114. Eastern style meeting ceremony (1)
“Please wait here for a moment. “I will give you time to speak.”
“I understand.”
Nobu sat me down at the back of the table.
Then, he returned to Lydia’s side and sat down with a solemn expression.
Lydia took a deep breath.
Then she opened fire again with the cool-headed expression of a monarch.
People from his hometown lined up in a long line.
To the enemies.
“I’ll say it again, no matter what happens to Hakim’s wife, nothing will change.”
Everyone focused on the princess’s cold words.
“The main daughter, who is the highest royal family and a direct descendant of her mother, will reappoint the full authority of Samad according to the orthodoxy.”
Princess Tilda listened to Lydia.
The woman with long braided black hair was alone with her arms crossed.
“Lydia. Isn’t that too greedy? “The imperial land you already own is close to half of Samad’s population.”
The nobles of the Samad Kingdom nodded at her words.
After Lydia and Vanessa moved to the Empire, there were almost no people from their home country on the same side.
“Now, even though you are not a king, you are already in charge of an undeserved amount of land.”
Hakim’s wife leisurely retorted.
“And, no matter how much my husband is arrested, he will be released within 5 years? “By then, we will be able to hand over the kingdom.”
Lydia snorted at Tilda’s words.
She lifted her chin upright, her red eyes flashing.
“Hah, are you saying you’re going to make a criminal your king?”
Tilda’s eyebrows twitched at the 19-year-old’s sharp remarks.
“Be careful what you say. Unlike Hakim, you have never lived in Samad. “Hakim, who has lived for a few years, is better.”
Tilda raised her finger.
She then pointed to her own sister-in-law and spoke firmly.
“Did you think you could rule Samad well after just visiting?”
The princess stood up.
“Besides, it is common for blood relatives to compete for the throne. “Even if there is an underground city, it doesn’t mean there was an actual rebellion.”
She spread her arms and demanded a response from her entourage.
“At most, the only crime is unintentionally stealing items belonging to the same royal family (Leah) and failing to manage thieves in the area.”
The princess leisurely recited Hakim’s charges as if they were no big deal.
“How possible would it be to catch Hakim with that?”
“….”
Lydia gave Tilda a murderous look in her eyes.
It’s as if I want to have the knights execute Tilda and all of her associates right now.
“You have the same eyes as your mother. “A girl with a s*xy face.”
Honestly, the princess’s firepower is comparable to that of the entire Samad.
However, there is no justification and if they do so, they will lose the public support of their home country.
“Lydia. “It is not time yet.”
The old lady sitting next to me knows that fact.
He quietly advised her granddaughter.
After that, he glanced back at me.
And he sent a signal with his eyes.
“Please show me the ‘item’ you brought.”
“I understand.”
As if responding to this, he stood up from his seat.
Holding the wooden box she had prepared, I confidently approached Lydia’s side.
“Veil, what are you thinking?”
Lydia glanced at me with a tired expression.
I told her to be at ease and she smiled brightly.
“I’m here to give you a gift.”
“If it was a gift, didn’t you already give it to me?”
Lydia showed the little red bow that sat on her own tie and she said:
“Ah, I’m sorry, but this is not a gift for the princess. “I’m giving it to Miss Tilda.”
The 3rd princess looked dumbfounded after hearing what I said.
She would give a gift not to herself, but to a woman from an enemy country.
He looks quite distraught.
I left her behind and looked at her Tilda and her entourage.
The captain of the Samad Guard was sitting next to the princess.
“Hello, great royals of Samad.”
And on his arm….
It had the same pattern as the gift in my wooden box.
“My name is Bale Mikhail, a former defense engineer.”
I approached the conference table.
Then we politely showed courtesy.
“Defense article… ? “Why is such a lowly person here?”
Tilda asked, frowning at him.
Her other associates followed her and looked at me with complacency.
“That’s right. “I am a low-ranking knight.”
I answer her with a wide smile.
“This is the lowest of the low that travels around the capital to check if there are any problems.”
Tilda pursed her lips when told that she had scouted this place today.
As if I became anxious for no reason.
“There must be a good reason for such a person to dare to come to the meeting, right?”
The guard captain who accompanied Tilda asked.
“Yes, I was the one who caught the culprit in last night’s imperial palace terror attack.”
When they heard her say those words, all the royal family’s faces turned white.
“That can’t be possible. “I heard that the only people arrested were the Crown Prince and Her Highness Irina?”
“Do you dare lie to us now?”
Eastern royals with displeased expressions.
They were suspicious the day I wasn’t at the award ceremony.
“Everything I say is true. Because he was injured at the time, he did not participate in the award ceremony, but he had already been separately praised by His Majesty the Emperor.”
I said, putting the wooden box down on the table.
Boom!!
“So, I personally handed over the criminal’s body.”
The royal family all looked at the wooden box I brought.
“But in the process of retrieving his body, there was an evil group that dared to steal it.”
I opened the wooden box lid.
And….
“Of course, I don’t know where they belong, but….”
He took out the roasted arm of the assassin.
“You were trying to hide this?”
The corpse arm was thrown carelessly on the table.
Then, the royal women were shocked and backed away.
“Look at the symbol on this arm.”
However, Lydia was different.
She stood up and confidently grabbed the corpse’s arms with her bare hands.
“Lee, Lydia….”
Her grandfather looked at her granddaughter worriedly.
However, the 3rd princess paid no heed and discovered the pattern engraved on her arm.
“This…” “It’s the symbol of the Samad Kingdom’s royal guard, right?”
“That’s right, that’s why I dared to enter the conference room because I was presumed to be the Pan-India kingdom person responsible for this incident.”
I stared at the guard captain.
And then, I noticed the arm sticking out through his clothes.
“Now that I think about it, the captain next to Tilda has the same pattern on his arm.”
When Lydia heard me, she grinned.
Because I realized the meaning of the gift I brought for Tilda.
“I need you to give me an ‘explanation’ about this.”
I crossed my arms alone and looked down at the middle-aged man.
The same goes for others.
Everyone put the guard captain at the center of the incident.
“Oh, this is…” . It looks like the culprit is from my excommunicated royal guard….”
The guard captain touched the beard on his chin.
And, he answered with a smile.
“I can’t help what the excommunicated knight did.”
It looks like it just cuts off its tail and runs away.
I was so shocked that I couldn’t help but snort.
“Oh, is that so? “But it looks like there are quite a few knights who have been excommunicated?”
I shouted firmly to take the guy’s breath away.
“Everyone come in!”
After hearing my shouting, noises began to be heard from the door of the conference room.
Finally, the moment the door opens.
「Excuse me during the meeting!!」
Two great eastern knights.
Bashu and Tau entered inside.
With a one-armed knight with one arm cut off.
“… !!”
The guard captain’s eyes wavered at the sight of his subordinate in complete disrepair.
I noticed it right away.
“Captain of the Guard. “You’re probably trying to get rid of this guy because he’s an excommunicated knight, right?”
When I changed my tone to a more forceful tone, the temperature in the conference room became cold.
The captain glared at me with a very disgusted expression.
“This is a guy who disguised himself as an imperial knight. “He caught me while he was removing his body and immediately brandished a knife.”
Tilda’s associates began to murmur among themselves.
It was as if a crack had appeared in their once solid union.
Tilda, who was suffering from this, shouted in a low voice to the guard captain.
‘What are you going to do now? They said it would be okay!’
The guard captain took a deep breath.
The number is wrong, so the look in his eyes is as if he would immediately raise his sword and start a fight.
‘….’
I looked at him and raised the corners of my mouth.
Then, he held both of his hands together and calmed the situation.
“Well, it’s okay.”
A word that makes a situation worse and immediately changes the atmosphere.
Everyone looked at me with a puzzled expression at that one word.
“As you say, it may not really have been what the guard captain ordered. “There is no clear evidence, right?”
Hearing those words, the captain of the guard made a shocked expression.
It’s as if you can’t understand me suddenly allowing myself to breathe.
However, the old man and Lydia’s grandfather, who had gone through all the hardships of childbirth, were different.
He stared with strange eyes at the day when cold water was poured on the heated atmosphere.
“If it wasn’t something the commander of the guards told them to do, what on earth did they plan to do this for?”
I raised my finger.
And, the culprit of all these incidents was attributed to Hakim, not Tilda and the guard captain.
“Actually, there is another person who is the most influential. “It’s Hakim himself.”
I received the arms of her corpse from Lydia.
“When I captured this leader, I heard him leave a will saying, ‘Hakim is the master of the eastern part.'”
Then he waved it as if showing off and said.
“So, the culprit of all this is Hakim, not you?”
I turned my head.
And then I asked the trustworthy vice-captain Bashu.
“Bashu, what kind of punishment is usually given for the crime of trying to explode the imperial palace?”
“It is the death penalty.”
I raised the corners of my mouth at the Oriental Knight’s firm words.
“Fortunately, the Three Clans are not destroyed?”
My image leisurely spitting out harsh words.
Tilda was at a loss for words at that sight.
“Then, you all live too. “Isn’t it good for everyone that the successor issue, which is a problem in this meeting, has been resolved?”
The guard captain looked distraught.
Will he give up on Hakim and take full responsibility in order to save his own life?
Or will he accept the charges and be executed for useless loyalty?
“Why are you worrying so much? Could it be that the emperor would really send his son to death?”
I whispered sweet words to him.
“At most, it will be life imprisonment, so don’t worry too much.”
Lydia’s close associates looked disapprovingly at the day when they let go of their best chance of victory.
However, Lydia, who read the trend, quietly advised them.
“Everyone, please wait quietly. I’m sure they all say this with meaning.”
Anyway, now that Hakim is gone, there is no one who can stop Lydia from succeeding to the throne.
The moment the prince, their symbol, disappears, their driving force will also disappear and they will disperse on their own.
So, it is wiser now to give them a chance to live rather than stimulating them and calling for a civil war.
‘As expected, our princess. ‘You are truly smart.’
“Well, then there is only one heir left to the throne of Samad.”
I looked at Tilda with a satisfied expression.
The princess lowered her head.
Her clenched fists were shaking like crazy.
“I think it would be better to step back for now…” .”
As the guard captain whispered, Hakim’s wife took a deep breath.
And then, through her tangled hair, she glared at me as if she were going to kill me.
Could it be anger at not being able to get her husband back?
‘Absolutely not.’
If she were a wife who really loved her husband, she would not have been able to accept this situation.
She will regret her mistakes and admit her sin.
That’s how Hakim will live.
But.
Tilda only uses Hakim for her own power, and there is no further meaning to it.
So she had no choice but to obediently abandon Hakim.
‘In the end, she did not last five years and was only used in a self-made drama created by the crown prince.’
The princess’s black eyes were shaking as she looked at me.
Where on earth did this fox-like guy come from? With an expression of interest.
A strange and alien being that suddenly appears.
She trembled as if she were seeing the guardian spirit of the royal family.
“You… I will definitely remember this… !”
Tilda shouted in a cracking voice.
And then, she got up and left the conference room carelessly.
If she stays here any longer, her evil behavior will only be revealed.
The guard captain follows behind.
He glanced at me, then passed by indifferently.
I was polite to the man leaving.
And then, I smiled to myself.
‘That’s right. Anyway, from today, I will never have anything to do with the East again.’
Now Samad’s only owner is Lydia.
￣￣￣.
Royalty and nobles lined up and left, following Tilda and the guard captain.
Thanks to this, only the relatives who supported Lydia remained in the conference room.
“Thank you so much for your help.”
Their representative, the Archduke, approached me.
“Thanks to you, my granddaughter’s position has become even stronger.”
Nobu looked touched as if he had accomplished something great.
“I just returned the acquired items to those who deserved them.”
I bowed my head and showed respect to the former ruler of the East.
“No, it may just be an acquisition for you, but it was an important card to defeat Tilda.”
Lydia also approached me gently.
And, unlike his usual demeanor, he smiled sincerely.
“Yes, Veil. “Thank you so much.”
Her youngest daughter cleared her throat, as if it was awkward for me to be with her family.
“I’ll give out a separate reward later…” .”
I was trying to end the situation….
“What are you talking about?”
The Archduke grinned and stepped between me and Lydia.
“Since we’ve already come to one place, why not have a meal together?”
Lydia heard those words.
She was startled by her grandfather’s words.
“Yes? Grandpa, what is that… !”
“hehehe, we Easterners never forget the kindness of those who helped us.”
Inviting outsiders to eat together at Samad.
That was a very unusual thing.
“Everyone will agree, right?”
The Grand Duke looking at his relatives.
Everyone nodded to his question.
However, their eyes all seemed strangely wary.
“None of the men who showed interest in Lydia were real… “I’m looking forward to it this time.”
Lydia’s uncle and Samad’s military commander looked at me with murderous eyes.
Dark-skinned and muscular, his body had numerous scary scars.
Like a large, fierce leopard.
“That’s right, I wonder how smart he is.”
Lydia’s aunt and Samad’s caravan owner also smiled brightly.
However, I felt a strange sense of life in her laughter.
Like a vicious female leopard.
“Well. Are you a little too skinny to protect your sister? “A guy like this got my sister’s attention?”
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Lydia’s younger cousin, a Samad officer, also stared at me with cold eyes.
Like an adolescent leopard that has just awakened to its beast nature.
“Uh….”
I instinctively felt fear in their gaze.
“Can’t I just go back home?”
I took a step back without realizing it.
Then, the Archduke quietly blocks the back road.
“Of course not. “Are you saying this old man won’t even give me a chance to express my gratitude?”
The Grand Duke asked me in a sly tone.
Relatives staring coldly at me from behind his back.
It’s a look that dares to ignore the Grand Duke’s good intentions.
‘This is dangerous… ? I was just trying to give you something to pick up, but why did things end up like this… !’
Lydia stared at me being dragged by the Archduke.
It looked like a desert fox being dragged into a leopard’s den.
“Li, Lydia…. Do I really have to go… ?!”
The princess played with her pigtails on one side and avoided my gaze.
“Well, I can’t do anything about my grandfather’s name.”
As if I was secretly hoping for a situation like this.
“There’s no way to help.”
It’s leopard family
He’ll be fine 😅