The Outer God Needs Warmth

The day after meeting Aurora.

Today was incredibly busy.

I started the day by waking up early and getting ready.

To simplify the rest of the schedule, I went to a place crowded with royals and nobles, stood there for a long time, and then returned to my lodging.

Throughout the whole schedule, the royal family explained what had happened, held a time of mourning for the deceased, and announced that they would offer restoration support from the royal family.

But the context surrounding all of this was somewhat distorted.

First, the royal family took credit for defeating the witch.

On Princess Aurora's birthday, she was cursed by an evil witch, and after various efforts, it was through my help that Aurora was freed from the curse—this fact is already well known to many.

The royal family added their own twist to the story.

Once the curse was lifted, the enraged witch attacked, but the citizens of the capital and the royal family united to seal her away, they claimed.

It wasn’t a lie.

When the Harvesters fought, a beam of light did indeed shoot from the royal palace.

But the king cleverly twisted the narrative to make it seem as if the royal family had sealed the witch. They proclaimed that the witch, who had done evil for hundreds of years, had been captured and defeated.

In doing so, they glorified the Harvesters who fought the witch, claiming that without their efforts, the witch could never have been defeated, stirring up patriotism.@@novelbin@@

Most notably, the rewards were generous.

Citizens who fought there, even if they were from the Brightshin slums, would have their names engraved on a monument, and those who died would receive knightly titles. Their families were promised various benefits.