65 [26] Step

The man stood with a familiar grin he had never pointed at Berta before.

"Your Highness is in a good mood."

"It's a pleasure to meet you. Count Jimeno"

Berta was face-to-face with the Earl in a room for reception provided outside the morning.

Count Jimeno.

Though a growing aristocrat of the local Petra, his soft waist is already aristocratic.

This is not the first time I have seen him face to face with the Count, but even if he is present at the same place, he and Berta have barely had any private conversations until now.

In fact, even today, these places wouldn't have come true if it hadn't been for the conversation via Harold.

"I apologize for not saying hello for so long"

The Count is one of the central figures of the emerging aristocracy of the North, and the faction in the matter is still at a subtle distance from Berta.

"Your position has been heard from His Majesty."

Berta didn't know until recently that Count Jimeno was an aristocrat who was unofficially close to Harold's belly.

I had begun to thin out that Harold was pulling up useful figures from the back of the outer morning to keep a net's eye on him, not just the ostensible power structure, but the reality that the net extends not to the practitioner level, but to the nobility, is not well known.

Berta is half surprised and half frightened by his dexterity.

(Your Majesty truly, that the hand is meticulous)

They even repute him as an indecisive king, an unwavering king among factions. But even those who say so pussy just don't want to admit what he actually does.

There is a certain number of layers that want the king to be king-like, authoritarian and absolute. Behaviors that are too noble are sometimes not understood by the secular.

(... people with a loss of sex)

It is up to those of later times to decide what to make you the king. It's not what Berta, who lives the same generation, found out.

At least by virtue of the benefits of Harold's such policies, she is able to meet today, in this way, indiscriminately with the counts of factions whose facades lie on the axis of conflict.

"I sincerely regret that my strange daughter is bothering Her Royal Highness. We should have apologized sooner."

For Count Jimeno, it seemed all sorts of disingenuous that he had put his daughter's disrespect on the shelf until today and pierced Berta with correspondence in par value.

"I won't suffer. You're a lovely young lady."

Berta responded with a subtle grin. Daughter - When it comes to Nina, the Count seems weak.

The Himeno family is an up-and-coming aristocrat who served from his predecessors to raise his status a little bit and was awarded the countenance during the previous kings. There appears to be no gap in one of the gates.

For him like that, it must be pretty distracting to keep letting that girl out.

"If you are any closer than your Majesty and status, it must have been His Majesty's intention to have Nina serve as an early Petra woman."

"It's on the left.... Her Highness the Queen was so gorgeous at the time that the emerging factions couldn't help but shut up. We also needed to increase the number of people in the rear palace in order to balance forces."

It was some years before Berta arrived.

To put it bluntly, at the time Marguerite gave His Majesty one mistress after another to create Halem.

To prevent the power relationship in the bedroom from spreading to the outside morning, the emerging faction also made their daughters serve as pawns in a rivalry that only women could enter: the rear palace.

"Nina doesn't seem to understand the situation as much as she does."

Given Nina's age at the time and her qualities in person, the fact that she also offered her daughter from the Count Jimeno family was probably more important than the fact that she was actually expected to play a role in making money for her succession.

"It is everywhere I am immoral. My daughter was too young to make me understand the circumstances and serve. As a result, good thing my daughter has never been interested in glory glory as a sideroom, which has left me in the backyard for years."

If it was my own sisters or something, Berta couldn't help it.

Her misfortune is hard to see.

I have not been carried with me any distinct difficulties, nor have I endured any visible predicament. Just an unexpected and abandoned phrase, treated as a troubled daughter who doesn't even serve as much as it is there and causes problems.

"Count.... I wonder what kind of daughter Nina is from you. I mean, what do you like or what are you good at?"

Berta still doesn't know what the real girlfriend is like. Perhaps Nina herself hasn't figured out what she wants or doesn't want to do.

The Earl gave Berta's question a face that would not float. It was the kind of reaction they asked me what I didn't expect.

"In the last five years since I let my daughter serve, I've been ashamed to not know much about my daughter.... Until the other day, with all my dear, well-heard daughters"

"What was the impression that the Count was treating Nina as her father, until she was fifteen?

It's something I feel even when I'm talking to Nina herself, but while it's emerging like their father and daughter, it's probably no longer that as a "nobleman".

"Yes, you are. He was a smart, resourceful kid. She liked to read and embroider books by herself rather than play with other kids."

Nina is still in fact not that she can't.

But her speed of rotation has so far only been used to give up on life and get out of work.

The Count, who likes people, desperately reminded me of my daughter in response to Berta's question.

"Even animals and little kids like to wonder"

Animals aside, speaking of which, I don't think you ever involved Nina with Louis.

"Yes. If you like kids, maybe next time you'll be Louis' playmate too"

To date, Nina has been a little distant as the leftover emerging woman, but if Kasha's next-door wife is to marry her, she will be in Berta's possession in the future.

In general, Berta was trying to find out about Nina for the first time since Harold left her choice of opponent to her. The meeting with the Count was also part of it.

"… it is most fortunate for my daughter that I have had the opportunity to serve such a nostalgic audience as Her Highness"

Suddenly he leans his neck against the Count who lifted Berta, but he naturally went on.

"In the presence of His Majesty, even though she was in the midst of her marriage to the South, she didn't feel alive when she suddenly screamed out of gold."

... I don't know that.

"Did Nina direct anything to Her Majesty on the spot?

"No, just. I have managed to drag him out of His Majesty's sight, curling things like I don't want to be evicted from the rear palace now."

I think Harold must have been quite surprised. His low ratings for Nina may also be derived from hysteria at that time.

"Well, when I heard that I had made a terrible mistake to Her Royal Highness, I wondered if I would have to give up my position to my son and take that stupid daughter back to the country."

I can see that. It would be about when Nina came to dress up and plead with Berta somehow.

I see, I grasped the reason for the strong impatience I felt from Nina then. She was more anxious than ever to be given to the southern border.

Even in front of the fearless Count, Berta gets a little funny when she remembers.

But, well, it's not every laugh.

After all, the future of becoming a pawn in a political marriage to the South, which the person showed so much abhorrence, has not changed.

"Well, compared to that time, you mean Nina's getting a little calm and grown up, too. Whether or not you can use Nina well depends on my extraction"

The Count nodded deeply, realizing that Berta shook the direction of the story, somewhat constructively.

"I also ask you to do it from me. Please give my best to my daughter."

"Count, what future would you like for Nina?"

As far as Nina is concerned, Berta also wanted to know about this Earl in front of her today.

Uncle Jimeno. He will eventually become the chief minister of Harold's rule.

"- That she boasts power in the centre of Kasha? Or in the house ahead of my wife, to be happy?

It's not how I want you to answer. I just waited for a free answer to find out who he was.

The Count looked at Berta's face with a warm grin, without changing his special expression.

Until then, he had taken an attitude toward the "queen", so this was the first time he had ever seen each other.

"What I want from my daughter is for her to be of service to Her Majesty and Her Royal Highness, both of you."

Two reigns, he said.

"Please help Nina. Marriage to your daughter is another new step for the Kasha clan to advance from the south. May Her Royal Highness create an easy connection for you to move forward."

The Count's words were unexpected. No, rather than unexpected, it could be something more than expected.

Just as she wants to, so is he trying to Berta as a politician again.

"As the father of his son, I hope it will soon be in the interest of the nation for His Majesty's sake."

I see. It doesn't seem to be a glimmer.

Nevertheless, I am concerned that his expectations for the Queen, who stands on the hostile faction for once, are unquestionably high.

"... as queen, the countess will buy you immature women."

It was a statement that came out of self-reflection, but the Count heard it and made fun of it and changed the atmosphere to give it an all-inclusive grin.

"No, I'm also looking forward to the way ahead. Since Her Royal Highness stood up, especially these days the royal palace feels rejuvenated at once."

Count Jimeno, of course, was accompanied by an earlier visit to Mesaro, as well as a full grasp of Berta's exposure to the ugliness of Harold and his couple's quarrel.

"Above all, His Majesty is lined up next to Her Royal Highness. I've served you for years, but for the first time, it's just your face that I see. One of the inspections in Mesaro,"

The Count stopped putting it through and laughed out normally.

"Oh no, Your Majesty is young too! Nevertheless, Her Royal Highness exploded before anyone else in the case of Transition Capital.... I didn't even have time for the local marquis to be erupting dissatisfaction because of it. Instead, it was a wonderful collaboration."

(... this is the one they'll say for the rest of their lives)

It was an accident.

"Yeah, but tomorrow's flying gear isn't something you can use more than once."

The couple quarrel, the fact that they had to stand in public the day after that with a clearly crying face, and the fact that Harold was sweetened to Berta after hitting and changing the night before.

It is generally perceived what has happened, and as a public person you are blinded to teasing and crossing crude parts.

"Looking at you two, I also feel like the clock on the Royal Palace that has been stopped has moved. It is fresh that there is no exhaustion of vigorous and lively disturbances within the royal palace regarding one of Prince Louis the other day"

Probably means that instead of providing the heavy ministers involved for a long time to come with topics that will be made fun of in booze seats until later, the initial prospects for the transitional capital proposal stood.

Though the price is too much.

While I was wondering whether to deceive myself to the best of my ability or recieve it without taking it all over again, the Count sent me a help boat first.

"Aye, excuse me. It is time for you and Your Majesty to be in the carving limit of your covenant. I'm sorry I stopped you so long."

Indeed, after this, Berta had been called by Harold.

"I don't mind. Your Majesty also said it would be good between the errands."

It's time for the tide, though. Before taking his seat, Berta tried to put one breath down and switch.

"Count Jimeno, it's good to see you today."

"It was a pleasure to meet you, above all. I feel comfortable that our queen and I will support His Majesty for a long time to come."

I guess this meeting will also fall into the category of covert talks as a type. If you walk out in the morning, the northern and southern factions are still hanging out.

In that sense, there was a unanimity between the two sides in their perception that we would successfully end this covert conversation.

"We, the Petra, should join hands in order to keep up with His Majesty's wishes."

"Yeah, together. Take a shameless path to the same ancestors of Austeria."

With regard to the northern Petra, Berta has so far avoided making any clear impression personally.

For there was a perception that it was not good for a queen to be dragged by mere feelings of good and evil.

But I was actually relieved to see him.

It wouldn't be so bad to play a political role with them.