The Duke's shaky eyes were fixed in one person. It was his eldest son, Hayton.
He was pale and he tightened his fist.
"No way you......!"
"......."
Hayton's silence was the perfect answer.
The Duke of Vallua approached him and shook his shoulders.
"What did Dubbled do to you? What did that girl do to you...?!"
Hayton slowly raised his head. He muttered without avoiding his father's gaze.
"You're the one who taught me this."
"......what?"
"You said we should hurry up and throw away what we don't need, also take what we need regardless of compassion. So I did what I learned."
"You, you, you... you ungrateful bastard!"
"It's just like how you treated mother. I didn't need you anymore so I threw you away."
"......!"
As the Duke of Vallua hardened, Hayton gritted his teeth and tightened his fist.
"I only did what I learned!"
Duke Vallua, who was betrayed by his son, looked at the monster he had made.
Leblaine smiled as she watched them.
***
A few hours ago, shortly after the investigators returned, I asked about the Duchess of Vallua's whereabout.
The relationship with her husband had fallen apart, and the Duchess's would need someone to rely on.
However, the person I sent secretly came back.
"Did the Duchess of Vallua send you back? That can't be true."
"No, I haven't seen the Duchess."
"Did the Duke do something to her?"
As I murmured, Curtis, Seria's childhood friend and assistant to hope mercenary guild*, also felt strange about this whole thing.
*TL notes: There was a mistranslation before, the top of hope should be translated as a mercenary guild called hope, I'm sorry for the mistake.
"Maybe, but....... I felt like something was strange.
"Strange?"
"The spy who was planted in Vallua said that the Duchess' luggage was not brought into the new mansion they recently moved to. It seems that even her child doesn't know where he is. The second son, Niel Vallua, is anxiously looking for his mother.
"Niel? What about Hayton?"
"The eldest son doesn't come out in his room."
At the moment, I felt goosebumps and an ominous foreboding.
Seria only nodded hearing him.
"He didn't even bring his wife's luggage. Maybe the Duke of Vallua had a divorce in mind."
"......no, that's not it."
"What?"
"Maybe the Duchess of Vallua....... Curtis, go back to the new Vallua mansion. This time meet Hayton in my name."
"What should I say?"
"......Ask him, 'Where is your mother?'"
"Is that it?"
