All My Summons Become Divine Girls

Chapter 291: Didi’s Neutral Letter

Night settled over the registry while militia crews carried drying claimant boards around the yard for their only full rehearsal.

The royal road bell sounded before Hans released the first group, bringing a relay courier through the western gate beneath Crown colors.

His horse carried foam beneath its harness, and three replacement-station tags hung from the sealed packet inside his coat.

"Princess Didi ordered continuous relay," the courier said, giving the packet directly to Hajin, "the enclosed archive copy loses value after first bell."

Marrick checked the Crown seal while Lana recorded each station tag, preserving the packet’s route before Hajin opened it.

Didi’s first page carried her formal hand, an archive reference, and none of the warmth she allowed into personal letters.

{Crown neutrality remains unchanged. No royal formation may reinforce either territory while the campaign review remains open.}

{A Flint request entered the protected transport register this afternoon, identifying Deputy Corven’s outer wagon as a field infirmary reserve.}

The attached filing claimed a white medical pennant for a route crossing the northern quarry spur between midnight and first bell.

Its cargo schedule listed three ash cylinders, six mana-salt casks, eighteen anchoring rods, plus two circulation frames without patient beds.

"That is Corven’s bank," Taren said, comparing the list against Ferra’s copper diagram, "they registered a Zone relay as medical equipment."

"Can the white pennant protect it from us?" Juna asked, tracing its route north of the western pocket, "or does the false filing remove that protection?"

Marrick read Didi’s archive note beneath the registered path, then placed it beside Lana’s protected-custody procedures.

{Medical protection ends when registered equipment directly sustains offensive mana circulation, but the misuse requires witnessed identification before seizure or attack.}

"We do not strike it during the opening," Hans said, moving Juna’s observation marker toward the quarry spur, "we witness where its circulation enters Dreth’s structure."

Aria projected the Ch.288 diagram without calling its physical sample from Hajin’s inventory, aligning Corven’s route with the outer copper ring.

The registered timing placed the portable bank north before Hans’s claimant wagons pulled Flint household companies toward the western closure.

"He expects our attention west," Juna said, fixing her marker beside the quarry rise, "I can watch the white pennant without crossing his route."

"Take two registry witnesses beneath the stone shelter," Hajin said, marking their withdrawal line, "they identify the cargo before any order treats it as hostile."

Lana assigned both witnesses from crews who had handled Corven’s captured movement pages, giving their testimony a documented comparison source.

Didi had also included the filing’s signatory chain, confirming Corven requested protection under Dreth’s contracted field authority rather than Flint household command.

Uriel’s division between ash-cord formations and hereditary companies now carried a matching royal record from the enemy’s own submission.

Hans added the archive number to every northern route board, ensuring the opening could expose Dreth’s structure without attacking a claimed infirmary blindly.

"This changes the observation route, not the launch," Hans said, returning the first rehearsal group to position, "first bell remains fixed."

The courier waited near the door while Hajin opened the packet’s second fold, which bore Didi’s personal ice-flower seal.

Her handwriting began evenly before several later lines narrowed under pressure from the pen.

{I found another file while tracing the campaign register, one that should have been closed after the council accepted your Gate report.}

{The Divine Core of the Sun Emperor you surrendered after the Beast King raid remains under an evidence hold created for anomaly study.}

Hajin read the line again, remembering golden heat against his palm before the council vault swallowed the most valuable drop he had earned.

He had treated its loss as the price of proving the Beast King existed, then built every later weapon without expecting its return.

{The study period expired months ago. Two council offices kept renewing the hold because nobody wanted responsibility for releasing a Divine object.}

{I placed my royal seal upon a demand for final disposition, and the council issued the ruling tonight. The hold is closed. The core is yours.}

The words established ownership, not possession, and Didi underlined the next sentence until her pen scored the page.

{It remains inside the royal evidence vault until I complete the physical release. Do not count it among your resources before I place it in your hands.}

Aria read from Hajin’s shoulder, then closed the inventory panel without adding an entry or changing the Chain’s recorded condition.

"She preserved the custody gap," Marrick said, examining the ruling number, "the decision releases the evidence, but nothing here transfers the object."

"Why carry it herself?" Juna asked, looking from the scored line toward the courier, "a royal vault has bonded transport officers."

The answer waited beneath Didi’s signature, written without her formal title or the language of court neutrality.

{A bonded officer would place the core into another Crown hold until the campaign ends. I will carry the sealed containment shell myself.}

{Three councilors have challenged my place in future territory review because my seal ended your case. Father has not answered them.}

{I keep calling the Crown neutral because that word protects the palace from choosing, while every unchosen consequence reaches you instead.}

Hajin remembered Didi gripping a forgotten pillow while he described the dead from that Beast King Gate, asking whether he was truly unharmed.

Her concern had never struggled to cross the distance between them, although duty forced every useful action through a narrower passage.

{I cannot command knights into your war. I can stop the palace from keeping what you bled to earn, and I am coming to return it.}

Juna finished reading beside him, her claws resting against the table without marking Didi’s letter.

"She knows this threatens her standing," Juna said, meeting Hajin’s eyes, "telling her to stay home will not erase what she chose."

"No," Hajin said, turning Didi’s personal page over, "but she is not crossing Dreth’s campaign road without our route."

He wrote his reply beneath the blank space Didi had left for the relay courier’s return.

{Use the old western toll bridge and send one rider ahead. Do not enter any road carrying a Flint campaign marker.}

{Come because this is your choice, not because the council taught you my survival is your debt. I will meet you beyond the first opening.}

Hajin signed his name without a title, then separated the tactical filing from Didi’s personal page before sealing the reply.

The courier accepted his return packet while Marrick placed the evidence ruling number inside the protected artifact ledger.

Nothing entered Hajin’s inventory, and the damaged Chains remained stored without the charge Ferra’s theoretical pattern required.

Outside, Hans restarted the interrupted rehearsal while Juna led two registry witnesses toward the northern stone shelter.

Hajin pinned Corven’s certified route beside the northern marker, then sealed Didi’s personal letter inside his coat.