"... rumors?
Late in the night, which is already beyond the date, the knights talk to each other.
There is nothing for them while a fancy party is held in Wangju. Only large quantities of bandages, disinfectants and medicines were spreading in front of them in place of a treat in an exercise area that was also ageing.
There were knights who could see fatigue from anyone's face and even more deluded by just bandaging wounds that still couldn't heal. The current situation was that the number of special abilities for injury treatment was insufficient and that even first aid and the hands of the doctors and the Seventh Squad could not be reached in time.
The knights who had completed their assignment had returned to the Knights' Exercise Ground in a small platoon without a decent welcome. In the ambulance building, the seriously injured are treated by special abilities, while the slightly injured are deceived by bandages and medicines distributed to each other while gathering in one place.
"Oh, it's just a rumor.... At night, he sometimes hears a man's interrupter from Wangju. Rumor has it that the Queen is a hobby to scold people. For this reason, men of national age are regularly abducted and offered.
"I've heard that before, too, huh? The man is talking about being used up overnight and dumped somewhere.
"I heard I'd keep it for a month.... for a month, all the way through the Queen's torture, and at the end of the day, when everyone begs me to kill him.
"What I heard was that it wasn't the kidnapped man..."
"Keep it around there. If they hear bad rumors about the royal family, they won't be guilty of disrespect.... if you put it in the Knight Commander's ear, it's going to be a big deal.
One knight stops spreading rumors.
Some knights spoke naturally to the heavy words they themselves also spoke while revealing their hostility to the Queen and even to his appearance. "Excuse me," he says to each other, "let's get ready for bed early tomorrow," leaving the spot from the knight who finished wrapping the bandage. Other knights put their hands on their shoulders as they left the knight who stopped talking. Returning his head to the labor from the senior knight, he put his armor back on his body, which had finished wrapping the bandage. Then another knight, looking at it, moved his mouth, remembering another man on the day of his presence.
"... you're always tough and right, Arthur.
"Though I thought it was an imitation that went too far for the senior knights.... to my father, it must be similar.
I'm sorry, and to Arthur, who bowed his head again, the knight slapped him on the shoulder when he gave him back, "You were the deputy captain on that spot," he said. After receiving it, Arthur quickly rewears his team clothes from above his armor. The red stain lingers everywhere. Weave it and stand up.
"I've heard from the Knights Commander before. The former Knights Commander and the former Deputy Commander defied the Queen and said he was punished.
Arthur reviewed the knight with a calm look as he rocked his short pruned silver hair. The knight leaned down small to the word. To him at the time, those two were also colleagues.
"Does Deputy Kenneth know… the former Knights Commander and the former Deputy Commander as well as the Knights Commander?
"Oh.... we were both excellent knights. The knights lined up with them are in the Knights now... no, they wouldn't have been quite there in the Knights all season.
He was such a knight, Arthur conceives a little to the deputy commander. I was a recruit at the time. I had little involvement. But even from a distance, I only remember two figures full of majesty as knights.
... even such splendid knights questioned the Queen's way?
Former Knights Commander, when the former Deputy Commander was punished. Many knights moaned badly without even being able to accept the fact. Even after they died, there was not a single knight who spoke ill of them both.
Soon afterwards, as the new Knights Commander, Harrison Knights Commander, and Deputy Kenneth took office, but the Queen told the Knights that the next time she allowed the rebellion, the corresponding punishment awaited her.
"... and your father, of course.
He was a fine knight, and Arthur stuck his chest in the words of the deputy commander. Thank you, it scratches all my own stupidity that I could only rebel at the time in my memory, even though I give it back.
"By the way," Arthur tells the story himself in an attempt to change the subject. Just as I would have worked for a vice-president who would have played a far more painful role than this one.
"How was it? The Queen's Birthday.
Late at night, Kenneth, the deputy captain who finished the party with Knights captain Harrison, was visiting the ambulance building to labor them back on duty with that leg of fatigue seeping through.
"I'm sure it's what you imagined," said Kenneth, with an ambiguous grin that made Arthur laugh bitterly at his words.
Ever since the current queen came to rule the kingdom of Friesia, the number of guests had clearly decreased. Naturally, there are many who are bound to attend for fear of buying the queen's disgust, but still the number of guests themselves was decreasing, even though the size and decoration of the party just add to the flair in vain compared to the time of the previous queen. How unpopular the queen is today. So obvious to anyone's eyes.
Arthur, who knew that fact, immediately perceived it in Kenneth's words as well. It remains the same every year, because the upper echelons and nobles of their country continue to be frightened not to buy the queen's objections, and the royal nobles of other countries want a relationship that is not too thin to leave.
"... Besides, Princess Tiara and Prince Leon were not present this year.
Kenneth says it's time to close this room. Arthur conceived one person of the word "Prince Leon" accordingly.
... Prince Leon.
The queen's fiancée. Still no marriage, but essentially a king's mate. He is a former prince of the kingdom of Anemone, who has lived in the royal palace for two years.
But few have seen Prince Leon move to the kingdom of Friesia after his engagement.
The definite reason is unknown, but people all over the country were whispering that he was just a famous prince who was not even trying to get involved in his official duties as the next king's brother-in-law, but was just devouring the people's taxes.
Late on the day I plan to move to the kingdom of Friesia, I thought I'd finally come to the castle, naturally because I'm not even trying to fulfill my responsibilities as the next king. There were rumors that she was treated as a comfort to the queen by using her innate beauty, that she was holding the country's lead behind her, and that she was already dead.
... I wish you were really dead.
It's better for the country. I didn't put it in my mouth, just in my chest. I put that thought to rest. As one of the knights who continues to work powder himself for the people, a man named Prince Leon, who does nothing to serve the royal family, is also the object of contempt.
Princess Tiara hears that she has been locked in a tower far away for a long time because of her obsession with the Queen. Regardless of her will, she also has sympathy for being cut off from the outside world. But Prince Leon isn't.
Such as royalty living on national taxes doing nothing and just enjoying a rich life. I sincerely thought that if I were to say it as a single people, it would be a foolish king's match for that queen.
The Knights ambush seven years ago.
At that time, the kingdom of Anemone, which was scheduled for a joint recruiting exercise, did not arrive in the Kingdom of Friesia even at the scheduled time. For this reason, my father, the Knight Commander, led the recruits to confirm and report the scene, … and did not return.
At the time, however, the kingdom of Anemone did not acknowledge its own inadmissibility, but rather slammed that even the total annihilation of the Knights of the kingdom of Anemone on its way to Freesia was the responsibility of the Kingdom of Freesia, and as a result it caused even a futile dispute.
Arthur does not have a good impression on the kingdom of Anemone, which made a new peace and became this engagement as a testament to it, but also created the cause of the loss of many knights with his father and even the decline of the Knights. The same applies to its first prince, Leon. Even more abominable is the queen's companion. Only contempt and disgust snap into this body like mud.... for the rest of my life, it won't even disappear.
………
Arthur greeted Kenneth in front of the ambulance building, closing the key at the end and putting it back in storage.
Unlike Kenneth, who returns to the deputy chief's office, Arthur planned to go home once as he did. One, to help my mother continue her small restaurant.
Good job, and when he hung the words and raised his face, Kenneth put his hand on Arthur's shoulder before the words. And I put my face close to Arthur's ear with a gentle concern for the human eye, whispering.
"... don't get distracted, I don't even know where anybody in the country is listening. You, you're the only one... don't be like Column or Alan.
For your father's sake. Kenneth, who tells that with a voice lurking to the extreme, returned it with only a complex expression to Arthur, who rounds his eyes when he releases his face.
I said nothing more than that, trying to push Arthur's back and dropping him off at the gate of the exercise area.
"... after all, is the deputy commander concerned about your father too?
On the road, what I thought overflows small from my mouth.
Since the beginning of Arthur's enlistment in the main unit, there have been a number of knight seniors who care about him by giving him occasional eye-catching knights and sneak advice. Think of yourself, the son of a martyred knight captain, … and Arthur himself understood that it would be from a confession that failed to save his father at that time.
"I don't blame the Knights.... with me, even though you understand.
... Interpretation, no matter how far I go, am I only the son of the late former Knights Commander?
No matter how much credit you get, it doesn't change how much you try to lift your arms. "Not Arthur." Everyone in the Knight sees me from a distance with a son of a former Knight Commander. Arthur, turn to me with all the grins you've taken care of while calling out his name. I was already too used to seeing it and paralyzed it, but the look at me was naturally "not a knight" but "a survivor".
Thinking that far, Arthur shook one head.... all while scolding myself that it would have been what I wanted.
... I imitated my father by wanting myself, with all my short hair, words and gestures.
Until then, I understood that there was no way I could be a knight. And it was worth the effort to be a knight. He belonged to the same squad as my father at the time, until he was appointed deputy captain in the Knights, where the personnel were dwindling.
"... and a few more.
Deputy captain, next up is the knight captain. And attendance at the royal ceremony with the Knights Commander and Deputy Commander is allowed if the most outstanding feat of the captainship is achieved. I missed the chairman at all costs in my enlistment exam, there are a few more ways left. The eyes of other knights were… especially those of Captain Harrison's Knights were constantly poured on him at the Syriac ceremony and celebrations, and he was not allowed to approach the Queen easily except for the first greeting.
"My father's,... mindless. The sincerity of that day, be sure.
... I know. That I should not continue to have personal grievances as a knight. He said I was disqualified as a knight at a time when I was possessed by my father's death and shadow. But... still.
I'll take him.