owlsbooks Chapter 109 - V7 Chapter 4. The Banfield Family Falling Apart
Chapter 109 - V7 Chapter 4. The Banfield Family Falling Apart
V7 Chapter 4. The Banfield Family Falling Apart
Without Liam, the Banfield Family was heading towards its ruin.
Brian held his head in distress.
“Wuuu, Lord Liam has disappeared—I’m still in disbelief.”
Information had leaked out during their
Only God knew what Kurt would do if he was told that Liam was gone.
(Liam has a lot of enemies. A Banfield Family without its head is perfect prey for those aristocrats. I can already see them flocking over.)
The head of the Banfield Family was missing, and a successor had not been named.
This made them a prime target for some of the aristocrats.
As long as they stepped forward, they would gain the wealth, fame, and military prowess of the Banfield’s.
As things stood, even the aristocrats from the same faction were not to be trusted.
Rosetta stared longingly at an image of Liam with teary eyes.
Just as Ciel was about to say some comforting words, a female knight kicked down the door to the room and barged in.
Ciel strongly criticized the knight’s conduct.
“W-what do you think you’re doing!?”
Marie, the intruder, ignored Ciel’s vehement protest and approached Rosetta, her eyes glowing with excitement.
“Lady Rosetta! It’s an emergency! There are some unscrupulous men trying to take over the Banfield Family!”
“H-how could that be!? Darling’s not dead yet, he was just summoned away!”
That, however, was enough reason for his enemies to move.
They were taking advantage of Liam’s absence to steal the Banfield Family’s power.
“That matters not to them, and that’s why we must ensure Lady Rosetta’s safety. Some of those fools will try to target Lady Rosetta, who has officially been declared Lord Liam’s fiancé.”
Many people hated Liam to the extreme and would do anything to harm him, so Marie had rushed over to make sure that Rosetta stayed out of harm’s way.
Ciel asked Marie what to do.
“Marie-sama, can we not push them back?”
“That would be impossible.”
She replied so swiftly that Ciel harbored some doubts.
On any other day, Marie would’ve yelled “Kill ‘em all!” and charged in.
It was almost as if she had scripted her answer ahead of time.
According to her, she was simply prioritizing Rosetta’s wellbeing.
“Now, let us flee from here while we still can. Unfortunately, we don’t have the power to face them. We must escape for now and bide our time.”
“B-but I don’t have what it takes to unite the Banfield Family. Both the military and the knights only obey Darling’s orders.”
“Please rest assured. I have already gathered men that support our cause and stationed some troops along with the knights on a different planet. That’s where Lord Liam’s direct descendants will be born!”
“Descendant? U-um, Marie, I’ve yet to—”
“I was afraid something similar would happen and prepared ahead! Fret not, for this Marie has procured a sample of Lord Liam’s genes!”
She took out a test tube from a box.
Ciel immediately understood her intentions, but Rosetta cocked her head, still unsure of what was going on.
(T-this woman has gone and done it! No, she hasn’t done it yet, but—!?)
Marie’s fervent eyes were glowing with even greater passion.
Rosetta was oblivious to Marie’s plan, but Ciel was aware of it.
(She intends to impregnate Lady Rosetta with Liam’s gene!)
And going by the flow, she was probably thinking of taking advantage of the chaos to give birth to Liam’s child as well.
Marie gently hugged and picked Rosetta up from the bed.
There was a strange, purplish glint in her eyes.
“Now, Lady Rosetta—let us continue the Banfield Family’s lineage, together!”
Rosetta, who was feeling fatigued, assumed that the knights and the troops had been stationed elsewhere to support Liam when he returned.
“—You’re right. Gather as many knights and soldiers as possible that still follow Darling. In case of an emergency, we must be ready to help Darling when he returns.”
Rosetta was doing this for Liam. On the other hand, Marie was doing this for her own benefit.
Ciel was absolutely dumbstruck by Marie’s bold move.
(Eh, wait a sec. There should be one other person causing a ruckus by now.)
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That other person was already causing a ruckus.
“I’ll be the one to bear Lord Liam’s child!”
Tia rubbed her face against the test tube that contained a certain fluid.
How she managed to get a hold of it was a mystery, but she had secured Liam’s gene.
The knights that gathered under Tia were the ones whose loyalty had zoomed past the finish line.
They were currently aboard a flagship class battleship that was 3000 meters in length.
The knights that were lined up were part of the faction that was led by Tia.
One of the female knights made a report about Marie.
“Tia-sama, Marie Sera Marian has secured Lady Rosetta and fled to the Third Planet with a portion of the fleet and the knights. They’re also gathering the local forces that are responsible for protecting the Banfield’s territory.”
A simplified 3D map of the Banfield Family’s territory was displayed in front of Tia.
Tia clicked her tongue.
She placed the test tube carefully inside a case and put it in her pocket.
“That fossil woman ain’t half bad it seems. Lord Liam’s been developing that planet for more than a decade. It’s more than adequate as a temporary base.”
Tia’s fleet was searching for planets that could serve as their base.
The territory that Liam had acquired and spent time developing was being torn apart and scrambled over for by his vassals.
It was an all-out family feud.
The female knight beside her smiled.
“Was this fine though? We could have easily eliminated those garbage that dared to step their foot into Lord Liam’s mansion.”
—Tia was playing the same game as Marie.
She was taking advantage of this turmoil to give birth to Liam’s child.
“As if we could wage a war on Lord Liam’s home planet. Also, it would be extremely disrespectful of us to dye his mansion with their filthy blood. Don’t you think so too?”
She was lying through her teeth.
Baron Norden and Isaac meant nothing to them, but Tia couldn’t overcome the urge to use this situation as an excuse to bear Liam’s child.
Tia spread out her arms.
“We must do what we can to boost our forces so that we can assist Lord Liam when he returns! Let us present him with an army that can annihilate those blasphemous pests.”
(To bear Lord Liam’s child! There’s no higher form of happiness!)
When Liam came back, she would tell him that “There was no other way around it! The Banfield Family was facing an unprecedented crisis!”
An unprecedented crisis—indeed, it was an unprecedented crisis orchestrated by the runaway Tia and Marie.
This could’ve been easily dealt with, but they had done nothing on purpose to spice things up.
“Full steam ahead! We must secure all of Lord Liam’s territory!”
Thousands of ships started to move under Tia’s command.