The Founder of the Great Financial Family

Chapter 144 (2)

"Marriage? The guild leader got married?"

The 1st prince wasn't interested in the guild leader's marriage news.

So when he asked about the unknown information, the staff member who had shared the news replied immediately.

"Yes, that's what I know."

"That's good. If the guild leader himself is difficult to deal with, we can take his wife hostage."

At that, Trinity, who had been quietly listening, showed her displeasure.

"Do we really have to go that far?"

From her perspective, it was an unpleasant task, but from the 1st prince's point of view, the situation was desperate enough to resort to such underhanded tactics.

"If I lose here, my life is over. I can accept the criticism for this later."

If they kidnap the guild leader's wife, there would be issues with the relationship between the guild leader and the prince after the Crown War.

However, what was more important to him was to win this war first.

"But winning this Crown War is more important to me."

Just in case, she asked her staff about the woman the guild leader had married.

If she was from a famous noble family, that would be another problem.

"Which family did he marry into?"

"As far as I know... she's a commoner."

"A commoner? He married a commoner?"

"Yes."

She couldn't understand his expression.

Although the guild leader was a commoner, there was no reason for such a wealthy person to refuse a noblewoman.

"Is she really a commoner?"

The 1st prince also had doubts about this, and asked again to confirm.

"Yes, she is a commoner. That's what I heard."

"Really? That's unexpected. He could have easily married someone from a baron's family."

"Oh, I remember now, she was his secretary."

"Secretary?"

Trinity offered a comment.

"They must have fallen in love while working together."

It didn't matter to them who the guild leader married.

"Ismail probably won't care about the guild leader's wife. So, I'll leave that task to you." [T/N: lol]

It was a despicable act, but she had no choice from her perspective, wanting victory in the Crown War.

'I really don't want to do this...'

"Alright, I'll do it. But we can't kill her, not even for the sake of the future."

The 1st prince agreed to her words.

"We're just trying to scare them, we don't want to make enemies with the guild leader."

"Then I'll take responsibility for this."

The 1st prince seemed to have found a breakthrough, imagining his meeting with the Pope in his head.

'If only these two things work out, the 2nd prince will return to his old self.'

The next day.

A temporary truce was established between the 1st and 3rd prince's factions due to the sudden rise of the 2nd prince.

When the news of the truce reached the 1st prince, he hastily went to the Papal Palace to request a meeting with the Pope, but the new Pope kept refusing the meeting. The 1st prince, who had wished for a meeting with the Pope for days, eventually had to return empty-handed.

'If they don't even want to meet, it means they have no intention of changing their mind.'

Rumors said that the 3rd prince had also sent someone to request a meeting with the Pope, but like the 1st prince, they kept getting rejected.

'Even if I went personally and they didn't want to meet, would they really want to meet someone lower? There's no chance.'

Anyway, the 1st prince, who returned without any results, pinned his hopes on the guild leader's wife as his last card.

'It's a headache if the Pope's faction joins, but in the end, the change in the Church's stance was all because of that guild leader.'

Although he couldn't meet the Pope and change the Church's stance, if he could kidnap the guild leader's wife and threaten the guild leader, it seemed possible to change the Church's stance.

'Please, let it be that way.'

A few days later.

The news that reached him was nothing but shock and horror.

His younger sister, who would become his wife in the future, had gone to kidnap the guild leader's wife, but instead ended up being taken hostage by them.

The 1st prince, who received the report, could not understand it at all.

"What... What are you talking about? Trinity was captured?"

Trinity Tepez.

She was an unparalleled expert from the Tepez family, who had inherited the same blood as him and was even known as the Blade Queen.

But she not only failed in her mission, but was also captured!

It would have been impossible without Ismail's intervention.

"That... The guild leader's wife..."

The person reporting to the 1st prince was one of those who had gone to Lyon to kidnap the guild leader's wife along with Trinity.

"The guild leader's wife was from Ismail's family."

"What did you just say?"

"The guild leader's wife was from Ismail's family. Trinity couldn't avoid a tough fight and eventually lost to the guild leader's wife."

The shock was undeniable.

Who would have known that the wife of the guild leader, who was said to have married a commoner, was from the Ismail family?

"Is that true?"

"Yes, and when the guild leader's wife released me, she told me to tell you this."

The officer, who was about to report something, looked like he was about to die.

Instead of bringing the guild leader's wife as a tribute, he had no choice but to deliver a threatening message.

"If you don't give up the Crown War, they'll kill Her Highness Trinity."

"..."

It felt like the sky was falling.

Both of the breakthroughs he had thought of had failed.

"..."

The 1st prince stood silently in front of the officer reporting on the events in Lyon.

After a while, he unknowingly swallowed his saliva and dropped his head.

His expression seemed to have given up on everything beyond serious.

'How...'

His mind turned white, and all he felt was a deep sense of defeat.

It was the first defeat of his life.

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