I Became the Master of the Empress

68 – Episode 68

“I really didn’t know Congress was that stupid.”

Hmm… Is it a good idea to set up investment funds like this?

“How can you think of declaring a loyalist of the empire as an enemy of the state?”

If there is an investment profit, it is shared equally among investors…

“No, isn’t it normal for the emperor’s army to step in to suppress the anti-emperor faction in the first place?”

I sigh involuntarily as I watch Theodora chattering endlessly next to me.

“Whoa…”

“Aren’t you ridiculous too?”

Do you expect me to respond?

“No, Congress’ actions are extremely reasonable.”

As if he didn’t know I was going to say this, he took away the paper I was using and said with a harsh look in his eyes.

“No! “It’s reasonable to denounce you, a loyalist, as an enemy of the state?!”

I say this while looking at Theodora, who is giving me a passionate look.

Someone would think I was asking to designate myself as an enemy of the state.

“I expected this level of backlash if I moved the Golden Knights.”

This is as natural as 1+1=2.

The reason the nobles, who were supposed to be completely neutral among themselves, turned the emperor into a puppet and moved the emperor’s army was a threat to all political forces except my faction.

In the first place, the empire was not structured so that the emperor could do everything alone.

In the early history of the empire, it was so weak that there was an emperor who was dragged out like a dog by Roman citizens and died while he was just leaving.

Actually, it would be a natural end since the first opposition party was forced to pass through the National Assembly.

“No, that’s still true. “It’s about catching the rebels…”

I interrupt Theodora’s words and say,

“I am the leader of the rebel army.”

Anti-emperor faction.

This is a faction that is not actually planning a rebellion but rather values the privileges and traditions of the nobility.

However, they are only called the anti-emperor faction because they are not on good terms with previous emperors who pursued absolute power.

He blinks his red eyes as if he has nothing to say to me, then rolls his beautiful eyes and replies in a crawling voice.

“No… You’re actually a loyalist, right?”

-Pisik.

Am I really a loyalist?

“I didn’t know that it was loyalists who turned the emperor into a puppet and controlled the political situation.”

Theodora raises her eyes and glares at my self-deprecating words.

And then, holding my cheeks, her beautiful face comes closer.

She says as she approaches me right in front of her face.

“You are a loyalist. Don’t ever say that again! “Don’t you think I know you’re blaming yourself when you say that?”

I try to gently turn my head in response to her embarrassing behavior, but I have trouble turning her head because her hands are holding both of my cheeks.

This… Is too close, right?

Her sweet breath and the scent of rosemary tickle my nose.

“Now… Wait! “This is too close.”

Thinking that if you can’t dodge left or right, you can dodge backwards, you pull your body back to escape her grasp.

I try to stay away from her, who is becoming more and more exposed, as if I want to catch a cold in the middle of winter…

The sofa on my back blocks my escape route.

-Pisik.

“Cook… Cook! “What is that? If anyone sees it, they’ll think I’m trying to eat you.”

Seeing her retreat slightly like that calms her heart.

“Ah… Anyway, you go and sleep. “Don’t whine that you’re tired tomorrow.”

In response to my words, she slightly sticks out her tongue and speaks.

“I’m going to go to sleep even if you don’t tell me.”

She sees Theodora going to bed and soon begins to draw a plan for the future on a piece of paper placed on her table.

***

Tea time with her mother after a long time.

Joy is being trained by Lucius at the Archdiocese, and while we were chatting recently about how Debian seemed to be feeling better again, he was having a good time…

Her mother asks with a cautious look on her face.

“Hmm… But did you read all the books I gave you last time?”

Her face heats up a little at her mother’s words.

“Well… Over there… I saw the view…”

I am somewhat embarrassed because I am not used to talking like this with my mother.

“Okay, then that’s a relief. “That’s true love, rather than bullying Devian.”

I say that as if I were complaining.

“But… That mother… That…”

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What should I say?

Debian doesn’t touch a single hair on my body?

This hurt my pride.

I, who is considered pretty in the empire, can’t even persuade my husband.

I feel like something is my fault.

“The good news is that I was happy to hear that you two stayed up all night last time, but I was very worried about your health, so don’t stay up too late.”

I think my mother misunderstands something, so I correct her.

“That mother, the reason we stayed up all night was because we were taking care of state affairs…”

It’s difficult to say such a thing directly, so my voice seems to be sinking, but my mother frowns slightly as if she doesn’t understand.

“Huh? Taking care of government affairs all night long? Even in the bedroom…?”

-Nod.

“Well… Then… Is it possible that we haven’t been able to annex the country until now…?”

-Nod.

When I nod my head in the affirmative, I speak cautiously as I watch her mother stiffen like a stone statue.

“Well…he’s been very busy lately.”

I hurriedly made an excuse, looking at my shocked mother who couldn’t say anything…

“No, no matter what! “If it is a national record, there is a duty to keep it!”

Her eyes close tightly as she sees her mother getting angry.

Ah… It’s not a joke once you get angry…

Just as there is a saying that a person who is normally gentle becomes scared when angry, my mother is usually gentle, but once she gets angry, the repercussions are severe, so I step forward and speak out.

“Well… We (?) Are trying too…”

At my words, my mother holds my hand tightly and says.

“I understand Debian’s feelings. You asked for something like that on the first night, so of course I understand that innocent Debian is scared of that.”

“Yes?”

What are you talking about? What does it mean to ask for something like that?

In the first place, Debian is not naive.

You are as seasoned as a worn-out old politician. What does your mother mean?

“But still, this is not it. “You have worked hard for the heirs of the empire, so now it is time for Devian to work hard.”

“B… But… I am the one who comes forward and tells Devian to look at me and hug me…”

You can’t do that even if you die.

I have pride as an emperor and member of the royal family, but what can I do about such things that a prostitute would say?

My mother speaks with a stern look in her eyes.

“Don’t worry. Baby, I’ll take care of everything.”

Is it because of my mood that my mother’s blue eyes, holding my hand so tightly, feel eerie these days?

***

Terra turns around like that, deep in her thoughts.

First night of marriage.

What on earth happened that day that made a grown man avoid sleep like that?

Has Terra prepared her leather whip?

Or did she prepare a hideous leash that would be worn around the neck of a ferocious animal?

Or is there still something strange and hideous under the bed?

“Ha, where did the kids learn such strange things?”

I thought they were lovely daughters who had been raised without shame.

However, not long ago, I found out about my daughters’ tastes and fell into despair.

Thinking about her eldest daughter Terra’s bizarre tastes and her second daughter Joey’s masculine tastes, she felt embarrassed for her children for the first time.

Terra is whipping her husband and Joey is writing a strange novel about her brother-in-law and his friend.

Her head suddenly becomes dizzy.

How can they all be like that?

When I first found out about that fact. I wondered about her husband’s s*xual preferences, but he didn’t have any strange tastes at all.

Rather… When I think of his actions and eyes that always cared for and cared for me even as he got older, I can’t understand such tastes.

Even so… Am I also ordinary?

I don’t understand why men like to have masculine relationships or why they hit the person they love.

Then, is my home education wrong?

However, no matter how flawed my upbringing was, I cannot understand where such a bizarre taste came from.

Actually… To be honest, I am scared of my daughters.

If neither of them were the emperor or princess of the empire, I would probably cry over the fact that one of them had tastes worthy of being imprisoned for assault and the other had tastes worthy of being tortured in the dungeons of the Vatican for blasphemy.

Honey… What did I do so badly… That the kids grew up like that?

But I cannot remain weak and silent like this.

I am an adult of the imperial family.

As an adult, you must fulfill your duties.

“But I can’t just sit still.”

An ordinary woman would have no need to know about her children’s marital relationship and no reason to get involved in them, but she has not been a woman since she married into the Augustus family.

As the leader of this empire, if the emperor goes astray, he has a duty to somehow correct it and make efforts to ensure that his heir continues in the right direction.

And what I’m most afraid of is.

There is nothing more fearful to me than having all the children who inherited the blood of the husband I loved die, leaving my husband and my own blood relatives in this world.

Still… I still feel a pang in my heart when I think of my husband and children who left before me. If Theodora and Joey die without leaving any descendants…

How can she see her husband’s face when she dies?

The person who inherited my husband’s blood disappears from this world.

That much… I can’t tolerate it.

Thinking like that, I think about how to get the shocked Debian to become interested in Terra.

No matter who sees it, Terra is said to be the most beautiful in the empire because she inherited her blood.

When he heard it before, he wasn’t particularly impressed, and he thought about it. Her own lovely daughter. She had no idea how happy she was that Terra had taken over that title.

She is the most beautiful woman in the empire. It is not a title that is easily heard.

But why doesn’t Debian harbor any ill will toward Terra?

As a man, even if he receives a shock, he must overcome it and overcome it.

Is it possible that I am disabled?

When that thought comes to mind, despair fills her mind.

“Oh… No… Then my grandson…”

I can hear the sound of cracking in the ideal retirement plan I had drawn while imagining the cute grandson and granddaughter that would be born to the beautiful Terra and her handsome son-in-law.

“No, that won’t be it.”

It has been said for a long time that the Ryan family has a strong s*xual appetite, so it is unlikely that there will be any physical problems.

I slowly think about why it doesn’t embrace Terra from Debian’s perspective, but I can’t come up with a clear answer.

“The first time… If you just skip the first time…”

I have a feeling that the two will burn hotly from then on.

At that moment, a good idea comes to mind.

I call the chamberlain by gently shaking the bell on the table.

-A rattle.

“Is the chamberlain there?”

-Squeak.

“Did you call me? “Mother Empress Dowager.”

I say this while looking at the chamberlain who approaches me and bows his head.

“Starting tomorrow’s meal, serve before the Grand Duke plenty of food that is good for a man’s stamina and s*xual desire.”

Hearing those words, the chamberlain gently nods his head.

“I obey orders.”

Something is lacking.

“And Terra, prepare underwear that that child would wear… hmm… men like.”

“I serve four people.”

I pray in my heart as I see the chamberlain retreating like that.

“Ah… Honey… In heaven, please help us so that our lovely grandchildren can be born.”

She earnestly puts her hands together and prays toward her husband, whom she has always relied on.