Tensei saki de suterareta no de, mofumofu tachi to oryouri shimasu ~okazari ouhi wa my pace ni saikyou desu~

"You must be sleepy...."

The next morning.

I was in my room, chewing up my shortcomings.

I was asleep when I realized it was because of the Pyochan Mouchufu effect.

I couldn't get out of my mental shock, and my body was heavy and I felt sleepless.

"Is Lena still asleep?

"Yes, I checked, but it looks like you're sleeping well."

Lucian, who gave me the report, is in perfect shape with no sleepiness shards.

Last night, I didn't seem to have acted very late with me.

"I'm sure Lena's tired too, so let's just let her sleep until she wakes up."

I would like to confirm a few things, but the first is Lena's condition.

I'll deal with the kidnapping first.

After rubbing his sleepy eyes and finishing breakfast, Mr. Borgan came with a letter.

Your Majesty has sent you a letter.

"... from His Majesty Glenn Reed?

While wondering, I receive a letter from Mr. Borgan.

I was going to ask His Majesty to set aside time for us to talk again soon...

It was surprising that a letter came so soon.

"'Come to the Royal Rose Garden'...?

It was written as if it was in a hurry.

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"This is...."

At the entrance to the rose garden, I was stunned.

The sight in front of me was quite different from when I came earlier.

Almost all the rose flowers are scattered, and the petals are scattered on the ground. It looks like dozens of broken leaves and stalks are falling everywhere.

"Last night, it was roughed up."

Her Majesty's voice is one tone lower than usual.

His eyes narrowed sharply in the wretched state of the rose garden.

Apparently, this is one of Lelena's kidnappers.

"... Lena, the kidnapper's original purpose was something other than kidnapping."

In the first place, Lena's kidnapping must have been like a sudden accident.

It was an incident that happened because the kidnapper found Lena, who escaped from the courtyard by accident, and because there was no planning, there must have been no satisfactory surveillance of Lena's place of detention.

"... Miss Beleaus, the kidnappers were meant to destroy our rose garden."

I see.

His Majesty raised his eyebrows in front of the impervious rose.

His Majesty seems to have interrogated Mr. Beleaus early in the morning.

I haven't been able to extract all the confessions yet, but I still seem to have grasped the approximate outline of what the Beleaus were up to.

"Verias still seems to be teaming up with Dears' friends."

"... Dears' lovers are the ones who hate beasts."

This rose garden has a high degree of royalty.

Of course, the Knights are well guarded.

The elite Knights of this country are made up of beasts.

"The killers tried to discredit the guard and hence the beast as a whole by vandalizing the rose garden."

While saying so, I remembered Mr Olt's words.

--- Much of the country's military budget is allocated to veterinarian soldiers.

Olt lamented that the magic bureau was difficult to fund.

Mr. Bellas, who was present at the time, did not deny Mr. Olt's words.

Perhaps Belias was also dissatisfied with the state of the magic bureau's financial difficulties.

"Did Bellas try to damage the reputation of the Wesen soldiers by helping the killer and get the Bureau to turn more money around?

"I thought so. In addition, if we could help with the plan, Dayrs' friends would have promised financial assistance to the Bureau of Magic."

"... there was such an undercover deal..."

I sighed.

I can't forgive Mr. Beleaus for what he did, but I can understand his dissatisfaction with the status quo.

I'm not saying that the world is gold... but whatever it takes to study magic, it didn't start without the money at hand.

"... I can't forgive you. You're not only trying to discredit Dears' loved ones, but you're also trying to damage your reputation, aren't you?

Your Majesty also played a major role in the process leading up to Mr. Dears' imprisonment.

His Majesty seems to have bought resentment as the political status of his loved ones has severely declined with Dears' imprisonment.

Harassment of His Majesty the King is doomed by a mistake...

Common sense did not seem to apply to those who lost their previous positions and moved with resentment.

"Only three days left to gather roses... In this state of rose gardens....."

It's far from perfect, and it's going to be difficult even to hold it.

"... now that the gathering of roses is approaching, you've come up with a reckless act."

The gathering of roses is a long-standing tradition, with leading domestic figures invited.

His Majesty's prestige was also at stake when it was discontinued immediately.

"It was just a coincidence for the killers to kidnap Lena. Originally, there was a massive fire with that flame-generating emblem, and the plan was to destroy the rose garden while the guards stared at you."

"That fire yesterday was due to a diversion...."

Though the guards are all elite, the sudden fire in the royal castle should not be zero upset.

The killers seem to have broken into the rose garden.

It was easy to see from the outside, and the roses near the entrance were not deliberately touched, so the crime did not appear to have been discovered until morning.

"I can't forgive Lena's kidnapping, but it's a terrible way to treat the roses."

I stared at the broken rose.

When I came here before, the roses were beautiful and full of flowers.

It is a beauty because the gardeners took good care of it and loved it for a long time.

It shouldn't have been so easy to get it back.

"... is this year's gathering of roses going to stop?

When asked, His Majesty Glenn Reed has a difficult face.

"Now I'm going to let the gardeners take a closer look at the roses.... Hope seems thin. I will hear the gardeners' opinions and think about how to deal with them today, and if that seems difficult, I will officially issue a notice of discontinuance."

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"... something bad is going on..."

After leaving the rose garden, I couldn't hold my sigh in the carriage.

Beginning with Lena's abduction, now it's time to disrupt the rose gathering.

As for me personally, I continued to feel uncomfortable when Icchan ran away from home and learned the facts of Gu-sama's shock.

"I wonder where she went..."

He stepped down from the carriage to the palace and murmured instead of sighing.

I missed Icchan's sabatra pattern.

Soot grey and dark gray. A loose, whimsical tail on your striped toes.

The meatballs and nose are black, just walking like that....

Jaaa

"... eh?

Keep your eyes shut for a while.

Huh?

I blinked again and again, wondering if I had finally seen Imaginary.