The Reason I Got Engaged to My Ex-Boyfriend - Chapter 77

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Episode 77

The next day, the audience chamber of the Imperial Palace.

“…Do you understand what you’re saying right now?”

After hearing Ransel’s brief explanation, the Emperor looked displeased.

In truth, though he didn’t want to admit it… yes, he had suspected that his second son had a hand in Cael’s death.

But to think that his fiancée, Seria Chartinez, had participated as well.

And even more, that demon servants were involved in the matter.

“…”

The Emperor pressed his brow with tired eyes.

Of course, as a father, Cael’s death hit him the hardest, but if Enrif had contracted with demon servants, that also meant it was related to the Iron Gate. This wouldn’t end with just dethronement.

After pressing his brow for a while to calm himself, the Emperor spoke again.

“I trust you, but I think you also know that it’s all circumstantial evidence in the end. The mark on the young viscountess’s body… honestly, those who won’t believe it will refuse to believe it to the end.”

“…”

“My country’s subjects are conservative when it comes to other worlds. Who would believe the words of a low-ranking demon living in the slums?”

Ransel agreed with that point.

That’s why he had reported this matter in a private meeting with the Emperor, not in a public setting.

Ransel nodded obediently and said,

“So please wait just a little longer. I will soon bring evidence that even those Your Majesty is concerned about will have no choice but to believe.”

Though he had tried not to get involved for Mary’s sake, now that he was intervening anyway, he was determined to see it through to the end.

In fact, Ransel had felt this way ever since he first had an audience with the Emperor after returning to the capital.

Though he had acted coldly, saying he didn’t want to get involved, he had planned to follow the Emperor’s wishes once his business with Mary was finished.

Someone had harmed Cael, his close friend. You weren’t the type of person to just leave alone like that.

“Very well, I’ll trust you again this time.”

The Emperor replied with a light sigh.

Then, as if something was bothering him, he added a word.

“But is it alright to just leave Enrif alone in the meantime? Since you’ve told me about this, I’ll keep that boy confined to the palace as much as possible, but I can’t openly restrain him.”

“You don’t need to worry about that.”

Ransel answered nonchalantly, easing the Emperor’s concerns.

Enrif would have his ankles properly tied for a while.

Because…

***

If I had known it would come to this, I should have just lived as a bachelor for life.

Viscount Chartinez looked at the biggest and most persistent of his two flaws.

“…”

“…”

“…”

“…Father, when a man does big things, he can experience failures sometimes, can’t he?”

The trash I created is speaking.

The Viscount burst into laughter as if dumbfounded.

No matter how much of an idiot Louis was, the Viscount had lived with him just thinking he was his own blood.

He had endured it even when Louis unnecessarily touched other noble families’ daughters and worsened the Viscount’s position.

He had covered up with money all the times Louis had impregnated commoners during his Academy days.

Even Louis living as an unemployed bum like now, he had thought it was all karma for bringing such a person into the world.

…He couldn’t stand it anymore.

“You damn fool, our house is going to be ruined because of you!”

It was just the other day that he had sold the Semapelaz building for less than half its price and earned criticism, and here was the idiot who couldn’t wait and blew a fortune on mine investments.

“No, why do you always pick on me? Seria too…”

“Right, well said. Both you and Seria are problems!”

The other flaw the Viscount had, Seria.

Seria’s problems were no less serious than Louis’s, but if he had to pick the biggest problem, it was that she couldn’t understand her place.

Of course, the title of Crown Prince’s fiancée held great power.

But Enrif, the son of a commoner-born concubine, wasn’t particularly powerful, and he couldn’t understand her behavior of causing problems in social life and making enemies of prestigious families.

He could overlook making an enemy of the Segwed Duchy over a small mistake at the last luncheon. But how could a member of a naval family think to mess with someone from the Arviente Duchy?

Though they were still engaged, most nobles already saw Mary Blin as part of the ducal family.

The Viscount got heated just thinking about how Seria caused trouble every time she encountered Mary.

The situation had become difficult because of that Seria, and now this damn Louis too…

“Father, I’m not that thoughtless of a person.”

Unfortunately, Louis, who still hadn’t read the atmosphere, smiled triumphantly.

“I was originally going to invest a big 6,000 gold, but I felt a bit uneasy so I only invested 5,000 gold…”

“…Didn’t you say you invested 3,000 gold before?”

“…”

At the Viscount’s voice pointing out the discrepancy menacingly, Louis quickly shut his mouth.

“I wondered why last month’s books seemed strange, you bastard…”

The Viscount muttered with a murderous expression and held his forehead. His head felt like it would burst.

Right, if I think about family affection here too, the idiot isn’t that bastard, it’s me, me.

After being silent for a while, the Viscount soon let out a cracked voice.

“You… get out.”

“…What?”

At the dumbfounded tone asking back, the Viscount threw the desk clock at Louis.

“Get out right now, you bastard! Get the hell out of my sight!”

“No, wait…! Father!”

“Don’t ever call me father again!”

The knights who usually looked down on Louis seized the moment and immediately arrested him.

“You, you bastards… let go of me right now?!”

Louis, whose limbs were suddenly grabbed, struggled, but the knights did their best to follow their lord’s command.

“No, Father, please… Daddy! Daddyyyyyyyyyy!”

Louis’s desperate screams faded away without reaching Viscount Chartinez.

***

The next day, Semapelaz.

Duchess Relini’s complexion, whom I met after a long time, looked even better than before.

“Actually.”

With that good complexion, she suddenly grabbed my hands preciously.

I, who had been organizing various things for Relini in the consultation room, paused and looked at her.

“I heard everything, Miss Berry.”

“What? What did you…”

“That, the Eagle Incident. Your older brother who you were close to as a child was involved in that incident and died?”

“Ah.”

I had told some customers including Jane a fake story. That an older brother I was close to as a child was a dead servant of the Eagle Incident victim.

‘I was looking for the right timing to tell His Highness too…’

I didn’t know who had told the Duchess, who was the mother of the first victim, but it was a good thing.

I nodded with a dejected face.

“Yes… But I heard from the other young ladies that there’s been no progress in tracking the culprit.”

Relini’s expression also became gloomy.

“That’s right. Actually… our daughter also passed away because of that incident.”

“My goodness, really? You must have suffered a lot.”

Relini smiled bitterly.

“But these days it’s fine. There are many people helping me regain my strength. My husband is helping me a lot too.”

“His Grace the Archduke?”

“Yes. He’s been so focused on helping me recover my energy lately that he’s put his work on the back burner, staying up late at night to catch up on postponed tasks and barely getting any sleep.”

Relini smiled shyly as she chattered on.

“Even during the last Founding Festival, he was too busy with work to attend.”

I listened quietly to the continuing praise of her husband, then suddenly paused.

‘Wasn’t it because His Highness the Prince was unwell that he didn’t attend?’

The Empire’s largest annual event.

And yet he didn’t attend an event that even the Emperor participated in, just because he was busy with work.

The only urgent matter that could reasonably justify this at the time was the Iron Gate investigation.

But the Archduke’s family has no connection to the Navy whatsoever…

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