Volume 3 Chapter 1 (1/2)
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Chapter One: Lineage of Zero[]
Tristain's Royal Palace was situated at the end of Bourdonne Street Mee Guards patrolled the area in front of the Royal Palace gates atop their un spreading through the too or three days ago It was said that “Reconquista”, the aristocrat faction that had conquered Albion, was poised to invade Tristain
As a result, the rew tense In the skies above the Royal Palace, , and people who passed the gates were thoroughly checked
Even tailors, confectionery shop ehly at the gates in order to prevent h illusion or people under the control of charh
Due to such circuon appeared in the skies above the Royal Palace, the garrison of Mage Guards grew alarmed
The Mage Guards was couarded the Royal Palace, one at a time While one was on duty, the other two either rested or trained Today, the Manticore Corps was on duty Riding atop their manticores, the nobles flew up and headed towards the wind dragon that had appeared above the Royal Palace There were five figures on the wind dragon's back, as well as a huge on’s mouth
The Mage Guards warned theon, ignoring the warning, landed in the palace courtyards
Atop the dragon was a beautiful blondish pink-haired girl, a tall lady with burning red hair, a blond boy, a slasses and a boy with black hair The boy carried a long sword over his shoulder
The on and drew their rapier-shaped wands, assuh- at the suspicious intruders
“Drop your wands!”
Instantly, the expressions of the intruders grew hostile, but the short blue-haired girl ast them shook her head
“Royal Palace”
The party nodded reluctantly and, as ordered, threw their wands on the ground
“Flying above the Royal Palace is currently prohibited Didn’t you know that?”
A girl with blondish pink hair lightly juon, and introduced herself in a firm voice:
“I ahter, Louise Françoise, not sohness, the princess”
The coirl intently He knew about the Vallière Duchy After all, they were a very renowned noble family
The commander lowered his wand
“You are Duke of La Vallière’s third daughter?”
“Indeed”
Louise raised herself and stared straight into the commander’s eyes
“I see you have your mother’s eyes Well, what is your purpose here?”
“I’m afraid I cannot tell you It’s a secret”
“Then I’ll have to deny your request I cannot grant you an audience with her Highness without knowing your purpose I could loselike that!” the commander replied worriedly
“It's not like we can reveal our secret either!” yelled Saito as he juon
As Saito interjected, the co face Clothes that he had never seen before A low nose Yellow skin A large sword draped over his shoulders
Though it wasn’t clear what country he was fro was certain – he wasn’t a noble
“What a rude commoner That’s not how a servant should speak to a noble Stay silent”
Saito narrowed his eyes, and turned to Louise It was too much for him True, he wasn’t even a servant In fact, he was just a familiar, but it was the co the handle of Derf over his shoulder, Saito turned to Louise and asked,
“Hey, Louise Can I take care of this guy?”
“Quit boasting Just because you beat Wardes doesn’t antly”
Overhearing their conversation, the commander’s eyes widened Wardes? Wardes, as in Viscount Wardes, the co of this?
Shaking away his concern, the coain
“Who the hell are you people? Regardless, I cannot allow you to see Her Highness”
The coetting out of hand Louise stared at Saito
“W-what?”
“It's because of you and your blabbering that they think we're suspicious!”
“It’s all because of that bearded man and his damn attitude!”
“Shut up You should have just kept your mouth shut!”
Watching the strange scene ahead of him, the coe Guards that had surrounded the party quickly raised their wands
“Arrest them!”
Under the coin their incantations when suddenly
A person clad in a purpleLouise surrounded by the Mage Guards, she frantically ran over
“Louise!”
Seeing the figure of Henrietta rushi+ng over, Louise’s face shi+ned like a rose
“Princess!”
Under the gazes of the Mage guards, the two e
“Aah, you calad Louise, Louise Françoise…”
“Princess”
Louise’s eyes began watering with tears
“The letter it is safe”
Reaching into her breast pocket, Louise gently pulled out the letter Henrietta nodded and firrasped Louise’s hands
“You really are my best friend”
“Your words are too kind, Princess”
However, upon noticing the absence of Wales in the rew somber
“As I thought Prince Wales sacrificed hidom”
Louise closed her eyes and nodded quietly
“ But what about Viscount Wardes? I don’t see him, did he take another route? Or did he perhaps fall by the hands of the enemy? But if it was the Viscount, shouldn’t”
Louise's face turned grim With much difficulty, Saito explained to Henrietta
“Wardes was a traitor, Princess”
“Traitor?”
A shadow crept upon Henrietta’s face Then, noticing the intent stares of the Mage Guards around them, Henrietta quickly explained
“They are uests, commander”
“I see”
Upon hearing this, the coly, and told his troops to do the same
Henrietta turned to Louise again
“What exactly happened on your trip?Anyway, let’s withdraw to et some rest in the other rooms”
Leaving Kirche, Tabitha and Guiche in the waiting rooht Saito and Louise to her own room Henrietta sat down on a small and delicate chair, her elbows placed upon the desk
Louise explained the entire situation to Henrietta
How Kirche and the others joined them en route
How they took a shi+p to Albion and were subsequently attacked by pirates
How they found out that the pirate leader was Crown Prince Wales
How Prince Wales refused to escape, even when he had the chance
How theywith Wardes
How Wardes suddenly showed his true colors in thePrince Wales and snatching the letter from Louise’s hands
which iftly regained
And how the ‘Reconquista’ had vast aoal of liberating the Holy Lands from the Elves
However even with the alliance between Tristain and Germania now secure, Henrietta still mourned
“That Viscount was a traitor… How can that be? To have a traitor within the e Guards”
Gazing at the letter she herself wrote to Wales, tears built up and streamed down her cheeks
“Princess…”
Louise silently held Henrietta’s hands
“It was I who took away Prince Wales' life No matter how you look at it, it was I who chose the traitor to be the er…”
Saito shook his head
“The Prince had already planned on staying in his kingdohness’s fault”
“Louise, did he, at the very least, read my letter?”
Louise nodded
“Yes, princess Prince Wales read Your Highness's letter”
“Then, Prince Wales didn‘t love me”
Henrietta sorrowfully shook her head
“Then even after you urged the Prince to escape?”
Henrietta nodded whilst gazing at the letter in sorrow
Louise recalled Wales' words He kept stubbornly telling her that “Henrietta didn’t tell ht - a lie
“Ahh, with your death, there is no longer any hope What about me, my lost love?”
Henrietta muttered softly in her daze
“Was honor more important than I?”
But Saito came to a different conclusion Wales re to protect his honor Rather, Wales reive Henrietta any trouble and to show the traitors that the royal fainia were certainly not to be trifled with
“It isn’t as you think, Princess It was because he did not wish to give Tristain any troubles, that he remained in that country That is how I see it”
Henrietta looked up at Saito blankly
“To not give me any trouble?”
“His escape, as the Prince said, would only have given a perfect excuse for traitors to invade”
“Even if Prince Wales didn’t flee here, they would still invade here given the chance But, without a reason to invade, peace can be kept At the cost of his life, he prevented the rise of war”
“ Even then, he still didn’t want to give trouble Surely”
Henrietta, sighing deeply, looked outwards from the
Saito slowly repeated the words he had remembered
“To fight with bravery, to die with courage That hat he asked me to say”
Henrietta replied with a cheerless smile When a princess, as beautiful as a delicate rose, becarew heavy Saito’s heart ached at the sight
Henrietta, resting her elbows on the table beside a beautifully engraved marble statue, questioned sadly
“To fight with bravery, to die with courage That’s your privilege as men But what of those who are left behind, what are they supposed to do?”
Saito was struck silent He had nothing to say Lowering his head doards, he aardly nudged his shoe against the couch
“Princess… If only I had tried harder to convince Prince Wales”
Henrietta stood up and clasped the hand of theLouise
“It’s all right, Louise You splendidly acco the letter You should not have to be worried about anything because I didn’t ask you to tell him to escape”
Henrietta laughed with a smile
“With the obstacle that could have broken the e now removed, our country will be able to step into the alliance with Germania safely In such a situation, Albion will not be able to invade us easily The crisis has passed, Louise Françoise”
Henrietta said it as cheerfully as possible
Louise took out froiven her
“Princess, here, I return this to you”
Henrietta shook her head
“Please hold on to it It’s the least I can do to express ratitude”
“I cannot dare to accept such a treasure”
“For such loyalty, an appropriate reward should be bestowed It is all right, put it on”
Louise nodded and put it on her finger
Upon seeing this, Saito re he had re it from the rear pocket of his pants, he placed it onto Henrietta’s hands
“Princess, this, is a keepsake from the Prince Wales”
Accepting the ring, Henrietta gasped in astonishment
“Isn’t this the wind ruby? Did you get it from Prince Wales?”
“Yes In his dying ive it to Your Highness”
In truth, Wales was already dead when he pulled it off his finger but Saito had said it anyways He had said it like that, believing that it would help heal the ache Henrietta held in her heart, even if just a little
Henrietta put the Wind Ruby on her finger Because it was for Wales, it was too large for Henrietta’s fingers… But when Henriettabecaly
Henrietta lovingly stroked the Wind Ruby Turning towards Saito, she gave a shy smile
“Thank you, kind familiar”
A sad sratefulness towards Saito Such was the nobility of the smile that Saito was dumbstruck by its beauty, and could only mumble incoherently
“That ht?”
Saito nodded
“Yes It was so”
Henrietta, whilst staring at the shi+ning Wind Ruby, declared softly
“Then I… I will live bravely as well”
On the flight froic, Louise remained silent No matter how much Kirche asked Louise and Saito as contained in the contents of the letter Wales had written, the two kept their lips sealed
“Oi, c’mon, won’t you at least tell me what the mission was? And the fact that the Viscount was a traitor, it’s all so shocking”
Kirche looked at Saito with a feverish glance
“But darling fought hiht?”
Saito, having glimpsed Louise's face, nodded
“Y-yes But he escaped…”
“Still, that’s quite an achievement! Hey, as that mission exactly?”
Saito lowered his head Louise was even more silent, and neither spoke
Kirche puckered up her brows and turned to Guiche
“Hey, Guiche!”
“What?”
With an artificial rose in hisout, turned around
“Do you knoas in the letter Princess Henrietta sent us to retrieve?”
Guiche closed his eyes saying:
“I do not knoell Only Louise knows”
“Louise the Zero! Why don’t you tell me?! Hey, Tabitha! What do you think? Well, I think that I a treated like an idiot!”
Kirche shook Tabitha, as reading a book As she was being shaken, her head followed suit and shook as well
Because of all the shaking by Kirche, the wind dragon lost balance and suddenly slowed down Guiche, as sitting on its back, lost his balance and fell down “Gyaaaaaa!” he screamed as he fell, but since it was Guiche, no one noticed Mid-way, he pulled out his wand, and using “Levitation”, floated down slowly, avoiding near-death
Louise lost her balance as well, but Saito softly reached out and held her waist with his hand, supporting her body Seeing the hand on her waist, Lousie blushed Thisaway fro to be asleep
But why? Why was I pretending to be asleep?
It ht, because Saito is my familiar; moreover, he is not a noble
Loving a person as not a noble was hard to even iine “nobles and coreith such beliefs, her uneasiness turned into puzzles were true or not was not a ht then
In the end, having felt Saito's hand ry voice:
“T-to be so bold, I’ry!”
“You looked like you were going to fall over Like Guiche” Saito replied, his face blushi+ng as well
“It’s all right, even if Guiche falls - it's just Guiche” stated Louise, still bewildered from before
“T-that’s, even if he falls he will be all right It would be troublesoic”
“You're just a familiar and you dare insult your master?”
Louise drew a sharp breath and quickly averted her gaze However, she didn’t seery
“You are being too daring Hmph”
Though Louise grumbled and complained, she didn‘t try to shake off Saito's hand On the contrary, she leaned closer, snuggling against hilance at Louise‘s face
Her white cheeks were faintly dyed with pink and she was slightly biting her lower lip Although Henrietta was beautiful Louise was also incredibly cute, he thought The hand on her waist pressed closer And he felt how her waist and thighs pressed further into his body
It was just when this was happening that Kirche spun around and muttered softly
“Since when did you become like this, you two?”
Louise, suddenly realizing how things looked, blushed a furious red and sent the daydrea with a shove