Border Guardian Hal Akircius

Cilentium Administration Building/Office

Before Hull were gathered those who stood in Silentium.

On the desk placed in the center of the office, Hal on his head.

Secretary of Administration Sittius

Alchiando, the chief of Almar.

Hellionel on the neighborhood delegate Raysink.

Adamantius, Mayor of Colonia Meridieto

Petra Suidella, Mayor of Colonia Fellum

Fredia Castle Cost Bergan

Sheriff Lucius.

Dormitory Secretary Dresines

Urban Defense Captain Quintus

El Laicia, Grand Cleric of the Temple of the Sun

is seated.

Counsellor Altrius is blurry floating a little behind Hull, but no one is surprised now.

It is no exaggeration to say that those gathered here are now moving the northern border with Cilentium.

Where everyone was seated, Sittius, the host, stood up and slowly opened his mouth.

"We will now hold a meeting on the governance policy of the Cilentium... first of all, on the marriage of His Highness Chief Administrator Akircius..."

"Wait a minute!

"What is it?

When Hal rushes to put an end to it, Sittius responds with an empty voice.

"Well, I don't think that's something we're going to discuss here..."

"That's not true, this is important to my Cilentium.

"... Really?

"That's right.

Sittius clearly told me that Hal looked around to ask for help, but it soon became clear that all those who were in that seat were Hal's enemies on the matter.

Those who pretend to be calm but have a mouth on them, those who are obviously looking at this one with a slight grin, those who are looking at this one with an interesting face, yeah, and those who are sympathetically nodding for some reason, etc...

Only Ellesia stares at Hal with a real smile.

"... are you sure?

"Go ahead..."

When Sittius anticipated how Hull was doing and spoke in perfect time, Hull gave up and said so.

Sittius goes on to snort satisfactorily when he gets Hal's consent.

"Then... it is by no means an exaggeration that I said earlier that the marriage of Lord Akircius is important. It is quite important in the sense of preventing future prospective negotiators, leading empires and, at the end of the day, marriage measures from foreign countries. Fortunately, there is no system of polygamy in the Empire, so if you marry Lord Erlacia here, you will at least be able to prevent it from being taken in by marriage from forces within the Empire.

"But... how about foreign countries?

"That's the problem.

To Adamantius' words, Sittius takes the material a little thinner than usual and answers with it.

"Siluha and Dongzhao may be allowed to have a large number of wives in persons of high social standing. It also seems that the people of Cliffonam and Oran often have concubines.

"Yeah, there are already moves like that... but the chiefs are just boiling business for the lack of movement in the Border Guardian, despite all the explosions, if we announce our marriage to Lord Erlacia, it will subside.

When Raisink and Helionel nodded bitterly at Archiando's remarks, Sittius took over the words.

"If you are married, it is possible to thrust against the customs of empires even against foreign countries. So it matters. So depending on the ceremony and the daylight..."

"Chi, wait a minute!

"What is it?

When Hal interrupted the flow of the story earlier with the exact same verbal intercession, he questioned it in such a manner as fear.

"I just realized... how do you guys know that... you signed up?

"The Advisor told you, didn't he talk to you or something?

"... I shouldn't have told anyone that.

Hull snaps as he contemplates to Sittius, who answers naturally, but when he thinks about it and looks back in momentum, there was Altrius already pointing in the direction of the day after tomorrow.

'... I dare you to take the slander of peeping.

Altrius answers, armed with the direction facing the day after tomorrow.

Is Hal the reason or not for the warm cheers and gaze of citizens and officials over the past few days? There was a point in resentment.

"... predecessor..."

Not even responding to Hal's condemned call, Altrius is silently looking in the direction of the day after tomorrow.

"May I?

"... yes.

To Sittius' words, Hal gave up pursuit and turned back to his seat.

It hurts my gaze to see everyone's self...

If you do poorly, they may even be listening everywhere to the words you said to El Laicia.

I couldn't even see Ellesia's face with a smile and a full smile from the lights, and Hal dropped his eyes on the paper marked according to the schedule and ceremony that Sittius began to distribute.

When he finishes distributing that paper to everyone, Sittius slowly utters the word.

"... the table we have handed out to you will be executed in conjunction with this ceremony for the signing of the Cilentium Alliance, including the wedding of Lord Achilcius. Automatically move to the wedding as soon as you complete the alliance signing ceremony. It doesn't change the appearance of the attendees... but one person may have difficulty coming as a guest.

"Difficult, is it?

When Hal looked up, Sittius nodded.

"Yes, there was a man in my state governorship who now works in Imperial Capital, and the information from him is that there is one royal family of things that has not yet been officially decided to come to this Cilentium as an inspector. Up for that candidacy is His Highness" the ”Julianus.

"... His Royal Highness the Odd..."

The odd thing Adamantius leaked pompously, Your Highness. Julianus is in his late twenties, the adopted son of Emperor Magnus.

His father is His Highness Julius, nephew of Emperor Magnus, whose siblings have two sisters and one brother and one sister at a time.

Julianus has been treated as a snuff by the royals and nobles for behaving like royalty, while he is very popular with citizens, soldiers and junior officials.

(i) Not only did he get mixed up with a soldier and undergo military training, but he went straight on a pirate crusade, and he hid his identity from a merchant in the city well and apprenticed him, saying he had worked for several months.

It is a recent event that a few people appeared flustered in the tavern in Teito to eat and drink, and hit a aristocratic carriage on the way to a drunken citation and got into fights, but countless similar events in the past.

The reputation of the people who live in the Emperor's Palace is rather unfavourable because it will be the feather of considerable mobilization of personnel from the Emperor's Palace in order to secretly search for the missing royal family each time.

He is one of the royal families who, although ranked high in the succession to the throne, is regarded as unrelated to the dispute that he said so, whether he is unwilling to do so much in person or because of his strange behavior.

"Politically, I am always defiant of the measures of the Magnus Emperor, I am a central official in one way or another of thinking, but it does not mean that the faction is responsible just for saying that the ideas match. Rather, we are distancing ourselves from Lord Cassius, the current consul. If you were appointed inspector, it would be an obvious troublesome payment by the emperor.

With the pepper and the material, Sittius so disconnected.

Since childhood was reputed to be proficient, the emperor Magnus, without a son, asked Julius to adopt him, but as it took longer, he behaved strangely, and now rumors are that the emperor Magnus is also distressed by his treatment.

The words of Sittius are so spicy that they do not seem to be directed at the royal family, but Hal also accidentally spilled them, precisely because they are candidates who have no other intention of expressing themselves.

"If you're coming, you can't help it..."

"Perhaps a notification will come from the Empire soon. Including that date... may I say today, once and for all, that this Cilentium policy... I would like to hear Lord Achillus's thoughts on the future. Because that depends on future measures, responses to empires, and responses to foreign countries.

When Sittius said so, all those present watched Hal again.

Hal takes a breath under everyone's gaze, looks at Ellesia and then slowly opens his mouth.

"... well, I'm lost, too, and I have to talk to you.

"So?"

"Yes, I intend to eventually launch a“ Northern Union ”on this land.

"Northern Union?

To unfamiliar words, Arkiando asks.

"Yes, it is a new country on the northern border that has developed the current Cilentium Alliance and has Cilentium as its capital. For the time being, I think it will be a country where tribal and urban societies mix, but while we incorporate the system of empires, we want to strive for a form that abolishes the evils of empires.

"It's... what do we do with the empire?

When Petra went on to ask the question, Hal nodded and answered one.

"As I said earlier, we're going to continue to incorporate the system and the good parts of the empire, so we're not going to be hostile at all, and we're going to make a deal. Besides, this northern border is not the official territory of the Empire, so it doesn't cut off the territory of the Empire and make it independent, so if it works, you would also think that one of the more belongs to the Empire without a lead. Originally, I was given nothing by the Empire after being left.

"I miss being a left-handed official!

To Hull's words, when Altrius, who was back at some point, laughed, Hull also smiled and mischievously continued the words.

"Especially since Mr. Adamantius and the Empire soldiers only received 5,000, this is like the cost of replacing the border guards on the northern border. I won't go inside what I got.

"Um, you can all resign and rehire Silentium once you've done anything.

Yeah, nodding. When Adamantius said, Sittius spoke while writing on the dossier at all times rarely.

"I see... any time you want to be independent.

"Yeah, we want to have as friendly a relationship as possible with our neighbors and nations.

"As good as the East Photo Empire, the Kingdom of Siluha is hostile to the Empire, right?

Hal turns to Lucius, who asks questions of his own words, and speaks the answer.

"No problem, I can rather work as an intermediary and sell favors to both sides.

"... well, then Cilentium and Empire are another country!

roared as Lucius was impressed.

"So, consultation... it's that inspector that's the problem. If possible, I'd like you to delay coming to Cilentium, but can't you do something about it?

Sittius stopped the brush perfectly to react to Hal's words.

"... that you don't want me to participate in the signing ceremony of the alliance?

"That's what I'm saying, I don't like it when you think the Empire's breath hangs, and if you let in the Imperial royal family in the first place, it might change the meaning to the alliance between the Empire and each tribe.

'Even if there is no intention to do so, there will be especially many who misinterpret it.

Altrius is right, complementing Hal's words, that forces negative to the Empire's Cilentium could probably be so perverted and manipulated.

Sittius opened his mouth as he made some writing on another dossier.

"Okay, well, let's speed up the alliance signing ceremony and the wedding. In the unlikely event that you come early, under the authority of Mayor Adamantius, you will be asked to stop at Colonia Meridieto.

"I don't even make that much. Let's hold back for days.

After the adjourned meeting, Sittius and Lucius remain in the office.

Sittius, who remained in his seat, asked gradually.

"What is a story?

"It's a good idea to have a policy of independence, but I want to consider how citizens react by doing so. Human beings in our administration, perhaps not a problem, are worried about the mood of those who have migrated from the empire, regardless of Cliffonam or Oran people.

"... it's true that the Northern Union is going to abandon its homeland. But..."

Lucius says it in a slightly more serious way than usual to Hal's words, but at the end of the day it clouds the words.

Until then, when the Cilentium, which had been operating as part of the Empire, became independent of the Empire, the migrants from the Empire would be cut off from their homeland.

Hal remembered his sense of loss and loneliness when he made up his mind not to return to his hometown, and worried that the citizens of Cilentium would taste the same feeling.

When we achieve independence, we want to avoid situations where upset spreads to the citizens of Cilentium.

If relations with the Empire are good, that feeling will be somewhat alleviated, but that anxiety could explode in the unlikely event that we find ourselves in a situation where we can interact with the Empire.

"All veterans will have some heart, except when it comes to being that family, and there must be a lot of people who have left their families and relatives in the empire.

"Sure, it's definitely a difficult issue, but the only way to solve this is to have each of you change your mind... well, let's talk through the delegates to the Veterans Association and citizens from the Cilentium-based empire. Still, I don't think the citizens will ever leave this Cilentium.

To Hal's words, Sittius sees Lucius as he says so.

As Hal looked at the two men in a surprised face, Lucius raised one hand to answer Sittius' gaze and began to talk hard as he turned back to Hal.

"I was just spouting you... well, you bet! Because there's no other city that's comfortable and easy to live in. The food is fresh, savory, the water is beautiful and clean. The city is clean. There are no great military men, officials, nobles, and taxes are cheap. It's safe, it's developmental, it's still there, right? This is the voice of the citizens I've been patrolling and picking up, and I don't hear much bad talk about the city.

"And that's what I'm saying. I think Lord Akircius could be a little more confident. This Cilentium is already made up of different elements than any other imperial city. There will be a little upset, but according to our standpoint, even if we proclaim independence tomorrow, there will not be much confusion.

To Lucius and Sittius's explanation, Hal sank deeply into the chair with clapping thoughts.

"Really..."

Apparently, Hal's worries are going to end in worry.