Chapter 55: The Truth
When Leo received the news of the emperor's pardon for Frank, he rushed to the Viscount's mansion as soon as possible and informed Viscount Covenus of the good news. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
When Viscount Covinus heard the good news from Leo, his first reaction was not to be surprised or ecstatic, but to look at Leo deeply, not like he was looking at his son, but like looking at a stranger, which made Leo feel that there must be something deep in it.
"Okay, I see, let's go to the Imperial Inspectorate to pick up Frank out!" the viscount said thoughtfully and lightly.
It wasn't until Leo followed the Viscount to the building where the Imperial Supervision Department was located that he still didn't understand what the Viscount meant by his previous glance, but he vaguely felt that the Viscount's attitude towards him today seemed to be a little wrong.
The Imperial Ministry of Supervision had apparently received an order for His Majesty the Emperor to pardon Frank personally, and after Leo and the Viscount had come forward to inform the staff of the Ministry of Supervision that they had come to the door, they were soon brought to the door of the Ministry of Justice's ordinary prison and told to wait here.
"Father, Frank's release should be a good thing, why don't you look so happy to see you?" While waiting in front of the door, Viscount Covennas's straight face was so depressing that Leo couldn't help but ask the Viscount softly.
The Viscount turned his head, still looking at Leo with a deep gaze, as if he wanted to see through Leo's whole body, and then sighed softly, and turned his face away again without saying anything.
Leo was a little apprehensive by the Viscount's inexplicable gaze three times and twice, but he didn't know what the reason was, so he had to continue to wait beside the Viscount.
Just as the father and son were waiting for Frank's release, a group of people suddenly walked out of a courtyard next to the cell, all wearing uniforms of various levels of the Supervision Department, and rushed out of the courtyard, looking as if they had just finished a meeting.
A pair of eyes in the crowd noticed the Covinas father and son waiting outside the cell door, and with a soft sigh, a thin, sharp-eyed old man walked from the crowd towards Leo.
"Leo Kovinas, why are you here?" this person was the Duke of Solo, the Imperial Inspector General, whom Leo had met in the Imperial Palace, and it seemed that he did not expect that a dignified Imperial minister would know a young man who was obviously a relative of a prisoner, and many officials of the Imperial Inspectorate looked at Leo in amazement.
"Ah, Mr. Inspector General, Colin Covenus salutes you!" Even the Viscount did not expect that the high-ranking Inspector General would actually know Leo and take the initiative to greet him, and in a panic saluted Duke Solo.
Duke Solo didn't care about the little Viscount of Covenas, waved his hand at him absently, and continued to stare at Leo with his eagle-sharp eyes, waiting for his answer.
Maybe he had contact with Duke Solo, or maybe he had seen the chairman of the Senate, the inspector general and other important ministers of the empire in the past few days, Leo did not show a flattered and sincere look like the viscount, but calmly and gently straightened his shirt, with a slight smile on his face, and bent down with his right hand to his chest: "Good morning! ”
"Oh!" Duke Solo remembers that there was such a thing, but Frank was only a small viscount heir after all, and if it weren't for the crime of framing the crown prince, I'm afraid his information might not have been able to reach Duke Solo's desk.
As he spoke, there was a screeching sound of the subway chain unlocking on the iron door of the ordinary cell. Then, the closed subway door opened from the inside, and two jailers walked out with Frank, who was wearing only a white shirt. As soon as they came out of the door, seeing that many officials of the Ministry of Supervision were gathered nearby, and the Imperial Inspector General, Duke Solo, was standing not far from the door and looking at this side, the two jailers were shocked by this scene, and hurriedly bowed down and saluted.
Frank ignored the officials, and as soon as he went out, he saw the viscount with tears in his eyes smiling and nodding to him, and the smile on his face was particularly bitter reflected by the tears in his eyes.
"Father!" Frank whispered, his words were full of guilt and self-blame, as an elite cultivated by the family since childhood, Frank has always regarded himself as a genius boy, and wanted to be proud of his father's pride, but at this moment he was reduced to a prisoner, and had to confess in order to protect himself, which made Frank, who had always regarded himself as arrogant and arrogant, feel sad and painful in his heart.
Frank walked briskly towards Viscount Covennas, but before he could get closer, he caught a glimpse of Leo behind the Viscount. Leo, the man who Frank cursed in prison I don't know how many times he stood behind his father in such a grand manner, he must have come to laugh, he must have come to mock, he must have come to mock me, he must have come to see my joke on purpose.
Frank's eyes instantly turned red, his nostrils were stretched with anger, and thick and fiery rage burst from his chest to his head and then through his nostrils, and the anger instantly annihilated all his reason.
"Leo, you bastard, you're still here, you're here to see my jokes, are you trying to laugh at me? Don't dream, I tell you, you don't deserve it, you useless waste, you rat in the gutter, don't get away with it!" Under the domination of anger, Frank completely ignored the location of the Imperial Supervision Department, completely ignored the many Supervision Department officials around him, and at this moment he only had the hateful Leo in his eyes, and the smile full of ridicule and sarcasm on his face and the pitiful eyes that deliberately pretended to be innocent, at this time Frank even forgot about his own most skilled magic spells, and only wanted to punch that face fiercely.
Fortunately, Viscount Covinus reacted quickly, although he did not stop Frank from scolding, but at least he hugged Frank's body in time and stopped his rough behavior in front of many high-ranking officials of the Imperial Supervision Department.
Although he was hugged by the Viscount, the angry Frank did not intend to stop there, he struggled hard to break free from the Viscount's shackles, and kept scolding: "You inferior student of the Imperial Capital Magic Academy, the shame of the family, you brotherless scum, mongrel! Tell you, I am the sister-in-law of the Covinas family, you are just a wild seed that was picked up from somewhere, if it weren't for your father to see you pitiful, you would have been eaten by wild dogs and become a bunch of ****!"
Frank scolded indiscriminately, although his words were heard by Leo, but he didn't care at all, anyway, it was just the pitiful cry of the loser, and he didn't have to care at all.
But when Frank scolded the wild seed, he was trying to stop Frank's Viscount's body stiffened slightly, and Leo next to him suddenly found that his body suddenly trembled inexplicably, and his hands and feet were no longer able to move with the orders of consciousness, as if he had completely lost control of his body.
As the eyes suddenly went dark, pictures appeared in his mind. On a warm spring night, when I first opened my eyes, I saw a gentle face, a beautiful woman holding a baby in her arms in a thatched house, a woman begging for something at the feet of a young nobleman in the bleak autumn wind, a little baby crying in the arms of a woman who had become cold on a cold winter night, a young Frank and a group of noble children threw stones at him and laughed at Leo, and Leo cried silently in a dark stairwell.
This...... Seem...... It seems like...... Everything has an explanation for why Leo's face is not similar to that of the Covinus sons, why Frank has bullied Leo since he was a child, why the viscount has never looked at Leo squarely, why all the family resources are given to Frank and Leo has nothing. It's all because Leo wasn't Viscount Covenas the biological son at all.
This thought was like a thunderbolt in Leo's mind, all emotions seemed to have a cathartic channel, with the strong light brought by the thunderbolt shining all over the mind space, after a white light, Leo found himself still standing at the door of the prison cell of the Ministry of Supervision, Frank was still under the restraint of the viscount and scolded, all the pictures of Shicai were just an illusion in his mind, so clear and real.
As if hearing something from Frank's scolding, or perhaps sensing something from Leo's sweaty and pale and ugly face at this time, Duke Solo raised his hand and patted Leo lightly on the shoulder, seeing that he still did not come to his senses, he had to shake his head slightly, turn around with his hands behind his back and leave. This kind of household affairs among the nobles is so commonplace that even as the Imperial Inspector General, it is inconvenient to meddle. With the departure of Duke Solo, the officials of the Ministry of Supervision, who had gathered around to watch the excitement, also dispersed in twos and threes to go about their own business.
However, Duke Solo took this matter to heart when he left, and from today's events, it seems that Leo is not a member of the Corvinus family, so what is his true origin? How did he come from? Will it pose any adverse threat to the empire? This series of questions made Duke Solo decide that he needed to pay attention to this kid who could defeat Grand Duke Wagner and have a good relationship with Crown Prince Raymond.
Frank's farce continued until Viscount Covinas vomited blood and collapsed in his struggles. Seeing his father's blood spurt out and his body fall to the ground so limply, Frank's sanity returned to him.
"No, father, father, how are you? How can this be? How can this be!!!!" Frank panicked and shouted as he hugged the slumped Viscount.
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