It was on the afternoon of April 15th that Keene-Window of Sentier took 500 soldiers to visit Fortress Taural again.

On that day, the skies of the Taural region of the Kingdom of Abad were covered in leaded clouds, with signs that rain was still likely to fall. There was also strong wind momentum, some voices worried it would be a storm, and others whispered that it might be a foretaste of good things happening.

Fortress Taural is surrounded by some of Abad's most robust walls. The impact on the fortress itself will be small, as there is not a single possibility of collapsing in the storm and the strength of the building in the fortress is comparable to the walls of the castle. Most importantly, it is only possible for military installations, starting with the Taural fortress, and does not mean that the entire Taural region will be spared damage.

Sheila welcomed Keene-Window and his regiment as she prayed that there would be no storm. I don't really want to welcome you in. The Taural Fortress has come to fruition with a major stronghold of forces that no longer bisect Abad. The chief of the force is Sheila Lewe-Abbard, a gathering of those who celebrate her.

As Sheila, I didn't want to inspire any more of the royal palaces held by Prince Sayre. He has always stuck to the demands of the royal palace and ignored the order to appear. It is so irritating that it is too irritating. I wondered if it was only a matter of time before the Royal Palace certified Sheila as a rebel, and in fact, she felt with her skin that that kind of disturbing air enveloped all of Abad.

He could not even remain caged in the fortress's heavenly guard, and, as he did every day, went out to the training ground, crossing swords with soldiers and samurai, and sweating. While I was moving my body, I was left without. Only at that moment could Sheila be freed from the signs that entangled her destiny. But it doesn't last forever, such as training time. She couldn't even forgive me for falling out of exhaustion.

After some sweating, he was called by Lehnheil-Lars-Taural and his daughter Lena, and had to stop training.

Day and night, the situation in Abad is moving.

It was also in the midst of training that Keene-Window received a report of bringing soldiers. It was Larnheil who appeared in the report, and he seemed to have read her thoughts from Sheila's vague expression.

"It's okay, princess. We will protect the Princess's destiny."

That's not what I'm talking about.

"No. For me, that's what I mean."

"... larnheil"

"Yes?"

"What are you thinking?

I don't think it's a good idea. Instead, I felt like I was going to do something hell for Sheila, and she didn't care. Being unhappy with the people around you for your own sake is nothing more than unhappiness for Sheila.

Sheila tried to respond to the appearance order, too. If one of you is guilty, won't the people who gathered under her be acquitted?

It was a sweet idea.

Fighting by the forces that divide Abad is, so to speak, a power struggle. The eradication of the hostile forces is where you want them if you put them in charge of the royal palace, and for that you won't hate to shed blood.

"I'm just showing you the princess."

It was obvious that Lernheil had no two hearts. He is the kind of man who, exhausted by his struggle for power in the centre, has taken refuge in Taural. It's hard to imagine him using Sheila for his own ambitions while continuing to take a certain distance from the Royal Palace in his capacity as a collar uncle. If he had ambitions, Sheila would have hit her hand from a younger age. But he did nothing but engage Lena with Sheila.

I just kept watching Sheila and Lena.

"Right..."

Sheila avoided pursuing any further. It was more of a prerequisite to welcome Keene-Window than to explore Lernheil's thoughts.

Keene-Window is a celebrity of Sentier. Sentier's most powerful landlord, most of Sentier's land, was the property of the Window Clan. Sentier became Abad's territory also ends with the Window clan pledging allegiance to the Abad royal family and dedicating part of Sentier's land. Since then, the Abad royal family has benefited from the Window clan, and their voice in the Royal Palace has been much higher than that of the concomitant nobility. That's not quite enough to line up with Uncle Taural or General Double Angle, but it's also not something you can ignore. It was something Sheila didn't know why he supported Sheila like that and was hostile to the Sails.

That could be any other soldier, nobleman. It is not unclear that the General of the Beast Battle Regiment, who served in the Kruselk War and survived that arduous battle together, will be subordinated to Sheila. When they refused to enter the King's Capital, they were the ones on the spot, sympathetic to Sheila, and they were the ones who followed her so far. But those who started Keene-Window and joined Taural were not. With the will of Mizu, he rushes to this fortress and likes to deepen his rivalry with the royal palace. It was something Sheila couldn't understand, but she can't even trample on their thoughts.

"As soon as I heard Abad's army was assembling in Valter,"

Taking off her helmet in front of Sheila, Keene-Window had made her brilliant face all the tougher. When we reached the fortress, he was in military uniform. The objectivity as if on the road, taking into account the possibility that there is a battle, is understandable from what he said.

"I hear you're talking about General Double Tooth entering the Valter."

General Double Tooth, alongside General Double Horned, is the highest general position in the Aberd Army and, along with General Double Horned, forms Aberd's double perfection. Currently in the position of General Double Tooth is an old military man who heads the Civits family called Zayed-Hayne. He has had a bad break with Garan-Sidor and has bumped his opinions every time. And the conflict between the two opinions often bisects the Abad army itself, and at a time when Galan-Sidor made it clear that he was a Sheila, he could have no doubt whatsoever that Zayed-Hayne would flip the Sailor flag. Even if Zayd is always sympathetic to Sheila, he can't overshadow his hostility to Galan.

"The royal palace will no longer be patient."

But we don't have to work with Valter's army.

Sheila told him, Keane nodded with cool eyes.

"I know. Prepare and summon in case."

"... thank you"

Sheila knew Keane's statement was a fiction to cover up his thoughts. I knew it, but I didn't pursue it. We can't stop what they think when we pursue them.

Sheila couldn't help but feel the thin, bright despair under the sky where the storm was still likely to come.

The power gathered at the Taural fortress was about to reach six thousand.

Approximately half of Abad's military might have belonged to the Sheila faction. Half of them are numbers, except for the generals who scattered in the Kruselk war, and if they had lived, the Sheila generals would have made up the majority of the Abad army.

(So what?)

On the following sixteenth day, Sheila thought about her voice as she watched the Sheila generals conducting joint training at the training ground at the Taural Fortress. This many soldiers, generals, are gathering under an individual named Sheila Lewe-Abbard. You'd be happy to think about it normally. I suppose it would be a pleasure. But as things stand, there was no way we could be happy with their gathering.

Didn't their assembly harden the royal palace's attitude and cause things to get worse?

"I guess they're going to fight for the princess."

"Ha... you're making things worse for me"

"The royal palace will certify the princess as a traitor. No, it may already be branded a traitor"

"... I know that"

At a time when I did not respond to my appearance at the Royal Palace, I was prepared to do so. It's something you have to be prepared for. It can't be like staying in Taural without being prepared for anything. And the situation got worse, and the royal palace woke up the army. He's gathering soldiers in Valter and showing Taural the plot to attack him. That, and this, is caused by Sheila. This is what Sheila asked me to do.

However, just because Sheila appeared in the royal palace, I can't believe this didn't happen. If Sheila appeared in the royal palace and those who still named the Sheila faction continued to cage in Taural after some disposition, the royal palace would have flatly sent troops to Taural. The Sails, who own the Royal Palace, do not need to miss the opportunity to eradicate the Shiraz. It will bear some sin, as it did to Sheila, and it will attack and destroy. Because I know that, Sheila didn't blame herself for what she did.

"But starting a civil unrest is another story. I didn't mean it like that."

"Yes, but it's impossible for a princess to stop them, which has grown so far. For the princess, for the restoration of the princess, and every day, they have intensified their rebellion against the royal palace. It would be counterproductive to deceive them more than the Royal Palace is waging an army and rallying its forces in the Valter."

"Well, what am I supposed to do?"

As it stands, the Abad Regular Army gathered in Valter and the Sheila Army gathered in Taural will clash and there will be a great deal of blood between the two armies. Neither will do anything out of hand. I can understand that, too. The Sheilas will hit the Abad Regular Army with all their dignity, and the Abad Regular Army will also do its utmost to crack down on the rebels.

I don't see any more victories or losses than the two armies clash with all their might. The Sheilas have the Sydney Mercenaries, but the Abad Regular Army has the Court Arts Division. The courtroom art division, in which Serene-Sidor ran to its establishment, had become more connected with the Sails, something that Serene had given up the seat of its commander to his disciples, and as a result his participation in the Kruselk war had been dropped off. Even Aberd said it was the highest group of fighters. With that in mind, the possibility also emerges that the Sails were leaping from that time. Whether the Kruselk war ends with a coalition victory or a defeat, it will be more convenient for the Sails.

"Let them fight."

"What?"

"They are just fools who think only of themselves. It will be true that you guide and sympathize with the princess, but only a handful understand her will. There's nothing more to them than making them do whatever they want than that handful of understanders don't have a say."

"That's right..."

"They will fight and lose Valter's army. That's fine. If you lose and die, the fool is not gone. We can stop the evil from Abard."

"Does that mean letting the royal palace win?

When Sheila asked, he nodded quietly.

"They are the ones trying to make a fight for themselves in hopes for the princess. There's no need for a princess to break her heart for them like that. Neither can the princess think of herself."

"But the royal palace won't let go of the attack even if Taural tries to perish as long as I'm around."

"Yeah, but don't worry. I have the means to save the princess."

"The means to save me..."

To the intense will lurking behind Lernheil's serene expression, Sheila learned more about chest noise than she was impressed.