Hakai no Miko

Behind the royal palace in Eldore, there was a small building.

It is a prison.

But it's not just a prison. It was a prison for capturing sinners of noble stature, such as royalty, who could be thrown into a normal prison. There are also such uses, the building being built on a corner behind a royal palace that few people visit, as if isolated from the buildings around them. In addition, its walls, doors, etc. were more concerned with recapture than with the escape of sinners, and were thicker and sturdier built than usual.

However, neither such prisons nor those of noble stature to be captured since the country became Erdoah from Holmea, which they thought would no longer be used.

But this caught the eye of the Ethereal Horse, who was about to build a chemical laboratory in the Royal Palace in Holmenia, just like the Lordship's residence in Bornis.

First of all, good location. Even during the Lords' residence in Bornis, he was given various bad reviews. It is better not to touch people's eyes as much as possible. Also, the building structure was great. It is a routine tea meal that the appliances and equipment blow up because Solon performs a hazy experiment. Sometimes it even causes an explosion. I have trouble with the walls and doors not being sturdy.

Given those conditions, that prison was the perfect building to turn into a chemical laboratory.

When the Ethereal Horse removed the inner chamber and the like, he instead brought in the experimental benches and instruments, repainted the wall lacquer and renovated it into a new chemical laboratory.

It was Solon who let him breathe out and jump into such a chemical lab.

"Phew. Oh, man, it worked. Wow."

Yes, a small leather bag was held in Solon's hand.

What's in there is what the Dwarves call the secret drug of black powder. The other day, curious about something called a black powder secret drug that decolored the glass that Dwarf happened to be pounding and leaking, Solon came tickling from Dwarf's workshop, aiming for the pale horses when they were having an important meeting.

"Well, let's find out what this guy is like soon"

Turning the skin bag upside down on a plate of glass, the bruised black powder made a small pile.

The appearance, as its name suggests, is black powder. But if you look closely, it's a slightly browned color. Does it feel like powdered black rust?

The next test is by taste, which is fundamental to alchemy. Solon puts a small amount of pinched black powder on the outstretched tongue tip. I closed my eyes and concentrated my whole nerve on my tongue, while keeping it in my mouth for a while before spewing it out.

Nothing really tastes like it. Nor did she feel any abnormalities, especially paralysis in her tongue or mouth.

Solon records those things on parchment paper as he rinses his mouth with water from the water bottle.

Now it's a solubility test.

I'll put it in the water first and stir it. But it never melts. Look further immersed in hot water and your favorite lime water, but none of them saw any changes.

"Hmm. The secret to making glass is a lot different again."

The secret drug that makes glass - seems a lot different in nature than a trona stone. Having so decided, Solon decided to try to melt the powder anyway. But we already know it won't dissolve in water or hot water.

So what Solon brought up was hydrochloric acid.

Made from gas produced by throwing salt on sulphuric acid, this hydrochloric acid is a favorite of solons these days. If we heat this hydrochloric acid, we can just melt various metals, such as iron and copper, or if we evaporate and dry it, we can get crystals of different colors and properties than the melted metals.

So again this time, Solon thought about dissolving the secret drug that would make this glass transparent with hot hydrochloric acid.

Solon pours plenty of hydrochloric acid into a round-bottomed, thin-necked glass container made specifically for the Dwarves. I put it on a simple furnace built on top of the experimental bench.

Where hydrochloric acid has been sufficiently heated, it is an arithmetic whereby the secret medicine of black powder is thrown and the reaction is seen while shaking the glass container.

And finally, Solon tried to throw a secret drug on hydrochloric acid.

It is then.

"Over there! Where that thief is. Ha!!

Norzuri's anger burst from the outside.

I'm surprised at that. Solon's license slips, and all the secret drugs he had are put into the heated hydrochloric acid.

But I can't afford to care about that to Solon right now.

"Oh, my God! Run fast and they'll beat you to death."

Solon ate bubbles and jumped out of the lab.

"There he is, it's Solon! Don't let them get away with it!"

With that call, multiple doodles and running footsteps pass.

And the lab where no one is anymore.

In the glass container placed on the experimental bench, hydrochloric acid filled with secret medicine sprayed foam.

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- That's why.

The Ethereal Horse turned back when Solon told him how to escape by shielding himself from the Norzuri, who handed him the stick instead of the stick.

He says he was hanged for stealing trona stones from the Dvarins before, but he hasn't punished him at all.

Norzuri stuffs up to the Ethereal Horse wondering how the hell to put this place away.

"I'm also sorry to annoy His Majesty's hand when it comes to Kosovo mud. We'll be fine, so why don't you give it to me?"

Behind Norzuri, the Dwarf craftsmen waited with a stick and a hand pull to make Solon an octopus punch.

No, no, that's just a private sentence, and the Ethereal Horse rushes to stop Norzuri. Then behind me, with a full grin, I also stop Shemr trying to stick out Solon saying, "I'm sorry too, but I just have to turn this guy over".

"As you know, His Majesty Soma, whoever tried to steal the glass secrets is supposed to hang it and then beat us all to death. Even under Eldor's law, burglary is a stick slap or a servant. Okay, you're not going to bend that, are you?

Norzuri was right.

Solon's actions are nothing more than theft. Stealing the secrets of its production technology is a felony in Eldor countries, where glass production is still being promoted as a major industry. The deeds of Solon are not something that you may very well look past.

This place would be right to punish Solon according to the law.

But at the same time, don't forget. Though I tend to forget from my usual childish behavior, Solon is an elderly old man. Physical punishment, such as stick-beating, doesn't necessarily mean that the wound won't die from it. The same is true of servitude, which imposes prison sentences and heavy labour in cells in harsh environments.

By doing so, if you ever lose a solon, it is also important.

No matter how sinful you were, it was a shame to lose as many talent as Solon in the current state of his country as he had just been founded. No, it's not a shame. It was no exaggeration when it came to the great damage to the country. This is all the more true in the current situation, where there are no human resources involved in internal affairs.

But that's why we can't bend the law, which is the backbone of the rule of law. No, no, Solon is still too spared to lose.

When the Ethereal Horse was in a grip, a solon hiding on its back said "compensation, compensation" in such a small voice that it could only be heard by the Ethereal Horse.

Besides, speaking of which, the Ethereal Horse recalls.

I feel that in the case of theft causing damage to another person's property, there was a sentence to compensate the victim for the damage and to reduce the crime if a settlement was reached with the victim.

"Mr. Solon, can we compensate Mr. Norzuri and the others?

The Ethereal Horse asked Solon, who hides behind his back over his shoulder. Solon then shakes his neck up and down as he shakes his beard wide.

"I can, I can!

Besides, the Norzuri snorted just wondering what they would compromise on whatever they were offered.

To such Norzuri, Solon took out a piece of parchment and offered it to him, wondering if he had fished his nose (two places) with gasagoso. Norzuri, wrinkled between her eyebrows and opened the parchment, glanced at the contents for a while before opening her eyes.

To that reaction, Solon speaks well with a nitwit grin.

"It's a compilation of the different metals and how they developed when they were dissolved in glass with hydrochloric acid and sulfuric acid."

Besides, the Dwarf craftsmen behind Norzuri went out of their way.

That doesn't even seem to notice, Norzuri stares at the parchment given to her by Solon as she eats in.

So much so that the type and number of colors written there overwhelmed what Norzuri knew.

"And here is a summary of the changes in glass that can be made when various metals and the like are melted in as the material itself"

Plus Solon takes out another piece of parchment, and he shakes it to show it.

"Glass is something really interesting. Depending on the metal to be added, unprecedented properties are indicated. Stronger, softer, more transparent, more soluble."

To Solon's words, Norzuri was stunned.

Glass manufacturing is the secret of the Dwarves. It is a testament to the knowledge and skill that our forefathers have built up over the years.

Norzuri and Dwarf craftsmen have inherited it with pride. Even though some improvements were made in the manufacture of glass, the underlying part was immutable. It was also in this era that the removal of impurities was fundamental to the creation of high-quality glass.

But Solon has no such pride or bondage. Repeating the experiment with his own curiosity, Solon had succeeded in creating glass of an unprecedented nature using materials that Norzuri and others had never expected.

"I'm determined to lie like this! In fact, you can't possibly use this material to make glass!

Norzuri, who finally returned to me, had a strong tone and denied this.

Glass manufacturing is Dwarf's exclusive patent. Access to the workshop is severely restricted except for Dwarf's craftsmen, and there is no way that a very solon could have dived in and made glass. Also, I didn't think the glass melting furnace snake had spilled outside.

To Norzuri's denial, Solon grins slightly with a snare.

"If you could charade your bets and split Suki-kun instead of gratuities, you'd be happy to do it."

Plus when Norzuri looked back, there were a few craftsmen who looked away awkwardly.

"Ki, you guys! Are you not proud to be a craftsman?!"

Solon often says in his face toward the fierce Norzuri.

"Do the fights in your body later. - Look, look, what do we do? What are we gonna do?

Solon releases no pushing words to Norzuri, who turns his face bright red and repents.

"Hey, imagine it. More transparent and beautiful glass vessels than this. The bright red and yellow flowers painted there give the sight of blooming among the green leaves. Or even portray the sun setting in the blue sea. Yeah. The view of the mountain river lit by the white moon is also good. - What do you say? Isn't that great? Hmm?"

Norzuri, who was turning his own complexion from red to yellow and blue, finally succumbed to the glass vessel he had pictured behind his brain.

"... in response to reconciliation. Give it to me."

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"Oh my goodness. I picked my life up..."

Struck down by a sense of defeat, Solon was winning backwards with words as he dropped his shoulders and dropped off the Norzullis who walked away.

The Ethereal Horse complains with a glimpse back at such a solon.

"Mr. Solon. Don't make this mess."

Solon and the Dwarves have interacted for a long time from the common denominator of liquor lovers together. Such a solon could have accommodated the Dwarves and their secret medication if they had taken proper steps to ask for it.

Besides, Solon has a great credit for manufacturing caustic soda from trona stone. If you appealed to me to split it up for research, you could also have let the Dwarves provide it via the Ethereal Horse.

Even if it still didn't work, it originally had new glass coloring, materials, etc. available as bills for compensation. I could have traded based on that from the start.

I'm glad I didn't bother to adopt this kind of burglary method.

When the Ethereal Horse complained about it, for some reason Solon turned a blind eye to the room.

There, when I heard this commotion, court officials and women who came to see what had happened were peeking into their faces. Solon, who sees it, apologizes to the Ethereal Horse in an exaggerated gesture when he faces a stern and honest old man.

"I sincerely apologize to His Majesty Soma for all the hard work he has done. Though I compensated you, theft is a sin. I would also like to resign my legal adviser in order to take up the crime of making the royal palace noisy. Forgive me, forgive me."

Speaking of which, the Ethereal Horse remembered that you used Solon as a solicitor for a legal officer after you were hit with a stick. But it is also almost famously innocent.

He was a pale horse who thought what was more, but he immediately said, "Ah!" He raised his voice.

He resigned after taking the blame for all this commotion. While the lingering aftertaste of the word also disappeared, it could not have been possible, for example, to apply to the Chancellor, who is a further high office.

The Ethereal Horse says bluntly.

"... Mr. Solon. You went for it, didn't you?

To the words of the Ethereal Horse, Solon grinned at the snare.

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"Hey, I'm unlucky too. I didn't know it happened to be just before he was appointed prime minister. I did a really shameful thing. Too bad he's not a shameless guy."

Solon was laughing at Kerakera as he said something empty.

I'm on my way to the chemistry lab.

Back to back with the upbeat solon, the Ethereal Horse and Shemr walking behind it looked like ten bitters together and chewed them up.

"This guy would've definitely done it for you"

I didn't say it, but the Ethereal Horse was so strongly convinced.

Anyway, I find it hard to exhaust myself in the brush tongue when this old man named Solon is full of twists. If you expect this one, you go against it all the time, and you try to put a heavy burden on it, and you run away. I must have perceived it beforehand and hit the lead, even though this time I tried to consolidate my surroundings to be prime minister and couldn't escape.

But there will be something to do nevertheless.

Sometimes he betrayed his expectation that he could relieve his burden at all, and Ethereal Horse also continued to resent Solon returning to the lab.

But Solon is water on the frog's face, and instead of reflection, he is not even afraid.

Sheml accidentally opened his mouth when the Ethereal Horse began to think that this guy should really slap a stick or jail.

"What, what's this smell?

Shemr was sniffing and smelling as she glanced at her face.

"Something smell?

Ethereal horses also snort and smell the smell, but I don't feel a funny smell. But Shemr is a zoan with a sense of beastly smell. They will be feeling a slight odor that cannot be felt by the human self.

"Oh. You're gonna smell stronger and stronger, huh?

By the time Shemr began to glorify his face, the nose of the Ethereal Horse also had a strange odor.

"Hmm? What is this smell..."

The odor that characterizes it is something that the Ethereal Horse has also smelled in the past. But the Ethereal Horse could not immediately link its smell to past memories. Because there was a stereotype that there could be no such thing in this world.

In the meantime, Solon, who came all the way to the front of the chemistry lab, looks back with his hands on the knob at the door.

"Sure, it smells weird. What the hell is this?

With that said, Solon opened the door to the chemistry lab.

Really, there's more smell coming from it.

Besides, the Ethereal Horse screamed out loud.

"Hold your breath! You can't smoke that!

And when I grab Solon's collar, which opens my eyes to surprise, I drag him backwards at the mercy of force to steer him away from the chemical lab.

"Shemr! Help me! Come on, get out of here!