“Amelia, I heard you found something,” Leoprick said, coming to the office not long after I sent Betty.

I widened my eyes at his action, which was faster than I thought.

I thought it would take a little longer.

“I could have gone if you were busy.”

“I wasn’t busy. And if it’s your call, it must be important.”

He said with a bright smile.

His tone seemed to be filled with playfulness, and I smiled awkwardly and handed him the note.

“It just came from the guild, and I thought it would be good for Your Highness to see it as well.”

“You mean from your guild?”

“Yes. They report anything suspicious while monitoring the situation in each region. And this is what they sent.”

“The guild in the North is sweeping up grains, and it seems they are preparing for the winter, but the amount is much larger than usual, so there is a need to check the situation in the North. Currently out of contact with the East. It is suspected that someone intentionally cut off the communication network…”

Leoprick read the note I handed him out loud.

Betty, who was bringing tea at the sound, blinked her eyes wide.

Well, it’s different from what she read earlier.

It’s natural.

This is a new note written in a distinctly different handwriting than the original, which I used to communicate with Lloyd in the past.

Before he arrived, I added more details to the received content and created a note with new content.

I waited for his reaction while watching Leoprick carefully read it.

A way to simultaneously inform the news of the North and the East.

But in a way that doesn’t give the impression that I know everything.

The newly created note was flawless, and I watched his reaction, pretending not to know.

I gestured to Betty, who was flinching behind, to keep her mouth shut.

After a while, I spoke to Leoprick, who was still staring at the note with meaningful eyes.

“It seems something has happened in the North and the East. The guild said they sent someone, so we’ll be able to find out what’s going on soon.”

“I see.”

But contrary to expectations, Leoprick’s reaction was somewhat lukewarm.

Did he not hear what I said?

Or did he not understand?

I looked at him with my eyebrows raised.

The Leoprick of before the regression seemed to try to move as quickly as possible when he heard this story.

Now, it’s as if he’s listening to a story he already knew……

“Did you already know?”

“Ah, I only guessed. I already sent someone as well.”

“……You already sent someone?”

How?

That was the first thing that came to my mind when I heard his story.

How on earth could he know and send someone to the East and North before me?

In my previous life, he only found out and dealt with it belatedly after everything had happened.

Even then, I knew first, so it should be right for me to know first now as well.

I felt a deep suspicion rising again as I looked at Leoprick, who said he knew everything, even if it was just a guess.

Leoprick was calmly drinking tea with an unsurprised face.

Does guessing mean he didn’t fully know?

Or does it mean he had enough information to send someone based on a guess?

I looked at him, fully revealing the questions filling my mind on my face.

Although he was the crown prince of a country, he tended to miss the importance of information from time to time.

It’s not that he doesn’t know information is important, but rather that he’s slower than me in grasping and utilizing the news.

Because I often encountered and acted first, he was often deceived by me in the previous life.

No, to be precise, a lot was taken away by Lloyd.

And now he says he sent someone before me.

I blinked and looked at him.

“Aren’t you too surprised, Amelia?”

Was I that untrustworthy?

Leoprick looked at me with a small laugh.

Then he added with a slightly hurt face, saying he also had that level of information power.

No, of course I wasn’t doubting him, but……

“As you know, our guild’s communication system is one of the best in the empire.”

“Yes, I know that.”

“We are also fast at obtaining information.”

In fact, it was true.

The information network of the Jenit Guild was one of the best in the empire.

Leoprick nodded slightly with a faint smile at my words.

“I know that too.”

“But for Your Highness to receive a report before me……, it’s not that I absolutely can’t trust you, just……”

How should I explain this?

That I was surprised because you acted before me, trying to move at the right time, knowing most of the events through regression?

Or what kind of information network do you have that is faster than me?

……Or, like me, is he moving based on facts he already knows?

Whichever it was, there were no words to clearly explain this feeling, so I just shut my mouth.

There was nothing else I could really do.

And seeing me like that, Leoprick smiled softly.

“I know, Amelia. I know you don’t think of me that way.”

He said lightly that it was a joke and continued with a smile.

“It was a coincidence. I happened to find out that all the nobles of the East had returned from the capital to their territories, and I also learned that the flow of supplies to the North was unusual.”

“By coincidence?”

“I thought there was no way to explain it unless something was going on, so I sent someone to find out.”

Coincidence, he says.

Of course, the facts he mentioned are things that can be known if you focus a little when looking at the social scene or the flow of supplies.

But the nobles of the East began to return to their territories a few weeks ago, just before the ball at the Marquis of Perche’s house.

The anomalies in the supplies to the North started just last week.

Even then, it started with subtle changes that would go unnoticed if you didn’t pay attention at first.

Was he leisurely enough to pay close attention to the flow of supplies to the North?

Or was his assistant, Arnold, competent enough to grasp such things?

It was hard to understand this situation with just the information from before the regression.

The more I thought about it, the more confusing it was.

Or am I overthinking it?

When I didn’t say anything more, Leoprick said with a slightly awkward smile.

“Actually, there is someone who obtained the information, but they strongly requested to keep it a secret……”

“Ah. I see.”

Oh, so that’s how it was.

I couldn’t recall if it was like this before the regression.

In the first place, back then, I had little interest in what Leoprick did.

The only thing I remember is that even then, he sent supplies to the East and North in time.

It’s just that the timing has been pushed forward a bit.

I stopped my wildly racing thoughts and nodded.

“I’m sorry, Your Highness. I guess I overreacted. It could happen.”

“No, I think it’s understandable to think that way.”

Leoprick readily nodded and smiled.

“The information power of the Jenit Guild is well known, and it’s no exaggeration to say it’s the place where all the information in the empire passes through first. I fully understand.”

“Right. I was already thinking that I should recheck the guild’s information network.”

“But don’t focus too much on it. It would be a big deal if you hurt your health doing that.”

He said, looking at me with a gentle gaze.

I replied that I wouldn’t overdo it and picked up a piece of chocolate served as a snack and put it in my mouth.

Feeling the smooth chocolate filling my mouth, I was lost in thought again.

“So what do you plan to do now?”

Of course, the pondering didn’t last long.

In any case, once I decided to help Leoprick and cooperate with him, it’s just a waste of energy to worry unnecessarily.

I silently looked at him and slowly melted the chocolate in my mouth.

I’ve already taken most of the measures I can and left only the execution, but I thought I might have to modify the instructions depending on his answer.

For example, if he not only sent people but also the necessary supplies.

It might be better to send it multiple times over time rather than sending everything I’ve gathered at once.

I can also check if the people who arrived first in between contact me saying they need it, and replenish it.

While I was organizing my thoughts like that, Leoprick opened his mouth.

“I’m not going to do anything.”

And what he said was enough to stop all my thoughts and actions.

Up until now, there was nothing he didn’t know about this time.

At least that’s what the current Leoprick believed.

The only thing he didn’t know was the heart or thoughts of the person he was facing right now, but he knew how his life would unfold and what kind of events would unfold before him in the future.

So he was confident.

Confidence in how to deal with all the things that would unfold before him in the future.

And in the end, everything will just flow the way he knows it.

He decided to turn all his attention to his lovely wife rather than himself.

Because what matters is that the problem is solved, not who solves it.

That was the reason he decided to do nothing.

“But Your Highness, it’s clear that something is happening in the East and North right now.”

“Yes, I know.”

There is no one who knows the current situation as well as he does.

Leoprick nodded in response to his wife’s words.

“But you said you won’t do anything?”

Amelia looked at him with a surprised face.

She seemed quite shocked by his words that he wouldn’t act despite knowing about the problem, and it seemed difficult for her to maintain her usual expression.

He thought she was cute like that and nodded again.

“Yes. I will wait until the messenger I sent returns first.”

“Even if you just wait for the messenger and everything happens afterward?”

“I’m not leisurely enough to worry about things that haven’t even happened yet.”

Leoprick drew a firm line.

There was a bit of a discrepancy for the words of the crown prince of a country about something happening in the empire, but he had another plan.

It’s not that he doesn’t know what will happen in the East and North.

However, he couldn’t bring up that matter at this stage.

This would be something he knows and she doesn’t.

No, in fact, it’s because it’s not that important to him.

What’s important is helping her one step behind, no matter what Amelia does.

No matter the purpose, she’s trying hard to save the empire from crisis, so he intended to quietly support her work as he did in the past.

Leoprick smiled innocently as if he knew nothing.

“And isn’t your guild preparing something? Rather than me intervening and making things big, I think it’s better to just wait for now.”

“……But, Your Highness.”

Amelia opened her mouth as if she wanted to add something.

But even so, he had nothing different to say.

He had already made his decision, and that decision probably wouldn’t change in the future.