Ore wa Mada, Honki o Dashite Inai

Shaw is staring straight at me.

He stared at me with his straight, persistent eyes, and I wobbled.

I think desperately that I can swim my eyes and somehow deceive you.

"Maybe."

Huh?

"Is this something you can't talk about?

─!

I came with Tin.

The white lightning went through my head and came up with a good idea.

"... that's actually true."

Hmm?

"This is about the first generation of canoes. It's a secret I've been hiding for years, so I can't say."

Shortly after I put it to words, I was certain of victory.

This is it.

Speaking of house secrets, the prince will not be able to pursue any more.

……

Shaw stared at me.

He stared at me with his eyes as if it were true or not.

I took the gaze straight and stared back.

There is no doubt that it was the first secret.

So I stared straight back, without cowardice.

"... is that true?

Ah.

"Are you sure?

"It's true."

Shaw checks carefully.

I nodded back with my face.

……

……

For a while, we stared at each other.

Shaw stared me in the face and looked back at it.

After staring at each other with plenty and silence for about a minute, Shaw said, "Fu."

"Looks like it's true."

"Do you believe me?

"I'm going to still see people there. I know you're not lying."

Heh...

Looks like I made a fool of you.

"I know you didn't tell me everything."

I felt a little relieved.

Shaw smiled nicely.

I stared at Shaw in surprise.

That much... you know what I mean?

"... are you a bumblehead?

"Ha, I'm not going to do that. No matter how much you squirt, you won't talk about the most important part."

……

"But it's true that it's a secret left behind by the canoe's first generation."

"Oh, that's true."

I nodded clearly.

Seven coins, seven stars behind.

The first generation was probably expecting offspring to find it someday.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have made such a complicated gimmick and let my children perform the ritual.

"Okay, then I won't ask anymore. Would you show me just a little better than that? I want to see with my own eyes the power that changes the terrain."

Shaw said that and returned to the exciting, curious expression of a good young man.

"... if you could keep what you saw to yourself."

"Yes, of course. I'll take what I see (...) to the grave. In the name of royalty."

"Okay."

I nodded and clasped my hands.

I looked up at the sky thinking about what to show, and because I was covered in clouds, I decided to blow it up.

No matter how many clouds you blow up, it's still clouds, so it won't be proof!

"Ok, it's tough!

"Wow, Hermes!

A few days later, while relaxing in the living room, Miss and her sister burst out with an incredible sword curtain.

Miss panicked as much as she could, and her sister sparked her eyes with excitement.

"Well, what's the matter?

Both of you came together, and the sword curtain, I'm so nervous.

"The royal decree from His Majesty the King!

That's what Miss said. She opened something like a royal scripture and read it.

"By covenant, Hermes Canoe will be a quasi-royalty, and all status and rights will be equivalent to royalty!"

"Quasi-royalty?

I don't know.

Seriously, what is it?

I've never heard of quasi-royalty.

"It's an old promise between the canoes and the royal family."

My sister said it with a nice smile.

"Old promise? You mean the covenant written in the Imperial Book?

"Yes, do you remember that the first master of the Canoe family was the master of Her Majesty's sword at the time?

"Ah, so the Canoes came as barons for generations, right?

"Not only that, but there was a promise that if in some way the owner of the canoe family had access to the 'true legacy' left over from the first generation, he would be treated like a one-generation royalty."

"True legacy? What does that mean?

I answered afraid.

"I don't know, it hasn't been told to the Royals or the Canoes. It's just a first-generation thing, and it's amazing."

"Why are you so vague... ah"

I remembered something.

This involves the first generation of canoe owners. It's a secret I've been hiding for years, so I can't tell you. "

I remembered what I said to Shaw from my mouth.

The power you have newly acquired is enormous, and you can fight fiercely enough to change the terrain with the Demon King.

Secret power from the first generation.

"Oonoo....."

I'm getting bored.

"Your Highness... you said you wouldn't tell me what you saw. No, I don't suppose you said that...."

I sighed.

I remembered and understood Shaw's words that I didn't realize at the time.

Shaw said, "I don't want to see anything."

But I didn't say I wouldn't tell you what I heard.

I heard from the owners of the Canoe family that they had acquired a true legacy of the first generation.

I guess that's all we need to talk about.

Rather...

"Thank you for your patience in the Imperial Book. Tell His Majesty the King himself the details of a true legacy."

Miss went after him.

Shaw didn't say it, he didn't say it, so instead he showed it to the king.

"Hau... I thought it was perfect."

Quasi-royalty.

I was disappointed that my identity had risen again.