Dear Broom Knight

Fabrice suddenly laughed. "Your eyes really make me a little uncomfortable!"

"Even if you don't like them, Earl Fabrice should be used to them after so long, right?" The man with violet eyes said meaningfully.

"That's true… You've been here for quite a while." Fabrice raised a hand, gently propping up his chin, his eyes darting around nimbly. "So, what was your name again?"

The man sitting across from him clearly hadn't expected Fabrice to suddenly say this, and his expression changed instantly.

Although he recovered quickly, Fabrice, who had been carefully observing him, still caught that slight change.

If, as he said, he was just a nobody from Sebephia without a title, who could only maintain his livelihood by doing some behind-the-scenes work for the direct line, how could he possibly be angry because Fabrice didn't care about him?

For someone like him, being able to enter an Earl's study was the greatest honor they could receive.

Only someone who has always been in Fabrice's position would be moved by such a small matter.

However, he restrained himself very quickly, almost in the blink of an eye.

Only someone like Fabrice, who had grown up in the complex environment of Montès Castle, would be able to immediately grasp that fleeting change.

Fabrice suddenly felt… was it because the near annihilation of Montès Castle had made most people think that the Montès family wasn't cunning enough?

It's not like they don't value him, Fabrice; the person in front of him is clearly capable of handling the overall situation.

But they don't think much of Fabrice's own abilities, and could even be said to despise them.

But, to be honest, the biggest problem with their family is that everyone is too scheming, everyone is bad news… including Fabrice, which is why they all ended up ruined.

Besides, who could withstand being targeted by the three major churches at the same time? It would be difficult for anyone to survive, right?

But even with heavy losses, the Montès family hadn't reached the level of the Gezár family!

The Gezár family only had the struggle between the monarchy and the Church of the Storm.

Thinking carefully about how many forces they had stirred up back then, it should be clear that the Montès family was not easy to deal with.

Fabrice had also had to live by reading people's faces since he was a child… Besides, he also had a particularly troublesome uncle like Lorri!

Fabrice's sensitivity to the environment was all trained by Uncle Lorri.

Lorri was the kind of formidable character who could change his face without warning and use ruthless tactics with a smile!

If you weren't careful and he caught you doing something wrong and you didn't admit your mistake in time, even if Fabrice's parents came out together, it wouldn't help.

If even the guy in front of him could fool him with his level of skill… he probably wouldn't have lived to the day Lorri inherited the baronetcy, and would have been killed by his own uncle long ago.

He only realized later that Lorri's subtle displays of his great progress, powerful strength, and agile speed in front of him every time were all carefully planned.

Fabrice did have some minor temper tantrums as a child due to his mother's excessive pampering, and he was instilled with many self-righteous ideas, leading him to always regard Lorri as his enemy… What could a shallow child do? Just provoke him secretly!

Then, at some point, Fabrice would see Lorri easily carrying twice his weight and doing knight training over there.

Before Fabrice could figure it out, he would foolishly try to keep up… Clearly, he couldn't even complete the twelve rounds of basic training required for knights with his original weight, and the result of doubling it was naturally that his crying mother would take him to a scholar who had a close relationship with their family for treatment.

Although that scholar certainly wouldn't say much, others in the castle would definitely not keep it a secret for him.

His mother hadn't started causing trouble for his second uncle's family from the beginning; of course, her attitude had never been very good from the start.

But that was mainly because of her pride as the daughter of a marquis, not because she was actively looking for trouble.

But when she thought it was Mrs. Agries who was mocking her, and then found out that it was actually her second uncle, who would be happy?

People with his parents' personalities wouldn't tolerate the sudden betrayal of his second uncle's family… even if everyone thought there was a reason for it.

After all, when Kyle was born, his second uncle's family should have been sent to the territory that had been agreed upon.

But his grandfather and father both felt that it was better to play it safe.

As a result, his second uncle, who was already restless, was won over.

Never mind those things, never mind those things, it was all their own fault.

It was like this during strength training, and it was still like this during agility training.

When Fabrice was being foolish, he broke his leg countless times because of Lorri's hints.

When he finally gave up on knight training and would no longer be shaken by it, Lorri could find other sensitive points to stimulate him.

Until Fabrice began to seriously and carefully consider what he had done, and carefully observed the changes in Lorri's expression when communicating with him… From that time on, he received far fewer beatings.

In fact, Fabrice had once been dissatisfied: clearly, he and his second brother had similar attitudes towards Lorri, so why did Lorri always cause trouble for him?

Of course, after everything happened, Fabrice also understood… In Lorri's eyes, he was still a person.

But his second brother was no different from a dead man.

If the second brother had survived to the end, then Montès Castle would probably have changed owners.

It's not that Uncle Lorri would have killed him, but… that guy definitely wouldn't have been able to survive the detoxification step; that guy had never worked hard for his own future.

Fabrice didn't know how Lorri did it, but when he carefully recalled the past, he could still determine when his second brother completely gave up… the second year Lorri started knight training.

Of course, it is estimated that Kyle also cooperated in this.

Although Fabrice had been unwilling to blame his own brother because of that brotherly affection, but… Kyle eventually turning around and killing his second brother was really quite normal.

So, he should really thank Uncle Lorri for his personal teachings!

Fabrice quickly regained his senses from the firm voice opposite him.

"Respected Earl Fabrice, I am Jon Sebephia."

The deliberate way of speaking seemed to want to impress this sentence on Fabrice's mind.

However, Fabrice just smiled faintly: "Oh, right, it was Jon, sorry, I'm quite busy, and sometimes I always overlook some… um, next time, I'll try to remember."

What's the point of remembering your middle name?

Jon, although it looks like Kyle and Lorri, is a common naming method for the third son.

But Fabrice knew one thing: some small nobles who followed the first king to establish the Northern Kingdom would still retain some marks of their original families in their names, even if they changed their names and surnames.

For example, this Jon is very colorful in the seaside country.

If he remembered correctly, the reason why Sebephia was so different was because they came from a distant eastern coastal country that everyone didn't understand very well.

Sebephia came to such a distant place, it seems, because they offended the gods who originally guarded the country.

Of course, what they themselves said was that they offended the church of that god.

However, the diaries left by the ancestors of the Montès family left some of their own speculations.

The reason why the Montès family chose to marry Sebephia was because they determined that their family had nowhere to return.

It is conceivable that that god is definitely still there.

But it is not what the Lord of Storms would care about, so it is conceivable that it is one of the Scroll Mountain, the Church of Wealth and the Lord of Courage.

Heh ~ Jon? Fabrice silently repeated the name in his heart, his fingers gently pressed on the beautiful diamond bracelet wrapped in silk ribbon on his wrist.

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This time, Fabrice's overly obvious carelessness failed to change Jon Sebephia's expression again.

He is actually a very self-controlled person, and that momentary strangeness just now was already his rare mistake.

Otherwise, the family would not have sent him to the Northern Territory.

Jon Sebephia just answered gently in his low voice: "It is my honor to be remembered by an Earl."

Fabrice suddenly looked at him: "I remember, the last time I went to the clan to deal with some minor troubles, I seemed to have seen a gentleman with purple eyes too?"

"Hmm?" Jon Sebephia asked in surprise, "It should be a lady, right?

Not many people in our family walk outside, so we know a little bit about their whereabouts.

It seems that a certain lady from the direct line went to see her cousin by the way while traveling.

After all, if you come here, it seems that the blood is a bit too far.

After all, they are relatives of your grandfather's generation.

It would be more appropriate to go to Baron Lorri's place!

Fabrice smiled slightly: "So, she was planning to visit Uncle Lorri?"

"How is that possible?" Jon Sebephia quickly denied, "When Mrs. Agries took action to clean up the clan, she also took action to protect the children of her cousin's family!

Now that things have come to this, how can she still go to Baron Lorri's side!

She can only regretfully give up this relative.

Now, she has left the Northern Territory and gone to the Icefield Country through the border.

Eh ~"

Jon Sebephia suddenly sighed heavily.

Fabrice tilted his head silently, without intending to give him a way out.

Jon could only smile awkwardly: "The reason why I sighed so much is because Sebephia rarely marries their daughters to people of different generations.

She is really a pity, she is clearly the most beautiful girl of that generation."