novelraw Chapter 287
Chapter 287
287~ Tsundere Kitty!?~
"Execute him. Only then can you clear yourself of the crime of colluding with remnants of the previous dynasty."
The Maid Ling stood before the City Lord's daughter, holding the City Lord in her hand.
This was another city relatively close to Scarlet City, Suxing City, which was also an important defensive fortress for Scarlet City.
Once Suxing City fell, Scarlet City's western side would be completely exposed to the enemy.
However, up until now, no one had been able to take down Suxing City. Not only was it because the Scarlet Phoenix Nation's powerful military strength meant no nation dared invade, but also because Suxing City had a full two armies stationed there. It was the city with the most military presence aside from Scarlet City.
Now, upon investigating the City Lord of Suxing City, they discovered he had already colluded with remnants of the previous dynasty, causing the citizens within Suxing City to be exploited......
And the money extracted through this exploitation was then given to those remnants of the previous dynasty to serve as funding, to expand their forces.
This was oil and water scraped from an entire city! And it had been going on for quite some time.
During this time, there had been unauthorized tax increases, new taxation items added, and all without the Empress's knowledge whatsoever. This was already sufficient grounds for immediate execution.
"Wuu wuu......"
"Hurry up. Only if you personally finish him off can you avoid being implicated. Or do you want to accompany your father to the execution ground together, to be branded with the name of sinner before millions of citizens and go to the gallows?"
"I......"
"Evelina, tell me your choice. Will you stand in opposition to Her Majesty as her enemy, or will you stand on the same front line as Her Majesty to purge the remnants of the previous dynasty?"
"I......"
She didn't know how to choose. On one side was her own father and clan members, on the other was an entire nation.
"Evelina, act quickly! Don't become the Empress's enemy!"
Being shouted at by her own father like this, she became even more at a loss. Her small hand gripping the dagger kept trembling, tears welling up in her eyes.
Personally "snapping" her own father's life or something, she couldn't do it!
After she kept dawdling, the Maid Ling was already getting somewhat impatient, using a cloth to wipe the sword in her hand.
"Evelina!!! Act quickly!"
"Wuu wuu wuu......"
Unable to withstand the pressure, Evelina simply knelt directly on the ground and wailed.
"You useless thing!"
Seeing this, he could only mobilize all his Magic Power, forcibly compelling the Maid Ling to release him. Immediately after, steeling his heart, he rushed toward his own daughter, directly grabbed Evelina's hand holding the knife, and stabbed it into his own heart.
"Stay properly by Her Majesty's side...... don't rebel like me......"
"Father!!!"
"......"
Watching with her own eyes as her closest relative died right before her, even died by her own hand, Evelina finally completely couldn't withstand the pressure. She fell headfirst to the ground, fainting.
"......Clean up the scene and bring Evelina back."
The Maid Ling handed Evelina, whom she was holding, to Red Leaf.
"Lady Ling is really soft-hearted~"
Ling: "......"
With Ling's strength, she didn't believe Ling would be forced by a mere Great Mage to let go. This was definitely intentional, just not wanting Evelina's entire household to all be dragged to the gallows.
If she remembered correctly, Suxing City's City Lord seemed to have shown kindness to the Maid Ling.
"You're overthinking it. I'm just handling official business."
"Oh~ Handling official business~"
Red Leaf teased slightly, then didn't continue asking further.
Ling could also be considered her superior after all.
"Then this little miss, if we're sending her back, we need to find a suitable place, right? We can't just put her in the Scarlet Maid Corps to serve as a maid, can we?"
Moreover, she was the young lady of a City Lord's manor. Suddenly having to become a maid, that gap would definitely be huge. Who knew how long it would take to adapt?
And having a City Lord manor's young lady run to the Scarlet Maid Corps, who would then guarantee the Scarlet Maid Corps's absolute loyalty and purity?
Every single person in the Scarlet Maid Corps was personally selected and personally trained by the Empress, one hundred percent loyal to the Empress. And after this incident, Evelina clearly couldn't possibly be absolutely loyal to the Empress. So even if she were forcibly arranged into the Scarlet Maid Corps, Her Majesty would eventually dismiss Evelina because of her background.
The Scarlet Maid Corps was the Empress's blade, the Empress's capable assistant. Everything must be dedicated to the Empress.
And correspondingly, what they received was incomparable glory, as well as absolute power and wealth. The families where Scarlet Maids came from would also soar to great heights, becoming prestigious families of the Scarlet Phoenix Nation.
With so many benefits, naturally many people hoped to properly train their daughters and then send them into the Scarlet Maid Corps.
It was just that the screening system was too harsh. Each time, many people who didn't meet the standards were screened back to be young ladies.
As for Evelina......
"Send her to Princess Mo's side. Princess Mo has Her Majesty the Empress and Xiyan by her side, so there's no problem."
Moreover, she also felt that if it were the Little Princess, she'd definitely be able to get along with Evelina. Then slowly train Evelina to become one of the Little Princess's personal maids. As long as she wasn't incorporated into the Scarlet Maid Corps, just being a separate maid serving the Little Princess would be fine.
"Send her to Princess Mo's side...... Alright! Then Red Leaf will go find someone to send the little miss back. By the way, it seems Lady Cecilia has already completely wiped out a hideout of previous dynasty remnants. Lady Ling can go take a look."
"Mm, understood."
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The next morning......
"Mo?"
Waking up to find the kitty missing from beside her, she felt like she'd stepped into empty space, her heart panicking.
But seeing the Little Princess sleeping soundly with her head on the table, her anxious heart settled down again.
The little kitty had a bed but didn't sleep in it, sleeping on the table instead. Did she really not want to share a bed with her that much?
Gently rubbing the Little Princess's cat ears, the cat ears twitched a few times after being stimulated. After failing to break free from the Empress's hand, they could only try hard to stand straight, resisting the Empress.
"Mm?"
Suddenly noticing the notebook the Little Princess was using as a pillow and the casually placed book, she gently pulled out the notebook and casually scanned through a few lines of content.
This was actually governance policies and policy hypotheses!?
Lines of policies and hypotheses composed in cute handwriting, as well as future development trends and directions, were undoubtedly exactly what she'd been having headaches over.
To make the Scarlet Phoenix Nation endure, she had to have appropriate development policies, and had to continuously improve domestic policies, optimizing the Scarlet Phoenix Nation's political system.
And the Little Princess had actually secretly gotten out of bed while she was sleeping and written all these things down, and the feasibility was even very high.
Many things were ones she'd never envisioned. These new things were exactly what she desperately needed at the current stage.
Although some hypotheses were a bit fanciful, they provided some directions. For example, controlling and giving birth to a new class, the capitalist class.
However, she'd previously kept saying she wouldn't help, wouldn't concern herself with the Scarlet Phoenix Nation's various matters, and whenever it came up, she'd say she wasn't interested.
Yet after she fell asleep, Mo actually started seriously researching things she'd claimed over and over not to be interested in, and recorded them in the notebook. By the looks of it, she probably also planned to give them to her to use.
This kind of behavior...... using terminology from the Little Princess's original world, this was a tsundere kitty?