My Ex-Fiancée Is the Female Lead in the Romance Novel

11 – Trial (3)

The results of the divorce proceedings in the Empire are open to everyone in the Imperial Library.

There is even a related collection in the academy’s library for law students to see. That’s why I also knew that there weren’t many cases where divorce due to infidelity was approved.

So I came out with another hand.

Duke Argenta was still looking at me without a change in expression.

“Of course, I know that Lady Argenta’s adultery alone will not be a case of breaking up the marriage. However, this was not the only atrocity of the Argenta family.”

The data I had prepared in advance was placed in front of the emperor.

“Accounting data of the Lombardy estate. But is there anything wrong with this?”

The Emperor asked me in a weak voice, now resting on his chin. It was questionable whether he would listen to the emperor with such an attitude if he tried hard to explain it.

“Our estate has been managed by my father, a marquis, without a professional manager in the past. However, as my father and I moved up to the capital, I felt the need to have a professional manager, so I asked the Duke of Argenta to recommend a manager.”

“Yes, but whatever he did has nothing to do with Argenta.”

“No. It’s not like that.”

As I fired at the duke in a confident tone, the duke looked flustered. Seeing that, I was sure of victory in my heart.

The Marquis, my mother, is a pretty good wizard. She was born into a Korean-American family and did not enter the academy, but since she was a child, she has learned how to use magic constantly from wizards around her, so she has skills that are not inferior to wizards who graduated from the academy.

However, that fact was not known to the outside world. The Duke of Argenta probably judged that there was no magician in the marquis’ family.

That’s why he has been using magic passwords without hesitation when giving orders to our manor managers.

I knew those facts long ago. Since the Duke of Argenta was not a person with strong magic, it was easy to find the password he hid himself. However, he didn’t care much because there was no special order, but as soon as he found something strange while looking around our estate’s accounting data for the trial, he asked his mother to review his letter because only the manager could do such a thing. .

As expected. A letter from the Duke of Argenta was found among the caretaker’s letters.

“The manager of our estate disposed of all special products and precious ores from the Lombardy estate to the 2nd Prince’s aide, the Duke of Basel. Even though I had never done business with the Duke of Basel’s caravan before.”

“It can also be seen as an intentional attempt to bring Lombardi into politics.”

The fact that we traded important goods exclusively with the 2nd Prince’s side in our territory can be seen as an indirect support of the 2nd Prince by our family.

Imperial law prohibits the act of politically attracting or taking advantage of a family without the consent of the other party, no matter how engaged they are. The scope of political intervention specified in the law is ambiguous and there is no way to completely prove it, so it is a nameless law with almost no cases of punishment. You will be able to.

“And the letter to the janitor instructing him to do so was enchanted and coded. If you compare the remaining magical power here with that of Duke Argenta, everything will become clear.”

On the face of the Duke of Argenta, the leisurely expressionless expression from before disappeared and a frown appeared on his face as if he was a little embarrassed.

I laid all the boards for the emperor to take my side. Now, whether the 4th princess succeeded in persuading her emperor or not, will determine whether or not Seria breaks off the engagement.

* * *

Seria just stared at Cesar’s passionate speech in front of her eyes.

Contrary to the words that reassured me that the duke would never break off the marriage, César was confidently asserting himself. And those words were quite persuasive even to Seria herself.

Seria suddenly thought of a question. Why did Cesar go to such lengths to break up with him?

Seria recalled the image she had seen in the mirror before she left her mansion.

It was beautiful. Seria thought that her appearance today was so beautiful that she even expected César to change her mind if she saw herself today.

But César gave her only a moment’s attention to her and soon turned her eyes elsewhere.

For some reason, Seria felt empty.

Cesar is the man Seria loves. He has been together since childhood, and although he made his own mistakes in the middle, he regarded it as a bond that will continue. But Cesar is now doing everything in his power to break the engagement with Seria, that is, her self.

Even if the marriage was not broken off now, even if Cesar gave in later as a retaliation at the family level and allowed her to be engaged again, Seria could not help but question whether Cesar would really love her.

‘Yes, it’s better to just break up than I’m going to hang on to you.’

Seria has built only her loving relationship now. Her César, her brother, and all the men she had ever met liked her.

But she didn’t know how to convey her love. And to beg her love from her other person was the same as giving in to that person for her Seria.

For Seria, who had lived her entire life as a daughter of a great nobleman without ever bowing her head, it felt like she was losing to him both when she clung to Cesar and asked him not to break up with him, and when he forcibly held him back because he hated her.

Seria soon changed the way she looked at Cesar. Her gaze changed from a furious glare to one that contained no emotion.

At the same time, she felt empty. But she didn’t notice the same emotion as that moment.

She noticed the feeling, and she didn’t know that if she got rid of it now, she would have prevented anything from happening.

* * *

The Duke of Argenta admitted that the letter she sent was correct before she proceeded with the magical power test.

She chose to admit it neatly and reduce the number of people who knew her private parts rather than having her other aristocrats know widely by even doing a magic test.

“Then, isn’t it decided to some degree? Father, meddling in the politics of another family is against Imperial law. It’s ambiguous to punish the duchy, but I think it’s enough to blame the breakup?”

“No. I think it is reasonable to see it as an intention to bring more benefits to the Lombardy family rather than an intention to intervene in the politics of the Lombardy family.”

When the 1st prince supported my opinion and urged her emperor to break off the marriage, she refuted the 2nd prince accordingly.

The emperor slowly opened his mouth, which had not said a word until now.

To be honest, the emperor hasn’t helped us at all so far. This is a disappointing result compared to what he intended to do to empower our family by even negotiating directly with the 4th princess.

But now, if the emperor approves the breakup, everything will be over. That alone would be worth airlifting her dragons for her 4th princess.

“Both opinions are valid, but even if the duke’s letter did not contain an order to intervene directly in Lombardy politics, it would be reasonable to assume that Argenta intervened in Lombardy politics in this case.”

The Emperor spoke for a long time, so he took a breath and continued his words.

“And I judged that Lady Argenta’s case of cheating could also be blamed. So, I, the emperor of the empire, Heinrich Schurvali, will approve the breakup of the marriage between Lombardy and Argenta.”

“This is a wise decision.”

Finally, the relationship between me and Seria, who were childhood friends, came to an end. And the chirping of birds announcing that the relationship between the two families was coming to an end began to resonate in the aristocratic society.

* * *

“Seria.”

I called Seria’s name, who was looking at me with a calm expression after the decision to break up the engagement. She was obviously Seria, who seemed to be reluctant to accept the breakup, but during the trial, she seemed to have had a change of heart.

“Cesar, what you wanted has finally come true.”

“Right. It’s what I wanted, and it’s what you brought on yourself.”

“Really? Then don’t appear in front of me in the future. I don’t like guys who are just nice like you.”

Seria left me with those words and turned around and left the courtroom.

I also felt a pain in my heart when I heard such a story from someone I once loved. But on the other hand, I felt anger at her shameless attitude without an apology until the end.