104 [37] Petition

As I went out to the square for a meeting every day, I heard rumors about where they were coming from, and in front of the gate in front of the royal palace, the commoners began to watch.

Both the Eriueral Palace and the new King's Capital, Vauela, have a fairly open structure compared to the traditional King's Capital and the Imperial Castle.

Especially in the new royal palace, the distance from the outermost gate wall of the outdoor garden to the city centre was adjacent to just one main street.

Of course, the grounds of the palace are large, and the palace structure itself cannot be seen from the outside of the gate, but the spacious front square can also be viewed from the outside.

... there was a crowd of people in front of the front square who knew that the queen was coming out.

The gatekeepers seemed to be struggling to cope, because the citizens were clearly polite and seemed like a good people who wanted to see the queen at a glance, without disturbing themselves.

Her Highness silenced the citizens' sights without giving any special instructions to the guards or gate soldiers.

Some of her guards still had a way of tightening things up, and they reacted somewhat reluctantly.Nevertheless, it was not enough to convince Her Highness to get rid of her.

No one really expected anything to happen because of that, to the extent that they were concerned about the slight defects in security.

Therefore, it must be said later that the incident was caused by the joint carelessness of all the parties involved.

Sergio noticed the situation that day because the roar propagated from the crowd in front of the gate reached the back of the front square, a considerable distance from the gate.

Her Highness and the guards turned their faces towards the main gate in the same manner.

It was not long after the anger of the gate soldiers rose and the neighborhood became obviously noisy.

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We can't reach the contents of the curse until the gate soldiers turn their backs on us.

"What?"

Her Royal Highness looked suspicious, but so that the guard knights pushed her actions ahead, she somehow surrounded herself and formed a formation.

"... something in the citizens."

"Are you getting mixed up?"

"Your Highness, please do not move."

I can see a few to dozen people sitting in front of the gate and confronting the gate to protest something.

The guards don't want Her Highness involved, but Her Highness is worried about the gate and won't be leaving soon.

I had no choice but to call Sergio.

"I'll take a look. Your Highness, please come here."

Sergio took a few of his men and turned to the main gate.

As they approached the gate, the bewildered gatemen rushed to Sergio for help.

"The monks aren't moving. They're begging Her Highness for mercy."

"... a monk?"

Immediately, with a bad feeling, Sergio finally regretted that she had created a development that would make Her Highness's trends known to the citizens.

Aware of the aftermath of that incident, it must have been an unusual and obvious failure for him.

"Please, Your Highness! Thank you.I want you to meet Her Highness. "

"My queen, my queen! Please...."

"Please have mercy on us!"

"We have nothing to do with the Siena Monastery...!"

Perhaps Sergio was underestimating it.How desperate the people on the solemn side are to strive.

They seemed to be prosperous priests, as was evident from their outfits.

--King Harold is intensifying his repression of the sophisticated prosperous majority sects yesterday, and it can be seen that he will be one of the monks of the congregation that is the subject of his solemnity.

(No, Your Highness...)

Sergio first tried to turn his heel back immediately.I should have advised Her Highness to leave the square before responding to events outside the gate.

But it was too late. Her Highness came near the gate in such a way as to slowly drag the guards to a halt, just after Sergio.

Berta saw monks kneeling and rubbing their heads against the ground over the thick bars of the gate.

What's all this noise?

Even the memory of the solemnity of the previous Siena congregation is new.The expression of the crowd staring at the persecution of the monks was even stronger.

However, although Belta glared sharply at what was happening now, she did not know much about the specific situation.

Beginning with the recent Siena Monastery, Berta did not have much knowledge of the structure of the congregations, which are subdivided or hierarchically composed within the Prosperonists.

"Your Highness, we have nothing to do with the Siena Monastery!"

"Loyalty to the royal family is not obscured."

It seems that the indecisive gatekeepers beat the monks who decided to sit in front of the gate with the intention of abandoning themselves in front of the eyes of the other commoners.

They looked at her in a unified manner, relieved by the appearance of Belta, as if they were referring to Belta's court.

Sergio looks pale, so it seems better for Berta to get out of here as soon as possible.

How about this...

"Please take it!"

One of the monks is lying flat and desperately reaching out to give us something.Looking closely, it seemed like a letter with rough paper folded down.

While lost, Berta made the monk retreat with strong words.

"Lower the letter."

The kinds of pleadings are painful when they are received in a circumstantial manner.

The monk raised his face reflectively and unexpectedly.He was an old man with a thin face.

"I won't take that.If you have something to say to me, say it now. "

Belta observed the man saying so.

Slim cheeks without vibes.The impression is somehow reminiscent of James, the head of the heresy inquisition.

Is this the face of all human beings who have long forbidden carnivore and adhered to the strict teachings of purity and abstinence?

The man began to speak with a clear sense of crisis and sadness on his voice, knowing that Belta had been here for not so long, even though he was very distracted.

The saying was almost like a plea for help.

"--Due to the solemnity of the previous Siena Monastery, the various congregations regarded as our series have also been severely affected by the aftermath."

"Several believers have already been captured and imprisoned."

"The monasteries were destroyed, and the believers and the orphans who were laying down were lost in the streets, and we don't know tomorrow."

I knew that Harold had recently laid some stringency on the proselytism sects.

"Please, Your Highness! With regard to the Siena Monastery, which has often turned against Her Highness, such solemn grief is only natural.But we simply have to live in faith and live our days for God. "

Cutting off subsidies, accepting monasteries, taking vested interests....

I thought it would be the people who were burned out and in need by such measures, but it might be confusing because of the case of the Siena Monastery the other day.

Do they think that Berta, who was threatened with heresy by the Siena Monastery, is using his personal grudge to spread his solemn hand to the congregations of the series?

No, in that case, it was a deliberate escalation that the person could be oiled with fire.

Have you come to Belta to believe that the Queen can still expect a sweet and moderate response from the weak?

... well, what's the matter?

"For God's sake, for faith."

Belta concealed her sigh and slowly opened her mouth and stared at the monks in front of the gate.

"- That God has granted His Majesty all-encompassing authority to rule this land.If even a warrant against His Majesty's will is declared 'for God's sake', which is tainted with evil teachings? "

It is troublesome for a queen to think that she is "sweet".

At least on this occasion, she shouldn't have received their plea, nor should she have brought back such an abandonment to confront the king.

"Well, that sort of thing..."

"We're just... close to the poor, for faith."

"Then it will be obvious what you should do.It doesn't come out like this. "

I think what they're saying is probably more humane.

Nevertheless, politics does not consist of an emotional theory of abandoning the great and defending the small, and it is somewhat helpless to strengthen the repression of the radical sects of the old Prospero as the country moves in the direction of reconciliation.

"Then leave at once, and manifest your faith in this kingdom unless you disobey His Majesty's will."

And Bertha looked at the soldiers outside the gate, and made them follow the monks, and they were driven out of the place.

Belta herself left as soon as she was strongly urged by her guards to pull back her hair.