I’m the Only One Who Can Put the Tyrant To Sleep

Chapter 37 Then there was only one case left. Someone killed the Duke.‘Who? Why?’The answer was obvious. To shut the Duke’s mouth.I hastened my steps and arrived at Caesar’s room. I knocked and said.“Your highness, it’s me.”“Come in.”“Have you heard of it? Duke Spiegel-”As soon as I entered the room, I tried to speak quickly, but I was cut off.“Yeah, he was dead.”“… Y-your highness, what is that?”“What?”With a bewildered face, I pointed to the tall pillar in the center of the room. A meager bouquet of flowers was placed on a square pillar that reached her waist. It was also covered with something like pure white glass.so the bouquet was displayed as if it were an artifact in a… museum.“That… Isn’t that the bouquet I gave you?”“And?”Caesar continued quietly.“It’s a magical display case, and they say that if you put flowers in it, they will never wilt.”“Yes? No… No, why…”She had given them to Caesar to make him feel better, but they were never meant to be treated with such respect. It was because there were so many flowers blooming that there were enough flowers to be picked up along the way.‘Even as I plucked it, there are dirt and withered flowers!’It was not a bouquet made with professional flower arranging skills.“Your highness, the flowers… Do you like it?”“What?”“I’ll give you another flower later. So you can just throw this bouquet-”“No!”Caesar shouted before I could finish. I looked up in surprise at the scream, and he coughed a few times.“The flowers I received are mine now. and I’m going to do what I want with them, and you don’t have to worry aboutit.”“… So, can you at least change the location?”It was very burdensome to be placed in the middle of the bedroom. Because it was a position where anyone who entered this room had no choice but to pay attention to it.“They’re my flowers, and I’m going to do what I want with them-”“Flowers.”I interrupted Caesar’s words in a hurry.“Flowers need sunlight to grow well! Wouldn’t it be better to put it by the window than here?”“But it doesn’t matter if it’s in this place anyway-”“Well, they have a heart, after all! They love sunlight, and… well… if they’re in a window, you’ll be able to see it when you’re lying down.”These were made up, but Caesar looked surprisingly thoughtful.“Is that so?”“Yes! I think it would be much better to be by the window. It’s too cumbersome here, so it’s inconvenient to go back and forth.”Caesar, who had been moving around the exhibition hall as if judging his usual movement, finally nodded.“Okay. Then I’ll have my servant move it later.”Phew, I barely breathed a sigh of relief. If you leave it by the window… It’ll be fine to see.By the way, I didn’t know that Caesar would like flowers so much. I was contemplating whether I should give them more often in the future, but Caesar asked.“But what are you doing at this hour?”“Yes?”“It’s almost time for sword training, isn’t it?”I didn’t participate in Caesar’s outside schedule, so I didn’t follow his swordsmanship training. So, usually during this time, I would have free time or do other things.“It’s just that I didn’t get a chance to greet you this morning, and I have something to tell you.”“What is it?”“Duke Spiegel is dead.”Caesar’s face quickly grew serious.“Yes, he is, and so?”Having just heard of the Duke’s disposition, I was already thinking of the next problem.The Emperor’s illness.No one else knew, but I knew. Soon the Emperor will die.If the Emperor died, the imperial palace would surely become noisy over the next Emperor. The standard route, and the one I want most, is for the crown prince, Caesar, to ascend to the throne without incident…‘Is that really going to happen?’To be honest, Caesar’s current situation was not very good. Even if the Duke of Spiegel’s affairs had the aristocratic faction on his side, the Empress remained.If I am correct, what happened at this banquet was the work of the aristocrats. If this was done without a word, the Empress would not be in a good mood.After all, she was a member of the imperial family, and she would have been offended by such an insult to the royalty. Moreover, it failed, and Duke Spiegel, one of the main pillars of the aristocracy, died.So now would be the perfect time to drive a wedge between the Empress and the nobility.‘Of course, there are some things you need before that.’“Evelyn?”As I closed my mouth in thought, Caesar asked with a puzzled face.“Ah, that’s actually…”I stared at Caesar for a moment. Caesar was looking at me with his curious eyes.‘Is it okay if I tell Caesar everything?’Up until now, I’d been treating him like a child. However, the sight of him subduing Duke Spiegel with his cold eyes at a recent banquet was far more credible than I expected. ‘Don’t worry. I’ll believe whatever you say.’ Besides, didn’t Caesar even say that? He’ll believe me.‘Anyway, what I’m going to do from now on is something that Caesar really needs.’It was impossible to control the imperial palace as a maid. On the surface, it had to be Caesar. The one thing that bothered me was that Caesar could possibly be in more danger…“Evelyn?”As soon as I looked at him, Caesar asked again.“It’s about what happened at the banquet. Have you ever wondered what it’s all about? I guess I didn’t tell you in detail at the time.”“I’m not stupid.”“Yes?”“What was in that bottle couldn’t have been poison to begin with. If it was, the Duke wouldn’t have drunk it so confidently.”I was a little surprised. It was because Caesar knew more than I thought.“But if he spit it back out afterward, it must have been because he noticed something was wrong while drinking it. You said you were going to switch the bottles, so you must have done something to make him think it was poison. Isn’t it?”“Uh…”“You were the one who said the Duke needed to be tricked into taking the potion.”“… Yes, but that-”“And it’s all for my benefit. I told you, I trust you.”Caesar looked at me with unshaken eyes. His eyes didn’t change from when he said he believed in me.Caesar really does believe in me… I realized he meant it.“So what are you going to say? Did it have anything to do with yesterday?”“Yeah, that’s for the future.”There was no reason to hesitate any longer to speak.I began to explain to Caesar everything I knew. After a while, Caesar asked with a puzzled face.“So you mean… we need to build up our faction?”Even with my brief explanation, he seemed to have quickly grasped the point.“Yes. To ascend to the throne.”“But we’ve found a guide to control the rampage, isn’t that all you need to do? Once I awaken, I’ll gain great power.”“The problem is that it takes time to awaken, and before that awakening…”I hesitated and finally opened my mouth.“If the throne becomes empty… It becomes a problem.”“What do you mean the throne is empty…”Noticing what I meant, Caesar kept his mouth shut. I was saying that the Emperor lying on the bed could die at any time.“We must find a way to ascend to the throne without awakening the abilities. For that, you have to increase your faction.”This was the necessary task before the Empress and the aristocratic faction. To increase the power of the Crown Prince faction.There were three ways to build power. Physical power, capital power, and manpower. Physical power or capital was not something that could be raised immediately,‘If he awakened and became capable, he could raise an army in some way, but it would take three years…The same was true for capital power. Even if you did business in some way, it would take time to see results. The Emperor would be dead before then.’There was only one thing left: people. People also meant power.The current government was largely divided into two groups, the aristocratic faction and the imperial faction, but it was further subdivided into four branches. The aristocratic faction is the Duke and Empress of Spiegel, and the imperial faction is the current Emperor and Crown Prince.If we were to rank the superiority of power, it was Duke > Emperor > Empress > Crown Prince. The imperial faction and the empress faction were almost equalized, and the Crown Prince faction was almost…Moreover, the combined strength of the other three could not defeat the Duke faction. That was why the Empress had aligned herself with the Duke faction.Even if she joined forces with the Emperor’s people, she could not defeat them, so she chose to betray the Emperor. To become a scarecrow and claim the throne before being executed by the Dukes someday.‘But this banquet caused the downfall of Duke Spiegel.’It was obvious that the power of the aristocrats’ faction was also greatly weakened.What if the other three joined forces in this situation? What if the Emperor, Empress, and Crown Prince unite? Maybe it would be possible to create an imperial power enough to silence the movements of the aristocrats’ faction for the time being