The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

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Time, roll back a little.

Deanna and the rest of the house were running around shaking their hair the night before the park tournament.

In that one painting, inhabited by civilians among the Wang capital, a building was built securely, just a little bigger than a very ordinary private house, and slightly different from the others. On the door of the table, the sign 'Keysen's Keyser' is swayed. Sometimes it's midnight, and naturally the store is' CLOSED '.

Both the first and second floors were quiet, but in fact, further down, in the basement, which was off-limits except for those involved, three men were leaning forward and roaring.

It's been a tough month.

"Is the development of new keys for the time being?"

"You can't say such a long thing. Burglar's arms are coming up year after year."

"But if we're going to prototype the array we're working on, we're going to need a lot of money, okay?

My youngest son, Ronald, pounds on Hans's shoulder, staring alternately at the drawings and books. John, the second son of the vault number, smiled bitterly.

"Give it up, Hans. Unless the jumping 'back' job comes in, the prototype is behind us."

"-" Back "job, huh? Probably around tomorrow, you think they'll come in?

The men who were roaring underground - the Keysen three brothers, suddenly alarmed for a moment by the voice of a third party who sounded from overhead. but soon, I realize it's someone I know well enough to be there.

"Dear Edward. Where did you come from?

"Skylights over there, fasteners loose, huh? I'm a locksmith, so do as well as your own security."

With that said, the intruder Edward stepped down to the side of the three brothers for a moment.

"Ho, is this the blueprint for the new key? That's funny, why don't you make one of ours?"

"We don't take orders for noble keys. You know that."

"Make it accommodating."

The gaze of the three brothers pokes at Edward laughing. Hans opened his mouth at the delegate.

"So, Master Edward. What is the 'back' request coming in tomorrow?

You're here to talk about that, aren't you? and urged eloquently with his eyes, Edward laughed lightly.

"You guys are the same and above all. - Tomorrow afternoon, there is a good chance that those who come here to request 'unlocking' will show up."

"What's that request?

"Sneak into a certain mansion and steal out the real 'here', I guess tokoro"

That's what Edward took out of his nostalgia.

- It was a sparkling, authentic-looking treasure crown (tiara) artifact.

The story that "Keysen's Keyser" is a Keyser of the King's Capital that lasts three generations is not a lie.

However, they are descendants of a clan that belongs to the authentic "back" world, having been requested by the privileged class as "locksmiths" long before they set up their shops in the Wang capital.

"Keysen clan of locksmiths" - their name is widely known as the enchantress (professional) of intrusion and theft, both in the past when they were given work while wandering, and now that they have a base, in the world behind them unchanged.

No nobleman orders keys from 'Keysen's Keyser'. Since its inception, the policy of 'nobility refuses' has been pursued, because no matter how much money they accumulate, they do not make the keys to nobility.

The clan has long and still split that requests from the privileged classes only come from "back" ones. That is proof that they still define themselves as' behind 'people, even now that they have learned to take care of the face of the table as very ordinary ordinary people.

"You're doing good. This is the crown of the Queen, isn't it?

They lost their word for a moment to too much glare, but the switch was really quick. Ronald looks at the fake treasure crown placed on his desk and squeaks.

"I asked Bucks' grandfather. If it's a reproduction of a jewelry relationship, there's no one on that guy's right."

"But you mean come steal my real, in short, sneak into the royal palace?

Serious John put his arms together. 'There are things the world can and cannot do,' it says on its face.

"Yeah, well, it's hard for me to sneak into the royal palace, no matter how much."

"No, I don't need to go to that demon hole. Precisely some idiot nobleman's mansion."

"That means there's a real one of mine there... haha"

Long lived in the back world, they're not surprised by the rarity. Even then, they were not surprised. - I just got a shuddered look.

"We don't know so much about it either. Wasn't this a national treasure?

"That's an undisputed national treasure. Besides, it's the righteous treasure that's been around since the founding of the country."

"... whoever stole it, sold it, bought it. They must all be fools."

"So you've been saying, 'Stupid aristocrat'"

"If you know that much, wouldn't it be quicker and more certain to have 'Dark' people out than we are?

"If I can do that, I'll do it."

Edward sighed, carefully touching the crown of the artifact.

"If we find out about the treasure theft, it's the ruin of the people. They only stood around to minimize the number of people involved and leave no evidence. We moved to the limit, too, but all we knew was that the treasure he had on his hands was a crown, and about that time of year. I couldn't find out who I sold it to or what kind of hand I used."

"... so our turn, is it?

"You guys are relatively well-known in the back. If it's a job to replace the real thing with a fake so that the person you sold doesn't find out, you guys should definitely get a request first."

"That may be true, but there's a possibility that you could conspire with the person you sold and secretly get the real thing back together, right?

"It's not"

Edward laughed niggly.

"Bucks' grandfather, who made this guy, says the yakuza guys who specialize in imitating and sidelining stolen goods to noble opponents, have been busy dooming lately"

"Uh...... Ten, eighty-nine, you're putting out your energy to make fakes, that."

"That's the thing. Now that it's inconvenient, give me back my crown, and if I'm being silly and honest, then give me back what I paid for it, naturally. I don't even want to think about how much money I have in return for flowing the national treasure, but if I don't have that much, or spare the money to give it back, there's only one way to get it back unnoticed."

"But do we need to take it back in such a hurry? The king still hasn't decided on the Queen, and the crown is still ahead of him."

"I need it. Deanna knows what's wrong with him."

The three brothers gave a uniform, convincing look.

"Speaking of which, Deanna, you were at the rear palace right now."

"If I could hang a shake with that face, I'd be in a hurry, and I'd have to hide even the worst evil things ~"

"... is that what Edward has been saying just now, 'He', the great man in the backyard?

"Chief of the ladies, right. Speaking of great, great."

"No, it's a great position for Hutu."

Next to Ronald mixing it up, the two brothers have a sinister face. More importantly, I'm pretty sure the world thinks it's the end, such as a woman chief getting her hands on a national treasure.

"I mean, to sum up the story - around noon tomorrow, someone on the chief lady's side comes to do a" request "to replace it with a fake treasure crown made by the yakuza guys"

"Ah. Almost certainly, yeah. Finally, it is likely that the female chief herself will go this far"

"Why?

"Real and fake replacements are the liver of this plan, right? To make sure, you don't leave the request to people. First of all, if we're gonna leave it to people, we should be moving faster."

"And say?

"I haven't been able to confirm what the Yakuzas are dealing with, but a few days ago, they were able to complete it and deliver it to the mansion where the sheriff was secretly hiding."

Some people in the mansion are used like limbs and hands by the chief woman. It is natural to assume that the chief woman herself is trying to get here more than the person can move.

John, who was nodding and listening to Edward's explanation, tilted his neck.

"But why tomorrow at noon? Normally, the Lord of these requests comes at night."

"Oh, that's..."

After breathing out, the Crestor family's trailer son gave him a truly dazzling grin. Only a 'back' person knows that this smile of his is the grin of a carnivore who captures his prey.

"- Tomorrow at noon, 'cause it's a gardening party."

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This park tournament had several hidden purposes.

One, of course, for the side chambers by the side chambers, the 'King, hold on' plan. The success rate, to be seen from the state of the king before and after, was more than imagined.

It was usual for intelligence to be carried out behind a smile than for the nobles to gather in large numbers. The "Peony" was desperate for a crude search on this side with the eyes of the Pelican Eye Eagle, and it is no different in that it made the most of the special environment in which only the side chambers and their families gathered, together with the Crestor family, who were searching unceasingly for them and all the side chambers of the "Red Rose".

- And.

"... really, ladies and gentlemen, good job"

With Mrs. Maris, Juke and the Kingsguard knights, all concerned were finally weakened in "Between the Red Roses", where the facades of the outer palace room (except Keith) left the room. The royal palace samurai, faithful to their duties, leave quietly to get hot water.

Only six remained indoors: Deanna and Rita, Mia and Keith and Hans, and the mysterious woman. With a sigh of relief, Deanna bowed her head to the mysterious woman first as she rose off the couch.

"That was helpful. Thank you, Mrs. Magnome."

"As it were, Sarah - Mrs. Maris, too, would have misjudged the intrusion. You don't have to thank me."

Called Mrs. Magnome, for the first time there, she broke her mouth.

"When Fione suddenly told me, 'Would you like to take one skin off for my niece', though I wondered what it was.... this is what happened."

"Can you take the position of chief woman?"

Extending her spine and looking closely into her eyes as high, Deanna inquired. Mrs. Magnome nods softly.

"If Fione asks, I can't say no. Besides, you can't leave behind the rear of this state."

"Thank you."

Yes, she is the 'successor' figure Fione has been looking for. Though she went up to the royal palace at the same time as Mrs. Maris and served excellently as a female official, she was Sharon Magnom, a woman who had resigned her marriage to her term and eventually moved away from the social world and was now even forgotten from among the nobles.

She was smiling, tightening her face.

"I didn't know Sarah had fallen so far... you have to thoroughly discipline Solemnity"

"As far as I can tell, we're looking into the women and the maids who were carrying them to the chief."

"Helpful, Assistant Director Heisette. -" Dear Red Rose, "I'd like to come in and look into it right away."

"Until the official letter of appointment comes down, be careful."

"Thank you for your concern"

Having taken the perfect thank you, Mrs. Magnome turns her gaze to Mia all the time.

"Mia Meltrois. Give me a hand."

"Huh..."

Mia rounds her eyes. Whatever the reason, Mia, who was able to take on a single stick of evil under the former Chief of Staff, was prepared to be the side to be judged after everything was done. - And yet.

"I hear about you. With your testimony, which was closest to Mrs. Maris, the investigation will proceed promptly."

"... believe in me," he said?

"At this stage, I can't say anything. I heard the story, but I met you for the first time. We want to know if you have enough people to believe in as we work together."

The tone of the voice and the language you choose is gentle, but its contents are tough enough for Mia not to be any more. If you want me to believe you, show me with your attitude, madam, and I'm letting you go.

Mia blued for a moment, but quickly looked up all the time.

Dear Deanna,

"I don't mind. Go, Mia."

"Yes."

As the two women stepped back after the exit greeting, the room became even quieter. Waiting for the two signs to disappear, Deanna finally turns to the best of merit this time.

"Sorry for all the inconvenience, Hans"

"It's not a big hassle. Besides, you don't have a chance to get into the royal palace in broad daylight. It's something that's profitable here, too, and don't worry too much."

Hans, laughing at him for saying so, had stripped off the skin of a 'good little citizen frightened by the aristocracy' until earlier. Originally he would be a 'back' person, a royal palace but a king, who would also cross each other over to his noble opponents, but he does not have the nerves to fear and revere.

"What has annoyed your hands is our lack of strength"

"It's a bad habit for everyone in the Crestor family. We're counting on you, so if there's anything we can do, don't hesitate to say it like this one."

"I agree with that opinion"

Keith nodded with less words and a sense of reality. Deanna and Rita laughed face-to-face at the collaborators they could really count on.

- The Crestors, including Deanna, really didn't know that Mrs. Maris was not just a piece of art, but even a national treasure, until that night's direct confrontation. Except if I had pinched several distribution routes between them, I guess I would have paid close attention to the handling of things alone. I didn't even leave a written proof of the deal. It was thorough.

Deanna, who took the pledge from the chief woman, was in quite a hurry, in fact, inside, while taking care of the extra flair. When it becomes public that a national treasure has been sidelined, etc., it is not just a female chief runoff. The "chief" personage even scorns the national treasure, which is important to lead to the collapse of the royal prestige.

- If we do poorly, we could go into an all-out war between conservatives and innovators, inspired by this. In that moment Deanna thought that far.

The Krester family received a report from Deanna, which concludes the same. He took back the national treasure as early as possible and embarked on an investigation by summoning 'the darkness' so that only a major search by the Royal Palace could be avoided. … but none of the results are fragrant.

The last resort, "treasure room intrusion", finally led to the discovery that the treasure the chief woman had put her hands on was a treasure crown.

At this point, the most tranquil method of determining to whom the chief woman sold the crown, grasping its weakness and wishing it back spontaneously, was almost impracticable. There isn't enough time overwhelmingly this time to follow some of the 'back' routes to find buyers.

In a report from "Darkness," which was keeping an eye on the woman chief, we knew that the woman chief was about to make a national treasure fake and replace it with real, at least only about the national treasure raft. Together with the inability to determine the location of the crown she wanted to take back, she wagered an operation that would take her plan backwards, although many elements of uncertainty remained.

If there is only one day when the "Red Rose" and the female chief who is alert to being watched by the Crester family can move. That's nothing more than a day of gardening, where both Deanna and the Crestors stay in the back palace. The family who did so gave instructions to Deanna, only one word through 'darkness'. "Free the chief woman on the day of the Garden Club" -.

Deanna, who was instructed, deliberately placed the female chief in the back, but also in a discreet position, and consolidated her surroundings with her surroundings, setting the stage for the female chief to move more easily, placing the female officer and the samurai on the 'Red Rose' side only with the finishing touches (which is a by-product of creating the collaboration that could turn the park club most efficiently as a result). Whether this makes her move or not, that was the only bet, but there was a rush, and the chief lady fitted in nicely, so...

"I was really anxious to see if that lady would really come to our store."

"You don't have to worry about that, do you?" When you follow the dead well outside the King's Capital, you reach the locksmith's lair "… a famous rumor"

"It's not like we're advertising."

If the chief woman were to ask for a 'job' in the absence of time, she would be the 'Dead Well Keeper' who is told along with her track record. The Wang capital is the territory of the Keysen clan, and there are no other locksmiths.

And the Keysen clan, for quite some time, have been the 'back' people who have been cordial with the Crestors. They knew his arms, personality and courage were perfect, which is why Edward asked for help in this operation.

The content is twofold. 'As requested, after replacing the fake and the real one brought by the Chief Constable, I want the Chief Constable to give me the artifacts prepared by the Crestors'.

- When I gave the signal, I wanted you to bring the real one at hand to the gate of the royal palace.

"I brought the treasure into the royal palace and wondered what would happen. The outer chamber...... was it? That was pretty handy."

"If we miss this opportunity, we cannot hunt down Mrs. Maris. It's different with us."

It was no coincidence or anything that Hans brought in the crown exactly then Mia's brother, Claude, passed near the gate. He showed up as planned, somehow disguised himself as an intrigued breeze and said, "What's up?" He called out, peeking into the wrap Hans had brought, and immediately took him to the outer chamber. Along the way, I was mistaken with the King's Kingsguard knight, so I overheard him say, "We found the missing national treasure," and immediately about the outer chamber, I sent him a report on "National treasure and witness protection," using the contact route with my sister.

It was only a short time before the reception from the rear palace that Hans told the "story of the superficial", which had the crown. Familiar with the place, Hans gave me a brilliant performance, with the correct understanding of the role the Crestors had given themselves and without any cowardice, even before the king.

- Reclaim the national treasure from the chief woman, and tell only the king and his side of her sins. To that end, the Krester family and the outer chamber moved desperately, from before the park meeting to today.

By the way, the only thing Deanna was told by her parents in this matter was the example 'Free the Chief of Women'. I've known that the outer chamber drips fishing threads against the juke since before the confrontation with the chief lady, but the others are totally improvised (adds.). I left the matter of the national treasure to my parents, who told me 'I'll take care of it for now', sweetly and completely.

... even so.

"I know you're up to something, but I can't believe you're using the park club itself for a giant

"Deanna says it's better if you don't let her know, because she's mentally healthy."

"There's that, too, but that's not the best reason. It was an absolute condition for me to run off to prepare the park without knowing anything to alarm the chief."

The closest and most alarming enemy for the Chief of Staff is Deanna herself. If Deanna had been informed of her plans to embed a female chief at a gardening club, it's suspicious if she could have freed her up so unconstitutionally. To be honest, Deanna was full then, even had a head that she wasn't manned enough to turn to the chief lady at the parking party, and there was a verse she executed (rather just a boat on the crossing) without thinking deeply about the instructions from her parents. It was because Deanna couldn't afford that much that the Chief Constable, too, moved as the Crestors thought.

"I don't know what to say to my own family, but I have a ghost operation to set up."

The whole rear palace, desperately trying to survive the park games, was a 'trap' set by the Crestors.... without even knowing who they planned.

"... Whatever it is, I'm glad you're safe."

"Later, how will Your Majesty settle this matter?"

"Even if we lay low about the National Treasure, it's enough for the rest of us to exonerate the Chief of Staff... it's time for us to go back."

Almost at the same time Keith said that, there were indications that the door facing the hallway had opened. Deanna nods.

"I'll have Yuri send it so I can go home where it's not popular."

"It helps."

To Yuri's 'excuse me' voice back in normal business, Deanna was finally, finally, realizing that she had crossed a mountain.