usurper. - The word cast a shadow of anxiety on the people gathered in the hall, like a stain that crept across the white cloth.
As everyone sips and watches what happens, only the two characters move modestly to keep an eye out. Alberto, a Sutherland servant, and Clovis, an aide. First Alberto rushes to Liddy, then Clovis walks over to Alicia.
As the brunette aide stood in front of Alicia, she put her hands on her chest and drooled her head.
"I apologize for being late, Master Alicia. Are you all right?
"I guess...... You've made a fancy appearance."
To Alicia, who accidentally said so, Clovis smiles back small. Then he gently leaned his brilliant face towards Alicia's ear.
"Excuse me. I have exchanged arrangements with Emperor Elizabeth that cross my realm. - Will you believe me?
"Yes, of course," immediately, Alicia whispered back. "I believe in you at all times. So just do what you want."
Thanks. A low, clear voice echoes in my ear with slight sweetness. Clovis slowly let her body off Alicia and sent a glimpse to the queen who waited quietly on the horse.
That was the signal, and the Empress got off the black horse. With every step she takes, people make a broken path to the left and right. With his sword in his hand, Emperor Elizabeth heads straight for sandalwood.
As she goes up the stairs, she stands in front of a frizz that strengthens her expression.
"… usurper. Do you call me that?"
He opens his dark green eyes, very similar to his mother's, and Fritz asks the Empress with a trembling voice. At the next moment he distorted his expression and shouted as he was ready.
"Oh, yeah. I took the crown from you. But I, with my hands, have this country......!
"Shut up."
With unspeakable strength, the empress blocks the prince. The queen continued looking at the fritz, who accidentally swallowed the words, coldly.
"Get out of the way, Fritz. There's nothing I can do for you.... out of the way."
"Become..."
Pushing the lost prince lightly with a sheath, the empress stops on her feet in front of Prime Minister Yugdrasil, the person who was further behind it. And proclaimed clearly with a voice that resonated throughout the hall.
"Capture this man. Chancellor Eric Yugdrasil. This is the rebel who poisoned and took the crown."
A near screaming twist spread among the nobles. No way. It can't be. Isn't that some kind of mistake? There was clearly such suspicion in people's faces, but no one can speak up in grandeur to the accusations of an empress who is nothing else.
In the meantime, the Chancellor looked at the Empress with some surprised look, followed by Clovis. - And he seems to have noticed. A terribly great emperor and a young aide full of talent. The two have already agreed to put it all together as a single Yugdrasil sin.
At that time, for the first time, there was anger in Yugdrasil's eyes. A gentle, serene, but occasionally somewhere lonely, look reminiscent of the sea at night. Now he was throwing it away and showing in his eyes the fierce, burning fury in his chest.
"Is that your answer"
Yugdrasil throws up and throws up in a voice that no one gathers on this occasion has ever heard. The prime minister goes on without surprised people's eyes or anything.
"That's really boring. Is that the answer of Empress Elizabeth? For the sake of the prosperity of the Empire, you will have a callous and ruthless hand in plain sight. Now, like a normal human being, sheltering a child, etc. …………………"
"Take refuge? Well, you seem to be mistaken."
Kuku raised an eyebrow and the empress shook her head small.
"No one has ever been able to shelter the innocent since the beginning."
He eats up his teeth and Yugdrasil tries to take a step toward the Empress. But that didn't happen. Because two Aardhar soldiers quickly captured Yugdrasil and made him kneel on the spot.
Looking down at it with an emotionless eye, the Empress pulled out her sword and threw away her sheath. When the immobile Prime Minister's neck was accompanied by a cold blade, a scream arose among the female officers.
The Empress continues to chill everywhere as the "confess" venue becomes noisy. "Before the stars of heaven and the wise men of the earth, confess your sins. That way, I won't take it to my life."
All sins. Those who can accurately capture its meaning are quite limited. But the few - some of them, naturally, Alicia - understood correctly that the Empress had ordered Yugdrasil to bear all the sins of Fritz alone.
But Yugdrasil laughed when he heard it. With hate and anger in its eyes, it was a grin that I would only try to describe as spectacular.
"If you think that's going to be a threat, you're stupid. If you want to kill me, you can kill me. Oh, yeah. You should sift your sword now. - If you want to protect him."
As she explores sincerity, the empress narrows her eyes. Without answering it directly, Yugdrasil turned his face to those who stood up against the hand that restrained themselves, as it had been in gold bondage.
"Look at me."
Charlotte's shoulder trembled when she was right near Alicia, to Yugdrasil, who raised her voice. At the tip of her gaze holding her hands together so white that she was left with a cold blade around her neck, Yugdrasil threw her gaze sharply at the crowd.
"I'm going to die here today. But pride will not be scorned for the loss of blood. They open their eyes, they clear their ears, they see. And the truth… you will carve into your hearts who should truly be judged."
In the last part, Yugdrasil turned his eyes to Fritz. He was a prince who had been dismayed since he was not dealt by the Empress, but was shot out by the gaze of the Chancellor and slightly humbled.
That was enough. There are many admirers not only of the nobility of the Senate, but also of the prime minister Yugdrasil within Aerdar. The usual trust, and the appearance of the Prime Minister, who persisted in perseverance, even if rebelled by the Empress, strongly upset the nobles.
If we execute him here, the nobles will think. The Empress was guilty of innocence and executed Yugdrasil, the proximity of one side and the spiritual pillar of the nobles. If they believed that, everyone's heart would leave the Empress at once. She's originally a strong rebellion from the conservative class. For what I have been suppressing with my strength, my dissatisfaction swells at once, and I even risk the country falling in the true sense of the word.
If, on the other hand, we let the Chancellor live, the empress's wish to protect Prince Fritz will not be fulfilled. Yugdrasil discerned the Empress's intentions and then refused. In the judgment to be held any day, he will surely accuse the prince.
After perhaps understanding them, Emperor Elizabeth did not move for a while. Slightly, she murmured lightly, with a voice only heard by one Yugdrasil.
"The rest of the loss, Yugdrasil. That made the rest just a woman, and made her even more demeaning. Brilliant.... but ahead of this defeat, the rest will always win. You should see it in the afterlife."
Who was it that screamed?
The Empress waves up her sword with strength in her golden patterned hands. A polished sharp tip emits a silver dull glow in the light of the sun as it plunges through a high window.
The sound of cutting the wind echoed, and the impassioned body crushed the ground with momentum intact.
"... both of you, stay out of the way"
On the low voices that echoed, people accidentally raised their faces down.
They first looked at Clovis' back, who stood trying to lean against the Empress. His hands are attached to the arms of the empress with the sword, and because of his inhibition, the blade is swung down to a completely different place than where it was intended.
Furthermore, people saw a red-haired girl hanging on to shelter, turning her hand around the neck of Chancellor Yugdrasil, strangled with wings from both sides.
"... Charlotte, stay away"
He was a prime minister with eyes open to surprise, but somewhat, he stuck to his daughter perfectly and didn't try to leave. But she shook her head like she hated it.
"Charlotte. Listen to me."
"... I don't like it"
"Charlotte,"
"If you don't like it, I don't like it."
The girl's voice, which screamed, was wet in tears.
A number of large droplets fall from her eyes, passing on her cheeks and dampening around the Chancellor's shoulders. Another raised his voice to Yugdrasil, who bewildered him about it.
"Why don't you stop around there already?
Thus, it was Barnabas McGregor, Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce of Ist. Taking a step forward from one of his companions who had come aboard with him, he looked to the Chancellor with a complex expression.
"Whatever you're up to - the truth is, whatever you were thinking in your belly, you're a dear father to her, a benefactor. Neither do I.... don't let us down any more"
The soldiers worried about whether Charlotte should be removed from the prime minister. Normally, the intruder should be eliminated promptly, but the empress is hard pressed to move on to the next action while being stopped by an adjunct from a neighbouring country.
That's when Alicia moved. As the mansion broke, Princess Blue Rose of Heilland went up to Sandalwood and stood next to the Empress. And first he exchanged two or three words with the empress like a representative of the kingdom, and thanked the lady. Then, further to the earlier confusion, the prince had left his hand to drop, picking up a pledge six years earlier and turning once again to the Chancellor.
"Chancellor Yugdrasil. Correct what you just said and accuse you once again"
Sticking to Charlotte, the Chancellor slowly raised his face. There, there was no calm grin that he always had, but also no enthusiasm that he had shown earlier. However, to Yugdrasil, who looked straight up at herself, Alicia offered a pledge.
"This pledge was not made between me and you. This is what you tied with Lloyd Sutherland, lord of the former Duke of Shefford. Right."
Yugdrasil does not answer. No, I couldn't answer. As soon as he opened his mouth to something, Charlotte's arm clinging to herself became stronger, causing him to hesitate to reply.
Alicia, on the other hand, wasn't asking in anticipation of a response either. Looking down at Yugdrasil creasing between her brows with her lips thinly open, she continues quietly.
"Your purpose is the founding of a united empire. To that end, he tried to exacerbate relations between our country and Aaldar and lead them to war. But six years ago, that attempt failed once. So you ended up with two people leading to you. One is Lloyd Sutherland. And the other is Adam Fisher.... Lloyd's son, Liddy, found out."
Among the people watching the two exchanges, Liddy bit her lips off all the time and held her hand hard. Robert slapped him gently on the shoulder like that, without moving his gaze toward Sandalwood.
"You warned Liddy, who approached the truth indefinitely. In a hurry you poisoned His Majesty and tailored him to his killer. … this is the truth of a series of noises."
After saying it, Alicia succumbed to the occasion and gazed at Yugdrasil. And I asked.
"Why did you do this?
The Empress's brow, staring down at the two of them in silence, moves perfectly. It was well conveyed that the Empress had told me what she would do if she asked me to be stupid and honest about that, even if I didn't say it to her. Still, Alicia went on without worrying.
"You're the smart one. They are also highly desirable and admired by everyone.... I don't think everything about you was a lie. If it wasn't for you, you would have been a great trader."
"… - Yes, it could have been"
With a faint voice, Yugdrasil finally answered. Yugdrasil distorted her expression as she tried to keep herself with her daughter, who still wouldn't leave me.
"Yeah, that's right. I can no longer be called an exchanger. But I don't care about that stuff. Do not think of a man's life as much as a bug, and kill those who are in the way with ease. Such a king, and a foolish people admiring the king, were all abominable. - So I took an oath. I'll cover anything she truncates to be unnecessary. That's how the empress, who wants to praise everyone for being great, says it's not enough to take - make sure to prove with this hand that she's worthless in the glory she builds...!
"That's a crappy reason."
For a moment, the Heillanders - even Clovis - doubted their ears. Because so chilly, Alicia's voice sounded. Meanwhile, the just-cuttled prime minister once again burned his anger in his eyes.
"He said it was crap... To you, my what!?"
"I don't know, and I don't want to know."
Saying it off, Alicia stares at the Chancellor.
"Who the hell are you talking about? Easily abolish those who take people's lives lightly and disturb them. Should I give that word back exactly as it was?
"That's... eh"
"Shame on yourself, Yugdrasil. And I hope you regret it."
Standing up softly, Alicia looks down at Yugdrasil. And proclaimed everywhere with a noble, ringing voice.
"For your solitary righteousness, I will not allow you to harm the people. Never, never let anything happen to you as you wish. I will deny you again and again for the sake of the people I serve!
Yugdrasil's eyes are slightly opened.
To the people, to serve... He was rebelling against the word.
The figure of the young princess, who dwells in her eyes a hot and burning belief and forcefully proclaims, is blue and dazzling. The purity of youth makes denial easy. But there's something she doesn't want to do.
After a while of thinking, oh well, Yugdrasil convinced me. Knowing more, she was sincere to the people, not only to the Empress, but also to Emperor Elizabeth, with the sagginess of diving through the whirling storms of the Magic.
I've always hated Elizabeth. He deceived me. It's your fault. The final cry of those who disappeared by her echoed many times in the darkness at night. Each time he cursed himself helpless, apologized to the dead, and vowed vengeance on his friend, who entrusted his wishes to him.
But somewhere in my heart, I recognized her as an excellent monarch. There were numerous things that haunted my head, whether it would pass with too radical a policy in force or not listening to the opinions of the opposition, but I thought it was purely admirable not to hit the solid axis of the development of the Aaldar Empire.
Everything is beneficial to the Empire or not. That criterion of judgment makes her make ruthless decisions that sometimes lack humane warmth.
I knew it. Elizabeth tried to get out of Yugdrasil, not lie. I put the future of the Empire and my feelings as a person on the scale, and then I chose them.
But if you admit it - if you give up that you had no choice, who will mourn those who died? Who will mourn the end of Raven?
It was myself, no other, who decided and cursed me that way.
"… - The fool, is it me?"
Pompous and groaning, the Chancellor drips.
Then he whispered something to Charlotte, who was nodding his face around his shoulder. She must have felt my father's change, too. Now when she left honestly, the Chancellor turned his face to Emperor Elizabeth.
Admit your sins by (...) be (...). Looking up at the Empress, Yugdrasil told her so.
One of those words also dropped one end to the battle of a girl who was given a new life.