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Chapter 150: Merit Award part 2

In the future, Cecilio’s crown would be inherited by a child of Prince Rouge. By doing so, they would gradually resolve Ursula’s special position, preventing it from carrying into the next generation.

But the urgent question was the balance of power between Alan and Cleria within the existing order. Since Cleria’s visible authority as queen was currently larger, her side needed to grant Lord Corinth’s close retainers a certain degree of power.

Entrusting the entire former Alois force to Selena and Sharon also functioned as internal security for the empire. The point was not what they themselves wanted—it was what it looked like to everyone watching.

A system without fraying gave enemies no gap to exploit. Assigning the coordination of the Alois lords to two women who were also Lord Corinth’s wives would clarify the Human Starveek Empire’s power structure to both insiders and outsiders.

「Now then. If Alois is settled like this,