Chapter 229 – 229. Duke’s Twelfth Sabotage (4)
– One –
“Brigadier General of Glenfiddich Distillery. Are you ready to swear allegiance to the Crown Prince?”
Squeak.
Chuck!
Brigadier General Glenfiddich immediately rises from his seat and bows his head on his knees.
“Until the day my life ends, I am already prepared to give my life for Your Majesty, the Imperial Family, and Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
There was not an inch of hesitation in his movements, to the extent that Viscount Uweboll, who brought up the question, admired inwardly.
“Would you like to get up and have a seat?”
“Yes, Viscount.”
Chuck.
Widely.
Brigadier General Glenfiddich looks at the imperial aristocrat with burning eyes.
It was because Brigadier General Glenfiddich was able to be sure with that one question that they must already know the answer.
“You must have guessed. That someone with great power must be behind the traitor, don’t you?”
“That’s right.”
“It is the aristocracy that openly rebels against Your Majesty and the Imperial Family, and their leader is the Regal Duke of Whiscay. Who else could there be?”
“Haona…”
Brigadier General Glenfiddich tried to argue, but Viscount Uwe Ball shook his head.
His words are not over yet.
“There was a certain incident, and earlier this year, I personally went to the northern unexplored land. I met the missing saintess and her company in person there. And after making a certain agreement with them, we We have formed an alliance with. The woman who informed the Imperial Army of the location where Her Highness the Crown Prince was abducted must also be one of the saintess’ party.”
“Ah…”
Brigadier General Glenfiddich’s eyes widen.
It was clear that if someone with such a mysterious ability was a cooperative ally to the Imperial Faction, he would have a considerable advantage against the enemies within.
“And after parting with them, I was detained by a group of rebels on my way back to the Islands. At that time, they realized the situation early and saved me. Otherwise, I would have buried my bones there.”
“That, like that…!”
“Anyway, after they rescued me, I captured the leader of the rebel group and interrogated him myself.”
Viscount Uweboll deliberately did not inform Brigadier General Glenfiddich that fewer than 10 men had killed all 30,000 rebels.
It was because I didn’t feel the need to tell them about the overwhelming abilities of those who might one day be hostile to them.
“After a lengthy interrogation, they confessed that Regal was behind them and that he was systematically raising rebels throughout the empire. Even the majority of the rebel leadership is made up of Regal hounds.”
“Nonsense!”
Brigadier General Glenfiddich raised his voice and then lowered his head with a grim expression.
It was because he was conscious of the man wearing the hood.
“What’s the point, the only duke of the empire training rebels? Even they are a group of people who want to realize republicanism and eliminate the class of nobles and commoners! If you train them yourself, the tip of the sword…”
Brigadier General Glenfiddich, who had been speaking passionately, is silent.
His eyes tremble
His fingertips and his body.
His breathing, which had been stable all along, finally became irregular.
“…”
Silent at the end
“Brigadier General Glenfiddich, didn’t you notice? The benefits are manifold. It can damage the dignity of Your Majesty and the Imperial Family, instill distrust, and reduce the range of action of the nobles.”
“However, the duke is still taking damage…”
“Can you wear it? The leadership is the hounds of the Regal, and he thoroughly controls the rebels by some means.”
“… What is the means?”
“Brainwash me.”
“…!”
Brigadier General Glenfiddich gapes open.
His gaze turns to others.
As if they had already known, they were even calm after hearing the words.
The only ones who vomited their astonishment were themselves and Clarence.
“Oh, by any chance, what the identity of those rebels is…”
Whoa.
Viscount Uweboll let out a long sigh.
“They’re civilians who don’t know anything. Regal has been plotting a rebellion for years and raising republican rebels. But they all kidnap and brainwash civilians who don’t know anything. How cruel is this to brainwash you into believing that you are a republican?”
“Oh my god…”
Pudeudeuk.
Clarence gnashing his teeth, his face reddening.
She gritted her teeth and asked.
“So, are you saying that the rebels insulted His Highness without knowing anything, only because they were brainwashed?”
“Perhaps so. However, unless you have used Her Highness’s personal life as a bargaining chip to finance the rebel’s activities, systematically insulting Her Highness doesn’t seem like the kind of thing a normal rebel would do. Rather, His Highness the Crown Prince The instigators of the insults, if it turns out, are the hounds that Regal used as discard cards, I presume.”
“Kkeuh… Keuheueup…”
Clarence swallows the tears that burst out.
It was the same for Brigadier General Glenfiddich who shuddered at the horror.
“Perhaps Regal has the confidence to control the rebels well from within. So, after using them to deal a heavy blow to the imperial army and the imperial faction, he organizes them with his own hands at the right time with the intention of emerging as a hero to save the country. I see.”
“…”
Brigadier General Glenfiddich was at a loss for words.
Originally, he only had a faint impression of being the only duke in the empire, and he never felt any great respect or fear for the Duke of Regal B. Whiscay.
But now it seemed that he would be completely absorbed in that fear.
“We are taking this very seriously right now.”
“Lord Lampage is right. We are in a desperate crisis. The Regal already has the most powerful military force in the Empire, the largest intelligence organization, and the largest funding force.”
“Not only that. His influence is great in the Imperial Task Force, the Imperial Central Intelligence Agency, the Imperial Central Bank, the Imperial Central Research Institute, and the Imperial Central Communications Exchange, which are independent organizations under the imperial family. It’s hard to even count how much.”
“Didn’t this incident prove that there are people loyal to him even within the Imperial Army? The most feared thing always is the unknown enemy. How many people he has hidden under his influence, we can’t count. I can’t.”
“Did you know that he launched the Imperial Press Review Committee in order to tame the media? It is nominally an organization under the imperial family, but in reality it is filled only with people from the Regal. In addition, there are rebels being trained throughout the empire. Isn’t it?”
“If all of them rise at once, the Empire may not be overthrown, but it may be caught in the whirlpool of civil war or split in two.”
“How much blood, sweat, and how much effort did our ancestors shed to build an empire? .”
The two nobles eloped, but Brigadier General Glenfiddich and Clarence felt the coldness of their blood.
This is because as soon as I heard the reality of the enemy, who had only vaguely felt it, through the mouths of those on the front lines of the battlefield, I was completely overwhelmed.
Fast.
Brigadier General Glenfiddich didn’t like that at all.
“What should the warden do? The warden is a fool who has wandered only on the battlefield all his life, so he doesn’t know the right way to be loyal to the emperor and assist the crown prince.”
So, he lowered his head and growled.
His face was no different from that of a beast invaded by an outside enemy.
“What we ask of you is as follows.”
Brigadier General Glenfiddich listened to Viscount Uwe Boll’s request and his explanation, and nodded his head solemnly.
He fully accepted the emperor’s demands.
– 2 –
The meeting was not over even after Brigadier General Glenfiddich left.
“How is Your Highness doing right now, Mrs. Dylan?”
There was a lot to be said about Canin’s condition.
In order not to arouse Brigadier General Glenfiddich’s guilt, they were only able to talk privately about Canin’s condition after he had left the room.
“… You are very confused.”
“What the hell are you talking about?”
Moisture fills her eyes.
She wiped the tears that flowed down the hem of her dress, trying to suppress her rising sadness.
“Your Highness, even though you were raped there by the villains, you were brainwashed into thinking that you voluntarily traded everything you had at the time, that is, your jade body, in order to be recognized for your worth. Because of that, he He can’t accept the help of the ladies-in-waiting, and keeps repeating that he must sell the jade body…”
“Uh-oh…”
The Marquis of Caymus sighs.
The chronic manpower shortage of the emperor’s faction did not last for a day or two, but the last two months went beyond turmoil to the point of being called hell.
Since many of the members of the Imperial Task Force or the Imperial Central Intelligence Agency, who had been helping from time to time, had died, even McKellen and Kininvie were dispatched to support them.
So now, they had no choice but to create a vacuum in the personnel monitoring Canin and its surroundings.
While Canin was kidnapped, he was dispatched because it was unnecessary manpower, but even after he returned, the manpower shortage was not resolved, so the surveillance manpower to be put into the Cradle of the Dead is still vacant.
So, they learned for the first time today about Canin’s condition.
“Even because he has nightmares every night and wakes up crying out to someone that he’s sorry, he can’t sleep well, so I can’t leave his side.”
“I guess so…”
“I didn’t know who the hell I was apologizing to, but listening to General Glenfiddich Distillery’s words today, I wonder if it’s not a feeling of guilt for the unborn baby who died…”
“…”
The Marquis of Caymus looks uncomfortable.
He probably felt a great revulsion for Regal’s cruelty to Canin.
It was the same for Viscount Uweboll, and their expressions were no different.
Viscount Uwe Boll opens her mouth to her with her determined voice.
“If it’s less than two months, it’s a period that can’t be confirmed with the naked eye. What’s more, isn’t there a possibility that these words were made up to inflict mental pain on Your Highness in the face of the fall of the fortress?”
“…”
“No, even if it’s not the case, even if what they said was true, we must accuse them of fabrication and lies. Even if Your Highness saw that they didn’t run to the moon, tell them that even that was to deceive Your Highness by taking a drug to stop the moon. Give it to me. If necessary, I will fabricate evidence to prove that fact and pass it on to your wife.”
Clarence nods his head.
Because, deep down, she believed that if Kanin could not suffer, it would be right for her to confess even if it was a lie.
“I will.”
Clarence’s face showed determination, as if he had captured her heart.
“Your Highness, do you have any other problems?”
“Actually, one thing…”
She hesitates and bites her lip.
Three people, including the hooded man, focus on her words.
“Your Highness is very obsessed with sleeping with someone…”
“What, what?! Now, tell me more, Mrs. Dylan!”
At the request of the Marquis of Caymus, she opens her mouth with a trembling voice.
“He, Your Highness, is very sexually conscious of whoever is around except me…”
“Except for your wife?”
“That’s right… Looking at the ladies-in-waiting, Ok-gyeong gets an erection, and it’s not uncommon for her face to blush or her breathing to become rough. In severe cases, she sometimes asks the ladies-in-waiting to intercourse…”
“That, is that true?!
“Fortunately, not yet. Even if you say the word, it will be overturned soon. However, the ladies-in-waiting are subtly enjoying the situation and instigating Her Highness, so there is nothing strange if Your Highness sleeps with the ladies-in-waiting at any time. …”
Fast, fast.
Wood Deuk.
Hard.
Three men play a chiak trio with these thin sounds, creating harmony with the sound of bones.
Their anger was justified.
It was because the ladies-in-waiting took advantage of the moment when Kanin was mentally cornered, and the ladies-in-waiting took over the position of empress without even knowing.
Viscount Uweboll looks at the hooded man and the Marquis of Caymus with burning eyes.
“Anyway, I think we’ll have to hurry it up today, Your Excellency Marquis.”
“Keuk… I wanted to avoid touching Her Highness’s body with a knife as much as possible…”
He seemed to be talking to the Marquis of Caymus, but subtly more conscious of the hooded man.
Even after seeing that, the hooded man did not react at all.
“Well, what do you mean, Viscount? To put a knife on Your Highness’s jade body, what do you mean by that!”
Whoa…
Viscount Uwevol sighs.
He opened his mouth with a heavy expression.
“It means to perform the permanent sterilization procedure so that Your Highness will not be caught in the ankle due to sudden succession and maternal relatives.”
Viscount Uwe Boll explained the plan he had conceived in his calm voice.
“If he becomes a god, he will not need a successor. In fact, if he participates in Eros Paradise, he may already become sterile with the blessing of the goddess.”
“Ha, haona,”
“It is Regal’s purpose to give him an heir and maternal relatives, and to prevent him from having a sub-species spouse. To deprive Your Highness of the possibility of winning eternal life and the throne from the beginning, and for that purpose, the handmaids who assist him. Behind the scenes of the rebels and Rasputin, despicable plans are concocted and put into practice to brainwash them and even make Your Highness obsessed with women.”
“Ah…”
Clarence despairs.
The despondency she feels may not be so different from the suffocating pressure she feels as she looks up at her great cliff.
Everyone else felt the same way, so they could sympathize with Clarence’s frustration.
“So at least I think it’s right to block the occurrence of such a situation from the source, even if it means burning a knife to Your Highness’s prison body.”
“…”
Clarence couldn’t resist.
“I believe that the mental problem that Her Highness is experiencing right now can be resolved by taking a long time, along with the people around her, her efforts, and appropriate counseling. The problem is a problem that time can never solve unless there is a purge. So even if your heart hurts, wouldn’t it be right to prepare in advance, even for the sake of Your Highness?”
“… Yes…”
They couldn’t hide their gloomy expression for a while.
The Marquis of Caymus secretly noticed the hooded man, but he still didn’t say anything or show any reaction.
“And Mrs. Dylan.”
“Yes, Viscount.”
“Even tomorrow, after Her Highness’s sterilization procedure is completed in the utmost secrecy, there is something that Mrs. Dylan must cooperate with.”
“What is that?”
Clarence took her heart and looked determinedly into Viscount Uwe Boll’s eyes.
“Even after Your Highness finishes the procedure, that fact should not go into anyone’s ears except for us. If Her Highness finishes the procedure, I’m thinking of removing even the surgeon and healer to silence her. If that fact goes into their ears, wouldn’t it be something they might argue that they should take that as a fault and remove Your Highness from the throne of the crown prince?”
“Ah…”
“Despite that, if Your Highness habitually sleeps with or has intercourse with other people, especially the ladies-in-waiting at their side, that fact will surely reach Regal’s ears. So, ma’am.”
“Yes. Viscount.”
Viscount Uwe Boll was somehow giving her an apologetic look.
“Right after the procedure is over, if Your Highness can’t stand the urge, I would like your wife to help Your Highness masturbate or have intercourse with him.”
“That, like that…!”
Clarence’s face turns red.
She couldn’t say no, no no, nothing, just her mouth hanging open.
“I know this is an unreasonable request. In fact, it is no different from forcing a mother to sleep with her son. I mean, it’s a desperate struggle.”
“That, that, but, I, I, uh, uh, how, go, dare…”
“Because it’s your wife, you can trust him. Didn’t you think only of his comfort and do anything for his glory? Besides, when I made an offer like this the other day, didn’t you say you would definitely accept it? “
“That, that, is too sudden, and Your Highness is complaining of mental pain, and that, doing such a thing… Besides, besides…”
Clarence blushes at him.
Then he quietly lowers his head.
The nape of her neck and her ears were all red.
Perhaps, even her scalp had turned red.
“There is only your wife. Please, make a decision for her sake.”
“… Yes, yes…”
Finally she answers in a small voice, and she gives a small nod of her head.
Her Viscount Uwe Boll laughs at her like that.
“Mrs. Dylan. Would you like to go and rest? Your Highness will not have any training schedule for the time being, so I’ll send someone when the preparations are complete. Then, take Her Highness and come here.”
“Ah, I see… I-I’m going to step back…”
She staggers and gets up from her seat.
Beat, beat, beat, beat.
That’s right.
Sureureung.
Then, as if being pushed by someone, he leaves the conference room.
“Hello, is there no other way?”
“Your conviction has judged that.”
“… It’s sad that you can’t refute it.”
“If this continues, sooner or later… Sooner or later, an era will come when survival becomes a shallow joke.”
“That’s also a sad thing…”
There was an uncomfortable silence in the meeting room.
For a long time.