What's Wrong with You?

January 1st, Marine Calendar 1502.

The World Government turned another page in time.

That day, Esdeath returned to Noah, located in the Giant World, bringing Akame and Kurome, the pair of sister beauties, along with ten young adult warriors personally selected from the Balutes Tribe.

At first, she had assumed there would be plenty of complications when she went to the Imperial Capital to retrieve people. After all, she had vanished and then suddenly returned as the World Government's Heavenly Empress. That was bound to stir dissatisfaction throughout the Empire.

Yet from beginning to end, she received the highest level of treatment in the Imperial Capital.

The old Emperor personally led the Empress, the princes, and the civil and military officials out to welcome her airship.

It was only during their later exchange of pleasantries that she learned they hoped that, as someone from the Teigu World herself, she would look after the Empire more in front of the Celestial Dragons in the future.

That was right.

In the Emperor's eyes and those of the others, the fact that Esdeath, the Empire's former Navy Admiral, had become the Heavenly Empress was an advantage the Alchemi Kingdom and Divine Harmony Kingdom could never match.

As for whether Esdeath had rebelled before, everyone present chose to ignore it.

At the same time.

Longinus, who had studied Swordsmanship under Imu for a month, had already left Noah.

Next, he would serve as an intern under the ministers of each department, familiarizing himself with every department's operational procedures and inner workings.

After completing each department's rotation, he also had to write an "internship report," submitting his understanding and thoughts on that department to the Five Elders.

Only after gaining the Five Elders' approval could he move on to intern in the next department. The