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Chapter 121: I made up my mind
However, my brother began to explain to me as if it were a matter of course.
He said something along the lines of ‘suppressing small evils with greater evils and creating order among them to maintain the order of the upper world.’
I do not doubt what my brother is trying to say, but that does not mean that we, the nobles, should allow this to happen. Continuing this would mean that the Dark Guild would have a hand in our affairs and that we would not be able to resist them.
That is a scum way of thinking, even scummier than the Kaisar I used to look down on.
I thought Kaisar was the most distant person from my idea that since I was born a noble, I should fulfill my duties as one.
However, I realized Kaisar was acting behind the scenes, being more of a true noble while my brother, on the contrary, was like scum while parading as a noble. I don’t know what to believe.
“But, brother! That medicine is surely eroding your body! You should stop it right now!”
But I can’t turn him to the guards because I know he’s doing something he shouldn’t be doing as an aristocrat. I also can’t tell my father to cut him loose, so I’m still hoping he’ll change his mind.
I still want to change his mind. I tried to make Kaisar change with violence, no matter people’s perspective, but now I was acting like this before my brother.
I feel unbearably miserable.
“You think I can stop this right now? If I could do that, I would have stopped it long ago! Don’t talk to me like you know what you’re doing, little girl! Then give me some of your talent! You can’t, right?”
“Forgive me… brother.”
“Oh, I’m sorry too. Sorry for being such a bad brother.”
Such a brother had a somewhat resigned look on his face, and seeing his expression, I made up my mind.
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Knowing that my brother had a connection with the Dark Guild, I had cast a [Detection] spell on him that no one wouldn’t find out.
Thanks to that, I somewhat determined the Dark Guild’s hiding place.
Perhaps it is because of the medicine that my brother has become unable to sever ties with the Dark Guild, even if he wants to.
I think that he thought like that in order to justify himself.
In the first place, the brother I knew in the past was the ideal aristocrat that I envisioned, and he was never a person who thought that great evil was necessary for the sake of order.
I have no choice but to help him.
“Heh, Lady Karendoll, is it? I thought there was something bothersome downstairs. What’s the matter with you visiting here all alone?”
In the slums at the edge of the Lewis family’s estate, there is a room on the third floor of a bar.
There, the guild master of the Dark Guild was sitting in a chair waiting for me.