166 Episode 59: Parent-Child Tales
Gakun and Navre will have some stories to accumulate with the Knights of Sprout. Having broken up with the three of them, I wanted to meet with Uffi and asked the lady who works for the Royal Castle what Uffi plans to do.
"What are your plans for Yufi today?
"I\'m sorry, Your Royal Highness the King of Anisphere. Her Majesty Queen Uphilia is not currently in the King\'s Capital."
"Huh?"
"I\'m leaving the Royal Castle empty now because I plan to visit you"
"Oh, I was..."
I got my nose frustrated as much as I wanted. I mean, an inspection. It seems quite sudden somehow. Could it be that Ufi is also moving dangerously about the Filwach thing?
You know where Uffi\'s going. It\'s going to be in the outhouse. Ilaria, Father or Mother? I just ran into my mother thinking who I should talk to first.
My mother turned her eyes round when she realized I was there, then retightened her expression before turning to me.
"Anis? Were you back in King\'s Capital? Is something wrong?
"I had a little consultation with Ufi... just heard about the inspection"
"Oh... that was a long and sudden story. By the way, what is consultation?
"My father thought I\'d talk to you when he was free."
After hearing my words, my mother closes her eyelids to think a little something with her hands on her chin. She opened her eyes for a little while before turning to the maid beside her.
"Orphans\' plans were a little vacant, right?
"Yes, and hasty administration hasn\'t come in either."
"Then could you call Orphans to the garden? And prepare tea."
"I\'m awed, Queen Wang."
After bowing her head respectfully, the maid who was following her mother turns her heel and disappears across the hallway. After I drop it off, my mother turns her gaze to me.
"Then let\'s move the place, Anis."
"Thank you, Mother"
"... by the way, what\'s your escort today?
"Gakun and Navre are going to the Knights. The Demon Sword of Example has finally been completed, so we have your report together."
"Oh, that\'s good news.... Will you show it to me later, too?
"... I won\'t give it to you, will I?
"Heh, you\'re not just sitting there with me in silence, are you? Anis."
On the road to the garden, my mother, who tries to show interest in artificial demon swords and ask for information, and my mother, who doesn\'t really want to tell me the details of demon swords if she can, and I try to cloud them.
If you meditate on the content, I\'m sure it\'s a gentle parent-child conversation. Plus I broke my cheek just a little bit, and I walked down the hallway of the royal castle with my mother.
I decided to admire the garden until Father came along with my mother. The garden my father worked on is not too flashy, and somewhere rustic it calms down. I personally prefer it to say that it really seems to be a place to relax rather than let the royal glory know.
This is also the point where a lumi often appears in the immortality. I hear you and your mother have tea a lot, but do you still have that habit? That free man disappears or shows up on a whim, so I honestly don\'t know what he usually does either.
Since the chances of seeing Lumi face to face are diminishing since she went to the City of Magic, Fulfilling thought about her ancestors whose sincerity was hard to read where she was doing now.
"You kept me waiting, Sylphine, Annis"
"Good day, Father."
When I was chatting like a status report with my mother, my father showed up. At one time I was intensely gessy, but now my complexion is good because the situation is calm.
"Mm-hmm. I represent Yufi because he\'s not here, but he\'s not that busy right now. That\'s why Uffi\'s headed for an inspection."
"... inspection, where did Uffi go?
I was a little worried about you asking, but where did Uffi head for the inspection? I don\'t think the situation in Wang Capital has completely settled yet, and for a while I thought we were going to proceed with the reorganization so that we could cope with new initiatives.
My father and mother face each other in my inquiry. I frowned only for a moment, but my father coughed and then told me if an agreement could be reached between the two of them.
"Uffi is going to the border to inspect"
"Borders...? Why, again...?
When I hear about the border, I get unwittingly thrilled. Because when I hear about the border, Al\'s face really comes to mind.
But why did Uffi suddenly go to the border to inspect...?
"We\'ve heard about one thing in Filwach. So I was wondering, and Uffi headed to the border."
"... you don\'t suspect Al is involved in this one!?"
I accidentally said it because of the vampire connection and wondered if you suspected there could be Al behind that monster, but Father and Mother were all together and half-eyed and looked at me.
"... anise. I\'ve been thinking about you, but you\'re actually sweet for Algardo, right?
"I wonder how this really happened... my lack of power still snuck... haha..."
"Yes, no, because... because there was a possibility that vampires were involved, I thought you might have suspected Al..."
"Stop saying things that are going to upset you if Uphilia asks.... Algardo does his duty properly for the kingdom. That\'s what Uphilia is guaranteeing, so don\'t worry about it."
"Well, I can\'t say it\'s irrelevant, because it seems to be the exact place."
"What does that mean? Father."
I frowned when I heard that al-kun was not suspected, but I couldn\'t say it was irrelevant.
I never wrote to Al-Kun about the sender\'s name after I went to the border, but I didn\'t end up face-to-face. Unless I hear from Ufi once in a while about recent developments, I don\'t know more about what Al is doing right now.
"As a matter of fact... those who have been displaced from the Cambus kingdom are being protected at Algard\'s place."
"Ha!? Were you!?"
"Mm-hmm. I don\'t really talk about details either, so it\'s about Uphilia who knows the full story. If you knew, you\'d be Raini."
"... so it\'s not irrelevant," he said?
"Uhm. We haven\'t heard more from Uphilia either. Because Uphilia said she wanted to stay down until she could prove it, which must be a pretty nasty project."
An exile from the Kingdom of Cambus…. That\'s unusual, or there were people who came into exile.
That\'s all I normally think the people of the Cambus kingdom have been treated with a sense of distance that is not separate from the Kingdom of Palettia, but it startles me when they say again that there are displaced persons.
"But why are you protected at Al Kun\'s?
"I don\'t know that."
"I don\'t know..."
"Did Algard decide to do so, or did Uphilia instruct him to do so? That hasn\'t even been reported to me. There are limits to guessing."
My father told me to pointy my lips. That\'s true, though. Why are you bothering to protect the displaced at Al Kun\'s place, when there shouldn\'t be that much talent there?
And why didn\'t Yufi tell me? Because it was such a nasty project you couldn\'t even tell your fathers? Then why was the case so troublesome?
I find it really unsettling to think about the chimera I encountered in Filwach or the man who entrusted Gakun with the Demon Stone.
"So, did you have anything to discuss? What? Did you do something to him again?
"Why is that a premise I would soften?
"In fact, I guess it\'s because you\'re right!
"It\'s force majeure this time, and I haven\'t done anything yet -!
Though I accidentally stared at my father, my mother coughed and intimidated me, so we stood upright and had a cramped grin at each other.
I was supposed to sit down and talk because standing talked about what, but my concern was whether it was okay for people to leave the Filwach issue to me like this... the reaction of the two people I talked to was another one of a kind.
Father is holding his arms together with a face that seems difficult, and Mother put her finger between her eyebrows and exhaled deeply.
"... how can you be so bipolar?
"Ri, are you at both extremes...?
"No... maybe it\'s something you\'re connected to by a single line. In the end, you want to be useful for someone, that\'s what you want. I guess it looks like you\'re doing whatever you want and still a lot of people appreciate it, not because it turns out that\'s what you wish."
"... that personality is your beauty and at the same time your faults. Anis, are you worried because you know it yourself? Guess you don\'t really think it\'s a good idea for all of you to be out there, huh?
"... Yes"
"In the end, you still don\'t trust anyone else. And I guess it\'s because I\'m happy now that I want to shoulder my responsibilities because I have the power to do it. In the last few years, we also think that your understanding of what you want to protect has progressed."
"So let me get this straight. I\'m in a hurry, you are. You look like you\'re in a hurry. I know you\'re desperate, but make more room."
"Can you afford..."
I don\'t care if they say I can afford it...... As Father and Mother put it, I wonder if I have been able to believe people yet. Everyone says that no one close to you, starting with Uffi, believes his face to strangers.
Then how can you believe it? Even if they ask, I don\'t know either. Outreach I know it may be okay, and excessive care won\'t be a good thing.
Still, if you had me, I wouldn\'t be... I\'d be scared. Now that I\'m so happy, this happiness happens.
"... now that Uphilia\'s right, I\'m glad I didn\'t make you queen"
"Mother?"
"You carry too much. If you became queen, you would have killed yourself. If you think about it, I\'m really glad you\'re having this now, and I\'m going to thank Yufi for that."
"... is it that bad, me?
"About to be worried about watching, yeah.... does that place look like Orphans?
Do I look like your father? I wonder if so, and when I looked at my father, my father stared at my mother with a bitter look that chewed up the bitter bug.
"Wouldn\'t the ironless resemble Silphine a lot? And then, yeah. The fact that it looks stylish and is actually delicate..."
"Who says it\'s iron-free and delicate?
"Don\'t be mad because they poked you with a picture star! Aita-ta! Will you stop stepping on my feet!
I think you\'re being stomped under your desk, and your father was shown screaming, and you know what?
Something tells me this exchange is between me and my father. In the end, I wondered if this exchange was the fate of parents and children, and the bitterness came in.