Hakai no Miko

To Eladia's words, the Ethereal Horse, wondering what he was going to say, became a clapped face.

This is the capital of the Holmeer country, which was originally an enemy country. Naturally, there had been a lot of spreading bad reviews without roots or leaves about the Ethereal Horse, which was hostile to the Holmeer country.

Do it. Do it. You can do it. You can do it. You're a tyrant who forces young daughters out of the city to throw a slutty feast. Do it. Do it. Young daughters feed even men who never tire of it.

However, it actually touched on the politics of the Ethereal Horse, and its character became known, and more recently, such rumors had been set ablaze than at one time. But for the common man, nothing is more interesting than a ruler's scandal. There were still rumors of falsehood.

For this reason, even though they said it was not a good rumor against me, the Ethereal Horse seemed even more so now.

To such a pale horse. Eladia tells him with a serious face.

"The problem is not the content of the rumor itself. I don't know. I feel unnatural about the way rumors spread."

The relationship between the Ethereal Horse and Princess Warina is also of concern to the people of the former Holmeer country. It was only natural for such rumors to spread at once.

But it was only very recently that they started eating together. It seemed to Eladia that the rumors spread too quickly.

Also, if it's a rumor about the two meals, naturally the source will be the samurai with Princess Wallina who were there on the spot. Then it is natural to first spread among the samurai, and then from the samurai's home and the merchants entering and leaving the royal palace to the people of the king's capital.

However, rumors were spreading to the people of the king's capital earlier than the royal palace or the outlying palace.

"And come there and this time the marquis of Apius marches. Wouldn't that be too convenient?

Finally, the Ethereal Horse realized what Eladia was trying to say.

"This marquis of Apius is linked with its rumors. So you're saying there's a Marquis Apius collaborator lurking in this king's capital."

And Eladia bowed her head, "It's my pleasure," she said.

I don't know who the hell it is, but it's important if forces in tune with the Marquis of Apius were hiding in the king's capital.

Where full force has been put into the control of the northern marquis, rebellions may be waged in the thin King's capital. But that's why if we put soldiers in preparation for that anomaly, that's all fewer soldiers will be thrown into the control of the border marines. Then you just damage the soldiers in vain, or if you do poorly, they will destroy each and every one of you.

Now, speaking of intercepting the Marquis of Apius in Holmenia, the king's capital, without marching from here, that seemed like a pale horse to the lower measures.

It's the pinnacle of foolishness, such as the Battle of Cage Castle with a traitor you don't know about. Not to mention that many of those who were old ministers and lords of the Holmeer country are still stifling their dissatisfaction with the pale horses. If the Ethereal Horse chose a passive battle called Cage Castle, it was not necessarily that such men would not join them, seeing them as the dominance of the Northern Marquis.

Once the presence of an insider is suspected, the conscription, which also seemed reckless to the Marquis of Appius, begins to appear as a threat (but at all).

"If Marquis Appius's illogical behavior is also expected from the behavior of the insiders lurking in this king's capital, it falls to his heart. Then the question is, who is that insider? How much force is that? And what is its aim? I guess so."

Once again Eladia raises her voice "fearfully" to the inquiry of the Ethereal Horse.

"We have an insider's eye."

And those who were present at the scene were astonished. Eladia says along with a bitter smile as she grabs everyone's attention like that.

"Recently there have been some suspicious moves by the guards in this royal palace"

The security of the Royal Palace is consolidated by Dinosaurians and Elf women if they are near the Ethereal Horse, but others were left to those who were soldiers of the Holmeer Country, as before.

But those guards have been repositioned one by one, and certain people have been handed out to key parts of the royal palace, Eladia says.

But the number of guards serving in this royal palace was never small. Well, I can't even remember that face. Yet Ethereal Horse is impressed that he pays just as much attention to every such guard.

Then Eladia says, laughing corny.

"I don't even know when or what time it's going to hit me. It's the other guy. It's only natural to pay attention to that trend."

That doesn't just mean the guards were formerly from an enemy country. It also included the meaning that from the Eladias Elves, who were burned in their hometown woods and forced to endure days of hardship as sex slaves for a long time, they were only potential enemies, such as human men.

With a smile like a maiden who knew nothing of such a thing, he said farewell.

As bad for his heart as ever, he turned to the blurry Ethereal Horse in his heart, and Eladia pulls in a smile before continuing her words.

"If you look behind those guards, you hit a certain person. That's not all. The pigs of yesterday - excuse me, the disturbances of His Highness Vritas and the Holy See, the negligence of the finance officers, the harassment of the Hordes. Behind these, too, is a hidden image."

So Eladia dares to set aside her time before releasing the next word.

"The image of Mendax, the former Chancellor of the Holmeer Nation."

Everyone raises their voices of surprise - nothing like that.

Everybody says, "Who's Mendax?" and face each other with question marks on their faces. Even the Ethereal Horse who knew Mendax didn't immediately associate the fact that he was doing such a great thing with the way he looked, and it was a while back.

Eladia says bitterly to everyone's reaction like that.

"At the feast after the destruction of the crown treasure vessel, we sold you the Mayhem to a poor man."

Plus the Gallums finally remembered Mendax, and he shouted "Oh," and hit his hand.

In it, Jaharn Gill says it's obvious.

"Then why don't we just tighten him up?

Absolutely, it is. Foolishly, but instead, to Jahangil's pointer, Eladia returns a bitter laugh.

"It's the mountains that want to do that, but it's just an unsubstantiated suspicion. - But with Master Soma's forgiveness, I will use any means to make you open your mouth and show it to me?

The second half of Eladia's words were directed at the Ethereal Horse. The Ethereal Horse immediately stops "Don't do that". Otherwise, this horrible chief of women can torture Mendax with a maiden smile on her face.

Eladia, who knew he would be stopped by the Ethereal Horse, says in a small grace and shows his willingness to accept, then makes a face of trouble.

"That one is in the cautious sniffing around with Kosokoso as if he were a rat. If you make a bad noise, that's all you'll be hiding in the shadows. In order not to do so, I only kept it under scrutiny until I had solid evidence at my discretion."

I found a footprint because of it, but I have no ex or child to make a fuss about it and miss the pivotal rat. When Ethereal Horse admitted that there was no problem with that decision, Eladia said thank you and then went on.

"From the time I spread the rumor until I ran the risk of exposing it, if I didn't, the success of the insurgency would be overwhelming. Perhaps the only insiders lurking in the Wang capital are Mendax and his gestures. And if you were to risk a rebellion with so many small crowds, your aim would be narrowed one by one. In addition, if you deduce from the most recent behavior, the Mendax aim is-"

Eladia affirms, drawing everyone's attention.

"Dear Soma, either former Princess Wallina, or both"

The air swayed deliberately.

It goes without saying the importance of the Ethereal Horse anymore. If anything happens to the Ethereal Horse, everything will collapse. And it goes without saying again the importance of Princess Wallina. If you force her to stand up and push for a resolution to the former Holmeer kingdoms, you will loosen up as the western Holmeer kingdoms that show friendship to the Aoi horses in a comparative way. That's all the authority and influence the royalty has.

Because of the seriousness of the matter, the scene often continued to wander.

All the responses to the Border Marquis Army or the measures to be taken against insiders, everyone gives their opinions orally, but there are not quite any good proposals.

I can no longer say that it is a confirmation of suspicion. Eladia opens her mouth when she immediately begins to jump out to the point of capturing Mendax, torturing him, but not letting him crack his mouth.

"Dear Soma. I have a good idea."

And Eladia showed off her thoughts.

After hearing that, the Ethereal Horse put on an arm and mumbled.

"Sure, if that works, we could fry out whoever's trying to do something in the King's Capital while slamming the Northern Marquis with all our might"

But there was one problem with that.

"But is that really what you have here?

Eladia's proposal presupposed the use of something.

It is a classic for the Royal Castle in fiction such as comics and novels. But when it came to whether it was really real or not, the Ethereal Horse was skeptical.

Plus Eladia smiles and undertakes.

"If man becomes great, his temper resembles an elf, and his deeds resemble a dwarf. Not to mention that this king's capital was taken over from the ancient dynasty before the Holmeer kingdom? Then there must be one or two."

But still, suspicion remains about the Ethereal Horse.

"But can we look for it now?

The northern lords have already raised their soldiers. We can no longer afford to do things long. And the key thing is something that's well hidden so no one can find it. The Ethereal Horse was anxious to find it now and make it.

"On my own, at my discretion, I was looking for more than before. But we haven't found it yet."

To Eladia's answer, the Ethereal Horse could not hide his disappointment "after all". But Eladia laughs and continues.

"I just know someone who knows that."

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Eladia, with the permission of the Ethereal Horse, immediately prepared the carriage and rode it to a certain mansion in the corner of the king's capital.

The families of the mansion were greatly surprised by this untouched and sudden visit to Eladia. Somehow the opponent is a cowgirl chief around the horrible Son of Destruction. If you buy that unhappiness, you may find any disaster.

The families lowered their heads and passed Eladia through the guest room.

Often wait in the passengers room. In contrast to his rushing family, an old man with a bald head as small as a calming child opened the door to the guest room.

Eladia gracefully greets the old man as he rises from his chair.

"We thank you very much for seeing us like this despite a sudden visit that did not touch us."

And Eladia throws a grin and a smile, calling his name.

"His Excellency the Grand Chancellor Pompius"