## Chapter 1011 – The Aristocrat Kim Kat

After arriving home, I announced all the good news and threw a party. It was truly something to celebrate. The matter was resolved well, and we gained a great profit.

“Hooray!!! The birth of Marchioness Karin!!!”

Karin stroked Hilde’s head, who was purely delighted, and chugged a bottle of alcohol. She was leaning back on the sofa with her legs crossed, drinking with hearty abandon.

“Yeah! This is the feeling! I didn’t think it would be this good even when I heard about Winia, but now I feel damn great!!”

Karin, having emptied the bottle, shouted loudly.

“Karin, are you that happy?”
“Of course, I’m damn happy! I beat up all those brats!”
“I totally agree. We should beat those bitches to death! You did great, sis!”
“It’s the best thing I’ve done all year!”

Winia was the most sympathetic of all.

“Isn’t that just righteous patricide? How could such a bizarre thing happen? It’s truly astonishing.”
“Patricide can be a good thing sometimes. Yes, indeed.”

I listened to their chatter while carrying food with Aria.

“Father, I can’t imagine having a bad relationship with family. It seems the Marquis has the right to distribute his estate, so why would they try to antagonize such a person…?”

Aria asked such a question.

“Well, you see.”

Why would they mistreat and badmouth the Marquis, who had the right to distribute his estate? It was incredibly foolish.

“Those kinds of people aren’t the type you can understand. Their way of thinking is different from ours. There’s no need to delve into it. One word—’idiots’—is enough.”
“…How bizarre.”

Even in modern society, there are plenty of bizarre people who defy imagination. There are psychos who believe they must do things that should never be done, and there are those who enjoy deliberately crossing the line.

When you look at the world, there are just too many idiots.

Why those idiots do such idiotic things has not been clearly established.

“I can’t even imagine going against Father,” Aria said, tilting her head and looking at me.

Ah, really.

“Our Aria is so kind.”
“She’s well-educated, isn’t she?”
“Hehehe, yes. Our Aria is well-educated.”
“Even if I hadn’t been educated, I would have ended up devoted to Father anyway. Hehe, let’s go carry more food quickly.”

With that, Aria and I continued to move the food.

“By the way, you really resolved things well. Not only did you get revenge, but you also managed to secure the inheritance? I didn’t know you had such a business sense, Karin?”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s a compliment. You did very well. I was honestly a bit worried, but if you did this well, nothing could be better.”

But usually, people worry about using violence like that, right?

“Well, anyway, if there’s a problem, you can just smash everything in the end.”
“That’s exactly it, Karin!”

In the end, if you’re strong, there’s nothing to hold you back.

Living by one’s own standards.

This is the logic of the superhuman.

“So, what about the Marquis title? What happens to that?”
“That! We get everything when the Marquis dies!”

Karin answered heartily when Claudia asked. She seemed pleased to inherit the Marquis title.

Of course, I’m happy too.

But I’m a Baron, and Karin is a Marchioness.

I’ll have to make her submit thoroughly in bed later to prevent any issues. The title doesn’t necessarily imply a hierarchy, but it’s true that a Marquis usually has more clout than a Baron.

“Hehe, I’m really happy that Karin is so happy. You did a great job with Kat. And to get all the assets… it couldn’t be better.”
“Saying it like that makes me a bit embarrassed…”
“Oh, by the way, it was your father you met after a long time, wasn’t it? What was it like?”
“Hmm.”

Karin closed her eyes at Claudia’s words.

“Not much. I didn’t have any special feelings. From the start, he was just a guy I was going to beat up. I let him off easy because he said he’d give me the inheritance, otherwise…”
“It’s like he bought his life with money!”
“That’s right.”

It was almost like that.

“Anyway, it’s a bit strange. I don’t really have any family problems… Neither does Winia, nor Karin.”

As she said, Winia and Karin had some family issues, but Liztina didn’t have any at all.

“That’s true. But don’t you ever think about going home?”
“I do, but I don’t really need to. They’re probably doing well, so what’s the point?”

Liztina was very cool.

“There might be a chance to go someday, but not now.”

Then she looked at me and said.

“Tell me whenever you want to go. I have to go say hello.”
“Hehe, I will. Oh, by the way.”

Hmm?

“Thinking about it that way, isn’t Claudia the same?”
“Hmm… I guess it’s similar?”

Ah.

Claudia also has a somewhat bad family history. Her Dark Elf father abandoned her halfway through. But this isn’t unusual. Rather, Liztina is the unusual one.

In this world, there are many people with bad family situations.

It’s not like modern Earth.

“Claudia, what do you think it would be like if you met him?”

So, I asked after a long time.

“Like I said before, I don’t have much emotion, so I’ll probably treat him like a stranger. But will there ever be a reason to go back to the desert?”
“I don’t know.”

I don’t know if there will ever be a reason to go there.

* * *

After that day, we went to work at the Bestart mansion, collecting money and mercilessly suppressing those guys.

Even though it was a somewhat awkward relationship to face, we had power and justification on our side, so the discomfort was on their side, not ours.

And it was unilaterally on their side.

“Hehehe! I’ve come to collect tuition, you student bastards!!”
“Ugh…!”
“Pay your tuition if you don’t want to go into the thinking box!!!”

I beat up the brats and collected the tuition from last time. I had already written down the list and everything, so no one could escape. I’m the kind of person who gets what I’m owed for sure.

“W-We don’t have cash right now!!!”

Of course, there were some who didn’t have money right away.

“I’ve never seen a business with no discounts! Bring everything you have!!”
“Aaaaaaah!!!”

Once you’re caught by this Heavenly Demon Kim Kat, you have no choice but to go to the end. That’s my way! If you have any complaints, use your fists!!!

“Hey! I got the original will!”
“Oh!”

At that moment, Karin approached, waving a document. It seemed that Marquis Bestart had handed over the original copy of the will he had written.

As expected, a cool transaction.

“Hehehe, shall we call it a day?”
“Let’s do that. Ugh, I feel so refreshed.”

We’ve collected enough for today, so it seems we can wrap things up here.

“You bastards better know you’re lucky!!!”
“Agh!”

I chased away my disciples by shouting.

“Right, sis. How’s the Marquis doing?”
“He seemed fine?”
“What about the other guys?”
“I don’t know, they didn’t show up.”
“Let’s go then.”

I held out my hand, and Karin handed me the will. I read it right away, but there were no changes or anything.

The Marquis properly fulfilled his word.

The content was that he would hand over 90% of his inheritance and the Marquis title to Karin after his death. It was the original with various stamps and seals.

If you have the original, it’s over.

“This will is legit.”
“He wrote it better than I thought. It should be fine with this.”
“Hehehe, to think it would turn out like this so quickly.”
“This is what a legitimate inheritance is.”

A legitimate inheritance.

The Marquis decided to inherit almost everything to Karin.

Of course, just because the Marquis made such a decision didn’t mean that Karin became his ally or forgot the past. Nor did she develop good feelings. Karin still hates the Marquis and doesn’t consider him her father.

She’s simply not going to beat him up anymore because he paid alimony. So, there’s no reconciliation. No, in the first place, the concept of reconciliation itself cannot be established.

Just because you hand over an inheritance doesn’t mean that genuine affection arises.

Of course, the same was true for the Marquis.

The Marquis also had no feelings of guilt towards Karin. His decision to hand over the assets and title was simply because he judged that it would be in the interest of the Bestart family for Karin to receive the inheritance.

It was a decision made purely as the leader of the family, without any emotions.

I don’t know what he thinks about the Bestart family, but I thought that way of thinking was aristocratic in its own way.

Well, of course, Karin is a hundred times better than his dirty, incompetent children, and it’s obvious that it’s best for Karin to take everything.

Anyway, it seemed that the Marquis was receiving even greater criticism within the family because of this.

Even though those brats were beaten by me and Karin, it seemed that they hadn’t lost their venomous obsession with the idea of losing money. I could have removed it if I had beaten them properly, but we didn’t. They weren’t the direct targets of revenge.

So, it’s entirely the Marquis’s business.
It’s none of our concern.

“Anyway, now that we have this will in our hands.”
“Kyahehe, that’s right… Ah.”
“Hmm? Why?”
“Hey, shall we go visit them on the way?”
“Hehehe, you’re so evil.”
“It’s a natural retribution.”

Turning our steps, we headed to the nursing home.

Hospital.

In this world, there are religious people with the power of healing, so if you have money, treating internal and external injuries is very simple. If you have money, you don’t have to worry about broken bones or knife wounds, let alone various diseases.

You don’t need to take medicine for a long time, wear a cast, or wrap bandages. You also don’t need to be hospitalized for a long time. So, nobles don’t worry when they get sick or injured.

However, not everyone in the world uses such medical services, so there are hospitals and nursing homes. The same is true for the capital.

There is a nursing home in a corner of the capital.

This is a place where people who want to rest, those who lack treatment costs, or those with mental illnesses recover while receiving care. The Marquis’s five concubines are hospitalized here.

Because Karin acted strongly, the Marquis’s concubines couldn’t receive proper treatment. So, they are now lying in the nursing home, groaning. Their lives are not in danger, but they are receiving care in full-body casts.

This is also Karin’s revenge.

—Creak.

We immediately stated our purpose of visit and entered the room where they were hospitalized.

“Eek!!!”

There was a guest inside, and he was startled when he saw us.

“W-What are you going to do again!!!”
“Shut up, you bastard. We didn’t come to beat you up today.”
“Ugh…!”

The guy’s name was Semini Bestart. He was the one whose clothes were torn by the Sword Orolong. This bastard is said to be the youngest child of the sixth concubine, and the sixth concubine was lying in front of us.

“Mother!”
“W-What… Did they come again!”
“S-Stay still! They say they didn’t come to beat us up!”
“Sniff!!”

They were showing a proper display of affection between mother and son.

No matter how much a woman abuses other people’s children, it doesn’t mean she doesn’t cherish her own. Of course, a leaky bucket leaks inside as well, but it seems that these guys only leaked outside.

“Hmm.”

Well, from these guys’ point of view, there’s no disaster like this.

Unintentionally, we ended up taking all the assets.

These bastards, who fought desperately to protect their assets by committing patricide, were truly screwed. But they shouldn’t blame me, but rather their own foolishness.

They did nothing and tried to increase the assets they would inherit by oppressing their father. They were acting out with such a wrong method, so it was a natural retribution.

That’s why Karin says, looking at the hospitalized concubines.

“Our bitches. As you heard last time, you know that I’ve become the first heir, right? You better not think about embezzling any assets. I’m thinking of investigating that soon. If there’s anything strange, you’ll all die.”
“…!”

The concubines, terrified by Karin’s words, could only tremble and didn’t say anything. Their behavior had been corrected by being beaten so much. Anyway, I sat there and watched Karin relentlessly harass the concubines, then took her outside, satisfied.

Karin, who came outside, said with a very refreshed face.

“This is sex.”
“Huh? Sis?”

What now?

“Ah, I’m getting a little turned on. Let’s go quickly.”
“You pervert!”
“Shut up. You made me like this.”

Karin smiled brightly and grabbed my hand.

I think I’ll be spending some time investigating the Marquis family’s assets for a while.