I Became a Time-Stopper at the Academy

70 – The Emperor and the King (2)

The Emperor Rujed.

With the highest mountain of the empire behind it, the castle towered high above.

“Good night, Your Majesty.”

“Um.”

The maid extinguished the softly lit candle in the emperor’s bedroom with a sniffer.

Even when it was too dark to see her, the maid left her room with her head bowed and walking backwards.

The emperor also covered the blanket and closed his eyes.

But I heard conversations through the door.

“Your Majesty just fell ill… !”

“I know that when I see it. I’m here because I have a very important agenda to deliver even if I have to wake up His Majesty. Don’t you know that I was going to sleep and rushed after receiving a report?”

Judging by her voice, the lady-in-waiting was the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Anxiety was also mixed in the Foreign Minister’s voice.

If he is being ridiculed for being calm and carefree, it must be an important matter if he is in such a hurry.

The emperor removed the blanket and got down from the bed.

Then he opened the bedroom door himself.

Surprised, the lady-in-waiting bowed her waist close to a right angle.

“We apologize for the inconvenience caused by the sound of our conversation, Your Majesty… !”

The emperor shook her head.

And then she beckoned the Foreign Minister to come in here.

The lady-in-waiting lit her candle again.

She then went out, closing the bedroom door.

The Foreign Minister, sitting in the chair, spoke quietly.

“The kingdom sent us a letter.”

The Foreign Minister handed me a piece of parchment from his pocket.

The content was extremely short and clear.

The second princess of the kingdom of the empire—the content that if the attempted assassination of Benedetta is not properly explained, it will take revenge.

The emperor blinked his eyes.

Did the empire try to kill the second princess of the kingdom?

At least the emperor himself had never issued such an order.

The Foreign Minister continued with a serious expression.

“The King seems to be serious now. He says troops are gathering near the border.”

“… Hmm.”

An expression of willingness to commit armed conflict or war.

I could understand why the Foreign Minister had been running late at night.

The fact that the kingdom is weaker than the empire is acknowledged by everyone else.

But the kingdom is also one of the great powers of the West.

Even if it is weaker than the empire, if it fights against the kingdom, the empire must also prepare for great damage.

“Your Majesty, we need to act urgently. In any direction.”

Recently, a spy report that an unusual atmosphere is circulating in the Demon Kingdom also came up a while ago.

For the last 20 years, there has been a lull without a direct armed conflict with the Demon Kingdom, but it was difficult to think that it would last forever.

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If you are at war with the Kingdom and the Demon Kingdom attacks, it will flow into a two-sided war.

If that happens, the Empire will be defeated.

The reason why the Empire took the lead in promoting the Treaty of Lauris was to prevent this from happening.

“Find out the exact situation first.”

“I understand.”

After the report, the foreign minister bowed politely to the emperor and left the bedroom.

Soon the emperor grabbed the small bell on the table and shook it.

A jingle, a clear and beautiful sound rang out.

The lady-in-waiting heard her bell and immediately entered the bedroom.

She ordered the prince to be summoned right away.

If you are sleeping, wake me up.

“I understand.”

While waiting for the crown prince, the emperor took out a book he had been reading in his spare time and read it.

Going to bed at a set time is one of the emperor’s duties.

Sometimes, he felt that deviations that weren’t like this were okay.

It would have been better if there had been no trouble with the kingdom.

Kik-.

About 30 minutes after I started reading, the bedroom door opened.

“I’m sorry I’m late, Obama.”

The prince sat down in a chair.

He set the emperor’s book down on the table.

The prince smiled when he saw the title of the book, [Sister-in-law’s Temptation].

“Abama Mama really likes romance novels.”

“Because I’ve never been in a relationship.”

There was only one woman the emperor had experienced.

The Empress, the mother of the Crown Prince.

Of course, it was a thoroughly arranged marriage.

“Thanks to Obama, I just enjoyed myself.”

The emperor taught the crown prince from an early age.

Have several women.

It was part of an effort to change the rigid imperial society.

Even though it’s difficult right now, I hoped that my son would inherit the throne and that the son’s next generation would get used to polygamy.

“So, Obama, why did you call me tonight?”

“Did you try to murder the second princess of the kingdom?”

“Are you referring to the second princess of the kingdom, Princess Benedetta?”

The Emperor nodded.

The crown prince made a puzzled expression.

“At least I didn’t give that order.”

“Um.”

The Emperor relayed to his son what he had heard from the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

I also made them read parchment letters from the kingdom.

Even the emperor thought the probability that the crown prince was the culprit was extremely low.

Because the death of Princess Benedetta did not benefit the crown prince at all.

“Abama, it seems that the update of the information regarding the Chablis duchy has been delayed. Both Abamamama and Varga King.”

“Information?”

The Crown Prince delivered the current situation of the Duke of Chablis to the Emperor.

I knew that her son had negotiated with the Duke of Chablis and made the Duke of Chablis his political partner in the future, instead of decreeing him to divorce her wife.

But I just heard that the successor has changed to someone else.

In other words, judging by the situation, the eldest son’s arbitrariness.

The king of the kingdom misunderstood the eldest son’s arbitrariness as the will of the Duke of Chablis and, furthermore, misunderstood it as an order from the imperial family.

Because I haven’t heard of the fact that the heir to the Duke of Chablis has changed.

“Explain fully while sending your neck.”

“Yes, Obama.”

It takes a long time to find evidence.

Strict evidence is not necessary in diplomacy.

All I needed was a good reason.

***

The eldest son of the Duke of Chablis waited impatiently while drinking coffee.

Whether or not the quest to poison Joel was successfully completed.

I paid a lot of money to the assassination guild, which was said to be the most reliable in the industry.

It was one of the places aristocrats used to kill political enemies.

So I was sure that Joel would die safely, but on the other hand, I was anxious.

I wondered if that cunning Joel was miraculously avoiding it.

“Gu-gu-gu—.”

A dove flew in through the window.

A small note was tied to the pigeon’s leg.

It was the copy book the guild leader said!

The eldest couple approached the pigeon in a hurry.

Then he untied the rope tied to the pigeon’s leg.

The wife reconfirmed, swallowing her saliva.

“Is a circle a success?”

The eldest son nodded.

Fail if there is no mark on the paper.

Pudduck, the pigeon flapped its wings and left the eldest son’s room.

Looks like you’ve finished your business.

The eldest son flicked open the half-folded note.

“Circle! It’s a circle… !!”

“Success! Success!!”

The two hugged each other and shed tears of emotion.

I once wondered what it would be like, but I barely lived.

If you had failed, the difficulty would have been higher because Joel would be more vigilant.

Now, the official news of the obituary has to come out.

In that case, the father would have no choice but to cancel the decision to change the successor.

I can’t leave the seat of successor vacant.

“I think we should do it this way whenever my father chooses someone else as the successor.”

“I can’t believe my father would do something like this again.”

The two sat on the bed.

Then, he also stroked his swollen belly.

The soon-to-be-born child does not have to be unhappy.

It was a time when I was so relieved.

Boom!

The door burst open.

Armed knights poured into the eldest couple’s room.

“What is this?!”

The eldest son jumped up from his seat and screamed.

It was a problem that they came in droves without prior agreement, but the biggest problem was that they came armed.

The wife turned her head left and right as she wrapped her arms around her pregnant belly.

“What kind of habit is that to me?”

“Me, Your Highness?!”

The fat prince moved slowly.

The eldest son got down on one knee and bowed his head in greeting.

The wife, who has difficulty controlling her body because of her stomach, only lowered her head in a casual manner.

“Listen carefully. From now on, I will listen to His Majesty’s edict.”

“Chi, the imperial order… ?”

The prince cleared his throat once and continued.

“You fell for the demon tribe and tried to assassinate Princess Benedetta, the second princess of Barga Kingdom.”

“”Yes?!””

The eldest son and his wife were all shocked.

The part about being tricked by the demons and the part about trying to assassinate Princess Beneteda were also strange.

“At this, King Barga was furious, and Ye also felt great disappointment.”

“Me, Your Highness? Something is wrong!”

The eldest son protested, but the prince did not stop his mouth.

“Your sin is great in that you tried to shake the foundation of the alliance. Therefore, from this point of view, I am ordering you to be deprived of all qualifications in the country and taken away.”

After the delivery of the imperial order, two knights approached the eldest son.

The eldest son stepped back.

The sheath touched my back.

He couldn’t be caught like this.

The eldest son drew his sword.

“He showed hostility towards me. Kill him.”

“”Yes, Your Majesty!””

Eight knights surrounded the eldest son in an instant.

The eldest son’s body was stabbed with swords here and there.

“Gagging!”

“Hey, Honey!!”

The wife of the eldest son took out the knife he had hidden in her bosom.

Then it suddenly ran towards the prince.

But another knight was already standing in front of the prince.

Squeak—.

The wife’s neck fell from the body, and came into the blurry vision of the dying eldest son.

Red bloody tears flowed from the eldest son’s eyes.

“I will curse you, Joel…. I will never you…. Don’t forget…….”

The eldest son’s limp body.

One of the knights raised his sword high and struck down.

The eldest son’s neck fell to the floor and he rolled over.

The knight commander knelt down in front of the prince and said.

“Mission completed.”

“Good job. With the lives of two people, no, with the lives of three people, the lives of all people were saved.”

“Yes!”

The Duke of Chablis, who was watching all of this from the side, lowered his head in silence.

***

My eyes opened.

I thought it was my dorm room.

He must have been poisoned and passed out.

Did I live thanks to Delia?

I put up with my headache and stood up.

Then he turned his head to the right.

To comfort Luisa, who must have been worried, by saying thank you.

“Long time no see, incompetent marquis.”

“…… Majesty?”

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw the Imperial Pig Prince.

Really, what is the situation?

“Originally, I just came to see the condition, but what a staggering coincidence. Could it be a trick of fate?”

“… ….”

I wanted to hear those words from a woman, not a man.