The Inner Palace Tale of a Villainess Noble Girl

Time moves on - the sun passes through Jomtien, for a while.

"Bye, princess. Shall we come?"

Thank you, Your Highness.

Welcoming to Prince Exiga in front of the only gate connecting the rear palace (Harem) with the outside, Deanna was stepping out with Rita dignified without passing her surrounding gaze.

Arciolaine and I exchanged farewell greetings, and as soon as we returned to the room we were given, the "announcement" came in.

"The Embassy of the Kingdom of Elland has been granted the forgiveness of His Majesty the Emperor that you may freely leave the rear palace (Halem) at any time.

However, walking in an exotic country that is unfamiliar only with young maidens can be dangerous, always contact the outside world when you go out and ask to accompany Prince Exega. "

The paper that was transported at the same time as lunch (I knew it was poisoned without punishment, so I usually detoxified and ate it) says that in Stanza. The "verb" curse is only limited to sound, it doesn't translate the written letters, so Deanna translated the contents into Ellandic and read it.

A royal palace group listening to Deanna's translation wrinkles at the root of her eyebrows.

"This... sounds so kind to me."

"In short, you won't be allowed to go out without His Royal Highness's company."

To the words of Rosalie and Yuri, who were voicemails, nod around, yeah, yeah.

"You can't go out without His Royal Highness, you're not free at all."

"I agree with Aina. If you don't want Deanna to go out, you can say," I have business today and I can't accompany you. "

"Yeah, really. Dear Deanna, shouldn't this officially put in a protest?

To Mia's suggestion, Deanna, who was putting plants for detoxification in a pan, looked back.

"Right. If His Royal Highness is going to restrict my outing in a manner like Lurie said, I will put in a protest in public documents as the Embassy of the Kingdom of Elland. If you protest badly before you even know how to get them out, rejecting them could make us worse off."

"That may be..."

"It's my own personal opinion, but I probably won't ignore Dee's request unless there's so much going on with that prince. Even though Dee's liking was reduced at the point that he was forced to bring him in in a way he couldn't refuse, Hema, who would be even more upset and difficult to dictate on this, wouldn't just step on. Because we're pulling Dee away from the kingdom of Elland, and princely, we're going to be in love."

"Right. Moreover, Deanna's fondness has already dropped due to yesterday's round trip with His Majesty the Emperor. If you realize it's a start from a negative position, you should give Deanna priority no matter what you put down first."

"... nothing, though my fondness for His Royal Highness has not gone up or down since I first met you in the Kingdom of Elland. Whether in front of the carriage yesterday or with His Majesty the Emperor, I can predict how the National Mission behaved in Elland and his attitude, which did not even try to impress those below until I saw them in pain. I know who I am originally, so I can't move up or down."

"Surely, Dee, you think about His Royal Highness, 'not a bad person'? Doesn't that mean you're more favorable than the first one?

"There are people who can't really like you, even if you're not a human bad person. In the case of His Royal Highness the Prince, because you are a born royal family, there is no way out of unconscious arrogance. I don't hate him, but that's not why I'm favoring him. I find his academic findings interesting, but that's all."

"I feel a little sorry for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is going to stick around and try to dictate Deanna..."

"You'll deserve it. Rosalie, be kind to your beauty, but do not show mercy to the Lord."

Deanna sneaks a bitter smile at Yuri's words, which seem to be Deputy Samurai's.

"Well, let us look to the future and decide whether His Royal Highness will really harm me or not. - Mia, I'm going to write you a thank-you note to tell you that I want to go out this afternoon, so you can return your lunch and deliver it to the desk?

"Yes, sir."

The response to the reply I sent like that was the speed of light, as Kai and Rita assumed. Deanna and Rita are in a big hurry to get ready for the document that we're just about to pick you up.

"Kai, I'm sorry, but I need you to do something for me."

"Rikai. Dee, I know it's okay, but be very careful."

"Yep. I'm coming."

"Go away"

Kai and the royal family dropped him off and headed to the gate, where he met.

So, princess. Which way should we go first?

Prince Exiga, who had come to pick up Deanna, had taken several other soldiers besides his squire, Samba. He was light in footwork in the kingdom of Elland and basically didn't see any other followers besides Samba, but that's not exactly what he seems to do in his own country.

"Palaces other than the rear palace (Halem) are forbidden to women unless there is so much going on, but this time we have a special permission for guidance. We can take you wherever the princess wants you."

"Thank you for your attention to the Stanza Empire. I am also interested in His Majesty's royal palace… I would like to come to the royal capital today."

"That's good. Iftane is a wonderful and historic city. I'm sure the princess will love it."

Escorted by exaggerated excigas, Deanna was able to get out of the palace really smoothly. On the main street in front of the palace, a large stone structure stretches out.

This is an army crawl. Because of the large number of soldiers, Stanza has both the meaning of protecting the palace and thus the residence of soldiers around the palace. "

You're right.

"Yes, if you go through this blockade, your appearance will change again. Iftane focuses on the Imperial Palace and the city looks different from east to west and from north to south. Yesterday, the North Side through the harbor where the princess came through to the palace is a city of ordinary class people living in Iftane. The mansions of the ruling class are gathered to the south, with commercial industrial districts to the east and academic research facilities and temples to the west."

Exiga looks really fun and has a lot of mouth count. He stood out for his royalty when he was in the Kingdom of Elland, but today he looks more like a young man everywhere than a royal family. He may be able to relax by fulfilling the responsibility of a national ambassador and returning safely to his country.

... But I don't know if I can see any of Rita's big baggage behind Deanna's back.

"The southern neighborhood, lined with famous mansions, is truly majestic and promising. - Oh, but if you're a princess so revered for" Chichi ", you might enjoy it better in the West End. There is also a university in the West Side where I usually spend my time, and it is the most facially advantageous area of the Iftane, so I will not be handicapped. You can go into the big library if you want."

Is Your Highness usually at your university?

"Yes, I have some degrees, so do your research. Even so, in college, it is in the upper position, and it is hard not to say that it is good to just do research."

You're here for college work, too.

"Yep. Yesterday when I got back to college, there was a pile of work I had accumulated...... but of course, when the princess calls, I rush to put anything aside. For me, nothing takes precedence over a princess."

Thank you very much.

"It's nothing like being thankful. - So, shall we head to the West Side today?

In the conversation so far, did you think Deanna had expressed an interest in the West Side - the University of Exige? Deanna shook her neck to the left and right, slowly but firmly, asking him that with a full grin.

No, Your Highness. North Side, please. "

"North Side......? But didn't you see the streets of the North Side yesterday?

"The view I saw was only along the boulevard, stretched from the harbor to the palace. If it's a neighborhood where the people live, there will also be different views of the area off the main street."

Well, maybe it is.

"I must learn properly as an ambassador to the nation how all the people who live in the Stanza Empire spend their days and come. That's what I think when it comes to knowing the country in the true sense.

"… I understand. Be good to the princess."

The nodded Exiga tells Samba to prepare a carriage. Being a squire who could, he seemed ready, and a fine carriage soon arrived. Deanna thought about it for a moment, then thanked her, and honestly boarded the carriage...

Thank you, Your Highness. It's fine around here. "

It was like a boarding carriage running through the countryside of Elland, Nori stopped the carriage just halfway down North Side Boulevard.

(... That took quite a while)

Even considering yesterday's travel time, it seemed right to make it a carriage without being walking poorly. But you can't put this carriage in the boulder from here to the destination.

I heard it from the outside, [Ah, princess!] Exiga gives a strange look to Deanna, who stopped the carriage to signal the call.

"Around here, I don't know..."

"Where I want to go is ahead. It looks like you have to go through a narrow alley, so you won't be able to make it in this big carriage."

"Become...! Princess, that's where noble princesses like you want to go."

Exiga, with her objections in her mouth, abruptly in the middle of the words, opens her eyes as if she remembered something.

"Ma, sa..."

Shall we come, Your Highness? - That word that you're taking me wherever I want, it's not an immediate rebellion, is it?

To Deanna's smile, Exiga nodded slowly, even as she looked as if she had drunk lead.

"... of course. But that's right, I don't even know the fine geography around here. Once we get back to the palace and have a map..."

You don't have to.

Glossy rainbow tail feathers dance over Deanna's head as she leaves the carriage. Exbird is a bird characterized by brown feathers that emit a bright glow when exposed to the sun, but Rik's colouring was so clear that the feathers themselves appeared rainbow.

Looks like Rick decided to take Deanna to the back with that move without ringing because Exiga is on his side. Follow behind Deanna as Exiga panicked as she walked out after Rick's tailfeather.

Princess!

Don't worry, Your Highness. I'm walking after I know the way. "

"That can't be right. Even if the map is in your head, the compartments around here are characterized by frequent changes in appearance -"

Including that, we say it's no problem.

As you walk in interaction with Exiga, who tries to hold you back, the narrow alley marks the end, and you can see the open space.

- There is a small open-air line on a narrow road that is incomparable with the boulevard, and on both sides there is a small stone house that is about to collapse. Surrounded by tall and luxurious buildings, this is where Deanna wanted to come, as if it were the only place left over from time.

The residents, who were store numbers in the open air, suddenly appeared, with strange eyes on the upper-level Deannas, no matter what. Here finally, Deanna turned around and gazed at the stanza momentum.

I'm sorry, soldiers, but please wait here often.

"Na-!?"

"Princess, that's too dangerous!

"We can't let soldiers with weapons accompany us where we're headed. - On yesterday, for my young sister and brother, who were about to be unreasonably truncated, the blade should be above all horrible. Imitation that deliberately shows off and determines trauma is never forgivable."

"Yes... but Princess, they have a duty to protect the Princess..."

That responsibility has been fully fulfilled by your protection so far.

Smiling and ending the conversation with or without a smile, Deanna approached the closest open-air shopkeeper before Xega could stop her.

Excuse me. I'd like to ask you a few questions.

"... ahhh?

I can see him looking grumpy to see, and the people around him harassing him. I guess because the Stanza Empire has a strict identity system and no matter how much Deanna is a little girl, there is no way this attitude can be allowed.... From what I've seen, this man seems quite drunk, so maybe the shackles of reason are loose and this attitude.

"I came to visit Saja and Porte-kun's sister (today), who live in this city. Which one of you two houses, did you know?

"Uh... Saja and Porte?

"Yes. I met you in the city yesterday by chance. Porte-kun didn't seem to be doing well, so I thought you might be able to take care of him, but I divided up some medicinal herbs for you. I want to see how it goes today."

Every time Deanna talks, the man's eyes open. I could see the gaze of the shopkeepers in the open air around me, the residents walking down the street, turning this way simultaneously.

"So... is it you? The princess of Reishi said she teased a distant exotic princess. The Miracle Virgin......!!

"… I have certainly come from an exotic kingdom across the sea, the Kingdom of Elland, but I am not a great saint. The only thing Porte can do is divide the herbs."

"No!"

A leopard with an attitude lays flat on the spot. Did you return it to me because of the man's behavior, and I knelt around him at the same time?

"For us, you are exactly the Virgin who descended in this day and age. I gave up on someone's saving hand a long time ago..."

"I can't believe I'm saving you... not that I can tell you that."

"Still, you are equal to the legendary Virgin for us, just because you care about the poor like us."

... This is more serious than I thought. Deanna grinned with a grin on the surface as she frowned solely in her heart.

"... so where are Mr. Saja and Mr. Porte?

"Oh, thank you! If it's a house for two..."

Virgin! We'll show you around!

I remember the men and women who rushed in great haste. It is true that yesterday, two of us were among the group who were talking to Saja and carrying Porte. To see how that goes, I guess Saja and I are neighbors.

Deanna grins and nods again.

Thank you. Best regards, "

"Yes, yes! - Father, you're in the store, and Father will be here soon!

He also called on the man who was talking to Deanna, and they stood in front of Deanna and walked out, "I'm coming." Deanna and Rita walk behind them, and further behind them comes Exigea and Samba, who have completely lost the time to utter their words.

Are you Saja and Porte-kun's father?

There was no time for silence, so I asked what bothered me. To Deanna's words, the two walking ahead shook their heads sideways saying 'No'.

"I heard Saja and Porte's second parents died shortly after Porte was born, to keep standing. So Saja came out to Iftane to take the baby Porte, to seek work and a place to live, and to rely on her father, who was the next of kin."

"Well... if Porte-kun was a baby, he wouldn't have been old enough to get a satisfactory job."

"Yes. Sarja was a girl who could not reach ten at the time. But in this country… only a very small number of people in a high capacity are exempt from taxes on the grounds that they are pre-adults. We in the poor are particularly heavily taxed from the moment we are born. If we don't work, if we don't work, Saja and Porte will be captured for violating their tax obligations and will have to fall into slavery."

"Slaves..."

I read it in a book and knew it, but I don't know how to react as an Ellander when the word is put out for granted. Rather than the Kingdom of Elland…, the 'urban state of the lake' banned at a fairly early stage the system of 'slavery', in which people treat people as commodities and ravage their right to live as opponents. That was not out of a spirit of charity (in fact, slavery at the time also had the aspect of relief for the weak, where the wealthy could feed the needy without ties such as blood ties. The uniform abolition of slavery has led in the early days to the loss of a place of destination for the needy and has also conveyed that the temporary country has been disrupted), because the resentment of the abused remains deeply rooted after generations, all of which had concerns that they could strip their fangs of the "king" who governs the country.

"... rumor has it, I've heard it. There must be no slave status in the kingdom of Elland. No, on the contrary, we don't even have to be poor."

To the quiet words of a man walking in front, Rita and I gaze at each other and share each other's hearts and nod back slowly.

"... yeah, right. The identity system in the Kingdom of Elland only defines three kinds: royalty, nobility and civilians."

"Again... So what happens to those who can't pay taxes?

"Essentially, extraction is left to lords everywhere. Are many, after all, improved basic living capacity through temporary matching of taxes and tax breaks? Although the Kingdom of Elland is home to a majority of its people whose main tasks are farming and livestock, these jobs can be difficult to pay the taxes provided for in some cases, as the climate and disasters dictate their earnings. In that case, the tax rate will be lowered, and the Lords will distribute it everywhere so that the people can cross the winter of that year first."

"Taxes will be reduced…? The bureau is forced to take taxes or connect people who can't pay to prison as sinners."

Not at all. The Kingdom of Elland is a country that puts the King of Elland at its apex, but real power in government everywhere is deposited with nobility - with their respective lords. Other than the fact that there is an outer passage through the hearts of the people on the throne of the lords, even if our country is not as large as this one, so... unfortunately we do not declare that none of the unjust people steal the king's eyes and abuse the people. "

But Deanna keeps smiling.

"Once (once), if such evil deeds come to His Majesty's attention, it is not a story. His Majesty the King of our country is above all a respected man for the peace and tranquillity of his people. My king will never forgive the evil deeds of a lord who abuses his people."

"The peace of the people and the peaceful life... King Elland sincerely desires it from the bottom of his heart."

"Yes, this time King Juke has sent me not only as King Elland's people, but also as a friendly ambassador to all those who live in the Stanza Empire, in peace and security."

I wonder what the man thought to Deanna's answer. After a slight silence, he exhaled a thin breath.

"... sorry, sorry. I asked you about your past."

"This is outrageous. It is my duty to deal directly with and deepen the interaction with the Stanza Empire. Don't take it personally."

"The princess is truly kind... and we must thank His Majesty the King of the Kingdom of Elgrand for sending the princess."

That's all we talked about, the road cuts off, and we head out to the little square. In the corner of that square, surrounded by houses that were also built on both sides of the street earlier and were crudely built, that were likely to collapse in one shot when the earthquake came, I saw a verbal sarja burning fire yesterday. Sarja also seems to have felt signs of people, raising her face and circling her eyes.

"Lady...!

Deanna hurriedly approached Saja with her feet, thanking the men and women who controlled her hand and guided her as she tried to rush over.

"I'm sorry to keep you busy. How's Porte doing?

"Lady, I can't believe you really need me..."

"Naturally. Doctors don't throw out patients they've seen once."

Deanna peeks into the pan with a reassuring grin (taught with a genuine annotation that sounds disgusting, "In Deanna's case, it's unknown how effective it will be because of the face of the Crestors," she learned from the doctors in her hometown). There was still only water in the pan, but beside it was the first grain I saw and the yellow bag I gave it yesterday. Apparently, he was trying to prepare a Porte meal.

Are you going to eat now?

"Yes, thank God I took the red medicine to Porte yesterday and the fever dropped considerably... I didn't want to take the blue medicine and my appetite seemed to come out, so I thought I'd make the herb porridge you taught me."

"That's above all."

The medicine seems to work well. Of course there will be the quality of medicinal herbs that I have brought, but in a life like this there will simply be a large aspect of the synergistic response caused by the first experience of drug efficacy because I would have had to rely on self-healing power even if I became ill. Rather, it is a miracle that a child named Porte was survived to this age.

Deanna took the cereal, which would probably be stanza-specific, after putting a word of no on Saja. Close your eyes and listen to their voices.

Saja.

Yes, yes.

"How do you usually cook this cereal?

"Cooking, so much so that the layers...... add grains to boiled water and simmer until tender, seasoned with salt and spices. If you're lucky enough to get the vegetables, they may simmer together."

"I see. So for once, can you cook as I say?

Yes, of course.

Deanna chews up the voices she hears and sends them to Saja. She also gives detailed instructions when to put herbs in. Saja seems to be a well-remembered kid, and she nodded, "Okay, I'll try," just once I heard her.

Rita

Yes, Deanna.

"I will now see how Porte is doing. Can I ask you to follow up on Sarja?

Yes, sir.

Saja has quietly bowed her head without pinching her mouth, although she has also rounded her eyes to the short conversation of her main obedience.

"... Best regards"

"Yes, I'll call you if you need anything."

Smiling, Deanna entered the stone house that Saja showed me. Naturally dusty, barely seems to secure space for sleeping beds and necessities, but still small windows are decorated with flowers and devised not to kill the landscape, such as beautiful decorations on the contours of walls.

- Behind that room, on a bunk of taller beds, wrapped in a worn out but clean cloth, I saw a small figure.

"Is that it...?

Fine, but solid vocalization. They also have a clear consciousness.

Deanna slowly walked over with the medicine box she received from Rita outside.

Hello, Porte.

"Kon, Hachi"

You don't have to get up. - Nice to meet you. My name is Deanna. We do things like a doctor's apprenticeship. "

"Oh, hey...?

Young, but Porte seemed like a solid child. Gaze at Deanna as she approaches, and sift and shake her little face to the side.

Sorry, dude. No, I don't. "

"... you say the same thing as your sister. It's okay. I'm not getting paid."

No, no, no, no.

Oh, why?

"... because you have to say something. I don't know what to do with it, right? No free time. 'Cause, guys, I'm telling you. If you don't get a proper treat, you can't even eat dinner."

――

A toddler who has not yet reached six understands the importance of getting paid for his work as a real sense of rigour without which even a daily meal would be irresistible. … which, of course, teaches children in the Kingdom of Elland, but it is the "reality of society" that is supposedly good to stain oneself after adulthood and independence.

(... don't cry. crying is rude to these kids)

Children are "treasures of the future", "beings to be sheltered and raised by adults" - familiar, unquestionably born "normal values do not prevail in this country. Thinking varies from country to country, and the only people living there are good to decide what is right and what is wrong. Deanna's, do not measure the children in front of you with the values of the Kingdom of Elland.

Thank you, Porte. You're a smart girl.

Pushing and killing the inner storm, Deanna smiles heartily, with respect for him. As it was, the stethoscope was removed from the medicine box.

"Then, since Porte is feeling better, could you do me a favor?

"Please?"

"Yep. I come from a different country than the Stanza Empire. To get to know the Stanza Empire better."

"Beibei, country?

"When Porte is well, I want you to tell me what Porte knows about the Stanza Empire. I wonder what you usually eat, what kind of clothes you wear, what kind of work you do in what places and how much money you get. Actually, looking around."

Porte makes cute eyes very similar to Sarja's. To childhood, they felt that that would not be a consideration.

Is that okay? That's not funny, is it?

"Oh, in my country, it's a fine job as a tourist guide."

"Yes, what..."

"Yep. So first of all, Porte needs to be well enough to show me around the city."

Porte seemed to think a little bit, but he felt that Deanna's words had no lies, and eventually nodded.

Yeah, okay.

"Nice to meet you. So, can I talk to Porte-kun's body for a second?

"... don't you want to?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Tips for treating children have also been learned in Crestor. - Especially at the time, Deanna was still in front of adults, although it's a trick I learned like playing half-assed with children coming to the clinic.

Hear the sound of breathing and the heart's heart's heart in a stethoscope, look at the color of the back of your throat and eyes, take a pulse, and measure the exact body temperature on a thermometer. Examine in detail the parts of the road that you did not know just yesterday from a closer examination, and determine a more appropriate formula. The possibility of the most feared infectious disease crumbled first, and Deanna relieved herself.

(If this symptom is caused by this disease... the fever seems to be dropping somehow, so later -)

In an attempt to review the formula, fu, my eyes catch on the red and blue bags on Porte's pillow. I gave it to Saja yesterday, a bag containing antipyretic and therapeutic herbs. Regardless of the red, the blue might as well be refilled a little more, peeking into the bag -.

(Oh, yeah?

If I remember correctly, I would have dispensed the red medicine three times and the blue medicine six times and put it in. Even if I ran out of antipyretics, it's only been a day since the blue pills were empty.

"Well, that's creepy..."

He noticed Deanna's gaze, and Porte knocked him around in the cloth and reached out.

'Cause I got a little sloppy with this. I gave it to our grandmother and asked her sister to do it. "

Back there, Grandma?

"Yeah. I heard that our grandmother has been following the snake for a long time.... Everyone around here can't rest if they're bugged or hurt, - soon, they'll sink"

Out of the way, my heart sounded an unpleasant beat.

With proper treatment, with proper medication, it should have been possible to still exist (while), life, as long as you could rest well.

Deanna must have hated seeing them taken away unreasonably, long, long before she was willing to.

Though that is perhaps more due to Deanna's own temperament than her instincts as a 'Princess of the Woods'.

(... not enough. I'm sure it's not enough just to distribute the herbs)

Deanna didn't come to bury a bone in this country. Deanna's wanted future is much farther away, in a wider place.

However, it seems unlikely that I will be able to pass the "life" in front of me for the future I want.

If you don't want to give up the future and want to grab the life in front of you -!

"... yes, you are. That's why Porte gave your grandmother her medicine."

"Yeah. Then Grandma said she got a little sloppy, too. I don't want you to be nice to me or my sister."

Okay.... Thank you, Porte. "

"... why are you here? Thank you. I'll tell you what.

Yeah, I have to tell you.

In Saja, I probably didn't know. She is smarter than her age and speaks to Deanna, who is exotic, and what she shouldn't. Even in real life, "she never speaks, such as a routine where death is close to her.

It is thanks to Porte that we have seen the reality of this country, the harshness borne by the poor. If you don't work desperately, you will also live lacking in what you eat today, naturally losing strength, and illnesses and injuries that would otherwise heal if you took a few days off will quickly consume your life itself. That, harsh and cruel - above all, irrational "reality".

- Speaking with Porte smiling, Deanna formulates her medicine and packs it in a bag. So that we can "hem" the neighborhood more comfortably.

Eventually, Sarja brought in the herb porridge that she could, and she thanked me again for cooking it up looking incredibly plump and delicious (if you listen to the "voice" of the cereal, you'll more or less know how to cook it that tastes best for humans), explaining the newly formulated medicine.

Excuse me for doing this. I'll see you soon. "

Only the surface remained smiling all the time, Deanna was dropped off by Saja and left the square behind. The open-air shopkeeper who waited for me all the way outside (the edge of Saja and Porte, apparently also like the face roles around here. I had been drinking since daylight when the life of tomorrow and the desperate Porte condition regained it today, and he couldn't help but be happy) and by the time I was guided out of the ghetto, Yang was already about to sink. They said the soldiers had called in advance, and the carriage would run without waiting.

The Princess.

All this time, I told him something. Exiger, who had done so, finally opened his mouth on the occasion of the carriage leaving the four of us alone.... Although he naturally realized he wanted to talk about something, Deanna was taking away the opportunity for him to speak by daring to stand busy. It's about him, so naturally, you would have noticed Deanna's intentions.

"It's about the kind princess, so I know you couldn't pass the people who are suffering in front of you. But this is how the Stanza Empire is. Please understand."

Yes, sir.

Return the word of affirmation to the words of excused exciga. Eye-opening Exiga stared back directly in the front.

"It is for the rulers of that country to decide how to govern the country. I am only an exotic, an outsider. I have no intention of speaking or giving a hand to the Stanza Empire."

"... but the princess is very angry."

"Angry? - Right, I'm angry. To myself."

Deanna takes a quiet, deep breath in front of Exiga, who opens her eyes.

"Unless now I am the ambassador of the State of Elland. As a mere traveler, if you descended into the Stanza Empire. I could have seen more of you without having to go back to the Imperial Palace or anything like that, without worrying about the combination to the Stanza Empire or anything.... I resent and hate myself for having to worry about my position until I leave the country"

"Princess..."

"I don't care about the way the Stanza Empire is, or the system of governance that diverts my dissatisfaction with power control by tightening it above its limits to the discriminated hierarchy. The Kingdom of Elland decided a long time ago to escape from such a system of governance that would connect hatred and resentment to the next generation, but let other countries have their own thoughts. I don't mean to say it there, I don't mean to accuse you."

"Princess...!

"I am just - people with a strong heart who are in such a vortex and suffer, and who still do not give up living in despair, but remember to think of others, are just heartfelt loving. The brilliance is lovely, and I just wish I could protect it."

And... no matter how much you wish to protect it, there are more limits to how far you can go than Deanna being the national ambassador of the Kingdom of Elland.

"… for example"

Exige opens her mouth quietly.

"For example, if the princess marries me. If the princess became Princess of Stanza, she could save a lot of people as a charity, right?

"You must be kidding me. Isn't it like the royal family breaking itself down the way His Highness himself said you were in the country earlier, such as embarking on the relief of the poor as a business? It is something that His Majesty the Emperor himself must take command of and spend several generations working on ready to change the country from the ground up. There's nothing you can do about it as a princess."

"... you are truly a wise man. Then let me ask you something. If there is a war going on between Stanza and Elland, the toddler you saved today may also go out on the battlefield as a soldier. In that case, he will kill many Ellanders for his country and, above all, for his own survival. When that happens, don't you regret what you did today?

That's the kind of risk the prince tells us when it comes to helping the Stanzas. Perhaps it's also a far-fetched threat that if you do something too unsolicited, you won't know what the Stanza Empire will do to the Kingdom of Elland. In a way, "It's a princely word of Wu's empire.

- But.

"Doctors don't measure the value of life in front of them. Whether you are a good man or a bad man, you are a patient who should be saved equally more than you are suffering in front of you. - Not to mention, it's not within the discretion of doctors to see what the lives they save will do in the future."

Deanna's answer is determined from the beginning. I won't waver at such threats.

I mean, you don't regret it?

"As a doctor, I am. And I, as an ambassador of the nation, intend to come to this country prepared not to let anyone have such regrets."

Exige's expression turns into something surprising. With a quiet eye with determination, Deanna quietly shot him through.

"The Kingdom of Elland and the Empire of Stanza have been trading for generations. Now let us have a large number of migrants in each other's countries and companions from each country. There must be more people who foster friendship and trust beyond their nationality through trading, commerce, technology exchange, etc., than we think.... if it were a battle, all its people would feel bitter and bitter."

"It's..."

"We are never" evil "in expanding, strengthening and governing our country by force. That, too, would be the way it is as a single country. Ordering your hometown, your partner, and your friends to be slaughtered for that must be normal in the Stanza Empire."

"No... it is"

"But the Kingdom of Elland does not want to give such life to its people if it can. I want to continue to hand over my ties to the Stanza Empire, which has been connected for generations to come, peacefully, amicably and to the next generation." The future is what we truly want. "

"Is that what you say when the Kingdom of Elland... sincerely desires friendship with the Stanza Empire, not under any pretext or pre-construction?

"We have said that from the very beginning - from that moment when the Stanza Imperial Mission was trampled on the land of Elland. Since our history, our country has never wanted to have an affair with another country. It has been and continues to be a thorough neutral pacifism."

In Deanna's words, Exiga and Samba sitting next to her will have a flashing look. I guess I never thought of Deanna as being serious and trying to play the role of 'Friendly Nation Envoy' in a real sense. Deanna made full operation of her authority as a scattered "national envoy" yesterday, but to them, it only seemed like a pretext to move in their favor within the Stanza Empire?... Well, sometimes there's actually that aspect, so I don't deny it all.

"... Your Highness must be busy for a while now."

After counting the silence for a while, Deanna quietly, changed the subject. Exiga blinks several times, then shakes her neck to the side.

"I'm sure there's a lot of work to be done… no matter, the princess is the priority."

"Then I will be resented by your colleagues. - I'd appreciate it if we could go out tomorrow, just like we did today, at the end of lunch."

"Yes.... thank you, princess. By the way, are you still going to the Glades tomorrow?

"Tomorrow, if possible, we would like to interrupt Your Highness's university. Surely, the universities of the Stanza Empire are the culmination of academic research in all fields, aren't they?

"Of course, at its peak, there are scholars who study every day."

college, the look on Exigea's face shines when she hears the word. The only thing I wanted to look into in college, though I probably wouldn't wear it with His Highness's specialty... groaned in my heart, and Deanna stared at the lights of the palace that approached me.

"Di, Deanna. Sorry, while a little everyone was paying, like this -!"

A few minutes later, I never dreamed that you would meet an indoor where clothes and groceries brought in from the Kingdom of Elland were ravaged.