Fake Cinderella

Who said that dreams are dreams because they don't come true and that what comes true is a goal......

If so, that was certainly a goal.

It was within reach and we didn't doubt that the imaginary future would come eventually.

If there is such a thing as the worst awakening, I think every time I wake up every morning that it is now.

Especially if I can't believe I stuck in the paperwork and had a morning like now, I will renew the smudge and its perception.

"Phil-Lynn, Your Highness is here for you."

"............... I'm not here. Nowhere. Tell him I'm gone."

I said it without turning around. There's a pile of paperwork hanging high in front of me... and it's going to fall down now.

"Oh no. Who can say that to His Highness in that state? I still have my life to spare."

Ray...... Raymond-Wells-Ile-Rada Ristorade flaunts her shoulders in a sigh mix. He's totally unworthy of friends. Even though it is childhood friendliness from when I feel like it.

"I mean, you're in the Great Demon King manifestation mode, not the tender King Prince mode... who wants to go see him like that! By and large, I'm in the middle of a calculation right now! I don't even have three digits! Where have you been, 182 bags of wheat?"

That's the one that's slightly more beautiful. Because they make me canned in this cramped material room, except when it's messy. That, too, is the third day today.

"Uh, I think we should put that aside for now and get going fast. I'm not in a very good mood."

"He's in a bad mood, you know, the usual."

"I'll rephrase. I'm not in a better mood than I was once."

Ray, you don't have to emphasize every single word.

"Yes, yes, that's why it's always the same. Every day here, I'm admirably updating my grumpy index."

If he comes with the grump of the last three days...... I can't say it all in a few words.

I was most upset when I served my usual portable food biscuits for breakfast this morning......

There was no such thing as leaking discontent with portable food at all, but now that we had a habit of getting along with our young wife's handmade breakfast, it was perfectly normal to be dissatisfied with it.

(Totally, Elsevelt's princess is feeding me...)

I don't say anything in my mouth, but as much as I like it a lot, anyone knows if it's near his side.

For him, the act of eating is nothing but nutritional intake.

It's not a taste-onch because there are tongues that show good quality and bad quality, but the guy who doesn't know what a decent meal or a soothing home table is like doesn't know what a 'flavor' is in the true sense.

So the bait in this case is' Mr. Princess', not the 'meal' provided. If more precisely, should I say time spent with the princess?

(Was he that much to like?

A guy who is childhood friendly, a daughter-in-law, and a lord to serve...... I'm more or less going to hold back on the preference of my Dardinian king, Prince Tata Nadir, but I'm not sure just what a woman likes.

I'm pretty sure I'm dating all the adult women who won't rot after all for now. Pretty good-looking women, probably because they don't like idiots in the heart.

Maybe you should check with the Elzevelt princess a little deeper when you see what's going on here.

(Well, I'm not just worried about Loricon...)

Basically, Nadir doesn't like 'kids'. As for "brother" and "sister," it was special because family correction worked in a good direction, but I hate kids who shake off reason with emotion, and I hate the fact that they can't talk rationally at the end of the day.

By the way, only my half-sister hits' brother 'and' sister 'for Nadir. I can tell you that I have little interest in the two half-brothers.

And Nadir's criterion of judgment doesn't mean anything about appearance. It's his theory that age and content maturity don't always match.

(I mean, the princess isn't a kid, and she's the type of person who can speak with him properly)

I've given up trying to think of a princess who is collecting all of Nadir's private interests all in one place these days.

I can think of blonde hair and a young, yet princess-like atmosphere, but I can't think of faces clearly.

I remember looking cute... but it feels like the whole thing is burning.

I'm probably confident that if I get mixed inside a blonde blue-eyed girl in the same outfit, I'll never be able to tell.

(Because I'm not impressed, that princess.)

The princess of Elzevelt, known by her designations as Puppet Princess or Ice Princess, has been famous for showing little interest in others until now.

Even if it had attracted so much interest from His Majesty the King and so much favor from His Majesty as to be whispered to the Shadow Lady, she would not have shown as much interest even in His Majesty.

... Until now.

Annotate them because they say they fell into the lake while they were returning home and had amnesia, which made them kind of different personalities. Rumors are beginning to reach my ears. Maybe I hit him in the head somewhere when he fell into the lake.

Whatever, you should be glad that wasn't a bad change.

(Aside from whether he's happy or unhappy that he liked it because of it...)

"I'm busy for now. If you need anything, you should come..."

"So there's no way I can say that."

That was never the case once, but now Ray doesn't like Nadir. Out in front of Nadir, Ray is like a snake-disposed frog.

More or less, we could all be like that.

In the first place, no one among us can beat Nadir even if it is said to be a side group of His Royal Highness Prince Wang.

Brains are clear, eyebrows are brilliant, and besides sword arms are picky.

Heaven says it does not give two things, but only to Nadir, it should be said that it gives two things as opposed to three or four. It's about His Highness Al at best who can stand side by side with him on something.

That Your Highness is said to be the genius of one sword every hundred years on that one. Most of all, no matter how praiseworthy he is, the fact that he laughs off "I don't know what personal skill is, it's pointless in front of the quantity" is how his brother is.

"Sounds like a lot of fun, both of you."

I heard a chilling voice.

A voice echoes from the bottom of the permafrost.

Too gusty...... and I and Ray look back because it's too little to even hear the squeaking sound.

Absolutely zero glance at the flowing silver hair...... made it the king prince of Dardinia and was my main highness Nadir.

"Ah, ah, um..."

Ray, it's too frightening.

"It's not long to let you go, mainly, Ragfiledo-Eridian-yl-LegzersnowdillIltietsk-AltheidelExanidium"

You don't bite, you don't clog, you mouth my full name.

Whatever you say your full name is definitely harassment.

Anyway, it's a long surname on Hiji-kun, so I can't even say it wrong myself. I don't have a try. Probably the same with the other brothers. I don't remember myself, so I don't like my full name.

By and large, it is wrong for people with such long surnames to marry each other. Besides, he said he'd put something on his name or something.

I call myself Phil-Lynn because it's troublesome. Not the Earl Duke of Altheidel Exanidium or anything...... no title, nothing. It's just Phil-Lynn. The first person to start calling me that was Nadir, not any other.

"So, Your Highness... Phi, Phi, Phi-Lin, the..."

If you're going to follow me, at least don't bite. Now think about why you're defending yourself, Ray.

"Ah... Your Highness, you're in a good mood"

"It's not beautiful at all. How long have you been a busier person than me? Don't you think calling the Lord is a lot different as a way of getting close?

The most magnificent smile you can think of… From a distance, it doesn't even seem gracious. but they show it at close range and they're making a cold taste attack. I never make that mistake right now. That is an indisputable sneer.

But I can't help but be his brother-in-law when you're around like this.

"I'm sorry. Thank you for your time."

In a rude and polite tone, I will thank you for what you have taught me about court manipulation.

"Totally."

Yeah, and I laugh with my nose. What do you dislike about me, it doesn't make any sense to this guy.

Soon, this guy became well suited for these grand, disgusting words and actions. If you put it well, you can also say that it has something called majesty on it.

(... although it used to be different)

"... you're so unhappy not to see the princess."

I was stared at silently.

... Wow, it's a star.

But this guy won't talk about it.

Nadir is always committed to keeping his private will out of his mouth.

When I was a child, I taught a lesson that a guardian was dismissed in a casual word of his own.

(Come on, I think you can be a little selfish...)

It hasn't always been the case with this guy who boasts iron wall self-control. By and large, the market is set when royal and aristocratic children grow up selfish. It's obvious because the surroundings are particularly relaxed.

Well, Nadir was barely selfish in nature from an early age. A child so shy and delicate that his surroundings worry him, he probably would think that the only person who knows Nadir today is someone else if he saw him as a kid.

He seldom claimed himself strongly, but he was so sweeter than he was in the present tender His Royal Highness Prince Wang mode.... Though Nadir had already become the now 'Kind King His Royal Highness' when I realized it.

I feel a lot of responsibility for that.

Whoever it is, I'm the only one who should have stood by Nadir.... Now, though it's an old story, it's just a saying.

"Hey, look at your face."

"No reason to visit"

"What?"

Though nominally, I wonder why my husband is going to see his wife.

"You won't have to go even though you don't need it.... If that's what you're saying, just finish the investigation."

(uhh, snake)

I thought it would be nice to see your face on business.

"... here, it's miscalculated"

Nadir just casually looks at the writing and points to it as much as in the paperwork.

"........................... you're serious"

Give me back my time fighting this pile of paperwork of mine.

I just looked at it and I don't know how. You genius scholar. You do it from the beginning.

Whenever this happens, I think a scholar is some kind of incapacitated person.

It may also be natural because the acquisition of vast amounts of knowledge of history and imperial ancient languages and divine languages spanning roughly five thousand years from the founding of the Unified Empire to the present day is a prerequisite.

It's a common story that you can't keep up with classes, even if you run out of luck your whole life and get into college poorly. Just passing the college entrance exam is exempt from the paper test for the official registration exam, so that's just amazing.

I'm the type.

I was an inferior student who had finally completed the elementary curriculum over five years while being disgusted by Sannadil. They are elite in general society, even if they are inferior in college.

Completion of the elementary curriculum confers considerable status, regardless of identity origin. I am now one of His Royal Highness the King's "consuls".

But Nadir isn't. Nadir is a 'special' person even in a college with all those different abilities.

"So why did Esarcal's coup d 'état cause us to flip the books of disaster aid supplies... well, we discovered fraud..."

A week ago, there was a coup d 'état in neighbouring Esarcal.

The current king of Parent Dardinia has been shut down and his brother, the Grand Duke, reigns. At the same time, we have unilaterally broken the Treaty of Friendship with Dardinia by declaring the standing of the princess of Istra, one of the five powers.

It was this morning that the messenger came to Dardinia, but we already knew that three days ago.

Because the Duke of Grachez, with whom Esarcal and the Reception are in contact, was informed almost the same day and sent his messenger to the royal palace at the same time as he summoned his soldiers immediately.

"It's not free to move the army, Ragfil, Erdoelidian."

Shit, you're still upset.

... but do you still move the army?

"Well, I know."

"Put the disaster aid supplies we're stockpiling on a portion of the Expeditionary Force's food. That way, we could replace the warehouse supplies and correct the fraud."

".................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Simply moving the army...... it's Nadir that doesn't end. His calculations simply do not amount to +2. Maybe Nadir's ear had been filled with wrongdoing for a long time.

If you say it often, you may say it's a super rational spirit, but it's just impoverishment, to my mind.

"... so that we can both come to the conference room when we're done calculating that"

"It'll take an hour to pinpoint the exact quantity."

"Then you can finish it in an hour. Theon will arrive by then."

"... even Archbishop Gittis"

"Oh."

Nadir nods small.

By "Scion," he means his half-brother, Archbishop Gittis, under Scion. Under Zion has abandoned his status as a prince and now supports Nadir from the shadows as Archbishop of the Rutian Orthodox Church, the Dardinian state religion.

Another half-brother, His Highness Al, assisted the military side as division chief of the Central Division, so I can say that it is quite balanced.

His Highness Al's failure to enter the Kingsguard was due to Nadir's recommendation. As a duty of Prince Wang, Nadir himself, for a time, had his place in Kingsguard, and he probably did not acknowledge the need to thicken the pipe any further because he had a disappointing grip on Kingsguard at that time.

His Highness Al is almost at his highest rank as a martial officer. Your Highness Zion... No, under Zion. Any of them will be the Supreme Cardinal of the Lutian Orthodox Church.

The Supreme Cardinal, in his highest position in the Rutian Orthodox Church, glances at the first generation, always with the Royal Cardinal of Dardinia in his place.

Rutianism is roughly divided into two factions, the Western Church and the Orthodox Church, but these two have undergone radically different religion-like changes after division and after a long time.

That would be the easiest to understand, the name of the Supreme Leader and his presence.

The Western Church, dressed as the Pope, assumes that the beloved Son of the Mother Goddess and the Pope's authority, which they claim, are above the secular monarch.

He is actively intervening in politics as it is the Pope who bestows that position on the Monarch, and most of the Empire and countries close to it make the Western Church their national religion.

In the Empire, when the Emperor was crowned, so much so that the Pope was supposed to give him his emperor's war.

In contrast, the Orthodox Church… is sometimes described as the Eastern Church vis-à-vis the Western Church, but rightly referred to as the Rutian Orthodox Church, abbreviated as the Orthodox Church…, there is a clear secularism and the monarch is assumed to be the greatest asylum and supreme authority of the Church, which was granted royalty by the Mother Goddess.

The head of the priesthood is the Supreme Cardinal, which speaks of the Cardinal who governs St. Philsius Cathedral, the main mountain of the Orthodox Church. But the Supreme Cardinal is not in the position of being at the apex of the Western Church like the Pope. If you insist, it's the summariser of the Cardinals.

"Esarcal's national religion is Orthodox."

I was convinced of that.

The Dardinian state religion is also Orthodox.

This can also be taken for granted because when the Church once tried to intervene in Dardinian succession to the throne, it was Orthodox that Dardinia rejected the Church and at that time was able to divide it from the Western Church.

In a way, it is no mistake to say that it was Dardinia who made the Orthodox Church.

At the beginning of the Orthodox Church, Dardinia was the only one who made Orthodox a state religion.

In recent years, however, more countries have begun to convert to Orthodox Churches.

I think this is simply because Orthodox Church is often convenient for monarchs.

Religion can be a major force that cannot be ignored politically.

Esarcal made Orthodox a state religion when he was king three generations ago.

Unlike the Western Church, which harshly oppresses all other religions as heresy as well as the Orthodox Church, it admits to believing in other religions. King Esalkal of Time converted himself to proclaim a change in the state religion, saying that tolerance was worthy of the state religion.

Then about fifty years, Esarcal, more than 80% of the people are Orthodox followers.

"... Has the church said anything?"

Atheist Ray slightly frowned.

Though I do not believe that under Zion, imitates no enemies of Nadir, the Orthodox Church and Dardinia are not entirely united, even if they are deeply bonded. The Orthodox Church will have its own thoughts.

"That's not like there's no reason to put your shoulders here and there."

"Reason"

"... Cardinal Ragnasia, who happened to be visiting the Royal Palace, is said to be imprisoned with the King. I've been asking you to help me."

"... I see"

Cardinal Ragnacia is one of three Cardinals in Esarcal. Faithful and strong in speech in the Cardinals.

"Already from Philsius, to Vilua, capital of Esarcal, an envoy has been sent"

The main mountain of the Orthodox Church is the Cathedral of St. Philsius in the ancient capital of Dardinia, Al Faddle.

Dardinian humans are rarely aware that the Orthodox Church began as the national religion of Dardinia, so it is believed in other countries as well.

However, there are many international students from neighbouring countries who define Orthodox religion as national religion in the seminary of Philsius, and the parishes of the Orthodox Church are not caught in the framework of the State. There are different lines drawn from politics, for better or worse.

For the liberation of the hostages.

I ask.

"Naturally.... The Church will never abandon Cardinal Lagunasia. You could be the best hostage I've ever had."

'The Orthodox Church does not intervene in politics' - that is the principle.

But that's not why I'm indifferent to politics.

The presence of the Church also changes depending on the presence of the power of time. The Church calls it self-defense, and it has its own information network, so much so that in some cases it may hire mercenaries.

"I guess I'll let you go."

"You won't be able to. He's a cautious man who can't even make the decision to kill him while taking his throne. Free hostages, etc."

"... it's a mistake not to kill."

"At least if you don't kill the Kings, the coup will fail."

"Why"

"For as long as the King, the King's Prince and his children are alive, no matter how much the Grand Duke proclaims himself to be king, it will only be a false name"

"..................... what do you mean"

"You can replace it with our country and think about it. Father...... can Uncle Najek's reign be recognized for removing His Majesty Gladys IV? No matter how claustrophobic, as long as I or Al, who have the right to inherit the throne above myself, live, that throne is only provisional. Just think about it and you'll see."

And the more time passes, the lower the success rate of the coup, he says.

"Why"

"I can see Ala.... you have to crush all of the other options while you're stunned and out of your thinking skills to keep your position rocky. It's like when everyone realizes there's no other option."

A coup is a battle against time, Nadir says.

"It's already out of time in that sense. Now, even if you kill him, you just add notoriety, and you're out at a time when you've already passed it on to other countries that it's a coup in the first place.... It's not good to have Istra's princess as queen."

'Cause you're gonna have a hippo.'

"There's that too. But by bringing in the forces of Istra, we give the anti-Grand Duke a reason for the country to unite."

You shouldn't pronounce yourself posteriorly, twinkling like a fool.

"Even if we are in contention within, we can unite against a common external enemy... there will be enough talk to sweep and throw that away"

"... you will succeed, coup..."

If I'd listened to Nadir's mouth, I kind of thought that if it was this guy, I would definitely succeed.

"Does it make sense for me to have a coup? in the present state."

Our king is His Majesty Gladys IV.

But when I say supreme power, it will be Nadir that people think of.

Both politics and the army are held by Nadir in one hand.

"…………… no"

In the first place, this is Prince Wang.

You don't have to do anything. Sooner or later, the king's throne will roll.

I can't believe this guy never thought he wanted to be like that...

Nadir looked bored with my answer.