Chapter 82: But Here?

    “What?”

    Garcia looked at his son in bewilderment.

    He had no choice but to do so.

    “Who sent this?”

    “Karan sent it, Father. As you can see, it’s a letter from the Seventh Prince...”

    Garcia checked the letter again, dumbfounded by the answer of his second, Heinley. Clearly, the seal belonged to the royal family.

    And however mischievous he was, Karan wouldn’t have stolen the royal seal.

    “Then this is the Seventh Prince’s intention.”

    Garcia put down the letter as if it was ridiculous.

    Heinley trembled at the sight.

    “What did that brat... the prince send, Father?”

    “Check it out yourself if you’re really curious.”

    With the permission of Duke Garcia, Heinley immediately checked the letter.

    However, his eyes widened upon reading the content.

    There was nothing special about the letter. But the content was anything but simple.

    [Is this all you can do?

    Why didn’t you do a good job?

    Do you think you can be a guardian like this?

    Do it right.]

    Heinley froze with his mouth agape. He had never seen such an unmannered letter like this before.

    ‘No, even if you are royalty, this is just...!’

    He sent this kind of letter to the one and only Duke Garcia?

    But Duke Garcia knew.

    The piece of paper used for Ian’s letter.

    He noticed that it was a special paper he had sent to the Second Prince in the past.

    So, Duke Garcia couldn’t help but frown.

    ‘Seventh Prince. Could it be that he noticed I was having an intrigue with the Second Prince?’

    It was a measure he prepared just in case.

    But it was not impossible to understand how the paper ended up in Ian’s hands. The secret letter that the Second Prince couldn’t get rid of must have remained in the Sapphire Palace.

    Of course it left a bad taste in his mouth, but it didn’t matter.

    ‘It’s not just Kaistein that I have my hands on.’

    But even so, it was too wasteful to throw away the card called Ian.

    Being his guardian was necessary for future plans as long as Ian continued to win and win.

    That was the case with the Northern Expedition.

    ‘It’s the opposite situation from when I first brought him.’

    Ian was no longer a prince who had nothing.

    Nobility’s interest in his Battle of Ranking match.

    The advantage Lavaltor had, which Garcia lacked.

    A situation that might bring forth an enormous force that was second to none if the powers of the North were to be brought together.

    Therefore, Duke Garcia had to make a decision to keep Ian in his clutches by any means.

    “Heinley, there’s something you need to do.”

    “Please leave it to me, Father.”

    Heinley had been acting as a servant all this time. He couldn’t help being happy to do a proper job.

    But his face soon hardened.

    “F, Father. What’s this?”

    “You just have to deliver it as it is.”

    “Ho...however, the recipient of this letter is...”

    He couldn’t help but stiffen.

    Two letters from Duke Garcia.

    One was for the First Princess. The other one was...

    “Why are you sending a letter to the crown prince of the Cantum Empire? This is treason!”

    In addition, the content was absurd.

    Details on Ian were written in the letter. It was as if the Duke was reporting Ian’s weaknesses to another country.

    Heinley might have no patriotism, but this was not it.

    “On the day this letter were to come to light, things would get ugly, Father. Even the king won’t leave our family alone...”

    “That’s why I have to do it.”

    “Yes?”

    “There are many people who target our family. But we always survived. Do you know why?” Finnd new chapters on

    “That’s...”

    Heinley couldn’t open his mouth easily.

    The Garcia dukedom was a mercantile family. He couldn’t say they survived by quickly changing sides.

    But Duke Garcia said calmly.

    “We make those stronger than us weaker. The weak survived by exploiting them. This time, the target is only the Seventh Prince. There is nothing difficult about it.”

    Heinley grabbed the letter with trembling hands. No, he put it in his pocket without anyone noticing.

    But he didn’t know yet.

    What a heartless man his own father was.

    ‘That will be the last thing you do as my son, Son.’

    Since the Seventh Prince found out anyway, it would not be long before King Eloin noticed. So, Duke Garcia was going to make Heinley the culprit.

    As if colluding with the Second Prince was not enough, he would be a traitor who joined hands with the crown prince of Cantum.

    Everyone was stunned.

    How in the world did this happen all of a sudden?

    But Ian smiled.

    “Oh, my god. I didn’t know there was a secret passage in this place.”

    “What?!”

    Ian didn’t look surprised at all. It’s like he knew it would happen.

    When the knights looked at Ian in bewilderment.

    “Well, let’s go.”

    The surprised Nathan unusually stepped up.

    “Prince! It may be a trap. First of all, we should check it out...”

    Yet Ian smiled at him.

    “Alright. Then Sir Nathan will be the first to go in. I will follow suit.”

    “What? No, but over there...”

    No matter how he looked at it, that place screamed of imminent death. Nathan turned to Fiosen and Galon, but the two kicked Nathan toward the space instead.

    “What are you doing, His Highness has ordered you to go.”

    “Argh!”

    The two were amused. Nathan wasn’t the kind to straightforwardly warn others of danger. It was the first time he acted like a knight.

    In the end, Nathan could only bite the bullet and take the lead with tears in his eyes.

    But it was then.

    Ian, after glancing around the surroundings, secretly put something in Fiosen’s pocket.

    “Your Highness?”

    “Just to be safe, send it to Duke Lavaltor. He’ll be in the fief by now, won’t he?”

    “What? How do you know that?”

    Fiosen was perplexed.

    His eyes asked how Ian knew the secret information that only a few knew that his father, Duke Lavaltor, had returned to the duchy.

    But he soon sent a letter to the messenger.

    ‘I’m sure there’s a meaning.’

    He decided to believe in the actions Ian had shown so far.

    And right at that moment.

    “N-no way! There was a passage here?”

    “Damn it! H-hurry, we must inform His Highness quickly.”

    Following Ian, the prince’s men began to run with urgency.

    ***

    “What? He found a secret passage in the village chief’s room?”

    Bang!

    The crown prince slammed the table, his eyebrows rose sharply. His subordinates bowed at the sight.

    “For some reason, the Seventh Prince touched the bookshelf, and the chest of drawers was pushed aside.”

    “I never thought there would be such a device in a slash-and-burn village like this...”

    Obviously, it was a place where the soldiers of the Cantum Empire had once searched. But back then, they didn’t find such a device. It was a blunder that occurred after being careless because of thinking it was a mere village.

    But their lord was never one to tolerate such mistakes.

    Sure enough.

    “These ignorant fools.”

    “!”

    “You haven’t even found an important clue properly. You are trash that can’t even interfere with finding a secret room.”

    The men bowed their heads in panic at the crown prince’s cold utterance.

    “Please forgive us!”

    “Give us one more chance...”

    But the crown prince beckoned with great displeasure.

    “Yeong!”

    When the crown prince shouted, something popped out from behind the spies.

    It’s a shiny iron piece.

    And the next second.

    Slash!

    The spies’ heads were looped off, then rolled on the floor.

    However, the crown prince did not even glance at those heads.

    Instead, he gave orders to the man who suddenly popped out.

    “Yeong, go after the Seventh Prince. And.”

    The crown prince took a moment to catch his breath and ordered in a cold voice.

    “Check what’s there. And if you think he’s going to find something...”

    Blast the secret passage.

    So that no one could find it.

    When the crown prince finished issuing his secret orders.

    Shhh.

    The man disappeared like a shadow.

    The crown prince smiled crookedly in the dark.

    He intended to get Ian on his knees one way or the other.

    “Huh, then I have no choice but to strike Lavaltor first.”

    Just in case.

    And with Lavaltor’s successor by his side, the Seventh Prince must be quite surprised by the unexpected.

    The crown prince burst into laughter. Ian would have no choice but to follow him.

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