Chapter 61: Phantom Thief Dauphin (5) - Q&A Under the Crescent Moon

#61화 Phantom Thief Dauphin (5) - Q&A Under the Crescent Moon

Shamed by the fact that Claudia had seen through his clone magic (she hadn’t), the crown prince poured a great deal of effort into improving it.

At the rate of tinkering with it here and there during break time like before, he could tell it would take an unbearably long time before any results appeared.

First, to buy time for magical analysis and improvements, he seized all of his subordinates’ paperwork and finished an entire week's worth by himself.

You might ask why he didn't usually do that, but in truth it was a somewhat risky move from the crown prince's perspective.

After all, when people see you working hard and doing well, they admire it at first, but later come to take it for granted.

If you finish a week's work in a day, it doesn't mean you get to rest for six days; it means you have to do even more work over the remaining six.

Come to think of it, wasn't the reason he ended up sharing part of the emperor's duties at such a young age because people kept praising him and he got carried away?

Besides, there was also the matter of his subordinates' morale and motivation.

If someone else came along, glanced over the work they'd been struggling over for more than a week, and finished it in a single day, how much of a sense of loss and emptiness would the person involved feel...