The Queen’s Cosmetician

Early in the morning, the Doppelgänger side once again rubbed against the action plan, and took lunch with practitioners in Luglova City. After that, I was guided under Reina. The sun was most dazzling, and it was an afternoon without entering the room.

A square room with a large carpet and a woven crest of the city of Luglova. Round table with replacement workbench. Two chairs. One leg is a chair with a non-short, round seating surface that is up to the waist length, and the other leg is made of straw that resembles a rocking chair with a large arc on the backrest.

Dai applied incense cream to Reina's skin as she loosened up in the chair. Made from a combination of high-quality beeswax, incense oil and essential oils, it melts at body temperature when placed on the skin. First of all, the shoulders. Then around the clavicle. From the neck to the contour under the chin. Also on cheeks, forehead, and bridge of nose.

Are you uncomfortable?

“No, I feel good.”

Reina answers the die question. It's a bouncy, bright voice.

If you need anything, please let me know.

Yes, thank you.

Nodding to Reina's words, Die slowly slipped his hand.

(...... it's been a long time since I've had this kind of thing)

Unfortunately, there isn't much die work as a makeup artist in this wartime situation. The daily care and makeup of the Mariage is indispensable, and I try to keep practicing against the ladies under the die, but I spend less time lavishly doing care and makeup. Much of the die's time is devoted to the protection of culture, technology, and craftsmanship. For when the day comes when everyone can relentlessly enjoy something like that. Small Country of Performing Arts . Don't lose that inscription.

Ufufu, it's so cute

As the die slowly stroked down Reina's palm from below her ear to her clavicle, she laughed moodily.

"What a luxury this is every day..." Hey, did you know Die? All the witches are very excited. Of course. It was magical. If that's the case, I'm sure Cynthia couldn't brush her skin clean or wear makeup when she was ordered to be a saintess. I'm sure you envy Reina. "

"Maybe."... oh, yes. May I ask you a few more questions about your ceremony makeup? "

Last night, the Church of Our Lady made a proclamation. Five days from now, the reincarnation ceremony of Our Lady will be held. The Church will nominate Reina Luglova as a candidate for the lineage of the Holy Maiden Cynthia.

After that, the church instructed me to take care of Reina's skin and put on makeup. I came with the intention of doing so. No doubt, but the Die hadn't been informed of the saint's ritual. There was something I wanted to check.

Of course, Raina answered the die question, and brightly contacted her.

It doesn't have to be later, even now.

Isn't Master Reina uncomfortable?

"No, I'd rather chat with Die a lot." So, what do you want to know? ”

If that's what Reina said, I'd appreciate it. The die asked Alletta, who was kept near the wall, to ask the scribe to review the contents of the ceremony while proceeding with the maintenance.

First of all, do you have any preferences for Reina-sama?

"About makeup? I want something that looks like a saintly lady." I'll leave the rest to the die. ”

“What kind of clothes are you going to wear?”

"It's a traditional costume of the clan. I use plenty of silk dyed in the color of the country... Hmm, it's hard to explain with your mouth. I'll bring something similar to this to the dormitory later."

Is there anything you'd like to do?

"Hmm, Reina isn't familiar with the area either." The complicated things are all decided by Odyssey.... "

In addition, I asked about various things such as time slots and the personnel present, but I don't know anything specific. With a troubled face, Reina said, "I'm sorry." Are you sure she hasn't been informed, or is she making a fuss?

Wipe the incense cream and apply the kneading mixture mixed with peat to the skin. While the skin is soothing, the next step is to dissolve the facial cleanser in water and lather it up.

“Do you always check so many things to decide on makeup?”

"This is especially true for each event. Since we consider the harmony with clothes and jewelry, we will hold detailed meetings with the women at the head of the country. If you value a strict atmosphere, you may refrain from gorgeous colors....."

That's right. Die makeup is a job to make that person acclimatize to the world.

"No, one way or another... it's a job that brings you closer to where you want to be the most."

Dai replied, removing the knead of peat from Reina's skin with a soft cloth squeezed in hot water.

"Well, I don't know if other facial artists, but what I want to do with this person is the most important thing for me, so do you want to emerge from the scene, or do you want to get used to it?" Whichever you choose, it doesn't start without knowing the stage and the background. ”

Die thought it would be a long time since we had this conversation.

When I first started working at Mizwiri, I often explained my work to Mariage. Like Reina, Mariage didn't know what Die was doing.

Suddenly, Dai realized that he was listening to Reina for the most important thing. This is why we must not become too politically conscious.

Die asks Reina when she wipes the facial cleanser from her skin and picks up a bottle of cotton cloth and loose water.

What kind of maiden does Reina want to be?

"What, is the saintly woman not a saintly woman?"

"I wonder if there are many things to say to the saintly lady." The statue of Our Lady in the chapel has the same face, but it has a different atmosphere depending on the materials, such as wood, stone, etc. ”

"It's difficult..."

Why did Reina want to be a Saintess in the first place?

As the next saintess, she became an envoy of the church and declared the people of Perfilia to be a sacrifice, but the reason for her actions has not yet been revealed.

Die doesn't know much about Reina. I have only spent a few hours with them in the past, and I think it was part of their preference that they liked the makeup of the die because they liked it to be beautiful and pretty.

She is good at socializing and is a caretaker at the first Continental Conference. Mother may want to prove the results of her research as a daughter, because she is a saint - that is, a fraction of those responsible for the research that creates the witch. But Reina kept talking about her father. I didn't even mention the fragments that I wanted to inherit my mother's will.

Why did Reina Luglova decide to become a saintess?

"Because I want to be beautiful."

Reina replied pimply.

"No, it's not. I want to clean it up.... oh, yeah. Reina wants to be beautiful. To a clean, beautiful saintly lady."

Reina-sama... I think she's beautiful enough, though.

"Fufu, thank you. But, Dai. The clean ones get dirty quickly. Because this world is not clean."

The die used a cotton cloth and the bulk water was carefully applied to Reina's skin. Reina had just changed after hitting her, and she was closing her eyelids with her hands on her chest.

"... this is your first time with a die." I asked Reina why she had decided to become a saint in response to the request of the church. "

The die stopped the hand that was being purified.

"It's a long story."

Lying on her chair, she opened her mouth staring at the unknown.

"There was a girl. I lived with my father. My mother said that she died when she was a baby. There was no mother, but the girl was not lonely. The girl loved her father."

Reina-sama, that's...

"By the way, this girl, she told everyone that her father was a boy."

Die squeezed his mouth.

Reina keeps talking like a bitch.

"One day, when the girl woke up, the bedding was bright red and dirty. I know it's blood. The girl hid the cloth. I thought maybe I was sick of something. If so, I don't think you should be scared because I loved your father and everyone in the house. I secretly talked to Odishama, who was my father's best friend, who thought that the girl was next to him.... everything changed that day."

The girl was about to be taken by Odishama, and your father found her. The girl's father was blamed by Ojisama and his friends Ojisama, Ojisama and Ojisama.

Give me that. Give me that. Give me that girl.

The daughter is a daughter who inherits noble blood.

Just like your wife, you deserve it.

Give it to me. Give it to me. You were hiding it.

Give us the blood of the Holy Maiden.

Being blamed by the girls, the girls' fathers stopped moving and they set the girls' houses on fire. To keep Odysseus from knowing that they were there.

The girl's loved ones danced in the fire and stopped moving.

"The noble blood of a girl is a target of power. Odisha and the others were weak, so I wanted power. I was weak because I didn't even try. It is only natural for the strong to share their strength with the weak. The strong ones who do not do it are sinners. That's what they thought.”

"What happened to the girl...?"

“We survived. We walked among the Odissama. The girl, she's already done a lot of things.... Reina, yes, I want to create a beautiful world like this. That's why I decided to become a saintess."

Looking up at the die where her hand had stopped, Reina laughed.

"Die, this is a girl's story." It's not Reina. Don't look so sad. "

Reina's hand touched the die's cheek.

It was a cold hand.

"Let's go back to makeup." Oh, yeah. It's the makeup of the die, but it's after the ritual. ”

"After the ritual? Well then, what was the performance and the story of your clothes..."

"Rituals and ceremonies are not the same, and after Reina becomes a saint, there will be another ceremony." At that time, the makeup of the die should be changed. Oh, I'm glad I told you. "

(I see. Activating magic is a ritual, and public events are a ceremony......)

The church and the city of Luglois are laying down on the dies in relation to the maiden.

Can I ask you a few more questions about your plans for the future?

"Um, Reina-sama..."

No, I thought I'd ask Ojisama and the others to do it.

"... what are you looking for?"

It's decided.

Reina smiled as she clapped her hands at the bread.

"I was wondering if you could attend the Saintess's birthday ceremony."

Reina's hopes passed.

Only Die and Fabian were allowed to accompany the ceremony from the church. Five days after the arrival of the city of Luglois. Die and Fabian were taken down the tunnel by the guards and guards and knights prepared by the church.

(I wonder where we are...?)

Not so far from the earth. Is it for ventilation? There are holes everywhere in the ceiling, and I can see the moonlight -- today is the full moon.

Church officials and sorcerers gathered from various countries climbed the Luglova River aboard the boat in the evening. It's almost certain that the Luglova River will be the place for the reincarnation ceremony.

However, Die and Fabian could not get on the ship. Descend the underground staircase of Luglois City Hall and continue on to the underground aqueduct.

If Reina hadn't walked ahead, she'd be locked away somewhere.

(No, it's still possible......)

Minimum number of guests. There are no side roads on the road. The die stroked his left wrist, saying, "If you have to, you can escape." Once again, I felt the shimmering temperature of Alvina's handmade protective equipment, which mimicked the shape of the silverwork handed over to Reina.

"It's going to be dark and narrow, and it's going to be no good." Hey, Die. Isn't that what Foreign Secretary Barnier thinks? "

Sheila, the lady, and Reina, who was ahead with several soldiers, skipped the die over her shoulder. Well, Die nods, and Fabian holds down his mouth and coughs into his mouth.

Oh, what's the matter?

"It looks like I've lost my health..."

Die replies to Reina's question, replacing him with a wave of apologies.

“He's coughing, so if he can't talk, he's told to come out.”

It's really, really pathetic. Certainly, our country and clan have very different climates. Do you want to come here and catch a cold? Aren't you stupid? Are you still the head foreign affairs officer? What are you going to do if something happens to Die-sama, such as not being able to speak out at this important stage? ”

Claire was still as spicy to her superiors today as she was today. It was like looking at an insect. With all due respect to our undisguised superiors, we kept our heads down when we sent out the dies.

Oh, that's awful, Reina covers her mouth with her hands.

Please don't fall down after this.

"And...?"

Ladies and gentlemen, we're almost there.

Die's doubts were obscured by Sheila's words. When I noticed it, the road descended slightly, and the waterway that was supposed to be next to it disappeared.

Shortly thereafter, my vision opens up.

I went out into a wide space that looked like a pot upside down.

"... altar?"

No, it was a temple.

There is a gate in the middle of the space. It was built from a combination of three giant spine columns. The stone was twice as tall as the die, and the width was not wide enough for an adult to spread his hands.

The stone emitted a faint light in the darkness.

Pale green. You can see that the silver is flickering when you approach it.

(not stone)

This is a power stone. All three of these huge stone pillars are fossils of special trees and silver trees that have magical properties.

Fabian stops next to the die.

He was holding the gate with a steep expression on his face.

"Please, watch your step and keep going."

Apparently, they waited by the gate. And one of the sorcerers and the thinkers, which were arranged in rows on the left and the right, led the dies through the gate.

Inside the stone pillar gate was darkness. And yet it looked strangely wavy. A little. A fine rainbow of light shines.

Someday, the Luglois River seemed to be a water surface where fairy lights danced and danced.

No, maybe it was really water.

As the die passed through the gate, there was a feeling of pressure as if it had sunk into the water. There was a pounding, pounding sound. You can breathe. Your eyes are open. My vision was dark. Reina and the others walking ahead were strangely swaying and moving their legs wisely, but they were as heavy as they were packed in the sand.

The die took a breath and stepped out vigorously.

And in that step, the weight was treading on the ground like a lie.

When I noticed, the view had changed.

"Here... where is it?"

"It's an altar."

Reina unexpectedly answered the question of the zero die.

"It's the altar that gives birth to the saint."

It was a hemispherical opening.

If the space was a pot, now it's a bowl. The ceilings are somewhat low. It was just bright. The walls, floors, and ceilings were all glowing pale green light from the inside of the walls. On the wall, there was a groove like a crawling trail of insects, so obstinate that it even made me feel obsessed. Magic letters. The circular floor was also painted with magic letters in red and black ink, as if they were five concentric circles.

(What the hell is that smell...)

Die accidentally covered his nose.

I've smelled it before. It smells terrible and iron.

"Die..."

"Juno-san!?"

The piercing voice I heard belonged to Juno. He is chained to both his limbs and held down by soldiers. A woman beside him was rolling up and collapsing.

I can't tell my face from this angle, but I can tell from my back and my hair color.

"Ineka...... Leah = El"

Master Die and Foreign Secretary Barnier are in your chair.

Sheila sits the dies in a chair near the wall. She smiled at the dies and returned her heels. She shouted at Reina, who was heading to the center of the circle.

Wait, please, Reina-sama!

Reina looked back strangely.

"Hey, Die. It's a ritual now." Please take a look at it quietly. I've really invited you. ”

"No, no, the ritual... now?"

(If I don't think about it... I need to buy some time and figure out what's going on!)

Juno's lifesigns, which the ship traces back to the Luglova River and is pursued by sorcery, have also moved there. At this point, the Doppelgänger crew was moving.

But there are no people here who could have gotten a boat ahead of the river. At best, there are about ten sorcerers, three from the church, and Juno, Ineka, and Reina led the die.

"Um, the others who went first..."

“I'm not coming here. All attendees of the ceremony."

"Well then, those people..."

I'm upstairs.

Reina looked up at the circular ceiling. The die got confused.

"Go up... then, this is the bottom of the river?" No, but you didn't leave the city, did you? "

As can be seen from the walking distance, it should still be in the city of Luglova.

But Reina gently smiled and shook her head.

"It's the Luglois River. I saw the fairy light of the Luglova River over there."

"That's because the distance..."

“I'm sorry, Die. Time is running out. I'll answer your questions when I'm done.”

Wait, Reina-sama!

Die swerved between Sheila and the others and took Reina's hand. Reina grabbed Die's hands as she took control of the soldiers with her sword.

"Hey, Die. I'm pretty passionate, but I'll keep it short."

"Will you stop... being a saintess... this is... this is dangerous!"

I finally noticed.

An indescribably rich odor that fills a large space.

This smells of blood.

The magic of giving birth to a saint can be a failure. I also heard that it was a dangerous sorcery in itself. But more than that.

"There's no way a saintess could be born like this!" You can't be as beautiful as you want! Definitely! "

"Die's right."

Y-you and Die stopped moving. I looked terrified at my neighbor. It was because Fabian, who was there, heard voices that were not his.

The outline of the Fabian collapsed as it glowed. The soft impression on his face was pitifully arranged.

Die shouted.

Saiis-san!?

Seth muttered something in her lips as she threw away the round glasses she was wearing as a fabian. Die realized that it was a magic spell.

Take it down!

Someone screams, and a soldier pulls in at Seith. Hiding in their shadows, Reina ran away from Die.

Reina-sama!

A flash of light blinked and the die covered its elbows in front of her. A roar resembling a thunderbolt blew away the humans around Ceis. Reina stood in the middle of the circle and whispered to the sorcerers.

"Get started."

Seth starts casting a curse again. The sound was the same as before, and the die rushed to him.

"Wait, Mr. Seth!"

Are you interrupting me?

"No! Please don't do the same." This place is underground!? "

I don't know what kind of magic it was, but the dust fell from the ceiling. Seth, ah, and in a blink of an eye, pulled off the die.

“No problem, this is where it crumbles.”

But...

"Leave me alone."

"Oh, wow!"

Die's body jumped, and Seis rolled his sword under his feet.

The sword swung down from above made a violent sound. Sheila. She's throwing a slender sword at Ceith.

Doppelgänger?

Sheila's question is not answered by Ceith. She continued to mutter the curse as she played her sword tip with her sword.

A sequelae of Seith's sorcery. The soldiers were squatting and convulsing. Die rushed across them under Reina.

"Reina... ahhh...!"

The outermost circle shines and the die flashes.

Hitting his back against the wall, Die squatted on the spot. Your hands and feet are numb and unable to breathe because of the pain. Your vision is also suddenly darkening.

Reina is kneeling and praying in the middle of the circle. Juno murmured something as he convulsed beside her, and the Ineka lying beside him chanted in harmony. The sorcerers scattered on the other side as well.

The magic curse echoes through the space, and at the same time, the magic characters on the wall emit light.

Red light.

Ahhhhhhhhh!

Suddenly, a scream resounded.

It belonged to a wrinkled man.

Die spinned his upper body. A man falls down in front of a die that puts his back on the wall.

He was an old man in a church dress.

He clenched the arm of the die with bloodied eyes.

The silverwork on the wrist has an unusual shine.

"For the sake of clarity,"

"T-That's... ah, that's..."

* giggle *.

The man turned into a phosphor and disappeared.

"... eh?"

The die was not confused only because he had seen a similar sight.

The phoenix that was a man was being dragged into the center of the circle.

He is not alone. All those who were present from the church had lost their form of life as they lifted up the doomsday demon of suffering.

"Wait, what is this?"

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk"

"Ah, ahh..."

Dai...

Ceith rushes under the die.

He poked one knee and peered into the face of the die.

"Can you stand up? We need to get out of here."

Saiis-san....

He grabbed his hand with a trembling hand, and Die groaned.

"This is... what the hell is this!?"

Not only the people of the church, but also the soldiers were mostly transformed into phoenix. The die is surrounded by a storm of rainbow light. There were only a few people left, even though they didn't have a proper view. Magicians and--no, even the magicians are starting to collapse on their own.

Only Juno and Ineka, Sheila, Die and Seith, and Reina.

It was a bright night.

The dark sky of the moon is a full circle. It was like a gold coin. It was a very beautiful month.

A pillar of light will rise toward the moon.

He said that he could have hoped from a distant land separated by the sea.

Many rainbow lights radiate from its roots.

Eventually, the light tapers from the sky and vanishes while blinking.

All the lands were left with clothes without human figures.

The screams of the panicked spread like waves across the western land.