Became the Son-in-Law of the Traitorous Family

7. Heir to the Empire – 03

The residence of the Grand Duke of YoRHa, the office of the Grand Duchess.

Right there, the Grand Duchess listened to the reports of her own escort knight, Qian, while at the same time doing her own business alone.

Originally, there were a few things that needed to be discussed with all the vassals of the Grand Duke’s family, but in the current situation, it was unavoidable.

At present, Marquis Illivatus and his subordinates were present in the Grand Duchy, who were openly monitoring the Grand Duchess under the name of an envoy sent by the emperor.

Perhaps it is the situation of her who does not stop her watchful eyes to catch even the smallest of her pods from her.

However, to say that the imperial delegation is mobilizing all their eyes and capabilities to keep an eye on her grand duchess-

In other words, it would mean that no special attention was paid to anyone except the Grand Duchess.

That is why, from the moment the Marquis of Illivatus visited her Grand Duchess, the Grand Duchess chose the path of shutting herself in her own office and taking care of all her work by herself.

Although she felt as if her head would turn round after she had been sitting in her office for several days looking at the documents without rest, it was a business that would lose so much if she sacrificed herself so that the vassals she trusted and cherished could act freely. Could be said to be no.

“It seems that the other side noticed something.”

At Qian’s report, the Grand Duchess stopped her hand in handling her documents and sighed softly.

“I see. She cared so much about the security of the information, but in the end, she was caught.”

Well, now that I think about it, it may have been unavoidable. It must be her simple greed that no information is being leaked even though there are so many vassals named envoys in the Grand Duchy.

“What is the level of leaked information?”

“Fortunately, it seems that I haven’t noticed the deep part yet… In fact, I’m seeing that as a limit soon. The Ministry of Information said it would not be strange even if it was discovered at any time.”

“… Is that so too?”

The Grand Duchess clicked her tongue at Qian’s report. She tried so hard and tried so hard not to leak information to the Empire, but she thought that this was her limit.

Actually, she knew. About the fact itself that this moment may come sooner or later, not knowing when.

The fact that the Empire did not notice anything from the moment the Grand Duchess planned a rebellion against the Empire until the preparations were completely finished was just her wish.

But… Anyhow, this is much faster than expected. She expected that there would still be at least a year left, but she had never imagined that the envoys who had come under the order of the emperor would be so blatantly spying around and gathering information. .

“How to block the opponent? No, isn’t there a way to at least restrict the opponent’s movement, if not to block it?”

“The other party is an official delegation from the Empire that has the cause of coming here on behalf of the emperor. On our side, there is no way to stop their actions without the use of force.”

In other words, if you kill all the remnants below it, including the Marquis of Illivatus, it means that the immediate information leak itself can be prevented.

“If we had to kill Marquis Illivatus… “

“The Empire will declare war on us right away. To harm the envoy who came here on behalf of the emperor is the same as harming the emperor, and furthermore, it means the equivalent of damaging the authority of the emperor itself.”

Even the Grand Duchess knows that much. She was just saying something out of curiosity.

“… I’m sorry Despite claiming to be the owner of the Grand Duchy, he is not even the emperor himself, and he is in such a troubled position that he cannot handle one of his hounds.”

“Still, I don’t think we need to worry about information being leaked for the time being. For the next few days, starting tomorrow, there will be a party and a ball to celebrate the Emperor’s delegation. As long as they visit the Grand Duke in the name of the delegation, they will not be able to say that they will not be able to attend the party either.”

However, it is a stopgap book and not the ultimate solution.

Even if they were lucky enough to get past this time somehow, Marquis Illivatus and his subordinates have already caught on to something.

As long as they have something called a snout in their mouth, they will go back to the empire and tell them all about what they have seen and experienced, and if the empire becomes alert towards this side even once, that will end everything.

Until now, the reason why she was able to make various preparations without the Empire noticing was definitely not because she was so good at it. It’s because the Empire didn’t pay much attention to her until now.

Her head-gongju pointed to her own temple in response to her headache that came to her for some reason.

“By the way, in fact, I do have one more report to report to Your Highness.”

“Really? What is it?”

However, unlike usual, Kian showed a sign of hesitating for a long time before opening his mouth carefully as if he could not help it.

“Actually, the head of an organization hoping to meet Her Highness tried to contact us. According to them, they want to share their opinions on each other’s countermeasures toward the Empire… “

“Also, where did those miscellaneous things smell and try to contact you?”

At Qian’s words, the Grand Duchess let out a sigh as if she was in pain.

The number of such people has increased recently. Where the hell did they get this information from? The goofy people who say they want to help with the overthrow of the reckless empire.

Nine out of ten of them were pyramids that the Grand Duchess did not even worth keeping in her memory, and the rest that were useful were simply a group of social misfits who were dissatisfied not only with the Empire but also with this world itself.

Tired of dealing with them seriously by now, she ordered the rest to filter out on their own, but Qian didn’t seem to get tired of it either and brought one of them to her.

“I… That is… I didn’t know anything else, but I thought this was an issue that couldn’t be passed lightly. Of course, there is a high possibility that all of this is a ploy to deceive us, but considering the possibility, we can’t even refuse to report it… “

Looking at Kian sweating profusely and talking nonsense, the Grand Duchess put on a slightly puzzled expression. What on earth is the matter that makes Qian, who usually shows a cool and intelligent attitude, act like that?

“He claimed that their goal was to overthrow the ruthless imperial family and restore the rightful owner to its place. According to him, no, according to her words, he is the rightful heir to the current imperial family, and at the same time, he is the one with the strongest blood in the imperial family, and also… ”

The next moment, the Grand Duchess hardened her own face as she listened to the words that came out of her Qian’s mouth.

“… She is claiming that her identity is that of Yurika del Cartesia, the princess of the Empire who disappeared 10 years ago.”

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A week after the delegation led by the Marquis of Illivatus arrived at the Grand Duchy of Yohrha, a party was held to welcome the delegation.

I heard that it’s not just a party, it’s going to be a dinner party and a friendly ball hosted by the grand duke and his wife.

The moment I heard that, I unknowingly crumpled her face like a piece of tissue paper. If it was just a party, it would have been understandable, but a ball was going to be held!

“Why did you hate the prom? A prom is not much different from a normal party except for the dancing.”

“That is the problem, Karin.”

“Yes?”

“Actually, I can’t dance very well. And I hate dancing itself. That’s huge.”

In fact, I could say that I have never had a good memory related to dance in my entire life.

Nara was not only a human being, but also her body itself, and in her college MT days, she danced with her eyes closed tightly at a talent show where her close motive was forcibly dragged away, and the next day, she performed a ‘courting dance’ toward a female emcee. After the rumor that I danced spread, I had a trauma about dancing.

‘Wasn’t singing a national rule for talent shows in places like MTs?’

If you ask me to sing, I will sing 「If」, Which I have honed in karaoke so far, and make the Grand Duchess ‘…’. What’s your voice?’

“Even if you hate dancing, you can’t help it this time. Originally, it is customary for those in the highest position to dance first at a party like this.”

“… I am well aware of that.”

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I hadn’t even guessed what kind of insults my subordinates would take after escaping like a ninja in the leaf village for no reason, just because I didn’t want to dance. Aren’t you there

“Really, when you look at it like this, you have a very immature side. I’m not a child, and I never thought I’d hate dancing so much.”

“… Yes? What else is that… “

I tried to ask myself where the common denominator is between my love of dancing and my mature side, but when I remembered that celebrities often go to clubs to find people to spend a long night with, I kept my mouth shut. I closed it.

‘When I think about this, it seems like a f*cking unfair thing.’

It is a social act for celebrities to go out to clubs and rub their bodies against each other, but it is a social act to enjoy a moment of youth. Where else in the world can there be such an unfair and resentful thing?

“Dancing is not as difficult as I thought. If you really feel like you can’t dance well, it’s okay if you just follow me as I lead.”

Saying that, the Grand Duchess raised both of her hands and gently hugged my neck. Since there was a slight difference in her height between her grand duchess and me, she naturally took the form of leaning her own face in my chest.

However, if there is one problem here, the present Grand Duchess was wearing a party dress rather than casual wear.

The dress, which was custom-made only for a woman called the Grand Duchess, exposing her body without filtering and boldly exposing various parts of her body, robs my gaze at a glance.

“… Me, um… Karin, that… No matter how it is, men and women are not the same, but she is a little apart from me… “

For some reason, when I cleared my throat and said that, the Grand Duchess smiled at me and opened her mouth.

“Anyway, you’re sloppy. I just saw all the eyes on my chest. Even if he said he didn’t like it with his mouth, seeing that his body was honest, it seems that Reiner was also a heavenly man.”

“…..”

To be honest, I don’t think it can be helped. Wouldn’t it be even more strange if there was a woman in front of her own eyes in a dress with her breasts hollowed out and she could not turn her eyes toward it?

‘No, by the way, you could wear a dress like this in front of me casually, but why did you make such a fuss about the lip smacking the other day?’

As I tilted her head, thinking that something about her didn’t match her front and back, the Grand Duchess brought her body closer to me than before and whispered to me.

“I don’t like the fact that this kind of place was prepared because of the Marquis of Ilibatus, but in fact, I’m just glad that this opportunity came to me. Because after getting married, it’s an important opportunity to publicize that we are a ‘couple’, right?”

“…?”

I don’t understand something about the Grand Duchess’ words. Wasn’t today’s seat prepared to deceive Ilibatus that we were in an intimate marriage relationship?

But why does the Grand Duchess talk like we’re more worthy of being married?

“Actually, something hasn’t been to my liking lately. I’m your wife, and you could say I’m your only life partner, but I rarely have time with you. And you’re always hanging out with other women. Do me.”

The Grand Duchess lightly pouted her own lips, then she quietly embraced my arm and whispered a small whisper in my ear.

“But for today, you won’t be taken away by another woman, right? Because even if it’s because of Marquis Illivatus, you’ll only have to look at me today.”

The two bright eyes of the Grand Duchess are looking at me. And as I looked into her eyes, the sense of incongruity I felt intensified even more.

“So please take care of me today? Mr. Seo?”

The Grand Duchess is looking only at me and nothing else.

In her eyes, only my image is reflected.