The Lazy Genius of the Duke - Chapter 50



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The Duke’s Lazy Martial Arts Genius (50)

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“How did you get here?”

“Then when did you come?”

Giovanni came running and circled Benio several times as if he was happy to see him. Benio glanced at the door he had come out of, but it was a warehouse door that was commonly seen around here.

But Benio was definitely in District 2.

‘What on earth did I see?’

The old woman who couldn’t see was an astrologer. She was someone who told fortunes by looking at the stars in the sky. I thought she was similar to the Taoist priests of the Central Plains, but that wasn’t the case.

I couldn’t figure out what kind of magic it was, or if it was magic at all.

‘Because I didn’t feel anything.’

Benio, who felt the aura and magic of Lazio and Dean Rambledore who were close to the Master, and Benio, who also felt the flow of divine power of Armada of the Pacifiers, one of the ten holy guardians.

To that extent, Benio was sensitive to energy, but he felt nothing from the old woman.

‘god?’

Benio almost suspected that the old woman might be a god. But at the same time, Benio instinctively realized.

‘I won’t be able to find her again until she comes to see me.’

Benio clenched his fists. The old woman told Benio to follow what he saw if he wanted to find what he wanted.

‘You’ll know when you see it.’

Benio shook his head from side to side. Then Giovanni called out to Benio.

“How did you get out? I thought you would definitely get caught.”

Benio, who came to his senses at that sound, decided to forget about the old woman. They would meet again someday.

“I almost got caught. I thought you guys were caught. Especially you.”

Benio looked at Severus. Giovanni had set off smoke bombs as if he had planned to get caught, but Severus had done nothing to prepare.

“Whew, don’t be ridiculous.”

Severus glared at Giovanni as if his teeth were chattering.

“They said that what exploded was a special sleeping scent. And that was Alcaea’s special sleeping scent.”

“Alcea?”

Benio tilted his head. It was the first time he had heard that name. Then Giovanni grinned and poked Benio in the ribs.

“Don’t you know Alcaea? The God of Alchemy! The greatest alchemist guild on the continent! Alcaea!”

“This is the first time I’ve heard of it.”

“Oh my God. Benio, what kind of life have you been living?”

Giovanni’s eyes widened when he heard Benio say that he didn’t know Alcea. Then Severus cut him off.

“That’s not what you should be saying, Giovanni, when you bought the special sleeping scent there! You know what it means to buy something made by Alcaea, don’t you?”

“I went to great lengths to save you!”

“If it’s discovered that you’ve been using Alcaea sleeping scent, there’ll be a disciplinary committee meeting. Do you think you can handle that? Alcaea products are prohibited from being brought into the Academy.”

Benio stepped between them, his teeth grinding as Severus seemed ready to grab Giovanni by the collar.

Perhaps because of that, Giovanni was holding onto Benio’s clothes exquisitely and half-hiding behind him.

“Why is it prohibited to bring it in?”

Benio asked Giovanni. Giovanni scratched his cheek and made an embarrassed expression.

“It’s so powerful. In fact, you can’t survive until you become an adult.”

“What are you selling?”

“What, all sorts of things? Things that adults like.”

Giovanni grinned sinisterly. Benio realized the moment he saw that expression. Then he hit his forehead and shook his head.

“It’s a good thing I didn’t get caught.”

Looking at it, I can guess what kind of products Alcaea, the Alchemist’s Guild, makes and sells. Most of them are probably for adults.

“Besides, you can’t buy something like this sleeping scent unless it’s for a special purpose. At the very least, you need a letter of recommendation from someone with a noble title…”

Severus said that and his eyes widened.

“You, are you… pretending to be a noble?”

The crime of impersonating a nobleman.

Benio, Giovanni, and Severus were all nobles, but strictly speaking, they were not yet adults and could not be recognized as nobles.

However, it seemed that in order to buy that sleeping scent, you needed a title of nobility. However, Giovanni had no title.

“You say it’s a forgery? It was definitely genuine. It’s just that during the last vacation, I brought several blank pieces of paper with my father’s seal on them.”

Giovanni chuckled. Then Severus washed his face dry.

“You bought sleeping scent with that? A special sleeping scent?”

“Yeah. These are things I worked hard to prepare for today.”

“Hey! Oh my, this is real.”

Severus barely managed to hold himself back from raising his fist at Giovanni, who answered brightly. Benio laughed in vain.

“So, you got out of it with that?”

“Yeah. The knight who was trying to catch me collapsed. In the meantime, Giovanni guided me to the hole he had prepared in advance. But you disappeared.”

It seemed that he also knew about the Academy’s loophole. Benio looked at Giovanni with a dumbfounded expression. However, Giovanni seemed to have misunderstood his gaze and shrugged his shoulders with his chest puffed out.

“I told you I had it all planned out.”

“What’s the plan! There are knights and soldiers all over District 2 trying to catch us!”

“It’s because of Benio! We didn’t get caught coming out!”

Giovanni shamelessly shifted the blame to Benio, convinced that they would never be caught coming out of the hole.

But Benio said to Giovanni,

“The article said that three people escaped. That means they knew.”

“What? No way! No one in that hole….”

Giovanni lowered his head, trailing off. Benio spoke to Benio with a pitiful expression.

“How did you know there was a hole there?”

“Information I bought for a lot of money from a senior who graduated….”

“So, you’re saying the graduates knew? Then here’s the problem. Where do the guards at the gate come from?”

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Giovanni’s face turned pale. More than 80% of the knights guarding the Academy Gate are from the Jupiter Academy.

Of course, there are other ways to become a knight, and there are those who receive knighthood through education at academies in other kingdoms or within powerful knightly families, but at least 80% of the knights guarding the Academy Gate are from the Academy.

That is to say, it is not strange that there are people among them who know the hole.

If that’s the case, then it would be normal to know about Giovanni and Severus’ escape.

“Oh, it’s okay. No one has found out. Just attend the auction and go back.”

Giovanni turned around with an unnatural expression, but his walking form creaked like a broken machine.

“Going back would be a problem too.”

Severus sighed. If the hole had been discovered, returning there would be off the table.

“Well, I’ll think about that later.”

However, Severus seemed to prefer finding an invitation on the black market rather than disciplinary action against the Academy. Benio followed the two and arrived at the “White Foam and the Galleys.”

“It’s different from last time.”

“Because the black market is open. Here.”

Giovanni took out the mask from his bosom with a face that looked better, as if he had cleared his head a bit while coming here.

“mask?”

“It’s a black market. So everyone has to hide their identity. If you don’t like it, you can buy it.”

The area around 〈White Foam and Galley〉 was more heavily guarded than the last time I visited. Half of the people waiting in line to get in were wearing hoods and half were wearing masks.

Besides, there was even a street stall selling masks next to it.

“Security is tight.”

“Bennio. You, really don’t know anything?”

“what?”

Benio was suspicious. Giovanni, a member of the commercial faculty, knew that more than half of the black market in the empire was run by the Kepler family.

But since Benio is almost the son he gave up, I thought he wouldn’t know, so I just asked him once.

“This is the Kepler family’s place. Well, it’s an open secret, but no one goes around telling anyone about it.”

It means that it is a secret that everyone knows. Severus glanced at Benio as if it was the first time he had heard it. Benio had to work hard to act like it was the first time he had heard it from both of them.

‘It’s hard to pretend not to know what you know.’

Benio pretended not to know and then Giovanni figured out the reason.

“The black market boss probably knew who you were. That’s why he bought you an invitation.”

“Is that so?”

“I was thinking of putting it up for auction.”

Giovanni frowned. An invitation to the Roche Arts Festival is something that cannot be obtained with money.

Only with that can you participate in the Roche Imperial Ballet’s plays, where you can meet and socialize with influential nobles.

That’s why there were so many people here today.

“There will be a lot of competition today.”

Giovanni sniffed and exhaled loudly. Benio put on his mask and spoke to Severus and Giovanni.

“Get in line.”

“I wonder?”

Giovanni and Severus also wore masks. Giovanni was a fox, Severus was a bear, and Benio wore a wolf mask.

“The Three Musketeers of Animals?”

“This is all there is. And this is better quality than what they sell over there.”

It was definitely better than what they sell at street stalls. But then, a familiar face walked out of the White Foam and Galley Bar.

‘Chris Junior.’

He was the owner of a bar, the organizer of a black market, and at the same time the young head of the Junior family, known as Kepler’s Eight Guardians, and he was looking for someone.

‘no way.’

While Benio was wondering, Chris spotted Benio and walked over to him. Then, Chris laughed loudly and put his arm around Benio’s shoulder.

“How long has it been! How long have I been waiting for you? Are you here for the auction too?”

Benio’s eyes lit up at Chris’s words. He knew that everyone around him was listening in, and he sensed that he was acting on purpose.

If that was the case, it would have been natural for him to be treated accordingly.

“Long time no see, I have something of interest.”

“You can look forward to today’s auction, there are a lot of items you won’t see anywhere else. I don’t think you will be disappointed.”

“I see? I’m interested in the invitation.”

At Benio’s words, many of the people standing in line had their shoulders tremble. Seeing that, Benio realized once again that there were many people who were after the invitation.

“invitation?”

Chris tilted his head at Benio’s words. Then he shrugged his shoulders as if he had no idea what was going on.

“I’ve never heard of this before. Did you come here after hearing the rumor that an invitation to the Roche Arts Festival was up for sale?”

Benio smirked to himself. Chris was shaking. It was a kind of theatrics he put on because he knew everyone around him was listening to his story.

“None?”

“Yeah. I wasted my time.”

“Is this just a rumor?”

“Tsk, so that’s why there were so many customers today? I thought we’d have the highest sales ever. Guess we’ll miss out.”

Chris’s acting was top-notch. It was truly a performance worthy of a black market owner who runs the economy in the shadows.

But Benio knew.

Chris is saying that he didn’t do this play to discourage the people around him. In fact, it made them more confident.

Today, I heard that the Roche invitation will be up for auction.

‘Because a strong negation is a strong affirmation. Plus.’

Everyone was convinced by Chris’s poor acting. Chris was a great actor who knew how to act poorly, not perfectly.

“Don’t be like this. We’ve come a long way, so let’s go inside. Tell me about the world. Tell me if you’ve found anything useful, and things like that.”

Chris naturally led Benio in. Benio nodded willingly. He knew Chris, but it felt more unnatural to wait in line outside.

“I wonder.”

Chris and Benio leisurely disappeared into the bar. As they disappeared, there was a brief murmur of discussion about whether Chris’s words were true or not, but not a single person left their seat.

As Benio had predicted, the auction seemed set to heat up.

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