A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius - A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius chapter 336

336 – Memories of a Traitor (4)

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After my mother’s death.

My family was ruined.

No.

The cracks in the already broken family split apart, starting with the mother, and became visible on the outside.

Once a dish is broken, it cannot be restored.

Even if you put it back together, traces of the broken part being glued together remain.

Gibraltar used to be one family, but it has become so distorted that we can no longer call it a family.

We did not try to repair the empty space left by our mother or the broken family relationship.

Because we have already become so accustomed to living independently.

Because I’ve become more accustomed to calling them close strangers rather than family.

There was no intention of improving the relationship by approaching each other first.

I didn’t have time or thought about it.

After his mother’s death, his father locked himself in the castle of Gibraltar and never came out, just eating the food he was given, sleeping, and practicing his sword.

Noir, who was already somewhat envious of the behavior of the libertine Gray, found out about the scandal between his mother his and the Incompetent King, and his mentality was twisted, and he began to show outrageous behavior towards women.

At an age when she was growing up receiving love, her father and older brothers did not give her much love and attention. Instead, she tried to attract attention by destroying, breaking, and tearing things.

The role given to me was very important to take care of such a family.

-Gray Gibraltar, you should be the margrave.

20 years old.

I became the Margrave of Gibraltar.

As the being who rules over Gibraltar in the imperial territory of Nostrum, he inherited the earldom as a symbol of force that also reminds Gibraltar when the people of Nostrum fear the Empire.

My father was alive and well.

However, just because he only breathes and swings his sword, it cannot be said that he is alive as a ‘marginal’.

So I became a lord at the age of 20.

Fortunately, the knowledge and experience I gained before entering the academy at the age of 17 was of great help.

-Get Astasia’s help in running the territory. I will also provide full support to management experts who will teach you at a high level.

And that knowledge was able to be quickly incorporated through Astasia’s advice and various support from the emperor.

It did creak.

However, in a situation where the kingdom was destroyed and the entire territory was a traitor to the country, it was an encouraging achievement to develop the territory to a level comparable to that of any other marquis in the empire in about three years.

-As expected, my eyes were not wrong.

Even the emperor acknowledged it when it came to managing and developing the territory.

-If you’re not satisfied with the Countdom, how about ruling over the entire Nostrum this time?

The Emperor was ready to entrust the entire Nostrum to me.

When I think about it now, I think it was a plan to gradually gain experience so that I could rule a territory, a kingdom, and eventually an empire.

But I was satisfied with being a margrave.

-Governor Carmen is doing well enough.

One. Nostrum was well managed by Governor Carmen.

She did her best to make the people of Nostrum become second-class citizens of the empire, both financially and spiritually.

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At the same time, he often visited her father and checked on his condition her her her her.

My father did not touch Queen Carmen.

However, Queen Carmen even took care of her father on a regular basis.

Did I expect that if I show my sincerity to someone who was betrayed by love and decided not to love anyone forever, the spark of love in my heart will bloom again?

Carmen did not give up on her father.

So, I gave up the idea of beheading Carmen, overthrowing Morgania, and ruling over all of Nostrum.

Also.

-With the presence of Governor Carmen, the Conquistadors, including the fallen princess, will be able to be suppressed. It becomes a fight between mother and daughter.

Two. He was able to gain a political advantage from the revolutionary army led by Naria, who fled from the royal capital.

If only the traitor Gray was to be dealt with, the entire Nostrum would rise up, but if the traitors were to keep Gibraltar alone, those who tried to join the revolutionary army would also feel something strange.

Gibraltar didn’t betray Nostrum to prey on it.

It’s strange to keep quiet like that simply because the Countess is dead.

Ah.

I see.

They only took up the traitorous sword because the Nostrum Dynasty had no answer, and they originally wanted to live quietly like that.

Morgania controls Nostrum, and the fact that Gibraltar leaves Morgania alone is proof of that.

We used those with strong influence to spread rumors, and thanks to the emperor’s good treatment, we became righteous traitors.

A just traitor who could not stand the incompetent king’s behavior and eventually took out his sword.

Although the country of the Golden Dragon, which boasts 500 years of tradition and history, was no longer ruled by a kingdom but an empire, it would be natural for anyone like Saint Geo Nostrum to betray the country.

Treason is not something to be ashamed of.

Rather, it is a way to quickly accept the things of the empire and live comfortably and happily.

-It is enough for me to rule over the count family. To be honest, I would like to take a break for a few years.

Three. I didn’t necessarily want to take responsibility for someone else.

-I lived a life of being forced by my father to become a traitor for 10 years, so now that I am a count, I want to be a little freer.

-Be free. How?

-I just sometimes want to do what others do.

Going on a trip, shopping, going to a museum, going to see the scenery.

-I want to enjoy that kind of life with my loving family just once.

-With whom? Your father who became a wreck? A younger brother who professes to beat up more women than his older brother and hangs out with bad knights from a ruined country? A younger sister who breaks ceramics, indulges in luxury and pleasure, wears expensive clothes, uses scissors, and asks for attention?

-Astasia.

Before you know it.

-I want to experience the person who taught me love and the things that people who love do.

For me, Astasia has settled down quite deeply.

-Okay. In that case, it’s good for me.

So much so that he can be said to be the person he loves in front of the emperor.

I didn’t know at the time.

-How many children will you have?

That question can be more terrifying to some than any curse.

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Astasia did not want to have children.

At the age of 20, I had just become margrave, so I thought he was putting it off to help me.

When she was 21, she thought she would put it off so she could go out and explore various parts of Nostrum.

At the age of 22, she thought that just as the average age of childbirth increased as many women in the empire entered society, she also intended to play that role.

When she was 23, she had the foolish thought that if she got pregnant, she would hate not being able to continue their relationship.

Sometimes, when she went around hiding her true identity her eyes her faint were whenever she saw commoner children walking around holding their parents’ hands.

I knew it.

What kind of eyes do people have when looking at something they want but can’t have?

I asked Astacia to receive her love, and she expressed and gave her love as she taught her, but she did not bother to find out what was behind it.

It was a somewhat trivial, unusual, or absurd opportunity for her to reveal her trauma.

“These kids are your kids?”

“…”

Lovemaker Noir.

As soon as Noir turned 20, he began spreading the blood of Gibraltar everywhere, like a foal let loose or a stallion that had not been in contact with a female for a long time during estrus.

Most of the women who came with full stomachs asked for ‘responsibility’.

“Did I give birth because I wanted to give birth? If it was because they wanted to, then they would have raised it!”

“…”

“Was I wrong? I never said I would raise my child as my own!”

Noir was not responsible.

Responsibility for them came back to me.

When I think about it now, honestly, there was no need to take responsibility.

Who among them would have had her child without knowing that Noir was such a person?

No matter how much of a fool they were who didn’t use birth control thoroughly, the fact that many women came with full bellies meant that they too were prepared.

They didn’t have children because they loved Noir.

She had a child and had come to threaten Gibraltar in order to demand something from her.

What they didn’t think about was that Noir was more of an idiot than they imagined.

And I, who had the power and assets to fulfill the responsibility they demanded, felt nothing but disgust towards them.

Because no one gave Noir a loving look.

I wouldn’t know if there was someone who looked at Noir the way Astasia looked at me, but no one loved Noir as a man.

It was Astasia who suggested taking responsibility for them.

What is the crime of the children being born?

Just because you had the wrong parents, it is wrong to be born carrying sins even before you were born.

If you grow up without receiving love, you will only become a monster in the form of a child.

Then, Astasia told me her own story.

Thanks to that, I learned that the emperor had numerous illegitimate children, and the most excellent ‘individual’ among them was Astasia, and so I could understand the desperate gaze with which she tried to spread her world of beauty against me.

It was a matter of survival.

She knew very well what would happen to abandoned children.

Children that Noir gives birth to and is not responsible for.

Surely young men with blue hair will appear from somewhere and take the children.

And just because they are the children of a sword master, they may be raised in a daycare-like facility until around the age of seven and then trained to be spies or shadows in the name of combat training.

Then, if someone is eliminated and dies, they may die and be absorbed into someone else’s mana.

Astasia was worried.

What happens if our child, when born, is ‘deformed’ in the emperor’s eyes?

What would the emperor do if he had a ‘talent defect’ rather than a physical defect somewhere?

So, in a way, I came up with a trick.

“I want to embrace Astasia a little more.”

“Why?”

“Because if you’re pregnant, you won’t be able to embrace Astasia.”

“…Being young is a good thing.”

Using youth as an excuse.

Using blood as an excuse.

By putting myself down, I tried to protect those I loved.

So, we postponed pregnancy.

Thorough care was taken to prevent children from being born.

Even though we knew it was a stopgap measure and not a fundamental solution, we had no other option than that.

“Your Majesty, the children born to my husband and I. What will happen if they end up like Noir or Letard?”

“A child like that is not your child.”

“…”

“The child of Gray Gibraltar must be perfect. He must be a superhuman, surpassing you and me.”

The emperor.

“Either, like me, you can give birth to as many as possible and select the best ones among them, or you can check their talent once a year.”

We made an offer that we simply could not accept.

“It’s okay. If my daughter is born, there will still be a chance.”

“Daughter?”

“Even if Astasia gets old and can’t have children, does she still have a ‘spare’?”

After that.

“Fuck, are you crazy?”

Somehow, I think I made a pretty big mistake.

But I couldn’t accept his ideas to the point of making such mistakes.

“Huh. Is there some problem?”

“Is there a problem? After my daughter was born, she said to me, “My daughter…”

“As long as it’s okay with you, it doesn’t really matter the other way around.”

That is the difference between me and the emperor.

“If only a superhuman was born who would lead my empire and yours, the ‘Unified Habsburg Empire.’”