Chapter 48 – Episode 48. It Was an Offer I Could Refuse.
【Please change it.】
‘What?’
【Didn’t you hear that crazy bitch? Please change it.】
‘What, what should I do?’
【I’ll take care of it, so change it. Hurry.】
I couldn’t answer any more. Astrid, it was the first time she heard the voice of the real Astrid.
A quiet voice. It had been a cold voice until now, but now even the tone was different.
If I had to compare it, it was such a voice that I could feel the strong will to tear the opponent right in front of me.
*
Tuck, Tuck, Tuck, Tuck.
Astrid’s mood changed. Astrid, her spirits changed, was snapping his fingers on the table.
And at that moment, Akemilla was watching with a kind smile.
“Hey.”
“… Hey?”
And in an instant, that smile was gone. Akemilla omitted even the honorifics, and she glared at Astrid, who was calling her, with an expression of disbelief.
Excuse me. Excuses are not trivial examples.
Basically, honorific language is used in conversations between nobles.
Besides, Akemilla herself, even though she is a commoner, will soon be given the title of count, and no matter how much she is called a grand duke and a count, she is a conversation between nobles in name and reality.
“Achemilla.”
“Please speak.”
“Are you insane?”
“Look, Lady Mitterien. Basically, conversations use honorifics… “
But she couldn’t finish it.
– Clumsy.
Even without the sound of something hitting, the table the two of them were sitting on was split in half and slowly collapsed.
Astrid, with an expressionless expression on her face, was glaring at Akemilla.
“Shut up before you rip that jaw out. You traitor bitch. Keep in mind that you can shake off all of my lines before you go to your Highness. Keep in mind and listen to me.”
“… Everything, you.”
Akemilla’s expression hardened. I regret not bringing my arms. It was a mistake not to bring an armament to this snow field leopard, Astrid von Mitterien.
“Could you nationalize all guilds and leave only the uraid corps? Have you thought about what would happen if I told this story to Her Highness Leopold or Her Majesty the Emperor? If you don’t intend to eat up this Einhafen that His Majesty the Emperor and my father built with blood and sweat, come on. Explain. What was the purpose of such a condition?”
“That.”
That’s why I didn’t give you a choice, the words didn’t come out of my mouth. Akemilla then realized that she had misjudged her opponent.
Nationalization of all trade unions, and privatization of only the Urade trade union. What this meant was clear. It was tantamount to saying that Uraid would take over the entire distribution network in Einhafen.
【Astrid, calm down.】
‘Keep your mouth shut. It’s not your place to step in.’
【But don’t insult too much.】
‘Is it an insult? Great. I just want to kill him before he feels humiliated.’
With those words, Astrid clenched his fists.
“That was the condition of the deal!”
Tall.
Astrid’s movements stopped. His gaze was clearly glaring at Akemilla. Without the slightest movement, Astrid’s gaze was glaring at Akhemilla’s every move, as if she was about to miss her prey.
“The condition of your deal is that you can risk the rise and fall of the empire? I don’t think she dared to say such absurd things in front of me, who will become the Crown Princess of Eindhafen, and hope that her neck will be attached.”
“That.”
Akemilla couldn’t bear to speak.
In fact, if you put it this way, I knew how to choose the first condition.
Even if she couldn’t choose either, she would lower the terms of the deal little by little, and she would get the ‘gain’ she wanted.
Akemilla never expected that Astrid, who lacked common sense and lacked sociability, who had been roaming around the battlefield as soon as she grew up, would dig in here.
“Achemilla. You looked at me so funny The battlefield is a series of negotiations. How many captives he would give up, and under what conditions, how many lives he would give up. I have been through such negotiations. If you negotiated with me like that, you would have to be prepared for that.”
A chill began to creep around Astrid. A snow storm began to blow.
Akemilla felt a chill. The temperature in the room, which was gradually dropping, might not actually be like that, but at least the death that gripped Akhemilla’s surroundings clearly showed its presence.
She said, “She even watched me talk about the candidate for the Crown Princess and teased her. Even the elder U Reid loved me very much, so she forgave you, her daughter, for rudeness to me. She’s not the only one. How dare you talk about your Highness and my engagement!”
“Hick… !”
Astrid stamped her foot, and the ground caved in on her. As she looked down at her incontinent floor covering, Akemilla gave a terrified expression.
“Yeah, I saw that too. Akemilla, come on. Tell me How do you know what material I want? You didn’t dare to plant ganja around me without fear, did you? If so, then you.”
No.
It never was.
I never planted ganja on Astrid.
No matter how big Arkemilla’s liver was, she didn’t have a swollen liver that she would do.
“Because I will have to die here. Do you know what data I want?”
“Mo, I don’t know. I don’t know. However, the information power of our upper ranks is the best in the empire… “
At those words, Astrid burst out laughing.
【What is this… Is this the daughter of the upper ranks?]
Only then did the fake Astrid figure out the situation.
She had to at least ascertain what Astrid wanted, what she was looking for, and throw her odds. But Akemilla didn’t.
【Even if you don’t have iron, you have to do this or that. No thoughts, no concepts, no manners… 】
Astrid, who was moving his body now, did not answer.
But I could tell. The anger she felt now, she felt, was not the anger she felt because she had been insulted.
It was anger against Akemilla for trying to hold on to the leash of this country, her motherland, the Einhafen Empire.
Astrid, her insults towards her are intolerable.
Astrid, her flirting with her is intolerable.
However, insults to Leopold, the emperor, and even Eindhafen, her homeland, will not be forgiven.
Such anger was burning in Astrid.
“If you couldn’t find the data I wanted. If so, what were you going to do? Is there any workaround? Is there a way I’m asking if you have the confidence to handle this Astrid von Mitterien’s wrath by yourself!”
– Bang!
Again, large cracks were drawn on the flooring.
Now, if you give it a little more strength, it’s about to collapse.
“Crime. Crime… “
“Sorry, it’s not going to end!”
“…”
Her instinct was to say sorry quickly and get out of this crisis, she was sounding the alarm for Akemilla. But reason suppresses it.
She grew up learning all about money from an early age. Although she was pushed in every way by her second son, Alexia, she became the Crown Princess… Or else she thought that if she did something commensurate with it, her father would see Akhemilla again.
She is the Akemilla that was.
So, as soon as she found out that Leopold and Astrid were having a feud, she was delighted, and she tried to stab her in various ways.
‘… Is it a failure… ?’
As Akhemilla blamed herself for her own impatience, her anger at Astrid was waning bit by bit.
In the background, there was fake Astrid’s bloody persuasion.
【No, just look at it. She said that because she was just stupid and thoughtless. She wouldn’t even know what she meant by what she said? If she does this with a child like that, that’s a bit like that. Is not it?】
‘I’m old enough to know. When you’re 20.’
【You don’t even know about love!】
‘… Why is that being said here!?’
【Anyway, change it now. I will cry.]
The atmosphere in the room changed instantly.
Astrid’s atmosphere, which had been vicious as if she was about to pull Akhemilla’s neck out just a little while ago, suddenly changes, and her life that was spurting out like mad and pressuring Akemilla disappears as if it were washed away.
“… Akemilla. Do you know what you did wrong?”
No answer came back.
【That bitch, she doesn’t even reflect on it, really.】
‘Stay still.’
“I’ll just look at you this time. Just because you’re a count, you can’t just install it carelessly. Under those conditions, you have to walk while looking at your opponent. To think that you were trying to make a deal with me, the Grand Duchess, on that condition. You are so reckless.”
A sharp rebuke that you are so lacking in people’s eyes.
“I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear it this time. And, unfortunately, I already found what I was looking for. In the first place, the transaction with you was not established. Get that much information and make a deal. Okay?”
【You didn’t find out anything, did you?】
‘That’s right, because I knew it was witchcraft. If you remove the magic and the ban, and ask Leopold for help, it will be solved.’
【Hmm… Well, do it yourself. That.】
Akemilla looked half-dead.
Astrid judged that it would be better for her to go this far.
If pushed further, a cornered mouse will bite the cat.
A thoughtless mouse may bite a cat even when it is not in a predicament.
So, it would be good to end here.
“Okay then, let’s go. Before I get any more angry.”
