99 – Gongnyeo sends support.
crunchy-
I took a bite of the apple in front of me and took a bite.
The apples weren’t cut into bite-size pieces or cut pretty, but they were good enough to eat.
“······Why do you just eat it?”
“Isn’t it?”
“If you eat like that, I can’t eat with you.”
Rebecca looks at me with puffy cheeks.
When I didn’t take care of myself, I felt like I was in pain.
“Can’t you just eat it?”
“This one?”
“I could eat an apple that my fiancée took a bite of.”
“…”
“Aren’t you a princess?”
“······I can eat it too.”
Even so, I blushed at the unexpected counterattack.
She was a very consistent and cute princess.
“Why are you guys turning my insides with an apple?”
The prince’s dissatisfied voice came from the front.
“In the first place, the owner of the apple must also be me.”
“Does the Crown Prince, who will become the highest person in the empire, have lingering attachments to an apple?”
“That’s not it… that’s it. Don’t talk.”
Mikhail raised both hands and feet as if he had lost.
That figure seemed pathetic, so I decided to stop teasing the crown prince here.
“By the way, what did you call for?”
“I was going to talk about that anyway. Didn’t you guys start salting in front of me?”
“To hear the word ‘salting’ come out of the mouth of the lower prince, who should be nobler than anyone else. I can’t believe this faithful servant.”
“…”
Maybe if I touch it more here, I’ll really get pissed off.
Although I was curious to see Mikhail, the second-highest person in the empire, pouting and not saying anything.
First of all, I had to hear the reason for calling me and Rebecca into the office.
“It’s a joke.”
“…if that wasn’t a joke, I wouldn’t have put you here in the first place.”
“Now tell me why you really called me and the princess.”
Until now, I hadn’t shown it because I was joking around, but I was honestly curious.
Just like the prince said, he hates me and Rebecca’s salting more than anyone else.
There must have been an important reason for calling both Rebecca and me at the cost of her own pain.
“Do you remember what I said earlier?”
“If it was before… are you referring to the affairs of the church?”
“You got it right. The church was plotting something behind the imperial family’s knowledge.”
“Has the matter been resolved?”
It came out of my mouth, but I thought it was a very hopeless word.
The opponent was a church, not another place.
The only church in the empire that does not have to follow the orders of the emperor.
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No matter how important the church’s important figures, the saintess and the crown prince, worked together, it was by no means an easy solution…
“Yes. It was resolved very neatly.”
“…”
“Rather, it was solved so neatly that I even doubted it.”
I thought I shouldn’t use the word absolute.
To be betrayed as soon as you use the word absolute.
“······Was that something that could be solved so easily?”
Fortunately, Rebecca seemed to agree with me.
It’s a matter that the church is involved in, so how is it possible that it can be resolved so easily?
Was it a mistake or an illusion or something?
“I thought so too at first… But since all the evidence points straight to the pope, it doesn’t matter how much the pope is.”
“Did you just say Pope?”
“… the Pope?”
Is it an illusion to think that I just heard a great story?
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No, judging by the stupid expression Rebecca was putting on, she was absolutely not mistaken.
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Not knowing how Rebecca and I felt, the prince spoke as if it was not a big deal.
“Ah, I didn’t tell you. The culprit in this case was the Pope.”
“······You speak so peacefully.”
“I hope you don’t look at me like that.
“…”
I don’t know where else to start pointing this out.
How the hell did you solve this?
Why didn’t you tell me about this?
There were many things I wanted to ask, but I decided to just relax.
‘······It should have been over.’
I can’t believe it, but I heard that it was solved.
If Mikhail was unlucky, at least he was not a liar.
“······Ha. Do you know what the reason was?”
“I know. Do you want to hear?”
“I don’t want to hear if it’s something I shouldn’t have heard.”
You know what else you’re going to get into.
I didn’t want to hear shocking news suddenly like this time.
Mikhail shook his head as if not to that extent.
“It’s not a story that you shouldn’t listen to… but it’s a story that can shock depending on who hears it.”
“It doesn’t matter as long as it’s not something you shouldn’t hear.”
“Then I’ll tell you. Shall we both pay attention for a moment?”
“…”
It gave off an air of something that I shouldn’t have heard.
“All right.”
“······all right.”
Both Rebecca and I were curious about the whole story, so we started listening to the prince.
“Did you know that the Pope has a sister?”
“I know. I think you said you have a younger sister with a pretty big age difference.”
“As the princess said, the Pope has a younger sister.”
“······Wait a minute. But.”
“Unfortunately, my younger sister died early because she was weak since childhood.”
“…”
It was the first setting I had ever heard of, having read [The Crown Prince Raises a Sword] eagerly.
That the Pope had a sister who had already died.
“I’m going to give you a problem here, so choose it.”
“…”
“What would you do if you found a way to get back after losing the person you loved the most?”
“······no way.”
As I flinched at the unbelievable imagination, Mikhail nodded his head in anticipation.
“The pope found a way, and secretly gathered the people who received the divine power to save his dear sister.”
“…Did the courtier and the saintess stop that?”
“Yes. Thanks to the pope’s belief in the saint, he easily gathered evidence and uncovered the facts.”
Totally unexpected stories came pouring out one after another.
That the pope gathered people who had been healed with divine power to save his sister.
Estelle, who accidentally noticed it, joined forces with Mikhail to prevent it in advance.
If Estelle and Mikhail hadn’t stopped it, I might have been dragged into the church to resurrect the Pope’s sister.
After he finished speaking, Mikhail had his hands behind his back proudly.
“So, why don’t you have respect for me too? If it wasn’t for me and the saintess, I might have gone to the church without knowing anything.”
“······I thought it was pretty cool until he said that.”
“That’s enough. I never expected you to think I’m cool.”
“…”
It’s very sarcastic, but I really had nothing to say.
It is true that, thanks to Mikhail and Estelle, something that could have happened was prevented in advance.
“······Thank you first, my lord. I’ll have to thank the saintess later too.”
“It’s probably like that. The saint must have had a hard time pretending to be with the Pope.”
Just as Mikhail said, if you think about it, Estelle betrayed the pope she had followed like a father all her life.
In fact, an act that is no different from immorality.
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No matter how much he violated his duty as a pope to follow God, this must have been a tough choice…
“Well, the saintess herself liked it, saying that she could finally clear up the dark parts of the church.”
“…”
“The pope must have spent a lot of money to gather people secretly, and the church’s finances are said to be in jeopardy.”
hmm. It just seemed like a donation.
Should I go and say thank you? Rather, in the same situation as now, you might like offerings more.
“I think we should send support money to the church.”
As if Rebecca was thinking the same thing as me, she said, lowering her head slightly.
It was a little surprising.
Rebecca obviously hated Estelle very much.
“Didn’t the princess hate the saint?”
“I hate it. Even now.”
“Then why…”
“······But, I heard you protected you. They overturned the church to protect you, but how can I not help you?”
“…”
“It’s embarrassing, so don’t make me say it multiple times.”
Seeing Rebecca struggling to speak as if she were ashamed, a strange urge began to arise.
I wanted to kiss the lips that were still closed as if I had lost this time.
“······ Now that the story is over, if you’re going to keep doing that, why don’t you both leave.”
“Oh right.”
“That thing you say you forgot makes me very angry.”
Maybe if it wasn’t for Mikhail in front of me, I might have really taken action.
He was the prince who played the same role as a safety device that protected me and a brake device that calmed me down.
***
Mikhail’s office, which had been noisy for a while, regained peace as soon as the two people who had caused the noise left.
“…”
Mikhail, as always, was sipping a cup of tea that smelled strangely of strawberries, and his eyes were going through the papers that had already been processed.
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“Do you have any intention of saying more?”
“Knight Commander? Did you hear?”
“Didn’t you tell me to wait right in front of you so that I could listen from the beginning?”
right. It did.
He seems to have forgotten about it for a while because of the noisy guests.
His faithful knight commander sighed and continued.
“······ Haa. So why didn’t you say more?”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t you use more strength than you thought? For the time being, you won’t be able to move easily because you’re paying attention to the nobles.”
“…”
“Weren’t you trying so hard to bluff Prince Albert and Princess Rebecca?”
“… No matter how bluffing it is.”
The words were spoken like that. Actually, that wasn’t a big mistake.
From the first time I heard about this from the saintess, I had planned to play a trick on Albert and Rebecca, who had no loyalty to him.
However, he didn’t act like that.
Instead of telling everyone about his hardships, he chose to carry them alone.
“Well, after all, this is also paying off the debt.
“I’m glad you knew it was a skewer.”
“…”
“I’m joking. So, please, only cut wages.”
“······Puch.”
When I saw a servant who pretended to be sorry when he was not sorry at all in reality, laughter burst out.
Veronica frowned in displeasure.
“What is it? That eerie smile.”
“A bad laugh at the crown prince. Do you know what your crime is?”
“I’m kidding. Degraded.”
“I’m joking too, so don’t worry.”
“······I’ll send off the prince and the princess.”
“Let’s go quickly.”
After sending Veronica with such a rotten expression.
Mikhail sipped tea once more in the office left alone and read the numbers on the calendar.
“······Time has already passed like this.”
At some point, the coming-of-age ceremony of ‘Alber Zernias’ began to approach.
The birthday of a close friend who had been alone before.