Chapter 29: The Commander's Son Destroys the Villainess' Adopted Brother

"Here you will"

I was guided to the basement of the Duke of Misty. I talked to the prison guard to finish my business before meeting Alice.

"Gates Misty"

"...Who?"

"Did you forget, the target of your resentment is Arth-Lost."

Alice's adopted-brother-kun, who charged so much that the prison creaked when he said that. My brother-in-law shouted while sticking out his hand out of the dark prison.

"Arth Lost! You bastard! You regret it right?It's too late!"

"I'm fine. You think so, don't you? Rinse."

"It's really amazing how you're so calm even when you're being treated with such malice."

That's what Rinse says next to me, but I don't really care what emotions other than Alice directs towards me. If it does harm Alice, I'll prevent it before that happens, but well, if not, I don't care. Besides, I don't need that kind of feeling for the person I'm going to destroy from now on.

"Well, I've come to tell you the truth, but are you prepared?"

"Art Lost! I will not forgive you! Absolutely!"

"I don't need your forgiveness, but frankly speaking, you're already out of business with the Duke of Misty."

He looks at me with even more malice in my words, but I calmly continue my words.

"Did you know, Duke Misty, that your adoptive father has adopted a new child?"

"...!"

"Don't you know? After all, you're going to spend the rest of your life in this prison until you die."

"No way... hey, there's no way my adoptive father would say something like that!"

"Certainly he won't say it because I don't think he'll ever see you again."

Duke Misty probably doesn't have the slightest interest in brother-in-law. Well, it is. It seemed like he was looking at my brother-in-law as a tool to inherit the Duke family, who was not related by blood.

"Didn't you know that you weren't loved in this Duke's house?"

"...Such a thing is fake, I'm important"

"You can't say no, can you? That's right. Even though you used to be arrogant to your servants and family, You was easily addicted to charm magic and tried to smear the Duke's signboard with dirt."

From what I've heard and what I know about my brother-in-law, he seems to be a person with a rather arrogant attitude. Well, having high pride is probably the flip side of loneliness, but if you turn it on others, your reputation will get worse. I am not without sympathy, but given that Alice tolerated it, I would argue that he was weak-minded.

"From now on, you will spend the rest of your life in this prison. You will die alone and lonely."

"Don't be silly! That kind of thing..."

"If you don't believe me, that's fine. You'll be lonely from now on."

"...!"

I didn't want to bully him too much, but I told him that this was also my job.

"Gates Misty. You have two choices. One is to died in this prison, number Two is to died by my sword"

After saying that, my brother-in-law-kun made a frightened expression when he glanced at me and showed him my sword. Gradually, you will come to understand that my words are true. I said without letting go of that fear.

"I have permission from the Duke. So it's your only choice"

"Hi...!"

He step back in fear. When I sees him like that, I feels pity from the bottom of my heart, but I don't show it on my face and continues.

"What's wrong? There's no grace period. If I leave like this, You might die in a more painful way.Is it old age, or is it poison to your meal... or is it starvation?"

Gates-kun reacts to the last words. If I remember correctly, this child must have been bullied for skipping meals at home some time ago, so he must have reacted to starvation. I said to him in the same tone as he was trembling, probably remembering the pain of that time.

"You reacted to hunger. Then let's tell the Duke about it."

"W-wait...!"

"what?"

"No ... no, no, no! Never! I don't want to die!"

I calmly said to him who was whining while tears were streaming down his face.

"I have no choice but to think that it's the price I paid so far. Please give up."

"No way..."

"But there is one way I can help you."

When he reacted to those words, I turned around and smiled gently and said.

"Abandon everything you've done so far and become my slave, and your life will be saved."

"It will be! Because it will be! So help me—no, please help me."

I laughed while feeling a little guilty as he rubbed his head against the ground and sat on the ground.

"I see, then call me Master Arth from now on. And absolutely obey my orders. That's fine. Also, if you lay a hand on Alice, I'll kill you on the spot."

"yes!"

"By the way, it would be naive if I just endured this place and was relieved that everything would be fine. Remember that I can kill you at any time."

Well, it's probably fine, but I've told the others that if they want to escape, they can kill them. There's nowhere to go anyway, so it's useless, but you can think that this is the end of the somewhat embarrassing development. I don't really like this kind of threatening development, but I was amazed that I could do this much if it was to protect Alice.