“Pardon me…? What did you just say, sire?” Michele asked, doubting his ears.0

“I said he wants me to get married,” Siegfried replied.0

“What? Who does the emperor want you to marry?”0

“Apparently, the emperor has a half-sister, and he wants me to marry her.”0

This was the third reward that Emperor Stuttgart had bestowed upon Siegfried. He gave him the opportunity to have an alliance with the imperial family of the Marchioni Empire, the most powerful nation in the world.0

Of course, this seemed like a fitting reward for a hero like Siegfried, who had saved the world.0

Why? 0

It was all because marrying into the Marchioni Empire was the pinnacle of political marriages, and this was something that other people would die for yet could never attain.0

The opportunity had fallen on Siegfried’s lap just like that.0

“I-I see…” Michele muttered, sweating from the bombshell revelation. Then, he finally nodded and said, “So that was why all those gifts were coming from different countries since this morning.”0

“Gifts? What gifts?”0

“I found it strange that they send our kingdom gifts as if they were tributes.”0

“Oh, I see…”0

“Anyway,” Michele said with a shrug. Then, he tightly shut his eyes and rummaged through his coat before pulling out a white...0