Perhaps because of the large scale of the Imperial Palace, the road to the garden took longer than expected.
It seems to be several times larger than the palaces of Helium, Albenheim, and even the palace of the kingdom of Ters, which I have visited so far.
I heard from Marie that it’s because the territory is huge and the departments that come with it are also huge.
The laws are different for each territory, and the reason that the lord who manages it is given powerful authority is to make management easier.
Of course, the reporting procedures that must be received for each territory are complicated, so the departments have to be diversified. In fact, it is said that only a small part of what is visible with the naked eye.
‘Neither the White House nor the Kremlin will be this wide.’
The offices of the presidents of the United States and Russia, famous for their terrifying expanse of land, wouldn’t be this big either. In many ways, it can be said that it is a size suitable for an ’emperor’.
Rather than empty words, the size of the entire imperial palace seems to match the size of our estate. Our estate is underdeveloped and small, but the imperial palace is too large.
“When will you arrive?”
“It’s only a 10-minute walk. The garden is connected to the banquet hall.”
I asked Marie as she passed the hallway with numerous statues, and she said there were still about 10 minutes left.
The wind blew out on a larger scale than I had imagined, and then I looked around. It is wide enough that an echo echoes throughout the hallway just by walking.
At the edge, the aforementioned statues are lined up side by side. I don’t know who designed it, but I wanted to compliment the aesthetic sense.
There is a similar place in the Kingdom of Teres, but it is not this wide and there are no statues. there are only pictures
Because of this, the Kingdom of Tersu is excited to say that they followed them, while the Empire of Minerva is the opposite of whether you guys can do this.
‘I wish the exhibition could be held in a place like this.’
Of course it will be difficult. It would be quicker to build a new building. Recently, I heard from my father that he is pursuing a similar project.
As I walked down the hallway, I caught the statues one by one. Sculptures full of vitality as if they were alive at any moment.
Some of them wondered how they made it out of plaster. There was a plaster statue representing a net that had only been heard in words.
“…isn’t this Jin and Lily?”
Even a statue expressing the affectionate love between Jin and Lily. I pointed to one of the statues in an absurd voice.
On the surface, it is nothing more than a man and a woman holding hands and face-to-face.
However, by looking at the horns protruding from the man’s head, he could tell that he was a demon, and the woman’s attire looked like a priest.
A combination of a demon male and a priest female. If this combination existed before, it will converge to 0, so it should be regarded as Jin and Lily.
“I think so? There had never been a statue like this before. It must have been placed recently.”
“What is the standard for arranging statues here?”
“As the Emperor wants?”
“·······”
I have a feeling that something is going to go wrong. Perhaps the Emperor is also the one who supports Jin and Lily.
I looked at the statue that was filled with affection, and then I looked back. I was wondering if there is a statue on the other side that is related to Xenon’s life.
Fortunately, there was a statue that looked very similar to Xenon. But the problem is that Xenon is not alone.
That doesn’t mean he’s with the heroine, Mary. The person with him was none other than Kai.
It is also a statue of Zeno being beaten under the guise of training by Kair. Why the hell did you put something like that?
“Is that… your Majesty the Emperor likes unique things?”
“Is that right? I can’t say no at all.”
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Marie answered with a grin, not sure if she could deny it. Contrary to the idea that Lina should only go in the middle, Lina once replied that she was an unpredictable person.
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Maybe it has something to do with this statue and the emperor’s personality? After that, we passed the statues and headed towards the end of the hallway.
There is a banquet hall at the end of the hallway, but it is currently closed and cannot be opened. Instead, you can go straight to the garden by heading to the road next to it.
“But why is it so empty? Shouldn’t there be someone who manages or guards it?”
“There is surveillance magic. If we touch the statue or do anything suspicious, an alarm will go off right away. Even if we disable the guard magic, the knights will immediately come out.
I shrugged at Marie’s question. It didn’t matter too much if I met someone who recognized me along the way.
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Maybe it’s the Academy, but this is the Imperial Palace. A place where demon worshipers can never crawl.
It’s okay to be vigilant, but I didn’t completely ignore it either.
“I think he gave you an autograph.”
“Even an autograph? That person must be completely happy.”
As we talked, we reached the end of the hallway. As I reached the end of the hallway, I was faced with a huge gate that touched the ceiling.
I lifted my head all the way and observed the gate in detail. A distinctive geometric pattern was drawn, and a banquet hall must be spread behind it.
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Maybe someday, if not soon, we’ll see this door open. I’ll hold Marie’s hand tightly and stand up proudly like I do now.
As I was looking at her with such subtle emotions, I felt a gaze from the side and turned my head.
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Marie is looking at me with a bright smile. Truly, it is a beauty that never gets tired of looking at it.
“······why?”
“Because he’s so handsome. Heh!”
A little shy, I asked quietly, and Marie bit my forearm with her characteristic expression of affection. From here to munching or sucking on the side.
I responded to her cute behavior by stroking her hair. Then Marie also stopped biting and started rubbing her cheeks against my arm.
After confirming their affection for a while, they immediately turned and headed for the garden. The original destination and the place Marie wanted to go.
“Five······”
“How about it? It’s unusual and pretty, isn’t it?”
As expected, a beautiful garden unfolded before my eyes. At the same time, it was unexpected.
Usually, Western-style gardens stand out artificially by introducing geometric elements to match the theme of the structure.
But, on the other hand, the garden that unfolded before my eyes was not a Western-style garden, but more of an oriental style.
A form that focuses on expressing nature as much as possible without transforming it.
Albenheim’s palace, Elodia, also had an atmosphere that seemed to have melted into nature, but even that did not have an oriental feel.
“It’s amazing. It looks like it was put in without damaging nature. Is this really a garden?”
“Yeah. It’s a garden that was just built for reference. It didn’t exist until the previous emperor.”
If so, was it made in modern times? I looked around the garden with a curious expression.
The pond created at the end of a long river was not dirty, but very clean, and even the fish in it were clear.
Occasionally, when you see a fish jumping upwards, its size is amazing.
It is a charming place in various meanings, but at the same time, it raises a question. If it was a recently built garden, what kind of place would it have been before that?
As it is right next to the banquet hall, it is a suitable place to be used as a garden from the beginning. So it should have been there from the beginning.
“It wasn’t until the previous emperor? So what kind of place was this place?”
“Lina said it was a dense forest? It was a kind of date course. Instead, there were a lot of insects and animals protruding from it, so the evaluation was not good.”
“That’s why it’s so wide.”
In any case, one scale of the Minerva Empire must be acknowledged. I walked into the garden with Marie arm in arm.
Perhaps because there is a pond, a cool breeze blew on my face despite the hot summer.
Unlike Albenheim, this garden has a strong oriental aspect. Stepping stones are placed above the pond to pass through.
“Do you feel something pure? I like places like this. Just walking around without thinking makes me feel at ease.”
“Have you been here before?”
“I used to come here often. After fighting with Lina, I didn’t even come close.”
It is definitely the perfect place for a date course for lovers. Since the site is large, it seems that it will take time to just walk.
“There was even a dark place for lovers. I didn’t know what it was when I was younger, but I think I understand it now.”
“······ Is that okay?”
“Of course. It was originally made for that? I wonder what kind of place it is?”
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Marie made a sinister expression, and with her index finger, gently drew from my chin to my navel.
A smirk came out of the action that had a lot of intentions in it. But unfortunately I don’t plan on doing that right now.
He grabbed Marie’s finger and quietly set it aside. She’s just sad, but she doesn’t seem to be disappointed.
“A really good offer, but think about the heat. Wanna go back sweating? I don’t want to.”
“Ah. I didn’t think of that. For some reason, I only heard such sounds at night.”
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Marie nodded as if she understood what I was saying. I thought it was serious, so it was a bit ridiculous, but I just passed on it.
The important thing now was being alone with Marie. Marie also started talking about various things because it was a date after a long time.
“Is it going to be finished soon? When it’s finished, are you going to take a break and publish your next work?”
“I don’t know. I’m going to publish a couple of side stories first. Something came to my mind when I saw Grandpa Clark.”
“Because it’s a side story… Then the character will die?”
“Huh? How did you know?”
I couldn’t help but be a little surprised. He hasn’t talked about anything yet, and he hasn’t said a word about the characters.
However, Marie predicted at once that the main character of the story would die. For me, I can’t help but be surprised.
At my reaction like this, she smiled and replied with a tone of anticipation.
“Isn’t that your story? And this time, even Jin is completely confirmed. All the people who appear in the side story die.
“Even so, is it too speculative?”
“So he dies, isn’t he?”
“…to die is to die.”
This is a story about Zeno’s biological father, so he must die. Besides, it’s essentially writing about a ‘passed-by hero’.
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Marie giggled, saying yes to my answer. Then he spoke to me in a playful tone.
“Can’t we just kill a little? What kind of taste would it be if all the people around me died?”
“Did you look good?”
“Yeah. I’ll see your work. Still, I mean to give hope, hope. I don’t support the Jin-Lily couple, but it’s so sad.”
“Well······”
Writing a World War II novel would be very dark. I looked into my eyes and said nothing.
Usually silence is used in a positive sense, but now it’s a little different. It’s going to be a strong feeling of being a little stubborn.
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Marie shook her head as if she knew what it meant. It looked like he had given up halfway.
“Well, since you’re the writer, it’s not my part. Instead, I want you to think about people’s feelings a little bit. Can your mother-in-law support the Jin-Lily couple right now, can you handle it?”
“A man must be brave. But, as you said, I’ll take insurance. I’ll write a side story when the situation gets serious.”
“Yeah. So… huh? Gaiden? Not the main work?”
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Marie opened her eyes and asked me if she noticed something strange. From the looks of it, he seems to have grasped the fact that the abduction is not an affair.
Until Jin’s resurrection, he can yield a hundred times. But it never gets incorporated into the official.
Only then will we be able to give a better setting to the next work of Xenon’s biography. By the way, I’m not talking about World War II, it’s a sequel in the true sense.
“Yeah. I want to put Jin’s death into an affair. I tend to leave the side story as an ‘if’ to the end.”
“Wow… that must be so? How are you going to handle it?”
It was at the moment when I was about to reply to Marie’s words that she was full of energy.
“That’s it. How are you going to save me?”
“···········?”
Suddenly, a strange man’s voice came from behind. The voice of a middle-aged man with a heavy yet dignified voice.
Startled, I looked back. When I turned around, a middle-aged man with blonde hair was standing proudly behind us.
Sideburns, connected beards, and hollow eyes. It is unusual to see her in plain robes or carrying her back.
“Can I get down on my knees?”
who are you.