Chapter 111 – Answer to Proposal (1)
A portal and a hometown.
It says you can go back.
But before that.
Disposable.
It probably means that once you use it, you can’t come back.
‘You can’t come back?’
Does this mean I should leave this behind and go back?
[Even if you go back, your power remains the same.]
The system window opens again.
Even if I go back, a message appears saying that the power I have now will not disappear.
A country with the greatest power in an empire would be able to do anything, even back in the 21st century.
It wouldn’t be a task to conquer the underworld with just one fist.
Otherwise, debuting in the sports world and receiving an annual salary of tens of billions of dollars would not be a dream.
It was clear that countless spotlights would be on me, and I would become a world star that everyone would envy.
If it were possible to become a soccer player and win the World Cup, it wouldn’t be a bad thing.
It will be loved worldwide.
But unfortunately, all that honor and a bright future did not feel that sweet to me.
Rather than returning to the original world.
Life here now is happier.
If I go back, I won’t be able to meet Luna who is lying next to me, Elena and Sylvia with whom I have grown a convenience store, and Chloe, the princess of the empire, who is begging me to marry her.
Of course, there was only one choice for me.
‘Wedding hall. The 7th floor will be opened as a wedding hall.’
[You have chosen the wedding hall.]
[May your choices always be filled with happiness.]
[All convenience store facilities have been opened. You can open the 2nd and 3rd stores at the desired location.]
If Celer saw it, she would hit her chest.
She must have desperately wanted to return to the 21st century.
But this is my choice.
I had no intention of going back.
“Manager, what are you thinking like that?”
Luna asked, clinging to her.
He was looking at me with a flushed face as the lingering effects of our relationship just now hadn’t gone away.
“I was just thinking about how to plan for the future.”
He answered while stroking Luna’s head.
“Future… “You’re talking about starting a family, right?”
“It’s similar.”
“I think it would be better to have three children and raise them instead of dividing them into sons and daughters. It’s okay to live in the capital, but I can happily accept it even if the store manager moves to the countryside. “How happy would I be if I had a daughter who looked like me and a son who looked like the store manager?”
“Isn’t it simple? Still, I am marrying a man called the sword of the empire.”
“I’ve dreamed of such a simple life for a long time. Things that can be never achieved in the back alleys…”
In the back alleys, every day must have felt like war, so it was only natural that this reaction would occur.
“What kind of future is the store manager dreaming of?”
“My future?”
“Yes, I’m curious what the store manager thinks now. I’m not the only woman who’s mixed up like this right now. So I’m more curious. “I wonder if I will be in the future the store manager envisions.”
The future.
I thought deeply.
As Luna said, he never dreamed of a specific future.
If so, how would you run a convenience store business?
Where should I place the 2nd and 3rd stores to be effective?
Most of the future was about cultivating my position and power within the empire rather than love and life.
I didn’t think about who was next to me.
‘Who will be next to me?’
Life without Elena?
It was hard to think. Now she was a key employee of our convenience store.
From the 1st floor to the 6th floor, he was somewhat involved in most things and was thinking with me about what to do.
The business means were greater than I thought.
Even now, Sylvia said she would graduate as soon as possible to kick out Lepis and help me with my work.
She was studying with the intention of graduating from the academy early.
Chloe had suggested several times that she wanted to quit her job as princess and work together at the convenience store.
Naturally, since it was clear that the emperor or crown prince would not approve, she was also more focused on managing the capital.
There was no sign of falling next to me.
Luna just heard.
I want to start a normal family with me.
I already made up my mind once.
I don’t want to miss everything.
“You will be in my future too.”
The 21st century we can’t return to anyway.
We can forget a little about the customs of that era.
As a person from the continent and an aristocrat of the empire, I am becoming a little more honest about my desires.
“Do I have one too?”
“Okay. It may be a little different than you imagine, but we will still be together.”
Luna smiled brightly.
I kissed her forehead.
Now I thought it was necessary to get everyone together for once.
***
Chloe was busy with work today as well.
This is the position where you go to work every day and make the final decisions on matters related to the imperial administrative service.
She did her best to have a set budget and the most efficient way to run the country.
Even so, all I had to do was check the document and stamp it.
Boom!
I stamped ‘Proceed’ and read the next report.
Since it was a poor report, I stamped it as ‘disallowed’ and moved on to the next report.
I read the next, next, next report.
As I was handling all of her work, there were times when I was confused whether she was a princess or a stamping machine.
This was far from the princess’s daily life.
“Ha. “I’m tired.”
The body becomes saggy.
Even more so today.
It was a similar amount of work as usual, but somehow I felt drained.
That’s probably because I haven’t seen Dojin for the past few days.
“It’s annoying.”
It wasn’t fun no matter what I did.
Even when she ate delicious food, she couldn’t taste it, and even doing tea ceremonies, one of her few hobbies, didn’t put her mind at ease.
I was anxious.
My heart kept pounding.
She said something similar to proposing to Dojin.
If I become the count’s first wife, I will allow you to take other people as second wives.
It was the most generous offer she could make.
Dojin, who postponed his reply, did not send any messages after that.
I will do it or not.
I thought you would at least tell me that.
“Ignoring it…”
No.
It’s definitely a difficult proposition, so they’re probably thinking about it.
“No. The princess of the empire even gave in to taking her second wife, but she says there is a better offer than this? It’s too easy. “It’s a good proposal that embraces attractive women like me and also embraces their friends.”
If not.
Could it be that those employees are blocking Dojin?
Even if she sends me a message saying she found out, they may be trying to seduce me by forcibly blocking it.
If that’s the case, it makes sense.
“Dojin has a kind heart, so she cannot push them away and accepts their regrets.”
This she had to solve.
I will immediately go to the employees and punish all of you as my first wife because you are my man…
No.
Then Dojin will hate it.
Is there any other way?
“Hey princess?”
“What’s going on?”
Chloe smiled and raised her head at the words of the office manager who was also handling administrative work.
The secretary pointed to her hand, which was still stamping.
“You are putting your stamp in the wrong place.”
“Yes?”
Ah.
He was in the process of handing over the documents to the clerk, stamping them on the desk.
“Sorry. “Maybe it’s because I’m a little tired.”
“I think it would be a good idea to rest for a while. Aren’t you in a bad condition?”
“You just need to rest for a while. I was distracted by work for a moment. I’ll have a cup of tea first, so the secretary gets to work…”
At that time, a security engineer came into her office.
“Meet the princess.”
“What’s going on?”
“Lord Dojin sent a letter…”
“Give it to me!”
Chloe received a letter from the knight.
-I will be waiting at the convenience store to give you an answer to the last suggestion.
“I have to go to the convenience store right away.”
There is now a reason to go to the convenience store.
***
“You came sooner than I expected.”
“Someone called me. “I have to leave everything aside.”
Haha, I’m honored that you consider it so important.”
“Then when can I hear the answer?”
Chloe, who visited the convenience store with her escorts, urged me.
I was so tired that I couldn’t stay still.
“It’s an answer… You will be able to hear it soon.”
“Isn’t that what is being said here?”
“Yes. There is a separate place prepared. Please follow me.”
I visited the newly built wedding hall on the 7th floor with Chloe.
“Hmm. It’s spacious.”
The wedding hall is much taller than the other floors and so wide that you can’t see everything at a glance.
This place, so splendid as to make your mouth drop just by looking at it, was almost similar to the ones in the imperial palace, with a bit of exaggeration.
“I wondered why you called me, but was it because of this?”
Chloe, who followed me, covered her mouth with her fan.
Because of the knights who followed behind, they used honorifics.
Yet her eyes were quickly scanning the wedding hall.
“Is this your answer to the proposal I gave you?”
“Yes, I am.”
Showing the wedding hall as a response to a proposal.
I believed that I would know what it meant without having to say it.
Chloe’s face turned red.
She spread her fan to cover her blushing face.
Seeing her slightly shrinking, the knights following her started whispering among themselves.
Only I, who has a sensitive sense of energy, could hear their voices.
“This is the first time I’ve seen the princess look so embarrassed.”
“Were you always like that? “He always had a business-like feel.”
“You also had a friendly feeling.”
“But there was an invisible wall. “You seem a little honest now.”
Chloe, unable to hear what the knights were whispering about, was looking at every corner of the wedding hall.
“Hmm… Originally, we were going to conduct it inside the imperial castle, but if it’s this big, it wouldn’t be a bad place here either. I think it’s good.”
Chloe was already thinking about how she would use the wedding hall.
“Chloe, no, the princess.”
“Lord Dojin, what’s going on?”
“Can you pass on the knights?”
“What are you trying to do?”
“I have a more serious matter to discuss.”
“It’s serious… When Lord Dojin says that, it feels a little scary. Okay.”
After picking up her knights, she followed me and entered the room on the left side of the wedding hall.
“Huh?”
And what was seen in front of Chloe.
“You’re here.”
“I was waiting.”
“Oh, hello.”
She was three women.
Elena and Sylvia, but who is the other one?
“How did this happen?”
Chloe asked Dojin.