Episode 208
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Elizabeth, walking down the hallway, calls out to the man in front of her.
“Lord Aveiro.”
Aveiro, who was touching the deep furrow as if he was thinking deeply about something, had a slightly absent-minded expression.
“……yes?”
He answered like this.
Elizabeth asked, standing in front of him.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
Then he takes out a glass bottle from his bosom.
This is the most popular menu at the famous ‘Juice School’ in Ascendible.
When did you bring this?
Aveiro accepts it and smiles faintly.
“thank you.”
Aveiro just leaned his back against the wall.
Looks like he’s having a little bit of a hard time.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes, it’s okay. No, it has to be okay.”
“… … You must have had a hard time.”
Aveiro shrugged at Elizabeth’s heartfelt words.
By the way.
“How was the meeting?”
Elizabeth asks as if she has been waiting.
“I wonder if I’m being too aggressive towards General Rommel. Is there another reason I’m not aware of?”
Another reason.
there is.
That too.
“It’s for personal reasons.”
“Personal reasons?”
“I am Jack Valantie, Elizabeth’s brother. And who caused and solved all the things that have happened in the kingdom?”
“… … Jack.”
“That’s right. My lord has taken care of everything. My lord has now swallowed up the entire country. If this were a war and a place to reward merit, all the credit should go to my lord. But the situation has become very strange.”
“You say it got weird?”
“Yes. My lord wants ‘stability.’ You’ve been so bothered by the troubles that you can see that you’re getting tired of it now. There’s only one thing that my lord needs.”
“What is that?”
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“A ‘politician’ based on ‘common sense’. A person with great popularity and certainly considerable political ability. A person with no disqualifications and who has never committed a violent crime or anything like that. A person like General Rommel.”
Elizabeth knows too.
How capable is Aveiro.
But Aveiro is the one who moves behind the scenes.
If Aveiro was a kind of shadowy figure, General Rommel was his opposite.
“My lord needs General Rommel. To be precise, he needs the experience and reputation that General Rommel has built up through that experience, that is, the reputation of ‘Duke Rommel Einhard Assenble.’ But.”
“but?”
“That doesn’t mean that General Rommel will really return to his position as Duke.”
“Because the influence is too great?”
“That’s true, but as I said before, it was you who finished all the cleaning. No matter how indifferent you are to such things, it’s a separate matter that General Rommel has power.”
“A separate issue… … .”
“Yes. That’s a separate issue. I don’t trust General Rommel.”
Elizabeth’s eyes twitch.
“why?”
“They say that joining the committee was a double agent, but I wonder. Was he really a double agent?”
“… … .”
“It is true that he is a double agent… … If that is true, then take a look at the current situation.”
“The situation where both sons died?”
“Yes. In that situation, Rommel came under the lord’s command. No matter how much his two children tried to kill him, he was none other than Rommel. Rommel was very humane. Especially when it came to his family, he was very sticky, unlike most nobles.”
A complete contrast to the recently deceased Clark Valantier.
That’s Rommel.
“As you know, Elizabeth, I deal with information. Do you know what is most important when dealing with information?”
“well.”
“I doubt it.”
“Doubt?”
“You have to be constantly suspicious. Even if it looks like something is being put together, if one part is wrong, the outcome of the board will be completely different. That’s why I don’t trust General Rommel. Rommel is just controlling the puppet king from behind without having any ‘formal power’ like he does now. He can’t go beyond that. If he goes beyond that, General Rommel’s presence will grow even bigger and his master’s presence will diminish. Above all.”
“More than anything?”
“If Rommel has other intentions, those who are most at risk are those who are with you. This includes Lady Elisabeth.”
“… … .”
Aveiro was serious.
“That is my role. To weed out and manage those who block my lord’s path or tire him out. What my lord needs is Rommel’s political power, not the power he possesses. To be honest, I also find Rommel’s private organization, the Magic Legion, very annoying. I only keep it because my lord told me to, otherwise I would have disbanded it a long time ago.”
Aveiro paused for a moment and then downed the juice he was holding.
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For a moment, I thought it was sweet.
Aveiro took out the truth he had been holding inside.
“The lord I serve must always shine. I will give my lord light. No matter what.”
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Aveiro’s determination is evident.
Clearly, Elizabeth saw the determination.
So he said this.
“He is a good person.”
“My lord?”
“No, Mr. Aveiro.”
Aveiro looks dazed for a moment.
Elizabeth smiling in front of him.
Because I saw her bright, dazzling smile.
“Thank you for being our Jack’s man.”
Aveiro couldn’t answer.
and…….
I was just amazed.
It’s new, but it’s so damn pretty.
and…….
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A sofa and table on one side of the Academy President’s office.
He sat in the highest seat and slowly opened his mouth.
“There is a saying:”
It was in the shape of the letter D, and the people sitting closest to me were Gray and General Rommel.
The positioning was such that they looked like the right and left arms respectively.
Here’s the funny thing.
Our Aveiro was standing behind me.
This may be disappointing to Gray, but I trust Aveiro more than Gray.
He slowly put down the teacup he was holding and continued speaking.
“If we do not employ the best talents within our country and instead bring in talents from other countries in pursuit of fame and achievements, then our country is in ruins… … Have you ever heard this saying?”
Rommel and Gray shake their heads.
And sitting next to him is Gray’s father, Mason Theran, who rules over the Marquisate of Herman and the Marquisate of Theran.
Next to him is Baron Antony, Count of the ‘Antony Counts’.
Next to him is Justin Carena, the creator of ‘Carena’.
And the heads of ten families were sitting there, including Marquis Leopold, Count Lev, Viscount Arbeloa, and Baroness Xenia.
These are the people who survived the tragedy I caused.
Also, they did not participate in the experiment to dismantle the cells, but rather restrained them. Furthermore, all ten of these families are the families that sent me ‘letters’.
To be exact, they are the ones who stood truly ‘neutral’ in the kingdom.
“The funny thing is that the Teslan Kingdom fell even though there were so many talented people in the country.”
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It was exactly 10 minutes ago that I received the results of the meeting.
The result of that meeting was to spare Mazar Teslan.
Not bad.
Putting up a scarecrow? It’s not really that bad.
A scarecrow that can be moved and replaced at any time.
If Aveiro concluded that and Rommel concluded that, then it must be right.
So it’s not wrong to say it failed.
The Teslan Kingdom has already ended.
It’s just a formal framework.
“You are definitely nobles. That’s why you are alive like this.”
“… … .”
“You didn’t cooperate with the committee, which was like the immortal or something, and instead, you suffered a lot of losses by restraining them. When I looked, I saw that 80% of the taxes collected from the territory were given to the king. You fed the people of the territory with the remaining 20%, and you ate bread and soup three times a day… … You really worked hard.”
This is neither an exaggeration nor a joke.
In fact, if you look at the current situation of the Teslan nobles that Aveiro had investigated ‘in advance’, there were clearly more than a few nobles who were starving.
“There must be some people who hold a grudge against the family that has been left behind. Those who sent letters to me without going far are all here, right?”
They nod.
“You want revenge. I understand. But you don’t have enough troops. You were all disbanded, right?”
“……yes.”
“I will help you avenge that grudge. But.”
Everyone’s eyes are drawn to my mouth.
“I will do it my way. Let the nobles finish their fights among themselves. Let the commoners and children stay out of it.”
This time, everyone nods as if they agree with the meaning.
But the reason I gathered them together like this is.
There is only one.
I raised my hand slightly and pointed to Aveiro, who was standing behind me.
“Does anyone know who this guy is?”
“… … .”
There don’t seem to be any.
“He’s a friend who used to be the branch manager of the Adventurer’s Guild. No title? He’s a commoner. But.”
A smile forms on my lips.
“He is the person I trust the most. Everything I do will start from his mouth, and everything that comes out of his mouth will be what I intend to do. Surely there is no one who does not know what this means?”
“yes.”
Then he stood up from his seat.
He moved next to Aveiro and tapped him on the shoulder.
You punk.
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You’ve made it big.
“How many days should I give it?”
Aveiro smiles similarly to me.
“One day will do.”
Naturally, I sat our Aveiro down on the table where I was sitting and gently rubbed his shoulders.
“Who should do what, what to do with the empty grounds, this guy will tell you everything. Then, I have to go because something very busy came up, so let’s clean up the rest of it properly, neatly and very squeakily.”
That was the end.
He just turned around.
Urgent matter.
Something really urgent came up right now.
I need to take a dump.
