The Low-Ranking Civil Servant Wants to Achieve Success - Chapter 62

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Chapter 62
I snapped to attention and offered a proper bow.
“Namia Loapi of the Scroll Department, paying respects to Her Majesty the Empress and His Highness the Crown Prince.”
The Empress sprang to her feet and swept me into her arms, spinning me around gleefully.
“Sit, sit down! Ahahaha! Namia’s finally come to see me! Hahahaha!”
Kiaros’s presence caught me off guard, but I managed not to show it.
He sipped his tea with elegant composure and spoke.
“What a remarkable coincidence—I had just come to pay my respects. I trust my presence won’t be an inconvenience?”
Jewel-like crimson eyes fixed upon me with quiet intensity.
I flinched slightly before responding.
“O-of course not, Your Highness.”
I could hardly refuse him here.
In truth, his presence was fortuitous. Kiaros would likely prove invaluable in navigating the initial situation.
‘Her Majesty absolutely needs to know this, but… Kibon was right. I can’t place complete trust in her judgment on such matters.’
While Kiaros’s presence was unexpected, it was ultimately a blessing.
I carefully extended the documents toward the Empress.
“Your Majesty, there’s something rather unusual I’ve discovered…”
“Eh?”
The Empress cut me off with a dismissive wave.
She didn’t even reach for the documents, instead crying out:
“Don’t bother explaining to me—I’m hopeless with such things! Why would you bring something so dangerous and dreadful to me?”
I’d anticipated this first obstacle.
I was about to mention the Young Prince when—
“Why not handle this together with the Crown Prince—who is clever, brilliant, handsome, athletic, and absolutely magnificent from head to toe?”
Kiaros’s face flushed crimson in an instant.
He appeared genuinely flustered. The Empress leaned over and whispered urgently to him.
“Did I do well, Your Highness?”
The Empress’s eyes gleamed as she continued.
“I shall devote myself entirely to your cause. Fight with all your strength, claim victory, and seize what is rightfully yours, Your Highness. Victory is assured!”
Kiaros exhaled a long sigh, then turned his gaze toward me.
“Did you hear all of that?”
“Yes, Your Highness—the Crown Prince who is clever, brilliant, handsome, athletic, and absolutely magnificent from head to toe.”
“…Hand me those documents.”
I immediately passed the papers to Kiaros.
I’d been prepared to handle the summary and organization myself, but my workload had suddenly diminished considerably.
“Hmm.”
Kiaros flipped through the documents at an astonishing speed.
‘Is he actually reading them?’
I furrowed my brow in confusion when—
Kiaros spoke quietly, his gaze fixed on the Empress.
“Your Majesty, there appears to be an issue with Jayden.”
It was an incredibly swift reading.
‘He didn’t realize I was the one who wrote it….’
The Empress’s complexion drained of color in an instant upon hearing Kiaros’s words.
“With, with Jayden?”
Yet she hesitated, as though about to leap from her seat.
Her gaze shifted momentarily toward the letters scattered across the table.
Whether from a habit of poor organization, the letters lay strewn about in complete disarray.
“Hmm….”
The Empress’s eyes darted about with uncertain hesitation.
“Then… if I may be so bold, I would ask the Crown Prince to handle this matter….”
What? She was entrusting it to Kiaros without even understanding what had happened?
I gazed at the letters on the table. Among them was my own letter.
Your Majesty, would you have a moment? I have an urgent matter and will visit shortly. – Namia Loapi
And beneath it….
Never mind. Don’t concern yourself. I prefer handling things on my own. – Jayden Polariud
At a glance, it was an unmistakably rude letter.
‘Yes, that’s the one.’
I had anticipated this letter would arrive by now.
In the original story, the Empress dies later, falsely accused.
This was the final letter Jayden sent to the Empress in the original narrative.
‘Because of this letter, Jayden continues to regret it even as he grows older….’
I had been waiting all along for the timing of when Jayden would send this letter.
Fortunately, it seemed to have aligned perfectly.
As I gazed upon that letter, Kiaros’s eyes followed mine to the same spot.
“Hmm?”
Kiaros’s brow furrowed. His expression was one of utter surprise.
Watching Kiaros’s shocked face, I inwardly shrugged.
‘Only Kiaros and the Emperor don’t know. That Jayden is a complete mess of a child.’
Jayden behaved like an entirely different person in front of Kiaros and the Emperor.
He spoke little yet with courtesy, lacked sociability yet seemed considerate.
In reality, he was openly cursed behind the scenes as a rotten brat….
‘The Emperor, well, he’s frequently absent from the Palace due to illness, so there’s nothing to be done. As for Kiaros, no one dared speak ill of Jayden in his presence, so it’s unavoidable.’
Kiaros made his displeasure obvious whenever others mentioned Jayden’s faults in his presence.
Therefore, no one had ever revealed Jayden’s true nature to Kiaros.
‘Naturally, he’d be shocked by such a disrespectful letter, wouldn’t he?’
Indeed, Kiaros’s expression had grown grave.
He pointed to the letter and asked the Empress.
“What is this, Your Majesty?”
“Yes? Ah….”
The Empress spoke with a hint of flustered surprise.
“The truth is, there’s a Saint Cairo banquet coming up soon….”
The Saint Cairo banquet.
It was a gathering that only members of the Imperial Family, high-ranking nobility, and senior civil servants could attend.
The original work contained the phrase ‘Five days before the Saint Cairo banquet, Jayden sent a reply to the Empress,’ so I’d been able to time things perfectly.
‘Ah, but now I have to go there too….’
Just a month ago, I never would have imagined myself attending.
But now I had to go as well. I was a Minister, after all.
‘When do I get fitted for a dress, and who will be my escort?’
But that wasn’t what mattered right now.
I quickly set aside my concerns and fixed my gaze on the Empress.
The Empress spoke awkwardly.
“Well… matters of clothing and such things, I sent a letter asking to discuss such matters, and this is her reply.”
The Empress continued, her shoulders sagging.
“Well, it’s a fair point. I’ve always been nothing but a laughingstock at such gatherings… Seeing Jayden’s face, I haven’t attended banquets recently, so sending this letter was rather foolish of me.”
This was serious, very serious.
I thought with a heavy heart.
‘I came here precisely to resolve this fundamental issue.’
The cause of this problem was crystal clear.
* * *
At that moment, in the Ministry of Education.
“This is absurd. The Scroll Department received this much budget?”
The Minister of Education hurled the documents across the desk.
“The Minister of Finance, that cunning old fox… was outmaneuvered by that tiny girl from the Scroll Department?”
The Minister of Education had opposed Namia Loapi’s appointment as Minister from the very beginning.
Since the Minister of Finance had been the first to draw his sword, he had watched with satisfaction.
But now it seemed….
The Minister of Finance had polished the blade he’d drawn so vigorously and handed it over to Namia.
“This is absolutely ridiculous. Unbelievable.”
The Minister of Education gnashed his teeth.
“A debt-ridden Baron Family’s twenty-three-year-old becomes a Minister. Preposterous.”
The Minister of Education valued people’s backgrounds and had always favored those with titles.
There was one type of person this Minister of Education despised most: those with titles who behaved vulgarly.
“Because of families like the Loapi Baronial Family, all the lower nobility get lumped together and ridiculed!”
The Minister of Education seemed ready to die of displeasure with Namia, who hailed from the Loapi Baronial Family.
He grew even more furious upon hearing rumors that Namia enjoyed the Empress’s favor.
“Birds of a feather flock together. How fitting.”
The Minister of Education was the one who most despised the Empress, a former commoner mercenary.
From his perspective, it was contemptible people becoming acquainted with one another.
“Who does she think she is, rejecting the Crown Prince’s courtship? How arrogant.”
Of course, even if Namia Loapi hadn’t kicked it away, the Minister of Education would have cursed it as presumptuous.
“Something seems to be bothering you, Minister of Education.”
The Minister of Education was seething when someone entered the Minister’s Office.
“Riedan?”
Riedan Hael.
The Team Leader of the Royal Education Team who had just finished reviewing Jayden’s assignments and returned.
Riedan smirked and stepped on the document written about “Minister of Scrolls Namia Loapi.”
Then, raising his eyebrows, he spoke.
“Bothersome things are simply dealt with, aren’t they?”

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