Chapter 94. Villain Mabel 2020.12.26.
“It’s really diligent to go to the border without being told.”
Aidan did not stand still in Esteban’s attack.
“Thank you for the compliment.”
Aidan, who turned a sarcasm into a compliment, laughed as if it were ridiculous. Esteban did not lose and smiled lightly, but the atmosphere was more like walking on thin ice. It was a time when everyone was too careful about swallowing. The little emperor, who had been silently watching the situation, stood up.
“party.”
“Mabel?”
“Let’s throw a party!”
party? It was Esteban who asked the question on behalf of the curious people.
“What party are you talking about, Mabel?”
“A victory banquet commemorating Aidan’s victory in the border war and the restoration of the border territory.”
“…”
Everyone gave an absurd look at Mabel’s fluent words that poured out without stopping as if he had waited.
‘My daughter is so smart. … I guess I’d better reduce my class time with Franz.’
There were so many dirty things in the world that it would be nice not to know about. Esteban wanted Mabel to know about them as late as possible. Esteban looked intently at his daughter, planning to freak out if Mabel knew. Mabel looked up at Esteban with bright eyes.
“…that’s cute.”
“what?”
“Ah, did my inner feelings come out without me knowing.”
“dad. Don’t play around.”
Esteban, whose sincerity was suddenly dismissed as a joke, was deeply hurt, but decided to play it as a joke to become a cool father.
“It’s a victory banquet. If you deserve it, it’s right to treat it accordingly. But Mabel-.”
What followed was, of course, a list of no-nos. It was absurd that Aidan suddenly became a hero, even if it wasn’t so, but he had no intention of holding a banquet as if to admit it. But Esteban’s cute daughter was not very clever.
“and. Daddy gave it to me too!”
He had beaten the player before he could object.
“Come on Park Soo-woo!”
In addition, he went one step further and looked around his servants and even induced applause. The servants, overwhelmed by Mabel’s tremendous hosting skills, clapped their hands as if they were bewitched as soon as they met their eyes.
“Mabel…!”
So Esteban opened his eyes to his daughter and cut his nose.
***
Everything was proceeding smoothly and according to plan. I smiled at Aidan, who had returned as my escort from today.
“Good job Aidan. I heard that Casey will pay a lot of attention. How was it? I want to see you too, but it’s a pity that I can’t see you.”
“…better not to see.”
“why? They said that the flashy effect was useless.”
Aidan kept his mouth shut. For some reason, the way he looked at me was meaningful.
“Has the order given to Casey… been undone?”
“huh!”
I was proud of myself because I thought it was the best way to be imprinted in everyone’s memory. But Aidan let out a small sigh and averted my gaze.
“Anyway, it’s good that this incident has freed me from the stigma of being Devlin’s spy. How does it feel to have even revenge?”
“I just did what I had to do.”
“huh? Is that the end?”
“yes.”
I had the revenge I had been waiting for so long, but it was a futile feeling.
“Maybe it’s because it’s still in its infancy. It’s all just a little touch on the border.”
He might be happier then than he is now if he embarks on a quest for revenge for the fall of the Devlin Empire in earnest. First of all, I was thrilled at the thought of giving Veron Arthur Devlica a shit.
“By the way, Aidan. Where is the man I told you to hold on to?”
“Are you talking about the one called Ravid Pennant?”
“huh.”
As Aidan averted my gaze, I felt it intuitively.
‘Something has happened!’
I asked anxiously.
“Could it be… did you kill him?”
I can’t kill you yet. Even if it was processed at the time of processing, I had to dig up all the information and see the end.
“I am still alive.”
I was relieved by Aidan’s answer.
“Hey, I’m glad. where are you?”
“I locked it in the guild basement for now.”
“You haven’t been interrogated yet, have you?”
“I haven’t looked into the fainting man since I locked him in the basement.”
Nodding my head, I suddenly realized one thing.
“That… when did you lock it up?”
“I entrusted it to one of the guild members about three days ago.”
“That’s right.”
It was said that Rabid Pennant had starved for at least three days. Aidan’s personality probably wouldn’t have told him to pack a meal.
‘I might starve to death like this.’
Before that, he had to meet Ravid Pennant secretly. However, Aidan held back with a firm expression.
“Leave the Rabid Pennant to me.”
“no. I will interrogate you myself.”
“Why?”
“I know that type of person well. There is a surer way than physically confessing.”
I knew how to make him open his mouth without the hassle of torture. When I answered confidently, Aidan nodded his head disapprovingly.
“Instead, if we judge that it is dangerous, we will deal with it immediately.”
***
Due to the experience of disappearing once, the security around Mabel was tight. Mabel didn’t seem to feel it, but Aidan could. Unseen talented people were escorting Mabel within a certain distance.
“One behind that tree and one in the building behind the bush.”
Aidan pointed out the secret escort attached to Mabel.
“Dad’s worried too much, so he’s wearing a mask.”
Mabel shook her head. Even if there were many escorts secretly attached, there were too many. I didn’t have the confidence to sneak out of the imperial castle by ostracizing them.
‘I don’t know if Casey’s research succeeds.’
but i am someone I’m not the kind of person who would succumb to adversity like this. So Mabel devised a method-.
“dad. I want to go out!”
It was a frontal breakthrough. Esteban involuntarily nodded at Mabel’s proud declaration of going out.
‘The escort will always follow, so it’ll be fine.’
In this way, Mabel was able to easily get out of the castle on the condition that she lead 20 escorts. In addition, the escort who secretly followed was a bonus. The place Mabel headed was not a guild hideout, but a rather large mansion.
“Where is this, Your Majesty?”
To the knight’s question, Mabel took no heed to the answer.
“I came to see a friend.”
“Which family’s mansion is this?”
“Mayado is a baron family.”
“Mayado?”
The escorts exchanged glances among themselves.
‘Isn’t it you?’
‘no. It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.’
Whether or not they were puzzled by the family name they were hearing for the first time, Mabel slipped into the mansion with Aidan.
“If something should happen to Mabel, he would have to be prepared.”
The knights who received threats under the guise of Esteban’s trustees hurriedly followed. I couldn’t memorize all the noble lists, so I thought there must be such a family. When I entered the mansion, the butler who was waiting greeted me politely.
“Meet Your Majesty the Emperor. This is Charlie, the butler of the Maido family. The lady is waiting in the bedroom.”
“Are you still unwell?”
“yes. It’s still until the other people visit…”
Charlie the butler glanced at the knights behind him.
“Sir wait outside the bedroom. Because Isti is not feeling well, they might be surprised to see you.”
“I can’t.”
“You put it between the doors anyway. If ISTY collapses because of you, are you going to take responsibility?”
I couldn’t see her face, but it was troublesome if the lady of the mansion collapsed. As they took a step back, Mabel entered the bedroom. Aidan’s gaze, which was following him, followed the secret escorts one by one.
‘…We’ll have no choice but to wait outside.’
It was concluded that even the secret escorts, who were overwhelmed by Aidan’s momentum, waited outside. After safely entering the bedroom, Mabel let out a sigh of relief and spread out on the sofa.
“Finally got it all off.”
Mabel lowered her voice in a whisper, in case the escorts outside could hear it. There was nothing like a lady in the space that the knights outside believed to be the mansion lady’s bedroom. There is only Mabel and Aidan. Aidan looked at Mabel with new eyes.
‘How can you use the second hideout of the guild like this?’
Mabel’s hair was enormous. In preparation for the expansion of the guild’s power, the mansion and the title he had only bought were added to the story to create a fake Maido lady. Even if Sang Hwang Sang-je investigates behind the scenes, he won’t be exposed. Then, pretending to be looking for a friend, he confidently went in and out and handled the overall guild business.
“Where’s the Rabid Pennant?”
“You can go in and out of all parts of the mansion through this bedroom.”
Aidan also prepared everything for Mabel, who had to hide his identity. As he pulled out a specific book from the shelf, the bookshelf was easily pushed away, revealing a secret passage. It was right up to the basement.
“Aidan. Are you ready for what I said?”
“yes.”
Aidan had no idea what Mabel was thinking. That’s because the things he told me to prepare for were far from torture.
‘I’m sure Mabel has an idea.’
When the torture began under Mabel’s leadership, Aidan was at a loss for words.
***
‘The preparations are perfect.’
All that was left was an hour of brutal torture.
“What are you trying to do?!”
Ravid Pennant, his hands and feet tied, looked up at me with a terrified face.
“haha.”
Through the bars, I laughed like a villain.
“I have nothing to say. Even if you are the emperor, you will not yield to power…!”
He hadn’t said anything yet, but Rabid shouted resolutely to himself. The man’s cheeks were hollowed out from starvation for a long time. Seeing that sad face, I shrugged my shoulders.
“Do whatever you feel like.”
“…?!”
When I quietly backed away, Ravid was taken aback. Either that or not, I started taking out the things Aidan had prepared.
The first thing I picked up was foxtail grass. I wiggled the foxtail and went inside the grate.
“What is that? Poisonous weed?”
Rabid was very nervous with a contemplative face. As expected, he was a coward himself.
“It could be a poisonous plant…”
He began to gently tickle Rabid with foxtail grass, deliberately blurring his words.
“Kuh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Ha ha ha!”
It was the soles of his feet that the man who had been holding on steadfastly collapsed. Watching him almost faint, I spurred on because it was an epilepsy.
“If you tell me what Devlin is up to, I’ll stop.”
“I don’t know. I don’t know anything! Ha ha ha!”
“Sheesh.”
It seemed that the torture was weak because it tickled her. I thought it would take too long for my dad to visit me, so I hurriedly used the second method. that’s right-. Chi profit. It was grilling meat in front of people who had starved for days. The icing on the cake was that I even fanned it with my hand to spread the smell.
“Wow, that looks delicious. Super delicious meat!”
“…”
“There’s even water there. Very cool water.”
I proudly waved the cup of water in front of Rabid. I saw the man’s eyes widen as he stood firm in front of the foxtail.
“You bastard!”
“haha.”
I never thought being treated like a villain would be so much fun. I eagerly grilled the meat while receiving Levid’s resentful gaze. The meat, which was full of gravy on the grill, was cooked to an appetizing taste.
‘At this point, it’s worth coming over.’
Ravid was such a lax human being that if Aidan tortured him, he would blow up the information he knew right away. But the reason I used this method to open my mouth was because I didn’t want to get Aidan’s hands dirty.
‘Actually, I didn’t like the border war that much either.’
Aidan doesn’t like to hurt others. I’m so used to it that I’ve become numb, but I’ve been around for a long time, so I can tell. After a while, Ravid’s boat horn rang loudly. growl-. The fall was instantaneous.
“I will tell you everything. I’ll tell you everything… please stop doing this…!”
“Tell me first and I will give it to you.”
“You must keep your promise.”
Ravid gave details of how he became Devlin’s spy. A few years ago, when he participated in the border war, a man secretly contacted him and persuaded him with all sorts of rewards. In the meantime, he said that he had received a huge amount of money in return for stealing Ermano’s information from the Devlin Empire. Of course, I gambled it all. The last mission was to take the heirloom from me.
“You don’t know where you are going to use it?”
“I don’t know. Because I was just carrying out orders.”
“Hmm.”
As he took turns looking at the plates of meat, Rabid exclaimed earnestly.
“I really don’t know! I don’t know what to say with my mouth, but I just did what I was told!”
The words seemed to be true.
‘Even I don’t want to say anything to such a stupid person.’
If it was Veron, he wouldn’t have given us important information. In the end, all he found out was the fact that he already knew that the Devlin Empire was obsessed with collecting the essence of the tree of creation. Feeling dejected, I set the plate down in front of Rabid. Then he stopped eating and looked up at me blankly.
“Why aren’t you eating?”
“You have to free your hands to eat. And what about forks and knives?”
“…”
He was a model of Young-sik, an immature aristocrat who grew up asking for a fork and knife for a hostage.
“It’s not possible.”
Aidan said firmly. I had no intention of freeing the hostage’s hands.
“If you don’t want to eat, don’t.”
“I’m going to eat it!”
Ravid leaned over to the plate with a teary face. That was the moment. Degururu. A black bead rolled out of Rabid’s bosom.
“That’s it!”
The moment Rabid panicked, someone’s voice came from the marble.
[What’s going on, Rabid Pennant?]
A low, cold voice with no emotion. And Aidan’s reaction, which suddenly became tense.
[Have you failed to obtain the necklace?]
I was sure of the owner of the voice.
‘Veron Arthur Devlica.’
that’s the guy
