A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

59 – For Peace? (4)

Under any circumstances, I don’t like gambling.

‘Gambling is best when you only bet money.’

It’s not that I hate gambling.

Gambling, such as poker or horse racing, was something I enjoyed the most among the empire’s cultures, and I was quite talented at it.

However, it’s only fun when you lose money, and I don’t like gambling that puts my life at risk.

Even more so if it is related to Naria or Astasia.

That’s why I always took out insurance.

A safety device that the opponent cannot notice.

A trap that is easy to fall into as soon as you make a foolish move.

‘You may never be able to use it again, but you can use it once.’

Hiding my father.

No one would have expected that he would hide the Sword Master, and especially his father.

Number 18 underestimate me too much.

I don’t know if they decided that I trusted them, but they tried to commit assassination too easily.

“Father.”

Thanks to that.

“You just need to take care of me.”

“If a child dies before becoming an adult, his / her dreams become disturbed.”

I was rescued right before I fell by my father who climbed over the 50m wall.

“I am an assassin who tried to kill the heir of Gibraltar. Will you let him live?”

“Of course. Don’t you think we can dig up information only if we keep him alive?”

Together with number 18.

“When Noir was kidnapped. You ended up killing the kidnapper.”

I fainted 18 times.

“If I hadn’t helped you, you wouldn’t have been put in a situation to fall in the first place, but wouldn’t you have killed me right away?”

“Yes. Instead of fainting like this, I guess there was a human cushion underneath me, right? Hehe.”

The moment I landed and grabbed Number 18 and me at the same time, my father immediately hit Number 18 in the solar plexus and knocked him out.

“I have an idea. Thanks to you, I was able to capture the spy and assassin alive, right?”

“Yes. At first, I thought it was some kind of absurd plan, but now it seems to be making some progress.”

The father took off his gauntlets and stretched out his fingers to the stunned Number 18’s neck.

“…The heart rate is not normal. About 170? 180 per minute?”

“I think I took some kind of drug.”

Now, I can’t hide it.

“I think it might be a drug that was secretly brought in from the Empire. It’s like a so-called ‘doping drug’ that suddenly amplifies physical abilities.”

“Is this similar to what knights say they sometimes use before jousting?”

“Yes.”

I had no intention of hiding it, and I had planned to use this opportunity to tell my father as well.

“If you look at the smell, it seems a bit similar to Somnus pollen.”

“Smell?”

“This guy’s mouth smelled like somnus.”

“…The raw material of the drug is somnus?”

“Perhaps? Don’t I smell amazing flowers? Especially somnus flowers.”

The reward of chewing on somnus flowers all the time for three years.

Indeed, does it exist?

“…I don’t feel it at all.”

“Father, would you like to chew a leaf of a somnus flower after a meal?”

“That’s it. I don’t know anything else, but they say it’s a somnus flower, so you’re probably right.”

Thanks goodness.

“If there was a faint scent of somnus flowers left in the medicine, if we did it right, we could make a medicine like this.”

I was able to get through it without problems thanks to the somnus flower that I chewed, opened, brewed, and enjoyed every day for three years.

“…When we get back, let’s talk about disposing of the somnus flowers in the basement of the nursery.”

“No, father.”

This is not it.

“Shouldn’t we rather research it more?”

“What?”

“For a moment, this girl became strong enough to throw herself at me while holding me.”

I grabbed Number 18’s thin wrist.

“He grabbed my collar and wouldn’t let go, clinging to me tightly. Even though I’m still young and lack strength, I’m at the level of a low-ranking knight.”

“Are you saying we should use drugs?”

“I don’t know if there are any side effects or not, but there’s nothing wrong with having it covered by insurance, right?”

“…All of a sudden, the investment that was being made into research on magic herb has now turned into research into an amplifier that forcibly strengthens physical abilities.”

My father sighed for a moment and bowed deeply.

“The war is approaching, and I don’t know what will happen later. I’ll leave it to you.”

The father grabs the collar of number 18, who has fainted, and lifts him up.

“For now-“

At that moment, my father raised his head above the gate.

“Oh my-“

And at the same time, a ‘ta-ang’ sound rang out.

“Zen-“

“Rest assured, father.”

My father suddenly tried to jump back onto the wall, but I managed to hold on to Number 18, who was not my father, and stopped him.

“It’s all calculated.”

“You really… ?”

“Should we make a bet? At first, there was only one assassin, but it turns out there were three in total.”

There are three shadows that brought silver.

Since I fell down the castle wall, the other two probably moved too.

Even if you can’t kill Gibraltar.

If Astasia Hwang’s granddaughter is eliminated during the commotion, then Hwang’s granddaughter’s place will be empty so she can glare at herself.

“…You are optimistic. I had already thought about questioning Chairman Erwin later.”

“Of course, there are about 3 shadows coming in-“

“There are 9 people.”

“…Yes?”

“It looks like I can’t hear any sound yet.”

My father held onto my collar number 18 and my hand his tightly.

“Check it yourself.”

“…!!”

I just jumped across the floor.

“Sleep-“

He opened his mouth and chewed his tongue.

Holding two people on either side, he alternately jumped up and down the castle wall and the ravine, jumping 50 meters high in just a few seconds and landing on the castle wall.

“Write…”

There was no time to respond to the faint smell of blood coming from my mouth.

“…Wow.”

Puck, puck, puck, puck.

From noble mtl dot come

The sound of flesh hitting something, the fishy scent of blood, and the spicy scent of white silver made me dizzy.

“This is…”

“I guess I thought they would respond, but I guess I didn’t expect all nine of them to take action.”

My father ruffled my hair with his hand and pointed forward.

“Look, these two have been seriously beaten. Their heartbeats are abnormal as well. They must have been on drugs.”

My father immediately found the shadows using silver.

Numbers 9 and 27.

Like Number 18, the three oldest were from shadows sent by the Empire, and her physical abilities were increased through oral consumption of silver.

However.

“Son.”

“Yes, father.”

“Did you both know?”

“…I thought I came here alone because I thought it was safe.”

The current state of those shadows could not be said to be good.

Ta-ang! Ta-euang!

A blonde-green-eyed girl pulling the trigger on the unconscious number 9.

A golden magic missile comes out of the musket and hits number 9 right between the eyes.

“Kuuu, keuuu, let go of this!”

“I don’t want to! If I let go, they’ll try to strangle me again!”

A white-haired girl bending back the arm of number 27, who is lying on the floor, and stepping on it with one foot.

“If something happens to the prince… Ah?!”

As soon as Astasia, who was trampling number 27, saw me, she started and stepped behind her.

“G-Grey! This is so… !”

“Gap!!”

The moment Astasia lost her footing in panic, Number 27 immediately raised her body and tried to attack Astasia.

“Die!”

The moment she raised her sharp nails and tried to stab Astasia’s her neck.

Baaah!!

She is struck sideways by her musket and falls down.

“Big, huh.”

Not even the muzzle of the musket, but the handle made of steel.

“…After.”

Naria, who grabbed the muzzle of her gun with both hands and took a full swing, took one look at Astasia.

“Hehe.”

She let out a very faint laugh and placed her musket upside down on her shoulder.

“Oh my, the Count. He didn’t look very good.”

“…”

“Please keep what happened here a secret.”

Naria bowed her head slightly towards her father, and her father nodded his head silently with a slightly sour expression.

“Oh. And, Lord Gray.”

“Yes, Princess Naria.”

“These people here…”

Naria pointed to the whites lying on her floor.

“They tried to attack me and Astasia, so I fought back in self-defense.”

Everyone’s face was swollen as if they had been hit with a fist, and there were shoe prints left on the solar plexus and stomach.

“These people here-“

“Thank you! Naria!!”

Astasia, her face red, suddenly ran towards Naria and hugged her from behind.

“I can’t believe you defeated everything like this for me! I’m so touched!”

“…?”

“I, Naria… !”

Astasia held onto Naria’s arm with her somewhat desperate look, and Naria tilted her head for a moment.

“No, the one I suppressed was this one-“

“Thank you for saving me, princess! Kiss me!”

Naria tried to say something, but Astasia just grabbed Naria’s head and planted a kiss on her cheek.

I saw.

Pretending to kiss her her her her cheek her her her her, she placed her hand her so that she covered Naria’s her mouth her her with one hand.

“Son.”

My father, very carefully, lowered his voice as much as possible so that only I could hear it.

“Those kids weren’t hit with muskets-“

“Hey, Dad. Isn’t it amazing?”

I took a step forward and smiled broadly at my father.

“I never thought the princess could use a musket so well. I never thought she would be able to subdue as many as eight people.”

“…”

“When I meet the Chairman later, I will ask him to send me a musket manual, or rather a new musket. For Princess Naria’s exclusive use.”

“Hmm.”

As I say that, let’s turn our gaze towards Naria.

“…Margrave of Gibraltar, I have a favor to ask.”

“Yes, Your Royal Highness.”

“I hope that what happened here today will remain a secret known only to us.”

“Of course, Your Highness.”

Naria came forward as a princess.

“And these.”

Naria tapped her own musket.

“Let’s assume I defeated him.”

“Wow, wow! Naria, you’re amazing!”

Astasia clapped her hands next to her and smiled brightly.

“…Hehe, really.”

Lastly.

One thing.

If I were to make an excuse that wasn’t an excuse, I would do it for the sake of the empire.

‘I wonder if the empire would have sent her imperial granddaughter to the enemy camp without any countermeasures.’

I don’t mean to praise the enemy, but the crown prince is not such a soft person.

‘It’s not a throwaway card, but a great talent that would really be nice to lure Gibraltar.’

Even if she didn’t look at her as her her daughter her her her, there was no way she would have sent Astasia, who had the value of being Chairman Erwin’s suppressor and bait to seize Gibraltar, with her bare body of her.

That human.

“Son. This is…”

“Father.”

I turned back to my father and bowed deeply.

“Isn’t it good manners for a man to sometimes pretend not to know for a woman?”

“…”

“Isn’t your father the same to your mother?”

“…You.”

His father’s eyes were wavered as he looked at me for a moment.

“…Yes, that’s right.”

He soon looked somewhat and lightly ruffled my hair.

“You must be the son of Crimson Gibraltar.”

“Of course.”

* * *

After subduing all 9 whites, or assassins, and loading them into a carriage.

“She is the imperial granddaughter of the Empire. Did Chairman Erwin not know?”

“Ah, I think you probably didn’t know. Everyone told me it was an ‘escort’…”

“Chairman Erwin was also stabbed in the back.”

“…”

The father came to understand to some extent the identity revealed by Astasia and the background of the Whites.

“Did you also know that they are half-sisters, Her Royal Highness?”

“Ma, please speak comfortably!”

“Did you know, Ellie?”

“Oh, you’re really fast. Yes, I knew that. Even though we had different positions, I still thought of ourselves as family…”

Astasia bowed her head.

Her clenched fists her tremble and she even bites her lower lip.

“Father. Astasia did nothing wrong.”

I stepped in front of Astasia.

“Gray Gibraltar.”

“I’m being serious. This, to put it bluntly, is like the sudden attack of those assassins.”

“Sudden acceleration?”

“It’s similar to when a horse gets started and suddenly runs away. The reason is… In their young minds, it was the perfect situation to get rid of.”

I raised the blade of my hand and slit my own throat.

“You probably didn’t expect that your father would be there. Now that we’ve seen the bottom of our complacency, we can use them appropriately.”

“It’s for use.”

“Yes. Starting with this.”

I took out a half-empty paper bag.

“This thing is barely left. In order to investigate and analyze this, and find out who is behind them, we need to keep them alive.”

“Are you planning on leaving it somewhere underground?”

“Three of them should do that. The other six…”

Hit by Astasia-

Correction.

As for those who were not shadows hit by Naria’s musket.

“The three who tried to kill us directly ask for cooperation from ‘Morgania’, and the remaining six are raised as maids. As maids and as our shadow agents.”

“Is it Morgania?”

“Yes.”

My father gave me a disapproving expression.

“Why not kill me instead?”

“You said killing children is unfair?”

“Sometimes it can be mercy to kill someone.”

Who wouldn’t know.

The root of the technology that Lettar tortured and tormented so much was in Morgania.

“Swordsmanship is in Gibraltar. Intelligence is in Morgania. Everything is better left to the experts.”

If the shadow is saved and sent to Morgania, the rest is up to Queen Morgania-Carmen.

“Because I personally want to research this.”

I shook the bag containing the refined silver I had obtained from Number 27.

“If this is done well, it might be a good medicine for my father.”

“Good medicine for me?”

“Yes. Well, this is it. It’s really hard to say.”

The basic use of refined silver is as a scented candle to help you dream freely.

“Assassins’ physical abilities increase, does that mean their blood flows faster?”

When administered orally or intravenously, only the factor that dramatically increases physical ability remains.

How do you know?

Because the memories of the clinical experiment and physical experience remain in my mind.

“This is true.”

I glanced at Naria and Astasia for a moment.

“I think it’s good for your health, but it’s hard to explain.”

“…”

“Or else.”

I threw a little hint to my father.

“This thing just infuses the whole body with blood and makes you lose your temper.”

“…I think it’s worth researching.”

What would my father think?

In the past, Baek Eun was the culprit that destroyed our family?

Currently, what is the solution to help my father with his minor yet important problem his?

Or-

“Research into your heart’s content. Maybe this could be an important clue that can determine the future of Gibraltar.”

“Yes.”

Based on all of that, we may be drawing a new future.

“Let me research it.”

I am not sure about the future my father envisions.

“For the future of Gibraltar.”

Obviously.

I decided to believe that it would be a sunny and bright day like the current sky.