Became the Hated Illegitimate Son of the Duke in Romance Fantasy

65 – Episode 65

After arguing for a while, my throat was sharp.

When I left the room, an old man was waiting in front of him with a slightly worried face.

He hands me a glass of water.

After accepting my words, I asked where I should sleep today, and he said that I could use the guest room I used before.

Even if I said that, I didn’t know where it was, so I was able to find my room only after a maid followed me.

Look at the night sky and get a little sentimental.

From now on, everything will be fine, those kind of useless sentiments.

It was a waste of a broken pipe.

He takes out a rolled cigar from his pocket and smokes it, thinking about that.

Even though I think that everything is useless, in a way, the feeling of being relieved takes precedence.

“Now, what should I do?”

There was nothing to do.

In a life that was more gloomy, I became a little happier and more livable, rather, I could die a little more cleanly now.

I’m starting to think that way.

It is said that even patients with depression show signs of getting better little by little compared to when they were severely ill, and then die.

Should I be careful? Maybe I should be careful.

If so, what will happen to Belita?

You will be sad.

That’s enough.

I close the window I was looking at just now.

As I laid down on the bed with my tired body, I fell asleep in no time.

…

“You and your wife quarreled quite hard yesterday.”

“Well, I guess there must have been a lot of anger piled up on each other.”

“Now you even talk back, have you grown up? Or am I lowered?”

“Wouldn’t it be both? It wasn’t the direction I wanted too, but somehow it worked.”

After a light breakfast, I entered the Duke’s office.

Nothing has changed in the room, except for the slightly authoritative feeling of a shield with a seal hanging on the wall.

“I don’t know how the prince was roasted, but you’ll be sitting here soon.

So there’s no need to look around so intently, you’ll soon get bored with the scenery.”

Is the crown prince going to eat this place right away without even looking at it?

“At first, I thought of gathering an army and raising a rebellion.

I don’t know about the soldiers, but the knights are pretty elite crying.

But if you do, it’s only natural that Xenia’s hair will fall off her body.

Beyond being crazy about power, a guy who says things like national prosperity and strong military is the crown prince.”

Hey, I think Xenia is more important than this huge family.

And, no matter how big the principality is, there’s no way it could stand alone against an empire.

But if it was an agreement, what kind of agreement was it?

With yourself stepping out of your seat neatly, and me taking it away?

That doesn’t mean Xenia’s safety is guaranteed.

There must be something else.

I thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to ask the duke directly.

“So, what agreement did you make?”

As if it was difficult for him to speak, the Duke raised his eyebrows and made a slight sigh.

In the first place, it seems like the first time I’ve seen him talk so much and show his emotions.

“After I officially adopt you, I will expel Xenia from her position as successor.

Then again, I’m afraid of how you’ll treat Xenia.

So I had a discussion with the crown prince while talking about the magic tools that came out recently.

They told you to give up marrying her priest and marry Xenia.

Is he also Misty? By adding that she had given up on the woman.”

It’s more petty than I thought.

Did Belita expect this to happen? She

She Or did she think that because she was a commoner, marriage would be pushed aside by someone else?

Maybe it’s both.

Anyway, it’s a marriage with Xenia.

Does that make sense in the first place?

It’s not even the chin-jawed kingdom of the East.

“In the first place, is incestuous marriage allowed?”

“… Yes, there are no restrictions.

The only things that are blocked are marriages like son and mother, daughter and father.

I knew it for the first time after I looked it up.”

Certainly, for a duke or crown prince, it may not be attractive, but it must be a comfortable option.

About 10 years later, Xenia, who may suddenly be inflamed with a lust for power, won’t come to lead the army to blow my head off, and Belita has already given permission, so I hope from the point of view of me as an individual. It may not matter when you see it.

“That’s terrible, isn’t it?”

As the Duke says, he takes out a glass and pours it out to overflowing.

Then he took a cigarette, put it in his mouth, made a little fire with the tip of his finger, and lit it.

After passing the alcohol down, he murmured with his slightly relaxed body.

“It’s terrible. It’s just that the seat I’m sitting in now is terribly out of place.

I should have lived on the family money like his brother.”

“Isn’t it you who brought me to this place? If you hadn’t brought me in the first place, I would have died young there before I even became an adult.”

At that, the duke laughed.

A little bit happy, and a little sad.

“Because my daughter cried.”

Then pour the alcohol one more time and drink it in one go.

At that point, you’re about to collapse.

“Yes, because my child, the only one I love, is sad.”

“Xenia might not like being married to me.”

“I don’t know, Xenia seems to like you quite a bit, so she is.

She’s my daughter, but she’s still a bit lacking in her feelings for the opposite s*x, so why don’t you do something about it?”

It didn’t seem like he didn’t realize his emotions or anything like that.

Perhaps, since this opportunity is no different from entrusting my father’s permission, wouldn’t it be hard to approach him?

“I didn’t do anything for you.

That’s why I don’t ask for anything else, just keep Xenia intact… Why?”

The Duke is talking, but the moment he mentions Xenia, she shuts her mouth and begins to think about it.

He looked so serious that he couldn’t bear to speak to her first.

“Looking at you, there’s not much, and she doesn’t feel anything special when she looks at the child she brought this time, but when she looks at Xenia, how can she be so lovely?”

“That’s right, he’s such a kid.”

At least for you.

Everyone likes Misty no matter what she does, and even non-living things seem to live and breathe and bless Misty.

“That sounds pretty good.

Anyway, there is no way.

The mobilization of the knights was also halfway blocked, and even if we gathered the humans around the city and recruited them, it would almost certainly be swept away by the elite soldiers of His Highness the Crown Prince, and the two magicians went to another town to study, as if they had already received a rough word. He said he would come.”

Anyway, since the imperial power is strong enough to send all the children of nobles to the capital, even if they rebel, most of them will end in failure.

“What do you want to say?”

“I’m begging for my life, just a little bit longer.”

“Then you seem to have succeeded.”

“That’s very fortunate. The business is all over, so let’s go.”

He waved his hand and said.

And before leaving, I asked a question.

“Isn’t the seat you’re sitting in a waste?”

“I don’t think it’s such a waste. The imperial family told me to give it to you.

You don’t have to talk too much, I’ll put a seal on the document and pass it on to my vassals.

Let’s go, or take a carriage and go back to the academy right away.”

With those words, I leave the Duke’s office.

Then, as if Xenia was putting her ear to the door, I saw Xenia with an embarrassed expression in front of me as she fell over.

“Did you hear that?”

“Ugh, hmm. Yeah..”

“What do you think?”

“I… Well, maybe it doesn’t matter. I think I told you the other day.

Other people may point the finger at you, but I don’t care.

Even if you go around with other girls, it’s okay as long as you stay by my side from time to time.”

When I blinked and couldn’t answer my father, Xenia continued to strike.

“If I were to say another woman, it would be someone I know.

Uh, Misty, that gritty priest, and who else?”

“…No more.”

“Then it doesn’t matter.”

“Ha, ha, ha.”

I laughed because I was dumbfounded.

“In the end, I won.”

“To whom?”

“Yeah, I just feel like I won.

No matter who you like more, in the end there is no wife other than me.

Even if that priest gave birth to a child, it would officially be my child?”

“That sounds very troubling.”

And when I laughed, Xenia laughed too.

“Still, it’s something I do as a public figure.

Like my father, secretly and secretly, wouldn’t our children be in trouble like this?

Yesterday, I heard everything fighting with my mother. It was right upstairs.”

“So.”

“At least, I will always like you as much as I do.

Even if you do something you don’t like, unconditionally.”

After saying that, Xenia suddenly pushed her lips together.

When their lips meet, they put on a slightly happy expression and speak lightly from a distance.

“Shall we go to bed?”

In an instant, she started to look like a grown adult from a child who looked like an immature child.