Chapter 163 – 163. Duke’s Ninth Sabotage (4)

– One –

Smart smart

“Come in.”

Sereung.
Click.

The door opens and the butler enters.

He bows deeply to greet Regal.

“Your Highness, have you been strong all night?”

“It sounds like you had a good night. Did you get some rest too?”

“Yes, Your Highness. Thanks to your concern, I feel very refreshed now.”

The butler smiled softly and raised his head,

Startle.

I am horrified by Regal’s behavior.

The condition of his clothes and hair was absolutely impeccable.

But.

“Hey, Your Highness? Are you sick? Ah, the complexion…”

Regal’s face was almost indistinguishable from that of the deceased.

The shadows under his eyes looked pale, and his pale complexion looked as if even if stabbed with a knife, no blood would come out.

His hair was frizzy, and his lips were full.

More than anything, Regal seemed uncomfortable sitting in his chair.

He was leaning long against the back of his chair, with his legs spread wide and his hips draped hesitantly.

It’s very rude, but in the eyes of the butler, the day after the gang fight that Regal drank so much that he drank too much, he looked like a lame man with a hangover regretting what had happened the day before.

Rumble.

“Oh, Your Highness! Blood, nosebleeds…!”

Come on!

The butler comes running.

Tup.

He quickly takes his handkerchief from his bosom and pinches his nose to cover it.

The moment he tried to bend his upper body forward so that blood wouldn’t flow through prayer,

Swoop.
Flinch!

“Ugh, ugh!”

Regal trembled,

Widely!

“Um, Your Highness…?”

Urgently pushes the butler away.

Regal put on an apologetic expression and waved his hand at the house owner.

“Okay…”

“I, Your Highness…”

He kept his head down until the blood stopped, staining the house owner’s handkerchief with blood.

The butler was restless and paced beside him.

“Your Highness. I think it would be a good idea to call in a healer to relieve your fatigue.”

“Um…”

Regal hesitates.

He didn’t need a therapist simply to relieve fatigue.

He needed a healer who could use a higher level of healing than that.

“You seem to have injured your body from being overly engrossed in your duties, but I am afraid that if I leave it as it is, I will get seriously injured. Please allow me to call in a healer, Your Highness.”

Regal shakes his head.

The moment the house owner is about to say something, Regal raises his hand to stop him.

“No. I’m not denying the healing spell.”

“Yes? Then…?”

“Because of yesterday’s tripping, the hip joints, thigh muscles, and nerve tissue seem to be slightly damaged. Fatigue is only a secondary thing caused by insomnia due to discomfort in the body, and if the cause is not removed, it is of great significance in relieving fatigue. Wouldn’t it be there?”

“Ah…”

“So I’d like you to call in a healer of intermediate level or higher. Oh, and would you like some painkillers? A pharmacist or a physician, I think a suitable anti-inflammatory painkiller will do.”

“…Do you have any pain?”

The butler’s expression hardened considerably.

Looking inside him, Regal laughs.

“You really have a lot of small worries. Seeing you worry so much, I’m worried about how you live soberly in this harsh world.”

“Yes…?”

Today, the butler’s questioning is frequent.

The head butler must have known for sure that Regal hates half-mooners, having assisted her for decades.

However, it was clear that the head butler was severely agitated at Regal’s condition, enough to completely forget about it.

“Aren’t you worried that I’ve been assaulted or assaulted?”

“That, yes…”

“Do you think it’s possible for me to be assaulted by an assailant in my mansion? Assume that I was assaulted in my bedroom by an assailant who infiltrated my mansion by bypassing the security checkpoints hidden throughout the mansion. “

“G-g-g-“

As if such a terrible thing could not happen, the butler jumped up and tried to shout.

Regal seemed to understand his intentions, quickly showing his palm and drying him off.

“It’s just a home. Seriously.”

“Yes…”

“Anyway, if that happens, who the hell can defend against that stranger? If it were me, I would have taken my neck and left, even if it was unfair to have endured that hardship.”

Regal lists the reasons why he couldn’t help but be assaulted.

The butler’s face turned bright red.

The butler had no choice but to admit that not a single word of Regal was wrong.

“Ha-ha-ha, if it wasn’t that you were assaulted by an assailant, how did your body hurt so badly, Your Highness? From my point of view, I can’t believe that my body was hurt because I stumbled at all…”

“Whoops.”

As if Regal was a bit embarrassed, he couldn’t speak for a while.

He hesitated for a while, touching his nose or stroking his chin.

“Um, Your Highness…?”

Due to the butler’s continued insistence, Regal

“In fact…”

Gulp.

The butler swallowed dry saliva,

“It’s because I made love too intensely with my wife.”

Completely go crazy

“Yes…? Ah, no, so, that’s…?”

He had to stare at Regal with his mouth wide open, feeling the shock of his brain shutting down.

Now that he had revealed himself, Regal seemed determined to be shameless.

“What are you so surprised about?”

“That, that’s…”

“Yesterday, my wife was so lovely, my body was so wrecked because I lost my temper for a moment and ran to it. It must have been disfigured.”

Regal tried to keep her calm, but there was nothing to stop her blushing.

He seemed genuinely embarrassed.

“So, stop embarrassing me by asking unnecessary things, and won’t you do me a favor? I’m quite embarrassed that I, at this age, lost my temper, caused my wife to faint, and brought my body to this point. .”

“Yes, yes!”

The head of the butler answered while making a sound break,

Back and forth.
Sereung.
Click!

He quickly left Regal’s office.

Regal followed his back with her eyes and held the accusation.

– 2 –

Sereung.
Click.

The butler returns after sending out the pharmacist and healer.

Now he seemed completely genuine.

“Your Highness, are you all right now?”

“That’s right. The pain has subsided and the fatigue has gone a lot. Thank you.”

“No. By the way, would you mind not sending someone else to the Duchess?”

Regal sent a refreshing smile to the butler.

He couldn’t hate this cowardly, but loyal limb.

He didn’t even have a second opinion, but even if he had a different mind, he was so sure that he loved the old loyalist that he could treat it as an aberration and cover it up.

“As I came out of the bedroom, I told the ladies-in-waiting and ordered them to take action. You’ll be in a better state than I am by now, so don’t worry about anything.”

“I understand, Your Highness.”

Regal stretches and looks out the window.

The sun was rising in the middle of the sky.

In order to finish today’s work on time, it seemed that I had to skip lunch and work.

“Your Highness. Are you going to skip meals?”

The butler quietly talks to him.

This faithful subordinate who has served him for decades knows his own intentions very well.

Even if he doesn’t say anything, he knows how to guess his intentions from his small gestures.

He was the same person in comfortable underwear that he didn’t even know he was wearing.

“I thought so.”

As long as he doesn’t fall into a panic from time to time, he’s always a useful figure whose replacement is hard to find.

Regal knows that all too well.

That’s why, even when he put a crane on his weak corner, Regal couldn’t possibly throw him away.

“Supposedly, on the way home from the therapist and chemist, I stopped by the kitchen and ordered a simple meal for His Highness to eat. Probably by now,”

Smart smart

Someone knocks on the door of the office.

The butler smiles.

“Looks like you’ve come at the right time.”

“Her…”

“I think we can proceed with the morning report while eating simple food, Your Highness.”

“Let’s do it.”

Regal nodded, and the butler opened the door and received the tray.

Sandwiches and hot tea were placed on a tray.

Dalgak.
Widely.

There is no corner to fault, but the butler puts the dishes and teaware in the exact location.

His moderate movements remind Regal of the fact that his roots are butlers.

“Please listen to the report while eating.”

“Aren’t you eating?”

“It’s not possible to report while eating food, right? After the morning report is over, I’ll take care of it and eat it separately.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Please stop talking. How is Your Highness’s time and my time the same?”

The butler smiles proudly.

He seemed proud of having cared for Regal.

Regal smiles at him as well.

“Then proceed with the report.”

“Yes, Your Highness. First of all, the recruitment of operatives to inspect the press, as you said yesterday, has been completed. In addition,”

Regal nods his head.

While mechanically chewing food and drinking tea, he followed the butler’s report without missing an inch.

As if it had become a habit for decades, he followed the report posted by the butler with his eyes, and reviewed the report in his head.

There didn’t seem to be anything particularly problematic.

“You’ve worked hard. Oh, what happened to the researchers and representatives of the press who decided to dispose of it?”

“Currently transferred to a separate accommodation facility, all of them are locked up in solitary confinement.”

“I see. I want you to take action so that your wife’s anatomy practice can take place there.”

“Ah, I see.”

The butler’s voice trembled again.

He still seemed afraid of this disposal operation.

Regal couldn’t stop thinking about whether or not he should hire someone to manage the disposal.

“I would like her ‘she’ to be attached to her wife as well.”

“You mean ‘her’ too…”

“That’s right. There will be a lot of work to do, and it will be difficult to be together indefinitely. So arrange for her to arrange her schedule with her wife without burdening her.”

“All right.”

Sarak.
Sarak.

Regal flips through the report, examining any omissions.

While he munched on his sandwich, the butler waited patiently for him to swallow his food.

“Majesty.”

“Speak.”

“There are two things I missed when I tried to report yesterday.”

“Which ones?”

“Here it is.”

Flutter.

Instead of the summary that Regal tore up, the butler presents a summary report that only the missing parts have been reorganized.

Regal takes it.

“Details are listed separately at the back of the report submitted today.”

“Is it.”

“First of all, before the war, I would like to ask how you will deal with the vacuum in the rebel forces in the north.”

“Hmm…”

Regal frowned.

The fact that more than 30,000 rebels were slaughtered at once was quite heartbreaking for him.

They were soldiers whose value was great as a cause and sacrifice to prove the legitimacy of the great war he would cause, rather than their value as military force.

Besides, although they were only fake rebels, they were regular soldiers who had also undergone months of combat and war training.

In terms of power alone, in the great war that will happen this summer, the chakjeong he will lead directly to the battle are talented people with superior power than the privates.

Thinking of the time and money spent on nurturing 30,000 fake rebels, Regal’s teeth gnashed on their own.

“Anyway, there are only a few months left before the war, so it is impossible to train new forces, raise death row prisoners or life-threatening prisoners from correctional facilities throughout the empire, or kidnap civilians in large numbers. You’ll have no choice but to waste all your remaining time just deploying.”

“Then, where would be the best place to recruit troops? I think it would be most appropriate to recruit soldiers whose ability to carry out war was evaluated as low among the enlisted soldiers of the vassals.”

“I agree. Among the vassals and private soldiers of the family, among those who do not participate in this war, let’s select the chakjeongs again. 30,000 seems impossible, so fill in about 20,000 and proceed with brainwashing right away.”

“All right.”

“If so, how long do you think it will take to complete the deployment?”

The butler calculates in his mind for a moment.

Meanwhile, Regal eats all the sandwiches and empties the car.

“I think it will take about three months. It’s the end of March now, so I think everything will be finished in July.”

“It’s taking longer than expected.”

Regal frowned slightly as if he didn’t like it.

As if the butler couldn’t help it, he very carefully reported the reason for the calculation to Regal.

“The brainwashing and brainwashing work will be completed within two weeks at the latest. However, to avoid the eyes of the soldiers who are on high alert for the forward-deployed Imperial troops and the characters moving north, disperse them into small numbers and move them north to the northern unexplored areas and complete the deployment, at least I think it will take that much time.”

“Is that so… Hey, there’s no need to openly inform the fact that rebels are being raised outside the northern region by getting noticed by the Imperial army and enlisted men.”

“Yes. Moreover, they firmly believe that all rebels are concentrated in the north. They must not detect their movements.”

“Until the final day, this should never happen.”

Regal and the butler share a coy expression.

Certainly, butler Jang, rather than plotting to dispose of someone with his own hands, plotting to make his enemies feel at ease and watching with his hands behind his back seemed to suit his disposition.

In particular, he feels excessive fear of seeing the blood of someone who was on his side.

From Regal’s point of view, it looked no different than the butler’s signature panic attack trigger.

Regal finally had to firmly acknowledge and accept the need to bring in alternate personnel to use for internal clean-up work.

Sooner or later, I felt that I would have to share this with the butler closely.

“If there are no other instructions, we will proceed as you say.”

“That’s right. There’s no need to overdo it to fill the number of heads. It doesn’t matter if the number is a little short, so only send the chaff to the north.”

“I’ll keep that in mind.”

The butler bows his head.

Then, he takes out a notebook from his bosom and writes down the instructions given by Regal.

“Your Highness. There is one more missing report.”

“Something?”

“We have succeeded in enlisting some of the imperialists.”

Sparkle.

Regal’s eyes radiate red light.

The head of the butler was such a dim light that he wondered if he had seen it wrong.

However, it was clear that he had his eyes lit.

Regal realizes that he is overly excited, and hurries to make up his mind.

“Explain in detail.”

From a certain point on, whenever his desire ran out of control, he had a faint red glow in his eyes.

This was obviously a kind of activation effect that was revealed when he and Chiba strongly emitted their superpowers.

The light in his eyes didn’t have any special effect, but it could be clear evidence that someone would notice that he was using this ability.

If his carelessness causes his eyes to shine, there is a risk that someone will discover that he is reading other people’s desires.

He wanted to hide this ability as much as possible, so he had no choice but to constantly practice controlling his mind even in front of the boss.

Regal acted as nonchalantly as possible and skillfully continued the conversation with the butler.

“Yes, Your Highness. Some members of the imperial faction demanded that the reprisals against them be stopped, and we promised full cooperation. I promised to report.”

“It’s nice to see that. But can you trust them? I’m afraid that while acting as a double agent, we might be leaking our intentions to them.”

Regal succeeded in controlling his mind this time as well.

Fortunately, he read the house president’s desire, and he had no desire to know about Anguang.

“They went ahead and gave the second son and the eldest daughter hostage.”

“Isn’t there an eldest son?”

“Most of their eldest sons are on the side of going outside a lot because of the succession class. Therefore, if their eldest son is given to our side as a hostage, there is a high fear that the imperial faction will be convinced of their betrayal.”

“Well, the eldest son of such insignificant scumbags, we could always pick them up and put them on display in their backyards if we wanted, and it wouldn’t make much of a difference.”

“That’s right.”

Regal was finally able to smile with satisfaction.

“Is the report of the missing portion finished?”

“That’s right.”

“Then, let’s finish the report today.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

He was sure that he was steadily taking the initiative this time as well.

He firmly believed that before the end of the year, he would write a new chapter in the Empire’s history.