Chapter 53: Second Tour
Summer of year 466. The Emperor’s group set out on their second tour of the nation.
The main purpose of this tour was the western part of the nation, an area influenced by the Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies.
The Regent and Count Palatine Vedett persuaded the Emperor to go since he was traumatised by Ghafur army’s attack on the first tour and was very reluctant (or pretended to be reluctant). The Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies owed a great debt to these two for persuading the Emperor.
The Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies went to such lengths because he felt it was unfair that the Emperor’s previous tour had been almost exclusively to the Chancellor’s fief.
If the Chancellor was still his old self, he would have intervened at this point by standing up for the Emperor, who didn’t want to go, or at the very least, he would have criticised the Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies’s actions.
But he didn’t do either of those things this time because he didn’t have any energy to spare.
Rosalia and Salomon will stay in the capital since I would be troubled if they decided to raise an army here.
One of the reasons why I originally wanted to go on a tour was to get Rosalia and the people of Belbe Kingdom out of the capital… but the situation has obviously changed.
The Chancellor and the Chief of the Ministry of Ceremonies thought of me as an existence that they would eliminate if I got in their way until the last tour. Even if I protested here, they would twist it and say that Rosalia and the others have received secret orders from the Belbe Kingdom and are planning something wicked.