<h4>Chapter 76.2 </h4>


    “Nichs!”


    “Maia!”


    When I returned to town, Maia and Nichs, who had sought refuge there, rushed up to each other and hugged tightly. As I watched them smiling at each other, Maia turned bright red and pulled away from Nichs.


    “I’m sorry, Carol-sama! I’m uh…”


    “Carol-sama…? Carol-sama! Oh, I was thinking why she looked so familiar, but how?”


    “Don’t worry, Cam knows.”


    “He didn’t mention anything about it!”


    Nichs was getting on my nerves. I entered the reception room of the temple-like building that served as my residence and started the conversation. Nichs and the girl from earlier exchanged nces, and the girl: Lilia: gulped as I began to speak.


    “I will tell you the story from the beginning.”


    I escaped from the kingdom by smashing the top of the castle, but it seems that the king’s property was in there, and to make up for it as well as to force the people to pay heavy taxes, they tried to oppress the subhumans and started a war with the daemons topensate for the money that they lost. That’s a lot of work.


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    I knew about that part, but I heard that the heavy taxation had worsened the crop failure problem due to the decrease in the number of spirits outside the royal capital, which had been a problem for some time, and that recovery was carried out by “the Beloved Child of the Spirits”, but even though there was recovery, it was temporary, and the number of spirits decreased even further afterwards.


    Because of Alice’s efforts to gather the spirits, the area around the capital was said to have a better harvest than before, but it was still not enough to supply the entire kingdom. In the first ce, there were manynds of high nobles around the royal capital, and there were few nobles who shared theirnds with other fiefdoms, so the nobles on the frontier and their fiefdoms wereining.


    The Kingdom of Caenista was in trouble.


    re saw this as an opportunity. She was going to support the impoverished nobles from behind the scenes and umte power by making allies of the frontier fiefdoms to overthrow the royal family. …Perhaps re also realized that as long as Alice was around, the country would only continue to decline.


    But re’s plot was foiled by her own father, the Duke of Prata, and her brother, Cashmere. They trapped re and tried to reduce her power.


    re should have been able to chew through the trap, but they had a trump card. It was Alice, the spirit’s beloved child.


    At the request of the Crown Prince, the battle between Alice and re set the royal city aze, and it seemed as if their powers were a close match.


    “re-sama was captured because of my foolishness…”


    “It seems like she had a hard time.”


    re was protected by a spirit, so they couldn’t kill her. They could only capture her by sealing her with the spirit, so no one could get to her, and she was imprisoned in a dungeon with no medical treatment for her wounds.


    Ah~ this was re’s only route to survival, the route of imprisonment after the usurpation of the throne. The situation was simr, though slightly different.


    After that, Lilia and her followers fought hard to secure re, but nearly half of them were killed or captured, leaving young people like Lilia behind.


    They had sworn an oath to rescue re, but there were no longer many ces to hide in the Royal Capital, so Lilia and her family, who were holed up in a lowly noble family of the re faction, were approached by a man they had not expected.