Chapter: 739
On the other hand, Daphne was far more brazen than Marianne.
“You said you are a maid in the Emperor Palace. Who gave you permission to come here?”
As if she had been waiting for this moment, Daphne pretended to be bewildered and stuttered. “I apologize, Your Majesty. I…… I have not entered the Imperial Palace long, so I did not know that I had to get permission to come here. Please forgive me.”
She seemed to have practiced in advance to say something like that if she came in and was caught.
“I think it’s been more than a month since you entered the Imperial Palace. Have you been entering other palaces at will?”
“As I said, I’m still not good at etiquette……” Brazenly raising her head, Daphne answered, “I thought I could visit without permission during the day. I apologize, Your Majesty.”
Astelle genuinely wondered what made this lady act so arrogantly.
‘Because she has her uncle by her side?’
After all, the Minister of the Home Affairs is now the Emperor’s confidant.
Maybe that’s why her eyes looking at Astelle were a little hostile.
“We can’t have a maid who doesn’t know etiquette serving in the Imperial Palace. I’ll tell the butler to get you out of the palace.”
“I have entered the Imperial Palace with the permission of His Majesty the Emperor.”
Daphne suddenly had a sad expression on her face.
“If you allow me, I would like to tell the Emperor what I did wrong and ask for forgiveness.”
Daphne’s words mean that she can not be fired by the empress because she is the emperor’s maid.
She also has the will to go to the emperor and tell him the circumstances and try to get his attention.
‘How shameless.’
On the other hand, Naen, who was watching all this from the side, looked so tired that she could faint at any moment even though she didn’t say a word.
In fact, the Imperial Palace is literally the palace of the emperor, and all the servants and maids working here are directly appointed by the emperor.
Of course, the emperor is too busy to pay attention to every maidservant, so most of them are taken care of by the butler.
In other words, Daphne is the emperor’s maid, so even the empress cannot fire her without the emperor’s permission.
That’s what Daphne believed.
“No, you can’t bother the Emperor, who is busy with government affairs, with such a trivial matter.”
Astelle continued in a gentle voice, “After all, His Majesty the Emperor has entrusted me with full authority over the affairs of the Imperial Palace. I don’t even have to tell him.”
“Sorry?”