A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad - Chapter 224
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A Powerful Child Searches for Dad Episode 224
“Father…!”
Pides urgently entered the Chamberlain’s Office in the Inner Palace of the Imperial Palace.
The Emperor, who was putting on his cloak with the help of a ceremonial officer, slowly turned around.
“Pides. Are you already finished with preparations?”
“Well, huff!”
Having run here, Pides gasped for breath several times.
He soon leaned one hand against the wall and continued speaking.
“It’s about Theseus Luminen! Father, you were right!”
The Emperor’s brow furrowed.
When he raised one hand, the ceremonial officers withdrew.
The Emperor pulled his cloak tight and approached Pides.
“You say I was right. About what?”
A few weeks ago, when writing the invitation for the memorial ceremony.
The Emperor had sat Pides down and told him two things.
First, that Theseus Luminen had moved to Agabelt without their knowledge.
Second, that the Luminen Family most likely already knew about it.
However,
“Well, both, no. Isn’t it both? First, it’s certain that Theseus Luminen became affiliated with Agabelt! I don’t know when that bastard moved positions, but…!”
Watching the flustered Pides, the Emperor let out a quiet sigh.
“Did you run all the way here just to tell me that?”
“Huh? Yes, well… it seemed urgent.”
Displeasure appeared in the Emperor’s eyes.
Tall stature.
Handsome appearance that resembled him.
Certainly, Pides was a son he cherished.
However,
‘If only his mind were a bit sharper.’
If Pides had been clever, pushing aside Ardiana wouldn’t have been this difficult.
The Emperor clicked his tongue and sat in a chair prepared in the Chamberlain’s Office.
“Pides. Investigating Theseus’s background was a task I had entrusted to you.”
Pides closed his mouth.
Conscious of the surrounding eyes, he cleared his throat, and the advisors left the ceremonial room.
The Emperor sighed once more.
“It seems you know well that this is shameful.”
“Father. That’s not what I…!”
“When Saint Eleonora died and that bastard Theseus Luminen went missing. I clearly told you.”
“….”
“I said he was too valuable a force to just lose, so keep a close eye on him.”
The Emperor placed a herb leaf that was prepared on the table onto his tongue.
He chewed it thoroughly for a while before continuing.
“Looking back, it wasn’t just a simple order. I personally investigated and handed over information about him founding a mercenary group. That should have been enough. But you….”
The Emperor made a groaning sound.
He still gazed at Pides with disappointed eyes.
“Back then, I actually told Ardiana too. Not to assign national requests to that villain unless absolutely necessary. Ardiana did what I asked perfectly. After all, she’s the one who controls the association.”
Pides clenched his fists tightly.
“Did I ask too much of you?”
The Emperor lowered his voice even more.
“Just do the basics, just the basics.”
“….”
“Of course, it’s true that the next imperial throne is internally decided to be yours. I’ve made that decision. However, I’ve told you many times that the influence of the meritorious subjects cannot be ignored.”
“….”
“No matter how much I stand by your side, if the meritorious subjects unite and say no, even an existing position can disappear. That’s what the imperial throne is like. Even a throne covered in gold will collapse if the stones beneath crumble.”
In the silence, the Emperor rose as if he had no choice and patted Pides’s shoulder.
“Anyway, the uniform suits you well.”
The Emperor passed by him.
As soon as the sound of footsteps faded and the Chamberlain’s Office door closed, Pides slammed the table with a bang!
“Damn! Damn, damn it!”
He gritted his teeth and glared with wide eyes.
“There’s not just one or two things to do. I’m busy enough to death handling all the government affairs, how am I supposed to investigate that small fry too…!”
When Theseus disappeared.
It was true that the Emperor had ordered an investigation into that villain’s background.
Luminen bloodline.
Even though Theseus was an unpleasant bastard born with both magic and divine power, he was a promising talent.
Even the Imperial Palace Knight Order commander always said so.
That Theseus had more talent with the sword than his three older brothers, or perhaps even more than Valentis, the head of Luminen.
Still.
‘I just needed to know that he founded Trevaga or whatever. What more was needed beyond that.’
Besides, he never dreamed that bastard had recently moved to become Agabelt’s Regent.
Of course, all this information could have been obtained if he had just asked once.
Information that could have been obtained immediately by just sending someone to Jedo’s reward office.
But,
‘I’m busy!’
The Emperor didn’t understand.
That stupid and idle Ardiana had time to spare, so she handled association matters well.
But he was different.
‘With work piled up like a mountain, how could I handle such trivial matters too.’
But what could he do.
Even if the Emperor discriminated against his children out of ignorance, he was still his father and this country’s monarch.
“I’ll endure it. I’ve always been the one enduring anyway.”
Muttering, Pides looked down at the table he had just slammed.
He was so angry he wanted to smash something right now, but unfortunately, this was the Emperor’s space.
Here, he couldn’t carelessly touch people or objects.
Doing so might displease the Emperor.
“Anyway.”
Pides straightened the table that had shifted askew back to its original position and turned around.
“This humiliation will end soon too, Ardiana.”
After the memorial ceremony ended, Ardiana was scheduled to depart for the Central Continent.
Going as reinforcements to a region made dangerous by emerging Mastone was essentially no different from an order to die.
Pides smoothed back his well-combed hair and opened the Chamberlain’s Office door.
At the end of the long corridor.
The sound of people laughing and chattering could be heard from afar, indicating the banquet had begun.
“…This is a bit.”
The Banquet Hall where the opening ceremony was being held.
Hearing Basto’s voice, Tie blinked her eyes.
“Oh, Lady Violetta! It’s been a while. Noam Youngshik is taking the vanguard in this expedition, right?”
“My goodness, is the Larian family also going on the expedition? What a coincidence!”
Gorgeously dressed noble ladies greeted each other by kissing each other’s cheeks.
Everyone was continuing their pleasant conversation with bright faces.
“They say His Majesty is personally hosting this party, and indeed the atmosphere is different.”
“Exactly! Did you see the table decorations?”
Tie’s gaze naturally turned to the charming decorations the noble ladies were admiring.
On the ladies’ tables were clean silver utensils and pretty plates.
“Danzu, not there.”
Veil said quietly.
Tie turned her head and this time stared at the place Veil was pointing to.
Then she tilted her head.
“Strange….”
Why is it different?
The table prepared for Agabert’s seat was more barren than the noble ladies’ tables.
There were only napkins and utensils, with no pretty decorations or fancy candelabra in the center.
“It’s fine, it’s fine. It’s not like we didn’t expect this.”
Veil said, but Tie’s eyebrows only drooped more and more.
“But there aren’t even any snacks…?”
Tie’s table had no delicious fruits, cakes, or cookies either.
The child’s eyes grew sad.
“It’s discrimination.”
If there was one thing Tie hated most in the world, it was discrimination.
But to be discriminated against even at a party she came to enjoy before departure….
“Danzu. There’s bread here. You like bread, don’t you?”
Basto, who had gone ahead and sat down, called to Tie soothingly.
But Tie couldn’t readily take a step forward.
It was when sorrow was slowly filling her downcast eyes.
“Who might this be!”
Someone called to Tie from behind.
When she turned around, a well-built elderly lady was smiling brightly while holding a cane.
“The Danzu of Agabert, the Sorcerer King, isn’t it? This Walker Wavril finally greets you!”
Tie stared with wide eyes at the elderly lady who approached and kissed her cheek.
The surrounding gazes were drawn in the same way.
The Empire’s great magnate.
To think there was someone Walker Wavril, who rarely showed herself at official occasions, would welcome so warmly.
And that it was the mercenary Danzu who was being tacitly ignored at this very party.
“But why is the seating arrangement like this?”
At that moment, Walker Wavril spoke boldly.
Silence fell over the banquet hall.
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