Chapter 243 – Please Take Off Your Clothes
“Mom, I want to play!”
“Okay, go hang out with the maids over there, my prince!”
“Yes!!”
The first heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Willet who runs to the ladies-in-waiting with a bright smile.
If this was an ordinary village, I would have smiled at the boy.
Unfortunately, this is a pandemonium.
It is a place where numerous hungry ghosts fight for power, so just looking at the back of the prince makes your eyes go dark.
Oh no, of course I’m not saying I’m gloomy.
Anyway, I don’t know what this bastard’s corner of the palace will be like.
It’s just that if I were a royalist aristocrat, I’d be inclined to think so.
“Your prince is really bright. It’s nice to see.”
The queen’s face suddenly darkened when she blew out a curse like a good word (?).
“I am worried every day. It feels like walking on a thorny road.”
The queen who jumps right in.
She looked like a daffodil because she was wearing a pure white dress today.
Even if not, her slender shoulders and thin neckline accentuated this.
“What are you so worried about? Prince Agi is growing well and healthy, and the kingdom is enjoying peace and prosperity.”
Isn’t it hard to say something you don’t even have in your heart?
At all.
My nature is to be a cheater and a predator, but I can say this without spitting.
“Don’t talk like that. I don’t think Count Damon is a stupid nobleman who can’t even read the situation. Otherwise, he would not have been able to win the war for succession to the Werner family that has been going on for years.”
You know this well, Mrs.
“… I’m not sure what you want from me.”
You have to take a step back here.
That’s how the opponent gets a kid.
From my point of view, compared to the aristocrats, the royalists here are much more eager.
Especially the pretty queen, the head of the royalists.
“I will tell you directly. Count Damon, please support our royal family.”
As the woman bowed her head deeply, her milky breasts formed in my retina as her voluptuous breasts, incongruous with her slender figure, slipped down.
“Queen Mama, I was the one who had already sworn to support and be loyal to the royal family during the vassal contract. How can you say something so obvious?”
She sighed at my words and replied.
“Count Damon, currently the Duke of Prius and the Marquis of Janen are uniting forces against the royal family. Do you know that fact?”
I can’t say I don’t know.
Silence is affirmation
The queen, aware of this, continued her words with her melancholy face.
“Most of the nobles above the rank of count have declared neutrality. In fact, it is a story of standing on the side of the Prius and the Marquis of Janen.”
That’s right.
Dare to declare neutrality against the royal family?
In fact, the queen’s judgment that she sided with the aristocrats was correct.
“Then, are there any nobles who support the royal family at all?”
“It is not. Only a handful of young nobles below the rank of Viscount are stepping up to protect our royal family.”
“This is a tough situation.”
There was a high possibility that Prius and Janen wouldn’t even be concerned about a baffling coalition of young nobles below the Viscount.
This is because the level of gold and military power that can be drawn from the area of the territory is completely different.
“That’s why we need Count Damon all the more.”
This is how it goes.
“If there is someone who supports our royal family among nobles of counts or higher, it will be an opportunity for those nobles of counts or higher who have turned to the aristocratic faction to think again.”
It is said that the sense of accurately judging the value of others while playing politics is an essential skill, but more important than that is how much your ransom is.
It’s because it’s perfect to get stabbed in the back of the head if you don’t know what your ransom will be and only evaluate others.
In that sense, before coming up to the capital, Haron, I found out in advance how much my value was set by the capital through various routes.
Although it is a little far from the capital, the county of Werner boasts a considerable area.
Even the Temp River flows through it, so it is a self-sufficient territory.
In addition, he has recently developed a huge commercial city called Crasspolis, and his financial power is also excellent.
It has a close relationship with the Empire and has excellent soldiers trained in long-term territory wars.
When these factors are put together, it is evaluated as a Marquis level force beyond the rank of a simple count.
This is my story openly talked about by the aristocrats in the capital.
If it’s the rank of Marshal, it’s the rank of the Commander-in-Chief of the Border Guard.
If you hit the Republic of Korea before possessing it, you can say that it is the level of the operational commander of three to four corps that bordered North Korea, so it can be said that it is the real power of the real world.
Anyway, there was a reason why the mother of a country came forward and begged me.
“Please. Wasn’t Earl Werner one of the swords that protected Willet Kingdom for a very long time?”
The beautiful eyes of the queen full of tears were enough to touch the heartstrings of most men, but unfortunately I am not a tolerable man.
“Mama, I don’t understand. Even if the Duke of Prius’s breath is getting stronger, would they have to harm the royal family?”
I will stay.
What can’t people who reach out to the devil for power?
But here, I have to say this so that I can burn a little more.
As expected, when the queen heard me, she couldn’t help but burst into tears.
“Huh… “
“Mama, if you do this, I’m in trouble.”
“I know. But it’s okay. The ladies-in-waiting here are people I trust, and all of them are heavy-mouthed.”
One of the ladies-in-waiting brought her a handkerchief, and the queen, who calmed her eyes and calmed her emotions, opened her mouth again.
“Count, do you know how I became queen?”
“No, I don’t know.”
“I was the daughter of a fallen baron. Then, when she heard that her palace was going to pick her lady-in-waiting, she took her test and came in as her chin-up, and she was just that kind of woman.”
No way… Isn’t it?
“Then, taking advantage of the time when the former queen, who had not been able to bear her children, passed away due to her health problems, she was lucky to be in the eyes of Her Highness and rise to a position she deserved.”
Ah, Duke Prius and Marquis Janen had reason to dislike it.
Usually, don’t the royal families build a relationship with the powerful family?
It was understandable that her aristocrats were upset when she put her daughter-in-law, the daughter of a ruined aristocratic family with no roots, in her place as queen just because she was young and pretty.
“Fortunately, I gave birth to a baby boy at the right time, and even though it was dangerous, I managed to get here somehow.”
But from now on, it will be a problem.
Because I personally confirmed that the king’s lifespan was coming to an end.
What would happen if the king passed away suddenly in this situation?
Even if it’s not, it seems that the aristocracy is leading more than eight percent of the current state administration.
If things go well, the prince will be dethroned and banished from the palace with the queen, or confined to a corner where no one can see.
This is if everything goes well.
Conversely, what if it goes badly?
Imagine that I am the Duke of Prius.
The queen who was a maid who believed in her pussy hole and ran amok, and the baby prince.
A bunch of ragtag young nobles who fell in love with the beauty of the queen who was still in her prime, or gathered to try her in reverse.
Hundreds of scenarios about how to deal with these idiots while inflicting maximum pain poured out like a film.
“Please, Count. We have nowhere to back down now. Werner and Willett were good friends, right?”
The word friend is used when you are in an equal relationship.
Who would say that two families that have signed a vassal contract are friends?
From every word the queen said, it was vividly felt how urgent the royalists were.
I crossed my legs slightly and slowly drank the now slightly cooled tea.
Anyway, this is me, so there is no need to rush.
And even compared to the aristocrats, I’m the top.
Anyway, my enemies are not the frogs in the well of this poor kingdom, but the real power of the vast continent, Archduke Pierre.
To be honest with the Prius or Janen here is to hurt my pride.
However, depending on which side you start with, there is only a difference in whether the process becomes somewhat radical or moderate.
The result has already been decided.
“Okay. You were a friend.”
“Yes, he was a friend. And friends never forget grace.”
The Queen puts the Werner and Willett families on the same line.
Then there’s something I can do too.
“Then I think I can give you at least one present for your friend.”
“Are you sure?”
Upon hearing my words, the queen’s face instantly brightened.
You probably thought that my gift meant the Werner family’s royalist family.
That remains to be seen.
“Queen, are you by any chance versed in art?”
“Mi, art?”
She stutters and is confused when the topic of her art suddenly comes up.
“I am not a complete stranger. I know as much as I know.”
“I see. By the way, I have a bit of a knack for portraiture.”
“Oh, I see.”
Still unable to guess my intentions, she tilts her head.
“With that in mind, I would like to draw the most beautiful flower in the kingdom and give it to my mother as a gift. As a ‘friend’.”
“Ah!”
Then, guessing what it meant, she nodded her head.
I join the royalists and paint her a portrait of the queen and present it as a symbol of the friendship between the two families.
A truly aristocratic way of negotiating.
And the queen is a woman whose brain works well enough to understand this.
“I am ashamed that you look at me so well. She’s not a woman to be rated that highly.”
“What are you talking about? It’s not a pretty picture to look down on you as the mother of all the people living in this country. Above all, the queen is more beautiful than any woman I have ever seen.”
The queen seemed to be in a good mood as she gave her lip service, so she smiled brightly with her cheeks flushed.
That smile was real, not fake.
“Thank you, Damon.”
Even sneakily removing the title and calling him.
The atmosphere was heartwarming.
In the meantime, the ladies-in-waiting brought the canvas and oil paint needed for the art work.
Perhaps because it was a royal palace, each piece of art was a high-quality item that could not be easily obtained anywhere.
After setting up the canvas and sitting on a chair, I grabbed a pen with a live nib for drawing and then said to the queen.
“Mama, are you ready?”
“Yes, I am really looking forward to it.”
“Have you never painted a portrait before?”
“Was it about seven years ago? After becoming queen, a painter once painted her. Personally, I didn’t like it.”
“Why?”
“Because Your Highness and I seemed very different in age.”
How can you draw a man and a woman with a 50-year age gap so that the age gap doesn’t appear?
I don’t know the skills, but I guess he was a painter with a conscience.
“Mama, the picture I drew will be very different from the picture I drew in the past.”
“Yes, I believe in the Count too.”
Probably a lot different.
He painted your portrait, but I intend to paint you nude.
“Then, Queen Mother, please take off her dress.”
“… Yes?”
I don’t think you heard, so I’ll kindly say it again.
“Please take off her clothes. I just want you to show me the way you were when you were born.”
