Chapter 103
“...What?”
“You're one of His Highness the Crown Prince’s people, aren’t you?”
“......”
“It all makes sense now. The Empress suspected you were suspicious, and you had that absurd level of physical ability too.”
Kibon’s eyes quietly darted around, his expression clearly flustered. Of course, I didn’t bring this up to interrogate him or anything.
“Did His Highness explain things to you already? From now on, we’re not just Scroll Department employees. We’ll be working directly for the Crown Prince.”
I continued sweetly.
“But I’m not really sure what your actual position is. If you’re, like, a director of some secret organization or something, it’s kind of awkward for me to keep bossing you around like before...”
“You can still boss me around.”
I was basically trying to renegotiate our hierarchy, but Kibon, who’d been stunned into silence, answered quickly.
“You’re my superior, Minister. You can order me around as much as you want.”
“Oh, really? For real?”