"I mean! So, Master Claude, if you see me on next week's inspection, would you please cover that up as not Irene?
"No! Or don't come aboard from the terrace! Do you really know that if you were to see me, it would be an execution, you...!?"
I know, but when Eileen shows up on the terrace, Claude's tenderness to let me in the room in a big hurry tickles me off and I jump unexpectedly.
"I understand, Master Claude. I haven't seen you in three days. You're already awake."
"So, don't hug me... what the heck are you really!
"I'm your fiancée."
"I plan to destroy it!
"Well, you can't live without me by then."
When I grinned, I was stripped of my body all the time. As it was, Claude chopped a crease deep between his brows. On the other hand, he sat on a long, far away bench and turned out some paperwork.
Apparently, he decided to ignore Eileen. And I wonder if my chest is strange sometimes, no, it's not strange. A lovely treasure, too.
"Dear Claude, I took my apple pie today"
"I don't want it, it's not what I found out what's in it"
"What are you reading?
"It's none of your business."
"Is it your job? Then I'll make a cup of tea that fits the apple pie."
"Don't you dare...!
"I can't wait until Lord Claude tells me you're going to choose me as your fiancée at the ball, can you?
Claude put his hand on his forehead. Placing a cage with apple pie on a small side table, Eileen sat down beside Claude.
Then Claude sits back at a distance, so it just stuffs. Claude further moved to the couch for one, so he lowered his hips to that elbow. I laugh a lot when I see Claude give up covering his face with both hands.
"Ugh, that's fun. It reminds me of the old days."
"I'm not having any fun...!?"
"I've never been one-sided before. That's not bad."
Claude saw this one with a subtle face, but soon he drops his eyes on the paperwork he had.
So Eileen glanced at it with me.
"- That's Mr. Claude's letter, isn't it? Is this... a proposed judicial reform?
"You know what I mean?
"Yeah.... you think funny, Master Claude. Even if the process is appropriate, the content is not appropriate, including the law… Is the aim a tax system?
From that face I rounded my eyes, I knew it was around. Claude opens his mouth like he lost his roots.
"... I loaded material from this country that my grandmother and father brought to the study of the Crown Prince... the collection of taxes is to be regulated by law, but that law is too unequal. It leaves too much to the discretion of each territory, and the forehead is the same when the economy is bad or rich, or the standards are too cluttered"
"You're right, but I'll buy you a noble rebellion. Especially the big noblemen who are with the Emperor, they must be angry when they put themselves at a disadvantage."
That's why I darkly say this is what the law is all about. But Claude didn't go through with it.
"So we start with judicial reform. Order is important. The territorial dossier also took a long look, but the inequality between the rich and the poor is too intense. If you leave it alone, it will soon be a problem."
Damn right, but the emperors wouldn't have given me the material because they wanted Claude to think about this. I laughed inside out at the misprospect.
(Because I'm the Demon King, I didn't see Lord Claude's excellence by the head. But......)
Those who are too good are begun. That's the norm. It is true that Claude is now a bird in a cage without consciousness in his person, too powerless.
"... Dear Claude. When did you show this to the Emperors?
"Why do you care about that? Is it also an obnoxious place for the Duke of Dorthrish house? Surely my eldest brother is acting as lord."
"Alas, your brother is not such an idiot. Not really."
"I didn't ask for your opinion in the first place. Whenever I come up with this plan, it's my freedom."
That's what Claude hid a set of those documents from Eileen.
(... I can't help it. When your father covers well......)
I'd love to, but I can't expect much. I could rather poke it off. Because that father really likes Claude. He isolated Claude by instigating a blow-in internal division that was dangerous to the emperor, and could even imagine the Duke of Dorthrish reaching out.
"... Dear Claude. Stay as close as you can to my father..."
"What, abruptly? Even if you don't tell me, I'm not going to do that insensitive thing when I'm going to break my engagement with you. And then you go home."
Pampered, and Claude solidified to the opening and closing sound heard across the door. and take Irene's arm and quickly look around, opening the wardrobe where the top half of the door is a vitreous window. And I could push Irene in there without question.
"Don't come out."
Eileen nods back quietly to her strong eyes, who won't let her say yes or no. Soon the wardrobe door was closed and darkened inside.