Hakai no Miko

"You mean Princess Wallina?

The Ethereal Horse replied, "Was there a problem?," he explored his memory of any recent reports about Princess Warina.

But when it comes to understanding, it's about as much as I had Princess Wallina move from the rear palace of the royal castle to the outer palace in the king's capital the other day.

There is the word "two without you in one castle" in the western region. It's a word that means two kings will never line up in one castle.

It is not well to be accompanied by a pale horse who has become the new lord of the royal castle and Warina, one of the royal families who has been the lord until then. That is why I was moved to the outhouse, but also after consulting with the former Grand Chancellor Pompius in advance and further explaining directly from the mouth of the Ethereal Horse to Princess Wallina herself and gaining an understanding. Moreover, on the day of the move to the outhouse, the Ethereal Horse herself dropped him off and intended to take the utmost care not to lose his gratitude. And yet I didn't think there was a problem.

But when Ethereal Horse asked if it was also an issue that he hadn't noticed, Mendax prefaced, "It isn't," and said:

"We are gravely aware that the treatment of Her Royal Highness the former Princess Warina is due to the generous willingness of Master Soma. But the ignorant people still don't know what Soma-sama wants, just as insects crawling through the earth don't know the hearts of birds flying through the sky."

The Ethereal Horse himself frowned at Mendax, who tried to lift the Ethereal Horse up to the point of ignorance and ignorance. But Mendax, lying flat, continues his words unaware of it.

"For this reason, rumors of goodness are circulating among the people of the King's capital against Her Royal Highness the former Princess of Walina."

"Rumors from good?

When the Ethereal Horse asked him back, Mendax said, "It is my pleasure," and then went on with the words.

"Her Royal Highness the former Princess Warina is an ugly woman who doesn't want to be seen by Soma, or suffers from various diseases that she doesn't even want to touch her hands, and there are dirty rumors in her ears."

Besides, the Ethereal Horse thought it was such an idiot.

He is a royal who has taken a selection of beautiful men and women into his bloodstream for many years. One of its royalty, Princess Wallina, is also a well-groomed bearer. Even a pale horse with a modern Japanese aesthetic thought she was cuter than a lousy idol.

It is also true that Princess Warina is infirm, but she also hears that she is never infectious.

Still, fear of the misconception that the Ethereal Horse has never approached Princess Wallina before is, for one thing, the one who makes his conquered opponent his best.

Even if you hadn't actually touched one finger, you could have made some unintentional rumors from it.

I had kept Princess Warina away from such concerns, but it would be my own failure if it had instead caused her to make dishonorable rumors.

Immediately the Ethereal Horse thought it had to be dealt with.

But the opponent is a rumor without roots or leaves. The Ethereal Horse worried about how he could put an end to rumors that were not real.

Then Mendax says "fearfully".

"I know that ignorance (Guru), which I cannot understand was distracted by Dear Soma's mercy, took the form of paranoia inspired by the transfer of Her Royal Highness the former Princess Warina to the outhouse. If this is where you meet with Her Royal Highness Princess Wallina, the paranoia will soon disappear."

Besides, the Ethereal Horse often thought about it.

It does seem like a rumor that the conquistador himself kept his old daughter away but came out for. Then you better be as close as you can to Princess Wallina and show it to her. I've been wary of rumors that haven't happened before, but just after nearly six months, you won't have to worry about it.

The Ethereal Horse who so decides, tells Mendax.

"Okay. Meet Princess Wallina as soon as possible."

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Face-to-face between Ethereal Horse and Princess Warina, the conversation proceeded with a great deal of clapping.

Whether Mendax had arranged it beforehand, or when the Ethereal Horse decided to meet Princess Wallina, a step was followed in the meantime. If we realised that, the day after Mendax's petition, it was decided to talk about inviting Wallina to an afternoon tea party.

But that is yesterday today.

The Ethereal Horse of the day himself butted into the story of how much it was too soon.

In the world, the Ethereal Horse, known as the Son of Terrible Destruction, who used the vicious subhumans as his hands and feet to destroy the great Holmea, remains his wife against women without changing his face.

First of all, I didn't even know what conversation to have. Not to mention the other Princess Wallina is the princess of the country she attacked and destroyed. You must also be careful to speak one word.

Still, to date, the Ethereal Horse has had several dialogues with Princess Warina.

But they are all when it comes to political affairs, such as the transfer of state power and the treatment of Princess Wallina. Because of this, the content of the conversation was sometimes predetermined and administrative, so I didn't have to worry much about it.

Suddenly, enjoy your tea and have a friendly conversation.

For the pale horse at his back, the wall was too high for him to suddenly be told to get over it.

"After all, it's too steep, so why don't we do it later?

Shemr sighs deeply at the Ethereal Horse, who butts in at a time when Princess Warina would already be headed this way from the outhouse, before throwing the next word.

"This one..."

The Ethereal Horse didn't even make a sound.

While doing so, time passed, and Princess Wallina finally came from the outhouse to the royal castle. Eladia, the chief woman, greets Princess Wallina immediately and brings her to the tea party room where the Ethereal Horse waits.

"Thank you for inviting us today"

Princess Warina still seems nervous, too. I followed and greeted the Ethereal Horse, even though I usually blued my bloody thin face even further.

"It's a private tea party that I'm taking my breath off after I'm done in government. Don't worry about it too much."

To the look of Princess Wallina, who is still likely to graduate, the Ethereal Horse calls out so and then urges her to sit in a chair, herself sitting face to face. Then even the elf ladies prepared Zoan's tea for me.

When it's over and the elf ladies fall back to the wall, the atmosphere starts to get really awkward.

The Ethereal Horse, who thought it was not a good idea as it was, waved the appropriate topic anyway.

"I'm glad it's a beautiful day"

It's tough if you suddenly shake a highly challenging topic and get cocky. Shake a simple topic that makes it easy for anyone to return an answer first. And if Princess Wallina returns the answer, it's the perfect plan to inflate the story, even more so because she returns the answer.

The Ethereal Horse, so convinced, decides that she did not see Erica, an elf woman who refrains from doing so on the wall, becoming as blatantly disappointed.

It was the following words that Wallina uttered to the Ethereal Horse, ready to intercept all of any response coming.

"Right......"

Silence descended.

Oh, no, no, no!

The Ethereal Horse was in a hurry with a smile on his face.

She said she was expecting Princess Warina to give something back from the topic of the weather, but suddenly she was stopped. It is a situation where the ball thrown with the intention of playing catch ball is not returned, if analogy is to be used. I was thinking of words of return assuming all kinds of responses, but I was almost done using them.

When the Ethereal Horse swallows the rush, he throws the ball of the next conversation.

"Have you had any trouble with your life since you moved out of the palace?

If it's a familiar topic, Princess Wallina, who has a small mouth count, should be able to return something.

Princess Wallina says terribly to the pale horse who so hoped.

"... nothing in particular"

"Really? That's good."

Good, but not good.

The Ethereal Horse is even more in a hurry.

Even if Princess Warina doesn't have a problem with her life out of the palace, this won't keep the conversation going.

Even then, the conversation between the Ethereal Horse and Princess Wallina did not engage.

That's not just the pale horse being the wife. Princess Warina was also long neglected by her brother Prince Alexius, so she was not added to the tea party and various royal events. That's why royalty these days didn't have the usual social skills.

Moreover, it became such a tragedy, to mention just a few words, to which Warina's intriguing character was also added.

In this inconvenient air, the Ethereal Horse finally said, "This is the tea party!" That's when Eladia broke in.

"Please excuse us during the conversation. We have a treat."

That being said, the plates that Eladia had placed from hand to hand in front of the Ethereal Horse and Princess Wallina were lined with many pieces of confectionery with jelly on top of a light brown round board. Each jelly shaped one placed on a round plate has a different color. It was like a brightly colored painting on a plate, as if it were arranged beautifully.

Princess Wallina asks terribly about the confectionery she has never seen.

"... What's this?

Eladia replied, smiling.

"It's in the one with the jam on the cracker"

"Jam......!

Princess Warina turned her eyes small and round to her surprise.

The history of jams made by simmering fruit along with sugar and honey is old. And jams were also made here in the Continent of Cerdeas as preserved food for the season when no fruit could be eaten.

However, in the western regions where no sugar is produced, the majority are honey used. And in this era, where beekeeping has yet to take place, honey had to be obtained from wild beehive, and for that reason jam was a luxury rarely spoken of even by royalty.

Princess Warina takes a pinch of cracker with jam on it and carries it to her dreaded mouth.

…… Sweet. "

This jam was made of sugar obtained via Jeboa. Sweet violence, which appeals more directly than honey, struck Princess Wallina's tongue directly.

Moreover, the slightly stronger saltiness of the crackers on the jam adds to its sweetness.

Princess Wallina was also surprised by this.

Eladia, who gets a good impression of the situation, thanks her small.

"Her Royal Highness Princess Wallina has asked that her food preferences are strict, but she is pleased that they fit her mouth."

Then Eladia turns a blind eye to the pale horse. Often, he was a decent pale horse, but he noticed Eladia waving the topic to him, eating bubbles and jumping.

"Eh. When it comes to heavy food preferences, is there something you can't eat?

"Yes. I'm embarrassed, but I don't like meat..."

Princess Wallina says that meat doesn't smell good and can't be eaten. That's not just veterinary meat, and they can't have chicken, fish, etc.

"So what do you usually eat?

"A little fruit and bread..."

To Princess Wallina's answer, the Ethereal Horse thought "with reason".

Princess Wallina's body is small and thin compared to women her age in this era. When I heard that I only ate fruit and bread, I was convinced that was the case too.

While the Ethereal Horse contemplates such a thing, Princess Wallina takes another cracker and snaps it a little smaller.

"I thought the jams were different colors, but each one is a jam with a different fruit"

"You are right. First of all, this red thing--"

Described the fruit Eladia used for each jam. Princess Warina, who was listening with a small nod to it, leaks an exclamation exhale when the explanation ends.

"Surprised. This is the first time I've ever seen any kind of jam like this at once, or eaten it on something like this."

In this day and age, jams are not made with a careful selection of certain fruits, but rather with a full boil of several types of fruit available at that time. Also, it was treated as a preference or medicine rather than an ingredient, so sticking sticks and fingers in containers such as pots and licking it was a common way to eat.

"It is all in the fashion of Dear Soma's homeland. Whatever, you think cooking isn't just about your tongue, it's about the beauty of its serving and other things you enjoy with your eyes."

And he said to Eladia, "That's right, isn't it?," replies the Ethereal Horse, in a panic.

"Well, it's not just the taste and appearance, but the smell, and later the sound of the oil being cooked that I can play, that's the dish to enjoy."

Princess Wallina sparkled her eyes as impressed as it sounded when Ethereal Horse told her what the culinary cartoon protagonist read when she was in modern Japan.

Furthermore, Eladia is mouthwatering.

"Her Royal Highness Princess Warina has asked if you would be interested in talking about an exotic country. But there are many sweetnesses in Master Soma's homeland that His Highness has never even heard of. How about that? This is a good opportunity to think, and why don't you talk to me?

Princess Wallina, who did not go out too far from the back of the rear palace, preferred to read the book except as an embroidery for her aristocratic children. I particularly like playbooks taken from other parts of the continent, etc.

Such a Princess Wallina could not have defied her interest in the exotic story she hears for the first time and, above all, the temptation of sweetness.

Princess Warina asks terribly.

"I'm afraid, may I ask you something about Master Soma's homeland?

Thank you, Lady Eladia.

Unexpectedly, the Ethereal Horse nearly knelt and worshipped at the foot of a competent female chief on the spot.

It's what triggered the conversation I grabbed. The Ethereal Horse talked about the sweets as she dug up her memory desperately.

That's how, as we talk, more tension with each other eases.

The Ethereal Horse, who was finally able to afford to observe his opponent, noticed that Princess Walina would occasionally glitch her eyes to Shemr.

Shemru at the time had noticed that, and he is surprisingly wrinkled in the nose.

The Ethereal Horse, who apparently decided it wasn't his fault, asked Princess Warina.

"You seem to care about her, what's wrong?

Maybe he's scared of Zoan.

If so, it is a matter of concern. They are the same person. Even if it looks different, it doesn't scare Zoan without meaning.

Not to mention Shemr here is a benefactor who saved himself from a predicament without asking for a price, and an important person who has supported himself in this way ever since. I can't thank her enough with a million words. He's such a wonderful man.

If Princess Wallina is afraid of Shemr by saying that she is Zoan, the Ethereal Horse asked with the intention of waving such a hot valve to defend her, but Princess Wallina's answer was different than expected.

"Um... If you are Zoan there, are you the one called First Minister of Master Soma?

To Walina's words, Shemr moves her nose all the way. Then put your hand on your proudly stretched chest and answer.

"That's right! My name is Fagle Garguz Shemr! The word" Bruised "is" Elegant Fang "! And here you are, the first minister of Xaki Soma!

"I knew it," Princess Wallina smacked her hand into Shemru, who raised her name in such a way as to be good at it.

And Princess Warina said this in a voice that only played with her heart.

"I know you're being disrespectful before Soma, but may I speak with this person?