I Won’t Pick Up The T*ash I Threw Away Again - Chapter 53

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#53

Fillen set aside his thoughts about Leilah for now and pondered how to handle the remaining preparations.

“Bring Baron Wizard’s wife. I’ll need her assistance.”

“Understood.”

The butler, who had been secretly worried that Fillen might ask for Sisly’s help instead, felt relieved inwardly and readily accepted.

“How are the wedding preparations coming along?”

“Countess Tebesa continues to take care of everything. However…”

The butler glanced at Fillen cautiously and asked carefully.

“Since Miss Leilah isn’t here, I wonder if we should continue preparing for the wedding…”

“That’s not something you need to worry about.”

And there was no need to worry. Leilah would return.

Fillen gestured for him to leave.

After bowing politely and stepping outside, the butler was startled to discover Sisly leaning against the wall.

“Oh, Miss?”

“Why are you so surprised?”

Sisly smiled brightly and tilted her head. Her brilliant blonde hair swayed softly.

“You look like you’ve seen a ghost.”

“How long have you been here…”

“Why should I tell you that?”

When Sisly spoke informally without hesitation, the attendants standing nearby glared at her with displeasure.

Even Leilah, who was a count’s daughter and officially Fillen’s fiancée, had always spoken respectfully to the butler.

It was treatment befitting an elder who had served the Williot Duchy since the previous Duke Williot’s time.

But to speak informally when she was merely a mistress. It was displeasing.

The old butler himself said nothing and bowed his head to ask.

“Shall I report to His Grace that you’ve come?”

“No.”

Sisly straightened up from where she had been leaning with her personal maid’s support.

“There’s no need.”

As she turned away, Sisly glanced briefly at the room where Fillen was.

Her gaze was quite sharp. Her expression was venomous.

It was the expression of someone who had heard something they didn’t want to hear.

* * *

“All these banquets should just disappear.”

Baron Delrond, who had returned looking completely aged after just half a day, collapsed into his chair and muttered.

“I don’t understand why they keep throwing around money on such worthless nonsense.”

Seeing him spout such rough language, he must be quite tired.

Well, of course he’d be tired since he’s been working through the night for two days straight without even going home.

As evidence, the dark circles under Baron Delrond’s eyes had grown even deeper.

Feeling sorry for Baron Delrond, I picked up some of the documents he had brought.

“I’ll organize these, so please rest a bit, Baron.”

“But you must have a lot of work to do as well, Kyung.”

“It’s fine. I’ve almost finished everything.”

It wasn’t empty words but the truth.

Since I wanted to work quickly on the childcare institution matter, I put in a bit more effort and finished almost everything I needed to do today.

“Kyung, you’re my savior…”

Baron Delrond fell asleep before he could finish his sentence.

I brought a blanket and covered Baron Delrond with it, then returned to my seat to read the documents he had brought.

They were documents about the spoils of war and rewards to be distributed to war heroes.

The number and quality of spoils varied according to their achievements.

Those who had made great contributions could even request specific spoils from the Emperor.

…Just like Fillen.

“…”

Though many people’s names were written in the documents, Fillen’s name particularly caught my eye.

The spoils Fillen had requested were none other than Sisly.

Seeing their two names written side by side didn’t make me feel very good.

I had wanted to live without ever hearing news of each other, but that was impossible as long as we were in the same country.

I would encounter Fillen at the victory party.

I worried about what he would say when he saw me, and what other nobles who saw him and me would whisper about.

Thinking about it made my vision darken and my head throb, so I squeezed my eyes shut and held my head.

* * *

Baron Delrond woke up around the time I had almost finished organizing the documents.

“What time is it… Gasp!”

Baron Delrond looked at the dark window outside and jumped up from his seat in shock.

“Why is it so dark?”

“Well, because it’s 8 PM?”

“But why haven’t you gone home yet and are still here?”

“The work isn’t finished yet…”

Baron Delrond approached me with a frightening momentum and snatched away the documents I had been looking at.

“Please go home before it gets any later, Count Tebesa.”

“Let me just finish what I was looking at…”

“Go home.”

When Baron Delrond spoke sternly with a scary expression, I couldn’t argue further and nodded.

“Then I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“Yes. Please be careful on your way.”

I left the study as if being chased and walked through the hallway filled with quiet stillness.

Oh, wait. I should have asked an attendant to prepare a carriage before leaving.

Realizing this only after leaving the palace, I let out a small sigh.

‘I need to learn horseback riding quickly.’

It was also troublesome to ask attendants to prepare a carriage every time at such late hours.

It was also an inconvenience to them.

Once the banquet is over, I’ll have some free time, so I should learn horseback riding right away then.

“Excuse me.”

Just then, an attendant passed by, so I called out to him.

“I’m trying to go home, could you call a carriage for me?”

“Of course. It might take some time, would you mind waiting?”

“How long would I need to wait?”

“About 30 minutes should be enough.”

Hmm, 30 minutes.

It was an awkward amount of time to do anything, but also too precious to just stand around waiting.

Since it’s come to this, maybe I should look for materials about establishing childcare institutions.

The library was too far, and the document storage room seemed just right.

Among the past emperors, there might have been at least one who had the same idea as me.

“Then I’ll be in the document storage room, so please call me when it’s ready?”

“Yes, understood.”

“I’m counting on you.”

I gave instructions to the attendant and immediately headed to the document storage room.

The documents were well organized, but there were so many that it was difficult to find what I wanted right away.

I’ll spend a full 30 minutes just searching.

I should just figure out where it is and come back tomorrow to look.

“Establishment, founding, construction….”

I was frantically looking around to see materials related to other institutions, not just childcare facilities.

Click-

I heard the sound of a door opening. Had the attendant already come?

If so, I turned around to tell them to wait a moment, but there stood someone I never expected.

The person standing at the door wasn’t an attendant, but Kalian.

I looked at him in surprise.

“Your Majesty.”

Kalian also looked surprised to discover me.

“Why haven’t you left work yet?”

“I was about to leave.”

“Is that why such a person is here right now?”

Kalian slightly frowned as if telling me not to lie.

“It’s true. I was just looking through documents briefly while the carriage was being prepared.”

“Carriage?”

Kalian tilted his head for a moment, then let out an exclamation as if he realized something.

“Come to think of it, you don’t know how to ride horses.”

“I apologize. I’ll learn quickly.”

“Ah, I’m not trying to blame you. I just forgot for a moment. But what were you looking for?”

“I was looking for materials about establishing childcare facilities.”

“You won’t find those materials even if you search. None of the previous emperors ever had such thoughts.”

That means….

“Your Majesty has already searched for them once.”

At my answer, Kalian paused for a moment then smiled.

“I always feel this, but Princess is really quick to catch on.”

Is that…a compliment?

“Yes, I searched for them. It was a long time ago, over 10 years.”

10 years ago, he would have been only 18 years old.

When I was 18, far from having such thoughts, I was busy just handling what was right in front of me.

“The materials I investigated back then should still be around. Would you like me to give them to you if you need them?”

“Yes. Please give them to me.”

If he was offering, it would be tremendously helpful for me. I quickly nodded my head.

Kalian pulled out a box that had been neglected in the furthest corner, covered in white dust.

I thought he would take out a few bundles of papers from the box to give me, but that wasn’t the case.

“Here.”

He held out the entire box to me.

Could it be that all the documents in there were materials he had investigated?

My mouth fell open at the enormous amount, more than I had imagined.

“Would you like to check what’s inside?”

“Yes.”

As soon as Kalian set the box down, I opened it to check the contents.

Inside the box were old documents thrown in haphazardly.

“Seeing them after so long brings back memories.”

His blue eyes quickly scanned the contents of the box.

“As you can see, they’re not organized at all. Plus, since they’re 10-year-old materials, many probably won’t be helpful.”

“No. They’ll be helpful enough.”

“You haven’t even looked at them yet.”

Ah, come to think of it, that’s true.

I smiled awkwardly and picked up whatever I could grab.

The neat handwriting was Kalian’s handwriting that I had become familiar with.

This is material about locations.

I skimmed through it, but all the selected locations were in the capital city outskirts.

Of course they would be. Land in the capital city interior was expensive and too valuable to use for such purposes.

“If you have any questions while looking through them, feel free to ask me.”

“Do you remember the content of the materials?”

From investigations 10 years ago?

“Come to think of it, that’s true.”

Kalian laughed lightly and shrugged his shoulders.

“When will the carriage be ready?”

“They said it would take about 30 minutes, so I think there are about 5 minutes left now.”

“There’s no time to go to the study first.”

Kalian thought for a moment then nodded.

“If you want, you can take these home.”

“They belong to the Imperial Court, would that be alright?”

Imperial documents were basically prohibited from being taken outside the Imperial Palace. That was why Baron Delrond worked at the Imperial Palace instead of going home.

“Imperial documents, what? These are just my personal materials.”

Kalian snorted lightly.

“So you can take them home to look at. If you want to, of course.”

Since I naturally wanted to, I answered quickly.

“Thank you for your consideration.”

With perfect timing, an attendant informed us that the carriage was ready.

Kalian tried to carry the box himself, but the attendants weren’t the type to just watch that happen.

“Your Majesty shouldn’t do such things!”

“Please leave such tasks to us!”

Kalian, who had the box taken away by the attendants, swung at empty air.

“Being emperor certainly changes how I’m treated.”

“Didn’t the attendants act like this when you were a prince?”

Though the treatment of emperors and princes differs, such trivial matters should be the same, right?

“They didn’t.”

When I asked curiously, Kalian answered with a mischievous smile.

“Back then, I was thoroughly ignored.”

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