Chapter 101 – 09. The Kingdom of Ventorino – Towards the Second Revenge (5)

“Listening to this again… What a trash man.”

Rachel, who heard the truth about the extinction of the entire dynasty from Valdes, put on a face full of anger, even though she collapsed.

I didn’t know what he was talking about.

Facts I knew. It was almost like what her mother had told her. There are minor differences, but that’s it. The story her mother told her was about a lot of her personal feelings about her.

“It’s surprising. Princess Isabel knows about them.”

“In the middle of the kidnapping… The demon said he showed it to me. The man who was hiding and watching as the royal family was being attacked…”

“Ah…”

“That’s your human reality.”

Rachel smiled bitterly, as if she had heard it herself.

He couldn’t imagine how desperate Isabel must have felt.

When the warrior party stayed in the capital, they had a friendship of their own. Isabelle said she was the same age as Marc, so she became friendly with him by chatting with him. How absurd he must have been to see such a Mark secretly watching without helping.

Perhaps that is why she never announced her own survival even after returning to the capital alive. If he did something wrong, he would have been falsely agitated and secretly killed. And it was the right choice.

Unbeknownst to Mark, her queen would have assassinated her at any cost.

“It’s strange to say he’s behind it, but there’s someone behind Mark who tricked him.”

“There is… One more enemy.”

Rachel’s hand her gripped her spoon her.

“Yes, that’s Marc’s wife. The current queen, Katarina.”

“Queen… ?”

Her eyes widened her.

It seemed that she hadn’t expected at all that the queen would be with her. Everything Rachel knew was told by Isabel, so she probably did n’t know until after her death. It is unlikely that the nobility of her own country would have participated in such a thing.

“At the time, Katarina was in the Fifth Fortress with her brother. Mark and Katarina had been engaged for a while, but that’s probably when the plan started.”

“… One is to become a king, and the other to become a queen.”

“That’s right. If the plan succeeds, Katarina’s family will instantly become the best noble family from an ordinary count’s family, and add blood to the dynasty. It’s something a woman with a great desire for power like Katarina would do. No matter how many warriors and strong warriors, When I got engaged to Marc, I just thought it was amazing, but I never dreamed that I would be having such a ridiculous idea.”

The relationship between Mark and Katarina has been going on for quite some time.

To be exact, it was around the time they had just saved the Kingdom of Ventorino. Katarina had been pushing Mark from almost the first time she met her. She acted bold despite the age difference of her, and at that time, she knew that she would fall in love with the person who saved her and her country her at first sight.

I didn’t care much because it was a dirty business during the wartime. Rather, she, along with the rest of the party, even encouraged her to do well for Mark. When the two of them quickly ended their engagement, I was surprised, but that was it.

Then, it happened when she moved her base from the 5th Fort to another place.

“I ran into one of the horsemen who accompanied Mark on a mission to rescue the royal family in a tavern.”

It really was a coincidence.

As they got closer to the Demon King’s rule, the victory gradually became visible, and the party’s check was becoming more explicit. I wanted to believe them, but on the other hand, I was anxious, so I needed to come up with a countermeasure myself, so I sneaked out.

“They were both alone, but the bar was too small, so we had to sit together. But the trooper recognized me and got drunk and told me a funny story. I don’t want to believe it, but then something went wrong.”

Even the cavalryman was not convinced that Mark had delayed the rescue for some reason. I just felt a sense of difference because I was quick-witted. The soldiers who were scouting with Mark, who must have known the truth, were already buried in the cold soil.

“Perhaps he promised the soldiers who were with him a title of nobility to convince them. But… He was anxious, so he killed him.

This was a common occurrence in exhibitions.

As a means of getting rid of future rivals, political enemies, and subordinates who hold on to their weaknesses. Even Beatrice had cleverly manipulated her husband her and sent her husband to a battlefield where the odds of winning were slim, and she induced his demons to become dukes and ordered them to perish.

“That’s why it must have been more suspicious. The cavalrymen, who were elite enough to take on the mission of rescuing the royal family by running long distances, have strangely died a lot after that.”

The moment he calmed down his anxiety with alcohol, he met the warrior Pedro. In his drunkenness he told him everything he knew and thought.

“And not long after… The soldier died too.”

“…”

“I’m sorry to say this, but I didn’t even pay attention to the death of that soldier, the stories he told me. From preparing to fight the demon king army to worrying about the betrayal of my colleagues. I had a lot to do. I didn’t believe it very much. “

Although he prepared for betrayal, it fell short in the end.

He made two mistakes.

One overlooked how much they feared him. He did not know that he would be able to demolish a fortress and gather most of his wealth to create a means to restrain the warriors.

The other is to be vigilant that, implicitly, one body can be healthy no matter what happens. In fact, he managed to somehow get out of their scheme, but he was already on the verge of death.

“It was him who stabbed me in the stomach at that time. Marc. His eyes were shaking a lot. I thought he betrayed his friend with that kind of eyes, but at the end he mumbled.”

‘Why did you enter that tavern, Pedro?’

“I mean…”

Since his life his was at stake and he was thinking of running away, he had no time to ponder the meaning of the words. He managed to escape, reach the Demon King, and was reincarnated as Valdes by her before calmly analyzing the incident.

Conclusion then.

He said that the tavern he had mentioned at the end meant the place where he met the cavalrymen, and that the truth of the day was a big part of why Mark betrayed him.

“After that, I did a lot of research on the incident, and then I even found out that Princess Isabel might be alive.”

“… You seem to be a real warrior… “

These were the first words Rachel gave to Valdez after a long conversation.

“Well, what’s the point of that? It doesn’t affect revenge, does it?”

Her girl smiled as she took her word for it.

“Whoops. That’s right. Then I’ll tell you the story of our mother and daughter.”

Whether it was because she had a good memory, or because Isabel told her so many times, Rachel’s recollections of her were quite clear and detailed.

Isabel returned to her capital, but she failed to announce her survival of her.

While she has nothing, Mark and Katarina have built a solid foundation in a not short time. He won public opinion with his declaration of revenge and hardline policy against the demons. Under Catarina’s leadership, nobles also swore allegiance to them.

But Isabel did not give up.

She left the capital and headed to another area to find helpers. After many hardships, they arrived at the Marquis of Hopbray, who was the most loyal subject of the royal family, but they were demoted to viscounts and reduced to the size of the territory under the pretext that they did not properly support the previous dynasty.

It was difficult to meet Viscount Hopbray, but he couldn’t do anything except shed tears apologizing for a fight with no chance. Isabel, who was kicked out after receiving a small amount of money from him, lived in the Hopbray estate for a while after receiving a great shock.

Valdez, who had been listening to the story up to that point, shook his head as if he understood.

‘That’s when I heard the report.’

The slums he had heard of in the past were those of the Hobbray estate.

Although her Viscount Hopbray secretly took care of her, the environment was too harsh for her woman to live alone. She did n’t have much money, and there was n’t much she could do, having grown up precious all her life her.

In the end, Isabelle went back to her capital after all her troubles her, and she became a courtesan.

Many people wanted to embrace her because of her good looks her and the noble elegance of her royalty her. Thanks to her her, she became a high-class courtesan, saved her own money, and managed to get a place, but when she became pregnant, she quit her job and ran away from there.

Her child her born that way was Rachel, and Isabel always asked her little daughter to avenge her. In the meantime, her disfigured body Her, Isabel, fell ill and died.

After that, Isabel saved the little money left by her mother and begged and pickpocketed her. After she got a little older, she made a living by playing the role of a slut in a red-light district or running errands.

“That’s about it.”

“I think there’s one thing missing in the explanation.”

“…… I don’t know what you mean.”

Rachel’s eyes suddenly filled with the wariness she had when they first met.

“I didn’t know that Princess Isabel would die, so I thought the name Rachel was also a pseudonym. But when I saw you, I knew right away that you were Princess Isabel’s daughter. And I realized one more thing. Do you know what that is?”

“… What is it?”

“Mysteriously… You resemble Marc. You mean.”

“…”

Rachel resembles Isabel to the extent that I wonder if she is her daughter. The last I saw her was 18 years ago, but throughout the whole Isabel feel her was very much alive. Thanks to this, she was convinced that she was the true last blood of the former Ben Torino dynasty.

And at the same time, I thought that she also resembles Mark. The overall impression of her is Isabel, but if you take a look at her face her one by one, like her eyes and lips her, where you can feel her firm core her, it reminds you of Marc .

There was something odd about her explanation of her, too.

The part where she became a high-class prostitute, she got pregnant and ran away. At that point, she would have been a great source of money in Changgwan, but she wouldn’t have to run away just because she was pregnant. It would have been better to let her have children and then return to work.

But Isabelle ran away.

“…Ha ha. Now the King is quite old, and everyone didn’t even notice because of his changed appearance, tsk. That’s right. I’m that man’s illegitimate son. Back when my mother worked as a prostitute… By chance, by chance, I was wandering around trying to have an affair. I seduced him… And got me.”

“As expected.”

Perhaps Isabelle was aiming for that and became a prostitute.

The source of information was most likely the Viscount Hopbray. Rumors about Mark’s affair had been circulating for quite some time. Even her one time pregnancy her would have used the magic tools she had prepared. To buy such an expensive magic tool, he must have lived in a slum despite the support of Viscount Hopbray.

‘It’s roughly right.’

“Isabel had intended from the beginning to make her child seek revenge.”

“Yes, that’s why you tried multi-gifted education from a young age.”

The constant instilling of vengeance into her only bloodline her could have been possible because Rachel was both her own child and the child of her enemies her. How much did she emphasize vengeance, so even at her young age, such vengeful eyes could have been possible.

‘It’s a bit pitiful.’

“So, what are you going to do?”

“What?”

“Did you know that I am the enemy’s son?”

“… Puhahaha.”

“Why, why are you laughing?”

Rachel blushed as Valdez suddenly burst out laughing at her.

“No, that’s ridiculous. What does that matter?”

“…”

“All I want is Mark’s ruin. It doesn’t matter if it’s a kingdom or a child. I’m going to hurt the people around me a little bit by targeting Mark… But I’m trying to minimize the damage as much as possible.”

Of course, he said that, but apart from taking revenge as the reincarnation of the hero Pedro. As the Demon Prince Valdes, if he could cut down on the strength of the Kingdom of Ventorino, he planned to actively work.

“Okay…”

At his words her, Rachel looked visibly relieved.

“It’s fine though.”

“… What do you mean?”

“That you’re Marc’s son… He’ll recognize it right away. Then it’s a perfect fit to break his mind.”

Rachel nodded her head.

Her mother her, Isabel, was also aiming for that. She has no chance of succeeding in avenging her on her own anyway, and time is running out. So she devised a longer-term plan and entrusted her vengeance to her son her.

“Then, shall we talk about the future schedule?”

“Do you have any plans?”

“Of course. It may need to be modified a little… But you just have to follow me well. Then, I’ll give Mark the best revenge.”

“Okay. I’ll do anything for revenge. It’s… What I live for.”

Valdes summoned Irena and Yueli, who were waiting in the room next to him.