The Queen’s Cosmetician

The laughter of the women is echoed from a single large carriage located about inside the line.

"Sounds like something lively and fun"

Dadan pulled over his horse and asked Assé to give his consent. But unlike the other knights, he doesn't react. He draws a thin lip tied against him and only harshly stiffens his face, which is more Rin than his brother's. Dadan dropped his shoulder, for Christ's sake, and grabbed the reins again.

"Isn't that a good reaction in front of my men?

The knights accompany the mission as escorts. The chief is this assay.

"At least if you don't look friendly, don't bother."

"I have no right to do that to you."

The assay finally opened its heavy mouth. He is uncomfortably frowning, keeping his face to the front, when he also hates to look at each other.

"Mostly, why don't you stop talking to your men at ease? We're on a mission."

"If that's what you think, stop being hostile to me, too. What would you do if everyone was anxious that you were being guided by a man you don't trust?

By the way, it would be the responsibility of this knight, even if he chose the path at his discretion and stepped into the bandit's lair, fuelling his distrust of Dadan.

When he is poked at the pain point, Assé presses silence.

"You know, you think I'm sniffing around your scandal, which is going to be the seed of rice?

Taking the man's silence as an affirmation, Dadan smiled with his nose.

"Say stupid. It's just a chat. You'll never be more bored and tired than spending a long journey."

Dadan glanced at the Knights Commander and let down his sigh.

"Well, I know you don't like me."

Speaking of position, Dadan should break. It's not strange that other countries are slaughtered and lay low for disrespect. Except if you seem to be in the way of your job. I want the job done more than I have undertaken. I've been dating some of the mariages ever since. And I wanted to get you to your destination safely.

"It's been about five days."

If things go well, in that number of days, I can tread the journey to Wang Capital.

"That would be goodbye. Let's just take it easy."

Assé didn't get to talk there.

"Where is the assurance that you will not wander around Your Majesty after this?

"Then I ask you the other way, why do you think I'm stuck forever?

Just in frustration, Dadan disproves.

"Because I'm an informant? Wander around the queen in love and fish for some good stories?

Unexpectedly, the mockery leaked.

"Unknown knight. It's not a bad thing to be cautious, but use your head for a bit. If you think I'm going to hurt them, you're just going to have to slash them with the sword you're putting up on their hips."

This is a provocative attitude that knights can take seriously.

But growing up, he listened patiently, with anger. The seriousness of it is terribly strange.

Refreshing his mind, Dadan continued the conversation.

"Lord Commander of the Knights of Tedius, you mistake me for the royal nobility, the ones who sniff around the scandal of the city's leading men."

And there are verses that Mariage and Die also misunderstand. I'm just fiercely reflecting that I didn't introduce myself in a good way.

Even if you take a sip with an informer, it's wide. Most of them are prostitutes and merchants who sell stories they get from customers. Or just a scandal. The Asss apply the latter to Dadan's position.

"You think you're not?

"You're not. I'm a member of the association."

"Today?

I don't feel like blaming a man for his ignorance. If it is an upper-class outing and a citizen of a country equally closed to clan nations, all the more so.

"Do you know the Sea Ships Association, which runs ships that connect continents? To be precise, it is referred to as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Sea Shipping Department. It's one of the club's divisions."

And it was one of the most world-known departments of the association.

"The association has branches all over the world with various other departments"

Postal, financial and brokerage industries. An association is a huge organization, also known as Borderless Country, that does a lot of business.

The branches that existed on the western continent have been driven to a state of devastation over the past decade, but the members remain and continue to operate in detail. Between Perfilia in the north and Zemnam in the south, until these two countries were equipped for the reception of unsupply ships, those who sent out their ships on their own to communicate to the rest of the world the current situation on the western continent were also members of the Association.

"I belong there, too. Of course there are jobs via acquaintances this way, but they are mostly taken on through the association's good offices. See how streets are maintained, check urban markets, rural living realities…. There are many things about newly formed settlements and the view of land with interrupted exchanges. As a substitute for officials who can't move right away, I'm going to be flexible with detailed requests from Ichii, like investigators."

However, it is individual freedom to what to do with the knowledge acquired during the course of the mission. Information, especially in remote areas, was valued high and often sold to nobles and merchants.

Still.

"It's a scandal of great guys for us, and I don't even want to touch them instead of sniffing around. It's a substitute. I don't care how many lives I have, I'll be short."

Unnecessary stories can be a life-targeting species. They are also wary. When they are tightened out of the royal nobility, they cannot be entrusted with work by the association.

"And in case you find out about that, at least I don't want to put it up for sale. All the more so if it's like tilting a country. We flowers are tired of the country disappearing. I'm looking forward to drinking and eating the delicious food I went to, but when it stinks, it's not the same."

When the country leans, the men are conscripted, and smiles disappear from the women. The fields are rough, famine begins, infectious diseases and violence spread.

When visiting a sick country, Dadan himself must risk his life.

"Something can be done to expose my personal life, like the Knights Chief is concerned about. As evidence to accuse the officials. But I'm trying to protect my country. I just wandered around you, and I have no advantage whatsoever. Got it? Intelligence stores have a lot going on."

Closing the story, Dadan pulled the reins to modify the horse's path. When other than my husband rides this time of year, he immediately wants to stray in search of buds.

"... ok"

Assé muttered in a sigh of exhalation, turning her face to Dadan.

"But I still want you to disappear from the front of the queen as soon as possible. You may not hurt the queen, but seeing you and your majesty close together doesn't necessarily mean more people try to get in. Besides, not all your members and guys like you. Some of them should be of concern to us. It is also difficult for the Queen to loosen her guard against such people."

"Don't worry. I will."

"Thank you"

Putting aside a beat, Assé added hesitantly.

"... I'll change my attitude toward you, too"

"Sora, that helps."

But Assé stressed.

"I'm unfamiliar with you. Don't talk more than you have to."

As Assé told him quickly, he tapped the horse's belly lightly with his knees to increase his speed. Mix into the leading group and start giving new instructions. The look on the faces of the knights responding to the tension had a profound colour of love. Although young and somewhat prejudiced, Assé is probably a good boss for them.

It's a country of good guys.

The previous queen, Eirene, was also a good lady. There must be a lot of straight people because she protected her country.

Hopefully later their simplicity will not put them in distress.

Behind a dark hunch, the plains stretching the road to the Wang capital were just idle.

"And you still have five days..."

Die laughed bitterly at Mariaj, who mourned the road that was still long.

"So you're going through it without a break? If you don't take a day or night off, they say it's a minimum of three days."

subject to the condition that horses must be replaced for each town passing through.

With the momentum of all the chisels, Mariage shakes her neck to the side.

"I don't like that either. 'Cause I can't sleep where I can't shake."

"Then I'm patient. And I'm not free. I have a lot of homework coming out of Mrs. Rudia."

The thick booklet was taken from his lap, and Die slammed the cover of it.

Rudia was initially against this visit. She knows everything. Since Heath disappeared, she's the only one who's committed to information manipulation.

A visit to Perfilia is like riding into an enemy nest hole. Rudia repeatedly reiterated that Mariage should not have to go on her own, but should put a high-ranking civilian on the messenger and see how the other person came out.

The result was Mariage's sticky win.

If we did not agree here, Rudia would have feared that the Queen might get out of the castle.

Having prepared this meal with a sigh of relief, she also posed a challenge for Mariage.

That is the practice of the art of negotiation.

"Because you've summed up the questions that are supposed to be asked and the topics that are discussed so that it's easy to practice in the carriage!

"Die, don't you get drunk reading a book in your carriage?

"Not at all"

"... what's so unfair about being all that gnarly about alcohol"

"Doesn't talk about alcohol matter at all!

"That's all I did to Mrs. Rudia before I left the country..."

"If you take a day off, it'll take you three days to get it back. Fine, I'll do it!

While I was running in the mountains, it was dark and I couldn't read the letters. It is that we enter the shooting plains of the Yang and this finally encourages us to practice.

Mariage sighs to correct her residence. Even if she doesn't like it, she knows through the Queen's race that something called training doesn't make her an idiot.

"Good luck, Your Majesty"

"Don't look at me like any other HR, Prime Minister. You do, too."

The Chancellor would have overlaid the workout of that hand from a young age. Nevertheless, it is not a bad thing to review it in this free time.

Grabbing Rodimus' collar all the way, Die gazes at the booklet he spreads over his lap.

At that moment, the carriage box leaned heavily.

"Huh?"

Grip the hanging wheel mounted on the wall and turn the window reflexively. But the view outside remains idle. I see no change at all.

Yes, there's no change.

The carriage's walking, it's stopping.

"I wonder what's going on...?

"Hey me, I'll see"

Die woke up his body, pressed the booklet against the prime minister, and opened the carriage door.

"You two should hide in the back with a blanket on."

This Queen's car is equipped with a sleeping area. Just in case, I told him to hide himself there, and Die got off the carriage softly.

Did it rain? The green soil is damp. Every time the die stepped on it, a slight water noise rang. The grass is mixed with sweet aromas - it smells like flowers. Unknown flowers blooming along the streets were pleasant to the gentle breeze.

"Die."

"Wow."

Suddenly he was called from behind, and Die jumped with his heart.

"Sorry. Did I surprise you?

Alvina, looking back, was paying off her shoulder the flax-colored hair tied together.

This mission, which consisted of a total of thirty people, was accompanied by several magicians so that the tools used in the procedure could be dealt with even if they were damaged. Alvina is also one of them.

"How do you know the carriage stopped?

"Come on...... But I don't think it's dangerous. I don't feel like killing."

That's what I say. Behind her filling the distance from the die, successive carriages are starting to stop that stride one after another.

"Looks like the escorts are in front. Let's go, Die."

A friend who tapped the die's shoulder gently starts walking slowly in his footsteps. Though she said there was no danger, she never went over to be on guard. Die followed after Alvina, looking around a bit.

The place where a group came to life is literally just inside the plains. Between the windy shrubs and the narrow stretches of flowers, the path trampled by man and carriage stretches serpentinely along the hills. The streets that lead to the Wang capital are barely maintained.

The end of the line is completely broken.

The bridge was falling into the turbid swirling water.

"Is it an increase in water?

To a group gathered on the banks of the river, Die asked.

Dadan looks back, and, oh, nods.

"It rained yesterday, and it seems the upstream moat has been decimated"

"Is there no other way?

Otherwise, we'll have to wait for the water to pull from the river. But it will take time. There were no signs of momentum deterioration in the turbulence.

"No bridge down there, either. Come on."

The man with the mouth is not a Del Ligueirian. Sounds like a neighbor. On closer observation, there were women and children who had become peasants, mixed with the knights of the kingdom of arts and crafts. Looks like we're here to check on the bridge.

"Anyway, it'll take a while to rebuild the bridge that you can give the carriage to."

"There are water songs here, even when it's normal. Carriages are hard without bridges."

Men verbally advise. Their wives watched the wood broken by the current and were sighing deeply.

"Is there any other way? Did all the bridges fall?

Dadan asks one of the peasants. He was the most intimate, accomplished man.

"The guy on the river will be safe. It's down there that I've broken it."

"Can you ask someone for guidance?

"Oh, I don't mind that. I don't know what the exchange terms are, but can you take people from here too? Tell these officials over the river to fix the bridge."

"Probably ok...... die"

"Yes."

Upon invitation, Die walked over to Dadan. Don't stop and salute the locals. They had a frigid look at the die, taking off their hats in a hurry and returning the meeting.

"May I ask Your Majesty?

It's a rare and polite rhetoric for Dadan. Die nodded as he bit to death with a bitter smile.

"Are you going to accompany this delegate?

"Ah. Maybe I'll have a couple more points to add. Can you tell them that I'll talk to these people and then ask them again, including going far?

"Okay."

With a satisfying grin on Die's consent, Dadan turns to the villagers. It was just as handy as blending in as if it were something rooted in the same land to pull out the information needed and move the negotiations forward. Without him, I would have just stuck around in this place.

"I'll go, too, and explain it to Your Majesty"

Smiling back at the assay offering to accompany him, Die turned back to the carriage.