During the State Council, it was when a topic came up to investigate the case where bodies were disappearing and people were going missing at the village level.
“Of course, we must ask for the consent of the regent and send the holy knights to investigate. Who knows what will happen if we just send ordinary soldiers.”
“That’s not possible, Your Majesty. Aren’t the number of holy knights far less than ordinary soldiers? And we are only sending holy knights? How long will it take to cover the whole country with such a small number of people?”
“So, you mean to send only ordinary soldiers, Lord Chancellor?”
“Of course not. We have to send a mix of holy knights and ordinary soldiers. That’s much more efficient.”
“Will the ordinary soldiers be of any help? If black magic is involved, and we send ordinary soldiers who might die from black magic or be cursed, wouldn’t it be a much bigger loss?”
“Duke Atraxil seems to know a lot about black magic? You seem to know very well why we shouldn’t send ordinary soldiers.”
Latil’s eyes rolled around. What on earth is this situation?
Originally, the Lord Chancellor and Duke Atraxil did not get along, and their opinions often clashed. So it seems that this incident could be seen as part of that. At first glance.
But the problem was that it wasn’t just this topic. From the moment the first topic came out until now, the two of them have been clashing their opinions like that.
Moreover, if you look closely, the Lord Chancellor was particularly catching the tail of Duke Atraxil. Usually, it was the other way around.
‘It’s like opposition for the sake of opposition. What happened to the Lord Chancellor?’
[This is the time separator]Latil wasn’t the only one who thought this.
“Are you out of your mind?”
On the way to scatter after the meeting, Duke Atraxil caught the Lord Chancellor, who was walking fast to go to the chancellor’s office.
“Even if I don’t like it, you should moderately oppose me. Is your emotion towards me more dominant than your emotion towards the country?”
The Lord Chancellor, who usually had a reasonable line even if they fought, was obstinately pushing his opposing opinion to an unreasonable extent today, which was so breathtaking that he finally had to confront him.
Of course, he had an idea why the chancellor was doing this, but….
“Don’t you know? Are you asking because you don’t know?”
As the Lord Chancellor crossed his arms and sneered, Duke Atraxil flinched but responded brazenly.
“I don’t know. You just seem too disloyal in my eyes.”
“Disloyal?”
The Lord Chancellor raised one corner of his mouth and threatened the Duke with two fingers in front of his eyes.
“If I were really disloyal, I wouldn’t have even stood up when my son recognized that the fake emperor was fake.”
“…….”
“The first one to recognize that the fake was fake was my son, and the one who told my son to stay by the fake was you. You know?”
“Hmm.”
“And what did you do? You cunningly passed the ball to Ranamun, and turned the suspicion and gossip onto my son. Very lowly!”
“Hmm.”
As Duke Atraxil couldn’t say anything and averted his eyes, the Lord Chancellor clenched his teeth and warned in a low voice.
“From now on, there will absolutely be no case where you and I are on the same boat. Absolutely!”
“No, wait…..!”
Duke Atraxil tried to hold him back, but the Lord Chancellor didn’t listen any more and went into the chancellor’s office and slammed the door shut.
Standing blankly in front of the closed door, Duke Atraxil only turned awkwardly when a passing palace woman greeted him.
[This is the time separator]“I could hear the two of you arguing all the way here.”
As the Lord Chancellor entered the office, his secretary, who had been standing awkwardly next to the desk, quickly approached to receive his outer garment and said.
“Let them hear.”
The Lord Chancellor snorted coldly and sat at his desk. The secretary stood with the Chancellor’s coat draped over his arm, watching for his reaction.
“Are you alright?”
“No.”
The Chancellor spoke firmly, drumming on the desk and grinding his teeth.
“Duke Atraxil turned my son into trash, so I won’t let Ranamun be.”
The secretary was surprised, but didn’t show it and just nodded his head.
“That’s right. That could happen.”
“Even if Guesta can’t be the national heir, I can’t stand seeing Ranamun as one!”
“Do you have another plan in mind?”
The Emperor shifted her hand, tapping on the armrest of her chair as she gave out an order in a low voice.
“Summon ‘Chellar’ to my house around nine in the evening.”
[This is the time separator]Chellar was a secret errand runner for the Emperor. A competent figure who, for money, would get most jobs done in an instant.
Despite his extraordinary skills, quick wit, and tightlipped nature, he was a foreigner involved in the relay races and could not openly use his abilities. Emperor Lord had noticed this and had brought him over.
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
