Take a secret passage like a bell cave to the back, tually led.

I would like to think that it is not a mistake because it is heading straight in a direction of the imperial capital.

"So, how can you, the enemy, show us a safe path?"

"Enemy, that's not right. As I said earlier, we're just getting together for a purpose. Sometimes they act completely differently, to the extent that they don't inhibit each other's purpose."

"But there's your purpose."

A stunning grin on Melissa turning her sharp gaze from behind turns to her face.

"What shouldn't of it? Human beings are people who divide their enemies from their allies by their own ends. It's just easier for me to get you home safely."

"So, what is its purpose...?

I'm pretty sure I can make you do 'something' out of the words of Tual.

And General Holland asks anxiously, who will be able to make demands.

"Before I do, let me tell you what I am."

Tual Mariestil.

That's the full name of the tual.

"Mariestil...... does that mean the incompetent Duke family person?

"Ha, you can often say 'incompetent' in front of yourself"

"Ah......! This..."

General Holland whispers when he realizes the silence.

"No, that's okay. Because it's true you're incompetent."

If you have not been given a position by the state, you are not being entrusted with territory.

I don't mind if I start doing business personally at first, but soon I'll be in debt and fail.

That was the assessment of the Mariestil family in the Gardis Empire.

"Even so, even though I'm incompetent, I have karaki"

"Karakuri, is it?

"Yes, no matter how groundbreaking a business you come up with, there's no way you'll ever succeed."

"I can't believe I would never succeed like that..."

"Do you think the emperor will succeed by being interrupted by emperors and nobles in an empire where he reigns at the apex and nobility reigns?

Until the nobles know it, it succeeds.

But the moment the success of the Mariestil family becomes known, the pressure is put on the person with whom they are dating to end in failure.

It is impossible to achieve more than a certain degree of success in this world without the attention of the nobles.

"Why, you hate me so much..."

"Hate me? No, you don't. This is the role given to the Mariestil family."

The Mariestil family, who were in kinship with the Wingle royal family.

After the country was destroyed at the hands of Emperor Amshas, the royalty had been taken responsibility and executed or enslaved.

The Mariestils were also close, so everyone involved was prepared to be severely punished.

But no severe punishment was actually imposed.

... instead a cruel punishment was to be imposed.

"With the war over, the nobles no longer had a place to play, they sought a mockery of dissatisfaction. They are people of unusually high pride, so they wanted someone close to them that they could scorn under any circumstances."

"No way......!

"That is the role given to the Mariestil family"

I don't have a job and fail where I worked hard.

Emperor Amshas made a mockery of dissatisfaction by keeping such a mocking subject close to him.

"When I was young, I was proud of my status as Duke, but I felt like I was going to have a revulsion when I came to understand what my position was actually. Isn't this a worse position than slavery......!

Let your emotions beat you to the wall.

Some of the soldiers who were walking backwards were escaping because the thorns of the soil that were protruding had been shattered. But if you deviate, you won't be able to go home, so you'll be back in a while.

"Zeon reached out to me knowing about our misery. Thinking about what he was trying to do, I didn't feel like working alone."

"Then why..."

"I have a sister."

Mariestille, a young girl in the house.

My sister doesn't understand the current state of the Mariestil family and spends every day smiling.

"At least I want my sister to have a normal life because she doesn't have to be noble. But the only way for her to start her life from scratch was to shackle the Gardis Empire."

There was no way the Empire could have missed a more convenient existence than the Mariestils.

I couldn't have escaped the emperor or nobility to live.

So there is only one means picked up by the tuals wishing for the happiness of the family.

"Losing the Empire... I'm sorry for the civilians who know nothing and have a mediocre life, but we've decided to ask them to go to hell together"

That's the whispering wish of Tual.

But at the same time it is also a revenge play against the nobles who have abused themselves.

"I entrust this to you, general of the Gardis Imperial Army."

"Storage ring......"

What Tual gave to General Holland was a storage ring.

What was inside was a hell of a dangerous thing.

"It was the Duke of the imperial kingdom of Wingle that the Mariestil family was to be treated in such an unusual way. In doing so, there is a document exchanged between the emperor and the nobles with the promise that 'no matter how you treat the Mariestils, the empire will not interfere'".

"Nah......!

There was a prudent nobleman, who later thought to leave it in the document because it would be troublesome to be made into a problem.

Those documents were to be confined to a warehouse deep inside the castle of Teito.

"Now that people are gone from Imperial Capital, we have been able to break in without difficulty."

Strict security is also helpless without people.

"There are other aristocrats in the same position as the Mariestil family. accusing them of such facts, even for their sake. That's the condition for your return."

"So, but..."

"Is it painful to betray Emperor Amshas, whom I respected"

"How could you...!

"I still looked into all the people who hold key positions in the Empire. I know that you respect Amshas as a hero."

……

General Holland is lost.

It is the role of the general to return his men, albeit only two. Besides, if we do any more damage to the Glenvarga army, we will be in a worse position for the evacuees who have fled not only themselves but also the Gardis Imperial Army.

Understandably, I have no choice but to press charges with my head. Still, I can't get past the act of betraying someone I respected.

"Aren't the Mariestils in such a position because they lost the war...?

"Exactly. You have to obey the winner's orders because you lost the war. But I wanted it to be a noble, proud defeat - that's what my father always said."

General Holland who was lost.

But I also made a decision thinking about the thoughts of Tual.

"I will publish this document by the proper means."

"Thank you"

And the leg of Tual stops, who kept walking while I was explaining.

What lies ahead is a gentle slope.

"Now is the time when the path was cleared by the effects of crustal fluctuations, but it is a place that was previously inaccessible. It leads to the basement of the castle."

"Is that all you got to show me?

"It's also not a good idea to get too used to each other. It's my role to tell Mr. Lüze and Mr. Killier not to attack me on the way home."

Even if they do just miss it from the two of them, the survival rate is quite different.

"Now, I expect you to keep your promise"

After dropping off the army from the underground passage, Tual tells the story as he walks around the underground.

"This is going well"

'Right. How did you feel suspicious about our movement?

"There isn't. I totally believed my story."

'That would be so. You're telling the truth. "

What Tual said is not a lie. The Mariestils are in an unusual position to take action with their sister in mind and to learn more about what happened.

But I forgot the decisive facts.

"Nobody cared what I was doing here"

"Daimyo, you thought we were waiting for you."

"I think so. I just hope I can fool her."

"Her?"

"No, never mind"

Spread the book I had in my hand.

It closes when you break your cheeks on what was in the book.

"It took me an extra year to move the plan to execution because of those guys. But at the same time, the plan we thought we would need ten years to accomplish our purpose without them was shortened once and for all '

"Yeah, I just really appreciate it"

"Get ready faster than that"

"Is there something wrong?

"Charles is injured, and the guy from Lüze is obsessed with hunting and acting alone. The work they were supposed to do is almost untouched. I want you to go to their cover as soon as you're done working in Imperial City."

"Oh, you have no choice."

Laughing and walking down the underground aisle with a book in my hand.