Episode 110. family (4)
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okay. I can think positively.
I took into my arms the greatest danger of instability in Troia.
Prophet Cassandra could be a huge threat to me, depending on the hagiography.
As a person who clearly knows that I am the cause of the fall of Troy, it is impossible not to go crazy if you go through a frustrating situation where everyone does not listen to you. When driven mentally like that, a person can do anything.
Obviously, when I left, Cassandra said something like “No one has ever told me that before…” or “Thank you so much…”, so Cassandra could say that she opened her heart to me.
…
I should have gotten my degree and quit.
anyway.
When I went back to bed and lay down, my mind gradually calmed down, and when I closed and opened my eyes, it was morning.
Next to her, Ino seemed to have a troubled dream. “In my dream… I almost got crushed to death by a huge cat. He stretches his stiff body while making the same sound.
And looking back at Ino, I finally feel that I am returning to my daily life.
No way… How long have you been living like this? The villagers who had the Kia s*x parked next to it said, “Chief, is this guy smiling?”, “Leave it alone. I hope you have a good dream.”
After being fed up with silly thoughts, I can finally see the surrounding landscape properly.
Ino looked at me laughing alone and tilted her head with eyes looking at something strange.
“···Paris? What’s going on?”
“Oh, no. Just another idea.”
Of course, I didn’t have much time to mess around with other thoughts like this.
We were dragged into the bathtub by the attendants, washed thoroughly with water from petals, and smeared with olive oil. When we met again, each other’s faces were smeared with oil and smooth, and somehow smelled delicious.
After that, our hair was combed for a long time as we sat side by side, and soon the two of us changed into our street clothes and left the mansion in a daze.
To the extent that I could understand why the gunpowder suddenly exploded and the bullet that was kicked out of the chamber felt like this.
“Paris-sama, Oinone-sama, guests are waiting for you two at the banquet hall in the palace.”
“···Oh yeah. I see.”
As I took a step out of the escort, the city I faced was energized like I had never seen before.
Now, the days of full-fledged celebration must have begun.
With the favor of King Priam and the enmity of Paris, lord of Antandros, the beggars shared free bread and goat’s milk. They gathered in each alley and went back to the back of the line where they had stood to get more food, and roamed around again.
And those who came out to the main road carrying bread like that soon saw colorful cloths hung all over the city and flower petals that remained like traces of yesterday and scattered all over the roadside like snowflakes.
And the people who happily run over the flower petals.
Countless coins flew into the sky as the clown performed a trick of blowing fire from his mouth.
In the shops with their awnings open, they laid out food stocked up for the day and other things to enjoy (mostly gambling).
As the hands of the slender people play quickly, the people’s exclamations grow louder.
There seemed to be a boxing match set up by them in one clearing, and the spectators cheered their names, as if each fighter was quite a celebrity.
Food, gambling and sports.
All elements for the festival were perfectly equipped.
We walked joyfully through its raucous and bubbly streets. The conviction that the excitement of this city, more than anything else, was due to the two of us gave Ino and me a strange sense of joy and confidence.
The whole city was dancing, dressed up in new clothes.
Reveling in the cheerfulness, we walked to the palace.
Inside the palace, the situation was not so different.
Brilliant whole-grilled dishes were loaded onto skewers and bowls and were busily moved somewhere.
The escorts said that it would be okay to follow the group, so I followed them, and the banquet hall actually came out.
Slaves were slicing up the tenderloin of the cow and delivering it to the guests.
Silver plates and large baskets are loaded with bread, meat, fish, olives, and all kinds of fruit, and they go up to a long table.
A talented poet who does not know where it came from turns on the lyre and sings softly in a low pitched voice. In order not to interrupt the conversation of guests.
Ino looked around and her pupils widened, but I also looked in the direction Ino was looking at… and saw fairies. Fairies near Troia who helped Aeneas.
“Paris? Can I go to my sisters for a moment?”
I was about to say yes, but I remembered all the etiquette Hector had been tediously reciting.
It seems there was an item like “A couple must attend together at a banquet”…
“Of course not. I am meeting my family.”
“yes?”
I decided to ignore it for a while.
In fact, I think both of us remember things that don’t work, but isn’t that why we get married because we’re so compatible?
Ino happily ran towards the fairy sisters, and I took a horn from a nearby servant and sipped honey water lightly.
“Paris son of Priam.”
Soon I hear a voice calling me. Considering what this banquet was for, it was natural.
When I turn my head, I see the faces I have seen passing by as VIPs several times.
I am the main character of this banquet, but because of that, it is rather difficult for the guests to communicate with me.
This is because the main character of the banquet takes on the role of holding a suitable seat and giving a kind greeting and smile to those who are constantly flocking to it.
The conversation with the middle-aged man who called me will be the first conversation at this banquet.
A man with very well-developed arm and shoulder muscles. He greets me with respectful manners that contrast with his bodily strength.
“Do you know my name?”
“Of course. Aren’t you Rhesus, the king of Thrace?”
“It is indeed so.”
From nob le mt l. co m
Lessos raises the corner of his mouth, as if feeling better about my simple answer.
“Even though I’m busy, all the customers who come and go seem to be aware of it. You are very skilled.”
“Rather than that… I just memorize important people first.”
“Are they important people?”
“For example, someone like Lessos.”
At that, Lessus smiled broadly. Then, looking around, he speaks casually to those who appear to be his subordinates.
“Did you hear? The king of all the Thracians is this prince of great character… no, even the monarch is worthy of attention. Is it an honor?”
From nob le mt l. co m
Lessos’ subordinates laugh happily at his light, joking words.
There must have been some message between the birds I didn’t know…
“It must be a bit of a mess to be the king of ‘all the Thracians’.”
One side of Lessos’s face hardened slightly at the words someone said while sitting on a chair far away. Small smiles burst out here and there at those words just now.
From nob le mt l. co m
Lessos smiles lightly and skillfully holds the reins to his rage. He left after chatting with me as if nothing had happened.
After that, people who seem to have just laughed at Rhesos come to me and say hello, emphasizing that they are ‘the chieftain of Thracian Adme’.
. . . Let’s keep our minds straight.
All those gathered here are rulers, powerful people, and losers from all over the world. Didn’t the Thracians fight for supremacy just now with me in between? If you don’t keep your mind straight, you will become someone else’s political tool again.
Other than that, there were a lot of people who smiled at me with something meaningful, and who tried to take my soul away by continuing strangely twisted words.
With all my might, I prepared for this day, such as ‘pretending not to hear’, ‘throwing ambiguous words that can be interpreted in 100 ways’, ‘mixing some moderately meaningless words and attaching them to other guys’. I defeated that pack of wolves with various secret techniques.
I quickly became exhausted.
I could feel the muscles around my mouth tightening. It was the pain I felt when I had my work smile on for hours on end. I’ve found a refuge
The courtyard of the court was noisy with long tables placed here and there and guests wandering between them, but I was aware of the spaces between the garden trees that were often deserted.
Hiding there, I was relieving mental fatigue by letting the birds sing through one ear.
“older brother? Are you here?”
So, meeting my brother here was not at all the situation I was hoping for.
First of all, I had to pretend to be happy, so I greeted the man in front of me with the corner of my mouth and the glass raised.
“Ah, Deiphobos. You are here too.”
“Because it was so noisy. I don’t think my nature is suited to such complicated human affairs.”
Saying that, Deiphobos let out a light sigh.
“Brother, this kind of thing is not common. Because you rule a city.”
“It’s just not like that. This is because only those who have seen it see it all the time, and there are not many days when there are guests outside except for special events like this.”
“That is fortunate.”
“Good thing. If I hadn’t done that, I might have died of exhaustion.”
I smiled and brought the honey water to my mouth. Still, pouring something sweet into my brain gives me a feeling that the energy I didn’t have before springs up.
Of course, it was just a mood, so it was hard to think more about Deiphobos’ strangely shining eyes at my words.
Deiphobos seems to be thinking about my words for a long time, then suddenly turns his head and throws a word at me again.
“Your brother seems to be great.”
“Um, why?”
“You say you were born as a prince, but didn’t you win the trust of the city and finally come as a monarch under much more difficult circumstances than us?”
“What… can I do that?”
“Didn’t the elders and local dignitaries ignore you, claiming that you were a ruler arbitrarily dispatched from a foreign country?”
“It never happened. They are neighbors I have known for a very long time.”
“Then… would there have been any ignorance or resistance if you hadn’t had an ointment for Antandros at all?”
···hmm?
“Perhaps it was. It will depend on the situation, but everyone hates interference from the outside.”
“As expected…”
The direction of the conversation is…
weird.
Deiphobos’ slightly nervous-looking face and his strangely respectful attitude toward me. Originally, this guy respected Hector, but he didn’t have much to do with me.
And the true nature of that sense of incongruity is,
“older brother.”
“what’s the matter? Did you suddenly lower your voice?”
“Are you willing to support me if I found a new country?”
soon to be revealed
I gasped at the sound of the honey water I was drinking.
Embarrassed, Deiphobos asked the attendant standing far away to bring a towel and then bit my mouth, but it made me feel bad that my face was a little sticky.
“…”
“…”
“···Why all of a sudden?”
To put such an offer straight through without any sincerity in turning it around or turning it once.
I shook my head, thinking it was the attack of a young and inexperienced prince.
“It’s not about right now. It’s not just asking for help without a price.
But unless I’m going to grow up someday and shut myself up in this city, shouldn’t I also build a country of my own? Just like my brother did!”
. . . It must be the right word in principle.
In this era, the state is closer to a point than a line or plane.
Cities are scattered everywhere like grains of sand, and controlling and taking over the surroundings through those cities is the classic way to expand a kingdom.
Therefore, many princes of this dynasty, unless they inherited the city as their firstborn, stayed in their hometowns and ended their quiet lives, or went out and built new cities.
Right now, this Troy is one of the cities that were built like that.
But…
“Let’s think about it later. You’re still young, and I heard it all of a sudden.”
Didn’t I tell you not to give guarantees even to family members?
I don’t think it’s just a lesson.
It is a truth that pervades all ages.
“Ha, but.”
“To cut such an important story short in such an abrupt place would be rash, uncharacteristic of a monarch.”
I looked at my brother, who was only a year or two younger than me. Feeling like a child for some reason, he lightly stroked his hair and said.
“If one day you’re going to be the leader of a city, you shouldn’t be.”
“···older brother!”
…don’t look at it with thrilled eyes.
It means to notice that he is saying something just because he wants to get you off.
“Anyway, let’s discuss this matter again when we have been able to ponder it quietly and for a long time. got it?”
“yes! I understand, brother!”
Well, whether you understood me well or not, the story seemed to have ended well.
Anyway, the time to quietly enjoy my own rest has passed.
Besides, if the host of the banquet is away for too long, it doesn’t look good, so I returned to my seat among the crowded tables. Ino, who had returned before I knew it, was sitting next to me.
“Paris? what’s the matter? Does it look a bit difficult?”
“…it’s nothing. I just think sitting here is more comfortable than I thought.”
After that, I was satisfied with the monotonous role of sitting in my place, clinking glasses with those who greeted the host of the banquet, and throwing a few words of congratulations.
So the day’s banquet was over.
“Paris-sama, you seem to be more beautiful today.”
“You seem to have gotten stronger. Would you like to try archery later?”
“ha ha ha! That’s good!”
When the next day dawned, the banquet for the day began again.
It takes five to six more days like this for this endless hell to end.
Exhausted, I minimized my body movements and only watched the movements of the guests with a soulless eye. It was the same with Ino, so he seemed like a zombie lover.
So the second day’s banquet is over again.
By the time the third day had come, I had come to the banquet hall cursing the fact that morning was coming.
As always, Ino and I opened the door to the banquet hall with friendly smiles on our faces.
“…”
“…”
I was taken aback by the sudden coolness of the atmosphere and nearly backed away.
I look around in bewilderment, and Priam, who has come to my side before I know it, grabs my shoulder.
“Paris. Are you here?”
“Can I ask what’s going on?”
“It just happened, so I don’t really feel it, but…”
“King!”
For a moment, the messenger’s words cut off Priam’s voice. When I turned around, the messenger was gasping for breath. Priam whispered in my ear during that gap.
“An uninvited guest came to congratulate you on your marriage.”
And when the messenger caught his breath, the short silence ended, and the messenger’s words reverberated.
“O virtuous Priam! Dear son of Laomedon! I, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, give all the blessings I can give you for the beautiful thing that has happened to your family!”
my heart cools fast
I hear a name that shouldn’t be heard.
“I do not know if I dare to enter this celebration as an uninvited person, but I am sending you this letter with those who will represent me, believing that this delegation will add another celebration to the royal family of Troy!
The longer the celebration, the better, and if there are new ones who swear everlasting fidelity and devotion in front of the goddess Hera, the more they swear, the better!
Your eldest son, the honorable Hector, is already married and has a beautiful family! Also, I heard that your second son, wealthy Paris, is about to consummate the marriage!!”
no way.
I hurriedly turned my head to find one of the frozen people in the banquet hall.
And when you find the one you’re looking for.
His eyes widen, as if he had met with incredible luck.
“Priamus of the Ash Spear! However, your three sons do not yet have a designated spouse!”
Deiphobos froze in amazement.
“I would like to offer you my daughter with respect and admiration!
This is the message from Agamemnon, son of Atreus, king of Mycenae and king of Achaia.
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Long live Troy. Long live Mycenae. Long live peace and friendship between the two cities.”