A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

Chapter 112

112 – Gray Winter (2)

Countess of Gibraltar, Caroline Castle.

“I’m disappointed, Noir Gibraltar.”

In the Count’s office at Caroline Castle, the Count’s low voice resonates deeply.

“Was your will limited to this much?”

“No…”

In front of the Count sitting on the sofa, Noir Gibraltar was bowing his head heavily.

“He claimed that he had become a full-fledged adult.”

14 years old – The boy, who will turn 15 in a few days, has already grown to a height of 170.

“You are not yet wise enough to say that you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with saints.”

If I just lose a little bit of fat on my face, I’ll look like a full-fledged adult in at least two years.

“If you have a mouth, answer somewhere. That’s right. You know what you said before the test. You won’t say you forgot that, right?”

“…I passed the exam with confidence and said I would pass on my own.”

“Yes. But what is this result now?”

The Margrave pointed to numerous red lines on the gray paper in front of him.

“I’m eliminated. Noir Gibraltar.”

“…”

68.

“With scores like these, even commoners who prepared for the exam a year ago cannot beat them.”

“B-but…!”

“Gibraltar will pass, but Noir will not.”

“Tsk… !”

Noir clenched his fists with a tearful expression.

“Is it unfair? I gave you plenty of time. Viscountess Myrddin personally determined the scope of the test, and I did not stop her from discreetly revealing the content of the test.”

“…”

In the room were Countess Charlotte and her younger sisters, including Le Tart, but no one could say anything to Chat Noir.

“It is a test where Letard also exceeds 90 points.”

I flinch.

Noir clenched his teeth, and Lettar, who was eating a cookie on the sofa, just watched and munched on the cookie.

“But your score is less than 70 points.”

“…”

“Viscountess Myrddin was talking seriously. How about bringing your brother and putting him in the academy?”

“Well, that’s…!”

Noir raised his head.

“Yes. That’s because I didn’t know. She’s such a nice lady. “She won’t call me Gray.”

“…”

“But that and this are separate issues.”

The Margrave pointed with his finger at the number ’68/100′ on the test paper.

“Give up. And calmly think about passing with a sword. It’s impossible to aim for ‘admission at the top’ with these grades.”

“…”

“A high rank among intermediate knights. With your skills, you have become strong enough to win one out of ten spars against a high-level knight. If you were to take a test with only swordsmanship, you would definitely be the best, but the test at Orosol Academy is different. This is ‘It’s a place where ‘intelligence’ is tested.”

Intelligence.

Noir clenched his teeth again.

“No, I will definitely win. Who else should stand on top of Gibraltar?”

Noir answered, clenching his fist again.

“Please reduce my training time. I will spend two hours studying. And I will prove it with the results.”

“…Noir.”

The governor frowned and tapped his finger on the table.

“If it were your brother, he would have studied even if it meant reducing his sleeping time.”

“Brother…!”

“Hyung, what?”

“…You’re not an ordinary person, right?”

“Noir…”

Countess Charlotte called Noir in a worried voice, but Noir only bit his lower lip and trembled.

“I did my best. I got 100 points on everything I needed to do on the test. This is pure nonsense.”

“What? This score?”

“It’s not the score… !”

Noir took a moment to catch his breath.

“…Isn’t this a test paper in the imperial language!”

I screamed as if I was venting my anger.

“Even this was a mix of questions I had gotten 100 on half a year ago!”

“It was a question in the Kingdom language. Although the content of the text and options were different.”

At first glance, this may be an unfair problem for Noir.

“If the test had been written in the Kingdom, I would have definitely gotten 100 points!”

“That’s right.”

“Just because ‘Imperial Language’ is one of the subjects to be offered at Orosol Academy, I don’t think there is a need to study for it to the point of taking the entrance exam in Imperial language from the beginning! In the first place…!”

Noir pounded his chest and gritted his teeth.

“Isn’t it strange that they brought ‘graduation exam questions’ even though it’s an entrance exam?”

“That’s the way it should be in Gibraltar.”

“Questions written in the Kingdom can get 100 points!”

“But you already got 68 points on the imperial language test.”

“Huh…!”

The Margrave folded the test paper tightly.

“It’s good to be confident. A man should confidently express his thoughts.”

The Marquis touched his chin with his hand and closed his eyes.

“It would have been a perfect answer if I had studied the imperial language in advance and answered with a clearer score than now.”

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“Why does a person from Gibraltar need to learn the imperial language? All you need to do is have someone who can speak the imperial language next to you!”

“Gray Gibraltar described your words as ‘typical words and actions of a Nostrum nobleman.'”

“Tsk… !”

“Keep in mind, Noir. Among the humans who will enter the academy, there will be those who have already learned the imperial language… Sigh. I wasn’t going to say this.”

After the Margrave opened the drawer, he looked inside the drawer for a moment.

“…If there is a girl you like among the imperial students, how do you think they will feel when you speak in imperial language?”

“…”

Noir, blood rushing to her face, relax her fists.

“Those girls worked hard to learn Nostrum’s language in order to study abroad in the kingdom. Didn’t you even think about putting in that effort?”

“…I never thought about it like that.”

Noir shook her head with a blank look on her face.

“Will that really work?”

“It’s effective. Absolutely. From the beginning…”

The Margrave glanced at the two white-haired maids standing behind Countess Charlotte inside the office.

“…If you don’t even put in that much effort, it’s impossible to win someone’s heart.”

“…I’ll try my best.”

“Yes. Try hard. Until you can express what you want to say in the imperial language. I’m not telling you to study the imperial language for no reason…”

Knock knock.

“Come in.”

“Excuse me, Your Excellency the Margrave.”

The door opened, and a guard wearing gray armor and a helmet came in carrying a piece of parchment.

“I got it.”

“Thank goodness. Report on the spot.”

The soldier in gray armor handed over the parchment and tried to leave, but froze in place.

“What are you doing? “I told you to report it.”

“…We have secured the standards for selection of Orosol Academy’s scholarship exams and future exam standards.”

Flap.

“Understanding the history of the kingdom. Understanding the basics of magic. Swordsmanship. Understanding nobility and titles. And…”

“And?”

“Imperial Language. It has been decided to select ‘Canyon Scholarship Students’ from those who achieved excellent grades in these 5 subjects out of a total of 35 subjects.”

“I see.”

The gray soldier unfolded the parchment and recited what was written inside.

“Luckily swordsmanship was chosen, but the rest is the problem. Noir.”

“Tsk… !”

“What does it mean that Noir Gibraltar is not a member of the Gorge Scholarship, a position that Gibraltar invested a huge amount of money into?”

“…”

“If you really want to go to the Academy, if you really want to become the heir to the House of Gibraltar, you will have to at least show performance commensurate with it.”

The governor took off the sword from his waist and placed it in its sheath on the desk.

“I graduated top of my class at the academy, and your mother never missed first place in academics the entire school year.”

“…”

“Of course, the subjects we took the test on were different, and it was 20 years ago…”

“Definitely.”

Noir answered, standing at attention and maintaining a straight posture like a knight.

“I will definitely prove it. I will show that I can even use the imperial language fluently and enter at the top of the class in the entrance exam to be held in February next year!”

“Yes. That’s all you need.”

The Margrave stood up and patted Chat Noir’s shoulder with his hand.

“If you are willing to be greedy, you must produce results commensurate with that desire.”

“Yes…!”

“Go now. As of today, afternoon training will be postponed for the time being.”

“…!!”

Chat Noir’s eyes widened and she nodded with a wide smile.

“I will definitely get 100 points!!”

“…”

After Noir suddenly left the room.

“I have something to report to you.”

The gray armored soldier placed his hand on his chest and lowered his head.

“He’s not the chief. He might freak out later, so please look at him with caution.”

“…”

“There is Naria Geo Nostrum, so how can Noir be the chief?”

“…The princess is aiming for special admission rather than general admission?”

“Yes.”

The gray soldier looked at the door that Noir Gibraltar had left, and took out something he had placed inside his armor.

“I bought some cream puff donuts at Iperia Outlet on the way. Would you like some?”

While the sweet scent of cream puffs was wafting through the office, there was a rumor that Noir Gibraltar was running eagerly towards his room with his excited face.

* * *

The royal capital, Geo Nostrum.

“Orosol Academy. As expected from the Kingdom of Nostrum, it is extravagant.”

In an area some distance away from the center of the capital, a man is sitting on a window sill and looking at the white and gold castle.

“Was it really naive to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on building a building? Should I call it honest or naive?”

The Crown Prince of the Empire, Habsburg von Tersian, chuckled as he sipped an entire bottle of kingdom wine.

“Really, I’m looking forward to it.”

The crown prince took out something he had kept in his front pants pocket.

Something as thick as a brick.

As soon as the crown prince grabbed something blunt the size of a piece of bread with the bottom slightly cut, mana began to sparkle inside.

Beep, beep, beep.

As soon as I pressed the 12 magic stone buttons below, the square magic stone above began to sparkle.

-38924194049122101744…

A feast of numbers whose meaning is unknown.

The crown prince scanned the numbers with an expressionless face and pressed the magic stone button with the same number on it.

Correction.

Instead of doing it randomly, I started pressing numbers according to some pattern, as if there was a complex password system.

It was almost like communicating with someone.

“Heh.”

Did he even like the contents of the secret communication?

“That’s right. If it was easy to get in, it wouldn’t have collapsed for 500 years.”

The crown prince put down the crude magic machine and looked down at Orosol Academy.

“If the Academy is activated, two-way communication between the kingdom and the empire can be opened. Either through magic or this signal.”

Is it because I was drunk?

“Ah. It’s a shame. I don’t even have Bathory, so I have to talk alone like this, with the moonlight as my friend.”

The crown prince continued to sip wine with a very red face.

“The king has come all the way to the middle of the island, but there is no one to share this joy with. He has no choice but to get drunk alone with the moon as his friend.”

The crown prince raised the wine bottle towards the moon in the sky.

“Father. Do you see? Your son is drinking like this here in the heart of Nostrum. Instead of using Iron Blood, he has opened the gates of the canyon through diplomacy, trade, and now education.”

If he had a glass, the crown prince drank alcohol in succession, as if he were holding a memorial service for someone.

“Now all that’s left is…”

Knock, knock.

When a knock was heard, the crown prince stretched out his fingertips toward his spear and cut his index finger with his fingernail.

“Please come in.”

Saaa.

Red mist spread out of the window from the tip of the index finger, and soon flames erupted.

“Uh, over there. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince…”

“What’s going on, Twelve?”

The white-haired maid who opened the door and came in pointed behind herself with a thoughtful look on her face.

“So, the customer…”

“Get out of the way.”

Blocking the door and pushing away the maid, a man wearing only a silk robe entered the crown prince’s bedroom.

“…Why did you come here in the middle of the night?”

With a sane look on his face that could not be imagined as having been drunk just a moment ago, the crown prince welcomed the late-night guest.

“Hey, Habsburg von Tersian.”

A man opened the door and came in, saying the crown prince’s name as it was.

“It’s been a while?”

“…Meet His Majesty King Saint Geo Nostrum.”

The King of Nostrum, with blond hair and sparkling red eyes, smiled wryly and shook the wine bottle.

“But, it’s been a while?”

“Oh, don’t worry. It’s not important anyway.”

“…”

“Why. Was I so rude to you? What are you going to do if I’m not polite? Huh?”

“…”

“Hehe. Looking at your face, I guess you’re worried? Huh? Do you want to kill me? Do you want to kill me?”

In the hallway, those who appear to be knights of the empire are confronting knights of the empire, a situation that is truly imminent.

“I came for peace, but you’re killing me.” What horrible words.”

“Really? Even now, you look like you’re desperate to kill me? Ah. If I die, it won’t be 3 years… Are you worried that the entire continent will turn into a mess for 3 years and 1 month? Hehe.”

“I guess you drank a lot.”

“3 years and 1 month. Just wait.”

Saint Geo Nostrum turned and pointed at the crown prince.

“Try to struggle as much as you want during that time. Hehe…”

“…Take a look.”

“Hmph… !”

Looking at Saint Geo from afar as he roughly opened the door and walked out, the Crown Prince closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

“3 years and 1 month. …Is this the day that Naria Geo Nostrum turns 20?”

The crown prince placed the half-empty bottle of liquor on the window sill and looked up at the night sky.

“Who can say anything?”

The crown prince was still smiling.

“…Still.”