Based on the original, I already expected that the three men were the heroes.
Now that two of them were concluded as a junk car and nuclear waste, there was only one person left who could be trusted.
Amongst the three, Constantine was relatively the sanest.
However, I couldn’t meet him because he was bound to the temple.
Even during the Empire’s Foundation Day celebrations, he appeared briefly at the ceremony and disappeared, so there was no time to observe him.
I heard that even after the religious war in the Empire came to an end, civil wars were still happening everywhere, so they were busy suppressing it.
It was best to get him out of the way before he awakened.
But frankly, considering the genre of the novel, I had no expectations that he would give up.
In the original, he was busy trying to get a hold of Claudia amid his busy schedule. The paladin seemed to be high enough in ranks to be able to do so.
And you know.
‘I think Lucas, Benjamin, and Constantine have already joined hands.’
Based on our conversation with Benjamin, it seemed like they had already decided on the cost, and it was impossible to communicate with each other.
If I based it on the original novel, it was too early to make such a judgment.
But the original. Wasn’t it the story that I have been trying to destroy with all my might ever since I intervened? It was funny to think about it now.
There was no public enemy in the novel to stand against the male heroes. Even if they were, they were no match.
…… Just ruin and kill him.
‘Such a hellish personality.’
Anyway, with the male heroes, there was no dialogue or compromise to the enemy in advance. If the other party seemed like a threat, they just killed them.
I recalled when they first started to collaborate in the novel.
It was the moment when ‘Felix’, who revolved around his younger sister, became too annoying for them.
They judged that ‘Felix’, who interfered in everything related to Claudia’s relationships, wasn’t an opponent they could deal with by simply alienating or killing him.
But now, the heroine, who triggered their crazy possessiveness no matter where she ran, decided to isolate herself.
The premise of, ‘I can’t approach Claudia since she’s not coming out of her house due to Irene Amber’ seemed to have changed things.
As a result, all the men who held hands first pointed their arrows at me, not Felix.
If Felix had only heard of the hint indirectly through Benjamin, he might have been seriously attempting to learn magic resistance right now.
Since I had no talent for magic in the first place, I couldn’t do it.
‘It’s the truth.’
It’s like a madman rushing into a tornado to go against Mother Nature.
Even though I never regretted my choices, I occasionally had doubts.
‘By the way, sir. I can’t see the answer. Is the solution I’m writing down correct? I didn’t use the wrong formula, did I?’
However, there was no such thing as a teacher who could give me the answer.
If there was no visible answer, there was no choice but to prepare as much as possible.
Just as always.
* * *
First of all, I hired people who were not related to the Chamberlains and were tight-mouthed.
Then I set up a business in their name. An entity that only existed on paper.
The name of the business was ‘Getchu<sup>.
Claudia, who was tilting her head with an innocent expression, was suddenly surprised, and her gaze changed.
“Do you have someone you like?”
“No way.”
Firstly, to be able to like someone or not, I had to have someone. Moreover, so far, there was no reason for me to like or love someone.
Love cells? It’s already been a long time since they died in me.
“I just think he’s a good man…….”
“A good man?!”
I was planning to bring them to our side, and I was about to explain, but Claudia cut me off in the middle.
“Who’s this b*stard…… No, who is he?”
Chloe, did you just try to curse at the man?
She looked like she was about to shout but took a deep breath and returned to a calm voice.
I had no choice but to hesitate about how I should introduce him.
Well, actually, he was a minor character who could help us avoid death.
But I couldn’t be honest about it because he was a person who had no contact or relationship with me in the first place.
“That’s not what I mean. I just have a rare feeling that he’s a good person, so I want to get to know him.”
In this novel, it was hard to find such a person with this concept without blood or tears. So if possible, I wanted to attract him to the same side.
In this case, before he met the same tragic fate as the original.
“Chloe.”
But not too far away, we heard Felix’s voice. It was a distinctive soft tone that was sweet and light.
We turned our heads at the same time. Felix approached us at a leisurely pace and stopped near the palm tree where we were before he spoke.
“Mother’s calling for you.”
“Huh.”
Claudia exclaimed, ‘Why now!’
She had a disgruntled expression, but she sighed as she thought she couldn’t help it.
“Let’s talk again later.”
She declared war with a voice filled with an indomitable will to find out who I was talking about no matter what and then disappeared.
Oh, well, it looks like she didn’t like it.
Whether she liked it or not, it must have been surprising since it was the first time I had expressed interest in the opposite gender.
Felix took the outer garment from the servant waiting beside me and put it on my shoulder before asking.
“So who is he?”
You heard it.
When I lifted my head, I noticed that the smile on his lips was a little stiff.
Although it looked calm and still, it was just like the night sea where you didn’t know when you would be engulfed by the waves.