* Lulusha *
On a thin, hard sleeping table, one toilet. That was all that was in the cell with Lulusha. "State treason," etc., a sin I don't remember at all. In the investigation, I told him all about the washing-- locked here like this, and the iron door, the only entrance and exit with the outside world, remained closed.
"What the hell..."
Though I could not sleep due to remorse and anxiety only on the first day, on the second day I slept all day with the tiredness of my labyrinth strategy at once. And now on the third day, I can afford to think calmly about the situation I was placed in.
I knew there were people who didn't want to be active. But it's not for me that I strive, it's for this empire that's nothing else. I believed that if we got results from the labyrinth offense, they would understand —— I believed.
"... is that this Zama"
I offered to talk to my men, but they turned me down. If asked, my men and Lulusha are not credible in their testimony because they have already consigned, etc. The official who conducted the investigation said that Lulusha had "not sent a liaison officer or anything. A rebel who tried to make his power ours," he believed. So I said, "Produce proof that I sent you a contact" and didn't give in.
I sent a regular contact and a contact asking for assistance, but all seven of them are missing. Some of them disliked Lulusha -- a woman, a half with a human race -- but it's odd that all of them, they can't get in touch.
"Did someone take away...? It's hard to think that he went missing in the labyrinth. The road was not so complicated, and there was nothing when I retreated"
Sigh out. There will be things you have to do before you can keep yourself locked up here. Of the liaison, seven lives are at stake.
"... or all seven are bought and come out after I'm dead, or?
A self-derisive laugh spills. It could be, I thought. I'm stuck in a place like this now.
Anger, remorse, sadness, hardship, despair, anxiety… all sorts of emotions came to an end, and Lulusha slammed onto her bedroom and covered her face. My emotions made me cry, but it was eating up my teeth that raised my voice. There are guards outside. It doesn't mean you haven't reported your reaction to someone. I don't want to fall into myself and do what they like to do when they're haunted.
It was at least an admiration.
"Nevertheless... you couldn't thank me properly"
My heart has calmed down after 30 minutes of endurance.
Then this time, I remembered the people who helped me.
Adventurers who have come to help me with my predicament. The boy said he had something to talk about, but —— at this rate, he doesn't even seem to be able to hear it.
"I wonder how that automaton cut through the emotional attacks he's been committing. Really interesting. Doesn't it work on pure human species? No, then even the Chamber of Commerce hired adventurers shouldn't work... no..."
Lulusha began to think of it as a bump. It is much more sexual to contemplate the labyrinth than to contemplate the conspiracy--.
Gachari, he returned to me with the sound of the key to the iron door opening.
Beyond the thinly-opened door, the guard ref said, blurting out in his face.
"Out. Visitor."
Visitors......? To myself for committing this great sin (...)?
For a moment, I thought it was that boy, but there's no way the Gentiles could see him.
Lulusha left there because she doesn't feel like staying in a cell for long at all, though. When I was handcuffed to my arm, it made me feel like I had done something wrong, even though I was clean.
The visiting room was another murderous room, but about three times bigger than the cell. Look at the person sitting there. Lulusha kneels haphazardly.
"Your Highness Anastasia! Why here?!?"
Lemon-coloured dresses are tailored in fabrics that are hard to see in this country, indicating that she is a special person.
But more pronounced than anything else —— smooth, white skin. The platinum blonde hair, which suits the skin well, is saggy, and the gold hair clasp with the diamonds is fastened behind it.
The long ears that are sneaking out of her hair indicate that she is an elf race —— and a high elf at the top of the elf.
Cut long eyes are a sapphire blue glow, and the eyes themselves are also like one gem.
Healthy pink lips were dusty, but words never came out of it.
Her throat is wrapped with a bandage with a curse, and that's the only place she releases her presence until it's different.
"Stand up, please"
To Lulusha, who tried to kneel on the spot, Anastasia showed a note paper —— she could not utter a word.
"But..."
'It's okay. Sit here, please.'
When he showed his quick-written yet streamlined notes, Lulusha sat face to face with Anastasia, who also felt it disrespectful to make him write any more.
Anastasia asked the guard to hold a small gold coin in his hand. When the guard left the room with his mouth shut, the room was filled with both Anastasia and Lulusha.
"... is that okay?
Concerned about the guard who left, Lulusha said, Anastasia shook her neck left and right as a dust. Fine, I guess.
Either way, these handcuffs are equipped with anti-escape magic. It's an explosive substitute the moment you force yourself to try to unlock it or get out of this building.
"I can't believe you're treason."
"Of course it's clean!
Even though Lulusha hasn't been questioned so much, she tells Anastasia again what she talked about in the interview. I notice you keep talking. He wanted someone to believe him so much.
"I will also convey your innocence to His Majesty the Emperor"
"... thank you"
Turn on the emotions that come in. I was aware of myself today, when my mind was shaking so badly that I was emotionally unstable.
I was happy with Anastasia's words. Even if —— even if she is a person of status but has little say in this country.
Being the royal family of high elves, she is naturally an important figure for the elf race. But when she was young, she was cursed and lost her voice by a wicked demon mentor who visited the Elf Forest. The curse is still alive, and it is enclosed by the curse.
"Voice" on high elves is a very important thing.
Flesh voices are essential to the sacrifice behind the forest, and many elves follow it because the sacrifice - there is a sacrifice that makes the grace of the forest certain.
Anastasia, while of the high elf race, has lost its most important organ as a high elf.
There are other elf eyes as well. It was decided that those who could not work as high elves would not be allowed to live elegantly as royalty. It is also physically ill for a high elf to live mixed with an elf.
The Elf Forest King decided to export (...) Anastasia.
It is a high elf, a species also known as the "treasure of beauty". Even if you can't live in the Elf Forest, you've been judged worthy of offering it to your country.
That's how Anastasia was given to the Lev Demon Guided Empire —— in exchange one boat of Demon Guided Aircraft was given to the Elf Forest --.
This was everything Lulusha heard.
She has been in this country for a year. Now at the age of 14, she will grow more and more beautiful from now on.
—— It didn't help as a high elf, but I think a Magic Guide airship would enrich the elves.
When I first met her, Anastasia laughed lonely after she wrote that.
Anastasia was politely received and told to be near the emperor when there were events in the country. High elves are longevity compared to the Lefs, who have the same degree of longevity as the human race. For this reason the emperor today did not make her his wife, but treated her as if she were an "ornament", remaining a high elf princess.
I was wondering where such anastasia and Lulusha are treated like "swelling" within the Empire.
"I pray His Highness will find happiness even when I am condemned to death"
"Don't Say Sad Things"
"Anyone else here?
"It seems difficult to overturn this situation. Because I have few allies...... Deputy Director Abba of the Bureau of Outside Negotiations also came here once, but he was rivaling my father, so he went away digging roots and digging leaves to hear what I had done. You'll be delighted by now."
'Is there anything I can do?
"I'm just glad to hear how you feel.... right. If anything happens, why don't you thank the adventurers called The Silver Library for saving my team in The Fear Labyrinth?
Adventurer? That's how Anastasia puts her neck up.
That alone was adorable that many men would be shot through the chest.
"There seemed to be something I wanted to tell you, but now I'm in this capacity...... It's not like I'm asking His Royal Highness."
"Don't hesitate"
The two conversations continued after this.
It was time for Lulusha to rest her heart.