The fact that a soldier is coming to tell the princess is normal and impossible.
Any transmission of information to me is primarily to be carried out by the samurai. When I want to see someone in the castle or tell them something, I call the maid first, and vice versa. When someone needs me, a samurai tells me, "Someone invited me".
The exception is the conductor. Depending on what you need to tell me, the conductor will come to me.
In that case, this conductor is fixed. He's about forty years old and hasn't changed in years. It seems to be a precaution not to be confused in the unlikely event that a fake conductor is revealed. I mean, when a conductor comes, I've never done it without coming, because it's more or less a good thing.
I saw the face of a soldier who was still blue.
Even though the colour of the tanned skin seems healthy, I think it looks so clear in blue.
What's causing this, Clifford? Look and say, "Hi-ha? I was screaming.
- No, Clifford, it's nothing. It's just standing, right? Because earlier, even though I was able to get my dagger out, I didn't set it up. "Hi-ha?" The elements are nowhere.
Besides, this soldier, he's young, and he's not a conductor...
Mm-hmm. But based on Clifford's attitude, he seems to have decided there's no danger.
If you believe in your memory, you're a soldier with Alec.
I mean, the question remains, but the soldier's use from Alec should be true.
Then why did Alec ask the soldier to speak to me?
Even Alec knows the rules when communicating.
I think that breaking it is a sign of intent to keep it a secret.
- And hurry?
Only a samurai, a conductor, and a regular way of communicating it, can do a lot of good.
I just wanted to get a word from the soldiers...
The problem can be Matilda.
Matilda, a woman chief, is tough around here. I'll give you the report straight up. If Alec's will is what I expected, this is where I want to avoid it.
Matilda waved to Sasha, giving instructions. Sasha stopped playing the automatic instrument. The court dance is interrupted. In the silenced practice room, Matilda's reprimand echoed.
"It's in front of His Highness. You're not a conductor, are you? First, someone. Name your affiliation and name. I'm Matilda, the chief woman."
Soldiers salute.
"Ha! Your Highness! For recruits, affiliation is pending! It will be decided after the recruit training is over! His name is Guy Peutz!
"Recruits…. What can prove that?
"Prove… is…"
The soldier's expression clouded.
"Naturally. Do you have a plaque?
"Oh, yes! Of course! Always..."
The soldier explored his body.
"Always... raise it from your neck...?
but my complexion keeps getting worse. As I remembered something, when I leaked the word "ah," I dropped, giving up looking.
"Ho, today, I seem to have left it in the barracks..."
"I forgot to put it down," he said?
Matilda lifted up her armpit.
Soldiers in the Esphia country are bound to be issued a plaque as a sign of this. Father introduced it after the crook case, didn't he? Made of leather with strings. The name of the soldier is noted on the round leather section. That if I had this, I would be an Esphere soldier. If I buy or sell anything, I go to jail without question. It is considered desirable that soldiers also carry them at all times.
"Then get it. Otherwise you won't be admitted to be a soldier in our country. I'll get confirmation from His Highness Alexis."
Matilda is so right that there is no sound whatsoever.
Soldiers also act worse when they are suspicious of behavior. The vicious circle of being blue, forgetting to possess the appraisal, or creating suspicion.
But if I go to pick up the appraisal, a big time loss. Though soldier quarters are in the castle, because they are far away! Even if you run back and forth at full speed, thirty minutes is guaranteed. In the meantime, I'm sure Matilda is going to check with Alec, but this also means nothing to Alec when he asks a soldier to talk to him. Main end fall.
- Wait a minute.
"Your Highness?"
Matilda looked at me in surprise.
"He is indeed a soldier of my Esphere. I remember."
"But, Your Highness..."
No, I don't think Matilda seriously suspects this soldier either. Doubt is about 20% at best. But if there is any doubt about it, I can't or shouldn't see it.
"Clifford, you'll remember that, too. You must have seen him before."
Here, push in numbers to increase credibility. It was yesterday, and what I saw at the workout, as much as I can remember, so I'm sure Clifford too!
…………
The soldier, who received Clifford's gaze and waved his neck and hands flourishing, stiffened as soon as possible.
"... right. I've seen this soldier before."
It will!
"Thanks to Your Highness, I was able to remember"
"I wish I could have helped."
"Yes. He seems to be the one who worked a meeting with His Highness Alexis at the workout yesterday...... I searched my memory again, and I saw something else."
"Anything else?
Really?
"It's a battlefield. This man was fighting on the Esphere side. You've been a regular soldier ever since."
Clifford raised the corner of his mouth. It seems interesting.
I see. I knew Clifford had battlefield experience, and.
"Well... that it's odd. I thought you said Guy Peutz. So you've known Clifford before, too. I'd like to hear more about it. Please, speak freely?
Soldier - Guy was sloppily sweating.
"Yes, no......! Know, etc., very! Not at all! Even on the battlefield, at best, it's about as if you've ever had eyes in the distance! To that extent! I was just running around on the battlefield!
Yeah. Guy seems to remember Clifford better.
I watched Matilda. Seems like the grim gaze on Guy is fading a lot. Apparently, it worked that Clifford and I were on the battlefield. Matilda's rating for Clifford, high. I don't have to ask you to pick up the plaque, but I guess I can handle it.
"Matilda. Have you convinced me that he is my Esphere soldier?
"I'm not doubting what His Highness says. Not at all......"
"I know. If anything goes wrong, I'll take responsibility. That's why I want you to take a big look."
Big, Matilda exhaled. Nod.
"- I can't help it. Guy Peutz, tell me what to say."
"The,"
Guy's eyes swam.
"His Royal Highness Alexis commanded me to tell you the truth only to His Highness Octavia…"
Matilda again builds up a little bit more than she did just now.
"You want me to be alone with Your Highness? Guy Peutz! That's just unacceptable!
"But neither can I say anything other than His Highness Octavia. We are strict."
If it stays like this, I'm going to go back to the shake out.
Hey, I called.
"-Hey, just me, what can I do for you?
So.
Playing the court dance song as back music again, Guy calmed down by blurring and ear to me as Clifford, Matilda and Sasha watched him.
But then, just now, that's not how it happened.
"Being in a round waist condition. This is also a condition," Matilda said, with Guy's acknowledgment, that he is undergoing a physical examination. Matilda gave me quite a concession too, so I couldn't say "I don't need it" either.
Just this physical exam. At first I was going to have Clifford do it. But when Guy shuddered, he said, "Because I'm afraid!," so Matilda executed and Sasha was to assist him in doing so.
Wait a little while the test is done.
I approached a decorative deck.
In the practice room, something Matilda brought in. Before I practice dancing, I keep my fan and Clifford's long sword that fits in the sheath.
Yeah, yeah. I need to get this back to you.
Come on.
Fan - not lift a long sword with both hands. I can hold it, but it weighs a lot.
"Clifford."
I call Clifford, who was silently watching my movements while paying attention to the Guys.
"Take this. I won't take my sword away from you no matter what."
Guy was using it from Alec, but what if he wasn't? An assassin or something. If it was previous life, I'd say, "Ma-sa-ah!" I can laugh it off. I just think it's the princess's position... Fortunately, I've never encountered anyone I was after. Nevertheless, when I saw Clifford sheltering me earlier, I thought I was too optimistic. In the unlikely event that a knight of escorts is on my side to protect me, Clifford can't even show his strength if he's sword-taken.
Though I thought lightly about it during dance practice.
"Something unforeseen isn't strange at any time."
I have to keep it in mind for my liver.
"I didn't know Your Highness would give it to you himself. Thank you very much."
Receiving the long sword I offered with both hands, Clifford equipped the belt through in a flowing motion. Yeah, this is Clifford!
Well.
I fan too...
But before me, Clifford took the fan.
Without any hesitation, naturally.
"Go ahead, Your Highness"
"... thanks. You can't resist touching the wings of a Lev bird, can you?
I'll spread the fan you handed me.
After I found out this fan was called the 'Black Fan', I realized that before the dance, when I gave this fan to Matilda, you had a bit of a frightening vibe.
Looking back at it like that, Sasha, too, never touched 'Black Fan' from herself.
Immediately touch the rev bird or its wings.
I guess I don't normally like this.
Others, for example, were always the same person at their daily dinner party, the service of depositing fans. Instead of me giving it to you, you make a gesture of "keep it" from the other side... When I was using a whitefan, I felt like I only had a bad face to keep. Yet it has been fixed since it became a 'black fan'! That paying man, he's been pushed from the other side...! Until what look I kept the fan, I can't remember a bit...... Goddamn it. My fucking brain!
Compared to that, Clifford even said that when he received the Lev Bird's Wing Decoration Room, he would put it on. Not only from that word, but from the motion I just took the 'black fan', really, you don't feel anything about the anecdote of the Lev bird, about touching it?
"Didn't I mention it? Me too, I consider Lev birds to be the preferred birds. So no resistance."
Oh, my God. I didn't know you were a true comrade! I wanted you to say it sooner!
"What is Clifford's preference for Rev birds?
I fell in love with fluffy wings though!
"What is greedy about raw, is it? Actual rev birds are far from hell and won't die for some things. Strong reproduction and high viability. It's a bird that has the power to make herds and survive alone."
Convinced. So you're flying all over there, aren't you, Rev bird, even though you're not particularly valued?
"-That's why I hate Lev birds, too."
Ironically, Clifford added.
"Clear and scattered beauty is more respected in our country."
"Sounds like it."
"... ridiculous"
Even myself, I had a surprisingly cold voice.
I distorted my face and squirmed like throwing it away, then I hid half my face with a spread fan. Shit. This wasn't queen-like. Shake it yourself. What, but the fucking abominable memory thing is associated with doing it again, and it's on!
Of course, I feel a surprise gaze from Clifford, who didn't miss hearing it.
In contrast, smile to fix it.
- Your Highness.
Matilda called me. Thanks!
"I've had a physical exam"
Until I heard what you said, it took enough, but finally I was hearing what it was about.
Considering that he was an irregular transmitter, this can still be faster.
"Yes, my father told Alec..."
When Alec was in the workout in the morning, Father came 'by chance'. So his father sent down a secret message to Alec, that he might not be enlightened by his surroundings.
- As king, a secret order to the second prince Alexis.
Finally, on Alec's original schedule, it should be seating in the morning. He can't be at the workout, so it seems his father's fault for rescheduling him.
Suddenly, Alec was to leave a handful of confessions and the king's capital for a few days.
I wonder if your father finally admitted the truth about Alec. But I can't believe I can't see Alec for a few days, and I can't even talk to him...!
"But that thing will get you down. His Highness, Alexis, says he is ill and cured in the castle. Naturally, His Highness Octavia will not be able to see you."
If I hear Alec's sick, of course I'm going to pay him a visit.
However, Alec himself is not in the castle. He said he couldn't see a human being without him. You mean the front door payment lasted day after day even when you went to visit? I'm glad they told me this way, but if I didn't know, I would have nearly done a tremendous amount of damage to my heart...
"His Highness Alexis wanted to tell you himself, but he said he was leaving immediately, and there was no respite. At the very least, His Highness Octavia told me not to worry unnecessarily..."
"But it is against my father's will that I know this."
This is why Alec didn't go through with the samurai or the conductor. Both will definitely leak to your father.
If you want to promote it as a use, the farther you are from your father. The lower the position, the better. But I want the status of a soldier to the extent that I'm not suspicious, even if I'm walking in the castle. If you say greed, you tell the princess, and Alec admits it, you can't do it without a lot of ability. It's what I tell you.
"You're a recruit, not a soldier under Alec's jurisdiction, but you got Alec's letter in a short period of time."
I'm impressed! Alec, you're an angel, but you're not the type to open your heart to anyone.
"I got a letter, rather than... I happen to be the one nearby at that time and I guess"
Guy fumbled and looked away somewhere.
"I'm not dyed..."
Huh? What, what's wrong?
Guy's eyes, all of a sudden, dead fish eyes? I'm familiar with samurai, but I've never seen one in a soldier! With dead fish eyes, Guy spun words.
"That must be the key thing for His Highness Alexis... unfortunately, very few of the soldiers of the Royal Castle... so you will remember your face, even at the end of the day, many of your fears..."
"I remember, too. Guy Peutz."
"Oh, thank you..."
"Speaking of which, it's strange, but when I walked into the practice room, I wondered why you blued when you saw Clifford."
I seriously and purely doubt it!
"Well, o"
Unexpectedly, with a body like that, Guy approached me and shut his mouth.
"O?"
"-O, His Highness Octavia. It's killing me. I felt killing myself from the Knights of the Guard. Because of that appearance, it's only natural that the Cavalier of the Guard suspects me."
Only a bastard knows how to kill. Ah. Then I can't feel it at all.
"It's amazing how you can feel killer. I wonder if my experience on the battlefield with Clifford speaks of things."
"No!"
Guy's voice rubbed up.
"I know nothing, so there's one thing Your Highness cares about...! Without any involvement with the Knight of the Guard......!
No, I'm desperately complaining. Let's calm down!
"There's no rush. Lower your voice."
"Yes...... sorry"
"I just said my thoughts, didn't I? There's no deep meaning, so you don't have to worry about it. Listen to me."
".................. Yes"
Oh, yeah. I forgot to ask you the most important thing.
"Guy Peutz. Is Alec still in the castle? Or have you already left?
"No, probably not yet... by now, I think, around the time we're headed for the castle gate"
Then maybe we'll make it to the critical drop off!