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In front of Aleist's eyes, a largeto the side

No, perhaps it was more accurate to say he was bloay Rudel and Eunius exchanged fists nearby, while a little further away, Luecke used his hts that swarmed around him The civil officials who tried to capture Eunius were thrown and littered about the streets like garbage

At the surrounding disaster, Aleist's face went pale He instantly sobered up

"Yep! This looks bad This is definitely bad, Rudel!"

The two locking fists wouldn't lend an ear to his cry On the contrary, despite the unveiling the day after the next, the two of the each other in the face When the others were carefully punching away frohed as they blatantly took aim

Just as they had been in the acade that exchange of blows caused Aleist to draw back

"I' you to stop it! You aren't kids anymore"

"Aleist, what makes you think you can stay an onlooker?"

"Eh?"

When Aleist tried to stop the two of them, Luecke placed a hand on his shoulders As he turned, Luecke began to scold hi over his face

"You… no The defenders really have been a thorn in h every day, and the mountains of paperwork, they're all because of the defenders Did you know? Who do you think prepares all the budget you guys run through like water? And who do you think checks over the docuhtest"

Aleist was a lieutenant, but he generally didn't attend s No, he wasn't invited to the duty That was all

When he was suddenly brought into talks of funding there was no way he could answer

"It's me It's my duty to process it! Even so, it's my job If it's a necessity, I won't complain But you see… the quantity and details of the papers surrounding you guys is abnor sound frory Definitely enraged Not wanting to take on Luecke when he was like that, he tried to laugh and play it off, when…

"Do you know about the ers, the dirt behind hiripped fist The size of that fist was as large as a grown man

"W-what do you plan to do with that?"

"Isn't is obvious? You use your shadows, so I'll be using uys"

Aleist's eyes turned to Rudel, confir everything around the back at Luecke, Aleist broke into a cold sweat at the earth hands that had

"Nohy don't we start"

"This is way too unreasonable!"

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Around that ti paperwork in her private room at the palace

"Hah, this is for the sake of the country… I cannot be negligent (I'll pass this proposal and auget! Just you wait, Halbades! I'll show you a thing or two about how this works Hihyaaaah!)"

"Princess, please stop with the lies A majority of these documents pertain to demi-huet's beco incredible"

"Fluff fluff land"

"…"

"For the sake of my dreams of fluffadise, I must first start with a house of fluff"

Sophina's face was stiff as she looked at Fina, who didn't have anyone to stop her lately She had worked too hard, transcending her fatigue and ending up in a state of high tensions Naturally as it was, once the individual calret it

The current Courtois didn't have the budget to send around to such things But through her needless proficience, her papers were able to skillfully draw funding fro the official documents made it all the way to the top brass They would likely be torn up there, but it was no joke for the govern the way

At this point, Luecke's sending back of the documents had become Fina's motivation Luecke's overly serious personality had backfired

"I'll call azing at fluffies being fluffed! I'rip on yourself! Why are you trying so far? When you're usually so useless!"

"… Sophina You just called ular basis"

Seeing Fina suddenly turn serious, Sophina flinched

After staring expressionlessly at Sophina, Fina turned to her desk and restarted her work Atop the desk, there were a number of serious documents scattered about A report on the border was one of theades stationed on the border are worse than I thought They're not even particularly incompetent, so why are…)

She seriously considered anti-empire measures and moved some hands around, but it seems she had lost the initiative

While she had sent around members of the defenders as well, but even so, if you asked whether they were enough to maintain the border, that would be impossible A number of choices encroached on Fina Within all that, ould becooons Frodom

(They're too skilled We'll eventually have to pay the bill for relying on them too much Even if we overcome this situation, it'll be bad if we don't have sooons, Fina remembered Rudel In preparation for the expo in two days ti a ruckus right around now

"I'm sure it's rowdy outside"

On Fina's words, Sophina hurriedly gave a response

"I-It happens every year We'll have to spend to the destruction"

At the expo that could be called Courtois' specialty, the young knights would run rampant every year It was also a sort of stress relief You could say that area was sponsored

"It's an annual event If the fountain isn't destroyed, you can't say it's that time of year"

"The area around the fountain on the ht, after all"

Perhaps recalling her tiic nod There was no probleades

If it was on the level of a scuffle, they would often be condoned It was a part of the festival A part of the festive eve

Fina wondered if Rudel was also raising a ruckus right around not That didn't sound bad, thought she as she looked at the desk For Fina kneas the only time he could play around

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The four out of breath fled fro the capital caht them some time But Eunius and Luecke's folloere apprehended, unable to run away Rudel had hopes that Luxheidt wouldabout that as well

"W-why are we running? Just own up"

While Aleist gave a short-winded lah he had given in a long tied They were the same sort of idiots they had been in their school days

"No, couldn't help it"

Eunius rubbed the place Rudel had shed Rudel had cut the inside of his mouth, blood dripped froan to speak

"Now then, what are we going to do now?"

"Let's get a drink It won't be any fun if we broke up here"

On their exchange, Aleist recalled their followers

"Huh? What about your men?"

"I'm sure they'll be released in no time That's just the sort of day it is"

"Once they're shoved in a cell, even those lot will quiet down a bit, right? Oh right! I can use that as a reason to increase their training hours My body's aching to ht correspondence, Rudel recalled his own comrades Luxheidt, Saas, and Enora would likely be fine without hiht over Izumi, but he couldn't turn back to invite her now If he showed himself, he would be apprehended

"Then we have to find a store that'll take us"

Rudel proceeded down the depths of an alley, and following behind hi in an alley, Aleist walked s

From behind, they could hear the claht?"

Leaving the fallen to the knights charged with security, Luxheidt had freed his co Rudel run away and pushing their job onto the other knights

But Luxheidt laughed

"It's fine Rather, I already told them who the principal offenders were"