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Chapter 149: Each One’s Designs part 2

Led by Margrave Paulsen, the Alois lords were gathered and called forth.

Queen Cleria had descended upon the capital with two dragons in glorious fashion—there wasn’t a soul in the city who didn’t know of her arrival. The Alois lords feared her summons… and yet they awaited it, unable to help themselves.

「So Lord Corinth truly commands dragons… and two of them, at that.」

As they waited in the audience chamber for the queen to appear, they buzzed with rumor. In Alois, tales of her commanding dragons had only ever reached them as wind-borne hearsay. To think she used them as mounts—made the queen they were about to meet feel like a different person entirely from the delicate princess they’d once known.

A herald announced her, and the queen arrived—accompanied by someone who looked like Lord Corinth. Those who saw him couldn’t help muttering that he was younger than they’d expected. Yet his