The Royal Military Academy's Impostor Owns a Dungeon [BL] novel Chapter 1235

Chapter 1235: Poetic Justice

"Anyway," Killian began, smoothing down his uniform while pointedly ignoring the shameless display of royal affection beside him, "with the help of the information Luca provided, we actually managed to get those two to talk."

"!"

Luca’s golden eyes widened in complete shock.

"Wait, really? It actually worked?!"

"It took some time," Killian explained with a rather exasperated look in his eyes. "We had to let them stew in their own isolation for a while after planting the initial seeds of doubt. But once the paranoia started taking root, they ended up filling in most of the missing details themselves without even realizing they were doing it."

The golden-eyed cadet stared at the Chief of Staff in sheer awe.

Wow.

Left to his own devices, Luca didn’t think he’d ever be able to come up with something so efficient, especially when the only weapons at their disposal were a bunch of carefully chosen words against such formidable opponents.

Still, hearing how everything had unfolded made him realize just how frighteningly effective it’d been to target the twins’ trust in each other, especially when practically all of their unshakable confidence seemed to have been built around it.

To be completely honest, Luca had had some major reservations when the plan was first brought up.

There was something deeply uncomfortable about deliberately using the twins’ past experiences against them, particularly when it felt far too similar to the unsettling mind games those two had been inflicting on everyone else.

However, the situation changed considerably once the Elders came rushing over with their preliminary findings.

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They hadn’t even finished examining the ornate incense burner the twins had been carrying, yet they’d already discovered enough to know that something was seriously wrong with it. Worse, they were concerned that this might not be the only batch in circulation.

That possibility had been enough to change Luca’s mind.

Before the discovery, the group had still been struggling to determine exactly what charges they could make stick without directly dragging Luca and Jax into a public trial to prove something as absurd as the Luxastras’ bloodline ability.

The incense burner finally gave them something solid to work with, but it also shifted their priorities entirely.

This was no longer simply about making sure that the Aerun twins were properly punished for what they’d done.

Now they desperately needed to know what the twins believed that incense was supposed to do, where on Solaris they’d gotten something so utterly vile, and, most importantly, whether there was any more of it circulating within the Empire.

With something like that potentially hanging over everyone’s heads, Luca had eventually decided that he’d do whatever was necessary to get the twins talking.

But as though sensing the young cadet’s hesitation, Killian surprised him by explaining that they wouldn’t actually need to throw all of that painful history back in the twins’ faces.

In fact, they didn’t even need that much information.

They only needed enough to say something that would make sense to the Luxastra twins.

Luca hadn’t understood what he meant at first.

Then his husband quietly explained that for people like Lyrian and Cyrion, getting a decent confession through ordinary means would always be difficult. Those two placed an almost frightening amount of importance on the people they trusted, and if they truly believed keeping quiet was necessary to protect them, then there was a good chance they’d rather silence themselves permanently than betray anyone they considered their own.

"So the best way to deal with people who share that kind of relationship is to make them doubt their own judgment and, more importantly, the bond they trust so implicitly."

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