Kyuuketsu Hime wa Barairo no Yume o Miru

The sea - the great sea plains that make Mother Earth, endlessly spread, that life was once born of the sea.

The sea is a shake of life that sometimes brings abundant grace and a symbol of the fierceness of nature that sometimes swallows like a foam, such as the tiny life of man.

Humans have always leaned against the sea and challenged it.

Romance and ambition are the frontiers where adventure and fame swirl, and that is the sea.

... That's what it is.

A vast beach with bright white sandy beaches leading everywhere.

A very transparent ocean blue water is slowly returning its feet.

The shallow ocean was clear everywhere and calm enough that I could walk like this to the other side of the horizon.

Tickling, warm southern seas were calm everywhere, where the natural landscape remained raw without any impurities.

Some things like dirt come and go in the cove like a dog kid who was given a toy while crawling and butterflying in our face.

"No, the sea is good after all. Damn, swimming in the ocean is great."

I felt how wasted my strength was, and Joey was swimming all over it with no rest for over an hour.

And, having enjoyed the sea of absurdity, he noticed me playing with crabs at the waves, swimming around and approaching, "Yikes..." he stood up at once and came to his sight.

"Nah, Hiyuki. You don't swim?

By the way, he's wearing a black trunk-type swimsuit. Naturally my upper body is naked, so unlike the impression I can feel from the top of my regular clothes - a poor kid or something - my skinny, well-trained figure jumped directly into my eyes and I was somewhat distracted from my gaze.

Uh-huh, I knew, seeing something like this would irritate the complex. My whole life I had nothing to do with muscles (mainly because of my nutritional status) and I didn't have more arm power than girls, so hey... it's still a bit of trauma that I lost my arm wrestle to all the women I was in at the off-duty party (from an O-O old lady up there to a 12-year-old elementary school kid down there).

"Oh, I enjoy the ocean fully around here, so don't worry about you, swimming, vegetarian diving, aquaculture or whatever, you just have to enjoy the ocean fully. Anyway, it's a private beach of the former royal family."

Upon a glimpse of the beach, under the shade of a coconut tree, a strictly beach parasol and tank top, a rare (barely) former owner wearing a hoodie, probably felt my gaze over the sunglasses, with cold champagne lying on the beach sofa with one hand, waved gently.

I feel like I've seen it. It's the wind enjoying Avanture, but even though it's resistant to sunlight, vampires, just like the direct sunlight characteristic of the South, seems to be tight, and oh well it's best to cool off in the shade of the trees.

Well, although I also apply sunscreen, this sun is pretty tight (my skin is white and thin, so it doesn't make for a contradictory silo thing called a blood-sucking princess who got sunburned in wheat, but it definitely flames later).

By the way, the heavenly ones in competitive swimsuits are obsessed with the beach volleyball I taught them to fight in different dimensions in the Astro Beach Volleyball with a defensive range of 500 meters.

"No, we're gonna swim this way, let's swim together. I guess Hiyuki came here with the intention of swimming, too, huh?

Joey confirms my outfit with a suspicious face - a bikini with a lace frill skirt (naturally, a rose pattern) with three parts of hair to keep me out of the way to swim -. By the way, the swimsuit is an "E. H. O." and "Eternal Horizon Online" accessory, so even if it looks like this, it can make quite a positive correction to the defense.

"... er. It's not about swimming, it's about work - yes, I could work! So if you're playing around."

"Can't you just take a little swim?

On the way to talking, Joey kept poking at the core.

"Er... yes, the blood-sucking princess can't cross the running water, so she can't put it in the water racially"

"Liar. I guess it's a good reason you just can't swim."

Joey denies it head-on, without getting her hair in between.

- Why are you usually dull, these things are sharp?

"It wouldn't be unusual to not be able to swim. Mostly there are quite a few guys by the sea villages who can't swim, and it's normal for a woman not to be able to swim...... because she can use this whole shallow coast, why don't you practice a little?

With that said, Joey traveled about 5 meters from the water, but I see there's no depth there or yet to his knees.

So, even the cat kid asked me to call him because I touched Shaq something, so I walked that far with my face as flat as possible.

"Wow, my hands and feet are out at the same time, and I'm sweating from all over my body... I'm not good at that, or are you afraid of water?

"Hehe, I don't know what you're talking about, but there's something frightening about it."

"The tone is getting weird too..."

"Sa, this will do. I enjoyed the ocean, so I'll be back!

I was just about to leave this place, and Joey grabbed me by the arm.

"No, it hasn't been a minute yet. Shouldn't we at least remember about the bumpy feet? - In the meantime, shall we go a little further offshore?"

Butterflies... I mean dip your whole body in water, lie down depressed, scratch the water with your feet, he said.

"So, it's okay! If you have to, I can run on water with my leg strength alone!

So you don't have to be able to swim!

"So you can't be fine if you can't swim. I need to be able to scratch my dog if I can."

There's no way I can beat Joey trying to pull him as far offshore as he is, and me going to be in a pull state but I mean it, with a STR (arm strength) value.

"- Mmm."

I was about to shake it off forcefully, and Joey held me up with one hand. It's called being a princess.

"Here, here, Joey! What the hell!

In his ear, rushing away, he was whispered, "If you burst, you're going to fall out of your head into the water," and reflexively solidified.

"Well, let's practice a little deeper"

They scratch the jab jab waves as they are and are forcefully taken offshore.

"Uh-huh."

I stare at him with tears, but Joey doesn't have the wind he cared about, and there's no sign of him stopping at the footsteps of strangely groaning and bouncing. Seeing as he tried to seek salvation from the Heavenly Fathers, Incandescent Beach Volleyball finally entered the battle of flesh bullets, and there was no way he could notice the fierce smoke rising, and the rare man of the last requisition finally fell from solar radiation, almost put on a stretcher and transported by his maids.

"I don't know if I can get around here -"

If you notice, they're even bringing you offshore at depths around Joey's chest. This is definitely me, you're gonna dip it in the water all the way to your face!

"Then I'm grabbing it, so let's start by putting my face on the water and opening my eyes"

"I can't!"

"'Cause it's okay. Because I'll get used to it soon."

"I can't, I can't, I'll never, I can't!

"Try it, it's surprisingly easy."

"That's what all men say!

"... Also, something is going wrong. - Ma, okay. Let's go."

If you unilaterally declare it, Joey will be a mid back on the spot.

"Ha-ha-ha -!!"

Naturally, my face sank into the water.

Well, nothing. We're not here to enjoy the seaside resort.

I don't know if it looks that way because I'm currently wandering the border between life and death, so if you flush it lightly with a running lantern, Shima's disturbance also goes back just a few days before one paragraph -.

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"Pirate ship."

Scarlet Snow twisted her neck with an immaculate face.

A series of disturbances also calmed down, in one of the VIP rooms of the fully restored aerial garden, the Vacant Red Jade Castle, where King Collard of the Republic of Amitia, who visited for a regular social reception, and Levan, the Allied Leader (tentative) of the Free Alliance of Cres, and the next heiress to the Empire of Grawior, Empress Oriana, who visited this time for the first time with patience, chatted peacefully in a manner similar to the pattern of the ancient knowledge.

This visit by the Empress Oriana took the form of a complete private invitation from Scarlet Snow, which is officially to go to a suburban villa for rest (in fact, this time it was opened in the Imperial capital, set up in the 'Imperial Crimson Residence Hall of the Crimson Empire', which belongs to the Embassy, and travelled using a transfer gate (teleporter)).

For this reason, the number of attachments was also a minuscule and minimal, and only two accompanied him on this occasion, a squire and a Kingsguard, but even to them, he was stunned by the size and magnificence of the Vacant Red Jade Castle and only refrained behind the princess with half his soul missing.

At first, the Empress of Suzuran seemed just as distracted, but Scarlet Snow was a persona who consistently did not break my pace, without discussing her identity from the beginning, and, having fully defended her area even for King Collard, was the owner of the talent to do so without appearance, and Levan was also originally from the Beastly tribe of beasts unrelated to the aristocracy, and this time everyone around her was familiar with her face - that's why she was usually forced to live in a cramped palace, and during four or six o'clock, Oriana, wearing the idol mask of 'The Empress', was also giving a peek at the adorable face she deserved for the year.

So, it was the 'pirate ship' that came up on the subject earlier.

"Yeah, there's been activity here, and there's been a lot of damage to the transport ships and the coastal villages."

I am worried, King Collard sighed with a paper pasted face that said:

"So far, damage at sea is mainly caused by medium-sized to small merchant ships, carriers, just as large ships and demon-guided sailboats are spared damage, but they will certainly not be targeted far away, and if they do, human and material damage will not be the same as before."

"Ho ho, that's tough. I cannot forbid sympathy."

King Collard looked at the palm of scarlet snow drinking tea with something to say, but kept talking.

"In addition to measures, we have fortresses in maritime fortifications, reinforcements in the garrison of Quito, which is a major shock in maritime trade, and we do not currently have a maritime force of the scale that can be called the Navy, so we are pushing for the development of this"

I see, you're a tough fabric stone like King Collard, but Scarlet Snow asks, wondering.

"But they all look like they have a tough budget"

"Yes, it is. Eh."

As soon as possible, King Collard drops his shoulders disappointingly with a pitiful face.

"You can't raise taxes or anything at this time of summer before the harvest of wheat or rice, and because of the late days of the previous dynasty, the treasury is almost empty, and you can't have a wedding like this."

"That was a shame. I don't know if it's a good idea, but what, did you even apply for a loan from your home country?

"... if you ask for a financial burden, it will seem difficult later, so I am currently thinking"

"Right. No matter how many countries you belong to… No, because if you provide free assistance, you can also become a vice that inhibits self-help efforts. It would be reasonable to have a collateral that matches it or a loan with a repayment period."

King Collard nods, even though he reinforces his amazement and vigilance at the talent of Empress Oriana, who instantly knits out problems and measures.

"So right now, I'm considering a counterproposal, but I'm pretty much just turning to the pirate opponent."

Levan raises his hand.

"That princess. Isn't there some kind of alternative to cleaning up the problem, not the money, like the transfer device from Cres? I don't know what that means, but I don't think you're a pirate in your own country."

"I wonder if it's difficult. Ah. If we let the harbor, the sea, and the airspace trek the monster at four or six o'clock, it's going to affect the surrounding residents and the ecosystem, and in the end, we'll just have to get around to it."

First, do you distinguish our residents from pirates and other ships? Wouldn't you sink it all up depending on the allowance or something if you were bad? Scarlet Snow makes a difficult face to think of.

"We have to take more radical measures."

King Collard also agreed, and Levan sighed quietly.

"And are you a pirate? Even in the Gravior Empire, the damage to their hands has been increasing recently."

All attention is drawn to the words of Empress Oriana.

"Although notable, especially in the last few years, even net of weather irregularities and war damage, there has certainly been an increase in frequency and scale. But I couldn't see how the coalitions and controls were, so I thought it was just a coincidence."

"Hmm. That's interesting. With the west and east of the continent, I didn't know pirate action was just as active. Maybe there's someone behind you who's guiding us."

Well, it's only possible, but King Collard continues.

That said, it would not be a bad thing to explore the possibilities from a perspective that stood in the big picture, since if we did not actually corner each other and discuss them in this way, we would have only been dealing with them as domestic issues. - After thinking about it, I secretly sweat cold when I realize that it's almost possible to take the world on my hands if the two princesses on this occasion show me.

- Shit, the world sucks! You think two girls like this are holding the end of the line?

Two people who chirp comfortably, breathing perfectly in the margins of King Collard's warfare like that.

"Well, in the meantime, pirates are killed as soon as they find them."

"Well, we'll have to do that to show off the lone party."

The way the two beautiful princesses were smiling and welcoming each other seemed like a one-width famous painting, but what they were talking about was pretty bloody stinky.

"Nevertheless, if there is any concern and there will be more and more pirate damage in the future, we must seriously consider strengthening the navy. A quarter of the country's treasury has been emptied even as we marched to the Grand Duchy of Youth earlier."

"Instead, we're paying for reconstruction in Cres."

Levan pinches his mouth with a somewhat dissatisfied face against the Crown Princess's indignation.

In the end, as for him, who had to compromise in the form of the devastated Grand Duchy of Youth in the territorial negotiations, I guess he is also about to complain.

Incidentally, the more savory Kensruna nation was ceded to the Empire.

"Alas, are you dissatisfied with the fact that you are now signed into the Treaty? It's a compromise in the form of a roughly equal division of old Kensruna territory, so I think it's quite a concession as an empire, too."

Oriana smiles like a prank.

In fact, I saw a limit on the territorial expansion route, so I can see that I just ruled the well-infrastructured Kensruna country into distribution and pushed the laborious and golden other secluded areas to the Cres Free Allies, but as for Levan, who is on the negotiating table and in a position that was eventually intercepted, I have no choice but to remain silent if he is put out to engage there.

Scarlet Snow returned to the conversation to change his mood.

"And you're a pirate. Even if I take measures, I can't really grasp the image. What is it like?

"Well, I just read the report, too. I'll give you more information later, though?

"Uh-huh."

Scarlet Snow still looks pinned.

Two, a masked swordsman standing on the wall - a rare man opened his mouth.

"What, for once, why don't you also go to the harbor and talk directly to the shipowners and victims? Surely beside the trade port Quito, there must have been a royal... no, former royal villa?

King Collard, turned to water with his gaze, nods and supplements.

"Yes, it's currently closed, but it's managed, and in the future, both private beaches will be sold as resort hotels."

"- Hmm. Then how about buying directly in our country, princess?

Heavenly, who had refrained from doing so on his side, asks Hikaru to understand.

Apparently, as I said before, the whole world villa project is steadily underway.

Asked Scarlet Snow somehow fingered her cheek with a difficult face.

"Pirate... the sea... the villa with the beach..."

"Well, aside from whether it will be purchased or not, it should be available tomorrow if it is to be used, so I'll get it ready. And adventurers who are familiar with the area will also be available as guides."

Again, in the words of King Collard, who was exhausted, he thought, "Uh-huh," a scarlet snow that made his surroundings suspicious.