Maou No Utsuwa

Harmonia, the national capital of the Republic of Arten Kreutz. Compared to the imperial capital of Mittelburg, it is a much smaller capital, but the vibrancy that overflows the city is not beaten by that of the imperial capital. In terms of enthusiasm, it is superior to the imperial capital Mittelburg.

The newly enthusiastic Artenkreutz Republic and the glory become a thing of the past, which seems to Cainel, as it stands, to represent the Empire of Schutzalten in the oblique yang.

Kainel, who was allowed to attend the National Council, but has not been given any particular position or role. Still, if I am in the test, I don't think I have a choice, but it was a little hard to get some spare time. Because if you don't have anything to do, all sorts of thoughts come to mind.

It's been a long time for Kainel. Ever since I became involved in the imperial government, I've just been chased by the work in front of me, and I haven't had time to think things through slowly. Even after I flew out of the Empire, I was desperate to enter the Republic so that the Empire wouldn't find me, and I couldn't afford to think. Actually, it's not like I couldn't really afford it. He thought badly and was afraid that he would hesitate to go to the Republic, and he refused unconsciously.

But right now, I can't refuse to think. To think about what is to come, and to do so, it is necessary to reflect on nature and the past. This was a hard task inside for Kainel.

For Kainel, the past is nothing but a mass of regret. There are three big ones among them.

One thing is that I couldn't save Sophilia. This is the biggest one. It was Kainel's dream to make Sophilia the Crown Prince, and beyond, the Emperor, beside him, wave his arms at the national government.

However, this dream could be broken by an assassination. At this time, once, Kainel has given up everything. That's all Sophilia was to Kainel.

The second was to hostile Kamui and try to keep him away from Sophilia. This is what Kainel regrets because now he thinks that if it was Kamui, he could have saved Sophilia. Kamui had noticed and warned of the presence of forces trying to harm Sophilia. In contrast, Kainel decided that Kamui's bullshit, even if it wasn't, was a Theraelite ploy and didn't try to do anything. Even if you did something, it's unlikely you could have found out the truth about Kainel and prevented the assassination. Still, Kainel regrets not trying to do anything. In the end, the second also leads to the failure to protect Sophilia, so the great regret may be two things to say.

So, what's the other one, Claudia gave the Crown Prince a hand to become an emperor? Nor could Claudia have become an emperor, even if Cainel's power was not everything and he did not help. But Cainel couldn't forgive himself for making Claudia an emperor without showing it around him, knowing half the way through.

Thinking about it like this, Kainel finds himself regretting all that he has wasted his empire on. When that happens, the question arises as to why I came to the Republic. Looking back at the past, not only the past, but the situation that you are likely to regret to this day.

The purpose for which I wanted to come to the Republic. It was never, ever impulsive. I wanted to know more about the Kamui people who see the country they aspire to in the Republic and make it happen. I wanted to know what was different from me. I knew that, I learned what was missing, and once again, I wanted to get up to my dreams, too.

But so far, this hasn't come true. Out on the occasion of the National Council, what I hadn't seen before, I did see.

It was the reality that I was not far from Kamui or Alto, who secretly viewed me as a rival.

That's right. With equal power, the Empire would never have fucked the Republic so good. I knew that the decline of the Empire was also due to my lack of power. And I wonder what such a self can do in the Republic.

On the occasion of the National Council, secretly, Kainel had not had a feeling for a long time. Kamui and Alto are not the only ones in the conference room. Hildegand, and Mathias, who were his men, and Marie, and his dazzling, coveted presence, were lined up as Kamui's companions, and his men, in the days of Imperial College.

What they remind us is that when they are different in character, they are so inferior that they even give up burning confrontation. It was uncomfortable. It could have been a mistake to come to the Republic. It was so emotional that it made me think this.

All this dark thinking has been going through Kainel's head lately. Standing up from the bench where he was sitting, Kainel tried to make his way to the library. Instead of studying, reading to stop thinking. To escape dark thoughts.

But Cainel's leg-stopping presence headed to the library appeared in front of him. For Kanell, it's just the way it is.

"Ah!"

The other person also notices Kainel and gives him a really unexpected look.

"... Theresa, you, what are you doing here?

In Kainel's eyes, it was Theresa.

"... what are you doing, you ask? You must have been involved in sending me here."

"That's... that's true, though"

Kainel has worse minutes on this matter. It's not bad. If the republic will take care of it, we're lucky enough to send Theresa in.

"I'm sorry to hear that. I'm alive."

Theresa also knows what Claudia and Kainel were thinking.

"... thank you very much, huh?

Here, Kainel, who thought he had no choice but to fall in love, honestly expressed his doubts.

"Kamui saved me. It's not just Kamui, a lot of other people helped me."

"... how?

Therese explains that I have no idea what happened.

"How... Be nice to me."

"... that's good enough. What are you doing here? What do you mean, in what position?"

Even after asking why he was so helpful, Kainel changed the question. If that's why you saved me, you can ask Alto or someone later.

"Position? That's..., Lord Hildegand's Kingsguard knight. And... and the side chamber."

Theresa's main intent is to say the position of Kamui's side chamber, but in Kainel's opponent, it was a little overwhelmed. Kainel knows what he has done in the Empire. When it comes to Kamui's side room, I just think of it in a weird way.

"... that it's a side room?

But Theresa's handyman was also vain, and Kainel ate into the side chamber, regardless of the order in which he heard.

"... bad?

"It's decided badly! You, to Your Majesty, did you tempt the bastards!?

Theresa reacted exactly as she thought.

"I'm not tempting you! No, I did a little, but Kamui didn't ride temptation!

"So how can you be the sideroom!?

"It is! Kamui..., the..., like me..., so..."

Teleza is also embarrassed to talk about how Kamui feels. My voice kept getting smaller and smaller.

"... don't lie. I know what you and King Kamui were close to."

"That's the past. Besides, I've admired Kamui ever since."

"... that's how you fooled His Majesty?

"I'm not fooling you! I, pass the exam properly! Everybody recognizes me, I'm here!

"... pass the exam?

Exactly now, Kainel, who is also in exam, heard Theresa's word that she had passed, and at once she was interested, but she turned to you.

"That's right. I passed the exam and became a Kingsguard knight of Master Hildegand and was recognized as a side chamber of Kamui. It's true. They all admitted it."

"... right"

Theresa's story is true. If you think calmly, the side chamber thing, anyway, shows that the fact that Therese is walking dignified through the capital of the country is admitted to being in the Republic.

Kainel, whose anger had healed and he had lost some strength, also lowered his back to the bench.

"Did you believe that?

"The side chamber thing, to be honest, is still unbelievable. But whether it's true or not, you can tell by asking someone else."

"Is that true, too? I'm the best, because I can't believe it. Even now, I wonder if it's okay with me."

"... what do you do in that case?

Theresa's thoughts may be the same as her own right now. Like this, Kainel felt.

"What do you want me to do?

"Don't you get depressed? I don't know if I can stay here."

"Because I believe in Kamui. Kamui turned me into a sideroom. Kamui created a place for me, which means I can stay here."

"... right"

Doesn't look like Theresa to Kainel. Kainel hasn't been given anything yet that might seem like a place.

"Besides, I have to be on Kamui's side. For the others. You could be one of them."

"What do you mean?

Theresa's on Kamui's side for herself. Kainel has no idea what that means.

"I promised my master. Kamui, all around Kamui, are brilliant people. But then I can't, the master said. Excellence must not be a condition for being on Kamui's side."

"... why?

It was strange to Kainel to think that he didn't know who Theresa was talking about, but denied that everyone was good. Kainel thinks it's natural to attract good people as a country.

"I was told that would be a privilege. But honestly, I wasn't sure what this meant. So I thought about it for myself. It's not about ability, it's about ambition."

"What is the will?

If it's your will, Kainel's going to have it too. So, Kanell wonders if he can serve on Kamui's side.

"I think anything would be good? Just because I like Kamui, I was allowed to be on my side. Just like that, I think the Alts have something for the Alts, something for the others, something for the others."

But Theresa's answer was not what Kainel wanted.

"But each one of us thinks of things in pieces, and the country doesn't come together."

"It is Kamui who sums it up. Even though it seems like a falling apart thought, Kamui brings it together. So we can act together"

"Suppose you have thoughts that don't haunt you?

"At that time, it's better not to act with Kamui. It just makes each other unhappy."

"... right"

My ambition may not be a wrapper. Such anxiety sprang to Kainel's heart.

"But if that will, if it is serious, I'm sure it will come together in one. Any aspiration, after all, wants to be happy, to be happy?

"... may be so"

Kainel found out, one more thing, something he didn't see. I never thought Theresa would have all this insight. In fact, it is not knowledge, but the power to instinctively find out the truth, to put it a little too much.

"I don't want to make people unhappy. So you can't have an empire."

"What's wrong with the Empire?

Theresa's idea extended to the imperial review. This is an interesting topic for Kainel. Why has the Empire declined so far? This is one of the things that Kainel wants to know in the Republic.

"The empire today has no aspirations. What Claudia thinks is that she is an emperor. Now that we've achieved it, we have nothing more to aspire to."

"Sure..."

Claudia told me what kind of country you want the Empire to be, but it's not in Cainel. If the emperor, the apex of the empire, has nothing to aspire to, the country cannot go anywhere.

"And the rest of them are just trying to crush the rebellion, like, how to crush the republic. I'm only thinking about making people unhappy."

"Is that what happens..."

It's an unexpected idea. Justice from the side of the Empire is not so for the other party. As a matter of course, from this point of view, there was no such thing as thinking about politics in Kainel.

"The Republic is not. Whether you have a will and want to crush the same opponent, it is not an end in itself, it is just a means to fulfill your will. I think this little difference is huge."

"Right...... If the Empire wants to reboot, what do you think it needs?

Kainel really wanted to hear this. If it's Theresa, I don't think I can think of anything.

"You, that's..."

"Don't get me wrong. I am not going back to the Empire. I've just been thinking about what I did wrong, and if I don't know that, I feel like I can't start over."

"... well. Well, I'd love to answer that, but that's hard. You're not in a state where you can start all over again with one thing, are you?

"That's right, but if you don't do anything, nothing will change"

"It is only decided to do it first. To change the emperor."

"... right"

This doesn't have to be asked by Theresa, and Kanell knows it. As long as Claudia is an emperor, there is no chance of a recurrence in the empire. As Theresa said, Claudia has no ambition. If the emperor doesn't show it, his subordinates, on their own initiative, will move. True, so far the Empire has been right.

"And you're going to return Master Terrays to the Empire and make him emperor. That? Now, isn't it all settled?

"How can it be solved just by putting Master Thales back?

"Not that I can say, but Master Therese is brilliant. Now that you think about it, don't you think that only Master Therese said the right thing?

"It's..."

At least Theresa is right about the issues Kamui is involved in. Just didn't feel like admitting it honestly, Kainel.

"My relationship with Kamui is good. It also has the power to look ahead. This is not what I was able to say, but the Empire should have honestly made Prince Therese from the beginning."

"... that I should have chosen Therays over Her Royal Highness Princess Sophilia?

"Oh well. I liked you, Sophilia."

"Become!?

Kainel doesn't know the power of Theresa to read the finesse of a person's mind. Thoughts that could not have been known, starred, could not hide their surprises.

"Don't be mad at me. Listen to me, okay? Because Master Sophilia didn't have any aspirations either."

Theresa, who was often on Sophilia's side with Claudia, knew this.

"That can't be right! Master Sophilia and I have spoken many times about the ideal country!

"I told you not to be angry. Say it again. Don't be mad at me, okay? What Sophilia said, like her own ideals, was Kamui's takeover and sale. I was listening on the side, and I knew."

"... what?

"I was just putting Kamui's thoughts into my own words. I'm going to say something a little tight, but if Kamui is on the side, if he's on the side, then neither Sophilia nor Claudia will change that much. Sophilia has a better personality."

The personality, even if Sophilia is definitely better, apart from that and politics. Keep your personality intact, there is no way you can do politics, and if you do that, even if it's politics by good people, the country goes crazy. Because there is no politics that satisfies everyone.

"... such an idiot"

Kainel has aspirations. However, it is fair to say that my feelings for Sophilia have been raised. Originally, it was Kainel who decided to side with Sophilia.

"... don't resent Kamui, huh? If I do, I won't forgive you."

"Resentful? How could that happen?

"Kamui said he was badly depressed to learn of Master Sophilia's death. He thought that if I didn't let him care, he wouldn't have died."

"... you know what?"

It wasn't Kamui who inspired Sophilia to go for the crown prince position. I know that, before Kamui, Kainel had met Sophilia.

But without Kamui, the Crown Prince's decision could have been made more promptly, in Therese. If that had been the case, the only thing that would have died would have been Therese.

"I don't think it matters. This may also make you angry, but Sophilia should have given up the crown prince position when she cut off Kamui."

"... right.... you, how did you know so much and didn't say anything?

The more we talk, the more surprised Kainel will be by Theresa.

"It's a story I understand now. When I was in the Empire, all I could think about was fulfilling Lord Claudia's wishes. Besides, if I told you what I'm talking about, have you changed anything?

"... you're no different"

Nobody took anything from Matomo, like what Theresa said. Kainel is one of the most iconic.

"I've had some thoughts lately"

"What?"

"I wonder if fate meets good and bad."

"... good encounters and bad encounters"

"For example, me and Lady Claudia. Kamui and Sophilia met badly. On the contrary, Kamui and Alto. Kamui and Hildegand must have met well."

"That depends from which standpoint. From an Imperial standpoint, it's all a bad encounter."

"Oh, shit."

If it were an empire, the present predicament would all be caused by the encounter involving Kamui. In the end, the presence of Kamui.

"Besides, you met Kamui because you met Claudia before that. Can't it be either good or bad?

"Sure...... After all, you're smart."

"Nothing. There are as many people here as I am."

"Oh, you know what? You're blocking it with that, aren't you?

The same is true of Theresa, who was depressed by the talent she gathered around Kamui.

"... regrettably, you're right. What can I do in this country? It bothered me."

"Because I'm useful, you're more useful. So, no?

Even those who have no talent are on Kamui's side. Although Theresa was told to prove it, she doesn't know exactly what to do.

"Right. I'm not asking for evaluation compared to people. I want to know what I can do."

The only job I can do. That's what I can't think of for Kainel. There are people in the Republic who can do more than themselves.

"... that's hard. After all, we met. I think there's a good meeting. You don't have it yet."

"So, meeting is..."

"No. It doesn't matter where you stand, it's a good encounter to grow people"

"... Meet Growing People"

If so, Kainel has already experienced a good encounter. I met Sophilia, and I was curious about it, and I met Kamui, and I knew how far I was. This is what made Kainel grow.

"Not yet, but I, too, just got a little confident. That's right, meet Kamui, meet your master, and so is Lucia. Lucia was the first person who praised me for being amazing. That's how we met."

"... I'm done"

"Not yet. Kamui has the power to change a person's fate. I came to Kamui, and I'm sure you have something ahead of you."

"Also, talk unfounded..."

"I have a basis. That's what everyone who meets Kamui thinks, and..., a guide, maybe we'll meet soon..."

Theresa stops talking and stares ahead. The look gave me a nimmari and a grin.

"What's up?

"I'm going with this. So say hello to her."

"Huh? What are you talking about?

Not knowing what they had said, Theresa left the scene, letting go of the confused Kainel. And what showed up to swap with Theresa.

"What?"

He was just a little boy, standing up to support Kainel's sitting bench. The boy who tells the bench and starts moving. I don't mind Cainel sitting there. On the contrary, I put my hand on Kainel's lap and wondered if he was staring at Kainel, suddenly telling him Kainel's foot and starting to twist up the bench.

"No, hey, hey. Because it's dangerous."

If it moves poorly, Kainel can't move because the child is going to fall. I said, without even lifting the child, I'm just saying it's dangerous, dangerous.

The child, who cleverly climbed the bench, is about to climb Kainel's body even more.

"Dangerous. Moving? Don't fall, okay? Don't move."

Saying this doesn't make any sense to a child. I'm entwined with Kainel looking like I'm having fun.

"Zigmund! No! Don't bother people you don't know!

Without knowing why, help appeared to Cainel, who was solidifying.

"Hey!? Zigmund! Get off me!

The woman who shows up tries to pull the boy away from Kainel, but the boy's hand doesn't try to hold on to Kainel's clothes and let him go.

"Can I untie your hand?

"Of course it is. Well, I'm here for you, so go ahead."

"Oh."

It feels like fear, and I take off the little finger of a boy grabbing his own clothes. If one hand comes off, the other. So I thought it came off, but at that time, the boy, with his other hand, was grabbing his clothes again.

"... if you let go of my hand, I need you to let go of my body too"

"Oh, right. Ok. Okay, again."

A woman who looks clumsy and takes the stand. Seeing what it looked like, Kainel decided that she should not rely on this woman. When you remove one hand, hold that hand and remove the other. I thought you didn't like it, but the boy Kainel is holding my hand, this time, he's waving his arm like a bum for fun.

Kainel wants to get his hands off me, but when I let him go, he was about to get slapped in the face, and I couldn't let him go.

"... Um, it's off already?

"Oh, yes, I was. Sorry, Zigmund seems to be having so much fun."

Finally, a woman can hold a boy. I thought that was it, Kainel, but what were you thinking, the woman, she sat down next to Kainel. Naturally, the boy's hand reaches out to Kainel's body again.

"... with this I am"

Exactly, it's not Kainel who gets grabbed by it. When I got up quickly, I tried to leave this place.

"Oh, what's your name?

"... why?

Somehow I had a bad feeling about it, and Kainel hesitated to name it.

"It's unusual for Zigmund to miss a stranger. Because people knew each other badly and were in trouble."

"... so?

"Also, I don't know if you can play..."

Women, too, seemed to have a sense of glamour, and the last one, a rather reluctant voice.

"... it's Kanell Stafford. So, again, if you get a chance."

After a moment of thought, Kainel decided to name him. Because it was a hassle to rub without teaching.

I am now unemployed even if I know my first name. I can't find out where he is. Compared to the Imperial Capital, even a much smaller national capital should be considerably less likely to meet by chance. Unless it's also a fateful encounter.

"... a fateful encounter is a wife with children. After all, Theresa is a nasty woman."

Kainel doesn't know yet. That the person I met was not the mother, but the child. That the child is the son of Therese, who was allowed to bear Ray's name by Zigmund Ray Weilburg, Kamui.