So one day I spent a few days resting again.
Your Majesty has given you permission to come to my house, Master Anna.
Anna came to my room after being escorted by Kate.
Anna-san!
Ana will inadvertently dominate me as I try to get out of bed.
"Absolutely. You must have fallen out of your mind." Please be quiet. "
Contrary to the words, the voice is gentle. She slowly came to the side of the bed, guided by Kate, and sat down on the chair with Kate assisting her.
When it was over, Kate helped me get up this time. I'm glad that you can wear a warm and light shawl from the shoulder.
“I heard you had something important to say. And you said you needed me for that consultation."
While looking sideways at Kate brewing tea, Ana cut out the purpose of her visit.
Well then, excuse me.
Perhaps Kate has been told not to touch on the topic that bothers me now. I said hello and then left the room.
We'll check it out and resume the conversation.
"... there may be a war."
I hesitated to tell Anna what I had heard in the castle.
"War.... where is it?"... is it Schwarzburg? "
Schwarzburg, the country where Ana and Drag were born, raised, and fled.
Somehow, it became a military state, and for that purpose, it collected and forced the alchemists and blacksmiths and other engineers to work for the war.
That's why, if you had asked her, you would have come up with it right away.
"... yes, there are signs that Schwarzburg is preparing to wage war against the neighbouring Duchy of Heimstadt and our country."
I leaned down to confess it and raised my gaze to Ana-san.
Always, Ana's gentle expression turned harsh.
"... it's Gerz's treachery again!"
Ana clapped her knee with her clenched fist in the shape of anger.
... Gels?
"Ana-san... who is that?"
I asked Anna, who had never heard of her name, in a state of anger.
Although Ana's appearance was scary, she had built a relationship of trust with Rock, so there was no need to be frightened.
"... I'm an alchemist."
"... alchemist"
I accidentally repeat her words.
"Yes, alchemist Gerz. The man who manipulates the current emperor of the Schwarzburg Empire and takes de facto power is him.”
Anna said hatefully.
... but...
I don't know.
I can only guess what the Emperor told me and what Ana said about the Empire.
An alchemist is plotting a war with the Emperor.
But I didn't know what that meant.
"Anna, is that the Gerz alchemist trying to wage war?"... or is it the Emperor? "
I bump into her without knowing.
"Yeah. That's right....... Gels is the main culprit."
Anna told her to give up her name.
"Everything."
What does it include and where does it go? I couldn't extract the full meaning of Anna's words.
"Yeah. Everything. Everything's changed since Gerz showed up in Schwarzburg. He charmed the current emperor with suspicious power, manipulated him as he pleased, and tailored him to become a military state. That's how we forced our engineers to use their power in the war."
Anna's eyes were burning with anger.
Instead of being frightened by that anger, I opened my eyes wide in amazement at the way Ana described the Schwarzburg Empire that separated one country from another.
"... an alchemist is controlling the Emperor?"
It was hard for me to believe in Russia.
"Daisy, some alchemists have the power to capture people... especially powerful people."
"... power"
Again, power ().
"Daisy, do you know the 'Stone of the Sage' and the 'Elixir'?"
Ana knew everyone who was an alchemist, but no one had ever heard of her.
The stone of a wise man. It is a stone that gives all wisdom to what it has.
Elixir. A wonderful elixir of immortality, produced from the stone of a wise man, which is sometimes equated with the stone of a wise man.
"I know... but no alchemist has created it..."
I answered, shaking my head to the side.
“Yes, no one has created the complete thing.”
Ana speaks meaninglessly.
... a complete one...?
Well, what if it's incomplete?
Anna-san...
I looked straight at her.
"Oh, yes. Gels has an incomplete stone of wise men." It uses the incomplete elixir created from it as a bait to manipulate the Emperor as it pleases. "
I took a breath in the words.