“……Do I know?”
When I muttered hopelessly once more, Cedric said while massaging his neck.
“I thought you knew, that’s all.”
At that moment, Gongi looked back from the front seat and whispered.
“Do you know?”
At Gongi’s question, I swallowed a curse inwardly.
I do, you fcker.
Because he is the 2nd Prince, no, the Emperor.
And that guy is the Prime Minister.
But I couldn’t say that out loud.
I rubbed my face on the desk at the terrifying reality once again.
But just then, Cedric spoke again.
“I know. He’s the new political science professor. The youngest think-tank researcher.”
I stared at Cedric, dumbfounded. ……Was that the setting?
“He’s the youngest, and even though he’s a foreigner, he obtained researcher qualifications in Korea.”
At Cedric’s words, which he spat out as if it were nothing, I looked at him with my mouth shut.
……What kind of worldview is this?
The Prime Minister of Crown Maker became a professor and researcher in our country?
As I flapped my mouth in a terrified situation, my gaze soon reached him, who had changed from Kim Semo to Cedric overnight.
Wait… doesn’t he have something going on, too?
Anxiety slowly seeped in from one corner of my chest.
Looking at him with a suspicious gaze, I asked quietly.
“……What about you?”
“What?”
“What kind of guy are you?”
Then Cedric chuckled as if absurd.
“You’re joking, right? Do you want me to say it with my own mouth?”
Just then, Ian, who was listening from the front, chimed in as if she had been waiting.
“Our genius Cedric who is a grade-level top student and attending the law department.”
Ian continued in a sly manner and smiled.
“It is embarrassing for him to say it himself.”
I instinctively held my breath.
……Seriously, why are you all like this?
Ludger is a professor, Cedric is the top student in the grade.
Plus, there is a hidden mastermind at home.
If this is truly reality, please, let me wake up even if it’s from a dream.
At that moment, Ludger’s voice rang through the lecture hall.
“I am Ludger Edelweiss, who will be in charge of Political Diplomacy this semester.”
I just kept my head buried in the desk and squeezed my eyes shut, then glanced at Kim Seno, Cedric in the seat next to me and said.
“Why is the Law Department taking Political Science? Isn’t Law alone overwhelming?”
It meant for him to get lost.
But Cedric spun his ballpoint pen and shrugged his shoulders as if it were nothing.
“Well, I’ve never thought it was overwhelming.”
……As expected, the official genius setting.
As I looked at him with an absurd face, Cedric chuckled as if wondering why I would ask such a thing.
And he continued to speak calmly.
“International law and constitutional law are not unrelated to politics. In the first place, law is something that comes from politics.”
Then, he flicked the pen once and added shortly.
“Who do you think moves the law?”
“…What do you mean.”
Cedric dropped the ballpoint pen as if it were nothing and smiled roughly.
“The law doesn’t move.”
He slowly turned his head and glanced at Ludger.
“The guy who moves makes the law.”
As soon as those words ended, a short silence flowed.
It was an arrogant remark worthy of a guy who had become Emperor.
And, at that moment, I didn’t miss the look in Ludger’s eyes as he looked at Cedric.
I clicked my tongue inwardly and opened my major textbook.
I tried hard to ignore Ludger’s voice tickling my ears, but for some reason, it stuck in my ears.
“Law is the foundation of politics, but society does not run on law alone.”
My hand moving the pen stopped unconsciously.
As expected of a former Prime Minister, every single word stuck in my ears.
“Even if the same law is applied, depending on whose hands it is in, a completely different result comes out. As a representative example, the same constitutional provision becomes a tool to suppress the people in one era, and a means to guarantee freedom in another era.”
……Crazy. As expected of a Prime Minister.
He’s teaching just like a real professor, this bastard.
The lecture was understood amazingly well.
He explained it so logically and even added easy analogies, so it stuck in my ears perfectly.
I pressed the pen cap slowly and was dumbfounded.
What kind of talent is that?
Stopping for a moment and observing the students’ reactions, he tapped the desk lightly with his fingertips and added.
“Whether you use the law as a weapon or a shield depends entirely on the choices of those who hold the law. And that is the core of politics. Law is not just a norm, but it also becomes an important asset in diplomatic strategies between countries.”
A murmur flowed among the students.
Someone nodded, and someone else had a face deep in thought.
Ludger finished his words with a leisurely smile.
“In other words, it’s not that law becomes a tool of politics, but how the people who move politics use the law is what’s important.”
When his words ended, the lecture hall was engulfed in silence for a moment.
Students seemed to be organizing their thoughts in their own ways.
And, Cedric, who had said something similar earlier, slowly closed his eyes and nodded quietly.
It wasn’t a general nod of empathy, but an attitude as if he were confirming his own thoughts.
Cedric rested his chin on one hand and watched Ludger.
For some reason, I felt a subtle heat from his red eyes.
……Why is that guy suddenly burning with academic passion?
I frowned and glanced at Cedric.
Yet, he had a calm gaze without much agitation.
He was listening to the lecture calmly without a single shake.
Only then did I realize.
Top tier in the Law Department, top of the grade.
Even in the game, a guy who ascends to Emperor if he judges that the Main Shou is not suitable.
‘The guy who moves makes the law.’
And the one who deals with that law and wields power.
For Cedric, Ludger’s lecture might have just been a list of obvious facts.
Now that I look at it…… this lecture was a really dangerous combination.
The Prime Minister and the Emperor are sitting in the same lecture hall?
I gripped the pen-holding hand.
No matter what, this is reality.
