Chapter 468: # 468 The mining kingdom, and the princessâs troubles.
âIron and steel countryâŠâŠ gandiris?
Certainly a country to the east of the Gardio Empire and south of the Holy King Arendt. I havenât been there yet. Right. Two crossed hammers, the flag of this country?
âGandilis, a steel country, is blessed with many mines and because of the variety of minerals that can be harvested, it is also known as the âKingdom of Minesâ, or âLand of Steelsâ. We have a deal with my Gardio, and most of our Golem is made by Gandylis minerals.â
Is it a mining state? Manufacturing Golem will require valuable minerals such as Orihalcon and Adamantite. I donât know if there are Orihalcon golems and such on the Western continent, but if not, the mines that produce them would be just a pile of treasure.
I wonder about your relationship with Arendt and Gardio. Iâve never really talked about it.
His Majesty Emperor Gardio answered my question.
âI have quite a relationship because I am a neighborâŠâŠ What if they say itâs a friendly country? Youâve had wars every now and then. Earlier Emperor Gardio⊠Me and my grandfather at Revue Borderline were quite harsh and aimed at Gandilisâs mines many timesâ
In my ear of the admiring and distressing, um⊠and the troubled voice of Emperor Gardio arrives. Whatâs wrong with you?
âI knew you couldnât solve itâŠâ
âWhat is it?
âNo, because I donât think the King of Gandilis was the type of person who was either relaxed or less capable of plotting. Well, I know there are secret detectives in every countryâŠâ
Well, thatâs true. We also have intelligence knights led by Tsubaki. Besides, the kids are in on it this time. To this party.
Belfast also has a unit called Espion, which reports to His Majesty the King. Perhaps Belfast has lost a few of its participants.
Information is a weapon. I think thatâs necessary to protect my country, even if itâs not the type of plotting.
I donât know if itâs the kingâs order. Sometimes a good prime minister will move even if the king doesnât order him.
âItâs not about sabotage, assassinations, etc., but maybe it was just a little bit of an information-gathering purpose. You donât have that power in anthropomorphic golems. But thereâs a victim named Miss Imelda, so I canât really see her.â
No, even if you donât have the strength, for example, poisoning, and if youâre willing, you can do some sabotage. But if I tell you that, anyone whoâs at a party is gonna tell you that itâs possible.
I turn to Miss Imeldaâs golem, where Else lies.
âHmmâŠâŠ But I donât think he was going to do that kind of silly imitation, this kid.â
âWhat makes you think that?
ââCause you should have been sneaking up on the real Miss Imelda, right? If you disappear after the party, itâll mean youâre missing. If you donât kill me, Iâll either say,â Who was that Miss Imelda? âI thought you were supposed to. After the party, I guess.â
Hmm, I guess thatâs what they say. You didnât mind if I found out there was a replacement? Surely it would be more convenient to kill him and bury him somewhere. I donât want to kill youâŠâŠ no, were you under orders not to kill me?
âIt was definitely a Gandylis flag, wasnât it?
Get confirmation from the Reverend Reeve. If it was a mistake, I would put Ichamon on a completely unrelated country.
âDefinitely. Because Iâve seen it many times since I was a little girl. But the flag was just in the room, and I didnât see the Gandylis person. ButâŠâ
âAnything else?
âMy voice. I heard a faint voice, but it was a womanâs voice.â Emperor Gardio, ââ Out of the way, ââ To eliminate, âandâŠâ
âBecomeâŠ!?
Eliminate Emperor Gardio!? Does that mean assassinate!?
It is not uncommon for kings to be targeted by assassins in other countries. Iâve been targeted several times, too. But as there are assassination units, there are units that protect the king from the shadows. Itâs not that easy to kill a king of a country.
Especially in these places. Even now, by the sire of Emperor Gardio, we have a formidable knight and a golem.
Maybe what, but I donât think the leafless maid in the corner of the infirmary is the only one either. I donât think I can handle a weak anthropomorphic golem.
âGandylis has a womanâs chief minister?
âI donât think I was as far as I can rememberâŠ. but you still feel uncomfortable. Maybe the woman is a Gandhiris person, but has nothing to do with King Gandhiris.â
Hmm. I donât know. In the end, this is an assassination attemptâŠ? At least imprison Miss Imelda? Doesnât mean we caught the killer who did.
âHmm. You canât even protest Gandylis with this. I think we should find out whatâs going on over there.â
âRight. Maybe itâs a sign of civil unrest or something, and Iâll arrange it right away.â
In the meantime, this anthropomorphic golem was to be kept at our house. The Elka technician, to be exact. If you look closely, you might find out something else.
Elka technicians and Dr. Babylon, along with Golem turned into Miss Imelda, were sent to Brunhild, and we returned to the party venue again.
The party proceeded as if nothing had happened on the surface, and each of the participants was on their way home with the results of those who had harvested, those who did not, and those who were sad.
I wondered what happened to Empress Lilliel, who caused this party, but you will hear from His Majesty the King one of these days.
Although I canât expect much from that look that was pounding my smartphone at the party.
Having a daughter would be toughâŠâŠ As someone elseâs âoneâ has already been decided by fate to have eight daughters.
I returned to Brunhild feeling the hardship of my unborn daughter. [M]
â â â
âI wonder why I didnât ask you for your name there.â
âUghâŠâŠ Damn, it wasnât the other way around, you mean it was totally falling outâŠâŠ Besides⊠I donât even know if you can tell meâŠâ
Empress Liliel, sitting in front of her, was gripping the handkerchief she had received from the black mask that she had helped her as she leaned down. Me, Yumina and Linze are the only other people in the room besides the princess. Donât tell His Majesty the King, I didnât know this would be such a consultation if he called me in.
Because I wear a mask at the ball, I donât know where anyone likes it. For this reason, if they liked it, they secretly told them their real names and arranged for it to be their connection.
Of course, if they donât like this one over there, they canât tell me their names, and teaching them names is like telling them, âI like you,â so I canât teach them cheers. Because I get stuck with soft guys and ass-witted women.
âMr. Winter Night, you canât handle it, can you?
âAnd even if they sayâŠâ
Lindsay begs me, and I wonder whatâs wrong with me.
The only clue you got is a black mask, right? When you distribute masks to countries, you distribute them evenly, so every country has a black mask.
Thereâs a pretty good number of women out there, right?
âOh, but Mismid or ZenoasâŠâŠ The Beasts and Demons disappear, right? They didnât have tails or horns.â
âUh⊠actually, thatâs not it. Give some people who want to get rid of their tails and horns. Iâm also giving you that type of black maskâŠâ
When I answered Yuminaâs words, the smile that floated turned into something unspeakable. No, there are a lot of nasty problems when you look like you know Mismid, Zenoas, and then Dragon Nation âDragon Newtâ of Wu Kingdom Larse. I donât care who doesnât. I wish I could have pulled horns in like a cherry blossom or a Zenoas prince.
âFor once, I donât think thereâs anything I canât find because I have a record of who wore the black mask⊠Itâs gonna be a smudge, thisâŠâ
Look at the list of participants recorded on the smartphone. Gennari a little. I donât know if you can answer me honestly. There could be a lot of things going on over there.
â⊠are you really looking?
âI want you to look. I want to see you again and talk to you. OtherwiseâŠâŠ!
Whoa, hold the handkerchief in your hand hard, and Empress Lilliel leans down. Are you so thoughtfulâŠâŠ
âOtherwise, youâre worried and the manuscript wonât go on! I managed to finish it this time, but Iâm kind of feeling mossy and restless! Itâs a mess to get in the way of your writing! We need to get out of this state as soon as possible!
Oi. I have trouble deciding if itâs a good one.
I invited Yumina to come here as Choi Choi, diving her voice and questioning the key points.
âI mean, is that what this is about?
âI thought maybe so. Sister Lili, Iâve never seen anything like it. I donât think I quite understand myself.â
Thereâs no such thing as that paranoid runaway princess⊠You donât know. Whose words were âa very small amount of hope is enough for love to sproutâ? Quite a troublesome start.
âIâm the one who helped me. Of course I care. Arenât you just not sure if this is love yet? Iâve never even heard of Sister Liliâs floating story.â
âI see. Thatâs familiar, you know very well.â
âI understand. Because so did I.â
Thatâs my wife laughing mischievously. [M] No, in Yuminaâs case, it was his father, His Majesty King Belfast, who helped.
I donât suppose it should be with us, but does it resemble the fact that theyâre princesses of a country?
Search the list of attendees on the smartphone for black-masked users, from which they exclude women. Er, thirty-eight in allâŠâŠ I knew it was a lot.
âShall we crush it from where we know it for nowâŠ?
âSo, itâs from Brunhildâs Home.â
âYeah. Thereâs three of us. Knights Luchade, Caron, and vice president Nicolas.â
Luchade is a young man of the Vampire tribe and from Xenoas, the demonic kingdom. Heâs a weirdo who doesnât like blood on vampire jerks. Youâre an early member of an ancient stock in our Knights.
There is a slight weakness in pushing, but he is a gentle young man. Iâm a vampire when it comes to youth, so Iâm over sixtyâŠâŠ
Karon is a young man from Belfast, and his parents are pharmacists. For this reason, I am familiar with plants, and within the Knights, I am mainly asked to show my strength to those who develop agricultural land. It seems to be my Uncle Kosukeâs favorite, slightly getting the âprotection of the farming godâ.
In this case, âprotectionâ is not a special ability like the Yuminasâ family membersâ, but is usually like talent.
Needless to say, Mr Nicolas is vice-president of the Knights of Brunhild. Iâm from Mismid, the Fox Beast Man.
Is that it? Mr. Nicolas was a mask of racial cover-up, too.
Do you want to ask for an alibi for now⊠and an alibi? Iâm not looking for the killer.
âIs Luchade and Karon siloâŠâ
âWhatâs a silo?
Yumina leans her neck and asks. Well, Iâm in a detective mood.
I couldnât tell the two of Luchade and Caron directly about Empress Lilier, and asked âA woman is looking for that person to thank, helped by Mr. Black Maskâ. You might lie and say, âItâs me,â but then you just have to ask about the handkerchief. Ma, I donât think our Knights have such a guy.
As a result, Luchade danced with a woman she knew at that time, saying Karon was obsessed with a rare leaflet meal.
Of course, there was no surrounding testimony or anything because I was wearing a mask, and I had to believe my own words, but if it was true, they were not the ones who helped the Empress.
If the person I helped told me âI donât knowâ, I wouldnât even be able to confirm thisâŠ
Well, if you could use the Doctorâs Lie Discoverer, Keeler Polygraph, or the True and False Devilâs Eye, which discerns the lies under Pope Ramish, youâd soon find out. Because I didnât do anything wrong, and itâs not about coming out that far.
âŠâŠ dull. I thought you used [recall] to explore memories for everyoneâŠâŠ
âNo, you canât, man. Use [recall].â
â⊠Sonnakoto Kao Etenaiyoâ
Linze stabbed me with a nail. Ugh, sharp. Well, I canât read [the recall] until I remember not wanting to give it to you, so I canât do it if the person refuses. You can read it if you reinforce it with sanityâŠ. No, we wonât, will we?
We came to the Knightsâ training ground to speak to the last one, Vice Commander Nicolas. Everyone still works in training today. Iâm digesting Sister Bladeâs Hell menu.
At first I used to see everyone who collapsed from corpse to corpse, but I havenât been seen much lately. I think thatâs all thatâs gained strength.
I guess, but if weâre all just strong, weâre all red ranked⊠with first-rate adventurer-level strength. However, it is difficult because adventurers and knights may have different skills. The Knights donât train like âUntrap Cratesâ, do they?
âThatâs not a winter night. Whatâs the matter with you?
Else called out to us with her face on the training ground. Iâm sitting on the bench and wiping my sweat with a towel. Being queen doesnât change these places.
âOh, I need to speak to Mr. Nicolas for a moment. Are you there?
âThe deputy commanderâs? If youâre the deputy commander, there you go.â
Wooden spears and wooden swords were crossed at Elseâs pointer.
Mr. Nicolasâ wooden spear, protruding in a tearing mood, is lightly avoided and bounced with a wooden sword from below.
At that time when Mr. Nicolas had stopped moving slightly, Hachi, stuffed with a long range of spears in an instant, struck out his torso as if it were a lightning bolt.
âGuâŠâŠ!
Gaku, and Mr. Nicolas kneels at the front. Mm, are you okay?
âThatâs it. Can you stand?
âYes. Itâs okay, sir.â
Mr. Nicolas answers briefly as he rises to Hilda of the referee.
Mr. Nicolas is never weak. Somethingâs wrong with Yae. No one grows in our Knights because even those eighties have no hands or feet on Sister Blades. Let Uncle Wu Liu say, âWhile Iâm comparing something called strength to someone, itâs second-rateâ.
âNext! Stand up!â
âRegards!
When Mr. Nicolas falls back from in front of the Yagami, the Knights who had refrained behind him step forward instead.
Back on the bench, Mr. Nicolas wipes sweat with a towel and drinks water from his water bottle. Iâm sorry Iâm tired, but I spoke to Mr. Nicolas.
âDo you have a minute?
âThis, Your Majesty. What is it?
I stopped him trying to get up, and I lay down the name of Empress Lilliel and asked him if he had any idea.
â⊠no, I donât knowâ
âOh, yeahâŠâ
Uhm. It would be easier if it were one of us, or something, but didnât it?
When it does, it will be a smudgeâŠâŠ Itâs tediousâŠâŠ
By the way, it doesnât even seem to be a participant from Princess Lilielâs, that is, Leaf Lease. There were two black masks on the leaf leash, but they decided that they were physically different because they were just a little tiny with each other. The effect of the mask canât be deceived until itâs in shape.
I have no choice. Why donât you introduce the kings of each country to Mr. Black Mask and hit each and every one of themâŠâŠ
âSpeaking of which⊠Thatâs crazyâŠ?
âWhat?
Else sitting on the bench asks for my crush. [M]
âIâm talking about this, but Sister Hana Love doesnât show upâŠâŠ Normally, Iâd say,â Iâll leave you to your sister! âYou promised to show up suddenly behind your back saying something like that⊠â
âWouldnât Hana Loveâs sister-in-law,â Hey, âhave something to do?
Yumina answers with a bitter smile, but itâs sweet. Itâs too sweet. Originally, he was the one who told you about this ball, wasnât he? Why arenât you touching on such an interesting story (for Sister Hana Love)?
I saw that there was a good reason why a love god wouldnât eat into a love bana. Hit me⊠this love wonât bear fruitâŠ?
The ball called for unmarried bachelors to attend. It was basically voluntary participation, but some of them might have had no choice but to participate on orders from above.
I already had a girlfriend or something, but they made me join them, or something. If so, itâs a little tight⊠You want me to tell the Empress that?
No, it hasnât been decided yetâŠâŠ I hope this isnât too much trouble.
As I felt so heavy, I called His Majesty King Belfast at the beginning.
âTotal annihilation? So, nobody remembered who they were?
âYeah. He said we donât all know. HaâŠâ
I get on the couch. [M] As I told Leanne, I asked all the black masks who attended the ball, but no one named them. That would mean that the person who helped didnât want to be named until he lied.
More and more, this is out⊠I donât know if youâre forced to pull what you hate.
âItâs called anthropomorphic golem, why is this trouble coming from the nextâŠâ
âIâm not taking any trouble. I donât think Darling is darling. Accept your destiny.â
I feel unreasonable. I donât want you to call people like troublemakers.
But I donât know what to do. âI didnât know. Iâm sorry,â I think that would be the end of this story, but Empress Lillielâs feelings hang around.
I donât even know if Iâm in love yet, if Iâm a little concerned⊠then maybe I can end it without dragging it off yet.
But Iâm not the one who decides that. It is up to the Princess Liliel herself to decide.
I just want to help you out as much as possibleâŠâŠ
A ringtone is emitted from my nostalgia that was brought to the couch. Who is this? Please donât bother me any more.
When I take out my smartphone and see my incoming name, Iâm out with âAriati Tis Arendtâ.
Thatâs right, you gave me a mass-produced smartphone. His Majesty Frost and His Majesty the Holy King asked me to. Iâve never had a phone call before.
âYes, hello. Is that Mr. Ariati?
âOh, yes. Is His Majesty the King here? Iâm sorry to hear from you all of a sudden. Actually, thereâs something I need you to talk to me aboutâŠâ
âPfft.â
Lene, who was sitting across the street, blows out tea. I heard the words and looked weird. [M]
No, because itâs another troublesome story⊠Hey⊠enough to make you laugh so much? Leanne is shaking at the pull, but ignores it at this time.
âOh, no, itâs nothing. So? What the hell is going on?
âWell, in fact, there was someone who wanted His Majesty the Duke to meet confidentially⊠Iâm from GandylisâŠâŠâ