Fake Cinderella

"... well, it's a long old story, but you have to listen to it."

There is no time left, His Majesty laughs.

"Perhaps you won't have time to talk to Prince Wang"

Your Highness will be at or around the border right now.

We haven't heard from the war yet, so the return is still ahead of us. It depends on the situation whether it is a month or two away.

I wondered what it meant to not have time, and then I realized that I was sick of that complexion.

"Sire?"

Without having to ask, Your Majesty must have figured out what he wanted to hear.

I told him first with a soft grin.

"The rest of my life's due in less than a month."

It was a gentle tone. It was like a tone of casual voice telling me that tomorrow's weather was clear, and I didn't know what they were saying for a moment.

"Why,"

I'm convinced by my flat voice, somewhere in my head, oh yeah.

"It was a year ago..., it was a while ago... I felt pain in my stomach... The diagnosis of the court doctor showed that I had a tumor that was not good for my stomach. Just enough to know you're touching it. When I started spitting blood, I was told that it would not last for three months. That's when I decided to make my last bet."

His Majesty gently lifts his neck, and looks far away. I don't know what you were looking at...... it seems far from the other side and its eyes are far away everywhere. Maybe it was, like, my unknown past.

Those eyes have colors that make me feel like I'm going to miss something.

"... to end it?

"That's right. I suppose the danger was more imminent than ever, because I was coming up with it. They are sometimes astonishingly sharp that I don't even know their name"

They… the people who will be His Majesty's hands and feet. But to His Majesty, they are only a group called them. At the end of those people, there might have been someone from El Lucia or, alternatively, the soup number of that Elzevelt castle.

Something similar to pity soaks up my chest when I think of them not leaving anymore.

His Majesty was told to play, but there is a life lost in that play... and I don't know what to do with it.

I have no right to blame you, nor can I bring you to justice.

At best, all I can do is remember.

"... Eventually, as the doctor had said, the tumor began to harden up gradually and seemed to have a little bit of the same thing elsewhere. I was in a hurry. I thought I was going to die before I could settle this."

But in time, His Majesty laughs. I couldn't smile.

My head turns dizzy.

Tumors and lumps in the stomach...... is it stomach cancer?

I don't have much of that kind of medical knowledge.

I'm not sure about the standard of health care in this world, but for what I'm hearing this rhetoric, it doesn't seem very well developed.

"Finally, I threw up blood six months ago...... I have lived three months longer from the deadline for my life that was cut off. I thought my obsession was a big deal, but the other day, the samurai told me. Yes, I think it's a month away. I hear it's not a good idea that they're getting fewer and fewer."

"... no..."

Your Majesty will die?

Finally, I understood the fact blurred.

"All I know is Euria and the doctor."

"Why not?!

Your Majesty says that you do not know the other children, nor the other queens.

"It was a life that never stayed. I didn't take any of the rest of my hopes... at least I want to die in the way I think I do when I die"

I didn't know what to say.

No consolation or encouragement would reach His Majesty... I thought it was pointless. In the first place, I don't even know what to say in this situation. It reminds me of how little I recognize things.

Thirty-three years of life experience is also completely useless.

"The rest, so far, has repeated a slight resistance... which now makes no sense at all. Rather, it can be said that everything was behind it. I kept losing till the end... but I don't feel bad about losing."

(Though I don't think I won very much)

I just got angry and said it, but it seems His Majesty needed that word.

"I lost too, but so did Prince Wang"

"Huh?"

"Because I guess so. I didn't even predict this ending."

I laugh in the back of my throat.

"No, but it's Your Highness..."

"It may have been in some way but it could have been in the prediction range until we got out. And I might have predicted again that I would face to face with Euria. But... leaving Euria and facing me... I would have thought it was impossible, even if I had thought about it"

"Why is that?

Is it my desire that Your Highness should know anything?

"I know I love you more than anyone. You would have thought I wouldn't imitate anything to suggest from myself that I was the killer. And even if I had expected it to be infinitely closer to the truth, I would no longer have expected it to even jump over and get here."

I love you, the word is supposed to be said against me, but His Majesty's eyes follow the shadow of someone who is not me.

"It's delightful... you know, a man who's never failed or anything like that, the Empire, the Esarcal... and a man who's rolled everything on this continent in its palm, including universities and churches, has been hit by fifteen younger young girls"

"Your Highness must not have lost."

If it had sounded obstinate, it was because, even though it had been so disconnected, I thought that His Majesty actually understood the most about His Highness.

(Probably something I don't understand)

I didn't grow up in this world, and I don't think I can say for the rest of my life that I understand being king or royalty.

I know what His Highness said and what His Majesty said.

The pride of Her Royal Highness the Lady of Euria and her willingness to place a bet on Her Majesty, although I know what it means, can only empathize for a moment. It's not just Altilier. I don't think that's the most important thing.

"No, that's no match for that, you'd think."

His Majesty had a great time.

I take a small sigh.

The 3 o'clock bell at dawn was ringing in the distance.

3: 00 am...... It's usually definitely time to be in your dreams.

Yet I don't have time to feel drowsy.

"We have to hurry to get back before dawn."

His Majesty lowered his laugh and opened his mouth.

That was long before I was born, and also back then when this country had just been created.

"If you ask the beginning of what happened in the first place and what caused it... it would be because of the formation of this country called Dardinia.

But, directly, that was the circumstance of the birth of the Fourth Queen Eleanor earlier in Thieh. If you say it without adornment, you can say that Eleanor's mother has betrayed this country. "

His Majesty turns a blind eye to the altar, and then, look at me and continue. The noise of busy footsteps bothered me badly.

Your Majesty may still be lost on something too...... it's not like a poor slack, but I'm a little concerned about the sound of it treading firmly. I guess it sounds extra because the surroundings are quiet.

"Eleanor's mother is Elizabeth, the two princesses of the Duke of Elsevelt. A direct Duke princess with a mother a princess who was descended from the royal family and was expected to be married to the royal family.

It is implicitly understood that the Queen of the Duke of Elsevelt will be a princess. And it is also an implicit understanding that the Duchess Princess of Elsevelt will marry the royal family.

It is a promise for our nation to survive, and it has been kept secret… but Elizabeth has broken it "

It had a pale tone.

"Elizabeth fell in love when she was about her age. Like a fever...... or to love like a storm.... The man Elizabeth fell in love with was Leafid's son.

Later he became the Grand Duke, but only the Grand Duke of a weak small country. I'm not the kind of person who could marry that.

That one, I didn't realize I was Elsevelt. I guess I never thought about why I've been taken care of. That's why we had such a hostile act. "

The hateful colors make me want to lag a little behind in my voice, in that tone.

If I wasn't sitting in a chair, I'd be absolutely sure I wanted to stay back.

"Yet. We couldn't fail to acknowledge it. To protect that child's rights."

Indeed, the children born to the Grand Duchess Elizabeth were two of the previous generations, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and Lady Eleanor, and the current Grand Duchess was supposed to be his grandson. My predecessor, His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, had died early, and now I think Lilia told me that it was only His Royal Highness the Grand Duke and I who would draw Elizabeth's blood.

(er, it seemed like he was going to be a pigeon...)

Although the genealogy is a little vague or suspicious in my memory, I am certain that I am blood related.

"With the peripheral nations annexed to the Empire, only Leafit remains independent only because our country assists. But I don't need this anymore. Depends on your relationship with the Empire, but sooner or later Leafid will be our territory"

"... what does that mean?

Is it a declaration of territorial annexation or, alternatively, a declaration of conquest?

"Now that Elizabeth's dead, Leafid doesn't need any help."

The Grand Duchess of Elizabeth had a long life, and died in the spring of the previous year.

Called "Leafid's Spring Goddess," he said he was enchanted around him with that soft smile until the end.

"Why did you take Elizabeth so far?

I asked, in a tone that I had not always said that I had provided assistance because of Master Elizabeth.

"Because Elizabeth is Elsevelt."

You say it as a matter of course, but it has a voice that seems resentful.

How much does this person hate the name Elsevelt?

"And that's my royal secret, Thie."

His Majesty's eyes bring a strong light.

"The Royal Secret..."

"If I find out about this, you won't get away with it. Is that okay with you?

"I don't mind."

I sneer.

I'm not feeling anything else, and I was able to answer instantly because I didn't mean to run away from it from the beginning.

(Because I stand next to His Highness)

…………

But Your Majesty is hard to talk to.

Can't you think together, there's something I can't tell you and you're wondering what to do with it...

"Sire, first of all, I'll tell you what I realized, so let me know if I'm wrong"

"... tee..."

This place should be guided from me. I have a lot to ask... but time is limited.

"All this time, I've wondered. It's about Elsevelt's relationship with the royal family. In the words of His Majesty just now, I think I've gained some certainty about that… I repeat to you in order to organize the conversation."

My study had lots of maps and lineage diagrams along with books.

Two of them...... There was a writing in the royal lineage diagram and the Elzevelt lineage diagram.

The red line under the name was the princess of Elzevelt, who married the royal family. The blue line is the princesses who married Elsevelt from the royal family. Royal lineage diagrams and Elzevelt's lineage diagrams were almost a repeat of the same color scheme.

"The royal lineage diagram always lists the righteous queen. Elsevelt, called the Queen's House… it meant exactly what it said. No king has Elsevelt for his mother or his wife."

"Lagrace II"

His Majesty tells the name of a king several generations ago.

"Sure, his mother was a princess of Grachez, but that mother was a princess of Elzevelt. And the First Queen was royal. but my paternal grandmother was a princess and my maternal grandmother was a princess of Elsevelt. A generation. Yes, but I think it was almost as thick of blood as Elzevelt."

"Yes."

"The immediate Duchess Princess of Elsevelt will first become king and wife of the Crown Prince, be sure. And if there is a princess after the second, it will marry the royal family or the other three dukes. … As far as the genealogy chart shows, Princess Elizabeth was the only one who married her outside"

"Oh, you're right"

"And for the most part, the child born of Princess Elsevelt will be placed on the throne. If the Duchess Princess did not bear a child, or if the child is incompatible as king, the first child born to the Queen of another house will be placed on the throne...... but is that really the princess of another house?

The question can be seen by looking at the full pre-marital name of the person who became the Mother of the Nation. The surname of the unmarried princess is Mother's Surname = Father's Surname. So few have Elzevelt in their mother's surname, and given the opposite of royal blood, a second Elzevelt...... yes. What is this, but isn't it Elzevelt on the table?

"Why would you think that?

"Inheritance law. Usually the eldest child born of a formal marriage should be the first in inheritance rights. But the royal family doesn't. The royal law that is hidden from us determines whether that inheritance is correct. And, more or less, the children conceived by the Duchess of Elsevelt overturn the order. As if the blood of Elzevelt were the reason for the throne's succession"

I ask His Majesty with my gaze.

I wonder why.

"Is that all you noticed?

Apparently His Majesty is not willing to answer that alone.

"… there is another"

So I have no choice but to take the last bill.

"What is it?

This is a little vague and unsure. But the important thing is to say that out of the ordinary.

"Only girls are given preferential treatment. This much blood exchanged, even said to be the spare of the royal family, in the dark ages when the immediate royalty cut off… it was the Duke of Ferdis family man who later became Lantis I.... why did he take the throne by subjecting the royalties with Dardier in their surname... isn't that because his wife was the Duke Princess of Elsevelt?

"Oh...... almost full score, tee, great"

His Majesty slapped his hand. Step on your feet. Act as if you're a drunk in an illbehaved cheap tavern.

"I suppose so. You were right. Lantis I was on the throne because he had Elsevelt as his wife. Elzevelt is the only girl who's ever had that blood."

"The blood?

"That's right. … Elzevelt's first generation, on the genealogy chart, is the younger brother of the Queen of the Founding Kings. But in our perception, the first generation of Elsevelt means Her Royal Highness the Queen. The first Duke of Elsevelt took as his wife the princess who gave birth to Her Majesty the Queen... this is the second generation. A third generation is a princess born to a second generation princess."

"Thinking in the maternal system," he said?

"That's right. In a man, sometimes the blood breaks... before he knows it."

Right. If this is all the royal money, that could have happened along the way.

"The House of the Duke of Elzevelt is meant to protect the princesses who are true Elzevelts. So Elsevelt is not about the throne. This is also the will of the Founding King. Elsevelt says it's a royal spare, but it's a human being who doesn't know things."

Excuse me. I believed that. I'll never put it in my mouth again though.

"And true Elzevelt's blood was thin. I already knew that from the beginning..."

Female, so it would be natural compared to male. Births are still dangerous in every country as well as in Dardinia. Not to mention being a bloody aristocrat makes it even more dangerous.

"And for generations the blood had produced only one human being to inherit it it."

Oh, really? Now I finally get it.

"... and you're the last of them right now"

"That's right, Thie."

His Majesty laughed quietly.

Princess Elizabeth, Lady Eleanor, Princess Ephinia, and I… from my grandmother to my mother. Mother to daughter...... Elzevelt to be protected and inherited in the maternal system.

The original scope of the name seems to be much narrower.

"Well, was Princess Elizabeth the only Elsevelt at the time when this started?

"There was another one to be exact...... no, there were two. She is the sister of Elizabeth. It was Grecia, the First Queen, and her aunt, the Duchess of Grachez. But they did not have a daughter… And at that time, the Duchess of Grachez was old, and Lady Grecia was of difficult age to conceive. Therefore, you can say that it was essentially just Elizabeth."

"Does that have to be uninterrupted in the maternal system for a generation?

"No... a maiden recognized in the Founding Festival ritual is considered eligible for it. Even so, if I were to borrow the words of that earlier, it would seem that only a very small part of those with a 'blood intensity that could hardly be called elsevelt'"

We don't even know what's around here, Your Majesty says.

"So we attach the utmost importance to protecting those... the blood muscles of true Elzevelt. They will definitely open the door."

"Open the door?

I am not sure what His Majesty has mentioned.

"Elzevert is originally referred to as El Ze Velut. Do you know what that means?"

"Princess and key...... no, princess of key?

It's "princess (el)" and "key (verut)" in the old imperial language.

I had never heard a word like that before, so I answered it off.

"Correct. We call our daughter, who went through that ritual, the 'princess of the key'. That's the source of the last name Elzevelt, and it's what it meant. … it comes from opening the door"

"Door?"

"Yes... there is a sealed door that can only be opened to the princess of the key."

"What?"

"Three in this royal palace and two in the basement. Then there are just two places that are also found in university cities. It has also been found to be in the ruins of Turfid. The deepest part of the Imperial ruins is more or less the door to their sealing."

doors that only we can open.

"Why does only Elzevelt open that door?

"... come on. I don't know how that works.

One theory says that the door was sealed by the Fairy King. The fairy king's seal is all over the world.... cannot be opened to any inflexible soldier, and no matter what you do, you can never destroy it. But if the princess of the key touches it, it opens by the way.... because the first queen was said to be a fairy princess. "

I see. They also have a reason for fairy tales.

"So does the door open as soon as I touch it?

"No. It takes rituals. It is made possible by going through the ritual of the Founding Festival"

I didn't know it meant that... I thought it was just a ceremony when I asked Nadi.

I mean, how does that work?

Because there's magic in this world, or any wonder like that, and that solves it! There is nothing convenient like that.

For example, if you're looking for something in my memory that's close to it, it's an automatic door with some kind of authentication system.

And some kind of authentication system... neither advisory authentication, nor speech authentication, nor retinal authentication should be of personal identification, nor should they discern lineage.

(Perhaps registering personal identification during the Founding Festival ritual? You're intertwining that with blood muscle? No, too strict for that)

The more limited it is to connections in the maternal system only, the more strictly adhered to is the lineage 'Elzevelt'. If one generation leaves it, it's basically unacceptable. So many exceptions… unless there is certification at the Founding Festival ritual….

The truth is, if you want to do so much, I thought you could give that role away to Nadi.

Because I thought that would be fine if I did it again the following year. But when it comes to possibly not just a festive ceremony, there's no way you're going to take my place in one place.

"Was Princess Elizabeth completing that ritual?

"Oh. Right.... It was a relaxing event just to think that the princess of the key was in another country, etc. My father does not know how many times he tried to kill Elizabeth.

Each time, the Duke of Elsevelt pleaded. Eleanor still needs her mother. After Eleanor's weaning, help Elizabeth out of this old age, he said. And after his death, the son wished. My great-grandfather and grandfather. "

My great-grandfather and grandfather had a good understanding. But I don't understand him at all, Your Majesty said.

"You don't know that one."

It was an odd look.

Somewhere in a sarcastic grin comes a feeling of pity.

"I do not deny that it is I who is most responsible for this state of affairs now, but above all, it is Elizabeth who… did not fulfil her own responsibilities. And it was her daughter, Thie, who was to be paid that bump...... not you. It was Eleanor, who became my father's fourth queen. Eleanor was ordained to be married to my royal family from the moment of her birth in order to fulfill the duties that her mother did not fulfill.

To put it badly, Elizabeth sacrificed my son for happiness and betrayed his country.... My father never acknowledged her return home. Naturally, the very beginning of this problem, which betrayed the country and continues to this day, was in love with my little girl for the first time. "

It was an angry mind. It's not the same time you talk about my father. Hatred toward my father is inward, but this anger toward Princess Elizabeth is outward.

(I guess that's why this anger is not as a private person but as a public person...... as a king)

I am in the position of a victim, but something similar has been said.

(The Duke of Elsevelt wants to welcome an unidentified woman to his wife, but he sold his only daughter to the royal family for it,)

Even with the title, the people see Luciera as not being able to be the Duke's wife.

I thought, one way or another, His Majesty had covered me, and that was right in a way, but I also found that word that I sold it was right again.

('Cause you redeemed all your rights about me)

I couldn't help but exhale.

"What's wrong with you?

"No, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth, my father, my parents tend to walk the road for love."

Though it might be a bit arrogant to call that a mistake.

"Right.... Elzevelt may actually be a passionate clan"

I think Elsevelt, whom His Majesty has now spoken, will take the surname of his parents.

When they say Elsevelt, they're wondering if they're talking about the princess of the key, or if they're talking about her last name.

"Speaking from his age, Eleanor should have been my brother... the First Prince's Lady, who was Prince Wang... but Prince Wang refused. Why should I welcome a woman with blood from another country as my concubine, separated from the Queen without a problem... he regretted it a lot later."

Either way, Eleanor was beautiful, and His Majesty narrows his eyes as if to trace his memory.

"She was ordained to enter our royal family at birth, and both the nanny, the maid and the woman were seconded by Dardinia, all raised in Dardinian style. Eleanor decided to stay in Elzevelt in the summer to avoid heat. That's where I met Eleanor... and Thie."

Sleepy voice. Its sweet sound, called tee, shivers the zokri and spine.

Scary, but overlapping your hands with your chest, confirming the presence of what is important there. That's just it, strangely calmed down.

And see Your Majesty.

Somewhere far away from that look...... do you remember what Lady Eleanor looked like at that time?

(Certainly in that way, Lady Eleanor is more of an Elzevelt princess than a Duchess Leafit)

"We met not so often, but we shared some of our childhood memories. It was fun...... I only knew Dardinia so I liked Tee's story about Leafit"

I guess it's a happy memory. His Majesty smiles small.

"Maybe that was the same thing for Thie. Thieh preferred to talk about the king's capital from me.... it didn't take long for us to fall in love"

It was a happy time, His Majesty snaps.

"I asked His Majesty. He wants Eleanor as his queen. He said he loved her."

I didn't think I'd be allowed to do that, etc. and His Majesty laughs at himself with a mockery in his mouth.

"I was a prince in the belly of the righteous queen, even though I was fifth. Besides, my mother was the princess of Elsevelt. My sister, who gave birth to the first and second princes... to me she is my aunt... but she is a direct duke princess who married the royal family again because of her early death. That's why I never had to wish from a very young age."

The righteous prince of blood above the belly of the righteous queen... it would have promised happiness that would not be lacking one thing.

"But... I was not forgiven. Father said I couldn't do it. Eleanor said he was going to make it the Crown Princess. I pleaded. Eleanor complained many times that he wanted a tea.

I thought there was no difference between Prince Wang and me. I just thought you were born in a different order. That's why I said I'd do anything.

... but my father just let it go cold. "That is not in the vessel that holds the throne," he said. I knew that. There was no point in correctness of blood muscles or anything like that. Anyway, at the time, there were four princes who drained Elsevelt's blood... and I was at the bottom of it.... In the first place, my father wanted a princess, not a prince. That's why they both married Elsevelt's princess. "

His Majesty's expression grieves.

"I didn't know that at the time, I never thought about taking the throne or anything, I was just growing up spoiled. I only hoped that it would soon become the Grand Duke and open up from a few official events..."

I didn't learn one thing. and His Majesty let himself be.

"I wasn't wanted to be involved in politics or anything. What I was asked to do was support the royal family as royalty… its most important role is to retain blood. He had been asked by royalty or four public households to marry his wife and to raise a blood-muscular righteous royalty who would support his country. I said I would study. If you can get a tea, learn politics and do more for this country than anyone else. But my father didn't believe me. Now that I think about it...... how much I've learned, it wouldn't have ended up like Nadir. My father must have known that."

I thought His Highness was special, but I didn't say it.

Because where I said it, it did not comfort His Majesty at all.

"But I pleaded again. Because the first prince refused without ever seeing the face of Thie, and he floated in the universe."

Damn it. I step on the floor so hard.

I couldn't give up, and I heard a grunt.

I wondered that this one had such a passion, too.

"But I was rejected again. said the Father King. I can't protect you. At that time, I didn't know what the word meant. And we escaped... we thought we could live anywhere together."

"Did you run off?

I never heard of that.

Was it decided not because His Majesty was on the throne?

"Running down, it wasn't enough to be called. They brought him back in just three days. It wasn't even obvious that me and Thie weren't here.

However, when I returned, it had been decided that Thie would be the Fourth Queen... and I was sent on an outing. For three years, I was not allowed to return to the king's capital. "

That was the most painful time, groans.

"And in the sky of the journey I heard that Thie died giving birth to a girl.... desperate. I told him I would never see him again... that I could never hear him again or even see him again. I wasn't even allowed to attend the funeral. So I decided."

"What,?

I think I know this answer.

"You must know that."

Your majesty shoots me straight.

"Marriage to Her Royal Highness Lady Euria, is it?

"Yes, Thie, I knew you knew that."

Fevered eyes add radiance.

It was just as unlikely that Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Elzevelt would marry Her Royal Highness, a direct prince, without Dardinian blood.

It was rumored to have been forgiven because he was the fifth prince, but it was something that would never have been admitted.

This is already how Elsevelt was a problem before.

To put it plainly, marriage to Her Royal Highness the Lady of Euria meant the same thing to Her Majesty as marriage.

Precious marriage.

I speak of marriages with vastly separate identities, but I am not saying that this makes His Royal Highness Euria's status low.

Elzevert...... For the Dardinian royal family, which has been aimed at preserving the blood of the princess of the keys, and at stacking that blood firmly with their own, instead of shedding Elzevert's blood, to the best of their knowledge, His Highness Euria, who has not even shed Dardinian nobility's blood, is that it was entirely out of the question and outside their values.

Considering that His Highness Euria is now revered by everyone as queen and naturally gathers reverence as queen from among the nobles, I wonder how much hard work and effort he has put into it.

If His Majesty had never set foot on the throne, I am sure that from His Highness Nadir's generation, even if he had been ostensibly encountered with the Royal Duke's family, he would not have been regarded as sufficiently thick in blood to be able to call himself the Dardinian royal.

"I wanted to abandon being royal... but I couldn't... in exchange I made him admit to marrying Euria. Now I couldn't, but I thought my children could escape the blood neck tree.

You're right, Thie. It's a good way to say Elsevelt, where the royal family is on the table. The royal surname is no stranger to Elsevelt, but the former royal family and Elsevelt had close blood... until the time of my father the king "

"But the fact that His Majesty followed the throne changed his appearance."

"That's right. Originally, I couldn't have put it on the throne... so marrying Euria was my whisper then I could... but it was the biggest resistance.

I wanted to free my blood from this country. Even if I couldn't help myself, I wanted to put up with the fact of that resistance alone... there was nothing I could do in exchange for losing the tea, but I was going to end my life with the satisfaction of freeing our children from the cage of bloodlines full of fences in this country "

But I was a bad man, His Majesty says.

"Bad luck in between, rather than... that much hope, pleading, wanting the whole body spirited but not getting the crown prince came around to me. I thought it was ironic.

When I wished I had that status, it was then that I gave up completely and rolled in, even though I was rejected without even wanting to.... because the fools killed each other with women. "

Gun, guns, and His Majesty rattles his legs. As if to rub that anger.

This idiot must mean your first and second half-brothers, who had the right to inherit the first and second thrones at the time.

(Phil Lynn said it's still a big scandal for reasons that won't be revealed, but killing each other with women in mind. Then I certainly can't say)

"... Isn't His Royal Highness the Third Prince falling horse?

"It's a fact that hasn't been made public, but the woman the idiots worked with was her older brother's fiancée. Because of this, I assumed that Prince Wang's minister had arranged for his brother to kill each other, and worked on the horse. As a result, my brother fell horseback and died. You can't be wrong that all the causes are killing each other with women."

To His Majesty, it seems that only His Royal Highness the Third Prince, his half-brother, is the subject of an honorable call with his brother.

"That year was just 'a year of demons' for Dardinia... even for me, when the status of Prince Wang rolled in. I have, over and over again, solidified. I didn't even lend my ear to the story, rather than the solids. I don't deserve to be king with Euria as my wife. I told you I wasn't a vessel on the throne with my father."

His Majesty's side, crushing, was astonishingly unholy.

"But my father, the king, was a calm man. I never told you to keep Euria away. If I told you that, you would have known I would never be on the throne. I'm not even talking about the person who said it now."

It is said that His Majesty is fierce in likes and dislikes. Maybe that's coming from something like this.

"That's why you turned around and followed me to the throne?

"They said they would recognize Euria. You can officially leave it to the First Queen."

"That's unusual, isn't it?

The Dardinian royal family attaches great importance to lineage.

Admitting that for a time equal to your marriage... it is a long thought to have His Royal Highness the First Queen of Euria, who is not even bleeding from the Dardinian aristocracy, instead of Elsevelt.

In the history of the Dardinian royal family, the queen without the blood of the Four Dukes… Her Royal Highness Euria is the only queen without the blood of Elsevelt.

"Exactly. My father was a few steps ahead of me... and I couldn't have done it from the start. I had been revealed my secret and could no longer refuse to be placed on the throne or receive other queens."

"Secret, is it?

What is the secret of the royal family other than the princess of the key?

"The Royal Secret...... and the Truth About Founding a Nation. The truth about the founding of the country belongs to the princess of the keys and to the backside. I had no choice but to lie down. I'm not strong. Since the founding of the country, I have been unable to cut off with my hands what has been connected to the cotton coalition. And... no matter how neglected, I was a prince. I was born a son of a king... responsible for this country. Couldn't get rid of it."

It's important, I thought.

Every word of His Majesty was a shard of truth.

"But I made my last resistance.... When I came to the throne, I said that if I were to recognize Nadir's standing son, I would be the king's son. I thought they would never forgive me, including my stubborn pedigree father. But... my father nodded. That's fine," he said.

I wanted to cry, and His Majesty dropped his shoulder.

"Even if the other queens had children, I would never have said that Prince Wang would only admit Nadir, but they also got to it... if I had children for my own daughters and sisters, I would never want that standing son. My whispering resistance ended in vain"

It was completely different from the stories that were being disseminated in the world.

'Cause wasn't His Majesty the King eyeing His Highness Nadir's excellence?

"No, sure enough to change my father's consciousness, who is a pedigree, or as much as the old men would expect, that was... Nadir was excellent"

I rejoice at the fact that His Highness's name came out of His Majesty's mouth, and that it is a compliment to His Highness.

"People who are allowed into college are some kind of psychic. Graduates, etc., are enough to be told that there is a whole library in their heads.

That may not be known because Prince Wang or Stazen are close, but Vera...... has enough brains to be told that species as people may be different, such as those who qualify for college graduation.

And even within a college full of people like that, Nadir was said to be a genius… in the first place, it was unprecedented, such as being allowed to enroll before the age of ten. "

They ask me that His Highness was more genius than I imagined, but still not pinned.

Wow! Though I think His Highness is His Highness.

"My father thought. Normally, Nadir doesn't deserve a throne. But what is the Dardinian royal family in the first place? and. My father was king of this country everywhere. My royal family thought it was meant to protect the princess of the key.... It was the conclusion of the then Father King that it was not only blood that protected the princess of the key.

The princess of the key at the time was Effinia. And my father thought I was the best fit to protect that Effinia. All I need is for my son, Nadir, to bury the abilities I lack. And Nadir has enough skill to protect the next key princess. If you don't mind admitting Nadir's standing son. "

"Didn't you have any objections?

"There it is. But the Fourth Duke was convinced. No one can overturn what the King and the Four Dukes agreed.... There have been two interruptions of direct royalty so far. Even then I have done so. The blood of the royal family and the blood of the four dukes is always there to protect the princess of the key. So it was stipulated that the first girl born of Effinia would definitely be Nadir's wife"

I am slightly dizzy at that fact that my marriage to Your Highness was decided from before I was born.

By the way, I don't have the energy to be happy that it's fate.

"What would you have done if you hadn't had a girl?

"It's the Second Queen for that. If a princess had not been born to be the queen of Nadir, Nadir would have been abandoned."

My body trembles when I blurt, and I hug myself.

"... Does Your Highness know?

"Well... it's about that, so maybe you know, maybe you don't. Either way, it doesn't matter now."

His Majesty said, "This is the queen of Nadir."

"That was just one 'princess of keys' in the world. and is a princess who gives Nadir the kingship of Dardinia"

You're with the founding myth, Your Majesty said.

"... the princess of the key is the one who gives the equals king."

"Yes."

I felt dizzy.

I don't know... if you say it in a movie or a novel or something, it's too much of a setup. I think one of them is enough.

"The royal family takes the princess of the key... only to protect her."

"... Your Majesty did not protect you"

With that, sarcasm is on my mouth.

But His Majesty only caught on with his mouth.

"That's not true either. I hurt him, but I protected him. It won't be zero deduction, though."

"I won't be."

I can tap a light mouth like this, and I'm wondering if I can do something about it anymore.

"Of the princess of the key… who is the first, the queen of the first king?

El Ze Vert...... Vert translates it as' key ', but it also used to mean' treasure '.

"Treasure" is what lies ahead of the unlocked "key". "Princess of Treasures"... I wonder if he thought of her as his treasure and the Founding King.

Though that's already the other side of history.

"Few things are told about the First King's Lady, who is said to be the fairy princess"

His Majesty grinned and opened his mouth wondering how far he had noticed.

"Yes."

That's why she's a fairy princess, I interpreted.

I don't have an identical identity, so I guess it's a fairy tale deception.

"But we know.... the founding king was interested in a country called Dardinia to protect her."

This is what it says at the beginning of the founding history.

"The founding king stood to protect the heart of the fairy princess, who lamented that the earth would be rough," he said.

History, huh? It's not a fairy tale or anything.

No fairy princess, everyone would think.

"The secret first queen's name is Altilier-Rutiane... there is no last name. She didn't need a surname or anything."

"Why is that?

My spine trembled.

There was something, something like a hunch.

"Because I was born of a clan that united this world… I couldn't help but feel the irony of destiny when I heard that Effinia had given it that name"

My spine was trembling.

The opposite is true. It was the exact opposite.

"Unite this world and clan" I know the rhetoric.

It's about the lost empire of unity.

"She...... Her Royal Highness Princess Altirier was the last direct empress of the Unity Empire. His name is always in the history books."

In the Empire, the direct empress is called His Highness the Princess. Only a princess born of the Fourth Queen is recognized as a direct empress. The Royal System of Dardinia has several similar systems because it partially incorporated that of the Unified Empire.

"The Last Empress......"

"That's right.... No matter how much that shameless empire calls itself the successor to the unified empire, that's just a nickname. It is nothing more than a selfish statement of a nation founded by an imperial nobleman of a gathering.

But Dardinia is different. I have correctly guarded the blood and keys of His Royal Highness the Last Empress to this day. We are the shadow knights who protect the princess of the key. "

His Majesty says we will not speak loudly of it.

Is it because His Majesty is actually excited about the unstoppable footsteps?

"Why is that?

"Dardinia was founded to protect the blood of the Imperial lineage. Never to succeed the Empire. I pay for the firepowder that comes down, but I don't bother selling fights. I don't care about names or anything. Because we have the key."

Does that mean taking more fruit than name?

"And because of the keys, the university is here."

"University, is it?

I felt unexpected.

"That's right. Well, ask Prince Wang about this. 'Cause I know that one a lot better."

It seemed to me that there was some color to tease me about, as His Majesty did.

"And remember one more thing."

"Yes."

I correct my posture. Because I thought it was important to say it that way on purpose.

"Prince Wang has no inheritance rights. Prince Wang's right to inherit comes from marrying him. That's why I said this country would have it, though. … now that Effinia is dead, it was only then that the throne of this country could be laid down"

"But that's not..."

"Only the Four Dukes know except the King. They are also the princesses of the keys. But that's what the Lord only knows. Even his offspring will not be informed until he takes up the position of Duke.... but if he does not become queen, Prince Wang will never hold the throne. Either of the twins takes the throne. But since it is not the right throne for our country, it will soon be broken."

From then on, my country slowly crumbles to doom.

His Majesty is still His Majesty the King. And I was surprised.

You call yourself incompetent. I thought you said what it was, but you're doing your King's job properly.

(Your Highness, I wonder if you knew)

So I think he always said that the burden of kings is not on us.

"His Royal Highness Prince Wang is the son of His Majesty..."

"Oh. I've never doubted that... I'm just saying that's what our country's national laws stipulate"

"... and His Royal Highness Prince Wang doesn't know that."

"Oh.... in the unlikely event that Prince Wang takes the throne, the son of Prince Wang will not inherit the throne except as such. Even if they are officially second queens."

"'There is no king without Elsevelt to his mother or his wife'"

I feel unconscious about the words that come up in my brain.

"That's right. No longer, Elsevelt was. He's just one. If you don't have a baby, this country will end. Try putting another woman's baby on the throne. That's civil unrest. We pride ourselves on the knighthood of the princess of the key. I'm not willing to protect anything but the blood of the princess of the key.... Well, if you're going to perish, I think you're going to perish. In other words, the end of this country lies ahead of us."

Why should I choose the end of this country or something?

"We created this country for Mamoru. … If there is no one left to befall, it will perish, but it makes sense"

His Majesty smiles softly.

"... I will not perish."

"Really?

"Yes.... child, I will make a lot! I can't yet, though!

This body is still young. That's why the wedding hasn't taken place yet.

... What the hell kind of shame play is that? I can't believe I made my own child declaration.

"That's exciting."

His Majesty laughs when he dulls.

I know I'm being teased, but I still can't stop blushing.

But I told him even more. Is this where you're going to retire?

"I don't care how many kids I make. Even Your Highness will surely cooperate. So, I'll give you a child's voice throughout this royal palace. As loud as they say."

"Oh no... that's amazing"

"So don't worry..."

I laughed. Then I told him to whisper.

"Grandpa."

I have a lot on my mind about this guy.

But I wanted you to remember the smile from your heart that wasn't the doll's face.

His Majesty opened his eyes and, so, laughed at me the same way.

"... it's time to go"

"Yes."

I got up, too.

Thank you softly with a slightly frozen body.

"... bye"

"Yes."

His Majesty stepped down the altar and set his foot against the door. They're coming back on the wrong route.

I watched after that.

Tears make you look like that.

I couldn't help it.

Yes. There's nothing more we can do.

No one can do anything.

Because the end, already, was decided a long time ago.

What His Majesty had decided at that time when he started making his last bet.

I just made up my mind.

It's supposed to end in His Majesty's death. I just forced it to be now.

I think this is good. On the other hand, I'm also wondering if this is good.

(Yeah. Now, that's good)

Things flow towards it if you decide it's the end, even if it's a forced end.

I think even His Majesty had a bright face.

I do not know what will happen to Her Royal Highness, but I am sure he will stay close to His Majesty to the end.

It's not like what changed.

Yet something did end up in me, and something started.

So I give you a straight face.

I don't need a puppet princess bullshit anymore.

"... Phil-Lynn? Are you there?

I call to darkness.

There was a small noise with Conn, and Phil-Lynn appeared from the shadow of the altar.

"Princess, you're going to kill me! Hey, you, you don't like me, do you? I guess so!

Why is His Majesty creeping? I didn't hear that. I haven't heard anything! And bumps and squeals.

I wonder why? I'm having a light panic.

"That's not true. Nothing.... oh, but keep this to yourself tonight"

I gently lay my finger in front of my lips.

Both under Zion and Her Royal Highness Lady Euria seemed to think I had come alone, but I am not so reckless as to go outside the palace alone with all that has been said.

(It's insurance)

I'm not the girl you look like. I'm cheating.

I kept an insurance policy called Phil-Lynn.

It wasn't just because it was warm.

"Yes or no?

"'Cause if you find out you're out, something Your Highness might piss you off"

"Well, of course"

"So, don't tell me"

You know, and I look up to the top.

"No, I told you to keep it to yourself. Come on"

"Hey, Your Majesty must have come using the same secret passage, too? How could you not find it?

To reluctant Phil-Lynn, I speak.

"Well, it's because you were desperate to leave me alone and hid in the gap. You know, it's huge in there. Nothing is different from the top. It's like a maze, and there's not much to hide from.... Damn, it's dusty."

There were spiders and dust clumping around my hair and back.

"Shit. Don't hang around here. It'll get dirty."

There was nobody here tonight, so when I say, Phil-Lynn gets a flashy look.

"What?

"That's it. Princess, you knew His Majesty was coming?

"No way."

But I was predicting.

I thought it was five fifths.

Perhaps His Majesty showed up because he was able to bring the truth out of Her Highness.

"Hey, how far were you listening?

"Uh, I heard most of Her Royal Highness's stories... but whatever the first half of Her Majesty's story is, the second half... it's almost out since the princess cornered Her Majesty"

"Why?"

"Your Majesty's Poor Slurp? That foot ringing sounded like it was hiding. The back of my ear is still cancer."

"... yes"

Good, I thought. It wouldn't be a good idea for a royal secretary to get into the ears of many people.

That what you previously thought was true actually means the exact opposite. No one has to know that.

"Is it not the only truth that is visible, or..."

I recall the words of a kind prince.

You were absolutely right.

"What were you talking about?... Finally, I know it was going to be like some sort of settlement. But something terrible, they told you, didn't they?

Phil-Lynn... His Royal Highness was aware that His Majesty's feelings for me were half hateful. That's why I worry like this.

"Yeah. I'm fine. I'm pretty strong."

I make you laugh.

When it comes to loving laughter, laughing with this face is very effective.

Even Phil-Lynn, who knows' me 'at all, so much so that her cheeks are loose.

(Your Majesty is still His Majesty...)

Apparently Phil-Lynn's efforts were in vain.

At the very least, I decided not to say it.

"So, what do we do now? Princess."

"... In the meantime, I'll be back. So, I have a fever. Originally, I had a cold, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to bed. I'm kind of very sleepy. I haven't slept at all."

I'm done with the hard stories.

Phil-Lynn looks at me with a frivolous look.

"Hey, I'm good, but you can talk to Nadir."

"Huh?"

"Talk to Your Majesty"

"Why not?

I'm still a little unsure how far I can tell His Highness.

Because there is something too informative and saturated.

"Why... Princess, you're Nadir's wife!

Phil-Lynn takes a deep sigh.

"I know. I love you, Your Highness."

I laugh. I thought you might be in love with something, but that's okay. Even in love!

"Wait a minute. Why are you telling me that? Tell Nadir directly."

"I can't tell His Highness I'm ashamed of you."

'Cause there's no way you can say it in person.

It's sooo tele.

"Hey, you don't like me, after all!

"Nothing like that."

"Me, Nadir will definitely kill you, this"

"You don't have to tell me."

It's better thrilling to have some secrets, when I said, I was told I didn't need that.

And this night was the last time I exchanged words with His Majesty.