Chapter 37 The Butler's Fatal Weakness
"Simple?"
The girl with long black hair who was standing up looked surprised when she heard this.
Looking at Andy in front of her, she felt as if she was looking at a drunk who was talking nonsense.
Could it be that this guy has forgotten how badly he was suppressed by the housekeeper?
Although he was ranked first, all his rights were taken away by the housekeeper with just a few words.
He should have had a bright future and become a hero praised by everyone.
In the end, he was met with cold stares and humiliation, and was even forced to hide in this remote island to survive, struggling to figure out how to become a formal extraordinary person.
Not long ago, the man who rescued him was tortured by the butler’s men. His ugly appearance of wailing and begging for mercy was watched over and over by thousands of people in the form of a video...
All of this shows that the gap in strength between the two sides is extremely huge and they are not on the same level at all.
But now Andy said that the old butler who made him so embarrassed was very easy to deal with? "Are you trying to assassinate him?"
Lily then thought of a barely reasonable explanation, and then felt amused.
"Let's not talk about how serious the consequences of assassinating the royal butler would be. The assassination itself is simply impossible to accomplish."
"The butler himself is a senior wizard professional, and his ability is well-known in his country, not to mention that he has many subordinates and secret treasures as a means of protection..."
Thinking that Andy, an outsider, didn't know the pros and cons of the matter, the nun sat down again and explained it to him in detail.
However, Andy was not referring to the assassination.
"Do you like shopping?" he asked a question that seemed irrelevant.
"I have a friend who likes it very much." Lily answered with a puzzled look on her face, not knowing what Andy meant by this question.
"So," Andy asked again, "have you and your friend ever been treated poorly by the staff in some luxury stores?"
“There are no luxury stores.”
Lily frowned and said, "But when we go to the Imperial Royal Bank to handle business, we are always annoyed by the bank staff's arrogant attitude."
“Why are those people so violent?”
"He has a bad personality. I still can't understand why the bank manager would attract such a group of people..."
Her voice gradually became weaker and weaker, and she finally stopped speaking. The puzzled look on her face at Andy's question turned into understanding.
"The Imperial Royal Bank's business is relatively high-end, and they receive many important people, and the important people are usually very polite to them."
"So gradually, they think they are on the same level as those big shots, and naturally they are not very patient with small characters like us who come to handle business at their doorsteps - am I right?"
Without waiting for Andy to respond, she continued:
"You mean to say that butlers are just like bank employees, and their ability to be rude to customers does not come from themselves, but from their positions?"
"No," Andy said, "You have to think deeply about why I said that the butler is very easy to deal with."
"Thinking deeply?"
After thinking for a moment, the girl came to a vague realization: "The Royal Bank hired those staff to serve customers, not to let them rely on the bank's power to do whatever they want?"
"Their current behavior may be protected by their leaders, but once the real boss of the bank knows all this, those arrogant staff will definitely be punished or even fired?"
"Think about it more deeply," Andy repeated, "Why do I say that the butler is very easy to deal with?"
"Go deeper?"
The girl frowned when she heard that.
Looking at the black-haired boy sitting on the other side of the wooden table, his face a little blurry due to the dim light in the early morning, she pondered for a while and suddenly understood.
"The purpose of the royal family hiring a butler is to hope that he will serve the royal family, not to rely on the royal authority to act arbitrarily."
Seeing Andy's raised eyebrows, she quickly added, "But the butler himself ignored this point. Working for the royal family for many years made him mistakenly believe that the royal authority is his own authority. So he did some things one after another that seemed to be serving the royal family, but in fact they were to satisfy his own desires."
"To put it simply, the butler has lost himself in a power trap that does not belong to him, and his mind is not clear. He may look impressive on the surface, but he is doomed to have a bad ending!"
The more she talked about it, the more Lily felt that this idea was correct.
This can be seen from the suppression Andy encountered in the Starry Temple.
It is obvious that Andy could be dealt with privately and made to disappear silently.
However, the housekeeper chose to stand up when things were going well and everyone was excited, and suppressed all the opposing voices...
This can certainly be seen as a move to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, and to publicize that the royal majesty is inviolable.
But as a thousand-year-old royal family, the authority of York has long penetrated into the bones of all its subjects.
Did the butler have to do something that seemed impressive but actually gave the onlookers a blow, making them feel aggrieved and even angry? In this incident, Andy was the biggest victim, but didn't the onlookers who once supported him feel offended? Of course they did.
During this period, no one dared to say anything in public, but in private, people kept talking about Andy.
The news even spread to neighboring countries, causing a lot of ridicule.
What good would this be for the York royal family? In addition, from what happened yesterday, we can also see that the butler has been "lost" and can't recognize his own evidence.
Distribute the execution video to all local extraordinary families to deter the rebels in the dark.
This move is understandable.
It is barely acceptable to conduct a large-scale search of the houses of major families to collect clues about the traitors.
But what was the reason for asking the extraordinary people to write their reflections on the execution video? Could the butler dig out clues about who the traitor was from the reflections?
What purpose does such a humiliating behavior have other than satisfying his own desire for control?
It can be said that this behavior will not only fail to deter the anti-traitors, but will also allow the potential group of people supporting the anti-traitors to continue to expand...
"Could he be from our side?" Lily even had this thought.
A servant who does things not with the interests of his master at the core, but instead relies on the authority given by his master to indulge himself, not caring at all whether his actions harm the interests of his master, and even making a big fuss about it...
Now that I think about it, the service the butler brought to the royal family is not as strong as the destructive effect he brought!
Did the royal family know all this, but were too lazy to care? Or did they not know because someone above them was protecting the butler and concealing some "small details" of his work? It is impossible to be sure.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
But no matter what, this tendency to wantonly use power that does not belong to oneself to "seek profit" is a weakness for the butler.
Fatal weakness!
He no longer knows how to restrain himself!
Just like a corrupt official amassing wealth, the more greedy he is, the more negative impacts he causes, and the more deadly it becomes!
It is even conceivable that the butler has been so arrogant in abusing his power for personal gain. In secret, has he done more things to "benefit" himself? If so, after all this is dug out, can the royal family remain indifferent? Does he have a backer, someone to rely on?
But you have to know that the York royal family is now in a mad internal fight over the upcoming crown prince teacher...
This discovery made Lily's heart beat faster, and she had a vague feeling that she might be able to accomplish something big.
But then, she suddenly realized the other side of the matter.
Andy's words made her suddenly realize and see the housekeeper's fatal weakness.
But the weakness was so obvious that even a young person like her could react to it with just a little reminder.
Didn't her elders find out? Did they find out but didn't tell her? Impossible.
The conversation I had with my grandfather last night was very frank. The old man spoke frankly about many dark sides of the family, even at the cost of exposing family scandals.
If the grandfather really understood this matter, he would definitely bring it up to boost the "morale" of his granddaughter when she felt frustrated.
Even if Grandfather didn't tell her, Father would definitely tell her! Why didn't they tell her? Because they didn't know? How could they not know? Because they were too stupid? Or, have they, and everyone in this country, been... domesticated?
They have been tamed by the thousand-year-old authority of the York royal family, so much so that they turned a blind eye to the butler's obvious weaknesses and took it for granted?
But if this is true, then what are the so-called rebels, the so-called resistance organizations, using to lead this resistance? Their unclear minds, their lack of offensive will?
"It's easy to get rid of the butler, but to get rid of him, we need to use the huge royal family."
Seeing the excitement on the girl's face quickly cool down and become uncertain, she didn't speak for a long time.
Andy, who was sitting opposite her, comforted her: "This is a risk. Some people may have thought of it, but they don't think it's worth doing."
"When doing great things, cherish your body; when seeing small gains, forget your life."
The girl with island ancestry slowly uttered an ancient Far Eastern saying.
"There is a risk, but how big is it? Everyone knows that the royal family is currently in a state of internal strife. What risk can there be in taking advantage of that weakness and getting rid of the butler?"
"Who would believe that they dare to confront the royal family head on if they don't even dare to target a mere butler?"
Andy said nothing.
There are some things he can say, but some things he is not convenient to say.
As the girl said, the risk is indeed not great. If handled well, there won't even be any sequelae for the anti-treason organization.
But what good is this? The housekeeper is the result of the problem, not the cause.
If there is no such result, there is still the next one.
It can even be said that with the existence of the butler, the rebels will actually benefit...
But the nun in front of him was already overwhelmed with emotion and didn't think about all this.
Perhaps the humiliation she suffered last night was too severe, or perhaps her grandfather's words were unbearable for her and she was eager to prove something.
"What do you think I should do?"
As expected, the girl asked this question next, her expression full of determination, as if she was willing to take the risk.
Andy didn't say anything. He looked at the nun with a complicated look, then got up and went to the bedroom to get a piece of letter paper and a pen.
After sitting back in his seat, he wrote the letter without looking up and said, "To be precise, this is what we should do."
(End of this chapter)