Chapter 93 – Imperial Palace ~ Ball and Decision 1
A few days later.
This time, I entered the imperial palace with Ain and Natsuki, who would protect me.
I felt like the emperor was looking at my body closely, as if he had already heard about the previous kidnapping through Fuyuki and Natsuki.
“The evidence was completely secured.”
What resonated in the quiet space, where even the sound of her breathing was loud, was Natsuki’s harsh tone of voice.
“As a result of a thorough search of the mansion where Setsuka was kidnapped. We discovered an underground secret room hidden in a food storage room, and there the money, people, and factions involved in this kidnapping were revealed.”
“Okay. “I saw it through the report you sent.”
“But why are you not doing anything?”
A being far superior to the imperial guards or knights.
The best military group just for the emperor.
Let’s take particular issue with the fact that the Royal Guard still hasn’t moved. The emperor shook his head.
“My daughter. Tell me. What is the current official status of the woman you brought in to marry?”
“Yeah… !”
Natsuki’s mouth, which was about to respond, did not move as if time had stopped. Instead, all he could see was an expression of belated realization.
“Okay. They are low class citizens. The lowest among the distinct classes. Even her position in the imperial palace was originally just that of an ordinary low-ranking maid.”
“But! They will stand side by side at the pinnacle of this country in the future. They just didn’t announce it. In reality, they are treated as members of the imperial family.”
“The two daughters, who are well-informed relatives of the imperial family, are both infatuated with the same woman and are supporting him both materially and spiritually. There is no reason to say that it is practical, but to others, they are not officially members of the imperial family.”
Natsuki, who had no intention of being forceful from the beginning, sighed deeply, perhaps because she meant to give it a try.
“But that doesn’t mean He won’t punish you, right?”
“When a new era begins, old things have to be thrown away.”
“Then we should get started quickly. As you know, although it was a short period of time, its influence was sufficiently spread to include noble women and wealthy people who provided donations.”
I knew that ever since I was targeted, I had put in a lot of effort to make Sofia’s charm as much as possible and to bring important women to the lesbian teahouse and open up to them.
Why did I know that I was taking off my innocent mask and revealing my lewd lez nature? When I tried to leave the room, Fuyuki, who had been helping me, looked up with teary eyes and couldn’t take a single step. Even though I knew it was fake crying halfway through, I couldn’t go out strong because I had committed a sin.
And Fuyuki wasn’t the only one watching me. When Ain was watching, I was scared because he just stood in front of the door as still as a stone statue and looked at me. Sophia told me that it would be better to spend time with sex because she would be bored anyway, and Natsuki took over all the plans on my behalf, so I was always tired and had sex in bed. We just slept peacefully, hugging each other.
At this point, I was wondering if I was being treated like a totem that would have beneficial effects on the four people just by existing there.
“Of course, recruiting the upper class is a necessary condition, but you know that it is not a necessary condition for the success of the reform you desire, right?”
“Of course. “We haven’t completely eradicated the enemy, but our activities have been greatly restricted because we have to hide our identity as much as possible, but even now, my sister and others are working hard in their positions to provide strength.”
“Hmm… “
“… Is there anything you’re having trouble with?”
The emperor paused and motioned to her maid who was waiting quietly. She was the maid who was said to have been Fuyuki’s nanny.
She took out a rolled-up document from a drawer with elaborate goldwork and handed it to us.
Ain took it carefully, checked to make sure there were no devices, and handed it over to Natsuki first.
Natsuki looked up at the emperor, holding a scroll in his hand.
“What is this?”
“It’s an appeal related to you.”
“You mean secret teahouse activities? If that’s the case, isn’t there a need to show it and just ignore it?”
The emperor kept his mouth shut and said nothing. Natsuki’s eyebrows rose slightly at the attitude of telling her to open it herself if she was curious, and then turned to the scroll.
Natsuki opened the book slowly so as not to tear it and began to read from the left. Her expression crumpled even before she could read the whole thing. It was an expression of extreme disgust that I had never seen before.
“Since there are only two daughters in the imperial family, who is coming up with this nonsense about having one of them become a married woman and create a countermeasure to prevent the blood of the imperial family from boiling over?”
“Didn’t you say it was an appeal? It’s written there, so read it.”
Natsuki read each person’s name, then folded the scroll loudly, as if she was very displeased.
“Of course I will refuse. “They wanted to assassinate me in the first place, so they hid themselves in the imperial palace, but their inactivity outside the country is what prompted you to post this complaint?”
“They say that at 20, commoners are already old enough to have two children.”
“Ha.”
I think I’ll block the door and set fire to the royal meeting.
I grabbed Natsuki’s sleeve and pulled her as she muttered softly. Then, seeing her take a deep breath and begin to control her emotions, he patted her head in comfort.
“Of course Natsuki and Fuyuki will reject that offer. “Because you’re going to marry me.”
“I have heard this story over and over again and am seriously considering it. What do the nobles plan to do?”
“Hehe. “Everyone has their own thoughts.”
“Hoo?”
The emperor was interested, and Natsuki and Ain looked on with caution, wondering if he was going to say something crazy.
“Let’s throw a banquet. “I’m talking about a large banquet attended by the entire imperial family, myself, and even the nobles.”
“So? “What are you going to do when you have a prom?”
“Juliet and Juliet?”
I talked about the fairy tales that came from the far western countries, but there was no answer as no one had ever read those fairy tales.
“If you don’t know, you can look forward to seeing it in person. Just make a stage.”
“If all nobles participate, both time and budget must be considered.”
“Do we really need to stick to the traditional banquet? Anyway, all we do is talk to each other, so the high-quality ingredients that we prepared with great effort only end up getting cold or thrown away. “If we focus on conversation and light snacks and drinks that can be eaten with our hands instead of food, we can be seen as an example of innovating tradition.”
“Or it could be looked down on for simply imitating another country’s culture.”
“I guess making changes so that such stories are not heard is a skill, right?”
If you’ve been testing Natsuki and Fuyuki up until now, isn’t this even worse for the emperor? As the emperor? Poor. Fool. It was like saying he was an incompetent emperor.
The emperor let out a sigh that could be heard even by us who were far away, and then gestured.
“Good night. This time, I will take the offer and work with it. However, you should be able to see something that is just as interesting.”
“That might be exciting for those watching, but I don’t think it would be very interesting for those on the receiving end. Ah. Please also prepare popcorn, which is made by boiling corn kernels.”
After strongly emphasizing that it would not be possible to see the sights properly without it, the emperor came out of the throne room after seeing him confused for the last time as to what the connection was between corn and interesting things.
Originally, he would have left in a waiting carriage, but after being attacked by a carriage, he changed his method of returning.
We loaded heavy items into an empty, unoccupied carriage, leaving traces as if someone had ridden it, while using a secret passage only used by the royal family, we moved to another building within the imperial palace, but a bit far from the emperor’s residence. .
From there, collaborators from Lez Village within the imperial palace rode on a carriage prepared in advance and left the imperial palace.
“Setsuka. What are Juliet and Juliet about?”
“I’m curious too. “Master.”
As the carriage left the imperial palace, he immediately asked a question as if he had been curious about it all along, so he smiled slightly and motioned for the two to come closer.
“It’s a story about the daughters of two families who have been enemies for generations, but they see eye to eye and run away. In the original story, it met a tragic ending, but this is reality. “You can always change it into a happy story, right?”
Wouldn’t it be possible to easily twist the ending by using the power of the imperial family? As Natsuki smiled sinisterly, how was she going to resolve this? It was a headache, and Ain was, after all, the master. You all had an idea. He stroked my head in an attitude as if he was doing something.
Hmm… It feels good to pat your head.
Ain. Isn’t that something that I, the owner, pet?
I timidly expressed my doubts in a low voice, but what came back was Ain followed by Natsuki stroking my head.
