I Became the Genius Bastard of a Noble Dark Clan – 13

Chapter 13

Episode 13

He concentrated and scanned the numbers on the document with his eyes.

After reading it twice, I was able to memorize all the numbers in the numerous items without missing a single decimal point.

‘One piece of evidence secured.’

But this alone was not enough.

A decisive blow was needed.

‘It’s about time I got caught in the trap.’

At that moment, the butler came back in a hurry.

“Here is the wine you were talking about.”

“Thank you. You’re not upset with me, are you?”

“No! How could I have such feelings!!”

“Yeah, even though you act like this to me, I actually like you a lot.”

“Thank you! I too am loyal to you, Master!”

After sharing such a ridiculous story.

The butler rolled his eyes and opened his mouth.

“Excuse me… Master. Actually, I had something to tell you anyway.”

“huh?”

“There are friends who are looking for you. They are people who were close to you before. They want to meet you secretly. At the place you always see each other.”

Chris stared at the butler.

Although he was smiling friendly, Chris could feel the emotions hidden in the butler’s eyes.

It was ‘enemy’.

“Oh, I hope you don’t get too close to those guys. After all… they have a bad reputation.”

Chris laughed.

If you were really worried, you wouldn’t have said such things.

“I’ll meet you.”

“master?”

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“Didn’t you hear what I said? I’ll meet you. Tell them that.”

The butler opened his eyes wide and lowered his head.

“I will follow your orders.”

Chris snickered.

‘I got caught.’

Chris had a gut feeling.

The rat got caught in his own trap.

It’s time to catch the rats.

* ? ?* ? ?*

What kind of people are Mangnani’s friends?

Of course, they were of a similar category.

Children who were raised by a moderately powerful family.

Those were Christian’s friends, the original owners of this body.

“Long time no see, buddy!”

“I heard rumors that you’ve changed. How funny.”

Chris just nodded as he watched the guys approach him and pretend to be friendly.

‘You said you were the children of the nobles of the countship?’

The Magic Empire, the world of the Minds, had a social system similar to the outside world.

There was a territory, and there were people of the territory.

However, the difference was that instead of knights and nobles ruling over the people, it was the magicians who mastered magic who ruled.

As a collateral branch of the Dark Maga, the Counts of Kazar possessed vast territories, and they were the children of low-level officials who managed the territories on behalf of the Counts.

“By the way, you insulted the daughter of the most poisonous Maga. Truly, Christian is the most hopeless of us all!”

“That’s right. Christian is the closest to a dog among us.”

Chris snickered as he watched those guys joking around like this.

Chris’ friends tilted their heads at his unusual reaction.

Something was different than usual.

“It’s been a long time since we last met, but you haven’t said anything. Are you not happy to see us?”

“Ah, just.”

Chris smiled quietly.

“Should we go in quickly?”

The place where they met now was the downtown area of the largest city in the Khazar County.

As I entered a building in the alley, a view that I could not have imagined from the outside unfolded before me.

A bar with a dark atmosphere.

It was a place that not only sold alcohol, but also various illegal items.

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, Young Master!”

The manager, with a sullen look on his face, bowed to me.

“How can I get there?”

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“As we discussed before.”

“Yes, I will do that! Come inside!”

One of the friends spoke, and the manager replied briskly.

As I entered the spacious room, a sumptuously prepared meal and drink was immediately brought in.

‘Isn’t this whiskey from the Karn Empire outside? It’s hard for even the nobles of the Karn Empire to obtain whiskey, so I’m looking at it here.’

Chris clicked his tongue.

That wasn’t all that was surprising.

“Here is a child specially prepared to serve you, my lord.”

Late teens?

A girl with a delicate appearance came inside, trembling.

I came to serve drinks.

‘It’s quite a sight.’

Chris frowned.

For reference, this body is currently only fifteen years old.

But not only did he drink a lot of alcohol, he also had to serve it to him.

Judging by the way it looks, it seems like a familiar thing.

Wow, that was a really great turn of events.

‘These guys are the same.’

Chris looked at his ‘friends’ with narrowed eyes.

“What’s wrong? Your face keeps looking bad. Have you been scolded by the Count that much?”

“Or do you not like that kid?”

Chris shook his head.

“No, just drink.”

“Okay, I’ll pour you a drink. Take it!”

One of my friends poured me a drink.

Chris brought the glass to his lips.

I didn’t intend to drink it. I just wanted to smell it.

Indeed, the alcohol ‘smelled’.

It was a smell that others would not notice.

But Chris had a long history of doing illegal work in the back alleys, so he knew right away what the alcohol smelled like.

It was ‘medicine’.

‘So that’s what it was.’

I already knew that today’s meeting was a conspiracy by the rat bastard, Butler Cox.

Indeed, I wondered what the conspiracy was, it was to make him addicted to ‘medicine’.

‘It wasn’t just about getting me drunk on drugs, it was about making me commit a huge mistake while I was drunk.’

I had a guess about that too.

Chris glanced at the trembling girl.

“What are you doing? Why don’t you drink it?”

The friend who had poured the drink urged me again in a somewhat uneasy voice.

Chris handed his glass back to his friend.

“I don’t feel like it. You drink this.”

“What? That, that’s….”

He was embarrassed.

“Oh, Christian, this is the glass I poured for you, so of course you should drink it….”

“It’s not that you can’t drink it because you’re afraid of the medicine inside?”

“!!”

My friends’ faces hardened.

Chris snapped his fingers.

The girl who had been shivering as the 1st-star black magic, ‘Descent of Sleep’, unfolded fell into a deep sleep.

The friends’ eyes widened at the natural manifestation of magic.

“Christian? When did you start practicing black magic?”

“shut up.”

“What, what?”

“Shut up, both of you. It’s disgusting.”

Chris grabbed each of his friends’ heads with a different hand.

Boom! It hit the table.

“Crash!!”

“Kuaaaah!!”

Chris didn’t stop at just one.

He slammed their faces repeatedly on the table.

In an instant, his face turned red.

What was surprising was that there was such a huge commotion going on inside, but no sound came from outside.

It was because of the ‘Silence’ magic that Chris had used.

“Stop it….”

“Why, why are you doing this…?”

Chris shrugged.

“You don’t know why I’m doing this? Then I guess I’ll have to get beaten more.”

BANG!!

Again their heads were banged on the table.

They tried to resist in their own way, but it was no use.

After briefly subduing him, he bound his hands and feet with another 1-star black magic spell, ‘Rope of Darkness’.

“S-Stop!! Okay, I was wrong…!! I took the drugs… just… to make you happier, Christian.”

“Nothing to say.”

BANG!!

It was repeated over and over again.

Until they cry out in pain and confess their sins.

“P-please… Stop. I, I’ll die if I keep doing this….”

“Isn’t that short?”

Boom!

“Ahhh! I’m sorry! Uh, we… we were just following orders. Christian, you… uh, no, I made you take the medicine.”

“What were you going to do by giving me medicine?”

They hesitated.

Chris slammed their faces into the table again.

Boom! Bang!

“Kwaaak!! That… that… That girl was killed and tried to frame her.”

Chris let out a hollow laugh.

Even in the Magic Empire, murder is a grave sin.

While ‘accidental killings’ resulting from fights between mines are often easily overlooked, killing civilians without reason is strictly prohibited.

In other words, the opponent set a trap that would completely destroy him.

“Who ordered you?”

“That… that is….”

“Is this Butler Cox?”

Both of them opened their eyes wide.

They lowered their heads, already realizing that Chris knew everything.

“Oh, that’s right. That half-vampire guy was threatening us by taking advantage of our weaknesses. We had no choice.”

As expected, it was.

Chris, who had now clearly learned the identity of the rat, became lost in thought.

‘Why?’

Why did Butler Cox try to ruin Christian?

I don’t think you have any personal grudges.

‘Well, we’ll find out once we catch it.’

Chris thought simply.

He took out a dagger and aimed it at their necks.

“I did something that deserves death, so I have nothing to say even if I die.”

“Please… save me…!!”

“Why should I save you?”

Chris asked absentmindedly.

The two of them trembled when they realized that it was true.

“Please just let me live! I’ll do anything if you let me live!”

“You may become Christian’s slave!”

Those were just words I blurted out because I wanted to live.

But Chris surprisingly reacted to those words.

“Can you really swear that you can do anything?”

“Yes, that’s right! Anything!! You can even tell me to be a dog!”

“Can you really swear to that?”

“Yes, yes!! I swear!!”

Chris raised the corners of his mouth.

“I will keep your ‘oath’.”

Direct.

A mark appeared on their foreheads and disappeared with a terrible sound, as if a soldering iron was being burned.

That’s right, the terrible black magic that can enslave others under certain conditions, the ‘Seal of Bondage’, was manifested by Chris.

“From now on, listen carefully to what I say and do as I say.”

The eyes of the two who heard the ‘order’ grew as big as lanterns.

Now, it is time to cut off the head of the trapped rat, Butler Cox.

* ? ?* ? ?*

The count’s office in the count’s house.

Count Kazar was looking out the window with a sunken face.

“That bastard Christian went out into the city?”

“…Yes, that’s right.”

Butler Cox nodded.

“I’m sorry. I should have tried to stop you somehow.”

“No, how could that be your fault?”

Count Kazar let out a long sigh.

Butler Cox reported that Chris had been visiting an illegal bar with his gang of thugs.

I didn’t want to imagine what he was doing.

‘If I hadn’t had high expectations, I wouldn’t have been so disappointed.’

I thought it would be different this time, but it was as expected.

It was when Count Khazar had a bitter look on his face.

Suddenly there was a commotion outside the office.

“What’s going on?!”

The moment Count Kazar frowned, the door to the office opened with a bang.

One of mines raised his voice with a thoughtful face.

“This is a big deal!!”

“…What’s going on?”

Count Kazar’s heart pounded anxiously.

“They say that the young master committed murder in the castle!”

* ? ?* ? ?*

The Count’s house was turned upside down!

“What… does that mean? Murder?”

Count Kazar’s hands trembled.

“Your Majesty’s friends came to the castle in a hurry to inform you!”

“Tell them to come in here!”

Then, the friends who had been with Chris earlier appeared.

Count Kazar furrowed his eyebrows at the faces that were somewhat timid and mangled.