A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

237 – How to Dispose of Waste (6)

Somewhere in a remote forest, about a 30-minute carriage ride from Barcelona’s Governor General’s Office, the former Marquis Castle, Gold Castle.

A two-story villa that is not easily seen by ordinary people is located in the forest.

On the outside, the villa looked like an ordinary mansion built of bricks, but what was unique about it was that when viewed from the outside, all the windows had blackout curtains.

If you look closer, you will realize that the glass window is all camouflage.

In the first place, you won’t be able to tell whether it’s a window or not.

Before you get close enough to distinguish it, you will be killed by those patrolling the area and buried on the spot.

So, a villa that still has traces of carriages, even though there are quite a few white bones scattered around.

At the villa, which seemed to have been quite crowded just a few months ago, white-haired women dressed in the kingdom’s traditional maid uniforms were neatly preparing for a banquet.

If there are people who have visited this place before, they will probably notice the changed appearance of this villa.

Of course, there were close to 100 people working at the villa, but they were all white-haired women who were suspected by the empire to be the emperor’s illegitimate children.

Anyone who recognizes some of them will quickly realize that they are maids working at the Barcelona Government House.

Based on that, I think I’ll be surprised once more.

Ah.

The villa where the Marquis of Barcel and the Knights of Golden Dawn used to enjoy debaucherous parties has been discovered by the governor.

Before the villa could be cleaned up, Gray Gibraltar was caught by the Governor of Barcelona, and the villa has now been transformed into a new look.

And today, one by one, several carriages began to arrive and take their seats at the place where the Golden Dawn’s illegal banquet was held in the past.

Drurr.

Several carriages were already parked in the wide open space in front of the villa.

The carriage was made of luxurious materials and clearly belonging to a certain family, but there were no traces indicating a specific family.

Or, it looked like the part where the sentence was engraved was painted over, or the part was cut out and a new part was inserted.

I want to hide where it came from.

As the source of the carriage was obscured, naturally those who got off the carriage did not seem to have any intention of revealing their identities.

“Hmm.”

“Ah, father… “

The two rich-looking men are wearing only black suits.

The tie he was wearing around his neck his was also black and his shirt was also black, so other than the white skin exposed above his neck his, no color other than black was visible.

Not only the black beast masks they wore on their faces, but even their hair and eyes.

“Get used to it. If you rise to a high position someday, you will have to get used to this position.”

“B-but… “

“You can’t live forever leaving everything to your double. Tsk.”

“…”

The person who appeared to be his son lowered his head and lowered his shoulders, and the middle-aged man handed the sword on his waist with its sheath to the maid who was approaching them.

“Is this enough?”

“I will check.”

The white-haired maid pulled the sword out of its scabbard

It was an ordinary iron sword, but the body of the sword had grooves carved into it.

On one side, the word ‘absolution’.

A sword with the word ‘invitation’ written on the other side.

“Entry permission has been confirmed. Welcome to ‘Chessboard’.”

“It’s a chessboard… You’ve got a bizarre concept.”

Despite the middle-aged man’s sarcasm her, the maid turned around without changing her expression her.

There was no body search to check for weapons.

Just by being invited here, it was as if the sword itself had already been identified.

“This, this, did you have a hard time coming from the north?”

Toward the middle-aged man, another middle-aged man with half his head bald came up.

“Even if the hair and eyes are dyed black with magic, it seems that the coldness cannot be hidden. Haha.”

The middle-aged man also had his entire body dyed black.

If there were only color, it would be the skin revealed above the mask.

“Then why didn’t you take this opportunity to put a helmet on your head?”

“…Ha, haha. I didn’t come to fight with swords, I came to fight with money. Is there a need for that? Isn’t that right, daughter?”

“…Yes.”

The woman in the black dress who was standing behind the half-bald man nodded her head lightly.

The woman seemed to have dyed her entire body black for a very long time, and she looked like a widow who had lost a loved one.

“So, Marquis, have you decided where to live?”

“…”

“Oh my. If you don’t follow the organizer’s wishes, you won’t even get a chance to live. Hehe. Anyway, I didn’t know you would be interested in this?”

“This is so that my land will not fall into the hands of miracles.”

“Hehe. Really? Are you going to leave the land as is? Are you not going to dig it?”

“…Do whatever you want. “I only came to stop them.”

A middle-aged man pointed to carriages parked on the opposite side of the square.

A little different from the carriage they rode, it was a fairly large carriage with four wheels on the left and right, made of steel rather than wood-

“You can’t see the horse? “I just recognized it when I saw the horse.”

“It’s not a horse, it’s said to be something whose wheels turn automatically with a magic engine.”

“Is that so? Hey, the student who studied at Orosol Academy is, of course. Hehe. So, is it a magic car?”

From noble mtl dot come

“I guess they just call it a car, but that’s not important.”

A middle-aged man called the Marquis pointed to another group of people in black who got out of the car.

“No matter how much you unify your outfit, you can’t erase that unique smell.”

“It’s an empire.”

Front.

The middle-aged man who got out of the car had his head completely bald, and next to him was a young man wearing glasses.

Likewise, I couldn’t see his face as he was wearing a mask, but he wasn’t something I could do anything to.

Goo goo goo.

Another carriage arrived.

The carriage pulled by a black courser looked natural, as if it had been black from the beginning, and two men and a woman got out of the carriage one by one.

An old man with a sturdy physique, and a woman in a dress that rivals that of any other socialite.

Although the curves below her shoulders were not prominent, and she wore frills to hide them, those who had arrived in advance bowed their heads as soon as they saw the two people.

“It’s been a while.”

“…I tried to hide it for a long time.”

“Can you hide it with just one mask like this?”

“Well, well. It’s not that we don’t know each other’s identities, but we’re doing this to hide our true feelings.”

Her lady was fiddling with her own black fox mask.

“Let’s get along. After all, everyone came here with dark intentions.”

Behind the woman, another carriage arrived.

“It looks like the owner of the chessboard has arrived.”

Among the carriages painted entirely in black, the painted only carriage in gray stopped.

And the first thing that came out of the carriage was a gray cane.

“The host of the party, and…”

“That friend doesn’t wear a mask?”

“…I guess so.”

Behind the Gray Gibraltar Governor of Barcelona, who came out holding a cane, an older young man with dark circles.

“You’ve been through a lot, friend.”

Viscount Hex Romana.

He glanced at the people around him, sighed deeply, and followed Gray Gibraltar.

* * *

It’s been about a week since I announced that I would sell the mining rights.

The Barcelona Governor-General secured an old Golden Dawn villa and turned it into a banquet hall.

It was a place where various promiscuous and unclean parties were held, but by mobilizing magical powers and a large amount of manpower, it could be changed to a place so clean that it could be used as a wedding hall overnight.

For the banquet.

What kind of banquet?

“Thank you for the business briefing, Viscount Hex.”

The first banquet for the sale of gold mining rights in Barcelona – to be exact, the mining rights area.

It is a golden battle in which people from all over the ‘continent’ who want to get their hands on gold mining rights gather together and hide each other’s appearances with masks and dyeing magic.

“…Why should I proceed?”

“You decided to give me a review of the yolk land.”

“There really is a lot of gold underground, right?”

“The gold vein may or may not explode. Only time will tell.”

“Ha. Just try not to come out later. I won’t just leave you alone.”

“How can Viscount Hex not leave me alone?”

“By doing nothing.”

“That’s… “A pretty scary threat.”

Viscount Hex, who doesn’t work and doesn’t do anything?

You can never leave it alone.

It is no exaggeration to say that Viscount Hex was born to handle all affairs of the kingdom.

“Don’t worry. If you carry out this festival well, I will also take a portion of the commission as my share.”

“What I need is a vacation?”

“Some time can be bought with gold, Viscount Hex.”

“Time can’t be bought with gold, isn’t it true?”

“That’s right.”

No matter how much money one has, no one with any magic or miracle can buy time with gold.

You just get a chance to get more gold.

“Don’t worry. Everyone here has the same purpose. There will be no fighting.”

I pointed inside the banquet hall with Viscount Hex.

“And look, everyone is busy looking at the newly decorated ‘Quank Hall’ and looking at the design.”

The banquet hall prepared by all the maids working at the Government General’s office, one by one, at each table and serving expensive alcohol, refreshments, and food was the height of extravagance that could not be seen anywhere else on the continent.

Everyone was busy quietly taking a look at the interior design of the sophisticated banquet hall, which had a design that seemed at least 10 years further into the future than any other banquet hall in the kingdom or empire of the time.

“Don’t worry. These are all familiar faces anyway, right?”

“Yes, yes. Everyone knows this face. People who have some money are brought here not only from the kingdom but also from the empire.”

Viscount Hex pointed to one side of the banquet hall.

The black-haired masked beauty, wearing a black leather jacket and pants rather than a dress, made eye contact with me and she smiled broadly and waved her hand.

“That guy, is that a disguise?”

“It’s your taste.”

“…”

“What’s the point in coming here in disguise? We just have to look each other up and down and we all know who it is.”

“Okay. Then… “

Viscount Hex pointed to someone in the corner of the banquet hall.

“Do you know that middle-aged man who has been looking at you since you came in here?”

“…I’d like to say I don’t know, but there’s only one person, so be careful.”

In the distance, the face and body shape revealed under the mask are all different, but there is probably a writer who calls himself Khvers from the Empire.

“Viscount Hex, rest assured. You are the most powerful person in this room. Here, hold the microphone.”

“After this banquet, won’t I receive everyone’s resentment?”

“Resentment? That’s foolish. As I said, investing is your own choice.”

I lightly raised my fist and cheered for Viscount Hex, and stepped forward holding the microphone brought from the Empire so that he could comfortably conduct the event.

“Ah. Everyone, thank you very much for coming. There is no need to introduce ourselves, so let’s get straight to the point.”

I snapped my fingers backwards, and a map of the Barcelona district of Gibraltar appeared on the Mado screen.

“Excluding the existing area of the Barcelona Government General, the ‘developable area’, including the remaining coal mining areas, was divided into 64 areas.”

Sigh.

The land of Barcelona was divided into a grid and divided into 64 districts.

“Lightly selling from area A1… Okay, I’m not selling the land, so I stopped without realizing it.”

I lightly shrugged my shoulders and pointed to the first area that came to mind.

“It is the oldest mine in Nostrum, and it is a gold mine that is still being mined. Now…What are the development rights for this land, actually?”

Those who were looking at each other began to raise their pickets one by one.