Then soon, winter arrived.

Shortly after March, after the final exam, the Academy is closed and the students return to their parent's territory and city mansion.

I'm interested in chatting with Zephyr, who could have been alone a long time while waiting for the carriage, just crushing every piece of paper before anyone saw the letter "best grader" signed clutteringly to the returned test results.

"Is Cardia going back to the realm?

"Oh. I don't want to go back if I can, as I have accumulated my work as a lord"

"You're kidding. Seriously, Cardia, I really can't wait to get rid of the accumulated work."

Heels and Zephyr laughed at me, and I clapped my shoulders as I loosened my mouth, too.

As a matter of fact, I barely have the rest of the work I cleaned up when I stopped by the other day. Above all, I broke my heart this past year so that even in my absence there was no amount of work left.

Zephyr somehow figured that out, too, and it just seemed like she got on a joke.

"What about Zephyr? Are you in Wang Du?

"I'll be back in the realm during the winter. It's a hassle to make a long journey just to and from, but Lucius is waiting for you, too. Maybe... from next year when Lucius enters the Academy, he won't be returning to the realm."

Graduation is two years away. Whether he intends to see his hometown, which will no longer be seen for at least two years, Zephyr's eyes seem to have a faint sense of hope.

"... it's a beautiful place, my realm. Because of the proximity of the White Mountains (Amon Albus), the rocks are white and the wild flowers are bright. Me and my best friend would love to come visit. It's hard to ask away from the king's capital."

I won't be home for two years, so if I can show you around one day, it will be after I graduate from school.

I smiled as much as I could at Zephyr for continuing to do so.

"The war is over. In two years, my territory will be a little more calm. So one day when I want to slow down, I'm thinking about taking a trip somewhere. I thought I'd visit my best friend's territory."

"Like! I think it's the best travel plan ever! Can I follow you, too?

"... I don't care how many months you spend traveling back and forth between Cardiac and Mordon, you are"

There was a moment of silence when I returned it with a smug mouthful. Then, almost simultaneously, they erupt and laugh at each other.

I could see that the students who were far-winded focused their gaze on this one with a slight expression, but I laughed with Zephyr, regardless.

I still can't believe I made a laughing alumni joking like this. I never thought about it the first day I walked through the gates of this school.

There are only a few people in a relationship who can slap a light mouth. Latka, who knows most of my circumstances, and Tila, who has been with me since I was a young girl.

It seemed very strange to me the presence of Zephyr, who, in their capacity as nobles to each other, had slipped into the same place as them who had shared their time for years now.

... Is it because the way it talks is somehow similar?

Even his voice is no longer clearly remembering, but he still seems to have his remnants built up deep inside this chest.

The ambassador returned to Arksia from a neighbouring country just before the Yugfenas closed to snow.

When the peace treaty with Lindar was finally officially concluded, it seems that the Wang capital was enough to be enlivened by Russia, even though Arksia said it was the quietest winter.

No matter whether it was during the triumph of the King's army or a scattered fuss, the invitation to the second celebration party came with zero laughter like a boulder.

Arksia's offer to Lindar for peace is manifold.

Prohibition of slavery. Prohibition of immigration from countries of the South. Maximum setting of military costs. Furthermore, the establishment of provisions establishing customs duties on trade with the countries of the South. High claims for compensation for the presence of Ambassador Arksia in the Principality of the United Lindar. A huge number of other arrangements seemed to have been made.

Apparently, "Miyagi" considered it impossible to penetrate non-interference as before against Lindar, whose national scale swelled enough to shoulder Arxia.

The conditions of peace, which attempted to hold it completely from the head, were set so harsh that concerns were raised in the House of Lords that rebellion would come on the boulders.

It was the first 'domination' of pagan society in the long history of Arxia.

… the fact that only one Lindar accompanied the Ambassador of Peace back to the Wang capital is probably information that even the Earl of Teresia does not yet know.

One of the conditions of peace, the name of that girl who set foot in this country as a hostage from Lindar, is Emilia Euriel de la Lindar.

Make her a former princess of the Kingdom of Lindar, now Grand Duchess of the Principality of Lindar Union. He's the only daughter of a grand duchess set up as a central government with no territory.

─ ─ He is the protagonist (heroine) of a certain memorable maiden game that has greatly driven my destiny or cut me off from my crazy life.