A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

123 – Sweet and Bloody Academy (3)

Insects are bound to be attracted to fragrant and beautiful flowers.

Of course, that’s because the flower is intentionally trying to attract insects.

It may be a little different from the current situation.

“Master Noir! The lecture this time is…”

Near a human named Noir Gibraltar.

“What kind of food do you like? Do you like seafood? In our territory…”

“Didn’t we see you at a banquet held in Gibraltar once? When Lord Noir was 7 years old, and you were 8 years old… “

Many people are approaching and appealing to themselves.

“It was really cool in the exam room! He wielded his sword without hesitation against Princess Naria with the courage to do so! He was full of spirit and confident that he could wield his sword even against the royal family!”

“Oh, yes, yes.”

Those who Gray Gibraltar might have described as ‘bugs’ are continuing to wander around.

“Ha, haha… Yeah. I guess I’m kind of awesome.”

Noir responded to those who were attacking him with a moderate smile and looked around.

-Most of the people who stick around you are probably barons, self-authors, or commoners. At first.

Before entering, Gray Gibraltar warned.

– Under the guise of pure curiosity about the people of the Earl of Gibraltar, he will try his best to get noticed. Even if he is younger than me.

Gibraltar’s likely successor.

He entered school at the age of 14.

Thanks to training from a young age and losing some belly fat, it is no exaggeration to say that he is an adult man with a small physique.

-Of course, they will target men as well as women.

“Master Noir. Do you need someone to spar with? I’m not intermediate, but I still ranked high on the swordsmanship test!”

“How did you study the imperial language? Wow, Christine doesn’t know the imperial language very well. “Can you teach me?”

Literally, all kinds of people cling to each other and try to talk.

To be honest, I’m a little tired, and I’m worried about what will happen in the future if I stick to it like this from the day after the entrance ceremony, but-

“Oh, yes.”

Noir answered appropriately, making eye contact with no one.

-Just because you are 14 years old and because you are Gibraltar, the guardian of nobles, those who dare to look down on you will be the first to cling to you.

Noir thought of Gray Gibraltar’s advice again and again.

-You will suffer for a while. Unfortunately, there are no people in Orosol Academy that can be called your personal guards, like there were in Gibraltar territory.

Why do nobles carry knights and soldiers by their side?

Why was my brother always accompanied by Sir Robert or Viscount Mente Rift?

Why do you always say to yourself, ‘Take with you at least one Dark Knight candidate? Did you say ‘even Ethan Cesar’?

“As expected, it’s Gibraltar! To have an attendant to serve you master pass the test! As expected of a great margrave family! Haha!”

“…”

He once again realized how comfortable it was when he took the Dark Knight trainees to the Royal Guard in Gibraltar.

-You will realize it when you experience it yourself. What a warm place the canyon called Gibraltar was.

Noir Gibraltar began to recall Gray’s words he had heard while sparring.

“So, Master Noir. This time-“

“Hey.”

Gray’s words came to mind before speaking to the bug that closed to him next to him.

“You…”

-Just try whatever you want.

Gray Gibraltar clearly said so.

-No matter who you make as your personal guard or who you make as a friend. That’s your freedom.

An ally, an acquaintance, a friend.

Anyone said it didn’t matter.

-It doesn’t matter who you have as your enemy. If you are an enemy that Gibraltar can take responsibility for.

Even if it means fighting someone, he said, if you have the confidence to handle it, do whatever you want.

“Master. Have a fight with me-“

“What are you doing?”

“Yes, yes… ?”

“Who are you to keep bothering me?”

“Oh, that’s it. I said hello to you earlier… “

“Once you say hello, is it okay to keep making noise next to you like this?”

“…”

“Don’t bother me and get out.”

When Noir grabbed one person and openly criticized them, the people who tried to cling to them blushed and backed away one by one.

“Huh…”

After increasing the distance for a while.

“…Wednesday. How was I like your older brother?”

Chat Noir continued to walk looking in front of her and asked her woman who was following behind her.

“Gray doesn’t tell you to turn off.”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

“You don’t even answer and don’t give any room to people who try to ask questions.”

“Should I do that too…” ” ?”

Noir lightly brushed the nape of his neck with his hand as he felt the stinging gaze behind him.

“Are you tired already?”

“It’s not that I’m tired, but somehow no one feels like it.”

Noir talked to Wednesday-45 without even making eye contact.

“Should I just be like the ice princess?”

“… If you’re talking about Princess Naria, she’ll be scolded behind her back even more than she is now. She’s right there.”

Ahead, beyond the plaza between the academy buildings.

“Do you see over there? Princess Lia walking alone carrying her purse.”

“…”

“She doesn’t even have anyone from the royal family. No one approaches her. Maybe it’s because she’s royal, but …”

“My brother said that. Even insects are not attracted to flowers without even a scent. Adults may not know about Princess Naria, but students will not be very interested.”

Chat Noir clicked her tongue as she watched Lia walking casually through the plaza where the crowd separated.

“I know what you mean. Princess Naria, you don’t even look at the people around you.”

“I felt the gaze. Already on the first day of the entrance ceremony, Princess Naria’s gaze as she scanned the people.”

How should we evaluate it?

“…My brother sometimes looked at the faces of children who came into the orphanage or looked at the list. Princess Naria.”

“That means…”

“I am now looking for someone who will take responsibility for the future of the kingdom.”

The Kingdom of Nostrum is in danger.

The tyranny of Saint Geo’s incompetence is shaking not only the finances of the country but also the entire country, and the storehouses are emptying day by day and the people’s dissatisfaction is piling up.

Princess Naria needs it.

A person who will support the shaking pillars of Nostrum Castle by his side

There is a need for a large number of capable administrators who can handle numerous official documents while holding on to pillars, and can erect new pillars with one foot and repair pillars with the other hand.

Competent.

“What do you think? Your gaze is as if you are grading the person before even talking to them.”

“You could say it’s the gaze of a superior who already knows everything about me.”

Although they are children who have not yet become adults, they can feel it in a human way through their eyes.

The way this person looks at me contains the gaze of a ‘superior’.

The untouchable eyes of the powerful.

“Anyway, she’s a princess…”

“He may ascend to the throne in three years, so it is natural not to approach him carelessly.”

“The king of the Academy and the one who will become the king of Nostrum. If he tries to be friendly with you for no reason, you never know what might happen to him later.”

No one can easily approach Princess Naria and the next king.

“Can I make friends properly?”

“The concept of a friend itself will be difficult to establish. Just by getting close to him, he can become a vassal.”

Everyone is suspicious.

About the reason why Naria Geo Nostrum wanted to join the Orosol Academy instead of the regular Royal Academy.

“Everyone will think that you came looking for someone who will become your subject in three years. That’s what my brother said.”

“Who would want to become a subject? Even now, work is difficult and administrators are leaving.”

The king’s closest associate.

It’s a wonderful word.

“The princess is looking for me now.”

I wish my maternal relatives, the Duke of Morgania, hadn’t left all of the family’s household chores behind and was devoting all of their energy to running the entire kingdom.

“Someone who will work like Viscount Hex.”

I wish there were powerful people who can afford to indulge in luxury and pleasure, and run the government while sleeping 3 to 4 hours a day because they think, “If this continues, the country will fail.”

“That’s why you’re not going to Princess Naria. Freshmen, everyone.”

If only people who worked hard for the country could be established in various places, and those closest to them could enjoy power and wealth to their heart’s content.

“…I guess they just think it would be better to become friends with the person who will become the margrave.”

Probably, most of those trying to approach Noir Gibraltar by now would have made every effort to beg Naria Geo Nostrum.

“Who would want to throw away their territory and work in the royal capital until they are bald and bent over? That too…”

“If you get bitten now, you will be working for the kingdom from your first year at the Academy. “Unconditionally.”

“…”

Naria Geo Nostrum.

Unlike Noir Gibraltar, which receives everyone’s attention, the core of the storm that everyone avoids.

“My brother…”

“Oh, master. Just a moment.”

The moment Noir was about to say something, Wednesday was embarrassed and pulled Noir’s collar.

“Quiet, this way.”

“Suddenly what-“

Noir was taken aback by Wednesday’s sudden behavior

“…!!”

Seeing where Wednesday’s gaze landed, she immediately left her position and hid inside the building.

“…”

Wednesday, who looked at Noir who immediately abandoned her and ran away, laughed in confusion and followed Noir, turning her head behind her.

“Ha.”

The core of a typhoon?

That is a walking typhoon itself.

“…”

Gray Gibraltar.

Astasia von Tersian.

Two people are walking across Academy Square.

At a very slow pace.

“…Now that I think about it.”

Wednesday tilted her head as she ducked into the building.

“Why are you carrying a cane… ?”

* * *

One hand is Astasia’s hand.

The other hand holds a cane.

It’s not that I walk with a limp on my right leg, but I have to walk at a much slower pace than others.

“Can’t we just run, Chairman?”

“No.”

Outside, I said to Astasia in a stern voice and tone.

“I have to hold him so he can’t escape.”

“I don’t run away.”

“Well, I think it’ll fly away if I don’t hold on to it.”

“…”

Astasia has a disgusted look on her face, and she can’t help but walk with her wrist she held in front of me.

Anyone can see that it looks like I am holding onto Astasia and restraining her.

Starting the day after the entrance ceremony, he shows himself walking like this, holding the imperial granddaughter’s wrist her?

“What is that?”

She was embarrassed to the point that someone who tried to correct her speaking style by saying she was at the royal academy started speaking in tongues without realizing it.

“Granddaughter Hwang is dragging her away… ? No. She’s being held… ?”

“Look at that. The red wrist. It looks like it’s holding on tight and not letting go…?”

“Why, why? What on earth is that?”

Everyone is confused.

“Is it okay to do that to the imperial granddaughter of the empire?”

A scene that collapses common sense, paralyzes reason, and makes even those who thought the future of the kingdom was good think about international diplomatic relations.

“Chairman. Those hands…”

“Why don’t you like it?”

“Well, it’s not like that…”

“If you want, I can prepare a rope or something.”

“Well, it’s a bit weird to say something like that… !”

A situation that no one can understand.

By this afternoon, the rumor that ‘Gray Gibraltar has grabbed the wrist of Astasia’s granddaughter and headed somewhere’ will quickly spread throughout the academy.

‘It matters who caught it.’

At first glance, it looks like Astasia is ahead of her and I am following behind her, but it is important that I hold her hand.

“Do you hate me?”

“Si, how many times have I told you it’s not that I don’t like it… !”

“Then, go ahead calmly. Before I put you on a leash in front of others.”

“This… ! Is it okay to say such rude things to the imperial granddaughter of the empire?”

Astasia blushes and raises her voice.

“Ah, no matter how much I lost the bet!!”

I’ve never made a bet like that.

“Hey, even if a promise is a promise, it still goes this far… !”

“That’s why you should have been careful about what you say. Betting is not something you do carelessly.”

I have never placed a bet.

“Once a snake has bitten its prey, it holds onto it and does not let go until it is digested.”

“Am I the prey?”

“Because she’s a woman I don’t want to let go of.”

“…Ha.”

Astasia stops walking and glares at me with her half-closed eyes.

“Why?”

“Because she’s the woman you want to embrace?”

“…”

“It’s basic for all males to see a girl they like and think they want it. I’m a male too.”

“Ha…”

Astasia laughs as if she is amazed.

“Are all men in the kingdom like this?”

“Well, wouldn’t it be mostly similar?”

“I heard that all Gibraltar family members are gentlemanly.”

“I want it so much that I want to give up that gentlemanliness.”

“Do you think you want a woman? “A woman is not a man’s property.”

“It’s a possession. That’s right. It’s not a possession. If it was a possession, I wouldn’t have put it in my pocket and took it out a long time ago.”

“Haa…”

Astasia sighs once more.

“Gray Gibraltar, Chairman of the Gorge Foundation.”

The central square extending straight from the main gate of Orosol Academy.

“Why on earth are you doing this?”

“Why?”

In front of everyone.

“That’s right.”

Declare.

“Because I need to have you.”

To all of them, Gray Gibraltar is obsessed with Astasia von Tersian.

Spread it.

So that the whole continent can know.

So much so that Habsburg von Tersian, who returned to the imperial palace, could clap his feet as soon as he heard the news.