The Annals of the Flame Kingdom (WN)

Pick the cookies on your desk and carry them to your mouth. 'Or so I say, Carlos I. I don't know the size of the bomb I dropped earlier - first of all, Erica, who was opening and closing her mouth up and down to take such a slightly ridiculous action that it was inversely proportional to the impact, finally uttered words from that mouth as she regained her calm.

"... to, Your Majesty?

"Mm-hmm? No?

"Yes, no... I don't know, not... this, Emperor... so? Oh, that... me? Me, sir?

Erica's words with her head that she wouldn't have turned around properly yet. To Erica like that, Carlos I opens his mouth when he nods to Eagle Deep.

"Seya. Your Majesty the Emperor or His Majesty the Emperor. Of the Flame Empire...... how many generations?

"... Flame as' Empire 'is up to five generations. After that it was a kingdom..."

"Let it go. If I do, if I reign in His Majesty the Sixth Emperor, I will not do it."

Carlos I, who says so like nothing. Keep it up, and don't forget to carry the cookies to your mouth. Eater, long live.

"Yes, no! If you reign, you won't stop playing ae!

"Don't panic, Akan. Explain it properly."

Place the completely warmed tea from the pot in a cup and sip. Lick and sweep the tea at the edge of your mouth with your tongue, and Carlos I will speak.

"Your Majesty Erica? Myself, like this, of the fly?

Turn the atmosphere around, take a serious look, and continue the words.

"... what does that mean, what does it mean?

"Do you know what they think of you, from another country?

Questions, with questions. To such Carlos I, harshness was added in Erica's gaze.

"... what do you think?

Strike back, no time.

"The Crown Seizer."

……

"A man who took the throne from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. On top of that, a traitor who welcomed his enemies, the Westerners, as regents and prime ministers. Extremely evil outrageous that drove out that friendly fruit sister. Fuck it, there's nothing real, just puppet queens or"

"... it"

"You don't? Her Majesty the Decorative Queen Yan."

Erica leans down on Carlos I's words and bites her lips off.

"… Your Majesty. It's..."

"Coata when she shuts up"

"- No, I won't shut up. To the boulder. That's too much! Please also think a little about how Erica feels!

Hota's gaze like a stare. Under that gaze, Carlos I gently took his own gaze off.

……

"... Your Majesty?

"... I don't know you want to protect your pretty cannojo, do you? That's what I'm gonna talk about. Besides, that's what I'm talking about. The rest of the country thinks," Well, I'm telling you, it's hard to be seen like you're avenging your parents. "

Ugh, Carlos I look disgusting. On that face - to be precise, the word 'cute Canojo'. In an instant, his face becomes more and more blushing at Erica, whose face turns red, and Carlos I shows him in a small sigh.

"Your Majesty Erica, well, that's a lot cheaper... eh, eh. Anyway, of the current" Flame Kingdom "- shall I? The impression of other countries on His Majesty Erica and the people, including us and Flame, is such a monster. Really? People's malicious rumors disappear inside. Well, bad stories are faster legs and funnier, right? Look, how soon do you think this rumor will go away? Ten days? A month or a year? No. Rumors of this" bad reviews "Chiu name will disappear. It goes on and on."

……

"There was a lot of crap when I took over the throne. Sometimes it's been more than twenty years and they still call me Gucci. More so in the case of His Majesty Erica. More, Akan, who keeps getting exposed to this bad review. You don't like that? He says he can only run away from bad things."

"... I don't like it, I don't like it... that's not the problem! I... I am Erica Orenfeld van Flame, the first child of the fifty-second king, Georg Orenfeld Flame! As a person of the Flame royal family, I have a duty to protect this country! Abandoning it and running away."

"Wait a minute."

"- I can... Huh? Wait a minute?

Carlos I gently waves one hand to stop Erica screaming until she is sad.

"If you run away from something you don't like, ae. But I'm gonna abandon you."

"... no, is it?

"I didn't say it the same way, did I? But there's no reason to abandon him. I mean, if a royal man lightly abandons the people and the nation. No, no, no, no. Follow me. Come on."

One nod, Carlos I, as satisfied that the colour of interest had dwelt in Erica's gaze.

"It's a theory in the first place, huh? Your Majesty, what is it that Given wants to protect?

"Wow, what I want to protect?

"Seya. Flame kingdom? The people? The king's capital, Larchia? Flame, is that royal pride? Or is it yourself?

"Oh, that's..."

Speak of greed, all of it. Carlos I breathes a small sigh into Erica, who says that with an attitude and shows it otherwise.

"In this state right now: 'All of it! I can't do it with boulders."

……

"Hope so, though? If I ditch" King's Capital Larchia, "can I protect almost all the other stuff?

"Throw away the King's capital Larchia...?

"More precisely, the King's Capital of the 'Kingdom of Flame' remains the mane of Larchia. Yeah, but what? Nothing. You don't need Flame's Empire capital to be Larchia.

"… Your Majesty"

Kota's gaze like he noticed something. Show that gaze to Carlos I broke his face like he was feeling better.

"Seya. The imperial capital of the Flame Empire is Rondo de Terra. The Imperial City of Rondo de Terra!

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"... Rondo de Terra... Empire?

"Seya."

Flashy, flashy, stunned. Carlos I continues his words with an interesting look at Erica performing an on-parade of stunning expressions.

"The empire capital of the Flame Empire is Rondo de Terra. His Majesty Erica moves to Rondo de Terra for the crowning ceremony and the oath to make the capital of the Empire Rondo de Terra. At the same time, His Majesty Erica asks him to retreat from the fifty-fourth king of the kingdom of Flame. Really, I ask Elizabeth Orenfeld Flame to be 'crowned' by His Majesty Erica, Emperor Flame as the fifty-fifth king and the fifty-fourth king. Sonia told me. Are you still alive, former Sire Elizabeth?

Is that a fly to this point? Erica snorts silently at Carlos I asking.

"Let's just say the bad reviews of 'The Crown Seizer' disappear on me... but don't get a little better. Oh, my God, you returned the said throne you took to His Majesty Elizabeth. Really, His Majesty Elizabeth returns to Larchia as His Majesty the King and takes the affairs of the Kingdom of Flame"

And so much talk Carlos I laugh niggardly.

"... is that the muscle or the devil? I got the crown, I want it! Don't you think it's inappropriate to tell me to go home? His Majesty Erica and His Majesty Elizabeth... the royal family of Chiuka and Flame are close, and all the noblemen in Orkena know each other. On the contrary, there are places where His Majesty Erica's" seizure of the throne "has spread all at once. When we did it, I said, 'Oh, yeah? End of story."

It is only natural to say that the crown is so obvious that there is no need to unravel history that it can be painted with blood. Instead, we can even say that the flame royal family, accepted with shock, is rarer.

"Besides, there will be His Royal Highness the 'excellent' Regent and His Excellency the Chancellor, in the Kingdom of Flame. No one will complain if His Majesty deepens his family ties in Rondo de Terra."

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"Well? That being said, it's strange that His Majesty Elizabeth doesn't touch government at all? If I transfer some of the functions of the King's Palace to Terra, I'll do it. Terra's got all kinds of branches of the Chamber of Commerce? That's where the economy goes, too?

So take a breath. Fly your gaze to Kota and Erica to see if your understanding is chasing you.

"You know what I'm saying?

"... restraint on the 'ilething' called flame 'kingdom' makes the conversation more difficult," he said?

I nodded small at Kota's words.

"Precisely because I'm bound by the 'now' kingdom of Flame, ya. If you empty the box, you'll get a flame kingdom."

There are several ways to defend a company's takeover, but one of them is called 'Crown Jewel'. Translated directly into Japanese, it's "The Crown Gem," but interpreted as.

"... Operation Scorched Earth, is it"

"There's no reason to make it scorched? Keep it exactly like the Flame Empire, just transfer it. The royal family just hangs signs on the emperor's house, right?

Here's the thing.

"... I see"

It is often said that this' crown jewel 'is the easiest defense against takeovers. It's a hassle to set up a new company and beat and sell the tangible and intangible assets of the company under threat of acquisition exactly like that new company, and to probe' White Knight 'to help yourself, and' Pacman Defense 'to reverse acquire the other party takes money. It's a very simple scheme. Although the problem is rooting for shareholders, or interested parties.

"... that's not a bad way"

In the end, there is no harm in the owners of the original "Kingdom of Flame". Chris and Ed will naturally complain, but honestly, that's not what Kota and the others knew, and Chris and Ed don't have the force to stop it.

"... if you don't detain yourself to the 'Kingdom of Flame', do you?"

"Yeah, I said that earlier, right? I don't care about the reputation of any other country - I don't care if it's the E's. I don't know why His Majesty Elizabeth really thinks he's the usurper. Not to mention the" throne usurper "."

"Yes, I understand."

"In this way, there is the 'Kingdom of Flame' under the 'Empire of Flame', of some sort of nested structure… well, back to the form of the old continent of Orkena. Terra has cottas, ayanos, and Sonia. You have Becker's current chairman's sister, and you have a lead researcher at the Royal Academy of Sciences? If you bring in a few servants of the King's Palace, it will serve as a nation long enough."

The staff themselves are excellent, Rondo de Terra is. It's about adding public authority to it if you ask me.

"Hope so, though? If you did one kingdom under the empire on a boulder, you'd be dressed up? No, you don't have to split it up! Don't you think?

"... Indeed"

"So, earlier on," I'll give you a sequence of coaters, "Chiu said. Sire Erica? Given, you still the head of the Viscount van der Fend family, didn't you?

"Huh? Yeah, yeah! For once, it is also Viscount van der Fend."

"I'll give you that Viscount, Coata. With the celebration of the birth of His Majesty the Emperor, and the fourth class special -"

Again, nigga.

"- King Fandelfend, how about Courta Matussillo or something?

"Huh!"

"I'll also add 'extra' now. Emperor of the Flame Empire as well as Cota's reign over King Fandelfend, don't the Kingdom of Solvania approve? As I was saying, on the occasion of His Majesty's birth? I don't care if you say it yourself, but the Kingdom of Solvania will admit it? This is pretty much" besides "?

That head of the Solvanian kingdom, who was told to gather wealth throughout Orkena, said he would recognize the establishment of the Flame Empire and the inauguration of the King of Hota, or the establishment of a new state. This condition may be described as broken, as Carlos I put it, beyond the fact that the approval of other countries is one of the hardest points in the process of establishing a state. At least enough to blow up Chris, Ed's 'complaint', etc.

"Terra and Lime, and the kingdom of Larchia has alliances too, right? I don't mean to raise your hands and say yes, but will you admit it to some extent? Parsena's only interested in making money. Let's do it, and while Laurent's talking, let's see what happens between the first prince and the second prince. Not if you're sticking your neck in another country. Gone. That's about a burn in Westria...... do it now? The war there is over there."

"... right. Indeed, Lyme and the Kingdom of Larchia will likely acknowledge it. Admittedly, there will be no harm."

The Kingdom of Larchia in particular, he adds, in his chest. I can't put it in front of Carlos I, but there's also a card on Kota's hand called 'The Real Killer of the Lotte Assassination'. I don't doubt Lotte, but it was a card that was difficult to use in terms of credibility, but Kota, who made the decision that it was Better to cut it here, turns his gaze straight to Carlos I.

"... so? That Flame Empire - dare I say 'Union Empire'? Your Majesty, your kingdom... can the Kingdom of Solvania come in?

Carlos I and Kota's gaze are involved. It was Carlos I who was out of sight first, a time that could be taken for a moment and for eternity.

"… approve both the emperor's throne and the reign of Cota. Ee even with an alliance with the Flame Empire. Yeah, but... how can the Kingdom of Solvania be attached to" below, "huh?

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"There's no way I dreamed of Orkena's hegemony. Yeah, but what? I am proud of my country, and I am full of it. Independence as a kingdom from the fall of the Empire, a pride that has always come in one bottle. It's not just us royal people. Even the nobles of the Kingdom of Solvania are now" under the Flame Empire "... I don't know if I'm convinced."

"... is that right?"

"Seya. It is impossible for the Kingdom of Solvania to enter under the Flame Empire."

Kota dropping his shoulders. To that appearance, Carlos I lay his eyes down just a little sorry.

"... 'Kingdom of Solvania' is a burn?

Eyes down, no. Shiny eyes, like the boy who came up with the prank.

"I'm thinking of leaving the King of Solvania. I think I'm gonna get into trouble at Sonia's, I'm thinking... why don't I just let the boulders feed my daughter unemployed? Is that what you look like? I'm thinking," Let's make some food. "

A funny look at Hota and Erica with a pokanne look on their face.

"- How do you do that? Positions like 'Consultant' in the Flame Empire, make and hire me, huh?