The Queen’s Cosmetician

It was shortly after I returned from the Gertrude family to my lurking destination in Lower Town.

"Can't you find the queen candidates?

"... the Kristels? Now?"

"Yes, the Queen's candidates are in a predicament now. Wouldn't you be a little on my side if you saved there?

And, Asma suggested to Mariage. The three of us, Mariage, Dadan and Asma, are in the middle of discussing what to do about the future, sitting on a rubbed carpet and surrounding the fireplace fire.

"It would be nice to look for ladies to run for queen after being queen, wouldn't it be too late? If I were in my torso, I'd let go of such a bad product sooner."

"Sure."

Dadan agrees with Asma. He is turning the bowl at hand to look for an area that is free of chips.

"The princesses disappeared, and the three of them went beyond the moon. Worst of all, it's not weird that someone else wants the belly of the Virgin's blood."

"... Somewhere, someone...?

"Due to the circumstances, it is likely that the old Zarija or some people in the area who want the blood of the Virgin. … there will be such a story at the Continental Conference."

Because he is a man, or because there is no blood of the Virgin, a man of instruction cannot reign as a national lord.

Ditrout's words rise.

- Perfilia would like to make a recommendation.

'Disconnect the fundamentals that annoy the reign of nations…. to adopt the principle of secularism'

The blood of the Virgin gave the incompetent little girl (Mariage) legitimacy to take the throne.

On the other hand, pick up the possibility that the competent ones will save the land on the brink of doom.

I guess some daughters were trampled through their lives telling them to give their bellies to leave blood behind.

I'm talking about feeling sick.

"Cynthia's presence, the blood inherited from her, the faith directed toward that blood continues to curse us today"

"... I don't know if I'll make it again"

"No, you're not"

Dadan rinses the tea and returns the denial to Mariage.

"The purpose of the opponent is not to kill the princesses. Thinking from the time of the kidnapping, the east was a time of bothering with Tartaza's bees. I hear Perfilia was marching the army, and Clan Hive was in a similar situation. It's hard to get out of a place like that with a noble princess."

I don't know about the west.

Mariage looked at the map spread over the carpet. It is centered around Del Ligueiria, and the neighbouring countries are also listed in the corners of the paper.

"The west would be an area where the blood muscles of the Virgin were interrupted and confused, including Zarija, wouldn't it? Can't you imagine heading that way?

"That makes sense... it's more insecure over there, so I think it's hard to get out."

"I don't think I'm west. I thought you might be safer if you went a little further."

Asma said as she pulled a bowl with white water to her mouth.

"Safety on the road?

"And then there's the safety of the place to stay.... his purpose would be to have children? Even if you take your daughters to a civil war area overflowing with refugees and having trouble eating, and you do what you do, your children will not be born in a single day or two. I can't move badly in the first half and badly in the second. If I accidentally miscarry. Some kids are hard to have children when the environment changes, and hey. So first move them to safe land, where they buy, sell, and even make them give birth. That's what I'd do."

"... let's hope the Genghuan on that path is involved in tightening it up. There's extra hope."

Dadan layered another one of those over the map of Delligeiria. An enlarged view of the western continent. Poking his fingers at the middle of the continent, somewhat more mountainous than the west, he said.

"If you're going to adopt the idea of Asma, this is the only place you have. Scanagia Jr. Under the knees of the Church of Virgin Mary, but neutral as a country. Most importantly... the method is well established."

The nobility of Delligeria has long sold the blood muscles of the Virgin to the Principality of the Devil. Scanagia Jr. is likely the first land where the daughters who became commodities were kept.

"Last year people were in and out of heavily at the Continental Conference. There are still a lot of them left. If you get in there, the buyer won't get suspicious either."

"... Is it Reginald who kidnapped the Queen's candidate?"

A man seconded by the Church of the Permissible Virgin to visit Mariage under house arrest. Carsun family's share. Reginald Ablechaser.

"You rather feel like you came for it.... you'll see soon enough. In the process of helping the queen's nominee princesses."

"Now, assuming the ladies were taken to Scanagia Jr.... suddenly you look that way and you say empty. I wish I could back it up... I don't know what it is."

"... how do you prove the blood of the Virgin?"

Mariage put her finger on her mouth and strapped her neck.

"There's like a dog-cat bloodbook...?

"Well, there will be. You wouldn't want them to make a scene even if they were fake... oh well. It's a deed of justice.... Maria, you, write down the grace pen you know."

"What? Yupen?

Yupen is an expert in official documents. From the preparation of all formal documents to the return of letters between nobles, etc., it will also be carried out extensively.

"Asma too. Ladies in the aristocracy, can't you check it out?"

"I see. Even the Virgin's blood muscles need a certificate. That wasn't properly written by the people there, and if you ever used it, you'd have a proper format."

Extract those with suspicious signs of income and movement yesterday with a grace pen credited to them by senior nobles. As long as we know who created the certificate, we can smash nobles, merchants, and church officials who have been involved in the matter from there.

Even if the Queen's candidate has been transferred elsewhere with Jr. Scanagia, she will be able to follow the trail using handouts from the Oswald Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Dadan.

bowl over the basin, Asma undertook.

"Fine, let me check it out"

Then a month until I grabbed the foothold of the queen's candidacy.

Another month before Dadan's acquaintances protected them in a small town in front of Little Scanagia.

By then, six months had passed since Mariage was removed from the throne.

- Mariage shrugged as she slipped herself into an empty house in the aristocratic city prepared by the Oswald Chamber of Commerce and sighed.

"I wonder if Silviana could be the hero."

"You're gonna be okay."

Dadan answers while checking to see if there are any suspicions indoors.

"You face a Bethleim nobleman beforehand so that your father can't make a bad move. It shouldn't be the intention of a princess who likes to keep herself safe to ruin things and lose authority here."

"Now that you're in charge, if Mariage hears that you've helped us, it doesn't mean we can sharpen the enemy's power."

Sitting in a chair with a cloth on it, with a cheek wand on his lap, Alvina grinned.

"I hope it goes well, like Kristel's daughter"

Right, and Mariage agreed with Alvina.

Returning to the Whistlewism family one leg early, Krystal clashed with the principals and became the tentative principals. I'm in the middle of a hurry to put together a young man's side.

"That's right, Alvina. Give your chair to Meliá."

"Yes, sir. Dadan will lay the carpet, just wait."

"You guys, help me."

Dadan groans as he rolls and spreads the carpet that was being erected. Mariage asked him in the back of the room.

"What do you do?

"I think I can use it. Let me out. Make it a meal."

"Okay."

"Meliá, go ahead, my lady."

Alvina leads Meliá to the front of the chair, standing at the entrance to the room.

With her stiff face behind her back, Mariage took the water and grain sticks out of her luggage.

"Are you going to warm up and eat? Just like that?"

"Alvina, can you get the fire out? The Smokeless One."

"I can get it out. Do you think I could light the fireplace?

"Oh, do that.... Maria, the grain warms. You got a little pot over there?

"Wait. I'll look."

Mariage caught a corner of the cupboard thinking it was a cooking area.

The houses offered by the Oswald Chamber of Commerce are for single residents, not long after the residents leave. The size is not as large as the Mizweeri family's office. Furniture has also been left behind. They said it was okay to use it freely.

Mariage found a small pot and wiped the inside with a dry, clean cloth. Put a chunk of grain in it and pour in the water. All you have to do is hang that pan on the fire in the fireplace that Alvina lit.

"Mariage can do a lot of things now, too. Rarely."

"... what I needed"

Besides, I was free when I was lurking. If I hadn't done something spontaneous, I'd have lost my mind.

"Mariage is..."

Melia scratched and groaned in front of her coat.

"... all this time, living like this?

About six months.

"Isn't that a no? He's like a servant."

"I'm just being myself.... By the way, when are you gonna stop crying?

Mariage asks Merriam as she stirs in the pan with a wooden spoon.

Melia leaned down with her cheeks wet on the chair.

"... after all, no. Your father didn't do anything."

"With what?

"Nothing! I'm not selling out our candidacy for Queen! Your father is innocent! Not like Kristel or Silviana's fathers!

"Then why didn't your father try to find you in a madness of death?... Alvina, this please"

"Huh."

Mariage left the pot and the spoon to Alvina. Leave the cooking area as it is and circle into the front of Meliá.

"Unfortunately, as we look for you, it is certain that Sir Carsung is close to the heart of this matter. Even if you weren't involved in the kidnapping of the queen, like Lord Bethleim and Lord Whistlewism, your father is worse than the others."

"How could you!

"Because he's Lilith Carsung's father! It's settled!

Merliah shivers her body to Mariage's fury.

Mariage put her hand on her forehead and exhaled for a long time.

"... I want to be queen for a purpose. But it's on my own. If Lilith could be a good queen, I wouldn't mind if she were."

Look for the disappeared die in the turmoil of Tartarza.

I wanted the personnel and power to accompany the queen for that.

If you can just put a hit on it, people can look for it in Mariage right now.

That demonstrated the search for the Queen's candidates.

You didn't have to be queen - even Lilith would be famous.

"Officially or not, Lilith is now in the queen's name, and your father will see it afterwards. You can chase me around, but there's so much you have to do!

"If you don't, what you shouldn't...?

"Aristocratic unity of will! Execution of what was resolved in the castle! You're going to get me off the queen, and you're going to rub it with what you're going to do with the next queen, and the government is now stopping! Whatever the basics, they're not saying they're all frustrated, even the redistribution of the barn they were working on, the policy of displaced people, and the preparation under national defence! There's nothing wrong with the roughness of the border... why are you leaving us alone! Keep it!

During the search for the whereabouts of the Merriams, we also looked into trends around the west, but the situation was worse than Mariage knew. Isn't this the bubble of water until all that hard work and what we discussed at the Continental Conference?

"Maria, you don't understand, Princess. Don't bully me and make me cry."

"Don't bully me. This is stupid."

Mariage and the politics of the country are the first things I have ever known since I took office as queen. I'm not going to blame Meliá for her ignorance.

"Besides, I think if I didn't know, I'd have to tell you. Someone I know."

"Mariage......"

Melia asks by wiping her tears with the back of her hand.

"Is what you're saying something your father has to do? Isn't there someone else who does that? Shouldn't I just leave it to you?

"This is something that one of us shouldn't have moved. It's a national business. Hundreds of humans must align their footsteps. … the queen is the commanding officer. If the queen doesn't, the guardian should instruct the queen to order her. Mrs. Rudia would at least. But your father neglected."

"... was that something you shouldn't have neglected? Is it worse than those who plotted our kidnapping just because they didn't?

"... that was a bad word. I have no right to judge whether one is bad or not."

But, Mariage put it down.

"This time, everything that was left unattended, so that the country wouldn't be rough, so that it wouldn't be a big war, so that a lot of people argued and decided to implement it"

"War is... such an exaggeration"

"What are you talking about, princess?"

Dadan pinches his mouth as he spreads his bedding around the corner of the room.

"Do you know the purpose of the Continental Conference that Mariage was facing at the end of last year? It's a meeting of surviving nations to work together to find a way around a continent where the country is falling apart and donning over there and over here."

"... I don't know. … I don't know what you're talking about"

"It's easy to understand."

Said Alvina, who was stirring a pan hung on a fireplace fire.

"There are so many things happening all over the country that people who survived when their houses were destroyed, people were kidnapped or sold in cages like you did a while ago, so it was a meeting to come up with measures together."

"Until it was decided there, your father and sister are left alone. Not a queen yet? As much as I kicked the queen in the ass, I think you should be reasonable enough to let her be an officer. Evil without a shadow."

"Come on, we're ready to eat."

Meals are grain porridge. It has a salty flavour and makes my stomach swell in small amounts. When water is unavailable, the grain may be swallowed as is. Dadan says it's a common portable diet.

If she had stayed the queen, she would not have seen it either.

Mariage gave Merriam the bowl. Though she received it, she remained silent with a sunken face.

There was only one chair. Mariage lowered her hips on the carpet.

Dadan hurls a cotton stuffing at the face to face and comes over.

"Don't cool it. Disorder."

"Don't throw. Spill it in the bowl."

"Oh, be careful when you eat because it's hot. Yes, a spoon."

"Thanks."

Receiving a spoon from Alvina, Mariage stirred it in the bowl.

"Well."

Alvina says, handing out white water.

"Silviana's daughter may take days to convince her father."

"Two or three days max. Wouldn't change any more."

"Even if we don't hear from Silviana, we'll move on."

"Huh. I know."

Alvina waves flickering and Dadan nods. Mariage smiled at them and carried the porridge to her mouth.

With this noble town infiltration at the end, Mariage will not go back under the castle.

I intend to return to the royal castle with Kristel's help. If possible, Silviana will also gain strength and support Mariage, I would appreciate it. The limit she can wait until she has control of the Bethleim family is three days.

Return Merriam to the Karsun family then.

"I'm sorry, but I'm just gonna need you to hang out a little longer, Meliá"

"... taking me hostage?

"That's the way it is."

There are many reasons why I didn't return Merriam first.

Her father is Lilith Carsung's father. Reginald Ablechaser. He is also an asylum seeker. We need the right steps to meet, and for that we need Merliah.

In addition, if you return Merriam more than Lilith, you could be killed.

So I'll have her stay a little longer with Mariage.

Shit, and something hot jumps on my cheek.

Mariage glanced back. There is a magic formation floating in front of me. It disappears with zero phosphorescence, and Mariage blinked.

Dadan's fury echoes indoors.

"Hey, what the fuck!

His anger is directed at Meliá.

"Maria, I'm sorry. The splash just kind of flew away."

"It's okay..."

Mariage looked at Melia as she answered Alvina. Grasp the empty bowl. She is at war.

"So much...... so much, I want to be a queen!?

I want to be.

Mariage replied.

"Didn't your father drag me off the throne because he wanted to make his daughter queen so much? Thanks to you, it was tough. They've been chasing me around for the past six months."

"You can't just run away!

"Something that will die if you don't run away"

Merliah blinked and saw Mariage.

Mariage slowly told him to include it.

"I was told to die. Not just to leave the seat, but to get in the way of the next queen, so die. That's why I ran away. He's still running away."

"... in order not to be killed, do you want to be queen?

"You have that, too."

Mariage gave Merriam her head.

"We had the option of running away at first.... but there are those who are moving for me who wanted the throne. Now, if I throw them all, they may all wear the poison cup of death. I'm not strong enough to throw them away and survive without thinking."

Fumimariage wondered why the head of the Carsun family could not keep Merriam in the queen.

If it was a desire for power, then Merliah would have had no problem with the Queen.

"... Lilith"

"I don't. I don't! I don't know...... Mariage, I don't know! What you're saying, nothing!

Melia cries as she is.

Mariage swallowed the question and looked at her daughter.

Even remembering the appearance, Mariage meditated and exhaled.