Chapter 260 – 9. Hormia’s Dictator, Countess’s Insidious Task

[Lady Cassano, the butler I greeted earlier is Hamson. It’s nothing else, someone who is looking for Mr. Cassano has arrived]

I heard the voice of the butler named Hamson accompanied by a knock, and seeing Perisha and Undine flinch, I went outside and closed the door with a thump, staring into the middle-aged butler’s eyes.

“Who came to see me?”

“I do not know. It just seemed like a person related to the imperial family.”

Huang family? When I opened my eyes wide at the unexpected background, the butler quietly moved out of the way and spoke to me.

“I will guide you right away. As I answered various questions about the Countess, she found Cassano.”

“Are you asking to pursue the Countess?”

“Well, we and the Count would hopefully do that, but there’s no way the Imperial Knights would do something like this… “

I caught a glimpse of the Count’s eyes in the resigned butler’s eyes and took a step forward with a snort. Arriving at the parlor with the guidance of the butler, I grabbed the handle and was about to pull it, but I remembered what the butler said about the imperial family and knocked on the door.

Smart-

“Excuse me.”

[Please come in]

I tilted my head at the beautiful yet elegant voice, and I opened the door and went inside.

“Nice to meet you.”

As I went into the drawing room, saying hello, I met the eyes of the knights standing in a row. The giant armor shining in platinum, the emotionless eyes peeking through the cover, the sun pattern drawn on the armor, and the red cloak they wore clearly proved that they were not just knights.

But pretending they didn’t call me, the knights corrected their posture and stared at someone sitting on the sofa, who then took off his hood and greeted me.

“Nice to meet you. I am Veron, an investigator dispatched from the Knights of the Sun.”

When he took off his hood, his golden hair shimmered like the sun. He was amazed at the pure gold that shone as bright as the brilliant sun, but also amazed at the jewel-like eyes that seemed to have been polished by an elaborate craftsman, and were as beautiful as ours.

Jewel-like eyes mixed with purple and red, moist red lips, elegant yet captivating appearance, thin voice and small body, but the overall atmosphere was neutral, so I couldn’t guess the gender, so I decided to greet Veron rather than prodding him. And looked at each other.

“Nice to meet you. My name is Cassano, who is entrusted to Baron Whistle.”

“Oh! Are you here!!!”

A lively voice knocked on me along with the sound of trudging-stepping. I glanced at the back of the knights, and the count with a lively face approached me with a big smile, and Veron took off his hood and put it back on.

“These are the Knights of the Sun, the 6th Prince’s exclusive knights. I heard how the prince knew about the hardships I had gone through and sent them to look at the damage I would suffer. Haha!”

The count burst out laughing and patted me on the shoulder. I didn’t want to cut off his happy laugh, but I silently accepted his hand, and the Count, who laughed for a long time, clapped his hands when he saw Veron wearing a hood.

“Oh, by the way, the investigator sent by the prince said he had something to ask you. I’m sorry to interrupt this.”

“It’s okay.”

Veron, avoiding the Count’s gaze, pressed the hood and answered. In response, the count turned around and quietly left the drawing room, looking around his room.

“I wonder where the prince is… “

Count Haengmil exited through the back door of the parlor, and the knights who had been watching his steps glanced at Baron and followed the count in perfect order.

Are you saying that since I’m here, there’s no need to protect it? Or did he leave to find out the scale of the damage as the Count had said? As he pondered the unknown truth, with a kung, the door closed and Veron on the other side took off his hood.

“Well, since no one is there, can I ask you about the whole story?”

“What is the whole story?”

“I would like Sir Cassano to tell me everything about how she came to meet the Countess, the tasks she asked for, and everything she did before she left.”

Nodding my head, I rolled my head and sorted out the events that had happened so far, then raised my hand at the unfamiliar title and spoke to Veron.

“Speak comfortably. If you’re the prince’s subordinate, you’ll have a higher status than a mercenary like me… Also, I am embarrassed to hear that a mercenary is called Sir.”

“No, even if you are a mercenary, I don’t think it’s right to treat someone lightly as a son of the empire who ate the stipend of the empire and solved the prank that happened to the long-established family.”

The tip of my ears turned red at the overly humble and congratulatory speech. As if the most beautiful woman in the empire lifted me up, I suddenly forgot for a while, but I remembered who the opponent was in front of me and put my hand on the table to regain my composure.

“Then, the first start was at Baron Whistle… “

The baron’s serious condition, meeting the countess after coming to the county’s house for help, and acting as she told her to help with a contract to solve her tasks, what each task was and the approximate contents and results, He told me all the things he had handed over to the Countess.

“Um, uh, uh, the fortress in front of the mountains, the village of witches. Whoa… “

Stelgia’s actions must have been quite troublesome, but Veron sighed in succession as he wrote endlessly in his notebook. Every time my white face was stained with tiredness, I felt sorry for nothing, but I thought why did I care so much for a man, so I stopped paying attention and continued the conversation.

“Whoa, thank you. All of them are just stories related to important and fairly big events.”

“Is that enough?”

“Yeah, to be honest, it’s a headache.”

Back, Veron pressed her forehead with the tip of her pen and made a disgruntled expression as she licked her lips with her white front teeth. As she looked at her with a strange yet eye-catching expression, Veron took up her pen and apologized.

“Oops, you looked rude. Sorry.”

“No. Then, what will be the treatment of that countess, or that witch, from now on?”

I, who even talked about Stelgia being her witch in Witchcraft, looked at Veron’s reaction and asked a question. When she heard the story of the witch village, she repeated the name Stelgia, and her pensive Veron smiled sadly and she asked me in reverse.

“What will Sir Cassano do when he finds her?”

To that question, I answered right away without hesitation.

“I intend to get revenge because I have to pay for touching my woman. She attracts women who have nothing to do with it, and to be honest, I still feel resentful.”

After she answered honestly, Veron put down her pen, put her hand together, and stroked the back of his hand with the fingers of his other hand, contemplating something on her. When I rolled her eyes for a few minutes, Veron, who had been contemplating, quietly spoke to me.

“That’s right, it’s definitely a test or an assignment, and the act of scolding others with nonsensical words is also an act to be criticized. In that sense, the actions of the Countess, no, Stelgia, are not right.”

I vaguely sensed Veron’s true identity in his luxurious vocabulary, caring eyes, and warm behavior of treating me with sincerity one by one.

“But, if she has her own story and reason… “

Realizing what Veron was trying to say, I put my hand on the table and looked at him. Agitated eyes and resigned eyes that vaguely realized my answer. I answered in a firm voice.

“Even so, she is neither right nor forgiven for what she did. Please return carefully.”

I grabbed the armrest of the sofa and got up. The moment I turned around, I could clearly feel Veron’s eyes looking at me, but I thought I’d get angry at him for no reason if I continued the conversation with Veron, who said, “Can’t you look at me?”

Thud!

Cooperation with the investigator is over, so it’s okay to leave like this. I got angry for a moment and ran out, so when I calmed down a bit, I was frantically worried that there might be a disadvantage, but I managed to control my emotions again and went back to Perisha’s room where she was waiting.

**

“I will not be forgiven, grant… “

Took, Veron put the notebook on the table, took off his hood, and began to read the story written in the notebook once again.

The white suit embroidered with golden thread, the medal nestled on the chest, the golden necklace protruding out of the shirt, and the mana blooming subtly kept the magic hanging over Veron’s body.

Awesome!

“Are you done with work?”

Among the knights in platinum armor who had left after the Count, the knight wearing the most gorgeous armor returned to the drawing room. Turned around by the familiar woman’s voice, Veron smiled and nodded her head.

“Hmm, to say that the Countess’ true identity was Stelgia, I couldn’t believe the overly explicit support… “

“To commit such an absurd thing even with the prince’s grace, I immediately commanded the emperor to take Stelgia… “

“No, doesn’t that make her empire more senseless of what she did to her?”

Wearing her silk chain around her neck, the young witch, crushed by the base ridicule of humans, was relieved that no one had touched her and that Stelgia had not been defiled, because of her superiority as a witch, of course. Wounds won’t be easily erased. Alone, the prince got up from the sofa and said.

“Prince Oberon… “

The prince forcibly smiled at the sad voice calling him, straightened his back and looked at the door Cassano had left. As he listened to his realistic story, a ray of crush rose and the greed he had felt many times while living as the prince surrounded the body of the prince.

“Anyway, Cassano, I really like that guy.”

“I am just a wandering mercenary. The person the prince might be interested in is… ”

“No, it’s different from me, who is surrounded and protected by those who always ran only on a guaranteed path, and those who grew up in a good family and good environment. Rough, crude, but… He seems like someone who knows how to cherish something he holds in his hand more than anyone else.”

“… I don’t know, or maybe I haven’t heard anything in the first place.”

Haha, the prince laughed at the knight’s tone as if he was fed up with it.

“Look at this, Lilia, the reason her countess for her reward came to see her fighting her privates, to the detriment of her own woman.”

“For?”

“They tried to kidnap her, I don’t know what would have happened if she stopped it beforehand, but due to the nature of Stelgia, she must have mocked Cassano with the bound Miss Perisha by her side.”

“Oh, he’s a consistent kid.”

Lilia, who had been by her side since the prince rescued her, said in a voice that she was fed up. Laughing haha ​​at her blatant response, Oberon put her notebook into her arms and looked out the window where the sunlight was streaming in.

“I’ll have to meet you again when Haengmil Baek’s work is over.”

A woman or a man, the smile of Oberon going back and forth in the middle permeated the brilliant sun as it was.