I Became the illegitimate son of a duke

82 – Court (2)

“Ah…”

Lying on the bed, Chloe thinks of her brother while stretching with her hands clasped together.

When will you be back?

He comes back during breaks in the middle of work, but it’s a momentary time that only tastes rich. Shortly thereafter, he goes back to work, and instead of satisfying his desire, he develops an even greater thirst.

I hope you come back soon and hug me… Not as much as before, but still lonely.

Thrilling—- pounding—-

“Huh…”

After saying that, Chloe put her hand on her stomach, concentrated her mind, felt the weak heartbeat in her stomach, and smiled with satisfaction.

Yes… This is it… This feeling, this emotion, this satisfaction.

The fruit of love with my brother and the only link.

Now that I think about it, it’s really amazing, how the hell did I spend such a boring time without this child

“Tsk.”

“…You.”

However, Chloe’s happiness is instantly dissipated into thin air when she hears her tongue clicking at the end of her room.

The tongue, full of contempt and sarcasm toward me, passes through her own ears and makes her brain feel bad. She can no longer go back to her former mood.

A nemesis, a rolling stone that interferes with her brother at every turn, cursed Ines, this time even interfering with her child, you dare—- no, no.

‘I have to endure it.’

I am not single. You don’t know what harm it will do to your child if you move too radically.

Above all, my brother said that the child in my belly feels my emotions as they are. That means that when I feel anger, my baby feels the same anger.

No matter how bad that b*tch is, you have to refrain from venting your anger. I can’t give my baby a bad experience.

Judging that, Chloe takes a deep breath and decides to ignore Ines.

‘I have to endure it.’

The same goes for Ines.

Ines, who felt the presence of the child, who is the alter ego of West, during her lonely time alone, was happy, but her happiness was scattered into the air because of Chloe’s laugh.

In the end, Ines gets very upset and tries to go on a rampage like he did with his subordinates, but decides to ignore it after going through the same accident as Chloe thought.

“…”

“…”

Even just before her death, the woman’s laughter that came out spontaneously from her happiness was nowhere to be found, leaving only silence in her room.

It’s a problem that can be solved if we don’t share the same room, but as I said before, I can’t even do that because I’m worried that that b*tch might do something out of sight.

The uncomfortable cohabitation continues today.

…………

“What…? Jeanne became a maid?”

“…That’s right. As soon as I confirm it, it’s the way to run immediately.”

“Hmm…”

Two servants entered at the same time through the open door.

One of them is from Ines’s side and the other is from my side, but the information they brought is pretty shocking.

‘Maid, what is your brother thinking?’

I don’t want to go to the prison one by one, so I’ll keep it by my side in the castle—- No, this won’t be the case.

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Make one mistake is enough. Let’s not doubt my brother anymore, there must have been another reason.

Let’s stop thinking about this… Let’s think about Jeanne.

‘Hmm… I’m a little uneasy about what Jeanne will do.’

Even if her spirit is not perfect, only her ability is real, and Jeanne knows her secret to Ines and me.

What if she, who had not been able to open her mouth for fear of being heard as an accusation because she was a prisoner who was imprisoned until now, would be free and she would have nothing to worry about anymore?

Of course, her brother won’t listen to such a crazy b*tch, but what Jeanne is saying is absolutely true. She should be prepared for situations that she doesn’t know could happen.

‘Should I threaten her not to say such things… Or should I spread rumors that she is a liar since she is a newcomer so that no one will believe Jeanne… If I choose this, on the day I enter the palace—- Wait, as soon as I check?’

While thinking of countermeasures against Jeanne in her head, Chloe notices something strange in the words of her servant.

As soon as I check it?

She thought of various ways and tried to make things up based on the time Jeanne joined her maid, but that statement bothered me a little.

In the palace, my minions have eyes and ears, so there is no need to mention immediately.

I wonder if I’m too sensitive, but I don’t have a good feeling.

“…When?”

“Yes?”

“When did Jeanne enter the palace?”

“…Two hours ago.”

“Two hours?”

In a way, it can be said that it was short, but for Chloe, who always received reports on what was happening in the castle by the minute, the speed was absurd.

How many minions have I spread throughout the palace? My brother and Jeanne’s walk a month ago had been reported right away, even though it was in the middle of the night, and now it’s daytime, so why is it so late?

“As soon as I entered the palace, the head maid immediately started working in a deserted place. I heard that she washed windows in a secluded place all morning.”

“Hmmm… Ok, okay.”

Seeing Chloe’s facial expression change in a bad way, the servant quickly came up with an answer as if making an excuse, and Chloe who heard it thought it a plausible answer and nodded her head.

Of course, Jeanne actually entered the palace not two hours ago, but four hours ago.

The servant voluntarily judged that Chloe would be very stressed and in pain if she reported the facts as they were, and deliberately made a false report. Of course, meeting Jeanne and her fanatical loyalty to Chloe were fading partly as a reason.

With her curiosity resolved, Chloe raised her eyes slightly upward and tilted her head as she pondered what kind of response she would make to Jeanne without giving any glance to the servant next to her. Only

“First, bring Jeanne here. By all means.”

“Yes, Miss Chloe.”

After thinking about what would be good for a long time, Chloe finally chooses to return to the safe road.

Even if I tell the truth about me and that b*tch anyway, everyone including her brother will pass it off as nonsense, so there is no need to rush into an adventure.

“Bring her girl here.”

“Yes, Ines.”

Ines makes similar judgments to Chloe.

Unlike Chloe, Ines doesn’t know Jeanne’s abilities at all, but that’s why he doesn’t feel threatened by Jeanne.

Ines just asked her if Jeanne had the qualities to be her concubine, if she was still spoiled by me, what she thought of her husband, on what condition she got out of prison, and so on. I just want to satisfy my curiosity.

If Ines knew Jeanne’s abilities, she wouldn’t have asked a single thing.

Another person from a different faction leaves the room to carry out the same order, and an uncomfortable silence returns to the room.

…………

“…What is this?”

Returning to the management of the court figures, Leclerc frowned as he looked over the contents of the handover.

There are so many things that have no basis.

There are not one or two places to point out, such as an orphan whose origin is not clear, or a person whose identification documents are questionable.

How on earth could you place these things in the palace where Your Majesty resides?

“Whoa… Ines-sama.”

Leclerc called Ines out of his mouth and pressed her forehead with two fingers.

I know very well that this kind of behavior is extremely rude, but it felt like I couldn’t stand it if I didn’t do it.

After a while, Leclerc, who was massaging himself like that, grabs a document in the hand that was clasping his forehead, and starts categorizing the dangerous-looking people one by one with an expression on his face.

Time is running out because there are too many people working in the palace, and they have to carefully check personal details one by one to avoid misfire, but Leclerc solves it by neatly suspending all other tasks. For Leclerc today, there is no task more important than eliminating dangerous people.

“…A lot.”

Leclerc, who started his work in the morning, finally finishes his work when the sun goes down.

Leclerc, who finished the greetings of the people working in the palace in just half a day, far from admiring his own ability, was surprised at how many dangerous people were filling the palace, and stuck out his tongue.

Since attendants only have to be from a clear background, there is no place to point out except for a few, but the servants who have relatively less such things are too terrible. It is almost considered a matter of luck that no assassination has occurred so far.

Of course, all of them are servants of Chloe and Ines, and Chloe, who was dissatisfied with the fact that only Ines’ servants spread throughout the palace, negotiated with Ines and planted her own servants in the palace, so in the end, the palace is filled with dangerous people. It has become

Of course, Leclerc, who has no way to know such a thing, has serious doubts about Ines’s qualities.

‘First of all, I’ll have to go through a brief interview before deciding on my treatment. I’d like to get rid of all of them, but it could be a big disrespect to Ines who selected them.’

You may question whether you are doing something too radical for the subject of being an agent, but even if you are an agent, there is no difference in rights and duties from your original job.

Leclerc feels a sense of duty to manage court figures even if he is acting, so he decides to manage them all.

Of course, that’s not the only reason. In his eyes, having served the House of Burgon for decades, this was an intolerable horror.