
...***...
"Bi, let me explain, this is clearly a misunderstanding... This… "
Count Pegnac tried to explain tremblingly.
"Funny."
"Ma, sorry?"
"You haven't even heard a single explanation from my son, you haven't seen it either."
"I, that…"
"You're willing to make a conclusion without hearing the whole story."
As Duke said, Billy Pegnac said,
"I'll explain! I was just trying to listen to his wish!"
"Wants my daughter?"
"She likes me so she wants to marry me!"
Booms!!
The walls of the room here were shattered with a rumbling sound.
Everyone is frozen. Henry looked at her, though,
"Ah sorry. I was too shocked to fail to aim properly."
"…..."
"It's a pity that I'm after a madman's head."
Billy's face paled.
"So, Leblaine, do you know what that lunatic is saying?"
As Henry asked with a friendly smile, I frowned.
"I don't know. He said something strange since. He said he'd teach me how to seduce a man."
As I spoke innocently, Billy Pegnac shouted.
"My parents said you liked me!"
Count Pegnac and his wife paled.
‘Solid boy!’
It is like pouring oil into a fire that will engulf the whole family.
"Tu, Mr. Duke ..."
Right after Count Pegnac opened his mouth,
Booms!!
Another thunderous voice rang out with the stings of Count Pegnac. Duke's hand was enveloped in a black aura.
"You must have talked a lot."
Duke Dubbede spoke with a gloomy expression on her face.
...***...
Count Pegnac and his wife put their hands together while kneeling under my father's feet.
Billy who was always arrogant even did it too.
They immediately stamped a document stating it would hand over the port for free, not only that, Pegnac would also hand over two houses on behalf of the Pegnac family.
I'm heading to Isaac's room.
But there was someone else who came before me. That was Henry.
"Stupid."
"..…."
"Idiot."
"...…."
"Tool."
"Hey!"
Isaac, who heard Henry's swearing, was upset. Henry applied the ointment to his brother's pouting forehead.
The wound he got because he did not avoid the debris of the collapsed wall.
"Thank Leblaine stopped you. If you continue, you're in jail now."
"I know, but I don't want the kid to hear the word 'orphan' anymore."
"Then you have to make another story."
"What story?"
"Like, he's crazy and hit you first."
"But he's sane."
"Simple lies can get you out of a situation like that. Incidents can be manipulated as much as possible."
'Henry, what did you teach him…?'
Isaac said,
"You dickhead. But it's cool."
Then Henry continued to apply the ointment on the wound of Isaac who was lifting both thumbs up his hands.
"By the way... Good work has taken out that bastard."
Isaac's eyes widened. Immediately he scratched his reddened earlobe. This was the first time Henry had praised her, so she felt both awkward and happy
Both get along for a reason. I grinned and entered the room.
"Ah, you guys got along today~"
As I spoke jokingly, Isaac and Henry frowned immediately.
"No!"
"No."
"Why? Getting along is good."
"…..."
"......"
The two look at each other.
In my previous life, they were not in a good relationship, they made a rule not to interfere with each other except family matters.
But in this life, the two are quite close. Although they quarrel, they are often together, and they also look after each other.
'Thank God.'
I looked at the two of them with pleasure.
'It's a good step if the closeness between the three brothers deepens.'
But I've never seen Johan Dubbede before. Even during the academy holidays, he did not return home.
'Next year, he'll graduate.'
Johan met Mina a lot, so I heard a lot of rumors about her. But I don't really know what kind of person he is.
I looked up and looked at Henry and Isaac.
"What kind of person is Johan?"
"Oldest brother? She's..."
Isaac who thought for a moment then shook his head with a disgusted expression.
"The person without emotion."
"More than dad?"
"They're both equally terrifying, after all, cold-hearted eldest brother, fearsome like a monster, a demon."
As Isaac sank into his thoughts, Henry reprimanded him,
"Don't scare Leblaine."
"But I was right. Hey, Dik. Even he is afraid of our eldest brother! Ughhhh!"
Isaac, who was struck by Henry, groaned.
Henry was a man who had nothing to fear except his father. Even the head of the senate and Viscount Dubos treated him with caution.
As I stared at Henry, he closed the bottle of ointment and seemed to be a little distracted.
"My brother is the toughest opponent for someone like me."
Henry has a special talent for intimidating, changing public opinion, and is good at strategizing, he is the type of person who digs into weaknesses and destroys enemies on his own.
'That means Johan is a very strong person with no weaknesses.'
Henry said as he brushed my hair,
"So Leblaine, if you see him, avoid him as much as possible."
"Why?"
"Never be an enemy to someone like him. He can't be stopped by anyone."
"..….?"
"Don't touch anything he finds valuable, or he'll turn into a monster and kill you."
"Stronger than Isaac?"
"This boy is no match for her."
Henry pushed Isaac deliberately, and Isaac was furious.
A few days later, I heard that the head of the Pegnac family had changed.
I don't know how they did it, but a very, very distant relative, who had absolutely nothing to do with Pegnac before, took over the family.
New Count Pegnac bowed his head under my father's feet and swore allegiance.
...***...
Border area.
Dubbede's followers, Viscount Myshank and Baron Sue, held their hands tightly and moistened their dry lips.
There was a mountain of corpses piled up in front of them.
Without hesitation, a young man lifted up the body of the dead corpse in an extremely horrifying state and shook it.
The young man who stepped on the mountain of corpses then threw away the corpse in his hand, asking,
"Their identity?"
"Yes? Oh, right!"
Myshank rushed into that body with a pale face.
He did not find any features that attracted attention, but the striking pattern on the ankle of the corpse's body caught his attention.
"Blue, bluebeard! Yeah, we're facing each other. They must be Bluebeard mercenaries!"
Upon hearing the identity of that body, the Baron's face became even paler than before.
The Bluebeard Army was at least a Tier 2 or Tier 1 mercenary, making use of their geographical advantage in the border area.
Those mercenaries were crushed like matches.
By a young man who had just passed puberty.
The young man moved slowly. The last remaining person, who could not move as his fellow soldiers were dying, retreated in fear.
"Don't, don't come any closer. Don't come any closer! This monster, Argh!!"
The last soldier was strangled by the black aura flowing out from the young man's body.
He fell hard.
"Aragh!"
The young man stomped on the neck of the last soldier as if he was an insect.
Myshank said,
"Why did you dare to hit a car with the Dubbede emblem?"
"Well.argh…"
When the last soldier tried to answer. The young man's hand violently entered his mouth.
He pulled his tongue and cut it off.
"Argh..argh!!"
"Ssh—"
The young man said in a sweet voice.
"Don't make me uninterested."
At that moment, a black aura emerged from the hand that was holding the piece of tongue and started attacking him.
The mercenary who was trembling like an insect on the verge of death, drooped lifelessly.
Viscount Myshank swallowed his saliva and gave him a handkerchief.
The young man gently wiped the red blood from his hand asked,
"How long has it been since I got home?"
The two hurriedly lowered their heads and said nothing.
Said the young man who threw a handkerchief to the ground.
"Go to Dubbede."
The two Dubbede followers exchanged glances but dared not raise any objections.
The silver hair that resembled Duke Dubbede in his youth, waved gently in the dry breeze of the border.
"Yes, Mr. Johan."
Viscount Myshank and Baron Sue bowed deeply.
After 5 years, he finally returned to his home.
...***...