The Low-Ranking Civil Servant Wants to Achieve Success-Chapter 44

“A blackout, huh...... Then Kiaros, you’ll need to lay low for a while. I’ll have to take over the palace affairs again.”

“But......”

“It’s fine. I can hold out until your blackout ends. Don’t worry, my son.”

The Emperor smiled broadly, despite his face looking unmistakably sick.

“You’ve endured so much, Kiaros. It was wrong of me to stay in the background during all this.”

Kiaros opened his lips with a worried look but couldn’t say anything.

No one knew better than him how powerless he was right now.

“Anyway, this is only the beginning.”

The Emperor muttered as if driving a nail into the situation.

“We have formidable enemies...... Not just the nobles, but ones daring enough to infiltrate even the Imperial Palace. They’ve finally begun targeting you and the Empress.”

The tail had been cut, but the true identity of the masterminds remained unknown.

They didn’t even know what those enemies wanted.

Just one thing......

“That woman definitely shouted, ‘For evolution’.......”

That phrase, like some strange slogan.

“There are groups out there with bizarre and powerful convictions, enough to sacrifice themselves instantly.”

“Evolution...... evolution, huh.”

The Emperor frowned deeply. Kiaros spoke in a low voice.

“It reminds me of the Golrin from the past. That word ‘evolution’ brings it to mind.”

The low-level monster Golrin.

The southern organization that modified and experimented on them to raise their intelligence to human levels.

Back then, they tracked down and annihilated the leadership.

But some small fry had survived.

“Yes.”

The Emperor nodded heavily, understanding what Kiaros meant.

“I thought of them too. We’ll need to investigate further.”

Then he turned and smiled gently at the Empress.

“Still, it’s thanks to you, Fron, for holding out till the end that we even found this much. You suffered a lot from the moment you were captured to the very trial.”

“I didn’t do much......”

The Empress scratched her chin shyly.

“I just did what Namia told me to do. She’s a clever kid. I failed to make her my daughter-in-law, but....... Honestly, I understand why she ran from marrying the Crown Prince. Being Empress is burdensome.”

The Empress, recalling the trial, regained her lively expression.

“I just kept screeching and shouting random things like Namia told me to! And right then, His Majesty appeared and sorted everything out!”

Receiving a loving gaze from the Emperor, the Empress swung her fists excitedly and continued.

“Honestly, what would a blockhead like me know? Namia, that kid, acted like she knew the future......”

At that moment.

“Wait a moment.”

Kiaros cut in sharply.

“Wait a moment, Your Majesty the Empress.”

“Yes?”

“What did you just say?”

Startled by Kiaros’s fierce tone, the Empress quickly bowed her head and shouted.

“I’m sorry, Your Highness the Crown Prince! I brought up again that Namia refused your marriage proposal with her life on the line! I didn’t know my place!”

The Emperor linked arms with the Empress and muttered, “Yes, that was wrong...... After waiting so many years......”

The Empress cried out in a voice like she was coughing blood.

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“Please punish me severely for the crime of displeasing a Dragonblood!”

“No, no, not that......”

“Not that? Ah, then I apologize for saying I understood her rejecting Your Highness! I wasn’t thinking properly, speaking so casually in such a bad situation......”

“No, no, not that either!”

Kiaros waved his hand frantically.

“You said, ‘acted like she knew the future,’ didn’t you?”

Still bowing low, the Empress cautiously lifted her eyes.

“......I did?”

With an expression sharper than ever before, Kiaros added.

“There’s another group that acted as if they knew the future.”

[Attacked me precisely when my blackout hit....... Even now, it’s baffling. They acted as if they knew the future.]

The ones who attacked Kiaros during a blackout he himself hadn’t foreseen.

“It’s suspicious, isn’t it?”

Kiaros’s eyes gleamed as he spoke.

“Those who set traps as if they knew the future, and Namia, who saved us as if she knew the future. Isn’t there a connection?”

“......Your Highness, are you suspecting °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° Namia Roafi?”

The Empress asked cautiously, watching him.

“Even though she saved you and me as a child, and again fifteen years later? Just because she rejected marriage.......”

“No, her refusal really doesn’t bother me. Truly.”

Kiaros said firmly.

“But thinking about it now...... it’s strange how she had piles of defensive scrolls ready precisely on the day I was attacked. Up till then, Namia Roafi never acted on her own within the department.”

The Emperor, looking slightly weary, interjected.

“But Kiaros, even if, just for argument’s sake, you found her suspicious, what could we do? That clueless old Tower Master is already completely smitten with her.”

The Emperor’s tone was comforting but firm.

“You know we can’t just strip someone of their position or imprison them without a rational reason. And honestly...... it really sounds like you’re retaliating because she rejected your proposal.”

“I understand.”

Kiaros’s expression was more serious than ever.

If Namia turned out to be the final mastermind? The potential consequences were horrifying.

‘What if she gained our trust by saving the royals from attacks, only to betray us at the most critical moment?’

The Empress was already completely won over.

In that case, we would have effectively seated the enemy’s leader in the minister’s chair.

“It’s true Namia handled everything almost too perfectly. As if she knew the future. It might just be good luck, but considering the empire’s future, we must be cautious. Therefore.”

With an expression so flawless and thorough that not even a needle could slip through, he spoke rationally, thinking of the empire’s future.

“I will personally stay close to Namia Roafi and monitor her.”

The noble posture, the princely arrogance — it all came naturally to him.

The Emperor looked at his perfect and beautiful son with awe.

“My beloved son......”

His voice even trembled slightly.

“......You’re really so pathetic.”