93. School starts
Perhaps it was a joke that the emperor said that he would be engaged to the princess, and while at the imperial palace, Ian received a persistent approach from the princess.
Having Noah by his side didn’t help. Wasn’t that the situation in which the emperor officially permitted the marriage?
Rather, Noah became a female fox who was seduced by Ibnoah and aimed at Ian.
“Ms. Noah, if you help me, we can have our engagement party together within this week!”
“Hey, it’s the engagement… !?”
“yes! It’s my sister’s and younger sister’s unified engagement ceremony, so the Marquis will be a little bit insulted.”
Saying that, Ivenoah glared at Ian. Noah also looked at him.
He looked like he was going to do something without saying that he was going to have an engagement soon.
Unfortunately, Ian had no intention of having an engagement ceremony or anything like that.
‘You can’t get a nose stitched just because you’re crazy… .’
The engagement to the princess, at first glance, seems to have nothing to do with profit. Becoming the princess’s fiancée means he can at least get the duke’s seat.
If you’re lucky, you could even become the next emperor – that’s because you could become a powerful person at the 3rd rank of the empire.
However, that was only a hopeful observation. That Ian would only benefit from his engagement to her means that it’s a thought that even a child would have.
‘How will other kids see me right now?’
Stella, Siira, Di Noir, the principal Catherine, the homeroom teacher Clara, the old school senior Irena, and Lancia whom I met a few days ago-.
A lot of women will show hostility to him. He said that he submitted all kinds of excuses to the subject he rejected, and eventually surrendered to power.
The emperor’s power was a coveted thing, but it didn’t turn into any kind of force right away.
What Ian needed was local power, not central power.
‘I have to tell the emperor or something.’
Ian thought so and asked the emperor for a solo table. The emperor gladly accepted him, and Ian was able to meet him alone, as he had done at the previous academy.
“Yeah, what’s going on?”
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Maybe he already thought of Ian as his son-in-law in his heart, or the way the emperor called Ian was too relaxed.
Ian looked at it for a moment, then thought about whether there was any wrong logic in what he was going to say, and then opened his mouth carefully.
“I want to set a date for the engagement.”
“Looks like you have finally made up your mind. yes, when would be a good time How about this weekend?”
“… I would like to delay it further.”
“I want to procrastinate. Yes, there was an academy festival in the second semester. That would be good.”
“Graduation Day.”
“Well-. That seems like a bit of a delay, but… Yes, the day all students gather. To be engaged with their blessings-.”
“I wish I could graduate from the academy.”
Hearing this, the emperor frowned slightly. The day Ian graduates. Considering that there is a graduation ceremony at the beginning of the year every year, the day Ian graduated was three years from now.
“… Any reason?”
“of course.”
Before the graduation ceremony, I was planning to hit the Demon King’s neck and return to Earth- I couldn’t say.
If he said that, the emperor could think of him as a madman, and he could immediately celebrate the engagement, saying that he didn’t need to listen to him.
So, he needed a plausible justification that wouldn’t be too offensive to the emperor.
“I am from a baron. It’s closer to commoners than nobles. In fact, my father is more like a hunter than a lord.”
Actually, ‘Ian Clark”s father seemed very good at hunting, so this would not be wrong at all.
After emphasizing that he is from such a lowly origin, he continues the story again.
“In other words, I am no different from a commoner. The etiquette and dignity appropriate for the imperial family are lacking.”
“No need to worry about that. If you come alone… .”
“Even if your Majesty the Emperor thinks so, there is a possibility that those around you will not.”
“Well… … .”
At those words, the emperor thought of the nobles of the court. The retainers who refused to confer his title even after they achieved the achievement of figuring out the Asmodian’s tunnels and burying them all to save mankind from danger.
It was obvious to them that they would react violently when they told Ian, who was nothing more than a baron, to marry the princess.
They were the financial resources that were difficult to cut even as an emperor, so they could not ignore them blindly.
“So, I need time to prove that I am the right person for the Crown Princess.”
“… Do you want to learn manners?”
“It’s not like that. So that everyone— a three-year-old kid who doesn’t know anything about the world can see that I’m the kind of person who suits the Crown Princess.”
It’s here. Ian’s sense exclaimed so. Ian hid his purpose and held it out like a dagger.
“I will set a precedent.”
“It is enough for now.”
“No – not enough.”
“If you don’t have enough people who defeated the top-class demons, who the hell would be a good fit?”
“That major is lacking.”
He smiles and reminds me that there is something above the superlative demon. He laughed out loud whether the emperor understood Ian’s meaning.
“Are you going to bring the nobility?”
“More than that, I will offer even the head of the Demon King.”
“ha ha ha! okay. Indeed, if you come after the Demon King, no one will doubt that you are a person worthy of the imperial family.”
The emperor, who burst out laughing with joy, looked at Ian and began to admire him as if he had never expected him to think so.
“By the way, I didn’t know you would take your engagement so seriously.”
“Yes?”
“I must have been sincere enough to say that I would pluck the Demon King’s head… .”
Listening to the emperor, Ian realized that he was misunderstanding something.
Why did he say he was going to catch the Demon King? Nothing happened. In the story, if you catch the Demon King, it’s over… .
However, people in the other world felt that it seemed to appeal to them to marry a princess even by catching a big evil that threatens the world.
“As long as you say that- okay. I will do as you say.”
The emperor said so, and ordered Ian to bring the demon king’s head. I don’t know how things are going, but Ian, feeling that things are going well anyway, cautiously lowered his head and said.
“I will keep that in mind.”
* * *
After Ian left the audience, the emperor muttered softly.
“Yeah, what do you think?”
“It was unexpected. I must have thought of my brother like that.”
The prince, who sneaked out from behind the emperor, said so and remembered what Ian had said.
what? I’m not good with etiquette, so give me time to study?
If you don’t have enough majors, you’re going to pick up the Demon King’s head?
Wherever they looked, they were words that could be said by a person who sincerely thought about marrying a princess.
And that was not very good from the point of view of the Siscon prince.
“It’s annoying, but… It is not wrong.”
However, if Ian kept his word, the prince had the heart to sincerely acknowledge and congratulate the princess and Ian’s marriage.
Tell me what to do now, the world is devastated by the battle with the demon king and demons. They say that they will come after the devil’s head.
If he really wanted to take the demon king’s head, the prince even thought of handing over the throne to him.
“He, too, seems to have been really in love with my sister.”
“Hmm… Yeah I didn’t see it… .”
“… Yes? Then why did you listen to him?”
“Yeah, if you catch the Demon King, it will be an advantage in the end.”
At those words, the prince looked at his father, hiding his slightly startled feelings. An emperor who only thinks of his own children as materials from which to obtain a hogul.
Only for the Empire.
A being who gave everything for the sake of mankind.
Perhaps even the self reflected in those eyes will be used as a cornerstone for the empire.
‘It’s a bakery in Abiro… A perfect score for the emperor of the empire… .’
I’m sure he wouldn’t even have children if it hadn’t been for him to hand over the summons to his son.
Looking at his resentful and respectful father, the prince wondered if Ian could give him the love he and his father could not give him.
* * *
It’s been a few weeks since I spent time in the Imperial Palace.
That meant the vacation was coming to an end.
‘Time is so fast.’
Bored class hours, when you wait for fun, all the pain of waiting, boring, passes so slowly.
Fun and enjoyable things disappeared like a beam of light, as if they were saying that they would let you experience the preciousness.
Looking back on the vacation that disappeared like that, Ian finished preparing to return to the academy.
“Your Majesty, thank you so much.”
“What. Are you going back to the academy now?”
“Yes that’s right.”
“Yeah, I hope to see you next time. son-in-law.”
“hahaha… .”
Leaving aside the emperor’s son-in-law’s remarks, Ian got on the carriage the emperor had prepared. Naturally, Noah sat next to him.
“So-.”
“… what are you doing?”
“yes? What?”
“The princess asked why are you in this carriage.”
“Why are you riding? Should I go to the academy too?”
Hearing this, Ian remembered that the princess was also a student at the Academy. He was also one year older than him.
No wonder- Ian, who had finally left the mother’s arms and went to the academy, thought it wouldn’t be the same even there, so Ian looked at her with a hardened face.
“Take good care of me. Marquis? Oh, should I call you junior in the academy?”
Hearing the princess’s words, Ian felt that the road ahead was getting worse.
Even if there was no particular peculiarity, the princess was of the royal family.
Even in the academy where the number of summons I have is more important, a being who can look down on others only with a title.
Does such a being suddenly start to be friendly with him when the vacation is over? He could see how others would see him, even if he didn’t see him.
‘driving me crazy… .’
Ian hoped that the princess would not flirt with him in the academy.
“… Princess.”
“Call me senior.”
“Senior, please don’t pretend to know me inside the academy.”
“Are you hitting the wall? Be cool.”
Fortunately, Ivenoah didn’t whine about why he had to do it, or why he didn’t want to. If that had been the case, Ian would have seriously considered dropping out of the academy, but in a way, it was fortunate.
‘Really – I’m going back after a long time.’
It really felt like a time similar to vacation.