Chapter 208 Continued Events of the Former Kingdom
This was merely a spur-of-the-moment experiment, and the result was exactly as expected.
Faced with my sudden question, Alice tilted her head, repeated the name "Anne Farns" several times, and finally shook her head to give a negative answer: "It sounds like the name of a female member of the royal family, but no matter how I think about it, I can't find anything similar to it."
"The closest one would be the name of a princess who is a little more distantly related, but her full name is 'Anatasia R. Farns,' which is different from what you said. I suppose the most likely one is the name of some other descendant I don't know."
"Can you remember everyone's name?"
"That's easy. I can match the names and faces of anyone I've met a few times. Back then, because we were close in age, I was specifically assigned to take care of the little princess and be responsible for her safety."
As she spoke, she paused for a second, turned her face away with a displeased expression, and muttered softly, "Although I was dismissed from my post very quickly afterward."
"Huh?"
My senses were perfectly attuned, allowing me to catch that subtle question: "Why were you dismissed?"
"Ah—why so many questions? I just slightly talked back to my boss, and he kicked me out without a word. Tsk, can't he even take a joke? That bald, horse-faced guy."
Talking back to your boss is one thing, but you're really something else.
No, rather, the fact that one can survive after contradicting their boss is enough to give us pause for thought.
"Well, compared to other places, the job prospects here are definitely better, right?"
With her hands behind her head, Alice laughed and said, "There aren't many worries, and I don't have to worry about being scolded for talking back to my boss. I can eat and drink all day long, and I can sleep in comfortably. I don't have to follow the annoying knight rules, or train those disobedient brats until I get so angry that my liver hurts... Hmm, these are all wonderful things."
"Ah, you can rest assured about that."
I smiled and comforted you, saying, "If that's what you want, I can do it. It'll just be following you around and scolding you all the time. It's a very simple thing."
"Wow! No way! I finally escaped, I don't want to go back to that kind of life!"
Alice shook her head rapidly.
"But to be honest, it's been a long time since I've heard of the Farns family..."
murmuring softly, Alice finally fell into deep thought.
"How about I tell you?" I suggested. "Due to the large-scale disruption caused by the Black Tide, our knowledge of the former kingdom is still only fragmented. Our understanding of the nobles of the past has also disappeared because of the abolition of family names. I happen to be curious about this information as well."
"What's there to say?"
Alice pouted and said, "It's just those boring family matters and red tape, and it's even more serious for the Farns family, who are royalty."
"Compared to the preference for sons over daughters in ordinary families, the royal family truly regards its own children as important assets. Princes of marriageable age are to be married to suitable noble girls who are not heavily involved in power struggles, while beautiful girls are carefully cared for and prepared to marry into other important talents or countries that need to be won over, so as to turn the other party's power into their own."
"It's not uncommon for in-laws involved to resort to all sorts of vicious means behind the scenes to ensure their children ascend to that glittering throne, including plotting assassinations, framing, poisoning, and colluding with foreign enemies. On the contrary, it's the rarest situation where the two sides stand on the training ground and fight each other with real swords and no tricks."
"...Wasn't Restalis supposed to be very powerful, and they even seemed to highly praise her?" I wondered. "So, in that case, isn't she even less powerful than ordinary families?"
"That's because, of course, our king is exceptionally good at everything except for being somewhat lax and permissive in his domestic affairs."
Alice counted on her fingers as if it were the most natural thing in the world: "Reform the political structure, open schools that can recruit civilians, a merit-based admission system, reform the House of Representatives, encourage trade and maritime commerce... and so on."
"Although everyone was worried and opposed at first, thanks to the support of our king, a little girl like me who was just running wild on the ridges of the fields in the countryside was able to have the opportunity to become a glorious and honorable knight, and the people of my hometown also had the opportunity to improve their lives."
"According to your description, wouldn't that person be a wise and virtuous king?"
"If you remove it, then that person will be the wise king."
"Then how did the former kingdom become the former kingdom?"
"...Oh dear, I already said I don't know! Are you trying to pick a fight?"
Alice kicked me: "I already told you, the world suddenly changes the moment I close my eyes and open them again, and then when I open them again, it tells me that more than 600 years have passed. I haven't even had a chance to express my surprise yet!"
"You still exist, although I don't know what form you take."
My senses tell me that what exists before me is a real and tangible existence, unlike Miss [Aisha], who seems like a human remains that could vanish at any moment, only with some parts still relatively intact.
However, reason and logic refuted Fang's conclusion from another perspective: as ordinary humans who have not embarked on the path to eternity, even a sword saint with extraordinary existence power could not have existed safely for nearly six hundred years without any decay.
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