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Episode 10: To the Empire City
The next morning, someone came from the other side who wanted to meet me as I was walking down the city boulevard with Silvia and Melissa.
"Good Morning"
It was Mr. Cattleya who was next to Rio who showed up.
Plus a blue-haired woman with sharp eyes with glasses who was tapping a man to the floor in a liquor store and a tall gray-haired woman in a Sister outfit stood together.
"Good morning. Does the fact that Mr. Cattleya is here mean Mr. Cattleya will take you to the Imperial City?
"Yes, this time, I will let you see what happens at the bottom of the labyrinth. Before you do that, you introduce yourself. This kid's name is Nanaka, and this kid is the button."
The blue-haired child is Nanaka.
The gray-haired kid is the button.
"... Nanaka"
"I'm sorry. Nanaka is a kid who gets acquainted with people other than her peers. My name is Button. Thank you for listening to our Lord's Wagamama this time."
Mr. Button keeping his head down with a peck.
Somehow, he doesn't seem like an adventurer. No, some adventurers have completed their monastic skills. But more people lose their manners when they were sisters when they worked like adventurers.
"Shall we go outside the city now?"
Metastasis throughout the city stands out in many ways.
If I can secure a spot like a mansion that doesn't go out of sight, it's fine, but it's a problem in itself that someone sees me moving five women into an alley or something that doesn't go out of sight. I also don't want to show you to the mansion without completely trusting you.
Therefore, we use the position of an adventurer who has no problem moving out of the street and out of sight to get rid of demons to travel outside the city once.
Sister clothes just stand out a little.
He guessed at me when I looked strangely at Mr. Button as he walked towards the city gate.
"Oh, I was a sister in a city church in the Empire until two years ago. But I got a little trouble and picked up where I couldn't be in church by Mr. Rio, who came to the city where I was at on a completely unrelated request. I haven't been there since. I've followed Master Rio."
"I feel similar. I was originally the librarian of a city in the Empire, but I bought a troublesome aristocratic misfortune. I had Rio pick up where I could no longer be in the library because of that."
Apparently they have quite a few circumstances as well.
"Is it strange?
"No, I don't know where it's connected to people's edges, so I think we can have all sorts of encounters."
Most of our parties come true.
I don't feel like denying it where it happened.
"At first, it was just me and Master Rio who were adventurers, but for some reason I had a lot of opportunities to encounter girls who were going first and were about to be hooked up with money, adventurer parties who often acted together, and girls who weren't meant to take trouble"
Rio to pick up your pet every time you run into trouble.
I cannot help but sympathize, given the hard work of Mr. Cattleya, who was acting with me.
"But now I'm glad I carried it. I think it was a struggle. It was hard at first, but everyone really cares about Master Rio. Now that you are Emperor, there should be one woman who supports Master Rio."
"That means sideroom, right?"
"Absolutely."
Mr. Cattleya affirms without further ado.
"At the beginning of the year, it was decided to become emperor, Master Rio's next emperor will be given the right to inherit the throne in turn by those who draw the blood of the royal family in the same way"
Priority will be given by the children of Rio, the emperor, but the right to inherit the throne is given by the royal family, even though the current second and third princes also rank low, as Rio was given the right to inherit the throne simply because he is the son of the former emperor.
But Mr. Cattleya couldn't bear it.
"They may indeed be drawing the blood of the first emperor, but due to their thinness they were never recognized like Master Rio. I will not tolerate such things as such persons are given the right to be emperors. I want those who will be the next emperor to be the children of Rio because they don't have to be the children of me and Rio. I hope so."
With so many children in Rio, the right to inherit the throne of those who are only one of the royal family is much lower.
How can we increase the number of children?
There is a limit to the number of women a woman can give birth to during her lifetime. Fortunately, what I want is a male child. The more women they have, the more children they can have.
"Can't you rub it when the number of women is high?
Mainly a normal room problem.
Even if there is no upper limit on the number of people in the side chamber, one person must decide because they need to act as queen, beyond being the emperor's main chamber.
You don't have to decide because we don't have a fence like an identity, so you can't rub it if you have a fight, but you have to decide in the position of emperor.
"Then I'll be fine. I've decided from the beginning that my real wife is Mr. Cattleya."
"Really?
Mr. Button taught me.
"Other than Mr. Cattleya, there are many members who have come to act together, but only Mr. Cattleya has begun partying with Mr. Rio since the beginning."
"Me and Lady Rio are childhood friends."
The look on Mr. Cattleya's face to say so seemed to miss the old days.
"I was the six ladies of the aristocracy in the Empire. We also had Rio's mother's home next to the mansion in Imperial Capital, so we were sometimes hooked up because we were the same age. The royal family, equal to no one or right to inherit the throne, one or I was the last daughter to use only enough to get her politically married to a suitably lowly nobleman. Parents were just playing with each other as part of each other."
Rio is no different than being royal.
I wanted to keep a little connection. Mr. Cattleya's parents engaged Rio and Mr. Cattleya.
But young children don't know what it's like to be an adult.
"When I first met him, Lady Rio knew he was the son of a former emperor. Because of that, he joked at me and said, 'I will be emperor in the future. If you come to me, I promise you the Queen's chair' and so on. I was prepared to be used as an instrument of political marriage, so I wanted to bet on Mr. Rio's powerful words."
At first they poked at a hard reality.
Rio, who was looking for some great feat, became an adventurer and was active, but the two of them who came out of their parents' house pushing off opposition, amateurs who don't know how to fight or anything. Still, while I was active, I got more company and started challenging the labyrinth.
And Mr. Cattleya won the bet.
That's why I'm supposed to be the queen to keep my word.
"In the first place, there's no way you can be a queen because you're not noble except Mr. Cattleya."
"... I'd love to be next to Rio too, but I'm not interested in the Queen"
Among the eight, it had been decided who would be in the normal room.
We get to the city gate while we hear what's going on with them. Show the adventurer card, which is your ID, and get out of town.
"You can't just send someone who's going to be Queen to attack the Labyrinth."
I was going to convince Mr. Cattleya of the reason for turning to the defensive side after hearing the queen's set story.
But the real reason was different.
"No, sir. Mr. Cattleya doesn't turn to the offense because he's not in a good mood for adventure."
"Oh, you noticed."
"Yes, if you look at the way Mr. Cattleya walks and does it, you can see that he cares about his body."
Sylvia seemed to have guessed that she was not feeling well because of Mr. Cattleya's condition.
I also expected to turn from there to the defensive side.
I didn't know what to do. That sounds like the same to Melissa.
"Are you ill somewhere?
"She's pregnant."
"To?"
"You can't let a caged next generation of first princes do dangerous imitations, can you?"
Mr. Cattleya was thinking of eliminating the present royal family.
Naturally, you can't care less about the most powerful person who can be the next emperor.
"If anything happens, it's hard for me to wait at the bottom of the labyrinth."
Ironically, the safest thing for a labyrinth lord and his labyrinth family is the labyrinth.
You can assume that there will be no visitors at the bottom.
"It's all right around here."
There are no eyes nearby.
I have no problem transferring.
"Okay, hands."
Hold Mr. Cattleya's hand.
At the next moment, the view in front of you changes from a meadow with nothing to an entrance to an alley overlooking the city's boulevard.
"Welcome to the Empire City"