She didn't forget to threaten her with a black book.
"If you think otherwise, I'm going to tear your limb from limb and throw it to the wild dog. Even if I don't have the strength. I can't do anything about a lowly maid like you."
The maid quickly lowered her head and trembled in fear.
"... I'm never going to betray you. Please, believe me."
Birna glared at the maid as she disappeared into the corner of the delegation's quarters.
"You're done, Raju."
She bit her nails and muttered grimly. So she didn't know.
***
"It's been a while, Umberto. You left me out of the bin by yourself and you look good, don't you?"
That the maid who had passed the corner had passed the book into the hands of another man before she had even stepped into the delegation's quarters.
"Pull me put. That's all I had to do anyway."
"Hmph, that's it."
The young maid's snort voice was gone.
"Well done anyway. You'll be back when it's right. This is where the mission ends."
The red foz badge on the man's chest glittered as he turned.
***
The palace of the Princess of the Valdina Palace.
Birna had ambitiously given Raju's lifeline, vowing revenge, into Medea's hands.
The rust-colored eyes that looked down at the black ledger on the table were nonchalant.
"The Emperor's secret legacy...! Your Highness, how do you... This!"
It was Kensington who couldn't hide his surprise.
This was especially true after checking the amount of slush funds in the ledger.
"Raju, he's so insane. How did he think of hiding and stealing such a scale for so long..."
It was as if he had been struck in the back of the head by Perdiccas II with an iron club.
"How did Your Highness know? That he has the legacy of the Emperor of Katzen?"
What surprised Kensington even more was Medea, who noticed the existence of this ledger that no one else had known.
"I didn't know exactly. I could only guess."
Throughout her past and present lives, no matter what events happened, Raju continued to lead a wealthy life.
"So I thought there might be some kind of backstory. But Sir, I don't know if it was Emperor Katzen's legacy. I was lucky."
Kensington stuck his tongue out inwardly.
The Princess suspected the mastermind behind Raju's wealth and provoked her daughter, Birna, to get her hands on the ledger.
Can we really dismiss this complex and meticulous process as luck?
"So now, Kensington, I need your strength. A little bit of a ledger... I think we need to fix it."
"When the Emperor sees this, he wants to kill Raju in one fell swoop?"
Kensington understood the lord's intentions.
Neither he nor Medea had the slightest intention of gifting Perdiccas II with a new purse.
"You have to be careful, if he gets the slightest hint that we're involved, we're going to get in a lot of trouble."
Medea warned lowly.
"Leave it to me. I will never let you down."
Seldom did Kensington express such conviction.
But he was really confident.
Erasing traces or creating confusion with fake baits, especially money laundering, is something he has been doing for decades.
Moreover, this time he was going to do everything in his power 'specially' for his old master.
"By the time news reached Persepolis (the capital of Katzen), the Emperor will not be able to find even one of the gold coins written on it."
You'll be rummaging through empty warehouses.
If you didn't know it existed from the beginning, you wouldn't know, but it's more painful to know and then be taken away.
How furious the Emperor would be when he found out that the gold and silver treasures that should have come into his arms were gone. How terrifying he is at the loss.
Just thinking about it made Kensington feel euphoric.
***
Persepolis, the Imperial Palace of Katzen.
"Your Majesty, no one who has dishonored Katzen's name should be exempt."
In the golden chamber of the height of splendor, the solemn voice of the Empress Su rang out.
With her refined clothes and her hair pulled back in a calm ponytail, she was not as beautiful as the late Empress, but she had an air of simplicity and sophistication.
In particular, her thin lips and deep-set eyes, which rarely smiled, gave her the understated dignity of a real hostess of the imperial palace.
As the focal point of the Third Prince's faction, which competed with the First Prince, she was also a powerful woman.
Indeed, after Cesare's return, only the Third Prince, the son of the Empress, was the only one of the Emperor's children who had fallen like dominoes in his counterattack.
"The First Prince arbitrarily executed His Majesty's subject, undermining the authority of the Empire and causing a conflict with Valdina."
There was no way she would miss this loophole that the First Prince had just shown herself.
"How can a person who kills even his own servants out of personal feeling inherit Your Majesty's throne, and how can the people trust and follow him?"
A cold desire flashed through her bright eyes.
"The harm that the First Prince has done to Katzen is great, and Your Majesty must punish him decisively and set an example."
She denounced Cesare and at the same time did not forget to exalt Perdiccas II.
"There is something wrong with Your Majesty Empress's words. The old man does not agree with the statement that His Highness the First Prince has done harm."
The Marquis de Reniar, who had been standing still across from her, spoke up.
He was the father of Empress Sun and was the focal point of the First Prince's power.
"Your Highness had made the decision for the honor of Katzen. Jared, can you imagine how things would have gotten worse if he had been alive?"
White hair and wrinkled face.
His years seemed to be the same, but his grandiose stature and imperial dignity remained unchanged.
"Shall I remind you that in Valdina's territory, he attacked the Emperor and was caught on the spot trying to covet his only sister?"
Reniar was the mainstay of the First Prince's faction, and Empress Su was the antithesis of it.
"If His Highness Cesare hadn't dealt with him immediately if he had died at the hands of Valdina, it would have spread to a bigger fire.
Reniar retorted.
"Besides, His Highness already asked for his sins disbanded the private army, and set out on his own feet into the Abyss."
"..."
"However, Your Majesty the Empress still preaches the sins of His Highness, so I don't understand what you want with this old man's humble mind."
"Is Cesare making a decision for Katzen? So the result is the imprisonment of our subject, and the trampling of our land by the young Emperor of Valdina? Didn't he make things worse?"
"Your Majesty the Empress. You don't use the word trampling too much. You haven't lived through the worst wars of all time, so I understand that..."
"Marquis, do as much as you can to insult me. I'm talking about the obvious excesses that he has committed. The First Prince is neither His Majesty, the supreme ruler of this Empire nor is he the heir to the throne. Not yet."
Empress Su stared coldly at the Marquis de Reniar.
"And yet he is so self-righteous, when he truly becomes the master of the empire, neither I nor His Majesty will breathe?"
At the last words of the Empress, who cleverly mixed words that provoked Perdiccas II's inferiority complex, Marquis Reniar frowned.
"Empress Su has a point."
Perdiccas II, who had been watching the confrontation between the two, blurted out.
"Your Majesty."
"Is the Marquis about to teach me now?"
His eyes fell on Reniar.
His eyes, which had been staring at him with an incomprehensible gaze, were bursting with flames.
The Emperor's madness was uncontrollable.
Sometimes it was as cold as ice, sometimes it was boiling like flowing lava.
However, at some point, when faced with his eldest son, who overwhelmed him, he remained consistent.
Vigilance and hatred. Doubt and fear.
'He's the enemy. It's an enemy who wants to take my throne and threaten the imperial throne!'
Seeing the unbridled hatred creeping into the Emperor's black pupils, the Marquis de Reniar swallowed a sigh.
'How could those eyes be of one's own child?'
The Marquis swallowed inwardly.
In the tense atmosphere of the suspense, where they did not back down from each other, the chief of staff suddenly opened his mouth.
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