I was just walking through the city of Wangdu, reaching the royal palace on the surface, to the depths of the royal palace to return to the rear palace of my residence.
Next door was Harold, who would also return to the office in the back of the royal palace, but he also had the same unfloating face that the royal palace was unusual and noisy and uncomfortable with the atmosphere that was floating somewhere.
The King who was absent returned, somewhat out of the ordinary and no wonder, but thank goodness it's not the only atmosphere.
The doubts were soon dispelled by the conservative nobles who waited near the king's office.
"I am the former maid of Her Highness Lady Marguerite, Adrianne, and you have been impregnated."
"It's..."
Berta opened her mouth with a bounce, but avoided a clear mention in front of a conservative nobleman staring at Berta with a proud face.
I see Harold's face listening to the same report right beside him, but he also reacted as if he'd never heard it before, and it was still like a step ahead of him chewing this report up and expressing surprise.
In his position, what does the news mean? Even if you're observing, you're not likely to know the truth any time soon.
"Then I shall return to the palace."
Berta gave Harold a brief resignation greeting in order to quickly quit his uncomfortable outer morning and pull into his own palace.
"Oh.... thank you for your hard work on the chief's official duties"
For the first time in two months, Berta's palace was somewhere chilly due to the winter visit, but the care was perfect due to the ladies and samurai who were away.
Of course they were getting the information Berta would want.
"Well, I suppose birth control is crazy"
"Eighty-nine lies."
For the first time in a long time, Berta was a little upset by what they said without her body or lid. I always acted with Harold and the people around him for two months, so I had a habit of saying it the way I took it around.
"What's the samurai doing now?
"The faction of the righteous queen is surrounded. I haven't been on the table since I discovered my pregnancy."
"The woman who knew Adrianne's face confirmed her presence in the palace of the Queen."
It was thought that the Queen would do so, regardless of whether the pregnancy was true or not. In fact, while Berta was also pregnant with Louis, she did not go out of the palace in rare cases in alarm of accidents.
"So, what makes you feel like you're lying about your pregnancy?"
"The imperial doctors who assisted Berta in her birth were fired and disappeared from within the royal palace. Instead, we're investigating the doctors stuffed in the palace of the Queen, apparently from around the land of the Queen."
"It's also strange to move outside in the morning. Usually, the lady's birth control information comes out on the table after a considerable time difference. But this time, while there were rumors or no rumors in the rear palace, it spread all at once. There must be a fireman."
Besides, it's odd that nobody ran a fast horse that informs Harold, even though it's so widespread within the royal palace. As far as I can tell earlier, Harold obviously would have liked to have known that for the first time on that occasion, too.
It's supposed to be a celebration I want to tell the king first. Is it the work of a faction that even prevents Harold himself from intervening and trying to grab a large crowd of royal palaces at once? But would Harold leave the royal palace so wild to be absent for two months?
When Berta was in her thoughts, Nanny Johanna, who was once letting her back down to the house under the castle, snorted and climbed the castle. I haven't had a family vacation in two months or so.
"Master Berta. I was lying."
"Johanna, calm down"
Does this child not have a sense of being taken by the word, even more so than the samurai from the south?
Once calmed down, to talk to Johanna behind the palace, in Berta's private room, she brought the kind of information that the women in the voicemail were collecting, and another new piece of information.
"It seems more like the Countess Smurfette, the chief dame, than the righteous queen. The woman chief's husband is a steep vanguard of the so-called conservative nobility, but he seems to have made intense moves recently, and our Schulde family just doesn't seem to have a voice, but some of his relatives had a meeting from that faction over there."
"You're the chief woman. Oh, well."
Marguerite the Queen may not already have the strength or ability to take the lead in such large-scale planning.
On the other hand, I can't even sympathize with her. It is none other than his own responsibility to keep those of his own faction in check.
"I'm not sure if Adrianne's birth control is a lie in itself, or if she's pregnant with a child who's not His Majesty's son, but it's obvious that there's at least a dark intention behind it"
"But whether the facts are obvious or not, the momentum of the factions over there is too strong. In this rear palace, if the righteous queen says so, the black ones will also turn white. Not to mention how His Majesty can come up with this problem"
"Master Berta. I was wondering if I could make it quick before things get any bigger if they move."
A lot of people have moved in response to no.
This is unexpected for Berta.
In one way or another, I thought the conflict would continue to be moderate. At least after Louis grew up a little longer, he bracketed that there would be no clashes until the time the Riko problem became realistic.
"Berta."
Finally, that one came first. Perhaps really, the power struggle over succession here at once is crippling.
Before putting up a "prince" that is unlikely to be justified, there will always be a move to make Louis, the undisputed direct line, deceased. Or, if there's another country involved behind that force, even Harold would point that spearhead.
In that phase, Berta could not take a single step and stood.
"... static. It's quiet."
"Princess?
I can't move now. No, Berta doesn't move.
"If the rear palace official has not officially denied it, that is, it must be true that His Majesty was crossing under Adrianne. It lacks any decisive flaw beyond what His Majesty may be softening in the first place. Only Your Majesty can solve this, and where I barked in my position, I cannot claim legitimacy"
Until then, I have no in-laws to move for the royal family.
Berta does not have the inevitability to place my son Louis on the throne. Rather, if this child were no longer the only King Prince candidate, Louis might be able to live safer and healthier.
Soon he descends to the throne and lives peacefully in a position like that of brother king. Wouldn't that be happier for a mixed prince than to be attached to a cold throne?
But there's a danger to Prince Louis.
"It's up to me to protect Louis. Only Louis will definitely protect you."
Berta could not put the sincerity in her heart, not even in this palace, into her mouth.
The southern Petra samurai, who share their destiny with Berta, are still fine, but the ladies who followed us here for Louis are the ones in the house who wagered on Louis' climb.
Berta can't say anything to keep them from betraying us.
The truth is, I wonder if he would be happy with Adrianne's pregnancy. Even my child with Berta is a cute Harold. How cute it would be for him to have a child that would now be born at the disposal of his rightful wife, Marguerite, and raised in an existing culture.
The fact that humans in this palace disconnect their fertility from falsehood will be a major cause of Harold's absence of children other than Louis for many years, but it is still something that can be born when it is given birth.
Harold turns away from making sure it's true and false to the slightest possibility, or rides the farce after breaking off with a false child?
"No matter how His Majesty got out, you wouldn't make stupid choices that would directly endanger Louis. Your Majesty said my son loves Louis. I believe that word alone has no lies"
"... you don't think it's a good idea for Prince Louis to have Berta move directly, do you?
"That's right. Facts become apparent to themselves in time as facts. You don't have to move without darkness to buy conservative grudges. We're just watching them tighten their own necks."
If Harold tries to solve this problem by cutting himself off from conservatives, that's fine. Nothing happened for Berta, just as it has always been, my days in this royal palace just continue.
Since this day, the Second Queen Berta also did not move like a stone, nor did she appear in the royal palace.