Becoming the Villain’s Family - Chapter 242
Chapter 242
Tristan curled his red lips up without much response.
The reason the Emperor educated his children through fantasy was because they were no different from the Emperor.
“Going back to the point, I witnessed the moment when Count Castagne died. But Allen Castagne was not there.”
If he had been there, he would have been dead long ago.
“I think Your Majesty definitely knows him.”
“Even if I know, do I have an obligation to say it?”
“Of course not. But I’m about to get married to a Valois lady. It’s clear that they have a deep connection with the Valois family. So wouldn’t it be a different story if they harbored the buds of rebellion?”
He could always make up questions for the sake of prying.
Tristan made a disgusted face, as if he was really in trouble, and tapped the ash like a stain on the pure white marble floor.
“As you know, the Grand Duke was a man without mercy. I clearly remember the tragedy that happened to the Castagne family that day.”
The main contributor to the fall of the Kingdom of Roaz was Valentine. Castagne was a target to be killed by Valentine, needless to say.
They were the most powerful of the four pillars that supported Roaz.
“Allen Castagne has been alive for 15 years since that day. Isn’t it strange that I’m the only one who didn’t know that?”
“…….”
“Count Valois brought his illegitimate child to Valentine and forced the marriage. There must be one or two suspicious things.”
Tristan’s eyes flashed fiercely as if he was really going to capture the Valois family.
Thanks to this, the Emperor, who was quite deeply involved in the matter, had no choice but to sigh and explain.
“Count Valois said he didn’t know that person was Castagne. How could he know when a fallen nobleman from a wealthy kingdom decided to hide his identity?”
“Hmm, he didn’t know ….”
“He was raising a rebel army in a foreign country with the support of wealthy people in the Empire. But if he has a long tail, it’ll get trampled on. Before he could act, the Count noticed and I ordered the execution. That’s all.”
It was strange. If the Count had prevented the rebellion in advance and saved the Empire from danger, shouldn’t the Count be rewarded and praised?
‘But he hid the fact, told it only to the Emperor, and secretly took advantage of it behind the scenes?’
Moreover, Allen Castagne died suddenly and was not known to the world.
Unless there was something, there’s no way that guy filled with self-interest would have done it himself.
“Why did you hide it?”
“What is to boast about when you didn’t know about the rebels until after 15 years?”
It was an extremely Emperor-like remark.
‘That’s just a level of the Emperor’s lame reason. The reason Count Valois hid it…… There must be only one.’
He would like to send an illegitimate child who is a disgrace to the family to Valentine someday to dispose of it, but he was afraid that the quick-witted Tristan would notice.
Because the Count did something he shouldn’t have let Valentine know.
‘He planned it from the beginning.’
He used Allen Castagne.
If it was Count Valois, and not anyone else, there was no way he would not notice Castagne’s sword skills the moment he saw it.
‘Isn’t he the only noble other than Valentine who participated in the Roaz conquest?’
Of course, Valentine monopolized all the credit as they participated in the subjugation, so the Count ended up being meaningless.
But the Count probably knows Castagne’s sword skills.
The average person might not know this, but he came from the most famous family of swordsmen in the empire.
‘Nevertheless, the Count ignored the fact that he was a Castagne and brought him into the family. And for fifteen years he waited quietly, doing nothing.’
The Count was aiming for the right time. Just the right time to show off to the Emperor that he had found a rebel.
Tristan, who instantly realized the whole situation, burst into a short laugh. Thanks to this, Count Valois achieved everything he wanted.
‘For selling his daughter and pushing her to death…….’
To Count Valois, Lady Valois was nothing more than a tool.
He’s not even human.
‘Well, that’s the same for me too.’
Both the Count and Tristan are two peas in a pod.
He doesn’t just put her life, which is already at the bottom, back into the mud, and forces her to die after giving birth to the child.
To Sabina, both must have felt like equally terrible people.
‘Why did I have that impulse in the first place?’
Tristan lived a life where he committed whatever he wanted.
But for the first time, he questioned his impulses. Because he couldn’t figure out the cause.
‘If the light that the Lady had was bothersome, all I had to do was turn it off. There were plenty of ways to keep her by my side. Why did I want to ruin her with my own hands?’
Where on earth did this absurd impulse to make people hate themselves the most come from? He had murderous intentions towards her and thought he wanted her to kill him…….
‘She wouldn’t be able to kill me with a human body anyway.’
If something goes wrong with Tristan’s body, evil will roam the world, which will soon lead to the destruction of the world.
He knew that Sabina couldn’t kill him anyway.
But why…….
‘If you stay by my side anyway, you will only hate me……’
If that’s the case, he thought it would be better if the hatred reached its peak and was closer to murderous intent…….
Maybe.
But actually.
‘…… Did I just want to keep her by my side?’
Sabina had strong vitality at any moment.
Her soul was burning like a flame.
He had the illusion that the light could even purify God’s malice, who only wants the destruction of humans.
“That means you like her!”
Tristan instantly remembered what Dwayne said.
‘It’s ridiculous’
That can’t be the reason.
He loathed fleeting hopes more than anything in the world.
Living with something like that was something only an idiot living in delusion would do.
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