Seeing Sophie and Tio back at Villa Taole after school that day, Shirley relieved himself a little.
"…… you seem in a good mood today. What about betting?
"Mm-hmm. I won."
"Is that so…… that's above all."
Shirley mutters as she consciously suppresses the expression that is about to float.
Sophie and Marco's bet match using the adventure board seems to have been a brilliant take on the win by Sophie. When it comes to play, Shirley is nosy on the inside because she won the experience completely with today's coaching and experience yesterday.
I'm pretending to be faceless, but I feel like I want to raise my hands and rejoice in the fact that my beloved daughter won right now.
"Eh heh... so if I put a warrior next to a dragon pawn, Marco would harden up!
"It was already completely packed, wasn't it? I don't care how you move the pawn, the dragon was taken, and I don't think it's necessary for Marco to have dropped it when he's finished."
"Is that so?"
Shirley gently strokes Sophie's head as she follows what happened today with her eyes shining, whether the uplift of victory has sprung up again.
I definitely wanted to see Sophie in the moment of victory. All of a sudden I stopped crying because I had no business and wondered if my mother would show up in the classroom, but honestly, regret is stronger.
"Speaking of which, Mother, are you sure the mothers are going to be out for this year's sporting event?
"Yes, but...... there's a circular over there already?
"Mm-hmm. The teacher said after school. Tomorrow, we'll decide who's in the class to compete with."
Transfer to immediate execution if you decide. I mean, you were thinking about what you would do without having to make a decision, and you were prepared. From the speed of this action, even if there was no noise this year, Canary might have intended to include the father and brother competition from the beginning.
"You guys were on the red team this year. I will also contribute to the victory of the Red Team."
"Hmmm...... well"
With that said, Tio rode on Shirley's lap and looked up at her mother's face with her jeweled red eyes.
"Hey, Mother. If I get into the father and brother competition tomorrow, will you come out with me?
"Yeah, of course."
That's why I agreed with Canary. There will be other candidates, but I want you to win the right to compete.
"Mm, okay. Then come out with me when you can."
"Ah! Tio, I'm cunning!
When I made that promise, Sophie hugged me into Shirley's arm.
"Hey, Mom! You'll come out with me, won't you?
"Naturally. Be sure to do your best to get the right to compete."
Sweetened by his daughters this way, Shirley is desperate to keep her loose expression on the iron skin.
But at the same time, he is very happy. After all, it's good to have a child as the star. Shirley is more floating than the rest of us, but some concerns come to mind.
"... With that said, last year and this year they were in the same class, but next year Sophie and Tio will be in separate classes, and if there was a father-brother competition, which one the hell should I support......?
"Huh?... Sure if you ask me. Ugh, um... what happens...?
"……… difficult"
Although it is a festival event and does not usually mean that there is no quarrel at all, it is the earliest unthinkable event in which the two daughters split into factions and argue with each other. If that happens, Shirley will only be able to wolf between Sophie and Tio.
In other words, if you become a separate class and you both start competing in the same competition at the same time, you won't be able to do intensive shooting.
(... Isn't this the only way to convince Canaries to make them the same class again next year......? Regardless, using honest persuasion by sword (physics))
Shirley was not reluctant to go anywhere against the Canaries.
At the same time, a police headquarters was built in the imperial capital. In front of the gate, it became busy with the roaring voices of the nobles day after day.
"It was my Earl's family who took you away unjustly, my son!? Release your son early and take the shakedown of my Count's house! You disrespectful people!!
"Why should my husband be caught!? Our child is only ten years old!? My brother-in-law will take over the house!
Demonstrators...... small number to say. It is only natural that the nobility itself is a minority from the point of view of the whole, but on the contrary, it also represents the small number of those who side with them.
If you take their word for it as it is, it will be a protest against the wrongful removal of their family. But as a matter of fact, all they have in mind is avoidance of harm and preservation.
"Your relatives are under suspicion of involvement in numerous criminal activities, as well as numerous physical evidence and testimonies. We are acting in accordance with the law and we are never unduly restrained."
Many of the criminal acts of the nobles that were originally forbidden by Imperial Law. Until now, he has been spared from being held guilty by wearing his identity, but this has not happened more than the police have been established, and a large number of nobles have been pushed into prisons or into police headquarters detention centres.
What is naturally uncomfortable with that is the relatives of the remaining criminal aristocrats. It took the form of being deprived of the special treatment that we had always enjoyed as a matter of course. Rather, many people make up wealth from the trafficking of slaves and illegal drugs, so it can be said that it is a matter of dying.
"Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Such a thing! Just give my son back!! Who do you think I am?
"I can't. If you need anything else, please go home."
"You say it doesn't matter what happens to my house!? You bastard!
"Solving your problems is not where we should be involved. If you need anything else, please go home."
"The second word is, go home...! Ho, you don't know any other words!? Damn it, His Royal Highness Phyllia has organized an organization with some decent attitude!
To the roaring mixed demands of the nobles, the gatekeeper repeated his response as if he were a doll, without changing his expression at all.
... No, as a matter of fact, the porter is a doll.
If we arrest the nobles, some try to escape to secrecy, and some foolish nobles appear to punch into the police headquarters without thought. A canary who feared it built a golem for protection that looked exactly like a human being, repeated a determined response to a spoken word, and gave it to Philia.
Now they don't even realize that the person they're yelling at is a doll, they're just making a scene. In fact, not a single police component passes through the main entrance where the Golem was set up. They all go in and out of the basement or jump over high walls with physical enhancement magic. The same applies when taking a suspect who has secured his or her identity to a detention facility.
In other words, the main entrance is to the annoying and noisy nobles. It's a sight that would make Canaries laugh so much at the extra funny.
Without wishing to do so, a large number of police personnel work in the affairs of the Ministry to compile the status of the investigation. Philia was in one of those buildings.
"Looks like everything here, princess. There were a lot of things that were disposed of, but it seems that the people who were His Majesty the Emperor, starting with my father, left me the materials of the day."
"Thank you, Lumigliana"
Philia takes the stacked material on her desk and glances at its contents. Lumigliana, who stood next to him, also held another dossier, eventually distorting its streamlined brow by accident.
"Father…… Mother…………"
... It was the time when the cinematograph began to appear in the world. Philia's parents, the emperor and his wife, were poisoned by the nobility of the emperor Alberto.
The photograph affixed to the dossier shows the bodies of falling parents, and I think of what happened in the back of Philia's brain at the time.
At breakfast, when she was just a young girl, she was in that place where her parents would spit blood and fall. They were dripping the poison from the top of the dish from the tail needle of a half scorpion (soldering beetle) that killed fifty adults with one drop, and they didn't even react to the silver dishes.
Was the filia with whom breakfast was worthy of use, another coincidence, but she was lucky enough to survive anyway, but the appearance of her parents dying in agony is still a scar in her heart.
This dossier summarizes the findings of the assassination of the Emperor and his wife. Those aristocratic children are likely to be inspired by past trauma and lose their minds, but still she glances at the material. That's the only way to make two deaths meaningless.
"… the cook or poisoner captured as highly likely to have planted the poison at the time has harmed himself, and the background of the incident remains unknown. There is no evidence left to prove that the assassination of His Majesty the First Emperors went to the labyrinth."
"Yeah, it seems like the investigators at the time were mixed up with your brother's faction and your fathers' faction, and they couldn't properly investigate it."
"It's hard... even before the head of state dies, I can't believe he's still pulling his leg"
Lumigliana throws up abominably.
"… no, should I consider that one way or another, I deliberately interfered with the investigation"
It's an emperor's position. I guess there were quite a few people after their lives, but the most suspicious are my brother and his faction nobles.
Anyway, the emperor Legrand and Queen Elzabeth were sincerely furious with Alberto's manipulation of Shirley, and after abandoning Alberto and shutting him down for life, they were trying to make Philia an empress. From the nobles who had manipulated his brother and sipped sweet honey, he would have been a real obstacle.
That said, Alberto would not be the executor. He's arrogant and has a really bad personality, but at the same time he's retarded and cowardly inside. I can't believe I have the temper or idea to kill my parents.
"The most likely mastermind in the erasure method is someone in the nobility behind your brother... but there is no proof"
"It's been years since then. There's unlikely to be any physical evidence left."
This case I thought I would no longer have to give up solving. But I came here and began to see the light.
"But if you're a cop... if you're a cop with a lot of magicians and can conduct a wide range of investigations, you might be able to solve this case this time"
It is admitted that if we prove that there is no falsehood in the evidence with the magic of Sensei, which presents records of residual thoughts and inorganic objects obtained by witchcraft and breaks true and false, it will be as clear evidence as physical evidence or more.
And there is no statute of limitations before the great crime of assassinating the emperor. If we can find it, we can always bring it to justice.
"Now if your brother's faction nobles are really the culprits, and you can take the word that the culprits have gone to the crime to eliminate your fathers, or to bring your brother up to the emperor, you may be able to strike your brother's faction hard."
We still don't know who did it. Maybe a former nobleman who has already fallen in the last few years and lost all his earliest influence. But as a daughter and as one who destroys the empire, it's well worth looking into.
Because there is no such thing as nobility or another country to side with those who have gained the status of emperor by poisoning.