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Chapter 21 "That can't be." Hystein chuckled softly and stopped walking. When she heard no footsteps following behind her, Rodia also turned around. Hystein, who had been standing behind her looking at her, shrugged his shoulders. "And besides, so what if it is? If you're scared or having a hard time, running away isn't a bad thing. There's no rule that says you absolutely have to overcome every obstacle." "...Is that so?" "Yes." Hystein answered firmly and closed the distance to…-
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Chapter 20 Four or five elaborately dressed young ladies were approaching Lodia. Among them were some who had been lingering near Histein just moments before, and faces Lodia recognized. 'Surely they're not coming here...' Lodia firmly believed they weren't, but the moment she made eye contact with the woman at the front, she resigned herself. Their target was indeed her! "Hello? You're the one accompanying Mr. Roatt as his partner, aren't you?" "Oh, yes..." Lodia swallowed nervously.…
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Chapter 19 Alisis waved her hand with exaggerated gestures and shrugged. As if to show that her actions so far had been a joke, Lodia eventually let out a hollow laugh. Then, Alisis grinned at her and headed off in another direction, and only then did Lodia breathe a sigh of relief. Histein, who had bowed toward his superior's retreating back, looked at Lodia as soon as he straightened up. "Are you alright? Her Excellency can be quite playful." "I'm fine. She just seems a little…
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Chapter 18 A navy blue jacket, matching vest and trousers, a white shirt. The man, dressed in turn, attached blue topaz cufflinks to his sleeves and checked himself in the mirror. In the mirror stood a man with turquoise eyes, his bright, deep golden hair resembling sunlight neatly styled. "Huff..." "Are you nervous?" Rikart asked him as he tied a blue cravat over his white shirt. "A little? That's funny. Me, nervous." "You're human too, sir. It's only natural to be nervous when…
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Chapter 17 "You did very well. Yes." "The market in Parnue is different from Marseon, so you found it more entertaining, did you?" "Why, why didn't you come even later? Since you were already late, you might as well have stayed another day." "...I was wrong, Uncle." "The delegation is visiting Heint on official business, so please do not address me by a personal title, Your Highness." Duke Filemer twisted his mustache with his finger and said gruffly. The Second Prince didn't like his…
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Chapter 16 At the muttering, Histein impiously snatched the letter from his superior's hand and read it. The contents of the letter were brief. The main point was that the Second Prince of Cheda, who had been in marriage talks with Astrid, the only legitimate daughter of the House of Chester, Heint's royal family, and the next Queen, would be visiting. Histein was dumbfounded. They had no intention of preserving the name of the former royal family, the House of Chester, before the next…
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Chapter 15 Lodia was very busy. It wasn't that she was busy doing any particular work. It was because the second round written exam for the place officially named the 'Judiciary' was only ten days away. Before she knew it, the year had changed, and the end of January was just around the corner. Lodia, wearing a thick indoor dress but still cold, had wrapped herself in a blanket and was poring over books she had studied during her school days. "There's really no other way now!" Lodia felt…
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Chapter 14 Even before the Fleur Citizen's Revolution, the House of Chester's finances had been in poor condition. The national debt continued to grow due to the royal family's extravagance, and the treasury was emptied as if it had a hole in it. The nobles, too, squeezed taxes out of the commoners and indulged in their own luxury and dissipation. It was only natural that a revolution would occur. After the revolution, which had been stained with the blood of many, succeeded and the cabinet…
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Chapter 13 Histein's private office in Vicebian Palace was a mess, cluttered with all sorts of documents. Rikart grimaced and found a chair among the papers to sit on. It hadn't even been a month since Histein had collapsed from overwork. Rikart had been forced to insert even minute-by-minute rest periods into his superior's schedule. "Thirty minutes is enough." "I didn't say anything?" Histein chuckled and soon focused on his work. However, it wasn't long before an uninvited guest…
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Chapter 12 Ten days later, just as Histein had forewarned and the job posting had stated, the application period began. Lodia submitted her application as soon as the registration office opened. When she submitted her former professor's letter of recommendation from her time at Prombote and the 'McKennan Prombote Medal' together with the other required documents, groans erupted from those around her. After all, with a letter of recommendation written by her professor herself and a Prombote…
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