The Main Heroine Likes the Extra

Chapter 68

68 – The sore hump of the Marcos Empire.

The Marcos Empire, a great nation with great prestige in the western part of the continent.

Ecliptic Rhinos, the capital of the empire, and the tall and splendid building in the center of it is the Baleim Palace, where the emperor resides.

And now, the young woman with a disgusted expression on the throne of the imperial palace was Ophelia, the empress who rules this country.

She sat on a splendid throne, but her arms crossed with her annoyed face reminded her of her boss in anger rather than her empress.

Then the person she had been waiting for entered her throne room.

“Your Majesty, the envoy who carried the letter has received an answer.”

“Yes. What did he say?”

“……As usual.”

Upon hearing her words, Empress Ophelia shook her head as if she knew that and accepted her letter.

“…They seem to have been quiet lately, but they’re having an accident.”

In her letter, there was a written signature written on her letter saying that she was entrusted with her disposal.

It was none other than the elves who wrote that letter.

That is also a letter from the chieftain of an elf clan.

Felix Lampede.

Warriors The chief who leads the Lamped Clan, a clan of elves, and is also an excellent warrior himself.

Reading the letter, Empress Ophelia remembered what had happened a while ago.

“Your Highness! It’s a big deal!!”

Her own aides burst into her office, but Empress Ophelia continued to pay her bills without taking her eyes off her papers.

Recently, the empire was literally peace itself.

Trouble sometimes breaks out, but because she has already taken measures, it often ends in an attempt.

“Your Highness! A mercenary from the Lampede clan…!”

“Are they the Lamped clan again? Subdue them moderately and send a letter to deal with them…”

“That…That’s…!!”

According to the Empire’s elven protection policy, elves were protected within the boundaries of the law in the empire.

Most of the elves accepted that and lived quietly in human society, or quietly tended the forest.

So, the elf protection policy created by the previous emperor seemed to be successful.

But even among the elves, some of the so-called warrior clans couldn’t live such a quiet life.

They were a group of combat fanatics who believed that only fighting was the joy of life.

The previous emperor thought of accepting them into the Imperial Army, but they hated being controlled.

In the end, what they chose was the path of being a mercenary or an adventurer.

And among them, there was definitely an idiot-like clan.

That is the Lamped Clan.

They weren’t satisfied with the adventurer’s job of fighting monsters, and they had accidents in the empire.

On the one hand protecting the elves, it is like a thorn in the eyes of the imperial family who tried to manage it.

Nevertheless, the former emperor, who tried to control them somehow in a peaceful way, met a sudden death from a chronic disease.

And Empress Ophelia, who inherited the throne at a young age as his only daughter, took a harder line against them than the previous emperor.

They were always supervised and managed, and those who wanted to go abroad were cooperating with foreign countries to impose strong controls on entry and exit.

Thanks to this, if there was an accident within the empire, it was immediately subdued, and accidents outside the empire were eliminated.

So, this time too, I think I can end it in a proper way. Thinking that way, Empress Ophelia accepted her report.

“Honestly, manpower is consumed to manage them, but it’s slowly… Huh?”

As she grumbled and read her report, Empress Ophelia’s eyes widened.

Her hand holding the report trembled.

His gaze slowly turned to the aide’s face.

“Hey Aide, is this report really true?”

“…I couldn’t believe it, so I checked it, but it’s true.”

“These dog-like goblins!!”

Empress Ophelia threw the report away.

The aide picked up Ophelia’s report and listened to it.

“It’s a headache just to buy something overseas, but to touch a foreign aristocrat? And a duke?”

“……”

“I’ll send an envoy to the Lamped clan right away, and I’ll tell them to take care of it anyway, but it’s necessary for formal reasons.”

“Okay.”

“Tell the god of death to properly warn those goblins… And to the kingdom…”

“A letter has arrived from the Kingdom of Palaginia saying that an envoy will be sent to discuss this matter.”

“…I’ll deal with them myself. Ha…Gee, this thing is about to happen.”

Empress Ophelia wrapped her head around her head.

When she was young, whenever the Lampid family had an accident abroad, she remembered her father, the predecessor of the emperor, who was in trouble.

I wondered if my father had passed away from a flare-up because of it.

She thought, so she came to her place and firmly tied up that damn clan, and she thought it was going to pay off.

And time returns to the present.

After the incident happened, Empress Ophelia investigated the incident in various ways.

Of course, the biggest culprit is the Lamped clan, who took over the work overseas, but it’s not like they did it once or twice.

The next culprit was none other than the official who gave permission to the mercenaries of the Lamped clan to leave the country.

She immediately summoned the official to the capital and treated him personally, only to receive an ambiguous reply that she did not remember.

But it was definitely the official who disposed of them leaving the country, and in the end Empress Ophelia, furious, dismissed him and handed him over as punishment.

As for those elf mercenaries…

It was fortunate that there were no fatalities due to their actions, but even so, it is true that the nobles were attacked.

Even the life of one of the nobles who stopped them was almost in danger.

If I really had to die… In order not to have to think about anything else, Empress Ophelia shook her head and brushed off her thoughts.

In the letter from the chief of the Lampid clan, which she received in her hand, the answer was written that she should take care of it as always.

It has been like this since the time of the previous emperor.

They revere the logic of freedom and power, so if you receive a request freely and are defeated due to lack of power, that is the end.

Whether they were defeated by the target of the request or overpowered by the Empire’s army in the middle, they would not be involved at all, so it was like letting them take care of themselves.

Empress Ophelia muttered to herself that she just wished they hadn’t had an accident in the first place.

However, to openly oppose them, I could see the great damage that would come from colliding with them.

In particular, the power of Felix Lamped, the chief of the Lamped clan, is beyond imagination.

Of course, if the imperial army came forward, it wouldn’t be impossible to subdue it, but how many soldiers would be sacrificed to stop the monster?

Fortunately, Felix Lampede never directly stepped forward to cause an accident, so it was the most reasonable way to end the mercenaries of the Lamped clan under strong control.

However, after a few years, this incident had to happen, so it is inevitable that it will be a headache.

“…Isn’t today the day the envoys come from the kingdom?”

“Yes. They say they have already crossed the border and are heading to the ecliptic.”

“Then I’ll have to get ready soon. Let’s prepare the best entertainment.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

But what has already happened is inevitable.

First of all, I had to do a lot of follow-up.

Let’s make arrangements as smoothly and peacefully as possible.

“Meet the Emperor.”

Despite that promise, Empress Ophelia was extremely nervous as she saw the Palaginian envoys bowing in front of her.

It was inevitable.

Because it was not an ordinary delegation.

“…Oh…It’s been a while. Princess Aine.”

“Yes. I’m late, but congratulations on your coronation. Your Majesty Ophelia.”

The main members of the kingdom’s delegation are the kingdom’s dukes of Grace, who are taking the lead in diplomacy with the empire.

Princess Beliff Grace, the next duke of the duchy, and his family.

And it was none other than the second princess of the Kingdom of Palaginia, Princess Aine Gine of Palaginia.

“Hmm… May I ask why Princess Aine came as an envoy?”

“Yes, I happened to be staying in the raided dukedom of Ignis, so I came directly as the person involved. Your Majesty.”

Listening to Princess Aine’s words, Empress Ophelia cursed the Lamped Elves once again in her heart.

Didn’t she almost endanger the princess of the next country, well… Even though that princess is a person who puts herself in a dangerous place.

“I see. Dinner is ready. Let’s eat it. Let’s rest for today. We’ll talk about the details…Tomorrow.”

Empress Ophelia said that and bit people.

As she left the spot, she looked at Princess Aine.

The eyes of the two met.

Empress Ophelia lifted her left index finger, placed it on the tip of her nose, and then brought it back to her ear.

After confirming that Princess Aine nodded slightly, Empress Ophelia headed to her banquet hall.

After the banquet, the night came.

Empress Ophelia, who was waiting in her own room, received a report from her maid that her guest had come.

Empress Ophelia, who confirmed that she was the one she had been waiting for, welcomed her guest.

“Thank you for the invitation. Your Majesty Ophelia.”

“…Say it comfortably. It’s more comfortable for me too.”

“Well, I’ll do that.”

Empress Ophelia looked at her guest, Princess Aine, before her eyes. She

She is the same age as hers, and she knew her even before he ascended the throne.

Friends and rivals…Like a relationship.

The sign she sent her just now is a kind of sign that reads, ‘Let’s talk tonight.’

… When she was a student, it was a sign she used often, but she didn’t know it would still work.

“Come to think of it, you said you were getting married soon, right? Congratulations.”

“It’s such an honor to receive a wedding congratulation from the emperor of a powerful country, isn’t it?”

“Well, just as a friend, I congratulated you on your marriage… As an emperor, I’ll send you a gorgeous envoy to congratulate you on your marriage.”

“…hahahaha, the wedding is going to be so big.”

The two friends who met after a long time talked for a long time as if they were trying to solve each other’s problems.

Things that happened, worries, everything.

In the meantime, the point of the story eventually changed to what happened this time.

“I’m sorry. This is the fault of our empire.”

“No, as you know, immigration control of the Lampede clan was an issue that had to be handled between the two countries. Our side also handled immigration.”

“…Even so, it is also the fault of the Empire that it cannot treat the Lamped clan properly.”

Seeing her friend overcome with guilt, Princess Aine suddenly remembered and opened her mouth.

“What do those elves say?”

“It’s the same as usual. They won’t get involved, so dispose of it yourself.”

Dispose yourself.

According to the laws of the kingdom, it cannot end safely as long as the intention to kill a nobleman is followed by an attack.

If you start with the maximum death penalty and come out well, only the life of a criminal slave with a leash remains.

“Really, if I’m going to neglect it, I just hope it doesn’t cause an accident.”

To the Empire, the Lampede family is like a painful sore.

As long as you decide to take care of the elves yourself, it’s a problem you have to take responsibility for, and if you try to hit it, you’ll be seriously injured.

“Ophelia, can I clear all of them?”

Princess Aine suddenly said that.

It must be a joke, no… Judging by the serious expression on his face, it may not be a joke.

… And if she knows what she’s capable of, she might be able to stop Felix Lampede.

Empress Ophelia thought so, but she shook her head from side to side.

“No matter how much it is, it will interfere with internal affairs… hahahahaha, I’ll be grateful.”

And Empress Ophelia smiled bitterly as she said that.

Princess Aine, who was staring at Empress Ophelia, quietly shut her mouth.

“Ah?”

“……”

“Aine, what are you thinking?”

She wondered for about a minute.