Chapter 17 (1/2)
Chapter 17
A short time before the final banquet, Sera went to Maki and Chiharu’s roo to prepare, she would only have to give a little advice and quickly fix their hairSera wished that she could help them more, but they tended to be a little reserved when it came to help, so there wasn’t much she could do
However, there was no anshen she knockedEveryone in the castle was quite disturbed about the events of the previous day, but the two had acted norht
Even so, she needed to help theet readyShe slowly opened the door and went insideBut the onlyof the balcony curtainsThere was no one hereAnd the bed was neatly made
“Did they go outside?”
“No one has left through this door”
The guard replied, and Sera inspected the rooainShe discovered that a sheet of paper had been left on the tableThere were no bags inside of the closetSera had a bad feeling about thisShe rushed to the king’s study
“Your Majesty, Saintess Maki and Saintess Chiharu are nowhere to be found! And this was left in their room!”
It looked like a noteArthur and Aeris both looked at it carefully
“What does it say!”
“Give it to e that I cannot read!”
“Call a scholar! It is likely so a character tableAlso, search any places that Maki and Chiharu are likely to go!”
The king barked, but Sera replied fearfully
“It sees that they always use are , and the balcony as wide open…”
“Call the birdfolk too! It is possible that they went out into the city”
The castle was in an uproarFirst, Sauro and Saikania were called
“Arthur, you wanted to see us?”
“Sauro, SaikaniaDid you carry Maki and Chiharu while they were disguised as boys today?”
“No, we have not”
Sauro saidSaikania nodded
“Maybe they aren’t disguised? Or they could have ates…”
The time for the banquet had already arrived
“We brought one!’
A scholar as in a festive mood over the banquet arrived
“Oh, this is all hiragana charactersHiragana is the what their children first learn in their country”
“Nevermind that! Translate it immediately”
“Yes-yesUh, from Maki and ChiharuYes, it was definitely authored by them”
“And the contents!?”
“Yes-yesUh, ‘chotto’ which mean ‘a little’, and uh, ‘tabini’ It is a suffix word,‘socks’”
“Socks?”
“Or maybe it means to travel”
“Travel…” “Travel…” “Travel…”
“‘Deo on a journey”
“My God…”
“‘shi+npai, shi+naide, kudasai’ that means they do not want you to worry”
“How could we not worry! Where did they go!”
“That is all that they wrote”
Arthur slammed his fist on the table
“Those inland bastardsWe should have done better to shi+eld them from them!”
“Maki and Chiharu were so calm and collected… It seemed as if they were not botheredI am sorry”
Edwy said with a dark expression
“But we did know that so recently!”
“Sera, had you not heard anything?”
“They seehed and said ‘we can’t be bothered by such ss as adultsIt’s like taxes’ At least until yesterdayBut it did not seeh to want to leave”
“Arthur, ill you do about the banquet?”
“We will have to say that they are tired and restingAfter that, wewith only representatives”
“But, where could they be traveling… Maki and Chiharu would never break their word…”
Edwy looked up with realization on his face
“The trainFather, the trains! Maki and Chiharu would immediately try to leave this countryBut two noble boys without guards will surely draw attentionWe should send someone out immediately”
“YesChancellor, send out people to investigate!”
“Right away!”
It was then announced to the others that the Saintesses were tired, and so while the guests were disappointed, the banquet continued and ended without the Saintesses ever appearingThe only thing left for thehtsee, and leave
But after the banquet, representatives fro
And unlike during dinner, Arthur was here with a severe expression
“I am sorry to keep you here at this hourLet me be frank with you allThe Saintesses have vanished”
Silence spread
“They left a note saying that they will be travelingWe no that they have taken a trainThey are headed for the dwarf country nowHowever, we are not sure where they are exactly at this moment”
“There was an official visit planned soon after this very ceremony, so why…”
The elf representative mumbled
The elf representative mumbled
“Perhaps they didn’t want to stay here another minute”
“Chief of the birdfolk”
“My son was insulted by them as wellBut I hear that their attitude towards the Saintesses was most extremeEspecially yesterday”
Miragaia said as he gave the inland people a ful stare
“Afterall, the people who caused the uproar are still here”
If Chiharu were still here, she would have been quite surprised at how thoughtful the birdman seemed at this moment
“HmphArthur, perhaps it is this country that has not treated the Saintesses adequately”
“What did you say!”
It was the beastfolk and elves who stood up from their seats
“Even if they are gone now, God will just bring down another oneWhy are you all so worried?”
“YouWere you not listening to Maki when she shouted yesterday? Saintesses or not, they have families, they have their own livesAnd yet they are forcefully torn from all of that when they coYou should know that well after yesterday”
But…”
“It took six months for these Saintesses to arriveAnd for some reason, it o that cameThey say that God created this world on a whimHow can you not understand that he may destroy it on a whim as well?”
“…”
Arthur looked at everyone and continued
“We will, of course, search and if possible, bring theain properlyBut there is no guarantee that soainThese Saintesses are active, and we do not knohen or where they will appear in a different countryAnd so I wanted to tell you nowAlso…”
He looked harshly at the inland people
“There is one country that needs to reconsider its stance on God and the SaintessesYou are therefore banned froyTell that to your king”
“The people will not stand for this”
“There is one country that needs to reconsider its stance on God and the SaintessesYou are therefore banned froyTell that to your king”
“The people will not stand for this”
“The dwarf lands”
“The beastlands”
“And the elven landsWe will all break off with any relations with the inlandsThis will continue until Arthur accepts your apology”
“HmphThere was hardly a relationshi+p between our countries to begin withWe will be leaving then”
The inland people said as they stormed out of the room
“I can only hope that their king understands the iemsShould we send some bird people to tell him?”
“I am not that kindIt will take them 10 days to returnIt will then take several days to fix this problee properlyIt will be hard for their people, but it has to be like this, or they will just repeat the same mistakesThey need to suffer a little for onceAlso, Sauro and Saikania”
Arthur sighed
“Didn’t you two say that you didn’t carry the Saintesses?”
“We didn’t carry any Saintesses dressed like boysIf you irls, we did carry someone like that”
“Such trickeryWe could have moved much faster had we known this”
“Maki and Chiharu needed their freedoht”
“It seerasped the root of the problem then”
During this tiion of the dwarf country