantly rejecting Princess Everett and all the women who approached him.
But the word ‘my wife’ came out of the duke’s mouth. ‘It’s true that he’s been a hot topic lately, but….’
Are you saying that you made a special trip here because of that? Also in the middle of the night?
The gathered reporters glanced at each other. As if his journalistic spirit had begun to show, he took out his notebook and began to take notes.
Kyus snapped his finger, and his servant, standing behind him, handed over the papers.
“What. A lot of big things have happened lately, so you don’t have much time and you don’t have enough information, right? So I brought it
specially.”
“Oh oh. This.”
The documents presented by the servant were articles that summarized information about the returned Leverticia and her achievements in the past.
It looked like it had been prepared for quite some time, and it was neat and thorough.
The knights admired each other as they read the documents. There was a bit of exaggerated praise mixed in, but it was an article that wouldn’t be a problem even if it was sent out as breaking news right away.
The boss quickly made the calculations in his head. Obviously, what the Duke is saying is to let these knights go.
So, isn’t the Duke of Baltail in a position to ask of them now? If you trade with this a little more…
But before he could finish his calculations in his head, Kaiers took the papers away first.
“Give it up if you don’t like it. Newspapers wanting this material are all over the place. Hopefully there will be a place that misses a gold nugget like this.”
“Oh, wait! Wait!”
When he showed signs of leaving his seat at any moment, the boss hurriedly grabbed him.
If you use the data written there, you could create another hero that surpasses Earl Aaron Hereis.
As the chaos continues, people become fascinated with the existence of heroes.
It was only natural that the newspaper company, who had a taste for money by making Aaron Hereace a hero, did not want to miss it.
“It’s okay. I will handle it perfectly. Check it out in the article tomorrow morning.”
“It’s good to understand quickly. But if there’s an article that adds even the slightest bit of weirdness to her….”
Kaius raised an eyebrow quietly.
“… Duke Baltail would regard the whole as an enemy.” huh.
People took a breath. In an instant, the son-in-law became quiet.
Contrary to their serious expression, Kaiers said with a light smile.
“Do you really think that there will be no dukes and scoundrels by doing that? I know where and what will happen in the chaos. You have to be
careful.”
It was more captivating and beautiful than any human smile I had ever seen in my life.
To the extent that God sculpted that human smile, other humans used it for practice.
However, all the reporters and newspaper staff there trembled with excitement.
*
“What do you want to talk about?”
The Duke of Everett brought her to an interrogation room near the custody.
It’s been a while since I’ve talked to him face-to-face, so Leverticia also raised his vigilance.
Duke Everett took out a cigar and put it in his mouth, leaving his attendant outside. The first words that came out of his mouth along with the smoke were quite unexpected.
“Don’t worry, we haven’t installed any black magic-related items here.” “Neither of us are wizards, so what’s the point of saying that?”
“It’s a waste of time with everyone you know, so let’s not talk about it. Are you already noticing it?”
At Duke Everett’s words, Leverticia’s eyes narrowed at once.
After Nsody’s betrayal, he didn’t seem willing to hide the fact that I was having an affair with the warlocks in front of her.
“… Now I hear you say that I can kill the Duke by cutting the duke’s head right here.”
“A subject with no evidence? If you do, you will face the death penalty. Silly tricks are specifications.”
“If you didn’t call me to kill me, what was the purpose of bringing you back and telling me this?”
Whoa.
Cigarette smoke filled the narrow, dark secret room. Only his tie-pin, studded with jewels, shone slightly.
After a moment of silence, he opened his mouth. “Do you want to hold hands with me?”
“What?”
“He asked me if he wanted to help me and join the warlocks.” It was a proposal I hadn’t thought of.
Duke Everett tapped the table and waited for her reply. Leverticia was perplexed for a moment, then came to her senses. ‘What kind of craft?’
There was no way he really wanted to hold her hand.
The Duke of Everett was extremely loathsome for those who did not listen to him or follow his plans. She was the one who broke his plans every time.
Obviously, he had other intentions, so he had to reject it at once.
But her lips somehow did not move easily. ‘Are you trying to use this?’
Anyway, I knew it wasn’t an offer that the Duke really believed in me. There must be other purposes.
But hopefully this could be used in reverse. A method of giving away the flesh and taking the bones.
Leverticia lightly folded her arms and looked at him.
“Do you think I will fall for such a trick? You are telling me to sell the country at all.”
“Who are you selling to?” “What?”
“Who was the owner of the country in the first place? Emperor? Then,
when everything is over and I ascend to the throne, it is not you who sold the country, but what I have rightly.”
“… He is truly an incomparable human being.”
“No need to think badly. Be honest, Leverticia. You sold your pride, your life, and even your family for money, didn’t you?”
“Shut up.”
Leverticia bit her teeth and warned in a low voice. But the Duke of Everett once again took the cigar to his lips.
“People don’t know what is evil and what is bad. Being weak, weak, and stupid is the real evil. I’m just trying to purify a world stained with evil.”
“Would you like to join hands with the warlocks?”
“They are excellent researchers. He has mastered a level of research that humans cannot reach. He has skills that surpass humans. It’s wrong for the world to block that as a taboo.”
“That damn experiment killed hundreds or thousands of innocent people. If you add up the monsters in the chaos, there are countless victims.”
“Didn’t you tell me? Weakness is evil. It was a small consumption that could not be helped for the smart and strong.”
tuk.
He said as he threw a nearly burnt cigar on the ashtray.
“You are also a strong person, so you are not aware of that principle to some extent.”
dog whistle.
Leverticia stared at him quietly, thinking. Strong or weak, smart or not.
The weight of that life doesn’t make much difference. It was the conclusion I felt on the battlefield.
I wanted to refute the duke’s words right away, but Leverticia pretended not to be indifferent and opened her mouth, capturing her expression.
“therefore. What will come back to me when I hold hands with you?” “Did you feel a little out of your mind?”
“Well, a little bit. Come to think of it, as you said, I am strong, right? But there should have been one or two people who didn’t even know the subject. look now You locked me up here on the subject of weaklings. I’m tired of being used all over the place now.”
“That’s the mindset. If you hold hands with me, you can have anything you want. whatever it is.”
“Anything?”
Duke Everett leaned closer to her and whispered.
“… Warlocks’ research also includes a ‘resurrection’ scenario. If you help us, it may soon be possible to save your parents.”
“….”
It was a moment, but a very moment.
Those words were truly heartbreaking. Leverticia clenched her fists.
Duke Everett, who saw her trembling eyes for a moment, raised the corners of his mouth and added.
He said fiddling with my tiepin.
“You just need to say one word. From now on, you will follow me and help the warlocks, just one declaration and you will have the right to rule over
everything.”
His whispers felt as sweet as a snake biting a forbidden fruit. Leverticia slowly opened her mouth.
“I,”
okay.
“you….” That’s right.
It was when the corner of the peacock’s mouth slowly rose upwards. Whoops!
“I think you are a very trashy person.” “….”
Yamuzin Leverticia’s fist flew straight toward the Duke Everett’s face. However, the Duke’s face was just glaring at Leverticia.
Rather, her fists were subtly floating, unable to reach his face. It was because of the smoke.
Leverticia frowned.
“Are you using the secret of your family disrespectfully? I knew it.”
The hazy smoke that I thought was cigarette smoke soon turned black and surrounded the peacock’s body.
His body was enveloped in highly defensive smoke. “I met a crazy dog, but I wonder if I came naked.” Duke Everett stuck out his tongue.
“Stupid and stupid. Do you know why you can’t be the ruler? Because it is foolish and foolish.”
“Ah, my son and my dad always look at me like an idiot. Yeah, I’m not turning my head. But no, it’s better than eating it right?”
Leverticia lifted her outstretched fist and moved her hand quickly to pluck his tiepin.
“what-!”
“Anyway, you can’t beat me.”
The peacock’s face flushed with embarrassment. She looked more bewildered than when she first punched her here.
‘Letty, if the Duke keeps asking you to say something or swear something, be careful. Among the magic tools, there are many dangerous items.’
‘Isn’t it dangerous to just spit on it?’
‘I can force you to do what you said without meaning as an excuse. Or you can record your voice and spread it maliciously.’
‘It’s scary. Magical development.’
‘Especially if you keep fiddling with certain things when talking to you, or if there are things that you care about, be careful. even if it’s very small. There are a lot of small things that were processed to look unsuspecting.’
Reverticia raised an eyebrow, remembering the warning that Kaiers had given her the other day.
“They said they didn’t install any tools related to black magic.”
There was a very small button on the back of the tiepin. Leverticia lightly touched it.
– He said he didn’t install any tools related to black magic.
Her voice had just been recorded and flowed out. The peacock’s face was further distorted.
