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"Knight Gustav, he is your elder brother. I can understand your desire to help him find a way out, and I won't make irresponsible remarks about your behavior—but such a person, I don't think it's worth it. You come to introduce me."

"No, it's not like that, Knight Claude, listen to me, the truth of the matter is—"

Gustav's speech was urgent and fast, obviously he was really anxious to defend his brother.

But a hand caught him.

Gutenberg looked at Claude and nodded: "Yes, I am the one who smuggled with the Merchant Alliance and plundered wealth for Augustus."

"At least it's good that you didn't fiddle with me in front of me - so you still have a cup of coffee and finish what you want to say."

Claude was a little sarcasm, which surprised Gustav, he had never seen Claude have such hostility towards anyone.

"It is precisely because I was so trusted by His Royal Highness Augustus that I can find out some things-I want to talk to you alone, can I?"

Gutenberg glanced at his younger brother, and finally took back what he wanted to say.

Claude glanced at Gustav. Obviously, this young man did not expect his brother to say such a sentence, with hesitation and confusion written all over his face.

"...Then come with me. Knight Gustav, please wait a moment."

Claude also hesitated for a moment on his face, and finally nodded reluctantly.

"Thank you."

Gutenberg bowed his head in thanks, and then followed Claude to the room on the second floor.

"elder brother--"

Gustav shouted at Gutenberg's back, but stopped abruptly.

Although many things have happened this year, he has always believed in his elder brother. Even if the other party was exposed to such a terrible inside story, he still believed in the explanation given by his brother, and he firmly believed in the other party's ability to get out of it.

But until just now, he suddenly had a feeling that Gutenberg's back seemed to be really leaving him. It was no longer the previous farewell, or the alienation and contradiction deliberately placed on the surface, but that the other party seemed to really leave him. I want to be separated from myself forever.

He subconsciously shouted that sentence, wanting to keep his brother, but he didn't know what to say.

Gutenberg paused and looked back at Gustav.

"Wait for me here, I'll be down soon."

He just said a short sentence, and followed Claude's footsteps again.

"..."

Gustav could only stand where he was, watching the two disappear up the stairs.

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"If you have anything to say, you can say it."

Claude looked at Gutenberg, expressionless.

"I declare in advance that I don't trust you, and I only gave you this opportunity because I admire Knight Gustav very much. I want the other party to fight under my command, so I agreed to your request. If you are here as a lobbyist , I suggest you just turn around and leave, otherwise, if you lose a tongue, maybe you won’t be able to do business in the future.”

"I know, I just wanted to say something."

Gutenberg nodded.

"Please find an opportunity to tell His Royal Highness Ludwig that Augustus wants to launch a rebellion!"

The scene fell silent.

Gutenberg just looked at Claude like that, he was ready to meet the shocking question of the other party, and then he was ready to explain his doubts one by one, but Claude acted as if what Gutenberg just said was just Austrian. What did Gusdu eat today, completely showing any expression of surprise, not even any emotional fluctuations.

"no yet?"

Claude raised his eyebrows. He originally thought that Gutenberg slipped out of Leicht's mansion in the middle of the night and ran out of the safe zone with all his troubles, risking being silenced by Augustus at any time to vent his anger. , Finding Gustav as a bridge to communicate with himself, what else can he do for the whole trick.

As a result, this is it?

"……you know?"

"This is a bit one-sided. In fact, the Imperial Intelligence Bureau, His Majesty the Emperor, me, and many people who are trusted by His Majesty have all known about this matter to some extent, and have made their own preparations. Some things are ordered by His Majesty, and some things are spontaneous."

Claude said lightly.

"What I'm more curious about is what kind of mentality and philosophy did you use to tell me this matter—is it the speculative instinct of a businessman, the escape mentality of a criminal, or... ...Is there any other reason that made you not hesitate to take such a huge risk to find me, a stranger, through your younger brother?"

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"Sure enough... His Majesty has long realized it."

Gutenberg smiled, a smile of relief, as if he had finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"that is really good......"

Claude was a little surprised, Gutenberg seemed to be different from before.

"That's enough, this is the best answer..." He murmured, "Although the only time I didn't back down was when I didn't need to be extra troublesome at all, but this is really Very good......"

Sunshine Knight's heart moved. He was really curious about the previous question. What kind of mentality did Gutenberg have to do such a thing tonight.

You know, Claude had seriously evaluated Gutenberg's usable value before, and concluded that this person was indeed intelligent, but his mind was restricted by his family, and he didn't have a big picture. took an awkward position.

Above him is Gorman, who knows what Claude really looks like, but he thinks about serving the country and the people, and he knows what to do, so he is willing to be loyal to Claude, wise and brave, and has his own ideas. But it is impossible to betray.

Below him is Charles, who only knows the appearance of Knight Claude, but he only wants to kill the family he came from for his own little family, so as long as he is driven by the righteousness of his family and country, it is easy Being used, of course, it is impossible to betray.

There is only Gutenberg. Going down, he still thinks about the empire, has his own ideas, and his heart is not completely degenerate; but going up, he doesn’t have a big picture, he just knows how to take one step at a time. Doing harm to the country, but not wanting to do harm to the family, and acting with foresight and foresight, it is difficult to achieve great things.

So Claude didn't bother to take it back, and signaled him to mount Kalia directly on board, and then blew himself up and it was over.

As a result, a lot of wrong things happened, and the matter was delayed for a year, dragging the former eldest prince into a traitor, and this guy can still run in front of him.

You know, what he is doing seriously overdraws Gustav's trust in Claude - of course it is only on the bright side, because Claude will only use Gustav's guilt to let Gustav He pays more to make up for this "loss of trust".

But there is no doubt that this kind of behavior runs counter to his previous philosophy-that is, his own affairs are his own, and he will never allow his family or his younger brother to get involved in the slightest. Before Claude tried to kick Gustav into the In the mud pit of smuggling, it turned out that because of that blind trust, Gutenberg sent the other party to the shore again. Of course, this can also see the purpose of the other party.

Now the other party would actually sacrifice Gustav for the future of the empire... Then Claude became interested in him again.

"Mr. Gutenberg, you haven't answered my question—what kind of mentality did you come here to tell me about this?"

Claude reiterated his question, and now the other party has a disillusioned expression, and the other party will answer whatever he asks.

"In what state of mind... Guilt? Anger? I don't know, I just feel like I can't be a silent accomplice anymore."

Gutenberg shook his head.

"Every time before, it was only after the result came to my door that I realized how terrible the fact that my previous silence had caused--so I decided not to keep silent, even if there was no result when I said it, I have to say it too."

"I'm just telling you this as an imperial person."

Claude nodded slightly, and the corners of his mouth curved slightly.

"What a surprising answer, Mr. Gutenberg, I thought you would never be able to get out of the shadow of the family, but I didn't expect you to do it in just one year—just like I didn't expect, We really had a second chance to meet."

Gutenberg frowned slightly, what the other party said was a bit strange, as if the other party had met him before.

He recalled his memory carefully, and looked at Claude's appearance. He really didn't have any impression. He had indeed only heard the description of Claude in Gustav's words.

"Excuse me, have we met before?"

Gutenberg asked with some uncertainty.

"Oh, of course we have met, Mr. Gutenberg, but I don't know if your appetite tonight is as good as that day?"

There was a weird smile on Claude's face, he didn't open his mouth, but the voice still reached Gutenberg's ears.

The heavy bass, with some indistinct spit words, should have been an ordinary accent, but at this moment, it exploded in Gutenberg's ears like a thunderbolt.

"You—you! It's you! It's you!"

Gutenberg almost screamed, like a frightened little girl, but no matter how frightened the little guy was, he would never show his expression.

Fear, shock, overwhelm, and despair as if you were about to drown.

He grabbed his face with one hand, almost embed his fingers into his face, and pointed at Claude tremblingly with the other hand, tears poured out of his eyes unconsciously, his mouth was almost opened to the limit, but it was not at all Not to speak, but to let a distorted and out-of-tune voice tremble from the throat.

This is already the only thing Gutenberg still has the strength to do.

"Hush—Mr. Gutenberg, you don't want to be heard by your younger brother, and then come up to see what happened?"

Claude raised his index finger in front of his weird smile, his mouth was still closed, and his deep voice was still there.

Gutenberg couldn't take back the hand pointing at Claude, but the fingers of the other hand immediately plunged deeply into his mouth, making only an indistinct hoo hoo sound, as if he wanted to stop it. My own throat seems to be...

He wanted to pull out his tongue.

The moment Claude appeared in front of him, Gutenberg immediately connected everything.

It was he who told Gustav that he was smuggling, so he had to make up his mind to make a change, and then he followed Gustav, appeared in front of him, gave himself the option, and completely lost his thinking Ability, following the opponent's intention, adopted the most direct method of flipping the table, leaving no room for it.

Both myself and my younger brother are on the opponent's chessboard from beginning to end, and the opponent is obviously the kind of person who will use the chess pieces to the extreme all the time!I am afraid that my younger brother's trust in him now is only under the trust in himself, and I am afraid that in the future, he will definitely serve under the opponent's hands...

He couldn't say it, and he didn't even know if he had the right to walk out of this room alive.

"Originally, I thought that you would die there after you finished talking to Your Excellency Leicht, but to my surprise, not only did you not die, you even became a more pure people."

Claude no longer speaks in ventriloquism, after all, it is quite tiring to speak like that.

"So when I saw you, I was thinking, can you do more? After all, our intelligence bureau still lacks talents like you. After all, your intelligence sense is very keen, and what's more rare is , you are a rare business alliance in the empire - we need such a person now."

Without any politeness, Claude went straight to the point.

Gutenberg was finally able to start thinking again, but the lingering fear and shadow left him with little leeway.

"Who are you... from the intelligence agency?"

"It's just someone who was raised since I was a child. It's just that I am very lucky and have a good knight talent, so I have the opportunity to step up to the front. My loyalty and strength have brought me my current identity and status." Claude is very refreshing He answered the other party's question, "If there is anything else you want to ask, let's ask it together."

Gutenberg was silent. In fact, he asked the last question subconsciously - he didn't know what he should ask.

"Gustav, you probably don't know your identity?"

After a while, he asked the question.

"Of course I don't know. My identity will gradually be washed away, and then I will be separated from the Imperial Intelligence Bureau. I am now the fiancé of His Royal Highness Letitia. It is impossible to stay in the Intelligence Bureau for the rest of my life. I must be in the army, so I The recruiting of Gustav is sincere, he is capable and clean."

Gutenberg nodded silently, yes, his younger brother is very clean, without any mark of power on his body-this is probably the only achievement he can be proud of.

"May I ask, what do I need to do after I join the Imperial Intelligence Agency?"

"In fact, it's mainly to deal with the business alliance. After all, I lack a person who understands all the behaviors of the business alliance and can respond."

Claude's voice became serious, obviously Gutenberg already knew he had no other choice.

"Since you are willing to put things right out of the way, it's okay to tell you about this in advance—the Grand Duke of Brittany conspired to collude with the Merchant Alliance, and wanted to use the terms of cede land to the Merchant Alliance in exchange for the Merchant Alliance's military power and financial full support."

"what!"

Gutenberg exclaimed again, but this time he still remembered to cover it with his hand so as not to let the sound go downstairs.

"Yes, this matter has been negotiated in close proximity, and it is basically completed-this is our negligence. In order to guard against the imperial capital, we have invested too much energy, and it is not appropriate to be here. Before launching it, we will start to scare the snakes in the territory of the great nobles."

Claude's voice was obviously quite helpless.

"The initiator of this treasonous transaction is the Grand Duke of Brittany, and now the other party is preparing for the rebellion in the imperial capital. This time we will let the blood of the nobles flow into rivers, so they will all die—but this On the contrary, it will make it easier for the business alliance to obtain the land they want."

"As for our side, in order to take down this group of rebels, and to suppress the territories of various nobles afterwards, we have used up all the mobile forces in our hands. Thirst—so we urgently formulated a plan for Li to substitute for Tao’s stiffness.”

Gutenberg listened with a serious face. Because of Augustus, he now has a new understanding of the lower limit of human beings. Claude's words not only did not arouse his doubts, but made him suddenly realize—— And this move, no wonder Augustus dared to set off a coup with the big nobles, but before he reached a deal with the Merchant Alliance so easily, I'm afraid there was a lot of tricks in it...

"The biggest mistake of the Grand Duke of Brittany was that he allowed himself and his own son to stay in the imperial capital at the same time. Obviously he is very confident about the coup - this is our best chance! We will let the two All of them died in the imperial capital, but to the outside world, we only claimed to have killed the Grand Duke of Brittany and continued to pursue other rebels."

Gutenberg understood right away.

"You found someone to replace the son of the Grand Duke of Brittany? So let him go to trade with the Merchant Alliance, so that there will be a pawn buried in the high-level. As long as they stand on the ground of the empire for a day, then that person will be There is a constant flow of important news—and it is impossible for anyone to suspect him, they will only suspect each other, making everyone feel insecure!"

Claude nodded in satisfaction, and Gutenberg's performance showed that he did see the right person.

"Yes, you are right. This is exactly our plan. Although it was difficult, we still found a way to squeeze half of the Knights into the Brittany Peninsula, which gave our people security. You can still be qualified not to be a mere puppet, and at the most important moment, you can also become a surprise soldier!"

Gutenberg took a deep breath. He was once again shocked by the horror of the Imperial Intelligence Bureau. Claude said that this was an emergency, but the Imperial Intelligence Bureau actually managed to follow the plan, leaving almost no trace. In this way, a legitimate high-level intelligence officer was stuffed in without anyone noticing.He also said that he had no more soldiers to use, and at the same time he could still squeeze in half of the Knights...

Even this is very reasonable, counting those who fled and those who stayed behind, the heir of Brittany's heir, isn't there exactly half of the Knights?

"What do I need to do? I am willing to cooperate with anything."

Gutenberg no longer cared about life or reputation, and now he only had the idea of ​​atonement in his mind—even if he was now smashed to pieces and left with a bad reputation, he could not make up for the ugly crimes he committed against the empire and his mentor.

But now, there is an opportunity in front of him, and he must consider whether this is the only opportunity in his life, to use his own ability to do something meaningful for the empire and his own life.

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