old dream

Chapter 335 Execution Order
The lounge next to the work hall of the narrative office was originally used as a place for people to confess, but now it is temporarily used as a place for the Grand Duke and his staff to stay.

A dark curtain hangs in midair, making the faces of the saints in pain or solemnity faintly visible on the four walls.

The Grand Duke only brought three people with him, except for the female officer Bernice, the other two were staff members of the Garden Palace.

Even at this time, the Grand Duke couldn't put aside his usual affairs, so he brought two staff members with him.But compared to the tension in the work hall of the narrative office, this place is much quieter.Under the gaze of the statue of the saint, the three of them dealt with the work at hand, and occasionally asked the Grand Duke for instructions in a low voice.

"Your Highness, look here..."

As Bernice spoke, she moved an unfolded document in front of Edmund.The Grand Duke glanced at it, and it was the issue of compensation for those killed in the theater not long ago.Although Bernice showed him the document cautiously, she had already handled it very well.

Recently, the Grand Duke has begun to intentionally involve her in matters of greater importance to the country.

For Dagong personally, the most important thing for many subordinates is not ability, but reliability.In the past, the Grand Duke even entrusted some things to the jesters and clowns around him, but the final effect was very good.So it is not so absurd to hand over similar government affairs to a court lady this time.

But beyond Edmund's expectation, Bernice got started so naturally, as if he had been handling government affairs for many years before he discovered her from those humble maids.

These tasks are of course very fortunate, after all, they involve a lot.But Bernice just endured it silently, and didn't tell anyone once.

So the Grand Duke often thinks to himself recently, it would have been better if it had been a few years earlier.

If I found out that there are such treasures around me a few years ago, maybe many things will be different.

One of the many evils that comes with having all the power in one person's hands is that life becomes extremely hectic.

After all, this is still a country with a population of nearly [-] million, and the management from top to bottom is not so efficient.Edmund was often still dealing with chores until three o'clock in the middle of the night, and naturally he didn't have time to visit the frail and sick lady who recited the rosary all day long.

So they have no children so far, and the Grand Duchess doesn't understand how hard Edmund has worked. She just thinks that her husband deliberately neglected her, but she doesn't know that the Grand Duke who does whatever he wants in the eyes of others is just a prisoner full of mundane affairs.

In fact, it's not her fault. After all, she was raised in a deep boudoir since she was a child. She is devout and fragile, with a frowning expression, as if blown by a gust of wind, she will be brought back to the embrace of God.She can't take care of herself just by being alive, and naturally she can't take care of other people's thoughts.

But Bernice is the complete opposite of Mrs.

She cherishes everything around her very much, and she has the strength to save others.

There was no shortage of available people around the Grand Duke, but he still handed over these tasks to the female officer, because Edmund wanted her to see with his own eyes how exhausted and even embarrassed the master of the Principality was.This was both a complaint and a cry for help. The Grand Duke somewhat unrealistically hoped that Bernice would understand him, and then rescue him from this endless distress.

"I remember you said that you wanted to be, um, a tailor?" The Grand Duke looked at Bernice and said:
"You've done a good job recently, I should give you some rewards... When it's not so busy, I'll give you the best store in the world. The store location, in order to make it easier to get in and out of the Garden Palace, why not choose the embassy district? Sample?"

The Grand Duke is not just showing his favor.

The Edmund family needs a son.

The duchy also needs an heir.

Bernice looked at the man in her 40s, with a look of surprise and sadness on her face, but in the eyes of the Grand Duke, there was still a trace of gratitude hidden.

Because the female officer finally chose to accept, she nodded slowly and agreed to the matter.

The two staff members were buried in their own affairs, pretending not to hear their conversation.

At this time, the commotion started in the work hall next door.The Grand Duke and his staff looked at each other, knowing that something unexpected happened in the action of the narrative department, but Edmund did not show an angry look.Because since it is a matter of getting involved with Winter, it will never go so smoothly.

"Tuk Tuk."

"Enter."

After a short knock on the door, the mammoth with blood on his hands and the important members of the Eucharist poured into the lounge, and they respectively reported to the Grand Duke what happened in the working hall.The Cursed Troopers were misled by the narrative device and as a result attacked the Extraordinary High Court.

"260 five people died."

The Grand Duke leaned back in the chair, rubbing the space between his brows wearily.

Bernice stepped forward to relieve the stiff muscles in the back of his neck.

His headache is not that the principality's judiciary will be temporarily paralyzed, but that there will be a large number of vacancies in the court, and then all forces in the country will try their best to fill them in to increase their own influence.

The Grand Duke, who already had full control of the court, was shaken.Moreover, the interrupted theater ceremony continued.

"Are you sure, the supreme justice is dead?"

"Yes..." Mammoth said with difficulty.It was his mission to stop the theater ceremony, and everyone thought it was safe, but now it was screwed up.

"Who is the next target of the ceremony?" the Grand Duke asked.

"They are members of parliament, but there are a total of 16 people who meet the conditions."

The death of any one of these 16 people can establish the mirror image of the theater, which is equivalent to the existence of sixteen vital points. It is almost impossible to perfect defense in the ninth game.

"Why, that nightman would know the real order..." the Grand Duke murmured, as if he cared more about this small detail than the approaching theater ceremony.

The order in which Nancy was assassinated was exactly the order in which the principality officials were executed by General Hill Vanus on the execution platform 300 years ago.

The last person to fall in that execution was the Archduke Edmund at that time.

But later, the Principality did its best to destroy all records related to that execution.

And after all 200 years have passed, history always loses most of the details.Maybe even if they didn't do this, the world would only remember that the Grand Duke was beheaded by General Vanus, but they would not know that several other unknown soldiers were executed before that.

The Grand Duke believes that even the Central Intelligence Service of the Alliance does not have much information about the execution, otherwise, someone would have initiated the theater ceremony long ago.

Nancy, on the other hand, reproduced the execution at that time with great precision.

Why, would she know?

(End of this chapter)