A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

161 – Incompetent but Competent, Competent but Crazy (1)

There is a saying called sudden acceleration.

Among devices driven by a magic stone engine, such as the Empire’s magic bike or magic vehicle, this refers to a phenomenon in which the vehicle suddenly jumps forward without the human’s intention.

The term ‘sudden acceleration’ was used throughout the imperial society because the phenomenon of the car body was also a phenomenon, but its meaning was expanded to cases where a person took a sudden action like this.

When a person suddenly acts in an unlikely manner.

Or, if you are a person who normally acts like that, but you act like that in a situation where common sense tells you that you shouldn’t do it.

It is like that now.

“I feel sorry for the person who died, but I can’t help but think about it.”

A knight belonging to the Golden Dawn, the first royal knighthood, was waiting in my room with his soldiers.

“You tried to kill me? Why? A high-ranking knight?”

The level of the knight is high.

Below them, there was a proper mix of middle and low-level people, but they were all familiar with the basic skills of an assassin.

“If it wasn’t for me, he probably would have gotten hit. I would have thought he had a bad leg and attacked him, but if he didn’t move his leg, that would be enough.”

A foot-fighting technique that gives up mobility due to the legs and instead focuses all of its attention on a split-second sword strike.

Among the imperial sword methods, it is one of the martial arts that specializes in ‘sword fighting’, and it was someone’s favorite method in particular.

“If I hadn’t always kept a weapon hidden in my staff, I would have been hit.”

The knife hidden in the staff is specialized for using the Ipheria style sword method, and even though it cut several people, it did not stain a single drop of blood.

“Phew.”

Of course.

When you swing the sword, an aura surrounds the outside, and when you release the aura, blood pours right down.

Pa-ah.

As soon as the aura is released, blood immediately pours down.

Rather than just disarming it, he swings the knife downwards widely and wipes the blood away as if scattering it on the carpet.

“That’s why the Knights of the Golden Dawn attacked me. Did Commander Zeros try to kill me? Well, I don’t know that.”

Looking at the window at dawn, I asked myself questions to come to a conclusion and even made noises unlike usual.

-Talking to yourself is not a bad thing. There is a world of difference between what humans think in their hearts and what they express through words.

Habsburg sometimes said something like that.

-It’s called metacognition. To borrow a word from those who like to use nostrum language, it is called metacognition. That I am aware of the thought that I am aware of myself. By hearing my own voice, I can focus on the content.

Simply put, expression helps you focus.

‘Even if that’s not the case, there is a possibility that a wiretapping device was installed somewhere in this room.’

There was nothing before I left.

However, we cannot rule out the possibility that a person secretly sneaked in using invisibility magic and a listening device was installed in the meantime.

‘How do I do it?’

Should we instill awareness of recognizing and responding to wiretapping devices?

Or will they create a weakness by saying they are not even aware of the concept of a wiretapping device?

‘Why not?’

The crown prince may have already noticed the incompetent king’s magic automatic ship.

The reason Gray Gibraltar handed over the magic automatic ship to Saint Geo was because he noticed the devices inside it.

They said that because they were aware that everything they said around the bike would fall into the Crown Prince’s ears.

‘Or else.’

If that weren’t the case, you’d look like a crazy person talking alone in a space littered with corpses without a wiretapping device, but sometimes that’s not a bad thing.

“Hey. Why did you attack me?”

There is no answer.

It looks like a corpse.

I killed them all in one blow, but sometimes they come back to life even if their heart is stabbed.

A master-level being becomes a vampire, and the moment an aura is lodged in the heart, it puts pressure on the heart and prevents blood from bursting out of the blood vessels.

Or, if precise manipulation of the entire human body is possible even if one is not a vampire, then it is not impossible at all.

The person who actually did it was Naria Geo Nostrum, the future princess of a ruined country.

Unfortunately, it seems they weren’t that good.

“Why is the kingdom’s knight coming to kill me? I am the eldest son of the Earl of Gibraltar.”

A situation that makes no sense in common sense.

However, if you try to think professionally about this extraordinary situation, even though it seems completely unlikely, sometimes it can be true.

“It’s one of two things. Gray Gibraltar’s treasonous act, the work of extreme patriots demanding an apology from ‘Kwisling’ with death.”

In Nostrum, heroism is prevalent.

The heroism is the basic ideology of ‘patriots’ who love their country to an extreme degree and blindly follow loyalty to Nostrum.

A hero should not pursue self-interest, but should dedicate, serve, and sacrifice for the nostrum.

You must put aside your personal feelings and make yourself an emotionless, iron-blooded knight solely for the sake of the country and its people.

Just like my father before returning just before he opened the canyon gate.

Just as it was seen as the hope of the kingdom by everyone.

They hope that he will become a hero who abandons even the love of his family and thinks only of’patriotism’as his purpose in life.

In other words.

“Are you saying this is the work of those who are sad that I fell in love with the granddaughter of Astacia?”

It is the work of a patriot who suddenly took action after seeing Gray Gibraltar fall in love with Astasia von Tersian at Orosol Academy.

“Doesn’t Gray Gibraltar, who is possessed by an imperial woman, care if he dies? Noir Gibraltar, who is the vice president of the Academy and a member of the Kingdom Lovers’ Club, and who is also indifferent to Naria Geo Nostrum , is loyal to the country by taking turns serving as the vice president. Because there is?”

I don’t know if there is only gray, but there are quite a few entities that can replace gray.

But here’s the problem.

“Will my father stay still?”

Will my father really be quiet about the attack on Gray Gibraltar?

The answer to that is-

“I guess you’ll just stay still.”

‘You will go on a rampage.’

Politically negative.

Positivity at home.

“It would be rather disappointing. The poor leg survived the assassination. A b*stard who was possessed by an imperial woman came out of Gibraltar, the guardian family of the Kingdom of Nostrum, so he may have hoped that she would be dealt with by someone else’s hands her.”

Everyone knows this externally.

‘Should I contact Gibraltar right away or do something to calm my father down so he doesn’t go crazy?’

The father of ‘now’ is different.

Perhaps, all the efforts made so far to build up the image of a traitor or a ‘child who gave away’ were in vain, and they immediately went to the rear and asked, ‘Did you send an assassin to my son?’-

-Die.

“…Write.”

No.

It’s not just the person who sent the assassin to me who makes sudden moves, my father also makes quick moves.

‘In the first place, you said that on the day of the declaration of treason, in the presence of a maid.’

A bowl that leaks on the inside, no matter how well you package it to prevent it from leaking on the outside, water will eventually leak out and burst.

The course of action has been decided.

The only thing left to do is to resolve the situation ‘without anyone knowing.’

“It will take a while to burn the body.”

Finally, after quietly saying something that someone might hear.

Pa-ang!

Releases magical energy from the body, and flows magical energy into the eyes to strengthen vision.

‘Ceiling, none. Wall, none. Flowerpot, none. Between books, none.’

Check if there are any magic, magic stones, alchemy, etc. Devices that you may not know about.

‘No, no, no. …There is.’

Just in case, it’s still there.

‘Did you try to install it, but because I came, you ended up drinking an invisibility potion?’

Inside the clothes of the knights I killed.

Bye!

Poke the inside of the knights’ clothes with the tip of the staff.

With the sound of something breaking at the end, a short light flowed out as if the round magic stone was breaking and the magic was dissipating.

“Phew.”

Now.

“You can even use a magic stone that uses wiretapping magic.”

It has become safe enough to even say that there has been a regression.

“What a troublesome person you are.”

I pushed the blunt end of the cane’s handle to the side to open the tip.

“If you don’t mind, I guess I’ll have to show you a magic trick too.”

Click.

“I’m not someone who has removed a corpse once or twice.”

The tip of the cane opened slightly, as if a cover was being opened.

“On average, Noir and Letard produced close to ten corpses a week.”

The interior was so dense that it was difficult to open, and a magic stone that fit tightly like a stopper was pushed out.

“We can’t clean it up like we did then.”

Crackling.

When I held it with my hand and broke it with my grip, gray powder flowed out from inside along with the magic stone powder.

“There is one perfect way to get rid of a corpse.”

Rather than getting rid of the body, there is one way to make it easier to clean up.

“We already showed respect for the dead earlier.”

Tap, tap.

“There’s nothing to be said about a damaging corpse, huh?”

I laid the knights’ corpses flat with my feet and then dropped gray powder on their hearts.

Wiggle.

The moment the gray powder saw into the heart of the corpse.

Flash!

The corpse with black lenses opened its eyes.

Suddenly.

And then I cut off the head of the corpse with its eyes open.

The sticky blood that should have flowed out was sticky like wax and then began to harden. Instead, the blood that had been sprinkled on the carpet began to gather towards the corpse as if it was conscious.

Burr.

A headless vampire is sucking the blood around it.

Just like a mop absorbs sewage.

“Hmm, hmm, hmm~”

Seeing how vampires and ghouls with their heads cut off are able to recover the blood that escaped from their bodies makes me hum as I don’t think I’ll have to worry about wiping the blood splattered on the floor later.

“Ah.”

However, I soon started to get angry.

“If the incompetent king hadn’t made such a sudden move, I could have taken a good nap and gone to sleep.”

The reason why the 1st Knights are attacking and my father is planning to go on a rampage.

“Ha.”

Because the person at the top among patriots sent an assassin to me.

“Saint Geo Nostrum.”

Because of sudden acceleration.

“Who sent the assassin?”

No. 1. The Margrave of Gibraltar secretly wants to get rid of his ugly son.

No.2. Noir could perfectly take over the position of Margrave without his older brother

Number 3. A patriot who cannot sit idly by and see pro-imperialism displayed.

All are plausible, but they are all wrong.

“The Crown Prince of Habsburg is so angry that he wasn’t ‘the first’ to gift me a magical automatic ship that he’s trying to kill me.”

Answer. St. Geo Nostrum.

“Does our incompetent king even think about the repercussions of this?”

Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the intelligence to think about such things.

“Wow, it’s nice to ride it. It’s a portable royal palace. But Your Majesty, why did the Crown Prince of Habsburg choose to give this as his first gift his to Gray Gibraltar instead of to Your Majesty? Oh, that’s right? Are you angry?”

There is no need to look up the information. A question must have been asked by someone who was trying to flatter the Incompetent King at a banquet hall.

“When I think about it, it makes me angry. I think I should kill the arrogant son of Crimson Gibraltar.”

Charlotte’s son?

There is one down, and the daughters are overflowing.

“He’s a drunkard who even tries to kill his own daughter, but I’m afraid they won’t touch him because he’s someone else’s son.”

I’ll say it again.

Our Majesty the King does not have the intelligence to make political engineering judgments about ‘when the attempt to assassinate Gray Gibraltar is discovered’.

Or.

‘You could call it the second belly.’

I, Ria Zionostrum, am only 17 years old, and now he seems to be threatening that if he steps down or dies, there will be disaster on the entire continent.

“I can’t help it.”

If it says it’s a belly slit, she can’t do it herself, but she has no choice but to call someone to do it for her.

“After we collect the vampires’ ashes… “

Saaa.

As the sun shines at dawn, the bodies of the assassins begin to turn to ashes.

“I have no choice but to inform His Majesty the Habsburgs.”