Latil, seeing the atmosphere she wanted to create being formed, took more care of Klein with satisfaction.

Klein, unknowingly stuck to Latil’s side, danced along when the music started.

At the end of the dance, Klein, seemingly satisfied with the situation, faced Latil holding hands, and asked.

“I know I am your favorite.”

No, it wasn’t a question, but a statement full of confidence.

As people’s ears were drawn more towards them, Latil did not deny but only evaded.

“I’m dizzy from going round and round. Let’s go take a break somewhere it’s just the two of us.”

‘They’re going to be alone!’

‘She’s obviously taking care of him. Are the other people too ostentatious?’

Meanwhile, while Latil put aside her concerns about ‘Am I a Lord?’ for a moment and was trying to split the balance of power, divided into two, into three pieces.

Tela was still immersed in the anxiety of ‘Am I a Lord?’

But as he couldn’t say to his subordinates ‘Do I seem like a fake?’, he felt more suffocated than Latil.

Anakcha, sitting next to Tela, was looking at a black magic book brought from the underground castle library, when she noticed her son’s dark expression and asked.

“Do you have something on your mind?”

Tela, not daring to say ‘I’m worried that I might not be the vampire lord’, opened up about his worries.

“Yes. I feel a little lost… I wish I had siblings at times like this.”

Tela cleared the notebook on his knees to the side and lay down on the bed. It wasn’t just idle talk, it seemed like he really meant it.

However, Anakcha did not agree.

“Siblings are good when they get along. Otherwise, you’ll just get stabbed in the back. The closest enemy is even tougher. Look at Rean and Latil.”

Tela asked curiously about the example he couldn’t agree with.

“Aren’t those two on good terms?”

Once, Tela thought he would like to have a sibling like Latil. He was a bit envious of Latil, who was chasing after Rean’s back with short legs like a duck.

Not long after, he realized that the baby with short legs was not a duck but a crocodile. Still, Tela thought that even a baby crocodile would be cute if it were his.

However, Anakcha laughed.

“Do you think Rean, who was always suspicious of his own sister and kept telling his father to investigate her, really liked Latil?”

“What do you mean?”

“I saw Rean being suspicious of Latil, and the Emperor worrying about it because of him.”

“Really?”

“People say that the Empress betrayed Latil, but in my eyes, the real culprit is Prince Rean. And he’s still alive.”

Tela looked at his mother in surprise as all of this was news to him.

Anakcha immediately noticed what her son was thinking and asked.

“Is it your first time hearing it?”

“Yes.”

“…I may have concealed the story about the Emperor, so you didn’t know. Didn’t you even know the story of the Empress and Prince Rean betraying Latil?”

“I didn’t know.”

Tela muttered and fiddled with his neck. He could feel a faint gold on his hand.

AnnaTT599 had tilted her head, thinking that it was possible as Latil had been living in isolation in the remote underground castle, and then she focused on the book again.

But Latil kept touching her neck. She realized that the information given to her through the conversation earlier was too limited. Moreover, she found it suspicious once she realized it.

“Why didn’t Fox Mask tell me about it?”

“Isn’t it because it was unrelated?”

“He often told me about the imperial palace. But he doesn’t talk about such a big event? That’s strange.”

After a long thought, Latil decided to ask Fox Mask about this issue first and left the room.

But no matter how much she searched, Fox Mask was not visible. Even in her room. Even though she didn’t see him leave.

‘I should look for him later,’ thought Latil, who had no choice but to close the door and go out. But when she had closed the door about 2/3 of the way, she saw something strange.

The corner of a small portrait. No matter how she looked at it, something that only looked like that was sticking out under the spare mask of Fox Mask.

‘What is that?’

Latil opened the door again, approached there, and pulled the protruding corner of the small portrait.

Soon after, Latil’s eyes widened at the sight of the portrait.

‘Why did Fox Mask have this…?’

At that moment.

The neutral nobles who were interested in power were racking their brains over the fact that Latil was showing the most favor to Prince Klein, but the neutral nobles who were not interested in power were busy making fun of Duke Atraxil and Chancellor Rhodes.

“They fought so much for Her Majesty’s favor. But Prince Klein got the actual benefit.”

“You have no idea how difficult it was recently. Keep sending invitations at the same time on the same date.”

“That’s what I’m saying. There are people who don’t want to get involved in either side, and people who don’t want to fight with either side, but they kept pestering them to stick to one side.”

Duke Atraxil, who was sensitive to such atmosphere, could not fail to notice this.

Only able to converse with Tasir, Duke Atraxil, who couldn’t even go to the Emperor’s side, saw his son, and eventually, feeling that it was impossible, he went to Chancellor Rhodes and proposed.

“We can’t have a foreign prince as the national writer no matter what. How about we stop fighting and join forces until Her Majesty withdraws her interest from Prince Klein?”

However, Chancellor Rhodes slapped the hand that Duke Atraxil reached out.

“I’d rather have a foreign prince be the national writer than see your son become it. It’s a hundred times better.”

Chancellor Rhodes glanced at Duke Atraxil and dodged him immediately after saying that.

Of course, he wasn’t serious. It was okay when they were all in the harem, but he could not bear the thought of his son, who he raised with sleepless nights, living under someone else later.

‘It won’t work. Guesta is quite sensitive, but we need to brainstorm together.’

Chancellor Rhodes began to look for Guesta. He had to find Guesta, brainstorm, and research how to steal the favor from Klein.

Of course, he would have to convince his good son that this wasn’t a bad thing.

“Where is Guesta? Has anyone seen Guesta?”

“I’m sorry.”

But no matter how much he searched, Guesta was not visible.

After wandering around everywhere, Chancellor Rhodes finally found his son near the stairs a little away from the banquet hall.

His son was looking up while sitting on the floor next to the stairs. Chancellor Rhodes quickly walked towards him.

But while passing by a large pillar and losing sight of him for a moment, his son had disappeared all of a sudden.

‘No, where did he go?’

While looking around in surprise, a loud thud was heard from behind as something large fell.

Perhaps his son was injured and jumped off, Chancellor Rhodes turned around in surprise.

“!”