Chapter 244 (1/2)

Chapter 244: Chapter 244

What the successor of the Duke Jena family wanted me to do was three things. First, he wanted me to get him the right to succeed his father’s title. Secondly, he wanted me to make sure that his father would step down after giving up all power including his knighthood. Lastly, he wanted me to make sure that he would inherit more than 70% of the duke family’s assets and status. What I wanted in return was for him to hand “it” over to me.

But it was quite difficult for him to hand “it” over to me. So, I was thinking of bargaining with him up to a certain point.

However, I could not go ahead with the deal recklessly because the emperor was poisoned and the Jena family was suspected of having masterminded the plot against him. So, I needed to check first whether he was involved in this plot or not. It is noteworthy that although he wanted me to guarantee that he should inherit more than 90% of his family’s assets at first, he backed down later.

I told the baron waiting for my next instruction to leave, then I buried myself deep in the sofa, picking up the documents he left behind.

I needed to make a little more efforts to get rid of the enemy who tried to kill me and the emperor.

Was it because I slept fitfully due to complicated thoughts? I felt heavy in the morning. After taking the fork to my mouth a couple of times, I put it down and grabbed the letters that the butler brought to me. When I took out the letters and other small banquet invitations that the noble faction sent me out of courtesy, there was only one invitation left, which asked me whether I could attend the banquet to celebrate the engagement of the Whir family’s daughter and the Genoa family’s son.

Oops! I forgot to reply when Grace came to see me the other day. I thought of asking my father about it, but it slipped my mind.

“Daddy?”

“Why?”

“As for the banquet to celebrate the two families’ engagement, what should I do? I feel uncomfortable going there, given the bad relationship between our family and theirs, but at the same time I feel uneasy about not going there because it might create division within the pro-emperor faction.”

“Hmm. You don’t have to take it so seriously, Tia. If you want to go there for a chance, you can attend. If you don’t feel up to it, you don’t have to. Although our family’s relationship with them is bad recently, we were all in the same boat for a long time. So, our relationship won’t go sour even if you don’t attend just once.”

“Ah…I see. I’ll do so. Thank you, Daddy.”

I felt much more light-hearted. When I sorted out the invitations, he put down a letter he was holding, and said, “Tia, don’t you want to attend the political meeting?”

“Cabinet meeting? But I …Ah..”

Come to think of it, he was right. Unlike the big conference where any noble can attend, most of the political meetings were open only to those nobles with the rank of earl and above and their official successors, as well as those with the rank of viscount and above who had also separate government positions. Therefore, I, who recently became the official successor of my family, could attend the political meeting.

I nodded after agonizing for a moment. As I had nothing special to do today, I thought it might not be a bad idea to attend today’s political meeting.

“Sure, I’ll attend.”

“…Good. Come with me in the afternoon. ”

Although he paused for a moment as if he had something more to say, he just stood up silently.

After giving a quick look at the plates that I hardly touched, I left the dining room with him.

“It’s been a long time, Lady Monique.”

“Hello, Marquis of Enesil. It’s been a while.”

The blonde young man dressed in a dark gray uniform smiled up at me. The three black strings on his shoulders shone under the chandelier.

Come to think of it, it was the first time that I saw him since he became the captain of the new knights division. I recently went through lots of things, so I felt I met him after a long time even though he was inaugurated as the captain only recently.