The Theory of the State: A Monarch's Physiognomy (1)

The Holy Kingdom was bustling with preparations for the Holy Night Festival.

The Hero and the Saintess.

Their importance was far too immense to be captured in a few words, so there could be no slipup in the way they were treated.

The final revelation left behind by the Goddess had been short and weighty.

- If we cannot stop the Demon Realm's expansion…….

The final voice had sunk into such gloom that even the Saintess, who had directly received the Goddess's revelation, could not make it out. Yet that was precisely why its meaning had been unmistakable.

Perhaps what followed was an apocalyptic prophecy of the sort that went, “It is the end.”

Thus, setting aside the national perspective, the Holy Kingdom spared no support for the Saintess and the Hero. It was the Goddess's will.

They were also letting the new Hero's outrageous remarks go unpunished, because someday he, too, would protect the continent from the threat of the Demon Realm in accordance with the Goddess's will.

“At last, I shall see the face of that arrogant man.”...