"Come on, let's brace our bellies."

The voice had enough power to move a stagnant place.

This is a meeting place. Several face each other and hold meetings to decide on one subject. But the meeting didn't go on and everyone was looking at each other.

That's why the word resonated so strongly. Everyone turns their gaze to those who cut through the air of stalling meetings. Some nod as they agree, while others skew their faces to indicate a difficult color.

"... I know what you're trying to say. But it is."

"But what? You've become a very careful man."

"Think about your current public opinion and speak up!

"After thinking about it, I'm saying it doesn't make any sense to keep your hands around me."

Against those who roughed up their voices out of frustration, the cut off returned words to poke at them. Not only those who roughed up their voices, but also those with the same ideas as him, distort their faces.

"Indeed, we have lost our previous power. But is that why we live round our backs? You're not, are you? We are proud. This is what it takes to regain our pride."

"But..."

"Shit! It's a seat for what, not just a seat given away. This seat has been taken over! Then let me argue with that responsibility and pride as much as I can convince!

No one speaks out against that voice. The quiet meeting hall had already become his private venue.

"The time has already passed. The more time is available, the less effective this measure will be. It's time to get up."

"... so I guess you take responsibility when you make a mistake?

Someone shrugged, as I said remorse. Make that whine sound like laughing with your nose.

"Absolutely. My name is the Voltaire family."

That being said, man, Lang Voltaire kept his sharp gaze and said so with a determined eye.

"One, two, three..."

In the courtyard of the outhouse I was bareback. I don't know when there will be an assault on my mother, and I can't be lazy because I don't have anything to do.

Um, but if I can spare you time like this, I'd also like to return to being an adventurer, wondering if Uffi would allow the boulders? Now I want to study it, and I'm going to say that Uffi will give me the budget.

Wait till one day, I think that's the story. Well, you can only be prepared, and it's important that you don't blunt your body. Workout, workout.

"Ah, Master Anis. Was it this way?"

"That, Raini? What's the matter with you?

Working out in the courtyard, Raini called out. Why would Raini be here when he was supposed to be working at the Royal Castle today?

"Master Uphilia called, please climb the castle"

"Huh? You want me to climb the castle? That's unusual."

Being kept away from government, I rarely plan to climb the castle. When my father was king, I never felt so summoned, and if I didn't have to, I wouldn't have leaned on him, so I feel fresh the other way around.

But was there something called calling me? Looking at Raini doesn't seem like an urgent project.

"By the way, climbing a castle, right from now on?

"No, he wants you to come to the office in about two minutes."

"Mm-hmm. Okay, I guess after I sweat and change. You can go back to Raini if you want."

"Yes. Now if you'll excuse me."

Raini was leaving with a smile and a brilliant courtesy. Since I started going to the royal castle, Raini has been sophisticated in its operation. I still remember when Raini was a samurai apprentice. Time flies fast.

Well, if I'm relaxed too, I'll be late for the time specified for Uffi, so I need to get ready.

"I have been waiting for you, Your Royal Highness the King of Anisphere"

After finishing his duties, he climbs the castle and is greeted by the royal maids. Compared to when I was called a princess, somehow it feels like I'm well treated as a royal, too.

That's not why I'm so tight. I don't think I can stay a kid on a boulder.

Sister Wang, you have to be firm enough to think you deserve to be called that.

"Thank you for letting me through."

Well, what can I do for you, Yuffi? I'll go inside while you open the office door.

Uffi and Father sat on the couch for visitors to the office. What a Miguel it was to be in that opposite seat.

I saw a face I didn't think I would. I unwittingly round my eyes. What are you doing, Miguel?

"Anis, I'm sorry I called you"

"Fine. And why would Miguel?

"Ha ha, because I'm the one who's keeping this one"

Miguel says with a smile without his usual grasp. As usual, I sit on the sofa for visitors too, thinking.

After confirming that I have lowered my back, your father will look out for Uffi. Uffi also nods to respond, then coughs before he starts talking.

"I called Anis because I actually had a consultation"

"Consultation? Could it be a sudden story?

If I wanted to talk to you, I thought I could do it even after I got back out of the palace, but when I asked if it might be a rush project to say that Miguel was there, it wasn't Yuffi who answered.

"More info from me. First of all, I was asked to take care of Her Majesty the Queen and Her Royal Highness the King."

"Asked? To whom?"

"It's the Spirit Ministry."

"... the Ministry of the Spirit? Anyway, Yuffi, to me?

I see Yufi and Father's face with the face that I cannot believe. Uffi gave me a troubled look and nodded small. Father remains silent with an expression close to the top of the Buddha.

I guess going through Miguel means I really want to talk to you. But that spiritual ministry? Anyway, if you want to talk to Yufi about something, give it to me? Why is that?

"Being confused is a natural reaction if you think about what you've been up to, can you listen to me?

"Ugh, yeah. What kind of story is that the Spirit Ministry wants to take after me and Uffi?

"It's a story that Her Majesty the Queen has to approve, but your destiny is yours. Her Royal Highness the King of Anisphere."

"... Huh?

I was taken aback by Miguel's words, and he made a distracted voice. No, I don't know what it means more and more. So the purpose of the spiritual ministry is to negotiate with me?

I don't know what to say myself, but I don't have a good relationship with the Spirit Ministry. Even if they bring in negotiations this way, they don't know what they're thinking. I can't even imagine.

Naturally for my reaction, Miguel is nodding, as he said. Miguel holds his hands together and continues the conversation with his elbows on his knees.

"The confusion of Her Royal Highness Sister Wang is especially true, but in the first place, it can be said that the relationship between the Ministry of the Spirit and Her Royal Highness Wang is not good."

"I can't even tell you how close I am to flattering you... but did something go wrong?

"No, that's not what I'm talking about. Well, Sister Wang. In the first place, do you remember how the Spirit Ministry, formerly the Ministry of Magic, was founded?

"Remember what I told you. I wanted the Ministry of the Spirit to divide my work with those who embraced the magic of the former Ministry of Magic, and to be responsible for compiling, storing and preserving the materials that were recorded during the Ministry of Magic's time."

It was me and Uffi who separated what was originally a large organization called the Ministry of Magic. People who embraced magic and willingly worked for the Ministry of Magic, and people who were difficult to embrace aristocraces and magic who were serious about traditional spiritual beliefs were only renewed with signs.

The contents of the work were originally measures to move the work that had been contracted by the Ministry of Magic to more full-time and specialized work. Of course, I assumed there were people who didn't accept me because my voice as a political faction was going to fall.

"Yeah, Sister Wang is right about the role of the Spirit Ministry right now. And I took on the intermediary to ask Her Royal Highness Wang's help for their business."

"To me? No, how did that happen...? Or what is the spiritual ministry going to do?

"Anis, the Spirit Ministry wants to lead your birthday."

It was your father who pinched his mouth. To the extent that my jaw seemed to fall off to the words said by my father, who remained on the top of the Buddha, I opened my mouth and stunned.

What, that spiritual ministry? You want to lead my birthday? What, are you serious?

"Wait, wait. Huh? In the first place, my birthday's over, right? Besides, it's my birthday... I've been doing that since I gave up my right to inherit the throne, haven't I?

Yes. For once, I have relinquished my right to inherit the throne. Then, as a royalty, he was treated as someone who had left no place but was practically immaterial. That's why I've never had a birthday since then.

That's royal birthday can be mentioned as one of the aristocratic socials, and I know it was celebrated when Al was there. But to be honest with me, I thought it didn't matter anymore...

"So what is it?"

"So?"

"The Ministry of the Spirit wants to improve relations with His Royal Highness Sister Wang, and for that reason has submitted a plan to Her Majesty that Her Royal Highness Wang's Birthday should be held again. Suddenly, even if the Spirit Ministry came out to explain its intentions, you wouldn't even listen to me."

"Improved relationship with me ~ ~?"

I accidentally got a weird voice. Now the thought boils down in me.

No, I've changed my name already, and I don't think they're gonna feel like doing something like that because I think they've seen a lot of pain in their eyes with Yuffi becoming a queen. It's true I was a problem, isn't it?

But even if they tell me you want to make up with me from over there, well, honestly, I'm in trouble...

"Here's what the Spirit Ministry has to say. The Ministry of the Spirit assumes the role of preserving culture and inheriting tradition. Then perhaps we should once again perform the Birthday Festival of His Royal Highness Sister Wang, whom we have been scorning."

Oh, is that why your father looks sinister? Even though it's one of the factors that made me a pain in the ass when I was in the Ministry of Magic.

But I can see the story. Surely the spiritual ministry, honestly, doesn't have a good reputation, does it? Now that me and my good friend Uffi are about to take office as queen or that magic science is officially about to begin as a national cause, the contempt that was once directed at me is gone, and instead there is bad feelings toward the Spirit Ministry.

I deserve it, not that I don't feel like it... No, but that's why I don't care if the Spirit Ministry tells me to cooperate...

"Uh-huh, no, yeah. As far as I'm concerned, I think you should do it. If you're going to do it, I don't even know what the Spirit Ministry is saying."

The Spirit Ministry is clearly seen to have been pushed into idle duty. Because the plain work of organizing materials is the main thing.

But I can't help it. Because this is the policy that Uffi and I decided after consulting each other. In the first place, the materials kept by the Ministry of Magic contain large quantities of abstract representations and contents, and trying to obtain information based on the facts is not helpful.

That's why you pushed the Ministry of the Spirit to compile the material as a job, with the implication that it would look at reality. Because they wanted us to learn their intentions as to why the materials would be required by creating the materials we seek themselves.

In terms of preserving culture, I do not believe that all of that material is a mistake. But I think it should be divided by purpose. That's why you wanted the Ministry of the Spirit to take charge of the cultural aspects of the country with the preservation of materials and culture and the experience gained in that role.

So if you think calmly, it would be a good opportunity to publicize the work of the Spirit Ministry to do a lot of my birthday. He wants to appeal to the Royal Family that their relationship is good by showing them how much they have improved with me.

I get it. You get it, don't you? But to snort honestly, the cause of me and the Spirit Ministry is not shallow. I really realize that thought gets on my face.

"That's why I called you.... Take it on, you'll snort. In fact, there are various advantages. But there's no reason to ignore your feelings."

"Father..."

"I can't tell you anything else when they bring up your birthday story. The rest of you are guilty of the same crime."

"No, but you have no reason to say no. It's all good. Besides, you don't think that Miguel's in the middle of a negotiation, do you?

To the father on the top of the Buddha I return with a sigh. I mean the same crime, but I don't think Father did anything wrong. Now that magic has become acceptable, public opinion is just repeating itself, and I think Father's response was right at the time.

That's why it's so effective to celebrate my birthday.... I can think about that. Nodding is going to be kind of heavy around the stomach.

"The Spirit Ministry purely wants to hustle and bust a new role. Express the improvement of the relationship by doing much of His Royal Highness Sister Wang's Birthday Festival, which I have been scorning for as its subject. And in the future, I want to regain my voice, which has been shredded by taking the lead in the event. That's the place."

"So far, the Ministry of Magic and Science has taken the subject and the name. Regardless of what you have to do, I don't mean for the Spirit Ministry to be considered idle like this. … positively…………………………!

"Anis......"

With his teeth squeaking critically, he grins convulsively. I put my hand on my forehead and sighed like Ufi had stunned me, like I'd managed to admit it.

'Cause you don't have specifications, and if you can reason and convince your emotions, you won't have a hard time. Damn, that's a hell of a story rolling in.

"Who told you that in the first place?

Oh, it's Lang.

"Huh!?"

Lang, that lang? I had no choice but to open my eyes and marvel at a name I never thought I would.