The Military Doctor Excels at Being a Contracted Duchess - Chapter 54

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【Chapter 54】

Two little kids, no matter how fierce they might be, were no match for someone who had received special training like him.

But if he dealt with these brats here, he would incur the wrath of House Bayern.

‘Then I’d definitely die.’

Duty or life.

Though he pondered briefly, Gaspard quickly gave up.

Obviously life.

He didn’t have that level of loyalty to his homeland.

“Chase him! He must have fled this way!”

“Tch.”

Moreover, there were those chasing him while shouting as if for him to hear.

Gaspard glanced once at the children and ran straight ahead.

He had thought about tormenting them a bit more with explosives.

‘Seeing how quick their response was, the village thugs I released in the forest must have been caught too.’

This was going to be quite difficult to escape from.

Though it didn’t suit his thoughts of ‘dealing with them’ just moments ago, Gaspard had no intention of taking the young masters hostage.

Touching kids would leave a bad aftertaste too.

‘If the little ones grow up to become a threat to the homeland… well, the intelligence chief at that time can handle it.’

Gaspard, having casually passed the buck, went through the rusted iron gate toward the dark and damp sewer beyond.

This iron gate leading from the Grand Duke’s house to the outside was naturally bound tightly with chains to prevent anyone from entering, but he had loosened it long ago.

‘It’s such a shame I couldn’t speak with her one more time…’

France loves passionately regardless of whether the other person is married or not.

Though it would be unthinkable in this stuffy and conservative Richter… he was French to the bone, and felt no shame in his heart.

‘Someday we’ll meet again.’

Thinking of Ebel, he soon completely erased her from his mind and focused on escaping.

Surviving came first.

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Having leisurely descended to the underground waterway, he discovered the twins being carried out by servants and smiled inwardly.

What brave little fellows.

Damian rolled his eyes, worried he might get scolded, but Angelm was calm and dignified.

“Damian discovered suspicious movement. We thought about how a spy might escape, and remembered the underground waterway where we often play, so we went to check.”

“Is that so.”

“We cut all the fuses and soaked the gunpowder in water.”

“Well done.”

At the light praise, surprise along with disbelief spread in Angelm’s eyes.

He must have expected to get scolded.

Victor patted Angelm’s head and added a word.

“Very much like a Bayern.”

“!”

In fact, even if the bomb had exploded, there wouldn’t have been much of a problem. At most, it would have provided a good excuse to repair the manor.

Not even being his own country, what could be obtained in Bayern through illegal distribution was only black powder at most.

It was rather laughable to call it an explosion – at best, it wouldn’t even have brought down a pillar of the manor.

Ah, though dirty groundwater would have spurted out.

The reason he installed black powder in the underground waterway was mainly to hide his tracks with the enormous amount of smoke produced during the explosion.

Perhaps the old him would have issued a house arrest order, citing the unnecessarily dangerous act, the fact that it was beyond his control, and that it created additional margin of error in his already laid plans.

But the current him was different.

“It’s fortunate nothing more dangerous happened, but next time tell me first. There are parts I’ve already anticipated.”

“…Yes.”

Seeing the atmosphere seemed fine, he was also patting Damian who seemed somehow excited when Lucas appeared, cutting through the darkness.

“Oh, found the young masters?”

In the hands of the grinning Lucas was a leash. What was tied to it wasn’t a dog but a person.

These were the guys who tried to set fire to the forest.

“They resisted quite a bit so it was tough, but anyway I caught them all.”

“Thank you.”

Looking at the faces of those who dared try to ruin the forest, about half were village thugs and the rest… well.

They looked too timid to do such work.

“Who ordered you?”

Though he wasn’t particularly curious, when he asked as a formality, an answer immediately burst forth.

“A, a woman!”

“She was at the tavern… said there would be no danger to the customers, just needed to sprinkle oil in the forest.”

“What? She told us to set it on fire!”

“We were wrong! Please forgive us! We had no intention of harming anyone!”

“That’s right. We were deceived! She said to just ruin the wedding…”

After letting the ridiculous spectacle continue briefly, when he gestured with his chin, his waiting subordinates brought the devastated Genevieve.

“You wouldn’t have done this without backing.”

“Th, that’s…”

The men who had been cowering at the quiet voice finally confessed everything.

“Lady Genevieve ordered it, and she was just following orders… said it would be fine even if caught… Aaaaah!”

Before he could finish speaking, Lucas pulled the leash taut. The screaming man’s head snapped back as he rolled on the dirt ground, but Lucas didn’t care.

He simply wore a gentle smile on his lips.

Such Lucas swept over Genevieve with coldly sunken eyes.

“I don’t want to get heavily involved in a friend’s family affairs, but is this correct?”

Genevieve, pale as a sheet, clutched her skirt with trembling hands.

“What did I!”

Her voice was hoarse from inhaling the bad smoke.

With a cracked, unpleasant voice, Genevieve shouted roughly.

“What did I do wrong! You’re the one who took everything from me. This is my house. My house!”

Genevieve showed no remorse.

She was just going crazy with the injustice of it all.

Leo had betrayed her. Leo, whom Cecily had introduced! What was all this about.

Grinding her teeth, Genevieve suddenly raised her head and glared at Victor.

“So what will you do? You who married without even getting permission from me, a Bayern elder, without even introducing her?”

If she was going to be kicked out, she had to take a good chunk with her.

She knew it was shameful to cling like this, but there was no other way.

Besides, Bayern was still Bayern anyway, so what could he do?

“I devoted myself. You should know that. If you had properly followed etiquette, I wouldn’t have done this!”

But only Genevieve was making noise. No answer came back.

When she looked up, Victor’s eyes had sunk pitch black.

“Are you finished.”

“…!”

“Get in a carriage and leave the manor immediately. You will never be able to return for the rest of your life, and you will not be able to take anything with you.”

It was a cold and clear judgment, as if frost had settled in this heat. Genevieve gasped and opened her mouth, but Victor didn’t even allow her a chance to make excuses.

“Escort her to the carriage.”

“You’re kicking me out penniless! Me! Mmph…!”

The mad scream cut through the night air but was quickly muffled.

With a gag tied in her mouth, Genevieve had to be dragged away with her arms twisted behind her back, just as she had done to Damian.

Somehow a carriage was prepared, and Genevieve was forcibly loaded into it.

She frantically pounded on the door, but since it locked from the outside, someone with Genevieve’s strength could never open it.

Victor designed the situation so the two children could see that scene directly.

They needed to see with their own eyes the downfall of the being who had tormented them all this time.

Eventually, Victor placed his hand on Angelm’s shoulder and asked.

“How does it feel?”

“I think it’s appropriate. This much is.”

“Good. It’s all over.”

What would be the point of lengthy consolation? It wouldn’t make what the twins had endured disappear.

However, Victor wanted to say this to them.

That he wouldn’t cause them pain anymore. That he wouldn’t neglect them anymore.

Let’s try being a real… family.

“Tell the mistress to come here.”

“Yes!”

He would leave the children with Ebel and go finish what needed to be done.

The carriage had departed, and his subordinates who brought the horses handed Victor a rifle.

“Angelm. I have something to tell you when I return.”

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