Oukoku e Tsuzuku Michi
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I encounter a mere four guards when I enter the palace through the front door.

They must have hurried to check what’s going on after hearing the noise.

Their white armor and silver-decorated swords are no different than usual.

What’s different is me.

I have never stepped into the palace fully dressed in armor geared for actual combat.

Not to mention it’s absurd to be wearing blood-stained armor and dragging around a blood-stained sword.

I proceed as though the frozen palace guards don’t exist and give them a sidelong glance as I pass by.

「H-heee!」

「Au……aau.」

They back away without touching their swords.

I can safely ignore them.

「I thought there would a barricade in the palace, but there’s nothing.」

Don’t tell me the king and the nobles are leisurely acting like everything is fine in this situation.

I expected the nobles in the palace and the bureaucrats to also help the guards to defend.

「The situation may not have been communicated to them yet――hah!」

Celia lowers her body as she runs and then leaps.

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