The Prince Wants To Retire

9. Secrets of the Imperial Palace (3)

As Kariel got into the carriage to meet the Prime Minister, Tarion followed.

– Things keep happening.

“I know. driving me crazy.”

As Kariel said that, his expression distorted.

– You know the future, don’t you know?

“In my previous life, all I did was get sick during this time.”

Even if it was a few years later, I would have been able to grasp the flow to some extent, but I didn’t know anything because it was now.

-It’s a big deal.

Surt grumbled that he had to quickly go find other guys or focus on training, but he was wasting his time on useless things.

Looking at Surt like that, Kariel said.

“I still have my doubts.”

At Kariel’s words, Surt flew away.

Kariel sighed and said to Surt, who had a curious expression on his face.

“An incident of rebellion within the grand ducal family in the previous life. I have a feeling that maybe it has something to do with it.”

As Kariel said that, she thought of the person who had saved her life several times in her previous life.

He was the biggest reason the empire that had been destroyed in his previous life was able to maintain its shape, so he thought of helping in this life in his own way.

However, I was very perplexed because I had never expected that they would become involved like this.

– Hmm, I’m curious.

Surt circled the air with an expression full of curiosity about the person he had heard from Kariel many times.

– When are you going to the West?

“I can’t go right now.”

I can’t go west when I don’t know what dangers await.

Right now, if you go only to the central area, you will be attacked, but if you go to the west, you will not be able to guarantee your life.

-It’s a pity.

Kariel said to Surt, who was deeply regretful.

“You don’t have to go west to see it.”

-yes?

“You can call me to the center.”

After Kariel had said that, she shut her mouth, and Surt tapped her with her dainty arm to ask for more, but her mouth, which had been firmly shut, would not open any more.

He was busy organizing his thoughts in preparation for a number fight with the chancellor.

and after a while

“Are you upset?”

Kariel looked back at Surt.

Perhaps because he had kept his mouth shut and organized his thoughts, Surt was inflating his full cheeks with a sullen expression on his face.

“I’ll tell you when I’m done talking with the prime minister.”

At Kariel’s words, Surt recognized the seriousness of the matter and nodded slightly.

***

“See you, Your Majesty.”

“Guide me to the place where the prime minister is.”

“Yes!”

An imperial knight bowing his head at Kariel’s orders.

As I followed the knight in golden armor into the prison, I passed some decent rooms for a prison.

So when I arrived at the innermost prison, I saw the Prime Minister sitting on the floor and reading a book.

“See you, Your Majesty.”

Seeing Kariel, the chancellor immediately stood up and bent down.

“Back off.”

“It is dangerous.”

Tarion put on a worried expression and said he would stay, but he firmly refused.

As long as Surt existed, he could live once, and that was enough.

At Kariel’s firm command, everyone fell far away.

“Sorry for being late. I have something to find out.”

Kariel smiled as she saw the chancellor making an expression as if she knew she was coming.

He laughed with a sense of composure as if he would not lose to the momentum, but the chancellor just lowered his head expressionlessly as if he had nothing to do with it.

“Twice! I have a question for you.”

“If you’ve done some research on me, you’ll know why your convictions can’t open your mouth.”

“Since it is related to His Majesty, will you keep your mouth shut? Since when have you been so loyal to His Majesty?”

Kariel said sarcastically and grabbed the bar.

“I ask straight forward. Does it have anything to do with the West?”

The chancellor’s eyes shook slightly at Kariel’s question.

Looking at the chancellor like that, Kariel clicked her tongue and said.

“Twice! That’s right. It must have been the Grand Duke or the Belfurs family. It seems to me that Belpurus is suspicious.”

Kariel muttered as if she was talking to herself, unraveling what she had thought up to this point in front of the Prime Minister.

“Recently, unusual signs have been occurring in the Grand Duke’s family. Is Belfurs on the back ship?”

“… … .”

“Did Belpurth team up with the Warlock?”

“… … .”

Looking at the prime minister who didn’t respond at all, Kariel brought out something that was harboring in a corner of her heart.

“A drug that goes to His Majesty. Isn’t that a normal drug?”

The chancellor’s expression trembled for a moment at Kariel’s words.

Kariel, who caught it, immediately opened her mouth.

“I did some research and found that some of the drug dealers you met were related to warlocks. The other drug lords must be cheating… … Are they real?”

In response to Kariel’s words, he completely controlled his expression as if he would not make a mistake this time.

But his eyes seemed to tremble slightly as if he couldn’t do anything about it.

Seeing that, Kariel sighed.

“It’s a drug concocted by a black magician… … . But, coincidentally, they are from the western and southern borders, right?”

Kariel said in a cold voice.

“If you tell me now, I’ll save your family’s life.”

At Kariel’s words, the chancellor shook his head slightly.

“If you don’t tell me, your family will perish. Why do you think you can’t?”

Looking at Kariel speaking in a lifeless voice, the chancellor spoke calmly.

“Your Highness, do you think you can save my family?”

“Do you think you can’t?”

“Your Highness has not ascended the throne yet.”

Kariel’s eyebrows furrowed at the chancellor’s words.

It was as if he was saying that even if he became emperor, it would be difficult to save his family.

“Belpurse is right. My uncle is involved. Right?”

The royal family who married the eldest daughter of the Belpurs family and inherited the family.

When I said this, thinking of Kariel’s uncle, the chancellor shook his head resolutely.

“… … no.”

Kariel narrowed her eyes at the chancellor’s answer.

“… … no?”

“It’s higher.”

Kariel, who hesitated for a moment at the chancellor’s words, widened her eyes.

“no way… … Your great-aunt is involved?”

At Kariel’s words, the chancellor was silent.

However, Kariel, who noticed that his eyes meant positivity, distorted his expression.

“I know you’re just waiting for the day you’ll die by being quiet, right?”

“You must have taken half of the West.”

“half? No way… … . Then you wouldn’t know… … .”

Kariel, who burst out laughing, realized that what the chancellor said did not really mean ‘half’.

“A gathering of black traders and criminal groups. The owner of that place was your great-aunt?”

As an imperial and fragile young woman, she married a countess from an early age.

And I thought that there, living like a dead mouse and waiting for the day to die, it wasn’t.

“No one will know that he is the owner of it.”

As the prime minister said that, his face hardened as if he did not ask any more questions, as the extinction of his family had been finalized.

Then, Kariel shut her mouth for a moment and gathered her thoughts.

I thought about whether it would be better to share the information I had with the prime minister and receive additional information.

The risk was great because it was impossible to know who would come and receive the information from the prime minister the moment he gave some information to the prime minister.

Nevertheless, Kariel opened his mouth.

“The destruction will be stopped.”

“Impossible.”

“I will summon the Grand Duke.”

At Kariel’s words, Jaesang smirked.

“Impossible.”

A family that was once the closest to the imperial family, but a family of misfortunes that were pushed out through the days of the dark army.

The Grand Duke, the greatest pillar of the empire, was now in decline.

Nearly 100 years have passed since they failed to produce a Master, and the value of the Grand Duke became less than that of a martyr.

“Tell me one thing.”

Saying so, Kariel motioned for the prime minister to come closer.

Then he paused and slowly brought his ear to Kariel.

“When Belphus strikes the Grand Duke, they are destroyed.”

“impossible… … .”

“Did the Grand Duchess only watch the decline of the family over the past few decades?”

The Prime Minister’s eyes widened at Kariel’s words.

A rebellion within the Grand Duke family that I had only heard of in my previous life.

The rebellion resulted in the death of the householder and most of the family members.

However, despite the annihilation of even the knights supporting the Archduke, the Archduke finally survived.

‘The one with the sword alone’.

His nickname, who was the commander of the Imperial Palace Knights in his previous life.

“The Grand Duke does not collapse. I will make it.”

I plan to give him a bigger weapon when he shoots invincible with his sword alone.

That’s why the Grand Duke does not collapse.

On the contrary, it will further strengthen the empire.

“… … Is that true?”

“I swear. There is absolutely no lie in what I just said.”

The chancellor, who met Kariel’s with trembling eyes, couldn’t take his eyes off of him for a long time before lowering his head.

He began to be shaken by the words that his family, who had only thought he would die with him, could live.

“Say it.”

The Chancellor, who had been thinking for a while while watching Cariel ask the last question, slowly opened his mouth.

The story started from the moment he first stepped into the central bureaucratic society.

Although he had extraordinary talent, the bureaucratic system centered on personal connections brought despair.

A force approached him.

Since then, his world has changed.

“Is that why you were so innocent?”

Since the money was provided behind the scenes, there was no need to commit corruption.

Since the back ship supported money so that the ship exploded, I was able to focus on the political struggle, and I was able to quickly push the imperial faction into the two powers.

“Are you the one who gave His Majesty the drugs?”

“no. By the time I approached Your Majesty… … .”

Kariel’s expression hardened at the chancellor’s words.

“Have you been using your hands since then? But why is no one checking the forces of darkness?”

“Because among the bureaucrats, the only thing that has anything to do with the forces of darkness is belief. Even before that.”

At the words of the Prime Minister, Kariel’s expression distorted.

“Strictly.”

A kite is made for only the prime minister or a high-ranking person equivalent to that.

“Actually, I didn’t even know he existed for a while. When His Majesty began to rob the imperial faction, that was only once. He came directly to the Imperial Palace.”

As Kariel captured the enemy at random, the criminal organizations of the capital collapsed in an instant, and the black merchants were floating.

And as it quickly expanded beyond the central area to the south, he approached the prime minister in fear that the flames would spread to the west.

“If I had been a little leery, it would have been me who was eaten.”

At Kariel’s words, the prime minister smiled bitterly.

“But he came directly to the Imperial Palace… … .”

“It will be impossible now.”

Thanks to several cleanings, the imperial palace became difficult for outside spies to enter.

For a while, it meant that it was difficult to put a rat in the imperial palace.

After catching a spy in Kariel’s palace and wiping it out, after the Miriel case, a sweeping cleaning was carried out, so it was worth it.

“Huh, you bastard. Until then… … .”

Kariel muttered with an annoyed expression, and the chancellor said with a bitter expression.

“His Majesty is smart, contrary to the public opinion that he is a dark soldier.”

“… … .”

He was speechless at the words of the Prime Minister praising the nobleman who had let go until it was over.

The chancellor said to Kariel’s reaction.

“Your Majesty has suffered many betrayals. After the previous emperor passed away, he has come this far without any factions.”

He ascended to the throne of the emperor and suffered numerous betrayals until now.

As a result, he became obsessed with balance and doubted many people countless times.

“There is no one without a story in the world. The conclusion is just a nobleman obsessed with balance at the end of a suspicious illness.”

After Cariel calmly evaluated the current emperor, he turned around.

Chancellor opened his mouth to Kariel, who was about to leave as if he had heard everything he had to hear.

“Please keep your promise… … .”

Kariel, who did not turn his body at the words of the Prime Minister, nodded slightly and left the prison.

The Prime Minister said softly to Kariel.

“You seem to want to retire, but I don’t think it will be easy.”

As the prime minister said that, he looked at his aging hands.

His hands have become wrinkled all of a sudden.

If only I had been a little younger

No, if only he had entered the bureaucracy a little later… … .

I regretted that if I had known Kariel’s true value earlier, the result would have been different, but it was already too late.

The only wish left to him now is to block the gate of extinction.