Hitsugi no Maou

It was on the eastern side of the royal castle, in a hall with an ancient fountain, that Lucina led the woman.

In a blowout space with huge skylights overhead, the late Lucina's mother, the Queen, used to make songs in this place involving the samurai.

Lucina drags the iron chair that was left behind at the end of the water stopped fountain and places it in front of the woman. But the woman waved one hand back and said, "Fine."

"You can stay standing. Can I untie your hair?"

"... you don't have to ask me that."

Be my guest. In front of Lucina, who continues to do so, the woman begins to untie her hair, as she put it.

Gallols, nagis and ministers scatter in the halls, forming themselves in a position of thought. Lucina raised her voice "Wait" to the soldier who tried to close the hall door.

"It's not an interrogation, leave the door open. And... yeah..."

To Lucina, who looks at herself and finally says, the woman opens her mouth as she pulls out the strings of her hair clasp.

"My name is Sante. General Yuk, Mariela and Makito followed by a fourth snobber army."

"... shall we? Now, Lord Sante..."

Lucina put her arms together and narrowed her eyes to the look of the woman in front of her.

The unraveled brunette is gently stretched straight to the floor, giving the slightest impression of quantity. Woman, her eyes, which were like Sante's sharp eagle (tart), began to loosen from the moment she let her hair go, and now she was sending a somewhat blurred gaze to Lucina.

You're like someone else. As if I had read Lucina's thoughts like that, Sante laughed small, perhaps for the first time since we met.

"To keep my mind tight, I'm tying my hair tight. It hurts... so when I untie my hair, I feel a little... relaxed."

"You guys always seem relaxed. Treasure, spare time, and lay us together laughing"

"You can't afford me. I'm not in the same position as the other three."

"What do you mean," one of the knights standing at the wall raised a slightly annoying voice.

The strange words and deeds of the snobber executives are beginning to mix with the bewildering colors on the faces of the indoor coffins.

"Why can't you afford a snobber army executive? Aren't you guys in the middle of a victory by dropping your coffins? As long as there is that god, fear of what enemies will appear..."

"You've heard from the princess that Snobba's current government was able to go through a revolution, right?

Sante turns his gaze to Lucina and arms in the same way.

A breast richer than Lucina's was pushed up under hemp clothes, shaking slightly.

To Lucina tilting her neck, Sante continues by knocking down her neck in the same way.

"The revolution that took place in Snoba was a complete revolution of violence. It was the only adventurers' union in Snoba that was allowed to arm itself by its own standards, apart from the military, that revolted under the instigation of Euk. God appeared before the snobber people for the first time at that time, kicking the Imperial Army and eating and killing the Emperor.

Like the occupation of Coffin, the revolution took place in one day. Then the execution was followed by execution… the man on the emperor's side was knelt naked on the guillotine table, without distinction between old and young, noble men and women, and the death was exposed to the public "

"Savage... have you even done such a mess in your own country..."

"I was also supposed to be a person on the executing side"

Sante breathed into countless eyes staring at herself and dropped her eyes on the floor.

"My name is Sante Hylania de Snoba... before the Revolutionary Government, a man of the emperor family who had united Empire Snoba... the last emperor, the daughter of Sideon"

Just like you, the Empress. To Sante, who tells Lucina yes, the facades in the room were uniformly silent.

Of the Empire defeated by the Revolution, the Empress. If that's true, then surely Sante is the first person Snobba's revolutionary government should capture or execute.

My daughter, who draws the blood of the overthrown emperor, lived and became an officer of the army and so on, but she did not know what a disaster it would be for the revolutionaries ahead.

Lucina alternates with Galor and Nagi standing next to her and then speaks carefully to Sante.

"Emperor's, daughter...? Why are such people among the revolutionaries who have taken over their country...?

"I am the meritor of the revolution...... no, because I am the 'culprit'. I have destroyed my country, fool."

And Sant returneth the flutter and the heel, and walketh toward the dead fountain. "I'll let you sit down," he said, sooner or later, sitting on the hedge of a fountain made of smooth stone.

Lucina stares at the chair she has prepared and takes it in front of Sante.

As he lowers his back to face Sante, he peeks into her eyes.

To the silent Lucina, Sante returned her eyes as if she were a child scolded by an adult.

That lip squeezes the words slowly.

"Snobba was a truly rich and privileged country. The temperatures are low but the sun falls on the earth enough, the soil is fattening and there are many sources of water. The types of crops that bear fruit throughout the year exceed a thousand. … but those graces… were not obtained at the end of peaceful development.

As a result of the successive destruction and absorption by force of our neighbours with fertile soil, abundant water resources and a variety of land resources. "

"flourished by force, a military power…"

"Oh. The vast territory of Snoba is the site of a tragedy that sucked the blood and corpses of other people. The hatred of the people of the defeated country, who were killed by kings, deprived of their country and forced into snobbery as inferior citizens, accumulated (chiseled) more and more every time they made history.

... but that doesn't mean the Snobbers took it and preferred war and repeated the invasion themselves. In a world beyond the Northern Mountains, it was inevitable to exchange blades with other countries in order to flourish and protect the country. It was because too many nations hissed upon the land, and the nations that united the world were constantly sneezing.

Peacefully, any country that tries to live without weapons and armies will be destroyed first. If there are signs of war (this way), attack them before they attack you. Destroy before they destroy you. It was also common sense in the North. "

Sante stares at Lucina, surrounded by the faces of the coffins who can be praised.

I hold my shoulders, rubbing them, and lay more voices on them.

"I hated that the world was like a country. Repeated wars that do not end while taking many victims, occupying other countries and bringing profits and hatred into their own countries.

Bloodthirsty history, culture… the very survival of Snowba, a powerful nation that continues to be a victorious nation, seemed too great a sin against the world. "

"A princess who hates her country? What a pity."

And Santé glanced at the words of Lucina, saying, "I'm so proud of you," he says in a thick voice somewhere.

"This country is terribly healthy while poor and on a tough earth. We don't want more land than we can have, then honest patriotism and trust in the royal family. Even in a position to abuse the Coffins, I know that very well...... the people love the country as it is but as it is, and the royal family and army fight burning their souls for their people and their country.

Is that why even foreigners like owl knights favor and help Coffin "

"Owl......"

"The day he died, I was secretly taking a trip to the village of Horpo, before the raid. He was rewarding the Owl Knight for imminent danger."

Lucina's throat made a noise and swallowed it.

Sante slightly turns a blind eye and keeps staring at the floor like it's hard to say where.

"Nothing, I'm not making excuses... I just wanted to stop the violence of the Yuks, if that's possible, although I do have a snobber army ahead of me. I have no brother-in-law against the revolutionary government. It's just the way it is, and I'm just in the position I am."

"It's a difficult story. But it is true that that day, the village of Horpo had all the villagers evacuated before the raid, and the owl knights were armed with armor all over their bodies. If someone doesn't circulate information about the raid beforehand, it's not something we can do.

It's too surprising that it was you. "

"The Owl Knight also suspected me at first, but eventually persuaded the villagers to let me go. I told him to run too...... if the raid fails completely, Yuk will go after the villagers, even willingly. I stayed and said I would fight and didn't listen. He pretended, as you know, not to know me until the end."

Faster than Lucina, neighbor Gallol sighed deeply. Slightly breathing from the fissures in the stitched mouth.

Tearing the sinking air drifting in the hall, Lucina asks Sante low.

"I serve as a general in the army of the revolutionary government while being a snobber princess, and I realize half (Hanpa) the lives of the people of an enemy country while being a general. What do you want? What's the point?

"I'm looking for a way to take responsibility.... Let's talk from the beginning. The beginning of this was five years ago in the Empire of Snoba."

Sante opened his eyes to the floor and began to speak.