Interlude: Succeeding You, Father (1)

[War Clouds Gathering in the North—Is a War of Succession About to Break Out? Odds Revealed to Be Nearly Even……]

[First Prince: Rumor Has It He Sang the Controversial Song “Click, Click, Coup—Normalize the Empire!”……]

[First Princess Dismisses the First Prince’s “Oink, Woof, Moo” Remarks as Mere Animal Noises…… Is the Imperial Family’s Feud Intensifying?]

“All sorts of stories are coming out.”

“Indeed, Your Highness.”

A secret conference hall built within the Demon Realm.

Once comrades-in-arms who had fought across battlefields with their backs to each other, the Emperor and the Grand Duke of the North now sat facing one another and drinking tea.

“Are you trying to indulge your old-age greed by putting your foolish son-in-law out front?”

“Before he is your foolish son-in-law, he is your brother’s son.”

“Tsk. That isn’t wrong. By the way, I’m beginning to wonder whether this is really the Demon Realm.”...