I Will Return My New Brother Chapter 60

Rany, who was scanning me, folded her arms with a serious face.

“If you want it, let's try to execute the plan to take over Miller Duchy as a long term plan.”

“Who knows, because he's only a Young Duke, it might be easy to erase him.”

“Rany.”

The door opened wide at that moment.

As if he had been listening to the conversation between me and Rany, Sir Rune entered the room while giggling.

“Ladies, Sir Young Duke said it's best for you two to stay at the Duke's mansion as a measure of protection for the time being.”

He reached out his hand gently to escort me.

I examined his expression, but there was nothing I could read there.

He halted his steps for a moment in the doorway before speaking to me in a smiling voice.

“The words that appeared as though I wasn't really interested in you, My Lady. I think they'll have to be taken back.”

“Sorry?”

His eyes that were looking at me arched deep like a half moon.

His gentle gaze, faint yet sweet voice was directed to me.

“I think our young lady is more interesting than what I had thought.”

“You shake my heart every time we meet, making me troubled.”

I blankly stared at him, who was spewing words that were usually written in romance novels.

I was cornered as a suspect in an injury case a moment ago, then I turned the situation around with Orion's help, and the next I heard this man's nonsense?

The genre of my life is fantastic, huh?

He laughed upon receiving my knitted gaze before whispering while smiling.

“In the future, please talk about conspiracies like this carefully, in a place unknown by other people.”

He looked outside a bit and gave a signal with his eyes.

The knights guarding outside the door feigned indifference.

It seemed like our conversation was heard by a lot more people than I had thought.

Unlike me, who was lowering my head, trying to pretend innocence as I cooled down my burning face, Rany was so confident.

“In the first place, humans are people with desire.”

“I see that Miss Rocke is a very honest person.”

Sir Rune smiled widely.

I thought a girl who was trying to acquire the Duchy by getting rid of the young duke, and the said young duke's right hand man shouldn't communicate so well, though.

I wasn't sure if this was fine.

Next to me, Rany grabbed and swung my arm before talking to me in a happy voice.

“I just found a hope where I could take over the Duchy without a bloody situation. The vice captain unexpectedly looked like he could easily be bought.”

“He's not.”

“Marianne, as expected, the power of beauty is the best method. Well done!”

“I never use the power of beauty, will never use it, and can't ever use it.”

He was just speaking nonsense.

I decided that I shouldn't leave Rany in the same room as Sir Rune.

The meeting between the two was very dangerous.

Whether it was for the peace of the Duchy, or for my serenity.

Of course, it was also for the safety of Orion's position.

As the investigation began in earnest, the poor reality of management showed up one by one.

Although it was only lightly brushed, the problem did not cease.

That was to be expected since they tried to fabricate the incident by making a young lady of the Duchy as the culprit.

A complete reinvestigation regarding Trevor Beryl was also conducted.

The fact that he was the source of the curse, and the fact that he was hurted inversely while trying to curse me was quickly revealed.

The empire took quick action and imposed severe punishment on them.

[Deprivation of the Beryl Family's status. Demotion to viscount for the Amber Family.]

Even if they had no relation to black magic, there was no way for the Amber Family that supported Trevor not to be incriminated.

What would be a problem must be the Amber Family's revenge on the Beryl Family, who already fell into the bottomless pit.

The brutal aspect of nobility, an aspect where they would rip apart to pieces the one they loathed even if it had already been a corpse.

No matter how long they needed, the Amber Family would definitely erase the Beryl Family from history.

However, what weighed on my mind was the fact that Trevor Beryl, who was in a coma, disappeared.

Rany slowly nodded her head.

“I couldn't find anything despite feeding the guards a big sum of money. If he didn't leave through the gate, then it must mean that he is inside the castle.”

“The one that is declared as heresy by the Temple? That is impossible.”

The Beryl Family had already crumbled, so there would be no aristocrat that was willing to help Trevor.

However, there was also no way for the classes under the bourgeois, whose religious influence was absolute, to help him.

That meant that, where could he go when he had been declared as the main culprit?

“If only he were caught, I can teach him what the taste is when humans are at their lowest.”

Looking at Rany who was swinging her small fist, I kept weighing down about him.

The curse was able to be rid of quickly through the high-priests' effort, but the goal was too obscure.

If it was simply for getting good scores in the academy, then he should have gone to the Imperial Academy.

There was no reason for him to bother to attend a public academy.

All the professors were dismissed from their positions as the incident, which left a bitter taste feeling on one side, was completed.

Their abolished honor as a scholar was a natural sequence.

Although it was more accurate to say that there was no honor for them that was drunk with power inside the academy to bottom out.

There was no one innocent between them.

In the end, the academy was temporarily closed without the possibility of reopening.

Chapter end