Riot Grasper

in the city of Erindal in the eastern part of the Suaven Empire.

The boulevard is lined with many open-air shops, with lively hustle and bustle voices.

"Pfft! I knew it was still a little hot around here. I guess Se was right to send you... oh, I'll leave your money here."

A man who squeezed fresh fruit and drank all at once the juice cooled by demonic props into a kink - Len put a piece of copper coin on the table.

"Well. Do you want to go"

Ren's aim is the Lordship Hall in Erindal.

Walking down the street for a while, I could see the big building he spent as a kid.

"I'm sorry, but can you get me the deacon's legal? 'Cause I think if you say Len's here, he'll tell you."

Despite this previous incident, I don't think all the soldiers in large numbers remembered it, such as the face of the son of a lord conscripted into the Empire as a child.

That's what Ren thought. He asked for a familiar old butler, Regal.

Lost so much, my favorite Regal showed his face as if he were happy that my child had returned.

"This is Lenfang. I thought I couldn't come home for a while. What did you do today?

"Oh, not so much for anything, but my sister Ray was so excited when I got here before this, you were bummed, weren't you? Rick, I couldn't talk to my brother slowly."

"Is that so? But... Master Rik has just left Erindal."

Regal, dressed in butler's clothes, unfortunately pulled down his white-dyed brow.

"I just always go somewhere without telling me where I'm going with Flirri, but this time I should have headed to the Imperial City of Gran Bern"

Hearing that, Ren nodded "Oh".

Sage said, the emperor's engagement ritual.

I guess Rik, the nobleman who rules the province, is also invited.

"Oh, yeah, right. Hey Regal...... Has Brother Rick been like that for a long time? No, I'm sure you're thinking a lot more seriously than you used to."

"... and allegedly?

"I can't say well when people ask me where... Yeah, I guess not. I'm sorry to hear that weird."

"No, I just got back, so take your time and relax. I'll have the tea ready in a minute."

"Yeah. Then can I take a proper look around the hall? I kind of miss you."

"Yes, of course."

"Well, Regal, I'm sorry, but can you show me? I'm sure it hasn't changed much from the old days, but Ouilla was still small, and her memory is fading a lot."

"Yeah, I'll be happy to show you around."

"- Shall we just let the wind through a little bit?"

When Regal opened the curtain that was closed, the room was illuminated by a large window intended for lighting.

A bunch of documents on the desk or the title of a sleeping book on the bookshelf comes to mind.

"This is the room my father used to use, isn't it? Rick, I can't imagine my brother working in this office."

"It's the left. Yes, I've never seen Master Rik work here long enough."

Rick, who is no longer accustomed to it but suddenly disappears and doesn't come back, is in trouble with everyone as well as Regal.

"Haha. When I was a kid, hardly anyone could get me into this room because my father would get mad..."

Ren looked around, nostalgic, almost unremembered indoors.

"That... what about this painting?

The paintings decorated on the walls depicted three figures.

I thought it portrayed my family, but no.

I'm pretty sure it's Rick in the center, but Ren didn't know who was next to him.

"Oh, that painting was newly decorated by Master Rik. Whatever, you said it was a painting you had me paint with a good friend."

All three depicted look a little younger or less like their current ren.

"The man next to Mr. Rik said it was Mr. Rahal and that the woman was Mr. Alisha."

"Huh. I don't think I've ever met Oyla."

"I didn't see you in person either, but no, you're quite a classy young man and a pretty young lady. At the time, Mr. Rik left the hall like every day and went out to visit the city, so I guess he had a lot of friends. But I think we were close, especially with these two."

"To Mr. Rahal, Mr. Alisha..."

At that time, the sound of a gentle knock on the door of the office sounded.

"Oops, apparently you're ready for tea"

"Sounds like it. Thanks for showing me around, Regal."

"No, don't hesitate to tell me if you need anything else"

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- Grand Bern, Imperial capital.

The Imperial Palace has a large entrance hall from which to open the ball, from which you walk up the great staircase to the luxurious view.

Usually separated by the main door, many nobles had been invited to the palace tonight to celebrate the emperor's engagement ritual, lined with many dishes that had exhausted their luxury. As a result, there are many people busy in the entrance hall and during the sight.

There was a quiet conversation between a man and a woman in a room of the Imperial Palace a short distance from such a celebratory seat.

"I'm not in the mood for a long time when I think I'm finally back."

"Naturally. That stupid son of a minister... I feel bad watching Andel's face."

The woman distorts her beautiful face and leaks a sneer and a laugh at the man's words. Although a man's expression is what keeps him calm, it was clear that his voice was mixed with frustration.

"Oh, no. Don't be such a mouthful towards Master Andel. Well, it won't be funny to you."

"If you can, Andel, his father, Gilbaran, and... the woman in front of me, I just want to finish it all off, Hera"

"Oh, don't be scared. You can't kill anyone for saying that. 'Cause you can't abandon her."

With that mouth, the woman called Hera crawls her fingers on the man's cheek.

"I know you're doing a lot of hard work back there for that kid. You can't do that without my help, can you? Oh...... I can't wait to like you like that you don't love me from someone who really wants me to love you and yet you are desperately uplifting me, Rahal"

The man, called Rahal, took a seat with his hand paying the finger of his opponent crawling down his cheek.

"... can't you love me from someone who wants me to love you? That would be with you. Stop treating me like a scratch licker."

"Hehe... even so, you need me, don't you? It's no use being strong. What the hell is left of you for cheating on someone you love and betraying your best friend? I am the only one who can understand all your suffering. Hey, isn't it?

Rahal shuts up and reaches out to the side.

"... that's enough. That's it."

Hera unfortunately dropped off the man leaving the room.

But soon he laughs with a queasy and joyful grin.

"Haha haha... I think it's so easy and pleasant to lick each other's wounds... what's wrong with you?

In the room where Rahal was gone and all she could hear was herself, Hera was quietly mumbling.

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"Steady, that's a big ceremony"

Didn't it just fit in the hall in the Imperial Palace, or the dishes sloppily line up to the large garden of Doh as a party venue.

The guards in the Imperial Palace seem to be in charge of the inflexible guards, and the soldiers who have followed them as escorts of the nobility, as well as the hired adventurers like me, are cheeky with dishes plugged in by the corner, but even then they are quite lavish.

Do you want to make it so luxurious just to say an engagement announcement, keep your authority clear?

The parade around the city may have also wanted the people to recognise that they were subjects of admiration for the Emperor.

By the way, Ray, it goes without saying, Luke and Lime are also leaving messages at the inn.

Lime is a monster all the time. It's a palace, even if it's in the garden.

"Yes, I got you a drink."

"Oh, thank you"

That is why we are now in a state of waiting for us both, me and Lim.

Tiamo is inside the palace, so there's nothing to do at the moment. Maybe if nothing happened to the back guard, I'd actually be free.

- And I also had a time when I thought.

Something heard a hustle and bustle from nearby, so I turned to walk.

"... Again, maybe the quality of the escort resembles the owner. It's lamentable that only soldiers like this have it in their men."

"Don't fool us as well as Tiamo..."

No, not anymore.

A few of the soldiers Van brought in teased Tiamo's escort.

... you want us to get along with each other in these celebratory seats.

Well...... and.

As for the request from Tiamo, don't make public the contention within the Ludwar family... If the soldiers we brought in each other were fighting or something, their family names would be scratched.

Hmm. It might be a better way, but do you want to go with that hand?

"Rim, it's the drink you brought me because of it, but I'm sorry. I think we'll be leaving for a while, so you wait here."

"Yeah. Let it be."

I say a word to Rim, and then I walk towards the hustle and bustle center.

"Sa, it sounds noisy, but something happened... Aww!?"

You pretend to be a third party, even if it's natural.

I punched the drinks I had out of my head at the soldiers on Van's side.

Potatoes and soldiers dripping from their hair.

"... you, come here for a second"

Soldiers who were so excited until just now because they bathed cold drinks from their heads pull my arms along with their chilling voices.

No, I'm scared.

"Oh, wait a minute. I didn't mean to."

No, 'cause if you get in there with a grand crack on that spot, who are you? That's what we're talking about.

So I think this is the best choice, yes.

I wonder if it's sad, no one showed up to help me, so I walked along the wall surrounding the Imperial Palace garden, and it seemed an unpopular darkness to be taken.

"You... are you an adventurer? I don't think we'll be safe like this."

"... no, it sounds like the quality of soldiers really depends on your employer"

"I don't know what you're doing...... dude!!"

"Meh... what the fuck!!"

"This Ya...... Rogevo!!"

After sinking all three soldiers in one pan, I look around.

Yeah, nobody's watching me. No problem.

Still, that's the special knuckle Mr. Zig made for me. Even the armor works great.

"Hmm...?

The moonlight doesn't even reach this place because of the shadow of big buildings like the Imperial Palace.

But when I looked up over my head, there was a light leaking from the window of the Imperial Palace that looked warm.

"Nice... I guess there's a huge pa-tee open in there"

Batang!

"Huh..."

At the next moment, the window opens and something is thrown out the window.

Looks like a thick string, but if I looked at it, I could tell that was what bound the curtains.

Hello? Is that you? A curtain instead of a rope to get out of the window?

If I keep quiet for a while, my tiny body will come down with a curtain.

... Oh, but this, I guess, is not long enough for the curtains.

Apparently, the person who came down reached the edge and noticed a mistake, and his arm got tired trying to get back, or he stopped moving as it was.

As I was just a little more static, my smaller body shuddered with a pull, and then suddenly - it fell.

There was resistance to just looking at it, so I caught someone falling from the heights.

Though small, a lot of impact ran through my arms.

"Heavy......"

"Bu, impudent!

You were unwittingly angry with the words I uttered, and that was the first voice of the person I hugged.

"Put it down quickly. How long have you been touching your body?!?"

"Yes, yes, I'm sorry. Next, check the length of the curtain."

The light leaking through the window only slightly creeps the other person's face into the dark night.

"Ah..."

I jammed the words.

The face of the person in front of him looked familiar.

Beautiful clear eyes like young grass.

The central figure in the daytime parade.

- Mihasa Lea Sverdonia.

Hey, wait up. Why... the Emperor is coming down from the sky.