Just as Natsuki Subaru had schemed to draw away Reinhard the Sword Saint, along with several other individually powerful mages from the royal capital.
He also had someone notify Archbishop Viks of the Lugnica diocese, preparing to place Emilia on the throne...
Emilia actually refused!
More precisely, she did not want to ascend the throne in this manner.
It nearly drove Natsuki Subaru mad. At a time like this, Emilia was still clinging to those utterly ridiculous principles!
After discussing it with Count Roswaal, Natsuki Subaru even took Puck along. Puck wholeheartedly welcomed Natsuki Subaru's generous treatment of his daughter.
And so... under everyone's "pressure," Emilia changed into a magnificent royal robe, donned a crown, and stormed the royal castle under the cover of the Bauhinia Merchant Guild's operations department!
At dawn the next day, when the Sword Saint, mages, and the others who had gone out returned to the royal capital, some of them could barely resist grabbing their weapons and attacking the royal castle at once, to show the Bauhinia Merchant Guild what they were made of!
Just as the great nobles were sharpening their blades, the Lugnica branch of the Goddess of Light Cult suddenly issued an announcement.
The Goddess of Light Cult recognized Emilia as the new king of the Kingdom of Lugnica and requested that she travel to the Holy City on a chosen date for her coronation ceremony.
The divine right of kings was not what Natsuki Subaru wanted, but the Goddess of Light Cult had a true god behind it. In this world, Natsuki Subaru did not yet possess enough strength to resist.
Besides, during the days when he had suffered the system's punishment, he had come to understand exactly what kind of faith the Goddess of Light Cult was.
Whether he or