Elt

**Elt** is the director of the First Foreign Affairs Department of Parpaldia Empire. Later on, she became the Minister of the reorganized Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

## Appearance

In the light novel version, Elt is a woman with black hair and black eyes. Although she is already middle-aged, she is still good-looking, but due to several frustrations like government work and marriage desires, wrinkles around her eyes are already appearing in her age.

In the manga version, Elt is depicted as a beautiful woman with a ponytail and an intellectual impression. Her hair color seems blonde or silver like Remille. She is youthful and maintains proportions that her subordinates admire, but a closer look reveals wrinkles around her eyes from aging and dark circles from fatigue. Her outfit resembles a sort of 18th-century diplomatic coatee uniform with epaulettes, which long tailcoats open her butt that her subordinates can't help to watch her.

## Personality

Elt is single and unhappy, probably because she is a high-ranking government official; although, she seems to have a desire to get married, she is giving up in the middle of her age. She is calm and rarely expresses her emotions. She is a graduate of the Third Foreign Affairs Department and has excellent diplomatic skills. On the other hand, she is aware that she is not familiar with military affairs, and respects the judgment of Rius and Arde.

In the manga, she is the sole official to speak up for Inos, convincing the Emperor to be lenient on him at a time he was at risk for execution, an action she credits to her desire to see the empire function as smoothly as possible above all else.

## Background

Elt works at the First Foreign Affairs Office, the government office that deals with the other Superpowers. Here, the most elite are assigned there as they need the most crucial of decisions must be done.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

When Leifor has fallen to the Gra Valkas Empire and the Imperial Oversight Army was defeated by Japan during the Military Festival in Fenn Kingdom, added by the report sent by Valhal, she ordered an immediate investigation of the two countries.

The former investigation was hampered by the death of the stationed foreign official and the rapid colonization of the area, and not much information was obtained. The latter investigation proceeded smoothly and yielded some useful information, but the information was not carefully examined. The country was misidentified as a country to be reckoned with but not to be feared. During this time, she also conducted a joint investigation with the Intelligence Bureau to discover the dark activities of Inos and Parso in the Louria Kingdom and interceded with Rius on both sides. The results also get information about Japan, the witness and contents from fatally wrong conclusion. This led to the violence of Remille, who was seconded to the First Foreign Affairs Department, causing a war with Japan.

At first, Remille's diplomacy with Japan was half-hearted, as if she wanted to see how things would go. In the end, however, this attitude proved to be a disaster, as Mu Ambassador Mugei's warning was promptly reported by Nisol and Hans, but was not utilized due to the unfortunate news of the defeat in the Battle of Fenn Kingdom. When Mugei explained the true nature of Japan after the Battle of Altaras Kingdom, there was no room left to contribute to the situation. Remille, who had been seconded to the Foreign Affairs Department at the Imperial Conference, had opened the bat, putting her in an irrational manner. However, she is a complete layman in military terms, so she will be willing to follow her decision if the military can beat Japan.

After she listened to the testimony of Mugei to learn about Japan, she was emaciated and reported to Emperor Ludius. Hearing Emperor Ludius’ explanations of three things included a defensive position, small Japan's military, and strong ground forces, Elt felt enlightened. It was true that the empire’s main forces were still hale and hearty, and their ground army had only tangled with Japan’s army a single time. With the empire’s elite ground force on defense with the advantages from being in the Parpaldia Empire, they couldn’t even be outclassed by the Holy Mirishial Empire.

After the Esthirant Air Strike and the Great Naval Battle of Esthirant, Elt has attended the emergency meeting. When Third Department Director Kaios asked her to intend to resolve this war. She was nervous to answer that they had already publicly declared that we will exterminate Japan; if they were to change their intentions, that would compromise their standing among other countries and their vassal states. If they consider their national interests, they have no choice but to continue pursuing that goal. However, she didn't have the knowledge or expertise to comment on military or strategy matters if she believed that goal is achievable. Then Kaios asked her what does Japan want from Parpaldia Empire. She replied to him that the Japanese government’s request wants a formal apology, reparations, and to be given custody of all personnel involved Remille or anyone who can provide information about the incident. In addition, an apology towards Fenn Kingdom as well as reparations and compensated goods. Remille’s face paled what she heard. He asked her thoughts regarding Japan’s demands, but Emperor Ludius shouted at her and everyone in silence.

After Kaios' Coup d'etat in Esthirant, Elt was praised for his diplomatic skills. She was appointed as the new Minister of the reorganized Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she successfully restored relations with 73 former vassal states, leaving her name as one of the great figures in later history books.

### Post-Japanese-Parpaldian War

After the war she was still collecting information about Japan. One of her spies, Ianos, once visited her with information about Japan which included information about Japanese aircraft and missiles. Ianos also uncovered information about Japanese history on Earth including the fact that they lost the last war after their enemy used something called "nuclear weapons". Elt wondered if Japan has the knowledge to make such weapons but according to her spy, the Japanese seem to have an aversion to this kind of weapon (which is incorrect since we know that Japan has started again its nuclear weapon program that was halted after WW2). Elt was surprised that a country with access to this kind of super powered weapon does not want to rule the world and decided to analyze Japan more.

She also asked Ianos if she found anything that could improve the lives of people in Parpaldia. Janos showed her a beauty magazine and asked her how old the woman on the cover is. Elt thought she was 34 and was surprised to find out that the woman was 51. Ianos said that excellent skin care products can be easily purchased in Japan for relatively cheap. She also had a sample of some of these products that came with the magazine. Elt then said that they should test these skin care products, but since Japan is a hostile country she cannot put anyone else in danger, therefore she will test these skin care products on herself.

## Trivia

* Elt is a man in web novel version but a woman in the light novel version.