How to Replace Your Dad - Chapter 94

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How to Replace Your Dad

Chapter 94

[What will you do?]

The man who had been rolling a chess piece, a bishop, between his fingertips curled up the corners of his mouth.

Crack—.

The bishop’s crown broke with a dull sound.

“Let them move as they wish.”

[But now that the sorcerers have been captured, isn’t there a possibility our information will be exposed?]

“Sometimes there are moments when you must risk danger and put your hand into a beast’s mouth.”

Only then can you cut out the most vulnerable part inside the hide.

If the Irregulars collapse, the defensive line protecting the Saint will crumble.

And if we obtain her, she will surely become a weapon sharper than any sword.

[Yes.]

The chess piece fell from the man’s hand.

Trampled underfoot, the letters carved on the bottom of the completely ruined piece became visible.

Yuise

The beginning of collapse would start with that man from the intelligence unit.

* * *

Guest suite.

Viola, grabbed by the collar by Angelica, let out a scream-like shout.

“Why are you doing this, Mother!”

“You’re trying to push me aside and become the mistress of Cuaron!”

“…!”

Viola flinched and looked at her mother Angelica.

Angelica’s face was flushed with anger.

Viola stammered in confusion.

But soon she pretended to be dumbfounded, swatted away Angelica’s hand, and stepped back.

“What on earth are you talking about…. What kind of absurd imagination are you having?”

“Do you think I don’t know you’ve been hovering around Marquis Cuaron all this time?”

“That’s….”

“You want to push me aside and take Cuaron for yourself. You want to become that man’s wife, the Saint’s mother, and crush me—!”

Angelica, completely agitated, swung her hand toward Viola.

Sharp nails scratched across her jaw.

“Kyaah!”

“Even you dare to look down on me? Not just Father and my sister, but even you…!”

Hera, Angelica’s eldest daughter, quickly grabbed her mother.

But the excited Angelica continued to move roughly even while being held by Hera.

Viola clutched her jaw and glared at her mother.

“You’re crazy. You’ve lost your mind.”

“What!”

“Stop taking your anger out on me. Children aren’t their mother’s tools!”

“You…!”

Before Angelica could reach out again, Viola quickly left the room.

Hera hurriedly followed behind Viola.

Reaching an empty corridor, Hera spoke to Viola.

“You shouldn’t speak to Mother like that. Go apologize to her. Okay?”

“How long do we have to be Mother’s targets for venting anger?”

“Viola.”

“With that kind of temperament, even her own family treats her like a disowned child. What good does it do to be Sanponce blood? With Mother being like that, we’re always…!”

“Stop it.”

Hera sighed and looked at her younger sister.

She narrowed her brow.

“I know you’ve been hovering around Marquis Cuaron. I also know what your purpose is.”

Viola flinched.

Hera frowned and continued.

“If it’s obvious even to me, how would it look to Mother?”

“….”

“I’ve rarely seen Mother get that excited. If we leave things like this, even the mother-daughter bond will be severed.”

Hera grasped Viola’s shoulders and gently persuaded her.

“We already lost our connection with Father because Mother caused trouble with his family. If Mother abandons us, we’ll have nowhere to return to.”

Viola flinched.

Hera patted her sister’s back.

“You need to learn patience. We’ll always be the weaker ones to Mother.”

“…For life?”

“What?”

“We have to live our whole lives enduring that abuse?”

“Viola….”

Thud.

Viola pushed Hera away and spoke with a cold expression.

“I don’t want to do it for life.”

“You….”

Viola walked past Hera just like that.

Hera watched Viola’s back with a worried expression.

The place Viola headed to was the underground prison.

The guard standing watch in front of the prison blocked Viola’s path.

“Entry without permission is not allowed.”

Viola glanced at him and pulled out an earring, waving it in front of him.

It was a luxurious earring that ordinary people couldn’t even dream of seeing.

A sapphire the size of a knuckle boasted an amazingly clear color.

“If I quietly enter the prison and come back out, the other one will be yours too.”

“…!”

The guard’s eyes wavered.

Viola smiled slyly.

The guard swallowed his saliva and stepped aside.

Viola snorted and entered the prison.

Inside the prison, the smell of blood was thick.

It was evidence of terrible torture.

Groans mixed with metallic sounds flowed from inside the iron bars.

Viola found the most intact among the sorcerers trapped in the iron bars—Marcelso’s assailants—and smiled brightly.

“It looks like you haven’t been tortured yet.”

“Huh…!”

The man quickly hugged his knees and trembled.

“Oh dear. The torture will be very painful. The sorcerers in the other cells don’t look human anymore.”

“Ah… ugh….”

“But you’re lucky.”

“…What?”

“Because I can help you. I can let you leave with your body intact and even help you get a lot of money.”

“What….”

“It’s very simple. You just need to write a few words.”

Viola’s eyebrow twitched upward.

“…The ringleader is Angelica.”

Just holding onto it would become a tool to control her mother.

Viola’s eyes gleamed mysteriously.

At that moment, in the guest suite.

Hera rushed frantically into the room.

The room was in complete chaos.

It was because the enraged Angelica had thrown whatever she could get her hands on.

“Mother…!”

“What is it now?”

“Viola went to the underground prison. The underground prison where the sorcerers who caused the Marcelso incident are confined.”

“…What?”

“I failed to dissuade Viola. Her reaction seemed strange, so I followed her and she entered the underground prison.”

“What is she doing in the prison!”

“I couldn’t enter the prison itself, so I don’t know what’s happening, but…”

Hera anxiously gripped her skirt tightly.

“If that child tries to uncover your involvement in the Marcelso incident, it’ll be a disaster.”

“…!”

“That child is still immature and doesn’t understand how serious this matter is. You must go and stop her immediately.”

“Foolish thing.”

Angelica’s eyes rippled darkly.

Hera urgently grabbed Angelica.

“Hurry and go stop Viola, Mother.”

“…If she’s stupid to that extent, she should be abandoned rather than stopped.”

“What?”

Does she think I sent the sorcerers into Marcelso without setting up any safety pins?

Wrong.

A method to cut off the tail cleanly is already prepared.

Angelica strode toward her bag and pulled out a small incense burner from inside.

Hera flinched.

“That’s…!”

The sorcerers had been controlled by ancient forbidden arts even before being dispatched to Marcelso.

The incense from this burner would activate the ancient forbidden arts and make the sorcerers go berserk.

Angelica stared at the incense burner with fierce eyes.

“Put it in Viola’s hands.”

“What?”

“If you tell her it’s some kind of treasure that controls people, that stupid child will believe it readily.”

“You’re going to make them go berserk in front of Viola? Then Viola will…”

“Dogs that don’t recognize their master get their skin peeled off.”

“Mother…!”

“Don’t make me abandon you too.”

Hera’s face turned pale.

* * *

That evening, at the military cafeteria.

Yuise, who was holding a food tray, glanced back.

Oscar’s unit members were glaring at Yuise with fierce eyes.

A member of Yuise’s unit frowned at that look.

“That bastard…!”

“Stop.”

“But, Unit Leader!”

“Leave it.”

Yuise’s unit member narrowed his brow.

The atmosphere among the unit members was becoming increasingly tense.

Having a traitor within was the first time in Irregulars’ history.

The deeper their bonds, the deeper the shock of betrayal.

“It’s not Antonio. He doesn’t have the brains to betray anyone.”

“Right, our unit leader is too stupid to do something like betrayal!”

“The Clan Leader who rose to office and became a vassal couldn’t have betrayed us. He’d be the one to benefit most if the Clan Leader becomes a marquis.”

“Then? Oscar?”

“Our unit leader has been investigating spies all this time, you idiot. Someone who’s been on external missions the whole time, what betrayal!”

“True, to use the Irregulars, you’d need to be inside rather than going on external missions. Then…”

The unit members’ gazes poured onto Yuise.

“It’s strange that the information unit leader didn’t collect information externally but only guarded the Young Lady internally.”

“Suddenly massacring the sorcerer clan too. That had nothing to do with the mission at all.”

“Come to think of it, there were strange things in the past too…”

“There were often times when Irregulars’ information leaked, and that might not have been Yuise failing to control information but actually leaking it…”

“Why, there was also that time when Yuise disappeared during the Camans battle…”

Yuise’s unit members gritted their teeth.

However, Yuise silently received his food.

Being suspected was because his past self had actually been a traitor.

He had passed Irregulars’ information to the clan under their orders.

Things that seemed merely strange at the time had now become a storm that trapped Yuise in a whirlwind of suspicion.

Other elites who had just entered the cafeteria frowned.

Antonio said.

“What’s this? Why’s the atmosphere like this?”

“…”

The Clan Leader quietly looked at Yuise.

Oscar also sighed.

Yuise quietly took his served tray and sat down.

Yuise’s unit members glared at the other whispering unit members and sat beside him.

“The meals have gotten better since coming to Kuaron Castle, haven’t they?”

“They say the Young Lady pays a lot of attention to meals.”

“Is it to the Unit Leader’s taste?”

Yuise silently picked up his spoon and said.

“Yes.”

Even during this, the whispering sounds didn’t stop.

“Is it okay to let Yuise’s unit access information?”

“It seems the Clan Leader hasn’t made a decision yet.”

“When will the investigation order come down?”

“Well. It seems the Young Lady went to see the Clan Leader today.”

“Anyway, that damn traitor bastard. If he’s caught, I won’t let him off easy.”

One of the unit members said while glaring at Yuise.

Yuise’s adjutant sat down and slammed his tray down noisily.

“Eat quietly. Unless there’s someone who wants to die by my hand.”

“A guy whose only skill is deceiving people is acting tough.”

One of the unit members said with a smirk.

Just as Yuise’s adjutant was about to spring up.

Oscar’s magic power bound his unit member.

Yuise also glanced sharply at his unit member.

Oscar said.

“During meals, even dogs aren’t disturbed. Aragon.”

“…Yes, Squad Leader.”

Yuise also nodded to his adjutant.

“Sit down.”

“…”

Yuise’s adjutant clicked his tongue.

The atmosphere in the cafeteria was utterly cold.

Even until the moment Yuise finished his meal and came out.

As he left the military cafeteria, his adjutant hurriedly followed after him.

“Squad Leader.”

“Don’t talk to me.”

“What?”

“You’re thinking of saying disgusting things like you trust me, or that the Squad Leader wouldn’t do such a thing.”

“…”

The adjutant let out a sigh.

“Don’t worry about it.”

“I’m not worried. You guys are the only ones worrying.”

“Anyway.”

The adjutant chuckled and followed alongside Yuise.

At that moment, the wind blew.

A strange scent wafted from the adjutant’s collar.

Yuise’s steps came to an abrupt halt.

He looked at his adjutant with a start.

“What is that.”

“What?”

“That scent coming from you.”

“Scent?”

The adjutant tilted his head, sniffing his sleeves and arms.

“It’s the perfume I always wear?”

“That’s not perfume!”

“What?”

‘That’s maga incense.’

Yuise had a golden seal carved into his heart by the clan’s sorcerer.

His mother had said:

“My child, my Yuise.”

“Yes, Mother.”

“Be careful of maga incense. It’s a poison that will explode your heart in place of the detonation switch I hold.”

An incense that makes sealed sorcerers go berserk.

Though he had his seal removed through Yustea’s purification, he could never forget the scent of maga incense.

How could he forget it.

That damned scent that carved the terror of death into his very cells.

The adjutant narrowed his eyes and said:

“Ah. I bumped into Angelica Sanponse’s daughter in the corridor. Her scent must have rubbed off on me. But…”

“But?”

“She seemed somehow distracted. Like she was frightened, or greatly flustered.”

“…What?”

“I encountered her near the underground prison that’s under control, so she seemed bewildered.”

The underground prison.

Yuise’s face hardened.

The sorcerers were in the underground prison.

‘If they smelled the maga incense…’

Yuise immediately broke into a run.

Racing toward the underground prison, he pushed past the guards and went inside.

“…!”

He was too late.

The sorcerers inside the iron bars were already lying in tatters.

The seals in their hearts had exploded.

“Ugh… grrgh…”

“…!”

Among them, there was one who seemed still alive, groaning.

Yuise quickly opened the iron bars and went inside.

The moment he grabbed the sorcerer’s arm and turned his body over.

Heheh.

The sorcerer, who had been bleeding from every opening in his body – both eyes, nose, mouth, even ears – raised the corners of his mouth.

“You’ve been had.”

Kekek, kek…

His mangled mouth, with bone showing through, formed a grotesque curve.

Then crack, he opened his mouth wide.

A ball of fire writhed inside his throat.

If he delayed any longer, it would become a bomb and bring down the castle.

“Damn it…!”

‘It’s a trap.’

They had deliberately gotten maga incense on his adjutant to lure him to the underground prison.

To make him kill this man!

‘But if I don’t kill him…’

If he didn’t end the biological activity, the people in the castle would be in danger.

The Clan Leader…

The clan members…

And…

“Yuise!”

“Yuise.”

“Yu—i—se.”

…that foolish young lady who still liked people even after being so betrayed by them.

Character strings flowed rapidly from Yuise’s hands.

Dense character strings wrapped around the sorcerer.

“Grrgh…!”

“Die as painfully as possible.”

“…”

“Thanks to you, I’m going to lose my home. …You bastard.”

The man’s body twisted grotesquely.

In the end…

Thud.

The moment even his head fell off.

Thump thump thump thump!

Footsteps could be heard from outside the prison.

The elites and clan members roughly threw open the door and entered.

Antonio looked around with a start at the sorcerers who had died in a mess.

“…What have you done, Yuise.”

The Clan Leader also had a hardened expression.

Oscar let out a hollow laugh.

The clan members glared at him fiercely.

“What is the meaning of this!”

Oscar’s magic power shattered the iron bars and pulled Yuise out.

Oscar, gripping Yuise by the collar, shouted.

“You damn… you…!”

“….”

Yuise closed her eyes.

It was greedy of me, a traitor from the start, to try to remain here.

Just as Oscar, his face contorted with rage, was about to throw a punch at Yuise.

That voice was heard.

“Let go of my family.”

…It was Yustea’s voice.

“…!”

“…!”

She walked past the surprised people and grabbed Oscar’s wrist.

Oscar furrowed his brow.

“Young Lady, this is…!”

“My family, comrade, friend. So let go.”

Yustea glared at Oscar as she spoke.

“Traitor.”

“…!”

The reason I provoked Angelica and Viola wasn’t to target the traitor.

I was targeting Hera, the traitor’s comrade.

“Hera ran around quite diligently. To get those four.”

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