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Falling Crown
「Al, don’t you think you’ve been spending too much of your time in the kotatsu?」
「Elna-kaasan too, you also entered the kotatsu quite often, right?」
Elna-kaasan - who threw such a comment at me - is right in front of me. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
It was clear that Elna-kaasan is also in the kotatsu like me.
「Don’t change the subject. We are now talking about Al」
「Err, but there won’t be any persuasiveness if someone who is inside the kotatsu pointed out the fact that others are also in the kotatsu」
「I am not as deep as Al so I am safe」
Please stop making expressions as if it’s about gambling addiction.
Or rather, I had no idea what kind of criteria to decide whether you’re safe or out.
Compared to that, the kotatsu is also warm today. The magic tool inside the kotatsu seems to be working properly today too.
「Alfried-sama, there is a letter from Toriela-san」
And just as Elna-kaasan and I were having such a foolish and playful conversation like that, Sara came with a letter in her hand. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Aah, Tori huh」
「Wait a minute. It has the royal family’s crest on it, you know? Open it carefully」
Elna-kaasan stopped me when I was about to open the letter casually.
Looking at the back side of the letter, there was an exaggerated crest that looked like the crest of the royal family.
「There’s no need to be so particular about a letter’s envelope, right?」
「It would be a problem if the content of the letter changed if something were to happen, right? And it would be considered disrespectful if the royal family’s crest part were torn at that time」
Eeh, what’s that? The royal family of this world is really scary.
Since Sara brought a paper knife with her, I carefully opened the envelope’s seal.
The crest is located in a place where it could not be damaged, but my hands have been shaking since Elna-kaasan explained how terrifying it is.
「Will Elna-kaasan read it?」
「It’s a letter addressed to the Toy King. I can not be the first to read it」
「Okay okay」
Inside were the letter from Tori and a letter which seemed to be from the king-sama.
I carefully spread the letter and read through the characters written there.
「What is the content of the letters?」
「Tori said he got the king-sama’s permission and wanted me to continue to make the battle pencils, while king-sama expressed his gratitude」
So Tori received permission from the king-sama and wanted me to make the battle pencils as soon as possible, while the letter from the king-sama was written with excessive and formal language, and also filled with words of gratitude. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「……let me take a look for a bit」
Although I’ve summarized the content of the letters, Elna-kaasan still asked me to give her the letters.
I guess my words alone weren’t enough to reassure her.
I wish you’d just read it first.
Elna-kaasan took her time to read through the letters and then she quietly returned the letters to me.
「There does not seem to be any problems」
「I told you already, didn’t I」
Good grief, does Elna-kaasan think I really can’t read the characters in the letter?
It’s not like I’m Eleonora-neesan and I don’t misunderstand those exaggerated words or anything like that.
「……you read the letter, right?」
While I was lounging in the kotatsu despite being upset about it, Elna-kaasan asked me something obvious.
「Un, I read it, why?」
「This is a toy to be presented to the king-sama, you should start to work on it quickly」
「Ehー, I don’t feel like doing it today so I will start doing it tomorrow. The other party won’t know the letter has arrived here anyway, there’s just a single day’s difference――」
「Al?」
「Understood. I will start working on it today」
As expected from being her son for so long. I can tell the sign when Elna-kaasan’s going to really get angry.
Under the pressure of Elna-kaasan’s beautiful smile, I obediently left the kotatsu and decided to start working on the battle pencils.
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After being chased away from the kotatsu by Elna-kaasan, I immediately decided to work on the battle pencils. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
I already placed an order to make the wooden sticks for the base of the battle pencils, so they were already done and ready.
It’s ready to be created right away.
The battle pencil I’m going to make is with the king-sama’s motif.
However, I had never seen the important part that is the King.
We don’t have any portrait of the king-sama, there is also no book with his picture in it.
At this rate, I wouldn’t be able to make a battle pencil with the king-sama as the motif, would I?
Although it is too late right, I’m shocked I actually just realized it now.
「No, wait a minute. Last time when I went up in the air of the royal capital and looked at the royal capital, there was someone who looked like king-sama, wasn’t it?」
Recalling the scene at that time, I feel like there was an elderly person proudly puffing his chest with pride and an elderly wearing a crown on his head, moving away as if trying to escape.
I think the one wearing the crown is the king-sama, but I wonder if the king-sama is someone who is doing something sneaky like that?
I can’t decide since it’s already been more than half a year since then so even his facial features have also become vague.
「……should I go to the royal capital then?」
Let’s go and take a look at the Misphilt castle from the sky once more. It’d be great if I could see him, but it’s also fine to just find his picture if I can’t see him. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Having decided that, I go outside with Elman’s workshop as the reason, and cast Teleport in a suitable location.
My whole body is wrapped by mana and my vision becomes distorted, and then I was on the roof of a building in the royal capital in an instant.
It is the building where Eric and I used to go down from the sky back then.
The event at that time was so strong that the image of this building is seared into my mind.
There are also few people here and with an unobstructed view of the royal capital, it’s probably the safest place to go if I want to Teleport to the royal capital.
It’s quiet around here since it’s a residential district, but I can hear a faint hustle and bustle coming from the shopping district and the main street.
I had been spending my time in the peaceful Koryatt village recently and it felt fresh to have the slightly lively atmosphere and densely packed buildings around me.
After checking there was no one around, I used Shields to make a stairs-like structure to climb up.
I have to go up for now so people won’t be able to see me from the ground.
If I’m at a high altitude, I would only appear as a dot in the sky even if people see me from the ground. So most likely, I wouldn’t be found or noticed by anyone.
As I continued to move upward using the Shields as my footings, I had a clear view of the towering Misphilt castle.
And when I use mana to strengthen my vision, I can see a trader delivering food in the courtyard and female knights and maids checking on them.
As I moved my sight away while checking on the daily scene in the castle, I saw the back of the head of an old man lounging in the hallway.
If it was just that, then I would have passed the old man as someone who is in the middle of doing his job but, there was a crown on his head.
He’s maybe the sneaky old man I saw before. It’s unfortunate, but I can only see the back of his head so I’m not sure, but I feel like it is him.
The old man leaned his back on the window frame and looked up at the ceiling as if he were worried over something.
I wonder if it’s okay to be lounging around at such a high place? Or rather, won’t your crown fall if your posture bent backward like that? www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
The moment I had such a worry in my mind, the crown on the old man’s head slipped and fell out of the window.
And perhaps he realized that the crown on his head fell the old man tried to reach out for it in a hurry but, it was too late.
The old man’s crown continues to fall freely into the courtyard.
At the spot where the crown would fall is the location where the female knight who is checking the food from before, and just as I thought it would fall next to her――the female knight struck with an incredible sword slash too fast to follow.
The female knight then returned her sword to the sheath with a satisfied look, and then she opened her eyes wide when she saw the object cut on the ground.
The accident even makes someone with nothing to do with the situation like me want to cover my eyes.
Although it was an unavoidable situation, it’s probably an absolutely bad situation to hack the crown.
In no time at all, people start to gather in the courtyard as the female knights and the maids make a fuss.
The indirect cause of it all - the old man - looked down with a pale face and quietly left the scene.
Simply the worst.
The female knights understood that the crown had fallen from above, so they looked above as hard as they could.
The sight of all those knights simultaneously looking up above trying to search for something is so scary, so I stopped looking down and decided to go down from the sky. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
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