Umi to Kaze no Oukoku

"Good! It's not frozen yet."

Captain Lessa was worried about the landing of drifting ice because it was colder than usual, but more than a dozen merchant ships from the Southeast Islands were carrying wheat from the Kingdom of Iran in the port of Zordas.

"Also, it looks like the pirate movement is getting more active around here."

To Prince Shaw's point, Captain Lessa was cursing the Minister of Military Affairs Dawson after he retired, who could never speak to the merchant fleet and escort berthing in the port of Zordas.

Secretary of State for Military Affairs Dawson said he was good at paperwork, but lacked hegemony, and Captain Lessa had his eye on blame. Minister of Military Affairs Zahaan had some problems with healing with a bit of a certain merchant, but there was a masculine aspect of healing when he did.

Everyone admitted that the next Secretary of State for Military Affairs Dawson was serious, but he would be forced to resubmit or cause trouble by giving him fine paperwork deficiencies.

In a sense, the successor to Minister of Military Affairs Zahaan, who was a bowl account, deserved Minister of Military Affairs Dawson, but he had a terrible reputation for the captains in the field.

But Captain Lessa had given up that the Minister of Military Affairs often took office while militants and supervisors took turns.

While complaining on the inside, I was reasonably aware that Secretary of State Dawson had no choice but to show his cleanliness and tighten up the military code, as Minister of Military Affairs Zahaan probably had only drastically prepared the paperwork. Even that Captain Lessa often suffers from eclampsia due to his chimatism.

The subtle tense decline of these ancient Ginseng captains may have gained momentum on the pirates.

Besides, if before, a new directive came out of Minister of Military Affairs Zahaan as soon as he returned to the port of Leyte, and he was on patrol for supplies and a short break. However, since Secretary of State for Military Affairs Dawson took office, there has also been a lot of loss of time in submitting reports, pointing out deficiencies, resubmitting them, and then finally being allowed to replenish them, waiting for directives.

Minister of Military Affairs Dawson would have liked to yell that the report was too much. Besides, there are frequent protests from foreign countries that merchants in their own countries are deluding and nostalgic about items looted by pirate ships, so they thought they had to be kittens.

Minister of Military Affairs Zahaan ignored such protests, and the captains were somewhat knowledgeable in their attempts to moisten their nostalgia.

"If you have a complaint, you just have to let your own navy crusade the pirates. This one is crusading pirates for his life, so don't gut me about the few items returned! I want you to thank the pirates for returning some of the looted goods."

I was in the mood that it would be useless for them to protest any more if they were poked at me, but when I said I would investigate like Secretary of State for Military Affairs Dawson, that and this and one complaint after another would push me like a mountain.

Shaw sighed as the immediate merchants of his country sailed in a merchant fleet in self-defense measures, saying it might take a little while before the new Dawson Minister of Military Affairs penetrated. And I don't know such circumstances in other countries, so I hoped that the navy would function properly as soon as I sailed like before and was attacked by pirates.

"If King Lutos of the Hedge Kingdom finds out about this, he'll be screwed to pay for the goats. We have to keep it a secret..."

During his visit to the Kingdom of Laurent, he was accompanied by Rosina, as he also had to socialize with diplomacy. There are several costume cabinets packed with dresses and the like, which can be loaded separately into sands and cylinders or even slower, put on the steps that Pips will come to pick up later.

Sands carries Rosina and the Samurai, and Cyrin carries Captain Lessa to Cairon, the capital of the Kingdom of Laurent.

"Isn't it cold?

The flight in the dragon did not receive as much wind as the speed, and the cold felt a little relieved, but still the winter in the Kingdom of Laurent felt like taking away the body temperature, and Shaw cared about Rosina.

"It's okay, it's stuck to Master Shaw, so the wind won't hit anything."

Geez, I got my hands around my back, and Shaw wandered off, but I hurried to get to the embassy in the Kingdom of Laurent anyway. Even to take a break, the town I could see downstairs was buried in the snow, so I was anxious to see if there was an inn, a dining room, or whether it was open, so I went for Cairon at once.

'Sands, I see Cairon. Captain Lessa knows the embassy, so we have to go after Shirin. "

I can see the streets of Cairon when Captain Lessa was teaching Pipps an embassy or jumping down a low. It was a big city because it was the capital of three countries that currents of the old empire on boulders.

"It's the royal palace you can see over there. We'll be at the embassy soon."

The royal palace was brilliant in snow. There's snow in the garden trees, too, and Rosina's like the world of picture books.

The embassy of the United Kingdom of the Southeast Islands is located on the corner of the city of Cairon, next door Captain Lessa tells us that embassies from all over the country are gathered here.

"I can't believe the embassies are gathering. It feels like we should be spying on each other. Like Jungfrau and New Paloma, it's easier to be scattered, but are the operatives easier to watch in the cold?

As Sands and Shirin descended into the embassy's front yard, Ambassador Lirick came out of the embassy to pick them up.

"Welcome, Prince Shaw. Princess Rosina would have been cold too, please come in soon"

Shaw was confused that he had to unload his stuff from the dragon, but Pipps promised me that I would do it, and the staff brought in the costume cabinet, so I left it to him to go inside.

"Wow, it's warm."

Southern-style plants were kept in large pots everywhere in the embassy and, above all, warm. Firewood is burning patchy in the salon in a large fireplace.

"Warm in the Kingdom of Laurent is the best hospitality. Come on, sit down, let me get you some hot tea."

Seeing Shaw, Rosina and Captain Lessa get comfortable with the warmth and incensed tea of the salon, Ambassador Lillick urges us to go greet the Royal Palace on our arrival.

Rosina rushed to put the tea she was drinking on the table and was in a hurry to get dressed, but Ambassador Lillick calmed her down to stay until the evening dinner party.

"Prince Shaw can easily get dressed and greet me and King Rudolph and Prince Alexei on his arrival. Oh, clothes are fine with abbreviations. It's cold, let's keep it warm. The Royal Palace is warm in meeting rooms, but it's not heated to the long corridor. I'm saving, but you're poor, aren't you? Well, because of that, the nobles who had no business went back to their territories, but they couldn't stand the cold."

Shaw is surprised to hear that the Royal Palace is saving heating, but wonders if Prince Alexei is first trying to set an example from what stands above him.

Shaw will find it easy for a troublesome nobleman to disappear from the royal palace, but questions whether Crown Prince Alexei, who originally grew up in the Kingdom of Cazaria, needs to be close to the nobles of the Kingdom of Laurent.

Shaw asks Ambassador Lillick his questions as he carries on to the Royal Palace.

"May I return the nobles to my territory? You're just bored to be on the territory in the winter, aren't you? I think it makes sense to return to the territory in the spring or summer..."

Ambassador Lillick understands what Shaw is trying to say.

"Well, it's supposed to be a social season from fall to winter. You'd better get the nobles together in Cairon, throw a party or something, and make connections. However, Prince Alexei is weirdly serious and, given the hardships of refugees in foreign countries, is not considered to be at the party. I'm sure you have to save money, but the economy just chills out if you don't use it where you pap. At the corner, Her Royal Highness the Queen of Beauty was put in, so if you flank the nobles' wives and show them your glamour, the nobles who are feeling rebellion against Prince Alexei will come a little closer."

Her Royal Highness also has a problem, but Ambassador Lillick shrugs.

"What? I thought Her Royal Highness, Lady Ariena, was a wise man."

Lady Ariena, whom I met at Crown Prince Stewart's wedding, had the image of being beautiful and smart, so I didn't know what the problem was with Shaw.

"Maybe the question is: Princess of the Kingdom of Iran?

Ambassador Lillick grinned bitterly that there would be too.

"Well, national sentiment in both countries sucks. But that's not the only problem. Her Royal Highness Lady Ariena is too good for you."

Couscous and Ambassador Lillick laughed and got out of the carriage saying that Prince Shaw was twisting his neck saying he didn't know why, and would keep it for homework.

The Royal Palace was a splendid huge building and the escorts wore fur hats and coats. The corridor is a really unpleasant, cold, unpopular and idle image.

"Huh? Where are the bureaucrats? Is the administration another building?

Shaw, who is accustomed to the royal palace where Gayagaya and the civilians are all used to running around by Chancellor Flanagan at all times, did not understand the meaning of this quiet.

"The bureaucrats are also cold, so they must be caged in their rooms. Look, your breath will turn white."

Phew, the exhaled breath looks white, and Shaw feels that Prince Alexei is a little overdone. Even though the Royal Palace building is splendid, the corridor is dim because it's unpopular and, if you look closely, the windowsills aren't well cleaned or dirty.

The meeting place with the king had a fire in the fireplace on the boulder, warm and showy, but I was surprised by the old look of King Rudolf. I manage to hide my surprise with a smile planted by Chancellor Flanagan and make my arrival greeting King Rudolph and Crown Prince Alexei.

"It will be cold compared to the United Kingdom of the Southeast Islands. But it can also be fun in the winter of the Kingdom of Laurent. Let Alexei entertain your young Prince Shaw."

King Rudolph, who continues to struggle and looks older than his actual age, fears that he will be throwing politics round to Prince Alexei as well.

Prince Alexei is older than himself, and he's solid, but he's worried about Shaw when he returns to the Kingdom of Laurent and he's fine even though it's a few years.

Prince Alexei invited us to an evening dinner party and Shaw and the others returned to the embassy.

"Somehow Prince Shaw seems to have noticed the problem with Prince Alexei. It's like thinking too smart."

Does that mean I can't rely on Ambassador Lillick? and tilt his neck.

"No, Prince Shaw is smart, too. Besides, you know to leave it to the minister. Besides, King Aslan, Chancellor Flanagan, and the Minister of Military Affairs will stay behind, so we just need to do it while we talk about what we want to do like a prince."

Shaw frowned remembering that his father and Chancellor Flanagan had forced him to go to the Kingdom of Sarah, but he also found it comforting.

"Prince Alexei is in too much of a hurry to help his father, and King Rudolph... well, that one's had so much trouble, so I can't help it, but I don't believe in ministers. That's what's affecting Prince Alexei."

Phew, and think of the inside feelings of the Kingdom of Laurent, which seem quite difficult for both of us.

At the inner circle dinner party that night, Shaw, escorting Rosina, enjoyed the conversation. Rosina behaves cutely and innocently, so King Rudolph joined the bright topic to soothe the atmosphere.

In the three countries of the Old Empire, after the dinner party, the ladies move to the salon with tables first, and the remaining men have a habit of enjoying cigars and liquor after meals.

In the Kingdom of Laurent, where the Queen of King Rudolph was absent, when the first princess of Ariena of women took her seat, accompanied by Rosina and Mrs. Ambassador Lillick, King Rudolph, Prince Alexei, Prince Narcisse, Shaw and Ambassador Lillick and Captain Lesa remained at the table.

"Prince Shaw, you're happy. Have a lovely fiancée like Princess Rosina."

King Rudolph liked Rosina like an angel, so rarely is he in a good mood.

"Thank you. But Prince Alexei is happy, because Her Royal Highness Lady Ariena is very beautiful."

For a moment, there was a subtle silence, but Narcisse tears up that the two newlyweds are already hot and the ice on the Porta River is about to melt.

"I'm a wife I don't have."

Even though the corner narcissis softened the place, the atmosphere freezes hard at once with the face that King Rudolph seems to follow in Alexei's words.

"Speaking of which, I heard you play skating and stuff on the frozen Porta River. I heard that even in the Kingdom of Cazaria we skate in the north, what is it like?

To Shaw's question, Narcisse raises his seat with great concern, asking him to give it a try, or Ambassador Lillick to fall and not hurt his leg.

Alexei also reflected on making the corner dinner party boring and white, and after moving to the salon she behaved cheerfully, so she managed to get home from the dinner party safely.

Ambassador Lillick acts really like an angel because he beta praised Rosina and made her feel better. Shaw realized something was wrong with Ariena, but he didn't know what it was.

... Ambassadors Lillick praised Rosina for her sincerity, but is it a hint to me? I think I can grab something, but I'm not sure...

The homework of Lady Ariena is too good for her.