Chapter: 468

Astelle was still looking at him.

“So you meant you’d marry me because of Theor, huh?”

It was ridiculous that he was happy for a while to hear that she accepted his proposal.

“Don’t you know that I can only take Theor and punish you?”

Kaizen couldn’t calm himself down, so he spoke coldly.

But when he spoke like that, his heart ached.

“If you want it, just do it.”

Astelle replied calmly without any hesitation.

“Haha……”

Kaizen laughed helplessly.

He was free to punish Astelle at will.

She might even be imprisoned for hiding a prince.

If it was a few months ago before he met her again, he would definitely have punished her.

But Kaizen himself knew better that he couldn’t do that now.

“So, what is that condition?”

Kaizen gritted his teeth and asked.

“Please appoint my brother as the Lord of the West.”

“The position has been inherited from the Duke of Reston from generation to generation.”

The empire ruled the entire continent.

In the old days when the emperor’s authority was weak because the territory was too wide, the emperor’s authority did not work in areas far from the capital.

In order to effectively rule the empire, the old emperors divided the land into north, south, east, and west except for the central part where the capital is located.

In addition, the authority to manage the area was delegated to the nobleman with the largest territory in each area.

As the times changed and the emperor’s power became stronger, the families that were the Lords of the North, South, and East walked the path of destruction one after another.

However, the Reston family still held the title.

Although the current Duke of Reston lost his post as prime minister, he was still the Lord of the West.