Herscherik (Reincarnated Prince Series)

Hershelik was able to feel the pain and loss of his predecessors as if it were his own. That's why I couldn't think of burying the pain or loss with anything else.

To Hershelik, whose expression darkened, Solje put his hand on his head as if to reassure him.

"That is superficial, and the circumstances behind it are different.

"To?"

Hershelik changes his dark expression, opens his eyes wide like his father's, and takes his father's face seriously.

"It's something you can tell only royalty who has reached some age from here. If it's true, it should have been further ahead to teach Hershey, but if there's a problem, I can't help it.

Saying so, Soldier continues his words with a smile on his shoulder.

"The Lustian Federation knows, doesn't it?

"South of the continent, it is a country where the Beasts and the Subpeoples form alliances.

Hershelik replies to Solje's words. There are nations large and small on a vast continent with the Kingdom of Gracis, but among them four great powers hold each other back.

My own country, the Kingdom of Gracis to the north, the Atorad Empire to the west, the Ferbork Army to the east, and the Lustian Confederation to the south. East, west, north, south and large countries were divided into four quarters.

Soldier nodded at Hershelik's answer.

"The Federation is big, but historically, it's still a new country. Very recently, to be precise, it took the form of a confederation, albeit in the days of the kings of earlier generations, when the South originally had many small nations of each of the Beasts and sub-peoples.

Soldier goes on to say that small nations have formed alliances and federations to fight other nations.

"The Lustian Confederation appealed for the liberation of its fellow citizens to various countries at the same time as it was interested in the country. Because there are many slaves of the Beasts who live in human society. Slaves, especially in the three great nations of the continent, have a relatively large number of Beasts and Subtribes. The kingdom was also slave at the time, mostly beastly and subhuman.

But that is not the only purpose of the liberation of the same people. Emerging countries that have just been made are still brittle, and alliances that have become one if invaded by other countries are at stake. So to avoid that, it was also the purpose of the statement to shake other countries from the inside out.

The statement was effective side for the countries that treated the Beasts and sub peoples as slaves. The beasts of the kingdom also floated that they might be free.

Even when it comes to slaves whose clothing and accommodation are guaranteed, their treatment varies according to the Lord. Some lords gave them clean clothes and adequate meals and vacations, while others gave them only minimal things to live and they were like terrible until death. And that percentage, the latter is more.

The statement of the Lustian Confederation, as they see it, led to clashes between men of the kingdom and other races.

Beasts who want to be liberated, who want to live free without being abused like the general public, and humans who do not want to lose their workforce as property. It was also inevitable that there would be strife, and within the kingdom there would be more human and slave troubles over time.

"That's when the Queen's accident happened.

The queen, who was brought into the royal castle after the accident, was a bug. The doctor couldn't apply his hand either. The last queen who wished to be alone with the king conveyed her wishes to the king and took her breath away.

"……… Wish?

To Hershelik's question, that goes on and Soldier goes on to say.

"I don't hate the beasts, I want the slaves free.

Hershelik takes a breath in Solje's words.

Hershelik understood. I understood and understood everything. What the kings of previous generations did.

Soldier answers the solution Hershelik leads, as if he answers each other.

"Even if we forcibly free slaves, there is no way that humans can quickly be recognized that the things they possessed until yesterday are equivalent from today.

It was more obvious than to see the fire that the crack would be a major crack into the country in the future. And the slaves, bound by the magic of their subordinates, take their lives with one of their masters' feelings. In the unlikely event that the slaves were bound and resolved, they would have slaughtered their lives to extinguish the candle fire by slave magic. So before that happened, the previous generations of kings took the lead.

"So the previous generations publicly declared that they had slaughtered all their slaves as a means of bitter flesh, and ordered their trusted subordinates to go outside the country and miss the Beasts.

Records indicate that all slaves throughout the country were collected and disposed of with their lives. But in fact, the gathered beasts were secretly sent out of the country and sent to the Lustian Federation. And the Lustian Confederation accepted slaves, and refused to deal with each other.

All the stories were heard by my aunt, who had been descended to the local nobility. It was his descended father's sister who taught Soldier the royal manners of his young and throne due to the secrets of his ministers. She taught Soluyeh, who had succeeded to the throne at an early age, the circumstances behind the royal family in details neither known to the minister.

Soldier sees Hershelik's condition. Hardening his expression, he must have understood it because of his brilliance and because of his emotional richness.

"... Grandpa Zeng became a crazy king himself for the wishes of his great-grandmother and those who were slaves, right?

He became a crazy king to help the slaves. I didn't think Hershelik would do it best. But that's why there was another way. No.

Soldier nodded at Hershelik's answer.

"That's right. Earlier generations made themselves in history as kings of evil deeds, transforming the kingdom. Thanks to this, there is no slavery or human trafficking in the country right now.

Even if that was a way to distance ourselves from the Beasts, we can say that the country has moved in a good direction. Not the best. But not the worst, only kings and queens have been sacrificed, and the kingdom of Gracis has continued to this day without shaking itself as a great power.

"Have you lost your discomfort?

Soldier, who confirmed Hershelik nodding, decides to move on to the point after a long forethought on the subject.

"Now still, in the past, the Beastmen have set foot in the kingdom. It doesn't matter what the individual wants. Because whoever commits it, even if prohibited, exists at all times.

Soldier goes on to say that beasts have become rare in our country. In other words, he implicitly said that he was illegitimate and sometimes smuggled into the country as a slave. It is not hard to imagine how they will be treated, which has become rare.

"In that case, it is strictly stipulated that the Beast tribe shall be protected as soon as possible and delivered secretly to the Lustian Federation. Even so, it's hardly happened since it was my turn.

At the time the law was laid down, the virtuous nobles were behind the slave trade, but both the virtuous nobles and the traffickers involved in it were exterminated with extreme sentences in earlier and earlier generations. Moreover, the story became known to the neighbouring countries, and those who made trafficking in human beings their business weighed their profits and dangers, and as a result they were no longer close to the Kingdom of Gracis.

"So Hershey, make sure that young man is properly protected.

"…… Yes!

Hershelik responds to his father's words with a flying smile, the opposite of when he entered the room.

"Confirmed, but who was the woman with the Beast tribe youth?

"I think maybe... they're lovers to each other.

That is only Hershelik's anticipation.

If it is true that they have fled the military, then their relationship seems to be correct between the Lord and the slaves. Most of the Beastmen living in the military were those who lived on that land that lost the war when the military extended its territory. Without exception, they become the property of the military.

But Ao trusts and cherishes Krenai, and Krenai also treats Ao as a reciprocal being. Their atmosphere that the room was good for the same room was tighter, such as a lover relationship rather than a subordinate relationship.

"Okay. But it's hard right now.

Hershelik also agrees with Soldier's words. The whole country is now being chased to prepare for the Toyota Festival. And many come from other countries. In it, on the contrary, those who leave the country become conspicuous. Secretly doesn't make you a transparent person. I had to get him out of the country so he wouldn't stand out as much as I could.

"It's still best to have the Toyota Festival over and let those who return home get confused.

Soldier nods at Hershelik's words as well.

"Right. When the festival is over and the merchants return to the region, they will disperse it and send it out of the country. If you go through the Principality of Parche to the Union of Lustia, you will have no problem. The Federation is home to the Beasts, as well as a few, but also humans.

"Thank you, Father.

Hershelik thanks his father as he looks up from his father's lap, saying that she would also be accepted.

"It's not about Hershey thanking you.

Though it was not even about him, Solje smiles bitterly at his son, who rejoices as if it were about him.

"But thank you very much.

Still thanking him, Soldier let him down from his knees when a pale colored blonde stroked his shaking head without saying anything.

"Well, it's too late today. Rest."

"Yes!"

Hershelik returns his heel and heads to the door. On that distant little back, Soluyeh called his name.

"Hershelik."

When Hershelik stops and looks back, he tilts his neck. The behavior was adorable and Soldier said, smiling.

"Thank you for trusting me to talk.

Hershelik opens his eyes only slightly to a word of thanks from his father. But it immediately turned to a smile.

For Hershelik, who did not know the covenant, what he was trying to do until he heard about Soldier was break the law even if the analogy was wrong. In the light of the law, even if he was royal, he could have been sentenced to death. Even though there was no other way, it is also true that I was not sure if I could tell this story to my father or listen to the Beastmen.

But I also believed that this kind father would not do anything unreasonable. That's why Hershelik visited my father.

"…… Father, I have only one question.

Hershelik mouths an inquiry that he was not sure he would listen to.

"Does your father think this country should stay this way?

This country is exclusive to other races. Until now, that might have been good. But what about now? And the kingdom is gone, and the kingdom standeth at the crossroads, without the ministers that were in the shadows and the ears.

Immutable or change?

Hershelik asks his father.

"... this country should change too. Fifty years have passed and people's consciousness has changed. Then I think we should move on.

Soldier answers so clearly once he closes his eyes and opens them. I was not lost in those eyes.

"Thank you very much, father.

Hershelik thanked his father again and left the room behind.

With the closed door in front of his eyes, Hershelik exhales once he breathes deeply.

Talking to my father was more than Hershelik expected. About the Beasts, about the circumstances behind this country, and about my father.

(For now, I think I can handle the two of them.

You don't have to use your handover to convince yourself that it's possible to get the two of you out of the country without any problems, and Hershelik finds relief. But now another question arose.

(Is getting them out really going to help them out?

That's what the fruit shop husband asked for help with. Being within an exclusive kingdom against other races is dangerous for both of us. So for the safety of the two of us, it's absolutely necessary to get them out of the country.

But could that really help the two of us? Why did the two come running from the military in the first place?

(Lovers of man and beast tribe each other...... so the two have fled the country?

I can predict that Klenai would be quite a patterned person due to his physical hips and atmosphere. And Ao would be a slave because he's an animal tribe. Those two are in love, abandoning their country and rushing off. It's like a novel.

(It's not uncomfortable as a muscle, but it's unnatural……)

Something caught in Hershelik. If it is an escape of love, why did the two come to the kingdom? We should head south, not north, to the Lustian Union.

In the information at hand, I learned a huge hook there. It stimulates Hershelik's unpleasant hunch.

Hershelik's hunch is that the worse it hits him well.

(Are you two secret detectives in the military?

But the possibilities are unlimited and unlimited, Hershelik thinks.

By the time they reached Hershelik's place, there were too many coincidences close to miracles.

It is a well-known fact that Hershelik is close to the fruit shop couple, but it will be difficult for the military to investigate and complete that in the short term. Furthermore, her husband delivers fruit to towns near the border once every few months. Getting information on the average person, who is not even famous, is difficult, even if it is cro. Moreover, externally, kingdoms are inadmissible to other races and other races are eliminated. It's strange to send the Beast Clan into such a country as a secret detective.

So it is quite unlikely that they are secret detectives, Hershelik thinks.

Besides, it didn't seem easy for them to understand each other as secret detectives or lovers fleeing love.

When I first met him, Crennai had a calm atmosphere with soft smiling but shooting dark eyes, no shards of how he moved. Ao, the beast tribe that protects her, had been overheard by Oran wearing some martial arts from the way he carried her.

Their atmosphere was different from that of ordinary people.

I'm sure they're fugitives. But why did it flee the army? What are you being chased by? That was the problem.

"Hmmm......"

Hershelik roars. It's not just the two of us who care. The profound words that Tesseri, his brother just above, said remain in his head. Is Tesseri in any way aware of the situation or expecting it?

"The two of you who brought me here today, you have to be careful.

Hershelik has to agree with the words.

I'm pretty sure you two are hiding something. If you're not a secret detective or a lover on the lookout for love, you could have bigger problems. If you assume the worst, it could somehow be detrimental to the kingdom.

(But I want to help you both. I want to help.

Hershelik doesn't have the option of not helping them.

Hershelik breathes heavily on the spot. He breathed air deep as if to air the bottom of his belly, and sputtered out momentum well.

Hershelik, at the same time as his movements, determines his belly.

"Hershey?"

"Heh!?

Suddenly spoken from behind, Hershelik shivers his shoulders and raises a strange voice. Looking back, I was surprised to find myself looking down.

(That's a former awesome snitch. There were no signs.

I thought my heart would hello...... no, good evening in time? and Hershelik looks at the clo of his belly as he nolittles in his heart.

"Cro......"

And there was resentment, and he called his name, and the LORD said unto him, Let him lean his neck, and let him be righteous.

"So, what do I do?

Hershelik laughs at the words for a moment. This butler is really understanding my true intentions. You don't have to tell me what you want to do to guess and understand.

(As always, I just do what I can.

If anyone is in trouble, I reach out to whoever it is.

The family, the country and the people are all important, but the desire to scorn them because they are from another country and because they are from another race is not hairy to Hershelik. I want to help them. I just want to act for myself. What do you want to do now? That's what matters.

In the end, I do it because I want to. No matter what anyone says, follow the path they believed in. That's who I am.

(To help, but to help.

They are not bad people, Hershelik felt. It was just as unfounded and unfounded as a bad feeling.

Just do what you want and need to do.

So Hershelik does Kro the usual favor.

"Cro, I need a favor.

Yes, Hershelik gave the grin and the faithful butler a laugh.