Translator: AkazaTL
Pr/Ed: Sol IX
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Chapter 52 : Conspiracy - 2
"Kugh! S-save- hup!"
When I loosened my strength slightly, Bosman imdiately let out a scream.
Squelch-
I, having covered Bosman's mouth again, drew a line of blood on his fat neck and spoke.
"This is the last chance to answer. I will ask again. Where is my father right now?"
"If it is the Reichart Duke, right now, at Abysin, His Majesty…… Ugh!"
I stabbed the knife into Bosman's thigh with an expressionless face, as if making cuts in at.
"Ga-Ga-Garand Fortress, the Duke is at Garand Fortress."
"Why is Father, who should have gone to the capital, at Garand Fortress?"
"Tre…… tre…… treason……."
"Treason, you say? Good. Then who is the guy who frad him?"
"Fa-fa-father…… Grand Madam Vi-Vispon said she would create the evidence…… So if-if we just push His Majesty…… and persuade him…… if the Duke says it is a Royal Command…… he will not…… re…… sist……."
Bosman confessed everything he knew with a face covered in tears and snot.
In fact, neither Helkane nor Bosman expected that I would act this boldly.
It was a calculation where Helkane, who raised his pride unlike his usual self, and Bosman's useless pride brought about a fatal result.
'So that is how it happened.'
I nodded, having found out everything I wanted to know through Bosman's confession.
'Beverick and Rishu led the plan to fra the Family Head for treason. And Rishu and Helkane fabricated the evidence, is that it? And the stupid King stamped the seal on Beverick's false claims without suspicion.'
A conspiracy so clumsy it was hard to believe it was used to fra a Duke of a nation.
What was even funnier was that this cheap conspiracy worked properly and Redin was imprisoned.
'Were they so impatient that this land would be devoured by whole?'
Going through two wars, my position in Reichart had beco solid enough to rival Redin's before anyone knew it.
Until not long ago, Vispon would have doubted not a bit that the Reichart territory would soday beco Helkane's.
However, it was as obvious as seeing fire that I would beco Redin's successor if things went on like this.
That fact must have strongly stimulated Vispon.
I, having grasped the full story of the matter, moved the back of Axion's blade toward the back of Bosman's head.
"You rember clearly what you said to just now, right?"
"O-of course. Young Master. Hooogh……."
"Did Helkane ntion anything else separately?"
"Are, are you talking about the Young Master?"
"Right. Didn't he tell you I was a notorious scoundrel?"
Slide.
The blade of Axion, which was at the back of Bosman's head, moved to Bosman's Adam's apple before he knew it.
"Of course, the cri of failing to maintain confidentiality will be punished severely anywhere. However……."
"Hiek!"
"I do not think the punishnt of the Alphonse Family will be more dangerous than . What do you think?"
When I applied a very slight amount of force to my hand, Axion's blade dug into Bosman's Adam's apple.
"Th-that is correct! I also think so!"
Bosman, pale from the dizzying sensation felt at his neck, nodded continuously without even knowing what he was saying.
Right, as I said, his confessing of all the facts would correspond to a felony in the family.
However, no matter how great Beverick's anger might be, it did not look more dangerous than the man right in front of his eyes.
"What you said to today, you will have to say exactly the sa in front of other people tomorrow."
"I can do it. Of course. I will do it unconditionally!"
As the amount of blood drops falling from Adam's apple increased, Bosman's pledge also beca desperate.
What punishnt he would receive later and what impact it would bring to the conspiracy was not important right now.
'This guy is a guy who will kill right now if things go wrong!'
The most important thing to Bosman was his own life, and in the current situation, the one holding his lifeline was .
"That is truly fortunate."
Thud.
The back of Axion's blade struck the back of Bosman's head.
I, having confird that Bosman's bulky body had collapsed, snapped my fingers.
Hiss-
Then, the green-colored Gorgon from the bracelet Bosman was wearing flicked its tongue and began to greedily lick the blood pooling on the carpet.
I, who briefly watched the 'informant' who delivered the contents of Helkane and Bosman's secret eting having a al, snapped my fingers again.
Hiss-
The Gorgon, having finished its al, hid its figure inside Bosman's mouth this ti, not the bracelet.
"Ismael."
"Did you call, Commander."
Ismael stuffed Bosman into a leather sack prepared in advance and then shouldered it.
I, having confird that Ismael finished the cleanup, spoke.
"Tell Haken to await orders in a state of full armant."
***
Splash.
Rishu, who was listening to the sound of waves with her eyes closed, spoke in a secretive voice.
"Actually, I hoped it would be a little troubleso."
Flash.
The blade of Adonis, whose efficacy had already run out, received the cold moonlight and still flashed.
"Stealing this sword without you knowing, I an."
Inside the cabin where the sound of waves crashed in, there were only the two of them: Rishu and Redin, who was bound and had lost consciousness.
Under the cold moonlight, Rishu continued speaking unlike her usual self.
"It was too easy. Perhaps if this kind of thing hadn't happened, you wouldn't have known the fact that this object disappeared for your entire life."
Redin always carried the pendant containing Sophia.
No, it wasn't just the pendant; if it was an object containing mories with Sophia, he cherished every single one.
But, her own gift was…….
"Well, I suppose your heart toward was only about that much anyway."
Unfittingly violent veins bulged on the back of her elegant hand grasping Redin's collar.
"I wasn't like that though…… Aha, ahahaha!"
Suddenly, cheerful laughter like that of a young girl burst out from Rishu's mouth.
Rishu, who laughed aloud for a long while grasping Redin's collar, pulled the unconscious Redin's face and kissed him.
Rishu's kiss was violent enough to be reminiscent of a predator's hunting scene rather than that of a loving lover.
Knock knock.
"Grand Madam, we have arrived at the destination to escort His Excellency the Duke."
The intense kissing continued until it was announced that the escort ship carrying the two people had arrived at the destination.
"Haa, haa……."
Rishu, who detached her lips with a regretful expression, let out a rough breath and wiped her lips where Redin's touch remained fully.
Smack.
And wearing the freshest smile she could make, she spoke.
"We are all here. At the place where you can take a rest."
***
"What does that an right now? Grand Young Master! The Family Head committed treason!"
"Tower Master. I also cannot believe all this, but it is an undeniable fact happening in the capital right now."
"It makes no sense! For the Family Head to commit treason, not anyone else!"
"There must be so misunderstanding!"
The next day, around the ti dawn was breaking.
The vassals of Reichart, who gathered in one place at Helkane's request, raised their voices with pale faces.
"Right now, Duke Beverick's second son is here. And the reason he ca here is precisely to prevent the worst situation."
Looking at the vassals with flustered expressions, Helkane smiled a smile of conversion in his heart.
"The Alphonse Ducal Family's second son? Then the guest from the capital who ca leading Ares yesterday is……."
"Why did the Grand Young Master not tell us that important fact imdiately?"
"I only intended to tell you when the situation beca certain and counterasures were prepared."
"Explain the situation a little more in detail, Grand Young Master. For what reason on earth are you saying the Family Head was frad for treason?"
Bolpar urged for an answer with a spirit as if he would jump at Helkane right away.
"While investigating the stronghold of the group subjugated in the capital this ti, letters exchanged between those guys and Father were discovered."
"What does that an? That the Family Head exchanged letters with a rebel group?"
"I also do not want to believe it. But it is true that the handwriting of the discovered letters matches Father's, and it is also a fact that Father's seal is stamped on them. And testimonies related to Father ca out from the mouths of the arrested ones."
Helkane vomited out the prepared answer as if he had practiced.
"Handwriting is sothing that can be forged as much as one wants, and a seal? I have never heard a story that one used one's own seal on a letter plotting treason!"
"Then are you saying His Highness believed the words those guys said and those few thin sheets of paper and frad the Family Head with the cri of treason? The Family Head, not anyone else?"
Bolpar and the Knight Commanders, who knew Redin's usual character, continuously raised their voices.
"Evidence was not only discovered at their stronghold. They say suspicious traces were also discovered at the quarters Father was staying in, and in the docunts and letters Father sent to the capital over the last few years."
"Even if that is so, aren't they circumstantial evidence in the end? Evidence that can be fabricated as much as one wants."
Evidence that could connect Redin and the rebel group was discovered here and there, but there was nothing decisive.
Evidence that could be fabricated as much as one wanted if one could exercise powerful influence on both the capital and the Reichart territory and knew Redin well.
Bolpar and the vassals shook their heads saying they could not believe such evidence.
"However, the important thing is that His Highness is thinking that way."
"……."
However, when 'Alpencius III' ca out of Helkane's mouth, everyone shut their mouths.
Everyone here knew. How incompetent, petty, and suspicious a person the current King was.
"I earnestly plead to everyone gathered here. Please gather your strength for ."
Helkane took that opportunity to bring up today's main point.
"Gather strength? What are you saying?"
"I will et His Highness in person in the na of the Reichart Family Head and assert Father's innocence."
"Family Head? The current Family Head is still perfectly present, so how dare you make such a presumptuous……."
"It cannot be Father anymore. Doesn't Sir Bolpar also know well? That His Highness, and the nobles of the capital, do not have good feelings regarding Father."
"……."
"To persuade His Highness and draw out Father's acquittal, the help of the Nobles' Alliance is desperately needed. However, as long as the na 'Redin Reichart' remains, they will not try to help us."
There was much they wanted to say, but Bolpar and the vassals could not say anything.
Because everything Helkane said was true.
As he said, as long as Redin remained in the position of Family Head, the nobles of the capital would never support Reichart.
"It is also because of this that Sir Bosman Alphonse ca here. Sir Beverick said he wants to help us. But in the state where Father is the Family Head like now, it is impossible. Right now, Mother is appealing for Father's innocence against the nobles of the capital, but the situation is not easy."
Helkane, having confird that the vassals' eyes were wavering at his impassioned speech, threw the decisive blow with a composed voice.
"Please give strength. I will bring Father back."
"……."
Helkane rose from his seat and bowed his head.
Bolpar, who gazed at that appearance for a long while, opened his mouth.
"Does Young Master Hein, does the Second Young Master know this fact?"
At Bolpar's words, the vassals looked at the Acting Family Head's seat with desperate expressions.
That seat where I should have been seated was empty from the beginning.
"I sent a letter asking him to please keep his seat as there is an important matter. However……."
It was truly displeasing that the na coming out of the mouths of the vassals, who were psychologically cornered after losing Redin, was 'Hein', but Helkane shook his head while wearing an expression that said it was regrettable with effort.
"For now, bring Sir Bosman to this place. It seems we must hear the story directly."
Bolpar, who watched my empty seat, sighed and closed his eyes.
"I asked Sir Bosman for an explanation regarding the current situation anyway, so he will arrive soon."
Satisfied with the fact that an imdiate rejection did not co out of that stubborn Bolpar's mouth, Helkane inwardly smiled a smile of conversion.
Since it had co to this, the work was as good as more than half accomplished.
Thud thud.
At that ti, the sound of footsteps walking down the hallway was detected by Helkane's trained hearing.
Helkane, confirming that it was ti for Bosman to arrive after receiving the notice, spoke to the Harm Knight guarding the door.
"It seems Sir Bosman has arrived, so open the door for him."
"I will obey the order, Commander."
Bang!
"Uwak!"
The knight rolled across the floor from a single kick of mine as the door shattered and I revealed myself.
"Hein!"
"Second Young Master!"
Along with the loud sound, people's reactions were starkly divided. Helkane frowned, and Bolpar jumped up from his seat and welcod my appearance.
"Hein, no matter how immature you are, what kind of frivolous behavior is this at this solemn gathering……."
"Shut your mouth. Helkane."
I, having confird that the gazes of everyone gathered in the eting hall were focused on , raised my finger, pointed at Helkane, and declared.
"In the na of Reichart, I arrest Helkane Reichart, the sinner who betrayed Father and tarnished the family's honor, at this very spot!"
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