No!
He wanted to catch the Electors who were turning away, but his petty pride held him back.
Then Rachel opened her mouth.
“Go out immediately, Your Majesty.”
“!”
With puffy cheeks and a slit forehead, Rachel went from a Mistress to an Advisor and gave advice.
“As Your Majesty knows, the three Electors do not support you wholeheartedly. The moment they think that His Majesty won’t give them the advantage they want, or that you’re not paying attention to the treatment they deserve, they’ll start thinking about something else.”
“Khmm…”
It’s true, but it made him feel bad. However now there’s no time to point out those things one by one.
He’d already lost Duke Blanchett. In order to check the Electors, he gave Duke Blanchett considerable interests and empowered him, but all of them were passed on to the Crown Prince.
“We can’t go against the Electorate yet, can we? The only thing His Majesty can do without permission is this Rachel.”
“…yes, you’re right.”
Claude was not an idiot, although he had a fatal weakness of occassionally bursting into uncontrollable rage.
If he was a fool, he wouldn’t have been able to play the role of emperor until this point, no matter how much Rachel helped him.
However, since he wasn’t an idiot, he could read the look of disdain in the eyes of the Electors as they opened the door of the audience room and looked at him as they came in.
‘I am the Emperor…’
As expected, the electors were too self-indulgent. It’s like they’re holding onto the emperor’s leash!
Although he had no choice but to bow his head now, Claude promised that he would crush these people without fail.
He will leave his name in history by establishing a sacred imperial authority that no previous emperor has succeeded in, a feat that even his eldest brother Idoel or his father could not touch.
There was a lot to do to become such a great emperor.
‘First of all, I’ll have to give a warning to those who are arrogant about getting Duke Blanchett.’
***
Even after deciding to live with Damian, Lilian’s change was not clear.
Lilian was the Grand Duchess who was as diligent as before and did her best in her duties.
On the contrary, Damian’s change had been very evident since before.
If he handled work according to his personality, rather than killing only one Duke and saving the Blanchett Duchy, he’d have reduced it to ruins by slaughter.
Not only that, he even fulfilled the role of a faithful family head by keeping pace with his wife.
Damian was very proud of his own transformation. Seriously, these days, he enjoyed saying these words…
“Because you’re not married.”
“…Your Highness, you did not understand what I was saying. When I asked Your Highness, ‘is it that good?’, I did not ask it in the pure sense, but rather sarcastically.”
“So you don’t know because you’ve never been married.”
No matter what the trick was, the already beautiful person looked twice as bright and fresh as usual.
The problem was that the level of inability to communicate was twice as much as usual.
In the end, Ivan burst into anger.
“Give me some time to get married and then tell me!”
“I didn’t get married because I had time. By the way, I received a marriage certificate through someone else’s hand right before the competition and it only took a week to hold the wedding ceremony.”
“Are you proud of that? Besides, as far as I remember, Your Highness didn’t contribute much to that wedding, did you?”
“Indeed. That’s right.”
A smile bloomed on Damian’s face despite the barbed words. It was a hazy smile like a girl in love.
Ivan was now more than annoyed and wanted to vomit. Either way, Damian was busy recalling his memories.
“Actually, I didn’t have any greed to that point, but I was surprised when my wife asked me to hold a wedding as soon as possible…”
Bang!
Ivan, who didn’t listen, eventually kicked the desk and got up. Damian, interrupted in his reminiscence, frowned.
“What are you doing, Sir?”
“I’m going to Her Highness and tell on you! I can’t handle His Highness in love, so please do something!”
“What?”
Damian furrowed his brow. And he jumped up from his seat.
“How can you think of such a good idea? I’ll go with you.”
It’s clear that he heard nothing but ‘going to Her Highness’.
“If you like it that much, you should have left long ago. Why are you here harrassing me when you’ve finished all your work?”
“Because she said she had a lot to do in the morning, so she left me and went to the study. If I visit in the middle of her work, she might hate me for interrupting.”
“So, Your Highness, with that said…”
Did that mean he’d been waiting for a legitimate excuse to visit the Grand Duchess’ study?
‘Then, this man talking about getting married until I got tired of it…’
Ivan gritted his teeth.
‘It must have been on purpose.’
He bet it was 100% on purpose!
The rage soared to the point of pulling the back of his neck, but Ivan barely held it in.
He couldn’t die here. Wouldn’t his ending be dying of blood pressure due to the lovelorn’s disease?
They arrived at the Grand Duchess’ study with an excited Damian as sweet as goldfish poop. Lilian was diligently and tidily looking at her work.
“Oh my, Sir Ivan? And Your Highness…”
When he saw a normal superior, he felt a sense of stability in his mind and body, and a sense of sadness came over him. Ivan started complaining in earnest.
“Your Highness, I beg of you with all my heart. Please save me!”
Lilian, who was calmly looking at her work while wearing glasses, nodded her head though bewildered. She didn’t know what the situation was, but just looking at the dark shadows under his eyes, if she didn’t say yes, he looked ready to jump out the window.
As soon as Lilian nodded her head, it seemed to have washed the grim expression off Ivan’s face. Ivan lowered his head with a bright face as if he had let go of a ten year old grudge.
“Thank you. Now then, Your Highness, please don’t disturb Her Highness too much.”
As soon as he finished the formal request, Ivan disappeared like the wind.
In an instant, Lilian was left alone with a smiling Damian.
“What’s going on, Your Highness?”
“Because I wanted to see my wife so much, the faithful Sir Ivan sent me.”
“Yes?”
Damian closed the door to the study that Ivan hadn’t been able to close.
The sound of the door closing was particularly loud. Lilian had a puzzled look on her face as if she still couldn’t understand the situation.
‘How cute.’
Damian grinned. Only then did Lily feel a sense of crisis.
“Your Highness.”
“Yes, Your Highness. I’m going even if you don’t call.”
But by the time she noticed, he was already there.
Too late. Damian walked slowly towards his wife with a wide smile on his face. And snatched the pen from his wife’s hand.
“Wait a minute, I…!”
“My lovely wife.”
Lily hesitated at Damian’s sweet call.
It was as expected. Damian’s wife would stiffen so cutely when he said ‘love’.
‘Probably because she’s sorry she can’t give the same words yet.’
Of course, it was disappointing not to get an ‘I love you too’ from the person he loves. However, apart from the sadness, Damian was a clever man who knew how to use this as a weapon.
Damian smiled wryly and ripped the glasses off Lilian’s face. And he began licking Lilian’s lips intensely.
“Uh…”
They’re now used to each other to a certain extent.
As they got used to it, the kiss deepened in a short time.
In that time, Damian stepped back, stirring up people and draining their souls.
“…no matter how busy you are, you can’t neglect your medicine.”
“For the time being, what you have already given is enough…”
It took Lilian a little while to get her breathing back together because her lung capacity was less than Damian’s.
“Besides, Your Highness must be busy as well.”
“Me?”
“I know there are quite a few items that need to be settled within today, but…”
Lily had also posted a lot of things that needed the final approval of the family head. To finish it all, he had to invest the whole day today…
“If it’s the one this morning, I’ve already seen it.”
“…yes?”
He saw all of them?
She knew to a certain extent that Damian is the type to do well when he wants to do something, unlike how he usually acts. But he couldn’t have already seen what he had to deal with today. That was not a speed possible even for Lily.
But Damian seemed serious.
‘Did he just sign without checking the contents?’
Lilian was dubious and checked.
“Has it been reported that the winter construction of Palmiera’s main castle has been completed?”
“Thanks to my wife’s meticulous observation, the budget was reduced and the remaining amount was allocated to the overdraft reserve.”
“Ahead of the holiday, the budget plan to give gifts to the vassals…”
“Everything was good, but this year, the customs revenue has increased compared to previous years.
In this regard, we have slightly increased the number of reward items.”
“How did you feel about the newly drafted budget?”
“It’s very comfortable. Thanks to your efforts, not only human resources but also paper waste will be greatly reduced, so I think the prospects are bright.”
Damian, who knew how to turn his words around, was surprisingly steady. Lily murmured a little stunned.
“You really saw everything… all that.”
“Because you organized it so well, it didn’t take long.”
Meaning it didn’t take that long.
‘I thought I wouldn’t be pushed behind by doing a good job…’
She lost. Even though she had the advantage of her otherworld knowledge, she completely lost.
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