Empire center, Duke of Algrey territory. It is one of the greatest cities in the Empire and the birthplace of Shirley, with its magnificent city lined with stone architecture.... even if she doesn't have any good memories of herself.
And naturally it is Jennan who governs the city. As the head of a clan who has assumed the centre of the Empire over the founding of the Empire, he has laid a stable reign by successfully controlling the grievances of the inhabitants, albeit a common aristocrat, pedigree who thoroughly overlooks the less privileged.
Money, food, clothing, many nobles behaved as if they had become gods, and only the Algreys knew what civilians would bring to the nobility.
Among the heavy taxes that the emperor Alberto is strong, only the Duke of Algrey territory is exempt from it. Few of the imperial people today say that this land is heaven in hell, and there are many who have flown from other territories.
"Hmm... stupid people."
Not to mention being saved, Jennan mocks with her nose as she looks down the window of the mansion at the refugees accepted into the Duke of Algrey's territory.
No matter how stable good governance looks on the table, Jennan is a child of men, for better or worse. As a child of man, deception and desire were too strong.
When I'm stuck thinking, I hear a knock through the office door. When I gave permission to enter, it was the decree that served me for many years, giving me a harsh atmosphere.
"Excuse me, sir. Actually, it's an example book, but they say the civilian accidentally got wet. I am currently in the process of promptly rewriting (...)..."
"I don't mind. If it's not a rush, it's not irretrievable. I don't want to punish that civilian."
"The boulder is my husband. He will also be very grateful for that generous treatment. … then I'll excuse myself for this"
At the same time that the decree leaves the room, Jennan unwittingly sneers.
I used to say that I wet my books so I would rewrite them... etc. A cover-up to conceal injustice, starting with tax evasion, even though it's a cover-up.
"It's still the balance that matters in the world."
Good and evil. True and False. It is the reality of the Duke of Algrey family that, while behaving as a good lord on the table, it reaches the point where behind it we cannot get out of dyeing our hands at criminal activities that are even adapted to nobility among the imperial laws of nobility precedence.
Jennan, in particular, has identified himself as one of the most successfully stood around in a confused swirling empire in his history. Since the time of his predecessors, he had moistened his own nostalgia by repeating tax evasion little by little, without being enlightened by the inhabitants or by the taxpayers sent by the government, and to some extent it was even possible to commit injustice to a great extent to this day.
(I didn't know it would be easier to do this just by stirring up that stupid, childish emperor... it still wasn't a mistake to have Alice dowry in the emperor's house, even as a duke)
Alberto is, objectively speaking, a foolish emperor. Even though I consider myself a man of history, all I do is moisten Alice's desires with taxes rolled up under the pressure of the name of heavy taxes on the people. Moreover, in the inter-state dialogue, we buy a series of statements that look down on other countries out of self-esteem.
Once the castle was destroyed, it was destroyed. So I just cried to the nobility behind me and my patrons without planning to rebuild it successfully, a pathetic and foolish emperor who couldn't make anything of himself. When I was younger, I should also be learning about the operation of the country, but even Jennan and the other nobles, under his minister, think that he has become an uninterrupted fool since he was attracted to Alice.
(That's why it's easy to manipulate)
Sometimes it's flawed in the balls to run wild, but you don't look into the back of the person you like, and you don't doubt it. Besides being dumb and ignorant on top of being true to desire. If you fill your heart with too much self-esteem, you'll hear it right away.
Alberto was an emperor, but he was completely turned into a puppet of imperial nobility. It is the opposite of what he himself wants… it is also what the Imperial nobility wants from the Emperor.
(This country is an aristocratic country. Like "The Grey-haired Ghost" or the first couple, they move their own country.)
The nobles of the Empire are proud that they have long shared and controlled vast areas of national territory. And from what time, I began to think that it was just a god to compile the guiding principles of emperors and other imperial aristocrats.
But three hundred years ago, the revolutionaries with gray hair and the canaries who helped with it gave power and freedom to the emperors and the civilians, and the nobles lost most of their vested interests. And the hour passed, and I wondered if the power of the nobles had been restored again, and even the restoration was prevented by the activities of the emperor Lugland, his queen, and Elizabeth.
(But both "The Grey Haired Ghost" and the previous emperor and his wife are past figures. There is no longer anyone to fear... Yes, I thought...!
Jennan looks really abominably distorted as she grips the window frame hard.
It is only the name of the rear shield, and there are many wise nobles who are manipulating Alberto from behind, but among them, Jennan became the de facto ruler of the kingdom of God, as the home of Queen Alice. It is no exaggeration to say that you have stood at the top of the empire instead of the emperor, and that you are the one who will regain the good old empire... that's what I thought.
But Alberto did something unexpected to make it. The extent to which recovery still works, although it has often been arbitrary in actions that have been detrimental for some time. I held my head when I made the statement to look down at the kingdom at the first world meeting after I took office, but as a puppet I didn't realize this one's sincerity, it was a point.
(That's why I can't believe I'm starting to be arbitrary about doing things with the kingdom...!
Jenans, as if the nobles behind the shield had all set their sights and were returning to their territory, the Emperor himself moved a court magician and tried to kidnap Sophie and Tio, who were based in the kingdom, not to mention their real daughters. Contrary to having a strong army, Eduardo, king of war haters, could not remain silent about the situation, and was about to become a war.
I was wondering if I could make it easier in the divine game. I lost to that too. Moreover, the castle collapses due to mysterious paranormal phenomena. The empire is dominated by the theory that it is due to canary magic, but the true or false is still unknown.
(The product is those abominable people………!
A group in blue uniform patrolling our own ruling city with our faces in sight, Jennan's face seemingly distorted in a heartfelt abomination.
Earlier divine matches forced the empire to press judgment on the treaty of pledging non-interference in the kingdom, either inspired by Alberto's actions or at the beginning of this summer, Knights Commander Gran Wolfus arbitrarily broke into the kingdom and tried to kidnap Sophie and Tio again.
Whatever it is that succeeds, it fails once again. Grant was sentenced to death, and the empire, which violated the treaty, was deprived of southern territory as compensation.
That's how it was born: a policing organization that replaces the Knights dismantled by the untimely end of the regiment, the police organized by Filia, the head of the anti-emperor faction. Civilians who admire philia accepted a fair police force, but the police who arrest even nobles without question according to the law by the time they are serious is a very eye-catching presence for imperial nobles today.
Of course the murders and looting that have been carried out so far among the nobles in a wave of authority, as well as the trafficking of slaves and dangerous drugs, which is prohibited by international law, have become strictly controlled, and the people who back up the legitimacy and the royal family, no matter how much nobility they show.
(How many nobles have ever been arrested and their homes crushed... Moreover, half of the territory ruled by the crushed house, as ruled by His Highness Philia's breathtaking nobility......!
Philia, hostile to Alberto, is also a political opponent to Jennan. He is a royal family, he gathers popularity among the people, but therefore he cannot be insulted with his seventeen-year-old little daughter, and his power grows immense every day.
It's as if she's inheriting the will of her predecessor. If left unattended, the authority of the imperial aristocracy will undoubtedly be lost.
(If we don't hit our hands early...... any more (...), by their hands (...) before our Algrey family is damaged......!
At that time when Jennan shed a glimmer of sweat with a definite rush, I heard a tall voice from a distant room cracking a vase or something. The direction of the sound is Alice's private room. What the hell happened... Daiwa, I could see that Alice slammed something against the wall with frustration.
"Oh, Alice......! So scratched, so tormented, so pathetic......!
Alice, who suffered an ugly, massive wound to her hands and feet, is still often rough after some time after the incident. It's just a big scratch in my eyes all the time. I'm always upset because whatever mood changes I'm having is in my eyes.
Moreover, Alberto, her husband, who is supposed to be comforting, has tended to alienate herself from Alice recently. When I gather information suspiciously, it seems that I am trying to bring Sophie and Tio back to the Empire again and welcome Shirley, an abominable daughter to the side room after pulling.
That's what bothers Jenna and Elena the most. Alberto, who would have begun to act without thought in search of his former fiancée and his daughter, cannot even predict what he will do with Jennan, who has dealt with him for many years.
"Don't be ridiculous......! Because......... I thought you'd gone out of my sight for the rest of your life......!
Both Jenna and Elena hate Shirley. I even think I hate you. Even though Shirley is such a puppet emperor's sideroom, I can't bear to have my identity on the surface. Besides, now that Alice is here, if we welcome the other women to the side room right away, it would be as if Alberto had discerned Alice.
That is not the only concern. What if Alberto's prospect succeeds and Sophie and Tio become crowns with Shirley's entrance?
More than Alice can hope for her son, one of them will take the next throne. It is clear that then Alice's position will be worse and worse.
"... how did you make your majesty laugh while you were usually in the kingdom, that lowly daughter!... No way, one of the Gran Wolfus cases was handled by that girl with her face and disgusting body...!? Ku......! You disparage Alice so much, what the hell is so much fun!?
Unconvenient things, Jennan, have seemed to have everything to do with Shirley.
"... why did that girl give birth to twins and such in the first place!? Because of that, my Algrey family............!
It might still have been good if Shirley was the only one born with this. But what happens to the other if one of them takes the throne more than they are twins?
Jennan thinks and trembles with the problems surrounding the Algrey family today. If it's going to be as unfolding as I imagined, I'm going to be able to figure out less of a head of humiliation.
"If we don't do something to impress His Majesty... No, would it be more efficient to pick sprouts before that?"
Jennan groans with a blurry expression as if her emotions had fallen off, and on the blood side, she thinks of the girls who are her grandchildren. In its eyes, clear malice was swirling.
Legnard Marquis Territory mansion in the easternmost part of the Empire. Filia, unable to live in the heart of an empire full of enemies, thus stood at her subordinate home in trust, encouraging Alberto and his government to defeat the old nobles surrounding his brother.
"Princess, this is a report on Count Guiny, who was a habitual criminal in the manufacture and trafficking of illegal drugs. Uncle Guiny has already been arrested and is currently awaiting court breakouts in detention."
"Thank you, Lumigliana. Will you leave me there?
Responding with a slightly tired smile to Lumigliana, the red-haired lady knight who came in after Knock, Philia exhaled gently in the room she was renting.
"Nevertheless, within less than three months, a considerable number of nobles have been arrested. Should the boulder be the security organization that the princess assembled with the ability to consolidate?"
"It's not my power, though. In the first place, even the constituents were sent by other countries and guilds."
Those who subscribe to the philia, whose aim is to relieve peacefully the people suffering from oppression and heavy taxes by handing over imperial territory to other countries and disintegrating their own countries, are by no means few among the leading players in other countries, including Eduardo and Canary. It's more like it.
That's why they lent talented talent to Filia and founded an organization based on it to take out the rotten pus of an empire called the police. The members of the police do not pledge allegiance to Filia, but work only for the original Lord, without wrongdoing under imperial law. Because doing so weakens the power of the nobles, and hence of the empire, and leads to the benefit of the Lord.
"But it was a shame that so many good investigators and undercover detectives came together. The police are rewashing past cases and investigating them, but maybe they can solve them."
"Is that the case? What the hell is that...?
As Filia whispered in Lumigliana's ear, the female knight had a stunned and colored expression.