To Be a Power in the Shadows!

There was a girl who looked from afar at the castle gate of the closed king's capital.

Beautiful pink blonde hair shakes in the wind against a gray sky background. She was the Princess of the Kingdom of Oriana, Clara Oriana, the person.

"The king's capital has been besieged by our army. There are a succession of lords gathered from all over the country to side with Lady Clara. As soon as we get together, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to launch a total attack."

An old man who refrains behind Clara said.

"Thank you. Thanks to you, Marquis Grant, for gathering your troops."

Clara says looking at the far castle gate.

"It's also about the absence of a phase of extinction. I wouldn't have been able to put everyone together or anything. For one thing, it is thanks to the help of Master Clara.

"My power, or..."

Clara said potpourri.

"Something bothering you?

"All I have is a royal title. If I hadn't done anything, I wouldn't know anything, if I could think..."

"You care about the mysterious group that took Clara out of the camp."

"My sister. My sister is moving for the Kingdom of Oriana."

"I thought it would be better if we didn't talk too much about Rose."

"Why? It all started the day your sister stabbed your father. Everyone says bad things about my sister, but things were strange about my father. My sister knew something."

"Master Rose is a parent killer. Whatever the reason, it doesn't change."

"If you don't know why, you don't know everything. Why did your father go crazy, why did your sister kill your father, why did the Doems gain so much power, why did I get out of the camp, why did this gather soldiers so easily, and why did I get to siege the castle without a big fight? You don't know anything."

"It's..."

"Doesn't it feel like everything is served to the Marquis of Grant?

Marquis Grant looked up at the grey sky with a tough face.

"… my grandfather advised me not to hesitate to live in the political world. There is a darkness in this world that must never come near."

He spoke in a quiet voice.

"Darkness, is it..."

"It's been a long time, a great darkness that continues to dominate the world. I don't know what that darkness is. I followed my grandfather's advice and didn't even try to find out. But many times in my life in the political world... I have felt the pressure of darkness. Irrational trials, unfair demotions, sudden alterations, disappearances, and… unnatural accidental deaths. Those who sought to know the darkness were wiped out one after the other."

"What the hell is that darkness"

"Like I said, I don't know anything. I was just scared. A man who worked with him until yesterday became a person who would not return in a carriage accident on that bright day, and oddly enough, as time went by, the mansion of the clan that would take him was burned down by fire. The traces, of course, everything was erased. I have a wife and children. So I... came here pretending I didn't see anything"

His tone seemed like he was confessing to someone.

"I felt tremendous pressure on the series of streams that started Master Rose's case. It was stronger than I'd ever felt before, and I went back to the realm and caged before anyone else."

"But didn't the Marquis of Grant gather his soldiers and rise?"

"Darkness was not one. There were two darknesses. One behind the Doems, and the other..."

Marquis Grant looked behind him. Clara followed his gaze, too.

But there was just a gray sky going on everywhere.

"I'm a pawn. Two great darknesses disputed, and one of them moved a pawn named me. That's just it. But pawns are also willing to pawn. I take my former mistakes and my best friend's revenge..."

"Marquis Grant......"

Clara looked up at him holding his fist hard.

"Darkness must be the only thing that can destroy darkness. Maybe that's fine for sure. Because they are darkness, and they cannot come out into the light."

"For a long time, however, it has been told that it is the light that destroys darkness. Now is the time for me to know. The whole truth. Behind this battle, what is."

Clara's upright gaze stares at the Marquis of Grant.

"My light seemed too small for that"

Marquis Grant smiled.

"In the light of Master Clara, we are also gathering the brave army. Some of them are rumored to have been chosen as the 'Black Rose'. Countless lights are gathering."

"That 'black rose'..."

"These are those led by a futuristic youth named Goldo Kinplating. Maybe if the light we have now grows...... sooner or later there will be a day to destroy the darkness. But that must still be ahead of us."

The Marquis of Grant escorts Clara and walks out to his formation.

"First, focus on getting the best results on the stage where you were dined. Perhaps there must be an answer ahead."

"Yes...... I'm sure your sister will be there.

And they walked side by side.