Chapter 146:

Chapter 146:

Chapter 146

‘I don’t understand. I’ll have to check this later.’

Raymond shook his head.

Anyway, the question was to be resolved later.

There were more pressing matters at the moment.

He had to treat twins.

“I’ll have to check it out first, but if my thoughts are correct, I think it can be treated.”

“...!”

The twins opened their eyes wide.

It was a look of disbelief.

Raymond tried the treatment right away.

Thyroid hormones were extracted from animals and administered as a medication.

Then something amazing happened.

The twins’ symptoms began to improve immediately!

“This, this is... ... ?”

“How?”

The twins shook their eyes in surprise.

How much pain have they suffered from this poison so far? But with Raymond’s help, they have found a cure!

“It’s not completely better. You still have to take the medicine I give you.”

There was no way to revive the already damaged thyroid gland. They had no choice but to continue taking medication.

“ah.......”

The twins’ complexions darkened again.

In the end, the need for medicine is the same. The only thing that has changed is the person supplying the medicine, from Archduke Berard to Raymond.

‘Our lives are now in his hands.’

The twin girls, Rune, bit her lips tightly and asked.

“What price will we have to pay in the future, Baron?”

“Huh?”

“There must be something you want in return for our lives. What price must we pay?”

The twin boys, Ren, had the same face.

Could it be because they had suffered so much up until now? The two of them fundamentally did not trust humans.

Of course, they knew of Raymond’s reputation, but they were wary that Raymond would eventually become like everyone else.

Raymond frowned at the two’s reactions.

`I’ve been feeling this way since a while ago, but these kids are really being fooled.`

‘These guys.’

“Of course I have a request. You will have to pay a price to me.”

“What is it?”

The twins looked nervous.

Raymond spoke briefly.

“Study.”

“...What?”

Raymond continued.

“And smile a hundred times a day. Grow up as kindly as possible.”

“.....”

The twins made dumbfounded faces.

‘What do you mean by that? It’s a strange thing to say.’

Raymond sighed and gave them both a light pat on the head.

“It means that just growing up happily like that is enough for me.”

“...!”

The two looked at Raymond in disbelief.

“Oh, why? You don’t want anything?”

“Why?”

Raymond said, crossing his arms.

“I’m a healer. If the patients I treat are happy, that’s enough for me.”

“...!”

Of course it’s a lie.

‘I will receive payment for treating you from the Marquis Durak. And it will be very expensive.’

Originally, children’s medical expenses were collected from their parents.

All the healer had to do was show a good side to the sick children.

The twins were overcome with emotion, unaware of Raymond’s true feelings.

“What the heck are you... ... ?”

The twins’ eyes trembled.

‘There is someone like that in the world... ... .’

All the people they knew in the world were extremely ill-mannered people

But they can’t believe there really are people like that in this world.

“If you don’t obey my orders, your twins will die.”

At that moment, the Marquis Durak’s face turned pale with anger and fear.

Elmud relayed Raymond’s last words.

“However, if you obey my words, I will give you the medicine that will save the twins. So, if you want to save the twins, you must swear absolute obedience to me from now on... ... he said.”

* * *

At that time, Archduke Berard was listening to his subordinate’s report with a blank expression in the barracks.

Perhaps because he was cornered, his usually neat appearance was nowhere to be found.

His hair was disheveled, and his clean-cut face was covered in a messy beard.

“Hundreds more soldiers deserted overnight, Your Majesty.”

“What were you doing?”

It was a cool voice.

“Yes?”

“What were you doing instead of properly monitoring the soldiers?”

“That, that is... ... .”

The general stuttered in embarrassment.

“There are so many soldiers trying to desert that it’s impossible to stop them just by monitoring them... ... .”

Those words further angered Archduke Berard. An eerie murderous look flowed from his cold eyes.

“Now even you are insulting me. No, isn’t it you who encouraged the soldiers to desert?”

“Your Majesty?”

He swallowed hard.

Berard’s condition was not good.

“Seriously... ... .”

He took a step back, but it was too late.

Pfft!

Blood splattered inside the barracks.

Archduke Berard swung his sword and cut off his head.

“Shit!”

Chaenggrang!

Berard threw his sword on the floor of the barracks and cursed.

He saw blood, and he felt uneasy and restless, unlike usual.

‘It’s all because of that fucking bastard. Raymond! Raymond!’

He couldn’t even imagine.

Who would have thought that he would save Macapell III and take over the capital?

The repercussions of that shocking and radical action were huge.

He suddenly fell from being the most powerful person to being a traitor.

‘If this continues, I’m finished.’

Archduke Berard was a man of great intelligence.

So now he knew exactly what situation he was in. He is in the worst possible situation.

‘If only the capital hadn’t been occupied. No, if only the Houston Kingdom Army hadn’t been in front of us.’

If it were normal, the king wouldn’t have even snorted at the idea of ​​declaring him a traitor.

Because the declaration of a powerless king is nothing more than an empty cry. It is a declaration that would not even return a shallow echo under normal circumstances.

But the story changed completely when the capital was recaptured with Raymond’s help.

By taking control of the capital, the young king was able to find his own power and authority.

There was a world of difference between a king having ‘no’ power and a ‘little’ power, because the power a king had was the driving force that called others under his banner.

Of course, in normal times, those who flocked to the king would have been crushed by force.

Because he had that kind of power.

But now was not the time for that to happen.

‘Because of that damn Raymond, there are far more people flocking to the King than expected. The desertion of soldiers is also serious.’

In the end, it was all because of that bastard Raymond.

He was in this state because of that Raymond guy, and he was completely ruined.

‘Damn it, why can’t I contact ‘them’?!’

Archduke Berard took out the crystal ball he had been secretly hiding.

It was the crystal ball used to receive emergency contact from ‘them’.

‘They’ were the ones who raised him, a mere illegitimate child, to the highest position in the kingdom.

If it were ‘they’, there might be a way to overcome this situation.

But no matter how many times he tried to contact them, there was no response from ‘them’ at all.

Berard intuitively felt that he had been abandoned by ‘them’.

“Damn it! How dare them!”

He gritted his teeth.

‘There is only one way to break this situation. Kill the young king and that bastard Raymond.’

Just then a messenger came running in from outside the barracks.

“Your Majesty, urgent news has arrived from His Excellency the Marquis Durak!”

“What is it?”