“It is you!”
Aaron Hereace pointed a finger at someone and shouted.
Everyone who saw the person he was pointing was in astonishment.
“Yeah, it can’t be. no way….”
“No one else….”
But Aaron’s voice did not waver.
“It is you. Duke Everett.”
He murmured again, like a wedge. The gazes of Duke Everett and Aaron, who had stood still, collided in the air.
A strange current flowed.
“No, that’s not it!”
The first to object to this were the new aristocrats. They went crazy and jumped, one by one, running to Aaron.
“Earl Hereace. I think I misunderstood something, huh? Duke Everett!”
“okay. Come out and talk to each other for a while, okay?”
“Yes, yes. But first of all, I’m going to do some of the things I used to do.”
Aaron laughed softly and chewed their words.
Seeing that, Leverticia slowly clicked her tongue.
‘I did it, but… He’s really going to ignore his side and follow our plan.’
I didn’t know if he was a really great guy or a pretty idiot.
She thought that he would betray her in the middle, so she set up Plan B and Plan C, but suddenly something broke.
If this plan is successful, it can be said that the new nobles will be wiped out first. It meant that Aaron’s power would lose limbs.
Even though Aaron did not participate in their plan, the New Nobility was a force united from Aaron.
Despite this, Aaron, who continued to attack Duke Everett from the podium, ignoring the new nobles stalking them, made eye contact with Leverticia for a moment.
He said, ‘Did I do well?’ He asked, closing his eyes and smiling. Leverticia averted her eyes, pretending not to know.
“… Judging from the information gathered from others, the warlocks always attacked places where only Duke Everett did little damage. Not only that. Duke Everett has been very passive in the eradication of warlocks.”
Even after being attacked by Aaron for a long time, Duke Everett remained silent without changing a single face.
“how.”
Duke Everett, who had been silent, spoke after a while. “I have no idea what you are talking about.”
Like a man who had been the head of the empire’s second-largest public gods for a long time, Duke Everett was no joke about the intimidation that came from every word he spoke.
“Is there any evidence that I colluded with them?”
The inside of the banquet hall, which had been burning with anger at his words, sank as coldly as ice water was poured on it.
‘Is it time to step forward?’
Leverticia signaled to Evelyn, who was standing near the door.
Although Aaron did not betray him and did better than expected, it was difficult for him to stand up to the Duke of Everett. I wasn’t expecting that from the beginning.
‘There is no other enemy of Duke Everett.’
Leverticia raised the corner of her lips slightly and smiled and looked at Duke Everett.
He still spoke to Aaron with a face as cold as ice.
“I’m sorry, but the evidence the Count has presented is all false evidence. That’s right for anyone other than me.”
“However…!”
“Rather, if you put it that way, aren’t there people who are more suspicious than me? for example-”
Duke Everett’s lips twitched.
“The Duke and Duchess of Baltail, who have not lit their noses for several days now.”
“you’re right!”
When they turned around and finally reached their original goal, the new nobles fiercely agreed with Duke Everett.
“Earl Hereace. There is no evidence for the Count’s claim. However, as Duke Everett said, if the Duke and Duchess of Baltail were the insiders, the evidence is sufficient.”
“The evidence… Is there?”
“yes. of course. Guard! Bring those witnesses from earlier, come on!”
The new aristocrats had lost their momentum and shouted out loud outside the banquet hall.
They already had fake witnesses. The false witnesses were criminals who were unfairly judged for having an affair with a warlock.
He was persuaded to them, ‘Even if you die, you will take care of the rest of your family, so testify that the Duchess of Baltail is also an insider just like you.’
What happened to these witnesses was unknown to Aaron, who was still with the new nobles.
The Emperor, who was watching the situation unfold, whispered quietly to Leverticia.
“How… I don’t think things are going the way we want them to. Shall we all stop with yellow light even now?”
“No, Your Majesty. Just leave it alone. It’s going the way we want it to.” Leverticia laughed lowly.
There was something she hadn’t told the emperor or Aaron beforehand. “Wow, I brought the witness you mentioned here.”
They still had a trump card, someone who could deal with the Duke of Everett from the start.
How to make a board – I only had to think about it, but fortunately, the other side first opened up a big board like this.
They were already caught in the net, and in it they were nothing but fish biting and devouring each other.
“Yes. Then I will testify as a witness.”
“Huh! Everything, you-”
“How did you get here!”
Seeing a man entering the banquet hall, everyone in the room couldn’t help but roar loudly.
Called in as a witness, he continued to speak in a cold voice that seemed to be covered with thin ice, without heeding even the eyes of shock.
“Duke Everett is a warlock’s confidant, or a longtime ally of the warlock. All the evidence of that is in my hands.”
The Duke Everett, who had maintained his expressionless expression so far, also wrinkled his expression as soon as he saw the witness’s face.
He muttered low, biting his teeth.
“… Nsody Everett.”
***
It was just a few weeks ago when Nsody woke up.
‘What? ten years…? Ten years have passed since then? Leverticia, have you really gone crazy?’
‘haha. This bastard, I see that he still has nothing to do with it, so fortunately his head is not hurt and he seems to be in good health.’
Like her, Nsody had only memories of before she fainted, and she didn’t feel that ten years had passed.
After all, starting with the story of the chaos and explaining everything once, Nsody accepted the reality in disappointment.
He knew that even if he was confused, it wouldn’t help the situation in front of him, so he didn’t do anything stupid or escaping from reality.
He was cool in many ways, but he was smart.
‘damn. More like a monster of chaos. It must have been my father’s work.’
‘Did you know it was going to be like this?’
‘I didn’t know exactly. But he was plotting a dangerous thing, and he knew that if he didn’t stop it quickly, the empire could collapse.’
‘But you don’t say it and you’re the only one who knows it? You are also an accomplice, child. Go to jail right now-‘
‘It’s never too late to put me in jail after I’ve cleared things up. First of all, I have the evidence I’ve been digging up my father’s back. Bringing him down with that is the priority.’
Nsody collected evidence of Duke Everett’s collaboration with the warlocks ten years ago and cleverly hid it in a place only he could see.
And the evidence consisted of information that could be reasonably used even ten years later.
“Here, this third document reveals that the Duke of Everett was definitely involved in the warlocks’ forbidden studies.”
Nsody’s words echoed through the quiet hall.
The evidence he had was constantly pouring out. By this time, even the new nobility who had laid the first boards were about to leave with a gasp.
“Well, by the way, where has Confucius Everett been for ten years, and then did he appear now?”
“No, more than that. Weren’t you two rich? A son who uncovers evidence of his father’s crimes….”
People panicked in many ways.
Among them, the emperor seemed to be the only one who enjoyed watching this workshop.
Even Aaron looked at Leverticia in embarrassment at the sudden appearance of Nsody, but she responded with a single shrug.
‘Because we can’t open our treasury cards and walk around.’
The son of Nsody is the trump card. I don’t like the wording, but it didn’t matter because it was meant to bring down my father anyway.
She assures her that the anger Nsody had against the Duke of Everett was ‘real’.
‘But Nsody, why are you betraying your father? That’s a bit true, but wouldn’t it be more beneficial to you to stick with your father?’
‘I am a member of the Everett family who protects humans. You can’t be like a mad father.’
‘Oh. Such a just reason?’
‘… I don’t want to see the world go by that man’s plan.’
With the apparent disgust in Ensody’s eyes, Leverticia no longer doubted him from then on.
Meanwhile, Duke Everett kept his mouth shut as he listened to his son’s every confession of his mistakes.
However, it was a slightly different expression from the time he had been silent before.
‘It’s a one shot face.’
It was a pity that Leverticia couldn’t stand up and scold the Duke himself. Until the end of Nsody’s story, the Duke stood there as if he had eaten honey.
The nobles were too busy to understand the shocking situation, so they all rolled their eyes and didn’t say anything.
It was the emperor who opened his mouth to clear up the situation.
“It is a very sudden event, but it is such a shocking story that I have to deal with it seriously. Duke Everett, how are you? Is there anything you would like to refute?”
“….”
“Ugh. It seems that Jeonggok is stabbed and he has nothing to say.”
The emperor, who looked down at this scene with interest, opened his mouth.
“On a significant festival day, it is truly disgusting news. Let’s hear the details separately in prison. First, arrest the Duke of Everett right now—”
“This is true. It’s no problem.”
Just before the order to arrest was issued, Duke Everett, who had been silent all along, spoke.
He was a completely cornered man, and he didn’t look embarrassed or nervous. Rather, it was a slightly displeased face.
“I was going to say goodbye to all the pathetic bastards here anyway, but it doesn’t feel very pleasant to be hit in the back of the head at the end.”
“What, what? pathetic?”
“That man! You’re talking nonsense when your crimes are exposed!”
In an instant, the nobles who had been sold as pathetic people began to clamor. The peacock looked at such people and licked his tongue as he leaned back.
He seemed unwilling to bring the situation to my side. You just show your displeasure.
“Maybe it doesn’t go as planned until the very end… Well, it doesn’t matter now. Because I didn’t expect it in the first place.”
As Duke Everett spoke word by word, the surrounding banquet hall gradually began to fill with black smoke.
A twisted smile appeared on the peacock’s lips, who was staring straight at Nsody.
“Isn’t it just a matter of getting rid of everything and starting all over again?”
thud. kuung. Quad Duck.
At that moment, dozens of chaotic monsters began pouring into the banquet hall with a tremendous roar.
