At present, in the halls of Yuba's house, four human beings were meeting together.

There are appearances of Rio, Yuba, Goki and Kayoko.

Those who come with Goki and Kayoko are cautioned around the house in case they are not heard.

"Dear Rio, I apologize for your time."

How awe-inspiring, kneeling (kneeling first), the gowki greets him.

Kayoko beside it also lay face down in a thoroughly frightened manner.

"Eh, I still can't swallow the story..."

Rio asked for an explanation of the situation to go far in the flow of the untrue story.

"The fact that Lord Goki is here means he's given permission to talk to you about Rio's parents."

Yuba briefly explains the situation to Rio like that.

"About my own parents, is that it?

Even in response to the long-awaited announcement, without moving, Rio asks in a quiet voice.

Apparently there were more complicated circumstances than expected, given the appearance of a person of high stature to see and his respect for Rio.

"I see. Today I went under Master Rio to explain the situation."

And, in a respectful act, Goki told him.

From the current situation, it seems unlikely that Rio will be treated like a bad person even if he knows the facts, but it doesn't seem like a story he can listen to without worrying.

"For now, why don't you sit down?

Turning back to them, Rio advised him to sit down in order to calm down and talk.

I really wanted him to refrain from that overly aggressive attitude, but since it wasn't an atmosphere that seemed to stop me from saying it, Rio decided to give priority to listening.

"Excuse me."

Slowly the gowk lowers its back, followed by the kayoko.

"So may I talk to you?

"I'm in awe"

Replying to Rio's reply of consent, he gave a depressing look somewhere, exhaling small, and the gowki opened his mouth.

"Right,... it was almost twenty years ago now. First, let's talk about Zen."

Zen, Rio's father, was a soldier serving the kingdom of Karaski.

At that time, the Kingdom of Karaski was in a state of tension with its neighbour, the Kingdom of Rokren, which had been in hostilities for many years, often with skirmishes.

Heavy taxes were imposed on the entire country, and life in Yuba's village was said to have been painful.

"Zen says he's my second son, so buy a mouthful and get out. One day, I volunteered for a soldier."

You're remembering that time, with a distant eye, Yuba has pinched his mouth with a boss.

Zen said he had the qualities of spirituality, in addition to being blessed with stature and gifted with respect to martial arts.

Unlike the Strahl region, where spirituality has become obsolete due to the introduction of magic, there are those who can use spirituality, albeit very few in the Yagmo region.

These people will be treasured in the army.

In the Karaski kingdom during the quasi-war, Zen said it didn't take long for him to show up as a soldier.

In the battle, though small, they named one leader after the other, and said that in times of crisis, the Friends bought their own lords (Shinkansen) and left, and they were bound to survive no matter how difficult the situation.

Honored for his accomplishments, Zen was to be awarded a prize by the King as the country's hero.

"Since then, Zen has become a samurai serving his country. The new samurai will work with their predecessors as a rule, but his strength was real."

Goki was the one who fought in the matches made to judge Zen's strength.

In those days, Goki, who was in the royal guardianship position, was said to have been one of the leading users of the country since that time, even though he was still young.

Though the movement was trendy, Zen and Goki's strength antagonized.

As a result, although Goki won hard, Goki said he thought that if Zen wore formal swordsmanship, he might have been the one who was losing.

"No, though it was a match, it wasn't as exciting a battle as it was."

Goki thought and said emotionally about the time.

Kayoko grins lightly at the appearance of such a husband.

Zen, who was set to prove his own strength in the match, said he also had a strong recommendation from Goki to take up the position of guardian of the royal family with him.

"The royal family was Ayame."

"Huh..."

I hear my mother is royal and show how surprised Rio is in sight.

I thought he seemed somewhat of a tall person, but I didn't even think he was royal to the dew.

Gowks and kayoko smile softly at Rio's reaction like that.

Ayame was not high in his right to inherit the throne, but as a beautiful princess he seemed to be a person who could also make a name for his neighbors.

Zen, a raised samurai who was to take up such an escort of hers.

There was nothing wrong with martial arts, but there was a shortage in terms of upbringing and personality, and there were many people who initially came for it.

"Nevertheless, it was this goki and kayoko who were otherwise entrusted with the responsibility of protecting Master Ayame. I was one of the most senior samurai in the family, and Kayoko's family was a little special and not a samurai."

They supported Zen with those two and said there was nothing wrong with the surface and Zen was in charge of Ayame's guardianship.

He also got along well with Zen and Ayame, who taught the worldless Ayame all sorts of things about the outside world.

Goki and Kayoko said they were becoming attracted to each other before it was too late.

In particular, Ayame's preference for Zen was easy to understand from a glance.

He is interested in Zen and has sometimes come to visit this village, Zen's home town, with patience.

However, Ayame, a royal family, and Zen, a samurai out of the civilian population, albeit heroes.

The difference between the two identities was enormous, and Zen was pushing the thought to death.

"On such occasions, the Kingdom of Rocklen has offered our country a truce."

The truce seems to have been concluded many times during years of strife.

Although the war was waged in the first place from the side of the Kingdom of Lochlen, as the Kingdom of Karaski, he said that the truce agreement had been accepted each time because the continuation of the war was undesirable from the point of view of the national treasury.

Celebrating the truce and including the meaning of dissipating national dissatisfaction, ceremonies were to be held in abundance in the King's capital of the Kingdom of Karaski.

There said the prince of the other country came as ambassador for the conclusion of the truce agreement.

The agreement was also successfully concluded, and peace should have returned, albeit temporarily, if the Prince had returned without anything later.

But that night, someone tried to kidnap Ayame.

It was one of Prince Rocklen's entourages who came to sign a truce agreement and belonged to the dark.

Zen, who was protecting Ayame from the shadows, brilliantly repels the man and catches him.

He tried to make the situation throw up, but he tried to harm himself with the dark vessel he was planting, and the person said he was dead.

The next day, when the side of the Kingdom of Karaski asked for an explanation of the circumstances, the prince of the Kingdom of Rocklen was angry at the insistence that his own entourage had been murdered.

The other side has been responsible for the kidnapping, but because the executor is dead, he says the Kingdom of Karaski has decided to behave cautiously.

But the prince of the Kingdom of Rocklen did not have the ear to listen, and he made a noise that the trust of his own country, which thus went to the enemy country, had been betrayed.

Negotiations between the two countries were twisted and, he said, forced to abandon the truce agreement as it stood.

"Then the Prince of the Kingdom of Rocklen has added conditions to re-establish the truce"

Gowki continued in a tone that seemed to have killed his anger.

"The execution of Zen, who murdered his own companion, and the demands of Ayame's personality."

If that is true, it is a truly shameless demand.

At the time, we had to judge from Goki's words what circumstances were holding back, but he said the prince of the Kingdom of Rocklen was a rumored person with a bad femininity due to his abusive taste.

It's not hard to imagine what you'll be treated like if you hand over Ayame as it is.

Was there a willingness to conclude a truce agreement in the Kingdom of Rocklen in the first place, or maybe Ayame's personality was the aim from the beginning?

I couldn't help but push him.

Sometimes, however, even such disastrous demands often have to be considered in diplomacy.

What a good root, the prince of the Kingdom of Rocklen had used the minister to distort (softly) and spread the outline of the case to Shirai (Shirai).

He said he incited the people that the truce agreement was about to be ruined because of it and manipulated public opinion to conclude a truce agreement.

The grievances of the people accumulated, and the air of executing Zen and offering Ayame to the Kingdom of Rocklen quickly became possible.

He also said that a small number of nobles in the royal castle were in no way opposed to the war.

We can hold back their grievances with royalty, but only on the face of it.

Publishing the truth may burn the people in anger, but it will crush the face on the side of the Kingdom of Rocklen, so the war will not be spared.

The actions on the part of the Kingdom of Rocklen were an act of destroying international trust, but they had been spearheaded and the Kingdom of Karaski had been pushed into an unfavourable position.

However, as the Kingdom of Karaski, we no longer have any credibility for the Kingdom of Rocklen.

I had great doubts about whether the Kingdom of Rocklen would honour the truce agreement, even if it swallowed the conditions.

You can't swallow the demands of the Kingdom of Rocklen.

If you publish the truth or push back the demands, there will be a total clash from the front, and the battlefield will be muddy.

It was necessary to wage war while holding back the grievances of the people and some nobles, and yet work out a plan for the Kingdom of Karaski to take a strategic advantage.

"So His Majesty the King, ostensibly pretending to be demanding, gave orders inside to Zen to take Lady Ayame away"

This allowed us to buy time, albeit marginally, in relation to the opposition forces in the country and the Kingdom of Rocklen.

In the meantime, the King and some take the initiative to carry out the plan in secret.

To such an extent that it was not perceived by the opponents of the country and the Kingdom of Rocklen, they sent an army of elite fighters among the elites to the Kingdom of Rocklen so that they could not be found.

"The samurai's dissatisfaction with the Kingdom of Rocklen, including mine, was accumulating, and the morale of the samurai who took part in the operation was culminating"

Then shortly afterwards, Zen fled with Ayame.

The Kingdom of Karaski publishes the facts.

Of course the Kingdom of Rocklen was outraged not to be kidding.

The dissatisfaction of the forces that were opposed to the war was to be hit by Zen and Ayame, but he said the war mood was successfully raised in the country.

The prince of the Kingdom of Rocklen then returned angrily to his country, where the lid of war was to be cut and dropped.

The Kingdom of Karaski drew attention by forming a large army for Yangtze and marching to the Kingdom of Rocklen.

Of course, the Kingdom of Rocklen will have to move its army to intercept it, so it will form a large army to send it there.

That's how near the border the Royal Rocklen Army stared at the Royal Karaski Army.

Behind it, without even knowing that the elite army by the martial family of the Kingdom of Karaski is marching all the way inside at once.

Wujia's elite army unilaterally caused serious damage to the Kingdom of Rocklen.

King Rocklen's main army also perceived a hasty move in the rear, but he can't ignore the enemy troops in front of him and walk away.

As the elite troops quickly withdrew before eating the counterattack, the main army of the Kingdom of Karaski finally launched an attack on the main army of the Rocklen kingdom.

King Rocklen's main army inevitably responded to this, but the battlefield would be greatly disrupted by a handful of elite martial arts troops approaching from behind, and the general's neck would be lightly snatched.

The prince of the Kingdom of Rocklen, who was mixed with the invading army, was also detained as a prisoner.

It was precisely the historic triumph of the Kingdom of Karaski.

"The Kingdom of Rocklen has desperately offered a truce."

With a truly delightful look on his face, Gowki spoke of the situation at that time.

Fully admitting that there was a non-opening of war on the part of the Kingdom of Rocklen in the truce agreement, the Prince, the mastermind of which, at the hands of the Kingdom of Karaski, was to be executed in front of the people and even to pay substantial compensation.

The dissatisfaction of the people was dissolved, and the compensation also made the country lucrative.

The Kingdom of Rocklen has greatly diminished its national power and is now in a state of belonging to the Kingdom of Karaski, which, he said, cannot even be considered to wage war, etc.

The judgment ultimately made by the King could have been a great success in terms of results.

But even though there was a good chance, it must have fooled the people, and it was also possible that they would have been in an irrevocable glue state if they had taken one wrong step.

So it had to be treated only as a fact that Zen and Ayame fled on their own for fear of wrongdoing, in order to explain in a way that even the war was unavoidable in the country.

He said that he had also made arrangements for the nomination of Ayame and Zen for neighbouring countries and had thoroughly carried out that attitude.

Thanks to this, they lost their place of destination and were to take a trip to the Strahl region.

At the time, it was clear from the King's eyes that Ayame liked Zen.

But as it was at the time, the walls of identity would not have gotten in the way and the two would not have been tied together.

If it is enough to make my daughter a comforter to the outward prince of an enemy country or a pawn in a political marriage to an unwanted opponent, it is far better to entrust Zen even if she is to lead a harsh escape life.

Based on that, he said, the king has made a decision.

Publicly speaking, Zen and Ayame's deeds constitute a national treason.

Only Zen can add the crimes of royal kidnapping and desertion.

The two secrets were to be treated as secrets of the Kingdom of Karaski, and only Yuba, the mother of Zen, with some of the upper echelons, was to know the truth.

Yuba was unable to tell Rio the story of his parents because of the King's orders.

"We have always lived with regret that we were unable to accompany Lady Ayame"

Goki and Kayoko give a sinking look.

At that time, in the belly of Kayoko dwelt the life of Hayath, son of Goki.

On the face of it, he had to decide to flee because of Zen's rampage, and while he was in charge of Ayame's guardianship, Goki and Kayoko were to remain in the Kingdom of Karaski.

"But on a late date, Lord Yuba sent me a letter. It says here that Ayame and Zen's son are staying in this village."

Others would not know, and it is Yuba, my grandmother, who is saying it.

I wasn't sure if it was real or fake, but it seemed unlikely that I would misjudge the truth or not.

So Gowki immediately reported the matter to the king and turned to him for instructions.

Then judging by the eyes of Goki and Kayoko, if he was convinced that Rio was the son of Ayame and Zen, he was ordered to explain the two past and summon Rio.

The Goki, who received the order, carefully selected his trusted men and came to this village to fly.

"I was impressed by the dawn when I worshipped and served the honorable face of Master Rio. I was convinced. This man must be Ayame's son."

As for Rio, I don't think it's a little early.

Does that mean I look so much like a yam?

Now I've tried to remember the face of my late mother, but I don't know.

"Dear Rio, Your Majesty the King wishes to see you with Lord Rio. Could you come with me, please?

Gowki told me to appeal in a sincere tone.

"With His Majesty the King..."

For once, he was Rio's grandfather.

I don't get the feeling, but I don't even think I can refuse to see you in this air.

They won't back down either.

From the attitude of the gooks so far, their safety is likely to be guaranteed.

"Okay."

Though grinning internally at the unexpected importance, Rio accepted the wish.

A colour of joy appears on the faces of the gowks.

"Thank you! We are currently explaining the situation to those who are here. These are the dark ones that His Majesty and I can assure you that they are strong and reliable. The journey to the King's Capital will be with our escort."

With that said, now once, the gowks knelt before Rio and showed their loyalty.