Her Royal Highness Seems to be Angry

From the day of the trial, ten days had passed if you noticed. That day was the day when those formerly known as the House of the Duke of Filialeggis left the King's capital.

The Filialeggis had been notified of the King's final judgment. It is not unlike the underlying judgment and is ordered to spend time in the assigned secluded territory after the title and territory have been confiscated.

Bo stared at the mansion he had spent sixteen years in, and Krista was waiting to leave as she sat in the carriage seat. Scarlo and Deanne are supposed to leave the King's Capital one last time after Christa, but Saligna has already traveled the King's Capital one foot away.

That time I met my sister in the hallway of the Orthodox Court, Krista was poked inside of herself that she didn't even want to notice.

For ten years now, Krista was always chasing the shadows of Drossel. The twin sister, who replied to her monologue, imparted Krista with the same attitude as usual. As the saying goes, Drossel must not have stuck with Krista or anything, no... I guess Krista was just my sister from the start.

Because he could feel it from the verses of words and attitudes, Krista gave up that her previous emotions would stick together with Drossel as lightly as a lie.

But now that I've lost my relationship with Drossel, I wonder what's left of me. I wonder what life I've lived and continued to chase.

The more I think about it, the more nothingness spreads to my chest. In an attempt to distract Krista, she tries to get the book out of her baggage, but pulls out one painting that was pushing it into the far corner of the bag.

Girl's smile written in beautiful colors, although slightly faded. It was that portrait of Christa, painted by a young Drossel a long time ago.

Krista stares at that painting for a while with no expression, slowly grabbing the painting with both hands and rubbing her strength. The two pieces of paper I grabbed distort and make a loud, billy noise.

……

With just a little bit of the edge of the painting torn, Krista stopped breaking the painting for what she thought.

She stops moving while grabbing the painting for a while and stares at it again. The picturesque Krista has a full grin, but the distortion has reached that grin because she grabbed it so hard.

"... ha"

Eventually Krista folded the painting with a sigh and put it in the bag again. Even if my relationship with my twin sister was broken, it should be noted that the last of those paintings could not be abandoned.

Besides, it's not like anything changes where I tore this painting. Krista's expression, which closed the bag and pale view of the flowing outside, was somewhere inorganic and lonely.

A simple carriage runs through the outskirts of Wangdu. In that car, Saligna was reading a letter she had in her hand.

I was originally in my fiancée's territory when I returned to King's Capital to conduct my trial, but that was also until yesterday when I was sentenced to King's Capital exile.

The letter comes from my fiancée Augusto, where it is carefully spelled out to blank her engagement to Saligna and her words of apology for it. What a good man he is.

……

When he finished reading the letter and breathed small, Saligna tore the letter apart. The reason for the divestiture was simple. Saligna is now a family of sinners and has already lost her identity as Duke. I can't welcome her as my wife like that. That's all.

Still, the fact was unacceptable to Saligna. Born in an aristocratic house, he thought it was something that had lived and would continue to live normally until now. But it is also over.

Saligna looks out the sky with chillies and windows. Behind her brain, Krista's condition over the past few days was good.

Ever since I got back from the trial, Krista has been flirting with things like that. The shadows of the past were nowhere more, grown up as if people had changed, and were shuddering like shells.

Saligna didn't make it to the trial in critical time, so we don't know what stories were exchanged in court and with whom or what her sister was talking after the court closed. But the only thing that happened in the Orthodox Court was somehow intuitive.

(I'm sure it's because of her.)

I don't know what the situation was at that time, but Saligna had an idea of who put Krista in this state.

It's Drossel. She must be the cause. Saligna knows that Krista, who treats everyone brightly and softly, is shaking her emotions so big that it's always easy to understand only when the topic of Drossel comes up.

Not sure if Krista herself admitted it, but the presence of a twin sister named Drossel monopolized most of the emotions in her. If there's a factor that makes Krista change, I can't think of anything else besides that girl.

Drossel is said to be playing a part in the picking in this trial. It will still take a little while for the circular of the final verdict, but I'm sure as a meritorious person she will be exempt from punishment.

"... Drossel..."

I can't forgive you. Why should I be punished if I was in my fiancée's territory and had nothing to do with it? Why did Krista have to be seen like that? Why is that child the only one allowed?

Because of her, Krista changed and Saligna's life turned into a mess. It is intolerable that only Drossel is allowed. One day, I'll make sure we get the same eyes as ourselves.

The carriage carrying Saligna plugged into the woods. When I had just entered the woods, nothing had happened, and the carriage was going well, protected by a few squire.

But around the border between the forest and the outside was becoming invisible, the carriage suddenly made an emergency stop. Because one of my servants heard a strange noise coming from the woods.

The squire gathers around the carriage to explore the surroundings with increased vigilance. Blackened men jump vertically from the tree above the carriage's head, as if to grin their vigilance like that.

The squire also perceived the enemy overhead with the sound of the wind cutting, but the men were one better. Landing on the shoulder of one of his squires, the black-out waves the short knife in his hand at a speed that goes unnoticed. A red muscle ran on his neck, and the next moment the squire's neck was falling to the ground.

"Wow!

"Ya, stop... yah!

Suddenly it fell into the hands of a group of mysteries that emerged, and the squires lost their lives one after the other without doing so.

A mysterious figure wrapped in a full-body black cloak, like a parent who kills even the horse who was pulling the carriage and leads the group, slowly approaches the body of the carriage. The curtains are closed and I can't ask what's going on inside.

And from the gap of the curtains Saligna stared at the black figure walking over with her sword without screaming.

A dozen soldiers were rushing around for a search in a messy hall. At the corner of the hall are gathered men tied with ropes in one place, with several soldiers watching it closely.

"Sorry, Shirley, it's getting late."

There's a voice on Shirley's back that was examining the material scattered across the floor. Turning around, there was a noble boy walking in with his blue hair sideways.

"No, never mind. Your Royal Highness is here for the trial. Good day."

Standing up with the material, Shirley makes a small meeting toward Lionel.

"Still, this building looks pretty much the same as the neighborhood dwellings. I wouldn't have known if I hadn't tortured the Knights arrested in the Duke's Lands and made them throw up."

The paint on the walls, the tiles on the floor, etc. peel off, the stone walls swoop out and look out into the room where they even have holes everywhere, and Lionel steps inside with Stasta.

This is where the Knights of Black Steel used it as a hiding base in the slums of Nirvaan. It is so lame that it seems to collapse even now, but it seems that it was a place where people could live while repairing it due to broken plates, etc.

It is a discreet building in a rather intricate section behind the Glades, so today there is a forced entry by Lionel based on information finally obtained by torturing several Knights constituents at Lionel's life.

"Your Highness, the interior is aging. Stand back because it's dangerous."

"Thanks for your concern, but I'm fine"

Control Shirley, who tries to stop him, and Lionel heads to the back of the ground floor. This building has two floors, but the second floor has floors... which means the first floor ceilings are weathered, so the constituents don't seem to be entering either, and the stairs are sealed off.

"Will you report on what you know at the moment?

"Yes. All Knights currently on the ground floor are in custody. But that doesn't seem to be everyone, so we remain vigilant."

Walking diagonally behind Lionel, Shirley sums up the main points and briefly reports what she finds out in the absence of the prince.

"Large quantities of drugs and weapons and more have been discovered from warehouses in the basement. I don't know where these come from, but I'm pretty sure it's a drug of a species that hasn't been out in the country."

"I see, do you have any research on what drugs are?

"No, I don't know the ingredients, etc. without detailed analysis, but I think it's probably the same drug Krista kept."

Christa's opponent, who was trading in the Glades, could not affirm that the place of the deal was an abandoned church not directly related to the Knights, or that she had no idea of the opponent's background, and that it was the Knights of Black Steel at a previous stage of the investigation.

But now, besides his involvement in the territory, the matter of Krista's illegal drug trade also led to the Knights of Black Steel. I think I'm going to need to get my report back together now.

"Some crap is rusty and useless about weapons that were stored and others are of comparable high quality to holy relics. In addition, letters of dealing with the Meyer Chamber of Commerce were discovered from what appears to be the Leader's room, and it seems that all Meyer Chamber of Commerce merchandise was purchased from here."

"Well, then surely Meyer's merchandise is sold at a surprisingly low price... But the sacred relics are not calm again, have you investigated them in detail?

"No, because of the high volume, it is expected to take a little longer to find out the nature"

I wouldn't be surprised otherwise about the Knights possession of the weapons, but Lionel caught on to possession of the sacred relic.

It is true that the sacred relic does not in itself have any benefit, so it may be used in the private sector without the knowledge that it does, but it seems very unlikely to Lionel that there are so many sacred relics gathered here that it takes time to investigate.

"Anyway, for possible weapons of sacred relics, I'll put them together later and send them to the Holy Relics Research Bureau for appraisal so they can be sorted in one place"

"Yes, sir."

Under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic, there is a Sacred Relics Research Bureau that specializes in the study and appraisal of sacred relics.

Looking indoors all the way around, Lionel went back to the first hall. As we passed beside the stairs along the way, a man with an axe suddenly appeared in front of the two with the sound of blowing debris.

When I saw it, a cavity had been created under the stairs, and I hadn't noticed it because the going was blocked by rubble, but apparently it was hidden inside.

"Die!!

"... you still had a remnant"

"Stand back, Your Highness"

Covering Lionel behind his back, Shirley pulls out the sword with one hand and receives an axe that is swung down.

Are you surprised that your attack was taken, or that it was a woman who took it, the man hurried to distance himself from Shirley and began his magical chant.

"Full of my body -..."

"... slow. Wind Slicer"

They don't even give their opponents time to chant, and Shirley speaks a short magical name. The magic of a high density compressed wind is gathered only at the tip of the sword, and there is no air flow around it, but there is a sound of wind blowing. Shirley sets up a sword, kicks the ground suddenly and packs the man's time.

"Gaaaaaa!!

Shirley, who had been in front of the man until earlier, was already behind the man when he waved his sword down. Blood erupted vigorously and the man's right wrist danced through the universe.

The scream sounds indoors late, and the man collapses to the spot with his hand covering the wound. Shirley paid a penny for the blood attached to his sword and dropped it, bowing his head toward Lionel.

"... I'm sorry, I misapplied the force"

"No, I don't mind. Instead, I saved you a lot of trouble."

Lionel pulled out the sword he put on his hips, pointing a perfect cut at his neck muscle as he walked to the front of the man.

"Now, shall I have the information I know washed up and thrown up? Honestly, it's for your own good."

.

"Talk! Don't kill me because I'll tell you everything......!

He screamed faintly with an upward voice, and the man began to mumble like a flood.

In addition to drug and human trafficking, the stronghold also involved the good offices of magicians who were good at handling magic and the trafficking of treasures of high value and power, like sacred relics, he said.

"... so the next place I was going to trade was in a city called Schenley," he said?

"Oh yeah, so my parents collect more weapons and stuff than they do now... I don't know any more! That's all they tell us down there! Oh, really!!

Lionel narrows his eyes slightly. The city of Shenley has its heart, and it is certainly one of the cities on the edge of the Ealis Empire.

But the Empire has laid a total restraining order against magic technology, and yet severe repression has been practised throughout the country. That's best known to Lionel, who actually went to study abroad.

Guess from the man's story, the kind of sacred artifacts that were in the warehouse were also probably meant to be used for that deal, but what the hell are you thinking, such as making such a massive magic deal within the Empire?

(Does the Empire know about this? Or do you know and acquiesce...? Or is there another thought involved...)

Why did the Knights get all those sacred artifacts in the first place, what the hell is going on within the empire today? Lionel returned his sword to his sheath as he exhaled hu and.

Either way, at this stage, there is no evidence to support the speculation, no clue as to the insights of the empire, and there is no other way to proceed with the investigation.

"Well, let me hear more about it later. I only stopped the bleeding on this man, and then I restrained him."

"Ha!"

When Lionel gives the instructions, the soldiers, who were rushing to hear the screams, immediately take the man.

"Shirley."

"Yes, what is it"

"Do you mind if I leave this to you?"

"No problem. Are you returning to the royal castle?

"Oh, I had to get your father's consent."

Currently, a mission from the Ealis Empire is still staying within the kingdom. They may not know anything about the deal, but just in case, Lionel was thinking of letting them monitor their behavior within the kingdom.

The mission is scheduled to return at the same time as the arrival of the royal family who are scheduled to come from the Empire to study abroad, and this is not the time until their return is scheduled, but if things proceed arbitrarily and the Empire finds out, it could be an international problem.

Because it's not up to her to decide on her own, Lionel is going to go apply to her father, Oswald, for a surveillance permit.

"Well, I asked for it."

"I'll take care of it"

Slightly loosened his cheek to Shirley, whom I humbly thank, Lionel boarded the carriage that had kept him waiting outside.