"What's there to prepare? It's not my first time."
Hearing Rita, Guanxing shrugged indifferently. She didn't seem to care much about the position of supreme ruler.
It was just the throne, wasn't it?
It wasn't as if she'd never experienced it before. If Rita hadn't helped handle the affairs of state, she wouldn't have wanted to be emperor at all.
Though she hadn't been an emperor before, but a Sage King—a king. It felt about the same... The country was just bigger. When she'd been Sage King, she'd sometimes found dealing with state affairs tiresome. The workload was enormous, but fortunately—
Rita had helped with the affairs of state, making things much easier for her.
"That's true..."
At Guanxing's indifference, Rita simply nodded calmly.
The position of supreme ruler!
How many people in the world could turn it down? But Guanxing had long since grown tired of it.
"..."
Nearby, the minister, unable to move, was stunned to hear Guanxing and Rita talking.
He'd thought Durandal had set her sights on the throne, but from what Rita was saying, they planned to make the little girl in front of him emperor.
And she didn't seem to care at all.
He wondered whether Durandal knew about this. If she did, then fine. But if she didn't...
"It's too early to talk about the coronation. The priority now is to take complete control of the Empire. Still, things aren't too bad... Although the Empire is now weakened, the three foreign tribes, the Path of Peace, and even the Revolutionary Army have all suffered heavy losses.
"Most of them have even been taken prisoner, leaving them unable to fight back. The first thing we need to deal with is the governors throughout the Empire."
Guanxing gazed at the sky. She wasn't in