CH SS 6 (1/2)
The troublemaker prince came back to Uruhara——
The news, along with the reason why, spread at a frightening speed.
The reason —— He a.s.saulted the crown prince of the neighbouring country, the Empire of Fox, with cooperation from his butler. Many people, including me, trembled in fear that war might break out over this.
Just around a week before the prince was sent back here, my son, along with another girl, was incarcerated on ‘suspicion of espionage’. Also, the second son of a count from the Empire, who was in the same group as them, was sent here to study abroad here.
In these times, there were worries that the fifth prince of Uruhara directly a.s.saulting the crown prince of the Empire may increase diplomatic tensions, evolving into war.
That was what the people of this country distressed over.
However, the Empire had no thoughts to exaggerate this incident, so what came to our country was a demand to ‘strip Henry of his status of royalty, and to leave him to a person who has a delusional disorder and an obsession for Henry’.
Of course, since he caused this turmoil, it is a given that his status will be demoted.
Normally, a country would execute or imprison one for life to show that ‘the country has no desire for war’.
However, what our neighbour demanded was ‘the act’ that Prince Henry was planning to do on Prince Kyle.
As for me, since I knew Prince Henry’s interest from Jackie’s clairvoyance, I could accept the demand. However, except for the king and the crown prince, members of the royalty — especially Prince Henry’s mother, the first queen, overreacted to it.
“Why does the Empire of Fox want such a harsh treatment to Henry!? It’s enough to confine him!”
“If you think of what Henry tried to do to Prince Kyle, isn’t this a natural request? We should be thankful that we could avoid war!”
“Mother…… You may not know this, but there are already many women in this country that fell prey to Henry. We told him to fix it, and even sent him abroad. But now that he caused trouble even abroad…… we could no longer protect him……”
“My son was tasked with the surveillance of that prince, but due to the influence of that prince’s scheme, my son is now incarcerated there. Since even a butler cooperated with the prince, it’s natural that the Empire wishes for punishment……”
To the queen’s cries, the king, the crown prince and I coolly prospected.
In this conference room, there were also many other senior statesmen, but none dared to speak out and just darted their eyes around restlessly.
They were all thinking that ‘they should abandon the prince’ if it’s to avoid war.
Only Henry’s mother had pity for him.
Even his father and his brother prioritised the state, and decided to cut away a minor royal (Prince Henry).
Normally, to end the seeds of unrest, he would be executed, but if our neighbour demanded that ‘he should face punishment worse than death’ we have to follow.
Everyone accepted the punishment as a reasonable. We could not risk worsening our relations just because the queen wanted to protect ‘her child’.
“If you are doing this out of thought as ‘Henry’s mother’ than as the queen, I must request that you too be confined.”
“!!!”
To the words of the King, which were like an ultimatum, the queen became speechless……
No matter how much she loves her son, she is the queen of a country.
Considering that position, she must accept any bitter choices.