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The Emperor's New Clothes

(Andersen's Fairy Tales)

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朗読 : 佐々木久美子

　Once upon a time, there was an Emperor, who really loved clothes.

　His pleasure was getting new dresses and walking around showing off his brand-new clothing.

　One day, two rogues calling themselves dressmakers came to him.

　They said “We can weave so beautiful fabric.

　It has great mysterious power and the dress made of the cloth is invisible to an idiot or crazy person.”

“Well, I see. That’s interesting. Now, weave the fabric and make my dress!”
　The Emperor happily said so.
(Aha, walking around in the dress, I can easily tell which men are clever or stupid.)

　The two rogues asked the Emperor

　for so much money to weave the fabric and began to weave enthusiastically.

　Well, tell the truth, they just went through the motion of weaving the fabric!!!
“What would it be like? I would like to try it on now!”
　The Emperor wanted nothing more than to try the curious dress on.

　So, he told his minister to go and see how the situation was.

　Then, approaching the two men weaving the fabric, the minister who got the order was so surprised.

“???”
　He couldn’t see anything.

　He rubbed his eyes.
　Doing so, he could see nothing.
　Noticing the minister and pausing in their labor, the two men asked the minister in a very artificial way.

“Hello, my dear minister. How does it look? So gorgeous, don’t you think so?
　We are almost done. It will be so splendid and become the appropriate dress for our King.”
“Well, well, aha. Yes, exactly. Absolutely gorgeous! ”
　The minister left the message and get out of the room quickly.
“Oh my god! How can I let my Emperor know about this? ”
　He was thinking.
　He had never told any lies before.

　However, if he reports the fact that he couldn’t see anything, that would mean he must be an idiot. In the worst case, he would be forced to resign from his minister title.
　So, he decided to tell a lie.

　When he went back to the Emperor’s, he remarked: “That is a really wonderful fabric. They are almost done and going to sew your dress.”
“I see. It could be such a wonderful one.”
　Because his minister had never told any lies, the Emperor believed him without any doubt.
　Then, the Emperor became to want to see the mysterious fabric by himself. He decided to go and see the fabric with his minister the next day.

　Arriving at the room where the two rogues had been weaving the fabric, he gave words to the men.
“Um, well done. Then where is the mysterious fabric?”
　The two men pretended to lift a large cloth up and replied soon.

“Your Highness, here it is. How do you think? We believe this is one of the greatest fabrics. We have just finished it now.”

“Wait???”

　Because he couldn’t see anything, he rubbed his eyes.
　The two men paying attention to the Emperor asked a malicious question.
“Your Highness… you wouldn't say… that you couldn't see this fabric…”

　The Emperor became a little bit frightened at the words and said in haste.

“No way, I see. This is amazing! ”
　Absolutely, I love this. Now, let’s get started to sew my dress with this!
　I would really love to walk around in the dress at the coming festival. Hahaha!”

　On the day of the festival, the two men brought the dress and said.

“Your Highness, we would get you changed. Would you please get naked?”

　The Emperor went naked and the two men pretend to put the dress on him respectfully.

　Seeing the change, the Emperor’s men spoke highly in turn.

“Your Highness, you look so nice. Majestic!”
“Absolutely, yes! Anyway, so wonderful dress!”
“Thank you. Thank you. So nice. Good. Well, well. Hahaha!!! ”

　The Emperor replied so with satisfaction.

“Well, you know. People hearing about my new dress are looking forward to seeing me. Let’s set out!”

　The Emperor let his men form a procession and took the road proudly and slowly.

　Watching the line, many people in the town opened their eyes wide and purposely spoke out loudly.

“What a majestic Emperor! You look very nice!”
“We are proud of our highness! You look so well in the dress!”

　In fact, everyone saw nothing. Though, if others knew that he or she couldn’t see anything, they would think of him or her as an idiot.
　At that time.
　A small child watching the line laughed out and said.

“Wow! It’s strange. The Naked Emperor is walking proudly.”
　Hearing the child’s voice, people in the town admitted and said.

“We know. That’s right. Obviously, our Emperor has nothing on.”
“Right. He is naked. He just pretends to be in the dress.”
“Oh my. I’m ashamed. I also pretended to see something invisible.”

　After all, who felt the most ashamed of all the people was the Emperor himself. He recognized that he himself had been tricked by rogues and walking around in the raw.

　However, it was during the important festival, he couldn’t stop the procession.

　The Emperor was so ashamed and turned red from embarrassment. Finishing the procession, he got away from there instantly and run back into his castle.

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