(EP.329)# 2
329 – Time Problem #2
Personnel from Monarch City arrived in the northern city of Sandora.
Like the procession of the queen and other guests, the appearance of a huge number of wagons, soldiers, and knights entering through the gates was like a triumphal march.
People flock like cotton candy to see the wonderful sight. The armor worn by the knights all flashed in silver and gold.
The sight of the flags raised by the riders waving in the northern wind made my heart magnify even for me, who is getting used to this kind of sight.
-Has the Queen arrived?
-I want to see what it looks like.
For ordinary people, chances in their lifetime to see the face of Aira, a woman who is reputed to be the most beautiful in the country, are few.
As if to prove it, many people keep coming.
I too was able to dig a hole in them and be relatively in the front seat. Soon, soldiers lined up left and right to control the citizens of Sandora.
👌👌👌👌
A red carpet is spread next to the stopped carriage.
ㅡEveryone, bow your head to show respect! Tarantera VIII, Queen Aira is coming!
At the roaring cry of the knight with a collar on his head, people began to kneel and bow their heads one by one. I also lightly kneel.
Awkward, gleeful.
At last the carriage opened and the first things that appeared to the world were very white shoes and stockings. It was only for a short time that some people took their breath away from those smooth legs.
“It’s been a long time since Sandora.”
A voice as clear as a clear stream was clearly audible among the murmuring people.
So I involuntarily raised my head. Thanks to this, I was able to see Queen Aira, who was radiantly present like an ice flower that bloomed in summer.
-I think it’s prettier than what I’ve heard.
-Are you also a royal person? She is incomparably stylish and pretty with the girls of Sandora.
-I think it resembles Isabelle-sama, the former lord.
-That’s right, because she’s a granddaughter.
Half-closed languid eyes.
Lips as soft as a lotus leaf.
Smooth, white skin like pure white porcelain, and abundant ebony hair. Anyone who sees everything harmoniously formed will take their breath away.
I did too.
It was kind of nice, but at the same time, a strange feeling arose out of nowhere. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve been away from Ira. Even without me, Ira was doing well enough – together.
It was happy and at the same time, there was something sad about it.
Is it okay without me now?
Aira, who looked around at that time, looked back at the carriage and asked.
“What are you doing, Erganes? You have to get off.”
“wait. Because I’m wearing sandals. I don’t know why there are so many strings. I’m done… !”
sabak, sabak.
Sandals with red laces slip through the carriage. After that, a white, firm-looking calf came out, and a shiny blonde and a red dress came out at once.
It was unfamiliar for a moment to see her voluminous hair untied and untied, but those blue eyes looking everywhere were very familiar to me.
“More people came than expected.”
At her small words, people roared.
-Who are you?
– They say it’s Lioness Youngae.
-You mean that Reinhardt’s daughter? I thought he was a very rough and sloppy person. You look prettier and prettier than what you heard, right?
– That’s right. In particular, his heart… .
Perhaps noticing that the gaze was drawn in, Elgar lightly wrapped a red cape around her shoulder to cover her skin. It seems that the morale of the surrounding area is going down a little bit by just that.
It’s not just my mood.
Of course, Elgar said as if she didn’t care.
“Where are Tae-oh and the others going to mix here? Or would you like to wait at the city hall?”
I almost involuntarily raised my hand and waved it at the voice looking for me.
However, the reason this could not be done is because the children who came out of nowhere rushed out and hung wreaths around their necks or gave them abundant bouquets of flowers in their arms.
Flags saying welcome to Sandora are fluttering here and there, and people start cheering louder than the sound of musical instruments.
Elgar raised her clenched fist high as if to counter it.
“Long live Queen Aira! Long live Angmar!”
People responded to that familiar, loud cry.
-Long live the Queen!
—Long live Angmar!
Aira and Elgar looked at the people and waved their hands. It was a moment when something that could be called patriotism was instilled in my heart, which can be called a foreigner.
For the citizens of Sandora, who have been living as citizens of this country from the beginning, the return of the Tarantera family, who was the original owner of the Northern Territory, must have been a deeper impression.
The girls walking on the red carpet were so proud and wonderful, just like the protagonists of this world, so I decided to just look at them.
Because sometimes I thought it wouldn’t hurt to just look at it like this.
* * *
The triumphal procession, which circled the city of Sandora, reached the central city hall only at lunchtime.
I stood in front of the main office building as neatly as possible to meet the rolling wagons among the crowds outside the city hall.
Mirna, Narmi, and Professor Stella were standing next to me.
Their expressions are somewhat rigid and serious, but when they do it, they realize that they do it right.
Awkward, gleeful.
The carriage door opens and Aira appears first.
Stella, the oldest of us, and the lord of Sandora bow their heads towards him.
“Queen, you are working hard to travel a long way.”
“My name is Redni Arachne, Lord of Sandora.”
At that polite greeting, Ira shook her head.
“Hey, that’s the story. I want to go inside and hear some reports from the past. Are you sure everything is ready inside?”
“Then let’s go inside the city hall.”
ur ur.
Many people enter the city hall. At that moment, I made eye contact with Elgar, who was turning her head in clutter. Elgar frowned and asked.
“Why didn’t you come to meet me at the gate? I found it.”
“I went out to meet you. I was just watching.”
“What? he’s weird little more than that… , what should I say? Seems to have changed a bit? I have to say that it looks heavier than usual. Should I say I’ve grown up? .”
Elgar spinning around me.
“Are you a little taller?”
I also said lightly as he put his palm on my head and looked like he was measuring things.
“Well, Elgar-sama has also changed a lot. Change your hair style too. I liked my hair tied back.”
At my words, Elgar stroked her curly blonde hair.
“Then, shall we unite again? I thought it would be better to solve it, so I solved it.”
I wanted to say that it’s okay as it is now, but there are a lot of people looking at me and a lot of people waiting, so I lightly grabbed Elgar’s waist.
“You must have had a hard time coming here by wagon. I will take you inside.”
“Yeah, take me somewhere.”
A welcome reception was planned, but the event was simply over due to Aira’s whim. Aira’s interest is reporting on Sandora and what’s going on around her.
So we sat in the lord’s office and talked while looking at the curved map and models of the nearby terrain.
“First of all, so, Professor Stella and I, over the wall here and here, suffered hardship and came back to life. There was a lot going on. I also learned a lot of useful information.”
The fact that the monsters beyond the wall are retreating further north.
He even lightly reported that something unusual was happening to the north.
After hearing the whole story, Ira said, “Uh-huh,” and wanted to make a strange snoring noise, but then folded her arms and asked lightly.
“Then, what do you think about the re-occupation of the stronghold fortress Gargata beyond the wall? Is it going well?”
“that… .”
I don’t know that either.
Because I didn’t really care about the military action to advance north. To be honest, I was also against it.
But now I see
Aira seemed quite determined to want to reclaim the land beyond the wall to the north. Who instilled in me that thought while I was away?
Reinhardt?
silkygoat was the goat. cry
No, Reinhardt, who is also busy defending the capital, has no way of insisting on such a thing as the Northern Bee. So what about Elgar?
Since Elgar is provocative and warlike, it is not strange to tell Aira, “Let’s advance north during this break.”
Of course, that was a few months ago.
Elgar has been strangely wary since she recently had a child. It didn’t seem like he was going to mess up his life by now.
At that moment, Count Redney, Lord of Sandora, spoke up.
“Even though we are gathering as many troops as we can to the north. For now, there is a daunting part with just the troops protecting the bases of each castle site, Queen.”
It’s kind of like teasing a little nephew.
In fact, Earl Redney and Ira were bloody cousins even though they were distant cousins, so it’s probably right to call them a nephew. I mean, there’s no need to do anything like an unreasonable expedition.
However, Ira seemed to have become quite uncomfortable.
“Hey, we don’t have enough troops… ?”
To that, Redney said skillfully.
“The last time I carried out the Northern Expedition was when Isabel, who was the queen’s grandmother and hero, was present. Although 30,000 soldiers and 200 knights on horseback, wizards of 3rd rank or higher participated… .”
When the Count was speechless, it was Professor Stella who intervened.
“It wasn’t even ten percent to come back. I know that story too. Because I saw it myself. The whole Angmar stumbled because of the excessive northern bee, and so far it has not been able to recover.”
Did something like that happen?
I also seem to remember a glimpse of what I saw in the history books or court records that I usually rummage through. The failure of the Northern Expedition on several occasions. The invasion of the southern barbarians took advantage of the gap.
Thanks to this, the kingdom declined as the years passed.
A story that should have originally happened where the tyrant Aira and the witch from the ruined kingdom appeared and eventually led to the collapse of Angmar and human civilization.
Then someone’s hand wrapped around my waist.
“Of course, it will be different from now on. Me and the Belhawk family will help Tae-oh to repair this and that.”
Putting your hand around my waist in front of everyone.
I was startled by Stella’s sudden action.
Of course, it was known that elves had skinship with friendly people, whether they were friends or colleagues. There was no way Elgar, who had a good sense of it, could not grasp that it wasn’t just that kind of friendliness.
Elgar opened her thin eyes and said.
“I don’t know if the relationship between Belhawk and our court wizard has become so close. Did a lot of things happen on your trip north this time?”
“If anything happened-.”
Before Stella tells the moor.
match.
I hurriedly applauded.
“Let’s start with eating. It must have been hard for you to come a long way. Count Redney, Lord of Sandora, has prepared something for the Queen and Elgar-sama.”