Chapter 65: Fainted from Happiness

"Grandpa Fran..."

In the dim dungeon, Eli looked at the old man who had taken care of him since he was small, tightly pinching his neck, his eyes full of fear and confusion.

"Gag..." His eyes widened instantly because he couldn't breathe; shock and pain intertwined on his face.

He really couldn't understand why the grandfather who took care of him would go so far as to kill him with his own hands?

He clearly hadn't done anything wrong; he had only opened a few brothels and organized gangs, and he had paid his taxes properly!

"Why..." His voice trembled as he wanted to ask the reason, his hands grabbing at Fran's arms in vain; the touch felt like holding a piece of rotten oak.

His feet were also kicking wildly, trying to break free from this deadly restraint, but all efforts seemed to be in vain.

The air became thinner and thinner, his vision began to blur, and Eli's consciousness gradually dissipated.

Past memories flashed by like a revolving lantern.

Before the age of six, he had lived a luxurious life in the castle that made countless people envious, and he had a bright future of becoming a lord in due course.

Until his father was hacked to death by his uncle for having an affair with his aunt, and he was thrown out of the castle like trash.

Fortunately, he was adopted by Grandpa Fran; at that time, he had also thought about revenge, and for this, he had swung his sword all day regardless of fatigue.

Until one day he saw a maid's naked body...

Sword practice, women, sword practice, women, women, women...

Since when he didn't know, he had become addicted to women, completely lost all his energy, and even forgotten the hatred of his father's murder.

"Perhaps, this is the punishment for my laziness."

Eli Hughes gave up struggling, and not long after, his consciousness completely dissipated in the pain of suffocation.

"Sigh." Looking at the young man who no longer made a sound and had been strangled to death by his own hands, Fran stood dazed for a long time, and finally just let out a long sigh.

He pushed open the cell door and walked in front of Kalen and Danielle.

"Uncle, do you need me to give you a hand?"

Danielle's slender fingers traced lightly in the air, and a ball of scorching fire condensed in the air.

The Masha family had been experts at playing with fire since ancient times, and they had even tamed the Red Flame Fox, a magical beast that controlled fire.

"Forget it, lest you two argue later."

Fran stretched his muscles and bones.

"Under the second cabinet in the last room on the third floor of my house, all my coins and a bottle of strength-enhancing magic potion are kept; leave them for Haidun to use when he grows up," Fran said lightly.

"Kalen, the glory of the Hughes family rests on your shoulders; you must promote the Hughes family to Count!"

"I will be watching you from beneath the underworld!"

After roaring this, he slammed into the stone wall beside him.

Bang, bang, bang!

Accompanied by several heavy impact sounds, even the stone wall was dented, and the old man finally fell to the ground with blood streaming from his head, and soon he had no breath left.

This bloody scene made Kalen, who was a tough guy, unable to help but shed tears.

"Uncle!" Danielle, on the other hand, had long since thrown herself onto Fran's corpse, crying.

For the sake of that bottle of strength-enhancing magic potion, she decided to cry as sincerely as possible.

Black Wolf Castle.

It was already late at night, but the candles in the huge chandelier in the main hall were still burning fiercely.

Xia Mingyu sat on the main seat, while Kalen and Danielle stood respectfully on his two sides.

Two young maids stood below the main seat, each holding a wooden box.

"Your Highness, these are the culprits who created the brothels and gangs in the territory—Eli Hughes and Fran Hughes."

Danielle spoke while raising her hand to make a gesture to open them.

The maids opened the wooden boxes, and a thick, bloody smell wafted out.

Inside the wooden boxes were two heads, one old and one young, one with eyes closed peacefully, and one with eyes wide open in death.

"Close them," Xia Mingyu said in a deep voice, suppressing the nausea in his stomach.

The two maids quickly closed the wooden boxes; if they opened them again, they would also be stimulated by this bloody smell to the point of nausea and loss of composure.

"Hughes... Are they also people of the Hughes family?" Xia Mingyu couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, Your Highness, they are considered branches of the Hughes family. In terms of blood relationship, one is Kalen's uncle, and one is his nephew."

"Please, I beg you not to blame the Hughes family because of their sins," Danielle answered softly, her pretty face full of apology.

Own uncle, own nephew!

Isn't this kin-slaying?

Hearing this, Xia Mingyu looked at Kalen in shock, only to find that although the other party was a bit strained, he still managed to force a gentle smile under his gaze.

Xia Mingyu: "..."

He realized that he seemed to have underestimated the temptation that an heir to a kingdom with 1.4 billion citizens acting as a godfather had for the nobles of this world.

To achieve this, even relatives of the same bloodline would be slaughtered without hesitation.

However, at least the result was for justice.

"Your Highness, this is the information on all the evildoers currently in the dungeon, as well as the crimes they have committed."

Kalen handed a thick stack of papers to Xia Mingyu.

"Your Highness, regarding the confirmation of the evildoers' crimes, I used two methods: interrogation and identification by the territory's people, and I personally supervised it to ensure that not a single good person was wronged," Danielle added from the side.

For the past few days, she had been staying in the interrogation room and the dungeon, and sometimes even personally participated in the interrogation; she was almost starting to smell foul!

"I am quite confident in judging the truth or falsehood of words; I hope Your Highness will believe me," Danielle smiled.

She had learned to lie since she was a child, and the lies that those evildoers racked their brains to invent in order to escape punishment were full of loopholes in front of her; she didn't even need to listen, just looking at their expressions was enough to easily see through them.

Xia Mingyu flipped through a few sheets of paper at random, and the dense list of crimes committed by the evildoers on them made him frown involuntarily.

"Good, very good, you are truly too righteous!" Xia Mingyu exclaimed sincerely.

If all the nobles in the world could be as righteous as the Kalen couple, then this continent, filled with countless sins and tears, would surely be renewed in an instant.

It's just a pity that this is unreplicable; after all, he alone cannot promise to be the godfather to all the nobles on the continent.

"Your Highness, the judgment of these evildoers is entirely up to you to decide."

"What about little Haidun's matter..." Danielle leaned down and asked cautiously.

Her beautiful purple-blue eyes watched the black-haired young man on the main seat in front of her nervously, her pretty face full of anxiety and unease.

Her shoulders were tense, her heart was thumping as if it were about to jump out of her chest, and her breathing became short.

Involving the fate of little Haidun's life, even she, who was always calm, couldn't help but feel a panic as if someone were pinching her heart.

Until...

"At little Haidun's infant honor ceremony next month, I will keep my promise and act as his godfather," Xia Mingyu said calmly.

She heard His Highness Mingyu's promise with her own ears.

Ah!

What happiness! What honor! What beauty!

Thinking that her child could become the godchild of the future master of the vast kingdom that ruled the entire Eastern Continent as soon as he was born, an unprecedented sense of huge happiness impacted her entire soul.

Bang.

Because she was too happy, Danielle fainted on the ground.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 66 =====