Fourth Prince of the Adracia Empire, Traugott Lakes Adler, pleased to make your acquaintance. Id like to extend my welco to you, Your Highness Marianne. Our Empire welcos you as our guest.
While displaying a graceful bow, Trau-niisan greeted Marianne.
Since hes the kind of person that can accomplish most things if he gets motivated, theres no surprise here. At least for .
The Imperial Knights including Elna all squint their eyes at this sudden transformation though.
Thank you for welcoming . I am the Princess of the Dominion, Marianne.
You must be tired from your long journey. We have prepared a room for you. Please take your ti and rest.
I am fineif His Majesty the Emperor is not currently busy, Id like to request an audience first.
I see. Then I will inform His Majesty so. This Traugott will be by your side during your stay in the Imperial Capital. If you encounter any problem at all, please feel free to call . But first, please allow to guide you to your room. After that, I will go inform His Majesty about the audience.
Saying so, Trau-niisan smiles and guides Marianne to her room.
That was perfect.
Hey, Al. Did His Highness Traugott eat sothing strange lately?
Hes still the Crown Princes younger brother you know? He can do that much no problem.
But when he led the army in the west, he wasnt that good though?
He is not the kind of person that can get motivated while leading an army after all.
He is motivated right now?
It seems so.
Why so suddenly:
To be direct, I think that it is in his nature to be kind to young girls.
Kind..?
Dont think too much about it.
While we were having such a conversation, we parted ways from Trau-niisan and Marianne.
We have our own destination.
Now thenlets go get a sermon.
Muttering so, I headed to the Throne Room.
Warden of the North, Seventh Prince, Arnold Lakes Adler has returned, Your Imperial Majesty.
Umu.
When I raised my face, I saw my fathers face for the first ti after a long ti.
Did he lose a little weight?
Is he eating properly? He properly kept saying that hes busy and skipped his als again.
What a difficult person.
When I was thinking so, Father narrowed his eyes at .
You dont seem to reflect on your action huh?
I am reflecting.
At least make it believeab..
Its true. But I do not regret it. I did what I thought was necessary for the Empire. However, I also think that it was a careless act as well. I am sorry. For making you worried.
When I said that and bowed to Father, he stayed silent for a while.
After a while, a long sigh echoed inside the Throne Room.
.I was planning to give you a sermon once you ca back.
I am prepared for it.
Seriously..I will let this go given your recent achievents. Your work on uniting the northern aristocrats, the military efforts you made, and how you stabilized the north were truly amazing. Im sorry for pushing the north and the matter of Lizelotte into your hand. I am glad that you managed to solve them allas expected of my son.
Surprisingly, I was not angrily shouted at.
Instead, I was showered with praises.
After Father finished talking, the Pri Minister who was standing at his side approached .
In recognition of your achievents so far, I bestow Seventh Prince Arnold with the Imperial Silver Cross dal. You have done well.
The Imperial Silver Cross is one of the three dals.
There are Bronze Cross, Silver Cross, and the Gold Cross.
The Bronze Cross was given to Viscount Rebecca von Sitterheim as a tribute for the late Earl Sitterheim.
It is sothing that you can not obtain unless you accrue a certain amount of achievents in the Empire.
That is how difficult it is to even obtain the lowest rank Bronze Cross while you are alive. The Silver Cross is even more difficult.
As for how difficult it is, even Lize-aneue herself only obtained one when she was promoted to the rank of Marshal.
Obviously, with her many previous achievents considered.
That is too much for . I can not accept.
I know how you feel. The Brave also praised your work. Take it.
Father muttered with a bitter smile.
There, I finally realized his intention.
I see. This is to direct the enemys attention from Leo to huh.
Receiving such a thing before Leo would have a negative effect on our faction. However, it is a brilliant move to make the enemy aware of .
The Pri Minister really doesnt pull any stops in making a decoy huh.
If that is the case..I gladly accept.
The dal will also raise your status. Your achievents so far should lessen the number of people who want to complain about it.
Forgive , I dont understand what you want to say?
I tried to avoid the subject.
Of course, I understand what he is trying to do.
The Brave himself also suggested that after all.
I want to ally ourselves with the Dominion. Not just make them a puppet state.
I think that would be wise.
But I cant leave everything in Princess Mariannes hands. Thats why I am thinking of marrying her with one of the Imperial Princes. You are my first candidate, Arnold.
I do not think that the people of the Dominion would accept . After all, I was the one who ordered the invasion.
To save them. You also showed them how you saved Princess Marianne. They should not object to this marriage.
Good grief.
So its a political talk after all, seriously.
If you want to secure them as our ally, its best to have the king be soone trustworthy from the Imperial Family. This way, we can create blood ties as well.
However, in the current Imperial Family, only a few can be trusted.
It is inevitable that I would be the first candidate.
.please give so ti to think.
Dont take too long. The ssenger has just arrived. It seems that Lizelotte has defeated most of the Dominion army. There are few resistances left to our invasion. Once we thoroughly suppressed them, Princess Marianne will be returned to her ho country. You have until then.
Yes.Father, no, Your Majesty. However, I do have a separate suggestion unrelated to this matter.
What is it?
This is also a promise I made with the Brave.
I should say it while we are talking about the Dominion.
Once we take over the Dominion, I am thinking of reinvestigating the death of the Crown Prince.
what could digging deeper benefit us now?
We need the truth. There is no need to let the citizens know. I will conduct the investigation in secret.
I will think about it.
Saying so, Father stands up from the throne.
After seeing him off, I also stood up.
With this, I would imdiately be regarded as the most dangerous person by the enemy.
Well, its not a bad thing.
The more conspicuous I am, the safer Leo becos.
For that sake, I should agree to move to the Dominion but..I wonder what I should do.
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