The Genius and Calamity of the Villainous Noble: A Brilliant Prodigy Unaware of Their Reincarnation as the Game's Antagonist Defies the Scenario and Dominates with Talent and Hard Work - Chapter 1.31

“W-what are you saying…? Father! Lirisha!?”

Eurus, who had just stepped into this wretched underground chamber, turned pale, looking as if he might vomit. His gaze darted between our father, who lay lifeless at my feet, and Lirisha, his voice trembling with shock.

“You bastard!!! Was it you!? Did you do this!? This underground chamber… was this all your doing!?”

Naturally.

Seeing me standing there, covered in bl00d, he would assume that I was the one who killed them—

And the one who built this underground lair.

“What are you talking about, Brother? Was it not Father and you who conducted these grotesque experiments here? I’m sure many of the servants have seen the two of you sneaking off to deserted places together.”

My response was calm and rational.

“N-no…! You intend to pin your crimes on us…!?”

“No.”

I shook my head in quiet denial.

**”It was Father who killed Lirisha. It was Father—and generations of the Reinhardt family before him—who carried out these horrific experiments.

Someone like me couldn’t possibly build a secret underground chamber right beneath the Reinhardt estate, nor would I even attempt to.”**

Only a select few had the means to construct such a place near the heart of the Reinhardt estate.

And with my extensive influence over various merchant guilds, I had no reason to undertake such a reckless risk.

Anyone who thought rationally would realize that the most likely culprit behind this underground facility was Father.

“N-no way…”

Eurus was neither exceptionally intelligent nor completely ignorant.

He could sense, at least vaguely, what I intended to do.

“You’re making me a co-conspirator…”

“Yes. And now, I shall pass judgment on you.”

I took a step forward, watching as he flinched.

**”The hero who slew the long-unbeatable Chaos Dragon will now expose the heinous crimes of the current head of the Reinhardt family—a man who conducted inhumane experiments and murdered his own daughter.

By eliminating both the tyrant and his heir, the Dragon Slayer will ascend as the new head of the family.”**

“So… this was your plan all along… to become the next head…”

“Of course. But I’m not foolish enough to bare my fangs so openly before you, Brother.”

“…Ah.”

“I only reveal them at the final moment.”

“I knew it, you treachero—!!”

I launched myself forward, closing the distance between us in an instant.

Eurus was the heir apparent of the Reinhardt family, the strongest candidate to inherit the title.

Naturally, he wasn’t weak.

But his strength paled in comparison to Father’s.

And he was no match for me.

“I’m sorry.”

With effortless precision—

I severed his head in a single stroke, bringing everything to an end.