The Annals of the Flame Kingdom (WN)

"Whoever controls Larchia, controls Orkena"

Larchia, the king's capital, is located almost in the centre of the continent of Orkena, a city that has flourished as a transportation stronghold since the Titanium Empire, the dynasty before Flame 'Empire'. As the name of the "millennium" king capital suggests, the transitional capital coincides with the founding of the Flame Empire and is also the King's capital, which has been continuous with cotton since the dissolution of the empire to the founding of the kingdom and to this day.

It is a hateful enemy - and a yearning - to take to the state of the Continent of Orkena, a group of nations formed independently by the peoples within the Flame Empire, no matter how prosperous their own king's capital is' Larchia ', which can survive for a long time as a king's capital, no matter how much the economy develops, it is nevertheless a being that cannot be ignored, a goal to be crossed.

"The Becker Chamber of Trade is said to be the first son of Sister of Saint Yumeria of Commerce, or Chamber of Commerce founded by Yumerian's nephew. Flame, you have an extraordinarily old history in every chamber of commerce."

Walking along Larchia Boulevard, which runs north-south through the heart of such a king's capital, Larchia, Emili told his neighbor Kota, sweeping his semi-long brunette into the wind.

"When that happens... almost as much as the history of the Flame Empire... about a thousand years old Chamber of Commerce, and? That's amazing, that. Um... should I think about some more outfits?

Kota roars as she walks next door. Thousand-year-old kingdoms are amazing enough, but millennial companies are outrageous. Haota's slightly surprised face was funny, or she put her thoughts on her own sister-in-law who was going to meet her - or she was happy with this' date ', Emili laughed and showed it to ya.

"It's okay, Master Coata. Don't think too hard. My sister-in-law... I know this is the way to say it, but she's so relieved that I don't think she's the daughter of a historic and traditional chamber of commerce."

"That's... well, I guess to Emily,"

Even people in that muscle would be good dads in front of their daughters. Everyone has sweet things in them. Emili gave a slightly surprising look to Kota, who said "pitiful things" of that kind.

"... that's unusual. What makes Cotta so vulnerable?"

"It's not that I'm otherwise weak... oh, no. I'm just a little weak."

It's not like Kota himself has never talked to the head of a company called "Super First Class" or anyone close to it, and he's never freaked out by the antiquity or the size of the lot. No, but I can still say that it's only a 'business' relationship. To put it bluntly, it's close to saying that no matter how sociable and able you are to work, you're nervous when you go and tell the other parent, 'Please give me your daughter'. It's not like I'm going to get it.

"So... well, what about this?

"What is this?

Show Coata the question mark on her head with a flying smile on her face.

"It's your brother's wife, isn't it? Your sister-in-law."

……

……

"... what shall we do? I was very convinced."

"It's superimposed."

Aloys, who taunts about yesterday's "How Much I Love Emily," came to Kota's head and disappeared. I see Emily's right, if it's the 'that' Aloys' wife, I'll put around it wondering if it's reassuring. I don't care, but even after that, I was attached to "Emily History" pretty late, and honestly Kota is sleepy there too.

"Excuse me? You're the one who hits Emily's brother."

"No...... yes, no, I'm fine. Because my brother has always been 'oh'. I respect you, and I admire you... because this is a lot of 'hard' things."

I said that and put my hand on my cheek and sighed like I was in trouble. Then he smiled beautifully and showed it to me.

"Have you heard from my brother?

"What would you do?

"I will sit in my 'birthplace'"

Like nothing, Emily like that accidentally gets stuck in words, too. Choose words and try to respond carefully.

"... Why, do you think so?

In the end, that's the word that came out. "Return to the question with a question," a response that should not even be made in a way, but Emili opened her mouth without the wind she otherwise cared about.

"Because I'm 'that' brother. I'm sure I just thought you were talking to Kota."

What do you say? and can be hailed as out of place with his neck twisted, Kota accidentally gets stuck in words with such a beautiful grin. Hota scratched her cheek just a little awkwardly and bowed her head just a little to Emily.

"... I'm sorry. I heard that."

"I'm not going to sit here and apologize. It was your brother who talked to you... and it's a famous story. Do you know my nickname in the social world?

"Poor round of flowers in a notes-filt, or beauty obedience, huh?

"You can say it yourself...... you were also called 'Ice Beauty'. But there are more famous names than that."

"Do you still have it?

Yeah, and one nod.

"- It's the Notes-Filt Abomination."

"-!"

"These brunette black eyes stand out well in the social world. My parents, who look nothing like either of them, sat prey to the outfits of rumored social circles."

"It... is"

"Oh, I'm sorry! Yes, it's not like I wanted you to look serious. It's just... As I mentioned earlier, I'm going to sit down with you on a famous story. You'll hear it once or twice somewhere more than living in this Larchia. It's a word they used to say, and certainly I would have been a 'taboo' too. But I'm glad to hear it, but I don't want to be seen in the eyes of repentance. Dear Coata, especially for you."

So I wanted you to know first, Emily, that makes me smile again. With such a smile on his face and not knowing how to respond, Emili turned the smile that was floating to Kota, who had an increasingly troubled look, into a slightly bitter smile.

"... I really don't care, Master Cotta"

"But"

It's not a simple story that doesn't bother me when people say they don't care. Naturally, it makes the bitterness that was floating on Kota like that all the more strong.

"I will sit in the happy."

Emily says so without any feelings. Words really from the 'heart', like no one lies, no deception, no backward emotions, etc. But I didn't think there was any reason for that, and Emili kept saying things like controlling Kota, who nearly opened his mouth.

"... regardless, resentfully saying 'I wasn't there' would be a lie. When I was young, I thought of it all the time. I wonder why your father hasn't come to see me, why your mother looks at me and cries, why your brother or sister is only against me, there is room. Why..."

- Just me, I guess I have to leave the house.

"But at the end of the house I left, Master Liezelotte welcomed me warmly. Dear Erica, please be good to me, who called me a taboo. I'm happy enough to sit down."

"... is that what it is?

"When I look up, I also say that I don't have Kiri... and I think I do too"

"What?

"No one will surely suspect if my dear child is not alike to himself. Are you really your own child? Are you sure you want to 'love' this child? It's a good year for me, too, and I'll sit with you as an adult to the extent that I can understand that emotion."

That's what I said, smile.

"So now I don't resent my father or mother, and I don't think my father or mother is bad"

"But it's not Mr. Emily's fault, is it?

"Yep. All the causes are on me, etc... in a way, I'm not going to sit around thinking"

Just grumble that you are.

"If you insist... well, I'm sorry for your bad luck,"

Greater grin and say so Emily. Kouta's face was just a little strong with such a grin that it would be good to have a reputation as Rin, so that she would fall in love if the situation were different.

"... it's too"

"To some extent, I will also sit on the digested part of me. I'm not going to sue you for any more tragedy, and I'm not going to hide it - I'm going to sit in Memories."

In contrast to Emili with such an objectified expression, Kota's face cannot be flaunted. One bitter laugh at Kota like that.

"Sympathy, are you in?

"Yes... right. Perhaps, sympathy. Did I offend you?

"No. I'm not going to brag about unhappiness in my voice, but I myself don't think I was' loved enough 'when I was a kid. I'm supposed to be' sympathetic ', as Kota says. He must have been a poor, miserable child, who lacked love. And I think that's true."

Talking that far, Emili approached her neighbor Hauta just a little bit, leaning her lips against Hauta's ear at the toe.

"So - from now on, you don't love me"

Unexpectedly, Kota dyes her cheeks red by holding down her whispered ears. Emili turned and showed herself as if in a scene of theatre, picking the edge of her skirt and lowering her head gracefully.

"If I'm pathetic, and I'm pathetic about me, please love me, Lord Courta, if that's what you think. If you think you've never been loved enough, fill me with your love with a vessel called Emily. Best of all, I'm not saying. I'm not saying equality is good. Of your love, even at its end, please share it with me."

……

"Whatever, you don't mind the best, do you?

Full of tea and eyesight. With his right eye, he decided to make a wink and show it to Emily. Kota showed it in response by exhaling deeply and deeply.

"... thank you, I'll say"

"Yep. Please put it down that way"

"What to say... Yeah, what to say,"

Emili returned the troubled look to Kota by putting a slight discontent color on her face. I don't even know how Kota feels, but I still want her to snort with joy as a subtly shaky maiden heart.

"Well... it's hard to answer"

"Please don't give me love," he said?

"Yes, no! Well, in that sense...... but when people say it doesn't have to be the best or equal, the..."

Even Kota has trouble responding. 'I have to be the best, I don't want to!' I'd rather be told - that's troubling, but it's still easy to do.

"- Extra convenient story, is it?

"The... yeah. In a tangible way, yes."

"Raise your hands and welcome, what?

"Don't go, boulder."

He's the demon king. They say a lot about what it is, but even so, Kota is a commonsense man. Whatever it is, they say, 'I don't mind if I'm your concubine at all' and it doesn't mean 'yes, really'. Emili smiled beautifully, as if to take into account the mood of Hota like that.

"Wouldn't it be possible to welcome me to the 'right-wife' in your current position, Mr. Coata?

"... the"

"No way, do you even say you're not confident in the favor being directed?

Kota blinds herself unknowingly to such Emili's gaze, mixed with a little tea glare. Emili sounded funny in the back of her throat about what she saw in such a clumsy honesty of Hota.

"Master Erica will hit you, the sister of Her Majesty Queen of the Kingdom of Flame. Even for Sonia, she is the princess of the Kingdom of Solvania. Dear Ayano, let's certainly sit down from civilian origins... but still, it wouldn't be laughable to think that the Kingdom of Larchia has a certain influence, would it?

"... right"

"Of the Viscount in that, what happens when you welcome me to the main room and so on, which was also born as a 'taboo'? It is no exaggeration to say that we will turn the Kingdom of Flame, the Kingdom of Solvania and all the Kingdom of Larchia against our enemies."

"It would be an exaggeration, it"

"At least, the Kingdom of Solvania will certainly not look good. Besides, it's hard to stay in Terra."

I was the main one, and Emily took over the words.

"We will sit important to each other, but 'marriage' is the contract between home and home. In the meantime, you can't welcome me as your rightful wife."

"He's the son of a civilian, me"

"He's the son of a civilian," So. "

Kota twists her neck to Emily's answer as if it were a mystery. At least, I've never heard of past Coata knowing that there are more constraints on marriages because they're civilians, except for relationships with different identities.

"You have no hindrance. Going forward, the Becker Chamber of Trade and Industry anyway. The other nine-member committee will sit in the demon cave. And what Kota is about to do is nothing more than wage war on this Chamber of Commerce."

……

"A man who harms you, disparages you, falls on you, and tries to kill you - may even come out. Because killing one of you doesn't scare me."

"... for a long time, that's clear. I don't feel like some kind of hourly Mr. Emily?

To such a question of Hota, Emili smiled gently and showed it.

"I've tried to stop you."

"Stop?"

"It's not just the other guy... it's also lying to me"

……

"I missed you so much when you left Terra."

"... Yes"

"Regardless, we know very well what's wrong with us. But still, I missed you."

"Sorry."

"It's hard, sad, lonely - so"

So I think.

"I don't want to lose you again."

……

With a gentle grin on his face, his gaze still pierces Kota.

"If we don't lose you and you want to be asked... well, this is the best part"

Gradually, but surely, kindness and warmth came back from Emily's gaze at Kota, who kept staring at her without distracting herself.

"... I don't know, I guess I'm the one who says this."

In that gaze, just float a little 'prankster' color.

"Erica and Sonia have been crying ever since Courta left Terra. Erica didn't have a job at all, and Sonia barely ever came out of her room."

Haota is also afraid of Emily, who says otherwise, 'It didn't do any good'.

"... I'll be stuck"

"But I'm not"

"No, is it?

"Even I didn't mean it wasn't hard. Even I wasn't sad. Even I wasn't lonely. But..."

I knew.

"I knew you were a gentle demon king. I knew you had no absolute confidence in your abilities. You're the one - you've been troubled, tormented, and that's how you played the Demon King... because 'I knew'. Because when I danced with you and the gentle Demon King, I had decided."

Only when, the grin disappears from Emily's face. Eyes like a prankster changed the color to just a serious one.

"Erica's, Coata's, worked hard to fill those two loose holes. I tried so hard. When you came back to Terra, you said," It's a very good city. "Good luck, good luck - good luck, I worked."

"Mr. Emili."

"So - Master Coata"

Praise me.

"Please say 'Good luck'. 'That's great' and show me a gentle smile. 'You must be tired' and stroke your head."

Straight ahead, keep that gaze.

"Please say, 'I'm not going anywhere anymore'. 'I will always be beside you' and show me a gentle smile. Me -" I love you "and... yes, I can believe it."

Softly deposit the body with Kota.

"- Strong, hug me"

I dye my cheeks red and look at Kota in the upper hand. There was anxiety and fear in the glimpse of how illuminating it was, and the color floated over it that made my expectations disappoint.

"- Really, you're not like the usual Emily."

He was a wolf at that sudden 'confession', reddened his cheeks, and once 'awkward', but eventually leaked a sigh that neither gave up nor exclaimed.

"Sonia taught me."

"... what?

"Give me your reward," he said.

"... will you reward me, this?

"Sonia asked me to stroke her head... but I'm a good adult too"

I don't want to treat you like a child, so I can raise my gaze so that Kouta can give up his hands. Later, I turned those two hands on my forehead and Emily's back.

……

"... good, this"

"... Really?"

"I know how Erica feels. It makes my head pout."

"Pooh, is it"

"Pooh, I'll sit in"

"... that's a dumb conversation"

"Yep. But...... this, thrilling chest hissing and Courta-sama warmth becomes a habit. I really, really understand how Erica feels."

……

……

"... Hey, Mr. Emily?

"Why should I?"

"Didn't you say earlier?" It doesn't matter if it's not the best, it doesn't matter if it's not equal. "

"Yes."

"Is that... that, genuinely, is it?

……

"Mr. Emili?

"... you'll hear the hard things."

He asks, gazing into Kota.

"... surely it will be a 'no' if asked whether you mean it or not. With me, I love one person, and I also want to be the only one of them. But as I said earlier, I foolishly believe that it is difficult for me or my 'home' power to protect you. I think it would be best to get away if it were you and have a wedding with someone you want and can protect you..."

"Bye -"

"But...... right. This is for me."

"- My best, is it?

"Yes."

That's what I say, I fly my gaze all over the city. Then Hota jumped her gaze at you so that she could follow Emily's gaze.

"We sit on things like butterflies."

He stopped his gaze at the flickering butterflies on the flowers decorated at the florist's store tip.

"We chose you even though there are several flowers and it's not a 'coata' … other flowers are fine. If you're good, you have to be."

……

"Butterflies don't complain." Bloom only for me, "he said," and offer me sweet honey only, "because I will not complain."

"… you are not a butterfly"

"You think the skin on the surface is thick, such as comparing itself to a butterfly?

"Oh, you're not!

Emili leaked a crunch and a grin to Kota, who waved her hands in panic and indicated her intention of denial, taking over the words.

"-That's why we're so desperate. I am not convinced because I am not a butterfly. It's not a butterfly, so I can complain. But...... right. Still, I'm good with this. Indeed, it may never appear in 'happiness' by the side. But."

The definition of 'happiness' is for each person, so.

- Erica's mother, Leezelotte, sat in the so-called "side room."

"Yes, I hear you."

"Angelica, the righteous queen, was good, and I don't think she could have had such a good relationship with the royal family, but I have also questioned whether she was happy as the 'only woman'... and I have heard of it"

Do you not wish to receive the love of His Majesty, Master Georg, 'my dear man'?

"I was still young, too, and I had a strong longing even though I was purely in love. It would have been a very disrespectful or unpleasant statement, but Master Lieselotte smiled and responded."

"... what?

"'I want someone to love me, not love me. I just love you because I want to.'"

……

"Now I have a few words from Master Lieselotte, and I think I understand. But I am neither as thoughtful nor as ambitious as Master Lieselotte. I'm not saying I want the same amount as my own love, but I'd like to have about that shard."

"... are you happy?

"It doesn't matter who else is red or anything. I think this is happiness. And you don't have to be stuffed with my happiness by anyone, or your muscles. And Master Cotta, that's even if it's you." This form is ridiculous, "he said," I can't admit this, "and it would be happier for me to say so and be rejected. So, if you will, Cotta will love me and us."

No, really? and sigh at Emili, who turns her gaze to plead. Kota relaxed his face into the form of a bitter laugh.

"No...... right. I'll do it right."

Give Kota the best flying grin of the day, clapping her shoulders and still mixing a gentle grin in her bitter smile.

"- Yeah. I don't mind that now. I don't mind."

Just a little more, just like this.

I felt the force caged in my spinning hand, and Kota also strengthened the power of that hand only a little.