94 After Days: Annispheres Birthday 07 (1/2)
Busy hours had passed like a run, and it was my birthday day day if I realized it.
The people were already festive in Castle Town. The store is lined up and lively people are interested in eating and drinking.
The royal parade moves on to scratch the vibrancy of such people. I'm dressed in a bespoke dress for the day and waving as I sit next to Uffi. The people who rushed for a glimpse of the royal parade are smiling and waving at us.
”You're as vibrant as ever.”
”It would be nice to think of the country as a sign of its richness, but if things go well after this, you won't have to complain.”
”Right.”
Sneak in and exchange words with Uffi between the parades. Seeing this festivities, the people don't seem to have any problems for now.
I know it's bad for the knights who are looking around, but I want you to try your best to protect this sight.
Later, after this, I have no complaints if the aristocratic presentation I refrained from at night, the night club celebrating my birth, goes well......
(Lang, I wonder if it worked in the end...)
With half my expectations and anxiety, I decided to concentrate on my work waving at the people.
After the parade, take a short break and then re-color it in preparation for the show.
The sun is completely setting and the night is coming. In the hall for the feast of the royal castle, the nobles who participated in the show converse thoughtfully.
Much to the sight I had become accustomed to, I entered the venue with a bowl of grace with Yufi, breathing.
”Your Majesty the Queen of Uphilia, Your Royal Highness the King of Anisphere is hereby admitted!
Our entrance will be announced and our gaze will gather if we step into the venue. The first person to stop by was Halfis and Marion's new Countess Anti.
”Dear Uphilia, Dear Anisphere, be in a good mood”
”Good day, Halfis.”
”Be in a good mood. Should I call you Countess Antie?
”Ugh! Don't make fun of me!
Calling her Countess with teasing feelings, Halfis blushed her cheeks just a little and narrowed her eyes. Marion, who was in arms with Halfis, looks a little embarrassed, too. It's the first time, these two are.
”Oh hon.... Her Royal Highness the King of Anisphere. Happy Birth Again”
”Thanks. It's totally past its original due date though.”
The Kingdom of Palletia does not exist in four seasons as clear as Japan in its previous life. The climate is stable and constant, and even if there are changes, there are rainy seasons that continue to rain.
The year of the Kingdom of Palettia has been made into a division named after the Spirit, with light, fire, earth, water, wind and darkness named after the Original Plains and the four great Spirits for a total of twelve months each.
Each of these two months is divided up and down, and spending the last month of the light, the last month of the light, becomes the last month of the fire. The dates are divided into seven days a week, and this one is attributed to the Spirit, which is also used in the month division, and is filled with days of the week without a day as a holiday.
By analogy with the date, the last month of the light, the second week of the fire day, becomes the notation. A year is when light and darkness meet, and when they become one, they circle, and when the season passes again, light and darkness begin and end respectively.
I was born in the following month under fire, and in the spring of the previous life, the equivalent of April was born.
”No, it's been a long time since you've celebrated like this, so I'm not comfortable.”
I haven't had a party to celebrate my birthday in over 10 years. It's okay because it's still an easy-going dress, but my shoulders still look stiff.
”I can tell you that the Ministry of the Spirit has been blessed with a good opportunity.”
”Yeah... I hope it works out”
”Right.”
The greeting was there, too, and Halfis and Marion disappeared into the crowd. These are the two people who have just succeeded the Count Anti family, and I guess there are still people who need to say hello.
People come to a substitute greeting that even after Halfis and Marion leave. Even when they greet me in this way, my face has largely stopped being drawn to me. People are creatures they get used to.
Well, I'm inferior to Uffi, who's dignified and sociable next door. It's like the water keeps flowing. I still laugh and often delude myself.
”Her Royal Highness the King of Anisphere, Her Majesty the Queen of Uphilia. The festival by the Ministry of the Spirit will begin shortly. Please move to your seats on the stage.”
”Is that already the time? Yeah, all right.”
”Shall we come, Anis?”
With all my greetings and guidance from the butler, I head with Uffi to the royal seat on the stage.
In the traditional ritual, it was a way of celebrating the year by giving the words of celebration here and then consuming a lot of spiritual stones, but this time I think it turns into an entertainment led by the spiritual ministry and applied magic prop processing techniques to the instruments.
What kind of reaction does that get? I have no objection if I can and I would like it to be accepted......
”Mm, are you here? Annis, Uffi”
”Father, Mother, I'm so glad you're in the mood.”
Father and mother had already sat in the royal seat on the stage. Sit alongside Uffi in the remaining vacant seats.
”Anis, did you socialize properly?
”Yeah, well.”
”... Ufi?
”Mother-in-law, Annis is still unfamiliar, but if you do this a few times, you'll be fine.”
”... if that's what Yuffi says, let's do that”
My mother has asked me a bit of a frightening question, but I got nothing. No, don't put pressure on me to get to a celebratory seat like this. Oh, no, no, no, no.
It was Lang who came up on the stage as he was desperately distracted from his gaze from his snug mother. Up on the stage, Lang looks over at the participants gathered at the venue.
”Participants, please be quiet. Again, let me now carry out a festival to celebrate the birth of His Royal Highness the King of Anisphere. The host is me, Lang Voltaire.”
Lang gives a bow of grace, then calls to the venue. Then the gaze of the participants who were bickering gathers to Lang. The gaze that can be directed at Lang is varied.
Lang pierces a faceless expression that does not move his expression. And then, once again, I turn my gaze to the seat where me and Uffi sit.
”Again, Her Royal Highness the King of Anisphere. I'm late for my original birthday, but thank you for entrusting me and the Ministry of the Spirit with the partitioner for the birthday.”
”... it is an excessive word for me that I have so far scorned my royal duties. In the future, we want to recognise our pride and consciousness as royalty and to do our part. Without the proposal of the Ministry of Spirituality, this opportunity would have been taken up until next year.”
”To keep up with your expectations, this one is ready to challenge you for today's Birthday. Now, until now, let me offer my congratulatory words, and celebrating the birth by wearing a blessing by the Spirit Stone was the traditional birthday formula. But the remarkable reform by Her Majesty Queen Uphilia has increased the demand for spiritual stones”
Lang's words were addressed to us as well as to the participants in the venue. Seems like the color of tension has increased within the quiet venue.
”We have carried out a review of the traditional rituals that consume large quantities of spiritual stones, now full of anticipation and hope in various respects in the propagation of the propaganda achieved by Her Majesty the Queen of Uphilia, as advocated by Her Royal Highness the King of Anisphere. The Ministry of the Spirit has once again given the country a mission to inherit and tell about culture and tradition. We believe that we must adapt the culture we have built to the changes we have made in our time. But change must not mean disconnection of tradition. It is by inheriting the past that we have the present.”
Lang's speech continues. Lang clears up between you so you can breathe.
”Hopefully this event by the Ministry of the Spirit will be a new tradition that will connect the past with the present. Here is the light and darkness of the original plains, the protection of the four great fires, the earth, the water, the wind, all the spirits that are universal in this world. With this congratulations we celebrate the birth of His Royal Highness the King of Anisphere and offer our prayers to the Spirit. And this is the blessing I give to His Royal Highness King Anisphere Sister from the Ministry of the Spirit. - Orchestra, forward!
Make a forceful declaration after Lang reads out the congratulations. At the same time, it is the musicians with the instruments who come in from behind on the altar, which was arranged separately from our altar.
All the instruments held by the musicians were strings. Violin, viola, cello, contrabas. And it was the colour of the instrument that caught my eye. The instrument was color-coded as if it represented each spirit with white, red, tea, blue, green, black.
”In lieu of the original ritual, today we dedicate a song to celebrate the birth of His Royal Highness the King of Anisphere by means of an instrument specially ordered through the machining technique also used for demonic props, and we hope for the protection of the Spirit. Ladies and gentlemen, listen up for a moment.”
Lang thanked him and raised his face and looked to the conductor who stood before the musicians. The conductor, instructed by Lang's gaze, nods with a slightly tense look.