Leon Greyrat: The Second Son - Mushoku Tensei OC

Chapter 107 - The Great Purge

— Leon Greyrat —

"We made it," I said, walking inside the banquet hall at Ariel's side, with Sylphy opposite me.

"We did indeed," Ariel nodded. "And there were fewer issues than I would have expected."

Yes... there were. But that only meant that Minister Darius and the First Prince Grabell... they were planning to end things tonight.

After all, with the way things were going, Ariel would be far and ahead the best candidate.

Even in the past week, the news of her return, as well as her pregnancy, had been the talk of the city, with people excited to see the new heir, having all but accepted Ariel as their ruler.

And that was before she made her grand public speech a couple of days ago...

Needless to say, things were going well for us, and bad for the First Prince, which meant that they would have to take drastic measures in order to turn things around.

"Well then," Ariel said, straightening her back as she put on her practised smile. "I suppose it's time for my battle to begin."

And so, with nobles beginning to fill the hall, Ariel began greeting many prominent people, with many of them barely masking their discomfort in seeing the supposed deposed princess in the flesh, her face as vibrant as ever.

I could tell that they were scared.

After all, after her departure, nearly every noble here had sided with the First Prince, having seen him as the only way forward for Asura.

But seeing the charismatic princess, a realization seemed to have dawned on them...

They were wrong.

But still, I wouldn't fault them for that.

It was something that Ariel had expected, after all.

But that didn't mean there were some people I was... dissatisfied with, to say the least.

With the banquet being filled with various nobles and ministers, I began to match some faces with the names I had learned over the past week.

While I had mainly guarded Ariel during the wait for the banquet to start, as she wasn't targeted like we had expected, I had a lot of time to myself to conduct some research, often with the help of Orsted and his seemingly infinite knowledge.

Learning who was good and bad for the future of the kingdom... who would target my family to get ahead in the world of politics... who would corrupt the new Asura we were trying to build... I wanted to know.

And as I had learned... the Asura Kingdom was much more disgusting than I had thought.

The Boreas Greyrat, despite their boisterousness, noble pride, coldhearted trickery, and messed up family traditions... when talking about noble families, they were among the kindest.

Speaking of them, James had made his appearance to the banquet, but other than a short greeting with Ariel, he had drifted off to the side, just as he had agreed after meeting Ariel upon her entrance to the capital.

I would say that I wished Sauros was here... I couldn't imagine what he would bring with his boisterous personality.

So it was best to have such a wild card left away from such a place.

And speaking of bad nobles, Paul, my father... perhaps, rather than leaving due to hating the strictness and formality of nobility, maybe he just knew he wasn't horrible enough to fit in with them.