Her Royal Highness Seems to be Angry

In the reception room at the residence of the Duke of Philialeggis, Leticiel confronted King Oswald.

"Long time no see, Miss Drossel"

With a relaxed attitude and tone, Oswald speaks to Leticiel.

Leticiel doesn't have the memory of 16 years he's lived as a Drossel, but he's the fiancée of the First Prince, so it would be natural for him to be meeting his parent, the King.

I don't remember that in Leticiel, but you can't tell me you don't, so I'll talk to you without difficulty.

"Long time no see, Your Majesty"

"Not since the New Year's court ball, is it?

"... Yes, I remember that"

Fried, who entered the room earlier, sits next to the Dukes. Leticiel also lowered his back to an empty seat opposite the king and carefully observed Oswald sitting on the couch in the deepest seat.

With red eyes in his mint green hair and the same color as Rochford, Oswald is filled with majesty, temperament and nobility that you can't imagine from that first prince. That's right, I've just ruled a kingdom, a king of a country, for over 20 years.

The sight of the King and the Duke's Lady intersects. It was Oswald who opened his mouth first.

"Nothing else came here today. As the Lord may have guessed, about Rochford."

……

So Oswald cut the word once. Leticiel quietly waits for the words ahead.

Silence flows through the room for a while. In the meantime, Oswald stood up, bowing his head deeply against Leticiel.

An impact ran all around me. Everyone in this room didn't expect the king to bow his head to the Duke's Lady.

"I'm sorry Rochford the Fool caused so much trouble this time"

Leticiel believes that, although power and standing are different in the times of turmoil in which Leticiel lived and in the kings of today's peaceful times, and the way the country is, it must be common sense in all worlds for the king not to bow his head easily.

Nonetheless, the king of the Kingdom of Platinum in front of him does bow his head to Leticiel. That is the utmost sincerity that the king can show to his subordinates.

"Show your face, Your Majesty"

You can't let a king of a country bow his head forever in front of his subordinates. That's what Leticiel said.

Anyway, I didn't care about the prince from the beginning, so it is the voice of my heart.

Oswald raised his head to Leticiel's words and smiled with a calm face.

"The truth is that Non should have led Rochford as his father, but I am the queen's oblivion..."

Leticiel was just listening to Oswald start talking quietly. There are more stories I don't know because the circumstances behind the royal family in this country are not out in public books.

"Eleven years ago, Rochford lost his mother when he was five. I've been depressed by my mother's death... and since then he's changed a little bit."

Looking back on the past, Oswald spins his words as he stares somewhere far away. Deep sadness and the colour of penance were everywhere from that expression.

"Rochford, who lost his mother, was pitiful, and he even spoiled the acorns around him. So that he can get back on his feet so that he doesn't get hurt... But that didn't work for Rochford. I am sorry for my poor supervision as a parent."

……

Drossel might have known, but Leticiel was the first to know about Rochford's past. I am unusually familiar with what I am interested in, otherwise neglected, let's also call it a harm to the maniacal temperament.

Well, it's not like I like Rochford from what I found out or anything.

"This becomes just a personal affair of Non, but Rochford really resembles Queen Josephina... Non loved Josephina wholeheartedly. That's why I've always layered my beloved on him..."

Oswald sighs softly as he says so. Behind his eyes, which only caught a glimpse for a moment, his thoughts as one father, not his emotions as king, were shaking.

Leticiel understands how much grief there is in losing someone he loves. So I could sympathize with Oswald's monologue not least.

(I can empathize... I see... will you come? Someone who seems to have a deep weight and belly bottom.)

Without putting his emotions on the table, Leticiel began to wonder how he would proceed with the negotiations after this.

"The Queen died 11 years ago."

"Ah. Just that year we had a war with our neighbor Lapis..."

Battle against neighboring Lapis country...... Leticiel also reads and knows about the Lancaster War in history books.

It broke out 12 years ago and a year has been spent by the end of the war. The Kingdom of Platinum, for its part, had at that time ceded to the Lapis State the Lanceska region, which had become a battlefield as a condition of harmony.

The State of Lapis is one of the neighbours of the Kingdom of Platinum, flanked by both the Kingdom of Platinum and the Empire of Ealis. It is the largest country in the world alongside the Ealis Empire, but it has been a clan country for about 100 years.

"Sparks of war have stopped spreading in the country, but they have sacrificed a great deal because of the lack of power of Non to end the war. And Josephina... couldn't protect her..."

That's what Oswald said. He took something out of his pocket. It is a gold pendant. The King's gaze upon it is filled with deep sorrow. Probably the sight of the queen or something.

Leticiel lays her eyes down gently.

"I understand not least how Your Majesty feels. As a king, as a father, let it be taken for granted."

I can understand Oswald's thoughts and his grip as king. Understood, Leticiel was not willing to end with just that.

"But this time, and many of His Royal Highness the First Prince's deeds so far, have not disappeared."

Opening his eyelids, which were closed, Leticiel pointed his eyes in different colors straight at Oswald. There is a strong will in those eyes.

To its shooting gaze, Oswald looked at Leticiel with both red eyes intriguingly.

"... what the Lord says is best. I sincerely apologize for the fact that I have developed into such a noise due to my personal feelings. Miss Drossel, what does your lord want to do?

Asked so, Leticiel blinks slowly. Her answer is settled.

"Please destroy my engagement with Your Highness. I can't think of anything more than this. I will continue to be engaged to Your Highness as I have been."

To Leticiel's demands, Oswald put his hand on his chin and thought for a little while.

"... um, okay. Non thought he was sorry to keep you tied up like this. Let's dissolve our engagement with Rochford. Sirius, take that."

"Yes......"

To Oswald's words, Sirius, who had refrained by his side, offered Oswald a single document.

There's a name for Drossel and a name for Rochford. It is an engagement certificate proving the engagement of the two.

Oswald, who receives the engagement certificate, breaks it down and declares it in front of Leticiel.

"In the name of the King, the engagement of Drossel Noah Filialeggis and Rochford Frau Platinum is hereby destroyed"

Leticiel faintly raised her mouth only for a moment to declare her engagement broken. It's such a small move you wouldn't know if you didn't look closely. Now the first thing to solve has been accomplished.

"By the way, Non wants to ask the Lord something"

"Why should I?

"What power did your lord use in school? Magic...... isn't it? I hear your lord has no magic?

I thought Leticiel was here.

"Right, it's not magic"

"So what is your Lord's power? If you don't need magic, what do you use to activate it?

"We use substances that are in the air"

"Matter in the air... Hmm..."

Oswald thinks. At this point, he was somewhat certain that Leticiel would be the user of magic.

Eleven years after the end of the war in Lancaster, Oswald continued to look for ways to counter the Lapis nation.

The result of his eyes was a technique called "magic", which existed in the ancient days of Tai. Oswald had kept the study of witchcraft underway in secret, and even found out that witchcraft activated a substance called "magic" into fuel, not magic.

But in any case, it is a power that was supposedly lost a thousand years ago. With a handful of books with details, etc., the research had not gone as far as I thought. If this girl uses witchcraft, she has no hands not to draw in.

"… during the war against the Lapis country, Non witnessed the country use strange powers"

Oswald leaked a potpourri and a small twinkle over Leticiel's overly vague answer as to whether something still went wrong.

"That was a force that magically could not be countered. Compared to magic, it seems to me that both the power and the speed of continuous firing were far above the scale of the deployment of the technique. The surgeon dyed his eyes bright red and ravaged our army with gray hair. Maybe that power was something like that."

……

I guess Oswald had no intention of giving this statement any particular significance. I merely guessed against the events I had seen and heard in the past and against the information I now know.

So he didn't realize that Leticiel's eyes glistened for a moment.

(Teenas said I was the first to use magic in these days. Then the power is neither magic nor magic. Something...?

While listening carefully to Oswald, Leticiel held another heart in Leticiel.

As far as I've heard the explanation, that does resemble witchcraft. But it is unlikely that the color of the hair and eyes of those who use magic will change, and I have never heard of that.

The blood of a magical idiot was noisy. Leticiel has an iron-walled faceless expression on his face, but behind his mask, his research appetite was beginning to uzzle on new information he could not have known.

"Eleven years after that, Non has struck every hand he can to restore peace to this country. We have formed an alliance with another neighbor, the Ealis Empire, to strengthen domestic institutions and institutions and to strengthen national and military capabilities"

So once the words were cut, Oswald wrinkled between his eyebrows with a difficult look.

"Lately, however, the Lapis country has once again seen disturbing moves. To gather more information, or because the country is clandestine, it is not possible to obtain large amounts of information. After a lot of strife at the border in recent years, the power of our country has not been as bottomed up as we would like"

I knew what Oswald was going to say. If we were to wage war with the Lapis again in our present state, the result would be the same as it was 12 years ago.

"Your Majesty wants to minimize the damage to the country and the people when it comes to war again."

Oswald's eyes move slightly in Leticiel's short words. Apparently she has an interest in this story.

"Bye. Non, as king, shall keep the peace of this land, and the people. The Lord's power could be a trump card to unlock the situation. Could you help my country, please?

The words Oswald throws gave Leticiel some empathy. Leticiel lived in a turbulent world. Oswald's desire for peace in the country is understandable as to how honorable peace is.

(And...)

Multiple faces float behind Leticiel's brain.

Mirandaletto, Hilmes, Veronica, Lucas, Raven, Bartolana, Luvik and Nicole. And the last thing that came to mind was Sieg's face.

In his previous life, Leticiel was unable to protect his loved ones. So it is in this world that I want to protect those whom I wished to protect.

Oswald's demands are in no way unfavourable to Leticiel. But Leticiel, there are still matters to be resolved.

To strike the next hand, Leticiel looked straight at Oswald with perseverance.