Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

There was a calm look on Duke Yuletide's face when he heard this.

It was completely different from when I told him about what had happened to his family and his manor.

It was almost as if he wasn't bothered at all by this even though this should have been the core of his power.

However, I did understand why he would be feeling this way.

There was a reason why the Snake Syndicate had never been caught even though it had been operating in the kingdom for so long.

They were a group that had many different leaders and had many different branches. Even if there was a branch and a leader that was caught, there would be others that could replace them.

It was even the case for Duke Yuletide who should have been the one that was in charge.

That was the reason why he was so calm in the first place.

He believed that even if he was taken to prison, the Snake Syndicate would eventually rescue him. He believed that as long as he was alive, there would be other branches of the Snake Syndicate that would come for him.

As for the reason...It was simply because he was someone irreplaceable to the Snake Syndicate.

The things that he held would be crucial to their survival and as long as he didn't talk, they would want to get him back in one way or another.

After all, if he were to talk, it would mean all of them being buried with Duke Yuletide.

That was just the power and information that he had as the leader of the Snake Syndicate for so long.

So even if the branch that he worked most closely with and used to control most of the other branches was destroyed, even if the one that had been working for him for many decades now had been caught, he wasn't worried at all.

Duke Yuletide knew that the structure of the Snake Syndicate would come through for him.

I of course also knew that this was what he was thinking, which was why I had deliberately paused at this moment.

I wanted to build up his hope before crushing it.

Seeing that he was ready, I said, "But that isn't the only hideout of the Snake Syndicate that we've found."

A trace of surprise appeared in Duke Yuletide's eyes, but he quickly forced himself to seem calm as if this didn't bother him at all. However, there was also a trace of worry that appeared in his eyes.

The duke was a smart person, so it wasn't as if he couldn't understand what I was implying with these words.

I gave him a moment to let all of this set in and to make him even more nervous before saying, "There were many different hideouts that we found out about and we sent our people to take care of them at the same time. By now, they should have all been taken care of."

Duke Yuletide kept pretending like he was calm, but it was clear that the trace of worry in his eyes was growing. It seemed like he just couldn't hold himself back when he heard this.

Duke Yuletide opened and closed his mouth a few times as if he was trying to figure out what he wanted to say, but eventually he just said, "Is that so? What do you think you will accomplish by telling me all of this?"

I just calmly looked at him and said, "I thought that you should know."

Duke Yuletide slightly knitted his brows when he heard this, but he didn't say anything else in the end.

It looked like he had wanted to say something at first, but eventually he seemed to stop himself from asking it. It seemed like he had come to terms with this and knew that it was better to ask about this.

Or…it could be said that he was just too scared to ask about this.

It was clear that there was a part of him that wanted to know, but he didn't let himself ask since he knew that the answer might not be what he wanted to hear.

So he didn't ask to let himself hold onto hope.

Even if that hope was faint…

Instead of asking about this, Duke Yuletide asked, "What are you going to do to me?"

This was the one thing that he was the most concerned about since he had no idea where they were even heading. Though he had some idea based on the direction that they were currently moving in.

It seemed like they were heading back to Vayne City.

I didn't say anything at first, but then I said, "You're being brought to Vayne City so we can pronounce your crimes to your subjects and then state your punishment to them."

brought to Vayne City so we can pronounce your crimes to your subjects and then state your punishment to them."

"Ha, you want to parade me around like they did with you?" Duke Yuletide teased me.

I just calmly looked at him with a smile and said, "Well, it seems like you do understand."

Duke Yuletide was surprised to hear this since he didn't think that I would be able to quip back at him so easily. He thought that he had hit a sore spot, but it seemed that he was completely wrong.

But when he thought about it, he realized that this made sense.

After all, he had just been pretending to be a prisoner all along, so it wasn't as if there was anything for him to be ashamed of.

Unlike Duke Yuletide who was now a real prisoner…

It seemed like Duke Yuletide had actually hurt himself with this quip as he quickly fell silent.

Still, there was nothing wrong with a bit of silence right now.

Perhaps silence would be just the thing that he needed to think of a plan to save himself.

Though when Duke Yuletide thought about it, he realized that there was just too little information…

Just what was waiting for him in Vayne City?