To Sevita's unspeakable regret, the small "accident" on Kelya's body due to the feathers dropped by the Raven guarding the original body did not affect the subsequent operation of Chaldea, nor did it cause Rika Fujimaru to make the decision to "recycle and redistribute the holy relic". After a brief test on it and making sure it was mostly harmless, they let the issue go, and Kylia chose to take the reliquary off and keep it in her room on the Storm Boundary.

This overly simplistic decision may only be temporary. After all, at present, the more imminent problems are obviously the Baal who is really "imminent" in terms of distance, and the Holy Blood Angel Wargroup Monastery.

and the pompous "landing plan" that will soon be put into use.

Rika Fujimaru was also well-informed in her previous life. In the process of saving the world in the past, she not only saw the various kings and riches in history, but even fished the gem-like vaults in King Gilgamesh's treasures. Even if the hero doesn't mention the courage of the past, but only talks about the present, objectively speaking, the current Fujimaru Rika, who was personally ordered by the emperor to inject capital, is also considered a rich man. But if the background is placed in the forty-second millennium of mankind, and the dimension is expanded to the entire empire, her previous "well-informed" and "rich" are somewhat of a class axe.

After all, the gap in volume is there. Two thousand years ago, no one king on Earth, no matter how rich he was, could not have been richer than an emperor who owned an empire that encompassed countless planets. Just like rubies, in Fujimaru Rika's concept, this mineral that can be used as a magic catalyst can be the size of a pigeon's egg is already sky-high, even if she has secretly bought the property of the hero king, she has to weigh the pros and cons when she decides to use it. But rubies of this size, just as a good-looking but useless ornament, abound on the power armor of the Holy Blood Angels.

By the way, there is also a place of origin of lapis lazuli in the five hundred worlds of Otrama. During the free time when Pameño was waiting for the Emperor Dream to be sanitized, Rika Fujimaru once mentioned to the locals in passing in the chat that she had a bracelet of lapis lazuli. The next day, she received three sets of twelve pieces of pure gold jewelry, each inlaid with high-quality lapis lazuli in azure blue, almost no color difference from the armor coating of the Ultramarine.

It took her a lot of effort to return these things from where they came from, but Vasilian, who was watching the whole process at the time, said: You will take it if you take it, and there is not much money when you count these things together.

The "not much" in the concept of the forbidden army, Fujimaru Rika really can't believe it. Sometimes she even wonders if the forbidden army has a correct understanding of the concepts of "price" or "cost", which are strongly related to money.

Fortunately, the vast majority of this landing plan has nothing to do with Throne Coins, and Rika Fujimaru can safely let them toss after cutting most of the "labor-intensive" items. Anyway, it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, and in the vast universe where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back, all they can call on is the resources on the Emperor Phantom Dream - in a sense, this is completely a virtual currency that can be fabricated out of thin air, as long as Somny feels that it can be tossed like this, Fujimaru Rika does not have much opinion.

If the Forbidden Army hadn't been going to dress her up like a Christmas tree, she wouldn't have even had this tiny opinion.

"You look extraordinarily radiant today." Even Sigismund commented on it after seeing Rika Fujimaru dressed up.

The word "radiant" is of course a compliment for others to say. But the word slipped out of the mouth of Sigismund, the son of Dorne, and one couldn't help but wonder if it meant that there were too many glittering things for decoration on this set of dresses cut by the forbidden army, which caused Fujimaru Rika to ...... To put it mildly, the light reflectivity is a bit high.

Theoretically, the background color of this dress should be black, at least when Somney pulls the fabric, it is indeed black fabric that is used the most. But in fact, everyone's first reaction to this dress is to point out that it is golden—without him, the dense embroidery has taken up a larger area of the fabric than the base color of the fabric. During the production process, the forbidden soldiers seemed to have developed a sense of competition in this dress, or it was Ritsuka Fujimaru's casual visit kimono that he proposed as she struggled to make it indiscriminately inspired them. With the exception of the Imperial Aquila, which was bound to be on her chest, these men had to move almost the entire Terra Palace in the form of miniature embroidery to her massive skirt and tail.

As an ancient person, it is difficult for Fujimaru Rika to imagine that this kind of precision embroidery was made in three days. But on the contrary, because of the presence of a large amount of gold thread, the weight of this suit is also very considerable.

“…… After all, there is only an hour left before the ceremony begins, and it is too late to regret it, so I will listen to it as a compliment. The person concerned replied with the determination of "Today I will be the conspicuous bag of this empire".

By the way, in the choice of dress style, it was Fujimaru Rika who finally bowed his head. At the cost of allowing things like exaggerated skirts and intricate lace-up trims to appear on herself, she firmly rejected the Praetorian Army's application to build a house on her head. She really didn't understand why, the ladies of this era could wear five kilograms on their heads and decorate them at the same time, and they could also participate in a three-hour banquet with great grace, and even dance at the banquet. Have their cervical vertebrae been replaced with iron for this?

In this regard, her struggle was successful, but not completely. At present, she still wears a golden laurel wreath with a net weight of one kilogram on her head, and a translucent veil embroidered with gold thread hangs underneath, blocking her vision, not to mention, the materials used are really to the extent that she complains. She did protest "I'm just a mortal who doesn't know psionic powers, so can't I use gilding", but unfortunately, the protest was ineffective. The forbidden army doesn't know why in this regard, but there are some strange attachments.

The only thing that made Rika Fujimaru a little more comfortable was that the makeup under the veil was painted by herself. Although it is so thick that it can paste the eyeliner on the wall, and the eyeliner is about to fly to the sideburns, the eyeshadow with sequins, and the lipstick looks like she has just eaten the exaggerated stage makeup of a child, at least it is still the stage makeup that she thinks is "still watchable".

"It's fifty-seven minutes and forty-three seconds." Sigismund corrected a little detail as usual before defending himself, "And I also really think I'm complimenting, is there some misunderstanding?" ”

"This needs to be analyzed on a case-by-case basis." Fujimaru Rika also replied as usual, "The current situation is: theoretically you can't see me as a person, and I'm completely submerged in this large pile of complicated and heavy decorations. Even if I could be sure that your compliments were genuine, as I have always understood yours, it would be difficult for me to think that the person you were complimenting me was and not my outward manners. ”

Her last sentence was somewhat gnashing in tone. This bit of gnashing of teeth seems to activate one of Sigismund's few little emotional intelligence, and after a bit of self-play, he finally gives up on further explanations out of the desire to survive.

Luckily, Rika Fujimaru's resentment was not directed at Sigismund, but at the dress. She quickly turned the subject back to that, spreading her hands in black lace gloves and complaining, "I doubt that my hands will slip when I hold the scepter for a while, or that the gloves will be carved and threaded by the dark lines of the scepter when I need to put it down." ”

The question was a little too new for Sigismund. He had absolutely no experience to offer – he had never worn lace gloves. The poor black knight was stuck in place for two seconds before he vaguely realized that Rika Fujimaru was not expecting him to solve the problem when he said this, but just grabbing a random person nearby to complain. Not knowing what to do with the situation, he finally moved his neck, which was as stiff as a bearing that had forgotten to be oiled, and nodded awkwardly, hoping that Rika Fujimaru would read the feelings he wanted from his shiny helmet.

It was Kylia who came to the preparation room with the Aquila Scepter to save the Imperial Champion. The little girl who appeared in a hurry succeeded in diverting Rika Fujimaru's attention away from Sigismund. Today, Kylea will be standing outside the parade as a squire of Rika Fujimaru, so she has also received a new set of "suitable for the occasion" clothes. Because of the schedule, her current task is to help Fujimaru Ritsuka, who is ready to dress up, run errands around, so she is still wearing regular clothes. But Fujimaru Rika had already seen the acolyte once when she had tried on the clothes before, and in her opinion, the clothes that were also the main color of black had six like a nun's dress in terms of cut.

To be honest, after being locked up in her own gorgeous suit, Rika Fujimaru was even a little envious of Kelya's nun suit. The outfit was a little too plain, but at least it was easy to move around and didn't have any physically suffocating weight.

Now she has a suit that is even heavier than the Otnaus exoskeleton, and she has a pair of thick-soled haters that are less than thirty centimeters tall. Wearing these stilts, which should be called "stilts" more than "shoes", she could not even walk, and only hated that she had not learned some high-heeled skills from Cleopatra. The only thing to be thankful for is that when she wears this suit, she has to walk about 30 meters (including steps), and the rest of the time she is either standing on top of the turret of the Kronos anti-gravity tank (for honor guards) smiling and waving, pretending to be part of the float decoration, or standing in front of the podium to recite the speech.

- Yes, "when wearing this outfit". Today's process is complete, and Rika Fujimaru needs to change a total of three sets of clothes!

Rika Fujimaru took the Aquila Scepter handed over by Kellya with the grief of "having to change three sets of clothes", and soon realized that the lace gloves produced by the Forbidden Army would not easily be broken by waiting for a little scratching. This discovery made her a little happier, but it still had a strong sense of "happiness in suffering".

Thinking about it, she also had to thank the Emperor for giving her a Aquila Scepter that had to land at the bottom when she held it. The presence of the scepter greatly limited the space for the Janissaries to play on the skirt of her dress, as she had to stand the scepter by her side during the procession. If the emperor had a brain pump at that time and gave her a Sky Eagle Feather Fan as identity verification, then now the skirt of her skirt must be three meters in diameter, to say the least, and others who want to hand her something have to take a long pole.

Maybe Kyliea read something from the bitter expression under Rika's veil of bitterness and hatred, or maybe she read something directly from Rika Fujimaru's superficial thinking because of her talent. After handing out the scepter, she couldn't help but ask, "Sister, is there any problem next?" ”

"It's too late to say there's a problem." Fujimaru Rika grimaced under the veil on the premise of not making makeup, "There will always be times in life when you force yourself to do something you hate but must do." But you, when the parade is over, you're going to stand behind me for four or five hours, do you want to take advantage of this time to rest for a while? ”

"I'll just be standing then." Kylia didn't care much, "I can survive a four- or five-hour marathon in the simulation room, and standing with a scepter in my hand is much easier than the training task of Inquisitor Hastings." ”

"But it's boring, and the mental stress is different." Fujimaru Rika sighed, "One thing to say, I'd rather go to the simulation room and be beaten by Sigismund all day than spend time on these parades, balls, dinners, and the like." If I'm lucky, I might still get a little sense of accomplishment. ”

Sigismund didn't know whether he should respond or not, so he simply poked aside and pretended not to hear, and made a ruthless process announcement machine: "Ma'am, given your strong request to leave room for travel time, it's almost time for us to go to the hangar. ”

The Imperial Dream is huge. It's really big. As big as Rika Fujimaru moving from the current preparation room to the hangar, it would take twelve minutes to ride even the anti-gravity float. After that, she had to settle herself and her floor-mopping skirt on top of the converted turret for the honor guard, and when she was done, it was almost time for the ceremony to begin.

Incidentally, the Praetorian squad would march on foot around the anti-gravity tanks as part of the guard of honor. In the event of an unplanned serious security incident, Sigismund, who is the last line of defense, hides in the interior of the Kronos tank and improvises.

After going through the entire process of the ceremony again in her mind, Fujimaru Rika nodded to Sigismund with a determination like going to the execution ground: "Let's go." ”

(End of chapter)