Responses
From my understanding, he’s trying to make sure the two powerful families stay under his control. His main focus is power and to keep it, he needs all the noble families to bow down to him. By creating conflicts between the two families, he makes sure that they both still have to ask HIM for favours so HE gets the final say. Obviously he’s pretty stupid so things don’t end up going his way and he gets pushed around a lot, but his intentions are still just to control everything around him.
Im now in ch127 and I still can't read the emperor's true personality. I mean I get that he's greedy and he's after what will give him more power and benefit. It's just that he's presented as someone with malicious intent but always decides to do things that are somehow for the best interests of Perez and the Lombardis. It throws me off everytime. Is it like a "your enemy's(empress) enemy(perez/the Lombardis) is your friend" situation? Why is he doing things as if to spite the empress though? I mightve missed that part