I've Already Won

The heir to the throne would be decided within a week.

This was an extremely urgent matter.

The king of a nation was to be chosen within a week of the official selection being announced. No matter how one looked at it, it was far too rushed.

But there was no helping it. The Ginas Kingdom desperately needed a king to stabilize the situation. If the throne remained vacant for too long, not only would domestic unrest and shifts in power continue, but ambitious foreign nations would seize the opportunity to invade. When that happened, the Ginas Kingdom might be destroyed in one fell swoop.

Thus, selecting a king in the short term was absolutely necessary.

And so, during that week, the candidates with succession rights began going all out.

In order to gain as many supporters and votes as possible, every candidate for the throne began resorting to whatever means they could.

Some threatened nobles with voting rights to gain their support.

Some tried to bribe nobles with voting rights for their support.

Others used both threats and bribes. Some even began holding lavish daily parades through the streets in an effort to win over the commoners, sway public opinion, and change the impression the nobles had of them.

Under such circumstances, the royal capital became extraordinarily lively. Princes who were rarely seen in public no longer spared any effort in showing their faces, doing their utmost to present a down-to-earth image.

Even Riezel was dumbfounded by it.

"...This isn't some parliamentary election from my previous life. What are these Royal Scions even doing?"

Knowing full well that the throne had nothing to do with them, they still struggled so desperately. Riezel found it speechless.

"At the end of the day, the nobles with voting rights are basically either