No one else was in there. Louisbane was alone, sitting on a large sofa, waiting for Decain.
“Did you call me?”
“Yes. The new magic stone you gave me was very interesting, but nobody could figure out how it was made, so I called you.”
“I was just worrying about that.”
“What do you plan to do?”
“I need to coax Tanashia into revealing how to make a new magic stone.”
“What if she doesn’t?”
“…….”
Decain had no answer for the final question.
He had no idea what to do if Tanashia kept her mouth shut even after he tried everything.
But it was too precious to just bury this new magic stone.
A moment of silence passed.
The first to break the silence was Louisbane.
“I’ve heard that the young lady Brellof is on a trip.”
Decain looked at Louisbane with a puzzled expression. He wondered why he was suddenly investigating Tanashia’s whereabouts.
“She left with the minimum number of people and barely any escort soldiers.”
As he listened, Decain felt something was off.
“Why are you suddenly saying that?”
“Are you asking because you really don’t know?”
Louisbane counterquestioned him.
At that moment, Decain felt a chill run down his spine. He guessed why Louisbane was saying this.
“Don’t tell me, are you thinking of kidnapping Tanashia?”
“Then do you want to give up on the new magic stone?”
He couldn’t give up. No, he didn’t want to give up.
But kidnapping Tanashia was an absurd idea.
“Father, are you in your right mind? The other party is the Brellof family. Don’t you know how dangerous this is?”
“……It’s already out of my hands.”
He didn’t understand what he was talking about.
Then it happened.
Squeak, the secret passage in Louisbane’s office suddenly opened.
As far as Decain knew, only Louisbane and himself knew about it. But someone came into the room through that secret passage.
It was a familiar face to Decain.
His name was Retanda, a muscular man in his 40s who didn’t look his age. He was the Grand Duke of the Razent Empire and the emperor’s younger brother.
He had no idea how someone like Retanda, who was virtually the emperor’s right arm, came here.
Looking at the frozen Decain, Retanda spoke.
“If you disagree, stay out.”
“What are you……”
“You don’t understand even after seeing me? This is a task approved by His Majesty the Emperor. The young lady Brellof should belong to the Razent Empire.”
He didn’t understand what was going on, but one thing was certain.
With a face soaked in betrayal, Decain looked at his adoptive father, Louisbane.
He never dreamed that Louisbane would relay the report he gave about Tanashia directly to the royal family of the Razent Empire.
Seeing Decain’s feelings, Louisbane, with a grim expression, made an excuse.
“I had no choice. You may not know, but the Kalua Empire is preparing for war. We can’t just sit by while our motherland is threatened, can we?”
Dekain knew that the Kallua Empire was creating weapons for war. But was there something more he didn’t know?
Though Dekain looked at him questioningly, Luiban just clamped his mouth shut, seemingly unable to provide any explanation.
The answer came from an unexpected source: Retanda.
“Now that you’re here, there’s no need to hide it any longer. Currently, the Kallua Empire is developing something called ‘human weaponry’. We need weapons that can match these human weapons in our Empire.”
Human weaponry?
This was the first time Dekain had heard of this in the meeting.
Tanashia, who had read the original , knew about this, but this information was classified as top secret.
Dekain’s mind was in turmoil due to the new information, but there was one thing he couldn’t help asking about.
“So, are you saying that you’re forcing Tanashia to come to the Rajent Empire to create a new magic stone?”
The important thing was that the Rajent Empire wanted Tanashia, who had developed a new magic stone.
Luiban and Retanda did not reply, as if they had made some sort of agreement. But he realized that their silence was a form of affirmation.
Dekain asked again in the most serious voice he had ever used.
“And if Tanashia doesn’t agree to the end?”
Retanda’s eyes turned cold at this, and she responded quietly.
“Then we’ll have to kill her. If our Empire cannot possess such a dangerous talent, we cannot leave it. Just imagine if it fell into the hands of the Kallua Empire. A dreadful thing would happen.”
It was unthinkable.
The Igetion upper echelon was known for its strong reputation.
To unilaterally confiscate the weapon of a contractor for the distribution of magical engineering weapons like this was unthinkable.
However, the reason such an unthinkable thing was happening was because the new magic stone developed by Tanashia was far too tremendous.
Dekain realized that the worst possible scenario was unfolding.
Suddenly, he remembered Tanashia, whom he had parted with not long ago.
‘Tanashia…!’
She was in danger.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
