Chapter 150 (1/2)

The war hearing had been canceled, but the Victory Parade was held in a grand manner.

In addition to the Emperor, many other nobles including Duke Butler attended the event.

Luke attended the parade along with his men as well. He drove back and forth around Central Square the entire day.

“Oh my! We just looked at it.”

Philip said to Luke while speaking through his teeth.

“This isn’t done yet. In the evening, there is a celebration for the Victory Parade at the Imperial Palace.”

“We’re tired, can’t we just not go?” Asked Philip.

“No. There will be non-imperial events going on. And we might get punished for blasphemy.”

“We’re ruined.”

Eventually, Luke had to get ready to attend the victory parade celebration with a smile on his face.

“Hurry up. There might be foreign guests at the event. We wouldn’t want the Emperor to change your post to a place more spoiled than the Torlot Fortress.”

“Okay, understood, just stop with your nagging.”

Luke, who couldn’t handle the nagging of Philip which sounded like a mother-in-law’s, dragged out his aching body from the couch.

“Should I take a bath?” Asked Luke.

“Please do. It might remove some of the fatigue. Ah, there are some fragrance oils and soaps in the bathroom.”

As Philip pushed Luke into the bathroom, he heard a knock outside, and a courier from the accommodation place had come in.

“Ironed the tailcoat sir.”

“Good job… What?! Why does it look like that!?”

Philip couldn’t help but scream after looking at Luke’s tailcoat brought in by the courier.

“And the wrinkles in here! Did you fold this? Why would you make an expensive clothing look like this!”

“Sor, sorry.”

The ironing state of Luke’s tailcoat wasn’t that bad.

But Philip, who was Luke’s guardian, was obsessed with perfection since the past year.

“I will take it and bring it back neatly once again,” the courier man said.

“There is not enough time, so do it quickly… Ah, just go and bring the iron here.”

After a while, the man went and brought back the iron with charcoal, and Philip, with his skills, removed the wrinkles on Luke’s tailcoat.

In addition, the lines of the tailcoat now looked as sharp as a sword.

“You need to do it like this, understand? Why can’t you do it like this instead of making people tired.”

‘That guy needs to iron clothes to eat food,’ thought Luke

Luke couldn’t help but laugh at Philip, who was grunting to the courier man for his ironing skills.

Pong! Pong! Pong!

In the dark night’s sky, beautifully embroidered fireworks were being displayed.

The imperial palace was surrounded by magic lights everywhere. The lights were like jewels hanging in the night sky.

The road to the banquet hall was covered with a bright red carpet, and all kinds of flowers were decorated on either side.

“This is such a wonderful display.”

“Are all the banquets originally held in the Imperial Palace?”

Luke, who arrived at the palace to attend the celebration, couldn’t keep himself calm after seeing the gorgeously decorated palace.

It wasn’t wrong to say that the decorations were too much, but Luke wasn’t aware of the rumors that were surrounding Emperor Rudolf, who had prepared the banquet.

‘He is showcasing his power. Like what his ancestors did.’

Emperor Rudolf’s ancestor, Karno de Baroque, always showed his power by holding an unprecedented banquet even though they were at war with the Devil’s legion.

The banquet was held with the intention to form a human party coalition against the legion of Saymon.

In addition, the warrior Rakan joined that banquet as well.

Rudolf had a similar pattern with what his ancestors did in the past.

This time it was to show the other nobles and the foreign nobles his strength and that he still had the resources needed to rule and to win over the hearts of the emperor nobles who have been bothered with war and assassination.

‘This surely can be thought to be great, but to do all this in a short time, it’s like he is in a hurry.’

Whatever his thoughts were, Luke headed to the banquet hall with a proud smile on his face.

There was no specific reason for it. The person who led the war to their victory was him. Luke was thinking of himself as the main character of the celebration.

“Luke de Rakan and his party!”

Those who had already gathered at the banquet hall turned their eyes at the announcement of the banquet speaker.

“The young man is the descendant of a warrior…”

“He defeated 60,000 republicans with just one small Fortress in hand?”

“That too with Marquis Tyron, who was famous for being the commander during the Republican revolution.”

Philip and Alex were shrugging their shoulders at the praises and admirations which came in from both sides.

Luke too had been feeling proud because he did contribute a lot to the Empire’s victory.

Luke looked around at the banquet hall which was talking about him.

He heard that princess Reina and her party had gone first to the banquet hall but finding them wasn’t an easy task.

“Here! Over here!”

When he heard a familiar voice from behind, he found Anna and Reina.

As Luke approached them, Anna flapped her dress and turned around excitedly.

“Hehe! How do I look, old Viscount?”

“Yeah, you look good.”

Luke replied as politely as he could and looked over to her side where Reina was standing.

“You look beautiful. If I could, I would have taken you into my arms.”

“Ah, you’re making me shy,” responded Reina.

The two of them spoke with good faith and went to the center of the banquet hall to dance.

Seeing the two of them dance to the music of the Imperial band, Anna’s face turned dull.

“Tch, the effort was rather good, but the opponent has the upper hand.”

Philip, who went next to Anna, said to her.

After joining the Torlot Fortress, he had been teaching her Gold Sword, so he knew what Anna was like.

“Hmph! Don’t bother me.”