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She cannot believe it because of Serhin's pride, grows worried, and learns that the Grand Noble Assembly has convened.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"Butler Freya, who dreams of two children carving a gift and a heart in her sleep, wakes up in a sweat and thinks it could be a memory belonging to the body's original owner. Returning to her duty with a headache, she sees an imperial carriage with a red flag passing through the front gate. A ceasefire and alliance offer has come from the Tenasis Empire. She cannot believe it because of Serhin's pride, grows worried, and learns that the Grand Noble Assembly has convened.","key_events":["Butler is dismissed from meeting by Grand Duke as Grand Noble Assembly convenes.","Butler wonders if dream children are memory of this body's original owner.","Head butler handles household duties like separating sheets and checking mare about to give birth.","Imperial carriage with red flag rushes into Grand Duchy bringing ceasefire and alliance offer from Tenasis.","Butler dreams of two children carving initials and wakes realizing recurring dream is becoming more vivid.","Butler dozes off while Grand Duke is upstairs, wakes at dawn with throbbing headache."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"WHERE IS THIS?\nHUH?\n\nWHAT IS THIS?\nA PRESENT!\nTHESE VOICES... THEY'RE FROM THAT DREAM...\nLOOK AT THE LID HERE. DO YOU SEE THE TINY LETTERING ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT?\n\nYES, I SEE IT.\n...DID YOU ENGRAVE ALL OF THIS YOURSELF?\nYEP! THOUGH I HAD A LITTLE HELP FROM THE GROWN-UPS.\nPRETTY COOL, HUH? I PUT BOTH OF OUR INITIALS ON IT. TA-DA!\n\nJUST WHO ARE THESE KIDS?\nWHO ARE THEY THAT THEY KEEP APPEARING IN MY DREAMS?\n...THANK YOU.\nAW, DON'T MENTION IT!\n\nSEE THE HEART RIGHT HERE, TOO?\nIT MEANS ALL YOUR TIME BELONGS TO ME FROM NOW ON, GOT IT?\nWHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?\nNOW YOU'RE REALLY IN TROUBLE!\n\n...WAIT.\nTHAT FACE...\n\nAH, NO!\n...LER.\n\n...LER.\nBUTLER!\nHAH, GASP...!\nWHAT'S WRONG, BUTLER?!\n\nYOU WERE GROANING IN YOUR SLEEP. DID YOU HAVE A NIGHTMARE?\nA DREAM...\nWAIT, IS IT DAWN ALREADY?!\nI ONLY MEANT TO CLOSE MY EYES FOR A SECOND WHILE THE GRAND DUKE WAS UPSTAIRS, BUT I MUST HAVE FALLEN ASLEEP.\nOnce he heads upstairs, he doesn't come down for a while, after all.\n\n...STILL, SINCE NO ONE WOKE ME UP IN THE MEANTIME, NOTHING MUST HAVE HAPPENED, RIGHT?\nBUTLER, BUTLER! ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?\nYEAH. IT'S NOTHING, JUST A RECURRING DREAM I HAVE SOMETIMES.\nA DREAM?\nYEAH. YOU COULD CALL IT A RATHER PECULIAR DREAM.\n\nIT REALLY DID SEEM CONNECTED TO THE ONE I HAD BEFORE.\nIT SOUNDS LIKE A BOY'S NAME, SO I HATE IT!\n\nBESIDES, IT WAS FAR CLEARER THIS TIME THAN BEFORE.\nAND THE GIRL IN THE DREAM FELT BEYOND CLEAR-IT ALMOST GAVE ME DÉJÀ VU...\nIF SHE HAD GROWN UP JUST LIKE THAT,\n\nSHE SURELY WOULD HAVE LOOKED LIKE THIS.\nCOULD THAT DREAM...\nBE A MEMORY BELONGING TO THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS BODY?\n\nALL RIGHT, LET'S START WITH THE BED SHEETS. PLEASE SORT THEM PROPERLY SO THERE'S NO COLOR BLEEDING.\nYES, HEAD BUTLER!\nHEAD BUTLER, COULD YOU CHECK ON THE HORSE THAT'S ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH LATER?\n\nOF COURSE. I'LL DROP BY SOMETIME TODAY!\nYOU CERTAINLY OVERSEE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT, MISS FREYA.\nDO BUTLERS NORMALLY HANDLE THESE KINDS OF DUTIES AS WELL?\nGood morning!\n\nGOOD MORNING, SIR ALLEN.\nSO SIR ALLEN . IS KEEPING WATCH TODAY.\nI'M NOT SURE HOW BUTLERS IN OTHER HOUSEHOLDS DO IT, BUT...\nI STILL HAVE TO DO IT.\nAFTER ALL, I AM THE BUTLER OF THE VALLOTE GRAND DUCHY.\n\nMISS FREYA...\nWELL, HOW'S THAT? IMPRESSIVE AND RELIABLE, ISN'T IT?\nSO MAKE SURE TO PUT IN A GOOD WORD WITH THE GRAND DUKE LATER.\n\nTELL HIM YOU'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH AN INCREDIBLE BUTLER, AND THAT HE CAN TRUST ME COMPLETELY...\nUGH.\nMISS FREYA!\nARE YOU ALL RIGHT?\n\nYES, IT'S JUST AN OCCASIONAL HEADACHE. DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.\nBEING THOROUGH IS COMMENDABLE, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T OVEREXERT YOURSELF.\nOF COURSE! YOU KNOW HOW STURDY I AM.\nUGH, AND HERE I WAS TRYING TO SCORE SOME POINTS!\nWHAT'S GOING ON? IT'S BEEN THROBBING EVER SINCE I WOKE UP.\nI FELT LIKE I SLEPT MORE SOUNDLY THAN USUAL TODAY, TOO.\n\nSTILL, PLEASE TAKE CARE.\nOF COURSE, OF COURSE.\n\nWELL, MAYBE I DIDN'T SLEEP THAT WELL AFTER ALL. I DID HAVE THAT STRANGE DREAM.\nANYWAY, IT'S REALLY FRUSTRATING.\nIF THAT DREAM EARLIER REALLY WAS TIED TO THE PAST,\n\nTHEN IF THINGS GO RIGHT, I MIGHT FIND OUT WHO THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF THIS BODY WAS,\nAND MAYBE EVEN WHAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP SHE HAD WITH GRAND DUKE VALLOTE.\nCOULD THAT BOY POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN THE GRAND DUKE AS A CHILD?\n\n...NAH, THAT'S REACHING TOO FAR.\n\nMAYBE IF I'D GOTTEN A LOOK AT HIS FACE OR EYE COLOR, IT'D BE DIFFERENT.\nWHO KNEW I HAD SUCH A WILD IMAGINATION?\nMISS FREYA, COULD YOU COME HERE AND LOOK OUT THE WINDOW FOR A MOMENT?\n\nPARDON? WHAT IS IT, SIR ALLEN?\n...IT'S AN IMPERIAL CARRIAGE.\nIT JUST RUSHED THROUGH THE FRONT GATES. WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED?\n\nWAIT... THAT RED FLAG.\nIT MEANS THEY'VE ARRIVED BEARING URGENT NEWS FROM THE EMPIRE.\nSIR ALLEN, EXCUSE ME FOR A MOMENT.\n\nRIGHT, MISS FREYA!\nWHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON?\n\nIF IT'S URGENT NEWS AT A TIME LIKE THIS...\nURGENT NEWS AT A TIME LIKE THIS... HAS SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH TENASIS?\nA PROPOSAL FOR AN ARMISTICE AND ALLIANCE HAS ARRIVED FROM THE TENASIS EMPIRE.\n\nEXCUSE ME...? AN ALLIANCE?!\nHAH, HOW CAN THEY BE SO SHAMELESS?!\nDID THEY THINK WE'D WELCOME AN ALLIANCE PROPOSAL WITH OPEN ARMS AFTER EVERYTHING?\n\nTHERE IS NO NEED TO MAKE A FUSS. NOTHING HAS BEEN DECIDED YET.\nYES... YOUR HIGHNESS.\n...WAIT, AN ALLIANCE?\nHOW COULD TENASIS SEND AN ALLIANCE PROPOSAL WHEN SERHIN IS THERE?\n\nTHE SERHIN I KNOW WOULD NEVER SWALLOW HIS PRIDE\nAND BOW DOWN TO THE CADEA EMPIRE.\nTHE PERSON WHO HATES AND DESPISES CADEA MORE THAN ANYONE IS THAT EMPIRE'S CROWN PRINCE.\nHONESTLY, FOR THINGS TO REACH THIS POINT,\nSERHIN MUST HAVE EITHER LOST HIS MIND OR DIED...\n\nDID SOMETHING HAPPEN TO SERHIN...?!\nBUTLER, YOU MAY TAKE YOUR LEAVE.\nTSK, SO HE WON'T LET ME HEAR ANYTHING BEYOND THIS POINT, HUH?\n...YES, UNDERSTOOD.\n\nLET'S NOT JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS JUST YET.\nNOTHING HAS BEEN CONFIRMED.\n\nBESIDES, THE SERHIN I KNOW ISN'T THE TYPE TO DIE SO EASILY.\n\"...DON'T WORRY, SIA.\nTHERE'S NO WAY I'D DIE BEFORE YOU AND LEAVE YOU BEHIND.\"\n\n...RIGHT, HE'LL BE FINE.\nBECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, HE'S THE KIND OF GUY WHO'LL SURVIVE...\n...AND APPEAR BEFORE ME ONCE AGAIN.\n\n...YOUR HIGHNESS,\nDO YOU THINK SOMETHING HAPPENED IN THE TENASIS EMPIRE?\nOTHERWISE, THERE'S NO WAY THEY'D MAKE A MOVE LIKE THIS.\nWHO KNOWS? AT THIS POINT, THERE'S NO TELLING.\nTHOUGH THAT MIGHT CHANGE AFTER ENTERING THE PALACE.\n\nWAIT, ENTERING THE PALACE...!\nDOES THAT MEAN ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE ENDLESS MEETINGS IS STARTING?!\nYES.\nYOUR MAJESTY HAS CONVENED THE GRAND NOBLE COUNCIL.","bubble_count":125,"pages_count":37,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"Butler Freya, who dreams of two children carving a gift and a heart in her sleep, wakes up in a sweat and thinks it could be a memory belonging to the body's original owner.","spoiler_summary":"Butler Freya, who dreams of two children carving a gift and a heart in her sleep, wakes up in a sweat and thinks it could be a memory belonging to the body's original owner. Returning to her duty with a headache, she sees an imperial carriage with a red flag passing through the front gate. A ceasefire and alliance offer has come from the Tenasis Empire. 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