Perdiccas II said to Valdina's bloody knight as he received the sword with a dazed face.
"You are now a knight with the sword of me myself. If anyone hurts my interests without my permission, they will have to deal with my anger first."
It was a ceremonial greeting to save face for the Emperor and the minister of Valdina, but the sword given by the Emperor was real.
"...I appreciate it, Your Majesty the Emperor."
As Menil accepted the sword, envious eyes crossed among the Katzen people who were holding the sword.
In exchange for being beaten a little and slightly slashed by the Western Empress's sword, she was given a sword that money could not buy.
Perdiccas II, who had no way of knowing the longing of his subjects, smiled dignifiedly, as if he would not show any more ugliness here.
"Eastern Empress, now you must lead this palace well. If you were to take your seat, you would do well without forgetting your duty."
The Emperor smiled affectionately and said.
Eastern Empress felt horrified by the warning that was placed in it.
"Your Majesty is always good to me."
Fortunately, however, she noticed that the Emperor's excitement had subsided somewhat.
She gently touched the back of her hand.
"I don't have the confidence to take care of the Inner Palace, but I am confident that I will do my best to serve Your Majesty."
The Eastern Empress was more experienced than the Western Empress in terms of how to satisfy his heart, at least.
"Yes, you know the most important thing, so that's it."
The Emperor's eyes softened somewhat.
He pointed out his temples.
The heat in his head was like a club slowly hitting the goal.
Perdiccas II raised himself from the throne of the beetle.
The attendant quickly handed him the golden staff, and he stood up.
"Go on. Anyway, today is my birthday. We can't just end it with a commotion like this."
Even though he left, he did not allow the banquet to be interrupted.
Even if his wife's affair was exposed to the world, he couldn't show that his dignity was shaken to that extent.
"Attendant, resume the banquet."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
When the Emperor's order fell, the performance began again.
The melody was more precarious than before, but no one noticed the change.
'If the Western Empress is upset, what will happen to the successor now? Will she be able to recover?'
'Should we withdraw now?'
This is because everyone in the banquet hall was immersed in their own thoughts.
Even Perdiccas II himself, who is leaving.
'When did Western Empress decide to change her mind behind me... Then Juan...'
"Father, I will take care of you."
As the Third Prince approached, the Emperor glanced at his face.
Juan was trying to pretend to be Innocent, but his face was gray and tired.
The Emperor unconsciously tried to find traces of Grand Duke Carlisle on his son's face.
However, now only traces resembling the Western Empress could be seen on his face.
'We must not move hastily yet.'
The emperor shifted his gaze and looked at the First Prince, who was leaning back from the other side.
'Juan is the only one left for me right now.'
"...Step back."
Perdiccas II passed the Third Prince coldly.
A little while ago, the warm father who hugged his son in emotion was nowhere to be found.
"Father.."
The Third Prince, who was about to follow, was stopped by the Emperor's knights.
That's how Perdiccas II left the banquet hall.
"Attendant, come closer."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
He whispered quietly in the ear of the attendant.
"Let's investigate every single one of the times when the Western Empress has been playing with her luggage."
It probably wasn't a coalition that ended with just one day of deviation.
***
Meanwhile, the Eastern Empress noticed Medea leaving the banquet hall in the distance.
"Oh my God, what is all this? I don't have a mind. I'll have to fix my makeup for a while."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
The Eastern Empress left the banquet hall under the pretext of cremation.
Soon, she found a tall maid of the 1st Princess standing far in front of the lady's room.
"You guys are waiting here."
The Eastern Empress, her eyes shining, gave orders to her maids and entered the lady's room.
Inside, a young maid was grooming the hair of the 1st Princess.
"Saya, you should step back. Are you here, Your Majesty?"
The Eastern Empress stood up from her seat with a calm face.
It was so calm that it was hard to believe that she was at the center of the commotion that turned the banquet hall upside down a while ago.
"You did it, right?"
However, the Eastern Empress did not stare at the calm face of the First Princess with hatred like she did at the last tea party.
"What the hell did you do?"
Instead, she approached with a grin on her lips and took Medea's hand.
"Alfred, I forgot about him, but how did you find him? After leaving Katzen, his whereabouts were unknown!"
The ladies' room was far from the banquet hall.
It was only when she came to a place where she didn't have to worry about being heard outside that she was able to let out the sigh that had been holding her breath.
"How contemptuous I felt because of the Western Empress, but the tables are turned upside down! It was true that there were no green trees or flowers that were always blooming."
The Eastern Empress shouted in a voice soaked with joy.
The moment she saw the Western Emperor's rain being thrown to the floor.
All the backlog that had been silent since Angelique left seemed to disappear in an instant.
Even now, when she closes her eyes, she will never forget that refreshing appearance.
"The inner palace is in my hands! Now, I will never let her take it away again."
It's not enough for the woman who was like a thorn in her eyes to collapse.
She even got the power that the Emperor never gave her.
How could the Eastern Empress not be happy?
"Congratulations, Your Majesty."
"Your merit was great. I will not forget you."
She took Medea's hand again with an excited face.
"Since Western Empress has been abandoned, naturally her son will be abandoned as well... If I bring Angelique on this occasion..."
"Your Majesty."
Medea quietly grabbed the wrist of the delighted Eastern Empress.
"It would be in trouble if you took this opportunity to mention Her Highness the Fourth Princess in front of His Majesty."
Eastern Empress's expression hardened.
It was like pouring mud on her hopes.
"Why not? The Western Empress has finally fallen apart!"
"If His Majesty feels that he did not make the decision on his own, when will he put the responsibility back on the Fourth Princess or the Eastern Empress?"
Eastern Empress still looked incomprehensible.
Medea then calmed the question.
"Will you make the Princess leave the city shortly after she arrives in the city?"
"...That's no good, no..."
It is absolutely Impossible to send the daughter who was finally rescued back to that barren, remote area.
"If you do, wait."
"..."
"Even if Your Majesty the Eastern Empress doesn't do anything about it, Her Highness the Fourth Princess will naturally return to the capital."
Medea stared at the Eastern Empress.
"...How on earth are you going to bring them back? How to do it in this situation now..."
"You have to wait."
Although her tone was slow, she warned that she would not tolerate the Eastern Empress causing variables.
Eastern Empress grabbed the hem of the dress,
'This sissy girl also found a gap and pulled out that immaculate Western Empress.'
If she moves recklessly, won't it be dangerous for Angelique, too?
She thought those greenish eyes that seemed to warn her were very cheeky, but she felt as eerie as in front of the Emperor just a moment ago.
"If you say that, it can't be helped."
The Eastern Empress finally agreed.
Now she couldn't understand all of Medea's words, but Medea even destroyed the Western Empress in an instant, which could not fit through a single needle hole.
She had no choice but to wait and see, as Medea said.
"If only Angelique could come back, what could I do? Princess, I will do as you say. So..."
Medea cut off the Eastern Empress's Impatient words, unable to hide her nervousness.
She smiled calmly.
"Have I ever failed to keep what I said?"
That's how the Eastern Empress left.
"Ha. Your Highness's merit is great, so you won't forget it? Wasn't the Eastern Empress in the same banquet hall as us a while ago?"
Here, Saya, who had been watching the entire conversation between the Eastern Empress and Medea, grumbled.
"If it weren't for Your Highness, the Eastern Empress would have been ignored by the Western Empress for the rest of her life. Now it seems that the Emperor handed over the inner palace that was taken from the Western Empress to make the world look different, right?"
A moment ago, Eastern Empress spoke as if Medea had "helped" her.
In fact, there is nothing that Eastern Empress did on today's stage.
"It's okay."
At Saya's complaint, Medea gently stroked her hair.
However, the anger in the young maid's eyes did not go away easily.
"Your Highness, aren't you really angry? Human nature is different when it enters the back door and when it comes out!"
When she gritted her teeth and pressed her bulging cheeks, steam seemed to leak out of her ears.
"Even if she is the mother of the vicious Fourth Princess, I don't know what the 4th Princess will do if she really comes back."
But Medea didn't care.
"Don't worry. The Eastern Empress cannot protect what was stolen from the Western Empress now."
Medea smiled.
"Rather than the Western Empress aiming only at me. It is more advantageous now that I have to aim for the Eastern Empress as well."
As a result, the power of the Western Empress is bound to be dispersed, so it becomes easier to deal with the 3rd Prince Faction, which must have been poisoned.
"The Eastern Empress will be a pretty useful shield for us."
Only then did Saya swallow the anger she had been holding back. Then she shook her head tiredly.
"The person smiling at the beginning and end of the banquet has changed."
It was as she said.
In just a few hours, the situation of the Eastern Empress and Western Empress changed like heaven and earth.
She was reminded of how fierce the power struggle in the Katzen court was.
"The real thing is from now on. It remains for the Emperor to find out the truth."
Medea turned her head.
Through the small window of the Lady's Room, she could see the silhouette of Perdiccas II in the distance under the lamplight of the Imperial Palace Garden.
He had betrayed his wife and his mistress and ruled over them, and today, for the first time, he was in the opposite position.
Today's events will remain a vivid memory that he will never forget, even though the depth is faint.
However, Perdiccas II must know.
What he gave to others.
That the price of every moment that returned trust to betrayal would be charged to him one day, exactly.
"Tell Kensington to move."
Medea's voice echoed low.
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