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Helmut had a small pill in his hand.
I could see something writhing inside the translucent shell. It looked horribly disgusting.
The moment he saw that, the color drained from Michael’s face.
The face, which was already pale, became so white that it could no longer be white except for the bruises.
Helmut looked at his face filled with astonishment and fear.
“I see you know what this is.”
This is the same bug that Black Hawk once tried to use on Helmut.
It lives in the heart, and once a month you have to swallow a specially prepared medicine to supplement the insects’ food.
The formulation of the medicine varies depending on what it has eaten since it was a larva, so it is different for each bug.
If you don’t feed it, the worms will eat your heart.
Since it is sensitive to magic, it is not easy to remove it even with magic.
If an insect feels threatened, it will gnaw its heart and cut off its host’s lifeline.
“I gave you a method that only the lowest assassins use… … !”
Michael took a step back in a defensive posture.
“If you know, there’s no need to say more.”
Helmut pounced on Michael.
“no! There’s no one… … Argh!”
After suppressing Michael, who was screaming desperately, he forced his mouth open.
Michael has no muscles in his body, so his strength is mediocre.
Forcing him was as simple as forcing a newborn baby.
Helmut immediately shoved the pill down his throat.
Cough, Cough! Michael struggled violently and tried to spit out the foreign object in his mouth, but to no avail.
The neck trembled and the pill eventually went down my throat.
Only then did Helmut let go of Michael. Kudang!
“Hmm!”
Michael fell to the floor, crying and gagging.
Michael’s face was red, and he stuck his finger down his throat, trying to spit out what he had swallowed. It was a desperate gesture.
Cheek! However, what he spit out was not a pill, but a shell fragment soaked in gastric juice.
The bugs inside had already burrowed into the body.
“More dirty bugs! “This monster!”
Helmut watched Michael’s struggles with cold eyes.
Michael let out an inexplicable scream and soon began scratching his chest.
I heard that there will be some pain until the bug burrows in and settles down.
‘It was done by Area, so there shouldn’t be any problems.’
There will be no danger to your life. Helmut purchased the bugs through Blackhawk.
In the first place, it is not an absolute poison.
Once you become the Grand Duke of Rinosa, you will be able to receive the high-level procedure to remove bugs by borrowing the power of the Wizards Association or by calling a therapist.
However, if the magic of Area is added to it, the story is different.
Unless you are an archmage, you won’t be able to remove the bugs from Michael.
If you make a pointless attempt, your life will run away.
‘It doesn’t matter if I die like that.’
Helmut looked with new eyes at Michael’s body, whose tremors had subsided as if the bug had settled in.
Michael was always neat and tidy, with a pretentious smile on his face.
Michael’s face, covered in saliva, tears, and snot, was both insignificant and funny.
Rather, it was Helmut who was more undisturbed.
The guy who pretended to be noble, exposed himself to the bottom so easily. Helmut suddenly realized something.
‘Now that I think about it, this guy also grew up in a weird way.’
It only seemed strong because it was smart enough to take advantage of others and because it was in an environment where it could always be superior.
Since I’ve never been humiliated before, I have no patience when I’m backed into a corner.
In reality, he is just a young master who has used his weak body as a weapon to live as he pleases.
That’s why it’s easier for him to choose death than life as a loser. It’s not that I have a particularly strong will.
Charlotte was so upright and had a strong sense of justice that she could not repay her sickly younger brother, who never knew when he would die, for treating her carelessly.
Michael’s attitude influenced Helmut to some extent.
However, it would be a big mistake to think that it would work even at this point when he stabbed Helmut.
That one thing is surprisingly similar to my mother.
Michael, curled up like an herbivore, muttered while rubbing the corner of his mouth.
“… … This is disgusting. “How dare you feed me bugs?”
It was a complaint that made him feel pitiful, but Helmut responded coldly.
“They say people eat bugs in their lives without knowing it. “Today won’t be the first time, so don’t worry.”
“That’s comforting now…” … !”
“Who is doing something like consolation?”
Helmut asked back as if he was astonished.
To expect something like that from a perpetrator is not only lack of conscience, but also foolishness.
Michael, whose emotions exploded at the blow, lunged at Helmut.
“Why are you keeping me alive like this! why!”
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Helmut indifferently faced the face that was holding his arm and screaming.
“Did you think that by making me your enemy, everything would go your way in the end?”
“Wrong. “You can’t do this to me!”
It’s hard to listen to anymore. If you listen to it, you will want to kill the person who bought bugs at such a high cost and fed them to him.
Helmut’s eyebrows raised. He tried to push Michael away.
But Michael quickly shouted before that.
“I saved your life!”
“… … “You, me?”
You didn’t mean to kill me? An obvious question.
However, the emotion clearly revealed in Michael’s eyes was resentment.
“Okay, I… … “I could speak to the temple.”
“what.”
“You are a disciple of the sword saint Darian. I knew it. Because I saw your sword. If only they knew… … “I would never have tried to keep you alive.”
If they had known for sure, the temple would not have stopped at sending Helmut to the Forest of Pahe according to the archduchess’ wishes.
Sword Saint Darian. The name was enough to make the temple hypersensitive.
“I hid it. That’s my choice. I’m your… … I was able to remove it from Latona 4 years ago. But instead, he was sent to the Forest of Pahe. “Where you’ve been living.”
With the hands of a temple, he cleanly disposes of his political enemies. It was a golden opportunity.
A more reliable method than sending Helmut back to Pahe Forest once he has left Pahe Forest.
The reason he didn’t do that was because Michael himself didn’t understand it.
But what is certain is that Michael at that time did not want Helmut to die there.
Although he pretended to be rational, Michael had lived his entire life following his desires and living as he wished.
At that time, he did whatever his heart wanted.
Helmut closed his eyes as if pressing something and pinched them coldly.
“You take care of your conscience in an arbitrary way.”
But it was also unexpected. The position of successor, which meant nothing to Helmut at the time, was everything to Michael.
He is not the type of person who can tolerate the possibility of losing what he has built his entire life.
Helmut was Michael’s rival before he was his blood relative.
Even if they are brothers or have sincere affection for them, if they pose a threat to themselves, they will be eliminated.
Because Michael was considered that kind of guy.
“… … Yes, I did. But that’s why you lived! I came back here alive. So to me… … “You can’t do this.”
As if he understands now, he confidently asserts it.
As if I owed Helmut a debt.
Helmut looked at Michael’s miserable, bruised face with nowhere to hit and asked.
“Why are you telling me that? Since you did that, are you asking for a merciful death? “Please stop breathing here.”
As if speechless, Michael kept his mouth shut.
He lowered his eyes as if avoiding gaze, and a look of confusion appeared on his face. As if he realized his own contradictions.
Only then did Helmut realize. This guy doesn’t really want to die.
Helmut must have had thoughts like that, wondering if he would kill himself.
That easy-going idea may be because I have lived a life where foolishness is accepted.
Today is the first time in his life that he has been hit by someone.
Who could severely punish Grand Duke Linosa just because he did something wrong?
The idea that one’s life could be lost due to one’s choice is unconsciously excluded.
Rather, because he had been close to death all his life, the word death felt even lighter to him.
Helmut realized one more thing. There is no way the Archduke does not know this about Michael.
Even if Helmut had not appeared, the Archduke would not have chosen Michael as his successor.
Michael only had selfishness and desire, and he had no will or responsibility to support Linosa.
The one who had it was the greedy Charlotte.
Helmut opened his mouth.
“You are Charlotte’s brother and a member of the Grand Duchy of Linosa. “That’s not why I’m keeping you alive.”
I heard the gaze of Michael, who was biting his lip.
“You are useful.”
Michael was a talent of his own. Anyway, he is smart and was educated as a king, so he knows the situation of Rinosa well.
As long as you keep it from betraying, you can use it as much as you want.
Although he expressed his anger towards him in the first place, the person Helmut was truly angry with was not Michael.
I never believed in Michael, but I believed in Magritte.
It was appropriate to take her anger out on her favorite child.
Helmut warned.
“If you don’t take medicine once a month, the bugs burrow into your heart. If you want to live, prove your worth.”
If he were useless, Helmut would not give him medicine, and Michael’s death would be dismissed as a heart attack.
It was nothing strange. Because Michael was a person who could die in Rinosa at any time.
There was no answer from Michael. Helmut left him and left the room.
He threw a word at Alonso, who was waiting.
“You will need treatment.”
Since he was beaten like a rag not long after he got better, it was obvious that weak Michael would fall ill again.
