However, that didn’t mean that civil servants could act superciliously. The Empire was clearly a despotic country that recognized the class system as a law. So, even if one was a civil servant, if they carelessly provoked the nobility, they could be beheaded instead.

If a nobleman felt insulted and threw his gloves, the civil servant had to use his small wallet to find a representative. If he couldn’t find one, he had to go to the duel himself. However, a nobleman had knights to represent him in the duel. So a paper-pushing civil servant would be killed on the spot. 

By the way, if I had known this butler would be here to spill the truth behind the incident, I wouldn’t have bought a record of Director Pelgrant’s movements...