chapter 29
Villain? Young lady – 3
The current student council president of the Imperial Academy, Damien Connor was born as the third son of the Connor family, one of the most common self-made houses. Damian, born with the ambiguous status of the third son of a viscount, was nothing more than an ordinary aristocratic young-sik who dreamed of a bureaucratic life since childhood.
The family will be inherited by the eldest son, the eldest brother, and as his third son, he had to set his own path. That’s why I chose the path of bureaucracy and the academy student council.
Unlike clubs that play the role of social principals, it was customary for the students to be in charge of the student council. That’s why students whose family prestige or prestige within the family were ambiguous belonged to the student council. Thanks to this, he gets hit with work and has a taste of bureaucratic life.
But Damian wasn’t dissatisfied with that. It was the path he chose himself, and his current hardship becomes one of the valuable careers when he wants to become a bureaucrat later. Since graduates from the student council often went on to become bureaucrats, the imperial administration tended to give extra points to those from the student council.
However, from last year, the year Damian entered his second year, red flags were turned on in Damian’s life in the student council.
“I’m Marghetta Valenti. Please take good care of me, seniors.”
Even in the aristocratic society, species disrupting the ecosystem appeared in the student council, where colorless and odorless people gathered. When the princess suddenly appeared, Damian almost collapsed because his legs were weak, but it was thanks to his mental strength that he had trained for a year that he was able to stand on his own two legs.
Unfortunately, however, Damian, who was recognized for his ability and became vice president, was in charge of taking care of the first year who had just joined the student council. Realizing that fact, Damian really wanted to sit down and weep.
In a sense of unfairness and resentment, he even raised his voice to the chairman at the time, asking what the hell was going on, but the chairman with gloomy, sunken eyes silenced Damian with a single word.
“Then you tell me to object to the princess saying she wants to come in?”
Damian cried from his heart.
After that, Damian headed to the student council every day with the feeling of a member of the penal unit on the battlefield. Also, please pray for the day to pass safely, please pray for Gongnyeo to the student council to lose interest in her and let her go out on her own, but unfortunately, Gongnyeo went to work at the student council.
As time passed, an atmosphere was created at the student council dinner to ask first-year students why they joined the student council. It was an accidental atmosphere, but everyone gathered there was curious about the answer of only one person.
“I know someone in the administration. I want to see that person, so I’m afraid I’ll become a bureaucrat.”
Damian thought at the sight of the princess smiling and answering. Isn’t that what she has to do to summon the person she wants to see instead of becoming a bureaucrat?
‘I don’t know who it is, but I hate it…’
Damian sincerely resented an unknown administration official that day.
Still, fortunately out of misfortune, Gongnyeo went through her student council life without incident and showed respect for her seniors in the student council. Of course, from the point of view of the seniors, the fact that her junior was a princess was the most severe violence, but she was okay anyway.
A year passed like that, and Damian became the student council president. Now that I graduate, it’s goodbye to Gongnyeo and goodbye to the student council, who seem to be walking on a knife’s edge. Imagining himself graduating and entering the Imperial administration, Damian persevered.
However, it seems that the time of support is over today.
‘His Majesty, Enen, please! Please!’
The man who goes through the materials submitted by the student council right in front of Damian’s eyes, the grim reaper brought by the princess. Damian looked at him and closed his eyes again.
Karl Krasius, Director of the Treasury Department’s Inspection Department, currently residing at the academy as an Inspector General. Damian, who dreams of becoming a bureaucrat, couldn’t help but know the name.
The emperor’s hound, the prince’s blade, and the treasury’s mad dog. A loyal servant of the imperial family who barks when asked to, and bites when asked to bite. The reputation and notoriety he has built up in the two years since he became the head of the inspection department is embarrassing.
Especially, the family of the Marquess of Asilon, which was the most powerful supporter of the 2nd prince in the past and the mother of the empress. It was the director of the inspection department who tore apart the family that no one dared to compare with except the imperial family and the five dukes.
Even from the point of view of bone marrow aristocrats, the rumor that he returned home mocking the head of the Marquess of Asilon, who was devastated, was given a disposition of demotion, which was more humiliating than perishing. After that, he committed suicide out of shame.
…And that person is now supervising his work.
“Hmm.”
‘Mother…’
The director of the inspection department continues to look at the data. He and other student council members were trembling with the feelings of prisoners standing in front of the guillotine. Only the princess was smiling calmly among them.
“Not bad.”
“Yes?”
At the positive verdict that came after eternity-like time passed, Damian naturally let out a dazed voice. He noticed the mistake and immediately shut up, but fortunately the director of the inspection department didn’t seem to care.
“There are some signs of clumsiness, but it’s not enough to be a problem. It’s okay. It won’t be a problem if you look at the practice right away.”
The atmosphere suddenly melted at the declaration of innocence by the director of the inspection department. In particular, the general affairs and accounting departments are to the point of bursting into tears when touched. Damian was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.
“Did I say Damien Connor?”
“Yes, yes! Yes!”
Tension surged again at the sound of his voice, which made him afraid to sigh, but instead of looking at Damian, the inspector general took out a business card from his bosom and wrote something on the back.
“Take it.”
“Oh, yes.”
Damian carefully receives the business card handed to him by the Inspector General. His name and the signature of the head of the Inspection Department were written on the back.
“Did you say you will take the bureaucratic exam after graduation? You don’t have to. Go to the department you want and submit it, and they’ll give you a suitable seat.”
At those words, Damian’s eyes widened. He is Damian who volunteered to join the student council, but he did not volunteer because he liked it. The ambiguous position of being a viscount and the lack of connections forced Damian to become a bureaucrat as a test. The student council was an inevitable choice for extra points.
But now, a golden network appeared before my eyes. In words, he said it was a suitable seat, but if it was a recommendation from the head of the inspection department, it would be faster to count impossible seats than possible ones. Especially when it comes to finance.
“Thank you!”
Damian bowed deeply and thanked the director of the inspection department. In the meantime, he could see how deaf he had been to his fanciful notoriety. This kind of person can’t be such a heinous person.
“It is enough to show gratitude as a dedication to the Empire.”
Look, he is such a wonderful person.
***
I looked at the president submitting the data with his hands shaking, and looked at the data quickly with regretful eyes. In fact, if there were no traces of embezzlement, I tried to pass it on in moderation, even if it was a little lax. From the chairman’s point of view, he was really struck by lightning because of Marghetta’s trick.
‘Oh, quite.’
But I didn’t have to. No matter how far I am from the general director of the inspection department, there are still many things I have seen and heard over the past two years. I can quickly process the level of grasping the data created for the report. But the more I looked at it, the better it looked.
Of course, there is a clumsy side, but this will be solved by itself if you roll a little with the life of a civil servant. Are you really okay?
‘Did you say Damien Connor?’
I looked at the chairman with new eyes. I found this nice gemstone. It’s comfortable to have a guy like this, but he’s aspiring to be a civil servant?
So I wrote a letter of recommendation right on the spot. I can’t give up the civil service exam because this prospective slave, or Won-seok, changes his mind. If I write a letter of recommendation like this, it’s a failure. If you get a letter of recommendation and don’t use it, it’s considered rude.
“Thank you!”
The president seemed to be impressed as well, and bowed down to express his gratitude. What, I’m more grateful. I have to accumulate more and more lower-class slaves like that guy to get my retirement even a little closer. Turning a business card into a letter of recommendation for my retirement is no big deal.
Wow! Public official! Cheaper than a business card!
That’s how the emergency inspection ended, to which both the president and I were satisfied.
I left the student council room, leaving behind the president’s polite send-off and the eyes of the other student council looking at me with longing eyes. I think I know the point of view of the other student council.
Yes, I’m sure the chairman didn’t write that material alone. Don’t worry, I’ll write you a letter of recommendation when the time comes. Even if you don’t want to receive it, give it unconditionally. If you run away, I’ll catch you and take you to the Treasury.
“Thank you, Carl Youngsik. Take care of me tomorrow as well.”
“Yes? Tomorrow too?”
“Because the preparations for the fair aren’t over yet. I’d be grateful if you could check right away whenever there’s a change.”
Marghetta, who followed me instead of staying in the student council room, said with a smile. I nodded my head shyly at her light but firm smile. What should I do, if I say no and then Marghetta runs to Louise, it will be a headache.
“Will it be this time tomorrow?”
“If you wait in the club room, I’ll go.”
“This is truly an honor.”
To say it’s a princess’s pick-up is too much. When I burst into laughter, Marghetta also burst out laughing.
And that night after the regular class and club time were over.
– I heard you met my daughter.
“Yes, yes, yes.”
A knee that bends by itself. Head slightly lowered. In front of him was the face of a man who appeared through a glowing communication sphere.
– You said you’d never see it again. It’s a strange thing.
“Haha…”
The sudden contact from the Iron Blood Workers wrapped me in splendor.
…Suicide would be quicker to drink poison than to hang yourself, right?