Kuro no Senki (LN)

Late in December of the Imperial Calendar 431, the reception room at the Marquis Mansion… Tilia was watching as the contract was exchanged between Chrono and Viscount Brad Hamal.

What are you going to do, Chrono? and Tilia sees Chrono on the side.

The feelings Tilia is having right now are close to confusion.

Maybe that would be the same for Viscount Brad Hamal, who sits opposite Chrono.

Viscount Brad Hamal should have a stronger degree of perplexity than Tilia, who knew the contents of the document.

Tilia knows that Chrono and Viscount Brad Hamal have been in dialogue for over a month.

Chrono's creation of the port of Silva on the territory of Count Cado changed the flow of things and showed signs of decline on the trading routes used until now.

Viscount Brad Hamal's aim is to secure a new trading route, and as a means of doing so he asks Chrono to abolish the transit tax.

It is an unscrupulous story.

Naturally, Viscount Brad Hamal will also understand that you are making unscrupulous demands.

So Viscount Brad Hamal should have had a dialogue with how much concessions could be drawn from Chrono in mind.

"... Marquis Elakis, are you good with this?

"I've come to the conclusion after all I've thought about."

To Viscount Brad Hamal's inquiry, Chrono flaunted his shoulders with great admiration.

"What's in your interest?

"There's no immediate benefit."

Lightly Chrono answers.

Chrono was tolerated by the repeal of the transit tax.

Of course, not unconditionally.

There are three conditions offered by Chrono.

One is for Viscount Brad Hamal also to abolish the transit tax, the other is to impose a tax on paper transported from Viscount Hamal territory to Marquis Elakis territory for industrial protection, and the last is the unification of the commercial system.

When I say the unification of the commercial system, it is not a massive one, but I want Viscount Hamal territory to do the system that Krono has in his territory that anyone is free to open an outdoor shop if he pays a prescribed procedure and a certain amount of money, that is all we are talking about.

The first condition is that Viscount Brad Hamal must be tolerated more than requiring Chrono to repeal the transit tax.

The second condition has neither advantages nor disadvantages for Viscount Brad Hamal.

Because the amount of the traffic tax has been multiplied by the time the paper is transported through Viscount Hamal territory into the territory of Krono.

The third condition...... at least it seems that Tilia has no benefit to both sides.

I guess that's why Viscount Brad Hamal is bewildered.

"In the long run, you think it's in your interest?

"If the market expands, maybe"

I see, and Tilia finally understood Chrono's intentions.

By building the port of Silva, Chrono changed the flow of things and allowed several chambers of commerce to compete to lower the price of goods.

Residents can afford to be nostalgic and consumer activity is enlivened by the tax reforms and utilities carried out so far by Chrono.

However, there is a limited amount of money that the inhabitants can turn to consumption.

So Krono asked the Viscount Hamal for a place in the market… economic activity.

From here it will be the imagination of Tilia, but if the outdoor stores start to generate profits that cannot be ignored, the merchants in Viscount Hamar's territory will also be able to use the port of Silva.

If Viscount Hamal's territory is enriched and the surrounding Lords want to establish an intimate relationship with Chrono… there may also be the establishment of an economic alliance.

I see, I see, and Tilia nodded in arms.

If I was thinking that far, I'd have to raise Chrono's rating.

Awesome, Chrono! You're the only man I've ever seen! and Tilia rebelled her chest and swelled her nostrils.

"Any reply?

……

After a moment of silence, Viscount Brad Hamal exhaled.

It's a long, long exhalation, as if to relieve previous tensions.

Viscount Brad Hamal would snort.

Chrono has not made unscrupulous demands.

We make proposals that take into account each other's interests.

"Marquis Elakis, I think you are a man of trust. But we have a responsibility."

"As the one who keeps the lives of many of his men and their inhabitants?

When Chrono glanced at him, Viscount Brad Hamal nodded with a strange face.

"Don't you trust promises?

"You must not have placed full confidence in me with the Marquis Elakis"

No, don't you trust Chrono for what he's worth? and Tilia stared at Chrono, who could swim her gaze like she was in trouble.

"... there"

Viscount Brad Hamal looks at the door.

Slightly later, when Chrono looked at the door, he made a rattling noise and the door opened.

Standing there was Viscount Brad Hamal's sister...... Cecily.

There is no (wig) and the dress is dark based and very little exposed.

Cecily lays down her face and doesn't try to keep an eye on Chrono.

He bites his lips to withstand humiliation, shaking his pulls and whole body.

"So I'd like you to welcome my sister as an apprentice."

"In change"

Speaking in his true face, Chrono twisted his wrist with his thumb and index finger up.

"Ha, joke"

"No, in a change"

When Chrono says it again in his true face, Viscount Brad Hamal's mask peels off.

"Why not? My Viscount Hamal family is old among the old aristocrats. Although accepting a behavioral apprenticeship is determined to be a highly qualified house. On the contrary, that's all I'm buying you."

"In change"

Three times, Chrono declares.

Viscount Brad Hamal grabbed Chrono's wrist with a grin.

"Marquis Elakis, oh, Lord Chrono, Lord Chrono, are you going to waste more than a month of dialogue?

"If you can't change, take your sister... please go home"

You guys were talking soothingly earlier, and Tilia stared at the two of you who were about to start hitting each other again.

"Nothing, I don't really want you to treat my sister like a behaving apprentice. You know what I mean?

"My mistress's, pushing, is annoying!

Guggly Chrono tries to twist his wrist, and Viscount Brad Hamal can put his hand into letting it.

When I saw Cecily, she looked like she was about to cry.

I guess I personally decided to be prepared to be sad, but there is no 'change'.

I mean, there's no annoyance in front of him.

My pride as a woman is dust.

You can't get back on your feet.

"... calm down, both of you"

Yeah, it's cool here. If I don't fit in, and Tilia coughs lightly.

But they don't even try to listen to Tilia.

"Calm down!"

As much as I could think of, Tilia slapped her fist on the table.

A fist wrapped in white light submerges the ceiling, and the table rises off the floor in impact.

"Tilia, calm down"

"That's right. Empress Tilia, please calm down."

"I am calm!

Chrono and Viscount Brad Hamal stop grasping each other and point their hands at Tilia.

"Corner, I was about to finish the conversation soothingly, what the hell, you guys!

When Tilia stood up, Chrono and Viscount Brad Hamal sat on the couch opposite each other, as they feared.

"'Change', annoyance... Chrono, you don't understand the woman's heart! No! I don't understand how hard it is to maintain my pride!

Tilia barked.

I barked with tremendous momentum.

"By and large, I don't think you're adding Count Rio Cairon to your mistress. It's a man, man! The guy, the day after he slept with Chrono, said, 'I got sucked on blood by an out-of-season mosquito' or something! It's winter, there's mosquitoes! My pride is a bummer!

Bashibashi and Tilia slapped the table.

Tilia rested her hands where the ceiling was full of holes.

"... so Viscount Hamal's sister makes me a maid of honor"

"I don't know what reason, but what about Viscount Hamal?

"I don't mind."

When Chrono asked, Viscount Brad Hamal nodded with a feeling of leisure.

Repeat bareback.

The foundation is important.

I just have to repeat the foundation and be strong in the tunnel more than there is a way to be strong enough to fly.

Feeling uncomfortable, Tilia looked at Faye.

Usually they offer to disturb me where my body is warming up.

No, if you're saying it's weird, it's also weird that you haven't coached Tony, your apprentice, aloud.

Faye has his arms together, his neck tilted, and he looks up.

I can't even say that my expression is bothering me.

"What's going on?

"It's a bit of a thought."

Mmm, and Faye roars.

"Master Chrono told me that Empress Tilia made Lord Cecily a maid of honor."

Hmm? and Tilia tilted her neck without reading Faye's intentions.

"Oh, Faye was also from the 12th Kingsguard Knights. Even if you've been warming up your old relationship..."

"The flourisher shall perish, and the proud shall not be long,"

Hmm? and Tilia put her arms together feeling something malicious from Faye's tone.

Master, revenge doesn't look good.

"What do you say, my disciple? I don't have what you call a horse shit bitch in my roots, do I? Being kicked in the head... is a thing of the past, yes of the past"

It was like telling myself.

"Master, where did the chivalry go?

"Mmm, chivalry is important. I don't think it's against chivalry to warm up an old relationship..."

Apparently, Faye has the tricks she has received in the past at its root.

The size of this vessel may be comparable to that of Chrono.

"When Lord Cecily was in training at the Knights of the Twelfth Kingsguard, I worked cleaning stables."

Chilari and Faye looked at Tilia.

"I think I'm more born than I was back then."

……

……

Tilia looked at Tony.

Until now Tilia had assumed Faye was a woody character, but what do you care about black?

"Oh, yeah, Faye's born. Big time."

"That's right, master. The Knights of the Thirteenth Kingsguard... he's the deputy chief of the cavalry."

"Oh yeah?

Faye scratched her head in the light.

"... would you like to say hello as the second lady of Master Chrono?

"Yeah, yeah, you mean I'm the real wife, right?

"I need you to give me a break about the blade wounds in the mansion."

Cohon and Tilia cough to alter the air in the place.

"Cecily should be tired today, too. So, shouldn't we change the day?

"Mmm, I didn't care enough."

Isn't it tolerance that's missing? And Tilia thought, but didn't say it.

... Kashan, and the cracking sound of the plate echoes into the dining room.

"Oh, what are you doing now?"

After arranging the dishes on the table, the general said in a tone that she had not said that she was stunned.

Beaten on the floor is the main meat dish for dinner.

……

A maid who slammed a dish on the floor...... Cecily stares silently at the floor without even trying to clean up the dish.

Cecily clearly has a disgruntled look on her face. Is that what got in the way of the inquiry, the general began to clean up the dishes and dishes that made her look miserable with her tongue pounding like a frustration.

"Damn, is it that hard to get food on the table?"

"... it's not my job."

When the general said she hated it, Cecily frowned uncomfortably and said back.

Am I right? and the general stares at Cecily.

Tilia looked around, but there was no one she could count on.

Viscount Eryl Sardomerik keeps eating all the time not to mention leaving me out of it, and Count Rio Cairon brightens his eyes to expectations.

Chrono... for some reason, was staring at Tilia.

No, isn't this what you're supposed to stop? and Tilia felt, but gave up and stood up.

"Wait, General."

"What?

Boki and the general rang their fingers.

"Could you spare me this place? Still, Cecily's just getting to work. Forgiveness is important in raising people."

"I think it's important to be tough on children."

I almost nodded at the sword curtain of the general, but Tilia managed to stop.

"... you have no choice. This time I'm going to spare the princess, but I have a limit, too. I hope you remember that."

"I understand."

Tilia nods and returns to her seat.

"Admiral, you don't have my share?

"My husband will take care of the maid."

Ugh! and Tilia got stuck in words.

"Eryl, don't you think this dish is delicious?

"... the queen's dishes are always delicious"

Suddenly, Count Rio Cairon began to eat the food looking delicious.

Viscount Eryl Sardomerik is as faceless as usual, but I felt like eating faster than usual.

The general's cooking is quite good.

A regular tiglia would have been flat without being able to eat about one dish.

But when I can show you how deliciously I'm eating in front of you, I want to eat myself.

You noticed the gaze, Count Rio Cairon had an evil grin.

It's a grin that Tilia can't help but enjoy suffering.

"Hehe, if you want to cook so badly, crawl and eat like a dog, fine."

"Who!

Tilia turned away from the two people who ate the food looking delicious.

"... tired"

"For once, that's my bed."

After a job, Chrono turns back to Tilia lying in bed as she rubs her brows loose.

"Are you going to raise your roots already?

"I didn't think you could use it so much."

Remembering Cecily's first job, Tilia sighed.

If you wash the dishes, slip your hands and break the dishes.

"It's still my first day."

"It's your first day, and this is it?

Uggu, and Tilia held their heads on the bed.

"Chrono, take it."

"I don't like it."

"Why not?

Chrono sighed small as Tilia glanced at him only with her gaze.

"Because I feel strongly about Cecily. There's a shady place."

So Chrono scratched up his hair.

"You're a very distinctive bald spot, aren't you?

"It's a scar, scar!

Chrono said in a grumpy manner.

"This bald guy... I'm staring because Cecily kicked me in the face"

"Mm-hmm. Wouldn't the wound be anything left?

Chrono did not answer.

Apparently, while denying it himself, Chrono recognizes the scar as bald.

And he thinks the baldness was because Cecily kicked him.

Either way, it seems impossible to have Chrono pick up Cecily.

"... Faye and I don't seem to get along"

Well, there's no reason for Faye to get along.

Chrono lowered his hips to the bed as he turned his arms to untie him.

"That's why I don't know if I'm going to sell myself a fight."

"Faye tried to do that?

As Tilia said, Chrono opened his eyes unexpectedly.

No, and Chrono strokes his jaw.

"Cecily is typical of an arrogant aristocrat, so I guess Faye tried to prevent trouble by clarifying his position?

"Really?

What the fuck is that? And Tilia didn't ask.

"I can't deny the possibility that I was just trying to clear up my seniority grudges."

"You got no problem with that?

"If Faye speaks to an unauthorized department, it's a problem, because he doesn't"

Uh-huh, Tyria roared.

"Chrono, do you have an idea?

"You mean Faye? Or, you mean Cecily?

"Both."

Chrono stroked his jaw as he thought.

"... first teach a maid's job in a classroom, then actually work or something?

"Is there anything else?

"It could be a hand to make them team up and learn to be responsible."

"I mean, it's joint responsibility."

Not bad, Tyria thought.

"But don't you lack surprise?

"Surprise me."

Chrono roared to contemplate, saying.

"... this is a way to train the famous recruits in the military over there. My maid used it too, so I think I can use it."

"Um, you're saying that good things are good in every world."

Tilia listened to Chrono.