RATH Side Story 1
TL: Eevee
Side Story A certain princesss mories (1)
To , the world.
Everything was grey.
It was not a taphor.
Just that everything aside from
Seed to be in black and white.
Black and white.
And their mixture,
A grey-coloured world.
Then one day.
When Id thought that all this was normal.
In my grey-coloured world.
In ca another existence clad in colours other than grey.
#1 Their story: a certain villains story
This is the 17th Garden that the 9th Prince visits frequently, and thanks to that we can often see the 9th Prince. The 9th Princes mother
As I listened to the explanation I could only think one thing. Just how big is this bloody imperial palace?
According to the explanation the garden I saw just now was the seventeenth.
For the record, there are 51 gardens in the imperial palace.
We havent even gone through half of them, yet half the days already gone by!
As for why Im looking at the gardens of the imperial palace, of course its because Im here on an assignnt for the organization.
Normally I should be working hard as an instructor and rolling the kids and sucking on the sweet honey, but my first cohort of disciples had nothing but monsters. Damn it.
Because of that for the first ti in the organizations history they passed the tertiary training in just over a year.
Since most other instructors take just over 4 years to raise their cohorts I have three years left compared to them.Th sourc of this conte/nt n/o/v/(l)bi((n))
And our organization which is always has a labour shortage will never tell good job and let play for three years!
Even so, to think theyd throw into the field straight away, and into the infamous house of hell thats the imperial palace!
If you were to talk about the imperial palace, legend has it that its the place where more organization mbers were killed because they had the wrong backer, instead of actually being outed as a spy!
Plus its the infamous worst possible working environnt in the organization, that no matter how well you did your job, if you were just shit out of luck then you were dead just like that!
No, but why is the organization sending a high-spec agent like to this place!
Because of this the nobles that are close to the 9th Prince often visit this place. These nobles are
Well, the silver lining is, that at least I had pretty good luck in seniors?
Id heard that there were a lot of people that just half-assed the explanation and said get out if you cant take it, but my senior is explaining in great detail about the nobles that co often, as well as those nobles factions and how influential they were.
Moreover, he was also telling about which nobles to watch out for.
Although thanks to that, like I said earlier we still havent gotten round to even half the palace grounds
Of course Im not doing a palace garden tour as a servant.
To be accurate its a palace tour.
But if we havent even seen half the gardens, just how much more places are there to cover?
I still need to see the knight orders, the places where the magicians are staying, the mages, magicians workrooms that are classified secrets this damn empire is so big I think itll take at least a week to get round all of it.
Although thankfully it seems there are quite a few places that need to be kept secret?
Of course not all of them are classified areas, there could be a few fakes scattered around, but if I dont need to go there then thats good for .
On the battlefield even if Id been awake for three days and nights I still hadnt hurt, but maybe it was because I was wearing tight shoes, or whether Id just been listening to boring stories all this ti, but my feet were hurting more than they had on the battlefield.
It hurt and it hurt like hell!
And Ah, greetings, Your Highness.
Greetings, Your Highness.
After explaining everything about the 17th Garden and while we were moving to where the 7th Knight Order were located, I saw a cute little girl with silver hair and red eyes.
For the record, the presence of imperial blood here showed itself as silver hair and red eyes.
They say that they carried the bloodline of Silver Dragons, but its unsure whether its true or not.
Theres just too many stories of royal bloodlines with dragon blood in them after all.
But even if shes just a kid, shes royalty! A being that could easily order my head lopped off anyti!
Because of that I quickly bowed my head, but even as ti passed, even as I felt that now should be about the ti for permission to raise our heads to co along, the princess was still silent.
Y, Your Highness?
Her female bodyguard beside her called for her as if she was shocked, but theres still no order to raise our heads!
Damn it! Was this senior one on the princesss bad side?!
Hirett Was it?
Its an honour that you rember .
No, I just dont forget things I heard. But whos that behind you?
Hes a new hire that just ca in.
New hire alright, wheres his dispatch?
Thats still yet to be confird.
Really?
The conversation felt weird.
If I was under that seniors wing, right now thered be all sorts of suffering and prosecution!
This is truly a fearful place, imperial palace! From the very beginning I chose the wrong line!
So the princess went past, the day ended with being unable to see even 1/5 of the palace, and the next day.
Congratulations. Ive never seen sothing this drastic in ten years of working in the imperial palace.
Eh?
I tilt my head. Thats odd. Thats odd?
Wasnt I here as with a recomndation from so random baron with ties to the organization to be hired as common servant? Or am I dreaming right now?
Haha, it seems youre surprised at working directly under the princess as well. But good luck.
But the feeling of my seniors hand patting my shoulder reminded that this was reality.
It wasnt my senior but ? I havent been discovered, have I?!
***
Your Highness? Personal butler all of a sudden? Do you know him?
No? Theres no way that I would know a commoner that ca in only yesterday when I dont even go out of the palace?
But why
Secret.
My Reia had been my bodyguard from a young age, but she still has a tendency of being surprised.
Of course, in terms of her bodyguarding skills I have no complaints. Her skills being a matter of course, her bodyguard abilities rank in the top tier among those her age, no, the entire knight order.
But, her downside is that she seems to lack a tiny bit of sothing for day to day living.
Reia, if you keep doing that then you wont be able to get married?
Wha, what! You know how many marriage talks are coming to ! Theyre all
Dont lie. Theyre marriage talks going to your family, considering you always get rejected when you et face to face, just where do you think youre pretending to be unable to get married because of ?
Kurgh
Although Reia is sniffling, I need her to face reality.
Its all for Reias sake. There are two big reasons why Reia always gets rejected.
One is that shes not feminine.
Well, although there are n that dont seem to care about that, but the next reason is probably why she keeps getting rejected.
Its too much, Your Highness! Everything was for your sake!
Ahh thats the problem.
She started to complain to with freely dripping waterworks from her eyes.
Reias ntal strength is too weak. She cant control her emotions, so she prioritizes her emotions over the situation.
If it wasnt Reia but so other maid or guard then Id have thrown her out already, her emotional control is that bad.
Because a person that rages when angry, cries when sad, laughs when happy, does not fit at all with this imperial palace where you must always hide your emotions.
But shes a famous prodigy even in her family which is renowned for its swordsmanship, didnt they say swordsn were supposed to keep calm?
They say a sword that has lost its calm cant demonstrate its full strength, but even like this Reias still strong.
Really, isnt the most important quality of a swordsman just strength?
Knock knock.
Your Highness, mister Ast is here.
Tell him to co in.
The grey-coloured door opened, and a man clad in myriad colours entered.
He seed to be in his late 20s, perhaps early 30s, but since there were said to be many cases where commoners lived harsh lives and looked older than they were, is he more likely to be in his twenties.
You, what are you?
Excuse ?
What are you.
What are you, that only you have colour? Are you the sa as ? But in that case you shouldnt be alive.
Just, what on earth are you?
Your Highness! I was so happy my workload would reduce because you brought in a person for the first ti in a long ti, but youre like this to him hell quit straight away!
No, he cant quit. Its an imperial order.
Until I say so, he cannot resign.
Since the day my fate was decided, he was the first man bearing colour.
I havent found out how or the reason, so I cant let him quit.
Before I know the reason why, I need to put him by my side and observe him.
If you understood, then answer . What are you?
I am nad Ast.
I know your na.
Then could you please tell what it is you are asking ?
Are you an idiot? I asked what are you.
So I said my na is Ast.
I wasnt asking for your na.
Then what else should I represent myself by? If I cannot represent myself by my na or person, then just what should I introduce myself as to Your Highness?
He was tilted his head as if he didnt know, but his lips held a queer smile.
It was an expression that said I know what you want, but Im not going to tell you so easily.
So, thats how youre going to play? Then I should respond in kind.
If it was my other siblings I would threaten them with my title, but thats not my style.
What difficult things are you talking about? I just asked you what you were. But youre replying with such complicated words, do you even know what your role is?
Now, these are a pure and innocent childs eyes.
Of course I am a child, but on the inside Im nothing less than an adult.
Yes, ordinary people would probably call a genius. But even so, Im nine years old. It wouldnt be weird if I were to say such things.
You are also responsible for my education. So, Im asking you. Because I dont know. What are you?
Explain in a way thats easy for to understand.
Your Highness, are you really doing that again. This is why all your servants quit.
As if she was getting a headache, Reia grumbled but Reia was never soone I had to be concerned with.
Now then, Ast. What will be your answer?
#2. Their story: A certain villains story.
Now, the first thing that this princess says when she ets for the first ti is this. Hm, whats. This. How should I respond?
Plus, she even says shes using an imperial command preventing from quitting. Hoho, damn it. But at least I can ascertain sothing out of this. The princess definitely wants sothing from .
If I can understand what that is then I could probably direct this conversation to my favour
That kids getting snippy, but since shes the princess Im the one that should crawl.
I give her my na. Nas are important. Theres a reason why the question your na is. exists.
Of course its an alibi though. But even though I thought I answered rather well.
The replies that co back are all argunts. No? wasnt? So what?
Why is this not even ten-year old kid Im seeing for the first ti, wait, since I saw her yesterday it isnt our first eting. But still, if you asked soone about a philosophical question the first ti you t them, then how would you answer.
I dont know. To begin with I wasnt exactly good with philosophy, and its not like I can yell I think! Therefore I am! like Descartes. So I decided on a honest straight ball instead.
But
She tilted her head and asked like an innocent little kid. No, I actually dont understand what my job is?! I woke up and was dispatched as a personal butler, theres no way Id know what Im doing! Its not like there was a handover process either!
I just ca because they ran over, said go this way. But the mont I arrive she asks who are you, and when I say I dont understand, what complicated things are you saying.
Hoho, not even an evil organization rushes work like this, would you say as expected of the empire, as expected of the imperial palace!
Ah, so that was the case. Im also in charge of the princesss education. If that workload is included then it felt like there would be massive amounts of other workloads included in the package as well but this was the priority right now. Hm.
Do I need to say sothing wise or sothing. No. since she doesnt know then easily so she can understand. Easily
Alright then lets do it this way.
I dont know.
Ah dunno! Sue !
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