Not Knowing The Betrayal Of That Day - Chapter 108
Translator and Editor: Effe and Yonnee
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Chapter 108
Only then did Hert become sure that Tessa had safely escaped from the castle without looking back. And he realized that the culprit of the castle’s destruction was the Marchioness herself.
If Hert had delayed a little longer, he might have been buried dead in the collapsing rubble.
“Why did you do this?”
“Because it was a deal.”
Supported by her maid, Elena, wiping the blood from her hair with her sleeve, she answered Hert’s question concisely.
“Yes, you must have made a deal with that damn Marquis Borwen. Otherwise you wouldn’t have been able to prepare all of this by yourself.”
“You are well aware. You’re right, Sir. All of this has been planned for a long time. I’ve been waiting for this day all along.”
Elena looked back at the collapsed castle and looked satisfied. Even though she herself could have died without getting out of that castle, she was genuinely happier than anyone else.
“And I am very happy to see the fruits of my labor. If there had been champagne, I would have had a celebratory drink.”
Haha. Then Elena started laughing, her shoulders shaking as if she couldn’t help it. At first glance, she seemed like a madwoman. Hert gritted his teeth at Elena’s attitude.
“Are you kidding me? Can’t you see I almost lost everything because of you? How could you do this—”
“Sir, I apologize for not informing you beforehand. But sometimes, you have to fool your allies in order to fool your enemies. There was a reason I couldn’t tell you.”
Elena, who had stopped laughing, answered Hert in a calm voice. For that reason, Hert gave up further inquiry and just ran a hand through his hair roughly.
“…So what do you get out of this deal?”
“I think I’ve told you before.”
“Such nonsense…”
“Revenge and freedom. It was a deal worth changing my whole life. Just as you had taken her back in exchange for being Marquis Borwen’s dog, I had done the same. All values are relative.”
Hearing Elena’s words, Hert went silent for a moment. He could not refute. Because, as the Marchioness said, he was able to find Tessa in exchange for being the Marquis’ mad dog.
It was also rightly said that values are relative. Even if he went back, Hert would have made the same choice. He would have given anything to see Tessa again.
Hert caught his breath and asked one of the things he wanted to ask.
“…Since when?”
“It was two years ago that I met the Marquis.”
Two years ago, when Janet joined the Jutert house to help Tessa, Elena was able to contact her niece, who had taken over as head of the family—this was through Janet as well. She was then offered a chance to take revenge against her husband first, which would soon start over. As Elena had always been waiting for that opportunity, she did not let this chance go.
Her niece at the time put a bargain ahead and demanded of Elena everything in Jutert. Literally, she wanted a card called ‘Jutert’. As for Elena, she had no reason to refuse. Elena also demanded only two things from her niece in return for the deal.
The fall of Jutert and her freedom.
Thus, from the day the deal was struck, Elena pretended to be harmless, and very slowly with the help of Marquis Borwen, she burrowed into everything in house Jutert. People, power, wealth, property, name…. All of that was thoroughly used as a cornerstone for the path Marquis Borwen would walk ahead.
“Ha… You played very well.”
“The Marquis said it was inevitable, and that meeting you, Sir, was one of the keys she had to obtain. I am also grateful that I was able to get a chance as well.”
Elena explained. According to her, Marquis Borwen’s plan began the moment she met him. She also said that Hert played a very important role in their plans.
Hert was baffled. It was a fact he had vaguely noticed, but he felt uneasy that it was confirmed so openly.
“Don’t talk like that. I have no intention of being used only as a card instead of a person.”
“Sir, anyone can be used as a card. The important thing is whether they are discarded or used. Everyone is using each other as cards. Marquis Borwen, myself and you, Sir, are very useful cards to each other. How much power can there be if the cards are brought together?”
Elena spoke to persuade Hert, and her words gradually struck a nerve with Hert. Elena spoke calmly again.
“You must know, too. That it is now impossible to get out of this. Don’t you know yourself well—about your origins?”
There’s no way he didn’t know. That’s why things got so messed up. Hert laughed inwardly, but he chewed the inside of his cheek.
“I know. The things I can have because I am the illegitimate child of Duke Callias, and how very useful of a card I am.”
The reason why Marquis Borwen had been pushing Hert both physically and mentally was not because he was an unrivaled hunting dog. In the first place, Marquis Borwen wasn’t generous enough to give an orphaned commoner any power.
The reason why the Marquis took Hert and used her hand behind the scenes was because Hert was the hidden illegitimate son of Duke Callias.
In other words, the most efficient way to take over House Callias was if Hert were to usurp the position of duke and replace the current Duke Callias.
“Then, you must know what your role is, Sir. You know why I brought the Young Marquis to this castle, and why I destroyed the Jutert Castle.”
As soon as Elena finished speaking, a trumpet sounded loudly in the distance announcing that reinforcements had arrived. At this, Hert unknowingly burst out laughing and shook his head in a small voice.
What a damn woman.
It took less than half a day for the kingdom’s only duchy to become a mess.
There was no one who could stop Beatrice from attacking the duchy from early in the morning, claiming the edict she received from the queen. She forcibly opened the front door of the duchy and trampled through it. After everything was over, even a single ant couldn’t get out of the ducal residence alive.
She was covered with indistinguishable blood, not known whose it was from the people of the duchy. It was also what Beatrice expected. She let out a long exhale as she looked down at the blood dripping from the sword she was holding. One of the knights came closer to her and whispered.
“Your Excellency, everything has been sorted out.”
“Lead me there.”
Beatrice followed the knight into a room.
In today’s raid, only one person was able to survive. It was Duke Callias, the owner of this duchy and the king’s cousin.
He was seated in his chair with his hands and feet bound. The bloodshot eyes from bursting veins glared at Beatrice.
“It’s been a while, Duke Callias.”
Beatrice sat down on the chair a subordinate knight had brought, and casually stabbed her sword into the floor next to her. Then, she faced the Duke with a smile.
The duke’s lemon-blond hair, which always dazzled her eyes, was stained with sparse blood. In fact, both the duke’s face and body were stained with dark red blood.
“Oh no. Judging by the look on your face, I don’t think you’re very happy? I put so much effort into meeting you though, Your Grace the Duke.”
Beatrice shrugged her shoulders and glanced around at the dead with her eyes open. They were people who tried to protect their lord somehow. Among them, there were a few people whom Beatrice coveted. But now they were all dead.
“For doing this… Aren’t you afraid of punishment?”
Duke Callias, who was glaring at Beatrice, reluctantly opened his mouth and spoke in a cracked and broken voice. Beatrice openly laughed at the duke’s words.
“That’s funny. If I had been afraid of such things, I would not have come to this place. I wouldn’t have killed my father with my own hands.”
“This, such a wicked…”
“Duke, you don’t seem to be in a position to talk either. Haven’t you been doing some adorable things behind my back?”
Beatrice ordered the waiting knight to fetch something with one wave of her hand. Then, the knight handed her a long scroll. Beatrice tossed it in front of the duke.
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