Ore wa Mada, Honki o Dashite Inai

In a carriage bound for the Wang du Retim.

The weather was nice, so I was like an opener and enjoying the view on the road.

"It's a nice breeze."

A sister on board snapped as she held her hair against the wind.

The side of the view was beautiful and I couldn't help but notice it.

"... than that, what are you going to the capital for?

"Oh? Speaking of which, was this your first Hermes?

"I feel like I'm gonna be in trouble again."

"It's okay. It's just an event to ask my brother and father to do their duty as noblemen."

"The annoying smell has gone up extra... what is this about?

"You're going to the Kick Princess Festival."

"Kicking Princess Festival?

The naming made me more and more nagging, but I put up with the "princess" festival to be held in the "king's capital," one letter of which caught on and not to say anything nagging.

"It's not entirely unrelated to the Canoe family either. It is the festival of Itchy Queen Serene, the ancestor of Zhongxing. The queen was very selfish when she was young, and if there was anything she didn't care about, she wouldn't care who she was, she'd kick her ass."

"Is that where you're from?"

"Yeah. The specific thing is that nobles get together and kick pumpkins and compete for that flying distance."

"Why pumpkins?"

"Come on, it's ambiguous there, but you think the queen has been very trusted and advised? You think you can make it a dessert after using pumpkins and behave like kids? You have all sorts of theories."

"It's a strange story that the Queen's disgrace is clear and the festival's origins are vague."

"That's what happens."

"So, am I supposed to kick a pumpkin there?

"Yeah. Win, brother, father."

"Do good."

I see, kicking princess festival......

Wang Du Retim, summer palace.

It is a palace full of water and greenery with the most beautiful gardens in the world.

It is said that hundreds of years ago the king built it for his beloved queen.

When I arrived in the capital, I came out here early.

You're here, Hermes.

Looking at the beauty of the garden, Shaw called me from behind and lined me up.

"We're out of time, Your Highness."

"Well done for coming, honestly I thought you'd soak it up"

"I won't do that"

I grinned.

It might have been a while ago, but not now.

When I changed my policy, I decided not to curb my strength more than necessary, but to make it as average as it was around me.

As average, it's the least noticeable way to keep it around as much.

So...

"Your Highness, just one favor."

"Hmm? What?"

"I want you to finish my turn."

"Last?... Hmm, right, a headshot is the last thing that comes up. Okay, let's do that."

"Thank you"

I'm not even willing to give a performance worthy of a blast, but Shaw listened to me, which was helpful.

Now you can look around and then kick it.

"Yes, what about your handy legs?

"Handy feet?

"Prepare a pumpkin to match your handy feet. Magic pumpkin, so to speak. If you kick it with your legs, it will fly great, but if it's a different leg, it's a substitute for a tenth of the flight distance."

"Why would you do that?

"It's a festival to commemorate the great queen, so you'd be better dressed up for a grand air battle, wouldn't you?

I see.

You don't have to lie here.

I honestly said I was on my right leg, and Shaw hopefully figured it out, walked away from here.

That concludes what we did the day before.

Let's go back to the inn we took to the capital and relax today.

That's when I almost walked away.

"Oh, isn't this Viscount Canoe?"

"Yeah?"

Turn to the voice calling my name.

There was a noble young man my age.

I don't recognize him, but he seems to know me.

... I'm concerned that it's not friendly.

"Uh..."

"Ha, you don't know, you don't know the Viscount like me right now."

……

The words were togemashimashi.

What are you trying to say? This guy.

"What do you say? What status did you get when you had a woman cry?

"Cry?

"Don't be shy, though I'll be the Lord's seat I've got since I made my own sister my stepdaughter"

"... oh"

Pong, and slapped his hand.

I would have completely forgotten if you hadn't told me.

No, I was also called "brother father" by my sister on the road until I came to the capital, but lately that has become too familiar and I have completely forgotten where it came from.

Originally, I had three brothers before me.

The heir of the Lord will never come around to me, but one day a meteorite fell and my three brothers died in an accident.

Even then, the inheritance is still in my sister's hands, but the schemer's sister instantly succeeded the king in making herself my stepdaughter, lowering her inheritance and letting me inherit the house.

Is that what you're saying?

"Well, there you are."

I understood the story, and I also understood that it was a tremendously annoying way to get entangled.

I tried to finish the conversation appropriately.

"What do you say? The seating comfort of our Lord's throne has been graced by a woman."

"Right there."

Appropriately, he tries to walk away.

"Is that how you got the Cross Medal, too?

"... what?

I stood on my feet, stopping unexpectedly at a man's word, and turned around.

"Four cross medals on Slime Road. Impossible. How did you do that? Daughter?

……

Well, I lost my eye.

Stare at the man.

The man laughed with his nose and pretended to wander off.

"Oh scary scary scary. A man's pride a dozen years ago?

"Undo it."

"You can't stand a door in a person's mouth, can you?

... Well, it's at tomorrow's festival, isn't it? It is the festival of the great Queen Serene, where there is no politics or deception whatsoever. If the bucket doesn't peel, I'll undo what I just said. "

That's what the man said, and finally he laughed off again with his nose and walked away with a good face.

……

I look behind me and drop him off.

Not long ago, I got a simmering rage at the bottom of my belly.

The next day, the festival production.

There is a Triumph Street that penetrates Lettim, which Queen Serene used in a parade when she returned from the war.

On that triumphant street, the pumpkin kick festival opened.

As the inhabitants of the capital cheer and freshly do, when nobles appear one after the other, they kick pumpkins.

Inside, girls, babies, etc. ritually kick and create soothing scenes, but most nobles do their best to kick.

That, too, should be at the end of Triumph Street - King of Kings watching all the time on the terrace of the Royal Palace.

So to speak... it's your game.

It is only natural that the nobles should do everything in their power to show us a good place.

That's how the nobles kick one after the other.

"" "Oooh!!

To the lid, the greatest cheer of the day boiled down.

If anything, a young nobleman who insulted his sister yesterday (,,,,,,,,) raises his hand to the great cheer of the people of Wang Du.

Further, I could see pumpkins flying far ahead of Triumph Street, right before the terrace where the king was sitting.

Best flight distance of the day, best cheer of the day.

The man answered plenty of it, and then returned the blemishes and came over.

"Too bad, this is the difference in strength"

……

I'm totally proud to win and I'm eyeing you from the top.

"Sir Hermes Canoe, in order"

I ignored him and headed somewhere to kick him.

The clerk's got the pumpkin in place.

Red, blue, and red in two colors.

The most palpable shades of red and blue are the relative shades, so far it looks like they are for the left and right legs respectively.

All I've got is red for my right leg.

Still, as the finish of the previous man lingered, I headed toward Stasta and Pumpkin.

Those who are near will be bothered.

"Ha, without aiding - do you properly kick and make tea"

I heard a man looking down from behind.

Ignore that too.

Stop in front of the pumpkin and shake your left leg up without a runaway...

"" "-!?

I kicked a pumpkin for my right leg with my left leg as I was surprised around.

The opposite leg, pumpkin, which is said to decay into a tenth, flutters up and increases the distance of the Grunge flight.

Eventually, I flew to the exact same place as the man earlier.

At the point of the best record and flag erected, it fell without the madness of dimensions.

Scene.

The capital quieted down.

I kicked him with a different leg and gave him the exact same flight distance.

That's a silent message, a message that anyone can understand if you think about it a little bit.

I turned around and jerked back at the young nobleman, who shivered when I realized he had been cocked.

"I'm not serious yet."

To the silent message, the man drinks his breath and wanders.

"" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!!!

One beat late, the whole capital was engulfed with cheers.