It has to be said that it was a total reckoning.

———

"Why is a woman here?"

At the salon at the Royal Castle Guest House.

A young man sitting on a velvety sofa with his legs in dignity showed her jaw-dropping when he admitted Gardenia to the edge of his sight.

And Gardenia answers in a flat voice.

"Beginning this evening, I will replace Knight Rosio on an escort assignment for His Excellency Rushar..."

"Why is a woman here?"

man so that he can cover himself in Gardenia's words —— Rushar repeats. Its eyes were not directed at Gardenia, but at the knight Grain next door.

"My lord. Wasn't it very angry that Rosio worked rudely this morning"

"... oh, that wretched, wretched man. Do it, don't walk around on your own, don't call in the bitch. He was a pain in the ass when it came to escorts."

"Yeah, not at all. So as of this evening, it is up to this Gardenia Bardo to serve as his Excellency's escort. Regards,"

Grayne asks for Rushar's face at the low waist of the Kingdu knights. But Rushar put his arms together with his displeasure exposed like a child.

"Next up in disrespectful craftsmanship is the woman in the knight's guise. I hear you guys want me dead long enough, huh?

"There is no annihilation either. Your Excellency is a valued member of our allies. The knights are there to protect you even in exchange for your life."

……

"Besides, this Gardenia had quite a sword skill while being a woman. of the aristocracy in addition --"

"That's enough."

Rushar snorted her own blonde hair with her fingers as smooth as a maiden when she controlled Grain in a fed up tone. "Hmm."

"If you think the knights of this country are so fallen that they are replaced by women, well, you don't have to forgive them and be motivated. With me, if it's about pity, I have it."

"Ha. Thank you for understanding"

"But there will be no choice but to be useless indoors.... it's not enough to watch and enjoy."

"Then my lord. I thought I'd let her look around outside."

A knight standing on Rushar's side moves forward.

He was a guy in sync with Gardenia. When Gardenia looked at him, he was returned with a nihilistic and malicious grin.

"If you work to that extent, even women should work. It doesn't bother you."

"Right. Knight Grain, then. Keep that woman rolling outside."

"... I understand. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll give her some instructions."

"Then at last, order me to bring the liquor to the service. I like the red I drank yesterday. I'll behave like a wine from my country to you people who don't know things."

Grain bows his head over and over again. Once Gardenia also bowed down, she turned herself towards the door.

Other knights who watched what was going on indoors follow Gardenia with their gaze. Most of them included mockery.

"I'm sorry, Gardenia. He said he couldn't. He said he had me on a mission."

"No, never mind. I'm used to it."

Grain repeated his apologies as troubled as he walked out of Rushar's private room and down the corridor. Gardenia still shakes her head without breaking her face like a mask.

"When I arrived in this country with my Special Envoy, it was always at that rate. This is the third time I've changed my guards."

"We have heard the hard work of Squad Leader Grain."

"Hard work, you know," Grayne muttered, with a slightly sarcastic grin on the edge of her mouth.

--Luchar is a man of his allies. In my country, I hear you are in a position called Misoji, a high nobleman who brings you to the royal family.

He was entrusted with the role of ambassador and left his country to deliver the king's letter to the Gardenians' country. However, he said he had been attacked by thieves several times on that journey.

Although there seems to be a slight problem with personality (and even more so, there seems to be a great problem with his qualities as an envoy), his identity is unmistakable and noble. So there were plenty of escorts around him.

But the thief, it seems, was quite hands-on. With each raid, the number of escorts decreased by one, and by the time Rushar arrived in the Gardenians' country, one line of envoys had reduced its size to about a third.

Driven out by the reinforcement of the diminished envoy escort was Grain, the commander of the Knights of the King's Capital Squad. His nature, without any dignity common to high knights and loving to everyone, was judged to be perfect for the amulet of a proud envoy.

But Rushar's endeavors far exceeded expectations around him.

Has he completely forgotten that he was targeted for his life and that he was deprived of many of his men, since his arrival in Wang Capital, he has begun to mouth one excessive order after another saying, "I don't care about that escort's face" and "Let a more beautiful woman serve you".

In response to that, he said that all the knights around him are now good at sesame rings and rubbers.

"I don't even know if your Excellency will be in a bad mood. If they keep targeting their lives on the road, they'll rub down their nerves. Rumor has it your parents are rubbing their house in a disturbance."

"… is this raid by an allied human being?"

"I don't know, I don't know. Your Excellency hasn't had any particular problems since his arrival in King's Capital. But I can't lose my mind any more than I don't know the mastermind. I have more trouble getting spoken out by an escort than I do now, and I'd better follow your Excellency here, even if I'm angry."

"Yes, sir."

So we arrive in front of the door leading to the outer corridor, where the two stopped their legs and faced each other.

"That's why I asked you to patrol the perimeter of the building. If anything happens, I'll take care of it."

"-- Ha"

"It may be unpleasant, but it should be a much easier job than being on the envoy's side. There are other soldiers on guard, and you don't need to be uptight. Nice to meet you."

Beating Gardenia on the shoulder, Grain flaunts his shoulders like he was in trouble.

"I'm sorry. I was wondering if a woman would like to have her special envoy."