The Demon Prince goes to the Academy - Chapter 366

Chapter 366

There were two reasons why Harriet was reluctant to tell me the contents of the conversation.

One is that no matter what happens, the result is that you end up cursing your friend’s parents.

The second was that I was afraid that I would be hurt after hearing those words.

After returning to the Temple, Harriet and I chatted in the empty laboratory at the Magic Research Club mansion.

Harriet was invited to breakfast.

The people who were there were the Duke and Duchess of Grantz.

Duke Grantz said that he looked embarrassed, perhaps not knowing that Harriet would come to the breakfast table.

Of course, Harriet, who was invited to breakfast alone, would have been even more embarrassed.

“Just what… … . At the beginning, they asked me about how my parents were doing and whether they had any plans to come to the ecliptic.”

It seemed that the Duchess had a lot of questions about Harriet de Saintoine, the daughter of the Archduke, rather than Harriet the Temple student.

Harriet was hesitant, hesitant about whether or not to talk about it.

“and then… … . All of a sudden, he says he’s not sure if the temple life is really good… … . You said something like that… … .”

“What are you talking about?”

“In the temple, commoners also receive education. therefore… … . When it comes time for nobles and royalty to get married later, what happened at the temple remains a scandal… … . Originally, it is unwritten rule not to talk about such things. Rumors circulate behind the scenes… … . Who said what happened to whom? … .”

ah.

I understand what you mean.

“So, you can enter Temple if you have money, so you said that if kids from noble backgrounds stick together with this guy, it might get in the way of their marriage or something in the future, right?”

“What are you talking about! Seriously real!”

When I expressed it too nakedly, Harriet’s face turned red and shouted.

However, when I expressed it rather harshly, Harriet slumped over the table as if in desperation.

“anyway… … . In other words, you are right. Just because you’re from the temple, whether you’re a man or a woman, when you’re looking for a marriage partner later… … . There are situations in which it is difficult to be treated properly… … . This is it.”

Harriet’s pigtails, as she said those words, were scattered on the table.

cute.

“Is this the ransom price?”

“Mo ransom?! Your expression is really… … . Still, I have to agree. Yes, the ransom is going down. So, if you are a decent lady, it is better to have a tutor than to be well-groomed and educated in a temple or something with people of low origin… … . That way, you can find a good marriage partner later. You said this… … .”

“A couple fighting?”

“that’s right… … .”

Duke Grantz exploded and the Duchess and the Duke fought in front of Harriet.

That’s why Duke Grantz said he was sorry. I left it in front of my daughter’s friend for no reason and showed the couple fighting.

Being from a humble background would have been an insult to all of her friends who came to visit, so Harriet must have been quite uncomfortable.

It’s not something to tell your friend’s parents, but the Duchess seems to be a great person who doesn’t have the level of culture to match her pride.

“Anyway, you know why I didn’t want to talk about it, right?”

“… … It is.”

As a result, there was no choice but to gossip about my friend’s parents, and I didn’t want to talk about it because it might hurt me by talking about being from a humble background.

“To be honest, I don’t know.”

Harriet sighs heavily.

“Ask for your value from others, who did you marry? What kind of person am I seen in the eyes of others? To care only about these things and live a life for them… … . Yes, as you said, ransom. You only care about your own ransom. If that’s the right aristocratic behavior.”

Harriet sees me.

“How is that different from slavery?”

If you care too much about your ransom, you end up wanting to commercialize yourself.

A lifestyle in which I have to behave and live modestly without hanging out with lowly things in order to find someone who will buy me more expensive.

Harriet says she doesn’t know how that differs from the life of a slave after all.

“I don’t think my worth comes only from myself, but it doesn’t come from anything else either. so… … . a little. It was uncomfortable.”

oops

“Oh, this is so special. When did the kid grow up like this?”

It’s so unique that I want to bite it, but this?

Harriet’s eyebrows twisted as I stroked her hair.

“Ah! What are you talking about again! am i a kid don’t do it!”

Harriet screamed as she straightened her tousled hair.

“Last year at this time, the kid who told Ludwig that he would feel bad if a B class came into the A class dormitory, but it’s a big deal if this has happened.”

“!!!!”

At my words, Harriet’s face was so red that she felt like she was about to melt.

If I could say that I want to die because I’m ashamed, even with my facial expression, it would be this guy.

“Don’t talk about the past… … . And it’s not about nobles or commoners… … . profit… … . don’t know fool. I hate you. Really, how do you remember that… … .”

In the end, Harriet poked out and muttered, as if she had nothing to say.

He is fatally cute today. What do we do? Is this what happens when you judge that you have nothing to say?

The Duchess’ attitude was of course disapproving, but it wasn’t that strange.

Rather, such a way of thinking can be taken for granted for those who have been treated with dignity throughout their lives. In fact, there are many royalty and nobles in the temple, but the setting is that there are many people who do not enter the temple because they hate the fact that they have to be educated along with the common people and there is no higher position.

So, there were rather a significant number of nobles who held the same position as the Duchess of Grantz.

In fact, Harriet is also doing this now because she is ashamed of what she said in the past. Originally, she was a guy who divided people according to talent and status.

If I hadn’t forced immunity training, he would still be that kind of guy.

“To be honest, the nobles and royalty around me were strangely kind.”

“huh? suddenly?”

“No, that’s right. No matter how much the Temple says it’s forbidden to press down on your status, you can actually do whatever you want to rely on your authority or status, but no guy did that to me, right?”

At my words, Harriet stares at me with her mouth wide open.

“This madman is really… … . Do you make that noise knowing how you’ve been doing at the Temple so far?”

I didn’t touch it because it was dirty. Harriet had been nagging me for a while, saying that you shouldn’t tell people around you that you’re nice.

This is not what the guy who used to swear and punch when he tried to press it was not what he would say.

no it’s not about that

“No, I’m not talking about that, other than that, there are adults.”

“Adult?”

“okay. your parents or something… … . Etc.”

The Archduke of Saint-Ouane said that status was meaningless because he would be in the same place anyway.

Bertus said that he was equal under him.

Charlotte also treated me comfortably as time passed for her own reasons.

Even Duke Grantz is like the man next door if you look at what he does honestly.

Even the emperor, of course, could have been because of the positions that Ellen and I had, but he was the one who said that there was no need to show respect when alone.

So there was no arrogant and self-respecting aristocrat like the Duchess of Grantz around me.

no.

I did.

Like Erhina Heinrich.

Heinrich became nice after being hit by me a few times, and after seeing Erhi being hit by other kids, he got crushed on his own. No, how many times did Erhi get hit by me? Have you forgotten at all?

hmm… … .

Harriet wasn’t wrong.

All of those guys did something to me.

Since the Duchess of Grantz was said to be the epitome of an arrogant aristocrat, I questioned what I had taken for granted until now.

“By the way, didn’t Liana really care about her status in the first place?”

“hmm?”

Liana de Granz.

It gives off an atmosphere that is difficult to approach in the first place, and it is because of the cold impression.

In reality, he’s easy-going and doesn’t have anything to do with being shy, he’s a guy who sees people as they are and treats them as they are.

He even dragged the death penalty with him during the festival.

“That was… … . I guess.”

If Rihanna dislikes or rejects someone, it’s that person that she dislikes, not that person’s background.

The aristocrats around me, students and parents alike, didn’t say anything about my status to me, so I took it for granted.

Treating commoners calmly like Duke Grantz was a rather unusual case.

Even if Riana pretends to dislike her father, it is clear that she was influenced more by her father than her mother.

A father who treats everyone openly. A mother who values aristocratic manners, pride, and authority.

Between the two of them, she resembles her father, so Riana has such an easy-going and easy-going personality.

now the last

One last step remains.

“What did the couple say to each other when they were fighting?”

“Why do you keep asking me about that?”

“They say the most fun thing in the world is watching a fight. And that proud ducal family also fights with their spouses, aren’t you curious about that?”

“No one cares about that! You are really evil!”

Harriet muttered in tears as if she would not be able to overcome my vicious questioning and prompting.

Harriet sat in a seat she didn’t want to be in, but she has a good memory after all.

“just… … . The duke said that status cannot be human… … . You said that if you think and treat people that way, you’ll leave no one around. As for the wife… … . You are the epitome of the nobles who go to temples and get ruined… … . like that… … .”

There was a mix of unknown sounds, but this made it clear.

The duke must have gone mad when he saw his wife, who had no daughter at breakfast, brought her daughter’s friend to join her at breakfast and forced her own thoughts.

Anger causes loss of reason.

Identity cannot be a person.

That word says it all.

Duke Grantz would have joined the revolutionary forces.

* * *

Three days later.

“He is thorough.”

I was listening to Sarkegar’s report in my dorm room at the Temple.

“how much?”

“Couldn’t your assumption be a guess… … . I haven’t found anything that makes me think so.”

At my instruction to investigate Duke Grantz, Sarkegar immediately went into action.

He wouldn’t be able to enter a place that was overly well-fortified, but the Duke of Grantz wasn’t like that.

However, nothing was found to prove his connection to the revolutionary forces.

“If he is really involved, I guess time will tell… … . If you’re that thorough, you won’t even leave evidence of anything. Even the use of cryptographic correspondence cannot be discerned until the patterns and methods are noticed. Aristocrats use paper very often, so it is not known which of the letters and papers they write each day is related to the revolutionary forces. Even if you did, you wouldn’t know what was in the encrypted content. A very mundane letter asking how you are doing could be a coded letter.”

It was highly probable that Owen de Getmora’s last visit was for business rather than for the revolutionaries.

The reason why Duke Grantz might have been a revolutionary force was ultimately determined by various circumstances and Owen de Getmora, who was clearly affiliated with a revolutionary force.

If Duke Grantz is really a revolutionary force, it means that he is a very thorough person, unlike the impression of a handsome next-door neighbor.

Sarkegar could not find any physical evidence.

“However, I think the judgment of deterioration is certain.”

“why?”

However, Sarkegar agrees that Duke Grantz is a member of the revolutionary faction.

“I, too, am stepping into Imperial society under the name of Count Argon Ponteus.”

“I guess so.”

“It is a scandal known to all who know that the current Duke of Grants, Arthur de Grantz, ran away with a commoner woman he met at the temple.”

“ah.”

Was that the epitome of a person who went to Temple and ruined his life?

“So how did it go?”

“If he finally managed to escape, he couldn’t be the Duke of Grantz.”

A commoner and a love escape.

and fail.

“Isn’t it enough of a background to curse your status and origin?”

Sarkegar, dressed in a maid’s uniform, smiles evilly, showing white teeth with a graceful and graceful face.

please.

Yeah, you know that expression makes us about three times more evil than we actually are, right?

Anyway, that means that now the Duke and Duchess of Grantz had an arranged marriage.

“Of course, Duchess Grantz wasn’t originally that sensitive to status.”

“I don’t know, but the Duchess seems to be a big loser?”

I’m sorry, Liana.

But your mother is a piece of shit.

Oh sorry… … . sorry.

At my words, Sarkegar tilted his head with a grin.

“Come to think of it, Duchess Grantz also has a story. I have no choice but to be that kind of person… … .”

Perhaps it was because he had been living a noble life for quite some time, Sarkegar also had quite a bit of background knowledge about the physiology of socialites and nobles without prior research.

“Duke Grantz tends not to set foot in social circles, but in the case of the Duchess, it’s a little different.”

“hmm… … .”

“But at every social gathering or party you attend, you have that label attached to you, unknowingly.”

Sarkegar laughs grimly.

“The person whom Duke Grantz, who failed to escape from love, was forced to marry by the family.”

“A person who has no choice but to live in a failed marriage.”

“A person who is too lazy to receive love from her husband.”

“A terrible woman who coveted Duke Grantz’s prestige and risked a vulgar scandal to marry Duke Grantz.”

I was terrified when I heard it.

“She is an aristocrat who rose in status because Duke Grantz was literally a scandalous man. Originally, she was only the second daughter of a Hanmi-Han count family who had only a title without even a domain. That is why she is a poor and foolish woman whose very existence has become a scandal.”

What she gained from marrying a scandalous man was the prestige of being Duke of Grantz.

However, rumors follow that she is despised in the social world and that she is a terrible woman who abandoned her dignity in order to rise in status.

That’s why she had no choice but to become a person obsessed with the prestige of being the Duchess of Grants, which she had endured and gained.

He loathes the scandal terribly, but ends up ignoring the fact that he gained everything because of the scandal.

“How could such a marriage have been smooth?”

A duke who failed in his love escape and was eventually captured.

The Duchess, knowing that the person was in such a situation, married an aristocrat and arranged an arranged marriage to raise her status.

The Duchess, knowing that it was a failure, became obsessed with the prestige and prestige she thought she had gained in one marriage. If you deny even that, you will have chosen a failed life.

The duke was forced into marriage.

The fact that they had no children other than Liana would be proof that their marriage had failed. Is it fortunate that there is also Liana?

A duchess who has no choice but to obsess over her status.

The duke would have constantly pondered and cursed at the duchess as to what the status was.

Even from the Orbis class, which has been the cradle of revolutionary forces for a long time.

As Sarkegar said, there is no evidence, but there are too many circumstances.

Just as Charlotte was convinced that Valie was the successor of the Demon King due to too many circumstances, although there was no conclusive evidence.

Due to too many circumstances, Duke Grantz could not help but join the revolutionary forces.

I thought about the fact that Duke Grantz was a revolutionary force, but in the end there was no answer.

“good. In any case, whether or not Duke Grantz was really involved would be something one would naturally find out when contacting the leadership. What is their opinion about my not attending?”

“Although it looked like it was regrettable, there was going to be a high-level meeting soon, and I was able to attend it. If the duke is the core, he will be there too.”

“Okay. Then everything will be clear.”

But in the end, possibilities are just possibilities.

There was still nothing I could make hasty conclusions about in many ways, and even if I knew that Duke Grantz was a revolutionary force, it was still at the stage where it couldn’t be any kind of card for me.