Just as I was wishing I had at least one secretary...
Like a miracle, a reapplication ca in from Kibon Altess.
‘No way.’
My hands trembled with excitent. I hurriedly read through the docunt.
‘Year 524? He’s a year younger than !’
At last, soone younger than would be joining the departnt.
I rummaged through past files to find more detailed personnel info.
Ah... no family.
Judging by that, it seed he had no parents, siblings, or spouse.
Just like .
‘So he’s from the Kingdom of Emote...’
Only now did I finally realize.
The Kingdom of Emote.
A distant island nation far from the Empire, with extrely poor transportation.
‘Wasn’t the Kingdom of Emote the Empress’s holand?’
That ant Kiaros’s birth mother ca from the Kingdom of Emote.
It was only after the Emperor’s first marriage that diplomatic ties were even established.
In short, hardly anything was known about that country.
‘With how different their culture is, no wonder diplomacy happened so late.’
I rembered hearing that their standard greeting was asking how you felt about marrying the Crown Prince.
From my narrow Empire-centric mindset, the whole thing just sounded bizarre.
‘Why not ask about the Emperor, or soone else entirely? Who thinks that’s a normal greeting...?’
But, well.
Being on the opposite end of the continent, I guess their culture could’ve developed in completely different ways.
‘But to reapply as an intern, huh.’
I stared at the form, deep in thought.
‘He must’ve felt it’d be a sha to leave the Empire just like that.’
I clearly rembered him saying he wanted to learn more from .
A smile slowly crept across my face.
‘Perfect. I’ll just make him my secretary.’
That solved everything.
It would’ve been awkward to use one of my senior coworkers as my secretary—but an intern? No problem at all.
[We thought you returned to your holand. What brings you here...?]
[I ran.]
Kibon was even a foreigner with shaky command of the Imperial tongue!
That brazen yet confident expression of his—most people couldn’t fake that.
[This woman is my superior.]
That face, not even knowing what he said wrong!
That glint in his eyes, completely enchanted with his own coolness, even though he didn’t understand a thing!
That clumsy speech, not ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) knowing how to address his superior properly!
That... absolutely could not have been acting.
‘There’s no way they’d use soone with poor language skills as a spy. There’s too much risk of miscommunication. And being a foreigner, he’d struggle with nuance too.’
Besides, in the original story, the Kingdom of Emote never got involved in the continent’s war at all.
As a distant island nation, they declared neutrality right away and stayed out of everything.
So they had zero vested interest in anything happening here.
‘The more I think about it, the more perfect it is.’
Kibon Altess.
I could just make this foreigner my secretary and go from there.
It’d probably be a great learning experience for soone eager to grow as an intern, too.
Since that’s what he wanted—I’d make sure to give him more than enough work to keep him busy.
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