If I Disobey the Duke - Chapter 248
Passionate (5)
“Presumptuous!” Ingrid leaned against the backrest and sat cross-legged. “You. It must have been a situation in which you are trying to lie to me now.”
She rolled her eyes towards Marius, who was sitting like a sack of grain. “Marius. Please tell me why you are trying to accuse the duke. As your superior, I will judge you very fairly.”
“Yes, Your Highness.” As if Marius had been waiting, he got up from his seat and looked at Vlad. “The duke has committed the heinous crime of unjustly extorting the property of the one who will be an example for the people of the whole empire and destroying his family. The lady’s father, Shylock Isles, is a great man who succeeded enough to deliver valuables to the imperial nobles as a commoner. As a lord of the Isles Family, he could not stand by, stealing the achievements of such capable people through their efforts.”
Dandelion hissed. He waved his hands haphazardly. “Oh, no! Our father is a very bad person. The lord just likes my sister…”
“Shh.” Ingrid looked at Dandelion and raised her index finger and placed it on his mouth. “No matter how cute you are, you have to stay still when your superior is talking, so that thin neck attached to your body will not fly all the way.”
Dandelion turned white, shut his mouth tightly, and shook his head again and again. That tone made her more terrifying.
As Ingrid gestured, Marius continued to speak while staring at Vlad. “I have documented all the relentless methods the duke used to extort Shylock Isles’ property.”
Ingrid clasped her hands and sat comfortably on the chair. “Duke. You should know that you are not the only nobles aiming for this great Isles. Anyway, if you forcibly extorted it, the imperial family will pay you back at all costs. It’s a lot of money, isn’t it?”
Marius paused. His voice that followed was even more determined than before. “I did not come here to covet the duke’s property. I came here to set an example for the duke who was not ashamed of winning the battle in an unscrupulous way and was also tyrannical to other nobles, Your Highness.”
“Tyrannical? The duke stays here like an old man in his closet and doesn’t go out. What kind of tyranny has he done to other nobles?”
“It is presumed that the duke killed an innocent and powerless baron in the process of extorting the Isles.”
Vlad, who had been silently listening to Marius’s determined words, finally laughed. He looked up at Marius slowly. “I don’t know how the baron died. It’s something I’m not sure of.”
“…It’s really shameful. How can you do that with human skin?”
Marius trembled at Vlad’s audacity. Of course, as Vlad said, there was no physical evidence. A certain baron was killed by an assassin in the middle of the night, and it was presumed that it was under the control of the Duke of Winter, under various circumstances.
The fact that he was murdered without any confusion in the baron’s family meant that it was a carefully prepared assassination.
“There is circumstantial evidence. All documents were prepared, Your Highness.”
“The Isles was succeeded by me through a peaceful agreement between my father-in-law and me. When my father-in-law was in his ups and downs, he wanted to hand it over when he had the slightest bit of judgment left.”
“You bastard. How dare you keep telling lies in front of the princess!”
“We ate at this castle luncheon and talked. It’s not that he was intimidated by a knife, but I’m not sure what you mean by extortion.” Vlad was more calm and brazen than Lily was when he said that she was sick.
To the unfamiliar, it was almost as if Marius was driving him to the edge for nothing.
Vlad pointed his chin at Dandelion sitting to his right. “Here is the second son of the Isles family, so please listen to him for yourself.”
“Hm? Me?” Dandelion jumped from where he was sitting.
Marius, lost for a moment, opened his eyes again.
“The duchess is already your wife, and the second son of the family has been with you for several months. Isn’t he going to lie as a witness? I want a fair witness, so bring Shylock Isles.”
“As I said, my father-in-law is a little sick in the head and I can’t bring him. He spoke straight, but he kept making errors.”
“Wait a minute. Stop it. The both of you.” Even after listening all night, she felt that the story would never end.
The duke wouldn’t even get caught up in Marius. Marius, who has come all the way here using that as an excuse, wouldn’t give up easily.
The situation was obvious, but it was not easy to arouse interest. Ingrid looked at Dandelion, leaving the tears in his eyes alone.
“Dandelion. Do you have any idea what happened to your father’s business?”
“No. Ever since I was a kid, I didn’t know anything about business, and I still don’t know anything.”
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