Kuro no Maou

One evening, Wilhardt, the second prince of Sparta, and Charlotte, the third princess, were secretly summoned at the royal castle by their father, King Leonhardt.

"Good day, Brother Wilhardt"

"Shull, you've been so grumpy... have you enjoyed your father's ordeal?"

"Shut up. Even I can't stay a child anymore."

"Ha ha, I'll cover it up"

"Hmm!"

The princess's only words are one first greeting. Wilhardt was painfully kicked in the tibia, often stuffy. Unfortunately, I'm relieved to see no growth in my sister's attitude.

My father blamed me for joining the Galahad War on his own initiative, and when I returned it was Charlotte, who was under substantial house arrest at the Royal Castle, but it appears that he has yet to rectify that rough temper.

"But you're right that you can't stay a child. Me and you."

"Yes, because I'm already a fine Spartan knight."

Like Wilhardt, Charlotte also formally decided to join the Spartan army, and becoming a knight from a student seemed to change her consciousness somewhat.

"But don't be with you as a safe royal castle, right? I'll be in Galahad next time, and I'll feed the invaders the red thunder of Sparda!

"However, behave discreetly in deviation from merit"

"I just don't want you to worry!

"Well, if General Emelia is the star, there won't be a problem"

Charlotte's talent for thunder magic is unusual, but he has no hair on King Leonhardt, such as his intention to rely on that power. Leave it for now, it would be a good job as a princess if you improved your morale. He is tenacious, but Wilhardt knows he will not make any appearance on the battlefield on her in the Second Army 'Tempest' assigned.

In the unlikely event of unsolicited action, General Emelia Friedrich Baldier, with far more powerful thunder dragon protection than Charlotte, will grab the root gently and take you back, as even a kitten would softly.

Together, Wilhardt, who has no combat skills but is bought brains, serves as a safe royal castle, and Charlotte, an excellent user of thunder magic, is sure to take each duty seriously as one of the knights on the battlefield. Whatever the difference in thought, we're both trying to do our duty as Sparda royalty in good standing.

"Hey, are you listening to what they called you?

"Don't be dramatic, the fact that I was called with you means that Shall is not a development to be scolded. Stand in front of your father with your thin breasts."

"Die!"

Again, kicking his brother's tibia, the two lined up friendly and headed to King Leonhardt's waiting room.

"Excuse me, sir."

"Uhm."

The time when the sun went down and dinner was over. Leonhardt took up a little private time before he slept, and thus called on his two children.

Leonhardt, more oligarchic than his ex, just shuts up and waits for the two of them to take their seats.

And even after taking a seat, for a while, silence.

It's like a long time cold parent and child sign of losing his mouth to Locke, but there's no awkward silence or anything like that.

Both Wilhardt and Charlotte look at the silent father and immediately perceive. At least the two of you know you're not a lousy mouthpiece. So much silence means we're about to talk about something so serious.

Naturally, tension increases.

"... Father, what is the story"

It was Wilhardt who broke the silence. I wasn't in a hurry to lose my nerves.

If I didn't cut the fire from here, I would have guessed that even that father would have said so.

And after receiving that short but clear question from his son, Leonhardt finally opened his mouth.

"You two, your fiancées have made a formal decision."

I had predictions.

Critical content that shapes the future of life...... but this is how it's cut out and the only face of tension is Wilhardt. Shall's face next door sparkles with no intention of hiding it.

Well, well, I've always admired it since I was a young girl, it's like getting engaged to Nero. Wilhardt is the only one who doesn't know who he's marrying.

Even when he was ready, Wilhardt still couldn't help but pray to the black gods.

Destiny's opponent was told from his father's mouth shortly afterwards.

"Wilhardt, you are engaged to Nell Julius Ellord, the First Princess of Avalon"

"... Huh?

"Ha ha!?

Leonhardt went on even further, not via the dramatic reaction between the two.

"Charlotte, you will be married to the hero of the Galahad war, Adventurer Chrono"

With an analgesic face everywhere, the father told the son and daughter in front of him.

"Nell decides to be engaged to Wilhardt Tristan Sparda, the second prince of Sparda"

"... Huh?

"Huh?"

A half-hearted reaction, daughter and son. Regardless of Nell and Nero's reactions, my father, King Mirialdo, says even more.

"Nero is engaged to Rune's first princess, Fanaco Goldsan Rune"

"What do you mean!

It was Nero who roughed up his voice. My sister remains bright and stiff with her head white so that she has not yet been able to accept reality.

The reaction between the two of them, I guess, was half predicted. King Myrialdo speaks calmly, even against Nero, the rugged sword curtain.

"Easy, Nero. I don't think you can be confused."

"I don't care what you think. Nell and Will don't have to go out of their way to marry Prince Sparda... long ago, with me and Shall engaged, we should be talking to Sparda!

"Princess Charlotte... I heard that that adventurer, Krono, is going to be engaged"

"Become!?

With further consternation, Nero loses his word.

But it was Nell who moved in the next moment.

"Hey, why... why... what the hell, Shall is Chrono-kun!!

"Wow, Nell, fugguuuuuuuuu!?

"Oh, hey, hey, Nell!

A daughter who screamed like she was mad and grabbed by her father's chest barn who sat face to face. To the sudden murder of Nell, King Millardo had the kind of stunned expression that he saw something incredible, but Nero, half convinced by this dangerous reaction, immediately stopped her hand.

We are rank five adventurers, but this father is a helpless ordinary man power. If Nell, now a master of old-fashioned jujitsu, forgot to add or subtract and grabbed him, his neck could be polarized.

Nero managed to succeed in stopping his sister's hand with the same old fashioned jujitsu technique as Nell, even though it seemed to subtly stop him.

"Ohhhhh! Why, why, Chrono-kun, my..."

"Stop, Nell, calm down!

"Why, ha... ha..."

Though for a moment, King Milliardo, whose chest was tightened with tremendous force, exhales pale and rough. Nero, on the other hand, suppresses the rumbling Nell somehow.

"Oh, uh-oh..."

"Nell, you've got to chill your head. Go to the Fire Company and have Baba talk to you."

"Ugh... brother... yes I will..."

While crying in great cry, Nell, who managed to regain reason, left the room flustered. I'm very worried about the way it looks, but if I leave it to Belclosen for one second, I'll be able to calm down.

Also, Nell's appearance, which was too disturbing, gave Nero back his composure as well.

"... ha"

Nero sat back down to his seat with a big, deep sigh, staring at the door where Nell had left.

"Well, Father, let me ask you something. That's a satisfactory explanation."

"These stories are less convincing."

King Mirialdo opened his mouth tiredly as he corrected his disturbed collar.

"This engagement began with Princess Charlotte's marriage changing from you to Chrono."

Chrono, Chrono, Chrono again. How can this be, that man just gets in the way of his way?

The story has just been cut out, but Nero is beginning to have a hatred that resembles a curse as early as possible, instead of tongue-in-cheek.

"As for the Fifth Galahad War, you'd rather be the one who was there than me"

"Well, it wasn't a big deal."

"I hear it was quite a fierce battle... so much so that that King Leonhardt revealed his anxiety to me"

Nero knows, and is a famous story in both countries, that the relationship between Miriardo and Leonhardt was not just between kings, but deep enough to be considered friends, no, best friends as students. After the war, there were several opportunities for King Leonhardt to visit Avalon. In that fold, including the engagement thing, I guess the story was going on.

"King Leonhardt is very dangerous when the Crusader threat is more than Daedalus"

"That leads us to talk about how he and Charles are getting married."

"Adventurer Chrono, I want his combat ability to give me the princess of a country. Yes, King Leonhardt made his decision."

"Ridiculous"

Even if you skip Nero's subjectivity, you can rightly say it's a 'dumb' decision. No matter how good a person is, if you're just offering them as a marriage to a civilian, it's a good place to have a daughter of lower nobility at best.

Charlotte is three daughters, but the bloodline of the Royal Spartan is not in a position for the opponent to do well to his daughter-in-law, even in senior nobility.

"Sure, it would be a lame story in other countries, but Sparda has been a nation of martial arts since its founding. It's no wonder the king has shown so much bravery that he gives the princess... the fact is that he is marrying a civilian woman by winning the Battle Olympia."

Held every four years, Sparda's biggest gladiatorial tournament is The Battle Olympia.

Professional gladiators, of course, from active Spartan knights to high-ranking adventurers and, at the end of the day, ordinary people proud of their arms, honor their martial courage and honor and King Spartan will fulfill one wish for those who have conquered and won the harsh large-scale tournament.

So, young Prince Sparda Leonhardt forced his father to acknowledge his unscrupulous engagement by concealing his identity and winning.

If you're such a man, admit your strength, Mirialdo thinks it's no rush to give me one of his daughters to do it.

"I don't think that's the only reason. Spartans will have all the beauties."

That's what I know of a few unmarried ladies who are more beautiful than Charlotte and full of feminine charm. If you want to pull a man named Chrono, you shouldn't necessarily have to be a princess. Rather, the combination of Chrono and Charlotte seems very unlikely to be the best hand, which would only make a bad impression on each other.

"You're sharp, Nero, you're right. At first, he planned to marry other leading aristocrats... but the proposal to accompany Princess Charlotte was strongly supported by the Temple of Pandora."

"Why do the Temple people pinch their mouths?"

It is a tradition in every country to occupy the compatibility of engagement and the future family. Some of them attach importance to the divination of the temple, but they should not have had that much influence, at least in Sparda.

"So many auspicious omens have come out, which may be why I have given a divine gift from the black gods"

"God..."

No way, is this also the result of Chrono's evil god distorting his destiny? A chill runs on Nero's spine.

"I didn't divulge anything detailed to the boulder. Looking at King Leonhardt's firm determination, he seemed to have some certainty...... Adventurer Chrono, his identity was utterly unknown before he signed up for the Adventurer Guild in Daedalus. Maybe there's a secret there."

"You think he's the son of Dragon King Garvinal?

"It won't be an impossible story. Think about the rest, it's a shame."

If Chrono is the son of Garvinal, King of Daedalus, it is believed that Sparda also puts Daedalus' rule into perspective after he expelled the Crusaders.

Dragon King Garvinal was a belligerent king, but not a fool, who tried to invade Sparda many times. There is a high rate of support from the Daedalus people, and I have never heard any rumors as bad as repression.

If there is no dissatisfaction with the people, there will be no greater name for the replacement of the ruler.

Now, even if we free Daedalus from the Crusades, it is hard for the people to honestly accept the rule of Sparta, which has been in hostilities for a long time.

But if it were the son of Dragon King Garvinal, the real prince of Daedalus, who would be at the head of it, the story would change.

And if that prince is a parent Spartan with Char as his wife, there is no easier situation to do.

"You mean Sparta is after Daedalus territory?"

"I didn't think King Leonhardt had that much ambition... but with all the circumstances, it's unlikely he'll miss a chance to expand his country as king"

If Sparda had control of the entire territory of Daedalus, the largest nation would be born on the continent of Pandora. Until now, Sparda has continued to serve as a shield to protect the group of central urban states from the invasion of Daedalus, and therefore its growth strategy has also had its limits. Maintaining a strong army and the defense of the solid border of the Fortress of Galahad will be a great burden on the treasury.

But if the threat of Daedalus disappears and its national territory is annexed, the power of the country simply doubles. And the armaments previously prepared for Daedalus alone will lose a clear enemy.

At that time, whether to shrink the army and take the path of peace, or to be taken and possessed by the ambitions of the Demon King, passed down from the ancient days of Pandora unification… Either way, given the development of a country called Sparda, there is no further hand.

"The marriage between Princess Charlotte and Chrono comes first, and then the betrothed gets sloppy in turn."

"You know that much, and you're giving Nell away to Will's bastard?"

"The intrusion is nothing but unsubstantiated speculation... and the paramount priority must be to prepare ourselves together for the threat of the Crusaders who are unjustly in control of Daedalus as a reality"

From the original, the proposal to strengthen the bond between Avalon and Sparda by marriage had never been more determined, as Nero's engagement with Charlotte had been substantially finalized. It can be said that the emergence of the Crusades has now further increased the need for it.

'Cause you don't have Will.'

"No, I wanted Prince Wilhardt."

"Ha!? Why bother choosing him? Are you busy, Dad?"

"Everyone would think that a strong and successful Prince Eisenhardt would be more deserving if he were to be their husband... but it is imperative that there be a war going on. If, like Prince Eisenhardt, he took as his husband the owner of the martial arts that run through the battlefield, Nell was very dear, and it was no good waiting for his husband to return at the castle."

I want to keep Nell away from the danger of war. King Mirialdo's heart was there, in other words.

"Prince Wilhardt, like me, is a helpless man who has no power to fight. Even the royal palace will be in a position to take it lightly. But he is wise and wise. He's the one who keeps Nell out of danger and believes he'll spend his whole life together in peace."

"You're kidding me! To spare your life, Nell can't have chosen him!

"Grow up, Nero. It is not the prince himself who chooses to marry the princess, but the king."

I know, that's not true.

Yes, because I've known it since I was a kid, Nero can't accept it at all.

"... damn"

"I'm sorry about you and Princess Charlotte, but still, Nell thinks this was a good idea"

It was clear from the side that Nero and Charlotte did not hate each other. But Nell doesn't have that many people to think of each other. I have a number of fiancée candidates, but I didn't see anyone I thought was coming.

In that regard, Prince Wilhardt was safe in every sense. Characteristically and positionally.

"Between that child and Prince Wilhardt, there will be no emotions between men and women. But such things as royal aristocratic marriages."

"That's crap... really, that's crap"

So crushed as to throw away, Nero stood up.

"Wait, your story's not over yet."

"I know about Princess Fanaco of Rune, you know, I remember. The bottom of a potion bottle. You're a dark rooted woman with glasses."

"Come on, it's the woman who'll be your wife."

"I'm sorry, but you don't like it. Well, you can keep talking to me on your own. Don't interrupt."

That's all I left to say, and Nero left the room again.

"Ha, still, neither of us were convinced... but this is the fate that was born to the Avalonian royal family... Oh, Black Gods, please have a happy future for my child -"

All people's minds are not something they can do with reason. Because I know that very well, King Millard was nothing more than just praying.