Became the Younger Sister of the Villainous Young Lady 80

Chapter 80 – Richard (1)

After hearing the circumstances explained, Richard trembled with his fists clenched.
He was in such a state of rage that you could tell at a glance.
The twinkle in her eyes made it look like she was going to run away at any moment. However, while feeling the burning anger, I could see that he was holding back.

“Is that, really? Aaron…”

Richard asked.
It was a voice that trembled with anger and disbelief. He said that his brother, his youngest brother, had spread such rumors.
Besides, it was his one and only older brother who ordered it.

“I swear by the name of Chepes. It is true that Edwin instigated it, and it is also true that Aaron spread the rumor.”
“…”

Richard stood in silence for a moment, as if at a loss for words.
It felt as if a heavy burden had been placed on the shoulders of a middle-aged man with clear wrinkles under his eyes.

“Aaron, Aaron… Why is that? What Aaron would gain from doing that… Have you ever been threatened by your older brother… ?”

To be honest, I don’t know why Aaron took the risk of being an outcast.
If he noticed, he would know he was abandoned by Edwin.
Or, he was given something else from Edwin.
Either both.

I thought it was all possible.

“I don’t know either. There must be a reason.”
“Then, as expected, threats—”

It was then.
The shadow shook, and among the crows attached to Aaron and Edwin, the crow that was in charge of watching over Aaron appeared.

“What is going on?”
“It was found in the bedroom of Crown Prince Edwin.”

A note from a crow. You can see at a glance, the security magic that wraps the note in layers.
Instinctively, I felt that the contents of this note would become an important card.

“How did you find it?”
“Prince Aaron had the feeling that he was looking for something with a nervous face, so he sensed something suspicious and found it while searching the prince’s bedroom and Prince Aaron’s bedroom.”

Is it.
I listened to the notes. Richard’s pupils were shaking.

“Richard. As you said, Prince Aaron might have been being threatened.”
“Then…”

Richard’s face brightened. He seemed relieved to hear that his brother might have committed the crime not of his own will, but under duress.
But.

“I need to check what the material to be threatened is.”

I put my hand on the note. A crack, a bolt of lightning. I ignored it lightly and checked the security magic engraved on the note.

“The level is quite high.”

Even if he couldn’t do it, it was a level created by a high-class manpower of the level of a court magician who poured time and effort into it.
At this rate, it was much more secure than the safe of a decent nobleman’s mansion.

It seems that this was helped by a person of the level of a court mage.

I started to get more and more curious about the contents inside.

At the level of a moderate wizard, it was to the point that I couldn’t even count the number of security magic on the note.

But.
Even that, if you apply it with [Dissolution]-Enchanted magic, it loses its effect and is scattered with magic.

After easily dismantling the note’s security magic, I grabbed the cover.

“Look at the contents.”

Open the notebook
Both Iris, who was standing next to me, and Richard, who was worried about her brother, poked their heads at her and read the contents of the notebook together.

“Under.”
“…”

I laughed out loud, and Iris and Richard kept their mouths shut.
Turn the page No matter how many pages you turn, the ugly secrets hidden by Aaron never end.

“I also did drugs.”

Tsk.
I clicked my tongue. It looks like some kind of ledger.

Still, if it’s a drug, it’s a drug. Empires and holy kingdoms strictly forbid it, but it’s not like there aren’t people who secretly use it secretly.

If the fact that the prince did drugs spreads, of course the image he has built up to now will hit the bottom, but it was ambiguous to punish Aaron, the prince as well.

But.

“This, this…”

The problem is different if human trafficking is also involved.
Richard’s eyes widened, and Iris covered her mouth with the palm of her hand.

I smiled.

Because of this, Edwin must have made a fuss. If you’re going to keep a ledger like this, don’t go unnoticed. How did Edwin get caught and take it away?

“Pedophilia, necrophilia. It is also a problem to expose this.”

Covered the note. There was nothing more to see. When I saw it, it was even disgusting.

Even if he was a prince who could avoid severe punishment, whether he did drugs or killed people, he bought a child from behind and killed it, and then sold the corpse after spending some time.

Besides, the opponent…

“You were doing something funny.”

I never thought the name of Nosferatu would come from here.

At this point, it was rather scary to deal with the backlash that would come later after revealing it.

To think this was the back setting that didn’t appear in the game.

“What are you going to do, Richard? As you said, it seems that Aaron was threatened by Edwin.”

At my question, Richard closed his eyes tightly. What terrible imagination he was dreaming of, his closed lips were torn and blood trickled down.

Anger, a sense of justice, and sadness clung to him, and Richard spoke as if forcibly squeezing them out.
Both eyes seemed to shine brightly.

“I am… , If even the foolish me believes in me, I will punish Aaron. Absolutely.”

I nodded.

*

Next day.

In front of everyone in the imperial palace, Richard approached Aaron.

“Aaron.”
“Ah, brother. Are you taking a break from training today? People should also take a break and train…”

Looking at Aaron, who deftly continued his answer, Richard gnashed his teeth slightly. Even now, while rumors were spreading that Aaron had connived with Iris, his attitude of acting as if he had nothing to do with such a thing with a rather calm face aroused Richard’s contempt.

To think of this guy as a younger brother until now.

“Older brother. So what happened today…”
“It’s a duel.”

Took.
Richard took off his glove and threw it at Aaron.
The glove that hit Aaron’s chest fell to the floor without strength.

For a moment, silence fell. Everyone was watching this scene with bated breath.

“Older brother… ?”

The eyes of Richard, who was spitting out words one by one with a distorted face in agony, glared at Aaron in bewilderment.

“Your sins… You know Raise your sword.”
“Older brother… !”

Aaron exclaimed urgently.

“Why, why! A duel! My brother and I… !”
“Are you really saying you don’t know!”

At the angry cry of the 2nd prince, who usually only showed everyone a smile, everyone who watched began to hum.

“His Highness Richard challenged His Highness Aaron to a duel… ?”
“Not anyone else, but His Highness Richard… ?”

So, did His Highness Aaron really do something?
Highness Aaron was the one who conspired against Highness Iris?

Such awareness gradually spreads.

For that reason, Scarlett chose Richard.

The most trusted prince.
Unlike Crown Prince Edwin, who has been devoted to politics and networking after becoming the crown prince, he has never let go of his sword even for a day as he is over forty.

So, is he talented? If asked, he was born with a talent inferior to Edwin.

He often laughed and said to the knights who train with him.

“It is possible that the younger brother is worse than the older brother. I’m not ashamed of being weaker than my older brother. I will just keep trying.”

Although he is less talented than anyone else, he is neither jealous nor envious of the youngest child Iris, who is gifted with more talent than anyone else, and is rather worried that he will be tormented by the envy and jealousy of those around him.

Since it was Richard’s words, everyone listened to him.

Scarlett watched the scene and nodded her head.

‘This is the end for Aaron.’

In order to see what Edwin would react to in this situation, I slightly turned my eyes to see Edwin. His expression did not change on the outside, but Scarlett knew it.

Edwin was taken aback when he confirmed that Aaron’s ledger, which was a tool used to manipulate Aaron last night, had disappeared from his bedroom.

Apparently, Aaron wasn’t told that the ledger was gone, of course.

‘Since they’re cornered, they’ll soon reveal their teeth.’

A cornered mouse bites even a cat. Not to mention Edwin, the crown prince of the empire. He must have a hidden number.

Things are different from yesterday. As long as the ledger was in Edwin’s hands, there was nothing wrong with abandoning Aaron. Because Aaron can’t betray Edwin anyway.

It is more fatal for Aaron to leak even one of the contents written in the ledger than to say that he simply spread rumors that disparage Iris. I have no choice but to shut her mouth.

However, the ledger she used to control Aaron ended up in Scarlett’s hands.

Aaron’s downfall also poses a threat to Edwin.
Aaron, who has caught everything, might try to bring Edwin down.

‘How will it come out?’

There was no corner to guess.

So, Scarlett decided to wait even longer.

On this occasion, to uproot quite a bit.