Again, Robert and Clovis are the only two people in a comfortable salon that takes in the sun's rays.
Knights on the Aardhar side are consolidating themselves outside the mansion, and the Knights of Heilland are letting them rest elsewhere. Naturally, the foreign minister and his servants are not listening. If you don't even seem to realize that, it is that the name of the Knights of Kingsguard will be abolished.
So Robert urged his friend, who was not going to break his mouth inside, to talk again.
"Something must have happened with Master Alicia. Talk to me. Might be a little help, huh?
"I told you to leave me alone... This is my problem."
"Oh no. Even as an escort knight, you, the aide, are in trouble up there in the sky. You don't want to bother your precious princess, do you?
Clovis, who swears deep allegiance to Alicia, will be doomed weak if his husband's name is brought up. After figuring it out, Robert put it in his mouth, it was after a scattered reluctance, but the advice Clovis started talking about the night of the feast, a little bit more pompous.
Boasting a good understanding of his friends, Robert was listening in person by embarking on the salt plum that was most just right for the speaker. But as the conversation progressed, Robert began to stick his cheeks, not to mention his elbows and a frightened face.
"Oh, no. I'm sorry that I'm so worried... You, that won't go in while you've done something. That's what I mean. Don't let it get you down there, you mean it."
"Don't be stupid! I'm an aide, and he's the Lord to serve. Really, what was going on? I don't know..."
"That's not true. Ah... Well, then, you'll see. You're the one who did it."
"Please don't. - It's impossible."
Robert stuck his mouth to the hard voice his friend spoke. If you look across the street thinking it's a good idea, Clovis has his head in both hands and can't get a glimpse of his expression. After a while, Robert exhaled heavily.
"Impossible, huh? I don't mind if the person at the time insists, but if you think that's distracting you from your true feelings, you're an irremediable fool."
"... I told you it was you"
Clovis takes his hands off his head, along with an excuse that doesn't even seem like it. As he leaned down, the aide was staring into his own hands.
"Get ready to let go of my hand. I told you to be prepared. Because it's the right thing to do. Because you can't reach out to someone like me. So I..."
"Have you finally admitted it? It's a pain in the ass to make."
Clovis pushes to silence Robert, who laughs at him. For Clovis, who never tried to take off his mask as a squire, around the words of denial never popped up, it could be said to be a step forward.
If you let Robert tell you so, it would be really roundabout now. For a long time before he himself became aware, Clovis had cherished her, not as her husband, but as a single woman.
"Oh, I told you. That's faster, and it's easier. It's easy to give up, if that's what you think, just throw it away."
"You...!
"Yes, yes, don't be discouraged. You're not. Because it's not, it must be painful."
The annoying guy and Robert didn't put it in his mouth, he repeated it inside out.
"I can't give up. I can't throw it away. I don't want to throw it away. Isn't that right? - Then it's time to be ready."
"... so that's been before"
"No. That's what I'm talking about."
Between them, silence came.
Even in the auxiliary room, you pull out the group and cut your head off, and Clovis couldn't seem to get the sincerity of his friends to find the next word to utter.
With his friend on the way, Robert drinks up a cup of tea that has completely cooled him down, doing both hands behind his head and sliding away on the back of the chair. I told you everything you need to talk about. And then there's the real deal, the real deal.
Although.
(I feel sorry for the princess. If this guy is the other guy, he'll have a hard time.)
With her tossed legs gracefully assembled, half-hearted, half sympathetic, Robert looks up to the ceiling. Excellent, competent auxiliary lord. The thoughts raised hidden in that mask are so great that they confuse him and turn him into a shapeless coward.
But maybe that's what love is all about out there.
And, as Robert watched his friend with his raw warm eyes, the fuss became noisy outside.
"Dear Alicia, I have brought Sir Clovis"
"Thank you. I need you inside."
As soon as Alicia answered the voice hung from the hallway, the door opened, and Anni and the figure of Clovis, who refrained behind it, jumped into her eyes. What happened the other day only blurred her head for a moment, and Alicia took a long breath. However, as soon as she shook her head and kicked out the clutter, she opened the curtain very thinly and Alicia pointed out.
"That's it. I suddenly saw people gathering in the middle of a noise."
"I am poor. That doesn't sound like a merchant."
"Right. Number of people... maybe 20."
Clovis, who approached the window without hesitation, lined up in the immediate vicinity of Alicia and peered outside through a thin gap of curtains. Same as always - as an aide, Clovis.
Since that night, he's been thorough and only shows Alicia his face as a princess aide. That seemed obvious at first glance, but it was creating an odd groove between the two of them, even making Alicia think he was being rejected.
But right now, at this moment, it's not about him and himself that should be the problem. Alicia also asked for the opinion of a competent aide, only as Princess Heilland.
"Foreign Minister Crown asked me to wait at the Mansion because I would take care of the situation myself. It doesn't even look armed in the long run, and neither do I. Though I don't think our side of the country should move yet... What do you think?
"I was wondering if there was a problem. I just need information. We're letting Robert look outside right now, so let's wait here often."
As such, it was when Clovis answered.
The door opened and Robert Vonbert just showed up in the room with silver hair lumped together in one piece. He put his mouth to "I know what's going on," as he paid for his shoulder and back.
"Nothing, they're my friends. That's a reunification imperial gathering. The princess came from Heilland, so they started making noise."
Alicia and Clovis looked at each other for an unexpected report of the Kingsguard knight.
"Is that for sure?
"Yeah, that's what they're arguing about."
"It's been a few days since we met about Aardhar, and now it is."
"If you're in Wang Du, then your security is tight, and you don't know what kind of eyes you'll see if you make a scene on the Empress's knees. So if it was in Sampston, you would have raised a flag over here."
"Um, excuse me. That, the Unified Imperialist? I mean, what is it?
Robert shook his head at Clovis, shaking his face. It was Martha who raised her hand about time for those two interactions. Alicia opened her mouth on behalf of a samurai who properly alternates between the two young people.
"The Unitarian Imperialists are people who want to integrate Heilland into Aaldar and establish the Greater Aaldar Empire. Elizabeth has been gone most of the time since Emperor reigned, but there used to be a lot of people like that."
"The princess is right. Julius, the conquering king who built Aardhar, was originally the royal family of Heilland. So it's a saying that the kingdoms that make our ancestors alike can be put together in one piece anyway."
"But isn't that strange? Originally it was Heilland, and it was Aaldar who was able to do it independently of it, wasn't it? And yet, how is it the Greater Aaldar Empire? If it's the Heilland Empire, you can still tell."
"Whoa, lady. You can't say that to the people outside, even if you're wrong. They're unconsciously talking about their complex."
With his index finger in front of his lips, Robert closes one eye. But the two maids looked at each other without knowing what they were doing. It was Clovis who followed for those two.
"Therefore, as Lord Ani pointed out. It is an aerdar that has grown in all respects with its economic, military power, but the only thing that is beyond our country. That's history. They don't like it."
"Estelle, the founding king, built his country where there is now a Heilland. So, no matter how big Aardhar gets, it cannot be that he is the authentic successor of the Principality of Chester unless he holds the land of Heilland in his hands. - For those who think that way, integrating Heilland into Aaldar is considered an historic grief."
"And, well, it's a bunch of annoying ideas over here, but it's mainly the old aristocratic houses that say that. I mean, what's all the fuss over there is just being hired anyway. Look at that. I don't care how much you want to fall, that's not noble. What a bunch of little guys with big balls to make a scene with the guys I hired for hiding."
Robert shakes his head like a scratch. But somehow Alicia can also guess why a real unified imperialist has to hide. Because the Unitarian and the Empress are almost in the opposite position.
As Robert said earlier, most of the unified imperialists belonged to an old aristocratic family, that is, to the original House of Lords, which the Empress kicked out of politics when she took office. It was in the empress's reform that it was revealed that the great majority of such houses had been wiped out by the rugged and rugged days of the former king, by the hundreds of harms that had just cling to old rights, and had become without profit.
In addition, when it comes to the Emperor Elizabeth herself, she has expressed opposition to the integration of the two countries. The reason for this is that, just as the Empress is not waging war on Heilland, she is focusing more on the reforms within Aaldar and would have been largely uninterested in territorial expansion.
In the first place, it can never be said that it is a good idea for Aardhar to obtain the land of Heirland, given the great cause of historical sorrow.
It was also spoken of during the covenant between Estelle, the founding king, and the guardian star, but Heilland is not the land of those who have been blessed as a place for people to nurture their lives. The majority of the climate is rain, and half of the year is a country that trembles in the cold. Aardhar is a better place to grow crops and spend more time.
Where we got such a "lean land," what the hell would be in Aardar's interest? For Aardhar, who does not have to know if he is going to take the Lordship and governs the kingdom with centralisation, there is not a single good thing, not even one more land that must be deliberately taken care of.
So it is also a common opinion between Alicia and Clovis, not to mention King James and lead assistant Nigel, that the Empress will not be aiming for the full reunification of the two countries, even if she ever wants Heilland as a substantial country. And as far as the developments in neighbouring countries over the past few years are concerned, that reading is considered to be a hit.
"But the doctrinal assertion is surprisingly deep-rooted and shabby. Especially history. Culture. Problems such as shaking one's identity, the more power one uses to suppress them, the more fire they burn. I hope that's not weirdly depressing and coming down this way."
Soldiers on the Aardhar side gather at the gate one after the other to make more noise with the men gathering outside.
After watching them fed up, Robert closed the gap between the curtains completely, even as he tried to separate the outside from the inside.