"You four sisters are not even in the Imperial Capital. Your next chance to see your family together, isn't that as good as His Highness Arnold's marriage ritual?
"Speaking of which, what about your fiancée? Hey, new guy."
"Yes, what is it?
Talking to me, Liesche looks up.
"You're an unfamiliar face, and you're an out-of-house maid, too, aren't you? I was worried that all the newcomers were collected, but it looks like they're turning around pretty well. I have a reputation for being able to work with kids who were amateurs."
Leishe was pleased to learn that the hard-working maids were being praised that way.
"Yes, the Deanna seniors will be polite enough to teach you, and you are all absorbing it more and more. It's also a wonderful idea that comes out of the palace."
They are really, really doing a great job.
In the first few days, Liesche tried to teach me how to work outright, but the ladies, who once swallowed the way perfectly, moved harder than I could have imagined.
Deanna has also been able to respond to storing items and choosing tools by putting pictures of them in various places and making maps.
The samurai seem to remember the letters written on them one by one, and thanks to them they also have plenty of time for their afternoon studies.
The ladies dedicated to educators each have stunts such as those who are good at explaining verbally to people, those who are good at writing and those who are good at scolding and motivating them. They were discussing and determining roles within their peers and assisting me with the leashes.
Leishe now teaches the job to newcomers for about two hours each day, but she will be left to the educator almost entirely.
(If all the samurai remember their jobs and all the cleaning of the outhouse is done, we can call Arnold Hein to the outhouse. Now we can physically release the current emperor and him just a little bit...)
From what I heard, as long as Arnold lived in the main castle, he probably had less contact with the Father Emperor.
But I still wouldn't have moved beyond knowing what caused my father's murder.
"I don't mind talking about the other kids, but how about you, Lieche? Speaking of which, I heard rumors that His Royal Highness Arnold had gone out of the palace for the evening."
(Why did you do that?!?
It's a good story about bugs, taking advantage of their nature, but I'm always amazed at the samurai's information network. Not just this Castle of Garchhein, but all the samurai involved in Leishe's last six lives were well aware of what had happened in the place where they served.
"Yu, because the evening was closed early due to lack of sleep. I'm sure His Royal Highness Arnold wouldn't have seen you either."
"Nana, that's boring"
"You two, let me know if you have any nice rumors. Every time I go home, my daughter tells me something."
"There's nothing that His Highness Arnold is getting married to. Young daughters under the castle, that's what I'm talking about."
"Oh. Not just our young daughters, neither are we!
Surrounded and awkward by those who laughed so loudly, Leishe washed her sheets carelessly so that her identity was not suspected.
After collecting information on the name Laundry and returning from his own balcony to his room, Lieche dropped the hair dye with the hot water he had brought home with him.
Now when I go out the door, I head back to the field with the knights who were escorting me in the hallway.
And after he had plowed again the soil, which had been mowed by Theodore, he ascertained the condition of the soil. Because I was familiar with it so quickly, I reschedule and start seeding.
The second joint of the index finger was sprinkled, and two seeds were sprinkled in the hole made of it, and the soil was fluttered from the top.
The next time the water is drawn, the water is watered while worrying about the amount of water to be gently dampened.
The knights offer to help us with the task of transporting water, but we politely refused to do so again this time because we cannot leave them to work outside our jurisdiction.
"Leishe, what kind of crop does that field make?
"It's a certain herb. In the current season, I was wondering if it would sprout within a few days."
Return to the outhouse with that conversation. The superficial appearance behaved gently, while the inner leachet was in great haste.
(It's already time for this. I need to think about a merchant's proposal to take a bath, drop the mud, and convince the chairman that soon. They say there's a library room in the Imperial Castle, so if you go there, you'll know the city composition of the Imperial Capital. Ratio of men to women, age group, number of shops currently available... plus we need to gather a little more information on His Highness Theodore)
The more I think about it, the more I have to do.
(I've been asked to check on the material Deanna made, and I'm ready for the matrimonial ritual. It's time to move the measures against the national guests, and then - …)
"Mr. Leishe?
"... no, anything..."
Leishe looked away as she went up the stairs to her room. But you can't lose.
(Gobbles when this is over! Absolutely! For a lazy life where you can sleep all you want until after lunch every day and a long life ahead. This is the next time in my life, I don't want to die at twenty. So......)
That's all I thought about, Leishe lay her eyes down.
"Now, we will continue to protect you here, Lieche."
"Thank you. Excuse me for once."
In the hallway in front of his room, the knights stood back to the left and right of the door. Thanking them, Liesche unlocks her own room.
And when I went inside, I had a single envelope at my feet.
……
"What's wrong?
"No."
He gently shook his head to the side and entered the room so that the envelope could not be seen by the knights.
Leishe, locked from the inside, picked up the envelope.
It's a very fine white paper envelope. On the red wax was pressed the seal of the Royal Garchhein.
When Liesche opens the envelope, a piece of paper comes out of it.
There it was written in a beautiful and polite brush.
"Uncover your secrets. Tonight at 9: 00, go to the chapel. - Arnold Hein '
Reese called Else to her room when she wrapped the paper in an envelope.
At nine o'clock on the designated night, Rieshe, dressed in black, visited the chapel on the corner of the Imperial Castle.
The knight of the escort is asked to wait a short distance from the chapel.
He showed them a seal of wax and a letter, and asked them, 'Because I want to see His Highness Arnold and you alone'.
The Lord of the Letter is probably waiting in this place first.
When Reeshe opened the chapel door, he threw his voice inside the chapel, leaving the door unclosed.
"... good evening. His Highness Theodore."
By the light of the light and candles inserting from the stained glass, the chapel maintains its considerable brightness.
Good evening, Reishi's sister-in-law.
The red carpet stretched straight ahead, in front of the sandalwood, a boy stood.
"Not at all surprised, but you knew it was my call from the beginning."
Reeshe exhales as Theodore says with a laugh.
"Because the signature didn't appear to be the same as that of His Highness Arnold."
"I wish you'd fooled me. I don't think you've ever seen your brother sign, though."
Sure, I haven't seen it in this life yet. But not in another life.
Having waged war on other countries, Arnolt had sent the documents of the declaration of war to the national royal families in advance. In the life of being a knight and the life of being on edge with royalty, Liesche sees the book.
Arnold's writing was beautiful, but his own name seemed to be just a little bit, a habit of cluttering and breaking it down.
The signature on the letter that was reaching Liesche's room is too polite compared to that one.
"And how did you get here when you knew the sender was me? Wasn't it a bad idea to be alone with the other lords?... Oh, it's that measure that hasn't closed the door"
"And the knights will be waiting a little further away."
I've hit other hands, but don't talk about it.
Theodore looked bored when he pinched his own hair, fluffy and bouncing with his fingers.
"Because I'm trying to teach you something good, I'd be happy to welcome you a little more. I never imagined my brother's preference would be this kind of woman."
"If you want to talk, please be brief"
"- He said during the day that he knew how cruel his brother was. There's no way you totally understand that."
Theodore walks one step at a time towards Lieche.
"We don't get along. Then Her Majesty the Empress... Your Ladyship is not our mother of fruit. The so-called late wife."
"If you're a noble bloodline, it's not a rare story."
"Oh right. But what if the reason you don't have the previous wife of His Majesty the Emperor was because someone killed you?
Theodore, standing in front of Lieche, narrowed his eyes and smiled somewhere luscious.
"My brother killed his mother."
……
An unpleasant brilliant light is shaking in the eyes of the same color as Arnold's.
"You know what I mean? Brother, tell me how cruel Arnold Hein is. You must have come to the throne of the Crown Princess anyway, but you should let that go. He's a man who can even put his real mother on his hands."
……
"All the princesses who have been married to this country will be unhappy. I guess I understood a little what I said during the day. [M] It's not a threat or anything, you could really get killed by your husband"
"... I wonder what you're talking about"
Liesche sighed one.
"What's wrong with that?
"Huh..."
When I ask, Theodore's eyes circle.
"I don't know what's wrong...... is, you're killing my mother!? Why aren't you upset when you hear all this nonsense!?
(Well, I was surprised as new information, but I have a 'priori')
Nothing, there's nothing more to be afraid of from what I've heard.
When Arnold asked me to marry him, when it came to what Liesche knew about him, it was just about Arnold Hein in another life.
The emperor trampled the royal families of nations in a tragic manner, invading them, without blood or tears.
A rebel who killed his father emperor and became emperor.
The man who once killed Liesche.
Knowledge and memories about him were all but horrible.
But still, Leishe made up her mind.
"All ready, I came with my wife."
"... eh"
And now I imagine that because I'm beside him, I'm going to see a different life than I've ever seen.
"Ki... were you aware? My brother has no middle name for blessing. He's a cursed man who was never wanted by my father or my mother."
"I have my own 'Irmgard' name, but I've never felt I needed it. His Royal Highness Theodore Augusto Hein"
"Ugh..."
"That's not what I want to know."
Looking straight up at Theodore's eyes, Liesche ran out of words.
Arnold, whom Liesche found out in this life, seems at least a decent person.
He is an exchanger who, although cold in standing and behaving, pays close attention to his men and tries to respect the people.
What Liesche wanted to know was why Arnold would follow such a future.
Within the next few years, for example, will there be events that will change him?
Or do you still have that cruelty to show in five years, but you just hide it well?
- Or was it just 'just a human being' with a decent heart, not a monster, just having to take brutal means for some non-transferable purpose?
(... you idiot, I am)
Leishe smiles as she mocks herself softly inside.
"Is that all we talked about? Okay, I'll be around here."
"Oh, wait!
"I don't know what to say instead."
I cut the words and looked back at the chapel door.
"If you don't mind, I'll talk to your brother from here on out."
"Ah..."
There stands Arnold with cold eyes.
"... oh yeah..."
Theodore sounded his throat.