A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

138 – It’s Not Illegal Yet (2)

The student council president was elected.

The only problem is that Naria Geo Nostrum became the student council president.

According to the existing view, the student council president was a servant of the students.

Of course, it is difficult to say that members of the same noble family are servants.

If we were to find the most similar relationship in the social world, wouldn’t the Earl of Gibraltar be similar?

A protector who protects the kingdom.

Hogu working for students.

However, it ended up becoming ‘royalty’.

“Student Council, isn’t this actually the Naria SS?”

Public opinion always changes in real time, and that public opinion can be heard through the students’ sad stories.

Cafeteria.

“Chairman. This is the moonlight tea and Basque cheesecake you ordered.”

“Thank you.”

Unfortunately, Astasia is in class, so I am sitting alone at the outdoor cafe in the shopping district today, drinking somnus tea and listening to the sounds around me.

“The Empire uses something called a call bell. Do you have any plans to introduce it?”

“Ha, haha… If I do that, I’ll be kicked out.”

“Well, the nobles won’t stay still if you tell them to come find it because the bell rang. Thank you.”

The clerk who served drinks and tea bowed and left.

Sip and sip.

At the same time, across from me, a freshman who had poured a lot of water into his coffee and drank his Ah with ice in one got up from his seat

“…”

“…”

The new student took a quick look at the cake and drink in front of me and then disappeared somewhere, and I raised my teacup and listened to my surroundings again.

“…It’s a bit weird to call it the SS. Isn’t the SS a club?”

“The club is the Knights of Golden Dawn, a royal knighthood in the royal palace, and the student council here are royal administrators.”

“The vice-student president is the prime minister and the executives are the 12 ministers? My head hurts…”

Naria secured about 140 votes.

She is also the president of the Kingdom Lovers Club.

“Can the student president also become the club president?”

“I asked the student affairs office and they said no. I think I’ll have to hand over the position of knight commander.”

“Not the club president?”

“Either that or that.”

Before we knew it, the Kingdom Lover Club was recognized as Naria’s royal knights.

“It’s crazy. I can’t even bring up the topic of withdrawal, right?”

“What? Withdrawal? Are you planning to leave the kingdom?”

“Mr. Ha, you too, don’t do that. That sound just makes my head hurt.”

Hehe.”

In the meantime, fatigue increased and dissatisfaction arose, but the problem was that even if it was just a joke, the logic was getting through.

“Is it even possible to become student council president just because I got first place when I’m not even halfway there?”

“Then what are you going to do? I’ve already been elected and appointed as student council president at the academy.”

“Sweet… Student Council, then it has become the future of the kingdom?”

“Do you want to get a job right now? Hehe. If you don’t join the student council, you’ll be a traitor.”

“Oh, you’re crazy. Call someone else than me who is loyal and tell them to use it. Why should I do that?”

□□ If you don’t, you are a traitor.

Naria used it for the club first, but she will do so often in the future.

“Are you one of the 160 traitors who did not vote for Princess Naria?”

“No. I voted for Noir.”

“What, perhaps a traitor?”

“Crazy. Are you accusing Gibraltar of being a traitor?”

“Oh…! No, just kidding. Sorry. I went a little too far there. Huh.”

No matter how far away it is, Gibraltar is perfectly located.

No, in the first place, we are exchanging jokes like that in this open outdoor terrace of a cafe – a public place?

‘If I don’t do something, I’ll become a traitor.’

At some point, jokes about traitors will become less of a joke and more like a list of facts.

“Hmm. Hey, but there it is.”

For example.

“‘That director’applauded at the end of the speech for students studying in the Empire, but did he applaud the other candidates?”

“What?”

A person who sits still while everyone applauds.

“I saw it. You weren’t there at all when Princess Naria announced her victory speech on the podium.”

“Isn’t it just because her brother didn’t get elected?”

“There’s a rumor that my younger brother didn’t even applaud at all, my friend.”

Rather, it is the opposite case.

“What? Is that rumor true? It’s because of that move that Gibraltar became very friendly to the empire.”

“I don’t know. Seeing you hanging out with granddaughter Hwang, it seems like it’s a foregone conclusion.”

“If the kingdom and the empire go to war again…”

Hehe. I wonder if a real traitor is being born.”

I am currently working hard to build a foundation for being a traitor so that those who know have the thought of ‘what if’ and those who don’t know will eventually say ‘Huh?!’.

‘If I suddenly said I wanted to become a traitor to my country, it would be a shock, but I have no intention of doing that.’

Later.

So that the person who makes a slightly extreme statement gets so angry that he says, ‘I thought that b*stard was going to sell out my country!’

So like now-

“Hey, Chairman…?”

“Who is it?”

“Hmm! My name is Andy Jefferson!”

The purpose of me going out like this is to make sure that the real traitors and trash that need to be disposed of come near me one by one.

From noble mtl dot come

“Okay. What’s going on?”

“Hmm. Well, that might be a bit embarrassing to talk about.”

“I’ll give you 10 seconds.”

“Oh, that!”

Normally, when something like this happens, you hesitate and miss the timing.

‘But not a prepared conman.’

For a con artist, talent is the ability to prepare all kinds of repertoire in advance.

“Have you ever heard of something called a ‘recorder’…?”

“Recording magic? I’m not really interested. 10 seconds. Done.”

“No, it’s a recorder!! If you listen to it, you won’t regret it! Well, it records your voice and plays it back on repeat! I’m not even a wizard!”

“Don’t spit on the cake. Tsk, I can’t even eat this.”

“Now, wait a minute! That…!”

If there is another one.

“You can record Granddaughter Astasia’s voice and listen to it whenever you want!”

Quickness.

“…You eat this.”

I pushed the cake forward.

“Okay. Let me explain.”

As expected.

‘I feel comfortable dealing with people like this.’

As he plays Gray Gibraltar, who is crazy about the granddaughter of Astasia, a brave bug is drawn to take advantage of it.

“Okay. What do you mean by a recorder?”

* * *

Late at night.

Academy Empire International Student 4th floor living room.

“Can’t I just whisper in your ear?”

Astasia put both her hands to her mouth and spoke in a whisper.

“Is recording necessary…?”

“Yes. I need it. It’s something I want to hear when I’m not around.”

“Can I get you one? If you ask the chairman over there…”

“We can bring it in right away. It’s already a commercial product.”

Recorder.

Although it is an item made in the empire, it is an item with a kingdom-like nature rather than magic alchemy.

“If a magic stone containing sound storage magic can be played anytime, anywhere, it is a recorder.”

It is an item that has existed for a long time.

It’s not like it doesn’t exist in the kingdom at all.

“In the back alleys of the Kingdom of Nostrum, magic stones recording a specific sound are often sold for a high price. Even though it is a short sound that lasts less than a minute, it is sometimes sold for as much as someone’s salary or annual salary.”

“Is it because the sound inside it is so valuable?”

“No. Because it’s magic. Isn’t magic a privilege of nobles?”

“It’s a bit bittersweet. But Andy, what about the recorder the man suggested… ?”

“I’m talking about an imperial recorder.”

The tape recorder proposed by Andy Jefferson, a future conman, is a product that could become more common and mass-produced.

“In Nostrum, a magician must cast the sound recording spell, while in the Empire, magic circles are engraved into magic stones to enable the magic to appear and are sold. Is my information correct?”

“Yes. That’s right. The basics of Imperial magic alchemy are mass-producing magic by inserting it into magic stones.”

A ‘lighter’ with flame magic, a ‘camera’ with projection and memory magic, or a ‘microphone’ with voice amplification magic.

The same goes for recorders.

“Andy Jefferson tried to sell the sound recorded through the tape recorder, rather than the tape recorder itself.”

“Sound…?”

“Yes. This is it.”

I cleared my throat and then filled my throat with mana.

“Make Nostrum Great Again.”

“…”

“Is it awkward?”

“Something, since it came out of your mouth, it’s a little…” ” ?”

“But don’t you think it will sell?”

“That horse sells?”

“I guess I should record something else.”

I clenched my fists and cleared my throat again.

“I love you, Astasia.”

“Oh.”

“How much do you think this will sell for?”

“It’s not for sale. “I have no intention of selling it.”

“Is my voice Astasia’s?”

“Yes.”

It was Astasia’s answer her, which was quite shameless.

“Ha. I understand. What are you trying to sell?”

She immediately understood my intention.

“Are you trying to sell Naria’s speech or her ‘patriotic walk’?”

“It could be something you want to sell, or something you just want to record.”

“Yes?”

“Andy Jefferson is a complex human being in many ways. He is a bat-like human being with strengths and weaknesses, so he always sticks to his own interests.”

“But you said you voted for Blonde?”

“Yes.”

One thing.

“When I opened the ballot box, that was the result.”

“So you pretend to be patriotic, but you’re an imperialist?”

“If you just look at the voting results, that’s true.”

I tend to tell Astasia almost everything-except for the factors that result from her regression.

“Astacia. Some people have the idea that ‘the student council president is a slave to the students, and when they assign students from the Empire to study abroad, they want to see them work like dogs.'”

“Uh…”

“And there are those who think that it is a way to increase one’s value by being loyal to the kingdom and working in the kingdom.”

Andy Jefferson is like that.

“What they are trying to sell as a tape recorder is Naria’s patriotic move… Speech.”

“Do you sell speeches?”

“Yes. I guess I fell in love with that person, Naria’s speech.”

“Naria’s… Speech?”

“I fell in love not with Ria herself, but with her abilities.”

I thought he was a person who used his voice to deceive people and scam people, so he quickly learned how to do something with his voice.

“And then I found out that it was a tape recorder, and I thought I was the one who could easily contact it.”

“Uhm…”

“A person who is a nobleman, but at the same time appears to have a lot of money, and even shows pro-empire movements.”

“You’re cocky.”

“Arrogant?”

“I understand that, but they risked me to take advantage of you!”

Astasia puffed out her cheeks.

“But thanks to you, I was able to listen to the story without raising any suspicion?”

“People misunderstand. They think that if they want to take advantage of you, they can just put me on the hook and everything will be resolved!”

“It’s not wrong.”

“Ha… No matter how much I want to use it like that…”

“Are you worried about anything?”

“…There was one incident that was not published in the Imperial Newspaper.”

Astasia adjusted her posture and sat down with a serious look on her face.

“Princess Isabella. What she said was once in the public eye, but she vehemently denied that she had ever said it.”

“What do you say?”

“It was an ordinary word whispering love, but the target was not the Habsburg Crown Prince.”

“…”

For a moment.

A scene passes through my mind.

“It was clear that he was called ‘Thersian’, but the words that followed were ‘Majesty’ and not ‘Your Majesty’? Thanks to that, there was a lot of gossip.”

“So what happened?”

“It was concluded that someone had cleverly edited it using a tape recorder. In fact, something like that was discovered.”

“It’s editing.”

“It can be manipulated. That’s what I’m most worried about.”

“…”

It’s manipulation.

“One way is to manipulate it by pretending it is manipulation.”

“Yes?”

“Um, well.”

“…If you don’t tell me, I’ll harass you!”

Astasia rushed towards me in one go.

“Tell me. Come on. “What were you thinking?”

“It might be a little shocking to hear, right?”

“I’ll just consider it a possibility, okay?”

“Hmm…What is it…”

Astasia kept clinging to me and trying to tickle her her her body her, I wondered if it was okay to say this.

“For now… “

“If you don’t tell me, I’ll sleep alone tonight.”

“The Emperor and Crown Princess Isabella are truly in love, and it seems like they disguised the incident by manipulating it through a tape recorder.”

“…”

“Maybe.”

“Hmm. I see.”

Astasia buried her face towards me with a bitter expression.

“I knew it, but it was still a little sad to hear it.”

“It’s just a suspicion.”

“What you say can’t just be suspicion or a lie, right?”

“Isn’t it difficult to just believe everything?”

“But if I really believed everything, would you still lie then?”

“There’s no way you could tell a lie.”

“Then… “

Astasia whispered in my ear.

“What you said that you recorded and tried to sell wasn’t a lie, was it?”

“…”

“Hehe.”

Astasia stuck out her tongue at me and smiled as if she had won.

“But, I told you.”

“…Oh.”

“Please follow me.”

I picked up Astasia and walked to her door leading to her living room.