The Low-Ranking Civil Servant Wants to Achieve Success-Chapter 33

At my signal, the Empress shot to her feet and shouted.

“Shut up! My plan to catch the [N O V E L I G H T] culprit was a success! I managed to drag that bastard into the courtroom, didn’t I?!”

“Your Majesty, the person currently being identified as the culprit is... Your Majesty yourself...”

The Empress, excited, sprayed spit everywhere as she caused a commotion.

The knights guarding her sweated bullets as they tried to restrain her.

It was truly chaos with no end in sight.

Meanwhile, Kiaros tilted his head, then earnestly made the same hand heart as me.

That serious look on his face was honestly dizzying.

“We have to capture that bastard, pour water into his nostrils, and somehow drag out the mastermind behind him!”

Even while screaming at the top of her lungs, the Empress kept glancing toward me.

She knew she was being a bit outrageous herself.

‘I can’t stop here either.’

But what really pushed me to go all the way was the fact that Oson had tried to get a teleportation scroll.

I became convinced that I was heading in the right direction.

I raised my hands all the way above my head and made a huge heart.

It meant: Sell whatever you have to, just push all the way through.

***

The open field in front of the Imperial Palace courtroom.

Under a massive, ancient tree, a middle-aged man landed with an agile motion.

“...Huff.”

The man straightened his body and ran a hand through his graying blond hair.

His breathing was rough, but his face was handsome.

He was none other than Fedwin Polariwood, the Emperor of the Polariwood Empire.

“I really am getting old and weak... not what I used to be... it’s hard.”

The Emperor had just finished using his special ability: long-distance teleportation.

As he aged, it became harder to use his special powers.

No matter how much of a Dragonblood you were, aging was unavoidable.

And right now, the Emperor’s body was particularly weak.

“Still... for the power of love, I have to push through.”

Bracing his trembling legs, the Emperor took a deep breath.

As soon as word reached the west that Fron had been caught purchasing poison, he had come running.

Even with special abilities, travel still wasn’t instantaneous.

It had taken him a full day.

“I can’t afford to be late. Is the trial still ongoing?”

Now that he had appeared like this, everyone would inevitably learn about his special ability.

That would bring about a lot of troublesome consequences.

‘From now on, anytime something odd happens, people will whisper that the Emperor must’ve been involved.’

Having a different power from others—

It became both an object of reverence and fear, and it made people uneasy.

‘Still, it can’t be helped. If it’s for the family I love...’

If they weren’t careful, Fron might even choose to take her own life.

Knowing her, she would say she didn’t want to be a burden and go that far.

The Emperor trusted Fron. He could mostly guess why she had gathered poison.

Kiaros probably knew too, which must be making things even harder for him.

‘I don’t want to burden Kiaros with even more than he already bears.’

At this moment, Kiaros must be struggling terribly in that courtroom.

Even without seeing it, the Emperor could clearly imagine it.

To protect Fron, who had sealed her lips, Kiaros would brave fierce opposition.

It would be a miracle if Fron didn’t end up grabbing someone’s sword and causing her own death.

‘Maybe it’s time to reveal how weak I’ve become... maybe even hand over the throne to Kiaros...’

There had never been a precedent of a Dragonblood who could not transform into a dragon ascending to the throne.

But with how bad the current situation was, he had to think even of that.

‘Kiaros will make a great monarch. Even I can see that.’

A bitter smile crossed the Emperor’s face as he hurried toward the courtroom.

‘The only thing that tugs at my heart is how heavy the burden must be for him, having to shoulder everything from such a young age.’

His sculpted features and every movement so suited for ruling.

That overwhelming aura and a voice that could make others tremble.

He never allowed himself to be caught in any wrongdoing, leaving not even the tiniest gap for criticism.

‘Maybe because of that, he seems overly obsessed with a girl whose face he doesn’t even know...’

The Emperor quickened his steps toward the courtroom.

“Your Majesty!”

“Emperor Your Majesty!”

“What, how is His Majesty here at the palace...?”

The palace attendants who spotted him bowed with shocked faces.

The Emperor passed them all without so much as a glance.

‘Even so, my son is serious and dignified beyond his years.’

His son, who had carried far too much since he was young.

‘And Fron... who, even sitting on the Empress’s seat, tries not to trouble me.’

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A wife whose loyalty to Dragonbloods was excessive.

‘How blessed I am to have a family like this.’

Thinking of his precious family made his chest ache.

The Emperor flung open the courtroom doors.

And there he finally saw the family he had missed so dearly.

“The Emperor will soon prove my innocence! I can’t say everything now, but even His Majesty suspects that bastard!”

His wife, selling him out...

‘Hmm?’

And his son, in the middle of drawing a huge heart over his head.

***

‘It can’t be helped...’

I quickly rationalized as I looked around the chaotic courtroom.

‘This is the best we can do...’

At my signal to "sell whatever you have to," the Empress sold out the Emperor.

After all, the greatest thing she had to sell was the Emperor himself.

And following my signal, even though he seemed to have misunderstood, Kiaros also drew a big heart.

‘It’s fine, it’s not my business...’

If I had one strength, it was that I could stay detached from other people’s disasters.

So I decided to be emotionally detached from Kiaros’s dignity.

At any rate, now everyone had noticed Kiaros’s eccentric behavior.

“Look at His Highness the Crown Prince.”

“Oh my God. Did he just make a heart?”

“No way. In this atmosphere?”

“...I’m not hallucinating, am I?”

People were murmuring, unsure where to look.

Because both the Empress and the Crown Prince were too fascinating.

It was then.

The Minister of Justice suddenly shouted, looking toward the entrance behind me.

“His Majesty the Emperor! How—how are you here...?”

Miraculously, everyone’s attention turned toward the back.

“What? His Majesty the Emperor?”

“I thought he was in the west?”

I quickly lowered the arms I had been using to make a heart.

Fortunately, it didn’t seem like anyone had caught me.

I also checked behind me and let out a sigh of relief.

‘Perfect!’

A middle-aged man with graying blond hair and striking good looks had appeared.

Just as in the original, and just as I had expected, the Emperor had arrived.

He must have used his special ability after hearing about the Empress’s situation.

‘Of course he had to come. I knew he’d arrive about now.’

I inwardly grinned, my eyes sparkling.

Of course, Kiaros was a Dragonblood too, but the pressure the Emperor gave off was overwhelming.

He was the only living being who could actually transform into a dragon.

‘Oson won't be able to withstand this.’

Sure enough, Oson was now trembling all over, even his torso.

And now that the Empress had even sold out the Emperor—

Since she said that even the Emperor was suspicious, Oson’s brain must have short-circuited.

‘He probably thinks, just as the Empress claimed, that this whole thing was an elaborate trap.’

The mastermind still hiding in the shadows would definitely believe that the Imperial Family had seen through him.

But with the Empress insisting it was a sting operation and then the Emperor appearing—

“I-I-I-I-I’ll tell you everything!”

Exactly. You should.

I smiled leisurely. With this, the Empress’s claim that Oson was suspicious had become public truth.

‘It’s done!’

I politely bowed my head toward Kiaros.

It meant: I did well, right? Thank you for letting me act freely, even though it must’ve seemed suspicious.

“......”

Kiaros, looking a little wronged, slowly lowered his arms.