The candidates for the throne

Soon the four candidates for the throne of Lugnica were standing in front of the council of wise men. While the knights were standing at one side of the hall, while the nobles were at the other. One could clearly tell that knights and the nobles had a sort of disdain for each other, one could tell from the looks they would throw in the direction of the other from time to time.

"Oh you're here too Kaji, it's rare for you to attend a gathering like this. Oh and Subaru is here too." Reinhard spoke while smiling in their direction.

"Well, I felt like something interesting might happen today, so I decided to participate today." Kaji spoke, but he could see how Reinhard's eyes changed for a moment indicating that he had plans of his own.

"Well, you were always right when it came to things like this. But It won't be anything too spectacular I can assure you." Reinhard spoke while thinking that Kaji saw through him once again, but in reality, Kaji was talking about Subarus upcoming outburst.

"I know, any way you two can catch up, I'll go to the front of the line. I want to see things from up close." Kaji said before walking to the front of the knight brigade that was standing to the side of the room.

The knights who were passed by Kaji, would turn, and greet him, for they saw him from time to time. Not to mention some of them had seen him and Reinhard spar making some of the knights admire him for his swordsmanship and strength. Kaji would greet them back while walking past them, and before long he was at the front of the group of knights.

While Kaji was looking around at the front, Subaru talked with Reinhard, and soon Felix joined them too. And this was the time when Felix introduced himself to Subaru properly, and Subaru realized that Felix was a boy. But then the knight commander started speaking once more.

"Now, if I may be so forward, I Marcus, leader of the imperial knights, will direct today's proceedings." Marcus spoke with a stern face, and continued on for a while about the previous royalty, the king, but he was interrupted by one of the candidates for the throne.

"Listen… I get that you want to talk up a good show here, but I'm busy y'know. As we say in Kararagi, time is money. If you're going to repeat what we already know, then why did you even gather us here?" Anastasia Hoshin spoke while looking at the old men and Marus as if they were stupid for wasting her time.

Anastasia Hoshin is the head of the Hoshin Trading Company and a candidate to become the 42nd King of Lugnica.

Anastasia is a petite woman with blue-green eyes and long, wavy purple hair that extends to her hips. She wears a long white dress with a fur hat and scarf along with a large purse shaped like a wallet. She also wears a star-shaped hairpin on her hair and a small teal pendant around her neck. She is described to have cute looks and an aura similar to a small animal.

"I agree." Crusch Karsten spoke while standing right next to Anastasia.

Crusch Karsten is the Matriarch of House Karsten and a candidate to become the 42nd King of Lugnica.

Crusch is a beautiful woman with almond-shaped amber eyes and long dark verdant-green hair that reaches down to her lower back. Even though she is a woman, she generally tends to dress as a man (or at least very formally). Unsurprisingly, her impression changes if she wears a dress and smiles.

The formal outfit she is usually seen in consists of a deep purplish-blue long-coat trimmed in white with golden epaulets on the shoulders - white blouse underneath, blue trousers, black white-laced knee-high heel boots, white gloves, and a blue cap with a single horizontal white stripe along the middle. The cuffs on her coat are burgundy red with white frills; the inside of her coat and an armband on her left arm bearing the emblem of the Karsten House are very much the same shade of red.

Decorative items include seven golden cross pattée–two on each cuff, four on her midsection connected in pairs by golden aiguillettes, and one in the middle of a red flower on the upper left side of her chest, also connected to the shoulders by its own aiguillette. Her long hair is tied at the end by a single white bow.

"Crusch-sama, should the head of the Karsten family say such a thing?" Marcus asked while looking at her, while his face had shown no emotion whatsoever.

"It is important to observe formality, but it's also a fact that our time is limited. It would be wise to immediately inform us of why we are here." Crush continued to speak, and before long started telling her speculations of why they were here today.

But the moment she spoke out, some we baffled, she thought that this was a drinking party? But after realizing that she was wrong she turned to Felix, asking him why he told her that it was a drinking party. Who responded telling her that he only said "maybe it was a drinking party." Realizing her mistake Crusch apologized, before retracting her statement.

And so they continued to things, but before Subaru could remark or do anything stupid, Al raised his hand yelling aloud that he wanted to hear the rest of what Marus was saying. And after a couple more words thrown back and forth between the royal candidates, Marcus started explaining about the selection and how it affected the world. He told them about the prophecy written in stone, about five priestesses, and how one of them would enter a covenant with a dragon, becoming the ruler of the kingdom of Lugnica.

But after Marcus was done talking, Reinhard walked to the front and kneeled before the wise men, and the royal candidates before speaking.

"Honored members of the council of wise men, I, Reinhard Van Astrea of the imperial knights, would like to announce the completion of my mission. The dragon priestess, the fifth and final candidate to the throne, has been located." And the moment he finished speaking the doors to the hall opened up as Felt walked in while wearing a yellow dress. while two girls walked behind her as her maids/servants. but before anyone could speak or even react Reinhard continued speaking.

"The one I, myself, revere as queen…"

"Her name…"

"Is Felt-sama!" Reinhard declared, making some of the knights and the nobles looked at him and Felt with different gazes. Some were of curiosity, some were of indifference, and many more. But Kaji smiled, everything was starting to fall into place.