Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, Vol. 6: The Silver Sugar Master and the Crimson Kingdom by Miri Mikawa and Aki

Author:Miri Mikawa and Aki
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On

Chapter 5

THE ONE WHO WOULD BE FAIRY KING

Royal guards stood around a Lewiston candy shop on the outskirts of the West Marketplace, preventing onlookers from getting too close. A little ways away, a crowd anxiously gazed at the shop’s entrance.

Two people emerged from the building—the Silver Sugar Viscount, Hugh Mercury, and the Earl of Downing.

“This is the doing of that fairy, wouldn’t you say?” Hugh asked.

The Earl of Downing nodded, a bitter look on his face. “Over the course of the past year, there have been sporadic attacks against fairy hunters and fairy dealers, but… Recently, the number of incidents has only been increasing. This, too, must be the work of that fairy and his gang. The methods are the same as before. We must do something about him and quickly. But we don’t have a single clue. How is the search going? Did you find the fairy dealer in Millsfield whom the Paige Workshop girl said she purchased him from?”

“We found him, but he was a corpse,” Hugh answered flatly. “Along with his whole family, just like here. We think the fairy took his family hostage in order to ensure cooperation, then killed them anyway.”

“How brutal.” The Earl of Downing groaned.

The earl was a veteran retainer who had personally led troops into battle in support of the current king. Yet the terrible scene in the candy shop had still gotten to him.

“These incidents span the Sant, Charmae, and Harrington Provinces, and none of them have any idea what to do. I’ll have to be the one to chase him down.”

The Earl of Downing was the current governor of Charmae Province.

Aristocrats serving the royal family each had a role to carry out. Nobles related to the Millsland family by blood became premiers or generals in charge of the royal army, or they took on a number of other duties important to the crown. Those not part of the king’s bloodline received appointments from the royal family and were tasked with running the various provinces of Highland or serving as government ministers and bureaucrats.

The Silver Sugar Viscount, however, held a unique position.

Normally, aristocrats were attended by knights and retainers under their command. But the Silver Sugar Viscount had no such retainers. He was merely granted use of Silver Westol Castle and the guards who came with it, all of which were on loan from the king. Compared with the kingdom’s other aristocrats, the Silver Sugar Viscount carried little military weight.

However, the Silver Sugar Viscount was responsible for making sugar candy for the king. It was rumored that his position, which allowed him to have frequent, personal discussions with the monarch, held more influence than any governor’s. For that reason, the kingdom’s other nobles preferred that the title of Silver Sugar Viscount fell to meek, cooperative, and unambitious individuals.

To further ensure that the Silver Sugar Viscount didn’t foolishly involve himself in politics, the Earl of Downing was assigned to monitor him. The Earl of Downing, too, held a special position among his peers.

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