"You think it's an application of national treason?

"Yes, it would be proof that the Royal Palace recognizes us as obscure beings."

According to Lernheil, the Royal Palace has begun to apply national treason to those who gather at the Taural Fortress and list the Sheilas. In other words, as warned by the royal palace, those who do not leave the Taural fortress will be disposed of as rebels to the royal family.

"Ha... no kidding"

Sheila was stunned to notice that her position was getting worse by the day. Neither that nor this is laughable because my popularity within Abard is the biggest factor. It means that if Sheila wasn't popular, she wouldn't have been in this situation. In the first place, if Sheila didn't even have hope, it couldn't have boiled down to Queen's Waiting Theory or anything like that, and the Sailors wouldn't have put it on their teeth.

What Sheila didn't even ask for herself is strangling her.

"Disband the Sheila faction. Disband me."

Sheila is fine, Larnheil arranged it that way too, but as warned by the royal palace, none left the Taural fortress. None of the soldiers, including General Double Corner, left Taural among the nobles. Rather, it is the beginning and end of condemning the royal palace's modus operandi and increasing the bondage.

"Why...! Why won't anybody let me go?"

Sheila exclaimed when she heard the Lernheil report. Isn't that the kind of problem you'd solve if you let Sheila go? Who does not seek Sheila alone, and if she does not want, can she return to the king's capital and to the royal palace? Can we go back to our original lives?

"Everybody likes princesses. They can't forgive themselves for abandoning the princess's predicament and returning to their original lives."

"I'm always happy about that... I'm not happy in this situation. Why would you be a traitor for me..."

Beyond issuing a warning, the Royal Palace will act as it should. Five thousand soldiers and hundreds of nobles gathered in the Taural fortress will be branded rebels to the Abad royal family. That is to say, it is no exaggeration to say that it marks the end of life in Abad. They're gonna ruin their lives from scratch.

"There's a point in their opinion, too"

"What..."

"Even if they leave the land, there will be no change in the princess's condition."

"It won't get any worse."

"I don't know about that either."

Lernheil's eyes were, as usual, calm and moderate in tone itself, but maybe that's why they make him recognize reality.

"The royal palace won't shut up and overlook the princess's popularity any more than it turns out that popularity is enough to bisect Abard. If the force is lost from Taural, the pursuit could be more intense and harsh"

"... why not? Why?"

Why should I fit such an eye?

Sheila's been thinking about it all this time. What was a mistake and what was a failure? How much have you achieved in Kruselk? Have you increased Abard's territory? Did you join the coalition? Did you attend King Gandhia's wedding? Have you been so active that you are called by the two names of the Beast Princess? Did you find yourself in the fight? That you couldn't be a princess? You couldn't be a prince? That you couldn't fulfill your parents' wishes? That you were born as a woman?

That you were born?

Sheila's despair extends to denying herself.

April 9.

Things surrounding Sheila only got worse.

Sheila admitted, through her eyes in a letter that the Royal Palace had sent to her, that her eyes were dimmed. The letter slips off my hand in the sense that everything falls into the dark darkness.

(It's over. Everything, it's over)

She was in despair. Hope was lost. Her small desire to return to the Wang capital, to return to the royal palace and just taste the peace was turned down by something she could not help herself: Sheila's popularity.

"Order to appear...?

I guess I picked up the letter. I heard Lena crunching in dismay.

"What do you mean? Isn't it a mistake to order your return to the King's capital?

Looks like Wellis stuffed Lena, but Sheila couldn't afford to just look at their faces. Strength is falling out of my whole body, and my blood is drawing. My feet fluttered in such a state that I could not even stand. It collapses. I butted on the floor, but I didn't feel any pain. More shocks seemed to be paralyzing all the senses.

"Princess!?

"Are you a fighter?!?

Lena and Wellis support both sides of Sheila, but she didn't respond to anything. I should say I couldn't react.

The letter from the Royal Palace contained an appearance order to Sheila, as Lena snapped. It's not a return order, it's an appearance order. If you are not tired of just caging in the Taural fortress, rumors are circulating that you are gathering anti-government forces and fanning anti-government movements, and it is the intention of the letter to appear in the Royal Palace for its interpretation. Of course, there is no way Sheila is gathering anti-government forces without information that such rumors are circulating.

There is no story of treason being applied to those gathered in Taural, nor, so far, how it has been transferred to execution. In short, the only action ahead of the Royal Palace was a threat to dissolve the Sheila faction of Taural.

but this time it won't be.

Sheila admitted, in despair. The order to appear is genuine. The King's Seal had been stamped as proof that it was an official document and was officially issued by the Royal Palace. In other words, King Liserg, Sheila's fruit father, recognized it.

"I see. The royal palace seems to have decided to put the princess in rebellion and publicly dispose of her."

"Father, what are you calmly analyzing"

"Always calm down. That's my teaching, Lena."

"I know. I know..."

"If you look in the princess's chest, you also don't know you want to be emotional. But it is only at times like this that we must not lose sight of our calm. If you calm down, you can see the light."

"Light......?

Sheila looked up slowly. It looked like Lernheil was facing Lena with the letter in his hand. Parents and children alike. Not only does it look like it, but it also has a very similar personality and heart. You look just like you're going to do all you can for Sheila. Ever since I left Wang Capital, I have never thought about how much my heart was saved by the two beings. With the two of us there, I could say that she didn't have to lose sight of herself until today because they always supported Sheila.

Sheila thanked Taural parents and children from the bottom of her heart. Still, not all of that opinion can be accepted.

"There's no such thing as light."

"Princess......"

Lena was looking at me with pity. The expression that seems to cry right now should not seem like a mirror copy. Sheila must look like that, too. Stand up slowly. Wellis tried to support me, but I said no. You have to stand on your own feet. Otherwise, I can't make decisions.

(Decisions......?

Shake your head in your chest. This is an escape. It is nothing more than an act of turning away from reality. But she couldn't see any other way.

Sheila was tired.

"I wonder if it would make it easier if I showed up"

"Princess, what are you asking me?"

"Maybe you'll listen to me"

"It's not like there's any possibility, but it can't be."

"You don't know, really, maybe you just set up a place for explanations"

Sheila went with the thought of straw. Even a place to explain, as long as you have the opportunity, you will be able to stretch your chest that you are clean. Sheila hasn't committed any sins so far. That's not that her memory is conveniently twisted or anything. And a small sin.

If being caged in a taural is a sin, I can't help it.

"Let me go to King's Landing."

"Princess......"

"To the king's capital."

Sheila was unconsciously heading for the entrance and exit of the room. If I don't get dressed, I'm not traveling. Wearing clothes, I was going to head to the King's Capital.

"I won't."

It was Wellis who stood on Sheila's path. She felt like she was going to be on the wall with her arms wide open. It's a luxury wall. If Sheila's power is strong, she's weak enough to be able to smash it unconsciously. But Sheila had to stop. I'm no match for Wellis.

"Why are you stopping... if you want to follow the royal fate first..."

"Usually, yes. But if the princess's destiny is at stake, it's different."

Wellis looked to Sheila with a resolute expression. Strong will, readiness was there.

"I, Wellis-Quid, must raise the princess to be a fine woman. Because that is the mission entrusted to His Majesty. A mission from Your Majesty should take precedence over anything else"

"What the hell... I couldn't be a fine woman, that's all."

I was raised as a man. I don't think it's your word that you've just acquired feminine behavior in the last eight years.

It took too long to live like a man to live like a woman. Of course, that time could be reversed from now on. but you have to live for it too. To live as a princess, you must return to the king's capital, explain to the royal palace, and be recognized as innocent.

We must give priority above all to the return to the King's capital.

"No. To the princess, you will be a fine woman. You have to be the best woman in the world who can be proud of her elegance and grace."

"That's... that's fine when you get back to King's Capital."

"No. If we return to the King's capital now, we will only be made as the nobles of His Royal Highness the Prince wish. As much as I know what they're thinking, I know. They will try to make the princess deceased."

"Wellis......"

Sheila was struck by Wellis' enthusiasm and lost her words. It seems more right about her, also because Sheila herself, thought so. It is nothing but a hopeful observation that if we return to the Wang capital, there will be an opportunity for clarification. Think about the actions the Royal Palace has taken so far and you'll see.

If you were to order them to appear for clarification, you would have ordered them when Sheila and the others first returned to the king's capital. I mean, at first, all I thought about was just getting rid of it from the king's capital. I guess people gathered in Taural and the public's increased sympathy for Sheila made it impossible to pass up. The royal palace kept figuring out how to get rid of Sheila.

If you think that the result is an order to appear in the Wang capital, Tsuji fits.

"Princess, please, reconsider. Do not obey the Royal Palace's orders to appear here, even to strive for the best woman with me."

"Master Wellis is right. There is no need for a princess to go to the King's Capital. If you need clarification, you should visit Taural from the other side. There is no such thing as obnoxious to the princess or to the taural."

Lena has also been strong. The pride and decency of being the daughter of Uncle Taural is manifested in the words.

"Lena......"

"Besides, no matter how much the princess says she wants to go to the king's capital, there's nothing she can do without a horse, right?

Lena smiled and glanced at Larnheil.

"There are no horses to King's Capital in Taural. Hey, Father?

"Lena is right. My horse to King's Capital in Taural has been paying for it for a few days now, and we have no prospect of returning."

"Lernheil... Until you..."

Of course, Sheila knows as much as it's just convenient. We also know that the soldiers of Lehnheil are constantly coming and going between the King's capital and Taural. The best way to get information about Wang Du is to get close to Wang Du. When I find out that Uncle Taural is the most private soldier, I will not be able to enter the Wang capital, so I appear to be disguising myself when entering. Either way, the absence of a horse to the King's Capital is an undisputed lie and is just a word to stop Sheila.

But that's why Sheila has to change her mind.

"Ok...... my loss"

Sheila told me the look on Wellis and Lena's face lightened up as soon as possible.

"I'm not going to King's Landing."

"That's right, that's fine. I need the princess alive. Someday you'll be a woman that everyone will envy."

"Then let me not write a poem."

"Yeah, definitely..."

Looking sideways at the two people who knew each other, Sheila scratched her head and looked up at Lernheil.

"Is this okay?

"It's okay. Now. We have relied on the scattered princess to date. Now it's our turn to rely on the princess. We know what we can do, but we will never end the princess's life."

Nothing was more comforting than the words of Lehnheil Lars-Taural.