In the Imperial Territory, in the Hall of the Duke of Algrey's house, the servants moved around busily more than usual. Usually enough to serve the Duke and his wife, the former Duke and his wife in the midst of letting the current Duke take over their duties, and the occasional returning Duke's brother, but now they are forced to work more than twice as hard.
"I'm tired of this tea. More…… Prepare new top quality tea leaves."
"But... before, Her Highness the Queen said she was tired of other fine tea leaves... and offered all the tea leaves of the same size in our country..."
"What? Are you going to answer me?
"Hih......!?
In the low, roaring words of Alice, the Empire Queen, who was sprinkling with graceful tea times in a room with cooling magic props, the lady who brewed the tea blues with her seductive expression.
"If the Empire has no other tea leaves, you can pick them up from other countries!? You don't even know that much!?
"Ahhhhhhhh!?
The hot teacup with tea thrown at the mercy of anger is a direct hit by the samurai. Alice screamed hysterically, not considering a girl who was over ten years younger than herself, covered in tea from her head.
"I am a praiseworthy Empire Queen and daughter of the Duke of Algrey family to whom you pledge allegiance!? What the hell are you going to say to me about that!?
"also, our deepest apologies! Please forgive me!
Resisting the skin irritating heat, the samurai desperately begs forgiveness as she lowers her head.
If I explain it first, this girl is not the owner of a temperament that vows allegiance to a nobleman. A citizen who is not close enough and lives everywhere with a young brother who is often ill, and who is lucky enough to work as a high-end nobleman's maid and just put it on his mouth.
In order not to undermine the mood of the high-pressure masters, they mastered technology in the tunnels to avoid creating a grudge with others, and at last they were even allowed to brew tea, but after this summer they continued to consume so much effort that it was not commensurate with the salary they received.
"What an uneducated servant!? This is why I don't like the underprivileged!
The cause is nothing more than Queen Alice Ragdor. Alice and her husband, Alberto, were the next most luxurious Duke of Algrey to live in the castle in the Empire, after a divine match that most of the Empire didn't even know about, a flash of Shirley.
By Alberto's care, a familiar place to live will be good until the castle is rebuilt. This is it, Alice, who moved. I don't even look like a gentle emperor who cares about the queen who lost her residence due to a tragic accident if I just ask her there, but I don't know that Alice's self will stay when she returns to the Duke's house.
Whatever you do, you can live a life of extreme luxury using the treasury like hot water with far fewer servants than the castle servants. Anyway, Alice, a flashy lover and boring temperament, has deteriorated even further in nearly a decade of Queen's life. Even servants she has served since childhood fall so fatigued.
Plant another fancy flower because you're tired of garden flowers, pick up fancy tea leaves and confectionery from the Principality, etc. If you're still cute, suddenly tell the cook who was making dinner in the morning that he wants to eat the meat of a child of a bull-shaped demon protected by a ferocious parent famous for his fancy meat, or even pick a large number of flowers that can extract natural beauty fluids that bloom only on the summit of the spiritual mountain that reaches far above the clouds, etc., so that he could risk his life.
"I don't deserve the Queen's home, a servant who can't be used with such a stupid diagram!! Fire me, fire me! Get out of here now!
At the end of the day, Alice rampantly kicks up the head of a samurai who crawls to the floor, not even passing through the opinion of the Duchess, who heads the hall's personnel, and who says the dismissal of a servant of the Duchess family she doesn't like.
"Agoo!?... this, Your Highness! That's all, that's all forgiveness......!
Even though the taxes continue to increase on his right shoulder, his life is being oppressed and even his brother's treatment costs are being jeopardized. If you lose your job like this, you don't just become a vagrant, your brother's life is in danger.
"Shut up! If you mean to go to me, I will call the knight to dispose of it!?
"…………!
Knowing or not such a circumstance about her, suddenly the samurai ran away from the room with tears in her eyes, turning her gaze to see something incredible about Alice that she threatened in her last circular.
"Not at all...... no one and he just isn't helpful!
The ladies sit back on the couch with a dodgy grass. Her mood has been rough these days.
Even though she was frustrated that she could not bear a successor, her sister, who denigrated her eleven years ago, is even more beautiful than she was then, and she also has two adorable daughters who are disputed as angels or fairies.
If he tried to take it back to the Empire because of his children with Alberto, he was double-crossed by Eduardo, a kingdom monarch, and his abominable sister-in-law, who put him in the form of a divine match, and even a proud castle after losing.
I don't care if you haven't guessed all those causes and consequences, Alice, if you don't hit someone eight or live a more fulfilled life. But if you return to the Duke's house for a long time, what you've been waiting for are incomplete burning days where you can't satisfy your desires due to lack of servants.
"The Golden Witch" … "The White Sword Ghost" ……! It's all their fault............! Just get in my way............!
Alice bites her thumbnail in remorse in a mood similar to the stress and squandering habits attached to her. As we learned later, Shirley, whom we had scattered and insulted, is one of the best in the Adventurer Guild and is blinded to something by the Canary.
Alice desperately turns away from the fact that her jealousy is on fire, which she should have driven in the past. Talented about beauty, and how much Alice loves her surroundings when it comes to what is better than her, for a sister blessed with a cute child. The environment should be blessed, but what the hell is this difference?
"Excuse me."
The deacon of the Duke's family came in after the knock, as if to predict when he had finished exhaling some sort of depression.
"Your Highness, we have a visitor."
"……… Please let me through."
Tell Alice so, the deacon who leaves the room with the sleaze. I called the man around me today. In order to be filled at all, I have no choice but to make myself heard and praised for my stupidity while serving a beautiful man. It's been Alice's habit since she was a girl.
"Hey, Alice. I missed you."
"I missed you too, Gran."
Where did the angry face go earlier, Alice wearing a giant cat of clean and white the moment Gran showed her face, a circumference since she was a student. It is strictly forbidden to have a narrow and abusive attitude among the beautiful men around us because they go by with a "gentle, poor lady."
"Mm...... gran"
"I love you... Alice"
Close the door and quickly, hug each other and mouth each other. To the two heads, who are delayed by what can be described as an affair itself, apart from the emperor, which does not seem to be a relationship between the queen and her subordinate subjects, only pleasure is contemplated.
If Alberto sees or asks us about this place, we are both just not sorry, but we have been maintaining a relationship similar to the majority since before our marriage, and Alberto is as if he has not noticed. They had an unfounded confidence that they wouldn't find out.
"You've been calling me a lot lately. Glad to hear it."
"Yeah, 'cause I wanted to be with Gran, too"
The queen performs a nasty loving maiden. Considering the age of twenty-nine, it feels like it's not worth the age, but it seems to work for a gran that finds pleasure in being relied on surface, dyeing its cheeks happily.
"Lately, I've heard that His Majesty won't deal with me. I'll love you for that."
"Glad to hear it. Thank you for everything today."
With that said, his expression does not collapse, and Alice, on Gran's lap sitting on the couch, realizes that, in her heart, an abomination springs up again.
It is immensely important that the castle, symbol of imperial authority, has been destroyed. Even Alberto, who was proud of his position as the Lord of the Castle, was about to take the leap and set up a more luxurious castle, but even with the treasury, such as the rebuilding of the Imperial Castle, he would need enormous funds and time.
Then the idea of rebuilding the remains of the castle with earthly attribute witchcraft popped out of the emperor's mouth, but witchcraft is not that omnipotent. It's not the only stone used for architecture, and even if you exchange the body of a castle, it's far from brilliant, it's a muscular building that looks like you've shredded a mountain.
… Exceptionally, it is possible to get back to normal with the help of a certain S-rank adventurer, who belongs to the Adventurer Guild, but it would not be possible for Alberto to bow his head to a canary who has sporadically scolded him at the table of talks.
How much to build my castle so you can throw me out?
The collapse of the symbol of authority has a great impact on the hearts and minds of the subjects. It was even considered problematic by Alice until she threw out her official duties, but Alberto is chased to deal with it as if the imperial glory had fallen to the ground in this one case, wielded by patron nobles and heavy ministers.
Even heavy taxes keep the people out of their minds. Careful and prompt, Alberto will not be given time to speak up either.
'Hey, is it something I can't do to get Her Majesty's sister? If it's that beautiful, I'd just like to be my mistress, aside from being gray or odd-eyed......'
'I saw the recorded footage. Her Royal Highness also remains beautiful for her age... but she was of a different dimension, wasn't she? It should be over thirty at least, but young as a girl......'
Extremely, footage of the divine match leaked among the nobles and Shirley's beauty spread among the Imperial nobles.
Even among the male aristocrats who had a relationship with Alice, there are many voices that compare Alice to Shirley, thereby fattening their eyes. They no longer ride Alice's temptation and somehow make Shirley an empire...... and thus roll their shallow beast greed that they cannot surround themselves.
As a result, Alice is badly dissatisfied, although the move to attract Sophie and Tio to the Empire, which can dispel the succession problem's troubles, has been enlivened.
It is extra because we know that the motive is not to relieve Alice's troubles, but to become the father of the next emperor and surround the beautiful woman of the world.
"Come on, it's time to go out. They've created a new sweet in the cafeteria of Empire City."
"Oh, anywhere with you. After that……………………."
A queen who drives bad things out of her head, relieves herself and works to change her mood. She never noticed that Gran's back, which escorted with her hands on Alice's shoulder, was suspiciously twitching.
Around that time, on the other hand, in the Lords' Palace of Legnard, close to the easternmost part of the Empire, Philia and Lumigliana frown upon each other, looking at a single document sent with a letter from those who subscribed to their own ideas in the Knights.
"Princess, this is……………."
"Yeah……………."
It contained information about the various culprits who had committed misdemeanours from the recent felonies committed in this empire. The guilt and punishment of sinners captured as knights are recorded, but this is a bullet point.
The punishment varies depending on the crime, including the death penalty and life sentence for those who commit murder, fines, imprisonment for those who work in theft, and flogging for treading on the skirt of a nobleman. These are the history of criminals commonplace in the Empire, but this is how they were written in the letters they sent.
"In recent times, there have been many times when the whereabouts of sinners captured in the Knights have become unknown. The enclosed document is a huge miscellaneous copy of the records that were kept in the Knights' barracks, but it is possible that all of this has been fabricated and that at some point only the clothes (...) have been left behind and the sinners are gone. We don't even take it to court. Please be very careful with the princess as she feels some disturbing movement."
If the contents of the letter are true, it is also undeniable that there are people who are running away from sinners or who are ending up outside the framework of the law.
With the weakening authority of the country, even the law, which is a control device if this is made public, disappears in meaning. The aim is either to break down the empire or to break down all those who lay the current oppression, but until then there must be no law to maintain law and order.
"To His Majesty about this..."
"I think I played it. But instead of ordering me to solve it in secret, now I'm too busy rebuilding a castle to live with that woman, like a sinner."
"No......!?
Lumigliana glances at him as unbelievable, and Philia's letters are crusty and slightly distorted.
Even if he is a sinner, it is the people of the Empire who have disappeared. Whatever your history, you are a people to be protected, brought to life on a rugged reign like a sinner.
Sin should be judged as a commandment. But it can't be good to have them all. What the hell is punishment for not being able to deal with sins under the law?
"Many of them had room for extenuating circumstance or were able to redo enough for minor offenses......!
"Princess......"
Most of these people are guilty of theft. It will depend on people, but why they did that can be inferred if one day the liquor store that was supposed to be flourishing suddenly leaned toward management and something similar had happened to the seizure of every building, even if they had not seen it.
"Let's go, Lumigliana. We have to settle this case quickly and put an end to the sacrifice of our people."
"I understand, my lord. So, which one to start with?
"The Ministry of Justice is on its way... and the Imperial Knights Barracks."
If someone... is not the one who oversees the protection of the law, I can't think of intervening in the captured sinner. With such certainty, Philia boarded the carriage with her squire.