Chapter 259

What the Kingdom Has and Imperial Japan Doesn’t [Part 4]

The Head Church of the Kingdom’s church was in the Empire, and it had a considerable influence on the Kingdom people... especially those who lived around the Royal Capital. Since childhood, the Church had instilled in them the idea that the Empire was a mighty country.

This was a very foreign feeling to the three siblings, who were born and raised in Palace, a place with churches themselves being nonexistent.VIssịT n0(v)eL/b(i)(n).com for the best novel reading experience

The Church deemed monsters unclean and abhorred them, hence its unwillingness to establish its branches in territories located on the border of the barrier.

In the Kingdom, the ones most in need of the Church’s help were the borderland citizens who were tormented by the appearance of monsters, but they received no alms whatsoever from the Church. And in territories where churches could not be built, the feudal lords’ households must fulfill that role instead.

Basically, the frontier had always gotten the short end of the stick.

“...Did all the nobles just swallow everything meekly?”

A heavy loss wasn’t really the right word for their situation.

“Under such circumstances, if there were any houses who didn’t buy cotton and lose money... of course they wouldn’t find it pleasant, would they?”

“...? Nobles who didn’t buy cotton... are... Ah, it’s us, huh...”

Because the Stuart family all went on a study trip to Imperial Japan, they didn’t buy any cotton. They probably still wouldn’t have bought it even if they hadn’t gone to Imperial Japan, though.

“Nee-sama, please... be as quiet as possible at the academy.”

“Emma, you... just somehow behave yourself at the academy, ‘kay?”

William and George glanced at Emma with resigned looks for some reason.

“Why is it me?! As I always say, I’m not the one causing trouble, okay? It’s trouble that just comes to me on its own, and very actively at that!”

Here came Emma’s usual phrase, but there was not even once when trouble didn’t happen after she said this.

Every time Emma made this promise, the brothers had already prepared themselves to be dragged into yet another mess.

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Author’s words:

It’s been so long since Rose-sama’s last appearance.

Edward was in the middle of sword practice.

Upon receiving news that the Stuarts had returned, he scrambled to Rose’s palace, still in his clinking armor, but Emma and the brothers had already left. How unfortunate.

(The family arrived at the Port of Simmons late at night, so it seemed that the news reached the Royal Castle late, even later than the family’s audience with the King.)