I’m Going to Destroy this Country

“What did you say?!”

The Eshua mansion was turned upside down.

Lilai and Benjamin, who were called to the junior family head Isaac’s room, had shocked faces.

“…Who just said what?”

“Noel is… what?”

At the two uncles’ faces, Isaac, who had called them, let out a deep sigh.

“Are your ears clogged? I said that bastard received the Eshua curse.”

“So… wh-what?”

“Haah, he’s impotent, impotent! So stop gaping already. Your jaw will fall off.”

No! Is this something not to be surprised about?!

Even Shuri, who had come to scold Isaac for going to the Saintess’s awakening site, dropped his things with a clatter.

“Uncle Noel is… impotent?!”

As the reactions around were unusual, Isaac sighed as if disgusted.

“Why are you so surprised? Is this the first time you’ve seen an impotent person in Eshua?”

At his nephew’s gaze, Lilai looked extremely wronged.

“Isaac… I think you’re having some strange misunderstanding. The Eshua curse isn’t like that…”

What’s not like that?

“Since it’s not, could you stop looking at this uncle so pitifully…? This uncle doesn’t have a problem with that… function. I just can’t have children…”

That’s the same thing, you brat.

Well, I’ll lift the curse for Lilai since he’s pitiful.

Anyway, they seemed to have received a very big shock from this unexpected fact.

“…Is there a possibility it’s fake information?”

At Benjamin’s words, Isaac let out a hollow laugh.

What? Fake?

“It’s data from the Imperial archive that the Pope wanted to hide even while killing Uncle Benjamin. The records there are magically recorded so they can’t be manipulated, and even viewing them requires Imperial permission.”

At the words that it was absolutely not forged, everyone looked exasperated and very angry. Especially Benjamin was the most dumbfounded.

“So that bastard, despite being in the same condition as you Lilai, bullied you like that and looked down on you calling you defective?”

“Please don’t say we’re the same, it’s unpleasant…”

Before Isaac came, Lilai and Noel were family head candidates. Both 9th rank, both excellent in ability. The only difference was whether they could produce heirs or not, but it turns out even that was the same. How dumbfounding.

No, in a sense, is it a thief feeling guilty about his own feet, so he rather clung to it more because of that?

But there was an even bigger problem.

“…Then whose children are Kaya and Samael?”

Right. That was the issue.

“Well, Samael could have been adopted from the Pope’s family… but the problem is Kaya.”

Kaya was famous as the next Saintess along with Leia. Be it looks or swordsmanship. Though she had some mental instability, unlike Leia who was perfectly balanced, she was a child boasting explosive power.

Isaac asked:

“Is there a possibility Kaya is from a different bloodline?”

“Can’t you tell from that silver hair? It’s typical proof of her bloodline.”

Even Saints who weren’t Eshua people all changed to silver hair when they awakened.

‘Well, that Crown Prince bastard was like that too.’

They say Kaya is definitely of Eshua blood. Come to think of it, I should have recognized it from when she was the only one with silver hair in the Pope’s bloodline.

“Is there a possibility she’s from a branch family?”

“That’s unlikely. The age doesn’t match.”

“Then among the direct line, those who can have children are…”

As Isaac glanced at Benjamin, he frowned.

“What do you take me for. I’m clean.”

Shuri also sighed.

“It’s probably not my father either. Honestly, he is my father but… if he had a daughter, his nose… no, his shoulders would have pierced the ceiling and ascended to heaven, even more than now.”

Well, that Goel bastard would be like that and more.

Lilai pondered.

“Then what about third brother… Brother Kaliya?”

“…Kaliya is sickly and has never left the mansion. Even the maids’ ages don’t match.”

Shuri chimed in.

“Then we’ve never seen him, but sixth uncle…”

For some reason, the two uncles made disgusted expressions.

“Ah… We can exclude that side, the possibility is almost zero.”

“???”

At that moment, Shuri looked strangely at Isaac who kept silent.

“What’s wrong? The thing you’re looking at now, it’s the Eshua record journal from the family head’s room, right? Is there something strange in there?”

“There’s something bothering me.”

“Something bothering you?”

“In the month Kaya was born, two teams of midwives visited the villa? One is for Kaya, who’s the other one for?”

“Ah. That’s for your older brother, Isaac.”

At Benjamin’s words, Isaac’s eyes widened.

What? What?!

“Older brother?”

“I told you you had a dead relative, right? Your eldest brother was a first child.”

Ah, right. I vaguely heard about that.

Previously, at the Eshua family gathering.

-Nah, no way. Even the accident of eldest brother’s family might have been Noel’s doing.

-The death of eldest brother’s first child too. The Pope’s family side is really suspicious.

Soon Benjamin said:

“Your mother and Noel’s wife were pregnant around the same time. So their due dates were almost the same too.”

It’s not a strange thing.

To give birth to a child with special blessings, or a special being like a Saint, they had children conceived during times when a particular god’s power was strong. They even matched the time, so that says it all. There must have been divine revelation like divination.

So, that’s not strange, but.

“Why did they give birth at a villa in a different region far away, instead of the Eshua mansion? This place is too remote.”

Lilai said:

“At that time, somehow the secret leaked out, and demons were targeting Eshua’s child. There was a prophecy that a girl would be born to one of the two.”

“!”

“Well, it’s also when Saints are weakest, so it’s good to deal with them together. So father and all of the Blue carried out a smoke screen operation. Away from the actual birthing location.”

Isaac understood immediately.

The demons would think they’re giving birth in a heavily guarded place and gather there.

“So we only left Noel at the real birthing place. Especially the firstborn son was too famous, so saying it would be easy to detect the base if he was there, he carried out a decoy operation with father.”

Benjamin clicked his tongue as if the memory was still vivid.

“But in the end the birthing place was discovered and attacked by demons. Numerous servants died, and your newborn relative died that day too.”

At those words, Isaac recalled what he had said with Leia.

To the question of ‘Why did I have to be born outside Eshua, kidnapped by a fake nannies, and go through such hardship, damn it!!!’, she answered like this:

-Your mother was attacked when giving birth to her firstborn. So when she got pregnant with you, maybe she gave birth outside while keeping it a secret, afraid the same thing would happen again.

Yes, right. Now I properly understand those words.

While everyone was gloomy thinking about that time, only Isaac sneered as if detestable.

“So. Was it really my brother’s side that died?”

“What?”

At their faces asking what he meant, Isaac raised the corners of his mouth.

“Since you don’t seem to understand, I’ll change the question. So actually, my mother was pregnant with a girl, and the dead boy was Noel’s child, right?”

“…!!”

As if realizing the meaning of those words, everyone’s faces turned pale. Soon voices rose harshly like a dam bursting.

“Isaac, I understand what you’re trying to say, but that’s not it!”

“Yes, we clearly confirmed…”

Isaac chuckled.

“Anyway, all the servants and midwives there died, and only father and Noel survived, right?”

The two uncles froze.

Well, that’s right. In the end, while giving birth, demons invaded, and the eldest son Adam entrusted his sister-in-law and the child to be born to Noel before going out.

So at the funeral, Noel cried and apologized to his eldest brother.

-I’m sorry, brother. You entrusted them to me, but in the end I couldn’t protect your child. When I went, it was already…

Of course, they weren’t fools, so afterwards everyone did suspect Noel. That it was actually Noel who brought in the demons.

The eldest son’s son, moreover a Saintess’s child, would most likely become the next next family head. Though there was no evidence, they thought he had eliminated the successor in advance.

But was that not all?

No, was that bastard’s real purpose…

Benjamin couldn’t help but grind his teeth.

“Don’t tell me… that bastard switched the babies at that time?!”

“!!”

At that cry, Shuri and Lilai were greatly shocked.

“W-Wait. So sister Kaya is… I mean, she’s your real older sister, Isaac?!”

“The eldest brother’s first child… what??”

At their reactions, Isaac laughed puhahaha holding his stomach. Because he finally understood the meaning of all the Pope family’s goals and actions.

“I’ve been curious all along. Why the Pope’s family left me, their eyesore, alone for years. Even though Noel coveted the family head position so much, he just left me, the junior family head, alone. That kept being strange, but now I understand.”

“!”

Isaac closed the journal as if detestable. His eyes flashed fiercely.

“If the condition for Saintess awakening is offering family members, then if they awaken Kaya, I would naturally become the living sacrifice, right?”

“…!”

Not only the uncles, but Shuri also gaped in great shock.

There’s no way they couldn’t understand what that meant.

Sure enough, Isaac chuckled.

“They must have thought I’d die on my own if they quietly made Kaya a Saintess. Those bastards.”

They could cleanly deal with the junior family head without getting blood on their own hands.

How dirty and petty those bastards are.

So Isaac rather found it amusing.

‘Ah, I should have noticed when the God of Awakening said those words.’

-Seeing Eshua favorably, I was going to magnificently awaken this generation’s Saintesses in return for eating you guys.

It clearly said ‘Saintesses’. At the time he simply understood it as saying he’d pay attention to Kaya’s awakening too.

That wasn’t it.

‘That bastard wasn’t being generous. Since Benjamin and I were both living sacrifice candidates, it just said such words.’

“Their original goal was probably to exchange babies intending to kill my father. They planned to raise Kaya as their own child, then offer father as a living sacrifice to kill him when awakening her. If father, who would have become family head, died, honestly the only one to succeed that position is Noel, right? The Pope’s family knew that and cooperated.”

“…!”

They seemed to have received shock upon shock.

“It was killing two birds with one stone, also hiding his own defect. When offering the living sacrifice, they just had to disguise it as an accidental death somehow.”

At the same time, Benjamin held his forehead.

Come to think of it, around when his brother and sister-in-law went missing after giving birth to Isaac, a strange letter came.

-Benjamin, please investigate the dead son’s grave again.

At the time he couldn’t understand why he asked to investigate the firstborn, but.

‘If brother realized this fact, and was attacked by those who noticed this as a reason to silence him…’

While everyone was too shocked by Isaac’s words to open their mouths, Benjamin held the back of his neck and asked:

“…Did you tell grandfather about this fact?”

Isaac laughed.

“No? He’d go crazy and try to kill everyone the moment he found out. That’s too easy and wasteful, isn’t it? We received such a nice gift after all. Puhuhu.”

…Gift!

What are you planning to do??