The day after the noise, in the early morning, when the sky finally began to whiten, Alicia had always set out for Kingsley, the king's capital, by rolling up her plans for more than half a day.
Looking back through the window, Alicia was bidding farewell to Foreign Minister Crown's Hall, where she had stayed for the past few days, and Mrs. Beatrice, the Foreign Minister sitting across the street, put her hand on her cheek and dropped her shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Master Alicia. Before I left Sampston, I was hoping I could show you around the harbor one last time."
"That's okay. We showed you around the harbor on the first day, and you should have finished everything you had to do in the land without regret."
If Alicia laughed and answered, the lady didn't try to cry any more, even as she lowered her brow butt as she was sorry.... before I left the hall, "I wanted to feed you that one," "I wanted to show you that one," after I moaned.
The reason I stopped leaving is, of course, because of yesterday's Unified Imperialist move. That said, they are still just those who were hired with gold, and the real Unitarians who were pulling the thread behind them are elsewhere. But just in case, the foreign ministers decided that it was better to go back to the King's Capital before there was another commotion.
Besides, this noise is tantamount to exposing ugliness to other countries if you try to be an empress, apart from the question of how Alicia and the rest of the Heilland side will take it.
There's no way that that Emperor Elizabeth would be the kind of person who laughs and spears while being muddy on his face in the diplomatic arena. Early arrival of Alicia from Sampston must have been in anticipation of a massive sweep that would take place later on.
Alicia's breasts were filled with melancholy things, considering what happened after the real Unitarians who were behind the noise were found. Naturally, as a Heilland representative (even if it didn't matter), I know I need a temper enough to get the Empress to some sort of negotiation on the trump card that she was compromised.
But apart from my position as such a public servant, what a disgusting feeling that blood would flow as a trigger for my visit.
Because I can see that the Empress will issue a judgment without changing one expression.
"Emperor Elizabeth is a stranger, isn't she? I thought I had given you a peek of mercy for your subordinates, and a moment later, the tough side of being an exchanger turns up. I stepped on the land of Aardhar, and the only thing I didn't know about him anymore than before I came here."
"No blood, no tears, Her Majesty the ruthless Empress. Is that what Elizabeth says in every country?
"... from me, whatever"
"Oh, yeah. I'm sorry, that was a mean question. It doesn't matter. Because His Majesty is the one who turns even those rumors into weapons."
From Beatrix, who laughs by the way and pity, I could see and take a deep trust in my niece. Emperor Elizabeth remembered that it was she who pushed her into her current position, and Alicia inquired if she had corrected her residence.
"Dear Beatrice, With these eyes I set foot on this land to identify my neighbour, Aardhar. I want to know about that one I don't know yet. - Why did Master Beatrice recommend Elizabeth to the throne?
For a while, Beatrice remained gazing out the window, as if she hadn't heard Alicia's inquiry. But after a little bit, a soft grin appeared on his face.
"I kind of miss you. Looks like he's dealing with that old girl."
"Yes, is it?
"Yeah, but that kid was tougher than that. The crying lady will shut up. Her Majesty's scales may have been around since then."
Squirting like a solitaire, Beatrice laughs when she dulls. Perhaps in her eyes, the appearance of Emperor Elizabeth's presence in the same age as Alicia, floats with all likelihood.
Alicia also tried to imagine Emperor Elizabeth when she was a girl, but immediately declined. Elizabeth has reigned in Aardhar as an absolute ruler since the moment of her contemplation, and before that, she could not conceive of any shards, such as what kind of girlhood she had.
Blink slowly, then Beatrice shifts her gaze to Alicia. And she narrowed her eyes not as Mrs. Foreign Minister of Aardhar, but as an elderly man with a blood connection.
"Hey, Master Alicia. I'm just in the mood for a little old talk. I was wondering if you could hang out with me."
"Ruthless, Empress Elizabeth. It was this country itself that transformed her that was only one young woman, brilliant and beautiful, furthest from the right to inherit the throne."
Beatrice began to speak quietly as the heel and the horse carriage gear turned.
At an early age, Elizabeth spent time in a regional castle owned by her mother's noble house, not Kingsley Castle. He was raised only as a daughter of nobility by virtue of the common son, even though he draws the king's blood.
There was also consideration for the queen, and basically the young Elizabeth never faced the royal family. Beatrice herself, the first time she tried to leave the royal family by daughter-in-law to Foreign Minister Crown, so much so that she met with Elizabeth.
The lady smiled when she could remember the day she first met Elizabeth as if it were yesterday.
"That's how she felt when she was starving."
"Hungry, is it?
"Yeah. He said he was still young, but his eyes were hungry for love, for knowledge, for the world. Such a country castle is too small for this child. This child will be a great man, in the greater world. That's why I decided to be her guardian."
Then she spent her time under Beatrice and was given every kind of education, including initial education. Sometimes the Crowns didn't have children, and when they went around the country in diplomacy, Elizabeth was taken. It was also around this time that I first met Alicia's father, James.
The moon flowed, and one girl who was hungry for everything eventually grew up to be a beautiful woman full of talent and with a challenging eye.
It was in the year when Edward, king of Aardhar, fell ill that the great currents decided.
"Did you know that Aaldar was rough before Master Elizabeth took office?
"I'm asking. My grandmother was hurting her chest pretty bad, too."
"... Yep. Yes, for the first time since the king fell, even though the situation was getting worse by the day, we realized that the kingdom was at Seto's overthrow. Long ago, there must have been a lot of things we could and should have done. But we swallowed the words of our lords and did not heed the voice of a screaming people. He was a fool."
At that time when I was struck by despair, one thought came to mind on Beatrice's head, like a heavenly revelation.
"Why I was raising that child. What did you step out of that little but adorable castle to accomplish? A tremor ran all over me when I realized it was all for this day. That child is the only one who can save the country - Master Elizabeth is the only one who can. I still don't think I was wrong about that idea."
In fact, the situation in Aaldar sucked.
The First Prince, who was at the head of the right to inherit the throne, had been taken in by the Senate at the time when he inclined the kingdom, and if he took office, it was visible that the kingdom would follow a path of collapse. That said, the second prince was born sick and weak, and until the third prince, the beginning and end of letting go of his right to inherit the throne himself. After the first princess is married to the king of another kingdom, the second princess does not rely in the sense of the king's vessel. Clearly, it's stuck.
That is why Beatrice set up the curse, but as soon as possible, entrusted all his wishes to Elizabeth, who raised him like a distant sister of the year, and recommended him to the next king.
"Naturally, there was a lot of opposite voices, especially the outright conflict between the First Prince and the nobles who held him. But Master Elizabeth was wonderful. That one's ambition, hunger, and just overflowing talent. When all that came to fruition, that one was born in this country in the true sense of the word. … the figure of Empress Elizabeth was there."
After that, Alicia knows. The story is all too famous until one woman, who was only a concubine child, gets the chair of the ruler.
Many senate nobles were exposed to the injustice they were doing in their own territory under the daylight and driven from the table. It would have been better if they had just taken the title, and tough shacks were down that could have been jailed, confined, or even executed.
That's what's likely to shake the country's system itself. In the first place, however, Aardhar had been cornered until one step before the collapse, and barely maintained the shape of the country because the people who had been abused by the corrupt Senate sided with Elizabeth.
It wasn't funny when this happened was the First Prince, and he made one plan.... i.e., he sought to assassinate the hostile Elizabeth.
However, the plot is uncovered yet and ends in failure. Moreover, the case became the deciding factor, and the First Prince was stripped of his right to inherit the throne and shut down.
A few months later, he died of a debilitation in his cell, he said.
"Around the same time, unfortunately, both the second prince died from worsening his illness. Well, there's been a lot of speculation. Did you poison him, or did you release the assassin, or did you actually think that Master Elizabeth was a witch who dyed her hands in black magic? People are funny. Imagination is endless everywhere."
The First Prince, then the Second Prince, has left the world, and the Third Prince has withdrawn himself from the dispute from the beginning. Eric Yugdrasil, the husband of the second princess, lifted with the outline of her last request, gave way to Elizabeth herself after consultation.
That's how Elizabeth got the throne.
Those who defy her are not in Aardhar today.
"Dear Beatrice, Um, just one question. Can I ask you something?
"Yes, of course."
Smile with a grin, and the lady nods. To be held back by that, Alicia uttered the question she had thoughtfully felt.
"It is widely rumored in various countries that His Majesty laid down his hand and took the lives of the first and second princes. But if that's a lie, why isn't His Majesty denying it?
If you believe Beatrice's words, the first prince died in prison and unfortunately, and even to the second prince, the time just happened to overlap. Besides, Alicia herself, meeting Emperor Elizabeth in person, I don't think the First Prince, anyway, would bother ordering her to kill the Second Prince, who was not even a candidate for conflict.
But Mrs. Crown thought for a while before leaking a naughty grin.
"Because there's no need to deny it."
"Huh?"
Does that mean the rumors were true? It was Alicia listening back in time, but Beatrice answered for another reason.
"The many reforms carried out by Master Elizabeth are all radical and usually unattainable in such a short period of time. It was that person's genius - and fear that made it possible. That one was even used as a weapon by the rumors against him. It was more convenient to instigate fear."
Besides, I don't care if the rumors are true or not.
Beatrice shrugged as she shifted her gaze outside the window.
"We sought a strong king, and Lord Elizabeth responded to it. Raven and Gino...... When the obituaries of the two princes arrived, that one quietly offered his prayers in the chapel without informing anyone but me. One reason is not to break the image of the" ruthless empress ”that was already said at the time. Who but that one can dedicate himself to the cause of his country so far?
Being a strong man, Alicia honestly thought. And for the first time, I truly understood why my father recognized her arms and, at the same time, alerted his neighbors. Surely if Empress Elizabeth, at dawn when she thought she needed Heirland for Aaldar, she must have come to take it, using any hand, even if that's what bled out in the war.
As a blood relative - and guardian of the childhood Emperor Elizabeth, Beatrice lowered her eyebrows as troubled and looked at Alicia.
"Your Majesty is buying a lot about Alicia. You are attracted by your qualities with a different exchanger than you are, and you wish you were at Mr. Fritz's side. That one rarely obsesses with someone this way.... No, let's not do this any more. Because you've already made up your mind."
The silence fell in the carriage when Beatrice shut his mouth. Alicia shifted her gaze outside the window and, looking at the flowing view, thought of the empress with the deep green eyes waiting at Kingsley Castle.
The time was approaching when we should face Emperor Elizabeth, right around the corner.