Unnamed Memory

Noidia is a country surrounded by mountains and forests, with access to which is considered difficult except for a few cut paths.

For this reason, most travellers and merchants cross the determined streets to and from home and abroad, and little is known to other countries about their distance from the streets.

Ruth, spreading such a map of Noidia on the table, looked at it every corner out of curiosity. stroke the head of the woman who drew the map.

"You're a funny talent."

"Please remember it properly because it's fine. This is Willidis Castle, this is the street that is currently sealed off."

The street, now blocked, becomes a trident over the border, extending to Lambardo on one side to the south and Recai on the other side to the east.

Travelers and merchants travel to and from the country on a daily basis, mainly using this street, but this road, which also passes through the capital of the king of Noydia, is now laid for interrogation about in the mountains, and the traffic of the unauthorized is forbidden at the behest of Luxa.

It may be a measure to keep people out of the country and to keep the current precarious situation from leaking out, but it could not mean as much to them as it already does to know what's going on inside.

The rig shows a single path that is largely branched southwest of the blockade.

"This time we'll use this road. It stretches directly to the mountains to the south, and if you climb over the stone gates along the way, you'll find a fort ahead."

"Is that the original destination? Can you trust the troops stationed there?

"I can do it. The General, originally entrusted here, is also cordial with Alta Ditiata for his loyalty to His Majesty. Conversely, it showed a difficult color in Luxa's idea, so it would be cooperative in this one. Now that the royal family is on the throne, I guess we can't move on our own, but with us, the story will change."

"How is that going to change?

"Ena."

Rig called me by name, and the girl jumped up with all her hips floating up. To upset her, Rig said, "You have it, don't you?" Encourage.

"Oh, yes!

She removed a sealed seal from her nostalgia. The rig that received it shows Ruth the sealed print.

Design of branches intricately intertwined with one circle as the outer circumference. In the center of it lay the sword and the side of the woman.

"This is a power of attorney for the administration."

"What? Does something like that exist"

"I am. Once historically derived, let me discount it. So, this is for emergencies, but if something happens to sovereignty, the sovereign designates an agent. Most of the time, the king will nominate another royal or contemporary Alta Ditiata, but this time it will be Alta Ditiata."

"I mean, you."

"No personal name specified, though."

That would mean that her father, who was killed, was the original nominee.

I do not know when the king realized the rebellion, but he entrusted power to Alta Ditiata, thinking of what might have happened.

But the Alta Ditiata was also attacked, and the power of attorney came to his daughter, who inherited the same title.

"With a traditional system, we can follow a human being on the throne as long as this is possible. But Luxa will also complain by force that she won't let him do it, and it doesn't make much sense to him. So this is rather."

"To move a neutral person, to get a big name."

"Your Answer"

Rig has offered Ruth a "yes" when he twirls the seal in his hand. "Hold it," he adds as he tilts his neck.

"Can I have it?

"It would be safer to give it to the strongest person. And this is an indication of our willingness to cooperate."

To her words, Ena and Tautos correct their posture. Each serious eye gathered in Ruth.

- I won't betray you.

What's there is stronger sincerity than rushing. Thoughts on the country are directed to Ruth through "Alta Ditiata".

They Noydia humans create a situation where they cannot move Ruth north instead of seeking the cooperation of Willidis Castle.

By depositing a seal on top of that, which is the key to the matter, we will show our readiness and faith, and we will try to get it from him as well.

Vernon had seen it on the map with a serious face, but asked the rig to point to the stone gate at the end of the branched road.

"Is the stone gate here open?

"Oh, it's broken, so it stays open. Instead, I think Luxa has a soldier."

"Then can you pull that soldier closer to the border? In case it doesn't work, we'll get rid of it on the spot. Let's get the fort soldiers to help us later."

Conflicts on the northern border continue unabated at present in Recai, making it a source of concern.

Because of that situation, it is clear to assume that the King does not want to send extra soldiers, even if fighting occurs on the southwestern border.

There's nothing in the southwest of the country. The wilderness is spreading, and being invaded doesn't immediately hurt.

You'll try to leave everything to Castle Willidis first.

This time I take it backwards, but I want the fact that "Neudia and Risai soldiers fought near the border" to make sure, even if the intelligence manipulation is done, of course.

Ruth maps the mountain roads before and after the stone gate.

"How big is this? It's hard to fight on a steep slope."

"The road should be wide. Because they originally cut it for the march. But the slopes are slopes."

"The cavalry can't travel if it's in the woods to detour. Do you honestly go up the hill with more troops...... I wish we had artillery weapons."

"If you go to the King's Capital, there must be. I also bought Luxa. Thinking about the future, you want to get it intact."

To Rig's remarks, the men, except Ena, move their expressions slightly.

As for Noidia, that would suffice if he could regain power and restore the rough status quo.

But that's not the end for Ruth. I guess Rig thinks up to that point. Supporting him as Noydia's man and fighting against the king of the rhinos.

If a nation were to be behind it, the king would not be able to reach Ruth easily.

The woman, who was implicitly adding that much to the deal, circled her eyes when she noticed Ruth's gaze.

"What is it, that face"

"No... you're really my wife"

"Suddenly what? Is it that loud? Me."

"Not really. Funny."

Ruth wanted to lift the flashing woman to her lap, but put up with it in front of other humans. I stroke my little head like a leopard in a change.

"Well, after that, you'll be able to talk to the Fort people. Move as fast as you can."

Everyone rises to the closing words.

in a room where the night soaks up every corner. With the lights illuminating the table turned off, only the moonlight was vividly cutting the darkness apart to illuminate the world.

You have to move as fast as you can to fight back than you have already been hit first on both the rhino and noidia sides.

When Ruth asked the departing caravan to distribute the information, he gathered people from the neighborhood and Noydia to explain a set of circumstances and measures.

The proposals presented in situations where there are no other options are not at all dangerous, but they are also unlikely to succeed.

Makes the King's Capital of Lisai feel as if Ruth is stopping the invading Noydia army at the border, while in fact recapturing the King's Capital in Noydia in the meantime - if successful, Ruth will gain neighbors as allies and take off the situation of being oppressed by his own kings.

Knowing that this measure involves fighting in other countries for the first time, some people at Willidis Castle are intrigued, others show tension and listen to their masters.

At the end of the meeting, including the specific number of troops mobilized and the appointment of commanders, they left the room alive as if the days leading up to it were lies.

The last remaining lanoma looks sideways at the rig while sitting by the window and invites Ruth.

"What? Is there something you care about?

"I'm curious. Your Highness, would you like to marry her?

"What?"

"'Cause she'll be the queen of Noydia if this goes well, won't she? Isn't that just fine? You'll get one country first."

"You..."

What are you thinking at a time like this? Ruth couldn't help but want to sit out on the spot.

Didn't you hear the rig? I have an extension by the window.

Ruth narrowed it down to one with so much to say, he returned it to his men.

"That's not the case. Mostly he is a priest by nature. Normally, you don't even know if your husband can have it."

"But you've already got it, haven't you? Can you let go now?

…………

It is disheartening to be pointing out facts and not being able to say it back.

Ruth looked up to the rig that came down the window and gave her a subtle look as she dropped off the lanoma leaving with a laugh of fun.

It's not because Lanoma told me.

I'm pretty sure the daytime conversation just stayed in the corner of my head.

Ruth looks down at the woman's white back in the moonlight and flaunts her face. I slipped my fingers between the dark hair flowing beside me and gently pulled it off.

"What is it?

"No.... did you say ena or something? That girl, if that's what you're saying, you gotta be honest with her."

She looks like she's about fifteen at best, she feels strong as per her first impressions, doesn't seem compatible with Lanoma and others in particular, but turns into utter submissiveness in front of the rig.

That shows funny in Ruth's eyes, but the said rig woke his body up when he stood up slightly and laughed.

"Because ena is my 'dia'. There's a strong connection."

"Dia?"

That is a word as unfamiliar as Alta Ditiata. Rigg smiled at Ruth as she listened back.

"What would it be easy to understand if I explained? People who could be Alta Ditiata have had an assistant called Dia since they were kids. You pick someone who's close in age for same-sex blood and magically connect them. In my case, that's ena."

The rig pulls the hanging cloth to his chest as he wakes up his torso.

Ruth took a breath of admiration for the rare habits of other countries.

"Don't do that funny...... You know what it is when you're connected?

"Right. First you can see life and death, or which direction you're in, roughly. After that, you can get emotions that are too strong, and you can mediate magic."

"Sounds convenient."

"It's a long, short time. Because if I get angry too much, it will be passed on to Ena too."

Ruth mouths the grinning rig.

If you ask him that, he was wondering that he had been deposited with a power of attorney, even though he looked like a girl without any power.

But if that girl is a person with a strong connection to the present Alta Ditiata, Sherida, she can snort too.

They must have always wanted to find Sheride who was missing. It will be a shame that it came true in this castle.

"Ruth."

Soft call.

At dawn, they leave this castle. Take Noydia and climb the mountain to the fort.

On a perhaps last night of peace, Ruth put her on her lap as she drew her lover's body. Capture unreliable flesh in your arms.

"Rig,... no, Sheride"

"Yes."

"You, won't you be my wife?

The abrupt language of the proposal was nevertheless tamed as if it should have been spoken. Ruth hugs her body from behind.

I'm not in an easy position. Rather, you can say that we are standing in each other's predicament.

But that's why it seems necessary to take her hand and be with her. As the shadows have been leaning in like that all along.

I don't want a country. I didn't ask for a back shield.

I just want to share time, spirit and warmth in this way, even at the risk. From now on, if it's going to happen, it's going to die.

"I will always protect you from assassins. If magic also has a solution, I'll run out of hands, and if it's not possible, you can stay a leopard. Probably gonna have a hard time... but if that's okay, why don't you stay next to me?

"Ruth......"

Her voice shook and heard.

A man puts his jaw on the head of a faceless woman.

"I'm not saying it's impossible because there's going to be a country. It doesn't matter if you don't have a format. With you, it's enough."

- Love, touch, be filled with it. I don't want a position as the queen's husband.

To the man who told her so, she was only a little silent. Thin shoulders shake small.

Similar silence to being at the bottom of the ocean. Not everything is there. Ruth kept her eyes closed.

Darkness that only senses itself and the other. It conveys the feeling of a woman in her arms turning herself around.

"Ruth."

She jumped at the same time as she called her name. As Ruth opens her eyes, Rig is looking up at the man with tears in his black eyes.

Looks happy, then a dreary smile. One day the sight I saw somewhere pierces him.

"Ruth, I'm very happy. Happy now."

"Sheride"

"I want to be here the whole time. I want to be like this."

Both arms turned around the neck. That is too fine from him, but with strong force.

She held the man tight all over her body, as if she were afraid she would let go of her body.

Supporting a likely broken bamboo, Ruth responds to her wishes.

"I can always come back. Wherever you go. So it's okay."

Whether we go to another country or something else, that won't be the end of it.

If you reach out, you should be able to take it. They've always done that.

The moon doesn't move.

Stitched up in the sky, illuminating them unchanged.

Sheride inhaled deeply.

Buried appearance. A clear, distant voice illuminates the night like a silent thunderbolt.

"Please remember, Ruth. I am very happy. When I'm with you, I feel happy. So..."

The words were cut there.

Blank as if time had been turned down.

When she slowly let go of her body, she stares at the man with a cloudless smile.

"I've always loved you"

Sheride then laid down her tearful eyelashes with a smile as she looked at Ruth's chest again.