How to strangle a tiger-2
To explain my relationship with Yuria, I was always closer to the victim.
To her, family is literally everything.
Even if she compares her family with herself, Yuria would choose the family.
The choice to kill me is also because the existence of me is harmful to the family.
– It’s not because I hate you. i never hated you It’s just that the name Taylor was too much for you.
It didn’t suit him, because there were so many things that he lacked to be a person with the name Taylor.
As I went through the last regression, the most important factor was that I didn’t die, but it was more like trying to change Yuria or Theresia’s heart.
May Yuria turn her eyes to her family rather than family, and may Theresia cast aside her own greed and repent.
Some might say it’s stupid to want something like that, but they were pretty precious to me.
Even when I changed my mind later and they were no longer as precious as before, I believed that Yuria and Theresia would change.
If I had overthrown the family and aimed at the prince who was the cause of my death, I would have probably completed it after going through several regressions.
However, the reason I didn’t do that was because I wanted to move on with everything.
Even if it looks like an idiot or an idiot, I thought it was right.
I didn’t think that Yuria would change in this life.
That kind of family had been abandoned for a long time, so it was right to think that the woman named Yuria would remain the same in the future.
As she completely gave up on that possibility in the last episode, let’s think about how it will flow if it’s according to her nature.
Probably won’t do anything right now.
Even though I declared that I would become the family head, from her point of view, it was nothing but a remark that had no problems.
My position in the duke’s residence is really shabby.
The person who would support me was also Leonald… No, I didn’t know that Leonald would also support Yuria.
Let’s assume that my support base is completely non-existent.
Although there was an imperial family, it didn’t mean much now that there was no contact from the prince.
If so, what should I do right now?
Having said it confidently, what am I supposed to do?
The answer to this was simple. To visit Taylor’s family head and clarify my position.
Did you say that you have to enter the wolf’s cave to catch the wolf?
It was time to go meet the biggest wolf.
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“What were you thinking that made you move like that?”
That was what I heard as soon as I entered the office.
As if he had seen through everything that he had contacted the princess, he pondered for a moment in his confident voice.
As long as I made up my mind to become the family head, my judgment had to be for the sake of the family in the eyes of others.
The reason I contacted the princess was to build my own power,
However, the apparent reason is for the benefit of the family.
He was silent for a moment, then opened his mouth casually.
“I thought that would be an advantage. I didn’t think the subjugation would succeed anyway.”
“The reason is?”
“There are too many different races. If elves or orcs unite to block it, even if it succeeds at the beginning of the subjugation, it will surely fail.”
It can be said that this is a story that has already been confirmed in the future.
The subjugation, which seemed to succeed at first, later completely failed,
It was because the imperial family, which had opposed it from the beginning, would take the initiative in power.
Looking ahead, Taylor’s diminishing power was never good.
So, I thought about what it would be like if I hit the player first, and this is the harvest.
As a result, Taylor sided with the imperial family, and the subjugation would be postponed for the time being.
What will the family gain here?
Even if I don’t explain, my father would already know enough.
“The reason you thought it was failing was probably because of the distribution of the different races you independently researched. I don’t know where you got it, but is it reliable?”
“I am sure. The subjugation will surely fail.”
“…If so, what benefit do we get from him?”
“The support of the imperial family, and the fact that I can continue to hold the highest position in the nobility group.”
In fact, after the subjugation failed, Taylor’s prestige greatly faltered.
As Taylor was the one who took the lead in insisting on subjugation, it was because he was hit directly in the aftermath.
Could my father not have expected this?
You probably expected it. It was just a bit of a gamble.
Those cold eyes were still staring at me, but it was clear that they were clearly interested.
You won’t be able to find anything wrong with what I said.
Also, it was natural that it would match what the father himself was thinking.
He must have been thinking about a way to do it, but since the imperial family and I contacted him first, the evaluation of me must have been revised.
From just a stupid, weak, ugly child, to a guy who can think for himself as it turns out.
However, I had no intention of stopping here.
So, without stopping, he added the following words.
“And in order to become the next family head, I needed to gain the support of the imperial family in my own way.”
“…next home?”
It must have been quite funny, he laughed and glared at me.
My eyes narrowed as if trying to figure out if my words were true, then returned to normal.
You will realize that it is not a lie.
Now he must be thinking why I said that.
I, who had never been interested in the position of family head, is now saying that I will come and become a family head.
It would be quite difficult to find reasons for such behavior.
“I won’t ask why. Because the qualification to become the family head is still valid. However, I wonder if I can do it.”
“I am thinking of heading north in the winter. Shouldn’t you pay for the handkerchief you received last time?”
Originally, it was a card that the Taylor family tried to use to gain profits,
He changed his mind and changed his thoughts about him.
I had better go north myself.
There are reasons to meet Adele, but above all, nothing will be more helpful to me than the military power of the North when thinking about the future.
“And then I’ll head south with the saintess.”
“A saint?”
“I have a personal acquaintance.”
When he mentioned Adele, his strange expression was colored with surprise for a moment.
It must have been quite surprising that I had a close relationship with the saintess.
The weight of the name saintess was quite enormous.
Her support was the church’s support, and if Adele and the imperial family’s support were added to that.
At least the evaluation of me from the outside will change at once.
It could have been considered a coincidence that the imperial family supported me.
There must have been some transaction between Taylor and the imperial family, so it was something that could be overlooked.
However, if the North and the saints support me. From then on, the evaluation of me will inevitably change.
“…It must have happened a lot without my knowledge.”
“I was busy in my own way. It was quite recently that I decided to become a family head.”
“Is it your own choice to change your mind?”
The question paused for a moment.
It was decided through the last episode that I wanted to become the family head, but
Since my father doesn’t know anything about my return, he’ll just assume it’s changed drastically in a matter of days.
it’s your own choice He laughed at the thought that followed, and slowly opened his mouth.
“Someone said that before. When I was doing something pathetic, he came to me and said this.”
It was a memory only I knew.
The first time I died, what my father said to me when he was imprisoned before the death penalty.
Those words stayed in my heart and started to return.
I will never do that again, so I embraced the moon stone in my body.
“In the end, everything is your sin, and no matter how much you repent and regret, nothing will change. Even if I die a miserable death, it’s my fault, so I said who would I blame?”
“…so arrogant for talking to Taylor.”
“Hearing that, I realized something. That’s what I want to prove.”
What I realized through my many regressions was that no matter who I blamed, nothing would change.
The people around me haven’t changed.
Yuria and Theresia too. After all, isn’t their nature determined?
So in the end, it was said that I should have changed.
My father stared at me for a moment, then leaned back on the sofa and stared into space.
Anguish could be seen in his eyes, constantly contemplating something.
what are you struggling with What is agony for?
It wasn’t long before I guessed that, and my father muttered in a low voice.
“Prove it if it is false.”
The anguish in his eyes was still the same, but his tone was different from before.
His pathetic feelings for me faded, and he was the first sincere look in his eyes.
Now, for the first time, I face those eyes that see me not as a pitiful son, but as someone who might become the head of the family someday.
He nodded so slowly.
“Prove to me that you can become a family head. Go north, then go south. If you beat Yuria and get the qualifications of Sogaju.”
Breaking through the silence for a while, the shapely eyes reached me.
“I’ll give you Taylor.”
Come to think of it, this was the first time I had received such recognition from my father.
However, I wasn’t happy. Rather, only a strange sensation filled my heart, and I nodded a little late.
Suddenly, an idea popped into my head.
As he said, it was my imagination after I took over from Taylor and became the head of the household.
If I inherit Taylor, what will my father say then?
My tailor, who will point his sword at the imperial family and sharpen his teeth at the empire…
What kind of expression will you look at?
My heart skipped a beat.
If this feeling rising now is called joy, then what on earth am I feeling joy for?
I managed to get out of the office, barely hiding my beating heart.
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“Bocchan, are you sure?”
This would spread rumors in the duke’s residence that I was about to become the head of the household.
The rumor spread quickly as if it had wings, and even Ronald, who hadn’t listened to the story, was surprised and asked me.
I was so surprised that he came running with his hair messed up.
“You know very well that being the head of household is not that easy. Did you mean that?”
“I never once lied to you. It is like that this time too.”
Reynolds bit his lip in frustration for a moment, then let out a deep sigh.
When I saw something like that, I wondered if I was really worried about myself.
Didn’t you look at me funny before?
But that kind of behavior didn’t sound like a lie, so I was just watching.
I knew the ripple effect of what I said best.
Even if you just look at the rumors right now, you can tell that my public opinion is not good.
In this situation, what would you say if you said you would jump into the race for the title?
Maybe that guy has a flower garden blooming on his head again – you’ll hear stories like that.
I think it will probably be until winter is over.
So winter was important to me.
If I think that everything goes well in winter, my support will be the same as Yuria’s support.
Then until then, the problem was what I was doing, but fortunately, there was one good news.
Seeing the letter that Leonald brought, the name written at the end of the letter, she smiles a little.
‘J’
A pseudonym used by Arwen, and the name of the only alchemist living in the area.
The fact that the letter came just now, without any content, would be proof that she had made up her mind on her own.
All that was left now would be to visit her and finish the conversation about the crown prince that was spit out last time.
Arwen’s role in this episode was quite simple.
If the Taylor family is compared to a wolf, the crown prince is a tiger I must catch.
What he needed to figure out how to strangle the tiger was Arwen.