Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Chapter 24.“What about that? Isn't that side also the same rampaging riding on the family's halo?”

Treon looked down at Ticle with a disgusting face.

“No title, no ability. A maggot-like bastard living parasitically on the family. The reason I can rampage now is thanks to our Madam succeeding in the deal with her own power. And I will repay by devoting loyalty to such Madam. Different from you who was born holding only one bloodline.”

Treon put a lot of strength and slapped Ticle's cheek with his fist.

At the shocking fact of being slapped by a guy who was under his feet, Ticle was almost about to lose his mind.

“If you want to say, go say. I'll say that you interfered with my investigation so I stopped. Whether your father will take your side even in front of the Summerhild Duke, I also don't know.”

Treon picked up the sword that was sprawled on the floor.

Exactly that sword Ticle held yesterday.

Treon struck Ticle's stomach hard with that sword.

“Ugh...”

“Right now you are in a position where even if I hit like this.”

Treon kicked Ticle's shin with his foot.

He hit Ticle as if relieving the piled resentment.

“Even hitting like this, a position where you can't say anything. Do you understand?!”

“Keuk... ugh... This bastard...”

Ticle glared at Treon with terrifying eyes, but caught by the knights he couldn't move at all.

Just twitching only the fingers was the last resistance he could do.

Like a bug caught in a spider web.* * *It didn't even take a few hours for Treon to return with the thick documents.

The Matek Count denied until the end, but when a document stamped with his seal came out, he could no longer run away.

“Count. Will you die for the crime of deceiving me, or buy your life with money?”

At the Summerhild Duke's words, the Count cried and paid an enormous amount of money.

The Summerhild Duke gave me part of the money received from the Count as the price of information.

And a few days later, the trading partners who heard the news flocked to the Matek Count castle.

Of course that information was information I asked the Summerhild Duke to spread.

“Count Matek! Deceiving the material of the weapons! Is this true?”

“No, then the things sold to our Count house were also all deceiving the material? Immediately give my money!”

“This scammer! Immediately come out here!”

I and the Summerhild Duke who settled in the chaotic Count castle drank tea together.

The weather is also good, the Count seems hard to revive, and a good scent came from the tea torn from the Count.

Peaceful.

“This time thanks to the Duchess we were able to secure our share first so it was fortunate.”

The Duke said looking at the nobles who were confused.

No matter how wealthy the Matek Count house is, it was impossible to compensate all those nobles.

They will be torn and eaten step by step in the order they came first.

“Why is that my merit. I just asked the information merchant to connect a noble.”

“Then what else is it not the Duchess's merit.”

“Rather I should thank the Duke. If it wasn't the Duke, it wouldn't have been easy to hand over like this.”

Because it was the Summerhild ducal house, we could shake down the Matek Count house like gangsters, if it was another noble it would have gone much more difficult.

This time the Duke also didn't decline, and smiled as if agreeing.

Then the Summerhild Duke suddenly said something out of the blue.

“I have no daughter and one son. He's fifteen so the same age as you.”

“Yes?”

If it's the Summerhild Duke's son, I also knew well.

Because he's one of the sub-male leads in the original.

A man with red hair like the Duke and free and wild charm unlike a noble.

But why the son suddenly?

“It's a bit awkward to say this, but he's a handsome and sturdy guy resembling me. So sturdy that it's a flaw to that extent, hahaha.”

It was ordinary child boasting.

I responded appropriately.

“If resembling the Duke, he must be really handsome.”

“Right. It's not words because he's my son but he's really popular. There are already girls following around?”

That would be so.

If a man with the sub-male lead title of a romance novel has no popularity, that would be more strange.

Thinking of the sub-male lead's personality, everyone would dislike it though.

“So speaking, no intention of becoming my daughter-in-law?”

“Y-yes? Cough, cough.”

So surprised that I coughed and spat out the black tea without manners.

“Oh. Did I surprise you?”

The Summerhild Duke handed a handkerchief.

“Th-thank you.”

While wiping the corner of the mouth with the handkerchief, I watched the Summerhild Duke's mood.

“It's not a joke but sincere. No matter how much I try with the wife, it seems impossible to give birth to a lovely and smart daughter like you, and I really like you a lot.”

Oh, startled.

“I, that... Thank you for the proposal but I'm already a married body...”

“The Duke hasn't become an adult yet so it's not even that a formal ceremony was held, right?”

Perhaps because it's a law made so long ago, this imperial law was really strange.

Although treating a married person as an adult, the thing of being able to hold a formal wedding is after both people become adults at twenty.

“And in the Empire there's also the good system of divorce.”

Right. That's why I was also going to receive alimony later and divorce cleanly.

I adjusted my posture and said politely.

“Thank you for seeing me well. But I have no heart to leave Valfruga.”

“Even becoming the future Duchess Summerhild?”

Honestly the position of Duchess Summerhild is coveted.

Unlike the completely collapsed Valfruga ducal house, the Summerhild ducal house is still a strong one commanding the continent.

If becoming the Duchess Summerhild, there was no need to suffer saying I'll save the family for nothing.

Enjoy a lifelong rich unemployed life, and if according to the personality seen in the original, when divorcing they would value the alimony generously.

Thinking of the future life, choosing the Summerhild ducal house is right...‘Older sister. Do you have to return?’ The moment I recalled Lus who was holding my finger all the way until the moment I got on the carriage, I was already blurting out the words of refusal.

“...

I'm sorry.”

Even though the proposal was rejected, the Summerhild Duke had no unpleasant air at all.

Rather he even looked happy.

“Hahaha. This is. If you were going to reject my proposal, you should have rather permitted.”

“Yes?”

“That way I can look down on you saying this ability is okay, but no integrity. Since there's ability and also integrity, won't I covet more?”

The Duke's eyes shone dangerously.

Somehow even though I rejected, it seems to have burned more...?

“But the reason for rejecting is curious. Is it because of the Duke Valfruga after all?”

“Yes.”

“There's about 10 years left for the Duke Valfruga to become an adult. During that time, it's unknown how the relationship between the two people will change.”

“Haha...”

“So if the heart changes anytime, say. The door of the Summerhild ducal house will always be open to you.” If you accept 10 years later, thank you.

At that time it will probably be after divorcing Lus.

Swallowing those words inside, I just muddled with a smile.

I declined the Duke burning more from saying unnecessary stories.

“Then I have to get up now. I want to talk more with you, but because I came in a hurry, work to process has piled up.”

The Summerhild Duke who stood up from his seat said as if thinking of it.

“Don't mind the words just now, and if a matter needing my help arises anytime, say. This is purely words because I like you.”

And the Summerhild Duke left.

I leaned on the railing and looked down at the Matek Count having his hair and mustache torn by people.

“It hurts, ah...! There's evidence...! Uwaak!”

“What? Evidence? This still trying to deny!”

“Uwauwaa!”

The Matek Count's mustache was torn grabbed by someone's hand.

With the mustache remaining half, the Matek Count groped his own face as if unable to believe.

“My, my mustache... The mustache...”

While the Count was suffering hardship, Ticle Matek had disappeared somewhere and wasn't even visible.

In the end, he was a guy of only that level.

Seeing the noisy scene, I missed the quiet and harmonious Valfruga Castle.

Butcher and Treon who saw the Summerhild Duke leave approached.

“Shall we also go home now?”

Treon knelt with a solemn attitude.

And looked up at me with eyes full of true loyalty and trust.

“Yes, Madam.”* * *Before returning to the ducal house, we headed to the bar where the information merchant is.

The information merchant who was moving busily to prepare for opening recognized me.

“Oh? What matter is this again? Did more information to sell expensively arise?”

Even knowing my status, the attitude was unchanged.

Recalling the attitude of the information merchant who casually spoke informally even to the male lead in the original, it might be some concept on the information merchant side.

“No, this time I came because there's information to purchase.”

“Good, let's talk inside.”

The information merchant looked at the employees cleaning and pointed inside.

“Are the ones working in the bar ordinary employees?”

“Well, right. Such work is life if confidential. There's no good in knowing a lot, right?”

I nodded agreeing.

“By the way. I became going to the Valfruga ducal house this time so take care well there too.”

“What?”

“Our master seems to have a lot of interest in the miss.”

I know that master is the Summerhild Duke, but smiled pretending not to know.

Anyway the information merchant coming in was welcome.

That much our territory's information will also flow a lot, but obtaining information also became much easier.

Our family's secret organization has just started, so it's hard to catch up to the dense information network of the Summerhild ducal house.

Someday our family also has to build a continental information network, but until then there's a need to use the Summerhild Duke's information network.

The information merchant who entered the room I had come to once before sat on the chair and asked.

“So? What information do you want to request?”