Master of the brave.

Through Poulat, we received word from the Zaunas.

A full moon night in a week. The Zaunas have told us that they will storm and occupy strongholds in all parts of the capital.

Win and the others, in tune with their movements, broke into the Imperial Palace to secure the identity of Emperor Alexei.

Poulat told me that the Zaunas seemed to have more morale when they found out Cornelia was coming to Simlug.

Repeated exchanges through Poulat after that, packing the details of the operation, later only waiting for the date of the decision.

By the time the yang climbed to the top of the sky, Laura had manipulated a carriage carrying crops picked up in the field to come to the gates of the outer walls of Simlug.

"Hello, beautiful weather"

When Laura arrived at the gate spoke, the guards came as soon as they could.

The two of them have loaded vegetables many times to and from the gate, so I'm totally familiar with the guards here.

Iferina also bows her head in peculiarity.

"Hi Laura. And Leena. Are you here today to sell vegetables?

"Delivered to a familiar store."

"You can go through. Take care."

"Thank you"

Laura has the citizenship of Simlug and doesn't have to collect the gate toll. On top of that, travellers, pedestrians and merchants who visit Shimlug later arrive in front of the gate.

Laura's carriage carriage is not even covered with a front, and the vegetables on the carriage are in full view. For that reason, the guards just looked at the carrier for a moment and let the two of them pass quickly.

The ragged and wagon continues down the main street of the Imperial City.

Laura then pulled the wagon over several streets.

It's a warehouse-like building there.

The entrance allows carriages to dive through at leisure.

When Laura opened the door to the warehouse, which was both open, she put the carriage into it.

"Fine, Leena."

When Laura called Yferina that way by closing the warehouse door, she exhaled furiously.

At that point, seven figures appeared on the carrier: Wynn, Leticia, Cornelia, Kelvin, Rock, Leno and Wedge.

"Hey... I heard about it, but really, the power of the wingman is a big deal"

Kelvin, jumping off the carrier, looked down at the little Iferina's head with an impressive voice.

Iferina wrapped her carriage in a phantom and hid the Winns.

Simurgh's outer wall gates also had tricks to sense magic, but the magic of the atmosphere manipulated by the Yferina and the Wingmen is, technically speaking, comparable to the magic used by men, to the miracles performed by the gods. The Spirit, who dwells in the atmosphere on Yferina's will, did not respond to the magic-sensitive kingdom either, because it is not magic that mediates magic.

"But I was really thrilled. I was wondering if the guards would check the cargo deck."

That's what Rock says when he can't hide a little excitement.

It was just covered with a phantom, so if the guard tried to take the vegetables, it could have touched someone's body on the carrier.

To prevent it, I removed the front of the carrier and put it away. It was a reading that if the vegetables in the luggage had been poured out and rolled, the busy guards wouldn't have bothered to take the vegetables and look them up.

"Mostly we didn't know if he was really hiding."

Leno's right. The people hiding in the phantom really don't know if they're hiding themselves from the outside.

For once, I didn't feel like I was being gazed at by the wrong people, but I was thrilled to be here all the time.

"Thank you, Leena. Thank you so much."

"Hehe, I'm awesome, right?

As Leticia stroked Leena's head, she grinned and breasted as she tickled.

You just have to wait here until the sun goes down and it's unpopular time.

"Mr. Randell, how are you..."

Leticia stopped by as Winn grumbled.

"I want to see you."

"I hope it hasn't bothered you."

The fact that Wynn and Leticia are deeply involved with the people at the Migratory Bird Pavilion is something you will soon find out after doing a little research.

I was worried that Randell and the others were not bothered by Winn's actions with Cornelia, who became Prince Neumann's political enemy.

"I'd love to go check on you, but I'm sure you'll have a lookout."

"Oh."

"Of course I know your brother's face."

The faces of all the squadrons of the Crown Princess Cornelia can be considered sketches handed out.

"Is Letty okay with the house, too?

When Winn asked, Leticia gave him a slightly troubled look.

"I think Sister Feresia is safe because she is studying at the Emerdia Grand Temple. And I don't believe that Sister Stacia would do anything terrible to your father, your mother, the people in the house."

My brother Rails was incarcerated with Count Shrihaden, the Peshlican lord, after his defeat in Peshlica.

Sharpening should come down after this commotion gathered, and until then it should have been a prisoner inside the Lords' Castle of Peshlica, regardless of whether Crown Prince Alfred or Prince Neumann would be the victors.

And even though Leticia's parents may be allowed to stay, neither Prince Neumann nor Duchess Stacia should take it to their lives.

We also know that Stacia has no attachment to Leticia's family.

It can't be a trump card against Leticia where the Dukes of Mavis have been held hostage.

"Right..."

I don't know how Leticia feels about her family because Wynn doesn't have any parents or brothers. But when I was about to miss my parents, I know that she was running off to The Migratory Bird Inn Pavilion with complicated feelings for her family.

Winn, knowing Leticia's circumstances, looked a little unfloated.

"It's okay, brother. Your sister must know. If you execute the head of the Duke of Mavis family, the nobles who will join the Duke of Mavis and his clan could start a revolt. Not only Count Elsted of Eltz, but there is no room for enemies up to the Duke Mavis' house."

Leticia smiled, putting Cotten and his head on Winn's shoulder.

"So it's okay, brother. Let's get this fight over with, and we'll all have Mr. Randall's cooking together again."

With that said, Leticia closes her eyes. Eventually I started to get some sleep.

Winn caressed her soft hair gently supporting her body so as not to wake Leticia.

◇ ◆ ◇ ◆ ◇

The sun sinks into the shadows of the mountains, and the full moon illuminates the earth with its face over Simlug.

Lemursil Empire Central Knights Headquarters using the former post-palace. There are several other imperial authorities on the same premises, including the Knights School and the Laboratory of Court Mages.

Only politically and militarily important establishments are placed under strict security after Prince Neumann took power in Simurgh, and even students attending Simurgh Knights School are not allowed to walk freely on the premises without permission. The outing to the city of Simurg was also restricted.

Guard Alan, guarding the front gate leading to the Shimrg Knights School, stepped out of a narrow jar when the time allotted for patrol duty arrived.

Make a big stretch when you go outside.

The work of the guards at the gate is to check on visitors to the Shimrug Knights School or those going out. The Knights School also attends many aristocrats, children of knights' houses, and then children of wealthy families.

For the young soldiers, who had just passed the age of twenty, like Alan, it was above all an entertainment to watch the pretty girls attending the Knights School, but since Prince Neumann took over the real power of the Imperial Capital, there have been fewer visitors and outsiders to the Knights School, and the guards have had time to spare.

(Every day, every day, I stand in the same spot. At least as cute a girl as I'd like to watch)

Most of all, many of the girls who go to this school are different from Alan and don't think they can get along. However, there are also people of civilian origin in the Knights School. And I knew that some students of civilian origin had become close to their noble daughters. The young man always walked with his daughter, who was very attractive even from Alan's eyes.

(I wonder if I can have such a pretty girlfriend too)

I have a real example. What's wrong with always looking at the girls and expecting that?

At present, however, students are no longer able to enter and leave freely, depriving them of much of the pleasure at work.

All the guards, not just Alan, were unhappy with the matter and complained of their stupidity.

The patrol time allotted to Alan today is just about to change the date of the carving.

In front of the Knights School, there are also several foods and liquor stores that commercialize students, knights as instructors, magicians and staff against them, but for the reasons I mentioned earlier, the number of users has decreased and the store is fast.

Alan walks slowly through the unpopular and quiet Alley of Empire City.

The footsteps of Alan's leather shoes standing on the cobblestone path echo the surrounding buildings, making the creepy atmosphere memorable to those unfamiliar with walking down the night lane. When Alan also started working, when he walked on dark and unpopular night trails on night patrols, his footsteps were gradually quicker as he left the stuffing, but if he had worked for four years, he would have gotten used to it completely.

Instead of speeding up his footsteps, he stopped at the grasshoppers visible beneath the moonlight of the full moon on the road in an attempt to slow down the time to return to the narrow and painful stuffing. He watched and walked slowly.

The moon, which was throwing cold light on the earth, hid behind the clouds.

I suddenly feel the darkness around me thickened because my eyes were used to the brightness of the full moon.

Alan's inaccessible pine light was completely engulfed in darkness.

"- Hmm?"

At first I thought it was an illusion.

I hear multiple footsteps echoing the building.

He seems to be sneaking his footsteps and killing his breath, but the moon hid the clouds, which was supposed to make Alan realize the signs.

Signs of multiple people.

(WHAT!? Is that a chase, or is there an escape around the thieves?

Once I ascertained the pattern of the sword around my hips, I held an alarm whistle in my right hand.

The signs keep getting closer and closer.

I don't know what the purpose is, but I'm sneaking my footsteps in the middle of the night, so I don't know which one of you is planning something bad. Because if you are a man of righteous qualities, you will walk with about the light.

(Should I just call for backup?

Blow the siren and a bunch of your buddies will rush out of the jar when they notice that noise of high armor.

But Alan hesitated to blow the siren.

The time is late at night. The surrounding houses were still asleep and wondered whether the silence of the night could be mutilated by the sound of an alarm.

If a skilled guard had come, not this place hairlane at this time, he would have blown the siren without hesitation.

If you have experience in action at multiple signs, you do not hesitate to call for support in this situation. Hesitation can cost you your life.

Alan's youth, who has no experience in action, came out here.

Multiple figures who came into Alan's sight while wondering whether to blow the siren or not.

"And stop -"

Here Alan makes mistakes again.

I went out of my way to raise a warning where I should have just blown the siren. While he is raising his voice, the shadow, who has quickly packed his time, knocks the siren off Alan's right hand.

"Ah."

And while Alan tried to raise his next voice, the shadows promptly pruned Alan's consciousness.

Remains of screaming misty into silence.

The shadow of Alan lying in the shadow of the building with his body out of strength runs out again in the darkness of the night in an unmistakable foothold.

At the same time, important facilities involved in the politics and military of the Empire were in a similar situation.

The guards who stood on the lookout were handsomely mowed and subdued by those who snuck in the darkness at night.

In front of the main entrance of the Knights School of Simurgh.

Having handily tied up the stuffed guards, Wins leaves the latter to the Zaunas knights to run on the premises of the Knights School.

Brave, Imperial First Empress, squad of squires with empress - everyone has a title except Kelvin, but before that title in the first place, the Wins are students at the Simurgh Knights School.

On campus I know on my own. Pick a route out of sight and move on.

Cornelia is leading the way.

Once the Imperial Palace inhabited by the Emperor of the Lemursil Empire, the Schools of the Knights of Simlug had underground passages secretly linked to the present Imperial Palace.

That's the only underground tunnel known to the royal family. Among them, the underground passage that Cornelia is trying to guide was the path connected to the rear palace where the royal woman lives.

If it is on that path, Prince Neumann, the male royal family, should also not know.

"This way."

"Is this the girls' dorm?"

The place Cornelia guided was a girls' dorm dedicated to senior nobility.

"Right. Speaking of which, was this a building that used to be used as a backyard?

"Yes. Until the present Imperial Palace was formed, he said, the princess of His Majesty the Emperor of history lived here. So now that it's a knight's school, it's still used as a dorm for senior aristocratic women."

Cornelia answers that to the locks observing the shivers and buildings.

"I have a room in this dorm. I have a key."

When Leticia retrieved the key, she opened the door.

(Speaking of which, Letty's room was this dorm too. I don't know which floor you have a room on.)

In the morning, Leticia always came to the dorm where Winn's room was located, so she never approached this dorm.

"It was helpful to hear Master Leticia had the keys. The entrance to the basement is in the dorm."

"Men's forbidden gardens..."

"Wow... awesome. What, this sculpture. Wow, this painting is tall. My friend lived in a dorm, but not at all like that."

Despite this situation, Rock and Lino looked around rarely in the midst of it.

This dormitory is inhabited only by senior aristocrats, so boys are not, of course, close to each other, whether they are girls or not.

I also know what it's like to be curious, but Winn whispers "quietly" to draw attention.

They say there's an intruder in the dorm, but one of the kids doesn't come out into the hallway.

From the outside, the curtains were closed in a window called a window. The light can't even be on just at the time when the date should change, so there is no leakage of light from the gap in the curtain.

Is it just perfect soundproofing in the room and quiet to sleep, or is there nobody there? Either way, it is convenient to proceed inside the dorm without worrying about people's eyes.

Cornelia walked up to the side of the stairs and looked back at the wins following her from behind.

"Sure, it should be here"

When you look at it, a sizeable space is created by the stairs. And a pedestal was placed on the rug, and flowers lived in a large vase.

"I see. You mean under this pedestal. Win, Rock, Wedge, Help Me"

At Kelvin's direction, when the four men lifted a pedestal made of marble and left the cloth, a drop lid appeared to the basement made of sturdy wood.

Are you able to open it from the inside, or it looks like it's a trick that can't be opened from this side.

"It's an emergency, let's break it"

I just broke it under Kelvin's decision.

When I broke it, I heard a rather fancy noise, but still no one came out in the hallway.

After all, maybe there are no people left in the dorm.

With the coup d 'état, I guess the senior nobles are calling back their daughter, whom they left in the dorm.

A long staircase ran deep underground.

The passage is closed to deep darkness, like in a cave, and without the lights it would be difficult to even walk.

"It's dark and I can't see ahead"

Win staring at the pine light.

Cornelia took the lead when she cast a small spell, lighting the magic light.

"It hasn't been used for a long time, so the air may be dirty. Use magic lights to move forward, not pine lights."

Was the basement stained with groundwater or was the floor wet and very slippery?

The walls are null, too, and it doesn't seem like something I really want to touch.

"It's the main road, so you won't get lost."

"Doesn't the main road get caught lightly when a chaser hits you?"

When enemies attack the Imperial Palace and escape, as Leno says, will they soon be caught up on the main road? Cornelia then shows with her hand a corner of the wall illuminated with pine lights to answer Leno's question. There was a lever-like device there.

"Down here, the iron door slab falls from the top and blocks the road."

Look up, there's a gap in the ceiling stone.

"I think what we have on the iron plate is when the Imperial Palace burns, it keeps the smoke from pouring in."

Running away from the burning Imperial Palace doesn't make sense to get caught in smoke.

"Your Highness. Are there other passages like these?

"There are more than one. Only Her Majesty the Emperor and the royal woman know this path because it is connected from the rear palace. But there's got to be something else that's connected to the outside of Simlug."

"Really..."

Kelvin thinks into Cornelia's response.

"Um... Deputy Kelvin. What was that about?

"No, if there's another passage, if they notice an ambush, they could get Prince Neumann out of there," he said.

Cornelia gave a stiff look to the words.

"Right..."

"You better hurry."

◇ ◆ ◇ ◆ ◇

Jade was one of the rooms that senior aristocrats were allowed to use when they entered the palace. sitting with the present in a heavy wooden chair. The candlestick on the wall is dim in the room because it does not light the fire and only the candlestick placed on the desk is lit.

In addition to Jade, Klaus, his side, stood in the room.

"Right. Instead of attacking the Imperial Capital and recapturing the Emperor, Alfred attacked Cliffdorf territory? The idea is to break this scaffold first."

"His Royal Highness Neumann and Lady Stacia are asking you when you will withdraw the Emperor."

"It's an innocent thing. My father and Alfred are fighting in Cliffdorf territory while we're at it."

"For both of you, the land is situated around the border, even though it is Kleifdorf Marquis. It's a distant event that has nothing to do with itself."

"- That's how they thought of my mother to death!

Slapping his desk more and more, Jade abominably stared at the imperial flag adorned the wall of the room.

"The idea that we would do nothing and leave it to someone else to do something about it later. It's a common idea for senior nobles in this country."

In the war against demons, the Empire had many times been asked for reinforcements and supplies from Allied forces against the Continent of Demons, which was a disadvantage.

However, in an effort to curb the expenses mourning in the never-ending war against demons, those who were at the Empire Center at the time sent reinforcements with Jade's mother Lucrezia as their commander as a substitute for financial assistance and supplies.

Subsequent support, such as supplies, sent only minimal items to the front line, and offered to both predecessors, General Zaunas and Lucrezia, to maintain the army with a meagre exchange of supplies.

As a result, Lucrezia, forced to fight backwards in a situation where neither supplies nor supplies were satisfactory, was unable to trample the soil of her homeland alive.

"How about you two?"

"Tell me we're still ahead of us to depose the Emperor. At least if we settle with Alfred and we don't decide him as a fake Crown Prince, we abolish the Emperor's throne and make Neumann Emperor, this is the usurper."

Klaus shushes and praises.

"Next, Master Jade. Mr. Wells on Kleifdorf territory has repeatedly asked for reinforcements. May I?

"Leave him alone. No reinforcements were received. That's what I mean."

"Yes, sir."

In other words, all the messengers who delivered the letter told me not to be there.

Running horses day and night from Kleifdorf territory, exhausted and alerted to Simlug's side, the messenger decided to lose his life without his loyalty being rewarded.

Jade was no longer in his mind about the poor messenger he didn't even know his name, and he kept silent.

In order to prove that Alfred was not fake, it was first necessary to reclaim the Emperor's capital and secure the identity of Emperor Alexei, and for that reason it was thought that he would lead a reinforcement called the Lyon Royal Army to attack the Empire. Using that circumstance, Jade was going to stick a lettel on Alfred called the Great Sinner, who would invite foreign troops to overthrow the state, and take the crown prince position.

Afterwards, Neumann shall be crown prince.

If you have committed the great crime of attracting foreign illnesses, other nobles who now continue to be opportunistic will also be attached to the Neumann prince faction. That should have allowed Jade to maneuver hundreds of thousands of large armies, combined with the Imperial army and the secretly passable Royal Petersian army.

All you have to do is smash Alfred in both the Royal Lyon Army and then slowly beat the Royal Petersian Army out of imperial territory.

"I'm sorry about your father, but let me ask you to struggle a little and cut Alfred's army off. Either way, Alfred had to come to the Emperor's capital shackled by the Emperor's presence."

"Yes, sir."

Klaus tried to thank me again. But that's when he felt strange within the Imperial City.

"Master Jade. Looks like a rat got caught in the Imperial City."

"A rat...?

"It seems to be very handy and some facilities on this side have already been overwhelmed"

"Alfred, have you kept our eyes open in the armies of Eltz and Lyon, and let separate teams dive into the Empire City? Then the aim would be the emperor's. You can even think of breaking into the palace."

Jade thought he could not deal with the normal force on this side, which had gone around behind his back because of the carriage of the enemy around him.

Also, the only knights in the palace are the Kingsguard Knights.

Jade's orders to consolidate power within the Imperial Palace are becoming irresistible even to the Kingsguard Knights, who only submit to the Emperor's orders, but still some still pledge absolute loyalty to Emperor Alexei.

I can't dictate to Jade's liking.

"I have no choice. I want to avoid being recaptured of the Emperor's personality at all costs. A little earlier than planned, Klaus. Take care of it with your men."

Jade stood by the window after lowering his head deeply and then dropping Klaus off leaving.

Simlug, visible through the window, is wrapped in the darkness of the night, to the extent that the shadow of the building can be seen only slightly.

But in that darkness, there are certainly people moving against Jade's will.

Of course, we can't possibly find out who they are from where Jade is. But Jade continued to gaze upon the township of Simlug, where he slept, as if he were seeing those who moved in the darkness.