The Queen's Cosmetician

More and more, and more, someone is busily ramming the door.

Coming, Dietricht glanced at the door with the documents he was looking at.

I thought it was time to return to the Imperial Castle and come back later.

Zeno.

"It's me, Dietrich. Let's go in... and your Majesty."

Without waiting for permission to enter, Xeno opened the door rudely, and danced on the figure of the king sitting face to face with Detraut. Serenity looked at Xeno with a daze.

"Zeno... at least name yourself."

"I'm sorry..." Um, why is your Majesty...... the tower of Dita? "

“Save money, what else?”

And he poured water out of his hand into the cup, and offered it unto Zeno, and he answered.

What are the savings? I'm not going to explain it to Zeno again.

Materials, manpower and everything in between.

The cursed king and Serenity from the Church of Our Lady were shot down for more than two months. There was no denying that the country was rough. The people were angry at the constant deception. The nobles hated Serenity, too, but there were more of them hiding than attacking. The nobility knew many times that there weren't enough daughters in this country, and they feared being attacked by angry people as accomplices to the Serenity - after all, the nobility remembers the scars of civil unrest more vividly.

Their rejection was assumed for a long time, so the Detrouts were relieved.

The end is near.

Over the past two months, Dietricht and his family have been doing their utmost to ensure that the people who are indispensable for national government, technology, and cultural preservation are elected, and that their rural isolation and exile from the country are fulfilled. With an unknown face, he stayed in the Imperial Castle until very recently, and the officers who had dedicated themselves to the government were almost evacuated. In this royal castle, which is in a castle state in response to popular uprisings, except for Serenity, Dietrich, and Helmut, there were all those who were physically and mentally disabled during the civil unrest in the past, and who decided that they would be almost unable to live if they left the castle.

Ditraut's private room had been occupied by Diana for a while, and Ditraut himself had lived there for about a month, so the tools of life and administrative materials were fuller than the Serenity Tower. Therefore, this tower is the center of collective life.

Everyone lied, or worshipped in the shadow of the Imperial Castle, so now they are spending a lot of time.

There was no one else in the room but Detrout and Serenity. Plates of snacks were piled up on a wide table scattered with documents.

Xeno sat down with a subtle face and drank the water she had received from Serenity.

Looking at the situation, Serenity asked.

"I also want to ask why." Zeno, did I tell you not to come back? "

"I haven't been told why this is happening, myself.... you'll make me an accomplice in the Queen's identity fraud, so run and hide. I came back because I was not convinced. I told Dita I'd be back!"

Zeno insists, placing the empty tall cup with a high sound.

Serenity's silent question stung Detraut. I mean, you said you'd explain it to him.

I said, "I don't have any in-laws to answer."

"I see." Then I won't be able to leave. I'm here on my own. "

Stubborn Zeno had a headache at Ditraut.

Zeno got out of the castle more than two months ago with the highest priority. On the western edge of Perfilia, he was assigned to serve as the guardian of the outcasts. But I came back from work, so I'm stupid.

I wish I could have stunned him and thrown him on an unsupplied ship, after Ditrault regrets it.

Serenity Tiffany tells you as she prepares the corners of the finished material.

"I don't mind talking to Zeno."

Your Majesty

"Brother, that's enough." I don't know if it's a speculation, but the church bombarded me that I'm not a woman, even though I'm on the throne. Until that point, Zeno knew nothing.... if we captured any of the people involved, we'd use some kind of confession system, but the facts are true. It's not working.... it's okay. If Zeno convinced me to go away. Even if there's one more person I know. "

Now, says the king of Dietricht.

Ditrout sighed and begged him.

"Your Majesty.... it's time for the elixir." Can you go check on him? "

In a room lined up in the back of the tower, Tsubaki still has a fever today.

Serenity sends her blaming gaze to Detraut.

But Dietricht didn't catch him.

The series of tragedies that began with the civil strife and the descent that made him responsible for Serenity became a burden to him, even to recall. I've been dreaming about this to Diana for a long time.

I want to take on the role of telling Zeno.

Serenity received Detraut's generosity with an abandoned face. She stood up silently and disappeared into the back of the room.

Zeno, who was staring at his back, muttered.

"Your Majesty... you really are a man, aren't you?"

Kicking people out of the royal castle, Serenity stopped dressing women. His hair is not cut, and his neck is tucked together, but the simple ups and downs of the boy make his figure stand out. Although lavish for its age, the skeleton clearly belongs to men.

Zeno asks Detrout with a steep face.

Since when?

From the very beginning ― even before he took office.

"I see......"

Zeno clenched his fist on the table in response to Detraut.

"... they're all dead." At that time. "

Queen Azraliel, the predecessor of Perfilia. After she died with her baby, the civil unrest licked the land.

The pure-blooded noble girl who could become a queen was murdered to the point of being an old woman.

--No one survived.

The only Queen Serenity. It was an illusion of hope that her brother showed everyone.

Ditraut told Zeno as he continued to organize the paperwork.

The death of Lord Adelaid. The failure of the Serenity exile and the raid on Yerni's Mansion. Only Dietrich and his half-brother, Serenity, survived.

"Half-brother? Dita?"

"Yerni is the main stream of Lord Adelaid, and the commoner who enters his son-in-law becomes my biological father."

"I mean, not aristocratic."

“Yes, I don't think so.”

"You're kidding..."

In response to Ditraut's reply, Zeno weakened and pushed himself onto the table.

"I and His Majesty were all very much like my father. If you were the same age, you would have gone by a triplet."

"... don't let him suspect that you may not be a monkey when you become Prime Minister."

"Yeah.... if there's an older brother next to you, they'll agree that he's my younger sister, right?"

"... the inventor, Klaus?"

Yeah.

"... that's right. He's the only one I know."

Zeno's half-brother. Klaus Livot, a flying, brilliant, pragmatist historian. Klaus is the only man who persuaded his surroundings to be decorative and recommended Ditrault to the Chancellor, who had not yet reached twenty years ago. He was also the one who brought Zeno to Ditraut during his education.

"At first, I was supposed to be just keen. But things didn't change, so I slipped. It's true, I've been able to hide it all this way.”

Will it be eight years since Serenity took the throne?

Anyway, when I was a boy in front of a strange voice, I used medicine and magic to hold back my growth, and I came here deceitfully.

Even if the Church of Our Lady did not bomb, the situation would have been similar sooner or later.

"... I know what happened." Why didn't you tell us? "

Zeno stirs his head and roars.

"Did you know... that I'm the only one in this castle?" Does that mean that you're with Sagan's Ji-san? That's all? "

"There used to be more of them." Yes, before I left the country a little..... "

"You don't have to tell me anything!"

Ban, and, slapping the table, Zeno got up.

"I wonder why the emperor has been so upset about the medicine to show the woman?" Even though you were so busy, it wasn't just because the country was unstable... it was because of that!? "

"... that's right."

"Then why didn't you tell us!?"

“What happens when you talk? Are we all going to set up the queen?"

I wish I hadn't!

"Don't be ridiculous. You really think you can do that? The church just told me that the king of Perfilia was a boy, and it made the country so rough?"

"But... but I..."

“Zeno, do you know why we decided not to involve you in this?”

Ditrout asked quietly.

It seems that he is poor in his answers. Dietricht asks Zeno, who is silent, more.

"Why did you decide that it would be okay to talk about it now?" Do you know why? ”

"...... just now... your Majesty confessed or something."

"Yeah.... I want you to think about the weight of what we've done." The queen of this country, of this continent, is, of course, limited to girls of the lineage of the Holy Maiden. The church, which is the power mechanism across the kingdom, has ordained it. What we have done is what we have done, that we may put mud upon all the ways of power. When facts are revealed in the middle of the road, allies are sure to be punished for disobeying God. Execution. Often a banishment from the continent. It is highly unlikely that you will ever again be allowed to set foot on this land. Suppose so. If everyone in the Royal Castle had taken part in the forgery of the Queen, and the Church and the people branded him as treacherous, who would have ruled this land after that? "

"... what about you?"

Zeno looks back at Detrout in a daze.

Dietrich shifted his gaze from a large map on the wall.

The Beast of the West --The latest map of the continent.

While the country names are lined up, the blank spaces stand out.

Mazenburgh was ruined, and many nations were destroyed. It is often drunk in other countries. Worst of all, it was left out in the lawless zone. Bandit-like luxuries compete for territory on a number of lands.

Xeno moaned in a trembling voice.

"Hey, hey, no way"

"We did not involve you, the survivors of our famous family, in this matter, so that after we were punished as sinners, we might succeed the kingdom."

When do you think the country will be fatally wounded?

Klaus once showed the pages of a history book from another continent.

”That's right, Dita.... when the country lost the necessary number of leaders and experienced practitioners at the same time.”

There are well-known cases.

Dawn or east. Ten years ago? It is in Vanuatu, an island country that exists in the inland sea. The people defeated the king who had done everything in his power to defile and oppress.

Later, Vanuatu could no longer stand up.

For failing to kill the king, he also punished the officers of the time. Today, Vanuatu is annexed by its neighbor, the Union of the Manamela Nea Islands, and remains only a place name.

The kingdom is not ruled by himself. A collective of people gathered in the name of the king can act as an organization to rule the country for the first time.

The people who grasp the way of governance are all kicked out, and there is no way that the country will stand after that. It does not become a country overnight and overnight. And there are those who knew it before, and there is finally good governance improved. How the Queen and the nobility struck a balance. What materials were there, what departments were involved, and how the cases were handled. Experienced practitioner. Identified leaders who can move them. If those people don't stay, the country will disappear like a bubble. Like the countries that have been left blank on the map.

"Even if the queen is absent for a while, if the native nobility and the politician remain, the rule will be established." To remain on the contrary, they must be innocent. "

"So... that's why you kept us away all this time!"

And when ye had stood up, Zeno grabbed the collar of Ditrout, and roared furiously.

"Don't be silly, Dita!"

"What are you kidding me about!" Tell me! Or are you going to say that we can all sit back and let this country fall into the thieves' hands! "

Zeno grabbed his wrist and Detraut yelled back.

"... for what reason do you think Klaus has put you on my bodyguard?" Because it's easier to protect you.... just to make sure you understand the flow of government at the very least! "

Perfilia was not surprised to meet with Clan Haive at any point in the war. Combined with neighboring countries, the spark of civil unrest is also there. The Knight of the Famous House is not a Kingsguard under the Prime Minister's direct command, and it is not surprising that he is easily placed as a commander in a dangerous area somewhere.

That's why Klaus used them as a guard for Ditrault if they didn't survive for the future.

Zeno Phalanx. He's at the head of it. The only survivor of the famous Phalanx family that produced many prime ministers.

He is also bloodthirsty in the Mazenbull family. If the child is a woman, I can aim for the queen. Even if not, it has enough house history and authority to put together the Perfilian nobility.

Zeno grabs Ditraut's hand and sags.

"What the hell is that..." Why, why is that..... "

"I want you to protect me, Zeno." This country, including the land of our homeland (Yerni). "

“No, I don't think so! This, this, you and your Majesty are the sacrifices to prolong life in this country!"

"That's right."

That's right, that's not true!

There was also a road that would not be a sacrifice.

If only the girls had been born in the country in the last few years.

If a boy can be recognized as a king.

- Neither of those was possible.

"... why was Cynthia good?"

Xeno asked in a sloppy voice.

"You told Cynthia about this earlier." You were a makeup artist, Your Majesty. If you don't know that your Majesty is a man, you won't be able to wear makeup. "

“She's a Del Ligueiria person. Unlike you, even if you knew that your Majesty was a boy, it was almost impossible for you to be bullied by the Church to become a throne."

“It doesn't matter. Maybe the Del Ligeigeigeia side will break through the secrets. You told me because you trusted her.... where are you and that girl?"

Have you concluded what should be called a relationship of trust?

--Where can I tell you about her?

"... my name is Franz Mizwili, and I'm supposed to accept Serenity's asylum."

After getting lost, Detraut decided to cut it out from the beginning.

Mariage Mizwilli Delrigueira's father.

”... hah, hah?”

"Master Adelaid and Master Franz were good friends." Franz loved Serenity like a niece or something, and he hated Queen Eileen who refused her asylum. Originally, it didn't match Queen Eileen, and it seemed that there was a lot of enthusiasm.... and finally, Franz and we made a pact. Franz assassins Queen Eilene and Princess Evelina. And by working together, we will put a puppet queen on Del Ligeiría in favor of Perfilia. I'll skip the details..... "

Maybe you're Queen Mariage.

"That's right.... you haven't told me where you've been for the last three years."

Zeno was working with Dietrich to make it look like he was in Perfilia, so he knew he was out of the country, but he didn't know where or what he was doing.

"I was at the Mizwilli family. To make Mariage the puppet queen."

Del Ligueiria is a country that can be a legitimate successor to the Holy Maiden.

Even if not, if we were to bring a queen from another country who would not harm Perfilia, there would be none other than Del Ligeigeigeigeige, the most stable political base in the neighborhood.

"And Die, Diana Cetra. I am the one who found her and named her Mariage."

I needed an honest, good-looking boy who could distract my loyal queen candidate and easily nostalgize her even after becoming a queen.

Anyone who could fit the conditions was fine.

Even though it is a hotel.

"I've been with her about six months. We worked together."

It was a day of sand and gold slipping through the gap between my fingers.

Zeno looks at Detrout with a crunchy face.

Dietrault said with a smile.

"Zeno. I know it's hard to convince. But I want you to get out of here as soon as possible....... I'm sure we don't have much time."

Right now, the people's attack on the royal castle is overwhelming, and the creepy silence surrounds the royal capital. It seems that the church official disappeared in front of her in the fold of the pillar of light the other day. Perfilia was originally in an excessive state of confusion, so she witnessed the disappearance of an unexplained person, and went into a state of oblivion in excess of the allowable amount.

Soon there will be another riot.

"... you and the Emperor won't escape?"

When we leave this place, the confused people will lose their target. There should be a social dimension ".

Come on, you!

"If you don't know where to go, rely on Cynthia."

I didn't just send Diana back to Del Rigeira to fulfill any wishes.

She is a kind of insurance. And she knew it, too. Zeno's visit shouldn't get in the way.

"From now on, the country becomes more and more rough. Everyone gets knocked out, but they can stand up on their own. I believe in the strength of men."

However, we need time to do so.

The Zenos can buy the time.

Ditrault grabbed Zeno's shoulder and told him.

"So, go."