Chapter 1 (1/2)

Queen Yvor Adela, who had once climbed to the highest position as a woman in the kingdom, was now in an underground stone prison without even a single chair.

It was very quiet inside the prison as her last maid, who had been crying out until a while ago, was taken to the execution site two days earlier.

Yvor did not dislike such quietness. She couldn’t stand the sound of dumb maids who didn’t even know what her will was.

「”How dare you reciprocate in such a way when her majesty was so merciful to you, how dare you do a coup? I can’t believe you put her in prison. The new house of Salzmia is truly a seed of a thousand things, such ungratefulness.”」

T/n: the idiom “a seed of a thousand things” is used similarly as “a dime a dozen” here

However, the leader of the coup, whom the maids condemned in unison, and the right arm of the new king, Duran Craig, the Lord of Avonbury, was Yvor Adela’s dear brother.

When she thought of him and the future he would have as he made his own family, Yvor was thrilled that even her own downfall was sweet.

Now, with the blood she would be shedding, Salzmia’s power would become something no one could ever overlook, how could she not enjoy it? Only for this fall did she become a snake willing to twist the king.

Gremory-Bunt-Salzmia, the three poor families who were once neglected and ridiculed by the public as to whether it was possible to call them the seventh great family that was part of the top of the country.

The six families who were once almost exterminated later formed a bunga but they were still not able to escape Salzmia’s feet for the next 100 years.

T/n: a bunga is a family in which some of the members were separated and independent from the house they originally belonged to and set up a separate house. It could also be a branch family.

Leave her, you should be pouring tea and bake cookies for me instead.

Where were the tongues of the women who used to insult her now? She would not even pick up the gold pot that the late King Rand II made for her.

And then there was her younger brother, why had he only sat at the end of the table with those broken knights when she occasionally attended the grand noble meeting?

Shouldn’t he be standing next to the new king?

Everything went as she wanted. So the maids who dared to blame her brother were foolish. Her lovely sibling did his part well without having the need to care about them. Yvor wanted to run around the capital while she carried him on her back if she could.

Duran did really well. The very thing he was now called, the Marquis of Salzmia, proved how excellent her brother truly was.

Since he was a bastard, he had to climb several stairs with numerous thorns to succeed his family.

In this matter of succession, she had to oppose his succession rather than to help him. This was because they should not be seen as good siblings.

Duran Craig should not be the favored brother of the vicious new queen who drove the king crazy. He should be a symbol of justice and the one to antagonize her.

Therefore, Yvor Adela, was one of the thorns in his way. Perhaps she was the maze that her half-brother had to break through on his last step of thorns.

Despite all that, her younger brother brilliantly took the name of Salzmia’s House and Marquis in his hand.

It was also the right calculation to remove herself from the family right after succession. By then, what she could do to the family would not be big enough as there would be no risk of anyone receiving the family name because of her.

Really how could my cute Deu be so brilliant. Yvor cried with joy on the day she heard that she would no longer be using the name Salzmia.