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    you seem to be misunderstanding something. Can only the empress give birth to the heir? That''s not true. No line in the constitution would propose something even remotely similar to that. The heir is the child of the emperor that he named the future ruler. If there isn''t a child, then the closest living relatives of the royal family will be considered the next in line for the succession. But as long as I have children, I can make the choice of who will be the heir to the throne freely. And by now, it should be obvious that there is only one way that this will happen. I thought that everyone would already have noticed that there is no discussion about any of this. There is only one woman with whom I will have children, and I will grant all of Blanche''s children the title of a royal prince or princess. The eldest one of them will be the heir and thus the future ruler of Artias. That isn''t too hard to understand, right?”


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