Klaus, who had been tilting his head repeatedly, soon looked at me and spoke again.
“……Okay. Anyway, I didn’t like it so I got scolded.”
“It’s a really childish reason, but unlike last time, I applaud you for not being childishly angry. If you want.”
“okay.”
We applauded Klaus’ approval and brightened the mood.
Klaus sighed and leaned back in his chair.
“Very well done, Your Majesty.”
“You have to do what you have to do even if you don’t like it.”
“There were some things you said a little coldly, but looking at Hamel’s reaction, it didn’t seem like it was something you couldn’t say.”
“Yes, that’s true.”
Klaus nodded at my words.
The childish expression disappeared and a serious face took its place.
“Is there much trouble with the Western Guard?”
“It’s not that there are a lot of problems… It’s a common tendency among local guards who handle swords. However, the western part suffered a lot during the most recent Kelber bandit attack, so they have been more sensitive since then.”
Klaus looked out the window once and smiled bitterly.
“It is understandable that you feel very sad because you lost several comrades in a battle that risked your life. It is a problem if you blame the innocent managers for the anger, but… people cannot always think rationally. ”
“hmm…….”
“We gave consolation money to all the managers and asked them to take on other positions, so it was resolved to some extent. However, no one wanted to go to that position. We had no choice but to delegate it to Count Belen, and this is what happened.”
Klaus’ expression looked somewhat pained. He slowly lifted the teacup to his mouth.
“I should have paid more attention, it was my mistake.”
“Ah. How much attention are you going to pay?”
“Since I am a member of the imperial family, it is my destiny to take responsibility for the daily lives of each and every citizen of the empire.”
“Wow….”
If all other powerful figures were like Klaus, more than half of the tragedies in history would not have occurred.
I patted Klaus on the shoulder to comfort him.
“Still, one length has been added.”
“what?”
“Before, Your Majesty’s only way was to prevent the destruction of the world? But now, there is a way to take responsibility for the daily lives of each citizen of the empire.”
“What are you talking about.”
“Now, if you wait just a little longer, I think you might consider becoming unemployed like me.”
“Young-ae, do you want to go down the path of becoming unemployed?”
Klaus laughed. I pointed to his face.
“Oh, I laughed.”
“what?”
“Yesterday and today, I was worried because you looked sullen, like an angry hedgehog. Please smile.”
I poked the corner of Klaus’ mouth.
Klaus flinched, but didn’t seem to reject the hand.
I slowly raised the corners of my mouth.
“Your Majesty is said to be handsome only when you smile like this.”
“Do I really need to use the expression ‘unlucky’?”
“Hmm… For some reason, I feel a bit unlucky when your highness smiles.”
“I’m telling you to smile or not.”
“You look happy enough to change other people’s clothes, so you should smile a lot.”
I smiled and took my hand away.
“And relax a little on your shoulders. I told you this last time, but you are carrying too much burden.”
“But that…”
“Ah. Yes. It’s my innate destiny. That’s right, I’m also born with the power of a god.”
I said that and stretched out my chest.
“If God’s child goes astray, won’t God fix it on his own? Now I can even make wishes.”
“It’s still incomplete.”
“Well… it will be perfect someday.”
“is it.”
“Yes. And when it’s perfect, I’ll make a wish so that your highness won’t worry about it. So, don’t suffer too much from every mistake you make.”
I smiled brightly.
Klaus’ eyes were fixed on me.
“I’m here, what are you worried about?”
“……Right.”
Klaus answered a beat late.
“By the way, young lady.”
Klaus called me with a smile. I turned my head.
“why?”
“Were you worried about me?”
“yes?”
“I heard you were worried because I looked like an angry hedgehog?”
As soon as the tension is relieved, this person is joking.
“Yes. It looked like a very angry hedgehog.”
“If it’s a hedgehog, does that mean it’s cute?”
“I hadn’t seen you like this for a long time, so I had forgotten. Your Majesty has a very strong self-love….”
When I opened my eyes blurry, Klaus smiled and placed his hand on my cheek.
His fingertips gently poked my cheek.
“Even a young lady has to smile to be pretty.”
“I’m pretty even when I don’t smile.”
“That’s right. The young lady is pretty even when she doesn’t smile.”
… … Oh, saying this is correct here is different from my plan.
While I was speechless for a moment as to what to say, Klaus had a smile on his face and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised.
“But I like it best when the young lady smiles.”
“why?”
“Because you don’t seem to have any thoughts.”
“That’s an insult.”
“No. When I see you smiling without thinking, I can smile without thinking too.”
“The more I hear it, the more it sounds like an insult.”
I muttered. Klaus laughed slightly.
“It’s okay to say it like this.”
Ugh, it makes my heart tingle so much to hear such a nice voice say those things from such a close distance.
I said with embarrassment as I pushed Klaus’ shoulder.
“Your Highness. It’s a bit much for you to say things like this… I guess.”
“What’s wrong?”
Do you really not know, or are you just pretending not to know?
Klaus asked with a lazy smile, so I decided to tell him honestly.
“I think it’s work.”
“It’s a task, right?”
“I think the meaning of the work that you and I know is a bit different… No, anyway, I’m a Confucian girl, so it’s easy to misunderstand.”
“Confucian girl?”
“Well, there is. In my past life, I think I would have misunderstood a slightly conservative person like that… no, anyway.”
When I gave up explaining Confucianism and said that, Klaus shrugged his shoulders.
“I meant to misunderstand.”
“You can’t keep causing misunderstandings. If that happens over and over again, you become a fraud.”
“……If I talk to the young lady, things don’t go as expected.”
Klaus muttered lowly to himself.
“What did you expect?”
I asked again, but Klaus didn’t answer.
Instead, he waved his hands.
“It’s okay. I won’t tell you.”
“No, why? If I misunderstood, I need to clear up the misunderstanding.”
“I need to re-plan. I didn’t know that the young lady was so oblivious.”
Klaus muttered and stroked my cheek.
Before I could react, he sighed.
“Now I realize I’m such a shy person.”
“Usually, people who brush a woman’s cheek are not considered shy.”
“Did you feel bad?”
“No. I touched it first.”
You can roughly sum it up.
As I thought that and smiled, Klaus also smiled at me.
Klaus, who chatted with me for a while, seemed to be back to his usual pattern.
His drowsy eyes regained their cold vitality.
“The biggest problem now is where to find a manager who can take down those guards.”
“Isn’t it about bringing down Count Belen?”
“Well, I think it can be easily handled just by examining the ledger.”
Klaus shrugged his shoulders, speaking quite leisurely.
“From what I heard, it seems that the support money sent by the imperial family was also used for personal purposes. That alone is enough reason to be fired from the manager position.”
“Didn’t you hide the ledger well?”
“My lady. Who am I? My name is Klaus Ertikef.”
As I looked sullenly at the sudden outpouring of self-praise, Klaus scratched my cheek.
“Khom. Anyway, I have a history of catching many people who tried to escape like that. There are probably not many people who know imperial law better than me.”
“Well, I don’t think Count Belen would be able to do such a smart thing.”
“Of course. It’s a great shame for me to be compared to a guy like that.”
Klaus shrugged his shoulders.
I shook my head as I remembered Gollterrorist Velen’s dark-faced face after being struck by my dowsing rod of justice yesterday.
“So, making a manager position vacant is a set procedure. But you need a suitable manager to fill that position.”
“What if I leave the position vacant?”
“We, high-ranking nobles, do not like to have our noble honor easily shaken.”
Klaus clicked his tongue lightly.
“I was the one who led the fall of the mayor and duke last time, so if the manager position becomes vacant this time too, I will make a fuss again. No matter what, I will say nonsense, saying that it would be better to have someone than not have one.”
“If you just listen to the story, it seems like it would be better without it?”
“That’s why they don’t have an answer.”
Klaus crossed his arms.
“There is a limit to insisting, so if you bring in the right person, you won’t be able to say anything. However, if you don’t have the right person, he will speak up, and in the worst case, you can only impose the slightest disciplinary action on Count Belen’s Youngsik and have him continue to hold a managerial position.”
“Then I don’t think the guards will be able to hold out. Can’t you convince them by saying that?”
“The main reason we care about the guards now is because they are thinking of starting a rebellion. But you can’t say that.”
Klaus shook his head.
“If they actually rebel, I can never stand on the guard’s side. The reason I’m moving like this right now is because they’re still contemplating whether or not they should rebel.”
“I am of the mindset that it will subside once the main culprit is removed, right?”
Even mice can bite cats if they are cornered.
So Klaus was trying to use his mind broadly to get the mouse out of its corner.
But as Klaus said, the right person was needed.
Because it’s not something that can be done just by convincing Klaus.
“……I wonder if there is anyone suitable.”
I rested my chin and looked down at the teacup.
The red tea water was rosy.
uh. Because it’s red… … .
“Your Highness. How about Rinoa Sisena as the manager?”
