"Because I'm not choosing a husband to marry into the family. I'm choosing a supplier of the other half of my children's genes! The more unruly and proud he is, the better the quality. That's how the Dawn Royal Family has always done things." Brunhilde answered with righteous conviction.
Emperor Ilesel smiled without replying.
"Yes, we're no longer the warlord leaders who rose to power on Rui. In three thousand years of galactic exploration and three thousand years of conquest, our bloodline has acquired extraordinary cells from the homeworld era, the blood of ancient sages from Rainbow Rose, and the genes of the brightest heroes and champions from almost every age. We even have the Enlighteners'."
"Bryn, you make us sound like livestock chosen for breeding!" The emperor grinned.
"But isn't that exactly what our ancestors did? Is this the nature of a dragon's bloodline?" Brunhilde spread her hands. "Your Majesty, the Dawn Royal Family shouldn't be emperors of the Tirillo alone. We should be emperors of the whole world. Only with an emperor of the whole world can there be an empire of the whole world!"
The emperor nodded, deeply moved. "Excellent, my little Bryn. Now that's maturity! From now on, you shouldn't just treat that line as official rhetoric. You should believe it, too."
"So, is it actually true?" Brunhilde asked curiously.
"It doesn't matter. What matters is doing whatever can make the empire greater." The emperor, on the other side of the screen, glanced over the vast starfield around him and spoke casually. "So, I'm giving you this Rainland star system. Whether you grant it to someone who distinguished himself in war or keep it as a vacation retreat for yourself is up to you."
"...This should be the empire's first directly administered territory in the Fermo