How can a retired savior be considered retired if his price drops to 40,000?

Chapter 237 Warm again

To Sevatar's unspeakable regret, the small "accident" that occurred on Kaelia due to the feathers falling off from the Raven Guard Primarch neither affected Chaldea's subsequent operations nor This led Fujimaru Ritsuka to make the decision to "recycle and redistribute this sacred object." They just conducted a simple test on it and confirmed that it was generally harmless, and then let the problem go. However, Kaelia chose to take off the reliquary and keep it safely in her room on the Storm Frontier. .

This simplistic treatment decision may only be temporary. After all, at present, the more urgent problem is obviously Baal, who is really close to "imminent" in terms of distance, and the Blood Angels Chapter Monastery.

And the grand "landing plan" that will be put into use soon.

Fujimaru Ritsuka was well-informed in her previous life. In the process of saving the world in the past, she not only saw all kinds of kings in history and the wealth they possessed, but she even personally scooped up the treasure trove of gems in King Gilgamesh's treasure. Even if the hero doesn't talk about his bravery in the past and only talks about the present, objectively speaking, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who currently has the emperor personally ordering the capital injection, can be considered a rich man. But if the background is placed in the 42nd millennium of mankind, and the dimension is expanded to include the entire empire, her previous "well-informed" and "rich" meanings are somewhat imitating.

After all, the difference in size is there. No matter how rich a certain king on Earth was two thousand years ago, he could never be richer than the emperor who owned an empire that encompassed countless planets. Just like rubies, in Fujimaru Ritsuka's concept, the price of this mineral that can be used as a magic catalyst is astronomical if it is the size of a pigeon egg. Even if she secretly squandered the property of the King of Heroes, when she decided to use it You also have to weigh the pros and cons and fight with yourself. But rubies of this size are everywhere on the power armor of the Blood Angels, just as beautiful but useless decorations.

By the way, Lapis Lazuli is also produced in the Five Hundred Worlds of Ultramar. During the idle time when Fujimaru Ritsuka was waiting for the Emperor's Dream to be disinfected in Parmenio, he once casually mentioned to the locals that he had a lapis lazuli bracelet during a chat. The next day, she received three sets of twelve pieces of fine gold jewelry. Each piece was inlaid with high-quality blue lapis lazuli, which had almost no color difference from the armor coating of the Ultramarines.

She spent a lot of effort to return these things to where they came from, but Vasilian, who was watching the whole process at that time, said: Just take it if you take it. These things are not much in total. money.

Fujimaru Ritsuka really couldn't believe the concept of "not having much money" in the Imperial Army. Sometimes she even wonders whether the Imperial Army has a correct understanding of concepts such as "price" or "cost" that are closely related to money.

Fortunately, most of the parts of this landing plan have nothing to do with the Throne Coin, and Fujimaru Ritsuka can safely let them toss around after cutting off most of the projects that are "too expensive" in terms of labor. Anyway, it’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. In the vast universe with no village or store, all they can use are the resources on the Emperor’s Dream - in a sense, this is completely a virtual currency that can be fabricated out of thin air. As long as Somni Thinking that this can be done, Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't have any big objections.

If the Custodes hadn't planned to dress her up like a Christmas tree, she wouldn't have had even this slight objection.

"You look particularly radiant today." Even Sigismund commented after seeing the dressed-up Fujimaru Ritsuka.

"... After all, there is only one hour left before the ceremony starts. It's too late to regret it, so I'll just take it as a compliment." The person involved was heartbroken, with the attitude of "Today I will be the conspicuous leader of this empire." Determination, so replied.

The word "radiant" is certainly a compliment when used by others. But this word slipped out of the mouth of Sigismund, the son of Dorne, so one couldn't help but begin to suspect that this meant something: the gold threads used for decoration on this set of robes cut by the Imperial Guards There are too many shiny things such as silver threads, pearls and gems, which has caused Ritsuka Fujimaru to have... to put it mildly, the light reflectivity is a bit high.

By the way, when it comes to the choice of dress style, it was Fujimaru Ritsuka's side who finally bowed her head. She resolutely refused the Adeptus Custodes' attempts to build a house over her head at the expense of allowing things like exaggerated bustles and intricate lace ruffles to appear on her body. She really didn't understand why a lady of this era could carry five kilograms on her head and decorate her head, and at the same time attend a three-hour banquet with great demeanor. She could even attend the banquet. Dance on. Have their cervical vertebrae been replaced with iron for this?

At this point, her struggle was successful, but not entirely successful. Currently, she still wears a golden laurel wreath with a net weight of one kilogram on her head, and a translucent veil with gold embroidery hanging underneath. Not only does it block her view, but the material is so practical that she complains endlessly. . She did protest, "I'm just a mortal who doesn't understand psychic powers, so why don't I use gold-plated ones?" But unfortunately, the protest was ineffective. The Imperial Guards don't know why in this regard, they just have some strange obsessions.

Theoretically, the background color of this dress should be black. At least when Somni pulled the fabric, the black fabric was used the most. But in reality, everyone’s first reaction when seeing this dress will be that it is golden. Otherwise, the dense embroidery has occupied a larger area on the fabric than the background color of the fabric. . During the production process, the Imperial Guards seemed to have some sense of competition in this dress, or perhaps the visit kimono that Fujimaru Ritsuka casually proposed while struggling gave them inspiration. Except for the Imperial Sky Eagle that is bound to exist on the chest, these people almost moved the entire Terra Palace to her huge skirt and train in the form of miniature embroidery.

The only thing that made Fujimaru Ritsuka slightly more satisfied was that the makeup under the veil was painted by herself. Although it is an exaggerated stage makeup that is so thick that the eyeliner can almost fly to the temples, the eye shadow and sequined lipstick make it look like a child has just been eaten, at least it is still a stage makeup that she thinks is "still lookable".

As an ancient person, it was hard for Fujimaru Ritsuka to imagine that embroidery with such precision was produced within three days. But in contrast, because of the large number of gold threads, the weight of this suit is also very considerable.

"It's fifty-seven minutes and forty-three seconds." Sigismund corrected a few details as usual before defending himself, "And I really thought I was praising him. Is there any misunderstanding? "

"This requires detailed analysis of specific issues." Fujimaru Ritsuka replied as usual, "The current situation is: theoretically, you can't see me at all. I have been completely submerged in this lot of complicated and heavy decorations. Even if I can be sure that your praise is sincere according to what I understand to be your consistent style, it’s hard for me to think that the object of your praise is me and not my outer appearance.”

Her last words were somewhat gritted in tone. This gnashing of teeth seemed to activate Sigismund's few emotional intelligence, and after some self-game, he finally gave up further explanations out of a desire to survive. Fortunately, Fujimaru Ritsuka's resentment was not directed at Sigismund, but at the clothes. She quickly changed the topic back to this direction, spreading out her hands wearing black lace gloves and complaining: "I doubt my hands will slip when I hold the scepter later, or if I need to lift it." When the scepter is put down, the gloves will be hooked by the dark carvings on the scepter.”

The problem was a little too new for Sigismund. He had absolutely no experience to offer - he had never worn lace gloves. The poor black knight was stuck in place for two seconds before he vaguely figured out that Fujimaru Ritsuka didn't expect him to solve the problem when he said this to him, but just grabbed someone nearby to complain. He didn't know how to deal with this situation better, so in the end he had to move his neck, which was as stiff as a bearing that he forgot to oil, nodded awkwardly, and hoped that Fujimaru Ritsuka could read it by himself from his well-maintained helmet. to express desired feelings.

The Emperor's Champion was saved by Kaelia, who came to the preparation room with the Scepter of the Aquila. The hurried appearance of the little girl succeeded in drawing Fujimaru Ritsuka's attention away from Sigismund. Today, Kaelia will be standing outside the parade as the attendant of Fujimaru Ritsuka, so she also got a new set of clothes "suitable for the occasion". Due to time constraints, her current task is to help Fujimaru Ritsuka, who is preparing to dress up, to run errands, so she is still wearing regular clothes. But Fujimaru Ritsuka had already seen that set of attendant uniforms once during a previous fitting. In her opinion, the clothes, whose main color was also black, were at least sixty-six percent like a nun's uniform in terms of tailoring.

To be honest, after being imprisoned in the gorgeous clothes she was wearing, Fujimaru Ritsuka was even a little envious of Kaelia's nun clothes. Although the suit was a little too plain, at least it was easy to move around and there was nothing physically suffocating.

The outfit she was wearing now was even heavier than the Ortenaus exoskeleton, and she wore a pair of thick soles that were at least thirty centimeters high. Wearing this pair of things that should be called "stilts" rather than "shoes", she couldn't even walk well. She only regretted that she had not learned more skills in high heels from Cleopatra. The only good thing is that when she wears this suit, she only has to walk about 30 meters (including steps). At other times, she is not standing on the top of the turret of the Cronus anti-gravity tank (for ceremonial purposes). Smiling and waving, pretending that they are part of the float decoration, they stand in front of the podium and recite a speech from memory.

——Yes, "while wearing this suit." After completing all the procedures today, Fujimaru Ritsuka needs to change three sets of clothes in total!

Fujimaru Ritsuka took the Sky Eagle Scepter handed over by Kailia with the sadness and indignation of "I need to change three sets of clothes", and quickly realized that the lace gloves produced by the imperial army would not be easily broken by scratching them casually. . This discovery made her a little happier, but it still had a strong sense of "joy in hardship".

Thinking about it carefully, she had to thank the Emperor for giving her an Eagle Scepter that had to rest on the bottom when holding it. The existence of this scepter greatly limited the space for the Imperial Guards to play on the skirt of her dress, because she had to personally stand the scepter beside her during the parade. If the Emperor had had a sudden thought and given her an eagle feather fan as identification, the bustle of her skirt would now be at least three meters in diameter, and anyone who wanted to hand something to her would have to connect it to a long pole. .

Maybe Kaelia read something from the bitter and resentful expression on Fujimaru Ritsuka's face under the veil, or maybe she read something directly from Fujimaru Ritsuka's surface thinking because of her talent. After handing over the scepter, she couldn't help but ask: "Sister, is there any problem next?"

"It's too late to say there is a problem now." Fujimaru Ritsuka made a face under the veil on the premise of not wearing makeup. "There will always be times in life when you force yourself to do something you hate but must do. But you , you will have to stand behind me for four or five hours after the parade is over, do you want to take advantage of this time to rest for a while?"

"At that time, I will just stand." Kaelia didn't show much concern. "I can survive the four or five hours of marathon in the simulation room. Isn't it better to just stand with the scepter than the Hastings Trial?" The officer’s training mission is much simpler.”

"But it's boring, and the mental pressure is different." Fujimaru Ritsuka sighed, "One thing to say, instead of wasting time on these parades, dances, dinners, and the like, I would rather go to the simulation room and be beaten by Sigis Mondstadt plays all day long. If I'm lucky, maybe I can get a little sense of achievement."

Sigismund didn't know whether he should respond to this sentence, so he simply poked aside and pretended not to hear, and became a ruthless process broadcasting machine: "Madam, in view of your strong request to leave a margin in the moving time, we It’s almost time to head to the hangar.”

The Emperor's Dream is huge. Really big. It was so big that it would take Twelve minutes for Fujimaru Ritsuka to move from the current preparation room to the hangar, even by riding on the anti-gravity floating saucer. After that, she had to settle herself and her floor-length skirt on top of the turret that had been transformed into a ceremonial personnel carrier. After doing these things, it was almost time for the ceremony to begin.

Incidentally, Custodes squads will walk around the anti-grav tanks during the parade as part of the ceremonial guard. Once an unplanned serious safety incident occurs, Sigismund, as the last line of defense, hides in the internal space of the Kronos tank and adapts accordingly.

After going over the entire ceremony process in his mind, Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded to Sigismund with a determination as if he was going to the execution ground: "Let's go."

(End of this chapter)