059 Frederic Riester (4)
“sit down.”
As soon as Emperor Frederick’s words fell, everyone in the hall moved in unison.
It seems that there were quite a few people who were drunk, but everyone seemed to be sober when the emperor was in front of them.
Cardinal Bootier, who was smiling softly in this atmosphere, was almost admirable.
“I should make a toast.”
The emperor, who came to our table, spoke lowly.
Seeing her up close, there was a corner where it was difficult to reach even the wrinkle of her eyes with loosely filled cufflinks.
I gently grabbed a glass of aloe juice.
Receptionist Laura Mendy filled the Emperor’s glass with freshly picked rosé.
“For the boundless prosperity of Lister and the everlasting peace of my son.”
“for!”
The powerful voices of about 200 people resounded through the banquet hall.
The band immediately resumed playing. Then, in an instant, the hall began to swell.
As if they had been dozing off, the nobles got up with their cups, changed their seats, and chattered loudly.
It was like high school when the lunchtime bell rang.
‘Your Majesty usually looses the nobility. Because you think it’s less annoying.’
I remembered something Benjamin once said to me.
Does this mean to let loose? He seemed to listen well when he had to listen.
“I see the sun descending on the earth!”
“François, I told you to sit down.”
“Yep.”
The Marquis Duhem in the seat next to me jumped up and quickly got down.
The emperor, seated at the top, slowly looked around us with a cup in his right hand.
Even though it was not the rainy season, the air was stuffy.
The people at the table next to us were sacrificing us and enjoying ourselves.
“Everyone worked hard to stay in that guy’s estate. Grab a lot and have fun.”
“Hwang Eun is doomed.”
Sir Elizabeth greeted me with an impeccable attitude.
Me and Kristel bowed their heads accordingly.
A quiet dinner time soon followed.
The prince sometimes had a few words with his mother, but the conversation did not go out of this way.
Me, Kristel, Sir Elizabeth, and Brother Duem had reached an tacit agreement to fill their stomachs quickly and go home without notice.
No one was dragging time any longer.
“The Holy Paladin has arrived at the Duke of Sarnez.”
“…Yes, Your Majesty.”
At that moment, the Emperor suddenly spoke to Kristel.
I silently cut the cordon bleu, concentrating on the information coming into my ears.
“When does education start?”
“It’s coming Monday.”
“Fast. Good.”
The paladin, whom the cardinal had requested to be dispatched for Kristel’s education, seemed to have finally arrived in the Empire.
It meant she no longer had to take the same ‘class’ as me!
I managed to calm the corners of my twitching lips.
Kristel is a good person and has excellent abilities as the protagonist, but apart from that, I didn’t want to get involved with her.
When I put the large cut Cordon Bleu in my mouth, the familiar and new taste was crunchy and wrapped around my tongue.
In an instant, my mood brightened.
The emperor continued.
“If it’s okay with you, I want my son to learn that lesson together.”
“His Majesty the Prince… Are you talking?”
Great.
I lifted my head for a moment, and witnessed Sir Elizabeth, who sat diagonally, laboriously lengthening and shortening the crowd.
It looked pretty funny.
I quickly lowered my face because I thought I would explode if I looked at it.
Christel’s hand holding the palmier stopped in mid-air.
“okay. No one in the Empire knows that the prince has manifested the powers of a paladin. The imperial family will request the dispatch of a paladin separately, but until then, wouldn’t it be better to learn together?”
“mother.”
“I know you are not interested in being a paladin. But don’t even think about avoiding the right way to use your power.”
The emperor spoke firmly to the prince.
I bit my lip so as not to be overtly happy.
In other words, it was not enough for Kristel to take classes separately from me, it meant that I had a group tutoring with the prince.
is this a dream
“…to be able to study alumni with His Majesty the Crown Prince, it is an infinite honor.”
She answered in the most calm manner possible.
The last words almost sounded like ‘Muh is nungeupnede’.
It took the form of a proposal, but the emperor’s words were, in fact, orders.
Kristel clenched the heart-shaped palmier with both hands and halved it.
“·················ogue.”
The prince had the momentum to deputize the pork with the knife in his hand.
I looked at the two opposites with a really new mind.
There is an adult, but they are both arrogant, but sitting side by side, they couldn’t look this good.
It seemed that the author was finally trying to connect the two in earnest.
After going through ‘Spring Ball’ and ‘Great Subjugation of Beasts’, I built enough relationships, so now seems like the right time.
The hard times between the main characters passed like a lantern before my eyes.
“Don’t fight again and be alert. Since you are known as a paladin, all noble priests of the Empire will want to make a covenant with you. The Sarnez family is not an imperial court, but there are very few priests who can ignore such power.”
The emperor said so and took one shot of the wine.
The cardinal advised, ‘Drink slowly,’ but she pretended not to know, took the new glass and stood up.
“I’m going to have to start another table soon.”
I didn’t forget to leave such a famous line.
*
11 o’clock at night. Marquis François Duhem died.
“Sir, you are not allowed to sleep here. You have to go in. Where are you?”
I shook his shoulder.
The Marquis, who had her head banged on the table, was in a state of shock by Kristel’s bombing raid.
The distilled spirit that the emperor turned earlier was as good as vodka by anyone, but he told me to roll it in grapefruit juice, so I drank it as it is…
“Would you like me to call you?”
“Pooh….”
He almost said that he would call a proxy. I looked around.
Kristel crossed over to the left table and was with the Duke and Duchess of Sarnez.
Sir Elizabeth was also there, taking care of her drunken mother, and Captain Herve Duhem was asleep in the same position as the Marquis.
Except for the hair and skin color, there seemed to be no resemblance, but seeing this way, they were brothers.
First of all, I have to ask someone to catch a passing attendant and bury me too.
“Thanks for helping my son.”
I turned my head in surprise.
Emperor Frederic, who had returned to the central table, was looking at me.
He was still holding a glass of wine, but he was not drunk at all.
The prince was drinking only water in the same place.
“It is said that it is thanks to you that you obtained the ‘Heroes of Mars’.”
“·······················“
I bowed down. Is this the ‘chiha’?
It was fortunate that I didn’t put it up in front of people and do it publicly.
“Thank you too, Prince. Thanks to you, my father-in-law has found some stability.”
“no.”
The cardinal, who was still sitting like a picture, put his horse on it.
‘Stability’ meant that the prince’s symptoms of ether depletion improved a bit.
I thought that if it was Hye Gum’s powerful ether, it would have been a meaningful help.
Then ‘Sady’ is… Doesn’t that look the same now?
“Do you know how Cedric drew the spear?”
“I haven’t seen it in person, but I think it must have instilled the same fire-attributed ether as the gods.”
“indeed.”
The emperor poured a smirkful voice into the wine glass. I wanted to go home.
“And how much do you know about my son?”
“Yes?”
When I looked up, eyes as dark as red wine were staring at me.
“Frederik.”
“I need an answer.”
Despite the cardinal’s perseverance, the emperor remained strong. There was nothing to do other than roll my head.
Now, she was wondering how much I had grasped the secrets of the imperial family as a prince of an enemy country.
Survival instinct and intuition drew my answer. I had to say what she wanted.
“I do not know.”
“······What?”
The reaction came from the prince, not the emperor. I could see him frowned slightly.
“I don’t know anything other than that Your Majesty is using the fire-element ether.”
“under.”
The emperor let out a sigh. I kept a calm face.
It was foolish to say, ‘Your precious child has such a secret’ in front of the person holding the lifeline.
Shin-guk abandoned the prince first, so it didn’t matter if she killed me.
So, if the emperor wanted it, of course I had to be an idiot.
which······. I was embarrassed to have misunderstood anyway, so I planned to keep pretending not to know.
A brief silence passed through the table.
“You still have a long way to go, Sedric.”
Then the emperor grabbed his son’s shoulder once and released it. The cardinal let out a small sigh.
Did the topic suddenly change?
“It is not easy to gain trust. Try harder.”
The middle-aged man ended the conversation in a playful tone.
When I glanced away, the prince’s orange eyes were staring at me as if they were about to burn me instantly.
Now that I know it’s possible, it’s even more creepy. What else is wrong?
“Since I owe you, I will give you a chance to ask for anything you want. It’s your birthday soon.”
The emperor turned his head to me again.
Apparently, everyone except me seemed to know my birthday.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty.”
“It’s okay to go in and rest. It was late.”
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Oops I gave strength to the soaring clown.
To be honest, I thought I would be able to go back at dawn, but I was very lucky to have the liberation order fell before 12 noon.
The cardinal smiled bitterly when he saw me happy.
I wanted to go out together, but I couldn’t seem to put it into action.
I called a passer-by, left the marquis brother in charge, politely bowed to the three remaining people at the table, and left.
All I could think of was a birthday present.
Although it’s not really my birthday, it’s rare for a hostage to get anything, so I had to use the opportunity wisely.
The nobles holding hands danced around the hall.
My calculator also sprang up.
*
The east side of the continent where the moon rises. Penetian New Kingdom.
The man nervously tapped the tip of the fan.
Inside the spacious castle, the sound of ‘tak, tak’ resounded constantly.
The servants of the nearby municipality looked at him, not knowing what to do.
They were nervous because they didn’t know when a chair or a vase would fly.
Their beautiful masters were sometimes angelic, but more often demonic.
And the treasure that crossed the border today was enough to make him the latter.
“Why are you still alive?”
That was not a question posed to the servants.
Even though he was over fifty, fierce wrinkles appeared on his smooth face.
The man now slowly unfolds and folds the fan.
It was a violet tangent line that matched the faded light purple hair.
“It was not enough for the prince to be sick, and even the daughter of the duke became a paladin. But at the center of it is a dirty illegitimate child…”
“I, my lord. Prince Jesse’s performance was somehow distorted,”
“Can’t shut up!”
– Kwaang!
– Clap!
The man knocked over the tea table.
The servant, who spoke out, shrugged his shoulders.
Hot tea splashed not only on the wallpaper and on the floor, but also on the clothes of the attendants, but no one dared to play with their feet.
The new country’s national book, Berner, brushed away the flowing hair and caught his breath.
“Then he turned inside out without dying. Are you trying to call in from the west?”
“How dare you have such a heart, my lord. The emperor of an empire is not a scoundrel. I’m sure we won’t just look at the prince’s popularity.”
Guk-seo looked at the servant with stern eyes.
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Oops. I didn’t mean to use the word ‘popular’.
“Your guy…”
– Bump!
“Abama!”
At that moment, the little doll opened the door without knocking and came in.
Confused for a moment at Guk-seo’s face.
The servants wanted to be at this time, so they hurriedly began to clear the floor.
The attendants who followed the uninvited guests were contemplating.
It was a surprise to go into the bedroom like this in Gukseo.
“princess.”
“Abama, did you hear the news? My brother said he rode a griffin the size of a mountain! And woke the sleeping prince and princess with a kiss…”
“It’s nonsense.”
Guk-seo cut the young daughter’s horse with a single knife.
The seven-year-old second princess, Cornelisser, still didn’t know how to control her excitement.
The child had rosy cheeks and had a small head.
The man lightly hugged his daughter and lifted him up. A shard of glass shattered under the shoe.
He put the princess in his arms and headed towards the window with a calm expression as if nothing had happened.
The child’s ivory hair shimmered in the sunlight.
“My brother said that he would come back if he only slept for 100 nights. But I didn’t know you could even venture there!”
“It’s an adventure.”
Guk-seo chuckled. Her chocolate eyes darkened like midnight.
“Adventures are always risky. You have to risk your life.”
