Chapter 132 – Southern Nobility Council – 1
I could feel the sunlight through the window.
Should I say that after becoming this kind of body, I became more sensitive to feeling the sunlight.
It feels more familiar.
That’s why I don’t sleep late these days, and I tend to wake up refreshed every morning.
“Yes…”
I woke up, but I didn’t want to open my eyes, so I thought about something else, and I hugged it tightly because it felt warm in my arms.
“Leo…”
A soft and chewy feel. Warm body temperature.
His mouth moved at the touch of Irina’s body.
I can’t help but smile without even realizing it.
“Did you sleep well?”
“Yeah…”
As if she was still asleep, she stroked Irina’s hair with a blank voice.
Judging by the internal time, there is still time until the morning meeting.
Let’s stay like this a little longer…
* * *
“Thank you for being here today. Everyone.”
Banquet hall.
While some time had passed since the coming-of-age ceremony, she immediately put people in, cleaned everything up, and set up a conference room.
That seat. She sat down as a representative and looked around the interior that had been turned into a conference room.
Numerous nobles are sitting in their seats.
Those brought by Irina are not qualified.
Qualifications to attend this event must be southern aristocrats. And only those with high titles who were not enough to be representatives of each province, including the capital city.
For example, the Marquis of Greenucci, a nobleman in the capital who has been active as an intermediary for many people for a long time and has built up such a network and reputation.
“There is a lot of interest in the drug found in Müller in the capital as well.”
An elderly gentleman in a quiet meeting room. The voice of the Marquis of Greenucci, suitable for those words, spread.
As the words say, it shows that the interest in medicine made by red blood is not simply a matter of the South, but a matter of the country.
Hearing those words, Count Tote smiled.
There are southern aristocrats who are uncomfortable with the presence of a man called the Southern Beast, who is located at the southernmost tip of the South and is rapidly increasing in power.
Such a rapid expansion of power. War that continues. Now, his position can be said to be precarious.
Still, showing a confident attitude means that his power is just as strong.
“Hmm. Shouldn’t there be real interest? Depending on how good it is, the battlefield will change.”
“Even if it’s not a story about war, can we not ignore the potential of that drug?”
The middle-aged man from the East opened his mouth quietly.
“By the way, if you do something about the side effects of that power, all commoners can have magical powers with extreme stories. Doesn’t that sound like a dangerous power?”
Marquis of Killias. Iron-blooded aristocrats of the East.
Extremely coercive politics. A person who influences all nobles in the East. However, he himself may like the position of ruling the East, and he swears allegiance to the royal family by paying a lot of bribes.
And if you listen to what he is saying now, he seems like an extreme magical supremacist.
“Wouldn’t that be nice too, Marquis Kilias? If there are more people with magical powers, wouldn’t it be that there are more words to write?”
Northern Duke. Archduke Cain of Northern Croches.
A man with dark gray hair and silver eyes.
He was a member of the royal family of the kingdom of Kronis in the north. He became a grand duke due to the war with the kingdom of Brahms, and he became a member of the kingdom.
The broad northern half is his land.
Wow. To think that the famous Grand Duke of the North was coming in person. Should I be taking this issue seriously? However, coming directly… Of course, his age is on the young side, so I heard rumors that his child is still a kid.
But if that’s the case, then there are also those who send trustworthy vassals…
Fortunately, I did not participate in the coming-of-age ceremony. Arriving shortly after the event, he rented a house and stayed there. It only appeared today when the meeting started. In fact, having a man of that level participate is burdensome on our side as well.
He says it as if he has no interest, but judging from the fact that he has come all the way to this place anyway, that’s probably not the case.
In any case, at the words of Archduke Croches, Marquis Kilias frowned.
“Huh. Even if the guys below got magic, wouldn’t it be obvious where to use it? It’s just causing a fuss.”
“… Whoops.”
“What is funny?”
“No. If there is a rebellion, wouldn’t that be the case?”
“What?! Anything with the Grand Duke of the North?!”
Marquis and Grand Duke. Their mild war of nerves.
The last tycoon who watched the conversation between the two, Alina Earth Lane, who was sitting in her seat while wearing a suit similar to her previous one, finally opened her mouth.
“Isn’t that blurring the point?”
“Kuhm.”
At her words, the Marquis gnashed his teeth and turned his head.
Alina Earthlane took one look at the whole thing and then looked at me.
“Drugs are important, but isn’t it the red blood, purple guys that are the problem?”
“Huh. Even so, in the end it was red blood. What would a half-penny without knowledge and wisdom do?”
Oh An aristocrat who looks like a toad.
That guy was there too.
However, when Count Voltron spoke, the atmosphere cooled.
Everyone was looking at him with cold eyes.
“What, what? Did I say something wrong?”
When the bewildered Count Voltron said, Marquis Greenucci shook his head.
Alina Earthlane, who was watching the two of them, smiled and then proceeded with the story.
“There have been rumors that a red blood called Purple is hiding in the manor and conducting human experiments. If there is a problem, this is the first time it has surfaced.”
Following that, the Marquis of Greenucci sighed.
“In fact, in the previous war, they took advantage of the chaos in the kingdom and committed all sorts of atrocities in the name of numerous terrors and revolutions. One of them was a human experiment.”
“Was there any consequences?”
Alina said at my words. Perhaps because it was her public position, she was raising her voice.
“I don’t know for sure. At the time of the war, their strength was only a handful of magical power holders. Whether the organization collapsed before the results came out, or whether the experiment itself went wrong in the first place.”
There were no traces left of the war.
Extreme nobles are said to have even destroyed the village itself, from which rumors of them exist.
There will be no data left.
“However, traces of it are emerging recently. Lord Müller. Could you please tell me?”
“Good.”
At Alina’s words, she happily nodded her head.
It is also my purpose, so there is nothing I will not tell you.
The disgrace of having red blood in the estate? Does fame feed you?
I’m sorry for Triana, but in reality, the Müller family also suffered that disgrace.
“The beginning was that an unpleasant magic began to appear.”
“Unpleasant magic power?”
“Yeah. I can’t say for sure as I have no experience yet… It was an unpleasant magic that felt quite different from that of death or a similar category of magic.”
“Hmm.”
The eyes of the nobles were focused on my words.
Count Voltron, who was making a disapproving expression, also kept his mouth shut this time. No matter how stupid you are, you won’t get in the way of this.
“I will show you this magical power later, and I will give you an outline of the incident.”
Describe the events that are not too long.
“Hmm. Indeed…”
Alina’s voice echoed in the quiet conference room.
“What happened to the last person you captured?”
“I am alive.”
“Hoo.”
At my words, Archduke Croches laughed as if he was having fun.
“Of course it’s not normal.”
Haha.”
I laughed at the words of Archduke Croches.
Obviously.
The man who suffered all sorts of torture is already insane.
Literally just alive.
“Well, I am not killing you. I’d like to know if there’s more information to pick up, but in case you don’t know. Then, when he said that he sometimes comes to his senses, he is not killed or saved in moderation.”
There are southern nobles who frown at my words, but Count Thoth and Archduke Croches are laughing like they’re having fun.
“It should be. Because I dare not let go of the man who ruined other people’s land. Do you like it.”
“Thank you. Your Excellency Archduke Croches.”
“Did you get the information?”
I nodded at Count Thoth’s words.
“I pulled enough to pull out. Chloe.”
“Yeah.”
Chloe, who had been waiting in the corner behind me, appeared with a bundle of papers. After that, a few people line up and hand over the paper to the nobles.
“Hmm.”
No one had a bright expression on their face when they saw what was written on the document. I can’t help it.
Not much useful information.
“Is this really all there is?”
Count Tote threw the document on the desk and looked at me.
I shrug my shoulders at those words.
“They are not in touch with each other, even the executives. Only on a set date, a report is received through the existence of an intermediary, and the mission is performed. After I captured him, of course, all existing contact mechanisms have become obsolete.”
“But still, it’s not at all.”
After the Archduke of Croches spoke softly. A nobleman hit the desk hard.
-Bang!
“Go, you dare to tarnish my honor!”
“It’s dirty.”
Angry man. Baron Larson glared at me, his face red.
“Then how do you write such nonsense!”
“It is only true.”
The only thing that the man, who said that he was the Purple Nine, came from Larson City, the domain of Baron Larson.
“Well, really, Baron Larson. It is an established fact that red blood has spread throughout the southern provinces. Maybe even in my land. You have to think that way from now on.”
“That, however! … Big hmm All right.”
Baron Larson frowned at Count Thoth’s words, glared at me once, and sat down.
Well, I don’t know if he’s related. First of all, it is certain that Nine came from there.
And there’s one more suspicious thing, but I can’t openly say that here…
Talk next time
“Then let me show you the real thing.”
* * *
