95 – Episodes 92-93 Full Version
Late at night.
The time when all office workers left work.
I am signing a document.
“Really… When you get sick, things come back to you several times over.”
Reports, approvals, proposals, rulings…
When you are about to sigh while looking at the endless pile of documents.
-Knock knock!
“Who?”
[His Majesty the Emperor has visited.]
I have a lot to think about when I hear that Theodora visited late at night.
I have never come to my office late at night…
Is that really the case?
It gives me goosebumps to learn that he personally came to assassinate the pregnant woman.
[Your Highness?]
When I got no answer, the guard asked back and I answered.
“Oh… I’m sorry. Please tell me to come inside.”
No sooner have I finished speaking than Theodora opens the door roughly and comes in.
“What are you… doing?”
I tell her to calm down as she glares at me with her eyebrows twisted as if she’s as angry as she can be.
“Whoa… Calm down. Of course, I have a backlog of work. But what’s wrong with you?”
At my words, Theodora crosses her arms and glares at me.
“That’s because I was worried because you didn’t come home until late because you were sick! But do you really have an idea? No?”
“That… That…”
-Tap, knock!
She came next to me with an angry expression on her face and grabbed my hand holding her fountain pen.
“You didn’t think I would be worried if you worked this late?!”
After saying that, he immediately applies force and pulls it.
“Stop it and get up quickly.”
She whines and pulls her hand, but… There’s no way I, as her man, can lose to her.
“Ha… I have a lot of backlogged work, so please take a look.”
Honestly, I don’t have time to wrestle with Theodora right now.
I managed to finish all the urgent matters. There is literally a mountain of work to do.
“But you have to do it in moderation for your health! Won’t you wake up?!”
It seems like I’m applying enough force that my face turns red, but…
I just sat in the chair without moving anything.
It’s a nuisance, so let’s get rid of it quickly(?).
Thinking of her like that, I would rather pull her…
“Huh…?”
-Wow!
Belongs and comes into my arms.
The faint scent of rosemary irritates my nose as if passing by.
I straighten the posture of the girl who was holding me in my arms like that, and I make her sit on my lap and say.
“I’m just going to finish this and go to sleep. Calm down.”
If you say so…
-Squeak!
I pull up a chair and review the documents again.
“Ugh…”
I can feel him squirming in my arms, but I have a lot to look at right now, so I focus on the documents.
Most of the business proposals seem absurd.
After hearing rumors that the empire was making a huge investment, so many people applied, making it difficult to distinguish between the good and the bad.
At least now, this is something I have high expectations for.
This is about a technology that maximizes the efficiency of magic stones and increases capacity, preservation, and storage by putting mana in crystals rather than magic stones.
With this, the distribution of magic stones will become easier.
-Sreuk…
Hmm, okay, in theory there doesn’t seem to be a problem.
If this is commercialized, there is a problem that mana disappears after a long time after mining magic stones.
So, if this technology is developed, we expect that it will be able to solve many of the shelf life and quality issues of Maseok.
“That… That…”
hehehe… It may take quite a bit of initial capital, but if you think about it in the long term, when you do business using mana in the future.
I think it will definitely be of great help.
“Over there…”
I will have to hand it over to Maximilian as I need to check the theoretical part a little more.
-Smurf!
Let me hold a fountain pen and sign…
“Over there?”
I speak to Theodora, who opens her red eyes brightly while being held in my arms.
“Huh? Why?”
“Do you really only know about work?”
“Is that possible?”
I don’t know what you’re thinking when you say that.
Is there anyone who only thinks about work?
“But… Why are you hugging me alone like this? Why aren’t you paying attention to me?”
As he says that, he pokes my chest with his index finger and continues with a mischievous expression.
“Are you sure you really love me? Do you like me? Or do you like working?”
Why are you making me into a pervert who likes to work?
Theodora’s absurd words.
Actually, she doesn’t particularly like it either.
Should I say it looks like a colorful spider that harbors dangerous poison?
He is someone I would rather avoid.
“Of course I love you. There’s no way I like working more than you do, right? “I don’t want to do this, but I’m being forced to do it.”
Responsibility.
I do everything because of that one sense of responsibility.
Of course, I don’t love Theodora.
She spoke with a light blush on her face at my words.
“Ugh… Just like this morning, how can you say such embarrassing things so well?”
Is that so?
Maybe it’s because I don’t love her.
Her good relationship with her, as she said, will be advantageous to me externally.
“You don’t know? “Isn’t that something that comes out naturally because you are so lovely?”
At my words, her white face turns completely red and she shakes her head from side to side.
“Foul!, Don’t say that! “It’s a foul.”
I don’t know what the foul is.
She says as I hug her waist, worried that she will fall as she struggles in my arms.
“Huh!”
I speak to Theodora, who is stiffening and making a sound like a death.
“And then it falls? “Stay still.”
After seeing her lower her head and become quiet, I unfold another proposal.
-Sreuk…
-Smurf!
When I feel grateful that there is quite a bit of silence between us and we can work comfortably.
“But… Do you understand all that?”
What I’m looking at right now is a proposal to use magic to quickly harden cement.
“Yes. But it’s so absurd that I don’t want to invest in it.”
A complex magic formula is engraved on a copper plate, an iron plate is placed on top of it, and the cement wall is rubbed.
Then, it is a proposal to create equipment that quickly hardens cement by making the copper and iron plates hot with the magic formula engraved on the copper plate.
This is not possible.
There are many complicated magic formulas… But in the end, too much money is lost.
And there is no word on whether quickly dried cement will be as stable in construction, and secondly, it seems that a lot of expensive stone will be broken in order to quickly harden the entire large building, so I decided to reject it.
“Do you know the magic formula?”
I shake my head at those words.
“No, I don’t know much about weaving, but I can interpret it a little bit.”
“It’s amazing…”
I respond lightly to Theodora’s words.
“Thank you for the compliment.”
With that said, he continues to review the documents.
How much did you review?
Theodora, she laid her head on my chest…
-Saegeun… Saegeun…
Are you asleep?
I look at the clock and see that it’s already 4 am, so I think I should go to sleep too.
I gently hug Theodora, who is sleeping on my lap, and hug her like a princess from an old drama before heading to her newlywed room.
The guard who saw Theodora sleeping in my arms spoke quietly.
“Huh? “Your Highness… Are you leaving now?”
“Okay, I guess I’ll just go.”
After saying hello to the guard, he picked up Theodora and gently placed her in the bedroom of her newlywed room.
Wouldn’t it be uncomfortable to sleep wearing a dress? I thought, but why am I changing my clothes? I just cover my neck with a blanket.
“Ugh~ I guess I should get some sleep too.”
I lie down on the sofa like that.
***
It’s already late in the morning.
“Whoa… Today is finally over.”
Tomorrow is Sunday.
It is a holiday that occurs once a week.
When I get to a high position later, I have to legislate two days off a week.
With that thought in mind, I get on the carriage after work.
I look coldly at the magnificent carriage that His Majesty the Grand Duke lent me in consideration of my commute.
I’m not sure if this means working until you have enough strength to go home.
At that time, Müller and Maximilian called me.
“Hey!, Lucius. What’s this! “It’s so different from what you’ve heard, isn’t it?”
“That’s right! What about entertainment? What about noble ladies? I just change this every day! “Where can I find something like this?”
I feel a little sorry for them, so I say this while scratching the back of my head.
“hahahaha… Sorry. But if we hadn’t increased the number of people like this, I would have died?”
Brother Müller frowns at my words.
“Oh my! “I’m going to kill that bastard today!”
At those words, I give up and speak to Müller with tired eyes.
“hahahaha… Will I die from being hit, or will I die from overwork?”
“Brother! “Hold on!”
I sigh as I see Maximilian blocking Müller.
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“Whoa… I’m dying. Because the Archduke woke up. “It’ll get better, right?”
“Oh, I don’t know!”
I shake my head as I look at Müller looking irritated.
“No, it would be nice if there was less work. Is not it?”
Brother Müller folds his arms and says what I said.
“No, really, when I think about the fact that I’m working here because of you, hahahaha…”
I say this as I look at Müller sighing as if the earth was falling apart.
“No, but your salary is good, isn’t it? A lot of authority? Other people look up to you and you try to become closer to your brother, right? Is not it?”
Brother Müller shouts with his face turning red at my words.
“Are you coming? Well said! What do you do if your salary is high? I’m so busy that I can’t even write! Lots of authority! That way you can get rid of all that work! What?! What happened to entertainment in the past? You’re talking bullsh*t. Who has time to entertain people? “You crazy guy!”
I laugh at Brother Müller’s words.
“Tsk tsk! I crossed the line with that. Sorry!”
I apologize, but Müller just snorts and doesn’t say anything, so there is silence.
“But… His Royal Highness, are you interested in Princess Ea?”
Müller speaks in an annoyed voice at Maximilian’s words.
“What am I interested in when I see it? That person married an empire or a document. “Is there a rumor going around in the imperial palace that His Majesty Emperor Theodora is a virgin?”
It’s so funny that I’m married to Je-guk that I laugh without realizing it.
“Tsk tsk! “What kind of person marries a country?”
“hahahahaha who said no!”
As Maximilian and I laugh together, Müller says bluntly.
“Other than that, I wonder why he doesn’t sleep with his pretty wife and comes to the Grand Duke’s office to work as soon as he wakes up… If anyone sees him, he’s the emperor.”
I answer while nodding.
“Well… It seems like you’re working a little too much.”
Maximilian speaks hesitantly at my words.
“But, it seems like His Majesty has feelings for the Archduke. “Is that correct?”
“That’s of course, can’t you tell by what you say or the look in your eyes? “Honey was dripping from your majesty’s eyes.”
“But… Why doesn’t His Highness sleep with His Majesty the Emperor? “Isn’t the issue of successor very important?”
Of course it is important.
If there is no successor, the next emperor will succeed according to the inheritance law…
The next priority successor will be Princess Joy or Princess Joy’s child, and if he ascends to the throne with such unstable legitimacy, the influence of the nobles will inevitably be affected, so if we are unlucky, it will lead to a civil war.
“I don’t know, I guess I like men.”
Brother Müller speaks harshly.
“Oh, no way…”
“Or maybe you’re not confident in going to bed.”
I say this while looking at Maximilian who is surprised by those words.
“Hmm… Rather than that feeling, I heard you have a stronger feeling of avoiding His Majesty, right? “You seem uncomfortable.”
“Why? I don’t know if His Majesty is ugly. “Honestly, you’re so beautiful that it can’t even be compared to Princess Ea.”
I guess Müller didn’t like what I said, so he came forward and answered.
“Oh what? “Isn’t Princess Ea much prettier?”
Müller got kicked out for confessing to Princess EA at the academy.
I guess he still hasn’t let go of his attachment to Princess Ea.
When I think of that, Müller grins and says.
“Aha, now I understand why an unlucky nobleman avoids His Majesty the Emperor.”
“Why are you doing this?”
I’m curious too. Let’s wait for Müller’s next words…
“That’s it, why? They say that horses don’t go to very beautiful mares, so the breeders intentionally put mud on them, right?”
I think I’ve heard it before.
When breeding racehorses. There is a rumor that stallions are discouraged from approaching a mare that is so beautiful.
“Is that real?”
“You don’t know? But isn’t that what it is? “He’s secretly timid, and although his wife is pretty, he knows his subject and won’t touch her.”
Brother Müller’s tone is strangely aggressive, so I speak cautiously.
“Well… it’s okay to say that when we’re alone… but you know that in the imperial palace, right?”
If you talk about the Grand Duke so casually in the imperial palace, you can see that your hair will fall off.
“Am I a kid? And after work, you can curse at your boss who treats you mercilessly. “What can you say about that?”
At those words, Maximilian and I nod at her.
“But if you get caught, you’ll probably be executed… right?”
Brother Müller shrugs his shoulders and answers Maximilian’s words.
“If you don’t get caught, that’s fine. “Why are you so scared?”
Suddenly, the carriage arrives in front of my house and as I get off, I say:
“I’m leaving. Everyone, have a good rest and see you the day after tomorrow.”
Get off the carriage like that.
***
Letter from Roman.
Ioanes thinks as he reads the letter that came early in the morning.
“Hmm…Did something happen?”
I remembered that Ioanes, who had recently heard that Devian had been seriously injured despite failing to assassinate the emperor, had ordered Alexander to explain that they had nothing to do with this incident.
‘But you insisted that you could publicly announce the engagement between Princess Joy and my son, right?’
Although Alexander did not bring much benefit against Debian, Ioanes quite trusts him.
In fact, it can be said that the fact that he became the head of the imperial faction and that the Kingdom of Nicaea rose to the position of vice-chairman of the imperial council was all thanks to his diplomatic skills.
-Jiik!
That’s why I open the letter without thinking much.
Once we get past the initial question of how things are and get into the main topic, Ioanes’s frown frowns.
And…
-Boom!
“You damn bastard! “Are there soldiers outside?!”
When an angry Ioanes looks for a soldier outside, he soon hears an answer.
-Squeak!
“Yes! “Did you call your highness?!”
Ioanes speaks quickly to the soldier who answers Ioanes in a loud voice.
“Right now! Bring in the officials in charge of Epirus and Sabinelli! Hurry!”
“Yes! “I follow your orders.”