【Special Edition】 A Day in the Life of the Empress
AM 6:45 – Wake up – Private chamber
On the side table next to the wide canopy bed sitting in the spacious room.
The classical alarm clock on top of it began to ring noisily.
The master of the room sleeping in the canopy bed, Armilia Frannodle O’Vorls, the 38th Emperor of the Galactic Empire, slowly extended her hand from under the blanket and stopped the alarm clock switch.
Then, yawning as she sat up, she headed to the washroom in her room with sleepy eyes, brushed her teeth, and washed her face.
Normally, given her status, a lady-in-waiting would come to wake her, but she was practicing the teaching from her late parents and her supportive great-uncle: [You must be able to do the minimum things for yourself by yourself].
Therefore, the ladies-in-waiting were told not to enter until work hours began.
After working hair oil into her messy bedhead hair to fix it, she took off her silk pajamas and changed into body-hugging training wear.
After tying her long hair into a ponytail with a hairband, she unlocked and opened the door.
“Good morning, Your Majesty.”
“Good morning, Belena. You’re always early.”
“You honor me.”
Together with the head lady-in-waiting Belena who was waiting in front of her room, she headed to the training room inside the palace.
Along the way, she passed ladies-in-waiting at work, but since the ladies knew about her daily routine, they weren’t surprised.
“Good morning, Your Majesty.”
“Good morning.”
It’s said among the ladies-in-waiting that being able to exchange greetings with her is a sign of good fortune.
AM 7:00 – Daily training – Training room
The training room inside the palace is a welfare facility for those who work inside the palace.
“Good morning, Your Majesty. Let’s do our best with training today as well.”
Waiting for her in the training room was a woman who was both her guard and maid, dressed in body-hugging training wear similar to hers.
Previously, she had been running in the palace courtyard with her, but recently, for safety considerations, they had switched to indoor treadmills.
As she started running, she stared intently at her guard-cum-maid Charlotte and said:
“You know what? Since we started using treadmills, hasn’t your body gotten more toned, Char?”
“Because I don’t have to match Your Majesty’s pace, you see.”
Looking over, Charlotte was running at 1.5 times her speed.
After running, she completed weight training using various machines, and finally took a shower and changed into work attire.
AM 8:00 – Breakfast – Private dining room
Meals are taken in her private dining room.
This day’s menu consisted of coffee, toast, butter, marmalade, plain omelet, bacon, green salad, and vanilla yogurt.
Incidentally, vanilla yogurt is her favorite.
At the same time, her secretary Surface announced today’s schedule.
AM 9:00 – Document processing – Office
In her office, she began confirming and signing information data, holo-papers, plastic-papers, and other documents that arrived from various places,
as well as reviewing petitions.
AM 11:00 – Finished document processing. Changed into a dress and moved by covered imperial vehicle to the [Imperial Grand Hotel], the venue for a luncheon hosted by the Trade Union.
In that vehicle, she sighed.
“The food at those kinds of events never tastes good… And since it’s a standing buffet, it’s all greetings and no time to eat… Oh!”
She whispered in the ear of her guard Charlotte.
“What?! Are you serious?”
“I’m serious. Please♪”
As a guard, Charlotte didn’t want to leave her side, but she couldn’t refuse her master’s request.
PM 12:00 – Trade Union-hosted luncheon (standing buffet) – Venue
“We are honored to invite the beautiful Her Majesty the Empress to this luncheon hosted by our Trade Union…”
PM 1:03 – En route to attend a meeting about food self-sufficiency rates hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
“Your Majesty, I bought what you asked for.”
“This is it!”
She bit into the egg bacon burger from [Stardust Hamburger] that her guard Charlotte had bought for her.
“Mmm delicious♪”
“Another junk food… Char, so this is why you left.”
Secretary Surface looked at Charlotte while holding her head.
“I asked her to. Besides, knowing about the common people’s lives is important too! Plus, I couldn’t eat anything at the dining party.”
“Better than your stomach growling at the next meeting…”
While soothing Surface who was blaming her colleague, she bit into the egg bacon burger.
After chewing and swallowing that burger—
“More importantly, do I really have to attend all the meetings?”
She asked Surface.
“You only need to attend the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries meeting about food self-sufficiency rates in person. The rest can all be done remotely from your office in the palace.”
“Yes!”
At Surface’s answer, she made a small fist pump.
PM 1:30 – Venue for the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries meeting about food self-sufficiency rates
“Then, we will now begin the meeting on food self-sufficiency rates…”
PM 3:05 – Inside the covered imperial vehicle
“I’m exhausted…”
“Thank you for your hard work, Your Majesty.”
“Did I really need to be at that meeting?”
PM 3:30 – Palace office – National Reconstruction Agency-hosted economic revitalization planning meeting
[Then, we will now begin the planning meeting for national economic revitalization…]
PM 5:30 – Palace office – Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-hosted education promotion meeting
[Then, we will now begin the meeting regarding matters related to education promotion within the Empire…]
PM 7:03 – Palace office
“It’s over… Why do those old ladies always bring things up again and again just when they’re about to be decided?!”
“It was just like the end-of-day meetings at elementary school…”
PM 7:15 – Dinner – Private dining room
The menu consists of pain de campagne, cream soup with root vegetables, lamb with apple sauce, green salad, and fruit jelly.
PM 8:00 – Bath – Imperial family exclusive bathroom
The bathroom is only permitted to be used by the Emperor’s family.
Although luxurious, it’s relatively small at about 50 meters square on each side so that assassins cannot sneak in.
Here too, following the teaching [You must be able to do the minimum things for yourself by yourself], she does everything herself, but the ladies-in-waiting are waiting inside the bathroom, and occasionally she does have them wash her hair.
PM 9:02 – Free time – Private chamber
After changing into cream-colored sweatpants and top and returning to her room, two maids assigned to her room for the day entered carrying trays.
“Your Majesty, we’ve brought iced tea.”
“Thanks”
She sat on the sofa with a slightly flushed face.
“Your bath seemed long—did you get a bit dizzy from the heat?”
“A little”
The larger maid, Arnela, carefully dried her hair with a towel.
“Then I’ll go get some sorbet.”
“While you’re at it, get some for you two as well. Keep me company during the break.”
“However…”
Arnela and Brigitte were confused by the sudden situation.
“It’s an imperial edict from Her Majesty the Emperor!”
“Understood…”
Following her order, the smaller of the room’s maids, Brigitte, left the room.
Just as Arnela began blow-drying her hair, Brigitte returned.
“I’m back! Successfully acquired iced tea, orange sorbet, and bavarian tart from the cook Shola-chan!”
“Well done, Brigitte!”
On her tray were additional iced tea, sorbet for everyone, and a whole bavarian tart.
“There’s something sinfully indulgent about having these at this hour, isn’t there?”
“I once heard a guard soldier say [instant cup noodles in the middle of the night hit different]. Maybe I should try it sometime?”
“That would be quite difficult. The head lady-in-waiting wouldn’t allow you to bring it in.”
“You’ll have to somehow cover for me.”
“Cover what?”
“Wah!”
Behind them, having their secret tea party, the head lady-in-waiting Belena had appeared at some point.
“Good grief… Your Majesty—no, Princess. Since you just got out of the bath, the iced tea and sorbet are fine. But the bavarian tart and cup noodles on top of that is too much!”
“The cup noodles were just mentioned, I didn’t eat any!”
“And you two should be admonishing her—what are you doing?”
“We’re very sorry…”
“I gave those two an imperial edict. They’re not at fault.”
“Good grief. An imperial edict isn’t something to issue so casually.”
The head lady-in-waiting doesn’t scold too harshly because these secret tea parties are also a way for her to relax.
“Princess, please wrap this up by 10 o’clock. And please brush your teeth before bed.”
“I know!”
PM 10:00 – Private chamber
After finishing chatting with the ladies-in-waiting, she changed into silk pajamas, slipped into bed, and watched videos or read books on her private universal tool.
Her recent favorite was a video of a bear cub at the zoo struggling valiantly to eat watermelon.
PM 11:00 – Sleep – Private chamber
Usually, she sleeps soundly until morning.
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Afterword
For those meeting me for the first time, nice to meet you. For those I haven’t seen in a while, it’s been a while. My name is Toryuu.
Before you know it—or perhaps it’s still quite early—Volume 5 has been released.
This is all thanks to everyone who’s been reading, everyone who’s purchased the books, my editor-in-charge, everyone at the editorial department, illustrator Ham-sama, and various other people.
This year, when I went to the tax office for my tax return again, I brought the documents the way they taught me last year, but I was told “That’s not right” and was rejected. I also pulled a muscle and was taken by ambulance, but fortunately the symptoms were mild. However, the designated pharmacy was on the other side of a four-lane road, and I had to walk 300 meters to the crosswalk, which was terrible.
I hope nothing like that happens in the second half of the year.
Also… I’ve been confused lately about why Noswile-jou is being treated as a promiscuous person in the web reviews……
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