The Duchess of the Attic

The next day.

"See you tomorrow", Alessandro said - the day has come to bring the rebel masterminds to justice.

Everyone at Roussell Mansion was worried about Opal's health, who had just returned to King's Capital, but laughed and boarded the carriage, saying it was okay.

That would also be because Naja has had a fever since last night and is still resting in bed.

He was still tired and regretted that he could not accompany him.

"That's crazy. Why aren't you all worried about me?

"You know exactly what Claude's life has been like. He said he rarely went back to the mansion and fluttered."

"So..."

"You don't deny it."

"I can't."

When Opal answered Claude's blur, he was immediately convinced.

Claude laughed at the shuddering opal.

But soon I keep laying my hands on Opal's hands.

"But I'm not gonna fumble anymore. From now on, I'm going to live in relaxing territory with my beloved wife."

"You don't have to flutter, you don't have to stay in the mansion much."

"Right. We must proceed with the development of the Duke's railroad."

"We need to discuss next year's planting with Duncan."

We talked about each other's future plans and laughed a lot.

Duncan was found that day in the duke's dungeon.

Apparently, he rebelled against Connally and was captured by the rebels.

The servants seemed to see how it was and decided to follow Connally in silence.

Opal thinks that's the right decision, so he ignores the consular servants - those who are not part of the rebels.

As for the surrendered rebels, they were also to remain in the Duke's territory and be engaged in railway maintenance work.

We intend to treat them no differently than ordinary workers, except those in the upper echelons.

Just plausibly put the watchman down.

All of that was also something Claude had planned in advance and seemed to be ready for it before entering Duke territory.

"It's a shame the rebels were connected to the Marquis of Saimes in the Kingdom of Socieux. It's regrettable to think that the money Omer poured into the past in the city of Novoli was also used to fund the rebels."

"At the time, the Marquis wasn't still cooperating that far, was he?

"Yes, but..."

When Opal whines with a sigh, Claude speaks comforting words.

I know Opal had no choice, but it still didn't change my anger.

"His Majesty and I both thought that since the death of the former Duke - after the depletion of Silver Mountain - the source of funding was the robbery in the Kingdom of Socieux. So when I heard the bandits were caught, I was wondering why the funds were still moving on the rebel side. So I suspected that it wasn't those dressed as bandits who were channelling money to the rebels, but the Marquis of Saymes... even if the Marquis was related to the former Duke of Botzeri, there can't be any normal way to bother supporting him in his own interest."

"Is that why you went back to the Kingdom of Société to find out why? So it turns out that the output of Golden Mountain in the territory of the Marquis of Saymes has also fallen dramatically. And yet the reports of output to the country are almost the same as before, and I was just wondering, did you get to know the equally questionable lawyers?

On his return to the Kingdom of Socieux, where he was both on a honeymoon and a comeback, Claude was moving around a lot to find out about the Marquis of Saymes and the bandits.

I guess the reason I didn't tell Opal was because I didn't want to get involved in anything dangerous.

But Opal noticed from what he had heard from Lubbo in the city of Novoli and what he had done by entering the Duke's territory. - to the fact that the Marquis of Saimes and the rebels are connected.

So Opal asked Rubo to investigate via Omer and ask Hubert to move again.

As for the dark parts of the city of Novoli, you can find out if it's true (...) or if it's a (...) gold-lending Lubo.

Just because the Marquis is behind it - and there is a Marquis Saymes who has been paying a large sum of money to the country until now, Reubeau wasn't strong enough.

So the Duke McCloud, who has paid more than the Marquis of Saymes over the past few years and has gained more voice in the Royal Palace, has helped to change the situation so that Lubbo and the lawyers can move freely.

Marquis Saymes was paying a payment to the state until he imported it in secret to maintain his power in the Royal Palace.

He was in a hurry that Hubert, more stately than himself, had risen.

But ironically, Hubert was not power-oriented, and there was a strong sense of justice.

For this reason, the long-standing injustice of the Marquis of Saymes seemed particularly unforgivable.

Only a sense of justice has been strong for a long time, but it has probably remained lumpy in my mind that Omer had wronged me.

"Omer has completely changed his mind now, and he didn't commit murder..."

"... thinking about McCloud?

"I'm thinking about the evil of the Marquis Saymes."

"Sure, I was surprised to hear about the Marquis of Saymes. It produced more gold than it had declared to the country for many years, and it smuggled them through organizations based in the city of Novoli. Besides, it sounds like some kind of story to me that it was actually the Marquis that bound the organization."

"You really are, aren't you? Well, in the Kingdom of Société, since his predecessors, the country has come to control the trade for ores and so on... At the time, there was a lot of backlash, but there's no limit to human greed, even though there's no such thing as an impossible tax."

Opal sighed just when he was frightened.

The Marquis repeated his do-it-yourself robbery play, also to exempt him from taxation while pretending to maintain output.

Besides, I gave only a fraction of it to the bandits as a reward and scattered it in the city of Novoli, so the Marquis' - the organization's nostalgia doesn't hurt.

It was high time to kill and seal the mouths of those who knew what was going on.

If I hadn't been so greedy, I wouldn't have even been exposed to the evils of the past.

Nowadays, in the Kingdom of Société, the Marquis de Saimes is fussing over the use of an organization to smuggle money out to other countries and the use of bandits for a self-made robbery play.

Former Marquis Saymes, who was stripped of his title and all his possessions were also confiscated, was imprisoned and apparently just waiting to be sentenced by poisoning.

The letter that Claude delivered to me in that attic came from Hubert, and it was in detail.

In short, the Kingdom of Société has no time to interfere with the Kingdom of Tyssey.

Naturally, there's no way I can send reinforcements or anything from the former Marquis of Saymes to the rebels.

All this information was also blocked by the rebels.

"What's the stupidest thing about this one is that it was usually more profitable to pay the state than the price of the gold the Coles were sending to the Marquis of Sayms"

"Right..."

Opal remembered Cole's masterful expression back then.

The Dukes of Botzelli went against Alessandro's reign in the first place, also because, like the Kingdom of Socieux, they were aiming to create a system to govern the trade in products that were predominant in this country.

And if you'd kept an eye open on what Alessandro has accomplished in the last four years, you wouldn't have thought to have such a useless fight, etc.

"Well, there's no such thing as a greedy human being with so much difference."

"What greed does Claude have?

"I'm greedy. If I can see Opal's delightful face, I'll do anything in world domination."

"I wouldn't be happy about that. I just want to relax with Claude and everyone."

"Opal's hopes have been the same for a long time. So a little more, will you hang out to satisfy my greed?

"Absolutely."

Opal answered Claude's query with a smile, and the carriage stopped.

It is finally time to settle with the anti-Alessandro faction.

Opal got off the carriage with Claude's hand and started walking firmly forward.