"Rescue... us?"
The young Count looked at Lynch with wide eyes, and even the former Countess looked at Lynch with a bewildered expression.
The matter of the Elder betraying the interests of the nobility had spread throughout the entire Empire within a day, and even the commoners knew about it. But Lynch's words left the mother and son in a state of confusion.
About ten seconds later, the young Count shook his head dejectedly, "I don't understand, Mr. Lynch, they have removed a powerful Minister of Finance from our ranks, taking away a dependable power from us. This is clearly harming our interests, so how can it be considered rescuing us?"
In the eyes of most nobles in the Secretariat, what the young Count said was what they were thinking: once a Minister of Finance emerged from their ranks, other nobles from the Secretariat could be placed in various financial departments to take on important roles.
