Chapter 115
Valdrich’s eyebrows twitched as he heard his son’s words.
‘His fountain pen, stolen?’
Daymond’s daughter?
One corner of Valdrich’s mouth twisted up in a smirk.
Then, it would be all the better.
It would serve as an excuse to ruin the match, and they could get back at that annoying Daymond and his daughter.
Valdrich looked at Erylotte, who was in Daymond’s arms.
Then his gaze shifted slightly to Daymond, who was looking at Geoffrey with a cold stare.
“You must have heard, Brother.”
“Your son has the talent of making nonsense sound like human speech.”
Valdrich’s face soured.
“What do you mean? He is your nephew, after all.”
“And you’re accusing your niece of being a thief.”
“A thief? It’s merely about ensuring there’s no misunderstanding among cousins.”
Erylotte, who was in Daymond’s arms, opened her eyes wide and shouted.
“Not Ewi! Ewi notta feef!” (Not me! I’m not a thief!)
“We’ll see when we check.”
The people around Erylotte from Daymond’s jurisdiction became hostile.
The twins also glared at Geoffrey with a menacing air.
“Why would the baby steal your fountain pen!”
As Balzac shouted, Geoffrey hid behind his father, only poking his face out slightly to say,
“That fountain pen is very expensive and precious, so it’s natural to be envious.”
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
“But the only person who had something to hide it in when my fountain pen disappeared was Erylotte.”
Joshua slowly approached Geoffrey, emanating a chillingly cold aura.
Geoffrey trembled in his hands and legs as Joshua approached, looking at him, but pretended not to notice, rolling his eyes.
“It’s all circumstantial, anyway.”
“That’s…”
“You’re treating Erylotte like a mere thief on such flimsy evidence.”
The ground around Joshua trembled slightly.
Crackle, crackle—
With a cracking sound, the ground’s debris lifted into the air and condensed due to Joshua’s blessing, <Compression>.
The condensed debris grew larger.
Geoffrey stepped back with each step Joshua took, trembling like a leaf.
Valdrich bellowed,
“What are you doing─!!”
His thunderous shout drew the attention of passersby in the training grounds.
The Astra bloodline members on the stage also wore serious expressions.
As Valdrich strode forward to grab Joshua by the collar,
“If you lay a finger on my son, that neck of yours won’t stay attached.”
Daymond warned in a low murmur.
Valdrich glared at Daymond, frowning deeply.
Bang─!
A loud thud from the stage area drew everyone’s attention.
Duke Astra was looking over with a cold expression.
Valdrich quickly bowed his head.
“Father, please listen to Geoffrey’s side.”
He gently pushed his trembling son, who was hiding behind him, forward.
All eyes of the bloodline focused on Geoffrey.
In the meantime, Erylotte leaped out of Daymond’s arms.
“Wa-yuh! Joffey a wa-yuh!” (Liar! Geoffrey’s a liar!)
Geoffrey glared at Erylotte and immediately pointed at her, shouting,
“Erylotte stole my fountain pen! That’s why I couldn’t concentrate during the match! So, the results of this match are invalid!”
“Do you understand the weight of your words?”
At the Duke’s low voice, Geoffrey shrugged his shoulders, mumbling a response.
“Yes, I understand……”
“I’ll give you a chance to correct yourself.”
“That, um……”
Valdrich whispered to his son, who was cowering in fear,
“What are you doing?”
“Uh, I……”
“It’s not a lie. My son has said it, so that must be the case.”
“……”
Geoffrey swallowed his saliva dryly.
‘Could this have escalated this far?’
His throat went completely dry.
‘No, there can’t be a mistake.’
The maid definitely said she hid the fountain pen in that brat’s room.
The original plan was to snitch to the professor and ruin her grades, but this turn of events was even better.
‘This annoying girl will be driven out for good.’
Geoffrey lifted his head.
And then, looking straight at the duke, he said,
“It’s not a lie!”
And in turn, Valdrich shouted,
“See? If it weren’t true, could he be this confident!”
Erylotte also spoke up,
“Ewi not a thief! I swew to thwe cwow! (I’m not a thief! I swear to the crow!)”
Erylotte pointed to the Astra emblem engraved on the flag above the stage as she spoke,
“What can Geoffrey stake?”
Valdrich felt a surge of anger upon seeing the bold girl pointing at the Astra emblem.
It reminded him of Daymond when he was younger.
Unable to contain his anger, Valdrich said,
“I stake half of my jurisdiction on my oath.”
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