A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

10 – These funds are now mine (5)

Queen Carmen invited her to her bedroom.

It can be woven into a very meaningful situation, but no one will be able to imagine something so disgusting.

“You are the first man to enter my bedroom like this.”

“It is an honor, queen.”

“hehehe, really, the more we talk about it, the more fun it gets.”

Queen Carmen sat on the bed in her dress, staring at me and giggling. Her eyes were full of mischief.

“You two want to talk. Everyone, go out.”

“Queen?”

“I told him to get out. You wouldn’t expect a 10-year-old boy to do something to me, right? Like assassinate me.”

“…….”

The female knights, including the maid, looked at each other hesitantly, but soon bowed their heads and left the room.

“With this in mind, you are truly the first man to come into my bedroom.”

“Has Archduke Morgania never visited?”

“Ahahahahaha!!”

Queen Carmen smiled brightly as she held her stomach.

“Really, the more I talk about it, the more I-“

Wiping away her tears, she smiled bitterly.

“Can we be the same as me?”

“…….”

“You’ve had a lot of hardships since you were young. Being much smarter and more mature than others means the pain of having the blessing of growing up without knowing anything taken away from you at an early age.”

The reason why Queen Carmen suddenly said this is because this woman now considers me to be in the same family as her.

“I’ve only just heard that Gray Gibraltar is a genius. Why did you reveal your identity?”

“I did it because I thought that if I didn’t, my father would come to the palace with a sword.”

“…Really, everything you say is interesting. It’s even more surprising because it’s likely true.”

Queen Carmen crossed her legs and rested her chin.

“Gray. Why did you mention Archduke Morgania and my father?”

“Well, the Queen has never brought His Highness here.”

“Can we take that as an insult to the royal family?”

“I’m just telling you the truth as it is.”

“Whether that is true or not is just your guess.”

“If I’m wrong, I’ll have to sacrifice my head for it. But I think I’m right.”

Queen Carmen is still smiling.

The corners of her mouth darken, but her eyes are cold and sunken, searching me.

“The king and queen appear to be well-connected externally. However, in reality, it was only a political relationship. Except for one child born from the relationship, it is presumed that they did not even have a marital relationship.”

“You can’t believe you said something like that even with the queen in front of you. You want to die, don’t you?”

“Are you going to kill me?”

“Because you are her son?”

“But she is also her father’s son.”

Before I was killed, I took out a card to preserve my life.

“Here, there is a letter.”

“……Huh?”

“This is a letter written directly by my father to the queen.”

“What, what?”

Queen Carmen jumped up from her seat.

“That’s a lie. There’s no way he wrote a letter to me. In the first place, he-“

“You said you have never written a letter to the queen before.”

My father’s letters were always addressed to my mother.

“So I asked you to write it. As a gift to the queen.”

“…….”

“Would you like to read it?”

“……Really, he’s a smart kid to the point of being hateful. No, he’s an aristocrat disguised as a kid.”

Queen Carmen received a letter from me as if she were handing over her treasure.

As soon as she opened the letter sealed in wax with the seal of Gibraltar, the corners of Queen Carmen’s eyes began to lower.

“Crimson….”

Queen Carmen still holds her father in her heart, so much so that she recognized him as her father as soon as she saw his handwriting.

Well, the content is simple.

“Your son told you to write a letter? hahahaha, really, at least tell a lie.”

My father told the story as it was.

Family story.

The story of the canyon.

It was closer to a status report to the royal family than a letter, but it was enough.

“This is the most valuable and wonderful gift I have received in the past year. All right. Just for today, I will forgive you for any and all rudeness.”

Queen Carmen folded her letter again politely and slipped it into the drawer of her nightstand next to her own bed.

“Where should I start? I was just going to ask you to tell me your father’s story, but you seem to have more important things to do than that.”

“Yes. There are public things to do, there are private things to do, and there are things to ask for.”

“I have a lot of business.”

“If you listen to everything, I can tell you my father’s story until the moon sets and the morning sun rises.”

“……Then, let’s take our time and have some refreshments.”

Queen Carmen got up from her bed.

“Do you like tea? Or do you like cookies?”

“I like black tea. I like chocolate better than cookies.”

“You seem to have a firm taste.”

“Father.”

I flinch.

“Lord Crimson, you like chocolate?”

“Are you asking about my taste? I eat just about anything.”

“…If you said this on purpose to score points, then you are not only very intelligent, but quite clever.”

Queen Carmen grumbled and took care of her own refreshments.

Black tea, top-quality candies, and chocolate are placed in a luxurious tea bowl.

“Sit down. And now, don’t try to shake me up by bringing up the story of the Margrave.”

“Is it okay to bring this up publicly?”

“You are really too smart to even understand these words. How could the central government hate a child like you?”

“There is no central noble who likes Gibraltar. So I came here myself to make allies.”

“…….”

Queen Carmen raised a cup filled with black tea.

Although the eyes are focused on the tea, a noble lady drinking tea during a conversation is like a knight having a sword.

“It’s not like the Margrave, and it’s not like that woman. It’s a mutation itself. Okay. Then, I’ll give you the answer.”

With her half-sunken eyes, Queen Carmen unfolded the parchment she had placed on her table.

“It’s impossible. 50 Billion. Are you asking me to give up such a huge amount?”

“You’re hot.”

“It only hurts my mouth to talk to someone like you. For me…”

“Would you like to finish the story quickly and listen to your father’s story?”

“I would have told you not to do that.”

“hehehe.”

Slightly, I took the initiative.

“Please at least convince me. 50 Billion gold is not just a construction cost, but a kind of alimony.”

“Alimony?”

“It could also be called a settlement. A settlement for the Countess being s*xually harassed by her husband.”

“…….”

“Are you really going to wipe your mouth after being punched in the face?”

“Aren’t you 10 years old?”

Queen Carmen’s body leans to one side.

She lowered her head to the side and rested her chin again with one of her hands.

“I was smart like you, but I don’t think I was this hard-headed.”

“My father was a bit angry at me for being such a soft and simple son. During the meal, someone suddenly died, and I thought I couldn’t just leave him alone.”

“…….”

“My father doesn’t know. Those who were there….”

I lightly tapped my eyes with my finger.

“The eyes and ears of Nostrum, no, Morgania.”

“…….”

“It was bad luck. The servants who were killed on the spot were all spies planted by the count’s family.”

“Margrave, you didn’t know?”

“Yes. The reason my father killed them was because they could not protect her mother. They brought her mother directly to the royal capital.”

“…….”

Queen Carmen sipped her tea once more.

This is the second time.

“If the project passes, it will not become a public issue. Even the social world will know that this is a hand of reconciliation extended by the royal family, and no one in Nostrum will argue about this matter any more.”

“But 50 billion is excessive.”

“It’s not like we’re going to do all the construction with 50 billion won, right?”

“…What?”

I reached into the small bowl of candy and placed five candies on top of the empty bowl.

“The actual construction cost is expected to be approximately 30 billion won. Let’s do this for the remaining 20 billion won.”

I left the three as is, then took one from each and placed them in front of me and Queen Carmen.

“How are you feeling?”

“…Who do you think will do the supervision and auditing?”

“In Morgania.”

“…….”

Queen Carmen frowns.

She covers her face with her hands and glares at me with her uncomprehending eyes.

“Does the Margrave know about this matter?”

“You have delegated full authority to me.”

“Then this is purely your will?”

“Yes. This is a matter that is permitted at the same time.”

“The Margrave gave permission? You’re not saying this to confuse me?”

“Yes.”

“…….”

Carmen’s expression became more serious.

The Earl of Gibraltar, who does not allow any waste in the management of taxes, especially when it comes to national defense, decided to turn a blind eye to ‘excessive execution’.

“This is….”

“It’s corruption. A secret agreement between Morgania and Gibraltar.”

I leisurely clasped my hands and leaned back on the sofa.

“Who would have thought that if a 10-year-old boy was talking in the queen’s bedroom, she would at most talk about her father’s private life?”

“…No one would expect such a political deal.”

“I think 10-year-old Princess Carmen can fully predict this.”

“Even that genius princess wouldn’t have any idea how to deal with her if her partner was this bold and eccentric.”

Am I being scolded now?

“Where can you find a 10-year-old child who proudly says to the palace, ‘We will commit corruption’?”

“hehehe.”

“It’s not a compliment. Ha, was the Margrave like this when he was young? Is this something like your mother?”

“Are the good things like my father, and the bad things like my mother?”

“Why do you hate hearing your mother scold you?”

“I neither like it nor dislike it. I understand the queen’s hatred for her mother.”

“……What?”

For the first time, Queen Carmen showed emotional agitation.

“What did you just say?”

“I understand Queen Carmen. There is nothing sadder than when something she wants is ‘taken away’ from her.”

It was taken away.

In reality, unrequited love failed, but the person concerned does not think so.

“Isn’t one of the reasons you dislike His Majesty the King because he was unable to properly seduce her mother?”

“…….”

“If her mother had chosen His Majesty the King instead of her father, the position of Countess would have been Carmen Morgania.”

“…….”

Queen Carmen said nothing.

Although his expression is stiff, he seems preoccupied with thinking about ‘things that haven’t happened’ after every word I say.

“Ah. Then Queen Carmen becomes my mother.”

“…Rather than having a child like you, it would be better to have Naria with the Margrave.”

Queen Carmen laughed, raising her hands as if she had lost.

“Yes, son who could have been my son. What do you wish for?”

“I want you to be my political mother?”

“……What?”

“It’s literally like that.”

Lightly quench her throat with black tea.

“For the future political movements of the Earl of Gibraltar, what other political background can there be as strong as Queen Carmen and the Grand Duchess of Morgania?”

“Do you know the weight of what you are saying?”

“Yes. I already told you in the audience hall. I would like to thank you for your kindness regarding the room provided for the Gibraltar family in the Duke of Morgania.”

“That’s…!”

“I understood it as political rhetoric, not as a prank on a 10-year-old child.”

League of the Margrave and Queen of Gibraltar.

This could result in an instant turnaround in central politics.

“Just by having one Sword Master in the capital, the power of the political forces supported by that Sword Master becomes stronger.”

“The Margrave must stay in Gibraltar. There is no reason for him to be here, because….”

“Maybe it’s because Charlotte Gibraltar is in Gibraltar. But there’s a way to that too.”

“You, no way….”

“We need to create a situation where the Margrave must be in the palace. Even if his mother is in Gibraltar. For example….”

I looked out the window.

“Dethronement, rebellion, riot, civil war.”

“!!”

The line has been crossed.

“There is nothing strange about divorcing a dethroned king, and there is nothing strange about remarrying a hero who saved the country.”

“You….”

“Was I wrong?”

“…I would have told you not to use the Margrave to shake me.”

“Sorry. hehehe.”

However, even though I clearly said something dangerous, the queen has already been swayed by good.

Deep down in her heart, the queen already wants to oust the incompetent king.

“The power of the Sword Master is needed to control the chaotic capital. However, if you bring your helpless wife to the capital, it is a dangerous situation because you may be taken hostage.”

“…To make sure that only the Margrave comes to the royal capital.”

“More than anything, the gateway to the canyon protected by Gibraltar must be strong.”

“So, this is it.”

“Yes.”

The business plan is basically about maintenance and repair of the gateway and ‘strengthening defense capabilities’.

“I will make the board. After that, it is up to the queen to change the heart of my father, who is alone in the royal capital.”

“Are you saying it’s okay for me to be your stepmother? What about your mother?”

“Queen. I think so. It’s the same for everyone…”

This is.

“Love isn’t a sin, is it?”

I am sincere.

“I just think that you can do anything for the one you love.”

I picked up my share of candy and held it respectfully toward her queen’s mouth.

“If necessary, I can even give you this. At least for now.”

“……Ha.”

Queen Carmen stroked one of her ears with her hand.

“Really, the Margrave gave birth to a good son.”

I lightly bit down on my candy with my hand.

“You.”

Page.

“I will take her mother’s place from her. Don’t hold any grudges.”

Queen Carmen’s lipstick left a dark mark on my fingers.

“I have to have it.”

With the scent of black tea and sparkling water.