The Survival Strategy of the Contract Duchess - Chapter 119

Beside Duke Ignote, the sword that protected the empire, one woman seemed to float like a solitary island. Moreover, she hadn’t been properly seen much after that.

That woman, with the name Ivern, was a woman who remained unknown due to her illness. But the woman now confidently speaking beside Kyler seemed like a completely different person.

“Is that really the person who was sick?”

“I mean, how could someone who was so sick they couldn’t even make their name known get so much better?”

“And even though their sick daughter did something so praiseworthy, both the Marquis and his wife didn’t attend.”

And her appearance naturally turned into suspicion towards the Marquis.

But Sasha, who had started her own story first, wasn’t paying attention to their stories. In fact, Marquis Ivern was no longer on her mind. At first, she wanted to maintain some connection because they were her parents in this body, and frankly, she missed them.

But Ivern, who had allowed her mental independence so carelessly, even drove her body to death without a second thought.

She didn’t know the details, but if she had to guess, it was probably to hide the reason why they had to confine her in the house.

Geranel wasn’t wanted as a criminal organization, but it had long lost its meaning and had almost become a front for rebels, so the name of its leader was contrary to the righteous image of ‘Ivern’ that he had built up.

“Thus, I have found the reason why monsters have consistently appeared in the mountains for hundreds of years. Although the reason has not been properly dealt with, the monsters have opened a path to return to their own world, so monsters will no longer appear beyond the mountains.”

Her words, which concluded decisively, were so confident that no one could object.

And Sasha, having finished speaking, stepped back slightly and stood behind Kyler. She spoke her mind properly when it was her turn to do her job, and even the way she went behind Kyler as soon as she finished her part felt reassuring.

“Duke Ignot, who has always worked hard for the empire, has suffered for years protecting the empire from monsters, and it is fortunate that the monster problem can be solved with the wit of the Duchess. From the imperial family’s point of view, Duke Ignote deserves to be rewarded, so I will allow him to demand anything commensurate with his achievements. I believe there will be no objections.”

And the next to step forward was surprisingly Empress Midiena.

When she was with Kyler, whether it was a formal occasion or anywhere else, she was so focused on him that she couldn’t even look elsewhere, so even though she didn’t say anything or step forward, the nobles knew where her heart was, and they were uneasy or secretly despised her.

They didn’t like the Empress’s childish side, which couldn’t control her own heart and revealed it. However, they didn’t cause any problems with it, so there was nothing to criticize.

But if it went on a little longer, they could gradually pressure the Emperor for the sake of the imperial family’s dignity. Everyone was waiting for that.

But what on earth happened during the month without a meeting?

It was as if the Duchess, who had shown her wit and saved Kyler from being tormented by monsters, had even made the Empress, who had been eroding the authority of the imperial family by adoring him, come to her senses.

“We cannot object to the imperial family’s grace. We also express our infinite gratitude to the Ignote estate for their gratitude.”

Count Heridi, the most senior member of the noble council, stepped forward on behalf of the audience and bowed to them on the platform.

As he stepped forward first, everyone bowed their heads.

“Then first, I have something to say.”

Kyler, who had been standing like a heavy pillar until now, spoke to the Emperor. His voice was not loud, but at the same time as Kyler’s voice echoed, not even the sound of clothes rustling could be heard in the hall.

“The leader of Geranel, who drove the monsters that could only stay in the mountains to the outside and made them more ferocious, please punish him according to the laws of the empire.”

He could have punished him himself, but he decided to let go of what complicated him.

Sasha’s influence was the biggest factor in that as well.

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“Excuse me? Marquis Ivern?”

After finishing the monster business and bringing up the story about him, Kyler had said it with a solemn heart, thinking he could do anything.

Even if what she wanted was their death.

If he couldn’t reveal his identity in the imperial palace or be executed for it, he even thought about sneaking into the Marquis’s residence at night.

But her solemnity was instantly melted away by her nonchalant reaction.

Rather, she looked at him with wide eyes, as if it was an unexpected story.

“Don’t you hate them?”

It seemed like a lot of emotions were contained in the short question.

Kyler hated them. He had experienced trauma, lost a lot, and gained a lot because of his love for his parents, who loved their children so much that they threw themselves in front of monsters to save him.

Even with the memory of these loving parents, he went through difficult things and collapsed, but they seemed to have taken away the love and learning that should have been basic for Sasha, let alone give it to her.

He learned through the woman in front of him that he was a person with so much emotion overflowing inside, even though it wasn’t expressed but Sasha didn’t seem to care much about her own affairs.

“It’s not that I don’t hate them, it’s just. I don’t want to care. If they abandoned me, then let’s just say I was abandoned. I won’t miss them at all.”

Kyler was so amazed by her cutting it off so cleanly that he stared at her blankly for a while.

“Is it weird?”

Sasha, reading his expression, smiled slightly embarrassedly and asked. Kyler couldn’t nod or shake his head.

“If the monsters disappear, it will be good for Kyler in the future, so I could worry together and go back and forth while riding on the monsters’ backs and facing the cold wind of the mountains. But, the time itself to worry and get upset about doing something to them. I hate it. It’s a waste.”

As soon as the monster business was over, she began to bury herself in the library and devour all kinds of books. As if she had a grudge. That day was the same. She had two large magic books stacked on her right and was looking at an ancient magic book spread out on the table.

Kyler also enjoyed reading books, but not to this extent, so he was amazed by her.

“It’s not weird. I feel the same way. I’ll do whatever Sasha wants to do. You don’t want to care, right?”

She liked Kyler’s voice, which spoke gently in a monotonous voice. She turned her gaze, which had been glancing at the desk, and pulled Kyler’s hand, who was standing next to her.

As he bent down, she gave him a warm kiss on the lips and smiled brightly.

“I’m also learning what I can do as the Duchess right now, and I want to find a way to block the hole where the monsters come and go. I want to read a lot of books in this library and I want to spend a lot of time with Kyler. If they don’t bother me, I don’t want to waste my time doing things related to them.”

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And Kyler was determined to carry out the clear preconditions she had given him.

“The leader of Geranel? Ah, yes. The imperial family has been thinking about him repeatedly. It was an agenda that often came up in the noble council when the movements of monsters or rebellions became severe. But…”

Lydian, while sitting, slightly agreed with Kyler’s words and turned his gaze to the hall. The women who had come to enjoy the banquet were exchanging glances with each other in a daze, and the men were nodding their heads in agreement with the Emperor’s words.

“Geranel, as Your Majesty said, is a group that we have been aiming for for a long time. They lost the meaning of their initial formation a long time ago, and even used the handling of monsters to incite rebels. If they have done such things in addition to simply moving monsters, there is no room for objection to punishing them.”

Count Heridi stepped forward once more and summarized his position and conveyed it. His position was often regarded as the opinion of almost the entire noble council, and in fact, everyone was nodding their heads.

“But, who is the leader of Geranel?”

And that, which everyone was most curious about, burst out from somewhere in the crowd.

Lydian grinned. Thanks to Kyler’s words, which only brought up the necessary words simply, the nobles were directly making statements that drove the leader of Geranel into a corner.

If they had revealed who it was first, voices would have come out first, saying that the person was not the actual leader, that Geranel was not such a bad group, or that they should reduce the sentence.

He didn’t think Kyler intended it, but you never know. Because Lydian had seen the passion for Sasha Ignote burning hotly inside him, he was thinking that there might be something inside him that he didn’t know.

“We need to know who it is to punish them. Isn’t it a secret place where we don’t even know how the position of leader is passed on?”

Kyler suddenly cast his gaze towards the place where the voice containing worry was carefully coming out.

“The current leader of Geranel is Marquis Meyer Ivern. That man.”

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