Chapter 42: Alumni Meeting
The man who suddenly appeared in the center of the room.
He was a young man dressed in a butler’s uniform and could probably use magic. It was… safe to assume that he was capable of spatial manipulation magic (which I couldn’t use) or mental and thought manipulation magic.
His purpose was to assassinate the Emperor, but there is no assassination without a client or motive. It was easy to imagine that this was the work of the Chancellor or Regent faction, but I don’t think they know that I’m acting. If he was sent by the Chancellor’s faction, then they would have acted at a time where no one from the Chancellor’s faction was present, and if he was sent from the Regent’s faction, then they would have sent him while I was in the Chancellor faction’s fief.
Was he sent by another nation to disrupt the Empire? For what purpose? If the puppet dies, then another puppet would take his place, or the Chancellor or the Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies becomes the Emperor. It was definitely more convenient for them if I were the puppet.
So, who sent him and for what purpose…? Wait, what did he just say? Ojou-sama? Sake? I will be harmful to this man’s Ojou-sama in the future… Me?
Most people don’t know how I really am. So, the me who will be harmful to her is the stupid puppet Emperor?
I see, so I have room to negotiate.
“I will make this as painless as possible.”
But you’ll have to defeat me to do that!