"Your Grace, what exactly is going on?"
The atmosphere was rather strange, but Bruto's mood had hit rock bottom.
Anyone who discovered so many "secrets" around him, while he alone remained completely in the dark, would hardly be in a good mood.
Grand Duke Horton glanced at Bruto.
"I did indeed awaken as a Psychic only recently. It seems my imperfect control allowed some mental power to leak out, and you noticed it.
"But... everyone has a trump card. Haven't you also kept plenty of things from us, Alfonso...?"
With that casually delivered remark, Grand Duke Horton tossed the ball right back into his court.
When a leader kept things from his subordinates, that was called being shrewd.
But when a subordinate kept things from his leader, what was he planning? A rebellion?
"As for this supposed conspiracy of yours... setting aside whether His Highness the Second Prince possesses this enchantment ability you speak of, even if he does, it is simply another trump card of his. I should be all the more glad I backed the right man, shouldn't I?"
After his brief shock, Grand Duke Horton had realized that although this mysterious man occupying Viscount Ironwall's body knew some of their secrets, he had no concrete evidence.
And his objective certainly wasn't to kill him. Otherwise, he would already be a corpse.
Knowing that gave Duke Horton confidence.
Nie Yun silently praised him. He truly deserved his position as a duke.
As for the Second Prince's secret, he neither admitted knowing about it nor claimed ignorance. He simply weighed the matter entirely in terms of benefits.
Sure enough, Bruto looked convinced.
As long as His Grace wasn't being mentally controlled by the Second Prince, they should be pleased even if the Second Prince really possessed such an ability.