The Lazy Genius of the Duke - Chapter 235



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The Lazy Genius of the Duke’s Family (235)

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“What!!!!”

The furious Viscount Galton stood up and vented his anger, not even noticing that the teacup had spilled over and was dripping on his trousers.

“Bennio Kepler! Your mother?”

“Yes, your highness.”

“Why!!!”

“That’s it.”

Lord Tuynon, who had run straight to Viscount Galton to deliver the message written on the messenger from Viscount Galton’s estate, hesitated.

“Tell me the truth!”

“It seems that the scheme devised by the third lady has failed.”

“What a scheme!”

The Duke of Tunon let out a faint sigh. If Madame Susanna had given him even a little luck with the scheme, he would never have gone ahead with it.

But Lady Susanna did not inform Viscount Galton or Lord Tunon in advance of what she was about to do. This was the result.

“It seems that he sent Benio Kepler to the castle to meet with the godmother, and then tried to assassinate the godmother using an assassin hired through the butler.”

“ah.”

“My lord, my lord!”

Duke Tuyen tried to support Count Galton, who was staggering on his chair, but Count Galton waved his hand away sharply.

“Details. Tell me in detail.”

“My lord.”

“hurry!”

The Count of Tunon shut his eyes tightly. The shock that Viscount Galton felt upon hearing this news was no less than that of the Count of Tunon.

‘Why, why did you do that, Madam!’

A new water rose from the depths of the Tteunong training ground.

“It seems that he was planning to blame the death of the great goddess Hela on Benio Kepler and to propose a motion to restore trust in the Grand Duke.”

“That failed?”

“It is said that Benio Kepler brought out the Great Mother Hellas. He has closed down his own office in order to find the mastermind, declaring that the plot to assassinate him is treason.”

“Bar, treason.”

Viscount Galton’s face turned pale. He was tense at the word treason. It couldn’t be otherwise. The Galton family knew best how ruthless and heartless the Kepler family was in treason.

Chloe Huper, who was favored by the current head of the household, Duke Kepler, also could not escape death. It was the Galton family and other families of the Eight Sages who caused the situation to unfold that way.

There is no reason why the House of Euper cannot be their future.

“So, so?”

“Bennio Kepler has called his own forces and the Armada of the Slaughter from the city of Pinguis. The net has appeared and is said to be tracing the link of the butler.”

“This is the worst.”

Viscount Galton felt as if a cold knife had been placed against his throat. The worst imaginable scenario had occurred.

His home ground, Jajakseong, has fallen into Benio’s hands. Both the cause and the profit are in Benio’s hands.

“If it’s a net, is it because of the peacock agent?”

“Yes, my lord.”

Viscount Galton’s face turned pale. The net only follows the duke’s orders. Now that the duke has vacated the duchy and appointed Benio as his deputy, Benio also has the authority to command the net.

In other words, Lady Susanna could have been accused of plotting an assassination against the Duke’s deputy, who had been delegated some of the Duke’s authority.

“I will go see the third lady.”

His anger toward Lady Susanna, who had done such an unbearable thing, boiled over. As Viscount Galton spoke with bloodshot eyes, Lord Tuynon blocked his path.

“My lord, now is not the time to cause division with the third lady.”

“Then! The third lady did this without consulting me!”

“First of all, work has to be done first.”

Viscount Galton took a deep breath at the dissuasion of Lord Tuynon. Thinking calmly, there was nothing wrong with what Lord Tuynon said.

“So what should we do?”

As Viscount Galton regained his composure, Lord Tunon breathed a sigh of relief. It was best to prepare a solution for the matter now.

“You must erase the link with the butler.”

“Would you believe that?”

Now, this is like throwing open the door and letting a thief in. In the eyes of the Galton family, Benio was a thief who stole the position of successor.

But you gave the thief a reason to enter the room. And then you erase the link to that reason?

“And even if I do that, people will still point fingers at me. I’m an incompetent head of the household who can’t even keep things in order.”

“It is better than being destroyed by treason.”

“Phew.”

At the mention of treason, Viscount Galton’s heart shrank again. There was nothing wrong with what Lord Tunon had said.

“and?”

“You must keep an eye on Mother Hela.”

“No way. Are you saying that my mother can come to her senses?”

It was not yet known whether Madame Hela had regained her senses. However, it was only for a moment that anxiety appeared on Viscount Galton’s face at Tunon’s words.

“If anyone finds out about my mother, it’s over.”

“Armada.”

Viscount Galton’s face turned pale. Then he remembered that Benio had called the Armada to Pinguis City.

“No way. Armada is a solar inquisitor.”

“But I don’t know. The Solar Cult is the most sensitive to magic.”

Tunong Hunjak couldn’t bring himself to say the words that were on his lips. He couldn’t say to his lord that he had listened to him and that this had happened because he hadn’t listened to him.

“Then what should we do?”

“In the worst case scenario.”

Tunon’s eyes flashed with a gleaming light.

“Even your lord must buy it.”

“Fried!”

“Even if you have to abandon the third lady, Lord Majia and his family must survive. Your lord must insist that this is the third lady’s personal deviation.”

The third lady, that is, Susanna, might have to be abandoned. Galton objected to Tunon’s words, but Tunon was not shaken.

“You must live, my lord. That is the most important thing.”

“Is that all you mean?”

“Bennio Kepler. It’s time for you to stop looking down on the Archduke. He didn’t become the Archduke just by luck.”

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Galton closed his eyes tightly. Benio is the successor he absolutely does not want to acknowledge. However, as Tunon said, he may be paying the price for being buried in the past and trying to ignore Benio while watching Benio’s fame grow.

“First, let me solve the problem with the butler.”

However, abandoning Susanna is a last resort. If the Galton family were to cut ties with Susanna first, they would suffer an irreparable blow.

Tunon bowed his head at Viscount Galton’s words.

“Yes, my lord. Please leave it to me.”

* * *

Madame Hela fell into a long, deathly sleep for almost two days.

Mrs. Hela was extremely weak, so much so that the doctor who came to see her said it was a wonder she was still alive.

In any case, the maid took great care of Lady Hela. Since Benio, the grand duke of the Kepler family, had taken up residence in the castle, saying he would track down the culprit of the treason, the maid had no choice but to look after Lady Hela with utmost devotion.

And after two days she woke up.

“Are you awake, Grandma?”

“Yeah. I feel a little clearer now.”

When Benio heard that she had woken up and went to see her, Madame Hela was a completely different person than when he had seen her in the attic.

Although thin, Lady Hela had regained her strength after two days of sufficient sleep. Her clear eyes sparkled with a intelligence quite unlike that of Lady Susanna or Viscount Galton.

A commoner by birth, she became the wife of a count and made her child the successor.

Benio felt it clearly and sat down across from her.

“I heard roughly through EL that you had been asleep for ten years. It is true that you became the Archduke.”

“yes.”

“That’s fortunate. Madame Chloe will be very pleased.”

Benio licked his lips.

“Do you know your mother well?”

“I can’t say I know her well. I only saw her a few times at the family banquet hall. But she was a virtuous and beautiful woman. She was far from being a traitor.”

“….”

Benio stared at the table without saying a word. Madame Hela changed the subject.

“Don’t you have something to say to me?”

“yes.”

“You can do it now. I’ve made up my mind.”

Madame Hela’s eyes were detached. It was as if I was looking into the eyes of a liberated person.

“Are you guessing?”

“My memory isn’t completely recovered yet. But I think I’ve regained some of it.”

Madame Hela stroked her own scarred head, which was hidden by her hair.

“Memories of this too.”

“I know it must be difficult.”

Benio said, looking at Madame Hela.

“This is an important story.”

“It’s also a story about my children.”

She was the one who endured the humiliation of being the first wife and serving a concubine in order to protect her child. If her maternal love still remained intact, Benio would not be able to hear the truth.

“Do you know what I found in the scar on your grandmother’s head?”

However, Benio cannot back down. What Benio discovered in her scars was none other than Magi. It was a spirit that was forbidden by the Sun Church and was also the spirit of the Demon King who had caused the tragedy a thousand years ago.

“Whatever it is, it can’t be good for this family.”

“Grandma.”

“Promise me just one thing.”

Madame Hela looked at Benio.

“Will you pass this family down to Majia?”

“Grandma.”

“Then I will tell you.”

Madame Hela said so and closed her eyes. It meant there was no room for negotiation. Benio was silent. He chose Marzia and the Galton family over Viscount Galton or Madame Susanna.

‘It’s exactly like Mr. Bollito’s letter.’

Benio pretended to keep a calm expression, but was impressed that Madame Hela’s reaction was not much different from what Mr. Bollito had predicted.

Benio immediately reported what had happened here to Mr. Bollito. His wisdom was needed. Benio needed delicate strategy to make the most of this golden opportunity he had.

And Mr. Bollito anticipated this reaction from Madame Hela and added a short postscript to the end of the letter.

“Very well. And I will tell Your Majesty and save the lives of your mother and uncle.”

“Will Your Majesty do so?”

“If I say that it is a courtesy to the grandmother who sacrificed herself for her children, you will understand.”

Madame Hela also knows about Duke Kepler. He is a cold-blooded man without any blood or tears. But she was momentarily speechless when she heard that her grandson, who is not related to her by blood, was taking care of her hard work.

“That’s befitting of a grand duke.”

After a while, Madame Hela spoke briefly in a wet voice, and Benio lowered his head slightly.

“There was an attack. Instead of Beor staying mostly in Casa Kepler, it was my job to look after the people’s feelings. I was mainly in charge of going around the counties and providing relief.”

“And you were also a major shareholder at the top of Galton.”

Hela Galton nodded. The largest share of Galton’s upper house was the source of all the trouble.

“He said he needed money. That kid who had always lived in luxury. I told him why he needed that much money when he was a baron, but he didn’t answer and just kept asking for it.”

Mrs. Hela closed her eyes.

“I have never wasted my life. Selling my stake in Galton was absolutely unacceptable. And, on my way back from distributing relief food to the flood-stricken area.”

Got attacked.

“It looks like they covered it up by saying I collapsed.”

It is a terrible thing that a child is attacked by the child that was born and raised with pain. There are no other words to express it. The face of Mrs. Hela who said this looked so painful.

“And that’s what happened after that?”

“Sometimes, memories came back. But at some point, even that stopped.”

“Because of this.”

Benio took out a piece of the devil statue and showed it to me.

“Grandma’s collapse was a planned crime. And it was a crime that involved the use of demonic energy. It seems that a small amount of demonic energy and this demonic statue were used to destroy Grandma’s spirit.”

“Magi…. Statue….”

Madame Hela’s eyes shook violently.

“Perhaps Viscount Galton has been in contact with me for quite some time.”

Benio’s voice flowed out like a monologue.

“Devil Heart. The ghosts of the past who are also the mainstay of the Kingdom of Sanguis.”

Mrs. Hela shut her eyes tightly.

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