On settling down, I took a deep breath and then stretched my chest as Mel told me, standing in front of the door leading to the royal family with dignity.
If you knock, you will be allowed to enter the room in the voice of His Majesty without much notice. Apparently even the soldiers who open the door were being paid, so I never set foot inside when I opened the door myself.
Looking straight ahead, the sight of His Majesty's face still makes me feel both Nica's face and Seth's face. But she seemed kinder than Nica and calmer than Seth, and I knew better than to admire her face alone, as a king and as an adult. The appearance also makes you feel the majesty of seeping out with overflowing tolerance and a smile.
For me, His Majesty was closer to my father than anyone else when I was born with parents who loved all my brothers in my previous life and seemed like others who didn't see me, and reborn with pathetic parents who only saw their children as a tool for them to take power.
The last time I saw His Majesty was only three months ago, and it's only natural that you look the same as before.
It's just that the heart that was my rush made me think that the gentle grin I was supposed to love was already false.
I knelt respectfully before His Majesty, as was formally the case.
As follows, the two escorts who came in with me also kneel next to me.
At first glance, they seem to be my squire, but this positioning of the escorts is probably thinking that I can kill them instantly if I wake up stupid. It was obvious in an instant that killing me without any martial arts skills could be done without any other love, even thinking of the motion I saw this morning that I could say that I had been away from the Tameguchi escort when I jumped from the carriage.
"Good. Face up."
Softly raise your face and gaze at the words from His Majesty. The watery eyes are like Seth's sky or Nica's ice or just a little different. It was a clear ocean-like color.
I've already made up my mind to tell him and how.
"... Your Majesty, it has been a long time. First of all, I would like to thank you for your great disrespect and your generous willingness to listen to my wishes without any prior communication."
"is good. You and I will get along to be civilians. Don't be afraid of the tone. I feel better than that."
I swallowed the word with suppression of my desire to disprove it. I am going to speak calmly with Your Majesty from start to finish. Whatever that story is about.
"You already know about the kidnapping of His Highness Seth Cabot's fiancée, Liliana Inocy..."
"Oh, of course. Nevertheless, I've gone completely behind my back and I've heard that you guys have settled this. Thank you for protecting the future queen while you are in a complicated position."
………. Swallow. Swallow.
First of all, it's not about that.
"Then you also know that the main culprits are Shed Swallows and Evan Douglas. I'm afraid I've had the opportunity to ask for a commutation of both of those sentences."
I look sincerely in the eye. His Majesty turns back on me as gentle but troubled.
That's a good facial expression, I thought it was like some other HR.
"There must be some kind of circumstance for you to say so. [M] But that's a non-swallowable story. You know what I mean? Sins must be brought to justice. Where is the king who will not judge this great affair? In fact, Liliana seemed almost intact, but it wasn't strange if she had been killed. Executors will not be spared the death penalty."
"Really, was this a big case?
To His Majesty's word, which seemed to me to be entirely true, but I did not dare to argue.
Even if I said it myself, after His Majesty's words, I think everyone would take it for granted that this was a major incident. But I still believe I already know the truth about this case.
"What we're going to talk about is just my bad foot scratch. The future won't change where I said it. Still, just hang out a little bit"
His Majesty smiled. I suppose you'll forgive me. Perhaps to the end, he listens to me in silence. And at the same time, I'm sure it's just an attitude from above that I know all about it and accept bad foot scratching.
Your Majesty is kind. At least that's what I've always thought. Just the slightest information I've seen in the game and the ones against me since I was young.... Nothing. I don't think that kindness was a lie.
But that's all I understood about people. I'm too proud to be concerned. Kindness is just one side of His Majesty.
I can't imagine the king of a single country not being able to make a choice. My extraordinary acting ability can be used as a national card. I am useful to my country.
- Think about it, every root was weird.
"Was this kidnapping really something that nobody noticed until it happened?
Shed said that he was in a good mood to be on the stage, which must have caused discomfort because everything was going too well.
Shed and Evan, you and the person who took Lili away directly from you when you kidnapped her, and Shed's parents for once, even though they wouldn't have figured out what was going on. That's probably the only person involved in the execution of the kidnapping. So secrets were hard to leak.
... really? Nobody, nothing, didn't you notice beforehand?
"Master Liliana is the next queen. It's too easy to kidnap her."
Even if Lili's escort refused because he wanted to be alone, for example, considering Lili's mental state at that time, isn't it something that keeps more people from finding him and hiding and protecting him? Too little sense of crisis for the next queen to rush to a town where civilians live. So is Lili, but most importantly, to the people around her.
"Then what happened after that. Such an out-of-town church had too many convenient people. Furthermore, the same is true of the failure to protect Master Liliana, but the escorts are too incompetent to say that Seth could have gone to that mansion without leaving a single escort. Clearly, it's unnatural."
That being said, I still didn't immediately notice Lili and Seth's discomfort with the escort, so I have a lot to lose.
I still saw this world as a game at that time, so I was unconsciously convinced that it was all about convenience.
But in reality, it's still too much. Then we should be suspicious of our actions rather than accidentally cleaning them up.
I doubted Elle for once, a mystery, but he was more qualified than that, except for my prejudices.
"But it's all a convincing story if His Majesty was holding his hand behind it. Instruct Liliana and Seth's escorts to look and pretend not to look, and move the key figures so that they can do just that time at church. Just do those two things."
All the key figures are in a high position. That is why it would not have been unnatural or easy for His Majesty to move them for reasons that appear to be within his command.
"If my reasoning is correct that all this has been His Majesty's play to get me… it should be more convenient for His Majesty to have the case brightened up"
So far, His Majesty's condition remained unchanged. My words are supposed to fit, but I can't afford them. Keep a gentle smile on your face.
"Master Seth hasn't yet. Everyone else is almost unknown to the civilian population. So even if you occasionally witnessed that kidnapping for the people of that town, you should only have seen someone from the nobility kidnapped. You wouldn't think in common sense that the next queen would have come to such a place."
It's only been three months since Lili got engaged to Master Seth. Until then, she was a Viscount Lady. There would only be nobles and associates who knew her face well.
"There were these two escorts inside that mansion, and they could have taken care of it if someone had acted a little unexpectedly. In the perimeter of the mansion, perhaps the soldiers hired by His Majesty to keep the incident from leaking outside were also hidden."
Given the strength of these two escorts, it will not be the first time that a person who should not die dies accidentally. Lili was dying, but she thought she had no choice when her majesty left her, which is what I think she has to do.
By the way, as for the perimeter of the mansion, since the honorable escort affirmed that Nica would not be attacked near the mansion, it is the answer to my reflection that the area was already well handled by His Majesty.
"Aren't we the only ones actually involved who know that this kidnapping, the next queen, has been kidnapped?
Maybe it was a complete coincidence when it came to Nora and Zero. It would not be nice to have things leaked to the prince of a neighboring country that is difficult to stop, and they didn't seem to have much of a role to play in what might seem necessary to His Majesty on that occasion, although something happened with Nana.
Well, predicting Nora's behavior would be difficult even for His Majesty. Instead, Nora and Zero might have wanted to move away if they could, around where their time as princes seemed to be pushing them pretty hard.
Nana's presence is a delicate place. Though the civilians seemed to know the back door of the mansion, and it is fully possible that it was some sort of purposeful placement. I'm a nun in a church with all the key figures, so it doesn't seem that hard to get involved in a case.
I'm not expecting an answer to the kind of words I ask here. I opened my mouth again once I cut the words.
"That's how when I doubted Your Majesty, I knew it was strange from the beginning"
The first is the decade is the past. Back to when I first met His Majesty.
"Did someone like you who came to take charge of the country as a king not notice my stiffness… discomfort at all?
Even with the same genius, Nica and the others are still fine. 'Cause we were all still younger than I was in my previous life. Besides, there is nothing unnatural about my life experience and acting skills that have been refined for my age in this world.
But did I really have enough acting power to completely and perfectly deceive even a king of a country from a very young age when I was reborn in an unfamiliar world? Didn't His Majesty spot any young me standing around too well looking insignificant?
And if I had spotted it... because I have memories of my past life, no one would imagine that I have a peculiar acting ability because of my heterogeneous sibling relationship and my environment being more polished. I can't. Normal people don't come to the unrealistic conclusion that even if the person in front of them stood around as if they could see the future, they might have memories of previous life. Imagine why in common sense.
That's why His Majesty thought of me as a genius. I don't have enough experience in life to think like an adult… I'm a convenient pawn. This is a mistake, though, and the facts are stranger than the novel, though.
"Let's just say that I've been able to act so exceptionally since that time that I wouldn't give up a hundred steps and even make you uncomfortable. So you didn't even notice the lie that Liliana was being harassed by me?
In the game, there is no problem because Lili is the one to be tried and the content is because of the lies and bullying found out.
But I deliberately affirmed the lie. In my case, if an investigation had been conducted, the lie would have been found out first. There can be no way that a close investigation was not carried out into the case of the next Sire and his fiancée.
And I think, after the trial, His Majesty looked sad and sorry for me. I think it was the only breakdown His Majesty had shown me because I sinned pretending to know the whole truth and not know it yet.
"So I thought it would have been more convenient for His Majesty to let me be a civilian once."
Besides me, there was someone else who wanted me to be a civilian. That is why I was able to become a civilian in this world, which is quite divorced from the game, by pinpointing only what I wanted to change while successfully following the scenario.
I don't think he even knew that I wanted to be a civilian, but when he found out that I had been told to break my engagement by Master Seth, His Majesty would have figured out what would be most convenient about my treatment.
In a way, I betrayed His Majesty first by lying. This is the story of His Majesty's use of my betrayal.
"My parents have strong ascending thoughts instead of abilities, and their personality sucks. Honestly, aren't my parents intrusive to His Majesty and above all to the country? Disconnecting me from my home can throw away that kind of blemish. And you can't protect my freedom and my human rights, the Duke's daughter."
I can't care less about the treatment of civilians in a royal word. The reason I haven't been done that since I became a civilian is because everyone around me has been a good person. Everyone respected my human rights.
So it goes without saying that the many of these roundabout methods taken by His Majesty were also kind enough to allow His Majesty to kneel at my will. So if you can convince me, I can't shake my neck vertically for lying. Me, my dear.
"I don't know how far was His Majesty's calculation. But I don't think my parents would have punished me for being a civilian, so I thought my parents might have had a mouthful of His Majesty behind them."
I looked around and apparently I was overdone. That's probably more than the main character in the game. In other words, no matter how much I pretended to be above average, my parents were in enough danger to try to keep me alive just to give me a slightly lighter punishment instead of stripping me of my aristocratic status and dropping it on civilians like Liliana in the game.
In the first place, this story of mine must be known to His Majesty that I will be punished by civilians dropped from my parents. Now it is unlikely that His Majesty will be a reincarnator.
Then it would have been much quicker to assume that His Majesty himself had encouraged or spoken to do so than to foresee the actions of my upside-down parents with his wise eyes. People who lack calm are prone to fall into mind control.
My "desire to be a civilian" overlapped just with His Majesty's desire to "make me a civilian" and I realized nothing of the thoughts moving behind me.
Even from the very beginning, I felt like I had been able to live in full luck as a civilian, on the palm of His Majesty's hand.
When I was quickly thrown out, I was welcomed into that safe and warm town, and the place of work was decided without difficulty. Besides, there was a church in that town that Lili attended.
All, maybe even happiness between my bundles was just dancing like His Majesty's toys.
Still, that time was sincerely happy for me. I would like to thank His Majesty for being there even in a short time.
I took one deep breath. That is all I want to say to His Majesty next.
"In doing so, I am now kneeling before Your Majesty, who will do anything to spare you from the death penalty, Shed and Evan, trying to become pawns in the country if I want to. Everything as His Majesty wishes."
I laughed and sarcastic at the end. Now let's not talk about it. Bad foot scratching as premised.
As I said to His Majesty first, it's all just my self-satisfaction.
Please forgive me for being so rude. 'Cause you're sorry that all my misery and everyone's was just on one hand, aren't you?
I, the loser, stared at the tender face of an adult who had never changed until the end of the day.