Marquis Willow Chamber.
Joseph, Enoch Rubinstein’s tactician, pretends to help externally.
“Ah, Young Master!”
On his way to the office of the Marquis Chambers, Joseph found his son, Bruce Chambers.
“Oh, Joseph! It’s been a while?”
“How have you been? Did you go to Jurgen holy beasts subjugation this time? Are you not hurt anywhere?”
As Joseph worried, Bruce smiled smugly.
“Me? Phew, Joseph should have seen me that day. All the kids were crying and running away, but I caught all the holy beasts in front of me alone.”
“Oh!”
It’s a lie.
Bruce is someone with holy power.
It was ineffective against the Holy Beast, so Commander Leon placed him safely in the rear.
Leon and Cheshire did it all, and in fact, Bruce didn’t even use a weapon.
And Joseph is not a fool, he knows it.
‘Tsk, tsk. He’s very young but he looks like his father, he needs to know one thing about his bluff. How does he catch holy beasts? He’s not Enoch Rubinstein—.’
But from the outside, he seemed to please him well.
“As expected, Young Master! Aren’t you going to be the head of the Holy Combat Division later?”
“What? Hahaha! Do you think so?”
A proud Bruce pointed to his father’s office.
“You came to see my father, right? Let’s go together!”
“Yes!”
When he opened the door, Willow, the Marquis of Chambers, ran to greet Joseph happily with a fat body.
“Oh, Joseph, you are here!”
“I haven’t been able to visit often lately, right? I was trying to get a little bit of the Capital atmosphere.”
“No, no. Come on, sit down.”
The reason why Joseph chose Willow was simple.
A high-ranking aristocrat with great power.
Beneficiaries of the hierarchy.
He wants the absolute power of the Emperor and the caste system rooted in this country to be firmly established forever.
In other words, an obstacle to the revolution.
And he was also a person playing power at the center of the same class.
Joseph had to dig into the gap between them.
So that they won’t get in the way afterwards. He has to slowly destroy their position and power from the inside.
‘…That’s what I thought. Let’s take advantage of this situation and use these guys.’
Joseph smirked in secret.
To drive a wedge between the Emperor and those who are in the Emperor’s faction.
That was Joseph’s plan B.
“Marquis, how do you see the holy beasts situation?”
“Huh? How do I see?”
Joseph, who was about to speak, looked at the young butler of Willow, standing like a picture in one corner of the office.
Willow, who felt Joseph’s gaze, grinned.
“Ah, Vuel? It’s all right, it’s all right. He’s deaf.”
“Yes? Then it must be quite inconvenient, do you keep him by your side?”
The butler with lemon-colored hair, Vuel, looked young. His eyes were also bright…
But his gaze was fixed on Willow’s face.
“You see him staring at me, right? He’s the kind of guy who only looks at my expression all day, knows what’s needed even if I don’t say anything, and pretends to be a colonel. How useful he is because he can’t hear and he has nothing to say.”
“Oh, I see.”
It seems he really read his facial expression.
Vuel smiled and bowed his head, probably recognizing Willow giving his compliment.
“So, what is this situation?”
“Ah.”
Joseph, who was meticulous, covered his mouth with his hand and pretended to be serious, just in case Vuel would read his mouth.
“I think the position of the Imperial family will be endangered.”
“Huh? What does it mean? Is it because of the Octava compulsory military service? It wasn’t a big deal. Because there were no troops left in the Capital.”
Willow added with a laugh.
“It may have happened due to the Capital’s poor defenses, but what is there to worry about? Didn’t you see that His Majesty ran out barefoot and directly blocked them in the Capital?”
“If the Holy Beasts hadn’t been rampaging in the first place, it wouldn’t have happened.”
“Huh?”
“What kind of beings are the holy beasts? They are the messengers of God sent from ancient times to deal with the Witchbeast.”
Joseph clicked his tongue.
“Such holy beasts go on a rampage, destroying the land, and attack the Capital?”
“Ah.”
“It is the wrath of God. But is that all? So far, Primera has not come out of the imperial family, and even God’s revelation has come down to the old church.”
“….”
“No matter how much I am, the only people I can give advice to and use for the sake of the Marquis’s power are among the same people. How can I stop God?”
“…Right.”
“No matter how almighty His Majesty the Emperor is, if the angry God turns back…”
Tsk tsk, Joseph, who clicked his tongue, secretly examined Willow’s expression.
As expected.
He starts shaking right away.
High-ranking nobles firmly believed in the Emperor’s absolute power, which God had bestowed.
So, to put a very small flaw on it.
This flaw will soon grow and grow.
And, it will threaten the Emperor.
“There are already rumors circulating quietly in the Capital. God has abandoned the imperial family, and the anger will not cease.”
Of course, it was Joseph who started spreading the rumor.
“I see…”
“Marquis. I am afraid that the position of the imperial family, which had been strong, will soon become a thing of the past. What will happen if we just follow His Majesty the Emperor…”
Joseph shook his head.
At those words, Willow’s expression turned serious.
* * *
Home of the information guild, <Red Hawk>.
Rico approached the man with soft lemon-colored hair, looking at the back of his head.
“Hey.”
“….”
There is no answer.
“Hey!”
There’s nothing else.
Rico sat face-to-face in front of him, patting the man’s back.
“Why are you pretending to be deaf to me?”
“Ah, are you here?”
Vuel, the young butler of the Marquis of Willow Chambers.
He is an informant for <Red Hawk>.
“I pretend not to hear for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. So it goes like this.”
“That’s funny. So, have you heard anything? Joseph Lüttman, are you sure he’s trustworthy?”
Rico is suspicious.
Although he is said to have become Enoch Rubinstein’s tactician…
Knowing the past of Joseph Lüttman, who acted for his own benefit, he was always watching in case he had a different mind.
“I guess you can stop doubting now.”
“Oh, why?”
“Every time I saw it, he was busy sucking up the Marquis and Bruce’s butthole, so I wondered if I could really trust him.”
Vuel smiled as he recalled the conversation he had overheard.
“I’m sure that flattery was all planned. He is a meticulous man. He’s definitely on our side.”
“What did you see?”
“He says this holy beast incident is the wrath of God. He secretly encouraged the Marquis, saying that since God had abandoned the imperial family, the position of the imperial family would soon be shaken.”
“Aha.”
“Isn’t he trying to use the high-ranking aristocrats he was trying to throw away?”
“Yeah.”
Rico’s heart felt lighter.
“If the high-ranking nobles turn around, things might speed up considerably.”
“That’s right.”
Rico was relieved by Vuel’s words.
Then he remembered Lilith.
The Octavas who were called out to the battlefield…
Rico, aware of the Emperor’s greed, noticed that the order was a ploy to put Lilith in danger.
This country needs to change.
But in the process, he learned from this incident that Lilith could continue to be threatened.
So,
“As soon as possible.”
The child must be safe.
At the end of this road, she must be able to survive and smile.
****
The terrible holy beast incident.
Fifteen days have passed since then.
“Wahaha!”
The Duke of Libre.
As soon as the training was over, Cheshire sat face to face with Lilith and was playing a card game.
“Let’s see it for a minute!”
“Eung.”
“Ready~ Ttang!”
Lilith, who overturned the one-minute hourglass, strained her eyes and began examining the unfolded cards.
56 cards with two identical pictures.
It is a game in which they memorize the positions of the cards and select them by matching pairs.
“One minute is over! Flip it over now!”
“Yeah.”
Lilith and Cheshire flipped all the cards.
“I’ll go first!”
“Eung.”
Lilith quickly found four pairs of cards and put them in front of her.
Then she got it wrong on the fifth card.
“Ugh, it’s your turn now.”
Lilith covered her mouth and said.
“…you don’t have to cover it.”
“Eung?”
“I’ve already seen it all.”
“Hmm.”
Lilith, who cleared her throat as if embarrassed, gently lowered her hand that covered her mouth.
Lilith pulled out two of her lower front teeth.
Cheshire laughed at it.
“Are you laughing?”
“No, it’s cute.”
“What? Cute?”
“Eung.”
Cheshire turned the card upside down when he saw Lilith, who quickly felt better.
And then suddenly…
He remembered what had happened in Jurgen a fifteen days ago.
“Lilith.”
“Eung.
“I’m sorry.”
“About what?”
“At Jurgen. I said I would protect you, but I wasn’t really confident.”
“….”
“If Uncle hadn’t come, I might not have been able to protect you on my own.”
“Cheshire…”
Lilith’s voice was wet.
Their eyes met.
“Why do you keep saying that while opening the card…”
“Ah.”
When he inadvertently flipped through the cards, he already took over ten pairs.
Embarrassed, Cheshire paused, then deliberately reached out to the wrong side.
Lilith grabbed his hand.
“Hey! It hurts my pride! Don’t cut me some slack!”
“No. I really think this is it.”
“Wow!”
When Cheshire deliberately made a mistake and passed his turn, Lilith puffed out her cheeks and began to turn the cards over.
Cheshire looked at Lilith quietly.
“You know, if I…really, really, just in case. I’ve become a completely terrifying demon.”
“I just kill innocent people. But you’re the only one who can stop me like that.”
“You can kill me…. So what are you going to do?”
One day, Lilith asked such a question.
And she was terrified and said.
“D, don’t kill me! Don’t kill me… Never, never kill me. Can you find another way?”
He had no idea at the time.
However, during this holy beast incident.
“Cheshire, you know… P, please save me.”
“Never do it, eung? No matter what happens, you have to save me?”
“Never kill me…”
At the time, he thought it was a request to be protected from the holy beasts.
But the more he thought about it, the stranger it was.
It was strange, really.
Lilith is not a holy beast, or some other being…
But she seemed to want Cheshire to save her.
‘Why does she keep saying that?’
Cheshire was curious.
“Lilith.”
“Sorry! I’ll turn it over quickly! Come on, give me some time. Ey, is this right?”
Lilith, who had been thinking for a long time while looking at the card, seemed to think that Cheshire was urging her, so she panicked.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Eung. What is it?”
“You told me. Please don’t kill you.”
In an instant, Lilith’s hand, which had been wandering on the card, stopped.
Lilith raised her head.
“It was the same at the training center, and this time in Jurgen, you said… similar words.”
“Ah, eung.”
Cheshire stared at the bewildered Lilith and said.
“That’s… Can I ask what exactly that means?”
Marquis Willow Chamber.
Joseph, Enoch Rubinstein’s tactician, pretends to help externally.
“Ah, Young Master!”
On his way to the office of the Marquis Chambers, Joseph found his son, Bruce Chambers.
“Oh, Joseph! It’s been a while?”
“How have you been? Did you go to Jurgen holy beasts subjugation this time? Are you not hurt anywhere?”
As Joseph worried, Bruce smiled smugly.
“Me? Phew, Joseph should have seen me that day. All the kids were crying and running away, but I caught all the holy beasts in front of me alone.”
“Oh!”
It’s a lie.
Bruce is someone with holy power.
It was ineffective against the Holy Beast, so Commander Leon placed him safely in the rear.
Leon and Cheshire did it all, and in fact, Bruce didn’t even use a weapon.
And Joseph is not a fool, he knows it.
‘Tsk, tsk. He’s very young but he looks like his father, he needs to know one thing about his bluff. How does he catch holy beasts? He’s not Enoch Rubinstein—.’
But from the outside, he seemed to please him well.
“As expected, Young Master! Aren’t you going to be the head of the Holy Combat Division later?”
“What? Hahaha! Do you think so?”
A proud Bruce pointed to his father’s office.
“You came to see my father, right? Let’s go together!”
“Yes!”
When he opened the door, Willow, the Marquis of Chambers, ran to greet Joseph happily with a fat body.
“Oh, Joseph, you are here!”
“I haven’t been able to visit often lately, right? I was trying to get a little bit of the Capital atmosphere.”
“No, no. Come on, sit down.”
The reason why Joseph chose Willow was simple.
A high-ranking aristocrat with great power.
Beneficiaries of the hierarchy.
He wants the absolute power of the Emperor and the caste system rooted in this country to be firmly established forever.
In other words, an obstacle to the revolution.
And he was also a person playing power at the center of the same class.
Joseph had to dig into the gap between them.
So that they won’t get in the way afterwards. He has to slowly destroy their position and power from the inside.
‘…That’s what I thought. Let’s take advantage of this situation and use these guys.’
Joseph smirked in secret.
To drive a wedge between the Emperor and those who are in the Emperor’s faction.
That was Joseph’s plan B.
“Marquis, how do you see the holy beasts situation?”
“Huh? How do I see?”
Joseph, who was about to speak, looked at the young butler of Willow, standing like a picture in one corner of the office.
Willow, who felt Joseph’s gaze, grinned.
“Ah, Vuel? It’s all right, it’s all right. He’s deaf.”
“Yes? Then it must be quite inconvenient, do you keep him by your side?”
The butler with lemon-colored hair, Vuel, looked young. His eyes were also bright…
But his gaze was fixed on Willow’s face.
“You see him staring at me, right? He’s the kind of guy who only looks at my expression all day, knows what’s needed even if I don’t say anything, and pretends to be a colonel. How useful he is because he can’t hear and he has nothing to say.”
“Oh, I see.”
It seems he really read his facial expression.
Vuel smiled and bowed his head, probably recognizing Willow giving his compliment.
“So, what is this situation?”
“Ah.”
Joseph, who was meticulous, covered his mouth with his hand and pretended to be serious, just in case Vuel would read his mouth.
“I think the position of the Imperial family will be endangered.”
“Huh? What does it mean? Is it because of the Octava compulsory military service? It wasn’t a big deal. Because there were no troops left in the Capital.”
Willow added with a laugh.
“It may have happened due to the Capital’s poor defenses, but what is there to worry about? Didn’t you see that His Majesty ran out barefoot and directly blocked them in the Capital?”
“If the Holy Beasts hadn’t been rampaging in the first place, it wouldn’t have happened.”
“Huh?”
“What kind of beings are the holy beasts? They are the messengers of God sent from ancient times to deal with the Witchbeast.”
Joseph clicked his tongue.
“Such holy beasts go on a rampage, destroying the land, and attack the Capital?”
“Ah.”
“It is the wrath of God. But is that all? So far, Primera has not come out of the imperial family, and even God’s revelation has come down to the old church.”
“….”
“No matter how much I am, the only people I can give advice to and use for the sake of the Marquis’s power are among the same people. How can I stop God?”
“…Right.”
“No matter how almighty His Majesty the Emperor is, if the angry God turns back…”
Tsk tsk, Joseph, who clicked his tongue, secretly examined Willow’s expression.
As expected.
He starts shaking right away.
High-ranking nobles firmly believed in the Emperor’s absolute power, which God had bestowed.
So, to put a very small flaw on it.
This flaw will soon grow and grow.
And, it will threaten the Emperor.
“There are already rumors circulating quietly in the Capital. God has abandoned the imperial family, and the anger will not cease.”
Of course, it was Joseph who started spreading the rumor.
“I see…”
“Marquis. I am afraid that the position of the imperial family, which had been strong, will soon become a thing of the past. What will happen if we just follow His Majesty the Emperor…”
Joseph shook his head.
At those words, Willow’s expression turned serious.
* * *
Home of the information guild, <Red Hawk>.
Rico approached the man with soft lemon-colored hair, looking at the back of his head.
“Hey.”
“….”
There is no answer.
“Hey!”
There’s nothing else.
Rico sat face-to-face in front of him, patting the man’s back.
“Why are you pretending to be deaf to me?”
“Ah, are you here?”
Vuel, the young butler of the Marquis of Willow Chambers.
He is an informant for <Red Hawk>.
“I pretend not to hear for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. So it goes like this.”
“That’s funny. So, have you heard anything? Joseph Lüttman, are you sure he’s trustworthy?”
Rico is suspicious.
Although he is said to have become Enoch Rubinstein’s tactician…
Knowing the past of Joseph Lüttman, who acted for his own benefit, he was always watching in case he had a different mind.
“I guess you can stop doubting now.”
“Oh, why?”
“Every time I saw it, he was busy sucking up the Marquis and Bruce’s butthole, so I wondered if I could really trust him.”
Vuel smiled as he recalled the conversation he had overheard.
“I’m sure that flattery was all planned. He is a meticulous man. He’s definitely on our side.”
“What did you see?”
“He says this holy beast incident is the wrath of God. He secretly encouraged the Marquis, saying that since God had abandoned the imperial family, the position of the imperial family would soon be shaken.”
“Aha.”
“Isn’t he trying to use the high-ranking aristocrats he was trying to throw away?”
“Yeah.”
Rico’s heart felt lighter.
“If the high-ranking nobles turn around, things might speed up considerably.”
“That’s right.”
Rico was relieved by Vuel’s words.
Then he remembered Lilith.
The Octavas who were called out to the battlefield…
Rico, aware of the Emperor’s greed, noticed that the order was a ploy to put Lilith in danger.
This country needs to change.
But in the process, he learned from this incident that Lilith could continue to be threatened.
So,
“As soon as possible.”
The child must be safe.
At the end of this road, she must be able to survive and smile.
****
The terrible holy beast incident.
Fifteen days have passed since then.
“Wahaha!”
The Duke of Libre.
As soon as the training was over, Cheshire sat face to face with Lilith and was playing a card game.
“Let’s see it for a minute!”
“Eung.”
“Ready~ Ttang!”
Lilith, who overturned the one-minute hourglass, strained her eyes and began examining the unfolded cards.
56 cards with two identical pictures.
It is a game in which they memorize the positions of the cards and select them by matching pairs.
“One minute is over! Flip it over now!”
“Yeah.”
Lilith and Cheshire flipped all the cards.
“I’ll go first!”
“Eung.”
Lilith quickly found four pairs of cards and put them in front of her.
Then she got it wrong on the fifth card.
“Ugh, it’s your turn now.”
Lilith covered her mouth and said.
“…you don’t have to cover it.”
“Eung?”
“I’ve already seen it all.”
“Hmm.”
Lilith, who cleared her throat as if embarrassed, gently lowered her hand that covered her mouth.
Lilith pulled out two of her lower front teeth.
Cheshire laughed at it.
“Are you laughing?”
“No, it’s cute.”
“What? Cute?”
“Eung.”
Cheshire turned the card upside down when he saw Lilith, who quickly felt better.
And then suddenly…
He remembered what had happened in Jurgen a fifteen days ago.
“Lilith.”
“Eung.
“I’m sorry.”
“About what?”
“At Jurgen. I said I would protect you, but I wasn’t really confident.”
“….”
“If Uncle hadn’t come, I might not have been able to protect you on my own.”
“Cheshire…”
Lilith’s voice was wet.
Their eyes met.
“Why do you keep saying that while opening the card…”
“Ah.”
When he inadvertently flipped through the cards, he already took over ten pairs.
Embarrassed, Cheshire paused, then deliberately reached out to the wrong side.
Lilith grabbed his hand.
“Hey! It hurts my pride! Don’t cut me some slack!”
“No. I really think this is it.”
“Wow!”
When Cheshire deliberately made a mistake and passed his turn, Lilith puffed out her cheeks and began to turn the cards over.
Cheshire looked at Lilith quietly.
“You know, if I…really, really, just in case. I’ve become a completely terrifying demon.”
“I just kill innocent people. But you’re the only one who can stop me like that.”
“You can kill me…. So what are you going to do?”
One day, Lilith asked such a question.
And she was terrified and said.
“D, don’t kill me! Don’t kill me… Never, never kill me. Can you find another way?”
He had no idea at the time.
However, during this holy beast incident.
“Cheshire, you know… P, please save me.”
“Never do it, eung? No matter what happens, you have to save me?”
“Never kill me…”
At the time, he thought it was a request to be protected from the holy beasts.
But the more he thought about it, the stranger it was.
It was strange, really.
Lilith is not a holy beast, or some other being…
But she seemed to want Cheshire to save her.
‘Why does she keep saying that?’
Cheshire was curious.
“Lilith.”
“Sorry! I’ll turn it over quickly! Come on, give me some time. Ey, is this right?”
Lilith, who had been thinking for a long time while looking at the card, seemed to think that Cheshire was urging her, so she panicked.
“Can I ask you something?”
“Eung. What is it?”
“You told me. Please don’t kill you.”
In an instant, Lilith’s hand, which had been wandering on the card, stopped.
Lilith raised her head.
“It was the same at the training center, and this time in Jurgen, you said… similar words.”
“Ah, eung.”
Cheshire stared at the bewildered Lilith and said.
“That’s… Can I ask what exactly that means?”
