Santairiku Eiyuuki

Episode 19: Behind the Scenes of Operation Riddle

Burning sun to illuminate.

A desolate earth that does not grow a single grass tree.

Only a few scattered fauna and flora are some of the creatures of the extreme specializing in this harsh environment.

There was a group of more than 10,000 people walking in such a world.

Two-headed eagle on the flag.

The Lemurian Empire's elite, standing army and Bulgarian cavalry troops.

And walk to lead them, the people who live in the Feathern region, the Balbal tribe.

"Phew... it's hot..."

Alicia shrugged unexpectedly.

It is so tiring to march in the shining sun.

Wearing a hooded cape and avoiding direct sunlight...... the sun's light continued to penetrate the cape as if it were an arrow and heat Alicia's skin hiding beneath it.

Sweat hides beneath the cloak, conveys inside the ethnic costume.

"Already, I want to... take it off"

Alicia was driven by the urge to take off her pants for horseback riding.

The ethnic costume of a Bulgarian woman is made up of one-piece shaped garments covering up to her ankle with trousers and deep slits for horseback riding.

Alicia was repeatedly stripped of her horseback trousers and exposed her healthy legs to the public because of Elkühl's harassment, or sometimes she could be dressed in a very short dress the length of which was only on her knees, or the limit to which her underwear could hide.

There are other dresses with wide open back fabrics that expose their white backs and...

The chest is cut into heart-shaped pieces and exposed to its white chest valley...

At one point you expose your armpits with sleeveless, and at another time your abdominal fabric is cut off to expose your shaped umbilical...

Sometimes at worst, I was dressed like all of them combined.

He was tasted many times the humiliation of exposing his skin to the public and the humiliation of being demonically modified his costume, the pride of the Bulgarians.

... Most recently, as seen in Carolina and Sheherazard wedding dresses, skin exposure has become acceptable as fashion to some extent, and in Lemuria, either because of Bulgaron's ignorance of culture or because "heh, does a Bulgaron woman wear these clothes, it's interesting to be intercultural," etc., while in Bulgaron, "Lemurian women seem to have little resistance to exposing their skin... so Alicia-like fashion is that incorporating the culture of the Lemurian Empire? The Lemurian Empire is the heart of culture...... that is civilized fashion. Nice! It's" cool "again. Look at the Bulgarian woman who was taken in the diagonal direction and imitated it. Again, the Lemurians are starting to make mistakes. The contamination and misunderstanding of the Bulgarian culture has begun in Alicia's unknown place.

gossip.

Anyway, Alicia, who has been made to look that embarrassed, now had a better pain in the heat and heat (...) than that embarrassment.

Anyway, I want to dress cool.

If I say greed, I want to take a bath.

Alicia desperately wished.

Dawn! Dawn!

A loud copper noise rang.

It is a sign of hydration.

I waited, and just now Alicia takes the leather bag she was lowering to her waist.

And two or three bites, included in the mouth.

For a moment, but it makes me feel like I'm going back to life.

Though it will most soon spill out as sweat in the sunshine.

"Come on, Alicia. We're almost on break."

Elquille, who was walking next door, spoke to Alicia.

And in a flowing motion, he stroked Alicia's glutes.

"Ahhh!"

"It's a smudge of paint and wet... just this time, it really looks like sweat"

"Heh, Your Majesty... you look well"

Alicia is laughing at Niyaniya, looking up at the long-eared (elf) man.

I'm sweating on that forehead... but that look looked so good.

"I'm working out."

"Really... by the way, does Your Majesty not have to ride a horse?

In order to keep the horse's health warm, all the rows, including the cavalry, did not ride the horse and were traveling on foot.

Most horses carry luggage and armor on their backs.

But about the Emperor, Erkühl, you could ride a horse.

No one should complain, Alicia thought.

"There will be no one to complain about, but there are those who are dissatisfied. For a march like this, energy, morale matters. You can't just make it easier on me."

That kind of thing, only the odd part is a disciplined man.

Alicia is perplexed by gaps from her usual tyrannical attitude, differences, but only because she can pay that kind of attention...

For the first ten days of the march, I guessed that so far there had been no dissatisfaction from the soldiers.

"Um, Your Majesty."

"What's up, Shehrazard"

This was another disciplined walk on Elquille's side, my new wife...

A former princess of the kingdom of Falls, the new Empress of the Lemurian Empire, Shehrazard asks Elquille.

"May I ask why this water is sweet? Also... it seems to taste a little sour and soggy."

Alicia also had doubts about it.

The water Elquille distributes during the march tastes strange.

"It contains sugar and salt and lemon."

"How could you flavor that?

Shehrazard asks...

Erkühr forcefully held her like that.

And he crawls his tongue on that cheek, licking his sweat.

"Hey, what are you doing..."

"Sweat is soggy, isn't it?

Listening to the words of Erkür, Shehrazard and Alicia are hacked.

Sure when you ask me...... sweat is soggy.

That means… that salt is flowing out of the body at the same time as moisture.

"Aside from salt, there are a lot of nutrients flowing out of the sweat. Well, I'll skip the details... but it's more efficient to consume them together."

"... handing out breaks, is that why that candy is here?

Alicia asks.

Every hour Elquille has a break, during which candy is distributed to each of them for a small amount of time.

This was one of the few entertainments of soldiers marching in flames.

Initially, Alicia thought it was to mislead her thirst with the supply of entertainment to the soldiers and the secretion of saliva...

"Exactly. Well... for entertainment."

Elquille nodded.

Alicia gets impressed with this, too.

"... the Bulgaron Kingdom should also lose"

"You know perfectly well. And... from now on the kingdom of Cerda will also perish"

Erkühr laughed niggardly.

Listening to the word, Alicia is convinced.

The kingdom of Cerda will no doubt perish.

And the Chromium clan must not only defy Erkühl.

"By the way, Your Majesty, how much longer will you walk today?

"About twenty-five kilometers to go? Well, maybe five or six hours."

Erkühl answers Shehrazard's question.

For another five hours, I knew I had to keep this pace and keep walking...... Shehrazard and Alicia exhaled unexpectedly.

"Would you like to slow down? Sire. You've already walked fifteen kilometers today, haven't you?

It is not sane to walk forty kilometers in such flames.

and Alicia appealed to Elquille.

"When you slow down, there's madness in the plan. We have to get to the next oasis by the day after tomorrow. Besides... this shouldn't be the first day I've walked 40 or 5 kilometers"

"That too... yes"

The Lemurian army, on average, walked about thirty kilometres a day.

Sometimes it is due to the problem of the distance between the water field and the water field, or walking for forty or forty-five kilometres.

In this great desert, this march speed is unusual.

So much speed, and the shepherds are still below a thousand...

It is in a planned march, which maintained a constant pace of Erkür.

"Tell you what, slowing the pace is gonna get more shepherds, right?

"... Really?

To Alicia's inquiry, Elquille nodded.

"Oh. It's safer to rush through all at once than to walk slowly in a land where this kind of water and food supply is not reminiscent. Troops are exhausted... but you should give them a good rest. Fortunately, this is the realm of the Allied tribe, the Balbal tribe. Don't worry about fighting."

If you don't have to worry about fighting, it's okay to march somewhat impossible.

It's better to run through even with an impossible march than that.

said Erkühr.

"Well, but... it's also true that morale is falling. Here's one thing, motivate me."

Erkühr gathers the conductors on the cavalry.

And I told them.

"Communicate to each unit.... We will reach the city of Oasis by noon the day after tomorrow. That's the Barbal, that's a big city there. We have not only water and food, but also women and whorehouses. Naturally, it is forbidden to steal or rape... but I do pennies. I'll give you time to play whatever you want for the day, so come on."

The conductors, who heard Elquille's words, let their eyes shine.

And it was my mission to convey this to my companions, and I rushed out with all the momentum.

"This will restore morale"

"You were such a simple... man"

Alicia thought of the men of her tribe and exhaled.

Can you offend a woman? All I'm saying is, Hyah! They were attacking the village with great joy.

Even though the Lemurian army has thorough military discipline, men are men.

"" Ooh!!

"" Yikes! We'll do our best!!

"" Get in the mood!!

"" Long live the Emperor!!

"" Hail, Your Highness!!

"" Long live the princess of the bull gallon!!

I heard a cheerful voice from the rear.

Shehrazard, Alicia, Near, and, to a lesser extent, a certain number of long-eared (elf) female knights belonging to the Cavalry in Medium (Cataphruct) sighed out of awe or in unison.

"You're getting morale, too. Does this place sing in songs to the economy? Alicia, sing after me."

"Ugh, is that a song?

"That's right. Shehrazard, sing with me."

"Yes, sir"

Alicia and Shehrazard nodded.

After making sure the two of them snorted, Erkühl started singing the psalm softly, looking in a good mood, and strangely beautiful voice.

A group of humans singing hymns in high altitude in the Great Desert.

The bald eagles who were dancing over the heads of the Lemurian army also donned to this and flew away somewhere.