"Besides, there's nothing strange about it."
Straina said, as usual, in the tone of a poor girl, without being shy or nervous.
The man who tried to discredit Meer opened his mouth to the man who took care of him.
"What are you saying? Wouldn't it be too coincidental to prepare antidotes so quickly? Or does that empire's wisdom have a vision for the future?
"No way. You can't really see the future in people."
That's probably not the way the Empire does it.
Stryna knows.
Meer is by no means a god. It's impossible for everything to go as calculated, and it's impossible to have a vision of the future.
If that had been the case, I would have stood up better and not let him drink poison. However, no matter how brilliant Meer's wisdom may be, he will not be able to learn about future events.
So, why can Meer do the best she can? Are you even ready to cross that snake?
It's just "because I have everything”.
Meer will not lack thorough preparedness to deal with anything that happens. And this time, we relied on Straina as part of it.
Stryna was well aware of this on her trip.
"The truth is, I don't really want to do anything humiliating....."
Behind the words, Straina gracefully lifts the hem of the skirt.
It's the perfect Lady's Thanksgiving. However, the skirt was slightly bigger.
Thanks to this, Sturina's gorgeous legs are only slightly exposed. On snowy white skin, on a slender thigh just above a young knee boy, the dress was wrapped with a leather belt that was not similar.
And the belt contained many vials as thin as a pinky finger.
"This is the antidote to paralysis poison. This is a vomiting medicine to make you vomit...."
Straina leaves the vial pulled out of the belt on the table. In that number, the nobles lose their words uniformly.
"Empress Meer is indispensable to us. It's only natural to be prepared for anything. I didn't happen to have an antidote that matches the poison I was ingested. I was just prepared to use any poison."
This antidote was carefully selected by the Yellow Moon family, which manipulates thousands of poisons and knows thousands of poisons.
I was going to prepare for the poison that would be readily available around Sankland. However, I couldn't think of anything else about Yin Poison and Positive Poison.
--What's amazing about Meer is that she was interested in the detoxifying mushrooms she encountered on the go and immediately incorporated them...
Not only was it prepared in advance, but it was also discretionary, and Straina was watchful.
--But I don't care about that now.
With all the vials lined up on the table, Strina smiled pitifully with nickel.
"I think it's a natural precaution to protect your loved ones, but aren't you going to do it in Sankland?
Stir! Stir!!
So, Straina noticed.
--Is that...? Lena, are you a little angry?
Straina understood how much she felt when she saved the King's life... and that her first good deeds with her own power made her a little angry.
I didn't think for a moment that it would be better not to stir it up...
"I made the lady imitate you like this, so please take responsibility."
Nicholas laughs, well, look, Stryna remembers.
It's true that I got angry, and I'm going to stir it up here... and I'm going to throw as many words as I can to make them feel responsible... In the first place, it was bad to keep my hands on it.
I responded to Stryna's words....
"That's right. Know your shame. Mr Stryna has just taken it for granted. And yet, you humiliate such a maiden with such a disgraceful imitation....."
Surprisingly, it was Emeralda.
"Nice work, Mr. Stryna. Duke of the Stars, I'll give you my compliments as the lead lady. And yet, what a disgraceful imitation of such... maiden secrets...!
What, the leading lady, or the maiden secret, was wrapped with antidote on her feet... I didn't think so, but there was a problem that I couldn't see anymore. It's a
"No... you know, Emeralda-san, Lena hasn't done that much..."
That's how complicated it feels to be called "disgraceful, disgraceful." Wouldn't it be prudent to go to a beach bath with a good-looking guard every summer in the first place...? I want to put in a stick like that....
"You don't have to say anything. Leena, that was tough. It couldn't have been so painful to imitate like that."
Emeralda then hugged Sturina.
"That's why, it's not that bad....."
"Don't tell me! You did well!
--Failure. I provoked something strange...
It's so hot and painful, Emeralda, and Strina's a little jerky... but...
"You've done well to meet your expectations, Meer. That's great!
Strangely enough, the words melted into Stryna's heart.
The other four Dukes were nothing but targets of assassination for Stryna. Either way, you have to kill someone. So I never interacted with anyone I knew.
--After all, the Duchess of Green Moon, Emeralda, is a simple person. Emotional and frustrating... It's easy to stir up, and it's probably easy to manipulate your mind.
The information in your head and the hot and bitter behavior of the girl in front of you are perfectly consistent.
--But... I don't want to...
The simplicity that I actually touched was warm, and the depth of the affection was just a bit pleasant.
--Oops... is this how it would look if onee-sama were here?
Stryna cares about subtlety in her heart. It's very different from a friend who still can't stop calling her grandmother!
Well, aside from that...
--Let's not rest at the moonlight party again!
... Sturina was somehow a dick too.
A beautiful lady holding a young girl in her arms. That appearance was enough to give the bombers cold water. Calmly speaking, the woman we're trying to blast now is the one we should protect and the one who saved the King's life.
A shy silence dominated the scene, just then....
"Your Majesty!
A screaming voice rises.
King Abram stood up, supported by his staggering body. With his teeth stretched out to suffer, he walked closer to Strina.
"Lady, thank you for saving my life. I can't believe I apologized for all the rudeness of our people....."
"No, Your Majesty. Never mind. Please rest well."
With a soft smile on her face, Abram relieved her bitter face a little.
"Uncle Lampron. I'll take care of the rest. Don't be disrespectful to your guests."
I left that behind and left the venue behind. With Theon and Eshar.
"Phew... it looks like you've managed to make it."
Suddenly speaking from behind, Meer turned around in surprise.
And immediately behind Meer, Abel stood where his arm would reach.
Somehow a wine bottle was held in his right hand.
He grips the spout and makes it look like a sword.
"Oh, Abel... what's wrong, take a bottle?"
"Hmm? Oh, no, what... I thought I was a little thirsty. I don't know. Meer too....."
"Well, Abel. What are you gonna do to get me drunk?
"Eh, ah, no, this is..."
Meer enjoys watching Abel in a hurry.
--I wonder if I brought it by mistake with the juice bottle... Ufufu, in that situation, you might be worried that I might be thirsty, but I'm a little nervous.
It makes me smile.
She is a bad adult sister who teases and entertains younger boys.
"Forget the joke, I'm relieved that it's all gone."
Just like Abel, Ludwig also held the wine bottle in one hand.
"Oh, what a surprise, Ludwig."
On these occasions, it doesn't look like you're drinking too much... but Meer leans her neck.
Ludwig had a slightly unexpected look.
"I'll do it when I have to... to secure an escape route..."
She said that she had bumps... but the second half was a mea that wasn't really in her ears.
--Oh, that's right. I'll do it when I have to... Well, the alcohol that the Royal Family of St. Crown has prepared isn't something I can drink very often, and I don't know how you feel about it.
It will not change your desire for unusual confectionery and mushrooms.
While empathizing slightly with Ludwig's unexpected side, Meer leaned her neck.
"By the way, where is Anne?
"As a precaution, I asked her to go to the nearby guard. For the time of need."
"When it's time... I see, you're really good at it."
"But it was a surprise that Theon was silent... I thought I was going to blame them... but I still wonder if the shock of your father's fall was so great..."
"No, I don't think so."
It was Ludwig who shook his head.
"Yes, that's right...."
And Meer agreed with Ludwig.
--Theon probably knows that his brother poisoned him. You really wanted to avoid publishing it on that spot. Even so, my father took poison instead of saying that he was about to be killed by his brother. Confusion must have been part of it...
Meer roared, uhm.
--But, Prince Eshar, I wonder what happened...
There is a trick to deceive Eschar about poisoning him. Shut up and press it against the snake. Holding Meer accountable is Meer's constant means.
In the first place, it was the snake who gave him the poison. Then, if Abram and Zion convince us, we may be able to deceive them.
It also makes me feel more convinced that this is Sankland.
Because their proud intelligence unit, the Wind Raven, was being eroded by bare snakes.
If they can find out the fact, they will have to think.
Whether or not such poisoning is possible for the members of the raven.
And... Meer will consider it. The ex-wind raven's master, the butler in the Duke of Yellow Moon, wondered if that was possible.
--I guess I can...
Meer's judgment is possible, yes. And if it is possible to be a raven, it will certainly be able to erode it and become a chaotic snake that has been taken to hand.
The killer poisoned and left the venue by mistake.
As such, convincing them is not so difficult given that this is Sankland. I don't know....
The question is, what do His Majesty Abram and Theon think? Besides, it's His Highness Eshar's own problem. Hmm... mmmmm...
And at that time. A soldier approached Meer as he braced his arms and thought.
"Excuse me. Princess Meer. Your Majesty wants to talk to you."
"... yes?
Meer's real battle began here.