I Favor the Villainess

"Suras...?

That insidious former prime minister broke out of prison......

That's why I told him that amnesty would never happen.

I have a feeling this is going to happen again.

"But how did you get out of prison? Though Suras would have preferred to have been imprisoned in a prison where surveillance was particularly demanding, apart from ordinary prisoners."

"The area is supposed to be explained by someone familiar with the circumstances. I'll see you in the dorm hall after school."

"I understand."

Master Yu went back to his class when he said that much.

"Dear Claire..."

"Yeah, I have a bad feeling about that."

Lady Claire and I snorted at each other with bitter faces.

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"Hey Claire, Ray, long time no see!

"Father!?

"Dear Dollar......"

Large hall of dormitories after school.

The person familiar with the circumstances that appeared there was my father-in-law, Dor-François.

"Where are Mae and Allea? I guess that's already grown up."

"You two are in our room. Besides, it hasn't been two months since Bauer left."

"Say what. In a month, a child grows to look different. Even Claire used to..."

When Master Dollar tries to show off his grandfather's foolishness and pro-foolishness,

"Dollar, I'm sorry, but you have to explain the situation first. We have no idea what's going on."

Master Yu said gently blocking Master Dollar.

"Whoa, excuse me for this. Nothing, Claire and her grandchildren are so cute..."

"That's a good story, so please get down to business."

"It's because of you, Claire. It's really like Miriam."

Miriam is the name of Claire's deceased mother.

After saying it seemed unfortunate, Master Dollar coughed up with Cohon and changed his expression.

"In the middle of last month, Saras-Lilium, who was imprisoned in a special prison in the Royal Palace, disappeared. They think he broke out."

He said it was a long time since we left Bauer that Suras disappeared.

A special prison is about that innkeeper I was put in for a while after Yu-sama's gender exposure incident.

A holding cell that houses prisoners who need to be treated differently from the average prisoner, and the watch is also tougher than the average prisoner.

"The modus operandi for jailbreak is unknown, but it appears to have been guided by someone with influence in the Royal Palace. The most suspicious so far..."

So Master Dollar finally looked at Master Yu with a few words.

"You're my mother."

Master Yu sighed as he guessed.

Master Dollar nods.

"Yes, unfortunately, Master Liesche is our prime suspect. Master Leishe bought Suras for a long time."

Here again, Master Dollar clouded his words.

"You can just say it, dollar. My mother was in love with Suras. I hear you've been seeing Sarace a lot since she was incarcerated."

I have no idea what's so good about Suras, but he's really hot.

His Majesty's mother, Lulu, was also in an affair with Suras, and Leishe admired him.

His late Majesty Roseille was a brilliant man as a wise king, but he seemed to lack the charm to attract women.

Though I preferred Master Roseille to Suras.

'Cause what's good about Suras isn't just your face?

"It hasn't been decided yet. I'm just saying there's a charge until I'm bored. However, Master Liesche has made some disturbing moves here, so we must be vigilant."

"Father, a disturbing move, what?

Lady Claire asks.

"You know that Lady Lieche has returned the throne, right?

"Yeah, now you're back in church and you're the original Cardinal."

I'm sure some of you have forgotten, so to confirm, Master Liechet was a former Cardinal of the Spirit Church, and His Majesty and His Majesty Rosseille were a political marriage for the Royal Palace to take in church forces.

After the death of His Majesty Rosseille, Lady Liechet had been Empress for some time, but soon resigned her status and returned to the Spirit Church, where she now acts as Cardinal.

Although in status it is in the same line as the Eu, the former Empress means that he can be seen as essentially the second most powerful person in the Spirit Church after the Pope.

"Master Liesche has been invigorating his political moves ever since he became Cardinal. Specifically, the establishment of status within the Church and the current papal cleavage".

"I mean... is that what this is about?

Master Claire took care of Master Yu.

Master Dollar is also nodding with a sinking face.

"What do you mean by that?

I had no idea, so I asked Master Claire.

"Master Liesche hasn't given up on Master Yu yet, I'm sure. I gave up being king of Bauer, and now I'm trying to make you my next pope."

Oh, you mean that.

Whatever happened before the Royal Palace was built, the people already know that Master Yu is a woman.

His Majesty Sein is highly regarded by both national and international sources, and as things stand, the Eye of the Throne is almost non-existent to the Eu.

But Master Yu is now increasing his status within the Spirit Church.

There was also the patronage of the faction of Lady Lieche, who remained in the church, until he became Cardinal.

As we have spoken before, the Spirit Church has a culture of favouring women, so does the gender of the Eu.

Master Lily, who was the most prominent candidate for the next Pope, has also lost his legs, and that's exactly why he's aiming.

"But the current Pope was certainly still young, wasn't he? Wouldn't you be so quick to replace him?

"There are rumors about it that aren't good either, Ray."

Master Dollar said, frowning.

"Not a good rumor, is it?

"... rumors to the point, though. I hear there are those who are plotting to make the Pope a deceased."

The assassination of the Pope is not calm again.

"You know Ray, too, right? Next month, the Pope will be fortunate to the Nah Empire. It's a great situation for assassinations."

Master Dollar shook his head with a face that looked like he had chewed up a bitter bug and was just lamented.

"If that's all you know, why don't you grab Master Liechet?

I tried to run into simple questions.

"I can't do that. The opponent is the Cardinal of the Spirit Church. Besides, she's a former Empress, isn't she? It's not that easy."

"Besides, Master Liesche is the one who turns his head. I wouldn't have done anything to get my hands dirty myself. There's not a single piece of conclusive evidence so far"

If there's anything I can arrest, I'm doing it.

Since the way you shake yourself around here is also what Dollar himself did during his aristocracy, Dollar himself probably knows best the difficulty of catching those opponents.

"Besides, as I said earlier, it's not yet decided that Master Liechet is behind this."

"Is this all black?

"Master Lieche bought the head of security for this trip and left. If she's behind this, you don't have to go out of your way to do that."

I see.

If anything were to be done to the Pope in this ordeal, the blame would extend to the head of security, Lady Liechet.

You don't have to go out of your way to take that risk.

"Only in form, or to make it easier to target the Pope? The head of security will know more about the Pope's security hole than anyone."

"Of course, that's possible. But Master Liesche also says that he is solely responsible and wants to leave substantial security to others. Specifically -"

So Master Dollar looked at me for some reason.

I had a fiercely unpleasant feeling.

"Specifically... Ray, he wants to entrust you with an important role in security"

Why not.

I couldn't help but put an immediate scratch in my heart.

Once again, it is a sign of every trouble.