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Chapter 25
The Hero’s Suggestion
“Hey, did you not hear me? You’re going to ruin her happy mood once again, so hurry up and show yourself out of the door already, will you?”
Wilhelm continued to glare at me silently, so I tried to instigate him once more.
But………this man, he was definitely going to get involved with us in the future as well.
His amber eyes clearly showed his intent. [I won’t let this end like this.]. I could sense it clearly.
“Ah………by the way, I haven’t heard much about you from Lizbeth, so name yourself, who the hell are you?”
I spoke cockily, showing that [he wasn’t even worth my attention].
Some might say that there was need in trying to instigate a his enmity even further but, I personally felt that now was the best time to do so.
After all, in his eyes, I was already an enemy, an obstacle on his way.
“……….Just to be clear, technically I am a direct relative of yours as well, your highness.”
“A relative? Which means you are calling yourself an imperial? If it’s a lie, that’s basically lese majeste you know?”
“I speak no lies. I am the second son of the Duke Svalier household, Wilhelm von Svalier.”
Hmm? Second son?
In the history books, Wilhelm was the eldest son, and inherited the seat of the family head at 18 years of age, and quickly took the path of warfare. I have never heard of this man having any older brothers though?
Well, whatever.
Now’s not the time to be worrying about that.
“Regardless, I know nothing about you, and neither do I have any business with you. Quickly, disappear from my sights.”
Although in reality, let alone not knowing, in truth I even knew exactly at what age he would die in the future as well.
A slovenly man that was never chaste nor loyal to any woman. When I thought of it that way, it made me even more angry.
“Haha, just because you weren’t able to match up at all with the Marquis, doesn’t mean you have to take it out on me like this you know?”
………..Oh? he was watching my bout with the Marquis from somewhere?
Looks like he’s a lot sneakier than I thought. Maybe that’s how he found out about that day as well.
If Lizbeth only told Maya about that day, then he would normally have no way of knowing about it unless he heard about it from Maya.
But that was impossible, which meant that it’s more likely that he was there. On that day 9 years ago, in the imperial palace as well.
“To be clear, I do have something I wanted to talk to you about, Prince Rudolf. It was only sometime ago that you were almost poisoned, weren’t you?”
“That does not concern you in any way or form.”
“Now, now, just hear me out. You are in a position where you have no allies in the imperial palace, to the point where your life can be targeted as well. I mean, they even call you ‘a dirty pig’ over there, correct?”
Looks like he was trying to instigate me and make me angry as well.
But how unfortunate. I am not the type to lose my temper over something that trivial. The days where I would harbour such emotions were no long behind me.
“And so, if you would yield Lizbeth to me instead, I promise our Svalier family shall back you with our full strength. Of course, if you wish to escape that Imperial palace that is nothing but a den of demons and ghouls, and wish to live a safe and peaceful life, we would help you achieve that as well.”
“…………………….”
“What do you say? It’s not a bad offer in my honest opinion.”
“Mine and Lizbeth’s engagement was decided upon by the Emperor himself. What you ask is an impossibility no matter the conditions.”
“You don’t have to worry about that part. I will……….no, our Svalier household, will of course smooth things over in that case, I promise.”
………..just where is his confidence coming from?
Could it be, that just like he had been keeping tabs on me and Lizbeth, he’s been doing it with the Emperor as well and has a grasp on some kind of weakness of him?
In any case, no matter what he says, my answer was already set in stone.
“I refuse. I have no intention of ever letting go of Lady Lizbeth.”
“…………you will regret that, you know?”
“Regret? Impossible. If anything, if I let someone like you have Lady Lizbeth, that would be far more painful than having my entire body getting torn to shreds.”
Faced with Wilhelm who was clearly irritated that things hadn’t gone his way, I simply laughed scornfully.
“That aside, I’m surprised you had the gall to suggest that to me. After trying to deceive her, now you’re talking about Lady Lizbeth like she’s a thing now. I’m honestly disgusted by how low you can stoop honestly.”
“…………………………………”
That said, while I could understand his greed of wanting to have the military might of Fahlcrantz family behind him, why was he so fixated with Lizbeth specifically.
From what I could tell, it’s clearly not because he loves her or anything like that but………
“Well, are you done with your talk? The exit’s that way.”
“I await the day we meet next time. You “damn dirty pig”.”
“Oioi, your true thoughts are leaking. Are you okay?”
“Tch!”
Wilhelm clicked his tongue loudly, and finally disappeared from my sights.
“But still………….”
Looks like history books aren’t worth shit these days.
In the [War Records of Wilhelm] while he was indeed portrayed as a loose ma when it came to women, he was still presented as more of a heroic person. And yet the real one was like that…….oh?
“Lady Lizbeth……..?”
“fufu, you found me it seems.”
Noticing the figure of a certain lady taking a peek at me from the small gap of the door, I called out to her. At which point, Lizbeth showed herself with her tongue sticking out as she walked to my side.
“Did you perhaps……..see all that?”
“Yes. From around the part where you said [You’re going to ruin her happy mood once again, so hurry up and show yourself out of the door already, will you?] actually.”
Isn’t that basically from the very beginning?
“However……each and every single word you said made me so happy that I honestly couldn’t handle it any further. In that sense, even that man may have turned out to be at least a little useful I suppose.”
“A, ahaha…….”
Seeing Lizbeth show a truly satisfied smile, I ended up leaking a wry laugh.
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