Episode 4
Edith didn’t know what to do, but she had to whittle down the tower of documents, barely keeping her shaking pupils aligned with the various reports. His heart was racing, and dozens of people were waiting in the room next to him.
As soon as I could barely read it at speed, he snapped his fingers several times to get my attention.
“Now report. “I’ll give you 3 minutes.”
The smallest hourglass was overturned with a scary time limit that made the backbone stand on end.
3 minutes, are you kidding me?
A part of my heart was filled with heat, but now I felt regretful for every minute and second.
There is no time to relax.
She opened her mouth in a stammering tone.
“We have received several complaints that the cost of maintaining a standing army is too high. “There was also the view that there was a need for this when it was not a wartime situation, and there was also the question of who would dare challenge the authority of the imperial family.”
“continue.”
“On the other hand, there was only one article advocating for a standing army. The Count of Catines said that the imperial authority needed to be strengthened more than now, and proposed that the size and property of the fiefdoms and assets to be taxed on the nobles should be investigated in detail… … .”
“Okay, stop.”
It looked like something that had just fallen from heaven, but its actions were extremely merciless.
I don’t like it at all.
Now that I think about it, Clyde’s speech has suddenly become shorter. As if we were close friends.
The way he looked up and down was unusual. He felt agitated by the attention on his face, shoulders, and hands.
Not only was the appearance of the main official very burdensome, but I was also worried about whether I had organized and explained the documents properly.
It must have been bad, seeing as he cut off his explanation before completing 3 minutes.
Looking at it another way, it might be better not to be able to explain it. Even if I did, I would probably get scolded and kicked out.
Right, why did that thought come to me only now?
I think Clyde was pushing me too hard and I felt like I had to get it done quickly.
Edith’s fingers gathered in front of her navel twitched.
He looked like he couldn’t tell what was going on, but the moment his eyes stopped looking at his fingers that showed signs of nervousness, he burst out laughing.
When I rang the small bell on the desk, the chamberlain came in.
“Did you call me, Your Highness?”
“The new secretary, Sir Ketzmoris, has passed my test. “I think it would be quite useful.”
The elderly chamberlain with graying hair looked sideways at Edith and expressed a small admiration.
“Oh, there has finally been someone who can pass Your Highness’s test. “I congratulate you on finding a talented person.”
“I heard that the department I originally applied for was not in our palace. Please step forward and resolve that. “You can’t lose your sutra to someone else, right?”
“of course. “We will take action immediately.”
What is going on now?
test?
The test involved pushing an absurd amount of documents and setting a time limit?
“Lord Ketzmorris.”
I felt so absurd that I couldn’t respond even when he called, so I just gaped.
Clyde approached without giving me time to compose myself. Then he thrust his proud face in front of Edith’s nose.
While the deep curves of the facial features showed off their charm, the quirky folds of the corners of the eyes gave off an unusual atmosphere.
“kyung?”
I came to my senses.
“yes? yes!”
“Starting today, you will go back and forth between my office and the separate room to help me with my work.”
This man doesn’t clear his face.
In another sense, I feel distraught again.
If you’re the main actor, you should show off your charm to Su, so what if he does this to me?
Edith was forced to close her eyes from the protagonist’s glare, which could be said to be the probability of the entire novel, even though her butt was stabbed and documents were fried, and now even changing departments was becoming difficult.
Now that I think about it, I think I heard something ominous again. There were parts of the new instructions given by Clyde that Edith could not imagine.
“Separate room… … “What if you say so?”
I was curious because it was an ambiguous room name, and he clearly confirmed the kill.
“It’s a room adjacent to the bedroom.”
Her pupils waved aimlessly like dry weeds on a windy winter day.
So, does this mean that the room adjacent to Clyde’s bedroom becomes his work space?
Does this make any sense? There are so many crown princes that they are talking nonsense.
“No, I… … .”
Just when I was about to check it out, he spoke first.
“The room will be smaller than the department you wanted. Even though it may be a bit inconvenient, I hope you think of it as part of your job.”
Suddenly, I thought back to a part of the novel that appeared like the lights in a club.
‘I always had Edith by my side.’
That’s what it said.
It was something I always had attached to me, as it was in context.
I had a strong feeling that it was not possible to escape from the clutches of evil.
* * *
As she left the crown prince’s office, another servant guided her to a separate room. The man kept glancing at Edith who was following him.
“Why are you doing this? “What’s wrong?”
The attendant gave a small hint with a curious expression.
“I am surprised by Sir Ketzmorris. “I can’t believe you passed the test.”
“yes? Ah, I somehow ended up in a difficult situation.”
“I can’t believe I’m embarrassed. “There has never been a single person who has overcome the incredibly difficult hurdles that His Majesty sets forth.”
The servant was muttering to himself, probably because I had experienced this as well. All of a sudden, they threw out reports containing information I had never seen before, and even summarized and briefed them. And that in front of His Heavenly Majesty glaring at him.
“Well, my mouth is frozen.”
“If you are a new official and are unlucky enough to be noticed by His Majesty, you will be tested by His Majesty in that way.”
“Was it something like that?”
Edith scratched the tips of her ears and hid her embarrassment.
It was nonsense to say that the separate room would be narrow. This meant that the space was small compared to the Ministry of Government Affairs office, where many people worked close together like a factory.
It had an atmosphere similar to the bedroom where Clyde sleeps, and the interior was decorated to match the dignity of the royal family, so it was hard to compare it to a regular office.
I could ignore the worry that it would be inconvenient to stay there, but I was concerned that it was too close to the crown prince’s bedroom.
The boundary between the bedroom and the separate room was at best a half-wall. There was no door or curtain to cover it.
There were quite a few documents on the desk in the separate room that looked like they had been reviewed. He wondered if he would do the rest here before Clyde went to sleep.
‘This… … It feels like the crown prince’s personal secretary.’
It was still difficult to determine whether passing an unexpected test had opened the door to success or whether a great disaster had struck.
The reason Edith tried to avoid him was because there were so many incidents and accidents around Clyde in the original work. Naturally, his immediate subordinates suffered tremendously.
But it wasn’t just a feeling that it would be difficult.
The problem is that the original work was serialized for free only until episode 25.
Among the successive battles, only the ‘ki’ was revealed.
It seemed that the author was planning to write enough of the story behind the work and publish it as a paid serial.
In real life, she loaded her cache and waited for a publication announcement, but there was no news for several months.
So the only information Edith had was episode 25 and the introduction. It was written that Clyde would become a tyrant, so I just believed that, but I had no idea what kind of turbulent times he would actually experience.
Amid all the speculation and ominousness, there was at least one certainty that Edith read in writing. The point was that Clyde, the main dog, met Adrian, the main prisoner, and was rehabilitated.
This was the main flow of the novel, so I thought it probably wouldn’t change.
‘Wouldn’t the world’s strongest alpha need an appropriate omega?’
Unlike reality, here, the temperaments of Alpha and Omega existed.
The basic criteria for classifying people are alpha, omega, and beta.
This is more important than male and female gender, so it serves as a unit for starting a family and giving birth to a child, and also serves as the basis for maintaining a class-based society of dominance and obedience.
Each tendency is not superior to the other, they are just different. Alphas excel in strength and logic, Omegas excel in leadership and sociability, and Betas excel in cooperation and assimilation.
Additionally, a very small number of alphas and omegas have particularly strong temperaments and are said to be dominant.
Because dominant alphas and dominant omegas are mainly related to blood, excellent children are often born to so-called great parents. They soon become the ruling power and establish themselves as the highest nobles and royal family.
The crown prince, Clyde, was right at the peak.
This man shows off his unique dominant alpha temperament. Although others praised him for his natural talent, in Edith’s eyes, he was the most avoided character.
In order to avoid the risk of death from overwork in his shadow, Adrian had to be added as soon as possible.
Her goal was to work less and live extravagantly, just by siphoning off her salary.
‘By the way, it’s still a long way before Maine Sue Adrian meets Clyde… … What should I do with this?’
Clyde, one year older than Edith, is currently 21 years old. He still has two years left before he’s old enough to start a romance.
Meanwhile, Edith is rapidly promoted from clerk to chief clerk and then to chamberlain, and becomes Clyde’s confidant.
This means that you have to work under Clyde for a whopping two years.
‘Should I try changing the time?’
I think there is no need to hastily conclude about the strange phenomenon we saw earlier.
Why not try it another way?
If you fail, that’s fine. If it goes well, that’s great.
I felt like I was getting a migraine because I was having so many painful worries.
Naturally, the lunch at the Crown Prince’s Palace went very well. Edith was the type of person who got angry when she was hungry, so she made up her mind with something to eat.
After eating my heart out like a mukbang creator, I decided to stop thinking complicated thoughts.
Since I couldn’t mess with Clyde’s desk, I couldn’t find anything to do. She dragged an extra chair to the side table, sat down, dozed off, and eventually fell asleep on her stomach.
Perhaps because she was so nervous early in the morning in an unfamiliar environment, she fell asleep completely. She didn’t notice Clyde appear, nor did she hear him approaching as he stepped on the thick carpet.
