Chapter 504: Moving Toward the Capital

[A/N: We are just a few more golden tickets away from reaching another milestone!!]

Movement toward the capital started. However, the speed is not fast.

Xu Meiyi is near Lady Sonya and explaining what is visible to the hawk’s eyes. Lady Sonya and the close aides who are listening are all surprised. Because there is no word for bird’s-eye view in this world, how it looks when seen with a bird’s eyes, it is not unreasonable to be surprised. With this if the eyes of two hawks could be used at the same time it would be extremely useful I think, but as expected it seems it cannot be done that far. It is the same as looking at both with two-screen display and processing, and becoming able to do it also feels like habit. Among the close aides there are also those who noticed the significance of being able to see from above in bird’s-eye view, and are extremely excited.

Coming to a place where the capital’s castle walls are visible, the procession stopped. From Lady Sonya, depending on the information instructions are circulated that they will camp here as is.

According to Xu Meiyi’s talk, outside the capital, on the plain exactly opposite to us soldiers are gathering. There carriages and supplies are also being gathered, and preparations for the margrave army’s expedition have started. And around the mansion in the center of the capital people’s coming and going is busy. It is only Xu Meiyi’s observation borrowing the hawk’s eyes, so it might differ somewhat from actual. Even so information that was seen entering is large. Especially when the thing that soldiers are gathering outside the capital was talked from Xu Meiyi’s mouth, voices of oh!? rose. However,

"Hmph, things outsiders say, there is no way to believe that easily!"

There are also voices that say so as if to be heard. Indeed there is not no possibility that Xu Meiyi is lying, but even if she lies coming this far there is nothing that can be done. I think there are also those looking with eyes that Zhu Biao and the others might still be Empire agents. This will have no choice but to overcome gradually. Even my lover slot of Lady Sonya, there is also that because I showed fighting and that was evaluated by the knights, unnecessary things are not said.

Because we are pitching curtains beside the highway and waiting, knights heading to the capital on the highway are seen. Catching that, no different, the tactic of having them come this way while taking a little rest and hearing the talk is taken by Lady Sonya.

The knights who are brought enter inside the curtain while holding great suspicion, but when they see Lady Sonya’s figure. They always break into a smile. In such a smelly camp full of only men, if an erotic erotic beautiful woman who is the utmost sexy opens her chest widely and comes out, of course throwing away wariness and entering a world of improper imagination cannot be helped. In the head they are probably making Lady Sonya naked, it is easily imaginable.

If asking those knights the reason for heading to the capital, uniformly

"The reason is not disclosed, but an order was issued to prepare for exercises and gather at the capital as soon as possible."

They say. They say the reason is not disclosed, but perhaps they are actually being told. If Lady Sonya asks has there been such an order until now,

"Recently, I have not heard such an order."

It is. And the knights

"Is it not that there is a skirmish with the Empire again, and they were mobilized for that?"

Say in unison. Because the border is ambiguous, skirmishes with small Empire units are not everyday but seem not that rare a thing. However issuing a call-up of soldiers seems not something that happens that often.

And the information that the Richmond Margrave is invading seems not to have entered. Is a gag order imposed, or is it simply not transmitted, which is it. Anyway the knights charmed by Lady Sonya’s atmosphere do not look like they are lying.

Meanwhile, those who went to gather information in the capital returned. The commoner streets are unexpectedly quiet, but the noble streets have a tense atmosphere flowing, other than that talk it did not differ much from Xu Meiyi’s information. And near dusk finally, the one who was seeking an audience with the margrave returned.

That person’s report was,

"From the one who said close aide, it was said that Lord Margrave cannot meet because he is responding to an emergency situation. Lady Sonya’s greeting to Lord Margrave is unnecessary, and return home immediately. Unforeseen situations are also expected, and it would be better to hurry the return home to the Eisleben lands, it was said."

Was the thing. Predicting the thing outside those words, the morning messenger’s that the Richmond Margrave attacked came to have truth. However the air of the mansion was calmer than thought. Not a single person put out the name Richmond Margrave, and words of Empire or war were not heard either it seems.

When it becomes that everyone remembers the doubt of why the morning messenger knew things such as the Richmond Margrave and Empire invading together, the morning messenger is called, and the situation when obtaining the information is questioned.

According to what the one who became the morning messenger talks, when entering the lord’s mansion first thing in the morning the inside of the mansion was already wrapped in a noisy atmosphere. He was made to wait single-mindedly in the reception room, not even one tea came out, while thinking the rudeness is extreme, the messenger was waiting lonely with the attendant. However, the presence of those running with a batabata in the corridor is transmitted. Normally, the thing itself of there being those who run in the corridor of the lord’s mansion is abnormal. Thinking that and as expected thinking it is strange the messenger puts an ear to the door and probes the state of the corridor with the attendant.

Those going in the corridor of the mansion whether excited, there were many walking while talking in loud voices. Occasionally there was the word Richmond, and words of crossing the territory border were also heard. And no matter how much time passed no one visited the messenger’s place, so when giving up and trying to board the carriage to return, the driver came to transmit information to the messenger it seems.

In the morning, after dropping off the messenger, the driver was guided to the stable with the carriage, and waited quietly there. In cases like this, the waiting time often becomes long, so the driver was waiting quietly as usual.

Because the Itsuki lands and Eisleben lands also differ in dialect, the driver without talking to anyone waited silently the whole time, and the driver became a decoration from the surroundings’ view, and no one paid attention it seems. Amidst the stable also being noisy, those working there without minding started talking arbitrarily. And when comprehensively looking at what was heard it was "the Richmond Margrave invited the Empire army and invaded the Itsuki Margrave lands together." Of course it is not that the back is taken so it has not left the domain of rumor.

"What shall we do?"

Lady Sonya says but the close aides also do not have ideas. Everyone is thinking they want more information.

"Then shall I go see the state?"

When I at the edge seat of the meeting say, everyone turns and looks intently at my face. Most have faces like "what a foolish thing." There are many gazes of "the lover slot kid." However Lady Sonya and Lady Agnes brighten their faces with a pa,

"Will you go?"

Say.

"Please do not expect much. I do not think I can grasp that great a thing."

"Even that is fine. Even if only grasping how the margrave is moving is fine."

Lady Sonya who speaks in a terribly formal manner. Everyone is probably laughing inwardly, he thinks, but

"When night comes, I will depart."

Answered.