15.  Top secret

  Handler: Nicholas Reinhart only, strictly forbidden to others 

 TOP SECRET 01# 

 Perfect Son of God?

 Nicholas Reinhart is ‘the perfect son of god.’ 

 What about his parents, the Grand Duke and Duchess of Reinhart? They too were ‘perfect partners.’ After all, they were the ones who passed down noble blood, beautiful looks, and brilliant mind to Nicholas Reinhart. 

 As is usual with noble marriages, their strategic marriage needed no love. This was true even for this picture-perfect couple. Except for their public roles, the two were absorbed in their separate lives. 

 Nicholas’s father, Grand Duke Reinhart’s hobby was adultery. Though a bad habit, he was discreet about it. Since he mainly targeted maids, it didn’t become gossip in social circles. 

 Grand Duchess Reinhart didn’t ask much of her husband. 

 What she asked of her husband was just two things: to be faithful to his public role as a husband, and if he must play around, to do so cleanly without causing unnecessary scandal or future trouble. 

 That was it, just these two things. 

 Though she didn’t expect her spouse’s affection, she hadn’t given up her position and pride as Grand Duchess. 

 Grand Duchess Reinhart wanted to be the Empire’s most noble lady and the mother who produced a perfect heir. She was the most influential woman in social circles, and having given birth to Nicholas Reinhart, she had achieved both goals. 

 Grand Duchess Reinhart was utterly devoted to her only son. That devotion began with praying to bear ‘a perfect son of god’ even before his birth. She dressed Nicholas in only the finest clothes, fed him only the best, and taught him noble pride. 

 Having put in so much effort and care, Nicholas Reinhart had to be the perfect son of god his mother wished for. As the only legitimate heir who inherited the symbol of Reinhart—golden eyes—not even the slightest flaw was permitted. 

 The more her husband strayed outside, the more she obsessed over her son as if filling that gap. No matter where the Grand Duke stuck his c*ck, she had to be the lady of House Reinhart and the mother who bore and raised the most perfect heir. She smiled brightest when Nicholas received praise from others. 

 Nicholas found this easy. Nothing was impossible for him, and whatever he wanted, he got without difficulty. He performed even better than his mother wished and perfectly concealed anything worth criticizing. It prevented troublesome situations that way. 

 “I live only trusting in you alone. How could you do this to me?” 

 The first time he rebelled, seeing his mother’s tearful, reproachful face completely put Nicholas off. After that, Nicholas never openly rebelled again. He judged it would be much easier to hide his true feelings and pretend to humor her. 

 The Grand Duke and Duchess of Reinhart were perfect partners to each other, but nothing more and nothing less. Hence, Nicholas didn’t trust in romantic love that only existed in books. 

 Once when he went alone to the stables for horseback riding, he saw Grand Duke Reinhart having relations with a maid. Watching his father thrust his c*ck without even answering the maid who was crying with excitement saying she loved the Grand Duke, Nicholas felt deep revulsion. 

 His brilliant golden hair that was the symbol of Reinhart was a mess, stuck to his sweat, and his golden eyes were clouded with excitement. 

 To behave so shamelessly with a face just like his own, tangled like beasts and panting… Whether noble man or lowly maid, they were no different before mere s*x. It looked truly filthy and obscene. From then on, Nicholas came to hate s*x. 

 When he realized the maid cleaning his room was the same person as the ‘female in the stable,’ he felt unbearably nauseated. 

 Nicholas Reinhart didn’t bother to confess this filthy matter to his mother. 

 Instead, he personally called for the head maid.

“Who cleaned my room today?” 

 “Ember did, young master. But why do you……” 

 Ah, so her name is Ember. 

 How unfortunate. She won’t be able to see her beloved man anymore. 

 “I think something’s missing from my room.” 

 There was no need to tell mother. It wasn’t difficult for him to frame her and drive her out. 

 The next day, Ember was beaten severely and driven out of the mansion. 

 That wasn’t all. Shortly after, Nicholas released all the horses in the stable and set it on fire. 

 No one could imagine that the perfect heir of Reinhart would deliberately commit such acts. 

 Of course, Nicholas felt no remorse about this either. He had merely cleaned up something dirty, and since no one knew, it didn’t matter. 

 Nicholas Reinhart was perfect. 

 No, he had no choice but to be perfect. 

 From the start, flaws and failures did not exist in his life. Because he had never allowed their existence. He absolutely obtained whatever he wanted to have, and had to accomplish whatever he wanted until he was satisfied. 

 The means and methods involved didn’t matter. 

TOP SECRET 02# 

 Perfect Flaw

 Rarien Claude. She is Nicholas Reinhart’s only flaw. 

 After she transferred to the South, Nicholas finally had to admit this fact. Because Rarien Claude was completely shaking up his life and values until then. 

 However, she disappeared before he could do anything about it. After she vanished, he spent several weeks almost in a daze. At first he tried to forget, but even carrying out his daily routine, no, even simple organization around him was difficult. 

 Even while performing obligatory duties, his mind was filled only with Rarien Claude. 

 He kept remembering her, questioning, stroking his c*ck, then wallowing in self-loathing repeatedly. 

 Thoughts of her shook Nicholas’s very way of life. As the High Priest said, he was clearly suffering from severe lovesickness. 

 Hence, to him she could only be an unresolved flaw and weakness. 

 There are no perfect people in the world. Even a man called ‘the perfect son of god’ was no exception. 

 While becoming who he is now, he had faced countless flaws, and Nicholas Reinhart had only two ways of dealing with them. 

 Either completely eliminate them. 

 Or hide them within himself and completely control them. 

 He chose the former without hesitation in most cases. The latter was only when the former wasn’t possible. His ‘cynical personality’ was a prime example. Though he didn’t particularly think it was bad, it was inconvenient when dealing with others, and since he couldn’t eliminate it, he hid it behind smiles and gentle speech. 

 It was natural. Being severely obsessive-compulsive, he preferred to cleanly eliminate rather than leave impurities in his life. 

 But the case of ‘Rarien Claude’ was strange even to himself. 

 That woman disappeared on her own before he could do anything. Though he should be thankful since he didn’t need to dirty his hands, the traces of her left in his mind continued to torment him. 

 Why exactly? For what reason? 

 After being lost in thought for a while, Nicholas reached a relatively simple conclusion:

 Nicholas Reinhart didn’t want to eliminate the flaw called Rarien Claude. Rather, he wanted to keep her within himself and know her alone. 

 If he didn’t want to eliminate her, he needed to control her directly. To control her, he first needed to possess her and keep her confined where only he could see her. Then she wouldn’t dare shake him. 

 From then on, Nicholas Reinhart had a new goal. It was ‘to completely possess Rarien Claude.’ 

 As soon as he made up his mind, he ordered his aide Andrei to conduct a thorough investigation on ‘Rarien Claude.’ He wanted reports on anything about her, no matter how trivial. 

 From the start, the more information the better, and since he had decided to possess her anyway, he thought there shouldn’t be anything unknown about her. It was almost an obsessive dedication. 

 “She has this many siblings?” 

“The eldest daughter among 2 sons and 3 daughters? Nicholas asked Andrei in a dry tone while scanning through the documents about Rarien Claude. 

 Can they manage with this many family members? Looking at their level of wealth, they were so impoverished it was embarrassing to call them nobles. 

 “Yes, her father passed away long ago and only her mother is alive.” 

 “Then this ‘Baron Claude’ would be Claude’s older brother?” 

 “Yes.” 

 “Looking at how they live, they probably don’t have any family business either. What do they live on?” 

 “Baron Claude is known for frequenting bars and gambling dens, claiming he’s gathering business funds.” 

 A useless idler. He could understand why Rarien entered the temple. With home being in such a state, she must have run away.

She should have cut ties after coming here. She was sending most of her meager monthly salary home. It was pathetic. 

 “What a complete pushover.” 

 Nicholas muttered lowly. 

 “Well… this is something I just heard…” 

 “Speak. I’ll judge whether it’s important or not.” 

 Urged by his superior, Andrei hesitated before answering. 

 “Isaac Claude, that is, Baron Claude… apparently goes around using Miss Rarien Claude as collateral when gambling with middle-aged men.” 

 “What does that mean?” 

 Using someone in the temple as collateral? How? It was such an absurd thing that it was hard to understand what he meant at first. 

 “Miss Claude is very beautiful. And since she’s in the convent, that… her v-virginity is guaranteed, that sort of…” 

 “……That bastard.” 

 He couldn’t even be considered human. Both the trash trying to sell her and the trash willing to buy were wastes of air. 

 When Andrei hesitated at his agitated response, Nicholas smoothed his expression. 

 “Continue.” 

 “He squandered their father’s inheritance long ago… and seems to be only accumulating debt. It’s clear he has no proper occupation.” 

 “A complete mess.” 

 He clicked his tongue and organized the documents he had finished reading. 

 But the more he thought about it, wasn’t it strange? Having attended the masquerade, Rarien Claude must have known that Reinhart was concerned about succession issues. 

 From that perspective, Rarien was in a more advantageous position than anyone else. Logically, having s*x compliantly as he wanted and claiming the position of future Grand Duchess would have been the most ideal path for her life. Common sense would dictate so. 

 Even if she wasn’t the type to calculate gains and losses like him, she had said she genuinely liked him and wanted to touch him even just once.