The Mad Dog of the Dukes House - Chapter 33



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Episode 33 10. Digging a ditch and catching crayfish (2)

3.

“We don’t have time, so let’s talk about the details later. If this information is false, Caligo will be held accountable.”

“It’s scary. But don’t worry. We’re already in the same boat.”

“Yes, Brother Caron. Why would we lie to the Duke of Reston?”

“… … Haa. I’ll see you later, 6th Prince. Well, I’m busy so I’ll take my leave now.”

After receiving all the necessary information from Poina, Caron and his party left immediately.

So only Revelio, Poina, and Mason were left in the reception room.

Revelio looked at the door and smiled.

“Do you like my little brother, sis?”

“We just met today, and what do you mean, brother? I don’t know what you’re thinking. Don’t you, Lord Mason?”

“It’s not like the prince has been like this for a day or two. I’ve already given up a long time ago.”

Poina sighed and looked at her younger brother.

“I don’t want to get involved with the royal family, but I hate getting involved with the Duke of Reston even more. If we’re not careful, the entire organization could get swept up.”

“The results were good, right? Plus, I made a close friend.”

The prince took a bite of the apple that was on the table.

Sweet juice filled my mouth.

“Do you remember the apples your older sister gave you when you were little that were incredibly bitter?”

“At that time, I had just come to this city to save my people, so I had no money. You were a real give-away kid back then, weren’t you?”

“You have to speak straight. You weren’t a child that was given away, you were a child that was abandoned. If it weren’t for Lord Mason, you would have been assassinated long ago like our mother. And even now, you’re still an abandoned child.”

Revelio briefly recalled old memories.

When his own mother was alive.

The memories of her childhood, when she had no choice but to run away from the palace to survive with the other empresses, were still vivid in her mind.

His mother was killed by an assassin sent by someone during the process. If Mason, sent by the Emperor, had arrived even a little later, he would have died then too.

After that, Revelio grew up in Thebes until he returned to the palace at the age of fifteen.

That is why Thebes was his hometown.

It was a great city to live in hiding, and you could learn anything here.

Poina, the head of Caligo, was also a person I had met at that time.

“If you think about it, you know I have a significant stake in Caligo, right?”

“It was the tuition I received in exchange for teaching you magic. It was fair compensation for your labor.”

“Even so, there is no denying that the money came out of my pocket.”

Poina quietly looked at Revelio, who was whining.

I still can’t forget the look of hatred in his eyes when he was little.

He may be covering up his hatred with laughter now, but it’s impossible for such deep emotions to disappear.

“I came to the black market with the intention of selling my bloodline, but I see no reason to sell it now. I should save it and sell it.”

“Is it true that the rumors about the Emperor’s health are bad?”

“Thanks to you, there was chaos among the nobles. Even though the Emperor’s position is a position of a pantsuit, its symbolism cannot be ignored. Damn father. I wish you were still alive before I send you to the hospital.”

Originally, it was Revelius who had come down from Thebes to seek sponsors.

Unlike the capital city where nobles were at the center, there were people who could exert influence in the empire even if they were not nobles.

However, this incident led to a connection with the Duke of Reston.

I was lucky.

Maybe the misfortune I had as a child is coming back to me now.

“I’ve come to benefit from the old men who advocate war.”

Main wave.

Warmongers who consistently insist that the empire’s mighty power must be projected outward.

It was highly likely that they had some influence on this attack.

“It’s obvious since they even sent down the Imperial Guards.”

The Imperial Guard, the royal knights’ order, was not sent down to investigate this incident.

They probably came down to destroy evidence just in case something unexpected happened.

Because there are forces within the Imperial Guard that follow the main wave.

“What do you think will happen if the Duke of Reston gets his hands on the evidence?”

Rebelio answered Poina’s question as if he had been waiting for it.

“The giant that has been quiet until now will move.”

“It’s going to get noisy.”

“I bet you that at the center of all this commotion is Charon Reston? How does Lord Mason see it?”

“If he was a four-star at the age of thirteen, he would be on par with the Halo Duke when he was thirteen. And that sword the boy was holding… … even I was afraid.”

Mason had seen many of the Duke of Reston’s swords, but Charon’s sword was far more terrifying than any other.

When I first saw that sword, I mistook it for a demon sword rather than a treasured sword.

“He will definitely grow up to be a monster.”

“Even now, aren’t you a monster compared to your peers?”

“It will become an even more terrible existence than it is now.”

That wasn’t a guess, it was a certainty.

I felt it when I looked into the eyes of that thirteen-year-old boy.

A spirit that is not broken even in the face of the strong. Those with such spirit will surely rise to the ranks of the strong.

Spirit is innate.

“You may not know my eye for it, but you have to trust Lord Mason’s eye for it, Sister.”

“I felt it even without Sir Mason explaining it to me, you little brat.”

Poina sighed deeply.

“Humans are so strange. What on earth are they thinking when they mess with the Duke of Reston?”

Grand Duke Halo, who leads the Reston Dukedom, is the greatest hero on the continent. He was the great hero who overthrew the evil emperor and ended the dark age. Her common sense made it impossible for her to mess with such people.

Rebellio answered Poina’s question simply.

“That’s because you don’t have experience. Humans are originally that kind of species.”

It had been nearly fifty years since the Duke of Reston had intervened in imperial affairs.

After they deposed the Emperor, the Duke of Reston lived quietly in their lands, following the wishes of the Grand Duke of Halo.

When a favor is continued, people think it is a right.

Especially when greed clouds our vision.

“I don’t know why I do things I regret.”

“When greed blinds us, we all end up like that. If people didn’t do things they would regret, why would there be a word for regret?”

The prince leaned back comfortably on the sofa and closed his eyes.

“It’s like a cow backing down and catching a mouse. That’s what makes the world so interesting. Who would have thought such coincidences would happen?”

“I was lucky.”

“Sister. Luck is also a skill. And this is what people usually call fate.”

At Rebellio’s words, Poina let out a deep sigh. Then she took a sip of tea.

It was the tea I always drank. But today, it tasted a little different.

“… … I think I can taste blood in the car.”

The information she passed on would cause a bloodbath somewhere in this splendid city.

But I decided not to care too much.

That would be a reasonable price for foolish people to pay.

4.

Late at night.

A large mansion located in the western part of Thebes.

This was the place where the owner of the Oyun Sangdae, a large upper house that served as one axis of the Theban Council, lived.

A splendid mansion with a beautiful garden to match.

In this garden, where one would normally spend a quiet night, the mansion’s servants were busy loading carriages.

“Phew.”

Sangdangju Oh Yoon looked down at the scene from the second floor of the mansion and sighed deeply.

Where did things get so messed up?

He tilted the glass in his hand and made a bitter expression.

Maybe it was wrong to just cooperate with their plan.

I asked them to airlift explosives, so they brought me some.

But I never dreamed that they would use those explosives to attack the Duke of Reston.

Oh Yoon smiled bitterly as she recalled her past.

“It’s all my fault.”

For someone of commoner origins, he amassed a fortune that is hard to imagine.

I would have been satisfied with that, but naturally my eyes turned to noble titles.

The status of nobility that one has longed for throughout one’s life.

Unlike himself, who had lived his life being looked down upon as a commoner, he wanted his children to live with noble treatment.

So, I lined up in central politics.

It’s been 15 years since I started lending them money and doing their dirty work.

All of these things were done for the goal of becoming a noble.

I thought this incident was just one of those things.

“haha.”

I had no intention of blaming anyone.

Because all of this started from my own greed.

The only consolation is that I had already evacuated my family in advance.

The moment he sensed that something was wrong, he sent his family out of Thebes.

I have given you enough money to live off of for the rest of your life, so you won’t have a hard time.

‘He’ll be here soon.’

I heard that the Imperial Guard has entered Thebes and is conducting an investigation.

Oh Yoon also knew very well that it was not an investigation, but destruction of evidence.

In the end, he was just a discarded card.

The Imperial Guard would erase all traces of this city, and then take his own life as the last.

The Imperial Guard of today are practically their limbs.

It was around that time that he was looking out the window and giving up.

Kwaaaaang-!

A loud noise was heard outside, and soon screams began to ring out.

“Gyaaaah!”

“Please save me!”

“We, we didn’t do anything wrong… … .”

It looked like someone had entered here.

Not long after the commotion began, a servant opened the bedroom door and came in.

“Your Majesty, we’re in big trouble. The knights came barging in out of nowhere… … .”

“… …Imperial Guard.”

I thought it was going to happen.

But the servant shook his head and shouted.

“Oh, no. It’s the Knights of Haerang. The knights of the Duke of Reston… … .”

“How did they get here already-.”

Oh Yoon’s doubts did not continue until the end.

Kwaaaaang-!

The bedroom door was completely shattered and two boys stormed into the bedroom.

Oh Yoon already knew the faces of the two boys.

“We’re old friends, right? Representative Oh Yoon. I’m sorry for coming to see you so rudely in the middle of the night. Honestly, I can’t make an appointment and come see you in this situation, right?”

Caron Reston, Leo Reston.

Grandsons of Grand Duke Halo, who almost died in the accident that occurred this afternoon.

“Are you thinking of moving somewhere? When I came in, I saw the servants working hard to load the luggage.”

In Charon’s right hand was a blood-stained sword.

The pungent smell of blood began to spread throughout the bedroom.

“… … You killed even the servants? They are not guilty.”

“Oh, this blood? Don’t worry. It’s not the blood of servants. We’re not murderers, and we don’t kill just anyone.”

Caron approached Oh Yoon with a bitter smile.

In Caron’s left hand was a pouch containing something.

“It’s up to you to move, but you have to pay off your debts before you go. Do you think that someone who runs a business should do such rough calculations?”

Oh Yoon couldn’t even move a finger.

The murderous intent felt from the young boy, that naked hostility, was binding his body.

All he could do now was look at the boy in horror.

Bam.

Charon threw the pouch in front of him.

“I prepared in advance in case you suddenly drink poison or bite your tongue. Would you like to take a look?”

In that moment, a feeling of anxiety washed over my whole body.

Oh Yoon picked up his pocket with trembling hands.

My heart started beating fast.

Could it be that they had noticed the presence of the family members who had escaped first? If they had barged in here, they must have secured substantial evidence.

If so, what’s in this pocket…?

“Can’t open it?”

Charon smiled and raised his sword.

“Should I do this for you too? I pulled out the sword for you earlier… … People are so lazy these days.”

Booooook-.

Charon’s sword passed through Oh Yoon’s wrist and cut into his pocket.

Blood flowed from the shallow cut on his wrist, but Oh Yoon didn’t have the presence of mind to check it.

Bam.

Several severed hands of someone fell out of the torn pocket.

As soon as Oh Yoon saw the wrist, her whole body trembled.

“You found… my family? How… how did this… … happen?”

“Why, you tried to kill our family, but you can’t kill us?”

Caron gave instructions to his opponent in a leisurely voice.

“Oh Yoon, take a closer look at your wrist.”

At those words, Oh Yoon looked at her hands again with trembling eyes.

Hands covered in calluses.

Fortunately, it wasn’t the hands of his wife and children.

“We secured your family’s recruits. But someone sent someone to kill your family? So we cut off their wrists.”

“My family… … are they alive?”

“Of course. As I said before, we don’t kill innocent people. Oh, there are no charges revealed right now, but if we investigate, there might be some suspicions uncovered, right?”

“My… … my family is not guilty… … .”

“Let me give you one piece of advice.”

Caron kicked Oh Yoon’s leg, knocking him to the ground.

And then he whispered quietly as he stuck the guillotine into the floor next to Oh Yoon’s neck.

“You are the only one who can prove that your family is innocent. Do you understand what I mean?”

A malicious smile spread across the boy’s lips.

There’s a mad dog living in the duke’s house