I quickly regained my composure and saluted:
“Namiya Rawabi from the Manuscripts Department, I salute Her Majesty the Empress and His Highness the Crown Prince.”
The Empress suddenly rose, embraced me, and walked around me excitedly:
"Sit down, quickly.
Hahaha!
Namiya finally came to see me!
Hahaha!"
I felt confused by Chiaros' presence, but I didn't show it.
He was drinking tea elegantly and said:
“Indeed, in a strange and coincidental way, I have come to greet Her Majesty.
It's okay for me to be there, isn't it?”
He looked at me with his jewel-red eyes calmly.
I answered surprised:
“B, of course.”
I can't say no here...
Actually, that was good.
The presence of Kiaros could help a lot in clearing things up early.
'It's true that this is something Her Majesty should know, but as Kybun said, relying entirely on her might be a problem.'
Chiaros' presence was surprising, but ultimately an advantage.
I carefully extended the documents to the Empress:
“The thing is, Your Majesty, there is something strange…”
“What?”
The Empress interrupted me, waving her hand.
She didn't even pretend to take the documents and shouted:
"I'm stupid and I don't understand!
Why would you bring me something so dangerous and horrific!"
I was expecting it, but it was the first hurdle.
I was about to say it was about the prince, but:
“Here you have His Highness the Crown Prince, who is smart, gorgeous, handsome, fit and perfect from head to toe, so why don’t you deal with him together?”
Kiaros's face suddenly turned red.
He seemed genuinely surprised.
The Empress quickly whispered to him:
“I did well, didn't I?”
She continued with burning eyes:
“I will continue the effort.
I will help you with my whole life, so fight, win and get it, Your Highness.
Victory is assured!”
Kiaros sighed once, then looked at me:
“Did you hear everything?”
“Yes, His Highness the Crown Prince, smart, gorgeous, handsome, fit and perfect from head to toe.”
“…Give me those documents first.”
I handed the documents over to Kiaros immediately.
I thought that summarizing and arranging was my job, but my work suddenly decreased.
“Hmm.”
Kiaros began flipping through the documents with astonishing speed.
'Does he actually read it?'
I frowned and tilted my head, then Chiaros looked at the Empress and said calmly:
“Your Majesty, there seems to be a problem with Jayden.”
It was a super fast read.
'It's as if he wrote it himself...'
The Empress's face suddenly turned pale when she heard Kiaros' words:
“M, with Jayden?”
But she stopped, as if she was going to get up.
Her gaze turned for a moment to the letters on the table.
Her personality seemed disorganized, with letters scattered randomly.
“Um…”
The Empress moved her eyes uncertainly.
“Then... impudently, I ask His Highness the Crown Prince once again...”
Wait, are you going to leave it to Kiaros without knowing the details?
I looked at the letters on the table.
My message to them was:
*Your Majesty the Empress, is your time right?
I have an urgent matter, I will visit you soon. – Namia Rawabi*
And below...
*It's okay.
Don't worry.
I prefer to deal with things on my own. -Jayden Polaroid*
It was clearly a very rude message.
'Yes, this is it.'
I knew this message would arrive almost by now.
In the original story, the Empress is wrongly accused and later dies.
This was the last message Jayden originally sent her.
'Because of her, Jayden kept regretting it until he grew up...'
I've been waiting for the timing of Jayden to send this message the whole time.
Fortunately, I got the timing right.
When I looked at the letter, Chiaros also laid eyes on it:
“Hmm?”
Kiaros frowned.
He looked very surprised.
I shrugged inwardly as I saw his surprised expression:
‘Kiaros and the Emperor are the only ones who don’t know.
Jayden is a total messy kid.'
In front of Chiaros and the Emperor, Jayden was acting like a different child.
Taciturn but polite, not sociable but conscientious.
But in secret, he was publicly reviled as a bad child...
‘The Emperor was ill and was absent from the palace often, so there was no escape.
Kiaros too, no one dared to curse Jayden in front of him, there was no escape either.’
Kiaros would show obvious displeasure if anyone talked about Jayden's shortcomings in front of him.
So, no one ever told him the truth about Jayden.
'Of course he would be shocked to see such a rude message.'
Kiaros's face was indeed serious.
He pointed to the letter and asked the Empress:
“What is this, Your Majesty?”
“What?
Ah…”
The Empress said a little confused:
“In fact, the time for Saint Cairo’s banquet is approaching...”
Saint Cairo's banquet.
A party attended only by imperials, high-ranking nobles, and high-ranking officials.
In the original story, it was written “Five days before St.
Cairo’s banquet, Jayden sent a reply to the Empress,” so I was able to pinpoint the timing.
'Ah, but now I have to come too...'
A month ago, I never imagined I would attend.
But now, I have to go.
I am a minister now.
'When will I design my dress, and what about my companions?'
But what is important now is not that.
I quickly stopped my thoughts and focused on the Empress.
She said embarrassedly:
“Um…clothes and such, I sent a message to discuss these matters, and this is his response.”
She added, shrugging her shoulders:
“But it’s true.
Coming to places like this always makes me laugh… I stopped going for Jayden’s sake, but this time I sent a message in vain.”
It's serious, very serious.
I thought sadly:
'Basically, I came to solve this particular problem.'
The cause of the problem was clear.
* * *
At that moment, in the Education section:
“Impossible.
Has that much of the budget gone to the manuscripts department now?”
The Minister of Education threw away the documents.
“The Minister of Finance, this cunning old man...did he collapse in front of that little girl from the Manuscript Department?”
The Education Minister was opposed to the appointment of Namia Rawabi as Minister from the beginning.
He was satisfied when the Finance Minister launched the attack first.
But now…
It was as if the Minister of Finance had sharpened his sword well and presented it to Namiya.
“Really, I can’t believe it.
What a farce.”
The Minister of Education gritted his teeth.
“The daughter of the Baron family has debts at twenty-three and is a minister?
Huh.”
The Minister of Education was concerned with the background of people, and preferred those with titles.
He hated people with titles who behaved rudely.
“Because of families like Rawabi, all weak nobles are cursed together!”
He found Namiya from the Rawabi family very annoying.
His anger increased when he heard that she enjoyed the love of the Empress.
“Similars go together.
They fit together.”
The Minister of Education was the one who most hated the Empress, who came from popular mercenary origins.
From his perspective, the lowly people were getting closer.
“Who does she think she is to reject the affection of His Highness the Crown Prince?
Arrogant.”
Of course, if she had not rejected him, he would have said that she was overstepping her bounds.
“It seems that something is bothering you, Your Excellency.”
While the Minister of Education was boiling, someone entered his room.
“Lydon?”
Lydon Hale.
The leader of the Imperial Education Team, he had just returned from helping Jayden with his duties.
Lydon smiled and stepped on a document that said, “Minister Namia Rawabi of the Manuscripts Department.”
He raised his eyebrows and said:
“Whatever bothers you can be easily eliminated.”