Chapter 557

“It’s finally over”

The dinner that day after the lord meeting was to be taken with his mother Magdalena. This is because Hildebrand, who was a minor and was unable to participate, requested that the state of the dedication ceremony be taught.

Actually, it would have been nice if you could ask your friends to ask about the situation, but you can’t take escort away from Hildebrand who is answering. And it was given priority to divide the number of people in the central answering machine where everyone participated in the dedication ceremony.

“How did your mother feel at the dedication ceremony? Was the pillar of light stood still?”

Hildebrand asks with excitement, staring at Magdalena, who participated in the dedication ceremony as a central nobility, rather than standing with the king as a royal family. Both the aristocratic dedication ceremony and the first star-knot ritual of the lord’s meeting are rituals that have never been heard before.

Magdalena moves cutlery, eats a savory herb pack of young birds, and slowly looks around. It may be because Hildebrand is looking forward to it too, and the serving side guards and the escort knights standing behind are waiting for Magdalena’s answer with an interesting face.

“The pillars of red light we heard from all the royals who participated in the winter did not stand”

“Huh? Is that so?”

For Hildebrand, who thought that if Rosemine was performing a ritual, something would happen, it was an unbeatable answer.

“There is a change depending on whether you make a sacred item in the Staple or a sacred item in the temple, and Rosemarine said that the votive ceremony is a winter ritual, and the season may be different.

“You said you wanted to see the red pillar, but your mother was disappointed.”

Magdalena was unable to attend the dedication ceremony because he had to stay at the Royal Palace to perform his work last time. He listened to the royal family who participated and said that he wanted to see it with his own eyes.

“Unfortunately, I couldn’t see the pillars of red light, which is a precious color in winter. But the Holy Grail shines in precious red, and the red light slowly fluctuates upward. The scene was very fantastic and beautiful. ”

Hildebrand felt exhilarating to Magdalena who laughed with mischievous red eyes and laughed.

“Please tell me more, my mother”

Unlike the dedication ceremony held at the Aristocratic House in winter, the red light pillar did not stand at this dedication ceremony, but as the words of prayer that were initially scattered gradually gathered, The feeling of unity that brings together the feelings of everyone who participates, and the comfort of entrusting yourself with the flow of magic power that flows from behind, seems to have been heard.

Looking at Magdalena talking happily, Hildebrand was regretful that he was a minor and could not participate in the ritual.

“Because it was the first time for a Shinto event to be performed with that many people, I felt ecstatic. After all, I felt that the feeling of fatigue was comfortable …”

It seems that some people fell down at the aristocracy dedication ceremony, but this time it seemed that Rosemine was rounded up early, so there were no aristocrats that fell down because their magic was too low.

“The blue priests and the blue priests of the central temple were falling down. The flow of magic was so fast that they couldn’t be rounded up at the right time. Rosemine was telling you that he couldn’t do it before, but told Rosemanine. ”

There is a big difference in the amount of magic between the blue priests and the blue priests who have never compressed their magic, and the aubs and their neighbors that support the territory, and Rosemine is the other in the temple of Ehrenfest. It seems that a dedication ceremony is held separately from the blue priest.

“The central temple wouldn’t have had a dedication ceremony with the nobility, so it would be inevitable.”

Saying so, Magdalena smiled. It seems that there were various things to think about in the central temple that recreated the old ritual and selected the next Zent candidate, and made a new face to the royal family one after another. The face is lowered.

After finishing the dinner, Hildebrand paid the man after moving the room from the cafeteria to the common room and having Artur prepare tea after the meal. Because it was a rioting lord meeting for the royal family, there are too many topics that should not be heard by others. Regardless of what you speak, magic tools for paying people and preventing eavesdropping are important.

Hildebrand stares at Magdalena, grabbing the handed eavesdropping magic tool. Ask the mother who enjoys the scent of tea slowly, even if she has a magical tool.

“Did you succeed in impressing Rosemine as a saint at this dedication ceremony and showing it specially as a suitable person to become a king’s adopter?”

“Yeah, the dedication ceremony alone seemed special enough, but after that, if everyone could easily make a little recovery pills, it would be repeated over and over again to say Fruthrene’s congratulatory speech. However, the figure that lit the Holy Grail in green would seem special to everyone, and I think it was a success to make me think that I couldn’t be a monopoly at Ehrenfest.

magdalena says that it wasn’t planned, but it was very convenient. Rosemine was doing a mysterious phenomenon with a natural face, chanting the congratulatory words to restore the gathering place, and seemed to shine the Holy Grail in the process of teaching to everyone. The figure seems to have been suitable for being called a saint accustomed to interacting with the gods.

“Even if there is no Glutlith Height, she should be in the middle. It would be painful for Ehrenfest, but there were few who would oppose it to become a king’s adopter. “Sho”

There is abundant experience and information on the ritual, and it has the magical power suitable for the next Zent. If you look at the information on slabs that have been translated into modern language, you can guess that Rosemine, who was able to go around the fence, is all attributes. Even if he cannot become the next Zent, ​​he wants to reserve it for the next generation of the royal family.

“Really … I didn’t think I was the same person who told me to create a library under the conditions of a marriage”

Magdalena begins to drink tea slowly after exhaling. Hildebrand picked up the cup like Magdalena and swallowed the words “Rosse Mine just doesn’t want to marry him”.

In the underground library, Rosemine, who was talking with Sigiswald alone, was tearing along the way. He was sadly staring at Sigiswald and trembling. And because I have put out conditions that I can’t prepare for, I have decided that I want to marry Sigiswald.

“Aub Ehrenfest agreed to dismiss the library and was really helpful”

“… Did your father say that it’s okay? That will cancel Villefried and Rosemine’s engagement …”

Zent’s command is absolute. Engagement between Villefried and Rosemine was also determined by Zent’s words. However, is it possible to cancel the engagement and allow a new engagement? If that is possible, I can cancel my engagement.

When Hildebrand asked, thinking a lot, Magdalena put a cup and gave up a little shoulder.

“I didn’t oppose it because it was in the safest and best form. If Ehrenfest had more power, it might have been possible to win Villefried. But Aub Ehrenfest said that it was not the vessel. “

Magdalena asks that he would like to avoid more powerful nobles from the Ehrenfest, which has a shortage of human resources. The fact that Ehrenfest has moved up rapidly is basically the result of Rosemine, and it seems that it is analyzed that there are many excellent people.

“Alb Ehrenfest shows the reaction of Aub in sub-territories trying to swallow what he was commanded, but the young civilian has come up with conditions, has reluctantly argued, and is willing to negotiate I’ll show you that. “

The opinion that Rosemain was the main temple temple chief was issued from many territories, and when Zent and Sigiswald went to make a request to Ehrenfest, Aub Ehrenfest and his entourage were very troubled When the face closed his mouth, “That is …”, the young clerk rejected it with a very refreshing smile, saying, “I can’t accept it very much,” and he suggested an alternative.

“Ehrenfest’s head of the temple is Ehrenfest’s cadet. The central temple, which is under the jurisdiction of the royal family, should be the royal family. The time when the first king was the head of the temple If you want to know what kind of study you want to study, you should put Prince Hildebrand in the central temple and become a temple head for adults. Let me tell you that I am in charge of education. ”

It seems that the royal family who proposed to put Ehrenfest’s lord candidate into the central temple could not argue that he would be going to enter the temple.

“… I wasn’t just going to Ahrensbach, but also being able to enter the temple?”

対 応 It may be quite different from the response to older brothers who remain as royals in any situation. Given that, Hildebrand has to think that his value to his father is very low.

“That’s what I don’t really like”

Magdalena said with a smile, staring at Hildebrand with a kind eyes. Hildebrand asked a small question to her mother’s glance who protected her.

“… Do I really have to go to Ahrensbach?”

In the same way, I expected the answer “I wouldn’t let you do that,” Magdalena smiled lightly, “Because it is a king’s life.”

“I’m very worried that Dietrinde is the mother-in-law of the future. Can a princess raised by such a person and I do well?”

The voices I heard in the underground library and their contents. Hearing the Ordnance from Arensbach who refused to participate in the dedication ceremony, you can quickly see what the person who is Dietrinde will be next Abbe Ahrensbach.

Cannot show the attitude of rejecting the king’s life. Magdalena stood up with a relieved expression when he was worried about no one else. Then he stood next to the sitting Hildebrand and gently hugged him.

“It’s okay, Hildebrand. Because you will always eliminate Dietrinde by the time you get in …. Normally, Ferdinand, Dietrint’s marriage partner, often watches her. I have to be careful not to act profanely, but I don’t seem to expect that person. “

Magdalena said that in a slightly stronger tone.

“I know that if I get married, I will become a liaison, so if I don’t make a mistake from now, I’ll have a hard time later. Even if there is time, it is in that state. “

Magdalena drops down Ferdinand who allows Dieterde’s disrespectful attitude. According to his mother, Ferdinand doesn’t know the woman’s heart, seems to be someone who refuses to deal with someone at all, and refuses to face most people, not just women.

“Ferdinand-sama is not only good in appearance and performance, but also great as a knight. If you only look from a distance, it will look like a perfect figure. Even if you can make weird plans, threatening exchanges, and factional adjustments, you can place people without feelings from the past, but there is an interpersonal relationship that must be faced by individuals.

Hildebrand rounded his eyes to a very bad personality. I feel that it is very different from the Ferdinand I heard from Rosemine’s mouth during luncheons at tea parties and underground archives.

“… Mother, Ferdinand wasn’t Rosemine’s teacher? Is it another story?”

“It’s the same person. I don’t think there’s a person who doesn’t suit the word” raising someone as much as Ferdinand-sama. I’m sure my aide was taking care of Rosemine. ”

Magdalena says with a mysterious face, “I can’t raise a young child on that person.” It’s too strict, so the child must be crushed.

“But Roseminine’s condition is that Ferdinand’s salvation is included in the king’s adoptive? Isn’t Rosemine singing Ferdinand?”

Such a condition should not come out unless he speaks very well. In Hildebrand’s words, Magdalena asked, “I can’t believe it, but it is,” with a face that doesn’t fall into the trap.

“To be honest, I didn’t think that there was any other person who would like Ferdinand like a family other than Aub Ehrenfest, so I was really surprised when I heard the conditions from Prince Sigiswald.”

Rosemein’s desire to avoid Ferdinand’s affiliation and improve treatment under the conditions of becoming a king’s adopter, in other words, does not mean that the treatment in Ahrensbach is so bad that he must appeal directly to the royalty Uka.

“… Mother, I want to be Zent too, so I don’t want to go to Ahrensbach? Is Ahrensbach so terrible that Rosemein demands better treatment?” 19459002]

“My mother will do her best to prepare Ahrensbach for you to spend in Ahrensbach, but I will not allow you to become a Zent”

Magdalena dismissed his request clearly with a grinning smile while gently hugging Hildebrand.

“Why is it?”

“One thing is that it will take too much time for you to challenge. You know you can’t afford to wait for adoption for a year? But you don’t have enough attributes. , You are not in the aristocracy, how long do you think will take you to qualify? ”

Magdalena says the collapse of Jurgenschmitt will not wait for Hildebrand’s growth.

“And one more thing. This is even more important. If one year later, Rose Mine will be adopted, and if it is possible to obtain Glutrice Height, then she will be Zent.”

Magdalena explains that the two can’t become Zent, ​​and if Hildebrand, who draws the blood of King Traokvar, is later qualified as Zent, ​​Jurgenschmitt could be broken .

“Neither Zent nor I will admit that the current royal family shakes the reign of the new Zent that they have been waiting for, resolved their engagement and pulled away from their homes.”

Hildebrand was drowned when his mother strictly told that it was something that Hildebrand, the royal family, should not do. I understand Magdalena’s opinion. However, emotions are not accepted.

“Mother, Rosemine is weak. I can’t do the hard work like Zent. I need a supporter. I just want to help Rosemine.”

Hildebrand understands that his father is tired from work and that it cannot be handled by Rosemine. It doesn’t make a princess fallen or weak at a tea party.

Hildebrand appealed that the marriage partner must also be qualified to support the woman’s Zent as the marriage partner is determined to be a lord candidate to support the woman’s aub Try.

“Hildebrand’s worries are right. That’s why as a fiancee, supporting him as a husband is something that Prince Sigiswald should do, not Hildebrand.”

“… Isn’t Brother Giggiswald hated by Rosemine?”

Magdalena tightened his red eyes when Hildebrand sharpened his lips unsatisfactorily, though I could be more gentle to Rosemine.

“I know that you have long been in contact with Rosemine, and you know that you are scolding Rosemine, but you must not act beyond your own position. I am engaged, and I need to be able to digest my emotions well. ”

No matter how dissatisfied, the king’s life can’t be helped. Only Zent can overthrow her and Letizia’s engagement, as well as Sigiswald and Rosemain’s engagement.

…… If I can become Zent, ​​Rosemine, who has a weak body, will be forced to go to Zent while being forced to marry undesired, and I will not head to Ahrensbach.

Hildebrand gently lifts Magdalena’s arm.

“If you are in a hurry, should you try to challenge the whole royal family?”

“We were able to gather magical power at the dedication ceremony, but the royal work is not the only one. There should be no room for everyone to challenge…. It ’s only after the third grade of the nobility ’s house that you can get a stap. ”

“Huh?”

“There has been a change in the content of the aristocratic lecture. Hildebrand has the stap necessary to get into the cage only after Rosemine’s adulthood”

…… Isn’t it in time? Why won’t my father even let me challenge! ?

I know I can’t hear anything. Hildebrand swallowed tea with various complaints. Hildebrand finished his dinner with his mother, feeling frustrated in his stomach.

For the royal family, and for Hildebrand, the turbulent lord meeting was over, and everyday life is back.

The practice of swords with Lao Root, the chief of the Knights of the Central Knights, has also been around for a long time. During the lord meeting, the Knights were busy with escort missions, so they had to practice a little with their escort knights in the short period of time after breakfast until heading to the underground library.

Start with a solid basic training and put the sword together. After just a few meetings, Lao-Brute grimaced and told him to stop.

“A lot of swords are rough, but what happened?”

”Law Route, who has been practicing, walked to a resting place in the training area, saying,“ This is not a practice. Let’s take a break. ” With a heavy sword, Hildebrand followed. Although Hildebrand wasn’t going to show his mind, what he had been told to his partner was terrible.

Artur, who was waiting at the break, brewed tea with a surprised face for a sudden break. While receiving tea from Artur, Laobrot encouraged Hildebrand to consult with Hildebrand, “What are you worried about with such a face?”

“… I can’t say”

I can’t say I don’t want to go to Ahrensbach. When I think of adulthood, Dietrinde is depressing to think that she will be her mother-in-law. It will deny the king’s life.

It must not be said that Rosemine is the closest to the next Zent. I can’t say what the royal family decided to do without the aides. In addition, I can’t say that I think it is best to marry Rosemine, not Sigiswald, who is hated by Rosemine.

Actually, I would like to compress the magic as soon as possible, and Hildebrandt would go around the trap as my father and Sigiswald would like to get the next Zent qualification, just like Rosemine. He thought that if Rosemine was qualified before he became an adult, he wouldn’t fall into Arensbach, nor would Rosemine be married unsatisfactory.

However, the acquisition of stap that should have been obtained in the first grade of the aristocracy has been changed to the third grade. Rosemine was already an adult when he was in third grade. It’s too late to move to get the next Zent qualification after getting a stap in third grade.

None of this is something you can say. Hildebrand, who doesn’t want to talk about his troubles, decided to change the topic by showing a slightly bulging surface. It is because I was a little angry that I was asked only what I didn’t want to touch.

“I was wondering what the Schuratraum flower is”

“What?”

Labrute looked into Hildebrand with a startling face, because he couldn’t keep up with sudden topic changes. A little refreshing on the surprised face of Lao Root and laughing small.

“Ortancia was asking Dietrinde in the library archives. Do you like Lao Root? What kind of flowers do you think you can get only in Ahrensbach?”

Talking with me, I recall that I was surprised that there was a favorite flower in the brilliant knightly head of Labrut and that I liked the flower that only bloomed in Arensbach, which seems to have no contact at all.

“… Ah, did that happen in the library?”

After a few seconds of silence, Labrute smiles. It is a smile that nobles often show in order to conceal the upset. With that smile, Lao-Brute slowly looks around for words.

“Schuratraum flowers are white flowers with a sweet scent. I like them, but it’s hard to get them, so I’m asking if they are blooming this year.

Is it a rare flower that blooms beautifully? Hildebrand wondered and tilted his head.

“Isn’t Labrute originally a Gillessen Meier? How can I find flowers that don’t bloom outside of Ahrensbach?”

¡Laubrut looked at that question a little distantly, and traced the already thinned cheek wound with her finger. Hildebrand wonders if it is related to the wound. It is the face of an adult who misses something that has already been lost with a bitter face.

“Do you have any memories?”

“… A long time ago, it was a flower that the Lord of the Imperial Palace that I was assigned to when I was just an adult. A greenhouse was in one corner of the Imperial Palace, and it bloomed there. It seems that the Lord does not know if it is a flower that has been brought in, but it seems to have taken care of it for generations …. My assignment has changed in less than five years, and now the Lord is already It ’s a story about a closed shrine ”

Hildebrand was convinced that the princess of Arensbach, who was married to the royal family long ago, was the flower brought to the residence. I heard that during the political change, there were several royal families who were purged, and there were several closed residences. It must be one of them.

「さて、私の思い出を話したところで、王子にも悩みを話していただきます。いつまでもそのような状態では、剣の稽古だけではなく、勉強も手がつかないでしょう」

アルトゥールも心配しています、と言いながらラオブルートがアルトゥールへ視線を向ける。せっかく話題を上手く変えられたと思ったのに、元の話題に戻ってくるとは思わなかった。

アルトゥールも心配そうに見つめてくるし、ラオブルートは「おや、私には尋ねておきながら、ヒルデブラント王子は答えてくれないのですか？」と、まるでやり返すように答えを促してきた。

幼い頃から面倒を見てもらっているラオブルートにそう言われると、何かしら答えなければならない気がしてくる。

アーレンスバッハへ婿としていきたくないとは言えない。ローゼマインが次期ツェントに最も近いことも、王の養女になることも言ってはならない。ジギスヴァルトではなく、自分こそがローゼマインと結婚するのが本当は一番良いと思っているとも口にできない。

結果としてヒルデブラントが口にできたのは、貴族院のカリキュラム変更に対する文句だけだった。

「……今すぐにシュタープが欲しいと思っていたのです。それなのに、父上は貴族院の講義内容を変更してしまわれました。それを少し悲しく思っています」

「今すぐに、ですか……」

目を丸くした後、少し考えるようにゆっくりと目を細めたラオブルートがフッと笑って首を振る。

「ヒルデブラント王子は王族ですから、扉を開けることはできますし、取ろうと思えば取れないことはありません」

「本当ですか！？」

期待に思わずラオブルートを見つめたヒルデブラントの声に、アルトゥールのぎょっとしたような声が重なった。

「騎士団長ともあろう方が何をおっしゃるのですか！？」

アルトゥールをラオブルートが少し手を挙げて制する。

「けれど、ツェントはヒルデブラント王子のことを考えて、講義内容の変更を強行したのです。ツェントの親心は理解して差し上げてください」

“Huh?”

自分のために、と言われても理解できない。ローゼマインの成人までにツェント候補になって、自分の婚約もジギスヴァルトとローゼマインの婚約も解消してしまいたいヒルデブラントとしては今すぐにでもシュタープが欲しい。それなのに、講義内容が変更されてしまったことは邪魔をされたとしか思えなかったのだ。ラオブルートはゆっくりとした口調で講義内容が変更された理由を述べる。

「シュタープを得る前に魔力圧縮をできるだけし、祈りを捧げて神々の御加護を得て属性を増やしておいた方が良いシュタープを得られるため、講義内容に変更があったのです。ツェントがお急ぎになったのは、ヒルデブラント王子が少しでも良いシュタープを得ることができるように、とお考えになったからに違いありません」

ラオブルートの説明にアルトゥールは安堵したような顔で頷いた。

「ヒルデブラント王子、騎士団長のおっしゃる通りです。トラオクヴァール王のお心に沿ってお過ごしください」

できるだけ良い品質のシュタープを……と言われ、ヒルデブラントは少し考える。そういえば、王族だけで話し合う時に、「小さい祠を巡って、全ての眷属からの御加護をいただけば、大神から御加護を得られるそうです」と母親が報告していたはずだ。文字を写すのがそれほど得意ではない自分が写すように任された文献の中には地図もあった。

……小さい祠を巡って、属性を増やせば……？

少しでもお祈りをして、属性を増やすことができれば、王族であるヒルデブラントが次期ツェントになることもできるかもしれない。

……全ての属性を得ることができれば、父上もシュタープを得てはダメだとはおっしゃらないでしょう。

「今はツェントと共に魔力圧縮と属性の増加にお努めください。程良き時に私からお声をかけましょう」

自分が努力して属性を増やすことができれば、父親に一緒に頼んでくれるのだろう。これまでの付き合いからヒルデブラントはそう判断して、明るい笑顔で頷く。アルトゥールも「お世話になります」と穏やかな笑みを浮かべた。

ラオブルートは「大したことはしていない」とアルトゥールに小さく笑いながら、騎士に向かって手を振った。合図を受けた一人の騎士が木箱を運んできて、アルトゥールに手渡す。

「こちらはエーレンフェストから献上された教育玩具だそうです。神々の名前を覚えやすいように工夫された本や玩具が入っています。エーレンフェストが急激に成績を伸ばした秘密の一つだそうです」

これから取引をしている領地には売り出すので、王族にも見本をくれたらしい。側近達によって、不審なものが挟まれていないか、危険物ではないか、と調べるのが終わったため、こちらに運んでくれたそうだ。

「マグダレーナ様はヒルデブラント王子が貴族院に入ってから渡せば良い、とおっしゃいましたが、早くから勉強することは悪いことではございません。これでよくお勉強してください。神々の名は御加護を増やすためのお祈りに必須です」

アルトゥールから手渡されたのは、ヒルデブラントにとっては馴染みのあるエーレンフェストの本だった。パラパラとめくってみれば、美麗な絵とわかりやすい説明が見える。これがあれば、また少しローゼマインに近付けるだろう。

……神々の名前を憶えて、お祈りをして属性を増やして、父上にシュタープを得たいとお願いするのです。

迷い込んでしまった暗闇に光が見えた気がした。向かっていく方向が定まったことが嬉しくて、ヒルデブラントは顔を上げた。ニヤリと笑いながらラオブルートが剣を手に立ち上がる。

「では、ヒルデブラント王子。少しは迷いが消えたようなので、稽古を再開させましょう」

「はい！　よろしくお願いします」

アルトゥールに本を返し、剣を取ってヒルデブラントはラオブルートの背中を追いかけた。