Grizzled
#S2 Episode 28
“I am indeed used to feeling anxious when things are going too well.”
The words of that afternoon Eagle ringed in my ear. He is not happy to listen to irrational feelings, but seems to be even more unhappy when irrational feelings are proven to be true over and over again. This was his same reaction as when Mr. Hanri's disguise used to be revealed.
Still with an unreadable expression, he sat next to me in the middle of the conference. I doubt if he really listened to Professor Cakra's explanation of the efficiency of the new moon crystal over our great victory of the time. The other two seats in this room were empty, belonging to Aquila and Kak Garuda. Both have permission to conduct research in the field, collect information materials for the prevention of re-expansion and other issues that sound important, but are clear, the two are not out to take care of things.
“Tim we have tested the new moon crystal sample and got astonishing results. This will be good news for everyone,” said Professor Cakra then further explained that the moon's crystal energy was apparently thousands of times greater than what it is today. With the same lifetime it could be used to build a thousand units of cloud landmass the size of a unit of the capital Alba, but rather than build a civilization on a cloud that could one day be untenable, that much energy will be used for surface development, redesigning security systems and defense components in anticipation of the expansion of the Grey World.
Today's meeting is over. The mission to finish off the rest of the Grey World is still in the planning and will be discussed in the next meeting. It should be discussed today, I thought. Is it hard to get rid of two percent of the Grey World after ninety-eight percent of the ludes in our hands? Well, the board members wanted me to take a short break after yesterday's big win. Ah, they do not understand that I am in a hurry. They don't know because I haven't told anyone other than Luska – that he didn't take seriously. Maybe I should deliver it once more .. and demand Luska's seriousness.
“Yang Mulia ..”
Long live, someone I just thought of appeared. The knight offered a strolling event around the city to see the frenzy of ceremonial preparations.
“What ceremony?” my question does not understand.
“Your Majesty will know for himself later,” replied Luska who is so talented hanging up the explanation.
“You're also coming, Lang!” I asked, but what I was talking about went first.
“Lang?!” call me again and she pretends to be deaf. Ah, fine, whatever! I hope he doesn't forget that we're pretending nothing happened.
“Why with Great Knights?” ask Luska.
“Once, perhaps a toothache,” I replied of origin. Luska had blinked did not understand, but he did not want to take a headache, continuing to prepare his mount to go around.
“Your Majesty don't want to try riding paxii by yourself?” tanya Luska led out a mixed animal horse and gold-haired garuda that she used to pick me up from the tower of Aquila at that time.
“Eh? Me? Riding it alone?”
“Why not? Since the beginning of meeting His Majesty this beast seems to like you. Normally it takes weeks to be able to tame and trusted paxii, but it seems different from His Majesty,” replied Luska stroking the soft fur of the animal. I remembered Shiro and his friends who were familiar with me.
“Alright, I'll try it, but if he pokes and throws me, he should be my dinner menu!”
“You heard that?” reply Luska chuckled patting the head of this garuda, “be a sweet ride for His Majesty!”
This Paxii said in a cute voice like a chick, very different when I heard the sound of the grill of his fork at that time. Luska helped me ride it. He only watched as I circled around for a while in the courtyard to get used to sitting stably on top of this beast. Shortly after that we both set off accompanied by a few bodyguards who were also riding their paxii.
The crowd outside the palace walls blew up enthusiasm for the sake of seeing my entourage, a moment later it immediately gained control by bowing low respectfully. Children who did not care about it immediately surrounded us, but were driven away by the guards. I'm kind of sorry for not bringing candy or something that could be shared with them –Luska didn't say long ago that I could go out of the castle! So many eyes looked on with a twinkle of admiration, bewitching me.
We finally arrived at a field that was the square of Alba. Some people seem to be working together to build a small stage in the middle while the rest tidied up and rearranged the traces of the festivity of yesterday's parade. In a giant panel like a billboard, displayed my picture which .. geez, what is my face cute pretentious there?
“A few more days, if there is no obstruction, the appointment ceremony of Her Majesty as the queen of Alba will be held here, witnessed by thousands of lucky residents because this kind of event has never existed in previous generations. There has never been an appointment of a king or queen because the legitimate heir of our savior has all just been found lately,” explained Luska also could not cover the smile like his voice.
Awareness of something quickly hit my head. What ceremony did he say?
“Luska ...”
Good, my throat choked at an inopportune moment –or at just the right moment for now. I did refuse to be queen and scold Luska because she was still pushy, but for now it is impossible to say so amidst the crowd's joy wave like this. I can't imagine how people would react if I told you I should hurry home instead of sitting proudly on the throne. There will be a lot of hurt hearts. The fact that most of my responsibilities were getting rid of the repaid disaster made them increasingly believe that I was the new dynasty leader of this country, but ... someone they trust and they hope it has to go.
How to say my wish correctly without anyone getting hurt? Ah, I expected the situation full of dilemmas would pin me down like this. All the way back to the castle maybe my face looks more grim because of thinking about various things and Luska realized that without asking.
“Your Majesty is worried about something?” his question spelled out my steps through the quiet side courtyard. Luska had been looking at me serically while I was still arguing with myself, looking for arguments she would not be able to resist.
“Oh yes, Luska ..” I said after clearing my throat for a moment, “do you really believe in the concept of a legitimate heir who is the basis of the appointment of leaders in this country?”
My opponent was silent, trying to pick up the direction of this conversation, “There is almost no reason for me or the whole Alba not to believe it, Your Majesty, while the reason to believe it is too obvious, can not be denied.”
“Only because of the sign of nobility? And my strength is this?” deny me, “I'll expose an odd hole that changes your view of the rightful heir!”
“Regarding this power of mine, you said it was an absolute sign of a legitimate heir, passed down randomly through anyone still connected to the noble bloodline, right?” my many. Luska nodded.
“Well, I happened to inherit it from my grandmother. A few years ago he was still alive .. while you yourself also have the power of the rightful heir despite rejecting him by suicide. What the hell is going on? Two people have the power of a legitimate heir in the same period? I think it's a special power that's only bestowed specifically on one person because it would be troublesome in the event of leadership dualism. I don't think that power is the only absolute sign that I should be made queen .. And it seems like the understanding of it has to start to change,”. The hall room we crossed was still quiet because Luska had not yet answered.
“I expected it,” said Luska after a while, “I thought this conversation would lead to the rejection of His Holiness.”
“I'm not resisting ..”
“Actually I know His Majesty still wants to return to Nigra. That's why I took His Majesty around, looking at how much the people of Alba love His Majesty, but it turns out His Majesty still insisted on going.”
“I'm not resisting, as long as you know ... I mean, I mean anyone deserves to be a leader. Who has the power to blow away dust and objects like me is not necessarily good at taking care of the lives of many people. That's not the absolute mark. In fact the head of the council also managed to hold the steering wheel of government during the vacancy ..”.
“But the split is fractured in the middle of our society, Your Majesty. As long as it remains there is a gap between this fraction and that fraction. Doesn't His Majesty realize that it was your presence that erased the abyss? Who united us all?” objection Luska, “maybe the power of flying things is not the only absolute sign, but the invisible power of His Majesty, the nobility and kindness that reconcile us all ... I think that's what makes Her Majesty deserve to be our queen.”
I took a deep breath, hoping that there was an Eagle by my side who could always win the debate, but I soon did not expect so considering that it could break the war if the two of them were to argue for the sake of their completely different desires.
“If only goodness and nobility are. I think everyone has it, only sometimes it is dominated by other passions and desires, in fact anyone has the right to be a leader,”, “let alone Luska himself who was once awarded the power of the rightful heir.”
“What does it mean?” taya Luska while holding back a laugh, “Your Majesty would like to say that I can also be made king? To replace His Majesty?”
“Not at all, Your Majesty. Not funny. This country will only be re-enacted by disaster with the ass of the damned above the throne. I don't dare to imagine it in the least,” replied Luska.
“Ah, right, the curse is yes? You ... I think you really want to live eternally next.”
Luska's expression completely changed after my words earlier and I increasingly did not want to stop talking.
“What are you planning? Accept the curse and continue to acknowledge yourself as a damned person without wanting to rise up to make amends?”
“If it can, my past mistakes can only be redeemed by devotion to Alba and fighting angkara, not necessarily by becoming the next king,” replied Luska.
“Must be like that! You have run away from responsibility and just assume you have thrown that responsibility at me! Ah, basic!”
“Now we are throwing responsibility at each other, deh!”
“You started!” my spray has completely lost patience.
“Sorry, Your Honor ..” says Luska with downhill shoulders, “it looks like this is all my fault. Because of me Your Majesty must be away from Nigra, the homeland you love.”
“Aduh, I am not a half-dead love with Nigra, but my test ... Geez! Please, understand! I can't skip it for a long time and imagine how many days I haven't eaten training about?!” my answer is so honest, that's what I've been worried about until now.
“My curse may indeed not be redeemed by becoming the next leader, there will come a new disaster .. but in fact the disaster did not only come because of it, because of it,” said Luska had been bowed staring at the tip of her own feet.
“Nah, right. Disaster does not only come because of the wrong leader. You should stop thinking petty!” timpal.
“I'm serious, Your Honor ... To be honest I do not plan to let the next disaster happen ...”
Luska's face was more sad than I thought when I said that. Still don't understand much, I demand an explanation for his words.
“Maybe many things will change, the new pseudo-joy will be celebrated .. and Your Majesty will be further away, but rather than two worlds involved in disaster, then Your Majesty should know, so you should know,“ says Luska.
“What do you mean, Luska?”
Luska needed to let go of the doubt in her chest before continuing to speak.
“Invasion, Your Majesty,“ he said looking at me straight.
“Ha?”
“In the appointment ceremony of His Majesty later, the head of the council will all announce the invasion plan to Nigra.”
“INVASION WHERE?!”
As if hanging from hearing Luska's words earlier, my ears tried to reach through the remaining pieces of information I heard from her, kusetel repeatedly on the head. Invasion of Nigra? Invasion said?!
“Oh, it's good that Your Majesty knows this early,” said a voice further aggravated my shock.
“Head of Board?”
“Thank you, Luska! You have delivered it to His Majesty,” said Ladra, “but why did you mention the two worlds disaster? It sounded terrible and made His Majesty frightened.”
“Open a giant portal and burn down Nigra to seize their territory, what is the name if not a disaster? You want to trap His Majesty in his own rapture ceremony so as not to be able to reject the idea in the presence of so many people!” reply Luska.
“In the presence of many, after being appointed queen or god even once, I WILL NEVER AGREE MY HOMELAND IS OBLITERATED!” I was angry, completely inexhaustible what made the Head of the Board suddenly plan this?!
“Ah, whereas after all the preferential treatment and the standing of His Majesty, I think His Majesty can take a bit of a side with Alba. His Majesty should have sided with our ancestral land, but ... was it not the least huh? Hm, as Luska said, His Majesty does love Nigra more and always insists on going back there. The people will definitely not forgive such betrayal!” ladra.
“Damn it! Which people are more amenable to the mad attack?!”
“Originally His Holiness knows ... Hundreds know, we people in Alba tormented by the expansion of the Grey World, ended up getting away from the surface and almost extinct because of who? Because of the evil lust of the Nigra people that made the Grey World created! Which never subsides and continues to grow, making the Grey World continues to expand! Isn't it now that we have new powers, the moon crystal, it's the turn of the Nigra people who feel the pain?”
Crazy one! This old man is crazy!
“And the ideals of the invasion had long been thought of by the supporters of my faction, becoming the number two agenda after eliminating the Grey World. Unfortunately, the rightful heir to Luska's successor came from Nigra. I think it will be an exciting show seeing you, the daughter of Nigra, lead this invasion and muzzle your more damned homeland. In this case, it looks like it will not be accomplished, but we with our own strength plus the moon crystal .. seems to have been more than capable, kok!”
“Shoppers! That moon crystal is mine! Me and the Eagle got it!”
“Wah, right! Then we will eliminate civilization in Nigra with the gift of great power from the son of the daughter of Nigra himself! The title of the show is still equally interesting!” ladra said chuckling violently.
“That cannot be justified, Head of the Board!” sahut Luska's.
“My son? Why are you just saying that now? Want to act like a hero in front of the woman who captured your heart? Afraid of losing her when you're on my side? Maybe you forgot, long before you agreed to make our plans come true! Willing to pick up the rightful heir for us to take advantage of defeating the Grey World and wah... everything goes according to plan! You will be the eternal king of this land, avenging our heartache for the humiliation you received first! Why are you still worried about losing that girl, my son?! No one dares to resist the power of the king, you can still marry him by force, marry thousands of girls you want!”
I want to wake up from a dream. Please tell me that this is just a long nightmare reaching its peak. Staring at Ladra and Luska's faces alternately, I just wanted to run, run as far away as possible.
.Seriate.
