The Duchess of the Attic

"Dear Opal! What shall we do!?

"It's okay, Naja. They're right. I'll write to you."

"But..."

"Don't worry, nothing will change because I pleaded in a letter. The Kingdom of Socieux does not bother to move for the Kingdom of Tysey. That would have happened eight years ago, wouldn't it? Neither my father nor the Duke of McCloud would do anything for the kingdom of Tysey."

"That's complicated. Your wife's life is at stake..."

Opal replied calmly to Naja, worried.

Then Naja swells her cheeks in dissatisfaction this time.

The figure was adorable and Opal laughed with a low voice.

It really cheers me up when I'm with Naja.

What you did to me in this room was enough to thank Julian.

"It's not every laugh ~. If your wife acted too awesome and didn't know about that night, I must have cried out"

Naja laughs as she complains.

The two of us chuckled for a while, but Naja clouded her expression all the time.

"But is it really okay? I know that your husband is safe, but the King's capital is... will His Majesty be safe?

"Right. You're not going to have to worry about it all, but you're going to have to believe it's okay. Their information is already wrong in the first place, isn't it? There's Claude here who was attacked by a burglar and was supposed to have lost his life. We all do what we have to do, so I have to do it too."

Encouraging Naja, Opal turned to his desk.

Even if Opal hadn't bothered to plead in a letter, my father would not, of course, want Hubert to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, etc.

That's why Cole spells out the sentence the way he wanted it to.

Naja sat by the window and began to fix Opal's dress.

When Opal signed the letter to his father, he stopped and thought.

I was wondering what I would do if I were in Alessandro's shoes.

First of all, there must be information on simultaneous bees.

Instead, there's no way that someone as cunning as Alessandro doesn't realize anything of that magnitude.

It was stranger why the anti-Kings didn't notice about it.

(You're saying it's better to control information than force rather than money...)

I recall Claude owning a newspaper.

Alessandro will probably be holding back other information media as well.

(The masses will be on His Majesty's side, won't they? Just a part of the central aristocracy and the people of the Duke of Botzeri.)

They say the ostensibly anti-Alessandro nobles are eliminated, but I don't know how potential they are among the neutrals.

Above all, I did not know how the Duke's people, who were the strongholds of the anti-Alessandro faction during the civil unrest eight years ago, would move.

At the time, the Duke of Botzelli also involved the inhabitants, with or without mentioning their presence as the head of the anti-Alessandro faction - although the battle was not actually fought - now the lords are also changing.

The non-Connally - will Duncan, the servant and caretaker who has been kind to me at the consulate, also fight as an anti-Alessandro?

Duncan doesn't trust Opal, but he definitely cared about that land and people.

(And I wonder if Claude is safe...)

Human Claude seems okay so far, but he gets worried about the dog Claude.

The servants were sweet on Claude, but Connally hated them.

(No, I'm sure you'll be fine. Something you shouldn't even care about if you don't get into Connally's sight)

The servants will surely hide Claude.

Even that Duncan was adorable about Claude.

Nevertheless, Duncan shouldn't be the other way around.

(I'm sure Duncan won't allow that land to be a battlefield. But he seemed to respect the previous Duke, and he's submissive to Connally...)

Duncan had a boneless and harsh impression, but the trust from the inhabitants was thick.

Even if it was Opal who propagated the Great Sickle, he wouldn't be able to ignore Duncan and guide the people.

Um, Opal thinks, I heard a patchy thread going off.

"Ma'am, we're done!

"Naja?"

"Bye! These pants are for your wife and grandmother only!

"... Huh?

Opal didn't know what Naja's words meant when she stood up and happily spread out what looked like pants to show.

Ever since I was locked in the attic, Naja was fixing her dress when she wasn't taking care of Opal - but she didn't.

There couldn't have been a place to fix Opal's dress the longer I spent thinking about it.

"Uh... what do you mean by" wife "... no, pants?

"Eh heh. Marcia told me. My wife used to break dresses when she was a kid when she was climbing trees."

"Uh, yeah."

"He had trouble with that, too, but he said he was wearing his brother's pants under his skirt on his own if he cautioned that it wasn't a good idea to be skirted climbing a tree or being run over. So I said," Wouldn't this be a problem? 'You said it!

"... that's what happened."

Opal, who was brought up with something black and historic, deflected his attention from Naja, who speaks with exasperation.

Unaware of such opals, Naja continues confidently.

"So you might be concerned about your skirt when your wife gets a love escape with her husband. But you wouldn't mind wearing these pants in your skirt, would you?

"... right"

I can't care less about my skirt turning in a stuffed situation, etc., but I guess it made me think naja.

It was just subtle that Naja thought I was your grandmother even in this year.

It is not an escape of love in the first place, but, normally speaking, an escape.

"... I'll wear those pants tomorrow."

"Yes!"

I can't resist wearing pants, so I decided to let them use it just starting tomorrow.

Naja replies with pleasure.

Perhaps Opal should be brought back from here to the port or consulate of Pasma in the future, where he will have the opportunity to flee.

In doing so, pants may help.

But I couldn't have misjudged whether I should honestly run away or obey.

If there was an anti-Kingship uprising in the King's Capital - there would be for sure, but how would Alessandro move then?

Cole's belief in the information that Claude was attacked by a burglar and lost his life in the first place means that was the plan.

I wonder what the person who can make Claude look like a burglar and attack him is doing now.

With this in mind, Opal sealed his letter to his father and the Duke of McCloud.