Where the Imperial Capital was visible, Hikaru's travel clothing bundle was also much thinner and dirtier.

Though it was walking through every day, there was also Paula's restorative magic, which was just as exhausting as going. Lavia doesn't seem to like carriage swings.

Naturally, the bandits didn't show up. When I teased Nino, "You didn't answer the bandits and your escort costs were wasted,"

"I'm so glad you followed me. Not only because I feel safe, but because I've never had such a pleasant escort talking to you."

and said with a smile directly from the front and vice versa made Hikaru confused. Hikaru felt it felt good to be told, although it might have been a merchant-specific lip service.

"Mr. Hikaru! If you see that outer wall, you're almost an hour away!

"... but isn't that strange?

It is also impossible for Hikaru to point out.

There is a castle gate at the entrance to the Imperial Capital, and although it is common practice for interrogations to take place - both the interrogations and the taxes involved in imports are also carried out here - the queues are too long.

At the end of the queue, you hear the merchants talking.

"-- Oh, man, this crowd is kind of..."

"-- I don't know, but hey. Anything to strengthen security or something."

It is disturbing that it must be because of the emperor's attempted assassination.

"Damn...... I can't believe you let me step foot in here"

Hikaru snaps, Nino said.

"Mr. Hikaru, go ahead."

"--Huh?"

"Well, then you may not be able to get inside at sundown, and adventurers and travelers without luggage should be able to get right into the Imperial City with another interrogation -- I guess you have something to do?

"Mr. Nino... okay?

"That's enough for my escort. Yeah, the distance from here to the castle gate, let me pull it off the bill, huh?

In a deliberate tone, Nino smiled and showed it. Hikaru guessed that he was trying to get rid of his temper.

"Thank you. Let me do that —— Lavia, Paula, did you hear that?

"Mmm."

"Ha. Ready!

"Well, we'll go first. Almost there, but be careful."

Hikaru went early enough to say a short goodbye.

We see the long and long walls of the Imperial capital of Quimbrand ahead of us.

But a painful cloud appeared from the east sky, and now it was just over the royal capital.

"I didn't know it would work this far! Count Zeppetta's trickery is a travesty."

I don't feel bad about being deceived. A man with a bumpy eagle nose —— Count Zepetta was followed from the same emerging aristocrat and laughed greatly.

"This stuff, it won't be a lot compared to the rush between merchants. How the nobles of the Protestants sag."

"One by one, I'd like to cut down the conservatives and allow all of us to participate in the Imperial Castle conference."

"When it comes to cleavage, the Corn Border uncle is very angry at this time, and the border between the Patriarchal aristocrats and the adjacent ones will be examined."

"We hear it's a tariff increase. I'm scared that half the loads will be taxed"

"The merchants will increasingly come to the cities of our southern region. It was a great success to free tariffs so that we could trade freely between ourselves."

Southern aristocracy is an emerging aristocracy. They each had their own area of specialty, and they had a common situation - a situation where wealth continued to be sucked away as good as it did from the conservative nobility.

So the Earl of Zepetta, who daunted himself with the cultivation of kownuts, raised his voice, and the nobility of the South united in one.

The abolition of tariffs increased the liquidity of goods and significantly improved the standard of living of the general public.

A large number of migrants also came out of the territory of the conservatives who heard of Uwasa.

The imperial southern region, originally inconvenient surrounded by steep mountains and scorned as "rural", developed rapidly.

I'm not a conservative looking at that in silence. They were selling various supplies with high gold to the emerging aristocrats living in "inconvenient countryside," but they could no longer do so and now began to tax migration when the inhabitants began to migrate. There is no such law, but once it was decided at the Imperial Castle Conference, the emerging nobility could not speak out.

That is why it was a grief for the emerging aristocracy to have a framework for participation in the Imperial Castle Conference.

"But... how dare His Excellency the Chancellor forgive me for participating in the framework. In the meantime, I thought the dismissal of His Excellency the Right Minister was the only way to end it."

Zepetta twists her neck.

"As it is, well, isn't that good! The result is everything."

"Yes, yes! Whoa, isn't it time? Uncle Zepetta has been called to Count Ron from now on. Is there an important meeting?

"That being said, it was. Now if you'll excuse me."

Zepetta left the room to pay tribute to the nobles.

In the eyes of the aristocrats who dropped it off, a dark light lights behind them.

"... Not at all, Count Zepetta is a relaxed one, too. We're risking our lives."

"... there seemed to be no doubt about the boundaries of the Imperial Castle Conference or what I had asked Count Ron to do. If you go there in due course, Count Zeppetta will usually come in."

"... that man only expects his role as our flag. Lighter flags are easier to swing."

I laughed.

Before sundown, he entered the inn and quickly Hikaru began working as a silver face.

First we head to Alice, an imperial spy.

"Hmm... no more, Mr. Silsil... oh, there..."

"Hey you asshole spy"

"--Yes!?"

I dropped a gen trick on Alice's head as she slept comfortably in her room.

This is an area also inhabited by the general public in the Imperial City and is one of the apartments. Alice lives by blending in with her citizens.

"Hey!? Mr. Silsill!? How could you!? I was eating a giant cake with you two right now!?"

"... you, were you dreaming like that?

"Mr. Silsil took the last strawberry I kept..."

"Is that how I feel about you?"

I sighed. It was Hikaru,

"More than that, tell me what's happening in the Imperial Castle right now. Let's start with Cagley's condition."

Alice turns haphazardly to Hikaru on the bed.

"Take, are you going to stab Todome!? To Your Majesty!?"

"No, it's not. You think I'm an assassin, too."

"... no?

"If I were you, I wouldn't lose my temper."

"I see."

Is that where you're convinced?

"I hear His Majesty is still in a coma... it looks like the poison painted on the blade is unknown"

"Where were you brought in?

"It's Top Secret"

"Right. I'll ask the Chancellor. I can't help it because you won't tell me."

"Why are you blaming us?!?"

Hikaru laughed flirtatiously.

"Because you know the answer. But I won't say it. The Chancellor is expecting me, isn't he? Because we have a master of healing magic called the Flower Mask Goddess."

"Ah--"

In the corner of the room, it was a woman with a floral mask - Paula - who floated around to see how long she had been around.

"Come on, tell me where the emperor is, Alice. A flower face can also remind Cagley from a coma."