A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

86 – Festival of Silver and Iron Blood (9)

One day, the identities of the two princesses protected by Gibraltar will be revealed.

It was the same when we received Naria, and we were worried and nervous from the moment we received Astasia.

So I told that story to his father at that time.

-You must always ensure that the lives of two people are protected in any situation.

It is a natural thing, but this naturalness gradually becomes more relaxed as time passes.

Will tensions over assassination threats and information leaks continue for a week, a month, or even a year?

Not at all.

Even if they are careful and we are careful, it will eventually be revealed by those who raise suspicions about absence.

There is no princess in the kingdom.

There is no imperial granddaughter in the empire.

As a person who needs two people to benefit himself, or who needs to get rid of two people, it is natural that he must find them.

In fact, it’s even more surprising that I’ve been safe without being caught by others.

I guess that’s over now.

They used vampires to corrupt wizards, turned the fireworks festival into a fire accident, and tried to burn them to death.

‘It must be a shame.’

Unfortunately, the assassination will fail.

“Ha-aap!”

Sir Mente quickly swings his sword at the flying flames.

The spark of mana is quickly extinguished by a slash like a crescent moon that follows the sword’s trajectory.

What remains is the natural sparks that bounce up and down from the slash.

“Tsk.”

A man clicks his tongue behind Naria and extends his hand.

“Barrier.”

P—ang!

The sphere of magic that protected Naria, Astasia, and even Robert began to flash.

“Phew.”

I was deeply relieved by the mana shield that could easily block mid-level magic.

“I trust you, Viscount Hex.”

“You left it to me to do this, right?”

Hex Romana.

The background to why I was able to escape separately, taking only Carlos with me.

Because he was protecting Naria, I could go to kill Archen with peace of mind.

“But what happened? There was a loud roar.”

“A vampire has appeared.”

“Vampire… “What?”

Everyone’s eyes widen.

I deliberately didn’t look at Astasia, but her expression was probably serious.

“Baron Archen was attacked by a vampire and became a member of the clan.”

“Speaking of family members… Are they vampires?”

“Yes. Among vampires, he became a puppet, a being that only follows orders.”

I feel like I want to tell the story without Astasia, but in the end, she needs to know too.

“Wait a minute. He’s the same person I met yesterday. He was there until yesterday afternoon…”

“It would have been fine. But it happened. I don’t know when it happened, but it may have happened early this morning.”

“This is the worst timing… If we had met in the morning, I would have noticed…”

“The festival started in the morning, so everyone was busy enjoying the festival.”

I literally had no choice.

“Wait a minute. You’re not doubting us, are you?”

“If he wasn’t a vampire, I might have suspected him, but since he is a vampire, I don’t really suspect him.”

If Baron Archen had been in his right mind and scattered the sparks, you might have suspected it, but the vampire was behind it.

“Is it a terrorist attack directed at Gibraltar, or is it a terrorist attack directed at a specific person hiding in Gibraltar? It seems that the correct answer has been found as to who the target is.”

“It’s me.”

Naria rolled her eyes and clenched her fists.

“Did you make the festival like this to kill me?”

“The firework that flew a little while ago was the last firework that Baron Arcene fired before his death. Even…”

“Flare Javelin. Spear of flame. It was not an Explosion spell, but clearly a sniping flame spell fired into the sky.”

Sir Mente said as he came next to me.

“It was aimed at Princess Naria. It’s clear.”

While expressing her opinions, she remains wary of those around her.

“Young master. It’s dangerous. The fact that a vampire made Baron Archen a vassal…”

“It means that the ‘master’ vampire who made him a slave still remains.”

As if Viscount Hex hadn’t turned off his shield yet.

“The problem is now-“

“Master Gray!!”

Sir Carlos’ voice was heard from the direction of the stadium.

“Suppression complete!!”

“You went through a hard time… “Why are you bringing it back like that?”

What Carlos brought in with both hands was a bust that looked like something you would see in an art museum somewhere.

A torso with both arms and below the ribs cut off.

What was supposed to be hanging over his neck was brought from behind Carlos by another knight holding his hair in his hands as if it were string.

There was no scream.

Not only was there no blood dripping or anything, but when I became a vampire, my skin turned pale gray and I felt like I had become a statue made of real marble.

“The cut part is…”

“Gold coins were ground and sprinkled in the traditional way. On the spine…”

“You pressed it down well. Make sure it doesn’t fall off.”

A 10,000 gold coin was stuck right in the center of the neck of the body.

“Did Sir Archen say anything?”

“Unfortunately, there is none.”

“Just because I’m a vampire doesn’t mean I can’t say that my head was cut off.”

“Master. You said a little while ago that you had become a doll that couldn’t speak.”

Sir Robert’s words made me cry for a moment, and I pointed to the mouth of Baron Arshen, whose head had been cut.

“Wouldn’t we be able to talk if I spit out that gold coin?”

A mouth full of gold.

Baron Arshen, who was studded with 1 gold, 10 gold, and 100 gold, kept the gold coins flowing from his mouth.

“Sir Carlos. Drive his torso like a wedge into the side there, drive it into the ground, and then shake it out, leaving only the gold coin in his mouth.”

“What the hell… ?”

“It seems like the person who turned Sir Archen into a vampire wants to talk.”

“…!!”

The knights were very nervous and moved according to my instructions.

Puff, poop!

Baron Arcene’s body was thrown to the ground in the distance with a sword pierced through his heart, and Sir Carlos personally grabbed Baron Arcene’s head with both hands and shook out the gold coins from his mouth.

“Ke, hehe! Kehehe! Really, isn’t it too hard to handle?”

“!!”

Everyone was surprised.

Because the voice of a young woman that should not be heard or had never been heard came from the mouth of Baron Archen, whose head had been cut off.

“That’s too much.” Even a vampire would sue if I treated him this way?”

“Why did a vampire living in a contaminated area come to Gibraltar? Because he wanted to die?”

Hehe, Master of Gibraltar. You know who I’m after, right?”

Baron Archen’s tongue stuck out long and downward.

“Naria Geo Nostrum.”

“…”

“If Nostrum’s bloodline disappears, then that trash king will still be king. Wouldn’t that be good for us? Hehe…”

“On the subject of those trash demons who have not been able to invade Nostrum’s land for 500 years and are only devouring the empire’s land.”

“What… !”

“A monster whose name I don’t even know dares to do tricks in Gibraltar.”

I took out some gold coins from my pocket.

“You almost got into big trouble because of that arrogant demon, right?”

I grabbed them one by one and threw them at Baron Archen’s face.

“Haha, it’s no use. If you throw it like that, the only thing that will break is this human… Yaaa!!”

“What should I do? If you have nothing more to say, go away, monster.”

I aimed for Naria Geo Nostrum.

I don’t mind saying that.

However, we cannot let this vampire put down the mask she wears to hide her identity and reveal her true identity.

“Ha, haha…! Don’t you have anything to say? Why not! The princess who almost got her head blown off by her father she was in Gibraltar, not anywhere else!!”

The vampire opens her mouth wide and roars.

Haha! Is the incompetent king as incompetent as he can be? How can he have only one child and leave it alone? Hehe, no! He must have been afraid that if he had multiple children, one of them would usurp his throne!”

This vampire.

“What a great man! Even though she is his daughter, he will stop at nothing to gain power!!”

In the imperial language, they are trying to hit the so-called ‘bun-tang’.

“W-what…”

“Now, wait a minute. Could that mean…”

“Don’t say anything strange! Do you believe what vampires say!”

The knights began to look at each other and become agitated.

It seems that among those present, there is no one who cannot understand the hidden meaning behind the vampire’s words.

“My father sent a vampire to kill me?”

Naria came forward herself.

“Hehe… ! It looks like she was trying to hide her identity by wearing a maid uniform. If that’s the case, she should at least change her hair and eyes!”

“It’s not that blonde green eyes are hard to see.”

Princess Lia snorted and laughed at the vampire.

“Whether your father sent you or not, you have failed.”

“…”

“You even looked down on me.”

Unlike his usual appearance, he has a cynical and bitter tone of voice.

“I greatly underestimated Gibraltar, the place I went to trust myself to.”

“Ha…”

“Isn’t the person who took someone like you under his wing and said he would assassinate him rather incompetent?”

“You dare say that now, knowing who the target is… ?”

For a moment, a chill went down my spine.

‘I can’t do it.’

It’s familiar.

“Who?”

I had forgotten about it for a while, but unless a person experiences something that fundamentally changes them.

“It doesn’t matter who or what. You failed. You idiot.”

Naria, this princess has a bad personality even with nice words.

Who was it?

Was it Ethan Cesar?

Or-

Haha! Our princess? Our princess is really talented!

‘It was Falwood.’

-The appropriate word is… Umm. I hate it because it’s the imperial language, but there’s nothing more appropriate to express it than this.

Falwood Lalond once said something like that.

-The princess of our ruined country has everything except humanity. Haha. Is it okay to say this? What can I say before I die? Haha!

No matter how well Naria Geo Nostrum’s humanity is presented, it can only be defined as ‘not good personality.’

That’s the most polite expression.

“Anyway, about you-“

“That, Master Gray!!”

An unfamiliar, yet familiar voice was heard from afar.

“The Count sent me! Master, this sword… !”

“Your father has a sword?”

The sword that White No. 36 brought was clearly my father’s sword, but I felt puzzled for a moment.

‘The fact that my father sent this sword to me-‘

It may have several meanings, but I felt it right away the moment I handed over the sheath.

“You sent it at just the right time.”

The authority of the Earl of Gibraltar.

A sign of the count who will command the knights outside the mansion during a crisis.

“Princess Naria. Just a moment.”

And at the same time, the most appropriate weapon in this situation.

“This vampire may be connected to her Baroness Arshen, whom she has now made her own. If the literature is not mistaken…”

“Are you saying there’s a ‘familiar’ inside this head?”

“Maybe.”

Since they used magic, they probably didn’t eat my brain.

“It is most likely that it has long infiltrated the blood vessels like a parasite.”

“W-what… ! They call me a parasite… !”

“Either way, use this sword…”

“…Sleep—not?”

Baron Arcene rolled his eyes in confusion, his vampire eyes his scanning the Whites standing behind me.

“Huh? Look at this?”

“…!”

The Whites were also started when they saw the vampire, and soon the vampire rolled his eyes to the side-

“Wow, crazy?”

The moment I reached Astasia.

“You were here?”

Inside the vampire’s black eyes, the pupil opened as if something red was torn vertically.

“I found it, you-“

Suddenly!

A red trail that splits Baron Archen’s head in half.

My father’s sword cut Baron Archen’s head in half.

Thuk, thud.

Red liquid flowed down from the head that was split to the left and right, and the person who swung the sword stepped back and scratched the ground without a single drop of black blood as it was cut down like an executioner.

“Huh.”

Naria takes a deep breath.

“Then I am here, who else is there?”

He said something that seemed out of place and looked at me once.

“Excuse me for a moment, Lord Gray.”

“…It’s rude to your father.”

Before the vampire could open her mouth, Naria took out her father’s sword and cut the vampire down.

“Is this the power of the Sword Master? It’s amazing.”

Although it was not infused with gold or silver, my father’s blade contained an even stronger ‘Auror’ than that.

“Ellie.”

“…”

“Ellie.”

Naria approaches Astasia, calling her ‘Ellie’.

“Come to your senses.”

“Hibb?!”

“Why are you so surprised? There’s no need to be sorry. Rather, I’m sorry. Well, I showed this to my maid.”

Naria continued talking awkwardly for a moment, lightly holding Astasia in her arms and patting her on the back.

“No need to worry. This is Gibraltar.”

“Well, that is…” ” .”

“The descendants are dead, and the vampires they were controlling have also disappeared. Um… Gray Gibraltar?”

“Yes, princess.”

“I’ll leave this to you.”

One more thing.

Princess Naria is not good at her acting.

But the reason I came forward like this is because even though I can’t act, I have a quick sense of humor.

“Thank you, Princess Naria.”

I noticed it.

At the last moment, the vampire saw the ‘granddaughter Astasia’ hiding beyond the Gibraltar Gorge.

“First of all.”

One thing is urgent.

“…Let’s leave the cleaning up to the knights and go to your father’s study.”

Leave this place and discuss future measures in the safest place.

“Even though we failed, the risk is not completely gone yet.”

The target has changed.

It will change.

‘I’m going to aim for Astasia.’

For a woman with deep ties to her vampires, she has found a target whose personal interests outweigh the greater national interests of her empire.

As someone who knows the future, there is one secret she cannot tell anyone.

-I’ll just tell you.

Habsburg once got drunk and told me the secrets of the empire.

-A bald old man and a woman blinded by power had an affair, and they had a child together. Her daughter was her husband’s child, but her son was not. Well, that’s right.

What should I hide?

The ‘current’ Emperor Thersian and the Crown Princess Isabella are having an affair.