More info by Luna!

When I passed out I was pulled in a room. A white, room that was brightly illuminated. I could see two figures that looked exactly like me.

{Hallo~}

"Luna?"

Same voice with me but more high pitched making it a bit feminine. I knew who this voice is, like Markus in the forest she accompanied me here in the Marquise estate.

[I'm here too]

The second figure. Was of course Markus, I couldn't help but recognize his warm voice.

"Oh… are we in a meeting?"

{Yeah, I have to teach you everything I know from now on~}

"Er… okay"

{You don't look excited}

"I'm trying to remember what I did in the past few hours"

{Er… you don't remember?}

I nodded, in which Luna and Markus looked at each other and with his chin Markus pointed at me while looking at Luna.

Luna sighed and looked at me.

{You dived one of the most dangerous Dungeons and even awakened aura by yourself, 4th class swordsmen could only coat their sword on a basic setting.}

{You on the other hand, not only coated your sword, you also marked it. Which only a 2nd class Swordsman could do with ease.}

{Marked swords can gain an Ego if continuously used by the swordsman, which is absolutely powerful as it is rare}

{At this point you're a second class swordsman, and you only trained for the basics of swordsmanship too!}

"Didn't I do that with my mind at a loss? Like I'm not in the right state of mind?"

{Yeah but that's not the problem}

"What is?"

[The Marquis went back to the estate and inspected the sword you marked with Aura. You're definitely getting exposed to the Empire. Especially you ran through villages with that attire]

"oh… what's the problem with that then?"

{The Empire is completely corrupt.}

"..."

{Not the Emperor though, he's been trying to swipe the filth off the empire ever since he sat on the throne. I'm talking about the nobles.}

[Yeah, but didn't you tell me that he's having a hard time?]

"huh? Why?"

{Well, there's spies on the rebellion army to the emperors trusted ranks and he was feeding the Emperor false information, that's why the Marquis is on the western border}

"Eh?? Is this even an Otome game?? Are you sure it's not a Novel??"

{The Devs are just that good with the story Sammy. And also this ain't just your normal Otome game! The devs went their way to make an exciting plot for the whole game! The capture targets act realistically too! Except for a few. That's why the Crown Prince is so hard to capture!}

"uh-huh…"

{Want to know how the original Ophelia Acts?}

I feel like I'm taking a peek at a changing woman but nonetheless I nodded because I'm curious about the OG Ophelia.

{She was arrogant, to the point of ignorance, she was shown a bit of courtesy by the Crown Prince and she fell in love immediately to the point of obsession, I already told you the backstory}

{Anyways~ when you got home and Penelope died, the Marquis ran all the way from the west to the east, which is like weeks worth of travel.}

{In the original, when the Marquis saw her dead body he was furious, but unlike this time, he didn't know about the nobles that poisoned Penelope. In the og run he even suppressed the slums more because of the madman that bit her.}

{He encouraged Ophelia's behavior on the servants and whoever didn't act the way the nobles wanted, deserved to be whipped.}

{It was a sad story for Marquis, since he completely lost it, he didn't know about the Emperor's true color by the way, making him hostile to the Emperor who he thought send him to the border and planned all of this when in actuality it was the spy}

{And the Emperor as I said earlier was being fed false information, they were completely led to a hostile relationship}

{And when the Marquis heard that Ophelia liked the Prince he did everything he could to put Ophelia on the Crown Prince's side.}

{Ophelia, who trusted no one doesn't know how to display affection completely tried to engage the Crown Prince in her standard way of knowing "love" she was completely toxic}

{And oh! I forgot to mention but when the Marquis Lost it he became the very first 1st class swordsman who breakthrough below the age of 40, he breakthrough at the age of 28 }

{Back to the topic, Since the Crown Prince doesn't want to anger the Marquis, who at the time was a 1st class swordsman who is constantly on his neck,}

{Tried to break free from the engagement by making Ophelia completely bad in others eyes, he manipulated everything behind the scenes so he could just put Ophelia and her family on the guillotine.}

"What happened to the corrupt nobles and the Empire?"

{Oh that? The Crown Prince made sure the war happened and killed all the corrupt nobles when the war was happening and used the geographical advantage to win the war.}

"He's a badass ain't he?"

{Yep! He's not just cool because of his looks, he's an actual charismatic leader who thinks for the betterment of the Empire, Unlike the Duke's son}

"What's up with him?"

{He's the 'you're the first woman to hit me' type kinda guy}

[Pfft…]

"So a typical Playboy?"

{Yeah something like that}

{Oh and by the way, Samuel}

"Yeah?"

{Make sure that the Emperor and the Marquis have a good relationship! It would probably help for the betterment of the future!}

"For real?"

{Yep! And expose the fucking spy!}

[That doesn't match with your pitchy voice]

{I just hate that guy! Argh! He was by definition of plot armor! He managed to avoid all types of accusations left and right! It was frustrating!}

"I see, who was this… spy anyways"

{Ah! Who was the Viscount on the north of the Marquisate?}

"Viscount Sestro…"

{Yeah! That guy!}

"Ah…"

[Ah! That's why!]

Pieces like pieces started to accumulate and like a puzzle it gave us a bigger picture.

"It's that guy's doing why the Madam got poisoned isn't it?"

[most likely]

{Yeah… it must be… I see! I can see the reason!}

"What is it?"

{The Butch Dungeon gives a lot of useful relics and Artifacts that sells for a hefty fortune, and it's on the border of the Marquis territory and the Viscount territory. So I could see why he schemed like this! The madman in the slums was probably his doing because he owns several slave trading networks! He wants the dungeons!}

Hearing that my brows furrowed.

"Why am I only hearing about that now?"

{I just remembered this Sammy, I'm sorry}

With that I shook my head, clearly noticing my emotions.

"No.. No, I'm sorry, I was a bit agitated."

{Sammy listen here. We need to expose that Viscount. He probably has a lot of rats in the Marquisate, we can't let that happen and make Ophelia's distrust of the servants worse.}

I nodded, Markus silently watched on the corner, I felt like he was more silent than we were in the forest.

[Don't mind me, I just don't have that much to do since my knowledge isn't useful that much in the estate.]

With that I nodded.

"Okay, for now we have to clean the estate, but what do I do to get out of here?"

I'm still inside the white space with the two who looked like me, although different voices and mannerisms.

{Ah, wait. Markus}

[Aye]

With that I was pulled out of the white space, they didn't do anything. I was just pulled away, like a drifting consciousness in the vast sea.

The moment I woke up my eyes met a tall man with cerulean hair and eyes. Even though he was sitting down his height couldn't be hidden.

He was reading a book in the corner of the room sitting down on a luxurious chair.

He was handsome, so handsome in fact he was glowing the same radiance as the sun.

"Oh.. You're finally awake"

He gave me a warm smile.

{Th... The Marquis, *slurp*}

[Control yourself]

I tried getting up but then my body was sore to the point I wanted to cry, but then the Marquis hand was spread on my head.

"don't get up yet"

"mm.. "

His hand stopped me from getting up, his hand was large and rough, it was full of calluses and the top of his hand was full of veins.

{Let me take over… For a moment *slurp* daddy Lennon… }

[Luna oh my god control yourself]

{I'm.. *slurp*... Trying}

I'm trying so hard not to cringe at Luna but other matters need my attention.

"Madam Penelope? How is Madam Penelope?"

"Oh, she's fine… thanks to you.. "

He placed his hand on my chest before having his thoughts sail him away from the conversation, I coughed and his head trembled for a bit before setting his eyes on me once again.

"Well, Samuel, right?"

I nodded

"Okay, Samuel, you have two Elixirs on that bag, one elixir is enough to grant you some title. So I'm going to ask you, do you want to give it as a tribute?"

{No! Samuel no! You're putting the entire marquisate in jeopardy if you gave it to the king! If you gave that your achievement would be announced making the land of the Marquis more coveted!}

'Don't worry I wont'

I shook my head, and the Marquis's brows jumped. As I was looking for an excuse Luna once again spoke.

{You can at least study it! Or ask the Marquis that you want to learn Alchemy}

I then looked at the Marquis straight in the eyes, he flinched for a bit for some reason.

"I want to learn alchemy"

"I-is that so?"

He coughed and then patted my head, pushing my bangs on my eyes in which I shoved.

"Sorry, haha… well rest for a bit more, okay? I tell the maids to accommodate you"

"N-no! T-there are spies on them! *Cough*"

"Oh, Samuel don't worry, I already did some cleaning"

{Remember Sammy, we need to have a good relationship with the Emperor and the Marquis}

"Uhm… Marquis"

"Yes?"

"I found out something about that will greatly benefit you…"

"if it's that grimoire then no, that's a no"

"No! Not that! The Viscount is related to the poisoning!"

"and how do you know that?" with a brow raised he looked at me with suspicion.

"The people I used for destroying slave traders! The slave traders are related to the Viscount! And they used a slave to bite the madam!" I continued. "They want you to go on a blind rage!"

I exclaimed loudly that it made my dry throat cough. Marquis being in there he handed me a cup of water, in which I accepted with urgency.

"Okay, okay, you've said enough. Please rest"

The Marquis walked out seemingly with eyes resolved to destroy. I can guess why, I might have left some parts in the information but if the Viscount who's a spy on the emperor's ranks then naturally the Emperor would know what's wrong.

"Yeah, with that things would naturally go by itself" I muttered.

[Samuel, rest.]

I got a scary warning from a serious tone from Markus, ugh I wish I had enough rest, I just laid on the bed.