A Demon Duchess
22. the kingdom of Astrantia
the Astrantia kingdom
Since the incident that night Alvaro was really busy with various kinds of work no matter how tired he could not rest even for a moment.
"Your highness, the emissaries of the kingdom of Anemone and craspea are waiting for you." Alvaro gets up from his seat and walks towards the boardroom with Lucas and Jake his private secretary.
"Sorry to have you all waiting" Alvaro said kindly. "I did not expect that your Majesty would come to see us, for as you know this is the Queen's duty" said a Lady envoy from the Anemone Kingdom.
"Thank you for the attention of the Lady, but I am honored to meet you all in person, I hope that the cooperation between the kingdoms can continue to run harmoniously," said Alvaro, however, these two kingdoms are very difficult to establish cooperation, but thanks to Althea, miracles can happen.
"You are very humble, noble, but I am not sure of the harmony of cooperation between kingdoms, Anemone feels the recent performance of Astrantia is very detrimental. That's why I came yesterday as a messenger who conveyed the Queen's noble disappointment to Astrantia." Alvaro could not say anything this was the umpteenth time his emissaries from other countries came and conveyed the same thing.
"Her Majesty the Queen of Crespea also said the same noble thing, if one month in front of our side is still at a disadvantage to eat the noble Queen will stop cooperation activities between kingdoms." Alvaro jerked his hands in clenching, how could only one person who left just this kingdom be so chaotic.
"Your Majesty, although Lady Amaryllis is currently a fugitive, we acknowledge her performance in terms of work, sorry if it is presumptuous but we wish more on Queen Irene." Believe me these two messengers were one of the many guests present at the time.
Although at that time Althea was indeed very scary but they still respect Althea as a competent in taking care of the country. Witches today are indeed very rare but in some countries there are still some witches who help the way of the kingdom.
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"This noble one has so many times there is a kingdom that wants to break the cooperation. The palace's finances are declining, this also has an impact on the people, " said Jake who was reading a report to Alvaro.
Alvaro held his temple, Astrantia is really very chaotic at the moment. Alvaro knows that Irene is learning things that will be her job but the time needed is not as short as Alvaro expected and before Irene is ready Alvaro is the one who has to take over the job nya.
Evening has arrived, the time for people to rest from his tired activities on this day.
"His majesty at least sleep in your room, sleeping on the couch every day is also not a good thing" Lucas said before leaving the room.
Finished working on the documents today Alvaro stretched his body he was really tired there might be true what Lucas said. "I felt guilty for Rene, after this critical period ended I took him to beautiful places.
*krieeett...
When opening the door Alvaro can see Irene who is sleeping in her sleep. Alvaro approached Irene while trying to step over without a sound. "Sorry yes I never meant to fight with you, I love you Rene, " Alvaro said softly as he peeked at Irene's forehead.
Morning came and Alvaro was ready to return to work, while Irene who had been sleeping slowly opened her eyes. "Sleep in a minute" said Alvaro as he peeked at Irene's cheek. "I've even seen you, are you leaving?" Irene asked with a sad face.
Alvaro stroked Irene's cheek, "after all this is done I promise I'll make time for you." Alvaro left their room and headed to his study.
However he had to work hard and now Alvaro realized how much Althea contributed to the peace of Astrantia, even though Althea messed up at that time, Althea just destroyed the job that the girl had been struggling with.
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Astrantia since the time of the first king is a small kingdom of peace, a kingdom with a million charms in its possession but whether since when the beautiful land was misused.
The previous king, Alvaro's father, succeeded in repairing and developing Astrantia, assisted by Duke Amaryllis as a shield and several noble families as his support.
Suddenly a black-clothed man came and scattered Alvaro's mind, the man was one of the shadows that Alvaro sent to investigate further the death of the father who was still hampering.
"The noble informant we sent managed to find something related to the death of the previous king." It is true that the previous king died as a result of protecting Alvaro but if said that the wound should heal in a few days and at the beginning of treatment the condition of the previous king was very good.
"Say." The shadow nodded. "Some people stated that in fact the condition of the previous king had deteriorated since the beginning, he consumed wolfbane flower poison with increasing doses, "Obviously the shadow, Alvaro rounded his eyes. "Poisons you said? So true was the saying of the physician of that time!"
"Your majesty apologizes but the former king's noble body shows a strange condition, the wounds obtained by the noble do not contain any poison but the visible symptoms of the former king's noble body are very confusing."
"Then at this time the perpetrator could still roam the palace freely, wolfbane poison is very difficult to get because it is not impossible to know who is the mastermind behind all this. Find out more!" Alvaro. "Okay noble," said the shadow before leaving Alvaro.
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the Astrantia-celosia border
Althea is writing a letter to someone, with Felix accompanying Althea.
"Althea, you really want to go back to Astrantia?" Felix asked in a serious tone. "Have we not discussed this? no matter how Astrantia is my homeland, I also grew up there so Astrantia is a home that I must protect," replied Althea confidently.
"It's a pity that you have business in the Empire it might be nice to see the shocked expressions of the new king and queen, " Althea said with a chuckle. Seeing that, Felix unconsciously lifted the tip of his lips.
"Don't worry I'll catch up with you" Felix said as he stroked the top of Althea's head.
To Anne..
First of all sorry to worry you guys, I'm fine and will soon be back in Amaryllis for that please prepare everything I need to return..
the Altheana Lunar De Amaryllis
"Canace please tell this to anne yes" Althea said, handing the letter to her beloved white tiger.
"Astrantia wait for me to come back despite being a criminal even though I won't let you guys be destroyed. Alvaro, Irene, I'm sorry that I decided to go back and make you suffer slowly even if you scream pain I won't stop."
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