「Sacrament is connected to the commonwealth.」

    After the two of us moved to my room, I grasped what Kran began to speak of at the edge of my conscious.

    With warm sunlight shining in on the windowside sofa it’s very comfortable.

    The sofa is also a high quality item so, I’m enveloped in a sensation that’s almost like I’m floating in the air.

    ……I’m sleepy.

    「Alice.」

    「Haii, I’m not sleeping.」

    At Kran’s call as she sits next to me on the sofa, my conscious was awakened.

    「If you sleep soon after eating, you will become a cow.」

    「I’ll be careful.」

    But wanting to sleep after eating is a physiological phenomenon isn’t it.

    People have to endure various things don’t they.

    「Be that as it may Kran, can you not distance your head from matters of work?」

    I raised a slightly worried voice and, Kran made a troubled face.

    「Do you dislike women who cannot understand how to use on and off?」

    「Such a thing isn’t the case, though it does make me worry.」

    「Thank you very much. Also Alice, I am being pampered by you. Being able to speak of the things that I want to speak freely about, for women of my sort the country’s matters float into their head.」

    「Un, then it can’t be helped.」

    Forcibly trying to forget about things of concern causes the opposite effect I suppose.

    You can’t leisurely rest with that.

    「I am grateful.」

    「It’s fine you know, but, didn’t you say that Sacrament is neutral?」

    「I did think that but, if that is the case then I cannot reach an explanation for Sacrament’s provocation.」

    The visibly transparent lie called a bandit disturbance, that huh……

    「The result was that there was not major damage to either faction but, that is reasoning from the result.」

    「……」

    As stated.

    We were one step away from a great tragedy developing into an international problem.

    On that note as I assume even just that was a huge problem, Maria-san didn’t want the problem to be blown out of proportion so she’s handling it well.

    Be that as it may if Till hadn’t been in that place, what would have come of it……

    「What I do not know is, why did Sacrament attempt that……self destructive selfish thing though.」

    To say that there were few casualties, it was a sudden combative conduct by transgressing on foreign

    territory.

    They caused something obvious in being criticized by Wilmington.

    Even so the soldiers that might have been turned to ash by that Star Flare were, on Sacrament’s side for the most part.

    That could be said to be what makes the problem complicated.

    「Accusing Wilmington with a groundless charge of mass slaughter, is something that reduces international trust――Thinking in that sort of easy manner gives a failing score does it not.」

    That’s bad, it was a failing score……

    Even though I didn’t say anything, Kran looked at me and smiled slightly.

    「Because of that conduct, I sense their connection with the commonwealth. Maria thinks the same.」

    「Maria-san as well……」

    If that person and Kran say it’s so then, isn’t that plenty enough to believe it even without proof.

    「But why?」

    At that question, Kran looked at me after facing her gaze toward a closed door further down the hallway.

    From there she beckoned me with her hand, as if to bring me closer.

    「?」

    I approached Kran with a meekly obedient face.

    Seeing her fluffy long eyelashes from the side brought out her allure.

    Along with the mole under her left eye, Kran’s eye region gives a strong impression.

    It’s very beautiful――and thinking that, my cheek was kissed.

    In the blink of an eye, Kran came as such to stroke my cheek.

    And so with a kind smile, her gaze faced not me but outside the window.

    It was almost as if caressing a cat that approached her while she was in the middle of some sort of work.

    ……What is the meaning of this behavior?

    「It somehow seems that crimson princess-kun, did not receive very good treatment in her own country did she.」