Chapter 1: PrologueLetters Found in the Informant’s Cabinet

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Dear Duke, 

It’s starting to smell like Fall now. I hope you are feeling better now. It worries me to hear that my beloved friend can’t even walk. I send you the meat of a horned bear. I hope you vitalize with it. 

– From the Emperor

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To Your Majesty,

I’m in a dating business.

– From the Duke that always worries for you. 

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To the Duke, 

Unless you want me to drag you out of there it’s best to come here as soon as possible while you have your two legs. Do you want to crawl your way here? 

– From the Emperor

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To Your Majesty,

I’m planning to go to my hometown and marry this year. I won’t send out wedding invitations. 

– From the Duke that Cherishes his lover. 

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To the Duke of the Kingdom,

His majesty broke the hardwood table in the chamber into two today. I want to crush both of you right now so please stop and work. Or I will resign and move back to the Eastern Kingdom. 

– The Chancellor

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To the Chancellor,

Hey, isn’t it too harsh to “crush” us? I’m still the ‘Sun of the Kingdom’. 

And this time it was the Duke’s fault. You should only crush him not me. Why am I included like a clearance sale product? I’m truly sad. 

– The Emperor

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To Your Majesty

I’ve definitely sent the letter to the Duke’s mansion but looking at how the reply is coming from you, seems like the Duke already left and you are attempting to ghost me from there?

– The Chancellor of the Eastern Kingdom

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To my Love, 

It was summer not long ago but now the weather has cooled. The sky also cleared. Do you remember? The sky was gray when we first met in Winter. 

My Lady, I want to meet you. I’ll go there. Please allow me some time to have tea with you. 

– From the Duke that adores You. 

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To the Duke

No.

– Commander of the Wolf Knights 

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To my Charming Lady, 

You finally replied! I’m touched! From each alphabet, I can feel your intelligence and grace. How beautiful it is!

I cast a spell on your letter and put it in my drawers.

My Lovely Lady, I’m going to you. 

– From the Duke that’s blinded by your heart. 

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To the Duke

Do you want to die, you XX (her handwriting is illegible)

– Commander of the Wolf Knights

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To the Chancellor, 

I must have read mistakenly, what do you mean the Eastern Kingdom? You are kidding, right? There are documents and spies here like wild rabbits and foxes you have to catch up on. I hope you pull yourself together. 

Actually, I have a lot of things to say as well. That Son of a bitch Duke disappeared so half of his work is now mine. I couldn’t even have a holiday this time. 

Is his dating life all that matters to him? Does he not even feel sorry for me, that I have been single all my life? 

You see, I have been embarrassed to say, but I can’t even speak to the head maid because I spend too much time with guys!

It’s! So! Unfair! How am I the High and Lofty One, when I’m just a machine that works every day! 

I want to date too! I want to fall in love with a commoner girl when I’m undercover and go out with her until one day I reveal who I am!

– The Emperor

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To Your Majesty, 

I’ve ordered people to retrieve those freakish novels you have in your library. If you want them back, come back to the palace. 

If you don’t, your books will no longer exist. 

– From the Chancellor that feels quite pitiful for Your Majesty

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To Your Excellency Chancellor,

His Highness has packed and left. 

– The Butler of The Duke’s Mansion

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To the Author,

Dear Author, I’ve read this novel with great joy ……(skip)…… I’m looking forward to the next book. ……(skip)…… 

The main girl in this book is so lovely and cute……(skip)…… and when the main boy reveals himself……(skip)…… I’ve heard rumors that you are not well. I’m deeply concerned for you. 

– From Your Fan, E

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To E,

Hello, fan name E! I read your letter with great pleasure. Thank you for always sending a long review of the book!

There’s nothing to worry about my health. I just caught a cold from the autumn wind!

This happens often because I get sick frequently but I don’t get severe illnesses. Please look forward to my next work!

– With Love, the Author

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To the Author,

Dear Author, I’ve sent a small tribute to your publisher. Please accept it and continue to write in good health. 

– Your fan, E

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To E,

Hey E, This is not what you sent right? The publisher told me that there’s a Mandragora root and potion that arrived, but it’s not you, right? 

Are you by any chance.. in a noble class?

– From the very shook Author 

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To Your Excellency Duke,

Because you ditched on us like that, there’s a tussle between The Emperor and me about his books. 

I respect his cherishing of the novels even though I can’t understand him but you are no different from him. 

You get rejected EVERY time but you still want to go see her?

Are you a masochist? 

I’ve heard that lady knight hunts bears with her bare hands and skips rope with its intestines. If you want a play that rough, why don’t you request a man?

– The Chancellor

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To the Chancellor, 

My lady is fragile, charming, and beautiful. And I’m not a masochist. 

– Duke

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To the Duke that I worry for being blinded by love,

When you come back rejected again, please go visit an ophthalmologist.

Her beauty maybe because of our difference in preference but seeing you describe her as fragile makes me concerned for your eyesight.

To look for a person close to her body type in the palace, it would be the First Knight Commander…… Are you saying her biceps look fragile?

– From the Chancellor 

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To Informant B,

The Duke is going back after being rejected for the 83rd time. 

– Informant A

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To Informant A,

It’s 85th. He proposed 3 more times in that short while. 

– Informant B

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To E, 

You haven’t replied since then so I write to you to apologize if I asked something you are not comfortable telling. Please forget that I asked that!

So your gifts, I’ll boil the Mandragora down somehow and I donated the potion to a nearby clinic because there would be no need for me to use it anyhow. 

I’m already very happy with your fan letters so you don’t have to gift me E! You’ve been writing to me since my very first work! 

Your letters are one of the reasons I continue to write! Really, I’m very grateful. 

The air is getting colder, please stay healthy!

– The Author

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To the Author,

(A clumsy hand-knitted scarf) 

– E

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To the Chancellor, 

I sent the gift, but please don’t tell me His Highness wove that himself? 

– Informant B 

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To Informant B,

I’m afraid I have to say yes. I truly believed he was crazy when his huge body started swinging swords saying that using a sword would be easier to knit than using a needle. 

Anyway, if it arrived then it’s all good. Since the potion he sent a while ago was too much…… 

For now, look after her safety. We might have to ask her for novels we can use to bait His Majesty when necessary. 

– The Chancellor

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To my dear Duke who would be suffering from a broken heart. 

 I heard you are coming back after 3 rejections. How annoyed would that knight be when you propose to her every time your eyes meet? Won’t she think you are more persistent than the sticky residue that remains after removing a sheet from the window? 

And plus, a romantic relationship is not supposed to be like that. 

I’m just pitying you for being rejected three times… THREE times. 

I acknowledge that just her breathing brings you joy but control yourself a bit. 

Are all mages like that? No wonder you got rejected three times. 

– Emperor

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To the Damned Emperor

Shut up, You don’t know shit about having a relationship. You only read novels for god’s sake. You can’t even talk to the head maid! 

– Duke

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To Your Excellency Duke,

The informant that has to deliver the letter trembles at the title so please refrain from using words like that in the title. 

– The Chancellor

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To the Chancellor of the Western Kingdom,

I have heard interesting news. You said you were coming to my country? 

I shall prepare a flower path for you so come whenever you wish to. 

– From the Empress of the Eastern Kingdom

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To the Sly Empress of the Eastern Kingdom

He’s not going!

– Emperor

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To the Empress of the Eastern Kingdom,

I’ve just lost my temper at my boss’s behavior. But if I do move there, I look forward to working for you. 

– Chancellor

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To Your Excellency Duke,

We owe you again for your great work. It’s been six months since we last met, your excellency. I’m grateful that you always check up on the magic array of the Southern Walls. 

I hope His Majesty in the capital is also doing well.

I write to you for nothing else but for this. Whenever you visit looking for her, our soldiers’ training gets very tough. So whenever you visit they lose their fighting spirit. 

I understand that you’ve grown to like the commander but please notify us in advance so we can give bonuses or a feast to prepare our soldiers.

So please, contact us first next time. 

– Margrave

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To the Margrave,

His Highness is doing well, it even seems like he is bored. There’s no need for you to be concerned. He’ll be fine on his own. 

And I never put that thought into consideration. I apologize Margrave. Next time I visit, I’ll bring a gift of some sort. 

I forgot that I had to win the people around her first to eventually win her. Thank you for making me aware of that. 

Is my beautiful flower gorgeous today too? I’ll visit soon so I hope you will arrange a meeting when I do. 

– Duke

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To Your Excellency Duke,

A Flower? Are you referring to the man-eating flower in the dungeon? We did find a new man-eating flower a while back but……

– Margrave 

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