episode_0035

Franz Mayer prepared Plan A and Plan B.

But the more schemes, the better.

It’s not a grand plan that can be called a plan, but it would be nice to add one more simple task.

Therefore, Franz Mayer decided to head to the Ambrosia family. He was speaking as a messenger of armistice negotiations.

With that in mind, let’s make a suggestion to Leona.

“No.”

Leona immediately refused.

“Why doesn’t it work?”

“It was customary for the messenger to send the second or third son of a prestigious family. But aren’t you the head of the family? Is there any need to send the head of the family as a messenger? What if they catch you and take you hostage?”

“Don’t worry. Even if I die, Lucille will help you.”

“No!!!”

I almost went deaf from her screaming voice. The surroundings vibrated.

“No, I’m just kidding, Your Highness.”

“That should be it.”

“Don’t worry. If they had any ideas, they wouldn’t do anything that could endanger my safety. More than anything, this is helpful to Leona.”

“… ”

“It’s not dangerous.”

“How can you claim that it is not dangerous to enter the den of wild beasts?”

“It is a well-fed beast. I am tasteless prey.”

“A wild beast is a wild beast. You never know what might happen.”

“Difficult times are a place where danger lurks everywhere. How can you serve your master if you cannot take that level of risk?”

“You are amazingly good at speaking.”

“This is the qualifications of a strategist.”

“… ”

“… ”

Silence for a while. She looked up at me with slightly red eyes.

“Don’t die.”

“I promise.”

She eventually let me go, and I became a messenger to the Ambrosia family.

—–

“It is said that the Kruzenstein family is sending the head of a count family named Franz Mayer as a messenger to negotiate an armistice.”

“Franz Mayer? It must be Leona’s agent. Why bother sending someone like that as an emissary? What kind of plan is there?”

“I think so. It would be perfect to capture him and use him as a hostage… ”

“Lord, lord! Don’t make a big deal out of it! What can you do to catch him? Even if we kill him, the Mayer family will be inherited by his younger brother, and we will be criticized by neighboring countries for killing the lion! Even that stupid Christian Harper didn’t kill the lion! Even if you catch them instead of killing them and exchange them for money, compared to the productive capacity of the rich central region, it is literally a pittance! Where can you spend that kind of money! What you gain is small and what you lose is big… ”

“Got it. okay. Why make such a fuss over something I just said?”

The matriarch breathed a sigh of relief. The matriarch thought. He said that his master was never a stupid person, but he seemed to say stupid things in front of him on purpose. To watch your blood pressure rise.

“Then what do you mean? Let’s just let them come, do nothing, and send them back unharmed?”

The moment she heard those words, the matriarch’s eyes flashed, she smiled wickedly, and rubbed her hands.

“That’s a bit unfortunate. Hehe… ”

At that moment, a plan flashed through Gamo’s mind. Intelligence 98. It was the third most outstanding tactician’s ability in the world view.

“If that guy comes.”

“When does it come?”

“I will plant poison and send it back. Go back and spread the word to your family.”

“Oh my… ”

Lord Godwin, who had roughly read the matriarch’s thoughts, also smiled sinisterly.

—–

Within a few days. Franz Mayer came to the Ambrosia family castle. He was holding a ceasefire agreement.

“You really came? The liver is also big.”

Gamo giggled and laughed. It was something I would never have done if it were me. The reason Gamo worked hard for power was not out of loyalty or a sense of duty. To achieve success for oneself. Just as the deceased Henrik von Setia was a peddler, the matriarch was also a peddler. The items handled were not that different, including oil, paper, and brushes. People tended to look down on peddlers who traveled to various cities to make money, calling them homeless, but peddlers were not something to look down on. A peddler was a person who dealt with many types of customers and had many types of commercial skills that were on a completely different level from city merchants.

Therefore, Gamo was planning to try cooking for the guests who came this time. This is because he remembered his childhood when he was a peddler.

‘Hehe, I’ll show Desk Bitten the real fear of battle.’

Soon Franz Mayer entered the castle gate, and the matriarch immediately came down from the castle wall and ran to the castle gate. Franz glanced at the matriarch running towards her with a disinterested expression and then passed by. It seemed like he didn’t know that he was Gamo Frost.

‘then… ‘

There must be more fun to be had. It was Gamo Frost who was giggling inwardly as he thought so. The matriarch soon approached Franz and spoke to him.

“Are you Franz Mayer? I am the person who came from the family to guide Franz Mayer.”

He spoke as if he was a servant or butler, but this wasn’t really a lie. However, he just didn’t tell the truth.

Gamo first planned to hide his identity and surprise the other person.

“Is that so?”

Franz answers indifferently. I felt a little displeased because I felt ignored, but at the same time, I felt successful. If he knew that he was the strongest tactician in the central region, Gamo, he wouldn’t treat him so easily.

Gamo rubbed her hands and went into ‘treacherous mode’. There weren’t many people who could resist this mode of bombarding praise with ignorance.

“Wow~ It’s a new feeling to see Franz, who has such a high reputation. I heard you won an overwhelming victory over Christian Harper in the Battle of Kou Dragan, right? The story is that he rode with the Harper family flag on his horse in revenge for his own flag being torn! Wow, I thought this was truly an example of a knight.”

“Did it spread that way? I didn’t really have that in mind.”

What makes it so hard to chew? The matriarch thought. But it was worth a try again.

“And even! Isn’t it said that they held out for several years against the Krusenstein Army, which easily destroyed the Central Army? There is no one even in the central region who does not know that this is Mayer-sama’s achievement.”

“Aha.”

This time he didn’t even answer. Just a small exclamation. At this point, the mother’s fever began to rise. I wanted to give a punch to the shameless brat in front of me. In order to do that…

“Especially. What happened in that dungeon was quite impressive. You told your lord, who had tied up your enemies and brought them in, to stop playing games like this because it would not help at all?”

Even the opponent’s family reveals information that only a part of it knows. If you do this, your opponent will be surprised. They’ll be trying to find out where that kind of confidential information came from.

That was one of the matriarch’s plans. By disclosing information that the opposing family only knows partially, it gives the impression that there is a traitor, preventing them from trusting each other. It was a so-called cunning scheme to sow suspicion.

Franz Mayer’s steps stopped. Franz looked at the matriarch with a surprised expression. The matriarch thought. It was successful. But the next moment, Gamo’s thoughts completely changed.

“Did Mr. Garcia even talk about it that far? Well, I told you to tell me only in moderation… ”

“… ?”

At that moment, the matriarch’s mouth fell open. Garcia Granada was his informant. Garcia provides information about the Krusenstein family, and the matriarch provides information about the Ambrosia family, so they both succeed. It had to be that kind of operation. And because it was a dishonorable fact, no one except the two would know.

But does Franz Mayer know that fact? The matriarch could not help but be shocked by that fact. furthermore…

‘I told you to tell me only in moderation?’

Looking at the way he spoke, doesn’t it seem as if Garcia was deliberately leaking information under Franz Mayer’s instructions?

Could it be that he had been deceived? To Garcia? And to Franz Mayer? At that moment, Gamo barely restrained herself from wanting to collapse. Who would have thought that the person he thought was his informant was the enemy’s liaison…

‘All contact with Garcia must be cut off immediately. The information Ambrosia provided to Garcia can go straight to Leona’s ears.’

The matriarch vowed to cut off all contact with Garcia as soon as she returned. Meanwhile, Franz’s heart was pounding as he saw the matriarch suddenly becoming completely speechless.

‘Phew, it looks like it was successful.’

In fact, Franz’s designation of Garcia was just a matter of taking pictures. Possibly, Haakon was a man of great faith, so he would not do anything that could harm his lord, and Clemens was already a captain, so he thought it would be fatal if his connections with other forces were discovered. And Rainvern is out of the question. Because I’m old, I don’t have time to talk about it because I’m so busy.

So, considering the possibility, I just took the picture because I thought there was a high possibility that Garcia was the informant, and it turned out to be correct.

‘Of course, if I were a human from this world, I wouldn’t have noticed… ‘

Franz Mayer knew Haakon and Rainvern very well. Therefore, we were able to quickly exclude Harkon and Rainbern from the list of suspects. However, if he were a human from this world, he was not personally close to Harkon or Rainbern, so he would have no choice but to consider them as suspects due to lack of information, and he thought that if he had not been able to narrow down the suspects, he might have been caught up in the matriarch’s treachery.

‘Really, I survived many times thanks to my knowledge of the game.’

Since you start the game by knowing all the characteristics of the characters, you can get a rough idea of who has what personality. And Franz is the only one in this world who has such knowledge. Franz had no choice but to start with a much greater advantage than others.

‘I’m sorry, matriarch. It’s not that you’re incompetent. However, what can I do if it is a Bangjang scam map? ‘If you ask me, you’ll be a modern person too.’

Thinking about that, Franz smiles inwardly with satisfaction. Now that the matriarch was completely silent, it was his turn.

“Oh my! Matriarch!”

When Franz spoke loudly, the matriarch flinched and was surprised. She didn’t know that Franz knew that she was the matriarch.

“What is it?”

“What do you think will happen to the Krusenstein family and the Ambrosia family in the future?”

“Well, that’s right… Since we signed an armistice, wouldn’t there be only peace between us? Haha.”

The matriarch smiled awkwardly, but it couldn’t have been sincere. Because Gamo is a tactician with 98 intellect. There was no way I could have such naive thoughts. The matriarch’s thoughts were probably…

“In my opinion, unless one family goes bankrupt, their rivalry will never end.”

It would be like Franz. Then the matriarch frowned. Because I never imagined that Franz Mayer would say something like this openly in a place with so many people, especially in enemy territory.

‘hmm… ‘

The matriarch looked at Franz’s face. What does Franz want to do? Everyone knows that there are not two suns under the sky. But why do we bring up this topic when we come to sign the armistice agreement? I didn’t know the reason, but the only way to find out was to induce it. Let your opponent crack his hand more.

“Well, that’s true. Don’t they say there are not two suns under the sky? Only when one side loses will the other side rise.”

“Then the two families cannot coexist?”

“That’s right, right? Didn’t Franz Mayer just make the same claim?”

“That’s right.”

Franz Mayer smiled with satisfaction. And the next moment, Franz whispered softly. So that only the matriarch can hear.

“Both families cannot coexist. However, please know that the matriarch can coexist with either family.”

“… !”

It was only then that the matriarch realized. What is Franz Mayer’s plan? Just as he himself had been using false accusations against Franz Mayer, Franz Mayer was also using false accusations against himself.

However, the dirty part of this evil world was that one had no choice but to suffer it even though one knew it. Franz Mayer was suggesting this. [Step into the Ambrosia family and the Krusenstein family. Whichever side wins, I will make sure you survive.]

Gamo was amazed at the man in front of her. It’s a dirty move. I thought I was the meanest person ever, but the person in front of me was just as mean.

At that moment, Gamo revised her evaluation of her opponent. This man was no noble desk licker or anything. He was a vile wolf of his own kind.