"What!?" Out of everyone that exclaimed, Peter was the loudest.
"He defeated everyone? That's impossible!" Peter said, "There are a lot of great students back in the academy, he couldn't have defeated them by himself? Surely he must have had some kind of help."
To support the douchebag, his entourage of outdated nobles supported his words.
"Yes, that could be true."
"If he had help then I could understand that."
"Being able to defeat scions from big noble houses would take too much for a single person to achieve."
Seman frowned as he heard those words. But he didn't say anything out of order as he himself was dumbfounded when he learned it.
Seman himself had double, nay triple checked the source to see if Henry had lied or not. Fortunately, that was not the case.
As Seman was about to say something, he smiled as he saw my figure.
'Oh oh, I feel a disturbance in the mana.'
"If all of you are soo mistrusted of the fact, then you can learn it from the man himself. Come out Henry, tell all of these old fools what happened."
I suppress a groan and smile awkwardly, "Of course."
I go towards them as Seman made me stand in between them.
"It's not real, is it?" Peter directly asked, "It cannot be true."
"Sorry to disappoint you but it is."
"Well, do you have any proof?" A viscount said, "You can't blatantly say something and think of getting away with it you know? There are rules."
"Is that so?" My eyes shut and I smile before landing a hand on the guy's shoulder, "You're a viscount like me too, right?"
"Not like you, my family has earned-" The right amount of pressure, "Exactly like you, sir! Ignore my previous words."
"What I'm saying is, if you don't believe it, you can always check it out with the academy?" Then I look at Earl deliberately, "But since you guys are talking about rules, I'm sure you all know what it could mean if you deliberately implicate a noble's reputation, right?"
"Hah! Look at you, not even able to walk and already talking about reputation." Miloni snickered, "Learn something from Lord Peter here, try to act like you should."
"Of course, of course… I'm suddenly reminded of something. Earl Miloni, you are currently building a bridge at the coast of Klinton road, right?"
"Yes, I am." Miloni smiled arrogantly, "It is the pride of us Miloni's to have strong working man that build great and sturdy works!"
"Hmm, that's good." I nod before smiling shrewdly, "Do make sure that the event from two years ago doesn't happen again."
"Hm?" Miloni creased his brow, "What do you mean?"
"Oh? don't you remember? I was talking about the big house you built for shelter. The one that suddenly broke down two years ago. Did you forget?"
Miloni's eyes widened in shock.
Indeed, Miloni knew. Back when it happened, Miloni used extensive measures to quickly shut off all news about it. So hearing it here in Henry's mouth was quite a shocker for him.
"I heard that the materials you used were cheap and the laborers weren't paid much so they didn't do good work. I hope that doesn't happen with the bridge... or who knows how many people might die again?"
"You!" Earl Miloni's veins popped up in great anger but the man couldn't say anything. Especially with Seman smiling crudely behind Henry.
"And Viscount Glodeito."
"Huh?" Glodeito, who was still under my arm, shook a bit. "Yes"
"So, Mr. Glodeito, I heard that-" I smack my tongue, "You know, calling you Mr. and Viscount is getting too mouthful. Mind If I just call you Glodeito?" For original chapters go to Nove1Fire.net
Glodeito smiled for he understood that it was not a request.
"So Glodeito, I heard that you are creating a hospital in your city."
"Yes, I am." Glodeito nodded before quickly saying, "An- And there's no problem with it. No problem with the building, medicine or its workers. I promise you!"
"Of course there isn't." I lightly slap his chest, almost breaking it, "Why are you sweating so much, you're not Earl Miloni here, right?"
"…" Miloni's mouth opened wide at the direct insult.
"I heard that there's a breakout of cholera in your territory and that's why your building a new hospital as all the others are already occupied." I say.
Glodeito nodded. It was the reason why he was licking Peter so hard. He needed money for his people. But who would have thought that in doing so, he would find someone so troublesome around his shoulders.
"No worries, Glodeito. I know you do good work and care about your people." Glodeito sighed under me, "I also know that you are in a pitch too with the hospital."
"How about this? I'll help you out. How does twenty thousand pound sound for starters?"
"Twenty Thousand?!" Glodeito exclaimed. But he wasn't the only one shocked.
Seman, Miloni, Peter and a few other buttercups opened their mouths wide at that.
Twenty Thousand Pounds wasn't just money that you could throw around. Even Marquises that are at the second rank in nobility, have to think carefully before giving that much money.
"Wait a second?" Glodeito asked, "Did you say starters?"
I nod, "Yes, what if you needed more money? For medicine, workers and definitely for materials. We don't want another example like Mr. Miloni happening again, do we?"
"You… You!!" Miloni pointed his finger at me but couldn't say anything. In the end, the guy huffed, flipped his cape and left.
Yes, He has a cape too.
Glodeito looked at Miloni's back when he heard, "So how about it? Do we have a deal?" He saw a large palm waiting in front of him.
It took Glodeito one moment before he snatched onto the arm and shook it vibrantly, "Yes Yes! Thank you very much, Lord Tax. I am extremely grateful for your help!"
"It's alright. I just care about people. Most of what I do is for the people." I smile and except for Glodeito, everyone gave me deadpan looks.
"Oh Yes!" I act excited, "I almost forgot, the reason I came for." I give the note of items to Seman.
"What is i-" Seman read it and his eyes widened at the contents, "Really?! All of this?"
"Yes. I already put them into storage with Lord Peter's."
"This… this are too much! And what is this, this Artillery cannon?"
"What!" Peter act shocked and took the paper from Seman's hands.
He looked at it himself before saying, "Impossible! You can't have this item! Not even the Dragonoir family has it!"
"Again with the impossible, can't believe, you can't Lord Peter." I say, "It's here, you can check it yourself."
"Henry… what is he talking about?" Seman asked and I tell them to follow me outside.
After a while, all of us gathered to an empty courtyard. One of the Artillery cannons was also there and Peter was looking at it curiously.
'Is this the Artillery Cannon? Is it actually real?' Peter thought.
In reality, nobody had actual seen the cannon except for hearing the concept of it. And who did the concept belong to?
Who other than Henry.
The talk about guns and things with Gunpowder was quite secretive but it still had to be reported. So Henry only gave Abigail concepts of the idea.
He was the only one that had seen it and can make it… of course, it needed his crazy engineer's help.
Peter looked suspiciously at it when he heard Henry voice.
"Wanna try it, Lord Peter?"