Chapitre 7: His secret in danger
They buy more rations for the treasure given by the nobles and add them to the original amount. After that, they go out to give rations to the poor at the start of the festival.
There was a big table set up in front of their throne in the distance. All the nobles came up one by one towards the front and presented the riches in front of the empress's throne and bowed.
The treasury's officials were already there waiting for the nobles and managed the treasures one by one.
Later when the ceremony was over. She looked beside her toward Eric and stood up to go to the balcony.
In the next event, they will give their opening speech from the high balcony of the palace to the commoners out there before going down to personally give out the rations. As she stood up, Eric also stood up and followed her. She whispered to him in a low voice.
"It will be your first appearance to the common folk of Rosett. So, don't make a fool of yourself and embarrass me. You're the most prestigious men of this Empire now, so hold your pride accordingly."
"Stop being nervous and stand your ground. They will only focus on your handsome face and expression, at least for today" She whispered to him while walking side by side.
He just nodded to her words and quietly followed her to the balcony of the palace.
"My dear Rosett's people. Today is a very glorious day. As you all know we celebrate this day for our past glory we achieved. Our ancestors ended the era of cruelty and slavery."
"Then established our Rosett for our peaceful living. The past Emperors have done various things to hold onto peace, I was following their footsteps too. But unfortunately we got into a war against humans."
"After 10 long years, we are celebrating our foundation day with all of our family and people thanks to my husband, Eric. This war ended quickly because he agreed to get married. I hope you all will help him to get familiar here."
"I wish this peace can extend to a good amount of time as we finally calmed down our fiery hearts. Happy Foundation Day. Let's start the festival by distributing the charity supplies first."
"She's really a different person before her subjects.." Eric thought to himself as he stood beside her while taking a glance at the crowd from time to time.
"But before that, Let's hear my husband's opinion of our festival" As she ended her speech the crowd cheered on her speech and clapped their hands. Also their attention now turned to Eric.
Eric was caught off-guard since he didn't know he would be giving a speech too. He never attended this type of big event before since he wasn't allowed because of his illness. So he wasn't good at giving speeches in front of many people.
He looked at Nashia with a surprised look and saw her smirking. He understood it was one of her way to torture his mind. He took a deep breath and took a second to arrange the words in his mind.
"I feel honoured to be in such a glorious ceremony. You all are now my people too since I vowed to be at her majesty's side until my death."
"I will do everything in my power to make sure peace remains between us and make sure all of our people are happy and living in harmony together without further conflict. Happy Foundation day."
He spoke with a calm and soothing voice that touched the people's heart. Everyone cheered and clapped on him as he ended his speech.
Nashia took a glance at Eric. He unexpectedly spoke too well. He seems to have touched people's hearts too. It seems the commoners are quite fond of him while the nobles are still hostile to him.
It backfired her own plan. She thought he would embarrass himself here, so she would have a way to insult him.
"Let's go down, Eric. We need to hand over the first 50 supplies by our own hand."
Even though she said it in the calm voice, Eric could feel the disappointment in her words. He holds in his chuckle seeing her frustrated for not having an opening to insult him.
"Of course."
Eric replied to her as he followed her. He kept his composure and maintained a charming demeanour as he handed over the first 50 supplies to the poorest families and watched them express their joy and gratitude. The people were mesmerised by his handsomeness and kind gesture.
After distributing supplies, the festival started with fireworks. And some competitions were prepared to entertain the spectators. They went to their throne which was setted up in the Arena and sat.
The Arena was a big place, surrounded by a big gallery. The arena ground was in the middle of the gallery and surrounded by an artificial water pool.
They started the Imperial knighthood competition. It was a competition to show the power of the imperial knights.
It also ended briefly but suddenly one of the dukes of Rosett made a comment in a sarcastic way which made Nashia frown.
"Your majesty, we heard that his royal highness is a gifted person, he has special skills in sword. So how about you let him show his skills today? We are curious about his famous skill."
Duke Deluah sarcastically spoke. It was obvious he was trying to look down on Eric.
"Are you kidding me? Even if he is gifted, he is a human. And all of the elite knights in here are Elite vampires or high ranking vampires. How can I let him show his skills here?"
Nashia spoke with a hint of annoyance in her voice.
Hearing his suggestion, Eric gulped in fear. He couldn't let everyone know about the truth nor he could let Nashia's image down. It made him remember the start of his miseries.
To Be Continued
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