Ring Ring

"Your Majesty"

That was called out of the hallway shortly after Crust and the King returned to the office.

"I'm Shail Killing. I'm here for today's report."

"Get in."

When the king answered, the knob on the door moved faster than the crust opened from the inside. The person who enters the office takes a light glance at the crust standing in the immediate vicinity and walks out in front of the king with a clear face.

His rude attitude was the usual, so he went back to the back of the room as if nothing had happened to Crust.

I don't know the crust. That I am unilaterally viewed as a rival by Shire.

The two of them were close to home and age, and since they were young, they were often compared to something, so Shire has been aware of the crust ever since he became conscious.

Sword arms, good education, knowledge, and appearance. For Shire, who was confident of his ability to do so, the crust that easily went beyond it was angry. I couldn't help but be jealous and competitive.

Crust, on the other hand, had the consciousness that he was hated by Shile for some reason, but he hardly cared that his bigoted personality had long been.

But then again, it's like, "This one's so conscious, but he doesn't even care about the other one!" and unfortunately the crust remains unaware of the stirring up of Shile's frustration.

"Did the samurai make any new statements?

The king asks as he sits in the window chair. "No," Shail shook his head at the question as he pinched his heavy desk across the street.

"It's no different than before."

"And the motive for the crime?

"Yes, besides the queen, it seemed unforgivable that the concubine had been blessed with a boy. The more I talk to that samurai, the more I can see how much she loved the queen. No, enough to say worship. This case will be the result of the outburst of thoughts."

To Shile's story, the king closes his eyes and sighs small.

The samurai originally came from a lower aristocracy, but she had a rather tragic life: 'Parents fail in business and fall, and are sold to the great merchants of the King's Capital at fourteen'.

but that's where the real tragedy comes from. She was sold away and made into a middle-aged merchant's comforter.

She was given a beautiful dress and had a face in the glamorous social world with a big merchant, but behind it she was treated worse than a cheap whore or something.

And it was the queen who saved her like that.

The queen, who greeted the great merchant at a night club held by a nobleman, realized that the eyes of the girl he was taking were dark and emotionless.

I was really curious and made to look closely into the vicinity, and the tragic situation of the girl came to mind, and it seemed that the queen could not help herself as the same woman.

Four years ago, the girl, embraced by the queen and coming into the castle, healed her broken heart and body while working as a samurai, but at the same time poured quietly and deeply into the queen who saved herself.

And for such a samurai, this portrait of the concubine was unforgivable. It doesn't matter if the queen is happy with it.

The samurai tried to kill the Queen and her children according to her own sentiment of 'Queen Supremacy'.

Neither Crust nor the King knew her, who had always refrained behind the queen, but never thought she was the kind of person who would make a case like this, just because she had the image of a quiet and capable samurai.

Even the nearest queen could not discern the harsh emotions lurking in the hearts of the samurai.

"How to get poison?

The king listens to it frankly. That dangerous abortion pill is no longer a pill. It's just poison.

Shail spoke face-to-face to the king, not looking at hand, even as he had a book in one hand.

"The statement hasn't changed about that either. He said he bought it from his pharmacist, Roche Ghoul..."

Shires knights aren't swallowing all the samurai stories. I'm also exploring other ways to get it, considering the possibility that she's lying.

But from the first interrogation her story was consistent and true, and the knights had to pursue Roche more rigorously.

"So, the pharmacist still hasn't pleaded guilty to the charges, either?

"Yes, I also gave her the name of a samurai, but she said, 'I don't know that woman, I've never even made abortion pills.'"

Crust listened silently to the exchange between the two. Because if a crust with little involvement in this matter pinches its mouth poorly, it will be stared at by Shire.

I have not received a directive from the King to join the investigation, and I have no choice but to concentrate on my work as a Kingsguard as I have until now and leave the incident to the Shires.

Not knowing Shiori was incarcerated in prison as one of the suspects, Crust thought that for a long time.

"When it comes to new things to report..."

So Shail hesitated to get lost in saying it. Crust also pays attention to his rare sights, which are always full of confidence.

"It's not very much information, and it's so much that I don't have to put it in His Majesty's ear..."

I have to report it once, but I don't want to say much. so mouth-watering Shile.

"Good, say it. Report it to me with minor information on this matter so I don't have to make you make a similar case again."

But when prompted by the king, Shail opened his mouth as he had perceived. I drop my gaze on the paperwork and say it quickly.

"I found out Roche Ghoul had one of his men. I'm still a young woman. I have now caught him on the ground floor of the prison building, and I also interrogated him earlier, but unfortunately he doesn't seem to know anything. In fact, she's only been working as a pharmacist for two months, and I don't think she's involved in this case at all."

I don't really want you to go into this matter. I don't want to take orders such as' pursue me harder ', even if I'm wrong. The crust remembered a mild surprise when he felt such an air coming from the shale.

While thinking rudely about whether he also had a human feeling that he didn't like to interrogate a woman tightly.

Speaking of Shile, it was an image of doing his job in cold blood and without emotion.

"Then today, I've searched Roche Ghoul's store and seized a variety of medicines and documents that are likely to be evidence. I'm just analyzing it now to see if there's any indication that you've made an abortion or illegal drug."

Shail changed the subject by finishing the woman's topic early.

"Well, then keep analyzing the seizures.... By the way, do you see what the abortion pills the samurai used were? Any analysis of the excess tea leaves?

"Yes, we continue to do so, but we have not been able to identify the names of the medicinal herbs that were used in the tea leaves. It's at least the kind of medicinal herb we don't see around here, so it might have been taken from exotic. The samurai said she didn't even know the type of herb because she only bought it as an abortion medicine from Roche Ghoul."

"Hmm."

One nod, the king said, "Good luck with the report" and lowered the shail. The crust was close to Shile leaving the room,

"If we don't have enough hands, our first team will work with us at any time"

And I tried to speak up.

"You don't have to squeak out because you've got enough hands."

So spicy it was returned to me. Shile raises his jaw to conceit and exits into the hallway.

"Same here, you guys."

"I don't remember doing anything I didn't like..."

In reply to the bitter King, Crust tilts his neck.

"I go to the queen and rest. It's time for you to change your guards."

"Yes."

And Klust, who knew nothing, finished his work peacefully that day.

Meanwhile, Shiori was lying alone in an almost jail-like holding cell, in a stiff bed. I try to sleep with a blanket wrapped around my body, but my eyes are blinded by anxiety and cold.

After the interrogation, the blonde knight Shile showed unexpected kindness and plugged me another blanket, but still I can't wipe the chill out. At a time when the season shifted to winter, the unheated stone room was cold.

Outside cold air penetrates through a small ventilation window placed high on the wall, stroking the cheeks of poetry weave.

This room, as well as the building itself, is so quiet that it hurts my ears. There must be a security person, but I can't feel people outside the hallway, and that's very careful.

Feels like being alone in the world.

The effect of "Operation Out Bad" or Shire's attitude softened, and the interrogation was not harsh. Besides, he never denied what Shiori said, and to some extent, he seemed to believe me.

But the fact that I'm still locked up here means that my suspicions are still clear. Shiori sighed thinking so.

Hit the back of your head and think back to the story of being shielded. Poetry Weaving wanted to hold his head for getting himself and Roche into a tougher situation than he thought.

When I was in Japan, I thought it was just a story in movies and novels about trying to assassinate someone using poison...

A maid of the queen's maid tried to give an abortion pill to the near-lunar concubine, who was carrying the king's child, and gave her an abortion.

If that's all, it has nothing to do with Shiori, it's a case that happened in the castle.

But the caught samurai named Roche as the person who bought the abortion pills, and as a result he was detained. And even Poetry Weaving, who works in his shop, is suspected of complicity, this status quo.

I want to cry.

By "Roche," the samurai means that she is a well-known "Roche" of poetry weave and there is no mistake - it even matches her general age, hair color and physique, and tattoos on both arms, and there can be no difference - it is unlikely that she will be able to get out of here easily because she is considered to be a suspect involved in such a serious incident.

Is Roche in this building, too?

Though I felt a little comfortable when I thought so, in a dark, cold room, the positive feelings quickly become foggy. Soon again, my finesse returned.

"Crust......"

Poop, crush.

I think of him in the darkness of the night, trying to surface a sinking feeling.

But now, when you think of a crust, there's always a beautiful princess next to her. Being the perfect beauty, she always leans close to the crust in the imagination of Shiori.

Are you two spending time together, even while you're alone here?

When I thought of it, my chest was crushed. I'm not jealous, I just miss you.

You're about to be swallowed up by the loss that the crust has become someone else's.