Fake Cinderella

"So I told you. Definitely one day, there will be a wreck! I should have kept a full lockdown!

"That's what I said. Not now."

"What were the knights of security doing in the first place? Allow crooks to enter the royal palace, and more!

Only around Nadir was it very quiet in the conference room where the anger flies. Are you afraid of Nadir's outburst of anger, or no one to talk to?

I can talk to Nadir in this state, both like Phil-Lynn or Claude-Eus, who in a different way have nothing to be afraid of, which is why no one could say anything, even as they asked for Flirting and Nadir.

"Excuse me."

Nadir looked especially the same as usual when Phil-Lynn and Claude Ewes, the two of those talkative people, came back together.

"Your Highness, may I present your report?

It was Claude who opened his mouth first.

"... oh"

"As Her Royal Highness's lady said, it seemed a real coincidence that her grandmother had visited Her Royal Highness at that place today."

"... Why did Ruthia take that route to the Orthodox Palace?

There are several routes leading to Nadir's office from the corner of Altilier's use in the rear palace. In it, this time, that route that Altilier and the Duchess met was not the shortest distance.

The one who answered that was Phil-Lynn, who had the expression that he couldn't solve anything.

"First of all, it just so happens that the princess decided to plug you in. But it's no coincidence that you went down that route."

"Isn't that a coincidence?

"That route is the Princess's favorite route. He likes paintings on the hallway. He goes by a lot."

"So it's a coincidence that the Duchess was on the route?

"It was deliberate that the Duchess was on that route. Apparently the samurai set it up. The story of the one who passed through said that the lady she was with had a stomachache and wanted me to wait there."

"... such a samurai, you're fired"

Will leaks the crush with a frightened look.

"As you know, my grandmother is sweet on samurai and female officers..."

I'm sorry, and Claude bows his head.

"So? What about the samurai?

"... he was dead in the bathroom. The medicine I took for my abdominal pain was the poison."

Phil shakes his head to the side.

"... I mean?

"Probably, the princess just did. The Duchess is your destiny."

But those who are trying to kill the Duchess also have enough power and identity to send personnel into the royal palace. Phil turned his gaze towards Claude.

"... my grandmother has been threatened for a long time."

"How's it going?"

"... blackmail is blackmail, Your Highness, if the person being blackmailed doesn't realize it, it won't be established as blackmail."

I don't know what that means.

"My grandmother seems to have received several threatening letters, but she didn't seem to be aware that she was being targeted"

"Huh?"

"What, it"

A penetration enters from the perimeter.

"It's like my grandmother thought it was the wrong letter to threaten me in the first place."

"Am I the one to whom it is addressed?

"Yes, but you didn't think the grounds for that grudge were about you to my grandmother."

"Why is the Duchess resented?

Nadir slaps his desk with a ton of fingertips.

This was Nadir's fault when I was thinking.

"... five-day fever two years ago, you know?

"Oh."

"He said he lost his body then."

Two years ago, a fever called 'five-day fever' broke out in the neighbouring kingdom of Lesanges.

The five-day fever starts with symptoms of coughing and headaches, followed by high fever. High fever persists, making it impossible to eat. Eventually, water cannot even be spoken of, and about half of the patients die within five days of a fever.

This terrible fever will not lead to death if we can survive five days of fever. If you get sick, they said that somehow getting through these five days is the way to deal with it.

I didn't know any herbs, prescriptions, etc. that would work for five-day fever, enough to be told that taking care not to suffer was the best special effect.

It was something we didn't know at the time, but the disease infects via people. It was said that there was almost a 10% chance that we would be infected if we were living together in close proximity to humans suffering from this disease.

Knowing that the fever had broken out in Lesanges, Nadir immediately declared a border blockade with Lesanges and a ban on all movement in the area adjacent to the western border.

Adjacent to Lesanges were two cities, the Duke of Grachez, Nave, and the Royal Direct Naish, both of which were not able to complete segregation.

In Naish, a royal jurisdiction, the proclamation of the Crown Prince was naturally thorough.

A tent village was created outside the barracks, where travellers from Lesanges were housed. The gate was tightly closed and even the official legs of the hurry were not allowed to pass except the documents.

Nadir then asked a university in the Wang capital to send medics and pharmacists, and created a medical unit to send them to Naish.

Five days of fever soon broke out in the village of Tent.

Medical units quarantined tents in order of date of departure from Lesanges, and those who developed disease were further quarantined.

It was Nave who failed to be thorough.

Neve had also created a tent village, just like Naish, to cater to people suffering from fever.

The bad luck of the people in this town was the late arrival of the Duke of Grachez, who was not as critical about this fever as he was supposed to be for transporting the medical units dispatched by Nadir, and the fact that there was a cold-sheltered villa in the Duke of Grachez family in Nave, where the family of the Duke was coming.

The Dukes pitied the sick in the village of Tent under the cold skies. In particular, the Duchess, who heard that the sick had children, was heartbroken and offered to temporarily provide her own villa as a hospital.

It has already been declared to be an infectious disease and it is a measure of isolation because of the risk of infection by air. But the opposite of the town doctor, who was on treatment, was not heard.

The medical unit humans who moved the victims, who rise to one hundred and twenty, and their reserves, about seventy travellers, to the villa and arrived on the ground shortly afterwards, said they were flabbergasted by the measure.

Fortunately for the unfortunate, because of the travel ban, there was no way for travelers entering the nave to leave the nave.

Two battalions were immediately dispatched to Nave from the Western Division to seal off the city itself. Nadir also did not allow the Duke's clan to move.

Less than a week later, fever spread to the town of Neve for five days.

It spread throughout the town from the travellers stopped in Nave and from the Duke's servants and their families who were temporarily in the villa that became the hospital.

The final death toll in Neve is five hundred and twenty-six.

One of the Duke's granddaughters, who was only five years old, was to be counted among them.

However, given that more than two thousand and five hundred victims were given, the number of deaths is much smaller as a percentage.

Thanks to the activity of the medical unit.

This opened new avenues for medical research in universities in my country, but that will be another story.

And in Naish, where the policy of segregation by the health forces has been thorough, the total number of patients affected is about 300 out of about seven hundred reserved in the border village of Tent. Forty-three people were killed.

The disease, which was so fierce as to reduce the population by as much as 30% in neighbouring countries, was containment established here in Dardinia because the early segregation policy worked to some extent.

"... so?

"My grandmother would not have died if she had let her five-day fever patient into the villa..."

"Well, isn't it obvious who did it already?

The gaze of the other proximities who have joined the story concentrates on Claude.

"You can call me a mastermind... I know who the blackmailer is. We'll talk about that later. Let's just get back to it."

"Ooh."

Phil nods.

"In our territory, we had many victims then. But it was much better than our neighbors."

Those who know what is in their hearts are deeply jealous.

"But the number of victims was higher than in the adjacent royal jurisdiction. I was aware that there were people who were dissatisfied with that.... but it wasn't actually my grandmother who mentioned the acceptance of the villa that allegedly caused it. It must have been my grandmother's fault because my grandmother had to make a decision because my father was absent."

"That would have helped a lot of people if the Duchess hadn't let them travel. It's a good deed, but it was a mistake."

"Mistake? It wouldn't be another mistake, would it? It is true that if we look only at the results, that may be the case because of the relative high number of deaths, but Nave is colder than Naish. It is also possible that the cold did not shine in the tent. … and the extent to which autonomy within the territory is involved. There can be no coercion. There are now numerous deaths from pneumonia in Nashe. If you do poorly, more people might die of just pneumonia than from five-day fever."

Nadir continued calmly, saying that no one else would know what was right.

"Mostly, as long as I'm listening. Isn't that a rebellion?

"I consider it a rebellion"

Claude nods forcefully.

"... but that's why my grandmother had no idea why I was resented, and it didn't make sense"

"... you are so far from home."

"My grandmother is boxed. I've come as I am to this age because my grandfather is good at it... I know it's not something I was praised for, but it's not something my grandfather can say more than that"

"So? How did you figure out the blackmail?

"Because my grandmother started being targeted for her life.... It may have been somewhere we hadn't noticed, but one was the work of a samurai... so said the samurai held back by the escort. My own sister died of that fever. Give me back my sister."

"Isn't that one thing?

"Yes, we've already had three seizures here."

"Isn't that strange?

Phil tilts his neck.

"What?

"Is it all a meeting of fever victims?

"I don't have that meeting, but it was just something that I lost my body to that fever"

"More or less, Miss Fiony would have died over there."

The Duke's family has lost Claude's niece's late eldest brother's daughter to a five-day fever.

"... there's someone who's inciting you"

For what? and tilt his neck.

"Is there any reason for Grachez to target me?

"No, I can't say, but I don't know why I'm after my grandmother. If I lost my grandmother, of course, we'd feel sorry for her, but I'm old and old, so I'm ready for nothing."

"What kind of person can you and this guy get from his death?

"... come on. In this way, it's like being an impersonator, but I don't think my grandmother deserves that much. My grandfather would be the only one who would put that much value on my grandmother."

"Then let's say that if your grandmother dies, the old duke will be depressed. So, what do you get then?

"You'll inherit the trail. Me and Arienol?

Claude tilts her neck.

"Well, there won't be. It's a chair that's bound to come around no matter what."

"Sort of."

"... in the meantime, you can set aside your purpose"

I heard a chilling voice.

Pressure everyone has to do their gaze over there.

It is the vicinity's constant feeling of fear, on the contrary, because it is a calm voice.

"More than that, Claude, I'm letting you prune a thief who's entered the royal palace now. Wash your back. Phil, follow the steps of the Duchess and Ruthia."

Nadir gives directions early in the arrow succession.

"... uh, princess, don't think it's probably that one"

Phil-Lynn said, hesitating to say just a little bit.

"Probably, but..."

"Do you have any idea?

"... I'm pretty sure he went underground, right?

"Oh.... several of the thieves have been found murdered by unaccounted guardians.... but there are so many places being killed that I can't follow Ruthia's footsteps because I don't constantly"

"... I guess so"

Just say it.

Nadir frowns.

"... maybe, princess, I'm directionally tone-deaf"

"Directional tone deafness?

"Ooh."

"... right"

From the side of what Nadir had in mind, no one who was there could question him.