36 – Do as You Like (3)
The day was bright.
Today is the day scheduled to enter the imperial palace, which was the official schedule scheduled three days ago.
In my mind, I just want to ignore the entry into the palace and do some swordsmanship training.
“Wow…”
But the twinkling eyes from the side,
It seems impossible even because of Catherine, who looks at me and likes me like a child.
“Why do I have to wear fluttering clothes like this, Won.”
As a commoner, I didn’t need to learn imperial etiquette, so I didn’t learn it, but
While complaining that wearing fancy formal clothes was an unavoidable procedure, she dressed neatly.
“Why? It’s cool.”
Catherine’s words gave me a strange feeling.
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It’s a bit like that.
A bit like that feeling when a mother tells her child that whatever she wears is cool.
“No. It’s really cool, Leon-sama.”
“That’s right. He’s the most handsome Leon-sama I’ve seen in the past few years?”
“Look at that. Even the maids say they’re cool, Leon.”
Maids who support the master.
Katherine puts her hand on her waist as she puffs up her cheeks, asking why she doubts her.
At that, I looked in the mirror with a sad expression.
‘How should I express this?’
Should I say it looks like a soldier in a red British uniform?
Or should we see them as the royal guards wearing red military uniforms with gold medals hanging from them?
I didn’t wear a wide-brimmed hat,
Looks like a cosplay of a male royal soldier.
“Isn’t that bad?”
It’s hard to say this with my own mouth, but thanks to the good-looking original version, I tend to get dressed well.
Although it was a bit strange for my aesthetic sense, which has not yet completely erased the modern sensibility,
Since the women of the Duke of Roelheim’s family, who are famous for their high eyesight, make a fuss about it, it must be considered okay.
‘Still, it’s a bit stuffy.’
A robe too thick for a warm spring day.
Unfasten only one button at the top of the neck,
I knotted all the other buttons on the black coat wrapped around the red top.
He looks like the eldest son of a prestigious aristocratic family.
After some preparation,
The maids in the room noticed Catherine and all went outside.
A dressing room with just me and the princess.
Katherine, with a regretful expression on her face, gave a hushed voice.
“I’m so sorry I can’t go with you.”
“It can’t be helped. You have an important schedule today.”
“So…”
She murmured, “I wanted to see you standing in front of His Majesty.”
Seeing how his eyebrows draw the character 八 (八), he must be quite upset.
It was because an important schedule related to the Faculty of Magic had been scheduled since last week.
“Would you like me to secretly follow you?”
His eyes seemed to ask if it was a good way.
“How are you going to sneak?”
“Hmm… Hiding behind your back?”
Katherine pretended to hide behind my back, making a small, eighth sound.
Of course,
Her dress is not going to cover my body.
“Your clothes are wrinkled.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll release it with magic.”
“Don’t joke.”
“I’m not kidding.”
“……Why are you acting so childishly today?”
No answer came back to those words.
roughly expected.
It must have been because they were two days away.
I’m afraid I’ll disappear without a word again,
I’m anxious, so I’m coming out like this.
“Can I not go?”
“I’m not going anywhere to die, I’m going to see His Majesty. If I suddenly say no, it’ll be a lot of trouble, right?”
“That’s right…”
she puts her head on my back
“Somehow, I feel like I’m getting farther away…”
“Don’t worry, I’ll be back soon.”
He puts his hand on Katherine’s head and messes it up.
The young lady of the duke rubbed her cheeks on her back in favor of that touch.
If she had been Miya, she would have complained about messing up her hair.
“I can’t stop it.”
When she was separated, the slightly crumpled robe was restored to its original state like a lie.
“thank you.”
“You must come back soon.”
Since it’s the weekend, the academy is closed, too.
You can come back and go on a date.
I nodded and she escorted me to the main gate of the mansion.
Then grandiose,
A luxurious golden carriage, presumably sent by His Majesty the Emperor, came into my field of vision.
A clean-looking young knight waiting in front of him bowed his head to me.
“It’s an honor to meet you, Leon. Today, I am Giovanni, the Royal Guard Knight who will guide Leon to His Majesty the Emperor.”
“Nice to meet you, Sir Giovanni.”
After raising him up, who was even lowering his back, he quickly got on the carriage.
“Then I’ll be on my way, ma’am.”
“Have a safe trip.”
Immediately after being sent off by Catherine,
The door of the golden carriage was closed.
*
The center of the capital, Tarantis.
When the emperor arrived at the main gate of the main palace,
I met a completely unexpected person.
A short beauty with long red hair tied in a side ponytail.
almost flat,
The AAA cup, the size of a battery, was a woman I knew well.
“Huh? Leon!”
“……Miya?”
Why are you here?
And that’s not like you, wearing a sky-blue red dress.
With eyes that don’t understand my English,
She came to me with a happy face.
“Leon, I haven’t seen you for two days, so why are you in the imperial palace?”
“That’s what I want to ask you. Why are you here?”
“Dad told me to come.”
I stared at her for the answer that it was nothing.
Looking at it like this, he was short and his upper body was still flat,
One line falling down the pelvis is art.
Even now, at the age of 20, at that young age,
How young will you look when you get older?
At my gaze, Miya narrowed her eyes.
And raise your index finger,
knock on my chest
“Hey, your gaze is a bit strange.”
“I didn’t think anything of it. I just thought it was still small.”
“Muh!? You perverted bastard! It’s been a while since I’ve seen you, so I have to say that? What’s wrong with just saying that the dress you’re wearing is pretty?!”
Miya getting angry.
Nodding his head, he replied immediately.
“Oh, it’s pretty.”
“Uh…, huh?”
“It suits you well. The clothes are fairy, but you look pretty when you wear them.”
Because honestly, it was pretty.
My taste was glamorous, but if you’re as pretty as Miya, I don’t think this is bad either.
“Mmm, what are you talking about!”
As if she was taken aback by my answer that came out without a second thought, she blushed and screamed.
“If you’re going to say something nice, do it from the beginning, you fool…”
Miya turns her head to the side in embarrassment.
Looking at it like this, it looks like an animal somewhere.
What should I say… … .
yeah, that one
I gave a favorite snack to an angry cat, and it felt like it calmed down.
“Leon-sama, are you ready to enter the palace?”
The knight who got off the golden carriage after me asked.
“Yes, I’m ready.”
“Oh, Sir Giovanni!”
“You are the daughter of Duke Kaisel Miya. It’s been a while since I’ve seen you.”
What is it, do you know each other?
“Let’s go soon.”
“Yes.”
“Wait, go with me!”
Let’s go first, Miya who follows us, leaving her servants and guides alone.
Following the guide’s article,
Standing next to me, she rubs her shoes hard.
Miya looks uncomfortable with the shoes she has not worn in a long time.
“What, why are you chasing me?”
“Are you going to see His Majesty?”
How did you know that?” she looked down and answered, pulling up the hem of her dress.
“Sir Giovanni belongs to the Imperial Guard. It’s obvious that someone like that is guiding you.”
Was it like that
It was a nuance that he knew about the imperial palace well.
“Have you been here many times?”
“Yes. The territory is also close to the capital, and my father has regular sparring with the Imperial Guard. I have visited often with my father at that time.”
In a word, it is said to be a deceased member of the imperial family.
“therefore?”
“yes?”
“So why are you following me?”
“Yeah, because I’m also promised to meet with His Majesty.”
“?”
“My dad is close to His Majesty. So I thought he only invited me, but I didn’t know he invited you as well.”
She shrugs as if it’s nothing.
I roughly nodded.
There’s Duke Kaisel in there too.
If that’s the case, that means more big names may have come than I expected.
“You know what, Leon?”
After passing through the middle aisle and reaching the entrance to His Majesty’s Palace, Miya said.
“It’s polite to take off your shoes in front of His Majesty.”
She smiles as she says that.
It would have been an evil smile on his part,
Unfortunately, in my eyes, she just looked cute like a little sister.
“Yes? Then why don’t you take it off?”
“It’s only for first-timers.”
“Oh yeah?”
“Yes. So, take off your shoes quickly.”
The guide lowered his voice so he couldn’t hear, then whispered in her ear.
“Before I peel it off with my hands, stop talking nonsense and stay still.”
“Bur, you’re peeling it off…?”
She covers her breasts that don’t even exist with her arms.
They don’t seem to know that no matter how hard you try, you won’t be able to create something that didn’t exist.
I decided to just divert my words because if I talked more about this topic, I would only see her cliff.
“By the way, I see there are quite a few VIPs coming today.”
“Yes. Besides my father and His Majesty, all of the princes must have gathered?”
In other words, there is also Princess Laura.
Things turned out to be bigger than I thought.
“By the way, what have you really been doing for the past two days?”
“Not really. I just went somewhere. … Why?”
“I just asked why.”
“Because I haven’t seen you for two days without saying anything…” Miya added.
I see you turn your head while complaining,
It seems that she was worried about herself.
It wouldn’t be unreasonable for Miya, who doesn’t know the details, to be curious.
From what I heard from Sir Ferdinand, it seemed that he only slightly spoke to the professors in charge of my class and to Catherine.
“Thank you.”
“what?”
“For your concern.”
“Who, who was worried!!
“Yes, yes.”
Thinking like this,
There were many people who sent me favors at the academy,
The only ones I could call friends were Miya and Ugo.
Laura is a senior, so pass,
Pass because Catherine is my owner.
We haven’t known each other in a while, but
Still, the two of us are the only ones getting along like this.
After all, they must be comrades who broke through the tower of growth together.
Miya, who worries about me, is quite admirable.
I wanted to stroke her hair, but since she already made it pretty, let’s not touch it today.
“Now, you two. We have arrived.”
We stopped in front of the huge gate leading to Daejeon.
If you pass this door,
Is there an emperor of this Rothenberg Empire?
I wasn’t nervous, but I was a little excited.
What kind of guests will welcome us?
What kind of person is the emperor of this empire?
“Leon-sama, Lady Miya. Confirmed.”
“I will open the door.”
After a while, the gatekeepers at the gate confirmed our identity and began to open the large gate.
-Koo-gu-gu-gung– … .
The colorful light, presumably reflected by the chandelier on the ceiling, spills out through the crack in the door.
Covered with precious jewels and gold,
A huge palace appeared before our eyes.
The red silk road leading to the center.
‘This is where the absolute of the empire stays.’
I am called the Royal Carpet,
I put my first foot on the long carpet.
At the same time, a voice resounded throughout the Great War.
“Sword Master Leon—!”
“Miya, the daughter of Duke Kaisel—!”
“The two of you are entering!”
The orchestra waiting at one side of the wide space,
They begin to play a mighty farewell song for us.
Me and Miya move forward while surrounded by ecstatic light.
While handling the hundreds of pairs of eyes that pierce us,
He stopped in front of the elderly man who was sitting in the most prestigious seat.
He is past middle age,
He was a man with intense eyes that looked beyond his sixty years of age.
He was the iron-blooded prince who killed all his brothers and took the position of emperor.
Although she loved her children, in order to uphold the imperial family’s strict rule of survival of the strong,
He was also a heartless father who only watched the bloody power struggles of the princes.
‘This person is… … .’
A man wearing a diamond crown on his head that looks expensive at first glance.
Wearing a dark blue dragon robe adorned with all kinds of precious jewels,
He looks down at us with a dragon wearing a cloak embroidered with gold thread.
The leader of the Rothenburg Empire.
The absolute, the supreme power.
‘… … Emperor, Richard Bruen Rothenburg.’
this,
It was the first meeting between me and the emperor.