254 – Doubts and Lies (2)
Honestly, that 4th prince treated me like sh*t.
That guy, who must have eaten and digested the concept, defeated Count Hansa, who came with Dalton and a large army of over 15,000 men.
Furthermore, even though he played a decisive role in the victory of our army in the war against the Second Prince Franz faction and finally put an end to the Second Prince faction, at a time when he should have been preparing for the next step, he suddenly and frighteningly pushed me to risk my life and use a counter-trick. Attached.
They’re even taking advantage of the fact that I don’t like messing around with prostitutes and are outright driving me out of politics.
‘Even if you skewer it and then grill it on a barbecue and eat it, it won’t be enough.’
When I came to my senses, I found myself grinding my teeth.
A nobleman standing next to him gave a stern warning.
“Baron Cologne! “It’s in front of Her Royal Highness Princess Maria!”
Ah, I tried to make an emotional appeal as to why I defected, but my feelings of unfairness almost consumed me.
f*ck, I’d rather just play around and touch Karin’s breasts than go through all the trouble of going back and forth here.
What is this?
For a moment, I felt ashamed and sighed.
“Haa…”
Maria looked at me with quite interest.
“It seems like you have quite a bit of resentment, is that so?”
“Yes, that’s right. “I was having a hard time thinking about where to start and my teeth were grinding together.”
“It doesn’t look bad to be honest. “Tell us slowly from beginning to end. If it’s for your sake, the princess can invest plenty of time.”
They say that when betraying, it is better to reveal your true feelings rather than vaguely hiding them.
I think the princess liked the fact that I revealed my bitter feelings.
In a way, this would be like climbing the first stair, which is the most difficult step…
“As your Royal Highness knows, I was just a mercenary. “Then, I was fortunate enough to have several opportunities to play and made a name for myself.”
I was humbled and said I was lucky, but no one nodded at the nonsense I told them.
“In the meantime, in search of an opportunity to advance in the world, I joined Prince Otto’s faction, joined by Baron Maurer, with whom I had previously been acquainted.”
The princess raised the corner of her mouth and twitched one eyebrow.
“Oh, sir, like other nobles, you don’t say that you will correct the country or that you will serve with loyalty. Is this still okay?”
Even when I was not labeled a traitor, when I offered my loyalty, I never said that I was needlessly trying to correct the country or that I was against Otto’s cause.
Why? The people who say things like that and get eaten are crazy people who call themselves blue-blooded nobles from birth.
For a mercenary like me who was a low-level knight, it would be more persuasive to say that we came here after assessing which benefit would be greater.
Would the princess believe me if I said that I was willing to abandon Prince Otto, whom she had previously served, and all that?
I’d rather believe that guy Otto that he’ll stop playing with prostitutes.
“If I am about to abandon the lord I am already serving, how can I gain trust if I speak of loyalty and the cause? And the fate of me, my family, and our family is in a state where life or death is determined by whether or not Her Majesty the Princess accepts it. “It’s like a torch before the wind.”
When a storm comes, the torch is sure to go out.
The princess crossed her legs in her seat and leaned against the back of her chair.
“Keep talking.”
“I swore loyalty to Prince Otto for myself, my family, and the mercenaries under my command… I did my best to repay Prince Otto for accepting me.”
I paused for a moment after saying that.
Then, I remembered the saddest things that had happened in my life, even before I possessed Martin Mayer’s body.
When she lived in Korea, she went to confess to the girl who was her first love to put a love letter in her shoe rack, and on the spot, she saw the girl kissing another boy.
When I was working as a mercenary in Afghanistan and my closest comrade died unexpectedly, etc…
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After becoming Martin, there were difficult times, but because I went through them all, there was nothing sad enough to make me cry…
Anyway, tears flowed from my eyes.
“Baron Maurer and I blocked the onslaught of Count Hansa, who was leading an army of 15,000 men, and eventually launched a counteroffensive and took over the County of Hansa. “It was a very difficult task, but I was able to win because I did my best to live up to Prince Otto’s expectations.”
The nobles nodded their heads heavily at my words.
It must have been because they imagined the pain of humans who were loyal to the point of death but were not repaid.
“After that, he played a major role in subjugating the second prince and was finally successful. However, after my success, I don’t know what His Royal Highness Prince Otto was thinking, but he began to distance himself from me. For the past month, they have been alienating me from politics by not inviting me to all meetings and banquets. “Then I started to think that if we continued like this, we might be purged at any time.”
Honestly, I don’t know either.
Is that damn Otto really planning to purge me or kill me?
If he was going to ask me for something like this, he should have given me a promise of compensation in advance, but that bastard didn’t promise anything…
“I wanted to serve a lord who would truly recognize my worth, rather than being purged despite my loyalty.”
The princess stood up from her seat and looked down at me and asked.
“I understood your situation. But other than that, why should I believe in the sutra?”
“Because my situation is like this. Please trust the situation I am in.”
Honestly, if you and I knew each other, how much would we be able to build human trust toward each other?
Furthermore, no matter how unfortunate my situation may seem, I am still a traitor.
So, in times like this, you need to make them believe that they have no choice but to surrender because of this situation, and gradually gain their trust by giving them humane goodwill.
The princess stared at me with her purple eyes.
I was very embarrassed because it was as if she was trying to read deep into my heart, but I did not avoid her eyes.
In times like this, if you look away for no reason, it will be awkward and it will look suspicious as if you are hiding something.
“Hmm, I see. What do you guys think? Do you think we should accept the Baron of Cologne? Or not…”
Mary clinked her palms together and made a sound.
Then, her knights who were around her came running all at once.
The knights all pulled out their swords and pointed them at my neck.
So close that if you move even 1 millimeter incorrectly, your throat will be cut and bleed.
“Is it right to cut off that traitor’s head and present it to Prince Otto?”
There were many knights’ swords pointed at my neck, but I wasn’t that scared.
‘If you really wanted to kill me, you would have cut off my head already.’
I will not do such a foolish thing as threatening you for no reason.
‘If you try to kill me, even if I die, I, an expert, can take the princess’s life.’
“I, the Marquis of Schweig, think that we can trust the surrender of the Baron of Cologne. “I would have been suspicious if he had been talking about loyalty and other causes like other traitors, but…”
The guy called the Marquis Schweig looked at me and shrugged his shoulders.
“The author is trying to change his lord because the lord he served held a sword to his throat. He developed an extreme sense of betrayal and revenge towards the 4th Prince. Furthermore, there will be a desire to continue to rise in the world by coming under Her Majesty the Princess.”
The princess also nodded her head at those words.
“That makes sense. What Baron Cologne thinks or what kind of person he is is not that important. What is important is the environment in which Baron Cologne himself finds himself.”
It is said that the environment creates humans, but in fact, strictly speaking, most humans change to suit the environment they are in.
What is more, when you look at it from the outside, it is very obvious that it is something I can do as I am swept up in the political environment.
So they will trust me now.
Then, to really gain their trust, you’ll have to show them that Prince Otto’s head is falling off his shoulder.
The princess pulled out her sword from her waist and placed it on her shoulder.
“Baron of Cologne, do you swear to Deus that you will abandon the rotten Prince Otto and serve me, Maria von Rheinfalzmann, as the true monarch?”
If necessary, the name of Deus in the sky can be sold thousands or tens of thousands of times.
If I can save my life by selling that guy, that’s enough.
“I swear to Deus that from now on, my sword and my life will only be used for Her Highness Princess Maria.”
By nature, people are liars.
If necessary, you can falsely whisper love and fight by throwing stones at someone you do not hate.
So, from now on, I will make a thorough cut.
Is the princess in front of her more trustworthy than Otto, or is she worse than Otto?
“Okay, then the Lord has sworn loyalty to me and I have also accepted it, so what an auspicious event this is to celebrate. “I have prepared a celebratory banquet, everyone please come along.”