Volu 7, Chapter 130: The Crawling Shadow of the Past
「…What, in other words, are we going to assassinate the Lord?」
Bruder spoke casually as he reacted to my words. His words were sowhat nostalgic, as he unknowingly slamd his throat to open his lips while showing his teeth.
「At first, I thought about doing so. I was thinking of clearing the humiliating snow with my hands. But, it’s not amusing to follow the sa route as before.」
Saint Matia strengthened her eyes upon seeing how lightly I spoke of it. Her sharp gaze seed to pierce my body. As if she were silently telling that she wouldn’t allow such actions. I felt as if she sewed on the spot.
Indeed, she looked unpleased when I said that we were going to take different asures. This Saint woman did not realize that her gaze looked so poisonous. She unknowingly quivered her eyelids as if they were twitching.
Even so, I was not planning to back away now. My frustration and humiliation still sculled in the depths of my mories. In order to get my revenge, I felt determined to go the sa way again but with a different approach. Ah, that horrid past of mine. I guess I would never forget it…
Anyway, I had a better way to do it now.
「…Lugis, I respect your words. However, I will have no choice but to step in if you act too recklessly. If that ti happens, I will make you obey my words. Do you understand?」
An unsatisfied Matia sharpened her words with her fierce gaze. I raised one eyebrow and made my voice echo.
「What? Recklessly? We’re going to do sothing dangerous because there is no other way to change our odds. Listen, Matia. This city called Belfein runs with two different wheels. There may be other people pulling the strings, but there are only two main forces at the center. In other words, if we want to get rid of Belfein, we’ll have to get rid of them.」
It was not necessary to say who the wheels were. Lord Mordeaux Gon. And his daughter, the Steel Princess Vestaline Gon. The city kept spinning because these two had shed well. So even said that they were like materials who complented each other reasonably well.
Of course, Belfein would not collapse even if we disposed of one them.
Perhaps, Mordeaux alone, Vestaline alone, or even one person with governing ability could rule alone. In other words, the governing authority would be maintained to so extent. But that’s all. Only governable. It was a completely different story between Belfein’s internal rule and soone who threatened its foundation.
「Are you trying to cut them off from the center? That’s impossible.」
Bruder spoke while opening the lid of the rum bottle on the table. It seed that he could not wait any longer. Then, I also took the chewing tobacco from my pocket and put it in my teeth. When I thought about it, I realized that I could not relax or enjoy smoking after coming here.
Bruder, who cleared his throat with the bottle of rum, continued to speak instead of sighing.
「It’s much more than just assassination, you know. They are strong people because they are powerful together!」
Bruder’s eyes, with a slight amount of sickness, were looking quite cloudy. The words that ca out of his mouth seed to throw so of his emotions as well. After all, was it impossible for Bruder to be normal in a conversation?
Matia looked at Bruder in a suspicious manner.
What was going on? There was nothing to worry about, but they were fretting so much. But, I understood them well.
「I don’t believe that’s the case. I was convinced when I t her yesterday. They seem to be moving like wheels, but that doesn’t an the moving is as smooth as it should be.」
Yes, they seed to working well together as a team. Yet, their nature told otherwise. This teamwork did not match their individual needs.
In fact, their essence was like predators. One lived with a ans to take away things, and the other was born to protect things.
Right now, their interests overlapped nicely, but just for a mont. Fortunately, the parts that did not sh with each other were the feelings of parents and children. Such complex relationships could crumble at any ti. All we need was a misstep from either one of them in order for the wheels to stop moving forever.
Bruder stopped pouring rum into his throat. His eyes looked distorted, and his expression seed to be unable to asure the aning of my words. In order to encourage my words, he put the bottle of rum on the table.
「One thing is certain. All we have to do is sow the seeds of suspicion that will make them feel doubt deep in their hearts.」
“Seeds of suspicion”, Matia muttered next to by repeating my words. Sohow, her expression showed that she pondered deeply about it. I did not think that Matia would react in such a way. I continued to speak.
「Even if one of them believes the other, the other will have doubts. They might have a normal conversation every day. However, in the heart, the child will doubt the love of the parent, and the parent will be anxious about the child’s rebellion. In a flash, love will turn into a huge mass of mud.」
Both wheels would stop running its sh in unison. After that, both would decay on the spot and lose their function.
The strongest curse in the world was suspicion itself. Yes, the heart of doubt.
It was extrely hard to wipe the doubts in a human’s heart. Even if a person struggled to hide it and forcibly covered it, it would take just a tiny amount of wrath to burst it all out. I knew it well. True, I knew it more than anyone else around here did.
Bruder moved his lips. His mouth, undulated with sickness, slowly opened. Before he could speak, I release a few more words.
「I’m confident in my upbringing and motivation. Whatever you may think, I will show you that this strategy can work. Because I know how often people doubt other people.」
Bruder and Matia shook their mouths slightly. I did not add any more words to it. However, it seed that my talk had a profound impact on their brains.
The Saint woman looked very tense and Bruder looked like as if he heard a joke.
While moving my shoulders, I took out the chewing tobacco from my mouth and expelled the air that had accumulated in my throat. A faint and pleasant scent scattered in the air. I already envisioned the whole scenario in my head. The only thing left was to draw it with my hands. How did I get them to move?
While I thought so, Bruder tilted the bottle of rum to his mouth and drank the liquid in a single breath. His throat scread because it did not want the alcohol to burn it. I noticed that Bruder’s eyes stared fixedly at while he drank. His eyes were flickering in a strangely hollow light.
A hollow light that reminded of the past.
Originally, Bruder liked alcohol too much, but he was not particularly strong with alcohol. Rather, he was prone to getting drunk.
I often saw him get drunk, and he often fell asleep in the back alleys. I carried him to the inn for countless of tis.
However, the way he drank right now. This was the first ti since “that day” that I had seen him drink as if he had bathed himself with alcohol. I felt a suffocating feeling right down from my finger up to my spine. Sothing that I had no desire to get it back.
「…Okay, I will follow your plan. Ohh, actually, let do it. I’ll crush their wheels and the bond between parent and children directly.」
His mouth was that of a drunken man. Bruder’s eyes were beginning to lose their focus. Still, though, his eyes were certainly directed at despite his drunkenness.
I felt like avoiding his gaze. This figure overlapped with the old Bruder, the one who used to be with in the past.
The old Bruder behaved and looked this way when I saw him the night before the raid on Mordeaux’s house.
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