Save 14 - Despicable Woman

The morning after the last day of the school festival I got a letter, it was from Airi, she said she wanted to meet me in the cafeteria of the boys' dormitory.

For some strange reason the boys couldn't go into the girls', but the girls could go into the boys', what an absurd world this was.

"If she wrote this, it must be for something, I better not keep her waiting."

"Ixion, let's go to the cafeteria."

The strange sphere with floating arms, was at my side reading the letter.

"Master, put on some pants before you leave."

I looked down and he was in his underwear.

"Teehee, sorry."

I gave him a strange gesture like those girls on teen shows.

Ixion gave me a cold stare and disappeared.

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Frey was outside the boys' dormitory in white uniform, he was sitting and at a table playing shogi alone.

He was very sad because of his defeat yesterday with Rudel.

He was so shattered that he was losing often, it being to himself that he was losing to.

"My head keeps thinking about the defeats against Bradford, I really am someone so pitiful."

Frey made one awkward move after another, when it was the opponent's turn, he stopped moving.

"Maybe I should stop following in my father's footsteps... if I lost to a nobody twice it means I'm weaker than I look."

Frey was drowning in his own mental weakness, losing to Rudel left him in that state.

Suddenly, someone moved the piece that was the opponent's turn.

Frey turned his gaze to the board, more precisely the hand that did it.

(It's a small hand, it must be a girl's... although it's too small for a girl.)

Frey didn't look at the person's face, he just moved his piece, the mystery person playing the opponent moved his piece after taking his time.

Frey showed a little interest in that move now, he raised his eyes a little and observed the black colored uniform on her.

Again it was his turn.

This time he made a stronger move, after a while, he thought the girl had given up, but she made a move on the same level as him.

This time he almost lifted his face higher, he was looking at the girl's lips.

Noticing that he was looking at her, the girl spoke.

"You seem to be slowly regaining your enthusiasm don't you?"

Frey raised her eyebrows at that comment.

"I heard what happened yesterday, I don't think you lost because that guy was more skilled than you."

"...He thought, he cheated."

At her ignorant comment, he replied.

"It's impossible, the board responds because of the magic power sent to it, something like that is impossible to think about."

Frey knew that cheating was impossible, but the girl's next comment made his brain and hands stop for an instant.

"It's possible, that guy possesses scarce amount of magic power, yesterday some girls saw that in a shooting stand, he couldn't shoot the bullets, even someone with low magic power can, but that guy not a single one made it."

Those words made Frey break out in a cold sweat.

"The board responds to magic power, if that guy doesn't possess even the slightest bit to move his pieces..."

Frey suddenly changed his gaze to a serious one.

(Come to think of it, that boy had a missing item, maybe he has something that can alter the board?)

He moved his next piece managing to eliminate the opponent's general.

Frey's eyes widened as he noticed how effortlessly he managed a victory.

"You seem to be better now, with your permission I'll go have breakfast."

The girl stood up bowing in respect as she ran off.

Frey could only notice from a distance how her zucchini-like orange hair shook as she ran.

After watching her run he could only say something.

"Was she an angel perchance?"

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I had arrived at the boys' dining room, at one of the tables away from the center I found Airi, she had her head bent down looking at the table.

There wasn't a plate of food or anything, the girls could eat here too, but it didn't matter to the supervisors that.

I walked over with a cup of coffee I bought for myself, but she seemed to need it more.

"Good morning, did you have breakfast already or were you waiting for me, haha."

I made an innocent joke, but there was no response, I sat down and this time I asked her seriously.

"What's wrong?"

Airi slightly raised her head and looked at me, her eyes were red from crying a lot. She spoke to me in a sad tone.

"Good morning, Rudel-san, I'm very sorry to call you at this hour, but I got this last night."

Airi took out a letter from his pocket, it was a little crumpled, he stretched out his hand and I took it. After unfolding the letter, I read its contents.

My face made a shocked expression the more I read it.

"Airi this is serious; your island is under attack!!!"

She still looked sad, but I understood her.

The summarized content was that the village, her home island, was under attack by pirates, air bandits. I once wondered why they were called that, but it was just my head asking obvious things and not absurd as they seemed.

But this is very serious. I ran into them once and they almost killed me, so I understand their discomfort.

It seems that the feudal lord who administers the island of Airi, is a guy who doesn't care about his vassals.

Damn scum.

She still had her head down so I gave her words of encouragement.

"Don't worry, I'll immediately request permission from the palace to go to someone else's territory and from the adventurer's guild so I can gather reinforcements. Although I alone can do all that, but I don't want to cause trouble for the locals."

I did my best smile with this scary face so she wouldn't feel distressed for her village.

Airi lifted her face to look at me, she really looked bad so I hurriedly said goodbye to head off to do the paperwork.

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Airi saw Rudel say the one thing that could only worsen her mood.

Her head filled with troubling thoughts.

(Why did you just agree to it like that?)

(Can't you see it's my handwriting?)

(The paper is crumpled, the handwriting is smudged and smeared with tears...)

(Why you don't realize there's something wrong there!)

While she was having various sad thoughts, there was someone who heard what Rudel said, his hair was red with black roots, that person was almost two meters tall and very stocky. He walked out of there with a smile on his face.

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Meanwhile at the Royal Palace of Altfode. Liam, had gone to visit his mother on a personal matter.

In an elegant room with decorative ornaments, tables with white tablecloths embroidered with gold, were two people chatting while one of them was drinking tea.

"Liam, may I ask what you are doing here when you should be in class?"

A beautiful woman with ash blonde hair asked him, unlike what she wore yesterday, today, she had her hair up with a big curl on the left side, this time she was wearing a dress worthy of a queen.

While the boy next to her, who was her son, wore the usual school uniform.

He had come to her home, that is, the Royal Palace.

He had a few things to ask his mother, but there was one question he most wanted to know her answer to.

The boy stared at his mother who was elegantly sipping her cup of tea.

"Mother, may I know exactly what happened with Bradford yesterday?"

The queen finished her sip, after setting the cup down on her plate she stared at her son.

"What nonsense are you talking, I went to meet the baron in person a little, I wanted to know what kind of man he was in person to understand his actions a little."

"I'm not upset with him for hitting you, but as a mother, I was a little upset by his criticisms of you, even though they were true, still, it was still a little personal my eagerness to meet him."

Liam's mother, was telling her own son that she approved of a guy beating him up, of course he would be angry, but that wasn't what Liam wanted to know.

"Mother, that's not what I want to know."

Liam stared at his mother, she wondered what he meant, he grabbed a buttered sandwich and when he was about to take a bite....

"What I want to know is what happened between you and Bradford."

...Liam froze her.

With a quivering face, the queen, Lecia, looked at her son as if she had been caught in an act of infidelity.

"M-my son, what are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about what you and Bradford talked about yesterday, a servant girl let slip when I questioned her. About you turning red when you talked to him."

Lecia immediately remembered what happened yesterday with Rudel, he as a young man the same age as her son, had said unimaginable obscene things to her.

Such an act would be considered bad enough, to send him and his whole family to the gallows.

But she said nothing, the reason being something she herself could not fathom.

She was very fond of adult romance novels.

One day, she was reading one like any other day until that happened....

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It was a couple of years ago when Liam was still a kid.

Lecia, was in her personal room reading as usual a romance novel.

She had a low table where she had her cup of tea and teapot ready.

Everything seemed normal until suddenly, Lecia made a strange sound.

"E-eehh!!!?"

For some reason she quickly threw the book down.

"W-what was that!!!?"

On one of the pages that was visible from the book, there was a context that made her feel uncomfortable.

She was red in the face from what she read.

"Everything was fine, the man left home to work in the fields and the wife was preparing the food."

"There was nothing unusual about that."

"But why, Fillia!!! You loved your husband Caules, didn't you, because you decided to go to Duke Bronson's house!!!"

"You had wonderful children like Reines and Romani... because you decided to leave your family for carnal desire!!!"

Lecia, was a lover of romantic stories, but the book she was reading was one about a farm girl's desire for adultery.

She thought that something like that was very normal in the life of commoners, such a feeling made her nauseous, but....

Despite what she read, she was curious about how the book ended.

After a few times of taking her hand off the book on the floor, she picked it up and left it on her personal bookshelf.

The next morning she plucked up the courage and read the book, but immediately closed it after a few pages, not even a third of the way through the book.

Weeks... months went by and she slowly read the book until she reached the end.

When she reached the climax Lecia's face turned red, but not with shame, but with happiness.

Apparently the woman had been forgiven by her husband and they lived their happy days, but... the immoral feeling still remained in her.

She was happy since the farmer returned to her family, but she was bothered by the fact of what she did, in her head such an act was despicable and dirty.

She thought.

(Such an act is unforgivable, I would never do that).

That was her feeling.

That was what her heart was saying.

But...

Currently she has a strange uncomfortable feeling in her heart related to a man, no. A boy the same age as her son one should say.

A country baron by the name of Rudel van Bradford.

Yesterday she had gone to the Royal Academy of the realm to chat with him.

But something strange happened.

She asked him if there were any girls of interest to him.

But the answer left her mortified.

It was the first time in her life that something so ridiculous had been heard.

Normally, such an act would be enough to send him to the gallows.

But she treated it as a joke thanks to Alisa's trust in him.

All that was on her mind at the moment, it was also the first time someone had indirectly told her that they wanted her.

She wondered, if this was what the farmer's wife felt.

"Mother!"

At the sound of her son's voice, she stopped daydreaming.

She blurted out a silly "What's wrong!"

Liam, looked at her quizzically. She asked her question again.

"Mother, what happened yesterday between you and Bradford?"

Lecia was looking at him with a nervous look on her face, she knows nothing happened, but she had a lump in her throat for some reason.

"Did you..."

Her son's words made her heart pound harder than ever.

"You were..."

She felt her heart pounding like an engine at full speed.

She thought for some reason that her life would end if her son said those unpronounceable words.

"Intimidated by that guy, aren't you?"

"I didn't commit adultery!!!"

They both spoke at the same time.

But Liam, couldn't hear what she said as his thoughts were focused on his mother being bullied by Rudel.

"Mother, I didn't hear what you said, could you repeat it?"

She having stood up to declare her innocence, sat up quickly at the questioning face of her son.

Her face was so red that she didn't know what was happening to her.

'"I-it's nothing..."

Liam stared at her and looked sure of something.

(I knew it, that scoundrel Bradford, he bullied my mother with some of his cheap tricks!)

The prince had no idea that his mother had awakened an innocent fetish about adultery.

Someone knocked on the door after an overwhelming silence.

The queen quickly returned to her composure and in a still silly voice said "a-go ahead!!!"

A servant entered the room after bowing to both members of the royal family.

Lecia shifted her nerve stricken look to her serious working side.

"Do you need anything from me or my son?"

The servant shook his head.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry to disturb you, but this is something I wanted to notify you of since you are the only one with the authority right now to approve this."

"Approve what exactly?"

He pulled out a form and handed it to the queen.

Upon seeing the name of the applicant, Lecia, she made a shocked expression.

"Mother, what is it?"

Liam asked curiously and his mother, with a smile as if she was planning something, replies.

"A request for permission has come from Baron Bradford for reinforcements, he wants to go to a feudal lord's territory to support with the subjugation of pirates."

"Pirates!!! You say?"

Liam screamed like a child knowing he would be going to a sweet shop.

He wanted to ask permission to go, but remembered who requested backup was Rudel.

Liam hated Rudel for calling him dumb, manipulative and then prince stupid.

He hated being treated like a child, but the person who said all that and didn't get a scolding was Rudel.

Liam annoyed, asked his mother who looked at the form with a face that said she found a discount offer.

"We will use this opportunity to find out if the baron is a man who can be of use to the Kingdom."

He signed the form for approval.

"Make sure the members are people who are inexperienced and unprofessional, I want to know what he will do to solve this problem."

Lecia was the Queen of Altfode, in the game she did not exist, there were only vague mentions of her. Her nickname in the game was the reason she never came out.

The Shadow Queen.

With that name given in the game, she was thought to be a horrible and manipulative woman, she also put buts on Liam's motives for making Airi his wife.

Her setting was just mentions, so, in this fantasy world, she only had her nickname, her personality was a mystery.

Between mumbles she murmured.

"Baron Bradford, I hope that like his tongue, his power is just as blunt as his words."

Liam looked at his mother, but he didn't miss anything. Instead, the servant felt sorry for Rudel as the queen had turned her eye on him.

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In a dark place in a seedy bar.

There were two hooded figures.

One of them handed him a large leather bag, when the hooded man opened it, he made a horrible expression of happiness, his wrinkled and ugly face showed his yellow teeth that were missing several front teeth.

The bag contained about one hundred gold coins.

Putting the bag away, the ugly hooded man said very happily to the mystery man.

"The payment was successfully made, I will stop by to tell my captain about tomorrow's plan. It's a pleasure doing business with you, kakaka."

Letting out that rare laugh, the hooded man walked out after paying the ugly man for a beer.

Not before saying a few words to him.

"If they fail, you know what will happen to them don't you?"

After taking a big sip and belching, the ugly man made a smile, he had beer foam in his mouth which he spat out as he spoke.

"Don't worry, we [Bluebeard pirates] always successfully accomplish our assassination missions."

The hooded man made a smile upon hearing that. He walked out of that seedy bar.

At the top there was a group of gentlemen standing guard.

One of them noticed someone coming out of the subway floor of a cellar.

He drew his sword, but the hooded person knew that would happen so he took off his hood and a fake beard he had.

The soldier saw that and immediately apologized.

"I-I'm so sorry, Rossini ojou-sama!!!! I didn't recognize her."

The man, no, rather the girl who had disguised herself, said to the soldier after telling a servant to take off her clothes.

"Of course you mustn't recognize me you imbecile, I'd get in a lot of trouble if that happened."

After the servant removed all her clothes, the servant brought her a new change to hide the fact that she was in her underwear.

As she was being dressed, the girl talked to herself without caring if the soldiers and servants heard.

"I have carried out exactly what you have been planning for weeks my lord, with this you. Klein von Kingsfort, you will be able to take revenge on that scum Bradford."

On that night, a Machiavellian plan to assassinate Rudel using Airi had been officially established.

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Just as I had said, the permit application had taken a whole day to be ready.

In all that day that I missed classes, I had to apply for several permits at the port, normally this would be only if you had several ships at your disposal.

But in my case it was different, my airship by the name of Brunhilde. It was anchored in the port, its length is four hundred meters, it is the ship that Ixion manages.

I had to tell her to make an external and internal visual camouflage so as not to arouse suspicion.

My friends, Alisa and Airi, became anxious several times to see that everything was made of steel and metal.

For me it was no problem, but for the others it was.

Ixion was annoyed at having to use camouflage and paint.

But the result is better than expected.

It looked like an old luxury cruiser, it had several hot air balloons on the ends to simulate regulating the wind or something like that.

On the hull it had several propellers to simulate flight, it had a blimp even on top, the guns and other weapons was so well hidden leaving only two side guns in sight to show that it was a warship and not a passenger cruiser.

I felt proud as if I had done it myself, but....

The problem was the front part, the bow, I felt he did it on purpose to mess with me.

There was something like the head of a golden dragon that seemed to spit fire, the stern part had something similar to a dragon's tail and on the sides, as if they were limbs, there were two large folding wings which moved with the wind.

(I really want to hit it and turn it into a trash can).

While I was cursing Ixion in my head, someone approached me, it was supposed to be Airi or the reinforcements I requested....

"What the hell are you doing here!!!?"

...But it was just a red head and several other colors.

The person I was glaring at was one of the idiots I defeated in interschool, one of the stupid prince's friends.

"Chrome!!!"

"I'm Chlust!!!"

"Like I'd care if you were Clamp even."

The red head had come with a dozen other boys and girls with him, not counting him they would be equal halves. They were all wearing combat uniforms worthy of adventurers which made me think wrong.

"W-why are you here?" I asked him in fright.

How he was so much taller than me, he looked down on me from above, I hated it when people do that. I cursed a little at my short height that barely reached his muscular, stupid chest.

Without much enthusiasm, he responded by averting his gaze from me.

"I wanted to test my strength outside the academy, after my defeat to you, my father beat me up."

I thought he wanted to take revenge on me after saying that?

"So I thought, this was an opportunity for it. I didn't imagine that you were the applicant for reinforcements."

...But I was only annoyed by his obvious lie.

(You think I didn't notice you in the cafeteria? Who wouldn't notice a giant red ape eating so many big steaks in the morning!)

I wanted to tell them to leave, but if they're here, it means no one else accepted my request, I felt a little disappointed and annoyed.

"What are they doing here?"

I understand him being here, but what about the rest of the riff-raff?

"They are future knights of my house, they came from the military academy after informing them that I needed a minimum number of people to let me accept the mission."

(Because you call it a mission, this isn't a video game big giant muscle...)

I wanted to get rid of them, but if they were accepted by the guild I can't do anything.

Then I could see a silhouette in the crowd.

It was Airi, who came without luggage and only in uniform. He looked a little wrinkled and his hair was disheveled.

The care of a commoner girl must be scarce, I should tell Ixion that I prepared some feminine hair care items.

I raised my hand to get her attention and inadvertently my mouth made a smile. The group of nuisances noticed it, but I didn't give them any importance.

Airi raised her head and after looking at me, her expression became stiff and shaky, it must be because of these pests.

As she came towards me, I greeted her and she asked me what was going on here.

"These guys are our reinforcements, I was expecting more capable or useful people than this bunch of trash."

The trash gave me a dirty look as I called them trash, sorry, but they are trash. I'm sure they were allowed to come because their families or someone inside the palace, called this a game where they can gain experience, but my experience with pirates says that you guys are too cocky about your abilities against bandits.

Those bastards will kill you if you give them the slightest chance, I remembered what I experienced before I found Ixion.

After giving them a pouty face, I grabbed Airi's hand and we walked to the reclining ladder to go up, just then I told them they could go up, but I will not allow my robots to carry their stuff.

They reluctantly agreed, after me and Airi climbed up, the others did too.

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Before Brunhilde left the harbor, a strange insect, no, it was a black thing with red wings flew near the airship.

By the time it set sail it had attached itself to the hull, the creature moved slowly to the center, where it began to dwarf until it looked like a long, thin parasite, pierced the hull and climbed up who knows where.

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It had taken a whole day, but Alisa, having finally arrived at the academy, went to consult with her father to solve the problem Rudel had caused.

After being on hold for a whole day, the problem had calmed down it seemed.

Alisa was very happy. Before entering the academy, she had gone to buy some sweets at a pastry shop where they went when they dragged Rudel.

She had sweet pastries, sweet and sour, and a bitter one for Rudel as punishment, but she also had an extra one that was very soft, after making him make a distressed face.

First, he would head to the girls' dorm to talk to Airi about what happened to apologize.

Her apologies were for not being there for her, she also thought like Airi, her friend, a commoner. She had become an irreplaceable person for her life.

As she walked around thinking of what to say as apologies, some girls tried to talk to her, but Alisa simply ignored them as she wasn't interested in what they were saying.

Arriving at the door of Airi's room, she knocked on the door, by this time she should be available after returning from breakfast.

She knocked again but no one answered, she thought she had gone out when her eyes met the door knob poorly closed, Alisa inadvertently decided to open the door, not without first asking permission.

"Are you here, Airi? Your doorknob was-"

Opening the door Alisa got a horrible surprise, she dropped the cover with colored candies, they all crashed on the floor.

In Airi's room, there were obvious signs that someone trashed this place, there were her underwear and her tattered books scattered around, her bed was turned upside down and there was trash on it.

On the walls were obscene words and drawings about how she, was Rudel's pet and how Alisa and Rudel were intimate like animals in heat.

Alisa's eyes were horrified at what they saw, and after averting her gaze to the floor, she noticed a large number of small drops of blood that had dried on the wooden floor.

Alisa immediately left the room and closed the door tightly so that no one would see what was inside.

Her mind was on fire as she stormed down the corridor.

(Who, who did this to Airi's room?!?!?!?!)

(More importantly... Airi, where are you?)

(Did you tell Rudel about this?)

As Alisa walked through the lobby to leave the dorm, a girl called out to her.

The girl sneered as she called out to her.

"Well, if it isn't Lady Alicelotte-sama, so early in the morning and you're looking for some man? It must be horrible for your dog to have a mistress as lustful as you."

Alisa gave a glance at the girl who said that, she was the same as the one from that day, but she had no time to waste there, so she continued on.

But she stopped after the girl's mysterious words.

"If you're looking for your pets they're not here anymore."

Immediately upon hearing that, he changed his course towards the girl.

The other girls watched her approach, but then their faces showed fear as Alisa was making a terrifying face.

It was the villain face she was supposed to have made to Airi at the event, after coming out ahead despite what she did to her room.

Her red eyes showed a devilish sharpness, while her lips were contorting from the anger eating her insides.

As he approached the girl, he put his hands on her uniform and after lifting her up, he threw her to the side, the roar was so loud that all the girls and supervisors saw that. The supervisor who was present the day Airi's room was destroyed, looked at Alisa in panic and ran out of there.

After getting up, the girl noticed that there was blood on her lip, after wanting to say something, she was grabbed by Alisa's hand on her neck and lifted up as if she was a piece of paper.

Alisa, used magic power to lift her up and with her free hand, gathered magic power, the density of the aether was so visible that it frightened the people around who ran away.

Alisa glared hatefully at the girl and then spoke to her as she calmed down a bit, but without losing the ferocity in her gaze.

"Where are Airi and Rudel, what did you do to my friends, answer me!"

The girl was trying to free herself and was saying things like, "Let go of me, you'll regret it." Or, "a vile bitch like you who hides under her dog's crotch is nothing to me."

Hearing that, Alisa made a faint smile, for a moment she remembered what Rudel did when he encountered situations like that.

Then his fist was raised, and impacted with a great speed the wall, a big crater was made and the girl's ear was bleeding from the shock wave.

Panic was reflected in her gaze, she understood that the girl in front of her was not a game thing.

After seeing him again raise his fist, she ungraciously asked him to stop.

"D-stop... they're on that guy's boat, they're heading to the northwestern border of the kingdom."

"Why would they go there?" -Alisa braced her fist again after not receiving an answer.

The girl bit her tongue and showed a sinister smile.

"B-because a certain person really dislikes... that guy being out there without receiving punishment."

After hearing that, Alisa threw the girl and left the place heading quickly to her home in the capital.

"I must contact my father as quickly as possible, I can't know who planned this, but somehow it involves Airi, which would be a weakness for Rudel."

Alisa's steps were getting faster and faster, her head had only two things now.

"Rudel, why are you always causing me trouble."

"And Airi, please be safe."

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At that same time in the Royal Palace, the queen was once again conversing with Liam.

"It's been two days in a row that you've come, you're a student, you should be learning things from the academy and not here, harassing your mother."

"Mother, yesterday you didn't tell me anything about what happened between you and Bradford."

Lecia yesterday had a complex expression on her face, but today she was having the same situation again. She was showing a face of anger and rage towards her son.

(Is this child an idiot? I don't think he is, but yesterday I told him that nothing happened and he still came to bother me... maybe I should tell Baron Bradford that I took him to him so he wouldn't bother me).

Lecia unintentionally made a questioning expression in her eyes, she did not have a close relationship with Rudel, but she wanted to ask him to take care of her son as if it was his obligation as a father.

Once again like yesterday, the door was knocked and a servant entered.

"I-I'm very sorry to disturb you my queen, in your meeting with the prince, but there are problems!"

Lecia, who was now back to normal, looked at the servant and without changing her serious expression asked him what was wrong.

The servant had come running all the way here.

"I-it's about Baron Bradford's request!"

Without changing his expression he asked "What about it?".

"We received a report from the guild about the exact address he's going to, turns out the receptionist never checked the location..."

She again showed no change in her expression, until the servant mentioned the location Rudel was headed to.

"The baron and his reinforcements who are still students are heading to the northwestern border, near the elizarin range and issard meadow."

The cup Lecia was holding suddenly fell out of her hands at that, Liam looked at her worriedly.

"Mother, what's wrong!"

But she ignored him and instead stood up, she quickly approached the servant raising her voice.

"Do you really mean what you say, there's no mistake at all!!!?"

The frightened servant looked at her, saw her beautiful eyes which radiated fright and concern.

"Y-yes, we were able to confirm it also thanks to Duke Bismarck's daughter which went to his house and from there contacted us a few minutes ago, the information from the guild came a little earlier."

She grabbed the servant's shoulders and asked about Rudel.

"The Baron Bradford is still not leaving the port, he's still here isn't he?"

"I-I'm afraid they already sailed an hour ago, if we get our act together now, we'd be leaving an hour into their journey."

Lecia removed her hands from the servant's shoulders, turned her gaze to her son and dismissed him brusquely.

As she left, the servant was behind her.

"It is certain that Alisa is also organizing a fleet with the help of her family, look for available personnel now."

"We can't let the baron perish in that place without showing me his worth to the kingdom!"

Lecia walked louder making her heels echo around the place.

Her mouth said she wanted Rudel for the sake of the kingdom, but her mind was worried about him.

(Baron don't be reckless, don't you know that in that place dwells the worst pirate nest in the area?)

His footsteps were getting louder.

(The blue-bearded pirates are the worst scum that have led this country to lose many commercial contracts and sponsors... I don't know what you are thinking, but I don't want anything to happen to you).

Because of her concern for Rudel, she could not comprehend the last thing she had been thinking.

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Somewhere in an estate, in one of the luxury rooms, there were several people.

The place was dark, only the light from the window illuminated the room, both on the floor and on the bed there were several women without clothes.

The stench of the room reeked of alcohol and other viscous odors.

Near the window there was someone, an unclothed man admiring the view around him.

He had a bottle in his hand, it looked expensive from the label, he drank it as if it were water.

When he finished drinking it, he burped as if he were an alcoholic.

The man, rather the young man, had blond hair that covered the left side of his face.

He looked at an antique clock in the room and laughed.

"Pretty soon that scumbag will pay for humiliating me."

That young man's name was Klein.

"After that guy dies like the dog he is, I'll be sure to make you pay too Alice, I'll show you that you're nothing but a bitch who craves her master's food."

After finishing his bottle, he smashed it on the floor, went to where a girl was standing and opened her legs like scissors.

His body was busy, but his mind was focused on Rudel.

"I'll make sure scum like you learn that an heir like me is nobody's plaything!"