The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

Side chamber meetings that, while pregnant with various thoughts, closed the curtain soothingly on the surface.

In retrospect of all that daylight, Deanna was now alone, in the bedroom of "Between the Red Roses", delayed in reading.

(... After all, it's hard to find a book in the Kingdom of Elland detailing the court of the Stanza Empire. The cultural culture and culture of the Stanza Empire, or the approximation of history, is a book, but that's because few people actually saw and heard Stanza put together)

Even the exact map of the Stanza Empire would not have been available without relatives of the Crestor family who moved to the Stanza Empire. Unlike when the trade was completely lifted, student exchange studies are now also taking place between the two countries, so it shouldn't be surprising to have about a map.

(Even so - a wide country)

Kingdom of Elland and never a small country. Deanna's grandfather, one of the Crestor family's premier equestrians, said it would take two weeks to be sure as he swapped horses he would break through the kingdom's northeast to southwest fastest. But that's also out of common sense that you can do because you're like a grandfather who's half-human quitting and assimilating to a horse, and it usually takes more. When it comes to using a carriage rather than a faraway run, January may not be enough (the king of this country spends a month in discipline every year inspecting because the country is large enough to finally get around all the territory after three repeated inspections in January).

But as far as the map shows, the Stanza Empire is bigger than the Kingdom of Elland. It seems like the total area of the country is less than twice that of the Kingdom of Elland.

(Worldwide, is the land area of Elland and Stanza wider or narrower... Think about it. We Ellanders, we've just heard the story, we barely grasp the reality of what countries are in the world and what people live in. I wonder if anybody in this world is making a map that describes the whole world. Though this world is too big to measure by itself, for example, by connecting maps of countries everywhere and making a single map? Then if you call on people making maps in each country to help you, you'll likely be able to complete it in the course of your life)

Deanna pulls out all the Elgrand diagrams on the same scale as the map of the Stanza Empire on hand and tries to match them somehow. - Together, I frowned.

"You can't do this..."

"- What?

"Even if the scale fits, you don't know how wide and what form the ocean is between countries. To make a comprehensive map of Elland and Stanza, we need not only a map of the two countries, but also a map of the sea between them... Kai"

It's time to do something about the habit of being suddenly spoken to by this divine secrecy and answering without discomfort. Earlier, when I took the map of the Kingdom of Elland out of my bookcase, I certainly didn't see Kai anywhere indoors, and I didn't feel any signs. Speaking of getting used to it, that's it, but if you get used to it, it's going to be a one-tempo slow response to unintentional intruders.

"There you are. Did you eat anything? There's a sandwich, though."

"Thanks, I'll take it.... It's become commonplace for me to eat in this room lately."

"It's more efficient this way than trespassing on the dangers you'll find and creeping food from the kitchen or the warehouse. It was a crime before, but now that His Majesty's accepting it, we can leave Kai alone with dignity."

"I did that before because my father had a saying, 'Don't get involved with the Crestors,' and now I just need you to deliver the food as the 'dark' people change..."

"Sirius would certainly decide that it is better to prepare a meal for Kai on this side, which is eating three meals at once, than" darkness "carries all the food."

"That's what they said just like that." Your diet is better managed than ours, Deanna. "

"I agree with Sirius. You, if you leave me alone, I really won't eat dinner."

"I don't want Dee to tell me to forget to sleep and eat all day and cage me in the library"

... Is that when Arre or when the Stanza Empire's national mission was due to come to the country and packed the foundation of the Stanza language in a great hurry on the way home? Surely in those days, neither diet nor sleep would have been appropriate if it hadn't been said around.

While Deanna and I were tapping lightly, Kai removed the closet on the plate and pulled a sandwich.

"Ah, delicious. Materials, ham eggs."

"Yep. Because the main thing today was ham steak."

"Me, it's the first time I've ever known to pack it in the Back Palace (here), but the royal sama of this country eats surprisingly common food. I can't believe I'm cheap enough to buy ham if I work hard there. I thought I was eating a fancy full course every day."

"Maybe a dinner like the Marquis would be more luxurious than His Majesty's or Queen Wang's. Basically, during the social period (season), we eat buffets at nightclubs, and other seasons, it's like the ancient tradition of the aristocrats to invite guests to dinner at dinner. But seriously, if you eat so much extravaganza every day, I'll break your body. Inadequate nutrition also inhibits health, but it is humans who become unhealthy even after years of overnutrition. It would be fine if you consumed the nutrition you consumed, but you would be a minority if you had a hobby to move your body hard."

"So the royal Sama meal on a day of nothing is qualitative?

"The social period (season) in particular. At least half the week, because dinner parties are scheduled. Little Mother Rifa... Although Queen Rifania hasn't made any such plans, her diet management is in a way tougher than anyone else in this royal palace. Especially now that you can hardly move your body outside, you're working hard to keep that extraordinary proposition."

"Awesome. The physical beauty of a woman is a gift of hard work."

"Even men, right?" If you don't use your muscles, you'll fall quickly, "especially during the social season, when your brother is often foolish."

"Oh, I have that. Honestly, I never really thought about it until last year. I've noticed an overwhelming reduction in the chance of riding a horse and a weakening of my legs. Previously, it was a natural workout, but from now on, we need to be conscious and not let down."

Deanna handed Kai a cup of tea as she finished her sandwich.

"It's hard to maintain shape and muscle strength regardless of gender. For this reason, meals are important"

"I know what you're saying. When Dee's busy, he pulls out of the meal first, right?

"If you're not undernourished from time to time, you don't die where you drain one or two meals. It's more dangerous to lose liquid than that, so even if you skip a meal, you're drinking water, right? I try to make tea and drink it if I can afford it. It's better that way."

"... you care about people's meals. You know, don't you call that a contradiction?

"I won't tell you. Unlike Little Mother Rifa, I don't need to keep an exceptional proposition, and I don't want to. Like you and your brother, there's no direct connection between muscle strength and work efficiency. Overweight reduces life expectancy, so I'm just careful not to overeat. And exercise. I need to move my body consciously because if I'm in the womb, I'm really going to lack exercise."

"... well, Dee is in a situation where he has to manage his body shape to stoke"

"That sort of thing. For the most part, the 'ideal proposition' of aristocratic women in this country varies completely from time to time. You're a little overweight a long time ago, though you have a crunchy body like Little Mother Rifa now? So rich in shape was considered ideal, and before that, what was said to be the best beauty was a woman so slender that she had to be seriously worried about undernourishment. I happen to be in the right shape for the fashion of this era, but there's no way I can do something about the size of my chest myself, and if you think about it, it's an unreasonable and unsolicited story."

"... I think maybe there's some convenience to the guy's taste"

"Oh, in the commercial sense of the night?

Very rarely, Kai, who had been drinking tea, flourished. As for Deanna, it just felt like a gavel, but from Kai's point of view, it was a return out of range of assumptions.

Give him the cloth towel with a little surprise and slap him on the back somehow.

"Are you okay?"

"No, yeah... I'm fine. I've been meaning to ask you, how much do you know about Dee that way?

"To what degree... general common sense?

Deanna goes into a bit more detail because Kai couldn't get the look out of her confusion.

"How do men's and women's bodies work and what exactly do women go through until they put their children in their wombs? That such acts are carried out not simply for the purpose of accommodating children, but also for the purpose of the exchange of love and trust between men and women in a romantic relationship." that some people seek as play - and so on "for the purpose of the pleasure created by the act itself.

"... I think there is a fair share between the general common sense of Sama, the nobleman of this country, and the common sense of those who normally live"

"Uh..."

Deanna nodded a little thinking about Kai's best point.

"If you ask me... noble common sense, this is"

"Right. I couldn't avoid it at work, so I got a lecture from a bunch of specialists. When you think about the average age of first marriage in this country, the knowledgeable teenagers are in the" progressing "category.

"Noble children will be taught what exactly the so-called" child making "refers to by the time of their social debut, even late. Debating and being recognized as an adult means you can get married at any time before you build. That was normal in your grandmother's time to marry at fifteen or six, because even when she was a mother, she was scattered, and she still doesn't have it at all. We need to know before the debut."

"Hey, is it imperative for you aristocratic sama?

"Aunt Fifi, who" well, there's a trick like this, "gave me the presumably courtesy pedagogy, because it's the part where she spent a good amount of time teaching me, so I guess so. What?

Although Fione's teaching was about half the ratio between the act itself and how to cut through it if you were forced to do so. Although Deanna also seems to be an easy player, the "invitations" made to Fione, whose two names were simply "spicy whores" when she was younger, were probably not Deanna's ratio, so the "repelling method" taught was really varied. Even a whore in a system whose appearance is what winds up a lot of money, Fione in love seemed to be really all the way and pure, "How dare you think so much," he said, not timidly to Deanna, "because I'm sorry I died of anything but gin," he returned.

Calm your breath, next to Kai, who sat in bed, and Deanna, just lower her back.

"... thinking about it, is nobility, in a way, a solid sex education? Or do the general public have the knowledge of that hand, when and from whom?

"Don't ask me... I told you earlier, because even I was only taught when I needed to. The only thing I can tell you is that the majority of Ellanders who normally live are definitely not taught that way."

"... you didn't mean it?

"No? You were explained and taught because you thought it was necessary. Nothing unintentional, unpleasant thoughts, but... it's just purely strange that there are a certain number of races that you can easily do with a sense of play"

"Oh...... I agree wholeheartedly"

Deanna is inexperienced, so she reads completely and is only a listening knowledge, but from what she hears, so-called sexual activity is simply a very pleasant thing. Well, humans don't have estrus, unlike other animals, so without primitive pleasure in the act itself, it would be due to biological circumstances that the act itself cannot be run and the offspring increased in the first place.

But man has the ability to think, and there is a society created by that thought. The attitude that the other person is good as long as they get pleasure may be true to biological desires in a way, but why not be a "human" belonging to one society? As a member of the Crestor family who honors knowledge above all else, I think about that.

"A certain number of aristocrats also" play "with ease. If we give up a hundred steps and are unmarried, we can take it as a critical favor that it will be an experience for each other's future. I just can't defend wanting to play until after marriage, and I can't understand more."

"Well, this country is monogamous, so cheating is definitely a crime, right?

"... an old, fuzzy law survives plain sight." Royalty, noble men are exceptions, "he said, an unpleasant sentence. If my wife couldn't have a child, I had to have a child elsewhere because the house would be interrupted."

"How many soles, anachronisms are good places. Mr. Edward taught me this before, but it's now common for houses without succession to be adopted and inherited by close blood relatives, isn't it?

"Yeah, you're right. So it seems like it would be a good idea to delete all those texts, but by way of example, it's like there's a fierce opposition of conservatives, and they keep disappearing when they're on the agenda."

"Why are conservatives opposed?

"'Whatever the aristocracy is, you can't admit the royal adoption,' he said."

"Uh, usual"

"Yes, the usual"

Kai is really smart, so it's a lot of fun to keep talking.... It's another different kind of fun than when you're having an academic discussion with Prince Stanza.

"Let me tell you about the woman, it's just a pre construction story that makes me want to exaggerate that all the dissidents simply don't like being unable to play with the beauty of their choice."

"Instead of pushing evil, 80% of the time, right? Noble Sama in this country seems to be mostly politically married, so it doesn't necessarily mean she can marry the woman of her choice. If you're a stupid bastard who can't be satisfied without a woman of your choice, I don't think you want to change the law that allows you to cheat on me with dignity."

"... from Kai, are guys like that stupid?

"Yeah, crossbow class idiot. I don't know about politics, but people who only prioritize their preferences without facing the person they should be facing first can only be called idiots."

"You're tough..."

"Tough, I mean. Faces, body shape, comfort, everything like that changes from time to time, and my own tastes aren't the same. Isn't it simply pointless to cheat repeatedly for something so vague? Meaninglessly, whoever pours his heart out is an idiot."

As Deanna, I fully agree with that opinion, but Kai's words were accompanied by a deep sense of reality, which was purely surprising.

(Oh well... I wonder if Kai's "taught" is a practical technique. Not just seating school, like me)

The moment I thought so, my mind went out of its way for some reason. I've never felt that before. I'm surprised that I felt that way even for a moment talking to Kai, in a somewhat negative mood.

"Dee? What's wrong?

"What... what?

'Cause what, now it looks like some kind of depressing breeze?

... This one never flushes the part he wants me to flush when this is the case, so he can't be alarmed. It is more or less imaginable from previous experience to be allowed to confess in a misguided way that it is nothing.

After a little thought, Deanna opened her mouth as she strayed from Kai's gaze.

"Nothing, it's crap.... Kai just thought he was going through a lot to the point where he could tell that his face, shape, and comfort would change from time to time. I'm just packed with knowledge."

"Uh... there's no need to stick together at all. I needed to know the usefulness and dangers of colour tricks at work, so I just taught them, including moves. Finally, I've just been taught, and so far I've never done the real thing"

"... Really?

"My face seems to fall into that pretty neat category, so if it's just my face, I guess it's good for a coloring job. Including my father, the seniors on this road have told me," Because I'm not personally fit, you should only polish the art of avoiding color tricks. "

"... are you unsuitable for your coloring job?

"He said there was no job that was more clearly unsuitable than the color scheme. It doesn't simply mean you're good at sexual moves, you have to start by whispering sweet words to a woman to make her care about it, and if possible, it's best to pull out information in the middle of foreplay, so you don't break the atmosphere in the middle, so I figured I'd have to listen in a way that makes a woman want to talk in sweet words. It's super dull, don't you think it's usually quicker to put a blade (knife) on your neck and ask?

"Uh... well, yeah, right?

Though Kai is apparently seriously troublesome, although perhaps the colour trick will be out at the first time he puts a blade on his neck, as the other party can't possibly notice that he won't open his mouth in fear of death, or that information has been leaked, or the intelligence means utilized in such occasions.... Think about it, even if you're learning in practice, sexual activity wasn't much of an attractive thing in the first place for Kai, whose sentiments are only "strange for Kole to be entertaining".

"I guess that means it's not as good a thing as I hear rumors..."

"If I said yes or no, I'd say yes. Some people get hammered and can't get out of it. But it's not like I have to know because I can't. - Don't worry, I'll use whatever means I can to stop Dee if he doesn't want to."

"It's okay there. Aunt Fifi has planted more than a few fingers in both hands and legs to get rid of such an undeserved person."

"I know that, but... that's only a limited occasion, isn't it," the social place of the aristocratic society of the Kingdom of Elland "?

Kai cut in unexpectedly with his eyes, with a voice in the same condition as before.

Unexpectedly trying to divert his face, he is attracted to every body.

"Don't run, Dee"

"Kai......"

"I saw Dee during the day when I was dealing with your daughter, and I generally understood. Maybe the" Between the Red Roses "ladies, the Rhias... Shayla, you got it."

"Me...... so, so easy to understand?

"For those who know Dee,

... I guess so, and my chilling self snorts in my brain. Shayla's gaze when she went around the table, as well as the expressions of Rhea, Yolanda and Leticia welcoming Deanna back after finishing her greeting, were what conveyed to her that she was perceiving Deanna's determination to guide her.

I'm sure, right now, they're all in bed, working out a plan to overturn Deanna's resolve.... If Deanna is in everyone's shoes, I will.

Because I know, Deanna would have to assemble a discourse just to convince everyone.

"No... no, Kai"

"I don't like it."

"Please. The truth is, I don't want to tell you. Yet you always find out what I mean, pick it up, take care of it.... this is only a burden to you"

"Dee, my burden? Well, you didn't mean it, did you?

When I wonder if my body is lighter, my vision flips. At the next moment, the smooth feel of the cloth touched his back and Kai was peering into Deanna's eyes against the ceiling.

"If you forget, I'll tell you as many times as I can. I'm not hired by the Crestors. It's my will that I'm beside Dee."

"Kai...... but"

"Being beside Dee, protecting Dee, and spending the same amount of time with Dee this way. It's all I want to do.... Again, shall I say? Follow me. Don't stop me."

"... eh"

In my ear, as I almost whisper, everywhere arrogant and above all gentle words are blown in. That voice, so quiet but full of strength that it would invade even the brain, even took away the words that my spine would return with a glimmer of paralysis.

(How could...)

Kai's fever, thoughts always make Deanna crazy. When I'm with Kai, I realize myself I've never known before.

Sometimes, even reason seems to take away. Such a presence should be extremely dangerous for a family of 'wise men' who love knowledge so much, though.

(I don't want to mourn this one.... Why do you think I don't want to leave?

Still. - No matter how much, "Keep hoping.

"... frightened, of"

In the eyes of purple blue as if it were a deep starry sky, the void that had been affixed was stripped off. Grasp the left hand that is being held back without force.

"I know I have to go. I'm the one who can crack this down - because I'm the one most likely to be able to" return home alive "the State Mission of Elland. If the flow of national mission dispatch cannot be stopped, I will have to leave."

"... no matter how little Dee wants it"

I felt the tears that seemed to overflow in Kai's words.

"The Stanza Empire is unknown. Even though we know what the country is made of, we have no allies within the court at heart.... Although His Royal Highness may think that 'it's only a matter of time before you change your mind if you're in a situation where you're the only one who can rely on you'. That way, you're going to protect me, but I'm sure no one else in my national mission will be chosen"

"... Sounds like"

"Where there's a black conspiracy swirling like no other in Elland's court, can I really protect everyone?... who can go back to the kingdom of Elland without letting you take one?

"Dee......"

"... His Royal Highness, too, is frightened. The thought of that one toward me is like a beautiful ice-cold by the point of sharpness and cruelty. I can't help but admire its clear beauty, even though it's horrible"

Kai's hot hand strokes Deanna's cheek slowly. My heart settled just a little at my fingertips crawling through my neck muscles.

"If Dee really doesn't like it, if you really don't want to go to Stanza, I'm going to stop Prince Stanza's roots right now.... but I'm sure Dee doesn't want that, right?

"... right. At that moment when he lost his life within Elland, the Stanza Empire can have a great name for attacking the Kingdom of Elland. Let it look like a natural death, but it will only be trivial before the fact that the" royal family is dead ". You can't die imitating the land as falling into war."

... So Deanna is.

"Whether you're scared or don't want to go, I must not escape this fate. - To the Stanza Empire, I go. Go and let them go back, without letting anyone miss you."

"... yeah"

Ky, who nodded calmly, must have known from the beginning all about Deanna's determination and the heart behind it.... whenever this one does that, it protects Deanna's "all."

"If Dee... you don't want to give up everything in front of you at all times. If Dee, you decide so. If I'm serious, there's no way I want Dee to go to a country where those guys still fall into the conscience category. More than that, I want to do whatever Dee wants to do and what she decides to do."

"Thanks......"

Kai's pushing me back makes my feelings so much easier. I shook my hand back stronger than earlier, and Deanna gently touched Kai's cheek as well.

"About everyone in the backyard, please."

"... I'm not sure what the word means? Are you telling me to stay in the kingdom of Elland?

"You mean stay... you have to stay, right? Domestically, it will still be a voyage to Stanza. Even if we weren't lucky enough to be noticed by smuggling, I don't think words and cultures can successfully follow us in different exotics, and it's nearly zero chance that Stanza's court will be full of hidden passages like this rear palace. It's a difficult business to accompany."

"The way to complete the challenges around here is, hey, think about it... but there's no way Dee's going to a dangerous place without me following him. I tried to leave you behind, and I followed you with any kind of hand."

"Kai......"

"So, Dee. Don't try to carry everything alone. Just show me everything, keep it. Let me protect anything Dee wants. - The future you want, let's grab it together?

Every time Kai pours words, "something" in Deanna overflows, deciding. Kai softly wiped the drops falling from her eyes.

"... don't leave me, okay? Will you stay with me?

"As long as Dee wants, I'll be beside Dee."

I didn't think I could go to the Stanza Empire with Kai, no matter how hard I tried. Stanza probably only recognises the State Mission of Elland as a good hostage. It would unfortunately be very likely that even civilians could be refused by the martial officers.

Still, Kai declared to me that he would use any means to stay beside Deanna. I'm sure this hand won't let go more than this one has told me so.

(... alone, even if you can't protect it. If you're with Kai, you'll see a different view)

Fear faded and it was the light of hope that lit slightly or

Or is it like another "something"?

The truth hides in the darkness for a while now, and the night slows further -.