Theodore's confrontation with his brother was a qualitative room rented outside the Imperial Capital.
My brother, who sat in a chair, has a cheek wand on his elbow. I can't peek at any emotions, but I feel grumpy depending on what I see.
I opened my mouth hoping that was the case.
"I'm glad. I can't believe my brother came all the way here."
Let me smile from my heart, but my brother in the front won't say anything. So I don't mind Theodore shaking.
"Without an escort, alone! No matter how many times I asked you to meet me and talk to me, you didn't listen at all."
……
"How many years have you been talking to my brother like this? No, maybe it's the first time!? Brother, we're out of water!
After a shard of laughter, Theodore skewed his face slightly.
"... if it's for her, my brother will listen to me."
That makes me feel like I'm burning something with a chisel in the back of my chest.
You're wasting your time.
The words of my brother, which were finally uttered, are terribly untenable.
"If you just called, tell me what you need to do."
"That's terrible. Even though it's a precious brotherhood."
"I don't need to talk to you anywhere."
To the words, Theodore punches his tongue.
"Hey, you know what? You are not in a position to defy me. They grabbed my favorite woman, so show me your more hurried face!! Oh, or actually, don't you care about that kid?
I made him say that for provocation, but I know it can't be.
Even Theodore thought it was a "crap farce" when he first heard the story. Anyway, that brother is taking the bride back from the exotic.
The high-ranking nobles had determined that "perhaps as hostages". More than ever, my father, the emperor, had ordered my brother to marry me politically.
Marry a princess of another country and place her under control by placing her in the Garchhein royal family.
It is the policy of the Father Emperor and what the Father Emperor himself has carried out. Theodore's late mother was once the princess of a country that boasted.
My brother must have chosen the right woman from another country to take him home in response to that order. Initially, Theodore shared the view of the nobles.
Something seemed strange because a decree arriving ahead of his brother's return carried an order to 'gather samurai for his fiancée'.
I let Else dive in as a candidate for samurai, while I let her look for trends. Then isn't my brother going to prepare an outhouse for the bride and live there as soon as she's ready?
That's impossible if you're going to set up a decorative wife. You should also build a birdcage in the corner of the main castle, where you can just feed and leave it.
I can't believe we don't do that and live together.
(You're gonna be jealous of something like that.)
When I heard that I had set her free and given her a field, I wanted to trample and vandalize that arable land.
But childish envy pushes me to death. Because Lieche Irmgard Werzner was convinced that it was available for the purposes of Theodore.
This is how I can talk to my brother right now.
I was ordered to stay away, and I met him face-to-face in the castle, facing my brother, who was not even allowed to speak, and I was able to have an immediate conversation.
"There's no point in what you're doing"
"It doesn't make sense, because?
Theodore laughed at the dullness.
"After all, for my brother, I'm useless, worthless, just someone else with blood connected. I thought you knew that even a useless brother could do harm to his brother. … but it's time to get down to business"
Theodore imitates his brother and puts a cheek wand on his elbow. And I said it off.
"All I want is the seat of the next emperor, of course. Brother."
Would my brother have anticipated this request? Or does it simply matter? Either way, that look still didn't work.
I feel really bored about that.
(The night I called her to the chapel, she stared at me with such cold eyes...)
Again, in demands for inheritance, etc., it can't even shake my brother's heart.
To the best of Theodore's knowledge, his brother's weakness is the only girl he's ever had. And her figure is now on her own.
I'll still have to poke it there.
Theodore stood up and continued to blackmail his brother.
"Did you hear that? If I wanted my sister-in-law back safely, I'd come down from the first seat of my inheritance and give it to me. I don't know what I'm gonna do to her if my brother doesn't respond."
……
"I don't like it, if that happens. You look fine, but you're worried, aren't you?
Just one step, take the walk toward your brother.
"I know. She's really important to my brother, isn't she? Much more than a fruitful brother who doesn't even want to see his face or his sisters who kept him away from the Imperial Capital! I want to take care of that kid, take care of that kid, put that kid aside. That's all you know, right? Because I've been watching my brother...!
Another step, I went to my brother. Theodore approaches such a distance as he would normally never allow.
"The lives of such loved ones are now in my hands. You're really worried, aren't you? I'm sure you don't care! The fact that my brother didn't even put on an escort this late at night and he answered my call proves it above all!
When I thought I was saying this to that brother, my vision was distorted. When I finally stand in front of my brother, I look down at him and waste it.
"Hey, tell me, brother! Turn to my brother, who is no longer my brother, and say, 'This is my loss.'" It's your win, Theodore, "admit it unnecessarily and get off the Crown Prince? That way."
I put my hand on my own chest and told my brother.
"- My life is filled with it."
……
A few seconds of silence dominated the indoors.
Eventually, my brother opens his mouth slowly.
"Theodore."
I'm glad they called my name.
But I'm surprised to see the look on my brother's face. 'Cause there's no anger, no contempt, let alone disgust.
(How could...)
My brother is laughing invincibly as he hangs himself in his chair.
It is as if to say, "In this place, there is no such thing as the one who harms himself".
"Just a little bit, I'll deal with you.... You said you imprisoned him, but it also locked him up in a locked jail"
"Huh?"
Theodore was a little irritated by the inquiry.
Prisons aren't everywhere. Everything in the Imperial Capital is under the control of the Knights, and they will naturally be being investigated by the Knights.
I mean, it's an inquiry after I found out you weren't in jail.
So this one returned a disgust as well.
"They're in a small, dirty room with the same jail. Lock it from the outside, where you can't get out on your own."
"'Keys'? And then?"
"Rough things with weapons are watching the room where she is. It's a room at the height of the building, so you can't even escape through the window. If you raise your voice and call for help, the watchmen will jump right in and shut you up."
"Well, I didn't know there was a window."
……
Theodore became increasingly frustrated with the reply he could afford for some reason.
"Were you listening? There's no way you can escape through a window in a room high up or through a locked door."
"There's no way I can get away with this,"
"That's right. Just in case you get out there, the watchmen take you down and you're done."
It was a dead end. Still, my brother won't even try to make room for it.
"Normally, I guess so"
"... Huh?
I wonder what the hell it is.
Into Theodore, irritation is followed by a rush. Did I mistake a human being for a hostage?
(No, that can't be...!
There was no mistake in how my brother looked at her. But how can you not be angry?
Will you be angry, turn your hatred, and let me curse you?
"... I knew I should have cut off even one of my fingers and held it? It's not too late. My sister-in-law is easily hurt by one of my instructions to the guards, right?
"My stupid brother."
My brother laughed contemptuously at Theodore.
It was close to what Theodore was looking for, but clearly not. My brother despises Theodore's foolishness, not the despicability of taking the bride hostage.
"You don't have a single eye to beat. I caught it, and I thought so."
"... what?
That said, my brother's eyes are pointed towards the door.
"Sora, they're coming."
"Hey, what the hell is that! I don't know what you're talking about. It's not even like my brother..."
At that moment Theodore tried to recruit me, the door popped all the way.
"Huh."
The door was properly locked. It's supposed to be, but how did they open it up?
I can't believe it, and Theodore looks back at you.
And the sight I saw was more incredible.
"... lying..."
There stands one girl.
Hold a dagger in your hand, flip your coral hair and dress hem.
Leishe, her brother's fiancée, grinned as she saw this one with its beautiful face hanging her hair in her ear.
"I'm here to settle. His Highness Theodore."