Heavenly Castle

Look at us with meat skewers. The kids are dripping from the edge of their mouth. Who's dripping? Some of them have big bellies.

But whoever has meat has taken two golems with an ill-eyed elf mage.

Come on and what kind of eyes do you see if you get close......

And somehow I could see everyone on the spot looking at us like that. I smile when I see a woman standing around to shelter the children, worrying about the signs of the people watching this place.

"As I said earlier, I'm not going to do any harm. In the meantime, can you de-alert me?

When I told her so, the woman took her eyes off the meat that had taken her gaze from her until then in a hazy manner and looked at this one.

"Oh, you want me to believe those words? We all came here to escape something painful. I can't believe I trusted you guys so easily..."

He spoke with a rugged look, but in the middle of the dialogue his belly rang with a sound that could be heard this way.

I feel the illusion that a moment has stopped at the palpable sound of goo......

For a while the woman pierced her silence, but eventually opened her mouth again.

"… why did you speak to us? Why did you bless her with bread?

And the woman kept talking as if nothing had happened.

Looks like you have a steel mental.

Praising the woman in her heart, Eira stepped forward and opened her mouth.

"Oh, um... if it's good, why don't you eat meat, too? If you suspect poison, I'll eat it first."

When Eira says so in horror, the woman groans woolly and pulls her jaw.

Perhaps sincere Eira's words created guilt in a woman's heart. Confused, the woman looked at me from Eira to Yuri.

"... what the hell are you..."

I am the king of the smallest country in the world. There are other princesses of the Atul kingdom, royalty of the Frieder Empire and former court magicians of the Blau Empire.

There's no way I can say this, I laugh vaguely and flatter my shoulders.

"I'm a traveler."

Answering that, the woman narrowed her eyes with a difficult face.

"... bring a magician who can manipulate the golem to the escort, is it? I don't care what you think. I'm more than that..."

And while I say it, the look on the woman's face loosens slightly.

I never lost my suspicious eye, but for now, the woman seemed willing to listen to me.

"Ugh, yummy..."

"It's delicious..."

The kids squirm their thoughts as they bite through the stains and meat. Some of the kids cried and couldn't eat well.

She turned a face that seemed cut to the way it was, and the woman exhaled shallow.

We were moving to a digging shed in the corner. By the way, a Sister-style woman, her name seems to be Leticia.

Did the digging shed Leticia led us to later be renovated or shaped like an inappropriate long house? Plates are arranged on the ground to replace the floor, and walls and ceilings are similarly lined with inconsistent plates.

It's worse than a livestock shed, but the room is as beautiful as I thought because of the lack of extras and the good cleaning of Leticia.

Doesn't it look as wide as it is, but is it sleeping here with the kids?

With that in mind, Leticia opened her mouth in embarrassment.

"... sorry for the dirty spot. It's just too obvious over there."

When Leticia says so and laughs at him, Eira shakes her head left and right in a panic.

"Yes, no, I can't believe it's dirty..."

Leticia smiled back bitterly at Ayla for trying to pick a word and follow it.

"Because it's true... you'll know when you see this house, but we can't even thank you for the meal. Only enough to say thank you..."

I put my arms around Leticia, who said so anxiously somewhere.

I don't care about thanking you, but seeing this living environment makes me want to do something for you.

But I can also say such arrogant things.

"Oh, um...?

Nevertheless, while silent, Leticia becomes more and more anxious looking.

I had no choice but to open my mouth.

"No, I'm not thankful. Instead, can I ask you one question?

"Huh? Ah, yes... that, if you can answer..."

Mouth the question while watching the confused Leticia.

"What would you do if you and your children were to enter the city beyond this wall?

"I'll stay here. Kids can't go in there either."

Leticia responded instantly. The answer was to stay here unexpectedly, but I also felt that.

But if there's a clear reason, I'd like to hear it.

"... how could that be?

When asked, Leticia loosens her expression slightly.

"... Again, you are nobles from some other country. I felt that way."

That being said and smiling at herself, Leticia took a deep breath once and began to talk about one side of this country.

"This country brings together merchants from all over the world and a variety of goods are bought and sold. That tax alone allows the royal nobility of this country to live an incredibly rich life. A great number of pedestrians, travellers and mercenaries will be trading against them, as will adventurers and mercenaries who undertake escorts. But in the meantime, people show up who didn't make money. The future awaits those people is either criminal slavery or debt slavery"

Leticia said so, exposing both shoulders with only the robe.

I accidentally glanced at my shoulders and neck, which were too quiet, but what caught my eye more than that was a big slave mark that spread from the back of my neck to both shoulders.

Eyla, similarly enslaved, takes a breathtaking stance hiding her mouth with both hands, and Aifa creates a deep wrinkle between her eyebrows.

Yuri kept her eyebrows in the letter (c) and pressed silently, but her eyes were shaking with pity.

"... I was a nun at the Caristo Church in this city. We were feeding the orphans with donations that could be paid for each city, as Christianity taught."

So cut the words, Leticia leans down and exhales thinly.

"But no matter how creative it was, it wasn't enough. There were too many orphans against the donation. At first the priest had told me and forced me to convince myself, but I couldn't bear to see one person, another and the orphan children starve to death, steal too much food of the twist and become slaves."

"... So steal the food?

When she heard that, Leticia grinned again. And speak incredible words.

"No. I couldn't do anything to steal things, so I sold myself as a slave and made a donation to the church myself"

It was such a heavy story.