Our demon king is coming.

The smell of winter has become a season that can be felt in this southern continent of Luskia.

It's not a snowy country, but sometimes when you look at the gray sky, you wonder if it might snow.

The Royal Palace aerial gardens are also completely winter specifications.

Cold resistant grasshoppers are planted, the green of camelias, shrubs and small mommi trees stands out, and the other broadleaves are cut off branches and prepared for spring.

"Chimney cleaning. It's my husband's season..."

As I once was, I remember when I was a chimney cleaner.

My mother was weak and I had no choice but to work.

Chimney cleaning was a very tough job, but there was no job for kids to earn more than that, and rather, Carted wasn't even a hard job to die for, even though he was a chimney cleaning husband, because labor laws were solid and standards were in place for letting kids work. It seems that chimney cleaning husbands in other towns are sometimes bought from poor houses and used until they die.

……

I was immersed in the chilly air as I looked down at Miradolid, the king's capital, from the garden.

I don't hate cold. The colder the better, the more thought-provoking and distracting.

In his hand, he holds a letter from the palace of Delia Field.

It was about my mother.

I just met her about a year ago and haven't seen her face since. Though it's not like I didn't care in the rush of Wang Du's life.

At that time, I had already been told that I had six months to live, but I had been sent to a hospital in Delierfield with excellent magic guidance medical technology and doctors from Wang Du, and now my mother is still connected to my life.

Machia said. I was wondering if Ulysses could do healing magic and cure the disease.

But I knew. There is also a cap on the healing magic of white magic. Any major injury heals in an instant, Ulysses, but its magic is not a simple principle. It's a rush of time and fate, Ulysses said before.

Prospects for healing also exist in percentages for diseases and injuries leading to death. The timing of discovery, the speed of allowances, etc. change them.

If the percentage is high, the healing magic is easily applied. But then maybe you don't need magic in the first place. It would be better if we had magic pills.

So magic shows gratitude if there is a low percentage of prospects for healing.

The lower the lower the healing magic is very difficult and time consuming, but it may not be curable unless it is magic. A white magician like Ulysses may be able to heal even if the disease is expected to heal at 1%, but once it reaches 0%, healing magic loses its effect, and the magic that allows healing turns to "destiny-changing magic”.

He said it seemed similar and was as different as white and black.

We've never even had the magic to change fate.

Even if I could use it, it would surely take considerable risk.

Since my mother received the final declaration, time had passed considerably.

I had already reached the 0 line.

There was virtually no magic that could fully heal the magic that prolonged the life expectancy.

But I never wanted to keep him alive until I changed his destiny.

Because he didn't want it.

"... is it time..."

Your letter said that you could not come back before spring. It is understandable that this implies that my mother's life expectancy lasts until around spring. The Miyagi cared about our parents and children.

As I walked through the air garden, I headed to Machia's room connected in the garden.

"You come all the way across the garden in this cold. I wonder why you don't ask from the hallway."

"Are you stupid? There are maids in the hallway. It's easier coming across the garden."

"Ha-ha. You don't like the noise."

I had a warm herbal tea in Machia's room and I was worried about her rushing off earlier.

Sir Raymond called me the other day to tell you something important, so I thought I'd take Machia. Machia is not so much the type to spend time on a woman's demeanor, but she's wandering around on something today.

"... are you looking for something"

"Hmmm... I don't have the ear decorations I always wear. I keep it here every night..."

When she opens the dresser, there are numerous accessories arranged there.

All of these are from the royal palace, but many are big and flashy. Machia does look great with flashy decorations and flashy colored dresses. I don't have the attitude to lose that, and my face and body are pretty gorgeous for my almost fifteen-year-old daughter.

But she preferred small grains of discreet only ear decorations that she usually wears.

It's definitely Ruby's little, round thing.

"You, there's a lot more."

"You idiot, this is why the man... You know, big decorated stuff, it hurts my ears. I have a headache when my ear hurts."

"Ha... that's tough"

That said, I can't keep looking for ear decorations. I'll look for some space magic, but it didn't seem to be in this room.

"It's not magic you use for this."

"... you didn't look for me on your own. Oh... but you didn't... I liked it a lot."

Machia doesn't buy her own accessories, so there's nothing else plain about it.

I had no choice but to wear an elongated ear decoration with emerald and ruby to match the red dress.

"Nothing, you look better when you're so flashy. You look so big with attitude."

"... well, if you're not even a princess, but you're more gorgeous than anyone else, then that's sin."

………

Distant eyes.

"With that said, the First Princess, who was studying in Gibraltar, said it was time to come back. Sir Raymond called me today, and I think that's what happened."

"Really?

"Captain Dante said"

Between Sir Raymond's room, I will try to come up with the subject of rumors of the Princess's return.

Makia seemed to know nothing.

"The First Prince's sister, it seems, falls on you."

"... is that Adalziza's daughter..."

"Dear Adalziza, Be careful in the royal palace, even if it's not very involved. I don't know where or who's listening."

"... Yes, sir"

Well, that's what I'm saying.

Since the first princess was 16, she has been sent to study in the Kingdom of Gibraltar to avoid being involved in a dispute over the throne of the royal palace.

They're finally coming back to this country.

"Hey, there you are."

………

Even as a deputy king, this Sir Raymond, as always.

Always fresh, good old and winking. The wink is so powerful and sparkling that it's going to crush the rock. Machia used to call Sir Raymond's wink the “pressure wink”.

I wonder what the secret of youth is.

"The Four Nations Conference is over and our nation's military policy has finally been consolidated. It will be clearer at the Great Lordship Conference this winter. I've spent a lot of time since that giant soldier hit me..."

"I think you were handy...... Well, I guess I've never rubbed it sooner."

"Thor, I hear that your proposed use of the military resources of the Residual Demon Guided Space is also progressing steadily at Medithet's Demon Guided Research Institute. No, it's reliable."

"... I thought I'd start construction so I could surround myself from the coast."

Machia was obsessed with the fig chocolate tart in front of her when Sir Raymond and I were talking like that.

This guy doesn't shy around being childish or feminine or whatever he says he is.

"Delicious, Miss Machia"

"... yes, I'm done..."

"Ha. If you eat as refreshingly as Miss Machia, we'll be delighted."

That's what Sir Raymond says, while he puts some square sugar in his own tea, about six.

Isn't that too sweet?

"If the topic of Miss Machia being active in the future, eating that much and being able to maintain its beauty has spread to the King's Capital, there may be fewer women who are not able to diet."

…………

Machia laughs and says niggardly when she flattens a plate.

"For saying that, you told me not to use magic in public. Then you can't be active or anything… Sir Raymond is interesting"

"Hahaha. You took one of these.... Yeah, because you're a trump card. I don't want as much magic information flowing as I can. There are many enemies in this country."

………

Gracefully sipping the tea, which would be hot and sweet, he took a breath and tightened his nagging expression until earlier.

I would say that the public discourse is over.

"Sir Raymond, the enemy is still in the country. Is that about the Demons?

"... that's one thing. The damage caused by the Demons is steadily piling up. Thor, who belongs to the Knights of the Devil's Guide, knows better..."

"You think there's more?

"Yes... there will always be those who will guide and protect the Demons into the country. And that would be a pretty powerful person..."

"Are you saying there are traitors in the royal palace executives?

"... I can't say I'm not here. It would be pretty suspicious. But what I've been staring at lately as suspicious... are some of the twelve great nobles."

Lord Raymond received a map of the southern continent from the man of the black robe who was on his side, and lined it with twelve square sugars.

12 Streets of the territory ruled by the great nobles. Although the Medithes and Estas are not the only ones with territory, they are placed in the places of the Instructional Research Institute and the Royal Palace.

"... the twelve great aristocrats, lords of Marguilia, you know the Bigrates who seemed to be bad at you. And one of the twelve great nobles is the Medithes, whom you are friends for. The Medithes hold the real power of the Institutes of Magic Guidance and Research on the part of the Patriarchate due to territorial changes. Likewise, the Esta family, a gateway to witchcraft, is virtually at the head of the Royal Palace Magic Academy and holds the real power of this."

"... nothing I don't like or get along with"

Machia is pointing her lips a little.

"There are only twelve other famous families that have long supported Ruskia, but if there is a clan in this that can guide and hide demons, and benefit from it, where is it..."

Lord Raymond glanced at me.

I'll put my hand on my chin and read the land pattern.

"I don't know much about the history of the twelve nobles or their certainty. However, it is unlikely that Ruskia, or as a characteristic of the southern continent, as a means by which the presence from other continents can enter uncomfortably, is anything other than a voyage by ship. Conversely, if it is a harbour town, it is a place where many people are replaced every day, so I wonder if it is possible for the Demons to be disputed."

"... the boulder is Thor, you're only from Port Town. Yes, the only place where the Demons can enter uncomfortably is considered a large port town. Because the only way to enter this continent in the first place is by ship. Temporarily holes in the green curtain and only a determined number of ships come and go every day...... In it, the presence that comes this way through the examination on the other side...... If it's Miradolid, my immediate organization will conduct the interrogation, so I won't miss the demonic immigration that way. It would be reasonable to assume that they are entering the country from another port town, hidden in something powerful, and coming to the king's capital."

"... when it comes to the twelve great nobles with port towns..."

"It's just a guess. Of course, there may be some things behind it, but let's just say so and move on."

Sir Raymond pointed to some squared sugar on the map.

"There are three main aristocratic harbour towns. Verrett went straight west from Miladreed. Milleno at the southernmost tip. Fitica on the east side. They're all big port cities."

"... That said, isn't Milleno a little difficult?

I lurk my eyebrows and lean my neck.

Is it possible for Milleno, the southernmost part of the country, to lead the Demons without a trace to Miladrid, the northernmost part of the country?

"Again, is that what you think?...... I consider the most suspicious is Verrett, close to Miladrid. Because I've heard rumors recently about a woman who died in Verrett. The lord of Veret is the Terzier family of the twelve great nobles. I tried to hide this over there, because my" eyes and ears ”are on Verrett as well. … I would like to draw your attention here to the fact that the Terzier family is the home of the Chancellor and Queen Adalziza…"

……

"Veletto is located on the border of neighboring Gibraltar. Because of its long history of interacting with Gibraltar, it has been chosen by Princess Rubette to study abroad."

…………

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Machia has been silent since just now, eating cake upside down.

This is the guy who basically leaves these stories to me, but it's not like I haven't heard anything else.

"From what I've heard, assuming the Terziers are black, why would the Terziers guide and hide the Demons… still say the throne to the first prince?"

"... I guess so. The chances of the First Prince's faction gaining kingship are no longer as good as conspiracy. He would also like to borrow the Demon Clan's hand. Or is the Terzier family being used..."

"But wasn't the First Prince faction, the founding opposition? That's the easy way to embrace the Demons..."

"That's it, isn't it? … I think there is a backdrop to the Terzier family suggesting it."

………

Sir Raymond points further west of Verrett. Yes, the Kingdom of Gibraltar.

"... that Gibraltar is the mastermind?

"I don't know for sure, but if the Terziers are black, I don't think Gibraltar has any involvement. So much so that the Terziers and the Kingdom of Gibraltar are on edge. And the return of the princess at this time…"

"... I see, indeed, this line is suspicious"

Veletto, a large port city located on the border of the Kingdom of Gibraltar. The Terzier family that governs it, the prime minister from whom it comes and the righteous queen Adalziza. First Prince Alfredo, son of the righteous queen, and First Princess Rubette, daughter. Return from Gibraltar study in Le Rouvette......

"I don't want to think that Master Rurubet is involved in this matter, but it is fully possible that he has been used without his knowledge. I thought I'd stick a bunch of different bombs to that dress and come back here in Miladrid.... The return party of Master Rurubet will be held at the Royal Palace next week on the head. From there is the battle."

"... I see"

I'm not convinced of everything, but I snort for now.

Sir Raymond had another sip of sweet tea. Could this be how this guy consumes sugar in his brain?

Is it just a sweetheart?

"This is just one of the assumptions we can make right now. There's a lot of impotence, and maybe not at all. But keeping this assumption in the corner of your head is a stepping stone in exploring the real black behind it. Both of you, keep your current story in mind, even if it's about half a joke.... the only thing I can say is that the Demons have already broken into this country, and that mechanism has been created, and that is..."

"The hands of the Hermédes Federation are already turning to Russkia."

"That's what I'm saying!

He rattles his fingers pattin 'and says it gently.

"It is very difficult to invade by external attacks than there is a green curtain. However, your hands invade from the inside, and you're good at it. Drop the sweet honey in this gap to find a prey to catch. Because the biggest“ gap ”in Ruskia is still the First Prince's faction, which can be placed in a fight for the throne. There are too many in this royal palace who supported the First Prince. even if it was analogy and wanted a puppet."

………

Is Lord Raymond willing to fill a gap in this during his term?

The Terzians say black, or this, in short, the First Prince's faction says black.

Or... you want to say that...?

"But to say that I will guide the Demons is to say that I have the hand of Hermédes. Do you mean to say that you want to acquire kingship even if you are placed under Hermédes' rule? What the hell do you mean by that..."

"Well. Perhaps the only purpose is to acquire kingship already... Or are they just dull and neglectful of what is called aggression, and reach only for the honey in front of them? Or do you believe the green curtain will protect you if you even take the throne and you don't care what happens after that? Ha ha, I don't need it for this royal palace anymore if they are like that."

Sir Raymond laughed heavily as he slapped his knee, then sighed.

If they are willing to use the Demon Nation to rebel in the King's Capital, if only they can uncover and control these truths, on the contrary, they can remove the question of the throne struggle at once. We can banish the First Prince's faction, which remains deeply rooted in the Royal Palace, from here.

"Ha... Are you going to turn Miladreed into a battlefield?

"… we ask you to help us so that we don't. "

See, it also winks and mismocks.

The hatred of this man is amazing without making him feel awesome.

"I wonder if the First Prince really wants the throne"

Suddenly, Machia pinched her mouth.

She had already eaten Ke Ki until she was satisfied.

"... His Highness Alfredo has recently pulled into his room. Since the Giant Soldier's attack, I guess I've lost faith in a lot of things already. Even if we're going to make contact with him, the factions over there won't allow us to do anything about it, so thank you."

"That's ridiculous - that prince is a good old man too"

Machia was laughing with her nose.

I'm not sure, but there seems to be something I think.