Chapter 94: “Mercy”
With all the evidence and witnesses, Marquess Gulliver and his men finally confessed and were convicted.
[Everything was going well for a while. Where did I grow lax?] Gulliver gritted his teeth wondering where and when everything went wrong.
With all the evidence that was gathered, he thought investigations had been going on for months without his notice. He didn’t know it only took a day for Ferdinand’s people to get all the proof they needed. Even gathering the faction leaders was easy with their teleportation abilities.
Arabella learned from Gulliver’s thoughts that he had intended to use the money he gathered to make his fief more progressive than his family’s dukedom to show off to them and prove that he was much more capable than his eldest brothers ever were.
His family’s dukedom was now led by his oldest brother. And Gulliver even intended to attack it and take the ducal seat for himself.
Gulliver did it all because of his grudge against his family who didn’t give him anything. And he involved all of Prudencia in it.
Arabella learned from his thoughts that Gulliver was neglected when he was young because the focus was always on his eldest brother. His parents did not give him much attention because they were too busy raising their heir, the first son.
When he was young, Gulliver worked hard to try to get his parents’ attention and hear their words of praise the way they did with his oldest brother. But he never received the praise he deserved even when he excelled in everything.
And so he decided to leave and vowed to make them realize he was the more capable son someday by defeating his eldest brother and taking over their dukedom. He decided he would take it by force if he had to.
In his haste, he saw the rich and overconfident Prudencia as the golden opportunity for him to achieve his goal as soon as possible.
When the war occurred, Gulliver took his chance and it was granted when he was approved to be the one to guide Prudencia.