Chapter 10

Chapter 10

Chapter 10. At Lewan's question, the other said with a grim face.

“...

It's not good. Since the talk of life came out, everyone is very confused.”

“What if those idiots give up as a group?”

“Then... With our two's shares, we can only claim 200 million marks, so demanding the castle is unreasonable. With about 200 million marks, it seems the other side can also pay.”

“Try to persuade more! It's 100 million marks each! Do you think those idiot-like bastards will ever get to touch 100 million marks in their life? Even if we give up our two's shares, it's fine so try to tempt more! We brought them this far, we can't give up like this! Where on earth did it go wrong! This was a perfect plan!”

“I'm also curious about that. I heard the Valfruga's information organization was also disbanded long ago... No, even if there is an information organization, how did they find out this method?”

“That's why it's incomprehensible! From the beginning, how much the young lady suffered to secretly stuff in the promissory note of money that was never borrowed! For the past 30 years they didn't even notice...! How on earth...!”‘This is it! The information the mistress wants!’Butcher was delighted.

Since he obtained the information the mistress wants, what's left is just going and receiving praise.* * *Naul and I who heard the information Butcher brought were astonished.

“They never even borrowed money at all? Is such a thing possible?!”

“It's also a method I've never heard in my life. How on earth is such a thing possible... Why do we have the promissory note of money that was never borrowed?”

“Clearly those people said that, Madam. Precisely ‘From the beginning, how much the young lady suffered to secretly stuff in the promissory note of money that was never borrowed! For the past 30 years they didn't even notice...! How on earth...!’ he said.”

Butcher said imitating Lewan.

“Wait, wait a minute. Young lady? Who is the young lady again? Does the Fox Merchant Union know a noble young lady?”

“The Leholas Marquess's young lady...”

I said as if groaning.

“The great-great-grandfather generation married the Leholas Marquess's young lady. And the Fox Merchant Union was originally the Leholas Marquess's.”

“...!”

“...!”

A Duchess who stole the family's seal and participated in the scam.

Is this why seal management is important.

Unlike Butcher who quickly calmed down and lowered his eyes quietly again, Naul couldn't come out of the shock for a while.

“W-wait a minute! Then the one who manipulated and put in the promissory note from the beginning is the great-great-grandmother Duchess?!”

“Even if not necessarily the Duchess, she must have been involved.”

“This... It doesn't make sense! How on earth...! Even so, it's the family she married into... Why...”

“Even after marrying in, the rising maternal family Leholas might have been better than the Valfruga family that has been on a continuous decline?”

“Come to think of it, I heard that the great-great-grandmother Duchess returned to the Leholas Marquess house as soon as the Duke passed away.”

At Butcher's words, Naul twisted his body in shock.

Even as the Valfruga family was collapsing, and he was pushed by Frug and scolded in the castle, he didn't leave Valfruga.

Since he's that loyal a man, it must have been hard to accept the fact that the Duchess betrayed the Valfruga family.

Naul buried his face in his hands for a long time and stayed still, then let out a deep sigh.

“Got it... Got it. Good. The betrayal is something I have to chew over alone, for now we have to resolve this matter first.”

Fortunately, Naul was a man who knew well what he had to do now.

Originally he had a tired and pale impression, but in 10 minutes he seemed to have aged 10 years.

“The great-great-grandmother Duchess, no, now I don't even want to call her Duchess. If the Leholas young lady was involved, the trick of this scam is too easy.”

Naul continued the words heavily.

“From the beginning, the great-great-grandfather Duke wouldn't have needed to see this document. At that time Valfruga was in chaos, and 50 million marks is small. It's not a large amount, and the repayment date is 30 years later so it would have been hard to know immediately. Moreover, he wouldn't have thought that the wife he trusted would secretly steal the seal and make a fake promissory note.”

“I think so too.”

It's a plan spanning dozens of years.

How persistently has the Leholas Marquess house prepared to collapse Valfruga.

Thinking about it, they are really persistently bad guys.

I have to mess these guys up before Lus grows up.

Of course the fully grown Lus will destroy them, but still I have to lay only a flower path in front of my kid.

“This is really... If it wasn't the method Madam thought of, it was a method we couldn't have found out. At best I thought they manipulated the amount...”

Naul looked at me with moved eyes.

“As expected, Madam is definitely the guardian of our family... I originally believed in Madam, but from today I will be even more loyal!”

“Ah, I will also be loyal!”

Butcher lowered his head side by side next to Naul.

It was fortunate that there was the original.

If not that, I might have also been fooled by the Leholas Marquess's scheme.

“More than that, since we found out it's a scam, we have to handle the matter quickly. If we look at the ducal house's ledgers, it will be revealed that there was never a time of receiving 50 million marks from the Leholas Marquess house. Once we find the evidence, we have to contact the Leholas Marquess house right away.”

“Then...”

“They said if you scam, the compensation is twice, right?”

Naul's expression brightened.

“Madam! It's fortunate that Madam is our Madam! Really.”

And he lowered his waist with a resolute face.

“Thank you so much for coming to our ducal house.”

Seeing the sincere face, I somehow felt embarrassed.

I needlessly stroked my neck and said.

“No, what. It's fine. I'm hungry. I'll go eat and come. You also rest a bit and start work. And Butcher, lock the merchant union in the prison. Tomorrow we'll have the last conversation... Um. But.”

I showed a strange smile.

“I hope the merchants cooperate well with my words. You know what I mean?”

Butcher who pondered for a moment soon seemed to realize and smiled brightly.

“Yes! Don't worry!”* * *Naul felt his heart heating up.

That person is our ducal house's Madam.

When he first found out the fact of Frug's embezzlement, he thought she was just a lucky young girl.

Since he devotes loyalty to the Valfruga family, he only thought he should also devote loyalty to Madam...

Now it's not.

Blank cartridge operation.

It's a word heard for the first time, but Madam commanded the operation excellently.

Of course it was a dangerous method.

If the other side thought coldly, it might have been a method that wouldn't work.

So Madam trained the ragtag soldiers of the ducal castle and created a fear atmosphere.

The appearance of the merchant union who ignored thinking Madam was just a young child being scared out of their wits.

Even thinking again, laughter came out.

How gallant was the appearance of boldly rebuking the merchant union from the chair!

Truly a person with no lack in ruling a family.

Unlike the lovely appearance, inside she possesses the spirit of a monarch.‘That such a person is only fifteen years old now...’If time passes and Madam becomes an adult, how excellent a person will she become.

He devoted loyalty to Valfruga, but he never imagined even in a dream that this family would regain its former glory.

He thought it was okay to just not starve and live with a proper appearance somehow, but for the first time greed arose.

With Madam, Valfruga might regain the former, no, even greater glory than before.

Naul saw hope for the first time in this ducal castle.* * *When rummaging through the ledgers, the evidence that money was not borrowed came out soon.

The next day, I took Butcher and headed to the prison.

“Ugh.”

As soon as I entered the prison entrance, I dry heaved.

It was a musty smell that seemed to pierce straight toward the brain, not the nose.

“What, why is this smell like this?”

“For a while, prison management couldn't be done, so...”

Butcher also frowned and said.

Ah, right.

With no money in the family, there was no way they managed the prison.

Right, the prison is a place where bad people come in the first place, so there's no way they would spend the already insufficient money.

The Fox Merchant Union was imprisoned one by one in the prison.

What happened in one day, their faces were like they had been locked in a ghost house for a month.

“P-please spare us! Duchess! We really know nothing!”

“Th-that guy plotted it! We'll do anything, please just spare our lives!”

“Madam! I was wrong! I was blinded by greed!”

They begged stretching their hands toward me beyond the bars.

Hearing the voices pleading toward me is always not good for the heart.

But I firmly resolved my heart.

I can't let these guys off.

Even if swayed by greed, those guys attacked our family.

If I hadn't blocked them, the ones imprisoned in the prison would have been our family's people including me and Lus.

I looked at the two men glaring at me in contrast to the men begging me.

Especially, Lewan was so vicious that if he could kill a person with just his gaze, he would have cut me into eight pieces.

“There's no need for you to beg me for your wrongs. I'll process according to the national law.”

At my words, the people wailed even more.

“Madam! We can't repay the money!”

“Please spare us! Madam!”2 billion marks, since there's no way to repay, my words must have sounded like meaning to die.

I smiled with a cool face.

“Why do you repay the money? Your master is the Leholas Marquess, isn't it?”

A question flashed across the merchants' faces.

On the other hand, shock gathered on Lewan's face.

He charged toward me.

“Th-this...!”

As he stretched his hand as if to attack me between the prison bars, Butcher grabbed that hand and broke it.

“Aaaak!”

I said while listening to his scream.

“Your master is the Leholas Marquess, so it would be right to claim the compensation from the Leholas Marquess. Isn't that so?”* * *The heads of the merchants who saw Felia smiling in front of the prison turned quickly.

Suddenly the Leholas Marquess here?

They couldn't understand the reason.

But anyway, it's a life to be sold as slaves here.

The Leholas Marquess house has a lot of money so they can easily repay about 2 billion marks.

They still don't know how it is, but the ducal house also has thoughts, so isn't that why they mentioned the Marquess's name.

If they testify that the behind of this matter is the Leholas Marquess, they don't need to die by Valfruga's hand or pay the compensation.

Of course they can die by the Leholas Marquess, but the thought didn't come that that small girl could tear something from the Leholas Marquess.

Above all, avoiding the immediate danger in front of their eyes was first.

The face of the young man grinning beside the master looked good-natured, but to them it looked like an evil spirit.

The merchants who finished calculating shouted in one voice.

“Th-that's right! The one who sent us here is the Leholas Marquess!”

“The Leholas Marquess sent us!”

“Shut up! What nonsense!”

Lewan shouted toward the merchant union.

“Wh-what! It's right, isn't it! The Leholas Marquess plotted this!”

“Thinking about it, you're also suspicious! Right, from the beginning you're the Leholas Marquess's henchman, right?! So you dragged us here!”

It seems roughly guessed, but it was the fact.

“Madam! I'll tell everything! I'll say anything, so just spare us!”

The Fox Merchant Union clung tenaciously to the only way to live.

Lewan and his colleague tried to calm the people and block their mouths, but they couldn't stop the people whose own and family's lives were at stake.

Already the trend had tilted.

If the Fox Merchant Union testifies, and the evidence that came out from Lewan and his colleague's room is presented, there was no more place to run away.

What remained was only the Leholas Marquess.