The day after speaking with Clovis, Alicia went to the Sheraford area to reconfirm the border's defence system.
Clovis, originally an aide with Alicia, should also be accompanied, but this time it is a different course of action. This is because I bumped into an appointment with the Marquis Rosen - to go check on the porcelain that will serve as a negotiating material with the neighbouring Ist Chamber of Commerce.
Accompanying Alicia instead are Nigel, the king's lead aide, and Robert, who will take on a special adviser to the Knights of the South beside him as head of the Kingsguard Knights. The combination of Alicia and Nigel is unusual, but armament is one of the most important areas for the country in the first place, and it is not at all strange for him, the king's right arm, to take his feet.
In addition, in the Sheraford district, he also joined regional director Dan Drefas and branch chief acting Daniel Sutherland. It is a tremendous facial rash for a quick decision inspection, but that is the result of taking the letter from Liddy seriously.
The inspection, which began in that way, went well. In the last six years, force near the border has been firmly in place under the leadership of Liddy, and food and other stockpiles have been so well stockpiled. Alicia and the others also decided that the response was organized when things happened and that this would be able to move quickly in case.
On the other hand, it is also necessary to raise the alert of the defence line, assuming that Prime Minister Yugdrasil is the mastermind. When I tried to specifically pack the contents around Robert and the Southern Knights Commander about it, a knight rushed in to defend his ties with his neighbor.
What they conveyed was that the use of neighboring countries was arriving at the border and talking about 'imprisoned Liddy Sutherland as a conspirator'.
Time goes back just a little bit.
When Egdiel Castle was rushing to prepare for the coming star festival, Liddy Sutherland, seconded to neighboring countries as special ambassador, had begun an investigation based at the Crown Foreign Minister's residence. Even so, I can't just cut the front and go around asking about past incidents, so I'll just have to follow the clues one by one.
"If a frightened mastermind from my visit sends me an assassin, we can talk fast."
"I don't like it, such a noisy story. If anything happens to your young husband, I'm sorry to those who left him at the mansion."
It was Alberto, a Sutherland servant, who objected to Blurry Liddy while he was in good hands.
This time, Liddy was only bringing Alberto with him as a squire. That is in honor of his role in resolving the case in Lloyd's case and, at the same time, because he is an important witness to a detailed knowledge of the situation at the time.
Even though there are likely to be some bluffs, at present it is only Emperor Elizabeth who knows the original purpose for which Liddy was sent, Alberto is the only one for whom Liddy can be consulted.
Such Alberto also seemed somewhat tempted to synchronize with what Liddy said, sighing with his voice lurking.
"It's just a pretty tough current situation, albeit the chance Her Royal Highness Princess Alicia gave me. I can't believe you don't trust Foreign Minister Crown for staying at the Mansion."
"Hmm. Assuming the foreign minister was behind this, we wouldn't be attacked while we were in the mansion. They should also be wary that the Empress and Lady Alicia have joined hands. Don't bother to take the bad hand that makes you suspicious."
"... so," A man with a mole on his left hand. "Master Liddy checks from that line, right?"
"Absolutely. That's why I brought you here."
Liddy nodded. Upon receiving the decorative stick the previous Lord had used in his lifetime, he put a grand grin like him in his mouth and said, "Let's go, Al!" and stepped out.
A man with a mole on his left - it shows a neighbor once secretly entering and leaving the Sutherland family mansion. The man was making Lloyd lose his life at the same time that someone was taking his life, and now he didn't even know where he was.
According to the servants who have seen several meetings between the Lord Lloyd and the man, the man wore leather gloves on his left hand, even indoors.
Alberto happened to know why. One time, a man spilled his tea carelessly and removed his gloves only once. He said the skin that appeared from under the leather gloves clearly left marks of a large burn.
The mole was the only clue to chasing a man. Fortunately for you, there are no burn marks on the left hand side of the assassin who killed Lloyd, and the man most likely fled somewhere. Even if you can't capture the person, if you catch any news, you might get information that leads to the man behind it.
Having thought of it that way, Liddy kept a number of chambers of commerce up as the desired destination to visit while stationed.
According to the testimony of those who serve the Mansion, the first time a man appeared, he went up to the Mansion as a "merchant". Such a relationship lasted several times, and by the time I realized it, I began to create something suspicious called a "secret interlocutor".
Unfortunately, no one clearly remembered what chamber of commerce the man was in and out of, but he said it was at least based in Aaldar. Even if that was just a cover-up, it's harder to think of a man and a chamber of commerce as completely irrelevant than you dare to name them.
So, taking advantage of the position of depositing a land trade hub called Sheraford District - Viola, where dealings with Viola revolved around a large chamber of commerce, inspecting several of its bases. In doing so, I caught the "trusted merchant" I had asked the Marquis Rosen beforehand, and instead put in an exploration about a man with a mole on his left hand.
But still, I don't know, six years ago, it doesn't come out easy, like a clue to a guy who got himself killed, either. Now, even this day, Liddy visited a certain chamber of commerce with Alberto, but was refreshed when it came to the man's news.
Without a harvest like this, Liddy made his way to Kingsley Castle with his feet. It was in and out of the castle to kick in to make the mastermind smell that Heilland and Aardhar, or Alicia and Emperor Elizabeth, were close cooperative relationships.
(The mastermind is a member of the Senate. Again, why don't you tail it easily...)
With that in mind, it was when Liddy on the side walked through the corridor.
Huh, the look of the red-haired girl caught his eye and he accidentally stopped on his feet. If you look again, she was still Charlotte, the daughter of Chancellor Yugdrasil.
Charlotte and I were face-to-face on the first day that she usually came to Crown Mansion for a behavioral apprenticeship. Exactly. They're back at Yugdrasil Mansion while Liddy stays, but then again, I've seen him in the salon with Beatrix several times.
Well, Charlotte wasn't alone at this time. Sitting next to her is a man of appearance who, no matter how he sees it, does not seem aristocratic.
Doesn't mean it's dirty. Instead, every one you wear is of good quality.
However, men are too wild for those entering and leaving the castle. Unwrought bound hair on a successfully tightened body peeking through curly sleeves and open chests. I don't dislike them at all and make them ask if they are the nature of a man.
And, somehow, as Liddy was observing, Charlotte stood up when she noticed this one as well.
"Master Liddy! And Mr. Alberto!
"This is Lord Charlotte. Beautiful today..."
To Liddy, who greeted her greetings back with courtesy, Charlotte picked the hem of the dress a little when she just rushed over.
"What happened to you today? My father asks me that Lord Liddy is going around everyday. Aren't you curious and tired?
"No way. Besides being tired, I'm excited. Anyway, I've had the good fortune to look around this country twice. Lord Charlotte is the one who seemed well and relieved. Before she left the country, Her Royal Highness Princess Alicia said something about you."
Liddy carefully avoided responding with a familiar grin. It's more about keeping an eye out for herself than about her father, Chancellor Yugdrasil. Given that he is also a member of the Senate, the more vague the information in Yugdrasil's ear, the more preferable.
Besides, this person named Charlotte doesn't have anything to worry about. From what Alicia told me, she suddenly began to behave backwards as the princess was coming to inspect. Even now, if Liddy tried out Alicia's name, Charlotte clouded her expression plainly.
Do you want to explore her neighborhood?
Thinking that way, Liddy glanced over her shoulder with familiarity.
"By the way, do you know your son? This is the first face I've seen since I came to this country.
"Excuse me. I, I had to introduce you right away. Dear Liddy, this is Barnabas McGregor, vice president of the Ist Chamber of Commerce."
"Dear Liddy Sutherland of Heilland, right? It's a pleasure to meet you."
"It's Liddy. Pleasure to meet you, Lord Barnabas."
Liddy glanced back at Alberto, holding the hand he was offered. Alberto apparently came right to the name, too, and nodded back small.
Barnabas McGregor of the Ist Chamber of Commerce. It's one of those Marquis Rosen mentioned as one of the "trustworthy people".
Liddy, however, was not contemplating contacting Barnabas. Because Ist, a major chamber of commerce with the Empress's patronage, is only based in Sampston and deals mostly on the route. Because of this, there was not much presence in Viola, a trading city by road, and I didn't even think there was an interaction with Lloyd.
But it's a shame we met without any hassle.
"Lord Barnabas' name has been heard of by Jude in our country. You were impressed with a very sharp, brilliant merchant."
"If you're going to say that, he's the funny one. Not at all aristocratic"
Encouraging Barnabas and Charlotte, laughing at each other, Liddy sat down very naturally alongside them. In the immediate vicinity, Alberto also withheld as a matter of course.
"But Lord Charlotte's face is wide enough to put the Chancellor in your father's hands. I didn't know you knew the number two of the prestigious Ist Chamber of Commerce."
"Uh, no. Mr. Barnabas and I are somehow connected."
"Edge?"
Liddy tilts her neck slightly. From what I've seen, Barnabas was a little over thirty years older than Liddy. It is not hard to imagine Charlotte, who was picked up early and raised as the Chancellor's daughter, and Barnabas, who is at the heart of the Chamber of Commerce, being face-to-face, but it is strange rhetoric that she has more to do with it than that.
Then Barnabas, who noticed that Liddy was surprised, smiles immediately. White teeth peeking from the mouth often appeared on the skin burned in the day.
"I don't mean it in a weird way. Actually, she and I are from the same orphanage."
"Mr. Barnabas and I weren't wearing it when we were there."
According to Charlotte, who smiled with a nostalgia, the two origins are the Golton Orphanage in Yates - which Liddy had also visited before during the visiting mission. Barnabas, who was well looked after and a leader in the orphanage, caught the eye of Eric Yugdrasil there and began to work at the Ist Chamber of Commerce after his introduction.
Then, in addition to his original leader temperament, he had greedily learned to blossom merchant inquiries and ascended into the chamber of commerce. But Barnabas never forgot his duty to the prime minister who inspired me at first, and during that time he was also taking a short trip to the Yugdrasil mansion.
In such a fold, he still learned about Charlotte, who had been taken into his house by Yugdrasil's eyes, and had cared something about her, a native of the same town.
"That's why Mr. Barnabas is like my brothers to me."
"Don't be glad to say it. You're like a sister to me forever."
"Oh."
Liddy calmly identifies the two interactions as she smiles and hammers. From what Charlotte has seen, I can see how deeply I trust Barnabas. Barnabas responding to it also has warm eyes on her more like a father than a brother.
Let's cut in a little deeper. So determined, Liddy hung her lips up.
"From my eyes, too, if I look at the two of them now, I know very well that Master Yugdrasil was not wrong to speak up. I guess that one is good at discerning the nature of people"
"You're really right. I owe it to that one to have me now. I have always believed that no one is more just and merciful than Master Yugdrasil."
"I see. Merciful, is it?"
"He's a great guy. Master Yugdrasil will guide you not only about adopted children like Charlotte, but also about those who drew them to the Chamber of Commerce and the Knight. Even when I don't know where he is anymore..."
shut his mouth like a stiff, and Barnabas swallows the words. Liddy wondered about it, but Barnabas changed the subject before asking.
"Speaking of splendid Jen, I'm sorry about your father - Lord Lloyd."
"You know my father?
"Yeah, I once considered expanding trade through Viola as a chamber of commerce, and that's when I met the Duke of Sheraford."
"Nah!? I mean, the Ist Chamber of Commerce and my father were meeting...?
"Yeah. Even so, it wasn't a formal meeting. I just let the other Chamber of Commerce people who are close to the Duke's house talk to me and let me have lunch with them once. It was about ten years ago."
He said he was someone who didn't tolerate being harsh and sweet, but thought he was the one who imposed it that way more on himself. Barnabas narrowed his eyes nostalgically to Liddy, who had lost her words to surprise.