Once the maid withdrew and Lily and I were alone at last, we could finally talk about Maxim's coup from earlier.
"Lily, about Maxim… that's amazing."
"Do you mean that it was suppressed surprisingly quickly? Or that the Mainz Kingdom already knew about it?"
"Ah, sorry. The latter. As for the suppression, I thought that with Lord Richelieu there he would somehow manage it."
Even so, there had been a time in the past when I wondered whether I should return to the capital once.
"Yes. In addition, Her Majesty the Queen is also present."
At Lily's words I thought "eh?" and said,
"Nn? Her Majesty the Queen? Is Her Majesty that amazing a person?"
"Yes, most certainly! The face Her Majesty shows Robby-sama is almost always a gentle smile like a mother looking at her child, yet from my sense it is the two of them — Richelieu and Her Majesty the Queen — who move the Marie Kingdom."
"Is that so!?"
"Yes!"
She asserted it. Yes.
