1.

I accompanied Kalimar, Valerie and Chesha to the Duke of Utland. Elbio, who had heard the story in advance, came to meet us.

" "·· 같아 You look a little rusty.”

Chesha murmured. But I guess he's worried about being his father. Elbio gave a light pep talk to our couple and looked toward Kalimar.

"You're the Continental Shelf produced by the magic master Lacruz. I'm afraid you're more of a wizard than I can tell you."

"Kalimar Lacruz. Let's have a wizard who's earned too much fame. And the Duke is quite a bit."

Their first face-to-face encounter was at least seemingly amicable. Since then, we've been chatting moderately and the mood has heated up.

"Hey, Valerie?"

“·········.”

Valerie, who had kept her mouth shut, heard Calimar's voice and immediately stepped forward. Elbio looks at her without a wordlessly.

Long, half-curly white-haired, amethystic eyes.

It is a very familiar appearance to him.

"This is the granddaughter of our current patriarch, Mr. For Lacruz. Do you have anything in mind?"

“·········.”

Elbio had a mysterious smile around his mouth. He is strangely relaxed for a person with a stabbing corner. It's as if he had guessed that one day this would come.

" "·· 듯 You don't seem to have any intention of answering. Then I'll tell you what I'm doing here. The owner of the house of Eutland regards Valerie and Chesha as his real cousins. Of course, your biological father must be you. So, where is Miss Chesha's biological mother, Aina?"

Kalimar continues his talk without interruption. Elbio looks alternately at his daughter and Valerie, and at one point opens his mouth.

" "하하하, that's an interesting argument. But the story of Prince Kalimar doesn't get to the point, it just keeps spinning."

"Oh, in what way?"

"It's a pretty interesting argument that they're cousins. One thing you have suggested as a basis for this argument is the similarity of appearance. Is there anything else that's crucial?"

"Well, the Daughter of the Duke is already an open secret in this country. You don't mean to deny that, do you?”

"No way. It's a little strange to reveal it in front of my daughter and son-in-law, but I'm only brightening the color in a slightly unusual direction. You're not going to kidnap the Lakruz lineal lineage? It's just a distant relative of the Lacruz family somehow."

"Hooh, then can you tell me more about Miss Chesha's biological mother?"

"Of course, at that rate."

Elbio, who accepted the request without a hitch, soon began to tell a story about a woman. However, the story was natural without a hitch. We couldn't find any holes in the information we had in advance.

It wasn't until about half an hour later that Elbio finished his story.

"Hmm, that's all I can think of right now. I think we'll have to look up some records in the library for further details, so why don't we finish up for today?"

"Excuse me."

Calimar smiles at Elbio with no wrinkles, as if the scene he had just been ferociously interrogated was a lie.

After a while. We parted from Elbio, put our heads together and were lost in thought.

Kalimar speaks with a wrinkled expression.

" "·연연군, you are a thorough man, a master of research. I think we've made a lot of preparations in advance, expecting our family to send someone someday."

"Well, if it turns out that we've been working on a family of Lacruz, even a far-northern aristocrat would fall right into the abyss. By the way, that guy, that's really annoying."

Valerie pouted out her mouth. Elbio's relaxed attitude seems to be not satisfied even after he did something unfair.

The Lacruz family has a position on par with the Wibles. If you make up your mind and move to bury someone, even the emperor can't stop you.

In the original satanic episode, the devil worshiper even moved his home country out of his unwillingness to get involved in useless issues, so there is no need to explain further about their influence and autonomy.

I asked Kalimar.

"So what are you going to do from now on?"

"Our family's intelligence is not so easy. Actually, there are a few more reasons I didn't mention earlier."

"····?"?"

"I'd say yes, but there's no card that's decisive enough to drive the opponent to the corner. If you're such a naughty boy, it's hard to induce a slip of the tongue. What should I do with this? It's more complicated than I thought."

With a sigh, Kalimar closed his eyes and gently pressed the back of his nose. Then Valerie snores.

"Huh. If it doesn't work, then we'll have to do kidnapping torture. If you let the shamelessness of your direct involvement, the Lacruz family will be the laughingstock of the public.”

"You certainly didn't think the Duke would come out that hard either. It's the last resort. If you do it recklessly, it'll bother you to clean up."

The two men who share a bloody story.

I shook my head with a limp.

"The Duke of Utland is my father-in-law."

"I'm sorry. But whatever she or Clan Master thinks of him, I personally can't forgive him."

That's a firm attitude. But I agree with Valerie. If Cesha had dissuaded her from doing so, she would have fixed her thoughts, but she also said she had no affection for her father.

When I exchanged glances with Chesha, I coughed a little and said to Kalimar.

"I have a suggestion about that."

"Proposal?"

"Yes. If you leave this to me, I will get a confession from the Duke of Eitland about you."

"Is that possible?"

"Of course, I can't tell you exactly what we're going to do. But there's one condition."

Kalimar listened to my story, thought for a moment, and asked,

"What are the conditions?"

"The Yutland family has been a long-time collaborator of our clan. I hope that the Lacruz will be limited to an individual named Elvio Eutland.”

It is also possible for the Lacruz family to seize and exterminate one of its forces. Especially those who are extremely sensitive to direct blood spills.

"···그런 요구라면야. The Eutland family members are also members of Miss Chesha's family. So we didn't mean to do anything bad from the start. Is that the end of your demand?"

"Yes."

answered without a hitch

Kalimar said after a moment's thought.

"좋좋좋좋좋. Let's trust the master stroke."

2.

As I walked through the garden of Utland's mansion, I saw a little girl mumbling about. On the opposite side is a woman with light brown hair who looks like a mother.

"That's right, Ophelia."

Her name is Lily Eutland, who smiles at her growing child. Chesha's two-year-old sister, the wife of a man I know well.

"Lily."

"Ah, sister!"

She turned her eyes to me when she saw Chesha.

Then slightly harden your face.

"··· Long time no see, brother-in-law."

"Yes. It's been about four years since the inauguration of Clan Master. It's been almost five years since we met again.”

"Oh, he, yes."

Lily seems to find it hard to deal with me. Maybe that's why our Clan became so famous.

"Oppelia he spoke to in a letter? You've grown a lot, ····."

Seeing her 4-year-old nephew, Chesha has a strange look on her face. The girl in Lily's arms stretched her crotch fingers at her. Chesha holds the soft hand together with the look on her face. Looking at the pleasant sight, Sotiro came at a distance.

"I rushed to hear the report that you've been here, Mr. Iden. I've heard that you've returned to your own family after a long time, but I didn't expect you to come to your wife's house so soon."

"Yes. Seeing that the horse's tail is getting longer, I think you're completely settled in human society."

"Ha-ha, it's been almost eight years."

It turns out that after a few more years, this guy goes beyond his time in Zaparia. It's not unusual for identity to lean to one side.

"So, how's the work going?"

"Lilly's brothers and sisters were almost all recruited. I'm ashamed, but the Daryl's son-in-law is favored by the Duke, so my successor is half chosen."

Elbio has two sons. The eldest son is a descendant of a white-haired family, who is a Dunjae as a wizard, giving up his successor education and walking the path of an administrator in the center of the kingdom. The other became the son-in-law of a count family. Little wonder Sotiro, who made his mark as the son-in-law, is mentioned as his successor.

I asked him.

"What happens to the Duke right now, so that he will have no problem in his succession?"

“·········?”

Sotiro opened his eyes thinly as if he had a strange smell when he heard it. And whisper.

"···제힘만으로는 아직 무리입니다. Some of the Duchess's shrines were also recruited, but the whole kingdom would be noisy if Daryl took over the Duke'Organic. But it'll be easier if someone with influence gives you a little support.”

in a sly smile

To sum up, it's about asking me for some help. Look at you, dude, naturally hitting the help. He used to be cute when he was talking nonsense like Ekattle, the savior, but now he is a seasoned politician.

" "···If something happens, your father will be your guardian. Just so you know that."

"Yes. Your Excellency is still in good shape.There's only one thing in ten thousand, so we should be prepared for anything we don't know.”

"If you can't say a word..."

Sotiro and I laughed and talked about the pile. I heard that Lily already had a second child in her stomach, and I had a feeling that Forden's rush was going to get worse.

next day

I knocked on the door of Elbio's office.

I'll lend you a hand, contractor.

The white snake's voice brushed against the ear.

3.

A month later, Elbio confessed his guilt in the international trial of the Wibbleh Empire, which was held in secret.

Aynara Lacruz was missing in the "Western Union War" decades ago, and surprisingly, Elbio said he was deeply involved from the commissioning process and brought her into the battlefield.

The planned kidnapping was a success.

Elbio saw a daughter in the hands of Ai Nara, and the daughter was Chesha. Aina unfortunately died shortly after giving birth, and Utland's secret library had records that she revealed several mental problems right after unwanted pregnancies. Perhaps this is the cause of death.

Four Lacruz and other members were resentful to learn the truth.

After the trial, the Lacruz family demanded Elbio's whereabouts, which the Croatian kingdom and the Wiblé Empire accepted. This is due to the fact that the trial was pre-empted to prevent international disputes. In the first place, it was a confession and the evidence was clear, so the Croatian kingdom had nothing to do with it.

Later, Elbio was trapped in Lacruz's underground concourse. I don't know what will happen inside, but I'll probably never see the light again.

The rest of the work was to include Cesha in the Lacruz family genealogy.