I Became The Villain's Secretary

Chapter 14

Diell calendar, March 25, year 612. The inauguration ceremony of the birth of the empire is taking place in a few hours, and there are exactly 2 years left before the beginning of the story that Renar knows.

“Your Grace, wouldn't it be better to use pomade to pull your hair back?” Renar asks, preparing Devland's crown for the ceremony.

Devland was dressing, with servants preparing the accessories to adorn his robes.

"Mh, maybe I should do that." Devland nods, and Claude almost faints with gratitude for the umpteenth time.

'When I asked him he refused, this man...is an angel!' Claude was looking at Blake with admiration.

After pulling Devland's hair back, Blake took the crown in his hand. 'Dang, this thing weighs a lot! How does this man keep it in his head for hours? Honestly my neck would split instantly!' He thought, placing somehow gently the crown on Devland's head.

Renar has made a lot of progress in the last 2 months, little by little changing others' perceptions of Devland.

'I thought it would be more difficult, but spreading rumors is so simple.'

Renar made sure everyone within the resistance noticed the change in Devland's behavior (all caused by his nagging, obviously).

Or at least, in his eyes that was what was happening.

"Lord Renar is so smart"

"Yeah, I've never seen His Grace be so easy to handle!"

"He is our salvation!!!"

All the staff inside the palace did nothing but talk about one person: Renar Borgia.

Basically he was able to change the scary perception of the villainous Grand Duke a little, but it all started from him, the new angel sent from heaven. So what actually came out of it was everyone that noticed it inside the residence taking advantage of it.

"But Your Grace, surely Lord Renar would not appreciate seeing you so angry."

"Your Grace, I think that Lord Renar would like to see you eat more..."

"Your Grace, Lord Renar would've..."

And now that Renar had an effect on every single decision that Devland takes, from the outside it looked like Devland was becoming that so forgiving angel, while inside the palace it was no secret to anyone that the new secretary was the weak point of the scary Grand Duke.

"Your Grace, it's time to leave." Renar announces, and they start to walk outside of the main palace.

'Luckily I managed to make sure I was there after the ceremony, just as planned.'

It wasn't so difficult, usually, when there were still the three secretaries, they played cards and the loser would have to be with Devland after the main ceremony, because only relatives close to the Imperial family could attend it beforehand.

But at the after ceremony there were many nobles, and there must be a lady-in-waiting for the Ladies, and an aide for the Lords.

Needless to say, Adam, Jett and Claude wasted no time in handing over the position to Renar, that aside from being Devland's personal secretary, also was the only one willing to be there with him.

'Sigh...I'm so anxious, today I will see the male lead with my own eyes!!'

Edward de Liri Diell, the current Emperor and cousin of Devland.

Well, they're not even cousins, but the first Emperor and Grand Duke were brothers. So they'd be only distantly related, but thanks to the blessing of the divine beast of the goddess Elira, their blood is still almost identical after hundreds of years.

Ventuscor was the name of Elira's divine beast, they were like mother and son, because she created Ventuscor, which possesses the same nature as Elira's divine power, but significantly less.

As they stepped outside the main palace, Renar felt a familiar fear.

'My goodness, those are...the former Grand Duchess and the former Grand Duke, Devland's parents!!'

Not to mention Christopher, in 8 months he had already grown quite a bit.

'Oh, surprisingly both Devland and Christopher are identical to the Grand Duchess...they just took the eyes of the former Grand Duke.'

Not that it made it any better, because the former Grand Duchess looked a lot scarier.

"Greetings to the former rulers of the renowned Grand Duchy, His Excellency Blaze and Her Excellency Ember, and greetings to the Young Master Christopher." But despite this, Renar curtsied elegantly.

All three raised their hands slightly, accepting his greeting.

'Pff, Christopher acts so composed in front of his parents.'

"Mother, father, we haven't seen each other in a while." Devland said, checking the time. "The same goes for you, Chris."

Everyone nodded, the air was surprisingly normal, it was unexpected for Renar.

"It's time to go." The former Grand Duke said, gently taking the former Grand Duchess's hand, walking towards the second carriage in the row of three.

Christopher turned without saying anything and went into the third carriage.

'Wow, they didn't say a word to Devland, I expected the opposite.' Renar peeked at his face, but Devland looked very calm.

He also wasted no time and walked towards the carriage, entering it, while Renar mounted the horse beside it.

The coachmen whipped the horses, starting to pull the carriages towards the Imperial palace.

Renar already felt tired inside, he had to learn to ride horses in the Borgia residence, so he had already known how to do it for years, but he didn't particularly like it, because his backside always fell apart after a while.

'I hope there will be no quarrel between Devland and Edward, being that I have sacrificed everything for this man's change in reputation, even my poor ass.'

But Renar's prayers may be useless...