How many top-tier nobles were there, anyway?
A great family had only seventy or eighty core members. Even a clan with over four hundred people was mostly just distant relatives from branches that had long since split off.
Lynn had dealt with over a thousand people in one go.
It might be hard to understand at first, but if you thought about it carefully, it was like a fifth of the country's ruling class and vested interests had been wiped out.
That was if you counted them all as dead.
Lynn had effectively taken out the equivalent of twenty-one count-sized families in the Imperial Capital.
The nobles had hedged their bets between the two sides, and those who had bet on Lynn had lost more than half their numbers.
That put things into perspective.
So, politically speaking, Lynn couldn't possibly wipe out the Augustus Family and the Royalists entirely.
All he could do was make them abandon the idea.
That meant Yuffie could take the throne—or, even if she didn't, she could be the one to argue against it, to stand as the opposition.
And she could raise the banner high.
That would be the best outcome.
Politically speaking.
If Lynn dealt with the matter himself, it would look like he had forced Yuffie into marriage and ended the Empire's rule, and so on.
But the Royalists wouldn't give up.
For them to truly give up, they had to see that even Yuffie, the best candidate they had left, was supporting Lynn.
The best person you have left is already on my side.
Truthfully, Lynn had wondered what it would be like to have an empress.
Back on Blue Star, the Romans had certainly slept with other people's highest rulers.
If they completely abolished the emperor's position, the Augustus Clan