The Queen's Cosmetician

There is a sound trampling the soil.

I saw an illusion.

All this time, you've been merciful of the die, man's.

Wide back.

"Die, are you all right!?

Die returns to me in the voice of a man who seeps in agony. The queen's lead knight was sheltering the die behind her back and confronting the raiders. The swords they erect compare forces. giggles, and metal screamed.

Assé stepped in and bounced his sword forcefully. An eye open to the surprise of the enemy chases a blown sword. But it was also a moment. The raider was quickly pulling the dagger out of his hips and receiving the sword of Assé that had been swung down.

Now it was Assé's turn to watch.

A cold-eyed, distorted enemy pulls another bottle of prey out of his nostalgia while retaining Assé's sword in the universe.

"Ass!"

Using the die scream as a signal, the assay twists the body. Hardly avoiding the dagger he attacked, he used his superhuman power to rebuild his posture and slammed the pattern of the long sword straight into the man's neck.

"Damn......!

or, and the man, who exhaled and cursed, glanced at the assay with his shooting eyes. While poking one knee, he re-grips the dagger and swings it out toward the assay.

But faster than its cutting-edge arrived, Assé's long sword was vertically splitting the blade that was coming across the street.

The cracking sound of the metal, Sukim, is so clear that it stinks of blood that it is incompatible with this occasion.

Assé's hand holds his sword and heads under the attacker's chin.

The sword patterned ass crushed the bone in its jaw and finally, the man struck harder and fainted.

"... Ha!

Za, and protruded the tip of the long sword to the ground, and Assé exhaled. Pressing his sweat-telling forehead on the pattern, he pokes his knee as he presses his wheezing chest to collapse on the spot. Die got up in a hurry and ran over to a man who repeatedly breathed rough.

"Ass......! Are you ok!?

"I'm fine...... What about the die?"

"It's okay."

Abrasions and bruises caused by falls will not be avoided, but there is no such place as special pain bleeding.

Assé loosened his expression to relief and rose up ready to breathe.

"Who the hell is this guy...?

"I don't know......"

The mask peeled off on the fallen clap and the dewy face belongs to a total stranger, regardless.

However, the die remembers an indescribable hook in the appearance of a thin ink coat.

Slight visibility that keeps your nails up in the back of your memory.

Die, who was exploring the identity of it, looked back with Assé to the voice he had received from the bottom of the hill.

"Lord Commander!

Zeno with the pine light leads the gesture and rushes up here.

"Die."

From the top of the hill, Alvina dragged something off and Dadan, who borrowed her shoulder to walk, showed herself.

"I was just there!!

The disinfectant stained the outside, and Die screamed unexpectedly.

"Shut up! Shut up and be treated!

The master of the die sitting in the chair has no mercy for the injured either.

"You're going to get caught up in something you don't understand because you're going to walk out of the field on your own, you idiot! Is it your talent to bring in trouble!?

"You don't have to go that far..."

After weakly disputing it, Die stood still against the disinfectant's inflicting torture. Even though it must be a force majeure situation, Mariage's opinion is also the best.

Nevertheless, rubbing your hands off is fatal. Although not a problem for wearing makeup, I won't be able to take care of my skin for a few days. I was going to be depressed.

"It's over, Die."

Yuma closed the lid of the medicine box and smiled. She is also one of the women who accompanies her on this journey.

The sound of a light door knock echoed into the room as if I had anticipated a fit at the end of the allowance.

"It's Ass."

The visitors named themselves.

"And Alvina and Dadan."

"Come in."

Mariage's permission was granted, and the Assys showed themselves.

"Yuma. You can back off."

Yuma, who held the medicine box to her chest, praised her and went out into the hallway to replace the three of them.

After the door closed, she made sure one was missing, and Mariage slightly frowned.

"What about Rodimus?

"We still have Lord Faranx."

Assay responds instantly.

"Until the King's Capital, I'm likely to be escorted more by my men, not Sir Faranx. Discuss the matter. It won't be that late."

"Yes.... Alvey, make some tea"

"Yes, I did. Die, where's the tea appliance?

"That way."

Though a large room for mariage, all five of them are cramped. Sew between the three of them and move them to the front of the shelf, taking out the tea tools and watermarks provided.

"Die, you don't touch tea tools."

"Don't tell me it's poisonous when you touch it..."

Even though the brewed tea just doesn't taste good. As he dropped his shoulders to his husband's deterrence, Die gave Alvina his place.

"So, what the hell is going on? Did you find out who you were attacking?

"It's his decision that it must be the remnants of the thieves who attacked the lord."

Dadan responded to Mariage's query. Bearing the deepest of the assaults, he hangs his allowance-ending arm with a white cloth. Fortunately, there doesn't seem to be any damage to the bones or tendons, and after a few days, they don't have a problem with the amount of normal movement. Dadan himself doesn't seem to have made it through this kind of scratch-free routine tea meal.

Just because of the bleeding, or because of this truth invisible situation, his expression was dark.

"What was the rest of the thief's party doing on purpose back at the burned mansion?

"I won't have a hard time figuring that out."

"Dadan, change your tone.... A thief would also be a convenience call to an outside human being. It just seems like you must be part of the party that killed the lord."

"That's kind of a stinking story."

Die groaned looking at his wrinkly, painful palms.

"I mean, you don't have to move on a day that's so crowded"

Today more people were gathered than usual, including a group of Delligerians. If I were you, I would choose a slightly more invisible day, even if it was confusing in the shade of the night.

"Well, I think it's because there's a lot of people here, and it's working."

I carried a basin with a tea bowl on it, and Alvina pinched my mouth.

"Look, security was concentrating on this hotel for dinner today, right? Even if you wander around, if you claim to be one of the guests, you're going to be deluded if you find it. Now the kid I caught was a merchant."

The man who attacked the Dies was a traveler's outfit, and the man Alvina had captured was apparently a light outfit that was confusing with the villagers. These two were the shadow lords I saw by the bonfire.

Die nods convincingly.

"I see... the guards don't grasp the faces of all of us either."

Pushing the fan against his lips, Mariage roared anxiously.

"Can we leave tomorrow...?

"He'll be fine."

Rub your arms wrapped in bandages, guaranteed by Dadan.

"We'll slip in this afternoon, but we can leave. You don't want that knight wandering around with us outsiders forever, either. You're going to want to start torturing me."

"Torture..."

Unserene words, Die accidentally rebelled. Mariage also faces silently.

"Dadan."

To Assé's reprimand, Dadan shrugged his shoulders.

"Until I told the truth. Happy. We won't have to stop because of you. If I had killed them, they would have interrogated us instead."

"Yeah, really, well done, Ass."

It is rare for Mariage's mouth to spin praise. She bent the edge of her mouth meanly.

"Without Assé, you'd have been killed before they questioned you, Dadan. Be grateful."

Dadan groaned his throat, and Assé looked like he had drinks down.

The air in the room cooled in an instant, and Die rushed off topic.

"Speaking of which, was the man Alvey caught a sorcerer?

Alvina, who finished handing out her tea, shakes her head with her jaw on the edge of a round basin held in her arms.

"Yeah, I'm not."

"What? What are you talking about? Why would a magician come out?

Surprised by the content of the story that flew abruptly, Mariage pinches her mouth.

Die explained as he traced his memory.

"When I chased the suspicious shadow, Alvey said there was a magician in front of the burnt mansion upstairs.... so I turned back alone to get people."

"Wait a minute. The guy who attacked us wasn't a magician, was he?

Dadan withholds the conversation as he scratches his head. Die nodded. If that's the case, you must be practicing magic to kill the Dies.

"You ran away?

"Yep."

Alvina takes the lead.

The operators are not among those stationed as Zeno Faranx's men.

That is.

"If the two caught aren't magicians, do you mean there could be another lurker?

To Die's inquiry, Alvina gives her consent in a deferred voice.

"That's what's gonna happen..."

"Alvina, what was that magician like?

Mariage rode herself out of the chair with interest.

"Ah...... I didn't see the magician's kid, I saw the magic."

"Phosphorescent..."

When you exercise magic, it's a little light of pale green.

Assé shakes his head convincingly. Alvina made no affirmation or denial.

Mariage, who was listening to the sorcerer, let go of the lips she was pressing from the folded fan.

"Should I tell that Sir Faranx?

"No, you should stop"

Dadan waved in denial.

"Things get extra easy. Only to leave you alone."

That could be why Alvina will be questioned.

I looked around at one of the faces I blamed, and Dadan groaned as if he was frightened.

"The purpose is to make sure you get back to the country safely with Perfilia. It's a waste of time even thinking about what you don't need. I don't know who attacked me."

We nodded at each other that was also the case, and everyone put their mouths on the tea in their hands.

Die was watching the soaked tea. As Dadan points out, we should think about ourselves now. But the man lying on the ground couldn't leave his head.

It's my first meeting with him, no matter what. Unfortunately, I don't know any assassins. The face I saw a little was mediocre. And the outfit. There's enough to throw up and throw it away, like a man in a jacket. Because it's a common outfit for traveling around the wilderness.

(Speaking of which, you used to be attacked like that...)

That was when I went to the neighboring village with the “man” who said I had business. A carriage was attacked on the way back to the Wang capital. We became feathers fleeing through the white sand wilderness.

Under the Ethereal Dome as if paint had been brushed. White earth. Black dots falling there.

A man shelters the die from the carriage. Wide, warm, awkwardly loved by Deanna, behind its back.

A man was asking the shadows with the blade in his hand.

"Am I the target...?"

(Oh, yeah?

I noticed it as if it were now. The men who attacked us were not the thieves who were rumored to be in the neighbouring village. He was a raider after “the man." I can also nod that the luggage I had left behind in the carriage was untouched and back at the Mizweeri house. This means that the raider at that time was a person who knew that “the man” was Ditrout Yerni - a person of Perfilia.

Judging also by geography, the lord of Marlen is a man close to the queen. If he who burns the mansion is not a thief, but one who tries to sharpen his power from the queen.

Isn't he who attacked Ditrout the same one who hurt Dadan this time?

(Ridiculous)

To the identity of the existing sense of vision, Die shrugged. Just because the situation is similar doesn't mean they're buddies.

but.

"I think I've seen it before."

To Alvina's words, which jumped into his ear, Die stuck his throat all the time with every cup of tea he was drinking.

"You mean we've met somewhere before?

"Hey."

Dadan's conversation with Alvina gave Dai a whisper. Everyone else is stopping their hands and watching the two of them.

"Where the hell did you meet with all that noise?

"Um, I'm just thinking... oh, I remember"

Alvina sandwiched the silver basin aside and pressed her fist against her palm, Pong.

"That's right. The kids who came to us before. You ruined my garden... and after that, I had a hard time taking care of it."

"Huh? I'm not talking about dogs and cats."

"I'm not even talking about that - We're talking about people, right?

Alvina affirmed that the men who broke into her home without forgiveness were of the same origin as this time the raiders.

Assé turns his surprise eyes to her.

"Based on what the hell?

"They didn't have demons."

"There's no demon...?

To the repetition of the die, Alvina nodded.

"Even if people can't use magic, there are demons as inherent magic. You know that, right? I don't have it."

Demons are what make up everything. No, that's impossible. That's how I know Die.

"That's what we had in common. It's rare."

"That's not necessarily why he broke into Alvina, is it?

Dadan gives his best opinion.

"When is that supposed to happen?

"It was that day. The day Die came to us."

"Huh? Me?

Die has only visited Alvina's house once.

We got raided, got away from the carriage, got lost in the wilderness, that day.

Die asked Alvina as he gripped the tea vessel at hand hard.

"... Alvey, do you remember that number of people?

"Number of people? Hmmm...... five, was, I wonder"

Die exhaled. It was the same number of people who attacked the Dies that day.

"Is it something that bothers you? Die."

"Yep... It's a thief, Master Mariage."

Mariage frowned uncomfortably.

"I know you're talking about thieves."

"What I'm trying to say is another thief's story...... Do you remember? When I served Master Mariage and it was only about the first month. We went outside the King's Capital and were attacked by thieves..."

"Oh... you mean when you guys went missing for like three days?

Assay peeled her eyes off a little.

"Hey...... were you okay?

"Yep. It was okay."

"So I brought up a long time ago, what's going on?

Catch the assay intrusion with your gaze, and Mariage prompts you to continue the conversation.

"Probably, what, someone who walked into Alvey's house on his own is the one who attacked us. I think he went after us and walked into Alvey's house. At first I just thought I was just attacked by thieves. But no... the purpose of those people who attacked us... was to kill the man."

"The man......?

Assay is surprised and asks for an explanation with his eyes. But Die ignored it and kept staring at Mariage.

Mariage and I'm not stupid. I have a good understanding of who the die indicates exists.

Heath - said it was about Ditrout Yerni.

"... he seemed to know the other guy. And this is what he said.“ I'm the one who's after you. "

"... that is"

Close the fan that was hospitality, Mariage said.

"Summarizing the story between you and Alvina,... you mean what does it have to do with the thief who attacked you and the man who attacked Marlen's lord?

"I can't be sure... is it too cheap?

"I don't know if it's cheap. How does that have anything to do with me, as you hypothesized?

My lord is not frustrated. Seems like I was just wondering.

"I mean, the Queen of Perfilia has enemies that come after her as a minister."

Die explained.

"We're on our way to the king's capital to get along with the queen of Perfilia. Doesn't that mean your Majesty could be in danger from now on, if you were someone who would consider everyone trying to get along with her an enemy?

"... I wonder if you'll ever be on our side on the contrary"

"Are you on your side?

Mariage nodded deeply.

"... Perfilia has forcefully merged everywhere, even reaching for Clan Hive. If we combine and empower our country, we'll be in trouble with our enemies, won't we?

"I wonder if Del Ligueiria can be used to help."

Dadan lays down in a whispering tone. As Mariage glanced sharply, he raised his unharmed hand and indicated his intention to surrender.

"Well, in order to determine if he's an enemy or an ally, or if he's a danger to us, we'll have to figure out who he's dealing with first."

Dadan disconnected that it was pointless to argue with someone who didn't know who he was. Absolutely, you're right.

She deposited her centre of gravity on the back of the chair and exhaled deeply.