In This Life, I Will Raise You Well, Your Majesty!

’t this all because Her Majesty the 1st Empress treats her so well that she keeps climbing?”

 

She meant to start the feast with a laugh by ridiculing the 2nd Empress.

 

Baroness Lottery, who set the atmosphere well and considered herself good at dealing with people, gently brushed the fan she was holding from the tip of her nose to hide her smile when everyone’s eyes turned to her.

 

However, it didn’t take long for that smile to fade.

 

“Did I treat the 2nd Empress so well? Baroness Lottery seems to know me better than I do.
I don’t remember doing anything like that.”

 

“That, that…”

 

Baroness Lottery lowered her fan down her face, swallowing with a dry throat in the sudden chilly air.

 

As silence descended, Marchioness Bahrain, a close aide to the 1st Empress, raised a teapot and filled the 1st Empress’s teacup.

 

“Baroness Lottery seems to have made a mistake because she had just arrived in the capital and didn’t know when to do something and when not to.”

 

“Hmph.”

 

1st Empress Isabelle snorted.

 

She didn’t hate a flatterer because she wanted to be loved.

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But that’s only when Isabelle felt like that herself.

 

She didn’t think it’s cute for someone to shake their tail and make a fuss just to attract attention.

 

Isabelle murmured, completely ignoring Baroness Lottery, who bowed her head in contemplation.

 

“Why did His Majesty give her Sir Rohan? What a busy man Sir Rohan is.
He’s not the kind of person who’s going to clean up after the 2nd Empress, is he?”

 

Thanks to Baroness Lottery, the women who were invited to tea time realized once again.

 

At a time like this, there was only one person who was allowed to open their mouth.

 

“But, at the time, His Majesty went to the Crown Prince Palace, so it was difficult to pretend to be completely ignorant.
If he had attached the 1st Knights Order, everyone would have thought that it was His Majesty’s official order, but wouldn’t it be less unreasonable if Sir Rohan alone moved?”

 

Rumors that His Majesty suddenly started paying attention to the 2nd Empress, this very thing.

 

Isabelle frowned at the words of Marchioness Bahrain, but did not show a sharp reaction.

 

It means that she agreed to some extent.

 

Isabelle picked up the freshly filled teacup with her slender fingers, took a sip of the hot tea, and put it down quietly.

 

At that time, the entrance of where tea time was in progress, became a little noisy.

 

After a while, a familiar boy from the backyard revealed his face.

 

“What are you doing here, Your Highness the Crown Prince?”

 

These two people hated each other so much that they even avoided face-to-face contact as much as possible.

 

It means that today was the first time Ascencio walked into the 1st Empress Palace.

 

“Was it the 1st Empress’s doing?”

 

Ascencio choked his voice to calm his shaky breath.

 

“What do you mean?”

 

1st Empress Isabelle stood up from her seat.

 

She was not asking because she didn’t know.

 

It was to make Ascencio reveal his purpose with his mouth.

 

If he overturns the 1st Empress Palace without evidence, it would be the perfect reason to shake the Crown Prince Palace.

 

Of course, Ascencio was not an easy opponent, who’d do things as he pleased.

 

Nevertheless, the reason he came here even after considering the crowd was because he couldn’t stand it otherwise.

 

“I won’t let it break this time, but I’ll never forgive anyone who touches it.”

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Although the referenced object is missing, Isabelle and Ascencio knew who it was referring to.

 

1st Empress Isabelle looked down at the boy with black hair and blue eyes, like the man she loved the most in the world.

 

“Your Highness, when did you grow up like this?”

 

She felt fresh.

 

Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the boy had leapt through time and had the eyes of a man like his father.

 

The green eyes wrinkled.

 

Isabelle clasped her fingers.

 

Should she have used her hand sooner?

 

“Not yet.
You will find out more and more.
About how I grew up.”

 

After Ascencio spoke to Isabelle, he glanced at the women of the aristocracy who sat around the edge of the long tea table.

 

Most of them were women from Eastern aristocratic families, but there were also a couple of small and medium-sized aristocrats.

 

He also remembered how ridiculously they looked at, ridiculed, and ignored the 2nd Empress.

 

At that time, he didn’t have the qualifications, so he couldn’t step up.
But now, he believes he has.

 

Therefore, as the eldest son who wants to protect his mother and younger brother, he gave himself permission to do everything he can.

 

“I will remember your faces.
Later, if you hold up your face like this in front of the 2nd Empress, I don’t know what I will do then.
Do you know?”

 

At Ascencio’s words, the women stood up and greeted him frantically, even under the eyes of the 1st Empress.

 

Ascencio stood expressionless, as if having a sudden thought, he turned to Isabelle.

 

“Isn’t it Stoneham’s birthday soon? I heard you’re trying to open the Platinum Hall.
Are you trying to announce that Stoneham is aiming for the crown prince seat?”

 

“What do you mean by that, Your Highness? Is that possible? It’s just a mother’s desire to give her child something better.”

 

“Isn’t it also the duty of the caregiver to let the child’s face the limits he has been given? Draw a line, so that Little Brother will not keep snooping over it.”

 

Ascencio was more annoyed that Isabelle had ruined the banquet Elisha had planned to decorate for Leon’s birthday the other day, than Isabelle was trying to borrow the Platinum Hall for Stoneham, so he wanted to return it.

 

He had never been interested in it before, but when the position of the 1st Empress was vacant, it had to be replaced in the order given by the Emperor.

 

In any case, the gloomy banquet was over, and the time he had spent at the 2nd Empress Palace was so much fun, he even thought it was the best birthday ever.

 

Isabelle slender shoulders trembled at Ascencio’s provocation, expressing her anger.
She muttered to his back as if to herself.

 

“You would be happy if I truly did it.
But what if it was someone else, Your Highness?”

 

Ascencio’s pace slowed for a moment at the voice that was only loud enough for him to hear, but he soon found his pace and moved away.