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This world is not Earth.
The people of the Kingdom of Lionel call this world ‘Teira’. It is a world where gods exist and mana exists. However, sometimes they witness flora and fauna that are surprisingly similar to those on Earth.
The most representative example is humans.
There are also cuckoos, which lay their eggs in the nests of pigs, chickens, roses, cherry blossoms, and other birds and then kill all the chicks of the parent birds that raise them.
The blood of the Lionel royal family runs thick.
Rumors that the person who caught the person, Arkad, might be a cuckoo chick were bound to arise. Those who started talking about it disappeared without a trace, and it was all hushed up.
[#232] Right after the library opened, I also checked the truth of that rumor.
┕ Is it true that the rumor that the 4th prince does not have royal blood flows through him?
“It is difficult to answer that question with the RP you have.”
The result was, of course, a cold reception.
I had forgotten about it for a while.
Even after a dramatic improvement in her relationship with Reina and the achievement ‘I’m Popular When I Get to Know You’, when her RP was just over 30,000, Genie’s answer was the same.
But yesterday, the answer to the question changed.
“The information usage fee for this question is 30,000 RP.”
About 300 million won in cash value from a previous life.
I didn’t buy the information.
Even if you pour all your RP into finding out the truth, it won’t be of much use. Just because you get a “Yes” answer, you can’t go around shouting, “The Four Princes are the cuckoo chicks!”
If the answer was no, I knew I would shed tears thinking about the 30,000 RP I threw away in the [Library] to satisfy my useless curiosity.
What I noticed was.
‘The price of information has changed.’
The price of a question that couldn’t even be answered with a yes or no changed? Why? There was only one thing I could think of.
The value of information has declined.
why?
After much deliberation, I came to a conclusion.
Information is being released.
What if even a dog or a cow knew that Arkad was a cuckoo chick? The more people who know, the less valuable the information is.
So why is the secret of his origins being revealed? Who are the people who have begun to share it?
The answer came quickly.
‘The Prince and his supporters.’
The moment I figured that out, I discarded all the plans I had in mind to persuade the Second Prince.
And instead of spending a whopping 30,000 RP to get a yes or no answer, I tracked the movements of the second queen between 9 and 11 months before Akkad’s birth.
As a result.
At that time, a delegation from her home country, the Kingdom of Arya, visited the Kingdom of Lionel. Furthermore, she found out that there was a cousin in the delegation who had been with her since childhood. Furthermore, she found out that there had been rumors in the royal family of Arya that the former second queen had been in a relationship with that cousin.
The second queen is so homesick that she decorates her residence like Arya’s palace. Then, she meets a lover from her past?
That’s 99.99%.
“You said things got a little weird, but it’s not like that. You’re crazy. You know that there’s no one in their right mind who talks like that, right?”
The gaze of the Second Prince, who seemed like he would eat a person up for fun, was something I pretended to avoid for a moment and quickly checked his status window.
[Relationship: Borderline]
The word ‘Border’ was so red that it almost looked like ‘hostility’. It didn’t change to hostility. Rather, it seemed to have lightened a bit.
The second prince neither got up from his seat nor immediately kicked me out.
I feel a little more confident.
“Coppens Mikken.”
“······.”
The second prince’s eyebrows twitched slightly at the name I mentioned. The thought that it was 99.99% changed to 100%.
Moreover, the second prince became convinced that he knew the secret of Akkad.
“······How do you know that name?”
It was a natural question.
The second queen’s cousin changed his name after becoming an adult and became her son-in-law, so his name when he came as a member of the diplomatic delegation was not Coppens Mikken.
“I heard that a thief broke into Count Kurusu’s study in the Kingdom of Arya the other day. Are you aware of that?”
“!!”
Kurusu Kanos. That’s his name now.
Information is truly amazing.
The fact that the study of a count’s family in a kingdom across the sea was robbed. The count’s past name. The women who had various rumors about the count.
If you look at them one by one, they are small pieces of information that don’t require much RP. If you assemble them well, you can complete a powerful weapon that can stab the queen of a kingdom.
“Count Kurusu’s study was robbed? How do you know something I don’t?”
“Isn’t it more important who robbed that place than how I found out about it?”
Of course, the second prince will guess as well.
1. That it must have been stolen from the prince’s camp.
I don’t know if they even have evidence. What is clear is that the clock on the time bomb that the Second Queen had secretly hidden has started ticking.
The second prince has only one choice.
“This royal trial will be a good opportunity.”
If the clock on a time bomb starts ticking, all you have to do is remove it before it explodes.
as soon as possible.
Wouldn’t that be the only way to avoid a catastrophe?
***
“You’ve used up all the 30 minutes you promised. I’ll wait for some good news.”
Damian tried to hold on to Evan as he left the guest room, but stopped himself.
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Soon, the chief attendant appeared holding a coat.
“Your Majesty, what’s next on your itinerary······.”
“Cancel it. And I want to be alone, so don’t let anyone in.”
“······ All right.”
Damian, now alone again, got up from the sofa and walked over to the window. He saw Evan and his servant walking by.
“That guy······.”
Five years ago, Damian watched as Evan’s maternal family, the Marquis of Bayern, collapsed and those associated with them perished on the execution grounds.
Evan, who was trampled to the point that no one could stand up. After he was given the derogatory nickname of Ghost Prince, no one paid any attention to him.
But.
“I thought you were hiding your teeth.”
How could Damian have found out information that even he didn’t know, including the fact that Arkad was a cuckoo’s child? There was only one conclusion Damian could come to.
“Are they the dregs of the Marquis of Bayern?”
Perhaps······the secret unit that handled information. It was clear that they and Evan had been hiding behind the guise of the Ghost Prince.
Why did you shed your skin only now?
Oh, you didn’t take off your clothes? Maybe you had no choice but to reveal them because of that scoundrel.
“Did you know that Count Kurusu’s study was robbed?”
Damian, who was alone in the reception room, spoke to someone.
“sorry.”
To my surprise, the answer came back from near the fireplace.
“I didn’t know.”
“It might be a deception.”
“Did it seem like a deception?”
Damian’s intuition whispered that Evan had told him the truth.
“······ We have detected that some of the shadows on the Prince’s side have moved towards the Kingdom of Arya, and are currently tracking their whereabouts.”
“He is incompetent.”
“sorry.”
He opened his mouth, looking at Evan walking away.
“That guy, put a shadow on him.”
“······It would be a meaningless sacrifice.”
“what?”
“The servant of the Fifth Prince, our eyes met earlier. It is clear that he is no ordinary servant.”
“I should have known since my mother called them Shadows who had learned the vision of the Kingdom of Arya. Their abilities are truly outstanding. Should I go and tell them about what happened today?”
“We are loyal only to the Second Prince.”
“Thank you. I’m so grateful I could go back.”
“······.”
Damian felt like trading Evan’s servant for his shadow.
“Evan Lionel······.”
A variable that suddenly appeared in a confrontational relationship that was on par with the 1st Prince, or rather, honestly, a little inferior. Damian thought that Evan might be a useful dagger.
At least it’s more useful than a spoiled brat.
The handle might be a little sharp, but I was confident I could sharpen it well enough. I never thought I would get stabbed in the hand and bleed.
‘I guess this is a good opportunity to get that rascal out of the way. And I think we need to reduce Mother’s influence a bit, too.’
***
On the way back from the Opal Palace to the Emerald Palace.
“Your Highness, what did you and the Second Prince talk about alone? Could you tell me just a little bit, just a little bit?”
Alfonso continued to slosh around beside me.
I ignored him and moved on. I was already exhausted from the fight with the second prince. I didn’t have the slightest intention of wasting energy trying to satisfy the guy’s curiosity.
“It wasn’t just the two of us.”
“yes?”
The ghost hand that was wandering around the reception room of the Opal Palace, wandering around the empty space, suddenly stopped near the fireplace when a status window popped up.
‘Was your name Muyeong?’
It was like catching a rat while backing away from a cow.
I opened my third eye to see Mana and glanced at that part, and it felt a bit out of place.
“······.”
Alfonso suddenly became quiet.
It was actually good because I was feeling lazy.
‘What a pity, by the way.’
I glanced in the direction of the Opal Palace and thought about that.
If I were the first prince and someone told me the secret of the birth of the fourth prince, I think I would treat him like a noble person.
Of course.
Even if you just want to confirm the truth of the rumor, it’s information that costs 30,000 RP. And that’s because its value has dropped now.
┕ Is the biological father of the 4th prince Kurusu Kanos?
“The fee for using this information is 29,000 RP.”
Correction, in the meantime, the number of people who found out that Arcade is a cuckoo chick has increased to 29,000 RP. This is strangely searched for like apartment prices.
Seeing the prices of apartments falling steadily, I got the feeling that it was a bomb that was going to explode soon anyway.
Could it be said that it is like a piece of stock right before delisting?
I’m glad I was able to use it at least like this. That’s how I consoled myself.
‘The aftershock is stronger than I thought.’
I just beat up the Arcade kid as my heart moved, but the damage was much greater than I imagined.
I simply predicted that there would be an increase in pranks like [Poisoned Milk]······.
Not only was he standing trial for the royal family, but especially the second prince was starting to care about the existence of the country.
Imagine if the Ghost Prince, who was locked up in the Emerald Palace, suddenly found out about a thief breaking into the Count’s house across the sea. What would he think? Fortunately, the ‘warning’ relationship did not turn into ‘hostility’, but······.
Suddenly, the back of my head felt cold.
Wasn’t that guy named Muyeong following me earlier?
The thought of adding the task of scanning every nook and cranny of my bedroom with my ghost hand before I go to sleep made my head hurt.
‘Still, I don’t regret it.’
I recalled the thrilling sensation I felt during the Dalian fight. The ghost hand also clenched and unclenched its fingers repeatedly, as if it was reminiscing about that time.
The situation surrounding me was changing more rapidly than I expected. I desperately needed someone I could trust and rely on.
The only person I could think of was my older sister.
······ My older sister is also precariously building herself up.
In order not to bother my older sister as much as possible, I declined to come visit her today, saying I was busy.
I found myself glancing at Alfonso. His eyes were squinted and I couldn’t see the pupils. It was hard to read what he was thinking.
If that’s an advantage, then is it an advantage?
under······.
“I improved my relationship with Damien Lionel.”
“You have earned 5,000 RP.”
what?
I quickly checked the status window.
Suddenly, the relationship with the second prince, which had remained unchanged throughout the 30-minute conversation, changed from ‘warning’ to ‘normal.’
It was clear that something had changed in his mind during this short period of time. Could I assume that this was a definite answer that he would be on my side at the royal trial?
My depressed mood has improved a little.
