The Queen’s Cosmetician

This multi-family house is located in a corner of the city that is close to the outer edge. That's where the displaced people were assigned to live. Originally, it was a place where nearly ten groups of families located in the lower classes in the city lived. After the "Pillar of Light" day, it became uninhabited and was taken over by the city administration.

And when Jubail and Brenda were escorted, and Alletta was taken as scribe, and Dai came to the place, he saw Ineka and Juno, and Fabian and Ceith.

Fabian gently raises his hand to the die.

Hey, did Die come to see how it was?

“Yes, you too?”

I wonder if there was not enough support.

Die nodded, Fabian said.

Ineka is now in control of the city in place of Reina, and personnel from Fabian and Doppelgum are also supporting people because they can't move from this city for the same reason as Die.

Recognizing that no one had anything to do with it, the situation of the inhabitants in the housing complex was reported, and as soon as they finished their most recent work, they immediately gathered.

Then one of the clerks invites Ineka into the house. The dies decided to follow them.

Walk through the entrance hallway with high circular ceilings, and follow the corridor that shows a gentle slope.

As the die peered into each room on the left and right, a silent shadow squatted on the crowd.

Someone who was with him muttered.

"Doll...?"

The shadows looked as if they were not living things.

Some lie on their backs, while others sit on their knees in the shade. Officials like the caretakers are talking, but they don't react, stare at the void, and don't move. I see, it didn't look like a doll the size of a doll.

An official man bewitches a woman on a bed.

"Hold on tight." You haven't eaten anything since that day. "

"... please leave me alone already"

The woman on the bed groaned weakly as she turned her skinny back toward the official.

"I ate here, and I can't eat again." "It's always been that way..." Stop it... I don't want to do anything. I don't want to live. "

Kill me. Kill me.

We should have disappeared, too.

After she moaned, she mixed her sighs and called someone by their name.

"-You broke your heart, didn't you?"

A conference room in the city hall that he went straight to with his feet after the inspection. Juno expressed his feelings first.

"Were you attacked by a bandit?" Or was it burned down in the village, eaten up, and drifted all the way here? With that, I lost all my acquaintances in front of me....... now that you can blurt out, you can count what you've lost, and you're overwhelmed by the dark future, and you hate everything. "

I know how it feels, "Juno muttered and the silence fell in the conference room.

On the day of the Pillar of Light , the city of Luglois looked calm. However, the problem has not been solved at all.

The merchants don't visit, and the food stockpiles don't always run out. The entire population has fallen drastically, so we're all in for it. It was a blessing of the Luglois River that the fresh water was abundant.

If anything happens, the displaced could be cut off first.

They are sensitive to it.

With Ineka's arm touched, Juno takes her place and describes the situation.

"I'm really sure how long I can protect you." The pigeons and messages we sent to the cities (clans) are not back yet, so we can't move without knowing what's out there. If we knew what kind of march Reina had spearheaded through the church to Perfilia, we could do a little more on that side. ”

Is Mayor Luglois here yet?

"I can't wake up."

Ineka answered Fabian's question.

She sighed deeply as she put her hands together on the table.

"Sheila didn't know the details of the march."... the situation has changed, we have to wait. "

Reina remained in a coma after somehow removing her magic power so that she didn't become deformed. In the eyes of Yayoi and Seis, it seems that it has been going on for a while. It tried to change its magic power until it collided with its inner magic power and became stable. She said that Reina was in the process.

So, what are you guys going to do?

Fabian asks Ineka if there is anything I can do to help with the plan.

Juno shrugged his shoulders in response to Ineka's gaze.

"I don't know."... we've done what we can now. You guys are doing a lot of work. I'm sorry for the flat head as the representative of the clan at a time when I'm already involved here. "

Reina scratched the situation so far. Was Ineka not able to clean up what was going on within Clan Have, a position to be blamed?

"No matter how comforting it is, it will burn to the stone." All that's left is for them to stand on their own.... the help is not endless. It's all terrible talk, but it stops. "

I want you to tell me if you see another impatient person. Juno closes the story and Ineka nods heavily.

Waiting until the meeting was adjourned, Die, who had been silent until now, raised his hand.

"... um, can I have a word with you guys?"

Early in the morning, white steam can be found in the entrance hall of the condominium that is being handed over by the residents.

Boil water one after another in a giant copper pot, and add a large amount of toilet paper, soap, and some soup. A little fragrance oil brought from Del Ligeigeigeia. I also got an old hand mirror. Clean clothes and shoes while washing. Place them in a basket of various kinds, arrange them on the floor, and divide the people with a folding cloth and a door cloth. My servants, who move under the direction of the die, and the stayers gathered downstairs, all look strange.

Randy looked sideways at the young and old man who was hardened to his place.

"I've gathered the number of people I asked for, Die."

"Thank you, Randy."

"What the hell are you going to do?"

"It's makeup, Yuvelle. Didn't I explain it to you?"

Die replied as he examined the makeup tools lined up on the table.

Yubert and Randy look at each other and sigh.

"... I know that, but..."

"I don't understand the intention."... I know you're not the kind of person who wears makeup in this situation without anything at all. ”

It is a matter of now, and makeup is a so-called luxury. Let's put on some makeup before the eyes of those who may not have enough to eat, it's a laugh from the officials of the city of Luglois. You should stop at the moment you say you want to put on makeup for the displaced. But it seemed to me that it wasn't a die that didn't understand it. Without stopping the die, the Yubail follow their instructions.

“What if I told you I just wanted to put on makeup?”

"... die"

"Don't look scared. I have permission from the Speaker Leah = El. And Jubail shall stand between me and them, and keep me.

Die, die, die, die, die, die. Yuvail and the others are reluctant to follow vague instructions.

Trying to escape from them, Die called out to the two of them, who had prepared a space for their makeup.

Brenda, Yayoi-san, let's go.

- I really wanted to put on makeup. I was just thinking about borrowing Yayoi's face.

So I asked Ineka.

I don't want to do anything. They say they don't want to live.

I was wondering if I could use it myself.

Glutinous, glutinous, someone slaps the bottom of the pan.

Using that as a signal, the men and women of the Luglois citizens moved together. They are the men and women with whom the die hired the scraps of the stone for a price, and who have the bounty of strength and physique. They hold down the inhabitants together and pull them into a space separated by clashes and cloth.

"Yes, men over here, women over there. The children are over here. Just come."

"Take off your clothes. No? Take it off. Otherwise, I'll peel it off."

"Sit down in the bathroom. Hold your knees. Close your eyes."

"Ah, ahhh, it's hot!"

"Be patient! Whoa, dirty!" Shouldn't you wash your body in the river?! "

"Hey, kid! Don't go that way naked!"

"Oh, my God!" Let me go! Let me go! "

Randy blinked at the sight.

"What are you doing, man?"

"Hmm, it's preparation under makeup, right?"

The die said as he looked through the documents awaiting processing. This cosmetics matter is the fault of Die, and it does not mean that the officers who are helping the city officials will no longer have any work to do.

Give Alletta some instructions and answer the Randy's standing next to the die.

If it's still unclean, it's probably not a cosmetic place.

So first of all, let everyone get dressed.

I noticed it when I inspected it.

The inhabitants, who were impatient and immobile like dolls, were releasing a sick smell. Of course. The city of Luglova gave them temporary lodging, food, medicine and even clothes. However, I do not take care of my dress. They didn't purify themselves, they were dressed, they were moaning on the bed of someone who disappeared. The parentless child was scratching the head of the lice.

The reason why Ineka approved the die proposal was also because she feared that the disease would develop from this multifamily.

“So, isn't that what the city should do?”

"Yubert, we just had a talk at yesterday's meeting. The city has no more manpower on our side. No, I'd like to, but it's a low priority. There are fewer people who can work to maintain the city.”

Therefore, when the die was brought into the city of Luglova, he used the free goods to hire people and force them to cleanse themselves. The reason is that Die wants to practice makeup.

The sorting of the hired person was somewhat convenient for me, but I was told that it was okay to proceed freely with the die.

"...... what good is the die for doing this?"

“Did Randy and the others ever want to die in their hearts?”

Peek, the writing instrument hooks to the paper for the signature.

While wiping the ends with a cloth, Die told the knights who had been escorting him since ancient times.

"I wanted to die. - When Yuma dies."

In Hanazono, she was a troublesome child because of her mother's face.

In Mizwieri, he was killed by a man he fell in love with, and in the Imperial Castle he was whispered as worthless.

A makeup artist is not an essential person for a queen. Where it is chipped, it does not resonate with national politics.

So I knew I could die any day.

However, since Yuma had just climbed the royal castle for herself, she had been helping Die as a female officer. A dear friend died in Tartarza, and Die herself was attacked. On top of that, Mariage is missing, wounded enough to knock on the door to the battered land, and saved by Dietrich, who was supposed to be a political opponent.

Every day was painful. I can still remember vividly. Pain in the wound, indifference to fever, nausea even in front of heavy water. And the thought of being overwhelmed and filled with them---dazzling, cold, everything dark, I couldn't think of anything about the future.

"Back then, it was really tough. I vomited a lot of heartless words to the people who took care of me. I want you to leave me alone. I want to die. Don't come this way. I think I said something like that.... you're just like them."

Give the signed document to Alletta.

Then Yayoi told me that the first one was ready.

The die stood up to clear the table and smiled at everyone who stood beside him.

"The man who helped me was of no avail at that time. Yet he did as much as he could to me, which was willing to die. I wanted to do that, too, so I thought."

However, the die does not have the political head to launch a groundbreaking plan, nor can it promise support unnecessarily. The only place where honorable visitors are allowed is the [National Badge Holder].

Because I am a makeup artist. What you can do is still limited to that.

I looked up at the table while I cleaned my hands. Bulk water, emulsion, perfume oil. A small vial of kneading powder that is gradually aligned into a color palette that fits well into multiple colors. A box of white powder richly decorated with a lid. They were prepared for Reina, but they could be used up here. After all, I don't wear makeup until I get back to Del Ligeiria. It is better to have lighter loads to carry home.

The woman she brought was very thin. It seems that she washed her hair with soapy water and went straight to the hospital. Her hair is still wet. Is it because it is cold that I am shaking? Or is it because you don't know what you're doing and you're frightened?

And Yayoi sat the woman in the wooden ark that was before the die, and laid a blanket upon her shoulder.

The die took the woman's hand.

"Yes, don't be frightened"

She smiles at her as she shakes and withdraws.

"I say die." Can you tell me your name? ”

Oh, no, no, no?

“Yes, that's your name.”

The woman, who was busy wandering her eyes, answered the die in a trembling voice.

"Milly, Milly."

"Miss Millie... Miss Millie?"

"Millie."

"Mr. Millie, thank you for telling me. I didn't want to move, but I'm sorry for pulling. I want you and all of you to help me, and I'm forced to do this."

”Fuck, come on... don't you want to help us?”

"Yeah, I wanted you to help me."

Die said slowly to her.

"I'm doing a makeup job." Do you know what makeup is? That's right, you can have it on the edge of the day, both white powder and lipstick. In the village, in the church? Yes. I went to the place of worship to pour out the red of everyone. I was in my apprenticeship.... well, actually, I came to Luglois to put on some makeup, but in this situation, there's no one left to let me go. What, money? No, I don't need money. I want you to let me do it. Practice cosmetics on your face ”

The die took out a paper wrapper about the size of a thumb. There is a chip of the power stone inside.

― ― Here, the value of the stone scrap is not stupid. If I leave Luglova City, I will drink a few days' worth of water.

"If you become my practice table, I will give you this as a thank you."... can you be me? "

Millie stared at the chip stone that Die had shown her.

Then she nodded in agreement in horror.

Millie wasn't the only one. And to the women that sat before the die, and to the men, and to the children.

Dai greeted him in the same tone, asked for his name, told him about the situation and begged for help.

Of course, there were many people who got angry and said, "Don't be ridiculous." Until I washed my whole body and changed my clothes, I forced myself without explanation. It's impossible, but if you can make a declaration of intent with it, that's fine. Those who are truly impotent have no anger.

When it comes to practicing makeup, I don't really think it's that elaborate.

There is only bulk water and emulsion for the men, but before that, Yuvelle and the others fixed them so that they did not move, and then put razors and sharpeners in the beard and eyebrows to fix them. And made it strict not to touch the die from them. I left Hanazono and got less involved in barbering, so it took me a lot of time and my arms were dull. I smiled bitterly.

Women, like men, start with haircutting. While Yayoi combs her hair, she prepares her hair, including their eyebrows. Carefully apply bulk water to rough skin with a cotton cloth and apply the underlying emulsion, sometimes applying a thin powder or colored powder. I put a pale yellow under my crying and swollen eyes. Since the original skin tone is more wheat, even a small amount of it develops well and corrects the red and black yin. If it is not particularly necessary, I immediately smashed the powder.

I asked her what her preference would be if she was interested in the colour.

Otherwise, I asked for their memories.

"Have you ever smashed white powder? Yeah, at the wedding? A facial artist from the city? No. Did the troupe do it for you?... and the rosy flower... is this the color of that flower? Okay, let's make this a lipstick.”

Mostly, they were just nodding to the question of the die, or only the gloomy ones who pierced through the silence, but after seeing the situation of the previous women, it seemed that they understood that it was not bad, and those who opened their mouths without being urged by the die began to appear.

The story of a beautiful purple flower offered by a familiar man who said he had found it while chasing a sheep and wanted him to be his wife. A butterfly chased with friends as a child. The color of its wings. Yellow and green embroidery threads placed by my mother in a basket. Red and blue gemstones sparkle at sunset amidst the raw stones dug up from the mines by dusty men.

A few brush strokes of beloved everyday remnants that people have lost.

After finishing her makeup, Die laughed at them.

"Thank you for helping me. Thanks to you for being here today. It was very helpful.”

I forgot my desire to die.

- I'm glad you're here.

Yes, I think it was when I was allowed to exist.

He was helpless, foolish, and with his own shortcomings, he let his friend die.

I wonder how much I wanted to cry at the words that made me know that it was still worth it.

All you have to do is tell Yayoi to take the face wash precautions and gifts. Tell Yubel to call the next one.

How many people were there? And when there were few men and women waiting in their turn, even as they told them to go under Yayoyi, there was a woman who did not move from the wooden box before the die.

She stroked her cheeks gently, then pointed to the hand mirror next to the die.

"Um... I want to see it.... that."

Wiping the cloudiness of the mirror with a cloth, Die pointed the mirror at her.

The woman looked in the mirror for a while.

That's why I said it was pimples.

"I want to do it."

The bamboo oozes into the bamboo of a woman.

“I want to die. My husband is dead. Kids, too. I was holding my hand. I, that's why I want to die, too. even though....."

And yet, I want to. I can't help it if I'm still alive.

"Why, why did you just clean up so nicely? I'm so, so sorry for myself...!"

A freshly made-up face is dazzled, and a woman holds a mirror and bursts into tears.

While crying, he repeats his name, which is neither his husband's nor his child's.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm the only one who survived." I, I...! "

"--No, that's not true."

The die stroked the woman's back.

"I'm glad you're alive.... I'm glad I'm alive..."