Chapter 330 – 330. The Duchess’ First Struggle (4)
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Patriotic Daily (愛國日報) – September 7, 5001 by the Goddess
[(Shock) The fact that she was a saintess of the time, a concubine of social leaders and a high-class hostess was revealed]
Jedoshinbo – September 7, 5001 by the Goddess Calendar
[(Breaking news) Exclusive acquisition of the prostitution ledger of the saintess. The parties to the sex purchase deny the fact and remain silent]
Maeil Shinmun (每日新聞) – September 7, 5001
[(Comprehensive) It is estimated that there are well over 100 men who have made saint women their mistresses, so they are excommunicated]
Jejejeilshinbo (帝國第一新報) – September 7, 5001 by the Goddess
[(Exclusive) An anonymous sex buyer testifies that the saintess is a lascivious woman with a very perverted sexual orientation]
Hwangseong Newspaper – September 7, 5001 by the Goddess Calendar
[(Comprehensive) Past witnesses of prostitutes presumed to be saints from islanders follow one after another]
Shinseong Daily – September 7, 5001 by the Goddess Calendar
[(Official) Cardinal A, it is true that the saintess acted as her waiter, but due to the saintess’ individual deviation, the church has nothing to do with it]
Sarak, Sarak.
Flutter.
Took.
Jack flips through the daily papers with a displeased expression.
After looking only at the head article, he throws it away.
Daniel was no different from Jack.
When Brother Tennessee felt indescribable discomfort,
Kook-wook, woo-wook.
Click, click!
Whoa!
Woo woo woo.
Bite the pipe at the same time.
No matter how much I’ve used it since I got it as a gift from Monohorn, even the extra ones have a smooth surface.
Right after they published an article exposing Regal’s corruption based on Johnny’s memorandum, they were looking at every newspaper published in the island’s vicinity.
I watched the development of the situation with both nervousness and expectations, but public opinion that condemned Regal’s corruption was not easily formed.
It was because not only the system, but all the public living within the framework of the empire were enthusiastic about the sex scandal of the saint rather than that of the Regal.
“Huh… Regal is in the north, so it must be something from a practitioner like the butler or Chiba.”
“I guess so.”
“It can’t be a very effective response to the point where I’m speechless.”
“I guess so.”
“Rather than focusing on the suspicions related to Regal, the Empire is focusing on verifying the truth of the sex scandal involving the saintess.”
“I guess so.”
“…What do you think, older brother?”
“Nothing yet…”
Brothers are silent.
Only the sound of sucking on the pipe fills the dimly lit room.
“I only burned tobacco in the basement, but the air inside is too thick. Would you like some fresh air?”
“It’s done.”
Swoop.
Jack lies down on the sofa.
He looks up blankly at the smoke he exhaled.
Be silent for a while
How long have you been silent?
“Now that I let out a moderate sigh, let’s think about it.”
Jack proposes to Daniel, just as he is looking up into the sky.
Daniel immediately turns to Jack.
“Brother. I think we should also expose a more provocative scandal involving Regal or Chiba.”
“Based on what? Are you intending to disregard your father’s wishes by exposing lies?”
“…”
Daniel gently turns his head.
Daniel was furious enough to lose his temper when he saw the shocking response from the Whisky family, but the moment Johnny was mentioned, he came to his senses and felt ashamed.
“But the one without the Whiskey family,”
“From what I’ve seen, what they reveal seems to be true.”
“…It’s true that the saintess…”
Daniel’s face turns dark.
He must have really been hoping the scandal was fake.
Not only had I admired her from the beginning, but I had come to admire her even more deeply after she gave her great favor to her brother without any cost from her.
Because of that,
Puddeudeuk.
“Hyung-nim. I mean. I really hate to believe that the saintess committed such, such, promiscuous behavior.”
He was grinding his teeth with a look that looked like he was about to burst into tears.
Jack still doesn’t look at him.
“I understand, what you mean.”
“The saintess is like that,”
“Daniel. You are the horse.”
Jack cuts Daniel off.
Daniel looks at Jack with bloodshot eyes.
“Do you think the saintess sold her body for her own comfort?”
“That… What does that mean?”
“The horse is a mistress and a prostitute, does the saintess really seem like someone who would flirt with men in order to grab power or money?”
“…”
Daniel is silent.
That was the main reason why he couldn’t help but distrust the scandal related to the saintess.
“It’s true. I was just feeling a little puzzled.”
“What do you mean?”
“Isn’t he a person who is close to the pinnacle of the Order? If he had the will, he could have easily grasped everything, whether it be money, power, or military force. He was someone who could enjoy the same authority. How could such a person act like that?”
“…!”
Daniel opens his mouth wide.
Because his rationality had been paralyzed, he seemed to have never even thought of that.
“Isn’t it so strange? Why does a woman open her crotch to a man from a social elite? Why does a man stand up his cock to a woman of a social elite? Isn’t it to parasitize on their vested interests? But a person who lacks nothing sold himself? Isn’t it very strange?”
“That, like that…!”
Daniel can’t speak easily.
He just puckers his mouth, and he expresses the shock he received with his whole body.
“From my point of view, even if it is true that the saintess did such an act, it is highly likely that she was forced to do so inevitably, no, just forcibly.”
“That means that the saintess is just a simple victim who was forcibly mobilized into prostitution, and did not do it voluntarily…?”
“Wouldn’t that be more realistic?”
“This, this profit…!”
Bang, bang!
Daniel bangs his fist on his table.
Even though his fists were hot and bruised, he couldn’t stop the self-torture for a while.
Of course, if the Tennessee brothers knew about Ada’s recent life, they might have been delusional that she might have sold her body because she really wanted it.
But they only know the benevolent and holy figure of Ada, and they have no idea how shy she is and how passionate she is for carnal love.
Such ignorance served as an opportunity to lead their thoughts to the truth.
“Then what should we focus on here?”
“The reason… We must find the reason why the saintess had no choice but to do that!”
“Yes.”
The eyes of the brothers finally meet.
Their eyes were burning with rage.
“Well, if that’s the case. Let’s think about it carefully. Who do you think has enough power to put the saintess into such a situation?”
“Apart from whether or not you’ve done that, you mean let’s start with the possible ones?”
“That’s right.”
Daniel swallows dry saliva.
This is because the weight given by the names of the characters to be discussed in the future was by no means light.
“Broadly speaking, her marquises can be compared to the saintess, or she is slightly superior to him.”
“If it’s pressure from someone with a similar level of power, the saintess will be able to resist it. So let’s limit ourselves to certain people.”
“Then, there are only the emperor, the pope, and the duke. Those three have the ability to force such things on the saintess without any hesitation.”
Hehe. His Majesty, His Holiness, His Highness.”
The brothers laugh bitterly.
Realizing the fact that there is no choice but to mention the giants beyond imagination, her brothers feel anew how enormous the practical power of the saintess is.
“Now, then. If those three people are considered to be able to suppress the saintess. Let’s discuss why they would or couldn’t do such an act.”
“First of all, the emperor. You honestly have no reason to do such a thing. What is it that you regret that you will oppress the saintess and pretend to be with the church, and on what pretext are you trying to interfere with the affairs of the church? If it tries to interfere with the Church, it will also try to interfere in the operation of the Empire again. I don’t know if I can get it.”
“I agree.”
Whoops.
Haha
Side by side, the brothers bite the mouthpiece of the pipe.
Even if that wasn’t the case, the emperor shouldn’t be the target of that attack.
Strictly speaking, it was closer to their true intentions that they did not want to turn the emperor into an enemy.
It was because I didn’t want to fight a fight that was impossible to win in the first place.
Of course, even against Regal or Church, the win rate would be infinitely low, but there was still a fairly large gap between ‘impossible’ and ‘extremely difficult’.
“Excluding His Majesty the Emperor, in the end Regal and the Pope remain…”
“…Can I be honest, brother?”
“I know.”
“I mean. I can’t think of any reason why those two shouldn’t do that to the saintess. And honestly, I don’t know why they shouldn’t.”
“Um…”
Jack casually nods his head.
Even in his judgment, there was some truth in Daniel’s words.
But,
“By the way. Before confirming that the two of them were the perpetrators, I think we need to look at the time when the scandal involving the current saint actually occurred.”
“Ah…”
Daniel nods.
Sarah, Sarah.
Daniel goes through the strewn newspapers.
Among them, he urgently finds a newspaper with the name Jedoshinbo.
Flutter, flutter, flutter, flutter.
Look at the end of the headline.
There, a ledger of prostitution written in someone’s handwriting was openly posted.
Because the original was loaded with only the name of the purchaser of the castle covered, it seemed like it would be easy to find out who wrote it if you did a handwriting appraisal.
Perhaps the person who wrote it himself might have felt a chilling feeling of pressure upon seeing his own handwriting exposed.
No matter who it was, it was only natural that tolerable people would feel great pressure just to be caught up in such a big scandal.
“The year is clearly indicated in the copy of the ledger listed there.”
“Keuheum… It’s been more than 30 years.”
“Yes. Well, then two things become clear. First, at that time, Regal was a fledgling who had not even inherited the title. Second, at that time, the current emperor was the crown prince.”
“The Pope… The Pope must have been the real culprit.”
“I don’t know what it will actually be, but I can say with certainty that it is the most probable? Besides.”
Tup.
Squeak.
Took.
Jack picks up the Shinsung Daily and throws it in front of Daniel.
Daniel’s eyes scan its headline.
Whenever they read the newspaper, their eyes are often stained with sadness.
“Why is this…?”
“Isn’t that strange?”
The new media companies that are now crowded have named similar names to the names of the six major media outlets in the past in order to absorb the subscribers of the old media outlets.
There was also an example of a very clever name, as if claiming to be the successor of the old media company.
Just as Jack inherited Maeil Shinbo, which was the representative, someone publishes a daily newspaper named Maeil Shinmun.
Rai’s Dongjeguk Daily, Jacob Beam’s Hwangseong Jeil Newspaper, Motlak’s Imperial Newspaper, and Ardmore’s Imperial Shinseong Daily all created media outlets with similar names.
However, only Shimin Ilbo, which was represented by Daniel, was not plagiarized.
It seemed that the idea of citizens being the publishers did not suit the tastes of the aristocrats, who were sponsors of media outlets.
“… What do you mean?”
“Hehe. I think of the comrades who left earlier, so my head is completely frozen.”
“…”
Because it was true, Daniel did not bother to refute it.
Jack’s eyes, pointing it out, also looked sad.
“Let’s go. Now is not the time to be sentimental, so let’s honor our comrades with a toast to commemorate them later.”
“Okay, big brother. But what’s wrong?”
“The saintess has been deposed for a long time already. And now the pope has all the real power within the church. So, no one thinks it strange even if they treat them as non-existent or as dark history from before. But why? It is a person who has already disappeared for a long time, but in recent years, he has only appeared once in a video through a magic tool, and has completely disappeared from the system. Did they make an official announcement? Even less than a day after the first article was published.”
“…!”
Daniel opens his mouth wide.
He was shocked several times today.
“Isn’t this, like, what do guys who have something to do with something?”
“That’s what I mean.”
“You might think that I’m rushing to cover up my private parts, but…”
“Is that all? The church has suffered from internal conflict for a long time since it was divided into the saint woman faction and the papacy faction, and even now there are not a few people who draw the saint woman. Ultimately, even if they worship the goddess, in reality, the leader of the church is used as their spiritual support. Believers are common. And it is safe to say that there are as many believers and followers as the pope.”
Daniel nods.
It is because those who regard religious leaders as equal to the objects of faith could easily find them even if they looked around a little.
“Then, from the point of view of a religious leader, it should be obvious that she is still the pope’s formidable rival, so why does the pope seem to want to diminish it by drawing a line, rather than instigating the scandal involving her? “
“It must be that he was afraid that the sparks might fly to the pope.”
“I think so too.”
“…Now it’s hard to even deny that the Pope was the perpetrator…”
The brothers nodded their heads.
They could even have confidence in their reasoning.
“All circumstances and clues point to the fact that the pope was the actual perpetrator.”
“The only thing we can do for her now is to expose the facts and make it known to the whole world that she was nothing more than her victim.”
“…But brother, I have one concern.”
“Something?”
Daniel is silent for a moment.
Whoops, whoops.
Tok, tok.
He was stroking Johnny’s memorandum with his hand.
“If there’s a fight over a different topic like this, whether it’s your father’s will or whatever, in the end, isn’t it going according to the wishes of the Whiscay family?”
“…”
“Because our exposure will be buried in all that.”
“I’ll have to wait a bit for the situation to really come to a head, and then I’ll have to expose it again…”
“… It’s not easy…”
The brothers sigh.
At the same frequency as that, it blows out smoke.
Their pipes showed no signs of cooling.
