The Fallen Prince’s Pleasure Dungeon: I Won’t Let the Female Adventurers Leave ~ I Was Reincarnated as the Villain in an Eroge, and Even Though I Just Want to Live a Quiet Slow Life, Beautiful Girls Keep Gathering Around Me!?~ - 31

Chapter 31: I’ll Deal with You Myself

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Around the time Alto and the others were beginning their city-building project, a sinister movement was brewing within the Raymond Royal Family.

In the strategy room of the royal palace, Uber Raymond, the second prince, was personally donning his armor and preparing for departure. Opening the door, a girl in a lovely dress appeared with a pale face.

“Brother Uber, is it true that you are sending assassins after Brother Alto again!?”

“Gerda, is it? Hmph. And what business is that of yours?”

He directed a cold gaze at his younger sister, who had burst into the room. Uber was twenty, and Gerda had just turned eighteen. The blond prince and the black-haired princess were half-siblings. To Uber, Gerda—a woman and an illegitimate child with no right of succession—wasn’t even worth his notice.

Furthermore, this Gerda was sickly, mediocre, and soft-hearted. She was a girl who possessed no talent whatsoever and was merely blessed by the luck of her birth. However, her beauty alone was exceptional. Perhaps because she had grown up far removed from political strife, she looked younger than her years—yet her straight, lustrous black hair framed her pearl-like beauty. She was a little girl who was only spared from being purged by Uber and the others because she seemed useful as a “piece for a political marriage.”

Knowing this, Uber’s aides merely wore faint sneers at the appearance of the princess who was so out of her element.

“We haven’t confirmed that man’s corpse yet. He is a high criminal who committed treason. There is no way I can allow him to remain alive.”

“That is horrible…! Are we not siblings? Besides, Brother Alto is not the kind of person who would do something so terrifying—”

She was a peaceloving girl to the core. She didn’t even suspect that framing Alto for his crimes was the work of Uber and his brothers. To Uber, Alto—the brother two years his junior—was an obstacle. In terms of the right of succession, Uber held a higher rank, but one never knew when they might have their throat slit in their sleep.

That younger brother of his…

(I never know what that guy is thinking.)

He acted as if he had no interest in power and was somewhat oblivious to the dangers of the world. A brother who seemed like a “foreigner from a place without bloody conflicts.” And yet, he also had a philosophical look in his eyes, as if he could see through everything. When the succession struggle among the brothers intensified, he was an eerie man whose movements could not be predicted.

However, that wasn’t the only reason Uber was obsessed with Alto. He had witnessed his wife, Elisa—who was still his fiancée at the time—making eyes at Alto. Furthermore, and most unbelievably, Alto had flatly rejected Elisa’s temptations. That, more than anything…

(I will never forgive that man for making a fool of me!)

…had deeply wounded Uber’s pride.

Therefore, even when they pinned the false charges on Alto, it was Uber who decided on the method of execution. And even after Alto escaped due to a blunder by the soldiers, it was Uber who obsessively sent pursuers after him.

“Gerda, I’ll show you something good. Once I’ve taken that high criminal’s head, that is.”

“Th-that’s… how cruel…”

He showered his speechless sister with the same cold mockery as his aides. Then, someone else appeared.

“Dear, are your preparations complete? …Oh.”

His wife, Elisa, made her entrance. She was a beauty one year older than Uber, constantly draped in a voluptuous, seductive aura. Elisa fixed her eyes on Gerda.

“I wonder what you are doing in a place like this? The Prince is about to depart for battle. Wouldn’t it be better for a useless, decorative princess like you to play with the flowers in your favorite garden? In that shabby little garden of yours, of course.”

“I… I…”

When confronted by Elisa’s glamorous but harsh beauty, the timid Gerda shrank back.

“Now, now. She is still my sister, after all. Forgive her.”

“Fufu, what a generous man you are. Come now, your older brother has spoken, so vanish at once. This is no place for a child.”

“…………!”

With tears welling in her eyes and her shoulders trembling, Gerda rushed out of the room, unable to do anything. After scoffing at her back, Elisa leaned into the armored Uber.

“Uber-sama… what a gallant figure you cut. This time, you will truly kill that wretched man for me, won’t you? That Alto is a foolish man who tried to seduce me… Please, make sure you kill him.”

“Yeah. Of course.”

Elisa did not realize that Uber had witnessed that scene. Being a woman of great pride, Elisa likely couldn’t forgive Alto for rejecting her advances. “Wicked woman” was how those around her described Elisa…

But that didn’t matter. He could have this beauty and this body as he pleased. That alone satisfied Uber’s self-esteem.

Hmph. That Alto fellow will die without ever knowing a woman as fine as this… Even now, he’s probably dying during his miserable life as a fugitive.)

Still, he would show no mercy. The aides he had gathered were all veteran warriors, and Uber himself possessed skill in sword and magic comparable to the “Silver Grade.” He would corner him with this overwhelming military force and let him taste plenty of fear.

“Tremble as you wait, my miserable and weak little brother. I shall finish you off with my own hands…! Hahaha, ahahahaha…!”

At this moment, Uber did not have the slightest inkling. He never imagined that Alto was in an environment far more blessed than the royal palace, or that he had obtained power far greater than Uber and his men. And that they were about to step into such a death trap of their own accord…

He didn’t have the slightest inkling at all.

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