The Annals of the Flame Kingdom (WN)

"Corta? Let's go! There's a cute dancer in this neighborhood. It's only daytime, but when it's night, it's already huge."

"... wait! Wait, please!

"- I... I don't know, I don't know. You don't hate it, do you?

"Oh, that's - what do you want me to say!

Theatre City, Abarte. The front street is a gentlemanly theatrical district of "everything" - well, more than a city of entertainment to some extent, it gives the impression that it is only the cluttered impression compared to Larchia, the king's capital of the kingdom of Flame, or Titanium, the ancient capital, but still nothing more than a normal city.

… although the street is.

There is no better reason for entertainment to be 'theatre' than it is a city where many people live. There are people who prefer alcohol, people who prefer beating, and people who prefer 'color'. Naturally, in the same way as in Abarte, the back streets are lined with shops featuring all kinds of entertainment.

"... spare me, my lord"

"Your Excellency, let's stop it, Courta. It's just me and you. Alberto's good!

That's what I said. Smile nicely and thumbs up. It is very picturesque to see Alberto like that, originally from a stage actor, but also sold in so-called 'handsome'. Picturesque, but ruined if you say you look like that in front of a sign with a landscape around you on a boulder, specifically a picture of an inflammatory dancer. In a way, it might suit you.

"... what kind of friends are you? Besides, any buddy wouldn't roll out to Glossy Street in the middle of the day, right?

"Really? When I went to Parsena when I was younger, that was already awesome, wasn't it? Basically, the stage was a lot of night clubs, so with the actors performing from daytime once-"

"That's enough!

I'm kind of tired. Shows what I remember, a grand sigh of sigh in Alberto with a nigga and a humble, and then even clean smile.

"... I mean, 'Coata'"

"Hmm? No? Clarissa told me, 'It will be difficult for Your Excellency to talk small, so get along with the Demon King of Rondo de Terra with precision'. If we're gonna get along, then we should start with a name call, right?

"... is that what it is?

After Erica and Clarissa took each other out to a fashionable cafe, they said, 'What are we doing here?' And it is this back street of Abarte that Alberto brought me. Well, if it's one way or the other, it's cluttered, but it was a cluttered city like the one that hung the wheel on it, but I took Kota around like that and said, 'I'll call it the Manja Kota. You call me Alberto, too!' And it was said with a good smile about thirty minutes ago now. Kota called it Kota and Kota on his own without accepting it. Kota stopped to take a short distance from Alberto and gently relieved Alberto. Did you notice Kota's gaze like that, Alberto also stopped talking lightly and turned his gaze to Kota.

"Oh? What's up, Coata?

"What is it and these things... I mean, my lord? Are you really Lime?

"What do you mean? I'm Lime's Lime kid, born and raised, right?

"No, the... I feel like someone's stuffing the distance"

Mostly with His Majesty the King of some maritime empire or a cha-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chi-chic merchant? Did you notice such a subtle change in Hota's expression, or break his face like Alberto noticed something 'oh'?

"Are you trying to tell me you look like Carlos?

"To? Or Carlos?

"Is that it, Coata, you don't know? Look, you're the king of Solvania, right? Carlos I, Carlos Solvania is a colored man."

"I know His Majesty Carlos I... Huh? You know your Excellency, too?

"Your Excellency said to stop."

"... because Mr. Alberto is also known?

"I know that. Coata, I'm the head of state for once, right?

That's what they say, and I'm convinced that Hota too. Oh. Even so, Alberto is the supreme decision-maker of the Lyme City National Alliance. There will be up and down above the statehood, but there will nevertheless be talks between the heads of state and so on. There will be.

"... somehow, it sounds more like a relationship?

No matter how much it is, you don't immediately come up with the name 'Carlos' because you look like someone else. One nod at such a Hota question.

"That's Mabdachi, us"

"............ what?

I said something terrible.

"When I was still an actor, I had a theatrical show in Solvania. It was still a time when he was the third son of a previous king, doing whatever he wanted, wasn't it? The two of us used to roll out to a Sorbanian drinker."

……

"Well, I know he's struggled a lot since he became His Majesty the King... and I've seen that country get better."

Alberto gives a slightly illuminated look when he says so.

"As an actor, I had success there, and I didn't hate the actor's work... but, you know, it's me, right? Actors can't make people happy, can they?

"... I don't think so."

"Uh... right. Ma, that would make everyone happy if it looked like a good play. Still, it's just a handful of people."

……

"I don't know what to say to myself, but I was a popular actor. Tickets to my theatre were traded at a pretty high price. Thanks to that, well, I could play in front of the royal family in Solvania and the Flame kingdom, so that's not so bad... still, you see, there aren't many people who can be 'happy', compared to politicians"

"That's... well, maybe it is"

"Right? Well, I figured I needed to be a politician to make people happy. There's no other way. Watch Carlos."

……

"So well, I want to make this country 'happy'. I want a country where people in this country can smile happily. Everybody's laughing. Well, it's not always fun, but it still makes me happy. I want to be in a country like that."

That's what I said, Alberto, with a few distant eyes to show.

"... I heard the wind rumors say, 'I want to stop it now'?

"Ha ha! That's you, yeah. I hate working the basics. I mean, I don't like clerical work. That's where Carlos is, isn't it? He likes to dream about the future too, but the practice is a tease. The Chancellor over there is struggling. You know that?

"... yeah, well"

"That's what I'm saying. So, well, I guess it's time to give way to backwards and take my time hiding in the country - I don't know. Clarissa gets angry that Poutaro is the man who served as president on the boulder, so I think I'll do it in agriculture. It's in the hands of junior politicians who can make this country better. Uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

That's what Alberto says and makes you smile like a boy.

"... so, Coata, I was wondering what the hell kind of ideas you have for running the" Flame Empire "in the future. I don't care how much you say you give way to backwards, because if you push the boulders weird, they'll resent you?

Mix just a little swordswallowing light into your gaze. With such a gaze as if he were going to be cut, Kota nevertheless smiles beautifully.

"I'm basically thinking the same way Mr. Alberto thinks."

"... the same?

"Yes, I believe that the smile of the people, as a nation, cannot replace anything."

"Can you say anything with your mouth?

"... well, maybe if you say so. Surely you can say anything with your mouth. So you can't just trust me."

"Right?

"But... well, perhaps more trustworthy than the people of the Kingdom of Flame," he thinks.

"Really?

"The fire on East Street, didn't you hear?

"I'm listening. Oh, I see. I didn't do that, did I?

"Well, so is that. Yes..."

Say that, take a breath.

"... that way of thinking, I'm with Erica"

"... what?

"Erica...... precisely with the thoughts of Mr. Lotte, who can also be described as Erica's master, or Angelica, who was the true wife of His Majesty the former King. We're building a country where everyone can laugh and live, and that's what we're doing."

"... that Lord Lotte? It doesn't look that way."

"That's... well, I think so too"

That's one bitter laugh.

"… but I was worried about this country and the queen of this country until that moment in time. I wonder if that's true."

"What if it's a lie? A politician, huh?

"If you can even lie in that state, I don't think you can fool me if you're already lying like that."

Alberto laughs a little bit at Kota for saying such a thing with his shoulders up.

"Ma, so is that. If you lie like that in that state, are you happy to be deceived?"

Alberto gives you a slightly more serious look by saying so.

"In my mood, I want to be on the side of the Flame Empire."

"... thank you"

"Even if there are differences in the details, I still think that's a good idea if we can move in the same direction. It would be nice to have such a good country so that not only this country, but all those living in Orkena, could smile. It's a conceptual story, but I don't think you've said such a lame thing, do you?

"Yes."

"So well, let's go with that. We have an alliance with Terra in the first place. Well, it's a strange story to make an alliance with the Flame kingdom without any ties."

"... thank you"

"It's just... if you guys step off the road, we'll know soon enough, okay?

"That's okay. At least, I don't -- we don't step off the road."

grandiose.

To Kota, who says so and shows it, Alberto shows it in a broken face.

"... Ha! Oh, shit! Well, I'll bet on you guys!

Sunny and laughing, Alberto turned his hand around Kota's shoulder.

"Ugh! Bye, Coata! Let's go celebrate the Alliance, Glossy Street!

"Yes! - Yes?

"A store with a good sister, that's you! Come on."

"No, I'm not going! What are you talking about, you!?

"It's okay, it's okay! Because I'll keep my mouth shut to His Majesty Erica!

"No, that's not the problem! Hey, hey!

I'll leave it to your imagination what happened to Kota, who disappears into the city at night with Alberto shouldering her.