I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 153
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#153
“Argh, Nero! I’m sorry!”
Ber, who unexpectedly ended up handling Nero, screamed as he ran around frantically.
More precisely, he was being dragged around by Nero.
Nero seemed displeased with Ber and bucked wildly like a colt.
Throughout all this, he didn’t approach Leilah and Kalian’s side.
When Leilah, who was practicing riding, inadvertently went in that direction, he would immediately go elsewhere.
As expected, Nero is smart.
Kalian watched Nero with a pleased smile.
Leilah’s riding skills were still terrible, but much improved from the beginning.
She was now capable of walking pace by herself.
If her skills had improved, he should definitely be happy, so why did he feel regretful?
Because he could no longer teach Leilah how to ride?
Or because he could no longer feel that soft yet warm body temperature?
Kalian frowned slightly as he watched Leilah riding.
“Baron Aster rides well.”
Ber, who had finally handed Nero’s reins over to the stable manager, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead as he approached Kalian’s side.
His gaze was fixed on Leilah. The same was true for Kalian.
“With that level of skill, there shouldn’t be any problem participating in the New Year parade.”
“Right.”
At the curt response, Ber finally looked at Kalian.
“You don’t look very good. Is something wrong?”
“Not particularly.”
Not particularly, my foot. He looks quite troubled.
Seeing his expression while looking at Leilah, it must be related to Leilah.
“Did Baron Aster say something arrogant again?”
When Ber asked, recalling what Kalian had said before, Kalian’s eyebrow raised slightly.
“Leilah doesn’t say things like that.”
“You said she did.”
“When.”
“You said so before.”
Kalian thought for a moment, then said firmly.
“I don’t remember.”
Don’t remember, my ass. From his expression, he remembers everything.
“That aside, you haven’t forgotten what I said, have you?”
“What did you say.”
“That I’m interested in Baron Aster.”
Kalian turned his head so violently toward Ber that it made a whoosh sound.
His gaze was somewhat murderous, but since Ber had seen much worse looks, he received it nonchalantly.
“You didn’t forget this one, I see.”
“Were you serious about that?”
“I told you several times I was serious. I really do like Baron Aster.”
Ber said with an endlessly serious face.
“So if you don’t have feelings for the Baron, please don’t interfere with me…”
“I do.”
Kalian interrupted Ber’s words and looked at Leilah again.
“I have feelings for Leilah, so you should give up.”
“What are you saying right now…”
Ber’s eyes widened incomparably more than when he was handed Nero’s reins.
Ber doubted his own ears and asked Kalian again.
“I, I must have misheard just now, right? His Majesty has fe-feelings for Baron Aster?”
He was so shocked that words didn’t come out well, and his voice trembled.
Kalian found such a Ber merely annoying and didn’t answer, but Ber was persistent.
“Please answer me, Your Majesty. Do you really have feelings for Baron Aster…”
“Yes, I do.”
“You simply care for her as an aide…”
“I like Leilah as a woman. Satisfied?”
Finally, shocking words poured nakedly from Kalian’s mouth.
Ber, who felt a strong shock as if he’d been hit in the back of the head with a hammer, held his head and staggered.
“Baron Delrond?”
Leilah, who happened to be coming this way, stopped in panic when she saw Ber staggering.
“Are you okay?”
“He’s fine.”
It was Kalian who answered.
“He just stupidly misstepped.”
Along with his words came a piercing gaze. It was a look that said to stop acting weak and stand up straight.
I wasn’t acting weak though.
Ber felt wronged, but Kalian’s gaze was too intense for him to say anything.
“I’m fine.”
And he stood up straight as Kalian wanted.
Despite saying he was fine, Ber’s complexion didn’t look good, so Leilah eventually dismounted and approached Ber.
“Are you really okay?”
“Yes, I’m fine.”
“But you don’t look well. Do you have a fever?”
She was about to put her hand to his forehead to check for fever, but before she could, Kalian snatched Leilah’s hand away.
“Ber, if you’re not feeling well, go see the court physician.”
Again, Kalian spoke with his eyes.
Disappear immediately.
This was the same Kalian who had just recently denied his feelings and said no firmly.
Ber inwardly let out a hollow laugh at how absurdly his behavior had changed like flipping his palm in just a few days.
He wanted to pour out all the thoughts he was having right now, but he couldn’t.
“Yes, yes, I’ll go see the court physician.”
The other party was the Emperor, and he was the Emperor’s aide.
Damn this rotten class system.
Though it was a fact he already knew, he felt newly annoyed.
Ber left the equestrian training ground while cursing inwardly.
* * *
Everything Ber had confessed to Kalian was true.
That he had feelings for Leilah.
That he had been hiding his feelings because of Kalian.
That he would pursue her if Kalian didn’t have feelings for Leilah – it was all sincere.
So since Kalian said he had feelings for Leilah.
He would give up his feelings.
He had resolved to no longer step forward and just watch from behind, but.
“From now on, don’t get unnecessarily close to Leilah.”
…If you keep provoking me like this, it makes me want to torment you.
“What degree constitutes unnecessarily?”
Kalian pondered for a moment, then pointed to his desk.
“From here.”
Then he strode over and pointed to the single-person sofa.
“To here.”
Ber looked at Kalian with a bewildered expression.
“You’re telling me not to get closer than that?”
“Yes.”
“But the distance between Baron Aster and my desk is shorter than this. Are you telling me not to sit at my desk?”
“I suppose so.”
As if he hadn’t thought of that, Kalian pondered for a moment before coming up with a brilliant plan.
“Then from now on, Ber, you can just work in the Outer Palace.”
Of course, it was a completely useless brilliant plan.
“Why don’t you just expand the office?”
“That’s not bad either.”
Kalian immediately rang the bell to call Rahel.
“We’re going to expand the aide’s office. Prepare for construction.”
Ber asked Kalian in bewilderment.
“Are you really going to do it?”
“You wanted it, didn’t you?”
“I was just saying that?”
“It sounded sincere to me.”
That’s because you wanted to hear it that way!
A silent outcry spread through Ber’s mind.
Regardless, Kalian stubbornly made plans for the aide’s office expansion project.
Rahel and Ber both desperately stopped him from making it larger than the Emperor’s office.
“I probably won’t live to see my natural death.”
Ber, who had barely succeeded in stopping Kalian, sat on the sofa almost lying down and muttered.
Kalian, standing in front of the bookshelf, flipped through a book and asked Ber casually.
“How is the abolition of slavery coming along?”
When the orphanage project was in full swing, Kalian had ordered Ber to look into ways to abolish slavery.
“Abolishing it right now would be impossible. The slavery system is deeply rooted in the Empire, and slavery isn’t just a custom but established by law.”
Ber answered Kalian’s question faithfully despite his dazed expression.
“To abolish it, we’d need to convene the Nobility Council and get permission from the majority.”
“What’s the possibility that a majority of nobles would give permission?”
“Close to zero. The nobles are the ones who benefit most from the slavery system.”
Especially the high-ranking nobles benefited greatly.
“Then isn’t there a way to at least prevent children from becoming slaves?”
“It would be difficult. The fact that children follow their parents’ status is also established by law.”
“Right.”
That’s why there are so many incompetent nobles.
Kalian clicked his tongue as if annoyed.
“I wish I could clean it all up.”
“You have many other things to do now, so do it later.”
Ber smiled kindly and pointed to the documents piled up like a mountain on the desk.
Kalian stared at those documents and muttered to himself.
“There should be two Emperors.”
“There can’t be two suns of the Empire.”
Ber answered firmly and stood up.
“Instead of thinking like that, hire more aides! Since we’re expanding the office anyway, it would be good to hire one more person!”
“Hmm.”
When Kalian’s reaction was lukewarm, Ber pulled out his trump card.
“Then Baron Aster would be more comfortable too.”
Kalian’s expression changed instantly.
“Select some good candidates and bring me a list.”
Really, I tried not to think this way, but it’s so dirty and petty.
“Yes, I’ll do that.”
Indeed, love must be the greatest thing in the world.
* * *
“What? You’re expanding the office?”
This isn’t like thunder on a clear day, but what kind of talk is this?
I asked Baron Delrond in confusion.
“Why are you suddenly expanding a perfectly fine office?”
“Ask His Majesty the Emperor about that, not me. It’s all His Majesty’s plan.”
Baron Delrond shook his head and shuffled through documents.
“Huh, why isn’t it here?”
“Are you looking for something?”
“Ah, the document sent from the Prime Minister’s Office is missing.”
A document from the Prime Minister’s Office would be important.
“Didn’t you leave it in the Outer Palace office?”
“Maybe so.”
Baron Delrond sighed deeply and got up from his seat.
“I’ll go to the Outer Palace for a moment.”
“Take care.”
After Baron Delrond left, I was working when I heard a knock.
“Yes, please come in.”
It was Kalian who opened the door and entered.
I put down my work and stood up.
“Are you busy?”
“No. What brings you here?”
“I need to get a uniform fitted for the New Year Festival, but I’m not interested in this sort of thing and don’t know much about it.”
Kalian said with a slightly embarrassed expression.
“So I was hoping you could help me choose clothes… Could you spare some time?”
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