"Your Majesty, please give me a full explanation as to why the engagement ceremony between Princess Astia and myself was canceled? Hadn't it already been agreed upon? Why was it unilaterally annulled without any prior notice?"
In the resplendent, clean, inverted pyramid-shaped hall, a man seated in the upper middle level questioned the empress, who sat at the highest point, his tone filled with immense anger.
Although he was a duke of the Empire, in a civilization that had advanced to this level, personal control over arms capable of influencing the entire civilization was no longer allowed.
So, although his status seemed noble, he actually had no substantial power backing him; he was merely a nominal noble.
Thus, to marry the most renowned princess of the royal family, he conceded a large number of the commercial resources controlled by his clan externally to obtain support or non-competition, but now all his efforts had come to naught.
