Tearmoon Empire Story

Episode XIII: The Smell of Epidemic Disease

With Meer’s life, hurry, Ludwig arranges for a soldier to escort him.

It was sudden, so only four people could be gathered, but all of them gathered were armoured soldiers.

Whatever it was called an inspection to the battlefield, assuming it was within the imperial capital, this should have been almost no problem.

– If it’s true, I’d like ten more, but it was sudden, so I can’t help it.

Ludwig sighed.

For the Son of the Supreme Emperor is going out into the city. It doesn’t matter how many hands you put on the escort.

“By the way, Your Highness, is His Majesty the Emperor aware of today?

“Heh? Is that your father?

Today, and Meer tilting her little neck. It was,

“Then you’ll be fine. I’ll tell you later, this much.”

It was Ludwig who remembered a touch of anxiety in a grand chest-stretching mea.

The Crescent Zone that came that way seemed terrible. Just a step in, a distinctly different air from the district until then.

That, if you’re going to say it very easily,

“You smell terrible.”

The way one of the soldiers said it unintentionally, he held his nose.

The whole city seemed to be dominated by a rotten smell or a smell of sweat or an unclean smell.

The soldiers looked up to Anne and Ludwig, not to mention the smell of poking their noses, never in a castle or a luxury residential area.

However,

“Really? It doesn’t bother me that much…”

Meer was flat.

As for Meer, who had been locked up in the dungeon for two years, this one was totally better for the wind going through.

“I’m sure it’s not easy for people in places like this to take a bath in the water, is it? It is only natural for humans to smell if they do not cleanse themselves for three days. It’s no different from travelers coming from afar.”

After I said that lightly,

“Well, I’ll be there.”

Meer walked out.

The soldiers around them could only stare blankly at the figure of such a daunting princess.

Dirty roads, dim alleys, collapsing private homes……

Those shadows were sending a surprising glance at an out of place line.

Whatever that stuff is, Meer hangs in there, walks away.

“Your Highness Princess Meer, where the hell is your destination?

A soldier of leadership has asked.

“Hmm, right, I haven’t decided in particular…, what’s that?

Heh, Meer, who glanced off the road, turned her legs toward one child who was nodding to fall there.

A boy dressed in a worn cloth that can’t even be called clothes, a child about five or six years younger than Meer, hands gently on his thin, decaying shoulders.

“Hey, Princess!

“What if you, are you okay?

The boy, loosely raised his face, didn’t look particularly surprised to see Meer. Those eyes are more cloudy than ever and I have no sense of childish energy at all.

“Aren’t you feeling ill somewhere?

…………

Cassava’s lips move slightly, but there is no voice coming from them. Instead, the answer came back from Ludwig in the back.

“From what I’ve seen, you’ll be hungry, not sick. It’s common around here.”

“Yes…… It must be hard to get hungry.”

Meer instructed Anne to share the handheld treat with the boy before seeing Ludwig again.

“Ludwig, I need to ask you something.”

“What is it?

“Here, what can we do to prevent epidemic diseases from happening in the future?

“Epidemic disease… it’s…”

To the words of that Meer, Ludwig was shocked as if he had been beaten to death with a garn on the head.

Because it’s something I didn’t even think about.

I knew that the empire’s finances would surely collapse in a few years.

So I was desperate to think of measures to reduce spending and increase tax revenues, hoping that we would do something about it, and I am proud that everything we implemented worked.

But that thing, once an epidemic disease occurs, happens to be pointless.

And His Royal Highness, the little princess in front of you, is pointing out exactly that danger.

“To prevent epidemics and diseases…”

“Dear Meer, this kid, I knew I should give him a break somewhere. Looks like there’s a church nearby, why don’t you go over there?

In Anne’s words, Ludwig’s thought was interrupted.

“Right. I wanted to see a lot of things, so it was just fine.”

Blurring at Nico and laughing Meer’s face, Ludwig wondered why she had brought herself here.