“Tell me. If you want to immobilize Lakrahan, what method would be the most effective?”

Kellita, with her fist clenched, sat on my bed, staring at Dylan as if interrogating him.

Dylan was avoiding eye contact with Kellita, gazing into empty space, but it was just a well-practiced way of handling looks over a long period.

Kellita’s expressions and actions were all readable by Dylan.

‘It’s changed.’

The most significant emotion Dylan felt these days was precisely this.

The behaviors of everyone, excluding Gerard, had subtly changed.

Dylan, always observing from a distance, felt it, but Gerard at the center seemed oblivious to it.

Especially Kellita seemed like an entirely different person.

“Dylan.”

Awakening from his thoughts, Dylan, whose eyes were lying diagonally, moved his pupils to look at Kellita.

Her eyes, which used to wander, were now fixed, and her eyebrows were raised.

“Haven’t you heard what I said? What’s Lakrahan’s weakness?”

“…Why would I know that?”

Dylan was currently on a mission to guard the emperor.

Even if she was a princess of the empire, she had no qualification to call him and use him personally.

“Do you think I wouldn’t know what you’re thinking from behind?”

“What are you talking about…”

“You often stay quiet and suddenly say a few words that are quite piercing. I’m trying to give you credit for that.”

Kellita walked through the cluttered floor of the dizzying room and picked up an object from the corner.

It was a ring with a considerably large jewel.

She approached Dylan again and extended it to him.

“I’ll ask you for the last time. I must marry Lakrahan this time. What should I do to make it happen?”

Dylan, gazing silently at the ring in Kellita’s hand, finally raised his eyes above her face.

Looking at Dylan’s intense gaze, Kellita, who was receiving the impression that he was reading her inner thoughts, felt an illusion.

Even though it couldn’t be true.

After staring at Kellita for a while, Dylan opened his mouth.

“You can use people around him.”

“…What?”

Actually, whether Kellita changed or stayed the same didn’t matter to him.

Even if his duties changed in the future, and unless Gerard took the lead, he couldn’t just come out and talk about this situation.

So, he just had to inform her and take what he could get.

“Lakrahan is excessively responsible. Even when he was in the North, he bet everything on the safety of my people.”

Kellita’s lips slowly parted.

Then, with a smirk, it stretched up.

“Exactly.”

She tossed the ring she held in her hand, making it bounce off lightly.

Seeing Dylan, who lightly caught the falling ring, Kellita was once again convinced that her eyes did not deceive her.

“Kyah!”
After talking with Dylan, it was only a few hours later. I didn’t expect an opportunity to come so quickly. Kellita, left alone, was in a dilemma about which of Lakrahan’s aides she should target. In the midst of this, Wyatt appeared as if it were a lie. Long ago, that is, before the war, he had been in charge of Kellita’s security, and she already knew about it. It seemed like the most suitable person in the world had appeared before her.

“Princess! What on earth is going on? Are you okay?” The moment she saw Wyatt approaching with a worried face, in her mind, a picture of how to create the story had already formed. She had memories of Wyatt supporting her before, and with just a word mentioning that, there was no one in the imperial palace who wouldn’t stand by her side. If it were known that the empire’s princess had been harassed, everyone would be furious, and without any military courtesy, Wyatt would undoubtedly be thrown into the underground prison.

Kellita shouted with a pale face, “Is no one outside? Help me a bit!” Shouting as if she could run out of breath any moment, she raised her hand to the chest part of her dress. Meeting eyes with Wyatt, she smiled and tore her dress with her own hands. “…!” Before the astonished Wyatt could react, the half-open door swung wide open, and the guards rushed in. “Has this guy gone mad? How dare he!” “What should we do? Catch him quickly!” “Ha.” Only now did Wyatt realize the meaning behind what Lakrahan had said earlier. ‘Well, to be honest, because explaining from the beginning wasn’t going to work.’ Including Kellita, the aides of the emperor were not people who engaged in straightforward conversations from the start. They were people who engaged in such absurd incidents. “Damn it.” Wyatt, too, found himself cornered like Lakrahan.
Before the astonished Wyatt could react, the half-open door swung wide open, and the palace guards poured in.

“Has this guy gone mad? How dare he touch the princess!”

“What are you doing? Capture him quickly!”

“Ha.”

Only now did Wyatt realize the meaning behind what Lakrahan had said earlier.

“Well, to be honest, because explaining from the beginning wasn’t going to work.”

Including Kellita, the aides of the emperor were not people who engaged in straightforward conversations from the start. They were people who engaged in such absurd incidents.

“Damn it.”