271 – System Selection Groom of the Year – 6
Families are born or acquired. Just like you could be a member of the Varenti after you were born, and another family could be connected to the Varenti through marriage. That is why my father took this meeting seriously.
With just one meeting, I became in-laws with the Krasius family, one of the Imperial Counts. The Duke of Catoban, the Marquis of Marsallo, the Count of Jorun, and the Baron of Naiad also belonged to the family. It must be a happy day for a father who values family.
However, it is not only the adults in the family that are connected to the name of family.
“Did you continue to work with your older brother?”
“Ah~ Nie~ We worked together for two years… Ah, three years now? Before that, she just seemed like a affiliation.”
“But if she’s three years, you’ve known her for a long time.”
Women who ended up with the same husband. People who used to be strangers, but now have become closer family than anyone else.
In addition, since our relationship must be maintained for the connection of each family to continue, the role and duty of us as wives can be said to be more important than anything else.
As the first of those wives, you may feel more pressure, but—
‘No problem.’
Seeing Lady Louise and Lady Elizabeth having a friendly conversation relieved my tension. Marquises and barons, bureaucrats and students, teenagers and twenties. Even though there was a lot of room for conflict, the two smiled casually.
This is really fortunate. If even one of the wives has a sharp and ferocious personality, it is difficult to maintain the frame of a family. Fortunately, neither they nor the other wives had a angular character. Is Enen bowing, or is Carl good at seeing people?
Actually, the notoriety of Lady Elizabeth, the head of the inspection department, is circulating in the social world, but honestly, in terms of notoriety, Carl, the director of the inspection department, is worse. I don’t think you need to worry about notoriety.
“Then what do you do? These days, the manager is only outside. I want to spend my school life with the manager, too.”
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Lady Elizabeth hugging Lady Louise while making a crying sound. Seeing that, Lady Irina let out a chuckle, and Prince Ma also smiled.
A really ideal look. A look that doesn’t turn their backs on each other without being jealous. Although we are in the stage of getting to know each other because there are many things we do not know, the fact that we are making an effort to get to know each other is in itself a positive sign.
‘Thank you, Lady Louise.’
And with gratitude, I looked at Lady Louise, buried in Lady Elizabeth’s arms. No matter how well each other’s personalities are, and they make an effort to get to know each other, effort doesn’t solve everything.
It’s hard to talk to because it’s awkward, and I notice it for no reason, and then time passes in vain. That’s the inevitable process that happens in the first meeting. However, thanks to Lady Louise, he was able to skip that awkward step.
From the perspective of Lady Louise, Lady Irina is a friend, I am a senior, Princess Majong is a teacher, and even Lady Elizabeth is an acquaintance I met at the academy fair. The awkwardness disappeared rather quickly thanks to Lady Louise, who has a connection with everyone, eagerly talking to us. After all, the social skills that made even the royal family fall in love with him are not going anywhere.
“You seem like you can’t breathe. Would you mind letting go?”
“Yes-“
As a result, we reached a stage where we could have conversations about Lady Louise even if we were not familiar with each other.
Seeing the disciple struggling, the teacher rebukes the young lady who is bullying the disciple, and the young lady feels sorry for her but frees the disciple. A sight unimaginable just a few days ago.
‘This is how we get to know each other.’
At some point, he smiled lightly as he saw Lady Elizabeth holding Lady Irina instead of Lady Louise.
There is no rush. It was enough to get to know each other step by step like this, and to reach a stage where they could naturally have a conversation without Lady Louise.
“Wow, do you exercise separately? Surprisingly strong—”
“Oh, sister!”
In the meantime, Lady Elizabeth admired Lady Irina’s body. Lady Irina, whose body was evaluated out of nowhere, raised her voice in embarrassment, but she did not appear to be genuinely disgusted.
You must be thinking that Lady Irina would become close like this. I’m just glad that everyone seems to be full of ideas to become friends.
… She would have been happier if she hadn’t looked at her strangely whenever the word that Lord Majong was her older sister came out.
“Since we’re like family now, why don’t we sing comfortably when we’re together?”
At Lady Louise’s suggestion, we decided to call each other older sister and younger sister in the presence of only us, but—I couldn’t find the courage to call Ma Jong-gong older sister.
Prince Majong did not rush to call her older sister, as if he understood her feelings. She just gives a coy glance. Every time he does that, she wonders what kind of reaction she should show.
‘Sister Beatrix.’
I practiced calling Ma Jong-gong sister in advance, but my body trembled with an instinctive feeling of rejection.
Can I, dare I? He became a duke before my father, even before my grandfather and great-grandfather…?
‘I have to try…’
But I can’t call my family members duke or sir.
Okay, let’s try. Then one day it will see the light. I believe so.
***
Contrary to concerns, the New Year’s ceremony passed without incident.
Although there was a crisis of dying from being hit by a road roller called the golden ball, she was just breathing. Besides, with the exception of the golden ball, there was no case for his wife’s shield to be pierced, so it was very comfortable.
Sometimes, if you feel like your wife can’t even wear a shield, it’s enough to secretly join the Ministry of Finance. I also thought that people should prepare several burrows to hide in.
‘…This is comfort.’
For a moment, I felt a sense of shame. The emperor’s invitation to a luncheon, the nobles’ hot eyes, the Golden Ball’s proclamation of twelve rings, and meeting four pairs of parents-in-law in one place. I’ve been through all of this at the same time and it’s comforting.
But what can I do? Considering the worst hell I could go through, this is a fairy. What would have happened if I had experienced the pleas of the head of department 1 and the sobbing of the head of the department during the New Year’s celebration at the end of last year? It never ends so much that it draws attention.
I’m glad. Things that should have happened anyway… I’m glad I dispersed and went through it in advance.
‘There won’t be any more problems.’
I glanced at my wife, to be exact, at the place where the prospective wives were.
Usually, when you watch a love affair drama, all sorts of schemes are rampant between wives and a war of nerves unfolds, but thankfully there is no such sign among the five. Even the 4th section chief who is not here is not the type to fight with others, so all the wives are mild after a miraculous probability.
It seems to have a spicy flavor torture fanatic pretending to be mild, but it’s mild anyway. I decided to think so.
‘It’s enough if you don’t fight.’
I didn’t even want to get along well from the beginning.
It’s just that, at a gathering of nobles, ‘Why do you share the same husband as me?’ I said ‘Why are you first?’ I just didn’t want to say the same thing. If Prince Majong goes crazy with his stupid words, isn’t the New Year’s celebration ceremony going to be the last year’s post on that day?
But beyond the level of not fighting, it seems that they are friendly in their own way, so I feel like my tears will come out. You’re making up for the luck of your subordinates elsewhere.
“I’m still worried. I don’t know if I should give the congratulatory money all at once or split it up.”
“Give me what you’re comfortable with. Isn’t the heart more important than the shape?”
“That’s a harder word.”
While I was watching Irina, who had escaped from the arms of Section 1, fall into Louise’s arms, the head of the intelligence department came wandering around.
The New Year’s Celebration, the only period during which the Director of Information can legally rest. Thanks to this, the head of the intelligence department showed a brighter complexion than usual. Even so, I was still gloomy compared to others.
“It’s been a while since I’ve seen you in person. How have you been?”
“Well, as long as you’re alive, you’re doing well. It’s fortunate that the Inspector General seems to be doing well too.”
After a light greeting, a sincere reply came back.
That’s right. Unless the chief of intelligence is overworked and has to go a long way, he’s been fine.
“Anyway, I’m sorry for the suddenness. I didn’t want to talk about work during the New Year’s celebration.”
The head of the intelligence department, who burst into laughter, quickly straightened his expression and apologized. The reason why I, who was attached to my wife’s family or the Ministry of Finance, suddenly met the head of the intelligence department was because there was a request to meet briefly.
To be honest, I didn’t want to talk about work like the head of the information department said, but I couldn’t refuse when someone who didn’t want to talk about work more than me asked me to meet. Rather frightening. What the hell happened to this guy first…
“It’s okay. Even if you just rested so far, where is it?”
“Thank you for saying that.”
Heaving a small sigh, the intelligence director quickly looked around and carefully opened his mouth.
“Information about the Fifth Reich came in. I called because I thought the Inspector General should hear it too.”
At that, I nodded softly.
‘Bastards.’
However, unlike the calm exterior, the inside was not. Excluding the five pillars that splendidly self-destructed, the third glory in the first semester, the Twilight Church during summer vacation, and the red wave appeared in the second semester.
I’ve been thinking about it ever since they came out as if they were salty, but I never thought they would come out during winter vacation. Horrifyingly honest.
‘What from the New Year.’
My head was pounding. Important events are held in the new year not only in the Empire but also in Armin. However, in the midst of a tumultuous event in your country, it shows strange movements? To the extent that it caught the eye of the Imperial Intelligence Agency?
They are strange babies. No matter how much he is a non-mainstream in Armin politics, isn’t he acting like an outsider too much?
“They say they’ve been purged. Several key figures in the Fifth Reich have been decapitated.”
Yes, it is. If you act like an outsider starting from the New Year, of course
…?
“It was the 3rd Prince, Ryutis, who led the purge. I called the director of the Inspection Department because I thought he should know as an advisor.”
“…Yes?”
My head was pounding in a different way than before.
Who purges whom?