Lady Devil - Chapter 24

#24

That night. It was the night when a marriage proposal came for elder sister, and at the same time, all the siblings gathered at the fortress after several months. And from that night, something changed.

An ominous aura flowed through the fortress. As if a demon crawling out of hell was wandering nearby dragging iron chains, the whole fortress seemed to be wrapped in that chain sound. Elder brother’s seizure was exactly like that, and now in fact….

I think it definitely wasn’t a seizure or anything like that.

When I first witnessed elder brother’s seizure that I had only heard about, I was shocked to the point of feeling chilled inside. Surely it couldn’t be because of ‘that’. My stomach felt hot as if a broad blade had been thrust sideways into it.

Elder brother’s behavior, filled with madness and even inducing fear, was secondary. Whether it was a seizure or whatever, regardless of the cause, Winfrid was most surprised by the fact that none other than elder brother Johannes had ‘revealed’ himself so primitively.

Although he covered it up with absurd packaging like performing an exorcism, it wasn’t an idle remark when he muttered the next day that it didn’t seem like an ordinary seizure. In reality, it was a wish spoken aloud. It was close to Winfrid’s own wishful thinking. And now the boy can declare.

Indeed, it’s not a seizure.

It’s clearly because of that.

Phew, Winfrid felt a sinful shudder rising up his back again.

It was surely a sinful matter for elder brother. Although they say noble families are always in turmoil over inheritance issues between fathers and brothers, wasn’t a bloody family history unheard of in Gustavus?

So there were circumstances like this.

First, Valdemar had no illegitimate children to cause unnecessary strife. Was there a problem with father’s lower body function? Apologies to father, but sometimes such doubts even arose.

Winfrid had witnessed the duke’s infidelity dozens of times already, and someone somewhere was said to need to borrow others’ hands to count their illegitimate sons and daughters as ten fingers weren’t enough, so it couldn’t help but be strange.

Could he be using contraception? Why? And how on earth? Was pig intestine that useful? Hmm, that was a personally curious point too. Anyway.

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