Muyoku no Seijo wa Okane ni Tokimeku

42. Leo, Fade (after)

"Your Majesty...! Dear Alexia......! Not really!

Alexia was still about to leave the chamber when her eye-catching niece rushed through her usual calm.

The Weitz Empire, the palace of White Asia.

The throne on which the most venerable woman on the continent sits, and the chamber in which it is distributed, are luxurious, commensurate with their status.

But at a time when the hours of sight had come to an end, and when civilians would even try to calm down, the lights had been shed at her will, and even the number of soldiers was sparse.

The husband emperor has already moved places and worked with ambassadors from other countries in a belly exploration named Feast.

From the standpoint of being a woman, she cut up the long streets along the way, doing her affairs with a little greed, before finally trying to get back out of the palace.

"What's wrong, Natalia? Ladies don't even take confessions, get in the office, etc. I forgive you for being your niece, but as a duke's wife, it's not a compliment."

Alexia's voice, which ended her stunning official duties today, is somewhere worrying because of her tiredness.

But it was paired with shiny blonde hair, worried blue eyes, and white, abundant limbs to further enhance her luscious beauty. It is a youthfulness, and beauty, very unlike the mother of two children.

She moved her long legs, very gracefully from the side, but at that fruitful speed she headed off to the palace.

It's even a matter of government to make sure the Empress gets some sleep.

Her time is more honorable than anyone living in this empire.

It was unacceptable to accommodate a sudden intruder.

"Wait, Master Alexia. Then, not as Your Majesty, but as your aunt. As a kind Aunt Alexia, listen to me."

Natalia follows with momentum that seems to shake even the flax colored hair that is tied up properly.

Alexia dropped a small sigh of sight controlling the surrounding samurai and soldiers embarked on a bit of themselves.

"-... you can't go against a cute Leah treat. Fine, only until we get to the outhouse."

That way, the tone goes back to what it was before - back to what it was when she was still the Duchess, slowing her gait.

When Natalia lined up as relieved by it, she immediately raised her face and asked.

"I'll ask you straight in. Master Alberto... how are you going to do?"

…………

Alexia accidentally leaked a bitter laugh at the truly straightforward narrative.

Natalia is a few steps more adult than any other warrant lady, but she is still young. Seventeen.

To its sobriety, she replied, remembering something more like glare.

"... come on. It was His Majesty the Emperor (Baltic) who ordered him to be discreet. I can't measure your thoughts."

"That can't be right"

Natalia quickly blocks her from trying to push her husband lightly into trouble.

She was sparkling her intelligent colored eyes so angry that she could see them in the night.

"Not only are you being cautious, but you're even letting me fit a magic sealed bracelet. That is a treasure handed down to the royal family, also lined with dragon symbols. You must have permission and signature from both sires to use it."

Alexia turns her eyes around.

She loved her niece's brilliance, but it's a little troublesome for these occasions.

"... you won't have a choice. That child is a prince. So far, yeah. Nonetheless, because it exceeded its authority and encroached on the territory of the ancient nobility"

"That's why I didn't expect to seal it up to magic......! Master Alberto, just once, drew a formation. It also benefits the citizens to the detriment, as well as the lakes inhabited by the Spirit, formations that the Church has also allowed. But must we seal up the magic of power just because we have outrun the heavily waisted aristocracy a little bit?"

The royal family of the Weitz Empire possesses immense magic from generation to generation.

In other words, its massive magic power is a testament to the royal family, and the fact that it is held back is equally true that it was implicitly heralded the deprivation of royal citizenship.

What to hide, former Prince Augusto was also subjected to this magic seal as a temporary procedure until he was banished from the royal palace.

To Natalia, the unanimity seemed ominous.

Alexia doesn't even turn around.

Just gracefully aiming to leave the palace, I just answered.

"- If the formation becomes popular, everything in the structure of this country will surely change. That kid made the trigger. Leah. You really know that too, don't you?

Asked, Natalia shuts up.

Yes, known for her clear brains, of course, she understood what impact this act of Alberto would have on the Empire later.

Magic power is the source of royal power.

So what happens if the common man freely hands it in the form of formation?

Fear of magic diminished, and the royal authority, which was controlling the world with power, would become weaker and weaker.

Probably not instantly.

Ten or a few decades. No, maybe it takes a hundred years, but the more formations develop, the more surely the royal loss of authority as a magician progresses.

It doesn't matter if Alberto's formation is beneficial or harmful.

The fact that the Imperial Prince made it to strangle himself is a problem in itself.

"Soon the royal family, with the spread of the formation, will not be able to stabilize the land with magic. So I thought I'd give her a taste of the mood of those who would lose the magic from the source of power and just be lost to the status of man."

To a lesser extent, Natalia must have looked up to Alexia.

but I noticed the Empress's eyes staring straight ahead, grieving, and she lost words of condemnation.

"Dear Alexia... are you mourning"

When I asked her about it, my son - making her feel like she was obviously related to Alberto - narrowed those ice-blue eyes in loneliness.

"... as a mother, you can't possibly not mourn my son's demise? When she rarely rushed to the royal palace and confessed that she had crossed the prince's authority, I wondered if I would be white in front of her."

Yes, the prince, after generating his own formation with his own blood, went to the royal palace with his feet.

To foresee the impact it will have and explain it to parents with their own mouths, faster than anyone else will point it out to them.

He said it all went by his own will.

Assuming that the girl who "deposited" the formation succeeded in placing it in the lake, the emperor and the queen lost words to the prince who claimed that the classmates and their families took advantage of it to entertain the formation business, but that it only followed their instructions.

The two go through the main palace and step out into the corridor leading to the outlying palace.

Alexia spoke quietly to Natalia as she looked up at the moon peeking from the corridor.

"That kid was always the perfect prince. Suddenly he has not lost the weight of his given identity, has not failed in his efforts, has always been ahead of the demands of his surroundings and continues to play the perfect prince everyone desires. Throw away your will. It was the only time he claimed to have done it of his own free will."

Natalia bit her lips.

What irony is that?

Alberto's thoughts, Alexia's whining, are both just understandable, heartbreaking.

But Natalia still had something to ask.

"I haven't gotten your answer yet. How about Alberto?"

"... Tomorrow - Spirit Festival Day, Your Majesty will decide to treat you. I do not know all of its sincerity. This is true."

"Treatment... no way, deprivation of inheritance?

When Natalia asked in a low voice, Alexia stopped walking and turned to her.

"Leah, I'm telling you I don't know."

"But Dear Alexia!

My niece, who had always respected and obeyed the Empress, did not give way to all this time.

Natalia blushed that intelligent face with excitement and enquired violently.

"Then why does Master Alberto try to take the dragon symbol away from me and Leonora!? As if you foresee yourself as no longer a prince!

…………

Alexia used to say nothing.

Jewel-like clear blue eyes intersect with furious angry eyes.

I had never seen Natalia expose her emotions so intensely against this noble woman.

As Alberto's mother, Empire Queen, Alexia was always a respectable woman to obey.

But on this day, Natalia was stripping her teeth, as if she were just a rebellious girl, toward a woman who should also be the mother of this empire.

"Master Alberto has asked me before. If I ever dye my hands, I want the dragon symbol I gave back. He wants me to stop being involved with him."

- I need a favor, Leah. I want the dragon symbol I gave you back. [M]

Natalia remembered a conversation she had previously had with her cousin in the student council room.

He, who also thinks of his brother, was smiling calmly, as he overcame the fierceness.

- If you have my dragon symbol, that's all, you'll be treated like my greatest loyalist... No, it will (...), because if I get disposed of, in case that tiredness ever reaches you.

Because you shouldn't have a cold, about, light tone.

But that can't be right. If there were to be a denial of inheritance, it wouldn't be the kind of thing you could have on your own.

But Alberto was only a taunt.

And he, in fact, got his hands on the line after that.

The girl succeeded in summoning the water of the lake brilliantly, and the grace of the water came to pass to those who were in need.

As a result, the prince was fitted with a magically sealed bracelet and spent his cautious days as a human being.

"... Master Alberto has also told Leonora to return the dragon symbol. By the tea party. She has the dragon symbol in her hand - that she has the fiancée's credentials, before it becomes public. The Tea Party and Yara are on Spirit Festival Day. I mean, isn't Your Majesty going to be stripped of the right to inherit Master Alberto that day......!?

That was Natalia's anticipated muscle writing.

I'm sure the emperor is about to dispose of the prince who tried to cause the royal family to lose its authority on the day of the Spirit Festival.

Invite the girl who inspired it to the Tea Party and show her where the prince will be banished.

At the same time, the girl, if she had a dragon symbol, would not be spared some punishment in the coalition.

That's why the prince is in a hurry.

I'm trying to take it away before I find the fiancée certificate (gold coin) that I gave her in the eyes of my father.

Natalia unconsciously pressed the chest of the dress.

There, the gold coins awarded by Alberto were lowered - until yesterday.

"I, in the end, returned the gold coins. My father, who fought, but listened, told me that it was to protect me, and it was taken away...! Master Alberto says that when he received the dragon symbol from his father, he smiled and thanked him. That's fine. He said he was glad he didn't have to get involved! I... I was not given a gold coin to make you say that!

Natalia shouted at the Empress, who looked down at this one silently.

Both the intelligent tone and restrained expression that I always strive to imitate Alexia screamed with emotion as a girl who, all coddled up, just regretted hurting her cousin.

"Leonora hasn't returned the gold yet. But that's why the prince tells her to return the dragon symbol, as he does every day. The more I say that, the more Alberto is the one who scratches! Even Leonora... has enjoyed a lot and will no longer come out of her dorm room in the last few days. I don't want to see two more scratches!

In Natalia's eyes, tears were now seeping out loud.

She knelt to collapse and stretched her trembling hand to the Empress.

Mercy, to beg.

"Please, Master Alexia. Your Majesty, please don't take the right of inheritance from Master Alberto. Because of this, don't tear him and Leonora apart, who almost grabbed the love of truth. Never put the stigma of a fallen prince on him...!

My lips trembled.

Words that were always supposed to spin smoothly didn't come out so well stuck in my throat.

Natalia shook herself and just waited for the Empress to reply.

Helpless, ignorant, like a child.

"-... Leah"

Eventually, Alexia knelt down gently to her niece.

"Face up. Lady, do not kneel in such a place. And tears."

"But... Dear Alexia..."

Wet eyes in tears, shaking.

Natalia cursorily raised her face, acknowledging the Empress's expression.

She was smiling quietly.

"... me, Leah"

Quiet, Rin, as if to foresee and accept everything.

It was as if, Alberto was floating, a gentle grin.

She softly wept over Natalia's cheek with those white fingertips.

"As for my mother, of course I'm not amused about Leonora von Harkenberg and that girl who was so distraught that she almost endangered her position and that of the royal family. But as a woman, I prefer that passion."

"Dear Alexia..."

And you know what, she went on.

"And the wife of Balthazar, King of the Golden Sword - as the queen of this country..."

"As for Her Majesty...?

Alexia laughed softly at her throaty niece.

"- Hold on. Make sure that's tomorrow."

That's what I say, and I stand up for it all the time.

When Natalia rounded her eyes, she was already walking away.

"A, Dear Alexia, please wait! What does that mean!?

Natalia chases him from behind, but the Empress, in a light foothold unworthy of her age, just walks right through the corridor.

As soon as she stepped into the cobblestone of the outhouse, she turned around.

"Promise, Leah. That's it for the story."