The Reason I Made Her My Queen - Chapter 6

I wanted to see her at a glance.

Her, among the bridal procession.

Her features were quite ordinary, but her blue hair reminded one of the sea.

The Kingdom of Fabra is a landlocked nation.

It’s not that there’s no sea, but you have to go south to see it.

For most citizens, it’s something unfamiliar.

Many have never even seen the ocean.

Perhaps because of this, the sea is a distant longing.

And she possessed blue hair that evoked such a sea.

Next, what caught my eye were her “rainbow-colored eyes.”

They reminded me of that beautiful rainbow arching across the sky after rain.

Rare.

I’ve heard that rainbow-colored eyes can only be possessed by the Carnia royal family.

Ancient continental texts also wrote as such.

A fairy tale from the distant past.

A heavenly god took a liking to a maiden of the earth and made her his wife.

The daughter born between them married an earthly king.

As a blessing, the god bestowed “rainbow-colored eyes” upon the children born between the earthly king and the daughter.

A daughter with rainbow-colored eyes is proof of being loved by the heavenly god.

The children who inherited the god’s blood founded a kingdom.

Now, it’s such an old story that it has become a fairy tale.

The kingdom that once existed is no more.

It perished.

And the descendants of that perished kingdom are said to be the Carnia royal family.

That country, because rainbow-eyed royals are no longer being born, has historians heatedly debating this and that.

“The reason the Kingdom of Carnia suffers from floods is a revelation from heaven.”

Religious figures unanimously claim so.

Perhaps where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

The Kingdom of Carnia is landlocked through and through.

Unlike the Kingdom of Fabra, it has no sea.

Even without a sea, it’s a central nation crisscrossed with canals.

They don’t suffer from water shortages.

But once storms or floods strike, they cause immense damage.

The Kingdom of Carnia is more inland than the Kingdom of Fabra. Its terrain is also mountainous.

The sea breeze blowing from the ocean picks up moisture between the mountains, which then falls as heavy rain.

The rain becomes rivers flowing to the sea.

If the rainfall is excessive, it becomes rainwater in the sea, and the increased sea volume seeks an outlet somewhere in the mountains, overflowing as waterfalls.

Normally, this natural blessing seeps through with each rainfall, moistening the land—a welcome benefit. But with every storm, it becomes a major disaster.

Their flood control technology is outdated. They can’t even establish a clear flood control policy.

Despite this, in recent years, the Kingdom of Carnia has experienced drastic weather changes.

Their request for an alliance with the Kingdom of Fabra was driven by a desire for flood control technology and a stable food supply, which had become unreliable.

For us, the stability of the Kingdom of Carnia was more than welcome.

There were also geographical considerations.

A marriage alliance with a Carnia princess wasn’t such a bad thing.

Having a young princess as the bride could be considered just right, depending on how you looked at it.

The mistress of the rear palace is the queen.

But it would take time for the young princess to become the true mistress.

During that time, I could take several concubines and secure control over the rear palace.

Fortunately, there were candidates for concubines.

Before the queen’s arrival, I had won over several promising daughters who seemed capable.

Having prepared the rear palace in this way.

If they were daughters of good lineage and noble families, they should naturally establish a power base. They would reign as shadow rulers of the rear palace and could skillfully manage the foreign queen.

They would probably operate the rear palace efficiently.

That’s what I thought.

But nothing ever goes as planned.