112 – The Trial of Nothingness – 43
“Your Majesty.”
“….”
“Your Majesty!”
“…Why is that?”
“Anyone who doesn’t need sleep is sleeping?”
“I didn’t sleep.”
“Anyone can see the expression of a sleepy person just now, right?”
“You must be old too. Are your eyes dim?”
“No matter how old I am after your majesty and advisor, it is not that order.”
The office in the palace. There, Mars and I were having a deep conversation.
What is that…
“So, what about my daughter?”
“…I’ve never seen it before, so how is it…”
“No, shouldn’t my daughter meet a bad guy later? So I’m just going to get married to His Majesty Asssari.”
“I will refuse.”
“In her own way, she is as pretty as the chancellor’s daughter.”
“Even if it happened.”
“You’re really picky.”
“……”
Knight Commander Mars is the strongest man in the kingdom in terms of swordsmanship.
The years I’ve lived are also the most old young people except me and Solomon.
“As you say this, aren’t you going to marry the chancellor’s daughter later?”
“What is the age difference, and I wonder if that is the case.”
“Don’t lie to me. Every time I see him, he seems happy.”
“…It’s an illusion.”
“If you want to believe that, then so be it.”
Mars openly expressed his displeasure by saying, “Hey, tuu.” In this case, a knight commander would be immediately taken to the death penalty in front of the king, the father and owner of the country, but Mars and I have known each other for a long time. I’ve gotten used to this type of conversation as well.
But…
“You are my best friend.”
“Right?”
“But what if I marry your daughter and her husband?”
“I am the father-in-law.”
“That means I hate it.”
To say Mars is an adult father-in-law, that’s really dead. He doesn’t want to wake up. It’d be better if Solomon was the father-in-law, not that bear-like guy.
“And isn’t Celeste, your daughter, a different case than Veronica?”
“Another case? What do you mean by that?”
“I heard about it from Solomon. That Celeste has an inferiority complex to Veronica.”
“Well, it’s true, so I won’t deny it.”
Marth’s mouth was so light that he couldn’t even imagine being the father of a single child. If another third party had heard it, they would have said something like, ‘A father is talking badly about a child, and he’s just listening!’, But I know. That Mars would never lie in front of me.
That doesn’t change even if it’s related to children. Because he is my sword and escort, a knight who exists solely for the king.
“Before that, the chancellor’s daughter must have been strange. Who gets that achievement at 24?”
“Isn’t there a case of Elizabeth?”
“Except for that b*tch. It’s a crazy b*tch, just a dog.”
“I won’t deny that part either.”
As a side note, Elizabeth achieved the level of achievement that Veronica currently has when she was 15 years old. He is alone without the help of anyone, even if he is a mentor.
“Probably there will be no more geniuses like Elizabeth.”
“Your Majesty?”
“You mean me?”
“Yes, Your Majesty, wasn’t he the strongest right after he was born?”
“What is it? As soon as I was born, I absorbed all of the Void mana.”
“Hey, you filthy gold spoon bastards…”
Mars himself, who said that, is also called a genius that will never be seen again in history. I heard that at the age of 24, the same age as Veronica, he split a mountain with a single sword strike…?
“So, are you really not engaged to my child?”
“Then shall we do it?”
“But I thought that would be true, so I came without thinking…”
“This guy?”
Mars laughed heartily at my words and said, “It’s a joke, hahahaha!”
There is a lot of prejudice that Mars is in charge of the sword among the 11 seats, so he has a muscular brain and is an idiot.
So he probably already expected that I would never be engaged to his daughter.
“Well then, let’s go.”
“…Why did you come to my office?”
“I told you, I came to ask about my daughter’s engagement.”
“Other than that, the real reason. Isn’t that simply an additional reason?”
“…Because I’m bored?”
“Haa…..”
It feels like the stress is piling up. Someone handles more than 10,000 papers a day, but someone comfortably receives the position of knight commander and goes through swordsmanship training, then comes to the office when he gets bored, and I’m sure the one with the least work out of the 11 offices… No, the one without it must be Mars.
“Then, thank you for your hard work.”
“Okay, get out quickly. Right now.”
Smart…
At the moment when Mars was about to open the door and leave, there was a knock on the door from outside.
There are only 11 people who can knock like this without reporting to me, the king, but there shouldn’t be anyone worthy of coming at this time…
“Your Majesty, would it be all right if I went in?”
“Solomon?”
From the voice I heard outside the door, I knew that the person who knocked was an advisor and the second-in-command in this country.
I was able to recognize that it was Solomon.
Why did the guy who usually comes in for a regular report at 4:00 visit me at 2:00?
“Come in.”
“Yes.”
Kikkik…
The office door opens, and the eyes of Solomon and Mars meet. Looking at Solomon’s eyes, he seemed to be thinking, ‘Why is this bastard here?’, And Mars had an annoyance in his eyes, ‘Oh, I’ll hear nagging again’.
“…Why is the knight commander here?”
As expected, Solomon threw a sharp question to Mars, not far from my expectations. However, Mars was also a novice who did not lose to Solomon, and answered his question in a lighthearted manner with a smile of ‘heh heh’.
“Because I’m bored.”
“……”
…Really, sometimes I envy Mars’ confidence.
“I have a place to go, so stop…Hmmm.”
“…The training of knights is all…”
“Kheuheum! Oh, should I go see my daughter?”
Kung-!
Mars moved out of the office at a speed faster than the speed of sound to avoid Solomon’s nagging. He also showed a sense of closing the door to avoid further scolding from Solomon.
“Haa…”
Solomon sighed deeply, probably from a headache, and looked at the door closed by Mars for a while.
I’m used to Mars to some extent, so it doesn’t matter, but in the case of Solomon, his style doesn’t match with Mars, so conflicts like this often happen.
From a distance, it’s a comedy, but from up close, it’s a tragedy. When a light fight breaks out between the two, I’m the one who suffers the most.
Just like now.
“Your Majesty, aren’t you asking for the knight commander too much?”
“I’m still a close friend…”
“Are you close friends or whatever, aren’t you former close friends?”
“That’s right, but…”
“Then draw the line. What do I do when my work hours are over? What would the employees of the palace think if I acted that way during business hours?”
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“Umm…”
Thanks to the disappearance of the guy who should have been nagging, I’m the only one who takes the damage.
Look at Mars. Next time I come, I’ll have Elizabeth put laxatives in the car.
“Whoa… First of all, there is an urgent matter, so this is enough. In fact, there is another reason I came to see Your Majesty.”
“So, what the hell happened to Solomon?”
“If you read this report, you will know.”
“?”
Only then did Solomon hand over to me a piece of paper he had kept in his bosom.
What the hell was the matter, so Solomon was like that… Ugh…!
“…A ‘door’ to travel to another dimension has been opened?”
“Yes, Your Majesty. Not sure, but very likely.”
A door to another dimension.
It was the first appearance of the official name ‘Gate’ to be named later.
“Has anyone ever been inside that dimension?!”
“Yes, I’m using my current medical history to check, but it seems that there is a big problem with that ‘door’.”
“Is there a problem?”
“Yes, I hear…”
Solomon swallowed the words for a moment, and then opened his mouth shyly after a few seconds.
“If you go through ‘The Door’ to another dimension, it seems you are transported to a completely different time zone.”
“…Moving to a different time zone?”
“Yes, sometimes it’s an ancient era, sometimes it’s an advanced era… So it’s a situation where you can’t touch the door carelessly.”
“Hmm…”
Keep calm. At the moment, I got excited about the word door to another dimension.
If you think about it for a bit, there’s no way the door to another dimension suddenly opened for no reason… Something stinks.
Besides…. It is an unstable ‘door’ that is transferred to a completely different time period, not a complete dimension shift. The level of risk would be indescribable.
“…First of all, ban the entry of people other than those involved.”
“Yes. I will serve you.”
“Advisor, keep an eye on that door. Maybe a creature from another dimension could come through the door.”
“..Then your majesty..?”
“I…”
I got up from my chair in the office and began to collect mana by putting the king’s robe on the hanger roughly around my shoulder.
“I will go to the Magic Tower.”
Elzebet. I need to meet her once.
***
“You’re gone…”
Solomon sighed as he looked at the place where his master had disappeared.
Another dimension, another world.
Solomon is well aware of the tremendous interest his king has in other dimensions.
So he was worried. About the things that will happen by that ‘door’.
“Oh, come to think of it, I forgot to tell you one thing…To make such a mistake.
Solomon turned his gaze to the papers in his hand.
“Earth… I should have told you the name of the dimension connected by the ‘door’…”