Chapter 327 – 327. The Duchess’ First Struggle (1)

– One –

Around the time Regal was struggling in the midst of chaos in the northern part of the continent.

The brothers, who came after Johnny’s simple funeral by their adoptive father, Tubug, followed Johnny’s will and to satisfy his regret instead, were eagerly immersed in the coverage.

In the meantime, one thing that can be said to be unusual was that Daniel’s hand was holding a memorandum left by Johnny, stained with his hand.

The brothers looked through the memoirs left by Johnny and were constantly trying to cover events he hadn’t been able to complete in his lifetime.

They were continuing Johnny’s maintenance through their own way.

“Brother. Do you remember the case in which the emperor’s aristocrats and their families were serially murdered?”

“How can I forget that. Of course I remember.”

At Daniel’s question, Jack nodded with an indignant expression.

It was kind of a sore finger for them.

In the meantime, I found various clues and attacked Regal by sending them out as articles, but there was no concrete result.

It’s because there was something lacking that could be said to be decisive.

“I have something to discuss about that case.”

“Hmm…? Wasn’t it a state where you practically gave up on attacking Regal with that?”

In addition, Regal’s defensive logic was absurdly thorough.

When the brothers raised doubts about the connection between any two incidents through the media, Regal wrote a refutation article through the pro-aristocratic media, citing the fact that there was no connection.

Even if the brothers wrote an article with reasoning about the incident that is the link there, Regal insisted on the link between them again.

Even the hearing that was triggered by this incident, Regal walked out leisurely, enjoying the victor’s composure.

Because of Regal’s thorough defense logic close to sophistry, unless there was a testimony from the person concerned or a confession from Regal, the possibility that the deaths of the imperial family would go unnoticed seemed very high.

“Johnny, no, to find a very important clue in your father’s memoirs.”

“Hmm?! Let me see.”

Tup!
Sarah, Sarah.
Flutter.

Jack snatches the memorandum from Daniel’s hand.

Then he carefully examines what Daniel was looking at.

His eyes get bigger

“My father… Did he find out about this after he broke up with us, so until right before he left, he emphasized to us not to stray so much…”

His eyes gradually get wet.

At their last meeting, he had seemingly reluctantly agreed to his brothers’ proposal, namely labeling Regal a racist.

By the time the secret coalition of media representatives disbanded, Johnny must have felt that his life was coming to an end.

Because of his intuition, he regretted spending his short life in conflict and conflict with his brothers and other media representatives, so he chose persuasion.

However, it was not persuasion through words and writing.

Just like his nickname, he did everything in his power to prove his ways were not wrong, by stumbling and walking straight to the right path.

He had given every last second of his life to try desperately to prevent his brothers and the heads of the press from slipping into the yellow press.

“It is written that you found an order instructing the coroner and investigator to manipulate the outcome of the case. Did your father record its whereabouts? If it’s rough, it’ll be good enough to use as conclusive evidence.”

“Yes. At the end of the interview log, you noted that it was stored in a separate private safe.”

“You’re my father…!”

Daniel’s eyes are also wet.

The brothers were madly ashamed that, for a moment, the yellow press wanted to be what Monohorn referred to as the ‘giregi’.

In order to make up for it, it seemed that there would be no choice but to desperately carry on the legacy that Johnny had left behind.

“If you read it a little more closely, you will understand, but the deceased investigator left a memorandum, suspecting that he would be abandoned by Regal after its use was over, and my father said he secured it while interviewing the bereaved family. By directly securing the physical evidence related to and adding comments, we have been able to perfectly prove the relationship between the two.”

“I see. Although the investigator himself helped to thwart the investigation into the serial murders of imperial aristocrats, it seems that he was a person with a strong background in investigations related to such crimes. I mean, I’ve been through it.”

“Yes, my father guessed, perhaps right after the commission came in from Regal, he judged that he was certain that he could never refuse it. If he refused, it would put him and his family at risk, to even bury the commission. I mean, he must have sensed it.”

“Hmm… If you’ve predicted the future with such sharpness. If you accepted Regal’s proposal, you must have known that you would be disposed of at the end.”

“It will be, brother.”

The faces of the two men are darkened.

The more the truth came out, and the more they learned about Regal, the more they feared him.

And at the same time, Regal’s behavior felt so disgusting.

A sense of nausea sets in.

“Perhaps the investigator accepted Regal’s offer to keep only his family safe. And at the same time, he informed his family of the existence of the memorandum he left behind, so that Regal or his operatives could not be harmed. If he was in danger of suffering damage, he would have intended to force Regal to endure the same amount of damage.”

“And since Regal didn’t touch the investigator’s family, you mean it’s still unknown?”

“That’s right. It will be fortunate for both his family and Regal.”

Hehe… So far, it must have been fortunate for both sides, but from now on, it will remain only fortunate for his family.”

“If we can refine this and make it into an article, it will surely happen.”

They burn with a vengeance.

It is clear that the bereaved families of the investigators would have actively cooperated with Johnny in order to satisfy their revenge for the death of their father due to being involved with Regal.

How upright the dead investigator was and how decent he lived is no longer the subject of their interest.

However, if the record he left behind is fatal to Regal, along with the fact that the person involved in it has already been killed by his employer, he can only actively use it.

Sarah, Sarah.
Flange, Flange.

Jack examines some of Johnny’s records.

His eyes shine

“The fact that the investigator ruined the investigation of the imperialist serial murder case, and the fact that the bribes received from the Regal were paid for, all of which will be easily proven. Good… Very good…”

He nods his head with a satisfied face.

However, Daniel wasn’t even excited about the decision.

“Before we send this out as an article, there is something you must keep in mind, brother.”

“Hmm? Well, I’m not blindly optimistic either, but let me tell you for now.”

Jack straightens his face seriously.

He crossed countless dead lines with his younger brother, and suffered the destruction of common sense by Mono Horn several times, putting down a lot of the stubbornness he had in the meantime.

“First of all, there are two main things. First, even after discovering this, why my father hasn’t reported it yet, I will have to focus a little on it. After about a month of doing it, you’ve already finished gathering clues about this, haven’t you?”

“Hmm… Maybe, my father judged this to be a trap set by Regal, you mean?”

Daniel nods.

He seemed to be a little nervous.

“Yes. Ever since we went into the shadows, hasn’t the Regal often deliberately left its loopholes?”

“It did.”

“I guess this could be one of them too. He might have judged that it would not be a big blow to him if this level of information were to be exposed?”

“Hmm… That’s too valid a guess, I’m starting to lose interest in this…”

Jack smiles bitterly.

He had already experienced something like this on several occasions, and had suffered several crises as well, so he had no choice but to suppress his excitement.

“My father’s attempt to die alone in a remote place could have been an extension of that. Now that I think about it, I wonder if he knew that Regal’s operatives might be tracking him, so he went in there without telling anyone. “Aren’t there only three of us, including my father, who know the location of that cabin?”

“Perhaps so. My father may have believed that one day we would find his remains and also find his memorandum…”

There is a solemn atmosphere between them.

It has been a common occurrence among her siblings since shortly after her breakup with Johnny.

“Okay, I’ll definitely keep that in mind. Then what about the second one? Maybe it’s about the timing of the revelation?”

“It’s accurate, brother. I don’t know about anything else, but this is the only thing you need to be careful with.”

“What kind of obvious things do you say as if it’s new?”

The faces of the two are darkened.

They all seemed to think the same thing.

“It’s probably better to reveal it at a time when it’s difficult for Regal to respond, right?”

“You mean this? I think it would be ideal to aim immediately after advancing beyond the communication range of the northern unexplored lands so that no response can be made even if you are very determined and shaken off.”

Hehe… There’s nothing more fun than having your hands and feet tied and beating them from head to toe…”

“… My older brother has been like that since he was little… Now, please, I hope that such sadistic tendencies will only be directed towards others.”

“Nothing.”

The brothers burst into laughter.

The first attack, not the counterattack against Regal, was about to start at the fingertips of journalists after a long time.

– 2 –

“I think journalists are a collection of very filthy bastards.”

“What do you mean, Duchess?”

“They’re crazy bastards.”

“…”

Upon hearing Chiba’s vulgar remarks, the lady-in-waiting who serves her is unable to answer.

Even when she waited on someone for years, even when she first became a maid and was taught how to attend someone, she was never taught how to deal with the rudeness of her superiors.

Due to the wisdom they have learned empirically, they have made it a virtue to be silent whenever this happens.

As if Chiba wasn’t expecting a special reaction from her, she didn’t take issue with her silence.

But,

“Isn’t it because I’m born from birth, my vocabulary is vulgar?”

Chiba’s eyeballs roll grotesquely.

She looks out of the corner of her eye at her maid.

“…!”

Oh so so so.

Goosebumps ran all over her maid’s body.

She felt a great fear at having her true feelings exposed.

“That, the wife, the celestial maiden never had such, such, rude, outrageous thoughts,”

“That’s right. I was just helping myself. Never mind.”

Chiba told her not to care about her, but she couldn’t take it casually or literally.

It was because she was aware that she was in a position where she could be discarded at any time, even if no one told her.

She is,

“That, that, then, I’ll put you on a wig, Duchess.”

“Yes.”

Swoop.
Sarak, Sarak.
Evil, evil.

It was because he was the only person who directly saw Chiba’s private parts and took care of himself to cover them up.

Sometime around late summer, Chiba was in a state of disrepair and she was brought into her private room.

Sores from burns, ruptured buttocks, fractured eye sockets, protruding eyes, sliced ​​breast flesh, and broken ribs, there were countless scars left on every corner of her body.

It was a very clear trace of beatings and abuse.

“Yesterday the wig was slightly crooked. I only found it after coming to my room at night. Do you know how embarrassing it was to be late? Please don’t do that today, I hope you pay more attention.”

“Yes, yes… I understand, Duchess.”

Shortly thereafter, her medics and healing priests attached, desperately trying to restore her to her original state.

As if she had experienced childbirth, even her vaginal opening, which had become loose, was restored to its original state by the competent medical staff belonging to the Whisky family.

Her anus, which was so loose that feces leaked out even when she breathed, and her urethra, which was so tattered that urine flowed out even when she coughed, everything returned to her original state.

However, there was only one thing, her golden hair, which was long and coveted and looked good in a bun, but after being cut, plucked, and burned, it never returned to its original length.

In order for it to return to its original state, it had to be raised again over a long period of time.

“And sometimes, when the wind blows, there are times when her short hair is exposed. Please use glue with a little more care so that others do not see that part.”

“However… If the wig and scalp are bonded too strongly, the hair may be pulled out when you take off the wig later. If the hair roots are damaged then, I am afraid that it will cause hair loss.”

“Hmm. I can’t help it. If so, could you change the shape of the wig a little so that the ugly part is properly covered?”

“Yes, I will.”

If someone else had done something like that to Chiba, the Whiskai family would have been completely outraged.

It was because it was clear that Regal would have taken bloody revenge for that.

However, it went on and on as if nothing had happened, so those who accompanied Chiba were convinced that it was an assault and abuse by Regal.

It is unknown what Chiba did wrong, why such a good couple had such a serious marital fight, or why Regal inflicted unilateral corporal punishment on Chiba.

As for the people under him, he only risked his life and held his breath so that the sparks would not splash on him.

“Have you read a newspaper or magazine lately?”

“I don’t read the newspaper because it’s too boring, and I read a lot of magazines about women’s appearance.”

“Okay.”

While the maid was tying her wig, as usual, Chiba shared her small talk with her maid.

Since it was a routine matter with nothing particularly special, the lady-in-waiting answered lightly.

As if none of the creepy things that had happened before had ever happened, no, as if they had to be made non-existent.

“Completely forgetting the grace that allowed us to live by begging for publication, those vulgar writers chewed up our family and my husband, as if it were a popular game, and without any grounds. There is.”

“It really can’t be anything other than pitiful and stupid things.”

The lady-in-waiting did not know anything about her behavior in the media, but she was busy blindly agreeing with her words.

Because that was the art of dealing with her lower self that she had learned.

“Without the need for my husband to step forward, if I just say one word, they are in a position to close down one after another, but they don’t know how insignificant and insignificant their situation is.”

“Is that so?”

“In addition, articles and advertisements are vulgar. They openly advertise love between a man and a woman, which should be secret and beautiful, in order to buy and sell it for cheap money. They even publish a special article comparing it. Because the number of copies sold when such trivial and dirty gossip is published is overwhelmingly high, the media and magazine companies work hard to make money, you and I, and publish such vulgar articles. It’s really dirty. ?”

Her handmaid’s face crumpled as if she had seen something disgusting in her eyes.

When she heard Chiba’s words, her stomach seemed to queasy.

“Uh… I’ve never seen anything like that in magazines that only women read, so I didn’t know about it at all. Are such things really common?”

“Yes. That’s why I enthusiastically attend the Unshim Committee in order to set the empire’s ethics in the press and publishing world right. Because I’m not feeling well lately, and because my wife has ordered me to self-restraint, I only do what my husband asked me to do. After I sent it to you by letter, you didn’t even go to the Eonsim, you stayed inside the mansion. But now I can’t wait and see, so I think I’ll have to go to the Eonsim again.”

Swoop.
Chuck.

As she finishes trimming her wig, her maid holds two of her mirrors in her hands.

And by adjusting the angle of it, it helps Chiba to check the shape of her own hair.

“It’s good.”

“I’m glad you like it.”

They look at each other and smile softly.

But for some reason, the maid looked at Chiba’s smile and got goosebumps at her.

Maybe it’s because she’s been broken somewhere since that day, she’s because her smile only felt unnatural.

“It’s been a while since I’ve been out of the mansion, so I can’t show my ugliness to others. That’s why I’m a little polished, so please understand.”

“No, Duchess. She doesn’t need to be sorry for that. She just thinks of it as a scourge to be more diligent in her duties.”

“Thank god.”

Another angle, another angle.
Click, squeak.
Another angle, another angle.

Chiba left those words and went out of her room.

Left alone with her handmaid, she let out a sigh of relief.

For some reason, the impression that seeped into her heart was the relief that she was lucky enough to survive today.