Shota's Isekai NTR Adventure

Chapter 675 The net has been cast

The award ceremony was awkwardly dismissed since the nobles didn't know what to make of the ending of that award ceremony.

In the end, most of them avoided me since they didn't want to associate with me after two dukes had stepped up.

Even if the king backed me, it was two dukes who had tried to take the wyverns from me.

They didn't think that I would be able to do anything against two established ducal families as a new duke.

So they were avoiding associating with me to avoid being pulled into this matter.

But I didn't care about any of them since there was something else that I needed to do.

After the award ceremony, I was brought back to the private residences of the castle.

This was where I had stayed last night and where I would be staying while I was in the capital, so it was only natural that I would come back.

Waiting for me was the king, the fourth prince, and Angela.

Unlike me who had to take a wrap-around way to get here, they could just come directly to this place from the back entrance of the ceremony hall. They were sitting there enjoying some tea and cake when I walked in.

Seeing me come in, the fourth prince waved for me to join them while Angela was already pouring some tea and cutting some cake for me.

The maid had wanted to do it, but she had the maid back down and did it herself.

When I sat down, the fourth prince waved his hand for the servants to leave.

In no time at all, the servants had disappeared from the room.

It seemed that he had something serious to discuss with me.

Once the servants were gone, the fourth prince said, "Let's discuss what we will do next. We need to think about how to take care of the other princes."

There was a disturbed look that appeared on my face when I heard the fourth prince say it.

Especially with how calm he was when he said it…

He was basically talking about how to kill his brothers and he was saying it with a calm look on his face.

It was as if he had already come to terms with the death of his brothers a long time ago.

I saw that the king had the same look on his face, but Angela couldn't help looking a bit disturbed.

Un, she didn't know about this plan in the first place, so it wasn't strange that she was disturbed by this. After all, these were her brothers as well.

While I didn't know how good the relationship between her and her brothers was, it wasn't as if she could deny all blood relations with them. So it was only normal that she would feel disturbed by the fact that the fourth prince was planning to kill these brothers of hers.

So I took her hand and patted it on the back.

Angela looked up at me and there was only a moment of weakness before she revealed a firm look to show that she had accepted this.

But it wasn't as if I could accept this that easily.

So I turned to the fourth prince and asked, "Do we really have to kill them? Is there a way to strip them of their power and send them to remote parts of the kingdom?"

Both the king and the fourth prince revealed bitter smiles when they heard this.

However, neither of them said a thing as they looked at me with those bitter smiles on their faces.

Finally, the fourth prince broke the silence by asking, "Do you really think that they would act peaceful and remain in exile? Those people that are already used to having all this power, will they really just listen and stay in exile?"

I was caught off guard by this.

If it was anyone else, they might not be able to answer this question, but…

I was someone who had knowledge from the game, so I knew just what kind of personality they had.

It was something that had been written about in detail in the game's guide, so I knew that they wouldn't be able to accept this.

These were prideful princes who would rather die than give up their power.

So even if they were left alive, they wouldn't back down…

In the end, I had no choice but to accept that death would be the only way.

Though there was a small part of me that thought…

If there were things that had turned out differently in this world compared to the game of the world, perhaps there was a chance that the same could happen with the princes…

But I also knew that it would take a lot of effort for something like this.

It would require finding many things about the princes to be able to convince them to give up their power willingly.

That was just too much work for this.

After seeing that I had accepted this, the fourth prince continued.

The only reason he had been waiting in the first place was because he was afraid that I would get cold feet midway. So he had been stalling during this to give me the time to come to terms with my emotions.

Once I did, the fourth prince said, "The net has already been cast, the only thing that is missing is bait."

After he said this, he looked at me.

A faint smile appeared on his face as he looked at me.

I knew immediately that he meant that I was bait.

But thinking about it, I really was the best bait for this plan.

Angela wanted to reject this, but I said, "Alright, tell me what I have to do."

She looked at me with a look like she was trying to convince me otherwise, but I just said, "We should end this as soon as possible. The longer we wait, the more things can go wrong."

She still looked at me with an unwilling look, but eventually she gave a nod.

I turned back to the fourth prince and waited for him to explain his plan.

Seeing me looking at him, the fourth prince said, "The plan is…"