Chapter 48: Chapter 31.2

The senior knight’s voice sank gravely. Giscard said firmly as if he were driving a wedge.

“Don’t trust her, my lord. I know in your head you know it too. Yes, I understand. I know that such a beautiful and fragile woman could talk sweetly, but to tell you not to go to war is strange. Therefore, you need to pull yourself together.”

“…….”

“It could be a pretense to buy our trust. It’s often called a strategy to win big by making small losses. How can you be sure that she is not trying to heal a small wound to inflict a fatal injury?”

“…….”

“Moreover she didn’t ask for anything in exchange for paying off the debt. There is always a reason behind excessive favors.”

Glenn’s footsteps began to slow down at the advice of the Knight Commander.

Giscard made a point. In fact, he, too, was aware of it in his head.

When he noticed that he managed to persuade the Head of the Winterfell family, the old knight continued.

“My lord, she brought a lot of dowry. It means that there was full support from the Duke of Balazit in this marriage. Did he really do her a genuine favor to make his daughter’s love come true?”

“……I don’t think so.”

Glenn remembered how he got married.

Nadia giving him the wreath to him was the trigger of their marriage.

The fact that she was able to do that during the triumphal ceremony meant that she conveyed her intention to the Duke in advance.

There was a high probability of other intentions hidden in this marriage.

“I don’t mean any harm, my lord. What I mean is that you shouldn’t give your heart and believe her easily.”

“I fully understand what you’re saying. But, I couldn’t be cold-hearted to her because I owed her money. I don’t really trust her.”

“Then that’s a relief.”

“She will not be able to move hastily because Fabian is still assigned to her side. You don’t have to worry too much.”

“Yes.”

Seeing his lord said that, Giscard was glad that he had nothing to worry.

The senior knight smiled in contentment.

In time, the conversation between the two moved on to the issue about the territory.

Whatever the Duke’s intention was to send his daughter to the enemy territory, Glenn had to first resolve the immediate crisis in front of him.

The voices of the two men preparing for the upcoming battle gradually faded away.

A pair of eyes were looking at the two from afar… No, there were four.

It was Nadia and Fabian.

They were already disappearing from where she stood, so it was hard to say that she was looking at them from a distance, technically.

Nadia, who was staring in the direction where Glenn disappeared, soon opened her mouth.

“What’s the name of the person who was next to him?”

“Sir Giscard Bernstein.”

“Oh, the Knight Commander?”

“Yes, that’s right. Have you ever talked to the Commander?”

“I saw him at the wedding. We didn’t have any occasion to meet each other than that.”

Giscard was the one who said with the look on his face that he didn’t like this marriage.

Nadia laughed as she recalled the memories of her first arrival at Winterfell estate.

Fabian added hastily, as if guessing how the Commander behaved at the wedding reception.

“He has a blunt impression, but he is not a bad person. If he is being rude to you, it’s…… Please forgive him for loving Winterfell so much. I apologize on behalf of him.”

“Sir Fabian, what’s there to apologize for?”

Unlike many administrators she faced in the past few months, Giscard, the Commander of the Knights, rarely encountered Nadia.

Therefore, no matter how much he heard that Balazit’s daughter had written off her debt, he had no choice but to doubt her intentions.

‘I hear he is about the same age as the previous Marquis.… His age is probably why he is very calm.’

For Giscard, he had black hair and a sturdy physique–gray hairs were rarely found.

However, unlike his youthful appearance, it did not change that he was a senior knight who had kept Winterfell’s territory safe for decades.

Which meant…

‘He’s an old man who is hard to conquer.’

If Winterfell won the territorial war and acquired an iron mine, Nadia could proceed with the plan that she had in mind.

It would be even better if she could get the cooperation of the Knight Commander in the process.

But in order to put the plan into action, they had to win the battle.

Iron mines and Lord Giscard’s cooperation were the next issues.

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“Sir Fabian, let’s go back to my office for now. I’d like to hear what you were saying earlier.”

“About the territorial battle?”

“Yes, we need to know exactly what situation we’re in so that we can come up with the next plan.”