With all due respect, it was only natural for soldiers and defensemen to move when the Führer's officials went out, and a platoon of kingdom soldiers dressed as ordinary men was stationed in the border city following Eduardo and Alicia.
Their role naturally lies in the protection of the royal family, but they are also required to respond to matters on an ad hoc basis. For example, yes, the role of escorting kidnappers from neighboring countries in a state of tension that has stepped into the kingdom.
"Your Majesty, I now take six Imperial men who planned to kidnap the King's people to the Wang Metropolitan Defence Agency."
"Uhm. The opponent is an imperial, but be careful"
"Sir."
The soldier, entrusted with the deputy captain of the platoon, who has travelled with the Edwards to the border with them, returns in salute to the word of the monarch and boards a sturdy convoy borrowed from the city's defensive quarters.
Among the vehicles, which at first sight resemble the carriage, sits five border guards and a total of six Rudolphs and Imperials, with the exception of your men and deputy captains.
Dropping off the low dragon pulling the convoy slowly moving, Eduardo looks sideways at Philia leaning down with a dark expression and Lumigliana with a remorseful expression.
"…… to be honest, I am disgusted by my impudence. I can't believe my brother acted so fast."
Of course, in a bad way. Normal official duties are too bad to be quick only to act annoying to people because of their congested habits.
"His Majesty Edward, and His Highness Alicia. We apologize for the inconvenience this time......!
Phyllia lowering her head with a trembling voice and Lumigliana lowering her head as deeply as she learns to do so.
At a time when divinity still resides in the authority of the Head of State, it is unacceptable for any of us to bow our heads to the Emperor's sister. Even if it's the king of a neighboring country.
"Keep your head up, Princess Philia. This incident ended with no injuries to the children, even though they were fortunate enough to be unhappy. If we talked about a blacker belly, we could say that we had a gap in the empire. Wouldn't it? Comrade (...)."
Filia looks up silently against Eduardo's words. Most people simply raise a slight question mark as to how many people are present in this room who have drawn the sincerity of King Xian in front of them, and the words are lightly flushed.
"Personally, I'm worried about your sister's daughter. This is all because the presence or absence of injuries is not an issue. … it may even be difficult to keep your head down."
"Princess......"
A girl not even old enough was attacked by six big men. If the perpetrator is the royal squire, Philia won't be able to do it with any other personnel.
But it's Philia's real intention to meet and apologize, but when she thinks she might not want to see her face or anything like that, she really steps on two feet.
"So... for that matter, I have to do everything I can to keep my sisters away from the Empire. Never again will we have an irrevocable tragedy."
You don't have to be able to see someone like your beloved sister again. I just want you to be happy out of the distant sky and execute without showing your face.
This time I came to the kingdom to show my face in order to convey the emperor's seriousness, but when this happens again, I will never set foot in the land around this border.
"And I'm sorry?
"What is it, princess?
"'Cause, Lumigliana, it seems like you wanted to get along with your sister."
"Huh!?
Lumigliana hesitates as if she had been poked at a star.
"Yes, no! Fine dust, such as the princess's desire to annoy her hands...!
That's what I said, but I was hoping maybe. Killing myself or the Dragon King, who got the title Empire's strongest young, would be a lie if they told me that I wasn't interested as a samurai who the hell is stronger.
"Oh, more than that, princess! You will be staying in the Kingdom for two weeks until the convenience of Count Eigner and Viscount Vaud, but I will arrange a place to stay until then."
Count Eigner is the nobleman who delivers the southern part of the empire and Viscount Vaud is the northern part of the kingdom and their collaborator.
Originally contested at the border, since Count Aigner was taken in by a clandestine faction based around Philia, the two territories have been the route for Philia to and from the empire and kingdom.
"Hmmm...... then you should stay in my castle. Viscount Vaud is due in a week."
"……… care, it hurts, Your Majesty."
This statement with a good understanding that the other person is the person in the Imperial family who caused the problem. Philia just bowed her head to the heavily weighed king.
After crushing the Rudolphs, Shirley had carried Kyle, who had passed out, to the guild using physical enhancement magic, making allowance and then taking Sophie and Tio back to her residence.
I guess it would have been best to get it to Kyle's house, but Shirley didn't even know where his house was, and their residence was removed from the choice because it would be a place for discussion from now on.
In the end, I decided to take him to the guild, including reports of kidnapping, etc., but I still can't deny the feeling that there was something wrong with him.
Next time I vowed to thank her again, and once back home, Shirley told her daughters everything she had ever done.
"That's all about your birth and how it happened."
Why did she leave the country while she was the Crown Princess and kept her children in her womb? Shirley needed to talk about herself to explain it.
Grey hair and odd eyes neglected among imperial aristocrats. Shirley, born into a grand aristocrat with it, and flesh parents who neglect matters they can't help.
The Crown Prince, who was supposed to have saved himself from such a house, had an affair with his sister and tortured Shirley as if it had been a whispered love or some other lie.
Having been lucky enough to escape, having given birth to one Sophie and Tio in a long abandoned cabin, he has fled to the kingdom.
With questions and supplements along the way, Shirley answered without falsely what they wanted to know.
"Then what that Odysan was saying was true to some extent. We are the daughters of the emperor."
"Yes."
"Someone with a terrible eye for Mom is our real father, our blood, right?
"……… Yes"
I guess there are different thoughts. To my outrageous real father, my uncle and aunt to my grandparents who abused my mother despite being a family member. I understood that my mother was struggling to raise herself, but I didn't understand the fruit of it at all.
This was the first time I had ever seen my daughters' sad faces, but I never dreamed that my hidden background would make me do so, Shirley.
You could have been somewhat deluded if you were meant to be. But it was my sincerity as a mother not to say anything more than being involved.
"Hey, Mom."
"What?
"…… Until now, wasn't it hard?
Tilt your neck to the trembling voice. I didn't understand the true meaning of my daughter's words.
"I didn't think we were drawing the blood of such terrible people... and yet my mom raised us..."
"It wasn't hard."
Seeing what he wanted to say, Shirley covered her words before Sophie ran out. Perhaps Tio thought the same thing, they're both eye-opening.
There is a cause and effect of blood. Sometimes honor, sometimes hatred is handed over. It's like a magic independent curse that acts on the instincts of people who cross personal values.
Didn't you really want to raise your daughter, who drew half the blood of a hateful man as much as you wanted to kill her... You can never just let that word come out of your mouth, Shirley tells you what she thought she had been living in her chest for ten years.
"Sophie, Tio, I am, if it's true, I should have already died dealing with a country by myself"
"Eh?"
It was supposed to end up being followed by a silly little girl who was paranoid about something called love. The other person is the heir of a country, even if there is no one beyond the truth. I knew that brutal retaliation would destroy me with an overwhelming number of forces.
"Still, I thought I was good, and I even thought that was annoying when I found out I was pregnant."
Pregnancy in the midst of gaining strength for revenge... If it was also a hateful Alberto child, I did have the same thoughts as the two of us were concerned about, so much so that I didn't actually care about the two of them in the foetus and tried to enter the workout.
"But strangely, every time I lay the sun down, I began to think about all the ladies in my stomach. I don't know what color the child was born with, what color his eyes were, all that had nothing to do with hatred."
In retrospect, that might have been my mother's instinct to exceed even the cause and effect of blood. If you were aware that you didn't need conditions to love your child, you would have given birth without choosing to have an abortion.
"I didn't care about my life or my life until just before I was born. I was trying to assume that it wasn't something I knew no matter what happened later if I even had my revenge. But in the end, I gave birth, and I got scared."
"Scary......?
"Yep... I was afraid to cast a shadow on your future with one of my actions. It was more terrifying than anything to let go."
I still remember the warmth that I felt right after giving birth to the two of them, and the despair that would have been visited by the action that I was about to take.
If you're aware, you took them out of the empire and opened the door to the Adventurer Guild while Canaries invited you.
"At first I was just desperate. I raised you guys with just the urge to gush up, and nothing else is as if I can't turn my head around. One day, I wondered if it would be worthless for me to live for myself, or if I could just leave it to Martha to die."
Yes, before the blurry end, I finally realized something.
"But you were there. The changing appearance of you, whether good or bad, has become my hope for life."
It became a living reward to see him stay healthy. Shirley, who was driven by the extreme story and the thought that she might be okay if she wasn't around, was told to "live" every day she approached the adult.
And I was told by Canary and noticed. The goal is not just to finish raising them, but to keep watching them spend their days. For that reason, Shirley wanted to live.
"Every day was tough, but above all it was a glorious decade. So with my chest up, I think it would make my life better being my two mothers...... how did it go with you two? Spend time with me, etc."
"I'm glad I could live with your mother too......!
"Yeah... yeah... eh. I want to be with my mom more too......!
One mother who reveals her heart with a calm face and voice, two daughters tearing at the anxiety suddenly pushed over and the relief freed from her business.
In a year of resentment and just a decade of running, there was finally a mother and daughter there who understood each other in a true sense.
"I just want you to think so."
Shirley holds Sophie and Tio to her chest with her arms spread all over her cup. Only tonight, the unfathomable attitude does not appear on the surface, but only exposes the heart.
I usually have something to be ashamed of just being normal, but now I feel wonderful and good. Shirley put her strength on both arms to comfort her trembling beloved daughters.
"That's all, I was saved, too"
The problem is still piling up, and perhaps the empire hasn't given up either. But if my daughters want to spend as much time with me as ever, it's my mother's job to set aside all the difficulties and make her wish come true.
I have been careful not to give you extra anxiety until now, but from now on, the sword of the ghost, whose cutting-edge was poked to the top of the empire, was able to exert the power of guardianship without hesitation.