It Seems Like The Infamous Trash Can is Right Here! - Chapter 209
Felix Silias.
He was the current head of the Silias family, a prestigious magic lineage. He was also the elder brother of Ardin Silias, who was courting Vivian Luanax.
‘The Silias Family said they had a way to make brothers who failed to become head of the family submit.’
Though not widely known, Axion was aware that the most gifted and skilled member of the Silias family was not the current head Felix but his younger brother, Ardin.
If left unchecked, Ardin would have overtaken his brother, become the head of Silias, and risen to fame across the continent as a mage powerful enough to threaten the authority of the Imperial Family.
That was why the Imperial Family had sided with Felix when Ardin was still a young boy, ensuring Felix’s ascension as head of Silias.
Thus, the boy who could have become the greatest mage in imperial history ended up in a state worse than a slave, with a leash held by his very own brother.
From then on, a symbiotic relationship developed between the Imperial Family and Felix Silias.
The Imperial Family turned a blind eye to the illegal experiments, drug manufacturing, and distribution conducted within the Silias household, and in return Felix provided limitless access to the family’s creations.
Sometimes they were drugs, sometimes magical tools, and sometimes discarded experimental subjects.
Occasionally, they carried out mutually beneficial work together, and Axion had made personal transactions with Felix several times without reporting them to the Emperor.
The information Ardin stole from the Luanax household was particularly necessary for Axion to secure his position as Crown Prince. The Emperor, blinded by what Lionel brought him, favored Luanax.
“Your Highness the Crown Prince, to what do we owe this unannounced visit.”
After being escorted to the receiving room and waiting, a man with stark white hair and a sly expression soon entered.
“You do not look very pleased to see me.”
“How could that be? It is only unusual, that is all.”
‘Mages…’
Suppressing the irritation rising within him, Axion spoke.
“Yes, I suppose I do have business.”
“Please speak. Tell me what you desire.”
There was one thing Axion had learned through dealing with Felix Silias.
Mages were ruthlessly calculating.
And no matter how small, they would one day collect every debt owed.
Which meant the demands he could make were not limitless.
If the price exceeded what could be offered within his authority as Crown Prince, he could not predict what might be forcibly claimed in return.
Something with the lowest possible cost, yet something he could use immediately.
After finishing his deliberation, Axion opened his mouth.
“What I want is…”
Carefully, calculating each word.
* * *
When I woke from sensing the arrival of morning light, my thighs and calves and even my whole body throbbed with muscle pain.
Leaving the bed, bathing, getting dressed. Everything was a struggle.
Especially going down the stairs made groans slip out on their own.
‘I never meant for it to go this far…’
Because I provoked Lionel for no reason, I had no choice but to sit on top of him and move until he climaxed.
And that had not even been the end of it.
As I was practically slumped over the table, filling my stomach with the stew Lionel had made, the knights of Luanax who had driven our carriage yesterday returned, accompanied by an informant from Rex Ruina.
The informant, who introduced herself as Mary, said she would be accompanying us for some time.
“Please be at ease with how you treat me, miss. Think of me as a maid.”
With her neatly tied brown hair and bright, sweet smile, she looked strangely familiar. Then I remembered that Mary was the younger sister of Sirren, the head of Rex Ruina’s capital branch.
‘Why does her name feel ominous…’
In one of the countless R19 novels I read in my previous life, there had been a massive troublemaking supporting character named Mary.
