"You're going to keep me waiting for a long time, Lily," the Duchess replied with a gentle smile that enjoyed this casual conversation.
The Duchess snapped her fingers again to take out the rapier, a symbol of the highest power able to hold all the control of the Duke's power into her magical storage.
After the Duke died and the power of the Duke's territory was under the Duchess's control, I now understood why the Duchess offered a marriage proposal to her son.
As a normal noblewoman who understood the political situation in the Aurora Kingdom, marriage to one of the Duchess' sons would give the bride's family great influence in the political world.
With the second largest military power and jurisdiction after the royal family, the Duchess's family was the second most powerful force that could put several noble families of the Aurora Kingdom in danger.
