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Table of Contents
Illustration

Character Introduction

Other Character Introduction

Chapter 1 – Honeymoon

Chapter 2 –Revolution of Green

Chapter 3 – The New Sea Battle

Chapter 4 – The Avenger’s Stage

Credits

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Character Introduction
Other Character Introduction
Oka Sanai ………… The previous life of Baldr’s previous life. A stingy
general from Warring States era.

Oka Masaharu ………… Baldr’s previous life. A high school student of

modern japan.

Seyruun ………… Baldr’s concubine. His maid since childhood.

Selina ………… Baldr’s concubine. Dog-eared tribe. A merchant

through and through.

Rachel ………… Baldr’s concubine. The former second princess of

Mauricia Kingdom.

Satsuki ………… Baldr’s concubine. Cat-eared tribe. The shrine maiden

princess of Gartlake Kingdom.

Ignis Cornelius ………… Baldr’s father. A noble at remote region who

was famous for his military prowess.

Maggot Cornelius ………… Baldr’s mother. The strongest mercenary.

Nigel ………… Baldr’s little brother. Marguerite’s twin.

Marguerite ………… Baldr’s little sister. Nigel’s twin.

Tyros ………… Baldr’s childhood friend. Working as Agatha’s assistant.

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Nelson Hadrien ………… Baldr’s school friend. Infiltrating Nedras
Kingdom.

Augusto Garibaldi ………… The prime minister of the reborn Trystovy

Kingdom.

Girolamo Khamoroni ………… The minister of domestic affairs of the

reborn Trystovy Kingdom.

Kailas ………… The leader who controlled many pirates. He became

Urraca’s right hand man.

Gina Bjorg ………… Maggot’s grandmother. The war god of beastman

race.

Gitze Mannerheim ………… The inspector general of Nordland Empire

army’s cavalry.

Sakuya Kagetsu ………… Satsuki’s mother. Gartlake Kingdom’s shrine

maiden head.

Welkin V ………… Mauricia Kingdom’s king.

William ………… Mauricia Kingdom’s fourth prince. Baldr’s school

friend.

Adolf Richmond ………… The leader of bureaucrat nobles in Mauricia

Kingdom.

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Eustachius Horntbeck ………… Horntbeck Kingdom’s crown prince

Odysseus Artorias ………… The navy minister of Horntbeck Kingdom.

Duke Vassily ………… The regent of Nedras Kingdom. Belonged to pro

Answerer Kingdom faction.

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Chapter 1 – Honeymoon

Part 1
After becoming the king of the reborn Trystovy Kingdom, his
coronation ceremony was held at the capital Millianna at the same
time with his wedding ceremony with six wives.

However the continent’s upheaval wasn’t giving any leeway for Baldr
who was at the peak of his happiness.

A beastman messenger from Nedras Kingdom arrived at Millianna

and knocked at the palace’s gate while running out of breath──.

The wedding ceremony was finished smoothly with the blessing from
the citizens and families. The arrival of the messenger was reported
to Baldr secretly after the dinner party was finished.

No matter how much of an emergency the situation was, they

couldn’t possibly pour cold water at the joyful atmosphere of the
celebration.

In another country, the messenger would be told to wait for several

days, but Baldr had the personality that hated that kind of
consideration, and most of all the report came from the intelligence
agency directly under Augusto.

Together with Augusto, Baldr brought himself to the secret audience

room that was set up inside the palace. His expression was
completely different from the his expression as groom who was in
high spirits due to the wedding ceremony.

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The inside of the room was dark with only limited number of people
were allowed to enter. A beastman with pitiful appearance of
bandages wrapping all over his body was waiting eagerly for the two
there.

「──Pardon me. I have made you wait.」

「Not at all! Being able to see the countenance of your majesty the
beast king from this close, i-is the greatest honor that this lowly one
can possibly receive!」

The messenger was a young male of wolf-eared tribe who looked like
he was still at his twenty. He was extremely tense the moment he
saw Baldr and bowed so deeply it was like he was going to dogeza.

For the beastman race, the title of beast king was extremely heavy.
That fact wasn’t at all different even for this resident of Nedras
Kingdom.

「It’s my great honor to be granted this audience with your majesty.

My name is Riesling Auflese of Nedras beastmen’s liberation army.」

「No need to bother with the preface. Tell me the reason of your
arrival here.」

「Yes your majesty!」

Baldr had cooperated with the leader of Nedras Kingdom’s

resistance, the Phantom Lagunitas as though they were dancing to
the same beat, but it wasn’t like they had formally formed an
alliance.

However the resistance had ignored that kind of formalities and

directly dispatched a messenger to Millianna. There should be a
really pressing reason for it.

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「Please let me explain with all due respect. After your majesty took
down General Mikhail, our Nedras Kingdom was in a state of lull for a
while.」

General Fork Katukov who was dispatched to replace the famous

general Mikhail Kalashnikov who was the pride of Answerer Kingdom
wasn’t that much of a threat for the resistance.

Thanks to that, they thought that they had finally obtained the
leeway to recover from the loss of manpower that was inflicted to
them by Mikhail’s overwhelming might.

──However that only lasted for a brief moment.

The situation changed drastically due to Answerer Kingdom

obtaining the title of Vhoipos that placed them as the protector of
Europa Church.

The citizens of Nedras Kingdom who had been oppressed as the

people of a vassal state were potential member of anti Answerer
Kingdom faction.

That was why they were giving tangible and intangible support to the
beastmen’s resistance, but due to the decision of Europa Church this
time, the reaction of their believers was turned around.

In the first place the number of believers of Europa religion in Nedras

Kingdom was second only to Answerer Kingdom.

The problem didn’t stop there. General Vladimir Kutuzov who was
appointed as Fork’s successor declared that he would give protection
to those who protected the faith and recognized beastmen as
enemy.

Those who gave anonymous report or fought the beastmen were

rewarded. They also received preferential treatment like tax

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reduction. Because of that the environment quickly worsened for a
beastman organization to do their activity.

「──They got us.」

Even Lagunitas who had been completely focused on harassing the

enemy and had continued fighting until now wanted to lament when
faced with such blatant incitement to the people.

The people who wanted to escape from the harsh living before them
happily showed their hostility to the beastmen like fish getting lured
by bait.

Even so the resistance was still barely managing to function. It was

because the number of people who thought of Nedras Kingdom’s
future and wanted to remove the influence of Answerer Kingdom no
matter what numbered quite a lot.

It also really helped that abundant operating funds were supplied to

them secretly through Dowding Group.

「It’s truly shameful for us to ask for help from your majesty for
something like this but……」

Riesling bit his lip in frustration and strongly clenched his fist.

A lot of the nobles of the old dukedom who got banished from
Trystovy were recently dispatched to Nedras Kingdom as new
reinforcement. They were a suitable pawn for Answerer Kingdom.

This was a technique that was also often used at earth.

An intermediary ruler was prepared to play the role as the bad cop,
while they themselves were preparing carrot to make an appeal to
the people as virtuous rulers.

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After the rebellious energy of the people got whittled sufficiently,
the intermediary ruler wouldn’t be needed anymore. They could be
executed to serve as an example, while sparing only the useful
people among them.

Either way, there wouldn’t be any drawback for Answerer Kingdom.

What was unexpected for Lagunitas was that the old dukedom
nobles had been extremely cornered that they had no more future,
on top of that their grudge toward commoners had reached an
extreme from the process of their banishment.

The old dukedom nobles applied an oppression that contained no

sympathy and mercy at all. Innocent commoners lost their life almost
every day, Riesling reported while looking like he wanted to spit out.

Lagunitas too didn’t just sit quietly watching that happened, but no
matter how many old dukedom nobles he killed, it wouldn’t hurt
Answerer Kingdom at all.

Rather they were waiting for Lagunitas to attack the old dukedom
nobles so that they could trap him.

Several resistance units had gotten into such trap and received
horrible loss.

It was Answerer Kingdom who made use of old dukedom nobles as

recycled garbage, but it was Baldr who cornered them to such
degree. Therefore Baldr was also feeling somewhat ashamed in his
heart.

They were useless nobles who were obsessed with their privileges.
He hoped that they would sabotage Answerer Kingdom with their
incompetence, as expected he never imagined that they would be
used in this way.

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Baldr thought that the best they could do would only be to request
Answerer Kingdom to take back Trystovy. If they became a part of
the army that attacked Trystovy in the future, they would become
the enemy’s weak point instead.

If it was Valerie who had manipulated Trystovy for many years from
behind the scene, then perhaps he would be able to predict such
usage of malicious method.

「Our sphere of activity has already been reduced into very limited
area. The number of soldiers we can mobilize has also been reduced
to half. Even with Lagunitas-sama’s capability, we are already
starting to become unable to mount any proper guerilla warfare.」

Minority race like beastmen would naturally stand out in human

settlement.

Until now there were many humans who accepted them as fellow
countryman, the old dukedom nobles had executed even the people
who were involved with beastman as example, so the beastmen’s
daily activity had been halted almost completely.

In the past there was a saying 「Divide and conquer」 that was used
in British Empire. It was certainly an effective method if one ignored
that doing so would leave a seed of evil that would grow to become
a big problem in the future.

「I’m deeply aware that asking for something like this from your
majesty is extremely insolent. However we are already at our limit.
Please grant us reinforcement as soon as possible!」

「──Understood.」

Baldr accepted Riesling’s request without any hesitation at all.

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「I’m indebted to Lagunitas-dono for the indirect aid he gave me
during Trystovy’s civil war. And one way or another, I’ll have deal
with Answerer Kingdom sooner or later.」

「Oooo! My deepest gratitude!」

Riesling kowtowed with deep emotion that had truly reached the
peak.

He believed that the beast king that the beastman race had believed
with all their heart until now was truly the legendary savior as
expected.

「──However your majesty, sending military force in parts is a taboo.

」

As the king’s assistant, it was only natural for the prime minister
Augusto to give such advice.

Even if abandoning the beastmen of Nedras Kingdom was out of

question, they shouldn’t dispatch soldiers easily without enough
preparation.

It was still difficult to say that Trystovy Kingdom had completely

recovered from the civil war. If they lost their precious military
strength in this time, there was also the possibility of the country
crumbling like how a dam could broke from a single ant’s nest.

「Of course. However there is no reason to ignore such bait when

it’s already placed before us.」

Right now both Trystovy Kingdom and Answerer Kingdom were still
in the phase of preparing for the outbreak of war.

However the conflict that revolved around Nedras Kingdom could

become a good test as a warm-up for the coming decisive battle.
That was what Baldr said.

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「Besides we won’t need that many soldiers to mow down the
annoying dukedom nobles.」

「──Then I shall leave it to your majesty’s judgment.」

Augusto bowed reverently to Baldr. When he lifted his face once

more, he was smiling really cheerfully.

「Well, putting that aside, I’ll have your majesty fulfill your duty as
king. First is the wedding night.」

「Nnaa?」

Baldr fully understood that Augusto was teasing him, but it was also
a fact that this was a real problem. Or rather it was a matter that
Baldr who was in the middle of his puberty was seriously concerned
about in secret.

「B-but it should be the same for the prime minister too!」

「I’m different from a virgin! You virgin!」

「You traitor! You betrayed my feeling!」

「Ha-ha-ha! Your majesty has always betrayed me, so I should

deliver this payback at least! I hope that your majesty will experience
a failure that become great trauma!」

Riesling’s moment of feeling emotionally moved lasted only for an

instant. He was speechless in a daze seeing the comedic act of
master and retainer that suddenly started.

「It’s troubling if you look down on my masterIgnis! My preparation

is already perfect! There is no need for prime minister to be worried
at all!」

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「Fufufu……this is why a virgin is really bothersome. Preparation?
Any preparation will be just armchair theory that cannot be relied on
at all when you haven’t even discard your virginity.」

In reality, there were a lot of nobles who called for high class
prostitute and experienced sex before their first night with their
bride.

Augusto didn’t even need to do that. He had been enjoying night

adventures following his instinct liberally, but as expected his first
time was something special for him.

Even now he could vividly recall the intoxication and failure of that
night.

Even a lady-killer of Augusto’s level ended up in complete failure at

his first night.

If his partner wasn’t an adult woman who was deeply understanding

in that area, perhaps he would be seriously traumatized.

In that respect, Silk was undoubtedly a virgin, and it was unthinkable

that a virgin like Baldr could skillfully lead her in the act.

「Aa, the nickname of your majesty’s father was Cameron’s Red

Stallion was it? It seems that he is an extraordinary playboy who has
achieved hundreds of conquest, but didn’t he tell your majesty how
special the first time would be?」

「Muh……」

Now that he said that, Baldr recalled how when he was instructed of
the way to handle woman, it seemed that his father told him that
just for the first time he should accept everything and felt it with his
heart…….

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「W-w-w-w-w-what should I do? If even master has forsaken me,
I’ll!」

「Resignation is important your majesty. At the very least you

should be mentally kind to her majesty.」

「No no no no no, g-g-g-give me advice for the sake of a beautiful

memory between Silk and me! Augusto!」

Riesling had already given up thinking.

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Part 2
Baldr wasn’t the only one feeling expectation and anxiety for the
wedding night.

Rather because they had greater number at their side, it could be

said that the wives had been having debates and arguments
frequently.

The wives had taken off their wedding dress and gathered in Silk’s
private room wearing their respective casual wear. There they held a
small tea party.

「First, tonight is my turn. Does anyone has any objection?」

Silk was bursting with a quiet determination. There was nobody who
raised any objection. Although Satsuki was the only one who could
possibly object to this by brute force.

The concubines agreed to Silk’s words with complete acceptance.

「Well, that’s the privilege of the first wife.」

「Go all out! Silk-han!」

「That’s……if possible please tell us your impression accurately later.

」

「I-I-I’m nervous nya……I, I’m fine being the last one nya.」

Seyruun, Selina, Rachel, and Satsuki each said that. Then they spoke
with each other about their impression and expectation for their
moment that would arrive in the near future.

Even Silk who would go first was shouldering the pride as the official
first wife. At the same time she was aware that there was anxiety
and curiosity lurking somewhere in her heart.

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(──But drawing back is not allowed! My pride as the first wife is on
the line!)

The stupid doting parent Alford had raised Silk to be too fastidious to
be honest.

Silk believed that she wouldn’t be inferior to anyone when it came to

love and resolve, but when it came to love affair, she was no
different from a naïve maiden.

(I should talk a bit more with Rachel before this……)

Most likely Rachel was the only one who had received formal
education for the propriety of this kind of thing.

Seyruun and Selina had been completely devoted to Baldr all this
time. Surely they didn’t have the slightest experience with man at all.
Satsuki was also the same.

As for Agatha, she looked like someone who had abundant

knowledge for this kind of thing, however Silk was aware that she
was completely mistaken in her sexual orientation due to that
excessive knowledge.

The ladies sometimes had idle talk about night activity, but Silk’s
pride as the first wife never allowed him to ask for teaching from her
other fellow wives.

(But, I have a method!)

Silk clenched her fist with eyes that looked like someone who was
overthinking something. The only one who noticed it was Agatha
who was like her big sister.

(Aa, this girl, she is absolutely thinking about something stupid……)

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In most cases when Silk was like this, she would hold her head in
regret later on, but Agatha was also a maiden who felt relatively
reserved when it come to this kind of topic.

In a sense, Silk and Agatha were lacking experience point, or rather

familiarity with the society even when compared to Seyruun or
Selina.

In order to win against such women, perhaps they certainly needed

some kind of method that was out of the norm.

(Besides, Silk-sama is also handicapped like that……)

Woman’s chest measurement was undeniably a stratified society.

This difference that had been decided since birth was something
terrifying that couldn’t be overturned easily even with huge amount
of effort or money.

Fortunately Agatha was in the winner group, but Silk and Satsuki had
almost zero hope for growth even in the future.

The huge breasts group like Selina and Rachel were aware how
Baldr’s gaze would often turn toward their breasts secretly.

From Agatha’s perspective, such advantage should make it possible

for them to maintain their mental composure even at their first
night.

(Could it be──no way.)

A bad premonition flashed at the back of her mind for a second, but
Agatha decided to intentionally ignore it.

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Part 3
Baldr’s bedroom was the middle of the spire that was towering high
at the center of the palace.

Its size was around thirty tatami (around 50 square meter). The room
was somewhat dreary with only a king size bed, simple alcohol shelf,
wardrobe, and book storage filling it.

Outside the room there were guards at the door and also shadowy
guards being on guard for 24 hours. Baldr’s privacy was nonexistent,
but right now he had no composure to pay attention to that.

『Thank god this world isn’t like France.』

Baldr’s previous life, a high school student of the modern Japan, Oka
Masaharu suddenly said that.

Baldr tilted his head in puzzlement.

『What do you mean?』

『At France’s era of monarchy, the king’s sexual activity was an

entertainment for the commoners. There was a need to have the firs
tnight in front of the public. It was also in order to proof that the
prince will definitely be the king’s son.』

『What kind of shaming play is that!』

By the way this custom didn’t only belong to France royal family. In
order to prove that the child the queen was pregnant with belonged
to the king, a custom for a witness to observe their sex activity was
common at the Middle Ages.

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『The southern barbarians art really grand……such thing for me is
really, really impossible……』

Baldr’s previous previous life, a general of the warring states era, Oka
Sanai was also astonished.

『Old man like you who exposed your dangling penis in front of
koban coins has no right to say thattttt!』

Perhaps because there was social etiquette to keep sexual activity a

secret in Japan, the custom to open the noble’s sexual act to the
public didn’t take root there.

Excluding exception like Shingon Tachikawaryuu, the most that

happened was group sex culture blooming in a village society that
was located in very rural area.

Baldr was glad from the bottom of his heart that there wasn’t that
kind of custom in Aurelia Continent.

That kind of custom was fortunately not existing might be the

secondary effect of the spreading of Europa Church that prized
order.

──*Knock knock knock*

A reserved knocking sound came from the door at that timing.

*Gulp*, Baldr swallowed his saliva and he was barely able to squeeze
out his voice.

「Come in.」

「……I’m……coming in.」

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Silk timidly entered inside the bedroom with her face going red from
shame until her neck.

Due to the dim light of the lamp, Silk’s body was standing out clearly
against the dark background.

Her slender body was wrapped with a fabric that was like a sheet.
The provocative figure underneath was still being hidden.

Even so, the fabric was unable to hide her body curve too.

His heartbeat sound was too loud, that when Baldr noticed, Silk was
already sitting on the bed and turning her gaze toward him with
moist eyes.

It seemed that she had said something to him, but he could only hear
the sound of his heartbeat.

His throat hurt as though it had been burned. Not a single

considerate word came out from his mouth. Even the numerous
lessons that his master(Ignis) taught him weren’t useful at all right
now.

「Silk……」

Even then he was able to suppress his animalistic desire and gently
held Silk’s shoulders. It must be a feat that was only made possible
by the gene that Baldr inherited. A normal virgin would be unable to
endure and assaulted the girl at this point.

Silk’s shoulders were slightly shaking. His right hand that was holding
her could feel it. It helped Baldr’s thinking ability to recover just
barely.

「I love you Silk. I love all of you, more than anyone else.」

「I too, love you Baldr.」

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Their lips pressed on each other as though they were sucked toward
each other. They enjoyed the texture of each other’s lips pecking
many times on their lips.

Before long they were stimulated to entangle their lips with each
other. They began an intense kiss that greedily craved for the other.
Baldr grabbed the back of Silk’s small head and became numb from
the intoxication.

At this point of time, Baldr’s rationality was still remaining to be

considerate to Silk and turned this moment to be a beautiful memory
for the two of them.

The collapse of everything began the moment Baldr pushed down

Silk’s body on the bed with a rough kiss.

──*Clink*

If a normal human heard that sound, perhaps they would only think
of it as a normal sound of metals hitting each other. However there
was no way Baldr’s ears would fail to hear that sound.

It was the alluring melody of angel that he would never get tired of
no matter how many times he had heard it. That sound was none
other than the sound of gold coin rubbing against each other.

Furthermore it was the Elizabeth gold coin of Mauricia Kingdom that

Baldr loved the most!

Silk hardened her resolve and threw away the sheet that was
wrapped around her whole body. Her hidden bare skin and
underwear were exposed.

「Wwha-!」

Perhaps this was what was called paradise on earth.

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Even if he had been warned beforehand to not be surprised, it would
be absolutely impossible for him to keep his calm.

Silk was wearing a white camisole that was generously attached with
gold leaves and gold coins as replacement for frills.

It was a seduction method that put everything she had on the line.
She was able to think up such method exactly because she was
aware of Baldr’s hidden sinfulness that was beyond redemption.

Baldr was speechless from excitement. Silk whispered to him in

embarrassment.

「Err……eat me?」

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*Snap*, Baldr clearly heard the sound of the string of his rationality
snapping off.

「N-NO WAY I CAN ENDURE THISSSSSSSS! YOU’RE PREPARED AREN’T

YOUUUUUUU!」

「KYAAAAAAAHN!」

Seeing Baldr was transformed into a wild beast, Silk shouted got you!
and made a guts pose inside her heart.

For Silk, her rivals weren’t just the concubines, but even Baldr
himself.

She couldn’t allow herself to lose in night activity of husband and

wife even against her husband.

(I win! Chapter one, complete!)

She thought that. Until that point of time only──.

「Um……Baldr? Isn’t it enough already?」

「…………」

「Please. I admit that I went too far. Return to your senses quickly!
」

「…………」

「I’m at my limit already. Just a bit, just a bit is fine so let me rest……
」

「…………」

「Nhooo……I’mh turning into an idiot」

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「…………」

「……………………(It’s not talking. It looks like it’s just a corpse)」

「It can’t be helped at all! This golden radiance is driving my

Excalibur madddddddddddd!」

When the morning sunlight shined into the room, the tempestuous
first night ended with the two harmoniously hugging each other with
their soul completely spent.

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Part 4
At the afternoon of that day, Silk finally got up from the bed and
returned to her own room when it was past noon.

The wives immediately swarmed Silk who was only barely

maintaining her posture with her corset.

「How was it for ya?」

「Was Baldr-sama gentle with you?」

「Or rather……you return really late. Was it intense?」

Selina, Rachel, and then even Agatha were approaching Silk with
fervent look.

「……It was amazing.」

It was a terrific experience that made her felt like her secret garden
would get soaked just from recalling it.

Silk didn’t find any word that could describe what happened and she
looked down with her cheeks blushing in shame.

Rachel who should be Baldr’s partner tonight based on the order was
bewildered.

「Um……can you describe it a bit more specifically?」

「……It was really amahzing.」

「SILK-HAN HAS TURNED INTO A SEX OBSESSED

PERSONNNNNNNNNN!」

「This is useless nya.」

「……Gulp」

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Selina, Satsuki, and Seyruun reacted like that.

They were half anxious and half jealous. But, the only thing that they
could take from this was that apparently Silk was completely
defeated by Baldr on bed.

That was the only explanation for this reaction from Silk.

「Just what in the world you have done?」

Agatha had vaguely realized what kind of strategy Silk had cooked
up. She tried to probe what kind of method she used and how did
Baldr react but…….

「……It was amahzing.」

「Now see here, the status of first wife will cry if you are too sex
addled like this you know?」

「But, it was amahzing.」

Silk looked like her soul had left her body and only the shell
remained behind. Agatha shrugged seeing that it didn’t look like she
would be in a state that could talk properly for today.

「This is this girl we are talking about anyway, she must have
schemed something and got the table turned on her. Rachel-sama
shouldn’t use her as a reference.」

「That dignified Silk-sama is reduced into this……I feel a bit jealous.

」

「C-certainly to be honest I’m also curious……」

Agatha and Rachel blushed slightly.

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Given that they were maidens at that age, their interest and desire
toward sex were strong. The wives swore firmly that they would
definitely make Silk spat out the truth after her mind recovered.

「N-n-n-no way! That method is sealed! I was seriously worried for

my life you know? It wasn’t something that a single person can
possible handle……? Hm? I wonder if it’ll be alright with two
people……」

Silk was falling into a wild delusion. It was unknown whether she
would be able to protect the secret till the end.

In the future, the sound of clinking coins could be heard from Baldr’s
room together with the screams of multiple women. It might be
something that could happen or perhaps not.

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Part 5
──Nedras Kingdom.

When the unification dynasty split into Answerer Kingdom and

Mauricia Kingdom in the past, Duke Nedras who was an influential
duke house declared independence and formed a small country.

For several hundred years after that, the country had stubbornly
survived amidst the complicated power balance of the continent
together with its neighbor Kadiros Kingdom.

However the situation changed when the previous king Morad II

married Answerer Kingdom’s princess Barbara.

No, it would be more accurate to say that the situation was forcefully
changed.

A son was born between the two. When the son had grown until six
years old, Morad II suddenly collapsed from sickness and left this
world in the young age of 28 years old.

This case was still suspected as an assassination by Answerer

Kingdom.

There was no way Lathoka III who was still six years old had the
ability to rule the kingdom. And so Duke Vassily who belonged to the
pro Answerer Kingdom faction served as regent.

In respond to this chain of events, Duke David of the anti Answerer

Kingdom faction formed an opposition forces, but at the following
year he was suspected of plotting to overthrow the government and
was executed.

Furthermore Barbara who became the empress dowager called for

influential nobles from her homeland and appointed them as the

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king’s close aides. That was how the center of the nation was taken
over.

Like this Nedras Kingdom lost its independence. It was a one-way

path to become a vassal state.

From there it was the natural flow of things that the commoners
who were burdened with heavy tax and the nobles who lost their
vested interests aggressively rebelled all over the country.

While Nedras Kingdom was near Answerer Kingdom and had a lot of
Europa Church’s followers, the human and beastman there had built
a relationship of cooperation until now.

Many beastmen ran to Nedras Kingdom from Answerer Kingdom due

to the massacre that occurred there. There was also the intention of
the royal family that wanted to turn the beastman’s armed might
into their personal force.

The tacit agreement that was exchanged between the two sides was
broken by Duke Vassily’s act of confiscating the assets of the
beastman race.

The fighting ability of the beastman race was hard to obtain as a

military strength. That was why Nedras Kingdom protected their
right and protected them as the people of this country.

However now that the country had practically become Answerer

Kingdom’s vassal state, that military force was nothing but a
nuisance.

The territory of Count Kovalenko who belonged to anti Answerer

Kingdom faction was the place where most beastmen lived in the
past.

The beastmen population was also concentrated at the territory of

the purged Duke David.

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Marquis Primakov who succeeded the territory of Duke David after
that immediately began to persecute the beastman race.

All the lands of the beastmen were confiscated without exception,

they were taxed heavily and forced to do heavy labor. Most
beastmen chose to escape from Marquis Primakov’s territory.

When that happened, the territory of Count Kovalenko naturally

became their only hope.

If asked why they put so much trust into Count Kovalenko, that was
because the count had a beastman concubine who gave birth to a
son named Lagunitas.

「They are also the people of our country!」

The house head of that time, Count Isaac Kovalenko resolutely stood
firm on his principle even amidst the despairing internal state of the
country.

Even though they had lost their political power, the military force of
the anti Answerer Kingdom faction was still powerful.

Especially the beastmen who converged in the count’s territory. They

were definitely a threat for Answerer Kingdom.

If the situation devolved into a head-on battle, then there would be

no point spending all that time to take over Nedras Kingdom with
political marriage.

If Answerer Kingdom could slowly spend dozens of years continuing

with their effort, the opposition faction would decline without them
needing to do anything, and they were bound to obtain Nedras
Kingdom like a ripened fruit.

That didn’t happen──was because of the force of fate.

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Unlike the outside nobles who came from Answerer Kingdom, the
regent Duke Vassily who finally obtained authority was unable to be
patient for that long.

「The situation with Count Kovalenko is honestly outrageous.」

If war would bring too many sacrifices, they just needed to

assassinate the opposition. With such thought in mind, Duke Vassily
called Isaac to the palace and poisoned him.

Kovalenko territory that lost its lord would helplessly get occupied by
the army that Vassily dispatched. That was how it looked like but──.

「The murder of father is an unforgivable crime for the motherland.

」

The one who yelled that and boldly stood up was none other than
the young Lagunitas──the son of Isaac from his beastman concubine.

Lagunitas was still 17 years old at this time. He hadn’t even

experienced his first campaign.

Even so he had received higher education as a member of a count

house. Since his childhood Lagunitas had been given highly loyal
beastmen as his vassals. He led five hundred soldiers and utterly
defeated the army of 2000 that the kingdom dispatched.

It was the bitter miscalculation of Vassily who thought that there

would be no problem anymore as long as Isaac was killed.

However although it was something that began from a

miscalculation, his dignity as regent would drop if he stayed defeated
against a countryside noble.

Vassily immediately gathered an army of 5000 soldiers and ordered

them to subjugate the opposition.

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「──Who said that we will fight you head-on?」

However Lagunitas was already starting to show a glimpse of the

genius for fighting that he had since birth.

It was this battle that later on became the trigger for the fame of the
Phantom Lagunitas who fought with ever-changing tactics and
elusive movement like phantom.

In front of an overwhelming difference of military strength, the

commander of the expeditionary force thought that Lagunitas would
surely shut himself inside his castle for a defensive battle. He
completely let his guard down at Ralf Town that was two days away
from the count territory and suffered a night attack.

It was a surprise attack using stealth ability to approach without a

sound and travelling ability that disregard any defense facility. It was
truly the display of the beastman force’s worth.

「What’s going on-?」

「……You are underestimating me too much.」

「Hiih! Who the hell are you? Don’t tell me……you are a subordinate
of the count?」

「Are you stupid, asking who am I after coming this far?」

Golden eyes laughed at the flustered commander. The young

Lagunitas fully enjoyed the joy of beast hunting down the prey.

Perhaps it was only natural for human to be wary toward beastman.

After all it felt this fun to toy with the prey, with the enemy like this.

「Do you think we will obediently lock ourselves in the castle if you
bring 5000 soldiers with you?」

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「D-do you think you will get away after doing something like this?
W-we will slaughter all the beastmen in Kovalenko territory!」

「Don’t howl of something you can’t even do, you trash.」

「Hiiiiiiiiiih!」

*Tosu*

A sword stabbed the commander’s chest with a disappointingly small

sound.

The commander stared at that sight in disbelief. He shook his head

like a whining kid and expired.

「There is nobody more careless than the strong. Even cat will bite a
cat in order to protect its own life, so why did you think that we will
just quietly wait to be killed?」

Lagunitas slowly raised his right hand.

At the same time fires were set to the lodging houses of the
expeditionary army one after another. The food and fodder to
maintain 5000 soldiers, the weapons, all of them vanished into the
flame.

Even an army of 5000 wouldn’t be able to fight in the commotion

after they were attacked in their sleep and their surrounding turned
into a sea of flame.

The number of people who killed each other in the confusion, people
who were burned, and people who were late to escape and died in
fire kept increasing that the army lost more than a thousand soldiers
without fighting.

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Even if they tried to continue fighting with the remaining soldiers,
the food they brought with them had turned into ash, and the fodder
for the horses had also been burned into nothing.

The commander who should make the decision also died in battle.
The expeditionary army completely lost their will to fight.

It was Duke Vassily who was dumbfounded.

For a small country like Nedras Kingdom, a force of 5000 wasn’t

something that could be easily gathered.

Although the pressure from Answerer Kingdom at the border had

been reduced, they still needed the minimum number of soldiers as
guards. They also needed soldiers to maintain the public order in the
capital Hazuz.

In that state, the greatest number of soldiers that could be gathered

was 30000 at best. As precaution against other nobles than Count
Kovalenkov who were in the anti Answerer Kingdom faction,
gathering 15000 or 20000 was the most he could do.

Among that number, 7000 soldiers were already defeated and

returned home shamelessly. It was impossible to form a subjugation
army again without reorganizing them first.

The repeated failure had thrown mud on the face of Vassily as the
regent.

If he was defeated for the third time, anti Answerer Kingdom faction
would obtain momentum and it might be Vassily who got purged
instead.

A while after that, Vassily made a decision that was the worst for
Nedras Kingdom.

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He asked for army reinforcement from Answerer Kingdom, and
allowed tens of thousands of Answerer Kingdom’s regular army to be
stationed inside Nedras Kingdom.

──There was a wise saying, poverty dulls the wit.

Nedras Kingdom officially still maintained their independence, but

they had been completely turned into Answerer Kingdom’s vassal
state.

It was impossible to be independent in every kind of meaning if a

country let go of their military independence.

Now no matter what kind of absurd demand Answerer Kingdom

asked, Nedras Kingdom couldn’t have any strength or backbone to
refuse it.

After obtained the just cause to effectively control Nedras Kingdom

openly, Answerer Kingdom immediately dispatched 20000 soldiers of
their regular army.

A subjugation army that numbered 30000 in total was formed and

finally the advance to Count Kovalenko territory was resumed once
more after several years had passed since the last attempt.

In contrast the count house could only mobilize 2000 soldiers in

total. However half of that number was occupied by beastmen with
their particular way of fighting. Such force couldn’t be
underestimated.

As expected this time even the subjugation army didn’t let their
guard down.

They were wary of a night attack from the beastmen and performed
scouting thoroughly all the way until the count territory. They were
trying to avoid taking risk but…….

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「──Unfortunately, we don’t have any plan to fight conventionally.
」

From the start Lagunitas had no intention to go along with the

human’s war.

If they fought head on, the beastmen would never be able to win
with their overwhelmingly inferior number.

Then it would be fine if they just won in what they could win.

It should be a way of fighting that displayed the beastman race’s

strength the most.

Suddenly fire broke out in the encampment. The subjugation army

that was alert all this time immediately readied themselves to
intercept the enemy and attacked the beastmen who set fire to the
fodder.

「There might be ambush! Don’t be negligent in coordinating with

the other units!」

There was no need for the subjugation army to take risk because
they had superior number. That was completely the correct answer,
but that calm reaction backfired.

「──Guhah!」

The objective of the surprise attack this time wasn’t the soldiers and
supplies. The objective was the assassination of the commander.

Lagunitas and his few elites targeted the commander and secretly
took position for sniping.

The arrow that was fired with the beastman’s particularly powerful
strength pierced the commander’s chest with unerring accuracy.

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「──Sniper! There is assassin nearby!」

「Search the assassin! Don’t let them return alive!」

They desperately searched the surrounding of the commander who

died instantly, but Lagunitas and his men was hiding in a place
further than they thought. The range of beastman’s bow surpassed
human by far.

「It’s troubling that you underestimate our night vision and physical
strength. We aren’t in nearby location like that.」

Originally in case the commander died in battle, the vice commander

would take his place. However the vice commander was scared
because the commander was easily assassinated without even any
battle breaking out.

The one who would be targeted next was him who succeeded the
right of command, but the squad that assassinated the commander
was still at large.

The vice commander was driven with desire to retreat. However

Answerer Kingdom’s regular army that made up the majority of his
army didn’t allow that.

For them, the assassination of Nedras Kingdom’s general was a

godsend instead. It was also a good chance for them to display their
strength.

They doubled the number of lookout. Since then no more surprise

attack was allowed and the subjugation army finally arrived at
Kovalenko territory.

This time they would be able to trample the opposition with

overwhelming number without doubt.

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It was only natural for them to think so. In fact, the battle was
progressing with the advantage completely in the subjugation army’s
side.

They also received great damage, but several days after the castle
siege began, the subjugation army finally broke through the castle
wall and rushed into the city like avalanche.

──But.

「Now, release the fire.」

Fires rose all at once from everywhere in the city that was jammed
with tens of thousands army.

Even when they tried to run away, they were a large army. It would
be different if they were at a plain, but they were unable to
maneuver freely in urban area. The chaos spread further and the
chain of command was thrown into disarray.

The subjugation army was nothing more but a pitiful sacrifice to be

toyed by the violence of flame now.

「How can this be! They’re burning their own city!」

「The citizens have finished evacuating since a long time ago. After
all it’s clear that if you guys are annihilated here, the kingdom won’t
have any more spare strength.」

「Even so──this, this way to fight is not acceptable! Don’t you know
anything about the pride of warrior!」

「I have never intended to become a warrior even once. Though I

always want to become a hunter who finishes off a conceited prey
who doesn’t know his place.」

「This is why animal like you is──!」

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「The hunted animal here is you. You should pray to your merciful
god before you die. Tell him sorry that you lose against animal.」

By sacrificing the beautiful townscape that he had been raised in

since his childhood, he dealt a damage of 10000 to the subjugation
army. Even the remaining 20000 had become practically useless as a
military force.

With such result, it looked like Nedras Kingdom didn’t have any more
spare strength to try anything with Kovalenko territory again.

But even someone as clever as Lagunitas was unable to measure the

bottom of the strength of Answerer Kingdom, the strongest and
biggest country in the continent.

A year after their reputation had been wholly crushed, General

Mikhail Kalashnikov was dispatched as Answerer Kingdom’s trump
card. Due to this Lagunitas tasted a horrible defeat for the first time
in his life.

Lagunitas looked up to the huge moon that was floating in the sky.
He recalled his days as a teen, when his father was suddenly taken
away from him and he threw himself wholly into days of fighting.

「Mikhail was terrifying as an enemy, but he wasn’t a hateful man.

However, those trashes from Trystovy……」

He hesitated to even consider them as opponent.

They were simply a target for extermination, like a harmful bug. Even
the word kill wasn’t something that bunch deserved.

「Is everything prepared?」

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「Yes, the preparation of the gunpowder that we received from his
majesty the beast king is also finished. We are only waiting for
Lagunitas-sama’s order right now.」

His close aide’s responsive reply made Lagunitas’s heart danced in

excitement at the chance of counterattack that had finally arrived.

「──I was correct to bet on you, your majesty.」

Not long after Baldr’s coronation as Trystovy king, the new

insurrection by the beastmen in Nedras Kingdom was going to start
in an unprecedented scale.

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Part 6
Currently the actual ruler of Nedras Kingdom was naturally not the
young Lathoka III. However it also wasn’t the regent Duke Vassily.

Duke Vassily had been disgraced after his failure in subjugating

Lagunitas. Although he hadn’t lost his position because of that, he
had become an existence that was like a mere decoration.

Currently the actual ruler of Nedras Kingdom was the queen

dowager Barbara and General Vladimir who was dispatched from
Answerer Kingdom.

The main members of the bureaucratic organization within the

country were already replaced with people who sided with Answerer
Kingdom. Right now the government was unable to do anything
without asking Answerer Kingdom’s permission first.

「──What happened?」

An intelligence agent who was wearing a grey outfit slipped into the
office soundlessly. Vladimir asked curtly when he saw that.

Unlike his predecessor Fork, Vladimir was a general of administrator

type who made it his principle to mainly use strategy.

His ability to command soldiers in the battlefield was inferior to

Mikhail, but when it came to ruling a vassal state, his capability
wasn’t just one level above the rest, but two or even three level
above.

He was thoroughly familiar with how easy it was to control human

desire using the difference in status.

That was why he was able to think up the perplexing strategy of

using the old dukedom nobles as sacrificial pawn.

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「The beastmen are going into offense once more. Almost half of
the pawns have been killed.」

「So what? That lot is just a scapegoat from the start. It doesn’t
matter how many of them are killed.」

「Yes, but it seems that this time they are being used against us.」

「What do you mean?」

Here Vladimir finally moved up his gaze from his paperwork to look
toward the agent.

His sharp black eyes had the coldness that would make anyone who
saw him to shrink back. Even though his black hair was only tied
behind him casually, he gave off a pressure like a jailer in hell.

He was still young with his age that was in his thirty, however he was
selected to be the commander of the expeditionary army to Nedras
Kingdom because of his abnormal composure as though he had no
emotion at all.

「Just like before, we had made arrangement to surround and

annihilate the rebels when they were enraged by the bait but……this
time our army was the one that got surrounded and annihilated
instead.」

「The damage?」

「Most likely it won’t be less than 2000.」

「Any intervention from Trystovy Kingdom?」

「Considering the weapons that were used, that possibility is likely.

」

「Got it. Tell me the details.」

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Vladimir wasn’t flustered at all. He folded his arms in front of his
table.

This was the report of the intelligence agent.

From the start the old dukedom nobles were just sacrificial pawn. It
didn’t matter how many of them got killed.

The basic of the plan was to have them gather the resentment of
Nedras populace to be concentrated to them, on top of that they
were also used as bait for drawing the resistance’s attack.

Thanks to that the old dukedom nobles died in drove, but the
resistance members, especially the beastmen were also taking
considerable damage. They were even pressed with the necessity to
hide underground temporarily.

Although the scale of the attack this time was quite large, with the
road sealed and their superior number, the resistance should have
nowhere to escape and got annihilated. However──.

The army got skillfully lured, then when the separated army gathered
into one place, they were ambushed using gunpowder and burning
oil.

There was already a report about gunpowder weapon being used at

Mauricia and Trystovy. Vladimir also knew the information that his
homeland was secretly starting to mass produce it.

No matter how he considered it, it was unthinkable that there could

be a leak from the homeland. So he should consider it as
intervention from Trystovy.

「──There is no change with the number of the resistance’s

manpower correct?」

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「Yes, at the very least the mobilized manpower wasn’t that many.
Even if they are receiving outside aid, I believe that it’s only in the
form of supplies.」

「So it’ll be the time to give the carrot soon huh.」

The old dukedom nobles had fulfilled their role as sacrifice enough.
There wouldn’t be any problem even if he discarded them now.

Most of all it wouldn’t be wise to allow the resistance to gain

momentum here.

「……Chernenko.」

Vladmiri’s adjutant Chernenko who was standing at his left

straightened his posture.

「Lead a company and expose the crime of those old dukedom

nobles. They must be piling up money more than we allowed them
to anyway. And then give back all those money to the populace, I
don’t mind, let them dream for a little.」

「Understood.」

「After that put a reward money for snitching on the resistance.

Don’t be stingy with the reward, we won’t be the one paying anyway
but Nedras Kingdom.」

Chernenko’s eyes widened in surprise when he noticed that his

clever superior was saying something that sounded like a joke.

But even that only lasted for less than a second. He immediately
accepted the order and left. As expected from the adjutant of
Vladimir.

Looking at the result, Vladimir’s decision was correct.

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With human’s psychological state, when they were cornered, they
could be greatly influenced by the treatment from others even if it
was just a sly act that was completely transparent.

The bad cop and good cop trick, where the bad cop that threatened
the suspect and the good cop treated the suspect gently was also an
example of this. If the old dukedom nobles who were the symbol of
fear and hatred until now were purged, it was in the nature of the
populace to feel wildly joyful against their better judgment.

And on top of that, if the taxes that the old dukedom nobles
embezzled were returned and their tax rate for next year was halved,
the people would unanimously yelled Vladimir’s name in praise.

「Vladimir!」

「Long live General Vladimir!」

「Die! You cursed Trystovy stray dogs!」

It was a greatly disappointing result for the resistance that finally

took the first step of counterattack to remove the old dukedom
nobles.

「──Good grief, facing Mikhail was far easier compared to this.」

Lagunitas who was trying to make a comeback from his

disadvantageous position looked up to the sky in lamentation at this
result.

This liberation from the oppression should be his accomplishment.

And yet he helplessly allowed Vladimir to snatch this achievement. It

was a painful blow to the resistance, politically and militarily.

The resistance’s supporters were increasing in number was solely

due to the strong oppression.

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In the end the populace didn’t care who their ruler was as long as the
stability of their life was guaranteed.

The only one who cared was the rich who advocated the protection
of culture and tradition, and politicians who could draw a vision
about the country’s future to some degree.

What was unexpected for Lagunitas was that Answerer Kingdom

didn’t even feel like keeping up appearances of aiding Nedras
Kingdom anymore.

「It’s unbelievable that a foreigner like Vladimir can make an edict

about tax reduction.」

At this moment, Answerer Kingdom had become a liberator that was

more reliable than Nedras Kingdom in the mind of the populace.

However this was a fully-fledged infringement to the state

sovereignty.

Most likely there was nobody remaining in Nedras Kingdom with the
power to oppose it.

It was the proof that the hijacking of the center of the country had
arrived until the final stage.

Lagunitas’s memory of the era where the discrimination to the

beastmen wasn’t as severe as now, his warm memory of intimately
interacting with the populace as the illegitimate child of Count
Kovalenko felt so far away.

「Beast king……what will you do if it’s you?」

Would he be able to protect those peaceful days if he was as strong

as Baldr?

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The nickname Phantom Lagunitas felt really heavy and painful right
now. He secretly let out a sigh.

It was a face that he absolutely couldn’t show in front of the

subordinates who believed in him.

「──Lagunitas-sama.」

「What’s the matter?」

There was a reserved knocking, then the huge body of his

subordinate Brook entered sluggishly.

Although he wasn’t a beastman, he was a knight who served

Kovalenko House. For Lagunitas, he was one of his few confidants
who he could open up to.

「There is a messenger from his majesty the beast king.」

The timing felt as though his pessimism had been seen through.
Lagunitas was startled and his gaze wandered around for a moment,
but he immediately recovered his composure.

「That sounds really promising.」

He felt frustrated while at the same time relieved somewhere in his

heart, as though he was saved.

While the two of them were fellow dreamers who wanted to build a
paradise where human and beastman could live as equal, Baldr had
accomplished being a king of a country when he was originally just a
heir of a mere count house.

Baldr had accomplished something that he couldn’t. Lagunitas was

unable to suppress the feeling of admiration and respect that was
flooding out inside him.

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Part 7
The concern that Lagunitas harbored was certainly pushing Nedras
palace into chaos.

The management of the country would crumble if a general of

Answerer Country could decide the tax rate as he pleased.

Duke Vassily who was standing at the summit of the political

administration though imperfectly threw his glass on the floor with
his vein pulsing on his forehead.

「How dare that brat do this-!」

His rage toward Vladimir was completely justified.

This wasn’t at the level of infringement to state sovereignty

anymore. What Vladimir did was clearly a hijacking.

There was no doubt that Vladimir was already drawing the blueprint
of extinguishing the small country called Nedras Kingdom in the
future and merging the territory with Answerer Kingdom.

And yet, Vassily couldn’t take the option of chasing out or fighting
Vladimir.

If he did something like that, he would immediately get assassinated

or overthrown and forced to retire.

That was how great the difference in national power between

Nedras Kingdom and Answerer Kingdom.

「I didn’t become the regent for something like this……」

He thought that if it was him he would be able to lead Answerer

Kingdom around by the nose and maintained the political balance.

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He purged the anti Answerer Kingdom faction also because he
believed that it was necessary as a countermeasure against Answerer
Kingdom.

When the previous king died prematurely, Nedras Kingdom didn’t

have the leeway to allow internal conflict.

He believed that in order to oppose a large country like Answerer

Kingdom, there was no way other than to concentrate the political
power on himself even if he would get slandered because of that.

If only Lagunitas didn’t rebel, then perhaps right now he would still
be able to maintain some slight influence.

Either way, he had no intention of sitting quietly like this and allowed
the merger to happen.

「I still have a chance. I will be the one making Trystovy Kingdom

and Answerer Kingdom to dance on the board.」

He would profit from the fight between the two major countries.

It was a classical method that had been done repeatedly since the
ancient times, but that was exactly why Vassily thought that it could
be effective at the present time.

There was already no way for this country to survive other than
selling favor expensively to the winning side at the future.

「──If anyone get in my way, then I won’t spare them even if it’s his
majesty. I’m not planning to leave behind my name in history as the
regent of a destroyed country.」

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Part 8
The church’s believers were holding their breath while watching a
man.

The number of believers who were concerned about the danger to

Europa religion and gathered at the headquarters in Solvidivian
numbered around 30000.

Not all of them could be used as soldier, but as expected the church’s
influence was still vast.

Compared to major countries like Answerer Kingdom or Mauricia

Kingdom, the pope territory was so small that their territory and
population couldn’t even begin to compare, but if the solid defense
facility of the territory and the fighting strength of the fanatic
believers were taken into consideration, it wouldn’t e an
exaggeration to call this place impregnable.

In addition the church’s sacred knight order numbered roughly

20000. If the pope territory got attacked, volunteer soldiers with
even greater number would gather from all over the continent.

The pope was watching the wild enthusiasm of these loyal and brave
believers with a cold gaze. He secretly held them in contempt inside
his heart.

──Few.

What the pope hoped for was a large group with number that
surpassed 100000, including career soldiers among them.

A number that could still be contained in a single Soldividian’s square

wouldn’t enough at all to face Baldr.

Had the influence of the church fallen until this low?

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Who could possibly imagine that Europa Church that was the central
figure of the continent’s religion could crumble so easily like this in
less than several years.

Trystovy Kingdom and Mauricia Kingdom breaking off relations with

the church despite having relatively a lot of Europa believers among
their people played a large part to this situation.

It was also surprising that the believers just accepted it very

naturally.

The commoners who were living their daily life would prioritize
reality as long as they could find hope within their livelihood──the
pope had forgotten that.

Human would devote themselves to religion the most when there

was no hope in reality.

When Baldr won the wars, the living standard in both Trystovy
Kingdom and also Mauricia Kingdom had clearly increased.

The people were simply choosing their loyalty to the country and the
reality of their daily life over their faith to Europa religion.

The pope’s irritation was great because he was unable to understand

that with sense of reality instead of being fixated to theory.

However he had a role that he had to accomplish right now. As the

pope, as the protector of mankind’s future, he had the duty to fight
despite his dissatisfaction.

「O servants of the mighty god!」

「Your eminence!」

「Glory to the great name of Europa!」

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Stir silently spread among the people. The pope lightly raised his
hand to calm down the commotion.

「How admirable that all of you have gathered under the god
despite all difficulties! The gate to heaven are opened wide for
everyone here!」

「OOOOOOOOOOOH!」

For a believer, having their faith recognized brought them a

happiness that couldn’t be replaced by anything else. After all they
saw no worth in this world and only found value in the world after
the death.

「However! There is still a danger that we the servants of our

beloved god has to overcome!」

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The situation of the church at the present time was worse than
expected.

The pope was an amateur in war. He only allowed a limited supply of

holy relics to Answerer Kingdom. That also caused a negative
consequence.

Certainly the holy relics were powerful weapon, but because the
number was insufficient, Trystovy Kingdom and its allied countries
found a breathing room to run rampant all over the continent both
politically and economically.

Right now the fact that Answerer Kingdom possessed the greatest
population and economy on the continent was shaken. Trystovy
alliance was getting the upper hand in the currency trading.

In the worst case, there was also the possibility of Answerer Kingdom
being put in disadvantage because currently they were also holding
seeds of conflict in the form of Nedras Kingdom and Grand Duchy
Tenedora.

(Good grief, things turn out like this because of the fixation with
hiding the holy relics!)

The holy relics had to be hidden. Their usage had to be kept at

minimum so that it wouldn’t be spread out to the outside world.
Such restriction was annoying.

If only they weren’t stingy with the usage of the holy relics at the
early stage of Trystovy civil war, it would be possible to kill Baldr at
that time.

The pope understood that it was pointless to keep thinking about

that.

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After all when he looked back, it was clear that there was no reason
for the church to act so openly at that time.

If the secret of the holy relics got exposed to the public, a long time
and outrageous political effort would be needed to cover it up again.

In fact, the production of gunpowder weapons was rapidly

advancing. Even when the war was over, it would be almost
impossible for the countries to let go of it.

That was why he wanted to consign Baldr to oblivion with minimum

usage of the holy relics.

The pope could see the risk if the relics kept spreading out to the
world like this.

Generations of popes were keeping the secret of the holy relics with
absolute must was because of that.

However it was also certain that it was necessary to commit such

taboo if the church’s survival was threatened like this.

「The one who should fight is only not those with sword. Spreading
the teaching of god, gathering the children of god, vilifying the
enemy of god, taking away the money of the enemy of god.
Everything is a fight in order to protect god. Any method is
permitted. The god is surely praising the loyalty of all you his loyal
servants!」

「OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!」

The believers became crazily passionate and shed tears. The pope’s
heart was gradually freezing in front of them. The lake of his heart
was immediately locked under a thick wall of ice.

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「Your life is together with the god! In front of the god’s enemy, I
shall guarantee that all of you shall be invited to heaven even if you
die!」

Tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people might

die.

So what. The pope’s frozen heart wasn’t moved at the slightest.

Even though all these virtuous believers were manipulated by his

words to head to their death, he was able to see them off
emotionlessly like mowing off wheat.

Die.

Die.

Die all of you for the sake of god.

In order to protect the future of mankind, adult, children, believer,

non-believer, man, woman, the rich, the poor, all shall die equally for
the god’s sake.

He would simply froze all his feelings, his conscience, his faith, his
affection, his happiness, his joy, his amusement, everything to fulfill
his role.

「Now stand up! Stand up and bring down the hammer of justice on
the god’s enemy! God is watching over our faith and strength!」

「Glory to the great name of Europa!」

「Europa banzai!」

「This life, everything is for Europa!」

Nobody could stop it anymore.

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Europa Church would stop scheming in the dark like before. They
would switch their plan of action to an open war of military strength.

While he knew the depth of his sin better than anyone, the pope was
unable to let anyone knew what was going on inside his heart.

Even the man who in the past aimed to rise higher by scorning his
colleague and using his superior as his stepping stone was
shouldering a heavy responsibility that he couldn’t surrender no
matter what.

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Part 9
Far apart north from Trystovy Kingdom was Gartlake Kingdom.

The head shrine maiden of beast god Zoras who was effectively the
leader of the cat-eared tribe that lived there, Sakuya Kagetsu
narrowed her eyes at the letter that was sent to her from her
daughter.

It seemed that even her daughter had finally become adult.

It was worth it for her to threaten her by preparing a marriage talk

with other man to give her a push in the back.

She hoped that her daughter would quickly give birth to the beast
king’s son so she could prepare that child as the head of the next
generation of cat-eared tribe.

Unfortunately Satsuki couldn’t become Baldr’s first wife, so it should

be appropriate to let her child to succeed the name of Kagetsu.

「Even so I wonder……can that girl do it properly?」

Because Satsuki herself had no motivation at all, or rather because

her mentality was too childish, she had no time to teach her about
things like bed technique and the like.

「No no, there is no man who won’t fall in front of shrine maiden
princess-sama’s charm!」

「I’m happy with your support for that girl, but still」

The great general Dominicus who knew how mighty Satsuki was
seemed to seriously thing of her as a peerless beauty, but it was only
a silly opinion that was similar to being an idiot parent.

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「I have been taking care of the princess for many years since she
still needed diaper, and now she finally has grown up to receive the
affection of his majesty the beast king! This Dominicus is moved to
tears!」

「……I was really busy that I had to borrow your help to raise her,
but now I regret it a little.」

「Aaaaa! Just from recalling the innocent and lovable smile of the
princess! I! Iiiiiiii!」

「Shut up, you’re annoying.」

Sakuya landed a backhand blow on the back of Dominicus’s head and

knocked him out in one blow. As expected from the head shrine
maiden, she lived up to her reputation.

Sakuya’s valor was still going strong even now as someone who was
as famous as the pride of Nordland, the Thunder of Hellsing Gina.

「……Well, as childish as she is, that girl is also a woman. In her own
way she is good at getting spoiled by the one she give her heart to.」

When she looked at the line up of Baldr’s concubines, she didn’t see
anyone who seemed like an innocent and spoiled girl like Satsuki.

Each woman had their own weapon.

For example Silk’s weapon was her dignified and noble bearing, while
Selina and Rachel’s weapon might be their captivating allure as
mature woman.

It would also depend on Baldr’s preference, but Sakuya was also a

parent. She didn’t doubt Satsuki’s loveliness at the slightest.

「Fufufu……to think that the day I can listen to Satsuki going on

about her love affairs like this, I too have grown old.」

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「You only notice now?」

「It means war if you are commenting about a woman’s age, you
oaf!」

「Hogerah!」

Dominicus who recovered from the painful blow on the back of his
head ate Sakuya’s full powered uppercut on his jaw and fainted.
After such blow, he might not wake up anymore for half a day in the
worst case.

「Hmph!」

It was fine for she herself to say that she had grown old, but it was
irritating to hear it from a man. Sakuya too was at a complicated age.

Even so, he should feel honestly happy that Satsuki’s feeling came
true and she got married with Baldr.

Based from what the letter said, her night activity was also quite
successful──or so she wanted to believe.

No, surely it was alright, perhaps.

「──What’s wrong Satsuki?」

「It feels like Okaa-sama is making fun of me nya. Even though I’m
already a mature woman nya.」

「Mature huh……my bruise from Satsuki’s kick still hasn’t vanished

though……」

「T-that’s……I’ve apologized many times nya! Because it felt really

hurt……geez! Husband is unfair nya……」

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.

Just now it felt like she received some kind of signal transmission but
it must be her imagination.

「Now then……」

She carefully put the letter from her beloved daughter into a box,
then she dropped her gaze to the other letter and the thing that was
securely packed inside an oak box.

There were two layers of cushion inside the box so that the content
wouldn’t be broken no matter what. It was as though the box was
transporting a poison that was hard to handle.

Furthermore the sender was Gina, which made it all the more
suspicious.

Although right now they were comrades who mutually served the
beast king Baldr, the two of them had spent the majority of their
lives seeing each other as rival.

The ill feeling between them hadn’t completely vanished by any

means. Rather she wouldn’t even want to listen to what the other
had to say if not through Baldr’s intermediation. It was surely the
same for Gina.

「And yet she is sending me a letter──I have nothing but bad

premonition.」

Sakuya’s hunch was correct in a sense.

Perhaps this poison was something stronger than a powerful

medicine that would overturn the way this world work from its root.

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Sakuya carefully opened the wrapper and what appeared from inside
the wrapping of many layers of strong fabric was a cylinder that was
made from silver metal that she had never seen before.

「──What’s this?」

That was the sacred relic that was used by Europa Church’s
intelligence agent Martell at the fierce battle between Baldr and
Mikhail at the outskirt of Continerri territory.

It was the trump card of Europa Church to seal the King’s Gate.
Nothing was understood about it, not the era of its creation, who
was the creator, or how it was created.

Why was there a need to send such mysterious and dangerous object
until far away at Gartlake?

「──It’s hard. It doesn’t seem to be iron or steel. What is this thing

for? It doesn’t look like some kind of ornament.」

Sakuya stared closely at the relic. Then her eyes caught the engraving
on the surface of the cylinder that seemed like letters.

「Oi oi, this is──」

Sakuya’s expression turned bewildered.

Gina’s letter mentioned that this was a spoil of war that was left
behind by the church’s combatant.

That Europa Religion that was hostile toward beastman race──.

「……It’s old and not really readable but, it’s really similar with the
beastman’s ancient letters. Why was something like this in the
church’s possession?」

Sakuya stared closely at the church’s holy relic.

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She didn’t have the slightest idea of the material of this thing. What
was it created for, who and when was it created, it had been a long
time since she obtained something that she completely didn’t
understand like this.

It felt like she finally understood why a message came to her from
Gina who shouldn’t want to have anything to do with her.

「……This might be interesting.」

To be honest, she also wanted to fight under Baldr like Gina.

Although her golden age had passed, she was confident that she
could still raise achievements at the frontline.

However Satsuki was already sent there. The influence of the cat-
eared tribe within the country would vanish if even Sakuya also went
to Trystovy.

The problem was that even though both of them were heroes,
Sakuya’s position in Gartlake Kingdom was far higher compared to
Gina’s position in Nordland Empire.

In exchange, because Sakuya had the highest position among the

beastman race in Gartlake, she was able to peruse a lot of good
quality materials.

Gartlake wasn’t one of the successor of the unification dynasty after

its break up. Because of that its prejudice toward beastman was
weaker than Nordland. Many old documents here avoided being
scattered and lost.

「This lettering is similar with the letters on the excavated relics

from the era even before the unification dynasty.」

Sakuya carried the holy relic on her side and walked toward the
underground room where the secret documents were stored.

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*Katsun katsun* Hard footsteps echoed through the narrow
underground passage.

「After all even Nordland doesn’t have as many literature and relics
as here.」

This collection of past literatures and relics was started by the head
shrine maiden three generations before Sakuya.

Originally the reason for it was in order to solve the dispute between
the dog-eared tribe and cat-eared tribe that had gone on for so
long──to find the answer of which tribe was the killer of the beast
king Brocas.

All this time both sides had believed that the other was the culprit
who assassinated the beast king and invited the split and
discrimination to the beastman race on the whole.

Sakura’s great grandmother, Sakura was also the same.

She couldn’t forgive that the cat-eared tribe was suspected to be

behind the beast king’s assassination──with such self-serving reason,
she invested a vast amount of fund to begin collecting materials.

──However.

In contrast to Sakura’s wish, she was completely unable to find any

materials that proved the dog-eared race to be behind the
assassination.

Most documents that talked about the dog-eared tribe’s treachery

and assassination were something that was written at Gartlake after
the split. Some very unreliable documents even stated that the beast
king actually had cat ears.

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However as the head shrine maiden, Sakura knew that the beast
king──those who had King’s Gate came from a mixed blood between
human and beastman and actually didn’t have any animal ears.

Just why was she unable to find any proof?

Had the dog-eared tribe managed to thoroughly destroy even all

anecdotes and proof about the beast king?

Was something like that really possible to be done by just a single

tribe?

That question was passed down to her daughter, and then to that
daughter’s daughter, and finally to Sakuya’s mother Sayuri.

A question surfaced, that perhaps it wasn’t the dog-eared tribe that

killed the beast king?

It was a very outrageous question that affected the identity of the

tribe, so Sayuri only spoke about her suspicion to Sakuya alone and
nobody else.

When Sakuya first heard it, even Sakuya suspected that perhaps her
mother had gone senile.

But when she inherited this secret materials storage from her
mother, Sakuya was unable to prevent the same suspicion to deepen
in her heart as years passed.

Even so if nothing happened, Sakuya too would surely choose to

keep this secret to herself until her death.

The situation changed when Baldr’s coronation became definite.

The earnest desire of the beastman race──for a king to appear from

among their race.

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Using the unwritten law that all beastmen had to unite under the
beast king, the futile conflict that had been repeated until now
between the dog-eared tribe and the cat-eared tribe could be ended.

Sakuya succeeded in winning that all or nothing bet.

Now Sakuya had entrusted to her daughter who was also a King’s
Gate owner to carry on the duty to show loyalty and contribute to
the beast king, while she herself began to investigate the history with
all her effort.

「──That letter……where did I see it?」

The materials were sorted based on the era. Among those there was
a corner for things with unknown use, unknown category, or
unknown era.

There was a cylinder that looked similar with the holy relic from Gina
among that area. Sakuya lifted that object that weighed around 20
kg with one hand and stared at it for some time.

「As I thought, it’s quite different.」

The shape was similar, but the size and design and the written letters
also seemed to be different.

Sakuya tried to shook it, tap it, traced the shape, looking for
something that could be a clue, but the holy relic stayed quiet
without telling her anything.

「Well, there is nothing to learn just as I thought.」

There were also things that Sakuya had learned from collecting relics
until now.

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There were numerous tools here who must have some kind of
important use in the past. However they never did anything even
once no matter how much Sakuya researched them.

Was it impossible to activate the relics from era before the

unification dynasty just as she thought?

The relic this time was something that the Europa Church used, so
she hoped that it would be possible to activate it, but as expected it
didn’t show any reaction at all.

「Even so, this letter is too similar with the trait of beastman
language……」

Currently the beastman language was only used in very few occasion,
like religious ceremony and the like.

The letters had peculiar form that was different from the letters that
were used by the human of Aurelia Continent. The difference was
like how English alphabet was different from kanji.

「──If it can be used by human but not by us then……」

She could think of many reason for that, but a single conclusion was
forming inside Sakuya.

While beastman race had movement ability and fighting ability that
surpassed human, there was just one reason why the beastman race
was forced to accept their lot as a discriminated race that had to live
in the shadow.

That was because beastman didn’t have mana and couldn’t use
magic.

Sakuya’s guess was right on the mark.

Martell needed a vast amount of mana to use the holy relic.

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Then why was a relic that couldn’t be used by beastman was using
letters that looked similar with the beastman language? And then
what was the reason such thing was in the possession of Europa
Church?

It seemed that it would still take some time until Sakuya obtained
the answer to that question.

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Part 10
「──Aa, Otou-sama, as I thought you are a great man. I think I finally
understand that completely.」

「Your majesty still has a cheat that is the King’s Gate. I’m just a very
normal flesh and blood human you know?」

At the center of the center of the reborn Trystovy Kingdom. Inside

the king’s office, the king and the prime minister who had dark
circles under their eyes were both groaning while holding their waist.

「Augusto should be alright because you only have one wife!」

「That one wife isn’t normal! I admit that I was too naïve thinking
that there won’t be any problem if it’s just one person!」

Augusto was secretly suspecting that perhaps his wife Angelica was
also a possessor of King’s Gate.

Unlike Baldr, Augusto was quite experienced with woman. However

the way Angelica was desiring him was out of the norm.

He would be under assault every night until she was completely

satisfied, which resulted in his current state.

These two extraordinary heroes were underestimating this thing

called woman passion in this respect.

Even though they should have seen the example of such thing from
nearby in the form of Maggot and Idunn, they still managed to be
this naive.

「Is it really that intense?」

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「I have heard a rumor before. That woman can absorb the vitality
of male and change it into their own strength. I thought it was a
completely baseless rumor but……」

「You are saying there is a truth to it?」

「Her recovery speed is too fast. There is a limit in the number of

times I can shoot!」

Augusto recalled Angelica’s willowy body that kept rising up times

and times again just like a zombie. His expression twisted into
weariness.

He hated this male body that thought of such Angelica as charming.

「─What about your majesty?」

「Satsuki is also a King’s Gate owner, so I had resolved myself when

it come to her. But Silk is burning with this sense of rivalry, and the
technique of my wives is staggering, though it seems the cause of it
is Rachel.」

「How can Rachel-sama be the cause?」

「Because sometimes Seyruun or Selina would mutter something

like Mauricia royal family’s secret art!」

「I see, I once heard that the women of the royal family are taught
the manners and technique in bedroom for the sake of keeping a
happy marriage.」

Mauricia royal family’s secret art, it was something to be feared!

「──Also, Agatha is really irresistible the way she would shout abuse
cruelly at the beginning before immediately apologizing tearfully
when she get tormented back.─

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「How nice! It looks like your majesty has opened the door to a new
world!」

Augusto furiously sneered at Baldr who slipped in his boasting of his

wives amidst the complaining session.

「However! Even you, if that tough Angelica weakly beg at you

please no more……your blood will seethe right?」

「……That’s possible. Or rather, it’s really possible.」

As expected, gap moe might be an everlasting temptation for man.

「──Baldr-sama, I have prepared herb tea that is good for fatigue

and lower back pain. 」

Tyros was smiling gently and acting completely like usual despite that
stupid talk between men.

It didn’t stop there, he even looked more upright and dignified than
before.

As expected, for him being able to be at Baldr’s side was the greatest
source of vitality for him.

「Excuse me, can I also have that tea?」

「Of course, I have also prepared the portion for prime minister-
sama.」

「……As expected from you.」

Actually it was Tyros who was managing the complicated and

extremely busy time schedule of Baldr and Augusto.

Without Tyros acting as the lubricant, the center of Trystovy

Kingdom wouldn’t be able to take even a step forward. What would
happen if this fact became known?

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Augusto was seriously starting to think that a first rate guard should
be assigned to protect Tyros.

The time to relax that was remaining for the two was around twenty
minutes.

Baldr inhaled the peculiar rich smell of the herb and let out a sigh.

「I want to surrender myself to indolence for a bit more……」

「Baldr-sama should be the one who know best that it’s not possible
to do that.」

「──I know. But I should be allowed to hope for it at least.」

Baldr pouted sullenly.

Baldr could only show a spoiled reaction like this to Tyros. There was
no doubt that Baldr wouldn’t act spoiled like this even in front of his
wives, Augusto thought.

Although, it wasn’t like he couldn’t understand Baldr’s feeling of

wanting to act spoiled if he had a reliable confidant like this since his
childhood.

「It can’t be helped. Tyros, call Agatha here. We have to discuss

about the budget for the plan against Nedras.」

「As your majesty command.」

Tyros made a perfectly courteous bow and left the room.

The all-purpose butler Tyros displayed a perfect superhuman

performance that surpassed even Baldr and Augusto in a sense. He
was doing well as usual too today.

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Chapter 2 –Revolution of Green

Part 1
「──And? What are you telling me to do? You sadist!」

Agatha appeared as the break ended. Her face was so red it felt like
steam would come out from her head. Her lips were pouting and she
was directing a dangerous gaze toward Baldr.

「Don’t call me with something so scandalous that other people will

misunderstand!」

「Even though last night I was begging while crying, you did 〇〇〇
with ××××, and in the end you made me wore an embarrassing outfit
as though I’m your dress-up doll and made me did △△△!」

「C-cute……」

Agatha’s enraged look from just now had vanished to somewhere

and now her cheeks blushed while she was acting flustered. It made
Baldr infatuated to her from the moe.

This gap was Agatha’s true worth! Banzai!

「It wasn’t my fault! Ut was Agatha’s fault for being too cute!」

「Can you two do your lovey dovey act somewhere elseee!」

「Hyaih!」

It felt like this kind of scene had also happened the other day.

Augusto was fed up from the bottom of his heart with the lovey
dovey act that Baldr and his wives did unconsciously.

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He himself loved Angelica in his own way, but his preference was to
do it more stylishly and not acting embarrassing in front of other
people.

Agatha coughed and asked Baldr once more.

「Why did you call me here?」

「There is a need to assign some people to take care of the logistics

to Nedras. I want to ask you how much the bureaucrat of our country
can endure.」

In the past──though it wasn’t that long ago, Baldr and Augusto were
constantly forced to do exhausting work that constantly put them in
lack of sleep before Agatha and the retainers from Antrim arrived.

It was a dark memory that he didn’t even want to remember again.

Of course it wasn’t just Baldr and Augusto who were forced to do

exhausting work. The few bureaucrats of Trystovy at that time were
also abused to work day and night without rest in order to
compensate for the overwhelmingly lacking manpower. If they were
forced to continue working in the same pace for several more
months, it was possible the administration of Trystovy Kingdom
would collapse.

That critical situation had been greatly improved by the retainers

that were brought up under Agatha’s personal care and the
conspicuous service of this century’s greatest misunderstood man
Giloramo who was appointed to be the minister of the domestic
affairs.

His integrity that was lacking any desire and his uncommon human
affairs evaluation that wasn’t filled with any envy toward his
subordinate’s talent was something precious that was like the

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spider’s string that was dangled down into hell for the old dukedom
nobles.

Thanks to that the newly recruited bureaucrats entered an abnormal

state where their will to work was several times bigger compared to
the era of the dukedom.

It was Agatha who was supervising their training. What Baldr wanted
to ask her was how much the bureaucrats had grown up.

「Well, they will be able to manage somehow. They are overflowing

with motivation and their growth is also fast.」

In addition of the establishment of the bureaucrat organization, the

regional government structure was also expanding based on the
people’s overwhelming support. Because of that Trystovy Kingdom’s
governance was quickly regaining its healthiness.

In addition, the hidden fortune that Valerie left behind was also
invested to boost that effort. And so the kingdom was experiencing
unprecedented waves of prosperity.

The maintenance of infrastructure that had been ruined due to the

long civil war, the increase in distribution of goods due to Dowding
Company and Mulberry’s merchants expanding into the new market.

There was no lacking of job that needed to be filled. The

unemployment rate was very close to being zero.

The tax yields were increasing and the salary of the bureaucrats was
also increasing. This positive circle made even the former dukedom
nobles to renew their loyalty to the dukedom.

──Of course, the number of people that got left out from such
positive circle wasn’t few. It was the natural progression for such
people to resent the kingdom.

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「That really helps. This time I want to prepare various things before
we enter direct combat.」

「There is no worry about the public order within the country

anymore right?」

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the military’s

fighting strength had to be assigned to maintain the public order
within the country, however the rapid recovery of the kingdom had
improved the public order that now only the minimum amount of
policing force was needed for it.

Thanks to that the number of soldier that could be used should have
increased considerably.

「──First, Nedras Kingdom has a lot of Europa Church’s believer. And

then Lagunitas-dono who we have to rescue is a beastman.」

Focusing on just winning the battle here would leave behind negative
impact for their strategy against the whole world going forward.

Baldr was designated by Europa Church as the enemy of the faith.

Because of that the populace of their allied countries was watching
Baldr’s every move right now.

Here Baldr mustn’t do anything that would leave an impression that

he was aiming to conquer the continent by the beastman race.

Even the Europa believers in Mauricia Kingdom were currently

simply being suppressed by King Welkin forcefully. They were
containing a dangerous factor that could potentially explode
anytime.

Their stance was different from the people of Trystovy Kingdom who
saw Baldr as messiah who liberated them from the nobles’
oppression and supported him wholeheartedly.

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「In other words, we can’t support the resistance too openly?」

「I’m indebted to Lagunitas-dono, but I can’t possibly prioritize

supporting him.」

It was necessary to help Nedras Kingdom’s resistance. However

if Baldr agreed to their demand and dispatched his army, the
possibility was high that Nedras Kingdom’s people would perceive it
as an invasion.

「──I see, so it’s necessary to consult with Antrim a little.」

Agatha understood right away what Baldr meant and replied like
that.

She knew what Baldr wanted from her even without hearing Baldr
saying the conclusion.

「You are saying that we won’t support Nedras’s beastmen, but

Nedras’s populace.」

「I love you Agatha!」

Baldr was deeply moved by the understanding reply of his wise wife
and hugged Agatha’s petite body tightly.

「G-geez! Even though the prime minister is also here!」

She looked embarrassed, but she didn’t look like she was as
dissatisfied as she would have others believed. Agatha only struggled
weakly while pushing Baldr’s chest.

Although she was doing it only for show and there wasn’t any sign of
her slipping away from the embrace at all. It spoke of Agatha’s true
feeling more clearly than anything.

「How long is this going to continue I wonder……」

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「You can just do the same with Angelica!」

「Unfortunately my wife is the type of muscle-brained doggy.」

That was cute in its own way, but Angelica was fundamentally
impulsive and didn’t show any gap like Agatha who was acting
tsundere like this.

「Even so, I still can’t believe it even now. I had seen the
experimental farm the other day, but I thought I was dreaming at
that time.」

「Antrim has already completely switched to planting, so William-

sama is also troubled at how to deal with the surplus.」

Fufufu, Agatha continued to smile bewitchingly.

「There is no need to worry about the price. In the first place it was
us who developed it, and William-sama also understands that.
Ufufu……」

「I have been shocked countless time at your majesty’s side, but the
shock from this one is particularly great even among all of them. The
world will change if this begin to spread out in full-scale.」

Augusto looked up to the ceiling with an astounded voice.

Gunpowder weapon, radio, mass production of sugar and salt, etc.

All of them were already great invention that could change the era
greatly on their own, but the knowledge this time surpassed even
them.

「Those bunches in Europa Church! Try opposing this worldly

benefits if you can!」

Baldr snorted proudly.

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.

──The discovery of this century that astounded Augusto.

It was the selective breeding of wheat.

The concept of separation breeding method also existed in this

Aurelia Continent.

Since the time mankind moved from the stage of hunting and
gathering to farming, they had repeated trial and error in order to
guarantee good harvest.

If there was wheat that produced a lot more harvest, the seeds from
that wheat would be used for the next season. If there was a wheat
that could be harvested earlier, that wheat would be used as seed.
The same if there was a wheat that was resistance to cold.

The wheat that seemed to be superior than the rest was sorted, and
then people sowed the seeds from that wheat with prayer. Like that
mankind little by little, truly little by little improved the profitability
of the products that they raised up through many generations.

Even at Japan, there was a record left behind about the gathering of
mutation variety and new variety of rice being gathered at the
Kamakura period.

What dramatically improved the selective breeding that was relying

on such coincidence was the event that occurred in the 19 century
th

based on what Masaharu knew.

Year 1865, the historical shining discovery of mankind was

discovered at Austria Empire that was ruled by Habsburg House.

It was the so called Mendel’s Laws.

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Due to the concept of genetic that was advocated for the first time in
mankind history, selective breeding entered a new stage.

It was the beginning of hybridization breeding method that was the

mainstream selective breeding method before gene recombination
technique.

Currently there was no concept of genetic in Aurelia Continent.

Here Masaharu’s peerless cheat exploded into action once more.

『Reproducing Nourin Juugou, that’s simply romance!』(TN: Nourin

number ten, Nourin itself means agriculture and forestry)

『What? What art this nourin juugou thing?』

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Nourin Juugou that Masaharu mentioned was the wheat type that
was cultivated at Japan in 1935.

It was a type that Iwate prefecture’s agricultural scientist Inadzuka

Gonjirou cultivated by crossbreeding Furutsu Daruma and Turkey
Red, so even when it was given abundant nutrition, the wheat
wouldn’t grown too highly. Thanks to that it was resistant against
disaster like typhoon or flood, and it also produced a lot of yield.

It was an extremely groundbreaking improvement that even though

the wheat at that time had the average height of 120 cm, Nourin
Juugou only had the height around 60 cm.

And yet, its yield was twice the normal wheat.

When wheat that was too tall produced its yield, it would collapse to
the ground from its own weight. But with Nourin Juugou that had
robust stalk and low height, it was possible to encourage the wheat
to grow a lot without much worry.

On the other hand, it had the weakness that it was weak against
disease. So unfortunately its diffusion within Japan stopped only in a
certain region.

However after Japan was defeated in war, this Nourin Juugou was
brought to America. There it got crossbreed with Mexico wheat that
was strong against disease. It resulted in an almighty breed that was
strong against disease, produced a lot of yield, and furthermore it
was hard to collapse from its own weight. This type ended up
spreading to the whole world.

When a terrible bad harvest occurred in India and Pakistan at 1960,

there was concern that a serious food crisis would occur, but the
almighty type that was the derived from Nourin Juugou

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magnificently produced harvest that was several times greater than
other type of wheat and succeeded in saving both countries from
food crisis.

From the stability and harvest amount that it provided, Professor

Borlaug who was the inventor was granted Nobel Peace Prize and his
invention was extolled as the green revolution.

It was even said that without this green revolution, the world
wouldn’t be able to deal with the population increase of the current
era.

Few people knew that Nourin Juugou that was cultivated in Japan
was the parent of such dreamlike wheat.

Almost all the wheat types that were currently being used all over
the world were the children of Nourin Juugou almost without
exception.

Now then, regarding short wheat, such type of wheat had been
discovered in Nordland Empire based on the investigation.

This world didn’t know about the Mendel’s Laws. It was only natural
for Masaharu to aim to reproduce Nourin Juugou, or perhaps even
the almighty type beyond it to bring about the green revolution in
this Aurelia Continent.

Of course it didn’t go well right from the start.

The type of wheat in this world wasn’t completely the same like at
earth. The soil and weather also weren’t completely the same.

Even so the advantage of being able to crossbreed by hypothesizing

the form and nature that would be inherited was great.

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By using the connections of Dowding Company in full to gather
various varieties from the whole world and experimenting over and
over, the result was──.

Baldr had spent almost ten years since his childhood in Cornelius and
it was two years ago that he succeeded in cultivating a breed that
rivaled Nourin Juugou.

This year it was improved even more to be resistant toward

disease──this breed was named M-10 (Masaharu Ten) and it had
been put into use.

It was said that at Antrim, the tax collector who was dispatched from
the capital opened his eyes wide and fainted when he saw the wheat
field there.

After all the enormous yield amount meant that the tax system from
the next year onward would have to be rethought from the ground
up.

It didn’t affect only the tax.

In human history, food problem was always connected with

population problem.

In the past, the population in German exploded when potato was

popularized there. It was clear as day that the population would
increase in the country where this wheat was popularized.

In other words at the end, this wheat invention would grant strength
to Trystovy and its allied countries in the form of overwhelming
population and food supply.

A world without hunger. A world where people could live abundantly

with surplus.

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In front of such reality, how much influence Europa Church would be
able to maintain in the end?

With this the passing of time wouldn’t bring any more benefit at all
for the church and Answerer Kingdom. Rather their loss would be
bigger.

They had no more way to survive now other than winning the great
war in the near future and snatched away the product of Baldr’s
knowledge as the fruit of their efforts.

Baldr was knowledgeable enough about the impact that this new
type of wheat would bring.

Nedras Kingdom would become the first test case.

A new tactic that would reform the ruling structure of the continent
itself was going to come into effect.

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Part 2
Inside Mauricia Kingdom, those who were in the know were talking
about the rumor of the unbelievable yield amount of the mysterious
new wheat type at Antrim.

Any normal people wouldn’t believe even if they were suddenly told
that the wheat production amount had been doubled.

However this time the place in the rumor was Antrim. Although
currently it was the territory of the former prince William, there was
nobody who didn’t know that the territory’s former owner was
Trystovy king Baldr.

If it was him, then perhaps even such magical happening might be

possible?

Baldr had left behind achievements that were enough to make

anybody held such expectation.

Stopper couldn’t be placed on human mouth. Someone who said 「I

saw a wheat field all over」 appeared, then someone who said 「A
mountain of wheat was transported to Trystovy」 appeared. In the
end that rumor also reached the ear of Duke Adolf Richmond.

When he heard that rumor, Adolf felt that he finally understood the
weird story that he heard the other day.

It was the story that the tax collectors were discussing about
modifying the tax rate for the next year.

At first Adolf thought that it was a weird story.

However now he understood. If the yield of wheat harvest became

doubled, they couldn’t possibly keep the tax rate to be the same like
before.

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Fundamentally thirty percent of the harvest of grain would be given
to the feudal lord, while ten percent would be given to the kingdom
as tax. If the harvest amount was doubled, the income of the feudal
lord would become too big if the tax rate was kept the same.

It was only natural that the tax collectors were panicking.

「──This isn’t funny.」

That would mean the strengthening of the feudal lords’ finance. It

would also mean the relative curtailment of the authority of
bureaucrat nobles that Adolf was leading.

It would be troubling if the feudal lords grow stronger that to a level

where they would dare to not listen to the instruction from the
capital, just like the traitor Duke Beaufort.

It didn’t matter even if the other party here was William, a former
royalty.

「Shit! He should have just quietly die at Trystovy!」

Adolf selfishly cursed the ineptitude of the church with their failed
assassination attempt of the king in Trystovy.

When Adolf learned of the failure of Welkin’s assassination, he

quickly cut off the loose ends.

He disposed of all the proofs by arresting and executing Bishop Bodin

who was under his patronage in his territory with the charge of
colluding with Europa Church.

In the first place the assassins were organized under the church’s
instruction. As long as Adolf concealed his relationship with Bodin,
there would be no more proof of Adolf’s crime.

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With that Adolf managed to avoid punishment even if he was still
going to be doubted heavily.

But, the decline of Adolf’s authority was progressing further because

he was placed under such suspicion.

Conversely within the palace, the presence of the former prince

William who became the feudal lord of Antrim and his big brother
Edward were growing very big.

In the past Antrim was nothing more than a rural area at the
countryside, but now it became a wealthy land that was outstanding
even within Mauricia Kingdom. And it belonged to William now.

As for Edward, he was considered to be the next Duke Edinburg as

the adopted son of the prime minister Harold.

Both of them were thought as trivial existences who wouldn’t

amount to much when they were still prince.

William was aiming to reach success as a knight, and Edward himself

had no confidence about his own talent. At the start he even refused
to get adopted by Harold.

There was also how Welkin was an excellent ruler, that was why his
sons including the eldest son Richard were thought as mediocre.

However a man’s growth was terrifying sometimes.

William who obtained Baldr as a close friend was now performing

negotiation and bargaining that could put even other crafty
politicians to shame. And then even Edward was devoting himself
completely to expand his own faction starting from the family of his
wife Count Ainsworth House.

Until now Harold had been passive in expanding his own faction
because he held a deep trust from the king. For Adolf it was

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unexpected that he was now allowing his adopted son Edward to do
the opposite.

Edward was inferior to William capability wise, but he was an

especially popular man in high society because of his good
personality as someone mediocre.

There were also a lot of noble daughters who tried to obtain his
heart. It was said that countless women shed tears when the
daughter of Ainsworth House announced her engagement with him.

Those two former princes who had become great nobles now were
enlarging their influence day by day as the two wheels that were
supporting the crown prince Richard.

At this rate it was even possible that the ten great nobles system
itself would be shaken.

It was very difficult to chip off the royal family’s power now.

Although Welkin and Adolf were both aiming to form a centralized

authoritarian rule, a dictatorship by absolute monarch instead of
group parliamentary system by bureaucrats would be the complete
opposite of Adolf’s ideal.

Haurelia Kingdom had been defeated, Duke Beaufort was eliminated.

From there he should be able to obtain immense authority in the
near future.

The coming retirement of Welkin and Harold would be the perfect

chance for that. He believed that, and yet the reality was a far cry
from Adolf’s wish.

Because of Baldr’s enthronement as Trystovy king, the tight

relationship between Trystovy Kingdom and Maurica Kingdom was
growing even stronger.

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The worst thing here was that the next king Richardwas taking the
initiative to forge ahead with integrating the economy of the allied
countries including Trystovy into one.

Right now the control of the kingdom’s economic interests was being
wrenched away from the bureaucrats by the royal family and the
international diplomats.

「Things can’t continue like this……at this rate」

It would be a poor plan to assassinate Welkin at this juncture.

If the assassination occurred inside Mauricia, the country would have

to exert all its effort to search for the assassin to protect its honor.
Alford too was still under suspicion even after he had dealt with
Bodin.

Furthermore if he invoked the displeasure of Richard who would

become the new king at that time, he might receive cold treatment
for dozens of years.

「──Your excellency, please pardon me.」

「What is it, Seeleys?」

His trusted old butler Seeleys visited him when it wasn’t even the
time for meal. There must be a reason for that.

This man should have a good poker face, but right now he was
looking somewhat bewildered. It was strange.

「Someone who claimed to be from the church said that he has

something he wish to tell to your excellency.」

「What-?」

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If Adolf’s mind was in its usual state of composure, he would
immediately order Seeleys to drive away the man.

He was already under suspicion right now, so the risk of coming into
contact with someone from the church was too high.

Even though there wasn’t any proof of the assassination attempt, if

he got found out communicating with the church secretly at this
time, even if he wouldn’t get punished the possibility of losing his
position was high enough.

Adolf thought quietly for a while, even so he chose to meet with the
man.

「──I can’t meet him here right now. Tell him to come back another
day without letting anyone else know about it.」

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Part 3
Adolf met with the church’s messenger two days later at a currently
unused barrack that was located at the outskirt of his territory.

This choice of location was showing the uneasiness that Adolf was
unconsciously feeling.

The usual him wouldn’t come directly and left it to Seeleys

completely. In the first place he also wouldn’t be so rushed to meet
the messenger in just two days.

「My name is Crassus from Europa Church’s department of special

duty.」

The church’s special corrective force had received unprecedented

serious damage. In addition right now the church was in preparation
to face Trystovy Kingdom in an all-out war, so the church was
reorganizing the organization and newly established this department
of special duty.

The size and budget of the organization was also incomparably

smaller compared to the special corrective force in the past.

The organization was made up from people with low rank but high
loyalty. They were secretly maneuvering to consolidate the Europa
believers in various countries behind the scene.

The vice leader for their operation in Mauricia Kingdom was this man
named Crassus.

「I’m Duke Adolf Richmond. You are aware that originally I should
have captured you immediately and make you confess what you are
scheming yes?」

「Of course, I’m grateful for your excellency’s lenience.」

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Crassus wasn’t shaken at the slightest and only bowed his head
mildly. Adolf realized this wasn’t someone who he could threaten.

This was why fanatic was hard to handle.

「──And? You aren’t coming here just to give a greeting aren’t you?
」

「I believe that we are sharing a certain interest with each other, but
what does your excellency think about it?」

Adolf hesitated how to reply at Crassus’s question.

It was exactly as he said, but it would be really troublesome to admit

it. In addition Adolf had cut off Bishop Bodin in order to protect
himself.

Besides what was the meaning of asking him something like that.

「My Richmond house is too big that we are sharing a lot of interests
with many parties.」

「Then please allow me to ask, how it will affect your excellency’s

interest if Duke William Antrim become the prime minister?」

「──That joke doesn’t sound funny at all.」

Harold was also quite young when he was appointed as the prime
minister, but as expected William was still too young. He was a
prince who had lived in the palace all the time and only became a
duke not long ago. No one would recognize him as the prime
minister.

Adolf was about to feel disappointed thinking that even the church
couldn’t be counted on if their analysis was stupid like this, however,

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「Is it that strange in Mauricia Kingdom for the person who hold the
real authority to be entrusted with the responsibility as the prime
minister? His highness the crown prince is already making a plan for
that.」

「What authority a youngster like him can possibly hold?」

Although William was a former prince, the post of prime minister

also held the role of coordinating the factions within the country. It
wasn’t a post that could be fulfilled just by depending on talent. It
was a clear fact as could be seen how even Harold was unable to
display his capability fully during the war with Haurelia when he was
appointed at the beginning.

Skill of a veteran and connections with every faction, and then

unshakeable authority no matter who he faced. Only by possessing
all those factors could someone be worthy to be the prime minister
who was the central pillar of the government.

If someone like William became a prime minister, the domestic

affairs of Mauricia Kingdom would immediately fall into chaos that
couldn’t be calmed down.

「If it’s your excellency, you must be aware that Trystovy king’s
friendship and support are more than enough to overturn the
existing power structure.」

「Muh……」

Adolf was daunted by Crassus’s confident words that poked at his

sore spot.

A part of the bureaucrat nobles had also already switched side to

Edward’s faction.

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William still wasn’t proactively forming his own faction, but it was
possible that Edward’s proactive expansion of his faction was for
aiding William.

「In regard to unparalleled military might, Trystovy king has

produced a result that doesn’t allow anyone to disregard him
anymore. If he also grasped the hegemony in economy on top of
that, then even a major country like Mauricia won’t be able to avoid
being turned into a vassal state. Please consider that.」

Major countries like Trystovy, Mauricia, Nordland, Gartlake, and

Sanjuan forming a group system where they were all equal was
nothing more than a fairy tale, Crassus said.

It was obvious that one day all the countries would have to always be
considerate to Trystovy’s wish as the country that possessed
strength that stood out above the rest.

Adolf also had the same opinion about that.

There was no true friendship between nations. Each country had

their own people that they had to protect. There was no way they
could just stay quiet when other country put their hand into their
wallet.

That was just how greatly out of the norm the structure that Baldr
and Richard and the others were forming.

「I think that my position will still be better served in such system

rather than in a world that is unified by the church and Answerer
Kingdom though.」

「I wonder if that will be really true in the end. Forgive my insolence

for saying this but, I think that such world will become a really
difficult place for nobles to live in.」

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「Nuu……」

Adolf was also harboring an apprehension about that.

Adolf wasn’t so narrow-minded that he wanted to crush the rise of

the commoners, even so in his opinion the advance of the
commoners should stop at the level of intermediate managerial
position at most.

But Baldr was different.

What if Richard also followed in Baldr’s footstep? Wouldn’t an era

come where the great nobles were made light of? He was unable to
wipe away such misgivings.

Crassus continued to push at that worry of Adolf.

「Was your excellency able to imagine a few years ago that Dowding
Company will grow until this degree? Who in the world can force
Dowding Group to obey like in the past?」

Dowding Group was purely a civilian organization that focused on

making money. But now even prestigious noble couldn’t carelessly
make any remark toward them because they were concerned of
causing international scandal with other countries. Crassus pointed
at that reality.

Although Baldr’s prime minister and concubine were related to the

group, the company’s origin was still nothing more than a
commoner. However in reality the majority of nobles were already
unable to stand on equal basis against the group.

This flow could possibly speed up even more, but it was impossible
for this flow to regress back.

To go with the flow that Baldr created meant to agree with it. Was
Adolf able to do it in the end?

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Receiving Crassus’s gaze, Adolf was just barely able to hold himself
back from spewing out insults to him.

This world wouldn’t be so harsh if anyone was allowed to speak

honestly about what they disliked.

Even a great noble like Adolf found there were many things in this
world that wouldn’t go as he wished.

「They are like a house of cards that will immediately crumble the
moment they lose the king’s protection. It’s not their own power
that make them came as far as they are.」

Trystovy King and Crown Prince Richard are still very young. Is your
excellency really going to wait until they lose the king’s protection?
」

「It’s impossible for the government administration to run smoothly

without the cooperation of us nobles. There are so many chances to
make a comeback in the future.」

「It will be great if that’s true.」

But unfortunately that would never happen. The world was going to
be moved not by law and faith, but by money and knowledge.

That was exactly the reason why the pope considered Baldr as a
bitter enemy that couldn’t possibly be allowed to live.

「──But at this rate even without waiting for half a year, the
majority of the nobles will be absorbed into the faction of the former
prince. I think that your excellency will be forced to lower your head
before the commoners in that case.」

「I can’t pretend to not hear that.」

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He wouldn’t say it out loud, but Adolf felt unsettled by the time
frame of half a year that Crassus mentioned.

It would be great if it was just a provocation. However it was a

different story because there was enough reason for him to think
that it might be possible for that to happen.

If such situation was approaching──.

「The news should have reached your excellency’s ear. That a

completely new type of wheat is showing result in the territory of
Duke Antrim.」

「──I heard that the harvest there has increased from before.」

In reality it wasn’t just a mere increase, but a multiplying that would

overturn even the tax system of this country from its foundation. But
Adolf wasn’t so careless as to tell Crassus that.

However the next words from Crassus far surpassed Adolf’s

expectation.

「The church has grasped that this wheat is a dream wheat that is
strong against disease and drought, and furthermore it yield three
times the original amount.」

「What kind of fantasy are you spouting!」

It couldn’t be helped that Adolf raged like this.

Claiming that human hand had created such dreamlike wheat was no
different that ridiculing god.

Until now the commoners had given their all while bathing in sweat,
accumulated labors over labors, and lived back to back with the
danger of hunger. But what was the point of all their hardships until
now in front of this nonsense?

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Of course Adolf understood that such wheat was excellent. He
understood that it would be useful.

Even so he was unable to accept it because of his frustration toward

Baldr. What that man was doing was just too abnormal.

Adolf was assaulted by an unprecedentedly deep sense of danger

that perhaps the tradition that had protected and raised the nobles
until now would be considered as something harmful and removed.

「The price of wheat will drop if the yield from harvest increase. But
even knowing that, the number of nobles who want to obtain this
dreamlike wheat will be endless.」

「No, way……are you saying that there are already those who was
lowering their head to William-sama?」

It sounded possible.

I’ll leave my faction so please share the wheat’s seedling with my

territory, nobles with such low loyalty existed in considerable
number.

「One day more than half of the ten great nobles including Marquis
Randolph will place themselves under the patronage of Duke
Edinburgh and Duke Antrim.」

「Then there won’t be any point for the existences of the ten great
nobles like that!」

It was truly a foolish action that even the heaven wouldn’t forgive. At
the very least Adolf was seeing it like that.

Since Mauricia Kingdom was founded, the ten great nobles had
continued being the center of the country in order to prevent the
king from running wild and in order to protect the kingdom from
external enemy as its bulwark.

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He believed that the way of being of the ten great nobles couldn’t
possibly be overturned even by a prince.

It would be a different matter if it was Alford who was close to Baldr,

but it was shocking that there was also other ten great nobles who
wagged their tail toward the former prince.

「──I won’t be merciful if you are trying to trick this Duke Adolf
Richmond.」

「I swear to the great name of Europa that I’m speaking the truth.
The believers of our religion are spread far and wide throughout the
continent. Even Antrim isn’t an exception.」

Crassus answered confidently, but inside he was actually not as

confident as he looked.

A lot of the commoners around William and Baldr held a loyalty that
surpassed their faith. It was really difficult to pull out information
from them.

Conversely speaking, they were able to extract as much information

as they pleased about the internal situation of nobles who were
oppressing their people daily.

The information about the impoverished nobles and the nobles

whose interests were grasped by Dowding Company and happily
wagged their tail to the company were also completely in the
church’s grasp.

This might sound strange, but in the first place if Adolf himself wasn’t
in a political confrontation against William and Edward, he would be
the first one to switch side to their faction.

Adolf had lost his calmness from anger and uneasiness to a degree
that he couldn’t even realize that.

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「That’s not all. Your excellency also know about tobacco right?」

「Aah, that thing that came from the southern foreign country huh.
」

The tobacco plant that was obtained from Mahieule Island, the large
island that was located south from Sanjuan Kingdom was rapidly
spreading not only within Sanjuan Kingdom, but also among the
noble society in Mauricia Kingdom.

Adolf couldn’t come to like the smokiness of the thing, but he knew
that his son August took a liking to it and smoked the thing.

From what his wife said, it seemed that there was a sign it was also
gaining popularity among the noble ladies.

「It’s Dowding Group that is circulating that tobacco as commodity.

Furthermore that tobacco has an addictive property. From here on
there will be surely people who won’t become able to let go of it.」

「──Are you saying that thing is a narcotic?」

「Its addictiveness is weak and there is also no report of damage to

the health from it, but for good or worse the nobles aren’t good to
control themselves against such vice.」

「You are saying something scandalous there.」

But it was a fact. If Adolf revoked the quality treatment product and
cosmetic product of Dowding Group at this point of time, he would
turn all the women in the imperial court into his enemy.

Human was sensitive in losing the convenience that they had

obtained once. That was all the truer when it came to noble.

「The nobles are already becoming unable to part with tobacco as

an indulgence. What is even more problematic is that the production

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area of this tobacco is located at Sanjuan Kingdom’s Malaga and
Mauricia Kingdom’s Edinburg.」

「Since when……! What’s more it’s Edinburg you said!?」

If Crassus said Antrim then Adolf would still be able to understand.

However if the location was at Edinburg that was inherited by
Edward, it meant that the plan for this had been meticulously drawn
since a long time ago.

That was the only explanation why tobacco’s planting was done at
Edinburg. Although in the first place one of the reasons for this was
also because Antrim’s capacity to develop would reach the limit
soon.

At this rate the authority of the former prince would strengthen even
more.

Richard who would become the new king would also be happy to
have his siblings who had reached such level of influence to be his
retainers. In that case he wouldn’t think to treasure and give
important positions to the elderly of the ten great nobles who were
hard to handle.

Just how much of this had been planned? Was this Welkin’s work?
Or perhaps Baldr?

「Dowding Group will rule the economy while the former princes
will support the new king as the biggest factions in this country. In
the end, will there any place for Duke Richmond and the bureaucrat
nobles in there?」

──Of course there would be none.

The centralized authoritarian rule that was controlled by bureaucrats

that Adolf sought, and the centralized authoritarian rule by the king’s

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autocracy that Welkin and Richard sought were incompatible with
each other from the start.

Until now both sides had only barely worked together to oppose the
decentralization of power among the feudal lord nobles.

And now they were in a political strife to decide who would grasp the
leadership in the system. But most likely it would be Adolf and the
bureaucrat nobles who got defeated.

「──But fortunately, a company that is influenced by us is being

entrusted as intermediary by Dowding Group.」

「What about it?」

Crassus chuckled.

This was his objective from the start. The things about the former
princes were all the truth, but they were told to Adolf only to
instigate his sense of danger.

「A great amount of wheat was shipped from Antrim to Trystovy.

The price of wheat in this country hasn’t changed much is because of
that.」

「Hmph, even though their financial standing must be dire due to

the civil war」

「Putting aside the nation itself, there are still Dowding Group and
Mulberry standing behind them, so they have no lacking of funds.」

「In the end the self-respect of a son of a mere countryside count is

only at that level! I’m asking you what about it?」

Although they had abundant fund, receiving loan from civilian

merchants like Dowding Group and Mulberry in great amount was

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dangerous. It was the act of a ruined country that might cause the
economy of the nation to be hijacked.

However Adolf couldn’t possibly imagine that it was Dowding Group

and Mulberry instead that were indebted to him thanks to the salt
making, mine reopening, ship blueprint, information gathering by
radio, etc.

Either way Baldr and William had been sworn friend from the start. It
wasn’t anything strange for William to export wheat to Baldr.

「Even if the price is only the fourth of the price within the country?
」

「Impossible……no matter how magical the wheat is, there is no way

that price will create any profit……」

「That’s why, they aren’t thinking about profit at all. That is a

moving tale in itself, but shouldn’t the sale of grains to other country
be regulated so that it doesn’t benefit a foreign country
considerably?」

「Yeah! That’s right! Exactly!」

The price of grain including wheat that was a staple food would
fluctuate because of abundant harvest or bad harvest, but at the
same time it was also a strategic commodity.

At Aurelia Continent where the food condition wasn’t as abundant as

the modern Japan by any means, food policy was an important
problem that had to be regulated by the country.

Because of that the price control was applied to be set at a certain

range. If William exported wheat with a price that was the fourth of
the market price, it meant the violation of this price regulation.

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As expected William wouldn’t lose his position just from a
wrongdoing of that level, but it should be possible to create an
impact using this for the bureaucrats to regain their right to speak
over the matter of wheat.

「──What do you want?」

Although he was already being cornered, he couldn’t give himself to

ruin.

The biggest problem in the end was what the church would demand
from him here.

Adolf’s pride wouldn’t allow him to be used as the puppet of the

church and betrayed the country to its destruction.

「We aren’t asking for anything in particular. It will be enough if

your excellency simply make use of our information effectively.」

「I’m amazed you can say such impudent lie!」

Even without the church demanding anything, by bringing up this

problem to the royal court, Adolf would have to throw himself into a
fierce political conflict against William and Edward.

Even if he managed to obtain the initiative by doing this, it was

unknown whether he would be able to win or not.

As for the church, it would be all good as long as Mauricia royal

court’s pace got disturbed and the aid to Trystovy Kingdom came to
a halt.

They wanted Mauricia to be in chaos repetitively until Trystovy

Kingdom and Answerer Kingdom had finished their
showdown──Adolf could see through their scheme clearly and it
made him even more irritated that he still had to go along with it.

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Even so it was impossible for him to let go of this chance just
because of a small irritation.

「Do you have the proof?」

Adolf couldn’t possibly say that he obtained the proof from the
church. It was only natural for him to make this demand.

Crassus immediately nodded.

「The company of the church’s believer has the contract that was
exchanged with Mulberry as the subcontractor of Dowding Group. Of
course it’s also stamped with Duke Antrim’s official seal.」

Crassus handed the authorization contract of wheat trade that was

stamped by Duke Antrim’s seal to Adolf.

Certainly it was without a doubt Duke Antrim’s seal.

With this he would be able to see the tearful face of that annoying
William.

Adolf hadn’t forgotten how his son August was treated like a mere
errand boy and turned away.

It could be said that such vindictiveness was the true self of the
human called Adolf.

「This is the list of names of the nobles who switched side to Duke
Edinburg’s faction that the church is currently aware of.」

「……How foolish. Don’t they realize that the nobles will be reduced
into mere servant if the royal authority becomes too powerful?」

In the list, several names of young nobles from his faction who Adolf
had expectation on them for the future were written.

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He had expected this, and he also felt betrayed. Adolf buried such
conflicted feeling deep inside his heart.

「It might be different in fairytale, but in reality the king and nobles
are always embroiled in turf war where both sides are struggling to
survive. Don’t think that it’s only a matter of course for us to just
silently obey.」

Crassus listened to the monologue that Adolf unconsciously spilled

out and smiled coldly.

(I’m praying for your victory you know? Work hard like you’re going
to die for the sake of our religion.)

Even if Adolf failed by some chance, if a great noble at Duke

Richmond’s level got purged, the national politics should be
stagnating until they finished dealing with the aftermath.

Duke Richmond came from an old lineage and even had the blood of
the royal family flowing inside him. Just by tracing back on his
bloodline, he was the leader of a large faction that could contest for
the top or second spot within the country.

If such large factions went to the throat of each other, that would be
beneficial to the church in its own way.

Duke Adolf Richmond visited the palace three days after that.

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Part 4
──The atmosphere in the palace had changed.

Adolf sensitively felt that the capital Cameron was changing even
though he had only left for a bit.

The chamberlains were coming and going busily. The coloring of the
flowers decorating the palace. The colors that had been dyed by
Welkin’s color until now were changing into Richard’s color.

The alternation of generations was already entering the final phase

while Adolf was unable to do anything before this.

At this rate Adolf and the other prestigious nobles would be easily
kicked out from the center of the authority really easily together
with Richard’s coronation.

Unlike the atmosphere of the old tradition that Adolf was used to,
the air of progressiveness now felt painfully clear.

Something like the feeling of desolation of an old man who was left
behind by the era filled his body. Adolf removed away that feeling
reflexively using his defensive instinct.

He still had a future. He had the power to shoulder the future of this
country. He persuaded himself like that.

「──His majesty shall meet you now my lord.」

「Right.」

Guided by a chamberlain, Adolf walked through the familiar corridor

that he could walk with his eyes closed.

「──I pray that your majesty is in good humor. It’s truly an honor to
be bestowed with your audience.」

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「I won’t refuse if it’s the request of Duke Richmond.」

In Mauricia Kingdom, the ten great nobles were considered as an

existence that was second only to the king.

They possessed the authority and strength to hold back the king
from acting rashly. That was why they were able to have their name
entered among the ten great nobles.

If Duke Richmond who was among one of the ten great nobles asked
for a meeting, there was no way Welkin could refuse.

At Welkin’s side there wasn’t just Prime Minister Harold like usual.
The crown prince Richard was also present.

Richard never really asserted himself in public setting before, but

now he was emitting a presence that surpassed Welkin in the
national politics.

He had completely camouflaged himself as a plain crown prince

without much self-assertion.

As expected even Richard had inherited Welkin’s blood thickly.

Rather he was even more troublesome to deal with because of his
steadiness compared to Welkin’s mischievousness.

Adolf felt more astonished than angry at how well Richard had
hidden himself until now.

But he didn’t have the scariness of a politician who would allow his
flesh to be cut in order to sever the opponent’s bone like Welkin who
had been tempered in the battlefield.

His rationality due to his lack of experience was something that could
be taken advantage of.

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「──Although, it’s rare for you lord duke to ask for a meeting so
suddenly like this.」

「It’s as your majesty say.」

Hmph, how brazen of you to say that. Adolf clicked his tongue inside
his heart seeing both Welkin and Harold.

He suspected it was the instigation of these two that kept him away
from the palace since the incident with Bodin.

「──Actually an alarming matter has come to light, so I come here

with the wish of consulting your majesty.」

「Hou, there are so many alarming matters recently that I have

gotten used to it. I’m not surprised that there is another alarming
matter occurring. Now then, what could it be?」

Welkin’s reaction was completely placid. It irritated Adolf quite

much.

Welkin was skilled in rubbing other the wrong way like this since the
past.

It was Welkin’s old trick to emotionally shake a retainer who he

didn’t trust like this. Though it also could be said that doing this was
simply his hobby.

「Grains that are a strategic commodity in our country must not be

sold to other country with selling price that is too different from the
market price within the country. That is the rule isn’t it?」

「But of course. After all doing such thing might needlessly invoke
the enmity of someone else.」

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「Aa, then how could this happen. Humbly speaking I am a person
who is responsible for the economy within Mauricia Kingdom, and so
I have no choice but to indict Duke Antrim, William-sama.」

Adolf saw Richard sending his gaze toward Welkin. He secretly

thought that the crown prince was still naïve.

He understood that Richard must be considering his future prime

minister as someone important, but to look for his father’s help
immediately like this. Regardless of his talent, he still could not hold
a candle to Welkin when it came to guts.

If it was Welkin, his attitude of not giving a damn at all wouldn’t

crumble at the slightest. Yes, just like now.

「I’m amazed that you lord duke is aware to even the happening at
the far away Antrim.」

「Distribution of goods is something that flow. Although Antrim is

far away, that distribution of goods is flowing within the country and
passes beside my territory too.」

「──There are things that cannot be understood even if it passed

nearby you know?」

Show your proof, Welkin was implicitly saying that.

But he was still enjoying the situation even at this point of time. It
was truly irritating. Even though William’s status had been demoted
from a prince to a retainer, he should still be his son.

「A merchant who my house is also using was involved in the

transport of wheat from Antrim. I questioned him about this matter
seeing the amount that was transported, and what I found out is
none other than an export to Trystovy with cheap price.」

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「Fumu, cheap you say.」

「I’m not joking in this matter by any means. I had ordered the
merchant to submit to me the sale contract and I’m already finished
confirming the destination of where it was sent to!」

If he only checked at Mauricia’s side, then it was possible that there

was a misrecognition or forging here. However with the confirmation
he got from Trystovy’s side too, this fact couldn’t be denied
anymore.

「Certainly I admit that Trystovy Kingdom is an important ally.

However a feudal lord of a single territory making light of the
nation’s law is something that I cannot overlook as the minister of
finance by any means!」

「You are speaking true. After all that is also the responsibility of
your post lord duke.」

Adolf thought that in the worst case it was possible the contract
would be taken away from him and be destroyed to hide the proof.

But that in itself could also become material for negotiation. In the
first place Adolf wasn’t planning to have an all out war with the royal
family.

He just wanted to search for a point of compromise so that the

bureaucrat nobles could regain their strength. He didn’t care what
Europa Church wanted to happen.

「Then……what should be done against this transgression? So that it

won’t happen for the second time, I wish to ask your majesty to
allow audit to the financial affairs of the feudal lords to be carried
out. Of course Duke Antrim also cannot be allowed to go on without
any punishment.」

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Adolf put his strength into his gaze to declare that he wouldn’t allow
this matter to be ignored.

Welkin received that gaze head on.

Adolf was bewildered when he saw the color of sadness, no, pity in
those eyes.

There was no way a great noble like him could be disposed here, but
there was the extremely slight chance where it might happen.

There was also the possibility of Welkin losing his senses after his
abdication and exerted his authority heavy handedly, but he thought
that such thing was unrealistic.

「──You have grown old Adolf.」

「What are……your majesty saying?」

Strangely no anger welled up inside. The bewilderment he was

feeling surpassed that.

The Welkin that Adolf knew would make fun of other people but he
never done anything like heaping abuse to others. He also wasn’t a
man who would say this kind of speech that was pitying and
remonstrating other like this.

「If it was you from ten years ago, you wouldn’t be here at all. Can’t
you entrust your dream to August?」

Welkin had accurately discerned the foundation of Adolf’s

uneasiness.

「Even if it’s your majesty, I shall not allow any insult to my heir!」

He felt a goosebump on his back.

Adolf couldn’t notice that feeling and he yelled.

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August was certainly lacking sharpness in some area, but it was
simply because he was lacking experience, not because he was
stupid.

He was the son that he was proud of and wasn’t at all inferior even
compared to Richard. When he inherited the bureaucrat
organization that he had built, his son would surely be able to
develop it even more.

「We tasted bitter experience in the past war. At that time you lord
duke claimed that the country’s future has to be managed by a
rational organization and not by the stubborn conservatism of the
old men.」

「That’s a nostalgic story. It’s the wisdom of the parliaments that

will become the cornerstone of the country for a hundred years from
here on. The provincial feudal lord doing anything to harm the
national interest is something that cannot be allowed by any means.
My thinking about that hasn’t changed in the slightest.」

「It seems so. It was extremely difficult to make the feudal lords
starting from Beaufort to obey the royal authority. Because of that
blood was shed and our country was placed at the brink of
destruction. I remember it clearly as though it happened only
yesterday.」

In order to strengthen the royal authority, the bureaucrat

organization that was centered among the young nobles were given
the authority to make the organization significant.

Welkin made the bureaucrat and the feudal lords to be in dispute,

exposed their illegal doing, and sometimes he did something like
interfering in the matter of succession. He lifted up the king’s
authority to its current height in such way.

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And then the bureaucrat organization that had just been formed at
that time was able to grow from zero to a scale that was worthy for a
country with centralized authoritarian rule was largely thanks to
Adolf.

「──The king needs legitimacy in the form of bloodline, hence it’s

the training of bureaucrats that will become the power to make the
country prosperous for eternity. After all there is no guarantee that
the king will always be wise and great. Though looking back at this
concept again, isn’t this a lese majesty, Adolf?」

「However didn’t your majesty yourself agree with that concept?」

Adolf thinly smiled because Welkin dug out the nostalgic memory.

There was a time when the two looked toward the same direction
and entrusted their back to one another while facing the shared
enemies that were Haurelia Kingdom and Duke Beaufort.

Even if their end point different, at that time the two of them were
sworn friend who trusted each other.

However right now they had become enemies whose interests

collided against each other.

Even though he was aware that his chest felt painful from the old
sentimentality, Adolf was already unable to betray his own life.
Welkin was also the same.

「So we can’t return back to that time again huh.」

「Indeed.」

The positions of the two were already different. The era, the things
that they were shouldering, the things that they should left behind,
everything was decisively different from that era.

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「──Seems like it. Even I cannot change the flow of time.」

He had family that he should protect. He had conviction that he had

to persist in. Even if he felt sentimentality from recalling the past, he
had learned to discard that sentimentality and took action.

That was why──.

「To think that a man of lord duke’s caliber is so hard pressed that
you decided to join hand with Europa Church.」

「……What could your majesty mean?」

Adolf had prepared himself to be suspected to a certain degree, but

he didn’t expect that he would be questioned so directly like this.

Adolf recalled Welkin’s sad gaze and he stiffened as though his whole
body had been put into a block of ice.

Could it be that from the start……?

「In the first place how could the wheat’s price be cheap? There is
no such thing. The price of the wheat that is exported to Trystovy is
completely the same like the market price.」

「Does your majesty really think that such nonsense can be believed
with the proof here?」

The contract wasn’t a forgery. He had also confirmed it at the

Trystovy Kingdom’s side. This matter couldn’t be covered up
anymore at this point.

「The contract that you lord duke mentioned is actually lacking one
more piece of paper. It’s lacking the paper that mentioned how
those who are making use of the wheat that his majesty Baldr
created has to pay the usage fee to him for three years.」

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「W-what is your majesty speaking……」

Here Adolf guessed what was going on though faintly. But, he was
unable to accept it.

「It’s intentional that the merchant is lacking that additional piece of

paper──considering that merchant is a monitoring target due to his
connection with the church and Answerer Kingdom. And for you lord
duke to be in possession of that contract…….I’m sure you can catch
my drift.」

The leak of the contract had been planned from the start.

Most likely even the merchant had been marked, and the church
agents who were coming and going from the company were also put
under monitoring.

「This might be too harsh for you lord duke, but the church too
should be fully aware that I’m watching their every move. After all it
will bring a great benefit for the church if you and I got into a loud
quarrel with each other.」

Alford himself also didn’t care at all about what would happen to the
church. In that sense both sides weren’t too different from each
other.

Although the proof had been disposed, Adolf was suspected for the
assassination attempt on Welkin through Bodin’s intermediary. Now
it was nearly impossible for him to make any excuse.

「──If possible I don’t wish to punish Richmond House. Do you

understand why is it?」

「Because there will be great disturbance within the country if my

house is punished. If an uprising occur by any chance, the damage
will be as great as a civil war.」

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If a leading figure of the ten great nobles like Duke Richmond and his
relatives rose in revolt, a large scale military clash that would rival
even the rebellion of Duke Beaufort would be unavoidable. If that
happened then it would be exactly like what the church wished for.

「Don’t you wish to leave behind Richmond House to August?」

「……What a terrible man you are your majesty. Even though you
know how doting I am to my son.」

「There is no son more adorable than a stupid one. You can’t even
dote on a son when are too much of a grown up.」

To be honest Welkin doted on William the most because of how

immature and naughty he was as a youth.

However after meeting Baldr, William became a grown-up man who

astounded Welkin with his own strength.

He felt happy seeing that, but he also felt really lonely as a father.

Children would leave their parent one day. And then when the child
cut open the path of their own life, the parent couldn’t lend them a
hand no matter how much they loved that child.

Perhaps it was because of his love toward his son that their path split
so they could join forces for the sake of their shared objective in
equal standing.

Adolf didn’t want to admit that August wouldn’t be able to maintain

as much influence as him. However his heart was thinking to accept
Welkin’s suggestion in order to protect his son.

Adolf realized that he had been continuing to deceive his own heart
for a long, long time.

「──Can I entrust my son to your majesty?」

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「I shall not treat a head of one of the ten great houses carelessly. I
promise that this matter will be fully resolved in this place.」

If August didn’t hold an ambition that was too much for himself, it
would be possible for him to continue being an authority in Mauricia
Kingdom as the head of one of the ten great noble houses.

No, rather there would be bigger problem if Richmond House was

abolished due to this situation.

It would be for the best if August whose capacity to act as unifying

force was weaker than Adolf took the headship of his house and
shouldered the role as one of the ten great nobles just like before.

「It’s only now that I’m finally able to fully understand my father’s
words.」

「Hou?」

「What control a man’s life isn’t intelligence but luck.」

「I see. That’s a wise saying.」

If August was someone capable, or if in the first place someone with

abnormal talent like Baldr never appeared──.

If one felt like it, they could find countless excuses.

The accumulation of such coincidences that he couldn’t do anything

about was called luck. People could only accept it when it happened.

Those who opposed the flow of luck would be washed away. Adolf
had finally reached that understanding.

「Let’s have a drink together like in the past before you return.」

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「Whether it’s joy or sadness that cannot be described with words,
alcohol can fill human’s heart more eloquently than mere words.
That’s a saying that your majesty like isn’t it?」

「What, for someone in my position, there are too many stories that
I cannot express using words.」───────────

By silently drinking alcohol together, there were things that could be

conveyed to each other’s heart more clearly than using a thousand
words.

The two of them recalled that they had such youthful days.

Three days later Duke Adolf Richmond committed suicide in the

castle of his territory. He died as though he was falling asleep.

August then succeeded the duke house. Despite his mediocre talent,
it was said that the house maintained a certain degree of influence
as a solid prestigious house within Mauricia Kingdom during his
headship.

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Part 5
There was a village called Posada near the border of Trystovy
Kingdom and Nedras Kingdom. A strange rumor was spreading
among the merchants there.

According to the rumor, a type of wheat with yield amount that was
several times the original had been discovered in Trystovy Kingdom.
The rumor also mentioned that the surplus amount of wheat would
be sent as aid to Nedras Kingdom.

Although the old dukedom nobles had been purged, the burden of
tax was still heavily weighing down the people of Nedras.

Because of that, Trystovy Kingdom would at least send aid in the

form of food supplies for the sake of Nedras people who were
exploited by Answerer Kingdom. That was the rumor’s stance at the
surface.

Normally there was no way such rumor would be believed. It was an

irrational rumor.

It would be understandable if the aid was sent as compensation for

Nedras Kingdom betraying Answerer Kingdom.

However sending aid to the populace of another country without

asking for any compensation was something unprecedented even
within the long history of Aurelia Continent.

The problem was that the main cast of this topic was Baldr.

Currently he was the man who gathered the most attention in this
continent. At the same time that meant people were also the most
knowledgeable about him with the deluge of information about him
spreading everywhere.

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The merchants of Nedras Kingdom knew that Baldr was a ruler who
put extreme importance to economy. They also knew that Baldr was
attempting to raise the standard of life of his people.

In addition even though Trystovy Kingdom had just gone through a

civil war, the food supply there was strangely stable and overflowing
instead.

Regardless of what kind of ulterior motive there was behind this aid,
there was no denying that Trystovy Kingdom had the spare strength
to aid other country.

Perhaps if it was Baldr, then even such impossible story was actually
true?

A lot of the merchants had such thinking.

On the other hand, the upper echelon of Nedras Kingdom naturally

wouldn’t believe such rumor. Rather they were suspecting that there
was a hidden plot behind that rumor.

Perhaps this food supply aid was a camouflage to dispatch an army?

That was their suspicion.

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Part 6
「Good grief, I really pulled the short end of the stick here……」

The captain of border garrison of Nedras Kingdom Borgan muttered

while staring at the peak of Dyatlov Mountain Range that was lying
between Trystoyv Kingdom and here.

The Dyatlov Mountain Range had the elevation of 2000 meters.

There were two main roads over the mountain pass that were
maintained. One of those roads was Vostok Highway that connected
to this Posada Village.

From the start Nedras Kingdom had used Dyatlov Mountain Range as
a natural fortress while building a good relationship with Trystovy
Kingdom.

That might be why the defensive facility at the border with Trystovy
couldn’t be said as well equipped even as a flattery.

The terrain was too steep for a large army to pass, but if in the worst
case Tyrstovy Kingdom attacked from here, Borgan swore that he
would rush off to escape.

He wished that Answerer Kingdom would assign the fitting number

of soldiers at the border if they acted like they owned this country.

Right now Borgan’s eyes were seeing small silhouettes of people

passing through the ridge like a line of ants.

He reflexively rubbed his eyes thinking that he might be

hallucinating, but unfortunately there was no change to the scenery
when he opened his eyes again.

「T-they really came here!」

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Borgan panicked to much that he couldn’t keep his balance and fell
backward.

「C-captain?」

「Send out a scout! Wake up the guys who are off duty at the
village! We called that thing a fortress but it’s just like a little hut for
checkpoint! We won’t even be able to buy time if we don’t hurry!」

The captain squeezed out his voice from his throat to yell even while
his knees were trembling fiercely, but none of his subordinates made
fun of him.

They knew just how out of place this border was and how difficult it
was to maintain fighting spirit in here.

There was a saying, the mountains have brought forth a mouse.

Borgan had heroically hardened his resolve and ordered his men to
gather all of his subordinates, but the line that passed the mountain
peak to come here was just the merchants of Mauricia Kingdom.

「You guys really gave me a fright for a moment there.」

「Well well, please forgive us for causing such trouble.」

The merchant laughed affably and bowed his head.

「Even so, why is a merchant from Mauricia is crossing over Dyatlov

mountain Range? The other side of this mountain range is Trystovy
isn’t it?」

「I fortunately managed to build a good relationship with his

majesty Baldr since before he was still in Mauricia, and if I have to

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say why I’m here today, I’m here as something like a representative
of Trystovy.」

「You are aware about the relationship of our country with Trystovy
Kingdom aren’t you?」

「Yes, I still haven’t heard about any war proclamation being

declared, but Trystovy Kingdom is effectively in war with the church
and Answerer Kingdom already.」

The merchant showed no sign of agitation at all. Borgan felt slightly

daunted because it didn’t look like a threat would work at all against
this man.

「Well, our country don’t have any intention of picking a fight with
Mauricia Kingdom intentionally. Go take care of the arrival
procedure with the government officials over there.」

Inside Borgan was still not fully convinced, but this was far better
than getting into a war.

For Borgan who had resolved himself to get annihilated in the worst
case, that was the most important thing for him.

「……Please don’t surprise us so much like that. Just why are you
bringing this much cargo to a small village like this……」

The old government official stared at the merchant’s face resentfully

while saying that.

「I believe that you will immediately understand the reason after

this.」

The merchant spoke suggestively with a complacent smile. Those

words would become reality within the same day.

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Part 7
The population of Posada Village was around 500. It was categorized
as a relatively big village.

Although the amount of goods circulation there was small, it was still
one of the gateways for trade with Trystovy Kingdom.

That village now was filled with crowd density that had never
happened before.

「……What are you planning by bringing this much cargo to a rustic

village like this?」

The village chief couldn’t hide his bewildered expression while

welcoming the merchant who came here.

The consumption would increase when people gathered. For the

village, this was an important time to obtain income from visitors.

In addition they might also be able to buy products from foreign

country that they were rarely able to obtain. So the villagers were
filled with expectation.

Like this the village was thankful that imported products were
coming their way.

「Of course we are coming here to sell our products seeing that we
are merchants. Please don’t worry, I believe that our products will be
immediately sold out.」

「Now see here……our village won’t be able to use up this much

products even after three years. Besides what is this cargo of yours?
They look really heavy.」

Even without looking at the content inside, the weight of the cargo
could be estimated to a certain degree from seeing how deep the

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depression that was made by the carriage’s wheels and the sound of
creaking that was made by the carriage’s axle.

「Aa, eighty percent of the cargo here is wheat.」

「Wheat? Wheat huh……certainly it will be helpful if we can stock up

wheat, but we can still live even without it. After all we can’t live
luxuriously in our village here.」

「Well, for today we will set up tents so please let us rest there. We
will open a market at the noon tomorrow.」

「Is that so? Tell me without reservation if you need any manpower.
We will also look forward to the market.」

「My thanks for your consideration.」

The merchant grinned.

It was a gentle smile that didn’t give the chief the slightest hint about
the nightmarish commotion that would occur the next day.

At five a.m. at the morning when there was still some morning mist
remaining, Posada Village that was located at a slightly high altitude
was enveloped in thick mist that was the characteristic of this region.

The villagers who had just started their activity reflexively stared at
the noisy commotion that was resounding from far away.

Strangely the voices came not from the direction of Trystovy but
from Nedras.

「……Did the army come or something?」

Even in this remote village, nobody was unaware that recently the
tension with Trystovy Kingdom was worsening.

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Because if war broke out again, it would be the commoners who
became sacrifice first.

However when the morning mist cleared up bit by bit, what they saw
weren’t an army but a crowd of merchants pushing against each
other to be the first at the line.

「Hurry! Don’t let those bastards from Felt Company get ahead of
us!」

「Don’t lose! This kind of business might only happen once in your
whole life!」

「Slip through even if you got to push down the others around you!
We’re going to be the first in lineeeeeeee!」

Yes, they were the purchasing group of the merchants who set shop
at Nedras Kingdom.

Just the other day, a new rumor was spreading through Nedras
Kingdom.

It was a rumor that merchants from Mauricia Kingdom would be

coming to sell wheat with a price that was no different than giving it
for free.

The rumor wasn’t laughed off as nonsense because the agents of

Dowding Group that had entered Nedras Kingdom were spreading
the information accurately.

The information was too detailed to be dismissed as a mere rumor.

For the time being the merchants gathered information to ascertain

whether there was a truth to it or not.

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No matter the country, when people and goods moved, there would
be information from it. The merchants of every country excelled at
collecting such information.

They immediately obtained the information that a great amount of

wheat was transported from Mauricia Kingdom to Trystovy Kingdom.

That meant, the possibility was high that the rumor was true.

Their action after making that judgment was fast. They formed a
caravan group with the fastest speed and headed straight toward
Posada Village with as much money they could bring.

As expected it was the large companies that could obtain

information from all over the country the fastest. Their caravans
arrived at this Posada Village without taking any sleep or rest so that
they wouldn’t miss this chance.

「W-what in the world? Just what is going to start here?」

There was no way an idyllic village at the countryside like this had
the facility to accommodate this number of people.

But there was a lot of empty plot of land, so in the end the horse
carriages and servants were told to park there while only the
representatives of the companies gathered at the tent.

「──Welcome. My name is Risley from the food development

department of Dowding Company from Mauricia Kingdom.」

「I am Doug from Felt Company of Nedras Kingdom.」

「The same, I’m Gordo of Mauron Company.」

「The same, I’m Weidt of Bilguna Company.」

「The same, I’m Edd of Fisher Company.」

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「As expected of the companies that are counted among the top five
companies in Nedras Kingdom. It seems that our business today will
be with the four companies here.」

When tomorrow came, dozens more of companies would also arrive.

However the business chance was already gone just because of the
difference of one day. That was the strict rule of business.

The representatives of the four companies here felt relieve because

despite being unable to get a lead from the other three companies,
they were able to make in time to the business table.

The only problem left was whether the rumor was true or was just a
falsehood.

「Now then without any delay, I shall answer the question that
everyone here must be dying to have answered. The price of wheat
isn’t it?」

「That’s right. It’s hard to believe, but we heard that the price will be
no different than giving it for free.」

Doug of Felt Company spoke to represent the others. The other

three nodded silently. Their biggest concern was whether the rumor
was true or not.

「Of course it’s the truth. How about I sell to everyone here the
wheat with the price of one copper coin per bag?」

「……Certainly that’s no different than giving it for free. However

with that price you won’t even be able to cover for the expense of
transporting all those cargos until this far won’t you?」

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Far from breaking even, they would be in the red like that. If Felt
Company tried to do the same thing, there was no doubt the
company would go bankrupt immediately.

There was nothing scarier than something free. Certainly the cheaper
the price the better, but something that was too cheap must have
some kind of reason behind it.

The people here understood that as someone of high position in a

big company.

「There is a condition before I sell the wheat to everyone here. It’s a

simple condition. It’s to sell the wheat at half the price of the market
price within Nedras Kingdom at the very least. I also wish your
companies to announce that the reason of the cheap price is because
of the aid from his majesty Baldr from Trystovy Kingdom.」

「──There will be interference right away if we do something like

that you know?」

The honor of Nedras Kingdom would be crushed if the news that

they accepted aid from the king of an enemy country was spread.

It was clear to see that the palace would quickly demand the
companies to stop doing their business.

「I don’t mind. Once the rumor has spread, it won’t be able to be

extinguished no matter what the palace do. When the palace
ordered your company to stop doing it, it’s alright for you to sell the
remaining wheat cheaply.」

「Just what will result from doing something like that?」

Or perhaps, this was simply because the Trystovy king was really a
charitable person? The merchants couldn’t measure the intention of

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the other side here because there was never any precedence for
something like this.

Risley thought that it couldn’t be helped for them to be puzzled like

that. Even Risley who had been told about Baldr’s plan was still half
in disbelief.

「First, Mauricia Kingdom has succeeded in revolutionarily

increasing the production of wheat. Therefore, the slump of the
market price of wheat will be unavoidable from here on.」

「I have heard that rumor. It seems that a very terrifying breed of

wheat has been created the rumor said.」

「The benefit of this invention will only be enjoyed by our allied

countries. The aid this time is nothing more than us giving away the
left over wheat. Compared to Answerer Kingdom that is only thinking
of extorting this country, which side do you think is more beneficial
to ally with?」

「U-umu……」

There was no need to even think about the answer for these sharp
witted merchants.

Answerer Kingdom’s business model was an exploitation economy by

using their national power as threat in the background.

The new business model that Mauricia and Trystovy put into
motion──increasing the share of pie by opening up new market was
far more alluring compared to that.

「Unfortunately this deal won’t continue for long. However when

something that has been given once is taken away, the people will
resent the one taking it away from them.」

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「In other words you are saying that this is the prelude to the war?
」

Risley smiled thinly at Gordo’s words.

「The battle has already started since a long time ago. Aa, rather
than something like that please think carefully. Answerer Kingdom
and Trystovy Kingdom and its allies, which one will be better for
Nedras Kingdom if they win? I believe that everyone know how tragic
the future of the companies that are at the losing side.」

They didn’t misunderstand the intention that existed behind Risley’s

words.

If they cooperated, then they would still have a place to belong even
if the alliance won, but if they didn’t cooperate then they would
accompany the fate of Answerer Kingdom.

In other words, this was a propaganda work toward Nedras Kingdom

while at the same time it was also sowing discord among the
merchants who were the blood flow of a nation to obtain
collaborators from among them.

Furthermore they were also given advance payment in the form of

immense profit over this dealing.

The only worry was whether the alliance would be able to win
against Answerer Kingdom or not, but that anxiety was wiped away
by this phenomenal amount of wheat.

The amount of wheat here wasn’t something that could be thrown

away just to show off or by mere whim.

Surely at the next year and the year after that too, wheat would be
rapidly produced in the amount that couldn’t be consumed
completely.

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These people who were sharp sighted when it came to profit had
quickly calculated that such thing would mean a boom in population,
a surplus of productivity, and in the end it would translate into
difference in national strength.

Above all else, as a merchant they would never dare to let go of such
attractive business chance like this. Furthermore this wasn’t just a
one time deal but something that would continue in the future too.

「Leave everything to us. All of us the merchants of Nedras Kingdom

shall be waiting eagerly for the arrival of his majesty Baldr.」

This flow of wheat didn’t enter just from Posada Village only.

Just as Risley said, once the populace was given something, they
would fear losing it. If the populace had gotten use to gluttony, it
would be difficult for them to return to their past living style of
starving.

Baldr’s invasion into Nedras Kingdom was already starting.

「Fu-fu-fu……I’ll teach them that the wealthy has a way of fighting

for the wealthy! If you think you can copy it then just try!」

Baldr was laughing daringly at the far away Millianna.

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Part 8
「Uhahahahaha! Bring on your spear or cannon or whatever, I’ll take
you onnnnnnn!」

Baldr got carried away and yelled loudly. But then Augusto let out
shocking words that poured cold water on him.

「Your majesty is gradually getting more similar with his majesty

Welkin isn’t it?」

「That’s the only thing that’s absolutely not true!」

Baldr imagined his future of being similar with that black-hearted

middle aged man who took delight in people’s reaction toward his
prank and a cold shiver ran through his spine.

He absolutely mustn’t end up like that.

「Even so, this is a nasty thing that your majesty is doing.」

Augusto shrugged with a smile.

Although he was also in agreement, this was a strategy that no

decent politician wouldn’t come up with.

They had obtained surplus of wheat after much effort, so normally

that surplus would be used to strengthen their own country. Stocking
up supplies for the army, using them to brew alcohol, there were
countless ways wheat could be used.

「……Valerie prolonged the civil war until the people got sick of it. As
the result the people was able to accept my invasion. But, right now
we have no leeway to take our time like that. In that case we simply
need to lure them using benefit. Simple right?」

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「Even though there is a benefit right there, your majesty throw it
away to win the favor of the people of other country instead.
Normally that’s unthinkable.」

That was the way of thinking of merchant.

A merchant who wanted to advance into a new market and made his
name there would proactively invest in order to open up a path to
the market even if sometimes he had to bear a loss first because of
it.

「This is also because the opponent is Nedras Kingdom. In order to

soften the prejudice of the people there toward the beastman and
see the Answerer Kingdom as the enemy, this is the fastest way.」

If Baldr invaded Neras Kingdom with military force when that

country had a lot of Europa believers, the people would undoubtedly
unite and oppose Baldr and Lagunitas.

If that happened, even if they won militarily, Trystovy Kingdom

would be dragged into a muddy civil war just like what happened to
Answerer Kingdom there in the past.

For Baldr, Nedras Kingdom wasn’t just a capture target, but a testing
ground for building a new order in this continent.

A society where the beastman wasn’t discriminated, where everyone

lived as an equal instead.

And then a system of fair competition under an international order

where nations respected each other under a regularized rule and the
major countries were monitored so they wouldn’t run wild.

Nedras Kingdom wasn’t that big of a country, but if Trystovy

Kingdom won against Answerer Kingdom in the dispute for
hegemony there, a chain reaction would occur.

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If Nedras Kingdom parted from Answerer Kingdom to enter the
Trystovy alliance, then the neighboring country Grand Duchy
Tenedora also wouldn’t be able to just stay quiet.

Most of all, that reduction of market area would give a painful

impact to the major merchants of Answerer Kingdom too.

The food production increased, then the population increased as the

result, the trade with the southern continent was also increasing in
activity, and so the economic scale grew bigger. There was no nation
that would be able to quietly allow their enemy country to grow like
that.

「We also have the choice of quietly observing for ten years though.
」

「If the other side stay quiet, then there will be room for
negotiation. But there is no way the other side will just stay quiet,
and if they make the first move then we will be put into defensive. I
don’t have the hobby of allowing the enemy to gain the initiative.」

Augusto feared Baldr at the bottom of his heart because while Baldr
was talking about his ideal, he had no plan to compromise at all in
order to make that ideal a reality.

He used various tricks to corner the enemy thoroughly while not

allowing the initiative of the war to fall into the enemy’s hand no
matter what.

Rather than making Baldr into an enemy, there would be a greater

chance of victory to pursue a policy of reconciliation and negotiated
an advantageous term. If it was Augusto then he would undoubtedly
pick that choice.

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As someone who was essentially a naïve idealist at heart, Baldr was
unable to trample the opponent in war as long as the other side
respected the rule.

Although in its own way it was still hard to fight Baldr like that.

「……How long do you think they will endure?」

「Nedras’s prime minister is trying to make use of this chance it

seems. Though they will only last one month at best no matter how
hard they try.」

「Then, one month it is.」

There was no doubt that first Nedras Kingdom would use military
strength to remove the invasion of Trystovy Kingdom and Mauricia
Kingdom through this food aid and propaganda. They would direct
that military strength to their own people.

Baldr would begin his invasion to Nedras Kingdom at that timing.

And then he would subdue Nedras Kingdom in a short period and

spread the news that the influence of Answerer Kingdom over the
countries of the continent had declined.

It would be too late when Answerer Kingdom noticed.

Even if they tried to deal with it after they noticed, they wouldn’t
make it in time because this side had finished the preparation of
overwhelming military schedule and information war.

Winning the battle in Nedras Kingdom would give them

overwhelming advantage for the coming final battle.

Baldr was about to laugh loudly again, but then he recalled Welkin’s
face and desperately controlled himself.

──It was then.

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「Your majesty! Congratulations!」

Tyros rushed into the king’s room. His expression was unusual, but
he had a wide smile that was like an angel.

「What’s the matter Tyros? Did something happen?」

It was unusual for the perfect cyborg butler with max loyalty Tyros to
be this flustered.

Tyros had been completely disregarded Baldr’s worry toward him

and the warning to not work too much.

Even though he was still burdened with exhausting work as Baldr’s

close aide, Tyros was still perfectly taking care of his daily life. There
was no opening that could be found from him.

And yet such Tyros was flustered like this. What in the world had
happened?

……Hm? Congratulations?

Augusto who was sensitive to that kind of subtleties had arrived to

the conclusion faster than Baldr.

「Could it be……who is it?」

「Of course it’s her majesty the queen.」

「I see, that’s certainly a matter for congratulations.」

There was hierarchy even in the inner palace. It was a godsend for
Trystovy Kingdom that the first one to be pregnant was Silk who
ranked number one in the hierarchy.

After all that way there would be no need for any quarrel about the
inheritance in the future.

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「What did the doctor say?」

「Right now the arrangement to have the number one doctor

Marius-dono to give a medical examination as soon as possible has
been arranged.」

「Hm? Wait a second.」

Augusto suddenly felt something was out of place from Tyros’s

words. The doctor would give the examination after this?

「Then how did you learn that her majesty is pregnant?」

「It’s impossible for my eyes to fail to notice Baldr-sama’s child!」

What a terrifying perfect butler. His eyes were capable to see

through even the womb of a woman who had only just gotten
pregnant?

「By the way it’s a boy! I think that the pregnancy is still around two
months old.」

「That’s why I’m asking how do you know that!?」

「It’s because of my heart that is always thinking of Baldr-sama.」

「I can’t keep up anymore with this loyalty idiot butler……」

Until now he had been continuously getting surprised by Tyros many

times, but this time it was especially even more so.

Or rather, Tyros’s instinct had never been wrong even once when it
came to Baldr. That was the proof of his reliability.

「……That reminds me, his majesty has been really quiet.」

Baldr hadn’t said even a single word since just now.

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Normally he was someone who could easily flirt and uttered
honeyed words easily even when there were other people present.

That Baldr was staying quiet right now. It was simply abnormal.

「……ya」

「Ya?」

「
YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
O!」

At the end of the long silence, Baldr finally returned back to reality
and jumped up and down energetically.

「I’m going to be a papa! I’ll be a papa! I’m a papa! Paapaa!」

「Aa, Baldr-sama who is rejoicing in panic, how precious.」

「──Go cool your head. We need to wait for the report of the doctor
first.」

Tyros warmly watched the crazily rejoicing Baldr while Augusto

sighed in exasperation.

A few hours later, a report that Silk was undoubtedly pregnant came.
The superpower of Tyros was proven once more.

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Part 9
「Congratulations Silk-asma.」

「Thank you everyone!」

The concubines in the inner palace immediately learned of Silk’s

pregnancy.

They knew how Silk had kept a careful check of her ovulation day,
kept her body in shape, and prayed to god every day in order to have
a child with Baldr.

Rather than feeling surprised, everyone accepted it as simply a

matter of course with how tenacious she had been.

Even so, surely an inner palace like this where the concubines were
honestly rejoicing of the first wife’s pregnancy was really rare.

They all had accepted Silk’s position as the first wife from the bottom
of their heart, and they also had no intention at all for their own
children to be used as a tool in an ugly dispute of inheritance.

Though of course the true intention of these women wasn’t about

such thing.

Rachel and Agatha talked to Silk.

「Silk-sama, from now on you can’t allow your lower body to feel
cold.」

「The importance of the child in your womb is in a completely

different dimension compared to us after all.」

Among the concubines, Rachel was the only one with very high
position as a former princess. Selina and Seyruun were commoner,

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while Agatha was formerly a daughter of a baronet even if she was
the adopted daughter of Marquis Randolph now.

Satsuki was like a princess of the cat-eared tribe, but that status was
only acknowledged among the beastman race.

Thinking of the suitability, it was only Silk’s child who could inherit
the kingdom. All the concubines were also hoping for that.

Silk was also aware of that.

「I want to say that there is no different level of importance when it

come to children but, in reality everyone is having such expectation.
」

No matter what anyone said, Baldr and Silk had inherited the blood
of Trystovy royal family thickly. The commoners and nobles were
also hoping for their child to be the one inheriting the kingdom.

「This child is Baldr’s adorable child. Everyone will do everything to

help so that the baby will be born healthily!」

「Thank you Agatha-oneesama.」

None of them entered this marriage because they were being forced
by political reason. Of course some of them also had political
circumstances surrounding their marriage, but all of them married by
love without a single exception.

In that sense, they were rivals toward each other, but at the same
time they were also partner to support the stormy life of Baldr.

It wasn’t that strange for a bond of companionship to be firmly

formed between them with Baldr as the focal point.

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All the concubines were seriously wishing for Silk’s pregnancy. In
addition they had even drank contraceptive secretly before this to
guarantee Silk’s pregnancy to be the first.

──Although it would be a lie to say that there was no ulterior motive

at all in their action.

Silk’s pregnancy meant the lifting of the ban on the concubines to get
pregnant.

They had no doubt at all to Tyros’s claim that Silk’s child was a boy.

That meant, there would be no problem at all no matter how many

children they gave birth to from here on.

「This child is extremely important. That’s why you have to take a

great care of your body. Be careful to not get into a bedroom activity
with our husband no matter what okay?」

Silk objected in panic at Agatha’s completely unexpected words.

「Wwha-? Doing it a little should be alright at the stable period

right!?」

「You have to refrain from any activity that can possibly put a
burden to the child in your womb. After all that child is fated to
shoulder the kingdom in the future.」

Beside Agatha, Satsuki nodded with an exaggerated gesture.

「Yep yep! We will take care of Baldr’s, you know……his xxx until
then so there is no need to be concerned at all for that matter nya.」

「Traitor! You all have betrayed my feeling haven’t you!」

No wonder everyone was happily congratulating her.

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While Silk was pregnant, they would be able to monopolize Baldr’s
night activity.

These women were still newly married wives, so such advantage

couldn’t possibly be ignored.

「Fufufufufu……Silk-sama, please give birth to a healthy child okay? I

shall comfort Baldr-sama a looot in the meanwhile.」

「Rachel! Even you……!」

「It’s said that conflict will only be born among people at the same
level. From the beginning Silk-sama is the only one who is wishing to
be pregnant from getting into bed together with Baldr-sama.」

「Besides this is simply Silk getting your just deserts. After all you did
that kind of lewd mischief so that Baldr embraced you until you were
unconscious because you want to have a child so badly nya.」

「I was really stupid to believe in something like friendship between

women……!」

「There is no such thing like true friendship between women. After

all it will crumble immediately as soon as the prerequisite change.」

Agatha easily declared so. Silk hung down her head in dejection.

「I don’t want to learn this kind of reality among women……!」

Outside the door, Baldr who came to show his appreciation to Silk
fell on his hands and feet on the floor in plain dejection after hearing
the raw ulterior motive between the women.

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Part 10
「Grandchild? I’ll have a grandchild?」

「Yeah, you are Maggot……you get it?」

「Who told you to make a joke! This stupid husband!」(TN: This part
is a play of words. Grandchild in Japanese was mago, while Maggot’s
name in Japanese reading was Magotto. Ignis made a word play of
Maggot’s name and mago (grandchild) here)

「Buberah!」

The back of Maggot’s fist hit Ignis to float high in the air. It was the
usual scene of this husband and wife that happened daily in
Cornelius territory.

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Even though he was punched, Ignis’s expression was melting with
happiness that couldn’t be hidden.

No matter the world, the birth of a grandchild would be something

special for the grandparents. Even Cameron’s Red Stallion and the
Silver Light weren’t an exception.

They too would finally have a grandchild.

The two were still very young to be called grandpa and grandma, but
it wasn’t that big of a deal compared to being able to play around
with their grandchild.

Even so, the pregnancy had only just come to light. The natural
providence couldn’t be opposed no matter how much they wanted
to quickly see the face of their grandchild.

Unfortunately there was no custom of returning to the parents’

house to give birth in this Aurelia Continent.

「──Oi, husband.」

「What is it Maggot?」

「How about going hunting after so long? It will soon be the time of
Maldfive bear to put on fat for the winter right?」

「I think it’s still too hasty to give something nutritious like that to a
woman whose pregnancy still at the early stage but……I guess it also
won’t be any trouble to have some in hand.」

「It’s decided then! Let’s go out immediately!」

The father and mother gallantly rode on their horse with high spirit
while carrying a bow in hand. The twins Nigel and Marguerite were
puzzled seeing their parents like that.

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「What’s going on with papa and mama?」

「What is grandchild?」

The wet nurse Ceres answered them.

「Let’s see……it’s about your big brother Baldr and big sister-in-law
Silk at Trystovy are going to be papa and mama.」

「Baldr-niisama becoming a papa……?」

「Will Tyros return then?」

It seemed that the twins’ fixation toward Tyros still hadn’t vanished.
For them Tyros returning or not was more important than their
nephew who would be born.

「Please give up already. After all Tyros-sama will get even busier to
take care of the child that will be born after this.」

They were talking about that perfect butler. He absolutely would

take care of the child that would be born without cutting corner at
all.

No matter how busy he became, he would definitely do everything

happily.

In a sense it could be said that Tyros was having the time of his life.

Was there no woman who could take care of him as his wife and
taught him the happiness of ordinary life?

Ceres who was entrusted with Nigel and Marguerite since Tyros left
to Trystovy couldn’t help but wished for that.

「That guy is enemy!」

「We will definitely take Tyros back!」

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The twins clenched their fist with naked hostility after learning that
there would be a new obstacle in their way.

This was another story in the future, but the moment these two met
the adorable child who was born, their desire to protect would be
stimulated and they would say their late farewell to Tyros in order to
become reliable older brother and sister.

Also, after that there would be a development of Marguerite going

through class change into lover candidate──.

Meanwhile, there was one more man who would become grandpa
when Silk gave birth to a child.

As everyone knew, it was Marquis Randolph.

This really complicated man, the moment he was notified that Silk
was pregnant──.

「Damn that cursed Baldr! How dare you did such inexcusable thing
to my adorable Silk! Could it be that he had even done such thing?
No no, perhaps even that kind of thing!」

「Please calm down already. There is no problem even if they did

that kind of thing, they are husband and wife after all.」

「Even if they are married, doing something lewd to my Silk is still

something unforgivable!」

「Does my lord understand that Randolph House will be in the risk

of discontinuation if Silk-sama doesn’t give birth to a second child
quickly?」

Alford finally returned to his senses after his long time retainer
calmly retorted to him like that.

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「P-pardon me……I already knew from the beginning but, I still
couldn’t suppress my rage to the man who sullied my daughter.」

「My lord has sent out your daughter to marry, so please be

understanding for at least that much.」

Now that Duke Richmond had lost his standing, excluding the former
princes William and Edward, Marquis Randolph had become the
biggest noble faction in this country.

It was even said that the national policy would change depending on
his course of action, and yet why would he become this strange
when it came to his daughter?

Did this guy plan to forbid Silk-sama from having children forever?
Perhaps such thinking was an emotion that couldn’t be discarded
and could only be understood by a father who only had one
daughter.

「No, umu──I see! So I too will finally get called grandpa!」

His insanity just now had completely vanished to who knew where.

Alford realized once more that his grandchild would be born. He

closed his eyes and trembled while immersing himself in a deep
emotion.

In the past he felt the greatest happiness when the young Silk called
him papa, but imagining his grandson who inherited his blood calling
him grandpa, he felt that the happiness from that wouldn’t be
inferior in any way.

Alford’s lips slackened into a slovenly smile and he sent out his heart
to his daughter who was far away at Trystovy.

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「I can’t just sit around like this! The best bed! The best maternity
clothes! I have to prepare them all! No, I have to go to Trystovy right
away to personally take command of the preparation!」

「Such thing! There is no way you can do that!」

The historical system of ten great nobles was going to be newly

reconstructed right now. Alford had no leeway at all to leave
Mauricia Kingdom.

On the contrary, currently he had been requested many times by the

next king Richard to leave his territory and serve in the palace.

In the end it was unknown whether he could easily go to meet his

daughter and grandchild even after the baby had been safely born.

At best he might have a slight chance to meet them if he made use of

his position as a negotiator with Trystovy Kingdom.

「I don’t have long to live! Let me go! Silk!

SILKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!」

「Guards! His excellency has gone insane! Don’t let him escape no
matter what!」

「FUOOOOOOOH! GRANDCHILD! MY
GRANDCHILDDDDDDDDDDDDD!」

It would still be some more time in the future before the pitiful
Alford would be able to visit Trystovy.

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Chapter 3 – The New Sea Battle

Part 1
The vast amount of wheat that was brought to Nedras Kingdom was
immediately spreading among the commoners. It was useful for
improving their livelihood.

It didn’t stop there, the price of wheat that was sold with high price
dropped drastically. It damaged the merchants of Answerer Kingdom
and they were left in tears.

Queen dowager Barbara and General Vladimir who originated from

Answerer Kingdom were also unable to make light of this situation.

「Crack down on this immediately.」

Vladimir said with a menacing look that wouldn’t allow any

argument. But Duke Vassily treated it like a passing breeze and shook
his head gently.

「It’s still too early for that. Right now we should soothe the people
who are going hungry due to the heavy tax. After all it’s not like this
matter hurt us any.」

「──Just because something doesn’t hurt us anything doesn’t mean

that it’s always good for you.」

Vladimir strengthened his pressure while wearing a smile on his face.

Vassily’s incompetence had been working to the advantage of

Answerer Kingdom until now, but this time it seemed to work to
their disadvantage instead.

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This was why incompetent person was beyond help. Vladimir wanted
to yell that angrily, but he suppressed his impulse.

「Although the hungry wolves of the dukedom has been disposed of,
that doesn’t make the people’s life to be prosperous. If they aren’t
given some carrots to soothe them, they might start cooperating
with the beastmen again. Or are you saying that Answerer Kingdom
will provide the supplies for the people in the place of this cheap
wheat?」

If Answerer Kingdom sent the same amount of wheat that Baldr sent
to here, the price of wheat within the country would rise steeply.

It was clear that Vassily was suggesting that with the full knowledge
that there was no way Answerer Kingdom could do that.

──But, even a man like this was the actual leader of Nedras Kingdom
while Vladimir was nothing more than a retainer. There was no way
Vladimir could openly act insolently toward him.

(I should ask her majesty the queen to also be present in this

meeting……)

Recently Queen Dowager Barbara had completely lost interest with

politics. He heard that she was shutting herself in the rear palace and
indulged herself in tea party every day.

Such act was beneficial for Answerer Kingdom’s takeover of Nedras

Kingdom, but now it was simply a demerit since Baldr’s maneuver
began.

「What if as the result of that the people’s hearts are tipping over
toward Trystovy Kingdom? You can’t possibly be ignorant of how
things went in the civil war of that country.」

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The biggest reason why the civil war of Trystovy Kingdom ended with
overwhelming victory for Baldr was because the people’s support
was focused on Baldr.

Information gathering, providing supplies, providing manpower for

transportation and doing every kind of labors, the commoners were
providing such support to the army below the surface in a war
between fellow large armies.

The invaders often met many difficulties in the local area was
because they were unable to obtain such cooperation from the local
people.

There was also the method of threatening the people to forcefully

order them around, but doing that would cause a certain level of
resistance to occur and as the result there would be even more
sacrifices.

The kingdom army that was led by Baldr never met such resistance at
all, on the contrary the dukedom army received various tangible and
intangible obstructions from the people.

That was exactly why the dukedom side had to stay on the defensive
at the final stage of the war.

There was no guarantee that the same thing wouldn’t occur in this
Nedras Kingdom. Rather the possibility of that occurring was high.

Vladimir had the self-awareness that his country had squeezed dry
the people of Nedras Kingdom in order to turn this country into
vassal state, so he couldn’t feel optimistic at all with this
development.

「……You cannot be half-baked when doing anything. The majority

of the wheat has been distributed. Even if we crack down on it, at
this point it will only cause the people to hold antipathy toward us.

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Don’t worry, we can just wait for the right timing and fabricate some
kind of wicked deed of those Trystovy bunches to neutralize the
people’s good will to them. That will be enough.」

(You think I don’t already know that! That country’s king isn’t an
incompetent like you. There is no way that he will give you that
much time to neutralize his move at your leisure!)

Vassily was correct theoretically.

Even if they interfered at this point, they would only provoke the
antipathy of the people.

That was why Vladimir wanted to at least take the wheat from
Trsytovy Kingdom for his own. Nedras Kingdom didn’t have any
leeway to decrease the tax anyway.

For Vassily, rather than the faraway Trystovy Kingdom, the beastman
Lagunitas who was targeting him to take revenge was a more visible
threat.

Vladimir didn’t care at all how Vassily would end up, but it was
painful because he couldn’t speak of his true feeling openly here.

「Then you are saying, that in the end you have no intention to deal
with this enemy maneuver?」

Vladimir asked that half-threateningly, even so Vassily wasn’t moved

and replied dispassionately.

「I have ordered the merchants to not make any mention about

Trystovy. I will also keep watch attentively to any groundless rumor.
」

There was no way the people could be stopped from talking just
from something like that.

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But, it would be difficult to draw out any concession from Vassily
even if he continued to argue like this, so Vladimir gave up.

「You better not forget this. Trystovy isn’t doing this because of
kindness at all. What they will do next is a military action without a
doubt.」

Vladimir sat down heavily on the chair in his office and sighed.

Even though he would be able to corner Lagunitas with one more

step, he ended up right back at where he started with this.

In the worst case, he might even get pincer attacked by Trystovy

Kingdom army and Lagunitas’s beastman army.

As expected even for Vladimir, battling Baldr who defeated even that
General Mikhail who boasted of being unbeatable was a work that
he was reluctant to do.

Even so that didn’t mean that he thought that he would lose.

To be frank, Vladimir didn’t give a damn of what would happen to

this Nedras Kingdom as long as he could repel Baldr.

However Baldr would come here with the pretext of liberating

Nedras Kingdom, so he couldn’t possibly discard this country so
easily.

「──Now then, how should I take him on.」

Actually it could be said that his preparation to engage Baldr was

already completed.

He wanted to remove any uncertain factor as much as possible, but if

Vassily wouldn’t cooperate with him, he would simply make use of
him instead.

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Depending on the situation he could also dispose of him as a sacrifice
just like those dukedom nobles.

「Hmph, you can be full of yourself for now. From the start my spies
and the church’s fanatics has been mixed among the commoners
who you thought you have won over.」

If the veneer was taken off, it would be easy to feign that Trystovy
Kingdom was an even nastier invader than Answerer Kingdom.

Vassily didn’t really feel in danger because he knew that.

However Vladimir had planned even further ahead. He had even

planned of working together with the church to reoccupy Nedras
Kingdom, where he would then get appointed as the new regent of
this country.

「Come anytime you like. And then you can become the
nourishment for my glory.」

Occasionally a strategist would drown in their own strategies, but at

this time Vladimir didn’t have any doubt that he had seen through
Baldr’s strategy.

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Part 2
「Well, it’s easy when we know that they’ll come like this.」

A month later, the fourth merchant caravan of Mauricia that was

heading to Posada Village once more was attacked by Answerer
Kingdom army that was lying in wait.

However the spearhead of their attack was blunt because from the
start their aim was to loot.

If this was a genuine battle, they would also use other tricks like fire
arrow or dropping rock mercilessly.

The assumption that this would be an easy work of pillaging a lot of

wheat robbed them from their tension and reduced their power of
observation.

If they observed really carefully, they should notice that the

merchants’ screaming and angry roar were too orderly for people
who were ambushed by an army.

Yes, the majority of the crews of this fourth group were Trystovy
Kingdom’s troops.

They were dispatched as the result of the information gathering of

the intelligence unit that was hiding in Nedras Kingdom.

The speed of their information delivery using radio was something

that couldn’t be rivaled by any country at the present time.

Baldr had heard beforehand from his spies that Answerer Kingdom
army was preparing to move after the third caravan returned.

He had even learned that the army would be lying in wait at the
outskirt of Posada Village.

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Because the secret technology of radio had to be kept, Brooks was
the one who was tasked with commanding the fourth caravan.

Lately Brooks had been getting tired acting as the royal guards
captain in the palace, so his blood was boiling that he could enter
into the battlefield again after so long.

「Surrender! Anyone who resist will be killed!」

The number of the Answerer Kingdom army was around five

hundred.

The number could be said as excessive just for attacking merchants.

Although, once the caravan was attacked, then Trystovy Kingdom

and Nedras Kingdom would automatically entered a state of war, so
perhaps there was a lot more soldiers standing by at the rear.

At present there was only less than 500 opponents, but it was just
the right size for Brooks’s rehabilitation.

「Be a bit more on your guard. It’ll be too late already when you
notice if you are so careless like this.」

Answerer Kingdom’s soldiers tightened the encirclement and got too

close carelessly. They ended up paying with their life for that.

「Don’t tell me, you bastard──」

As expected, those with some ability would clearly see that Brooks
was a veteran warrior even from afar even if they were still unable to
recognize him as the royal guards commander.

These guys weren’t merchant at all. It was actually they themselves

who entered a trap.

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It was already too late when they realized that. With a sound of the
air being torn apart, dozens of cylinder objects were shot out from
the wagons that they thought as being fully loaded with wheat.

The metal cylinders that were about thirty centimeter in size flashed
for an instant and exploded. More than a hundred soldiers of
Answerer Kingdom who were standing close to each other got sent
to the other world.

In order to compensate for the grenade’s weak point that was

distance, it had been improved so it could be shot out using a
crossbow. Just now dozens of such grenades had been fired all at
once.

Answerer Kingdom’s army lost its chain of command after getting hit
with such attack while being completely defenseless. It caused the
number of the wounded that was double of the dead to be
produced.

But, just because those wounded troops had lost their strength to
fight didn’t exempt them from being an attack target.

Rather it was this kind of people who lost their fighting strength in
the battlefield that became the delicious prey for their opponents.

「──Charge!」

Without even raising any war cry, the troops wordlessly mass
produced enemy corpses and displayed the strength of Trystovy
Kingdom military.

War cry was usually done by soldier to elevate their own fighting
spirit.

It had the effect of reducing the psychological stress of human

murdering another human, on top of that it also heightened the

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sense of solidarity between allies, so it became something
indispensable in military action.

In order for soldiers to be able to act like a machine without needing

to raise war cry, a lot of training and a capable commander were
necessary.

「Run! We’ll be massacred!」

「H-help! ……Don’t leave me behind!」

「Shit! Reinforcement will come if we can return until the village!

I’m not gonna die in this kind of place!」

The metallic sounds of swords and armors clashing, the scream of

death throe, spurting blood──there was no way the soldiers of
Answerer Kingdom army could endure it when just a moment ago
they thought they were only going to trample some helpless
merchants.

People who abandoned their allies and tried to run away but ended
up dying easily because they exposed their defenseless back
continued to appear.

In the end only a hundred and a few dozen from the five hndred
soldiers managed to return back to the village.

「Don’t chase them too far! Retreat if you think that’s far enough!」

The spies had already reported that the enemy was building a solid
defensive encampment.

They should consider it enough that they could win the first battle
and obtained the fact that it was the other side that started it.

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Part 3
The report that the soldiers of both countries had battled near the
border was brought to General Vladimir in the capital Hazuz within
the same day.

「It was earlier than I thought but──this defeat is disappointing.」

Although the troops were letting their guard down because they
thought that their opponent was just merchants, there should still be
overwhelming amount of difference in number.

「There was a report that the enemy used unknown weapon that
was similar with the relic……」

「Then it can’t be helped.」

Vladimir nodded deeply at the words of his adjutant Chernenko.

That weapon could easily rival an army of a thousand on its own. In

addition if it was available in sufficient number, than it could rival
even an army of ten thousand.

Gunpowder weapon wasn’t monopolized by Baldr anymore.

This time Answerer Kingdom’s army didn’t use such weapon, but the
defensive line that was prepared against Trystovy at Posada Village
was supplied with a lot of gunpowder weapons.

If Brooks tried to obtain even more achievements and continued to

chase after the fleeing soldiers, his troops would be bathed with the
baptism of rocket arrows and grenades.

「Notify the homeland of Trystovy’s invasion. We were assaulted by

Trystovy Kingdom army that disguised themselves as merchants.
Spread that kind of rumor too everywhere.」

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Trystovy would declare that their side was the one that attacked the
merchants anyway. At the very least they needed to create an alibi.

「We have been generously prioritized to receive some of the few

relics available. Let’s teach them that this beastman king is in the end
just a paper tiger.」

The result of the conflict surrounding Nedras Kingdom would decide

the outcome of the decisive battle between Answerer Kingdom and
Trystovy alliance that would occur in the near future. Baldr and
Vladimir had the same thinking in regard of that.

Each of them believed that they would emerge the winner over the
other.

Vladimir continued to wait for the incoming invasion of Baldr with a

quiet confidence.

He didn’t even know that his delight would only be momentary.

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Part 4
After receiving Brooks’s report about the battle, an army of 30000
departed from Millianna toward the border with Nedras Kingdom.

The commander-in-chief of the army was the old general Ramillies.

Serving as his second-in-command was the royal guards commander
Brooks. Gina was also participating as a guest general.

In addition Ramillies’s successor candidates, Gerhard and Barnard

were positioning themselves at the wings of the army as regimental
commanders.

This was the first experience of the kingdom army to go in an

expedition after it had been reorganized after the conclusion of the
civil war.

The army marched splendidly with perfectly ordered pace. It was the
clear proof that Ramillies’s skill hadn’t withered at the slightest.

「Is it really alright for Gina-sama to also come along with us?」

「We fellow old people should get along with each other here.」

The beastman unit didn’t accompany the army this time, so there
was no necessity for Gina to accompany this army that was
composed from the elites who had followed Baldr since Antrim and
the reorganized group of Trystovy Kingdom army.

Even so Gina chose to accompany this army was because she had the
intention to give way to the new generation of the beastman.

Besides the bond between Ramillies and Gina as fellow old people
who didn’t have long to live was quite deep.

「──Listen well all of you!」

Ramillies threw out his thick chest and yelled loudly.

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「The aid of our merciful king that was brought to Nedras Kingdom
for the people there who are suffering from Answerer Kingdom’s
extortion was greedily targeted by those hungry wolves Answerer
Kingdom army! They attacked innocent merchants and on top of that
they stole the food that was intended for the commoners. Even if
they are the army of the leading country of this continent, justice
and our king shall not forgive them! The heaven’s will is with us!」

Ramillies ignored the fact that Brooks and his subordinates were
shrewdly mixed among those merchants and he continued to
criticize Answerer Kingdom.

「It’s just as all of you have already known! The future where
countries won’t quarrel between themselves and no discrimination
between human and beastman exit will soon arrive. We shall burn all
those fools who are clinging to the obsolete old era to nothing and
cut open a path to the ideal future!」

「UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
」

The soldiers roared until the very air itself was trembling.

Many of these soldiers had the experience of being liberated from

the tyranny of the nobles and had their family saved from massacre.

Trystovy that was completely exhausted from the civil war managed
to achieve recovery both materially and morally. The commoners
were now enjoying peaceful and prosperous life that they had never
experienced before.

For them Baldr was none other than the messiah who brought peace
to Trystovy in reality. They were filled with the fighting spirit to put
their life on the line to repulse anyone who tried to harm this peace.

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Even if one searched this whole continent, they wouldn’t find any
other army with morale as high as Trystovy Kingdom army.

The war cries echoed and the people of Millianna waved their hands
to see off the soldiers who went to war.

The soldiers looked majestic.

The army of this country right now was different from the past. They
weren’t just the vanguard of the nobles for the sake of bleeding dry
the people.

They were the protector of the kingdom, with the pride that they
were fighting in order to protect the world’s order.

The morale of the soldiers who were showered with the cheers of
the people heightened all the more.

The diplomats of other countries who were staying in Millianna

wrote to their country in detail about the grand dispatch of Trystovy
Kingdom army.

The army’s morale was high and their proficiency was also high. In
addition Baldr’s legends were also adding some more flair to their
aura. This army was finally going to an expedition that crossed the
national border.

All the diplomats were aware that the result of this war might
change the history of this continent.

Everybody believed that Baldr was staking everything he had into

this battle.

「We will definitely present our military gains without fail to our
king before his majesty personally set out to the frontline! Don’t you
all dare to tarnish the prestige of his majesty’s ever-victorious
record!」

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A roar of agreement rose once more at Ramillies’s loud shout.

Strictly speaking, not all of Baldr’s battle ended in victory. However

in the perception of the common folks, Baldr was truly an
unbeatable genius. The perception of other countries was also not so
different.

The conquest of this continent by Trystovy alliance was finally going

to begin. Furthermore the king Baldr still had the composure of not
going to the battle personally.

Trystovy Kingdom army looked to be in disadvantage in overall

military force. What kind of magic they would display this time to
win?

However even such expectation didn’t matter at all.

Far from departing later than Ramillies, as soon as the ceremony was
over, Baldr secretly departed to Sanjuan Kingdom.

Actually Trystovy Kingdom army was dispatched grandly like this was
only to give an impression to the whole world that the troops were
concentrated at the border with Nedras Kingdom. That was why
Ramillies’s departure was held so flashily like this.

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Part 5
Trystovy finally took a step forward to dominate the whole
continent.

The one who reacted the most sensitively to that information wasn’t
Answerer Kingdom that was their rival for supremacy, but Europa
Church.

「That demon finally showed his true color! Now is the time we
show the world the power of the church to that irredeemable enemy
of god!」

A total of 10000 soldiers responded to the pope’s encouragement

and marched out from the pope territory under the pretext of
crusade.

Trystovy had mobilized 30000 troops as an advance party. If the

troops that Baldr personally commanded also got dispatched on top
of that, then thinking with common sense, Trystovy wouldn’t have
any more strength to spare to invade the pope territory.

Although Trystovy Kingdom’s military had been drastically improved

after the conclusion of the civil war, they predicted that at most they
would only be able to mobilize 60000 troops in total.

After all it would be difficult for Trystovy Kingdom to conscript even

more people than that while currently they were busy with
rebuilding the country.

Considering that they also had to assign 10000 to 15000 troops to

maintain public order and defend the borders, it was only natural for
the church to think like that.

On the contrary Answerer Kingdom was staying passive.

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They were harboring a serious dissatisfaction at the church that was
reluctant in providing the technology of the relics.

Just as General Vladimir said, in some cases gunpowder weapon’s

existence could rival even an army of ten thousand.

As a big nation it was only natural for Answerer Kingdom to desire to

absorb the knowledge of the relics as much as possibly so they could
mass produce them by themselves without relying on the supply
from the church.

Because of that Answerer Kingdom wouldn’t change their passive

stance of refraining from any large scale battle until they managed to
pile up the relic weapons to some degree.

However for the church that wanted to prevent the relics from
spreading, such action was a head on opposition to their intention.

「──Those fools. The world will only be wrapped in chaos if the

forbidden knowledge is spread.」

The pope spat out those words with a gloomy feeling.

The foolish people who were ignorant of everything was driven with
the desire to expose everything, but that would also mean the
annihilation of the church.

(I thought that my faith has been completely extinguished, even so

the church is still the only place I can depend on huh.)

He obtained this position as pope after going through many

schemes.

No matter how bloody and hellish his path until here was, to deny it
also meant to deny his own life.

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The pope knew that dispatching troops to Nedras Kingdom wouldn’t
lead to the decisive victory that he wished for. Even so he still made
this decision because of such circumstance.

「If he meet with a crushing defeat at Nedras Kingdom, his prestige

of invincibility will also be peeled off.」

Even now there were people who were captivated by Baldr’s success
story of leaving Cornelius until he finally became the king of Trystovy.

However such image was brittle the moment it failed even once.

Baldr’s novel policies could stand under the limelight and disrupted
the good old-fashioned tradition of Aurelia Continent was solely
because he had kept winning until now.

If he was defeated, then doubtful gazes would be directed to him. If

that happened, people would fall back to their true nature that
wouldn’t unconditionally accept something new.

Right now the number of soldiers that the church could dispatch
away from the pope territory that was the church’s holy land was
around 10000. If this was done before Baldr’s emergence, the church
would be able to dispatch several tens of thousands of soldiers
easily.

「──Cursed demon. The god’s judgment shall fall on you without fail
this time.」

The pope had even dispatched his few remaining assassin squads in
order to obtain a chance to take down Baldr in the battlefield if luck
was on their side.

The routes where a large army could be dispatched from Trystovy

Kingdom to Nedras Kingdom were limited.

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If the unknown paths that were only used by the locals were
excluded, other than the route that crossed Dyatlov Mountain Range
to reach Posada Village, all the other routes would touch the border
with Grand Duchy Tenedora or Kadiros Kingdom.

Grand Duchy Tenedora was a vassal state of Answerer Kingdom too,

so it was also possible for Trystovy Kingdom army to forcefully
invade their border.

But, everyone thought that Trystovy Kingdom army didn’t have the
intention to expand the battle more than necessary.

Therefore Trystovy Kingdom army would definitely invade through

this one route with all their strength. There the church’s force and
Vladimir’s force would crush them.

The pope and Vladimir’s strategies matched each other.

What was left was how Answerer Kingdom would perceive this
chance and how they would take action──.

That country wasn’t so foolish that they would just ignore a winnable
battle.

However the pope forgot.

In all of Baldr’s battles until now, he was able to obtain the prestige
of being ever-victorious as much as he wanted because he always
deviated from the rules that everyone was unconsciously restricting
themselves with.

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Part 6
At the center of Sanjuan Kingdom, Toledo.

Right now Selina’s confidant Rorona had been entrusted with the
company here. Baldr, Selina, and Rachel were visiting a large site that
was under her management.

「Long time no see Rorona. How goes the progress here?」

「Your sex appeal has increased even though I haven’t seen you just
for a bit. Is it as I expected that graduating from virginity bring some
differences?」

「Unah?」

The counterattack from Rorona who Selina thought as big sister in

her heart made her went red until her ears. She was completely
speechless.

「It’s just jealousy of the woman who is late to marry and got beaten
to the punch. But, I’m glad that it looks like Ojou-sama is happy right
now.」

「Rorona……」

Since her father died and left her, Selina had been living together
with Rorona all the time until she married with Baldr. There was
something pressing on Selina’s chest when Rorona said that to her.

「Well, I just got proposed the other day, so I’ll also catch up to
Ojou-sama soon.」

「Wa-, WAIT A SECCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!」

Rorona was certainly a beauty with big breasts. She had sharp and
brilliant mind and on top of that she could do housework perfectly.

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She was such an almighty beauty that it was strange she hadn’t
married until now.

However at the same time Rorona had high ideal and sought
fastidiousness in everything. And most of all she was a late bloomer
and also a very shy person. Selina was aware of that.

In other words she was a capable woman with kuudere attribute.

(TN: Kuudere, acting indifferent while lovestruck)

And now that Rorona! The woman who was like her own big sister!
Had obtained a fiancée when she left her just for a bit!

Selina shrewdly shelved away the fact that she herself was a woman
who married with the one she loved and grabbed Rorona’s shoulders
like a father whose daughter would leave the house. She then
interrogated her.

「Who? Who in the world is this man? I don’t think that someone
like Rorona can possibly be tricked by some suspicious guy, but if
you’re actually being forced by a dirty old man with high status──」

The authority that she possessed as a concubine of Trystovy King

wasn’t just for show. Selina decided to make this unknown man to
regret ever being born, she would make it so this man couldn’t even
buy a single grain of wheat if he had tried anything with Rorona.

「There is no need to worry. This man is someone decent.」

It might not be the case when their company was still just a tiny
company at Cornelius, but as the president of Savaran Company and
the one standing at the top of the head office of Dowding Group in
Sanjuan Kingdom, someone who could possibly threaten Rorona was
only the king himself or at least an authority of the kingdom who was
really up there.

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Mere nobles from the countryside would have to be considerate and
lower their head instead when they faced Rorona.

「──Actually recently I have the privilege of going out with Admiral

Jose.」

「WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?」

As expected, it wasn’t just Selina, even Baldr and Rachel couldn’t

help but feeling shocked hearing that explosive statement.

Gazes that were sharp like arrow were directed toward Admiral Jose
who was accompanying them.

Selina’s gaze was even filled with killing intent.

「Hahaa, you know, today we’re going to display the you-know-

what, so can we postpone this matter for later?」

Jose ignored the murderous gaze toward him calmly with an

expression that was playing innocent. As expected this person had
ball of steel.

「A middle-aged man at the middle of his forties is……」

「Uh」

It seemed that even Jose who was always acting aloof was bothered
by that. He showed a slightly hurt expression. A man at his age
couldn’t help but be sensitive with his age.

「Don’t mind it Jose. It doesn’t matter how old you are, you are the
number one man for me.」

「……I’m beaten. It’s you who are a woman who is too good for the
like of me.」

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The pink colored space that was created around them made Selina
felt lonely. At the same time she also recognized that Jose was a
partner that her big sister wished for from the bottom of her heart.

「She is my treasured big sister. I’m not gonna guarantee your life if
ya dare make her cry alright?」

「I swear on my life.」

「──Still, just what triggered this? Though of course ya two are in

the same country so there must be a lot of chances to meet until
now.」

Jose was a famous admiral who was well-known not only in Sanjuan
Kingdom, but throughout the continent. He was a very popular
existence among the nobles who wanted to obtain influence within
the military.

Jose was sick of such power struggle. Even without that from the
start he was quite indifferent in regard to male and female
relationship, so everyone thought that he would stay single for his
whole life.

What shaken his determination was the event that happened when
firing experiment of the cannon that was jointly developed by the
merchant company and the military was carried out.

A cannon barrel with shoddy workmanship suddenly exploded. The

two officers who were in charge of the cannon was heavily wounded,
while a fragment attacked Jose who was observing the test at that
time.

The one who put herself on the line to protect Jose at that time was
Rorona.

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Fortunately Rorona wasn’t injured at that time. Even so Jose felt
greatly ashamed that he got protected by a woman instead of
otherwise. Even he had his pride as a man who should be the one
protecting woman.

At that time Rorona asked Jose 「Admiral, are you injured?」

without a single change in her expression. Jose could only lowered
his gaze with a red face. However there he saw how Rorona’s hand
was shaking and realized.

This beautiful and courageous woman refused to show her weakness

to anyone.

Jose thought of Rorona as lovely when he realized that.

With that realization, he spontaneously invited Rorona to a dinner.

He accidentally also had the nice excuse of wanting to thank her for
protecting him.

Both of them were late bloomers and had good head above their
shoulders.

They would surely take their time to slowly nurture their

romance……that was what everyone thought, but the fact was
stranger than even light novel.

It was unknown what kind of magical situation happened, but the

two of them entered a male and female relationship within the very
same day.

「Uu-uu-……my Rorona was……」

「Admiral Jose……he is a carnivore despite his appearance.」

「Whether it’s in the past or in the future, it’s impossible for me to

act like that except with Rorona. Even I can’t comprehend just why in
the world I was able to be that bold at that time.」

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Jose scratched his head shyly with reddened cheeks. Such expression
was extremely rare for him to make that both Baldr and Selina
spontaneously smiled.

「Hahaha……it seems that even I still had some backbone remaining

to be able to capture a lovely woman like Rorona.」

However at this time Rachel was the only one who noticed.

How Rorona was sporting a devilish smile that was saying Just as
planned! at this time.

(Admiral Jose, you weren’t the one doing the capturing. You were
the one who got captured. In this case surely silence is golden.)

「However the time is like this, so I’m hesitating of when we are

going to hold the ceremony.」

Jose said that with a happy smile.

「First let me express my congratulation to you but……perhaps we

should move on to the main topic right now.」

Urged by Baldr, Jose renewed his expression and nodded.

「True. After all that is the reason why your majesty is here.」

Yes, Baldr was visiting this Toledo in order to watch the firing
experiment of the cannon that was finally starting to get mass
produced.

After flamethrower and rocket arrow had been implemented in

practical battle, it was only natural to progress to gun and cannon
next.

However unlike flamethrower or rocket arrow, the mass production

of firearm was accompanied with difficulties.

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The test site for experimenting in making use of those weapons was
this Toledo’s outdoor testing ground.

The research team had moved to this place from Antrim. Under the
watch of Rorona, they conquered the technological challenges one
by one until they reached this point.

The history of cannon at earth was long. It was confirmed that the
Mongolians had already used bronze cannon in the thirteenth
century.

Because the shooting mechanism was simpler compared to gun,

cannon rapidly spread from central Asia until Europe at the
fourteenth until fifteenth century. And then at the battle of
Constantinople, cannons destroyed the Theodosius ramparts that
were thought as invincible. It brought about the destruction of the
fortress system of the old era.

Although cannon was only called as the god of the battlefield since
the 18 century when grapeshot and explosive shot were
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popularized. Before that it was simply a weapon that was exclusively

used for siege to destroy castle walls.

Cannons were almost never in use in field battle. But there was a
reason why Baldr was fixated with mass producing it.

「First, second, and third cannon, begin shooting!」

With a single order from Jose, the three cannons began firing.

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These cannons was the latest model of cannon that was improved
from being made of bronze to using cast iron.

At first they couldn’t maintain the quality of the cast iron, so they
mostly used bronze, but after they got brighter prospect with the
reduction of bubbles in the metal and the regularizing of the
homogenization, they took the plunge and renewed the cannons.

The trials and errors that were needed to reach this point were a
series of hardships that even made both Rorona and Jose to shed
tears.

There were even casualties from explosive incidents.

The time needed until the cannon could fire in succession stably like
this was countless.

Six men were in charge of one cannon. After the cannon finished
firing, they swiftly pulled the ropes and put in fire hook into the
barrel to clean the soot inside with smooth movement.

And then they inserted a bag that was stuffed with gunpowder into
the muzzle, and then it was covered with a cloth that looked like pot
stand. Then a man used a pole to stuff them deeper before they
finally inserted the cannon ball and then covered it with even more
cloth.

This was a countermeasure so that when the cannon barrel was

pointed below, the cannon ball inside wouldn’t roll out.

In addition the pedestal was moved with the principle of lever, then
they corrected the firing angle before the preparation for the second
shot was finished.

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The time to finish all those procedures was around 40 seconds. At
first they needed more than one minutes, but the time span had
been reduced till this much as the result of their training.

Smokeless gunpowder still hadn’t been developed. They were still

using black powder, so after firing there would be thick white smoke
puffing out, but their field of vision had barely recovered at this point
for the second shot.

「Begin the second shot!」

Explosive sounds roared thunderously. The cannon shells flew out, at

the same time white smoke blew out with terrifying speed and
blocked their sight.

Baldr and others who were observing it from some distance away
witnessed the cannon balls flying toward the target accurately.

「──Impact!」

A heavy impact sound and dust cloud rose together with the cannon
balls hitting.

There was no explosion. It was simply round iron balls crashing on

the ground. Baldr thought that the sound was more stifled than
expected and there was no showiness at all.

『──Ishibiya huh.』 (TN: Ancient type of cannon)

Sanai muttered with a deep interest inside Baldr.

Cannon was also brought to Japan in the Warring States era. It was
used as castle siege weapon at the winter campaign of the siege of
Osaka at 1614 CE. At that time a hundred and dozens of cannons
were used at the same time.

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Gamou Clan that Sanai served also possessed some number of
cannon──ishibiya. He had witnessed their destructive power several
times.

『As expected this cannon still can’t rival the modern era cannon……
』

If they had the cannon that was attached with recoil brake and
wheels that was developed since Napoleonic Wars to act as field
artillery, they would be able to do almost anything, but this
achievement couldn’t be cleared because of the problem in
metallurgy technology and precision cutting.

This cannon that finally became usable in battle was at the level of
cast iron cannon like in earth’s 15 century.
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『Are ye planning to attack Osaka Castle with this?』

Sanai was an excellent field battle commander, but in the first place
the thinking of using cannon in field battle didn’t exist.

Realistically, firing cannon with shell that inflicted damage using only
kinetic energy had very limited destructive power in field battle.

『Well, that’s the case on land.』

『Aa! Sea huh! On sea one only need to destroy the ship──』

『That’s how it is. Around this time Urraca must also be

experimenting joyfully with these cannons on sea.』

Cannon was only used for castle siege on land, but it had been
elevated as the god of the battlefield very early on sea.

Urraca was already staying on her ship nonstop in order to train on

increasing her proficiency with using cannon on sea.

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Baldr and others came to Toledo’s testing ground in the same time
with that.

「There’s also no problem with the toughness. The life span of the
cannon barrel is sufficient for a single sea battle.」

Jose spoke with a face that was filled with confidence.

The problem at the beginning of the cannon development was the

destruction of the cannon barrel by the gunpowder’s explosion and
increase in temperature.

Precision was sought in the materials of firearm, because of that the

scattering in the quality of the cannons couldn’t be reduced at all.

The cannon development took this much time starting from the
planning, experimenting, improving iron quality, improving the
precision of the manufacturing, until the mass production was
because of such reason.

Baldr thought that the cannon development could make it in time

today because of divine providence.

「I think Urraca will keep firing off her cannons until the limit of their
life span before going back. So let’s prepare the replacements for her
and head to Cadiz.」

「I’m really looking forward to this. This is why I can’t take off my
eyes at all from your majesty’s doing.」

The appearance of cannon would change the shape of sea battle.

The traditional boarding action was already in the process of

becoming obsolete due to the appearance of rocket arrow, but the
cannon this time would decisively bring that chance.

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Urraca who lived in the sea and in battle couldn’t possibly stay quiet
after being gifted with this kind of toy.

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Part 7
「You guys, if you still cannot hit it the next time, you know what’s
going to happen to you right?」

「Boss lady, no matter what hitting that boat is just impossible.」

「If you’re a crew of this La Mancha, then throw away the word
impossible to be shark food!」

Originally a cannon of this technological level should be fired after

approaching the enemy ship until they could see the opponent’s
face, so its accuracy couldn’t be said as good even as a flattery.

The cannon’s own recoil was already too strong, on top of that it was
put on the ship where there was always shaking.

Naturally the cannon didn’t have anything amazing like stabilizer to

improve its stability. Furthermore when in battle, an amateur
couldn’t possibly stay standing on a maneuvering ship.

Trying to hit a small target like a boat in such situation could only be
taken as an unreasonable demand.

「Hard Starboard!」

「Ma’am!」

「Fore top sail a back!」

「Ma’am!」

The ship’s speed rapidly dropped when the sail of the fore mast
caught the wind from the opposite direction.

However even though the ship was performing such abrupt braking,
there was almost no shaking at all. Even a cup that was full with

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water might not spill its content at all here. It was truly a masterful
performance of ship handling.

「──I think that I still won’t lose to you Ojou when it come to reading
the wind, but I’m already not your match anymore when it comes to
ship handling.」

It was an acrobatic ship handling that even made Urraca’s past rival
to lament in mortification.

The wheel was returned to the original position, and then the
moment La Mancha approached the distance of 200 meters at the
right of the boat, Urraca swung her right hand horizontally.

「FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!」

「Ma’am!」

La Mancha had four cannons equipped at each side.

That number was the limit for La Mancha that didn’t have a big
frame like a galleon.

Unfortunately La Mancha wasn’t a ship that was designed to be

installed with cannons on board.

Currently three galleons that were designed to be equipped with

cannons were being manufactured in Sanjuan Kingdom navy’s
factory. It was planned that one of them would become Urraca’s
flagship.

When four cannons fired at the same time, the white smoke that
they spouted off was a lot.

「Match the trim! Raise the speed!」

「Ma’am!」

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La Mancha smoothly sailed out from the curtain of white smoke.
Four water pillars visibly rose in front of it.

「Hit! Target hit!」

「Yosh!」

Urraca thrust her fist to the sky and made a guts pose.

Urraca was honestly happy, but Kailas and the captains of the other
ships were astonished.

The feat just now was a miracle that was only possible because
Urraca moved the ship like her own limbs and she was also
thoroughly aware of the habits and the working of all her crews.

If they were told to do the same thing, they had no confidence of

hitting a target that was further than 100 meters. If they were
honest, they wanted to close the distance until 50 meters first before
firing.

「The problem is how much time it takes until we can fire again.」

Unlike firing on the ground, the space on a ship was limited. To

perform the detailed works like clearing the smoke, cleaning the
soot, inserting the gunpowder, and many other procedures
smoothly, a lot of training was needed.

Even for the elite navy that was the pride of Majorca Kingdom, there
was no way they already had the specialist for the cannon that had
only just gotten used for the first time.

First they had to raise those personnel from scratch.

Urraca was trying to shorten that effort half forcefully through real
battle on sea.

But this was still insufficient.

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The new sea battle that she held as her ideal didn’t stop with just this
much.

「Second ship! Third ship! Follow the flagship in a single line

formation! Left attack ready!」

Even after achieving such godly feat, Urraca still didn’t plan to stop
and ordered her fleet to follow her in practicing cannon firing once
more. But Kailas and the others hurriedly stopped her.

「Wait! Please wait! The cannons are at their limit already! If they
explode it will take time to repair the ship!」

「Besides we have delayed too long from our schedule to return to

the port! If we don’t hurry back, the schedule of our departure will
be a mess!」

「Muu……」

Urraca still looked unsatisfied. And so the vice captain spoke the
magic words to convince her.

「Besides his majesty Baldr is going to arrive soon isn’t he?」

「──Yosh, let’s go back you guys!」

She wasn’t satisfied with her training result, but she had grasped
some degree of effective result.

In that case her reunion with her beloved Baldr had higher priority.
Wasn’t that only natural for a maiden?

「Mizzen spanker, whole out!」

「Ma’am!」

「Wait for me Baldr! I’m going back now!」

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Part 8
「Even so it’s huge huh……」

Baldr looked up and sighed in admiration once more seeing how big
it was.

Two huge ships were floating at the naval base of Cadiz Harbor.

Those ships that were transferred from Trystovy Kindom to Sanjuan

Kingdom had been improved drastically.

This ship couldn’t be expected to be maneuverable and fast from its

design, but it had been improved so that it could sail through open
sea to some extent.

「Well, a ship that only has size doesn’t have a lot of way it can be
useful, but it’s useful for this kind of time.」

Baldr handed this ship to Sanjuan Kingdom because he knew that.

This huge ship──Gigante that forced Baldr into a hard battle in the
past had become something indispensable for his strategy this time.

「The troops can’t be transported unless we use a ship this big after
all.」

Jose scratched his head while smiling wryly.

However inside he wanted to scream out his irrepressible

admiration.

Baldr’s plan that was making use of this Gigante was a landing
operation at the rear of Nedras Kingdom.

The plan was to transport 5000 beastmen and elite troops of

Trystovy Kingdom and disembarked at the port city Ninliver that was

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located at the west coast of Nedras Kingdom. When Jose heard this
plan, he even doubted Baldr’s sanity.

Until now, sometimes pirates would land at the coast and pillaged
nearby city and village, but there was no prior case of someone
carrying out a large scale landing operation.

A normal strategist absolutely wouldn’t get the idea of carrying out

such suicidal act.

After all sail battleship wasn’t suited to transport a great amount of

passengers. And if the ship sank then there would be no saving them.

The land army that had been raised by spending a lot of time and
money being annihilated on sea without being able to offer the
slightest resistance. No tactician would be unable to bear such thing.

In addition the navy force of each country was in balance with each
other. From the start there wasn’t any room to allow such landing
operation to succeed easily.

However that balance had crumbled.

A man at Jose’s level was unable to even perceive such reality. As

expected that was because he hadn’t ridden himself of the
traditional way of thinking.

Now that the navies of Trystovy Dukedom and Answerer Kingdom

had been repelled, the sea at the south of the continent had become
the backyard of Trystovy Kingdom and Sanjuan Kingdom.

In addition to that they had also managed to introduce cannon to be

installed on ship.

If they could successfully realize this large scale landing operation for
the first time in history, they would be able to tear apart the

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completely defenseless flank of Nedras Kingdom. The possibility of
them being able to recover from there was close to nonexistent.

Even if they tried to deal with this surprise attack, they would have
to show their back to the 30000 elite troops under the command of
Ramillies.

If Nedras Kingdom’s beastmen also threatened the country’s rear in

concert, it would be very doubtful whether the common soldiers
would be able to keep their morale high or not.

「Baldr~~♪」

「We have been waiting your majesty.」

「Sorry to make you wait Satsuki, Gitze.」

Satsuki hugged him energetically. Baldr hugged her back with a

broad smile.

Gitze had strongly wished to be the one leading the beastman unit
that would become the main force numerically for the landing
operation. Or rather, he just wouldn’t take no for an answer.

Satsuki would accompany Baldr as his bodyguard as well as reserve

corps commander.

「……We too can be slightly useful if there will be boarding action

though.」

Gitze frowned in disappointment.

He had also witnessed the cannons. And so he was aware that

boarding action would never happen anymore except in some special
cases.

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「After we disembark we will have to deal with the enemies by
ourselves. I’ll be counting on you for that, Gitze.」

「Yes your majesty! I shall offer my whole being for that.」

Gitze also understood that the mission this time would leave behind
a strategic impact in history.

The people of this world had no way of knowing, but what Baldr was
trying to do was the reproduction of Incheon landing operation that
was carried out by Douglas MacArthur.

Even though the mission was severely criticized as only having a

success rate of 0,02 percent due to the bad terrain of the landing
site, the mission was executed due to MacArthur’s unbending will
and achieved a success that was engraved in the military history.

This landing operation succeeded were due to the following reasons.

First the main force of North Korea army was held in place by the
final defense line of UN troops at Daegu.

North Korea would be able to win if they broke through Daegu and
exterminated the UN troops from Busan.

Because of that North Korea army concentrated their troops at the

frontline and strengthened their offensive.

The next reason was the fact that the landing was a completely
surprise attack.

It was said that the intensity of the high and low of Incheon Harbor’s
ebb and flow was number two in the world. When the tide pulled
back, the coast’s shoal would be completely covered by quagmire.

Because of that, the timing of the landing was only possible around
two hours during the spring tide.

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That was why even the North Korea army thought that landing to
this harbor would be completely impossible and didn’t guard it.

The top brass of America army predicted that the enemy had surely
spread out sea mines and assigned strict security there, but in reality
the place was completely empty.

The last, Incheon Harbor was relatively near to Seoul and main road
that was used for supply line.

And so when North Korea army had cornered the UN troops until
there was just one more step left, Seoul had been recaptured
without them even noticing it. The impact when they received such
report was especially powerful because there was nothing that they
could have done anymore at that point.

The North Korea army that had their supply line cut off by the
landing force ran out of supply. Due to that they also couldn’t
maintain their chain of command and they were annihilated.

The reason why this operation was highly praised even until the later
generation wasn’t simply because the strategy was amazing, but also
because it was an operation that put importance on psychological
impact to the enemy.

In that sense, this landing operation that Baldr would carry out at
Nedras Kingdom’s Ninliver could be said as having fulfilled those
three conditions.

The only remaining worry was──.

「The mission will definitely succeed if Hortnbeck Kingdom doesn’t

find us.」

Jose spoke that with a sigh.

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Answerer Kingdom navy was in the middle of reorganization right
now, so they hadn’t advanced as far until the sea at the south of the
continent.

The only sea force that could oppose Sanjuan Kingdom and Majorca
Kingdom’s combined fleet at Nedras Sea was only Horntbeck
Kingdom navy.

Mulberry’s fleet was currently patrolling the east of Orkney Sea as

diversion, but Jose thought that there was no way that Odysseus
would fail to notice.

He was a man who Urraca recognized as a formidable enemy.

Although it was very vexing to admit, but Urraca didn’t recognize

Jose as a rival.

Although Jose’s was Urraca’s superior in strategy, he was never able

to stand side by side with her as a sailor.

The only people who Urraca recognized as formidable enemy was

Kailas of Sanpaniradeon in the past and then currently it was
Odysseus of Horntbeck.

「This cannon is for that──well, it won’t be me doing anything

though. In the end it will all depend on Urraca.」

Baldr lifted his gaze. There La Mancha’s sails were starting to appear
from the other side of the horizon.

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Part 9
「I missed you! Baldr!」

Urraca got down from La Mancha and immediately hugged Baldr.

「Welcome back Urraca.」

The two of them weren’t embarrassed even though they were

hugging in front of many people. It could be said that the two of
them had obtained immunity of romance.

Satsuki pouted a little and pinched Baldr’s shirt. It was a cute

gesture.

「Have you managed to get proficient with the you-know-what?」

「No problem! Is what I want to say, but you will need someone at
my level or Kailas to operate it skillfully. That rocket arrow thing is
still easier to use.」

Rocket arrow was a primitive rocket. It was a weapon that relied on

quantity because it wasn’t expected to be accurate from the start.

Compared to that, the skill and manpower that were required to use
cannon were incomparably greater.

「──But」

Urraca paused and grinned fearlessly.

Her smile was filled with dreadful pressure that only super first class
genius had.

「The battle is going to change. There is no doubt──the specialized

battleship with that cannon will be the one to rule the sea from here
on.」

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Just like how Habsburg House’s invincible fleet ruled the
Mediterranean Sea in the past. Or just like how Francis Drake
destroyed Spain’s invincible fleet at Calais Sea.

The navy that could handle this cannon skillfully would dominate the
sea of this continent for the first time in history.

「To be honest, I also feel somewhat lonely.」

At the same time it would also mark the end of the sea close range
combat using boarding action or arrows.

And yet Urraca didn’t have the slightest thought of wanting to cling
on the pleasant traditional battle.

A good ship with better operability, a good ship with better

seaworthiness, a good ship with better speed.

By nature sailors were greedy in absorbing knowledge.

Even in a clear weather that looked tranquil, the sea was always a
place where they were side by side with death.

For them who considered the sea as their final abode, they wouldn’t
allow any easygoing compromise.

「Do you think that Horntbeck will show up?」

Baldr asked Urraca about his biggest worry.

「If we’re lucky──no, if we’re unlucky we’re going to meet them. The
sea is really vast. But mysteriously people are fated to encounter the
opponent that they have to fight on it.」

Urraca blinked happily. Her eyes were saying that they would
definitely end up fighting Odysseus.

「More importantly, Baldr.」

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Urraca had something that she wanted to say all this time. Although
embarrassed, she whispered those words into Baldr’s ear.

「Today is my turn. Isn’t that right?」

As expected, Urraca yielded the turns to the newly wed Silk and
others right after the wedding ceremony.

However Urraca wasn’t so softhearted that she would let go of the

chance that finally came to her.

Urraca grinned like a fierce predator while breathing roughly from

her nose. Satsuki turned a pitying gaze toward her as though she was
looking at a pitiful lamb that was being targeted by a wolf.

Aa, even though that lamb is so purely looking forward to have fun,
it’s going to be deliciously eaten on the dining table tonight.

「Being a woman is joyous but also painful nya.」

She had polished her skin to be as beautiful as a gem just for this
night. In addition there was the transparent satin slip that was
ordered from the southern continent.

Urraca who had never allowed anyone to share her bed until now
was sweating damply from her skin in nervousness.

Urraca who was dressed in her battle outfit gulped with her chest
swelling up from excitement.

Just how much she had waited eagerly for this day to arrive?

Even among Baldr’s wives, she had a body proportion that could
contend for the first or second place. In addition she had the
conviction that her body that had been trained in many battles
wouldn’t lose against anyone.

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What was left was to use the killer technique that had been passed
down in Majorca royal family for generations that Maria taught her.
With that she would make the holy sword between Baldr’s legs to be
putty toward her!

In order to protect the person’s honor, it had to be said that Maria

had properly and seriously instructed Urraca about the bedroom
manners.

It was the compassion of a stand-in big sister so that Urraca wouldn’t

be traumatized by her first time.

It was another question whether her teaching would work against

Baldr or not.

「B-Baldr……!」

Although, Urraca was someone with determined spirit by nature. She

was unable to follow Maria’s teaching to obediently submit her body
to a man.

Anything she wanted, she would take. Strength was justice.

Following that rule of the sea, Urraca’s kiss was like a devouring
beast, then she forcefully pushed Baldr down.

「Even though I was thinking to treat you like a lady for tonight」

「Unfortunately I’m feeling like becoming the hunter tonight.」

Urraca who didn’t want to hand over the initiative didn’t know.

That Baldr right now had finished transforming into the second
generation of stallion who could toy with Silk, Rachel, Agatha,
Satsuki, Seyruun, and Selina to his heart’s content. He could even
take on two of them at the same time and brought them to heaven.

「Then, that means I also won’t hold back.」

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「──Eh?」

Before Urraca could ask back, it felt like her up and down sensation
was overturned. When she noticed Baldr was bending over her.

At the same time he sweetly nibbled on her earlobe. A sweet voice

that even she herself had never heard before was slipping out
coquettishly.

「Wa-, wait a second Baldr, wait!」

「I’m sorry. I thought that I should at least be gentle at first but……

」

He couldn’t hold back anymore. Because, you know? He had also got
awakened to gap moe due to Agatha, so, see?

「You are making a really evil face you know? A-as I thought I want
my first time to be gentle……」

「I’ll be gentle (in the standard of a stallion).」

「Right……right?」

The pitiful lamb was deliciously devoured until the morning of the
next day.

「Urraca……I think it’ll be better if you don’t force yourself too much
nya.」

「T-this is nothing for me! It’s nothing at all! ……Kuh, that damn
beast.」

Urraca clearly shouldn’t stand with the way her legs were trembling
so unsteadily. She was absolutely not in a state to take command on
the ship. That fact was clear in everyone’s eyes.

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「Baldr! This is your fault! So hold me up for the whole day!」

「……Sorry for overdoing it.」

Supported by Baldr, Urraca somehow finished loading the landing

force into the ships and organizing the fleet. It was said that night
she slept like the dead and wouldn’t wake up at all.

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Part 10
「──Curious.」

Recently the fleet under the command of Trystovy’s Admiral

Barbarino would approach until the very limit of their territory.

Thanks to that the merchants screaming pleading reached Odysseus.

「I heard that Trystovy Kingdom is finally invading to Nedras

Kingdom. Is this because of that?」

Odysseus shook his head at the words of the crown prince

Eustachius.

「Their border with Nedras Kingdom is inland, so there isn’t any

need for them to move their fleet like this. After all we don’t have
the strength to go as far as deep into Marmara Sea to disrupt the
trade there.」

Certainly Horntbeck Kingdom was opposing Trystovy alliance

together with Answerer Kingdom.

However it was sad. They were the same like Majorca Kingdom, they
were a small country that had nothing other than their navy.

They were attacking the merchant ships of Trystoyv and Sanjuan as

harassment, but the enemy’s financial strength wasn’t so weak that
their attacks had affected anything significantly.

「Then are they perhaps going to attack from the sea too other than
from the land?」

「……In that case there won’t be any need to use Admiral Barbarino
as bait. After all their side clearly has stronger force. Even for us
facing the combined fleet of three countries head on is impossible
you know?」

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The opponent already had Urraca. If it also became a large scale fleet
battle on top of that, Jose’s commanding ability was also hard to be
overlooked.

There was no reason why the enemy had to use novel tactic. That
was Odysseus’s opinion.

Even without taking that into consideration, Admiral Barbarino who

was a leader of Mulberry had high political value. He wasn’t
someone to be used as bait carelessly.

「There is a saying that a large army has no need of tactics. Though

if the opponent is Admiral Jose we still have to be careful against
what’s going on behind the scene I guess.」

「──No, it’s just my instinct but, this strategy is most likely not from
Admiral Jose. I’m smelling the scent of King Baldr from it.」

「What kind of scent is it?」

「Admiral Jose is a resourceful general, but he is the type to form a

new idea based on his experience. You can say that he is combining
the existing tactics into something more advanced. But King Baldr is
different.」

Odysseus was making an eerie face as though he had seen a ghost at

daytime.

「The idea of that person is really out there. You can’t understand
how he was able to reach such idea. He draw tactic as though he is
drawing out something from nothing.」

「So you want to say that such scent is coming off from this
situation?」

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「Yes. But with the level of my talent, I can’t even guess what kind of
idea King Baldr has gotten this time.」

「I think no one will be able to understand if even you with your

talent can’t──」

Eustachius suddenly placed his jaw on his right palm and fell into
thought. It felt like he was dragging out something from a memory of
the long past.

Odysseus had seen it several times how his lord possessed such
animalistic instinct.

「──Do you recall something?」

「Aa, no, it’s impossible. It’s just my wild delusion. Even I don’t know
why I’m thinking something like this.」

「Don’t put on airs, spit it out already.」

「You shithead, you are too lacking in manner toward your lord, you
hidden sadist!」

「Who are you calling hidden sadist huh?」

Even before this, many times Eustachius’s instinct had proven to be

true in the end no matter how wild it sounded at the beginning.

Odysseus didn’t recognize any need of being well mannered toward

this guy.

Although he was able to act like this because their relationship had
really deviated from being a mere lord and servant. They were more
like friends with bad influence on each other.

「Do you remember when we were still kid, we often played war
game Malchili Island to occupy each other’s base?」

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「Yes, I remember. Your highness has already worked me like a slave
since that time──ah!」

Odysseus recalled his old memory and he suddenly let out a short
yell.

「We brought a boat to the island and circled around to behind the
opponent.」

In this war game, each side had several obstacles to pass through
where at the end the one who stole the flag at the opponent’s base
would be the winner. It was a mock battle.

Ignoring the obstacles and circling to the back of the opponent was
considered as a breach of rule. Eustachius and Odysseus never tried
that tactic anymore since then.

「No no, there is no way they are trying the same thing here! Filling
your ships with land soldiers who are useless on sea and sailing them
through a sea that you don’t have a full control over is just a childish
delusion that you absolutely mustn’t do!」

Eustachius’s opinion was undoubtedly the common reaction.

The risk of such strategy was too big. It was like betting the lives of
the nation’s precious soldiers in a roulette game where the bet was
staked on the ball landing on number 0.

It was a strategy that no statesman would choose no matter what.

「Just now, I said that his majesty Baldr’s thinking is really out there
didn’t I?」

「No, even if you say that, you know……」

If Sanjuan Kingdom and Majorca Kingdom’s combined fleet act as

their guard and Trystovy Kingdom’s Mulberry fleet is running around

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doing hit and run……don’t you think that this strategy actually isn’t
that reckless?」

「This is bad if that is really true you know? Everyone’s eye is

focused at the border right now. In addition, right now that country
is holding a snake in their bosom called the Phantom Lagunitas.」

「If King Baldr is planning to work in concert with that guy, they can
finish off Nedras Kingdom even with few soldiers. Perhaps he won’t
even need ten thousands?」

「Oi oi, somehow this crazy idea sound really plausible now.」

「I have no more doubt. Their aim Is landing on Nedras Kingdom

through sea. If they manage to land and take down the capital, it’ll
be over for Nedras Kingdom.」

What Odysseus said could be understood.

Eustachius believed from his heart that Odysseus was an ingenious

tactician.

Even so, he still found it hard to accept the explanation.

「If they’re really doing that──that means they are really looking
down on us huh.」

In other words the enemy was saying that the navy of Horntbeck
Kingdom wasn’t a threat at all to them.

They were thought as not having enough strength to prevent

Trystovy from transporting their soldiers with ship and arrived at
Nedras Kingdom safely.

「This is an unforgivable humiliation. Is our country really that

unreliable? That we don’t even have the fang to finish them off?」

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Even if they were just a small country, there was still a line that they
couldn’t allow other country to cross.

That was being underestimated. It would be over for them if they got
underestimated.

If other country thought that they would just run home crying to
sleep after getting punched, a small country like them wouldn’t be
able to maintain an equal relationship with other country anymore.

The survival tactic of a small country was to display that although

small, they still possessed a deadly fang.

It was only natural for Eustachius to be furious.

If they allowed the enemy to land on Nedras Kingdom without doing

anything, Horntbeck Kingdom’s influence over Orkney Sea would
also decline. Most of all there was a possibility that Answerer
Kingdom would throw them away.

They didn’t have the option of sitting quietly and allowed the enemy
to reach land. Their pride as a small country that had kept their
independence even against major country wouldn’t allow it.

「Well, they are free to think whatever they want. After all we don’t
have any obligation to let everything goes as they want.」

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Part 11
Three days had passed since Trystovy Kingdom army showed up at
the border.

Unbelievably, what they did since then was to construct an open

battle encampment.

After mobilizing 30000 soldiers, they instead began to prepare for a

war of attrition without getting into even a single battle first. As
expected even Vladimir was taken by surprise from this.

「──Those guys! What are they coming here for!?」

It couldn’t be helped that Vladimir was getting deeply impatient.

Nobody had ever questioned that Trystovy Kingdom would be the

attacker while Nedras Kingdom would be the defender.

Trystovy Kingdom’s reason to go as far as crossing this Dyatlov

Mountain Range and stepped into the territory of Nedras Kingdom
was to rule this country, or at least defeating the hostile force here in
order to draw out favorable conditions in the peace treaty. That
should be the case shouldn’t it?

If not for that, why would they come here with 30000 soldiers that
surely consumed vast amount of expense to mobilize?

The irritation from the incomprehensible action of the enemy was

growing inside General Vladimir toward Trystovy Kingdom army.

「Should we take initiative from our end to attack?」

It would also be troubling if they just quietly allowed the enemy to

strengthen their encampment.

It was only natural for the adjutant Chernenko to give such counsel.

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「Send the scouts to gather information first. But……if they really
won’t move from there, then there won’t be another way.」

And yet launching an attack with all their strength also had its own
problem.

Their side had already made all the preparations to obtain certain
victory as the defender. They had even prepared ambush troops and
reinforcements. To cancel off all those preparations and rearrange
the troops to move into the attack would waste time. On top of that
there was also a high chance the enemy would detect their action.

Also he still wanted to keep it a secret how many holy relics the
church had provided to them, at least until the time for a decisive
battle against Trystovy arrived for real.

In other words, even if he wanted to probe the enemy to observe

their reaction, he would have to do it with very few soldiers.

「Dammit! Who would have thought that they will do something like
this?」

He thought that he had won the moment Trystovy Kingdom decided

to dispatch soldiers.

In order to win he had ordered the road to be serviced and he had

also built defensive bases that would be hard for the enemy to
attack.

In addition there were also reinforcements from his home country

and the church. He thought that what was left was only at how
brilliantly he could win and how much damage he could reduce.

The rule that the attackers needed three times the number of the
defenders had never changed no matter the era.

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It was the natural flow for Vladimir to be convinced of his victory by
the point he managed to obtain greater number of soldiers, better
terrain, and better weapon than the enemy.

「……It’s unthinkable that they are wishing for a protracted battle in

the enemy’s territory without any reason at all. Just what is it? What
is the aim of that beastman king?」

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Part 12
After going down the valley from Dyatlov Mountain Range, there was
a hill with slightly opened area. There Trystovy Kingdom army was
diligently working to construct field battle encampment.

「Don’t dig straight! Dig in a zigzag! After that dig a slightly deeper
pit!」

「Don’t forget ot fasten the barbed wire around the abates! Listen
well you all! Work like you are going to die now if you want to
survive later!」

Gerhart and Barnard were urging their subordinates to work

vigorously. They had finished constructing more than half of the solid
encampment.

It was predicted that this time the opponent would also use firearms
like grenade or rocket arrow, so the fitness of the encampment
would affect their survival.

「Will they come?」

Brooks asked Ramillies.

He was asking whether the enemy would come attacking if they

continued to wait like this.

「At the very least they will come to probe our reaction. They have
even called for reinforcements. They will lose face if in the end they
can only report to their superior that nothing has happened.」

Ramillies laughed sadistically.

The strategy that Vladimir chose and his thoroughness in carrying it

out had come back to corner him instead.

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Strongly ambitious personality also wasn’t suitable for a war of
attrition.

No matter what, Vladimir would never accept being seen as a passive

and incompetent general.

Because of that, he definitely would try to move the situation and

grasp the initiative without any care of how many soldiers he had to
sacrifice.

No matter how brilliant someone was, no, exactly because that

person was brilliant that reading how they thought was a child’s play
for Ramillies.

Rather a muscle brained idiot would be a harder opponent to predict

in this situation.

「The prey won’t come even after setting the trap. Then they will
surely want to corner the prey into the trap. That is the way of
thinking of hunter. The problem is even animal has intelligence that
won’t lost to human.」

Ramillies’s guess was right on the money.

The next morning, a squad of Answerer Kingdom army hid under the
cover of morning mist to close the distance and began attacking the
incomplete encampment.

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Part 13
「Is that a moat? No, then why are there soldiers inside?」

In this world where gun still hadn’t spread, the concept of trench
itself didn’t exist.

Regarding moat, the technology like druggist’s mortar moat or lattice

moat was developing together with the demarcation of castle using
moat.

That was why people of this world could understand the usage of
moat and mud wall in battle encampment, but they couldn’t
understand the reason of putting soldiers inside the moat.

「Are they trying to conceal their number from us?」

A strategy of hiding the number of soldier from the enemy was very
likely.

If that was their purpose, then what could be the objective of that?
Vladimir thought about it and he was astonished.

Perhaps the enemy was planning to hold back their main force here
while a part of their force was sent to assault the pope territory?

「If we don’t confirm it……」

If he just stayed quietly here and later on he got a report like the
pope territory had been attacked and fallen to the enemy, that
would be really horrible to him.

Or rather, if he was unlucky than the church’s volunteer army that

had come as their reinforcement might pull back here.

First he had to probe the attitude of Trystovy Kingdom army.

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「Our side will have to attack quite seriously in order to gauge the
seriousness of the enemy.」

「──They’re coming!」

The captain of the spearman unit who was observing the front from
stair shaped trench informed that Answerer Kingdom army’s
advance had begun.

「Archers! Prepare for long distance volley!」

There were several categories of bow shooting.

The long distance shooting to rain down arrows on enemy from far
distance by shooting with a curving trajectory, straight shooting by
shooting arrows straight toward the targets, and horizontal shooting
to fire arrows to snipe the designated target.

The archers behind the trench were protected by the spearmen.

With a single order from their group leader, they simultaneously shot
their arrows toward the sky to reach maximum range.

「──RAISE YOUR SHIELDDDDD!」

The infantries raised round shields above their heads. They only
protected their vital spots while leaving it to luck so that the arrows
wouldn’t hit anywhere else. Then they began to charge.

The arrows’ hit rate wasn’t that high. They wouldn’t lose their life as
long as the arrow didn’t hit vital spots like their head or heart.

Even so that didn’t mean the infantries didn’t feel any fear. The
soldiers were raising war cries and ran forward exactly because they
were trying to forget their fear.

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Entrusting their body to their fighting instinct was the most effective
method to forget their fear.

「──Relic corps, forward!」

From the third row of the infantry unit, a group with equipments
that were clearly different from the rest stepped forward.

The moment they saw the cylinders in the hands of that group,
tension ran through the defensive encampment of Trystovy Kingdom
army.

That thing was reassuring when it was used by ally. It was none other
than the grenade that in the past was only possessed by Baldr.

「Archers! Begin horizontal shooting! Spearmen retreat!」

「HURRRYYYYYYYYY!」

At the same time when the command was given, the spearmen slid
into the cover of the trench that was dug with reverse V shape.

──And then explosion.

「Now! CHARGEEEEEEEEEE!」

The enemy encampment was enveloped with thick white smoke.

Answerer Kingdom army cheered loudly.

The explosion was that big.

The power and terror that explosion brought were something that
the infantries knew very well from training.

Even more than the power, the thunderous sound and the
shockwave also had great effect in tearing asunder the chain of
command.

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They knew that the enemy was also in possession of such weapon, so
while the field of vision was still blocked by the white smoke, the
infantries closed the distance to bring the battle into melee and
trample the enemy soldiers.

They had almost succeeded. The enemy was weaker than they
thought. Just as the infantries had even harbored such optimistic
impression,

「Crossbow, fire!」

Grenades were fired one after another from the enemy’s crossbows.
The grenades landed slightly behind the infantries.

In addition the spearmen who should be in chaos from the explosion

had lined up their spear tips and calmly intercepted the charge.

No, at several spots the spearmen had circled to the side from the
protruding spots and when they realized it the vanguard unit had
been half encircled.

They couldn’t comprehend just what in the world was going on. That
blank in their mind was a fatal waste of time.

The fired grenades and the volley of long distance arrows separated
the vanguard unit from the rear unit. Before they could rally
themselves, Trystovy Kingdom army launched a counterattack.

「CRUSH THEEEEEMM!」

Gerhard’s thick voice roared his order. Following that the spearmen
raised their spears overhead before swinging them down toward the
ground.

「Gahah!」

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Nearly thirty percent of Answerer’s soldiers were defeated in the
blink of eye.

Their wounds weren’t fatal by any means, but their bones would
break if the spear hit a bad spot, and even if the damage wasn’t that
bad, they still had received a considerable blow.

In this Aurelia Continent, spear was a weapon for thrusting, but

when it came to the Japan spearmen of the Warring States era,
hitting from above was the main method of attack.

A thrust was an attack to a single point, but a swing attacked through

a line. Besides if an enemy managed to leap to the bosom of a
spearman, that spearman would be out, so a way of attack that was
hard to avoid would be desirable.

This peculiar technique was popularized in the Warring States era of

Japan because of such demand.

Answerer Kingdom soldiers who never experienced such attack fell

into chaos.

「Don’t falter! The wound is shallow!」

「H-how can they still counterattack like this after getting hit by such
explosion!」

The situation that was completely different than what they expected
made the soldiers spat out their anger toward the unreasonableness.

The killing range of a grenade was around ten meters. That was the
limit when using the black powder before the high performance
gunpowder was invented.

Fundamentally a grenade’s main attack method was by scattering

sharp fragments from the explosion, so the explosive wave from
explosion was nothing more than a side effect.

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Because of that compared to gun, no, even compared to bow and
arrow, grenade was inferior when it come to piercing power and
destructive power.

In other words as long as one could hide behind an adequate cover,

they would get through explosion without receiving that much
damage.

The trench that was developed in the first World War in order to
protect flesh and blood soldiers from the threat of grenade and
howitzer in this way. It was different from something like foxhole
that the Japanese army used as personal cover. A trench was
calculated to be systematic and it was even provided with drainage
for maintaining hygiene. It had evolved until before long it became
something like a kind of an art of warm but that was another story.

Either way, the knowledge of trench that Masaharu taught to Baldr

had completely accomplished the function that was expected from it.

「Finish them off before enemy reinforcement arrive from behind

them.」

「Leave it to me!」

Brooks happily accepted Ramillies’s order.

And then he got on his horse in the blink of eye. Then he shot out
like an arrow from the sortie point that was set up between
trenches──in the Warring States era such spot was called “horse
exit”──while leading a hundred cavalry.

「Trample them!」

A normal horse would have a high probability of tumbling if it

stepped on a human, but a trained warhorse wouldn’t tumble down
that easily.

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That was even more the case when the rider was experienced in
riding a horse through the battlefield.

Conversely speaking, the reach of the weapon that was carried by a

cavalryman had poor reach, so to compensate for that they would
make use of the horse’s speed and trampling.

The advance unit of Answerer Kingdom was met by the spearmen’s

pressure from the front, while they got trampled from the flank by
the cavalry. And so they were annihilated in the short time of several
minutes.

It was a quick work that didn’t allow Vladimir to send out his reserve
force.

「W-what’s with that strength……」

Perhaps he had accomplished his first objective of gauging the

enemy’s strength.

That encampment was the real thing that was designed for a war of
attrition. If he carelessly tried something to it, he wouldn’t get away
with just a little burn. He fully understood that from what just
happened.

Vladimir was given the permission to use the relics because he had
pleaded to his superior that it was necessary to obtain victory in the
beginning of the hostilities to give a present to the homeland.

Not only those relics failed to provide any result, it blocked his
soldiers’ field of vision and obstructed their tactical action instead.
Such thing was completely outside the scope of his imagination.

If the enemy used a lot of grenades toward his force, he didn’t have
the confidence that he would be able to take the same
countermeasure.

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He never even imagined that the relics would have that kind of
weakness.

His focus was completely stolen by the convenience and the

destructive power of the relics that he could only see the good for
him and not the bad.

「Tell the soldiers to retreat. They will only die pointlessly at this
rate.」

Vladimir gave his order to his adjutant Chernenko and bit his lip in
frustration.

The enemy’s defense was really solid.

However he also just couldn’t leave them alone.

Carelessly leaving an army of 30000 to do as they pleased was an act

that was surpassed the limit of what was militarily permitted.

However from the start Vladimir had made all his planning in order
to defend against enemy attack. He hadn’t prepared anything in
order to break through the hardened defense of Trystovy Kingdrom
army.

「What a filthy method……but, what will they get from doing

something like this?」

It was obvious, but it was Trystovy Kingdom army who was in an

overwhelming disadvantage here in regard to supply line because
their distance from their homeland was far farther compared to
Vladimir’s army.

Furthermore it was difficult to cross Dyatlov Mountain Range while

also transporting supply. They had to pay a considerable amount of
expense for that.

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In other words, it was troublesome and also expensive. Any decent
strategist wouldn’t pick this plan.

「──Are they going to attack pope territory just as I thought? Or

that’s what they’re pretending to do and then they will resume their
invasion here when King Baldr arrive? Either way, does they really
have a plan that can justify letting 30000 soldiers lying idle like this?
」

The amount of food and water that 30000 soldiers needed, along
with the fodder for the war horses were immense. That was why
Vladimir knowingly placed a very large burden on the people of
Nedras Kingdom in order to maintain his army.

Did Trystovy Kingdom had the leeway to waste resources like that
even though they had only just finished with the long civil war in
their country?

This wasn’t something that Vladimir knew, but in regard to food,

Trystovy Kingdom had prepared an amount of food that could feed
an army of 30000 for half a year.

The possibility of Trystovy Kingdom getting hungry was already

extremely low.

If Vladimir chose to apply starvation tactics, Trystovy Kingdom

wouldn’t lose no matter how much time passed.

Vladimir who didn’t know about that at the slightest was mentally
tormented thinking what kind of tactic Trystovy Kingdom army was
adopting.

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Part 14
「Then, spread the rumors that his majesty Baldr is heading to
invade the pope territory and another rumor that his majesty is
going to invade Grand Duchy Tenedora.」

「You are a demon aren’t you, general.」

General Ramillies who had obtained victory at the beginning of the

hostilities didn’t let his guard down. Instead he was fully motivated
to deal even more blow to the enemy.

「There is no lack of merchants who will cooperate with us to spread

the rumors. Let’s also ask them to maneuver so that Vladimir will be
hounded to take responsibility.」

「Good grief, his majesty himself is a really outrageous person, but

General Ramillies is also really bad yourself.」

If it was Brooks, he would be unable to scheme against the enemy

until this far.

「──We can also buy up all the wheat and say that it’s Answerer
Kingdom’s fault.」

「We can also spread rumor that Nedras Kingdom’s royal court has
switched side.」

Gerhart and Barnard were also fully on board with Ramillies’s plan
without looking flustered at all. Brooks let out a deep sigh seeing
that.

「You two are definitely this general’s pupils.」

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Part 15
「……Looks like things might become a bit rough huh.」

「Why are you looking that happy nya?」

The weather turning bad at sea was a disaster that should be

avoided as much as possible.

And yet Urraca looked like she was looking forward to it. Satsuki
didn’t understand why.

「That’s because the stormy sea is none other than the stage for a
sailor to show off their skill.」

The average sailors would fold their ship’s sails and dropped the
anchor when the sea turned stormy. There was nothing they could
do other than waiting for the storm to pass. However Urraca and her
men were sailing the ship through such weather with high spirits
instead.

That was because for them this was the perfect chance to test how
far their skill could bring them to endure the mother nature.

There was a saying, that rashness was objective and impossibility

was subjective.

Urraca and her men were extremely reckless but they wouldn’t try to
do something impossible at all. They were the type of people who
loved challenge.

「Increase the crews on the deck! Starboard easy.」

「Ma’am!」

「The win will quickly turn rough! Tie up yourself with the lifeline!」

「Ma’am!」

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「Tell all the ships behind us! Follow the flagship!」

「Boss lady! That’s impossible!」

Unusually, a flag signal that signified objection came from Kailas’s

ship toward Urraca.

It wouldn’t be any problem if they were doing this with just Majorca
Kingdom’s fleet.

But right now they were also accompanied by Sanjuan Kingdom fleet
with the mission of transporting Gigante safely to the destination.

No matter how Kailas thought about it, asking them to display the
same level of skill like Majorca Kingdom’s sailors was unreasonable.

「Dispatch our crews to the transport fleet too. They just need to
follow behind the flagship.」

「Even just following behind will be hard──」

Urraca was completely serious. She was seriously planning to sail

through this stormy weather with the whole fleet.

「Someone picked a fight me not long ago. I won’t let that guy say
that I can’t lead a pack because I’m a lone wolf.」

Urraca’s ship handling was genius.

However there was nobody who could keep up with her in that godly
domain. Odysseus was better than her in regard to leading a fleet.

It wasn’t like those two had ever exchanged words with each other,
but it was clear that Odysseus had such thought in his mind.

That wasn’t funny at all. Urraca didn’t intend to lose against anyone
in anything when it came to sea battle.

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「Port 20 degree!」

「20 degree, ma’am!」

「Mizzen spanker, whole out!」

「Ma’am!」

「Tell the helmsmen of all the ships, don’t fall behind!」

「Aye ma’am!」

The raindrops were starting to fall from the sky. Urraca glared up.
Her eyebrows frowned and her expression was grave, but for some
reason only her lips were smiling.

「Hard starboard!」

「Ma’am!」

Urraca weaved through the narrow gaps between the winds and
waves. She continued to sail under the stormy wind while leading the
fleet behind her.

Even for Kailas who once cornered Urraca in fleet battle until the
verge of defeat, he could only call Urraca’s command right now as
godly.

「Fuwah!」

「Oops!」

Baldr was staring silently at Urraca’s back. Satsuki lost her balance
and stumbled toward him. As expected a stallion was loved by love
trouble.

「T-thank you nya.」

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「Be careful okay? Even I won’t be able to safe you if you fall into
this stormy sea.」

「Yes……even the King’s Gate won’t be of any use here nya.」

Even beastman who possessed the King’s Gate that could be said as
the ultimate power was just a human who was powerless in front of
the immense raging sea.

Seeing Urraca confronting such sea made Satsuki honestly thought of

her as someone amazing.

She looked completely like a different person compared to the

woman yesterday who could only barely stand up with trembling
legs like a fresh born fawn.

「──Urraca is trying to evolve even further.」

She was trying to evolve as a fleet commander, to be an existence

that could control the navy like Admiral Jose. It was a secret that one
of the triggers for that was her climbing up the stair of adulthood.

「If the fleet can breakthrough this stormy sea, it will be really hard
for Horntbeck Kingdom fleet to intercept us. Even if it’s still not
completely impossible for them to stop us, at the very least they will
lose any chance for a redo.」

A battle where everything was decided in a single decisive battle was

actually rare.

Like shooting a dog that fell into water, usually the fleet that was at
the disadvantage would be attacked multiple times, and at the end
they would be pressed with the option of getting annihilated or
surrendering.

Transport ships that had lost their guards would be the same like a
feast that was lined up on the table.

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However if they could overcome this stormy weather and closed the
distance to Nedras Kingdom, Hornthbeck fleet would only have one
chance where they could attack this combined fleet.

If they failed their first attack, then the transport ships would land
first before they could begin their second attack.

If there was a prospect of victory from this, then it was valuable

enough to gamble on.

「The big one is coming! Fold the top sail! Port 10 degree!」

「Port 10 degree, ma’am!」

Urraca accurately read the wind and weaved through the waves as
though she had known of them beforehand. Before everyone
realized, their minds were already free from any useless thought and
they only waited for Urraca’s instruction.

They held not a single doubt to the instruction that was given to
them. They naturally believed that they would be alright if they
simply obeyed Urraca’s instruction.

There was no doubt that right at this moment the fleet was moving
like a single organism.

Even while everyone’s nerves were whittled down to the very limit,
the fleet finally sailed across the storm and arrived at the location 40
km away from the western coast of Nedras Kingdom.

「──To think that their whole fleet is sailing through inside that
storm……」

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Odysseus was struck with admiration when he received the report
from the scouting ship that he sent out how Urraca’s fleet appeared
almost at the final defensive line.

This situation was the worst among all the worst of his predictions.

Like this, he would have to defeat all the enemy ships including the
transport ships in just one sea battle.

Even if he managed to win against Urraca’s fleet, it would still be his

defeat if he allowed the troops to land.

A battle where they only needed to win and a battle where he had to
sink some specific ships had a completely different level of difficulty.

「I can’t just keep complaining here I guess. After all she has shown
how she sailed through that storm.」

That was why she was a worthy enemy to defeat.

This time for sure he would be able to settle everything with that
Tormenta Negra.

For Odysseus that was just what he wanted as a man.

「All ships, wheel a weatherhead to the upwind!」

「Sir!」

Sanjuan-Majorca combined fleet was superior in ship number.

However he would win against that fleet and annihilated the

transport fleet──Odysseus believed that he had made the
preparation in order to do that.

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Part 16
The sky had cleared up brightly. It was as though the storm last night
was just a lie.

It was a bad wind for Horntbeck fleet that wanted to take the
upwind.

「So they noticed just as expected.」

Urraca nodded happily when the lookout discovered Horntbeck fleet

showing up from beyond the horizon.

It would be a killjoy if they were simply allowed to reach the

destination without any incident.

Even so there was no changing the fact that this was the last defense
line. She felt like she could see the bitter face that Odysseus was
making right now.

If he was able to discover this fleet earlier, he would have a lot more
options to attack, like launching night attack, performing small scale
hit and run to harass the fleet, launching a strong assault that only
targeted the transport ships, etc.

But now he could only gamble everything in a single decisive battle.

「I’ll teach you that even a proud lone wolf won’t be able to win
against a pack of hunting dogs.」

It was just as Urraca imagined, Odysseus wasn’t hiding his bitter

expression.

And yet he didn’t feel even the slightest despair toward the situation.
Rather his fighting spirit was heightened further.

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Odysseus had never experienced defeat since he was entrusted with
a fleet of Horntbeck Kingdom navy.

The only time he ever felt something that was close to a sense of
defeat was when Urraca managed to narrowly get away from his
encirclement.

──Most of all, now that everyone believed that the combined fleet of
Sanjuan-Majorca was the strongest in the continent, being able to
challenge that strongest was a man’s dream.

「Approach them with the single line formation! Starboard easy.」

「Starboard easy, sir!」

Odysseus closed the distance with Urraca’s fleet. At the same time
he was aiming to assault the transport ships if things went well.

Of course Urraca also immediately saw through Odysseus’s aim and

moved to block his path.

Odysseus reacted to that and he also changed his path. He didn’t

give up trying to circle behind the enemy.

Naturally it became a competition of both fleets displaying their skill

in fleet maneuver to the limit.

「──I see, you’re certainly a genius!」

Even Odysseus was forced that Urraca possessed genius level of skill
in commanding a fleet.

No matter how much he tried to shake her off, Urraca would read
the wind and moved her fleet accurately to doggedly hound his fleet.
She didn’t show any opening that Odysseus could take advantage of.

The fleets had crossed path several times within the range that was
barely outside the reach of rocket arrow. Each side was changing

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their intention while squirming to occupy the advantageous attack
position.

It was like two snakes were trying to bit at the other’s tail.

「But, it’s sad. Genius is genius because nobody can imitate them.」

When around a hour had passed, even though Urraca’s La Mancha

could keep up with Odysseus, the ships behind it was noticeably
getting left behind. Especially the Sanjuan Kingdom fleet that wasn’t
the direct subordinate of Urraca. It was really hard for their ships to
coordinate with Urraca.

It wasn’t so bad when it came to Urraca’s comrades who had

constantly accompanied her in her voyage, but it was impossible for
the Sanjuan Kingdom fleet to be able to keep up with Urraca’s
transcendent maneuver after only accompanying her for a brief time.

「Now then, it’s just a bit more.」

With just a bit more, he would be able to drive a wedge between

Majorcan Kingdom fleet and Sanjuan Kingdom fleet.

Horntbeck Kingdom fleet was going to emerge as the victor of this

maneuvering battle.

Although both fleet hadn’t exchanged any attack, in reality this was a
war of nerves where both sides had devoted all the skills in their
possession.

「Match the trim! Accelerate!」

La Mancha swiftly accelerated so that the opponent couldn’t drive a

wedge into their side.

It showed that Urraca’s La Mancha had purposefully slowed down

until now in order to match the balance of the fleet.

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「I know you’ll do that. You will rely on your own skill at the very
end. You’re that kind of person.」

Odysseus had predicted Urraca’s response.

「Deploy the right wing! Left wing, Hard starboard!」

「Sir!」

The fleet that should act as the arrowhead to drive the wedge into
the enemy formation changed shape to cut off Urraca’s path of
escape.

It would be the end for the combined fleet if they lost their
commander Urraca.

He wasn’t underestimating Admiral Jose by any means, but that man

wasn’t the type of live battle commander.

If the maneuver battle grew to their disadvantage, Urraca would take

the lead in order to break the deadlock. Majorca Kingdom fleet had
cut through every difficult situation until now by doing that.

Odysseus’s prediction was splendidly right on the money. At the very

least Odysseus himself believed that.

「──Prepare to fire the rocket arrows! Don’t let your guard down!
Our opponent is the Tormenta Negra!」

「They’re not bad despite being the enemy.」

Urraca’s honest feeling came out without any anxiety or contempt to

the enemy.

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The enemy slipped between Majorca Kingdom fleet and Sanjuan
Kingdom fleet. In addition their right wing was half encircling
Majorca Kingdom fleet.

With the current wind direction, the ship couldn’t change direction
to the opposite side from the right wing.

It was a tactic of dividing the enemy and then crushing them one by
one with half encirclement.

It was the perfect fleet maneuver that made her wanted to write it
down into the strategy textbook. Urraca honestly admitted that she
was unable to prevent that with the current capability of her
combined fleet.

「Even so, you’re greatly mistaken if you think I haven’t foreseen

this.」

This battle was a battlefield that existed only for Urraca──a world
only for her that even Baldr couldn’t possibly imitate.

「Transfer the right of command to Admiral Jose!」

「Ma’am!」

「Port 20 degree, accelerate!」

「Ma’am!」

「Now, Odysseus, I invite you to the unknown world from here on.
」

Odysseus was astonished in the inside by La Mancha’s acceleration.

It was the fastest possible speed. Most likely it was an acceleration

that nobody else could possibly imitate.

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「Just what’s with that mast’s toughness……」

What produced the speed of La Mancha was undoubtedly its

conspicuously large mast and the multiple sails that were attached to
it.

If that many sails were opened, normally the mast wouldn’t be able
to endure the wind’s propulsive power and it should snap.

However he couldn’t just watch in admiration.

「First ship, second ship, prepare to fire the rocket arrows! Alter the
estimated range by 30 meters!」

No matter how godly Urraca’s ship handling was, it was still within
the realm of Odysseus’s prediction.

If the ship was within his predicted firing range, it was meaningless
how splendid the opponent’s ship handling skill was.

──He won.

Before the rocket arrows were fired, Odysseus’s eyes sawy the thick
white smoke that was rising from La Mancha along with a
thunderous sound.

「Fore mast top sail a back!」

「Ma’am!」

「Mizzen spanker whole in!」

「Ma’am!」

「Starboard volley! FIREEEEEEEEEE!」

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La Mancha kept its angle horizontal even while making a sharp turn.
For cannon balls were fired from it.

Their initial velocity was 80 meter/second. They were so slow that

even human’s naked eye could perceive them, but they changed the
history of sea battle right at this moment.

The kinetic energy that was bestowed to the 40 kilogram iron ball
was something unprecedented for this era. It easily smashed through
the ship’s side that was made from oak wood. A lot of seawater
flooded in.

To repeat, originally cannon was a weapon with low accuracy.

However it was different only when it came to La Mancha. Its crews

were able to hit a small boat that was several hundred meters away
with composed expressions.

A large ship for sailing through the open sea was simply a nice target
for them.

「Tacking!」

「Tacking! Ma’am!」

While the cannons at the starboard side were preparing for the next
volley, La Mancha was turning around to pint the cannons at its port
side.

Odysseus noticed their intention too late.

「All ships accelerate! Fire the rocket arrows as soon as we enter the
range!」

The rocket arrow’s advantage was having longer effective range than
the flamethrower that Urraca and the others hand, and yet they had

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lost that advantage at this moment. Now the only way to survival
was to close the distance.

──They got us!

It was truly a blunder. Even though his side had obtained the new
weapon that was rocket arrow, he failed to consider the possibility of
the enemy getting new weapon too.

Even so──Urraca’s La Mancha was too far ahead from the rest of the
fleet. The fact that this was a good chance to attack her hadn’t
changed.

Horntbeck fleet instantly changed formation to two lines formation

and took a course that would bring them to sandwich La Mancha
from left and right.

「Left attack ready, fire!」

「Sir!」

The moment the cannons fired, La Mancha made use of even the
recoil and veered with rapid braking.

Several of Horntbeck’s ships got hit by the cannon balls. Their speed
dropped rapidly and they were left behind from the formation.

However La Mancha’s speed was falling drastically after changing

direction so abruptly.

A ship’s speed would fall if the ship changed direction drastically

from its original direction. No matter how godly the skill the captain
and the crews had, it was still impossible to change the law of
physics.

「Match the trim! Capture Tormenta Negra!」

「──It’s too bad. You run out of time.」

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Before they realized it, the combined fleet that was led by Admiral
Jose was moving to cross in front of Horntbeck Kingdom fleet in a
single line formation.

In this positioning, it looked like Horntbeck Kingdom fleet that was

advancing in great speed was intentionally exposing their
defenseless flank.

The only ones who were able to accurately know what this meant
were only Urraca, Jose, and Masaharu.

『To think that I’ll be able to witness Crossing the T at other

world……』

It was a tactic that was impossible to do in the era of sailing ship

where the boarding tactic and collision tactic were the main. It was
impossible to even conceive the idea.

This tactic was also called as Tougou Turn because the tactic was
known to be used by Tougou Heihachirou, the commander in chief of
the imperial navy’s Rengo fleet in the Russo-Japanese War.

There was also the theory that this tactic was brought to fleet battle
to settle the dispute because it would be troubling if Baltic fleet was
allowed to escape to Vladivostok.

In this tactic, the fleet crossed in front of the enemy fleet to exert
pressure on them with the firepower at one side of the ships getting
focused to the head of the enemy. Like that the battle was continued
while maintaining the numerical superiority──.

What was terrifying here was that Masaharu never spoke of anything
about this tactic to anyone.

Urraca thought up of it by herself and told it to Jose. It was a flash of

inspiration by someone who was truly loved by the god of the sea.

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「──No good! Hard port!」

「Sir!」

Odysseus was late by an instant to detect the danger.

It couldn’t be helped. Even just noticing it was already the proof of

his intelligence.

「Target the leading ship. Then next is the second ship, begin firing!
」

Although their accuracy couldn’t be expected to be as good as the

snipers of La Mancha, number was power.

With a single order from Admiral Jose, nearly 80 cannon shells were
focused on Odysseus’s flagship and the second ship that were sailing
at the forefront.

Luckily Odyssus already turned direction before the volley started.

Odysseus just barely managed to escape outside the range of

bombardment. In exchange the second ship and third ship became
the victims of the cannon shells.

「To all ships, dodge at will!」

They would only become nice targets if the ships were lined up in
orderly formation.

The hit rate of the cannon shells dropped drastically when the ships
began dispersing and dodging by their own initiative.

Even so four more ships were sunk. Horntbeck Kingdom fleet that
was already inferior in number since the start had lost seven ships in
total when all of them converged back.

──Should we retreat?

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The appearance of the new weapon had shocked Odysseus so much
that he even felt that it couldn’t be helped if he retreated.

However if he retreated from here without any battle gain, the

position of Horntbeck Kingdom and his lord Eustachius would be put
in danger.

Answerer Kingdom and the church would stop sending aid, and his
country would be forced to surrender unconditionally to the
countries of Trystovy alliance.

If someone was asked to take responsibility for the war, the only
who could do that would be Eustachius who was in control of the
national policy.

「All ships, prepare for tacking!」

「Sir!」

However, they hadn’t lost all means to win.

He would give his all as long as there was a chance for victory. The
tradition of the navy of ‘unavoidable battle when discovering enemy’
had also taken root deeply in Horntbeck.

「──Ahead from here, the sea current will turn rough near the land.
Even Tormenta Negra shouldn’t be able to see through the sea
current of a sea that she has never sailed before.」

Yes, this place was the backyard of Horntbeck.

This wasn’t a place where they could allow outsider to throw their
weight around as they pleased.

「We will make use of the tide’s turning point and challenge them
into maneuvering battle once more! All ships, don’t get left behind!
」

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「Sir!」

「It’s unexpected that they still haven’t given up even after that.」

Admiral Jose was about to let go of his tension thinking that they had
won.

The range of the cannon was more than twice of the rocket arrow in
the enemy’s possession.

The rocket arrow was superior when it came to instantaneous

suppression with firepower, but range would be the most important
factor in sea battle from here on.

And then how many cannons could be crammed into a single ship
would greatly affect a country’s ability to control the sea.

The possibility was high that galleon class ship would also be born in
this world. And then it might evolve to frigate ship and then steam
battleship.

Most likely Odysseus had also realized that this was a turning point
of history.

That was why it was strange how he could still maintain his fighting
spirit like this.

「That’s cute. Then let’s have some more fun.」

On the other hand, Urraca understood what Odysseus was thinking

like the back of her own hand.

He still hadn’t given up on winning.

The movement of his ship eloquently told her that not all of his
chances of victory had been closed.

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「Right attack ready!」

「Ma’am!」

La Mancha advanced once more to give a blow at the nose of

Horntbeck Kingdom fleet. It was then,

「Starboard easy! Match the trim!」

「Sir!」

The sea current that had been flowing from east to west until now
suddenly changed into from east to south.

Horntbeck Kingdom fleet rapidly approached La Mancha as though

they had been waiting for that.

「No good! All ships full speed!」

It was a magnificent fleet maneuver that made even Admiral Jose

went pale.

This place was the enemy territory. Jose was made to painfully
realize that the geography advantage lied with the enemy.

At this rate the enemy ships would close the distance before they
could finish preparing to fire.

The cannon’s range was more than double of rocket arrow, but its
firing angle was narrow and it was difficult to aim until the ship was
in position to fire.

Cannon wasn’t something that could be fired easily just because the
enemy was already within range.

「Mizzen spanker whole in!」

「Ma’am!」

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「Starboard side ready!」

「Fire!」

The cannon shells that were fired from La Mancha hit and one more
ship sank.

However in exchange to that sacrifice, Odysseus finally succeeded in

catching Urraca within his firing range.

「All ships, prepare to fire all at once!」

If rocket arrows were fired until there was no gap at all to escape,
even Urraca wouldn’t be able to dodge it using her godly skill.

「Fore top sail a back!」

「Ma’am!」

「Open and change the jive!」

「Ma’am!」

「Hard starboard! Fore spanker whole in!」

「Ma’am!」

「Port side ready!」

「FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!」

La Mancha turned abruptly and showed its port side. Then its
cannons fired again.

With the distance between both forces had been closed, two ships
got hit by the cannon shells on their side and got seriously damaged.

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「All ships ready!」

「FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!」

The number of rocket arrows that were fired simultaneously from

Horntbeck side instantly crossed a thousand.

A rain of red flame was pouring on La Mancha within the dazzling

flashes.

It was truly an area suppression. A storm of rocket arrows that didn’t

show anywhere to escape to.

But──.

「Port twenty degree! All spankers whole in!」

「Ma’am!」

Urraca didn’t hesitate.

Even if it looked like an area suppression that left no place to escape

to, actually there were gaps in between although they were really
small. They were gaps that were made due to the two ships that had
gotten sunk just now being unable to fire their rocket arrows.

She would dodge this attack and fired the cannons once more to
create an opening.

By doing that, Jose’s fleet would be able to make it in time. After that
they would be free to choose whether to chase after Horntbeck or
letting them escaped.

The problem was whether she would be able to escape this attack
right now or not.

「Fore top sail a back!」

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「Ma’am!」

La Mancha glided smoothly to the position where it seemed there

would be a gap in the bombardment.

However rocket arrow from the start wasn’t a weapon with high
precision.

Several rocket arrows veered off from its original trajectory and
accidentally approach La Mancha.

「Hard Starboard!」

「Ma’am!」

「N-no good! It will hit!」

Three rocket arrows were in a collision course with La Mancha. Then

two of them just barely missed the ship.

Being able to protect La Mancha to this degree from the area

suppression of more than a thousand rocket arrows were already too
astonishing.

However for there was one attack that couldn’t be dodged was
already like the work of fate.

「All hands, brace for impact!」

Even while yelling that, Urraca held her head high and continued to
stand imposingly while glaring to the sea.

Urraca too still hadn’t given up on winning.

Was it impossible to dodge that rocket arrow? If it was impossible,

where should she allow it to hit so that La Mancha wouldn’t be
destroyed?

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There should be something that she could do.

It was then, *pon*, her head was gently patted. Urraca reflexively
looked behind her.

There the impudent face of Baldr──Sanai grinning fearlessly entered

her eyes. Her heart spontaneously skipped a beat.

『No worries, I wouldst wreck it up.』

Actually Sanai had taken quiet a liking to Urraca.

「IT’S HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! So lovely! Embrace me Baldr!」

「Just what are you talking about nya.」

Satsuki was exasperated. But Urraca paid her no mind at all. She was
only barely able to suppress her feeling of wanting to hug Baldr and
be pampered by him right now.

Baldr stood like a withered great tree that was towering toward the
sky. Urraca recalled once more the moment when she fell in love
with Baldr for the first time.

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『──Hmph!』

Sanai threw the spear he was holding with all his strength.

The spear accelerated with King’s Gate power. It accurately hit the
tip of the rocket arrow and a crimson flower bloomed brilliantly in
the sky.

「S-such thing? Is that really possible……」

For Odysseus, what happened was really unreasonable.

Urraca’s talent, the cannon’s appearance, there were so many

unreasonable things coming out, but now he felt like he was being
shown the most unreasonable thing of them all today.

Even though he almost succeeded in landing a blow that would allow

him to recover from this hopeless situation, a human SAM (anti air
missile) suddenly came out and turned all his effort in vain. It
couldn’t be helped that he was feeling like this.

「Enemy fleet approaching!」

The fleet that was led by Jose was finally going to catch Horntbeck
Kingdom fleet within its firing range.

La Mancha was also turning around. That ship looked like it hadn’t
lost its will to fight.

His side should also still have the chance to sink down Urraca’s La
Mancha.

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However his ships had been reduced further and he allowed Admiral
Jose to gain the initiative. It was already impossible to make a
comeback at this point.

Even if he retreated, Urraca surely wouldn’t allow it quietly.

His decision to ride the sea current to charge forward had backfired
to himself. He wasn’t able to withdraw anymore.

The enemy would catch up with him and even more of his ships
would be sunk. If he was unlucky he would lose most of his ships.

Right now he was unable to face Urraca and Jose head on with his
inferior number.

There was also the choice of fighting to the end while taking down as
many enemies as possible with them, but it would be pointless if
they couldn’t stop the landing operation itself.

「──Sorry Eustachius. This is as far as I can go.」

Odysseus’s vice commander was looking at him in disbelief and

bewilderment hearing his words.

「I’ll persevere till death if there is a chance of victory no matter

how small, but my dignity won’t allow to let my fellow countrymen
to die in vain for a hopeless battle. Raise the white flag.」

The white flag was flapping at Odysseus’s flagship.

Urraca immediately gave the order.

「Halt the bombardment!」

「Ma’am!」

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「Keep aiming the cannons at them. Midship.」

「Ma’am!」

「Anchor let go, prepare the fastening rope!」

La Mancha rapidly decelerated and came alongside Odysseus’s

flagship that was raising the white flag.

The opponent that had been in a fierce battle with them just now
was on this ship.

「We’re already here, so let’s go take a look at this guy’s face.」

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Part 17
The man was younger and bigger than he expected.

That was the honest impression that Odysseus held when he saw
Baldr for the first time.

Urraca was puffing up her chest with a smug face as though it was
herself who was being admired. She looked even more adorable like
that.

「It’s an honor to be in your presence, your majesty Baldr.」

「You sir have fought splendidly. Your resolution even when in the
verge of defeat is also worthy of admiration. His highness Eustachius
is blessed with a very capable retainer.」

「Those words are wasted on this humble self.」

He felt happy that the hero of this era was holding him in high
regard, but he was the loser here. He couldn’t possibly accept the
praise honestly.

「We shall confiscate all the relics of the church. Are you going to
cooperate with that?」

「By your will.」

Odysseus handed the rocket arrows that were still remaining in quite
the amount to Baldr. This was effectively the disarmament of
Horntbeck Kingdom fleet.

「──With all due respect, I have a request to make to your majesty.

」

Odysseus kneeled on one knee and bowed his head earnestly.

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「For our country, his majesty the king and his highness who is
serving as the regent are indispensable existences. I beg your
majesty to only give the punishment to this worthless retainer.」

「There is no need.」

「Hah?」

Odysseus unconsciously asked back with his plain self when he heard
those unbelievable words.

「I’m not planning to rule over the continent like Answerer Kingdom.
That means, I also have no intention of ruling over Horntbeck
Kingdom. If your country will respect the rule of my country and our
allies, then one day your fleet shall be able to freely sail through the
whole continent too.」

Odysseus could feel that Baldr’s words contained no lie.

Even if he searched through this whole continent, there would be no

sea force that would be able to oppose the fleet that was equipped
with those mass produced cannons.

He thought that being able to freely sail all the seas was just a
childish fantasy, but now such dream was just one step away from
being realized.

Perhaps this King Baldr would unexpectedly get along well with
Eustachius. Especially with the way they didn’t separate dream from
reality.

「This is just me talking to myself but──it’s also possible for our

allied country to make use of our country’s medical institution.
Please convey that to his highness Eustachius.」

「I shall definitely──eh?」

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Was it alright for him to do something like that.

Baldr was going to let Odysseus went free along with his fleet.

Odysseus turned speechless when he realized that.

That wasn’t something to be done with a force that they had just
been in battle not long ago. Just what in the world was making Baldr
to be this generous?

「I think you already know, but we are going to enter a land battle
after this. Right now we have no time to seize your fleet here sir.」

Now that the rocket arrows had been confiscated, Horntbeck

Kingdom fleet would be helpless in front of Baldr and Satsuki, the
two King’s Gate owners if they got into close-range combat.

And then when it came to sea battle, there was no commander who
could win against Urraca.

This decision was only possible because of Baldr’s absolute

confidence.

If they wanted to betray his trust then they were free to try.

Baldr was telling Odysseus so.

(Before fighting──we should at least try meeting his majesty Baldr

once. Though it’s pointless to realize that only now.)

They absolutely couldn’t turn Baldr into enemy, so that Horntbeck

Kingdom wouldn’t be excluded from the new order that would come
in the future of this continent.

「I hope that his highness Eustachius will also be present the next
time we meet.」

「This one will definitely meet the expectation of your majesty.」

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Or rather, there was no other choice than that!

There is absolutely none! Odysseus raised such voiceless scream at

the inside.

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Chapter 4 – The Avenger’s Stage

Part 1
Ninliver was the second biggest port city in Nedras Kingdom.

At 5 AM when the early morning’s mist was covering the sea surface,
the early riser fishermen were patching up their net, polishing their
harpoon, and preparing to go fishing.

The high tide came and the seawater was surging until the height of
the wharf. In some part the water reached until above the wharf and
washed the path.

Today something monumentally foreign was drawing near unnoticed

toward such peaceful daily scenery.

「What’s that……」

They were the fishermen of a small country that never knew war
until now.

The navy of their country was really small and only patrolled the
coast at best, so they never saw a large schooner like La Mancha
before.

They were bewildered seeing the appearance of the huge fleet. It

couldn’t be helped that they were unable to understand the
situation.

However when they saw the gigantic ship that looked like a giant
monster sailing behind the fleet, they finally realized that a
complicated situation had arisen.

「G-go tell the lord……」

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「T-take the women and children running to the mountain! It’ll be
too late if we don’t hurry!」

The suddenly urgent situation pushed the fishermen into panic and
they ran around in confusion.

At that time the local soldiers of the count house who were maintain
the public order of Ninliver noticed the commotion at the harbor.

Unlike port city Lagoon that had the navy base in it, Ninliver that was
nothing more than a territory of a count only had them to respond to
this situation right away.

「It’s the combined fleet of Majorca Kingdom and Sanjuan Kingdom!

No, the battleship at the forefront has the royal flag of Trystovy!」

「What did you say? Don’t tell me King Baldr is personally here?」

「W-what should we do?」

「Stupid idiot! This isn’t something that we can do anything about!

Go tell the lord count quickly!」

The burden of dealing with an army that was personally led by Baldr
was too heavy for private soldiers of a count house like them.

Even if that wasn’t the case, for ordinary people like them, they
perceived Baldr like a demon, an existence from the world of
mythology.

The impact of a beastman becoming a king was just that great,

especially for the believers of Europa Church.

「Count-sama! COUNT-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

「What is it, you’re noisy.」

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The count who was in a light sleep was forced awake by the panicked
scream of a soldier. He got up from his bed in a bad mood.

「This isn’t the time to leisurely change clothes! Please hurry!」

「Just what in the world is going on?」

「Trystovy and its allied army are going to land here!」

「S, SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT SOONEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!」

The count wasn’t thinking to fight and repel the enemy at all.

Even if the army landed, they would only pillage the city and set it
ablaze before leaving anyway. If there was no way to prevent that, it
was only natural for him to prioritize his own life.

「Sound the tsunami warning bell! Tell the people to run to a high
place and stay there quietly until the enemy leave!」

「Yes my lord-!」

Even a place like Ninliver that had never even dreamed of this place
turning into battlefield had the experience of a great disaster of
tsunami in the past, so it was common knowledge here to evacuate
in emergency.

From the result, that decision was correct.

Because even if Baldr’s army had no such intention, the organization

called an army was something that would bring harm just from
moving.

The count scuttled in panic to escape while only wearing his pajama.
His family was also following his example.

And so Baldr and his troops easily occupied Ninliver that had been
completely deserted. From Gigante there weren’t just soldiers,

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military supplies like food or cannon were also unloaded one after
another.

「Don’t tell me……they are planning to stay here?」

The count who was observing the situation from a high place
understood the severity of the situation when he saw that far from
pillaging, the army was unloading supplies orderly on the land.

The enemy wasn’t coming here like passing pirates.

They were occupying Ninliver, and then──the count realized the

army’s true objective when his thought reached that far.

「They’re planning to attack the capital directly-!」

Now that this country’s main force was dispatched to Posada Village
at the border, the capital Hazuz only had the reservists to maintain
the public order and the royal guards in it.

Posada Village was too far for the main force to turn back at this
point.

In the end, would the cowardly Nedras Kingdom army──that was the
impression that the count held since the government became
Answerer Kingdom’s puppet──be able to oppose that Baldr?

「──Should we run?」

An old retainer who had accompanied him since his youth asked him
that. The count’s expression twisted.

If he ran, how far did he need to run? If he ran until the capital, was
there any guarantee that they could win against Baldr? Wouldn’t he
just meet an even more horrible experience there?

「Do you think our country can win?」

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「If Answerer Kingdom get serious and send reinforcement, then
perhaps.」

「That’ll be difficult. They can land on Ninliver like this, that means
they can also do the same thing with Answerer Kingdom.」

From now on, Answerer Kingdom would be wary that the enemy
would also land in their country and they would become unable to
cut corners with the security of their own territory.

The count was skeptical that Nedras Kingdom would be able to

receive any worthwhile reinforcement in such situation.

「──There was a rumor that his majesty Baldr sent food assistance
because he is unable to watch the distress our country is in, wasn’t
it?」

「Yes, according to the merchants, it wasn’t the result of negotiation

or anything like the royal court claimed, but it was because of his
majesty Baldr’s good will.」

「We can’t honestly believe that……but, at the very least we also

won’t be killed with no question asked. I have to secure the citizen’s
safety at the very least.」

To be honest, the count had given up on Nedras royal court.

He was going to obey Baldr because he thought there was no way to

win, and if Baldr became a better ruler──though the biggest problem
was whether he would really become the winner or not──the count
hardened his resolve to bet on that.

「Send a messenger to ask for an audience. Tell his majesty that I

have the intention to cooperate with Trystovy Kingdom.」

「As my lord command.」

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The count’s decision was completely correct.

After all the road that connected Ninliver to the capital was being
watched strictly by a beastman group in order to cut off the flow of
information.

And then the first report was only brought to Hazuz after two days
had passed since the landing.

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Part 2
「──You said that beast king had appeared at Ninliver?」

At first Duke Vassily doubted his ears when hearing that absurd
report.

Baldr should appear as reinforcement to General Ramillies who was

at Posada Village. In the first place he never heard a king crossing the
sea to land on enemy country.

「Is there no mistake about this report?」

「That’s, Ninliver is already occupied. King Baldr is waiting for the

remaining supplies and troops to be unloaded on land before
beginning to march to the capital. This is the information that was
conveyed by a messenger from the count territory to our merchant
that regularly visited that area.」

「And how is that messenger doing?」

「The report said that he is heavily wounded and is currently in

critical state.」

「And? How many is the enemy’s number? When will they arrive to
this capital?」

Cold sweat trickled down from Vassily’s forehead.

It was just as Count Ninliver predicted, right now there wasn’t any
sufficient military strength remaining in the capital.

Furthermore the opponent here was the devil who repelled Haurelia
Kingdom army by his own and climbed up until the position of king.

「Currently there is around a thousand troops. There is another fleet

carrying 3000 troops that will arrive later.」

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「It should be impossible to land at that Ninliver when it’s low
tide……if it’s now」

Vassily committed a fatal mistake here.

A country was ruined because of a fatal blunder that was committed

in the fatal situation. And now this Vassily was making such fatal
decision that would ruin a country without even trying to ascertain
the veracity of the information.

「This time while even more enemy troops haven’t landed is the aid
of heaven for us! Send out all of our reserve force to destroy that
filthy beast king!」

Currently the reservists that were stationed in this capital numbered

2000. There were also 500 royal guards. If they could also gather the
soldiers from the nearby nobles, they would be able to form an army
of 3000 or 4000.

Right now was the perfect chance while the enemy still numbered
1000!

It was unknown whether the person himself was aware of it or not,

but the reason Vassily arrived at such foolish conclusion was because
of his cowardice.

To be safe, he should gather all the soldiers in the capital and holed
up in the castle. That would be the safest strategy.

Vassily couldn’t do that because he couldn’t bear to be placed right

in the middle of a battlefield.

He couldn’t even conceive exposing his own life to danger while the
battlefield music from spear and sword was being played. The
farther the battlefield was from the capital, the better it was for him.

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This kind of human who unconsciously wanted to place themselves
in the safe area existed in not a few numbers.

Someone like Vassily who drew in the military force from Answerer
Kingdom for the sake of his own safety, what kind of way of thinking
such person had?

It was difficult to predict it, but it wasn’t impossible.

And even if the prediction was wrong, the second and the third plans
had been prepared.

「──Even so, it send shivers to my back when his majesty’s

prediction is right on the mark to this degree.」

A silver haired man was watching the cavalries leaving the capital
and leaving it stark naked from above a hill with a sharp gaze.

It was the Phantom Lagunitas.

When he welcomed the messenger from Baldr, he thought of what

he was told as completely a wild tale, but right now he was struck
with astonishment seeing everything becoming a reality.

He wondered if there was nothing impossible for the beast king.

「This is simply a future prediction with high probability you know?

」

「I’m saying that the precision of that prediction is just strange.」

「Well, his majesty is strange isn’t something new.」

Nelson who was sent to Nedras Kingdom as a messenger and hid in

this country together with the resistance shrugged with a self-
satisfied look.

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「It’s just like the matter with the wheat, I never thought that his
majesty would really land at Ninliver. Is a country really something
that can be led around by the nose so easily like this?」

The subjugation army that was nothing more than reservist soldiers
being put together would be no match against Baldr. They would
surely get annihilated hands down. A mere 3000 troops against the
5000 elites under Baldr’s command didn’t have any hope of victory
from the start.

Even the main force of 50000 troops that were confronting General
Ramillies at the border wouldn’t be able to display their strength
sufficiently when the capital and the supply line were seized by this
side.

The fate of Nedras Kingdom was already decided.

The only thing that had been decided was the process to reach that
point.

「This is the stage of avenger that I have long awaited for. I guess I
should play my role splendidly on it then.」

It wouldn’t be Baldr, but Lagunitas who was a citizen of Nedras who

would take down the capital. There was a meaning in this
arrangement.

Most likely Baldr had also taken into consideration that Lagunitas
would want to take down Vassily with his own hand no matter what.

Even the position that Lagunitas would take in the management of

Nedras Kingdom that got occupied by Trystovy alliance had already
considered beforehand.

Our beast king has formulated a really terrifying stratagem.

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「──Nelson-dono, is his majesty the beast king had been like this
since his student days?」

「That’s, well, at that time he was a bit more docile than now
though. But the way he is like a jack-in-the-box that throws out
something absurd from the box that you thought as mediocre hasn’t
changed at all.」

「What a shame. I also want to try sharing such time together with
his majesty. The me right now is filled with nothing but awe toward
his majesty.」

He didn’t know what kind of position he would be placed in after

this, but Lagunitas had hardened his resolve to swear loyalty to Baldr
as the beast king regardless of what happened.

When the subjugation army had vanished beyond the horizon, the
sun was slowly tilting toward the west.

「──Now then, Vassily. I shall return my father’s debt to you now.

This Lagunitas shall stake his soul for it.」

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Part 3
The Nedras Kingdom beastman corps that was led by Lagunitas only
numbered around 300 at best.

The resistance in the past could count 2000 fighters at maximum, but
right now this was all their remaining strength.

Their number had been halved by General Mikhail Kalashnikov. And

then they lost half of their comrades even more due to General
Vladimir’s divide and conquer strategy.

Without Baldr’s outlandish scheme to send wheat support for free,

the brunt of hatred of the humans who were hungry might be
pointed toward them, turning them into the sacrifice of the
tyrannical regime.

That was just how dangerous their situation was.

Answerer Kingdom was temporarily praised as liberator after

disposing the exiled dukedom nobles, but then their status relapsed
back to being oppressor once more when they hindered Baldr’s food
aid.

The commoners were really fast when doing an about-face. The

provision of information to Lagunitas increased sharply while the risk
of betrayal also dropped dramatically.

There was even a time when he felt detest toward such self-
interested nature of the commoners.

It was because of that self-interested nature that they could easily

betray others. They did that while making self-satisfied look as
though they were the only injured party.

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「──Weakness isn’t a sin but a punishment. That’s exactly why those
who stand above them must not forget the feeling of pity toward
them.」

Lagunitas finally understood the meaning of the words of his father,

Count Isaac Kovalenko.

Being able to risk one’s life for something immaterial like pride or
dignity was a luxury that was only afforded for the strong.

The commoners who lived their daily lives completely absorbed in

their survival had no leeway to hold such feeling.

That was exactly why the statesmen had to give them leeway in their
lives. Even if commoners without any leeway were an existence that
was more convenient to rule over.

「The prosperous society where there is no discrimination between

human and beastman that father aimed for──it has come until right
before my eyes.」

The revolutionary wheat variety M-10, and then also clothing

material for cheap and in great quantity. Baldr had developed them
and now he was trying to popularize them.

Finally even the commoners would be able to have time to enjoy

pointless leisure.

If that happened, even if it had to take time the peace between

beastman and human would surely become reality too.

「In order for me to be able to play a part in the work of his majesty
the beast king too──you shall receive the punishment for all the
suffering that my father and my people has gone through, villain
Vassily!」

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Three hundred beastmen slipped into the dim darkness of the night
and soundlessly rushed toward the castle gate.

「──Oi, time for shift change.」

A knight lightly tapped the shoulder of his colleague who was

standing straight at the gate. Then he witnessed his colleague
crumbling from his knee like a doll with its strings severed.

「Wha──」

「You let your guard down too much.」

He sensed a presence behind him. But the moment his mind

registered that, something like a drill pierced the knight’s brain and
he expired without even being able to make any voice.

Lagunitas laughed at this pathetic state of his enemy.

Even though not even half a day had passed since the subjugation
army departed to Ninliver, they still thought that this capital was the
only place that wouldn’t turn into a battlefield?

No, Vassily wanted the battle to be decided outside of the capital

exactly because he feared that.

If by any chance the subjugation army was defeated, don’t mention

holing himself in the castle to withstand a siege, he would definitely
abandon everything and sought asylum to Answerer Kingdom.

He was unable to personally stand in the firing line and fight.

Vassily was a man who was contracted with such disease.

「Barbrea, take a hundred with you and secure the queen dowager
and his majesty. Don’t let them get away no matter what.」

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「Understood.」

「Gansoult, blockade the main palace after I charge in. Don’t let any
reinforcement enter.」

「Roger.」

「Nelson-dono, you should come with me.」

The palace of Nedras Kingdom was roughly divided into three

sections.

The first section was the main palace where the regent Vassily was
attending to government affairs. The second section was the Crystal
Palace where the queen dowager and the king were living. And then
the third section was the inner palace.

Securing the king’s personage who was living together with his
mother should be regarded as the most important objective of this
mission.

However Lagunitas had no intention of giving Vassily to anyone else.

The catastrophe occurred in the blink of eye.

The beastman corps broke through the castle gate and soundlessly
killed the knights who still hadn’t realized the invasion that was going
on one after another.

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Lagunitas’s men were the elites who survived until now after
contending with that Mikhail Kalashnikov.

The knights here were far away from the battlefield with their guard
down──furthermore the majority of them were the pampered sons
of major nobles. There was no reason why they would be able to put
up any good fight.

「You think you can serve as the security of this palace like this?
Pathetic.」

Even though Lagunitas had already arrived until halfway inside the
main palace, he still hadn’t sensed any movement from his enemy.

Lagunitas lamented seeing that the internal situation of this country

had rotten to this degree.

This was a country that didn’t protect itself by its own strength and
asked other country to protect it. There was no way that it would be
able to raise knights who would protect it at the cost their life.

Self-defense was the foundation of a nation. Vassily had sold away

that foundation. What’s more he did that for his own safety.

There was already nowhere to escape. Perhaps there was a secret

escape path that only the royalty knew about, but it was unthinkable
that Vassily would know of anything like that.

In the end he was just a puppet of Answerer Kingdom. Even the

queen dowager Barbara didn’t trust him.

Of course he would still struggle unsightly to escape even if he had to

sacrifice everyone else other than himself, but the chance of being
able to escape had already left a long time ago.

「Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!!」

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「Finally.」

It seemed that a group of knight that was in the middle of returning

to their station had discovered the corpses of their colleagues.

The knights on standby moved in panic to wear their armor and

rushed to the corridor with swords in hands. They formed formation
in order to remove the intruders.

If this was a battlefield at an open field, then their action was quite
good with moderately trained movement.

「But they are too careless with their observation of the

surrounding.」

In the battlefield, their role would be like the finisher that was sent
out after the battleground had been set up by the strategist. They
weren’t used to do things like scouting or gathering information.

If they were tasked with guarding the palace, the most important
palace in the kingdom, then they should be able to do those kinds of
things at the minimum. That was Lagunitas’s opinion.

「Fire.」

There was no reason why he should intentionally take on fully

armored opponents in close range.

The beastmen who were equipped with crossbows sniped the

knights. The knights screamed when they realized there was
nowhere to escape in this narrow corridor.

「You cowards! Fight fair and square!」

「That’s a leeway only afforded for the strong, but you bastards
right now are the weak.」

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Rather it was the knights who should throw any pride to the wind
and did anything they could like destroying the door or throwing the
vase in order to escape from this killing ground.

Of course Lagunitas had no obligation to teach them that.

「Look over here, I’m coming you know?」

Lagunitas closed the distance from the front using a knight whose
throat was shot as a shield. He crouched and mowed the calves of
the knights at the right and left.

And then as those knights fell and writhed in pain, his sword already
pierced the throat of the knight behind them.

Wolf-eared tribe had high physical ability even among the beastman
race. Lagunitas had polished that ability in real battle. The knights
were sinking into a sea of blood without being able to perceive his
movement properly.

「──Are there others?」

「Nelson-dono has driven back the knights at the left corridor. There
are also some knights trying to run away here and there.」

「How can the knights be the first one to run away……」

They would display their strength normally if they had a lot of

comrades around them, but they were unable to maintain their valor
in this isolated environment where they had almost no ally.

The knight class was running away, so that meant that there was
nobody in this country’s government who had the charisma to obtain
their loyalty.

「It was a waste for me to get worked up like that.」

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The assault to the capital after pulling double diversion.

And yet the climax of such grand strategy was too much of a
letdown.

──*Bam bam!*

The bedroom’s door was knocked loudly as though to smash it off

from its hinges. Vassily was in the first stage of sleep where he
almost fell into a deep slumber when that happened.

Vassily slowly got up from his bed in displeasure.

「What’s going on?」

「It’s the Phantom Lagunitas! He is attacking the palace!」

「What-?」

Vassily’s hands immediately wandered around restlessly in the air

without any meaning. It was his habit when he wasn’t composed.

「No way……naturally you knights can repel him right?」

「We don’t have enough people after dispatching the subjugation

army! Please escape quickly!」

Vassily learned that Laugnitas was already closing in until the middle
of the palace. He wore his coat in panic and opened the door’s lock.

「Gather the guards! We’re leaving the palace right away!」

This wasn’t funny.

He mustn’t fall into Lagunitas’s hand no matter what.

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Vassily chose to escape and abandoned everything without the
slightest hesitation, but his decision was made just too late.

「Haha! Too bad but Lagunitas has already infiltrated until right in
front of your room. Long time no see. I have wanted to meet you so
badly you know?」

「You, you are──」

Vassily crumbled on his knees.

The knight who was informing him of Lagunitas’s invasion at the

other side of the door was actually Lagunitas himself.

「S-spare me, only my life─」

He didn’t speak of apology or command. What unconsciously slipped

out from Vassily’s mouth was words for his self-protection.

「Then, why did you take the regent position? Why did you kill
father?」

If he wished for a peaceful life where he didn’t need to worry for his
own life, he should have many chances to obtain it easily.

It was Vassily himself who wasted those chances and threw himself
into the scene of carnage.

「There was no other way! In the first place I wouldn’t need to invite
Answerer Kingdom’s army here if only you didn’t revolt!」

「That’s not something the culprit who invited them in can say
but……taking that into account, bearing responsibility for the defeat
is also the duty of your highness the regent right?」

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If he won that meant that he was in the right. If as the result of his
action he brought prosperity and stability to Nedras Kingdom, the
people would continue to support Vassily.

At the very least something like the knights being the first one to run
away shouldn’t happen.

「No need! I have no need for something like regent position

anymore! I don’t want to die! I still want to live, live and watch over
the growth of my son and grandson!」

「……How honest. If I have a child, then I think I’ll also want to watch
over their growth yeah?」

It was a common feeling. Any human would definitely harbor such

feeling. Wanting to obtain success, wanting to pass down their
power to their child, wanting to live long and enjoyed life.

Vassily took the wrong step in his path as a human in order to make
that a reality.

When his veneer was taken off, he was just a foolish and mediocre
man. Lagunitas found that fact as terrifying deep in his heart.

「But, there are too many people who won’t be able to peacefully
watch over the growth of their children if you are left alive.」

「No! Please don’t kill me!」

「Too bad. I want to kill you. Try asking that again after calling a
priest and reform this deeply sinful me.」

「I don’t wanna die!」

「Didn’t your mama teach you that you also have to eat the things
that you don’t like properly?」

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He didn’t fulfilled at all even while talking with Vassily like this.

This man was just too small and foolish to appease the debt of his
father’s death.

There was no worth taking revenge to this guy, but Lagunitas had the
duty to kill Vassily. That was the least that he could do as parting gift
for his compatriots who were killed by Vassily.

「See ya. When you go to that world, try asking the people you killed
whether you can be forgiven or not.」

「Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiih!」

Lagunitas had no hobby of making someone suffered as pastime.

Nedras Kingdom’s regent, Duke Vassily was stabbed in the heart.

Even so he raised his hands as though in prayer to cling to his life
even then. He died in such posture.

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Part 4
──Nedras Kingdom’s capital had fallen.

That news could reach General Vladimir three days after the capital
fell.

The distance could be traveled in three days using fast horse, but it
would take at least a week if he wanted to bring his current army
back to the capital.

「No wonder they are just quietly building encampment there.」

He understood from his attack the other day that Trystovy Kingdom
army was seriously staying in the defensive.

He couldn’t comprehend why they were constructing defensive

encampment even after coming this far beyond the border, but he
never expected even in his wildest dream that the enemy would land
at Ninliver and worked together with the beastman race to take the
capital. Even Vladimir was unable to see through such plan.

Furthermore rumors that sounded strangely realistic like Trystovy

Kingdom was actually targeting the pope territory, or Grand Duchy
Tenedora had switched side were spreading. The reinforcement from
the church was in the verge of returning back to the pope territory
before this shocking news arrived.

「If only this is also just a rumor……」

He was questioning if the fall of the capital was also a rumor that the
enemy was spreading.

However all the information that came to him suggested that the
capital had fallen. The supply line for food and other necessity had
also completely stopped working.

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There was already no room to doubt that the capital had fallen.

The problem was what should he do now after learning that?

「There is no need to even think. If god’s enemy, Baldr is there, then

we have to advance to the capital right at this moment!」

The one who insisted that was the commander of 10000 troops from
Europa Church, Machiavelli.

In the first place he volunteered to come to this battlefield because

he thought that he would be able to defeat Baldr here.

Reducing the force of the church that had been gathered after
painstaking effort by facing Ramillies who was barricading himself
behind his encampment was completely out of the question.

「Do you think that army of 30000 will just quietly watch us leave?
」

「They are just cowards who cannot fight unless they hide behind
that encampment. What can they possibly do?」

Certainly, Trystovy Kingdom army hadn’t received considerable

damage until now despite their inferior number was because they
kept hiding behind the encampment and wouldn’t come out to
attack.

However there was no guarantee that they would stay there forever.

「We of Nedras Kingdom army also have to go to rescue his majesty

the king and her highness the queen dowager as soon as possible.」

The general of Nedras Kingdom army Noches had to accept General

Vladimir’s order based on the chain of command, but he was
resolute and wouldn’t withdraw his opinion.

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From the report, it seemed that the regent Vassily had been
executed, but that was a trivial matter. Losing the legitimate
bloodline of the royal family was the one thing that had to be
avoided at any cost.

「I know that.」

Vladimir wanted to hurl abuse at them, asking if they were stupider

than kids.

The nobles around the capital would surrender to Trystovy alliance if

the capital continued to be in the enemy’s grasp like this.

The number of enemy would increase and their ally decrease the
longer time passed. Their supply also wouldn’t last long unless they
pillaged from the surrounding.

That was why the capital had to be taken back. No matter what.

In order to do that, they had to crush Trystovy Kingdom army that

was led by Ramillies. Or else someone would have to stay behind as
rearguard to hold him back.

「Then, can I take this to mean that everyone isn’t thinking to crush
Trystovy Kingdom army first?」

「Of course.」

「It pain me to say this but, yes.」

「In that case, we will have to leave behind a force that will be
sufficient to hold back the pursuit of the 30000 enemy army.」

According to the information that Vladimir gathered, Ramillies

wasn’t a careful and passive general. Rather he preferred offensive
tactic.

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It was unthinkable that he would just quietly let go of this favorable
chance.

「The church refuse a role like being the rear guard. If it’s really
necessary then Nedras Kingdom army can take that role.」

「If that’s my order than I shall give it my all but……」

Noches cut off his words. He was frowning awkwardly.

「The majority of my troops are made of people who came from the
capital and its surrounding area. Now that the capital has fallen, I’m
not confident that their moral will be able to keep up for long.」

If the hometown where their family was living at was occupied by

enemy country, anyone wouldn’t be able to stay calm. In the worst
case there would be deserters trying to return home.

That was what Noches was saying.

「It can’t be helped. I’ll leave 5000 of my men behind.」

Vladimir ended the discussion without even trying to hide his

irritation.

「Each of you should finish your preparation to withdraw at once.」

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Part 5
「It seems the enemy choose to retreat.」

「Umu.」

Ramillies nodded in satisfaction.

He understood the enemy’s movement like the back of his own hand
from the informants.

Lagunitas had taken down the capital. Baldr had completely defeated
the last reservist force that left the capital to subjugate him.

Around the capital there was already no more force that could take
hostile action toward them.

In other words Vladimir had to deal with the situation using only the
force that he currently had in hand.

There was also the option of waiting for reinforcement from

Answerer Kingdom, but now that Horntbeck Kingdom navy had been
defeated and they lost the control of Orkney Sea, the number of
soldiers they could dispatch should be limited.

「How many soldiers they are planning to leave behind?」

「It seems that there will be only 5000.」

Although the enemy was formed from a hodge podge of many

parties, they had a total force of 50000 in their possession. And yet
they only left behind 5000 troops. The enemy was really looking
down at them.

Even after linking up with Lagunitas, Baldr’s force was still less than
6000 troops.

If it was Ramillies, he wouldn’t send 45000 troops just for that.

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「And, which country the rearguard belong to?」

「That’s……it seems they are the troops under General Vladimir’s

direct command……」

「Hou」

Ramillies’s eyes shined in deep interest.

「……He didn’t look like such laudable man to me.」

First it was Nedras Kingdom army that changed course to head

straight toward the capital.

From the start this was their own country and they had the
familiarity with the local terrain. They didn’t lack any strength to
travel through the shortest route.

Following behind them was the expeditionary force of Europa

Church.

They were burning with religious zeal. Their unit could be said as the
one with the highest fighting spirit. But that was also exactly why
they might turn into a double-edged sword.

To be honest Vladimir wanted an uncertain element like them to

leave right away.

Really, they should be a convenient meat shield against Baldr, but it

felt like they were going to drag him down instead.

Was this what the saying ‘the crafty schemer drowns in his own
scheme’ meant?

──However he was the only one who had different prerequisite than
them.

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Vladimir didn’t care one whit what happened to this Nedras
Kingdom.

In order to fight Baldr, in order to save their homeland from the

foreign country. They had their reason why they had to head to the
capital no matter what.

But Vladimir himself wasn’t really fixated with such things.

In order to bring profit to his homeland Answerer Kingdom, and then

to bring result of glory for himself, he would be fine with anything as
long he could inflict damage to the enemy.

「You’re totally mistaken if you think that I’ll quietly leave my men
behind as rearguard, General Ramillies.」

He knew that most likely information had leaked from Posada

villagers who had been won over or from Nedras Kingdom soldiers
who held animosity toward Answerer Kingdom.

Then he would just make use of that instead.

Other than the 5000 soldiers under his command, another 5000
were hiding as ambush troops. In addition 15000 soldiers were
preparing to turn around with some time difference.

He could retreat back to Answerer Kingdom later with the

achievement of crushing Ramillies’s army on his own. Perhaps he
would also be able to finish off Baldr if he got injured in battle.

「We are not the prey. We are the hunter here.」

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Part 6
In front of Posada Village, there was a rampart around one meter
high that stretched out endlessly for nearly one kilometer.

There were observation platforms standing tall at the left and right
for lookouts.

Vladimir was calmly waiting for Ramillies at that defensive position.

Ramillies would definitely move. The enemy’s objective from the

start should be to work together with Baldr where after he took
down the capital, Ramillies would attack their back when they were
retreating.

A retreating army was weak against a pursuing attack even if they

had number at their side.

After all it would be hard for soldier to display their fighting spirit
while they were running away.

Not to mention their homeland had fallen into danger. Few soldiers
would be able to fight decently if they had other worry in their heart
other than fighting.

Baldr’s scheme was perfectly correct purely as a strategy.

Baldr’s only miscalculation was his presence among the opponents

who was able to see through this strategy and didn’t have any
intention to protect Nedras Kingdom from the start.

「──Trystovy Kingdom army is coming!」

Ramillies finally moved his force.

It wouldn’t be a skirmish like the other day. It was an all out attack.

「Now come! Ramillies!」

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.

Grenades were thrown toward Trystovy Kingdom soldiers who

approached the rampart. Flame blasts rose in succession.

It was a firepower that clearly displayed that right now gunpowder

weapon wasn’t the exclusive right of Trystovy Kingdom.

The soldiers weren’t hiding inside trench right now, so this time
considerable amount of casualties also appeared from among
Trystovy Kingdom side.

「Throw grenades back at them! Don’t falter!」

Barnard was running forward as the vanguard. With a power that

knew no fatigue like a heavy machinery, he raised a battle cry inside
the dust cloud.

In a world where automatic rifle or machine gun hadn’t existed, it

was difficult to stop an excellent tactician commander who charged
to the frontline like him.

The first line of Answerer Kingdom army quickly crumbled. Vladimir

was forced to retreat to the second encampment faster than he
expected.

「Perhaps it’s as expected from a key figure in founding a country.」

It seemed that he was underestimating Ramillies slightly. The effect

of the grenades in holding back the enemy troops was lower than he
expected.

Because it was a weapon that the enemies were also familiar with, it
was unable to spread terror among them even though it was
inflicting damage.

「──But, it’s not something that surpass my prediction!」

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Vladimir who had retreated to the second line of encampment
ordered the usage of grenades once more and resisted the enemy’s
advance persistently.

Although the defensive facility here wasn’t as effective as trench, it

still managed to hold back the enemy army. Even though the enemy
numbered several times more, it wouldn’t fall that easily.

Vladimir saw that the battle line had entered a deadlock and ordered
the ambush troops to fire the rocket arrows.

Dozens of rocket arrows impacted and soldiers were blown away like
ragged clothes.

Entrails were scattered. Many soldiers were turned into reddish

black object. However Trystovy Kingdom army stepped over their
comrade’s corpses and continued advancing.

Even for Vladimir this was an unexpected situation. He couldn’t

believe that Trystovy Kingdom army could still maintain a high
fighting spirit at this point.

「Use all the grenades that we have! Hold them back no matter
what until our main force arrives!」

No matter how high their fighting spirit was, it was a fact that the
damage from the rocket arrows and the ambush troops that
appeared from left and right were tormenting Trystovy Kingdom
army.

It would be easy to overturn this situation when the fresh 15000

troops arrived.

However at this moment, Vladimir wasn’t the only one buying time
from this situation of deadlock.

「──Now then, it should be time soon.」

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「It seems they have arrived.」

Behind the enemy line, it could be seen that another 15000 troops
had arrived. They raised a battle cry and began charging toward
Trystovy Kingdom army.

──Everything went as Ramillies expected.

「I win!」

Vladimir unconsciously clenched his fist.

More than one hour had passed since the battle began.

Vladimir unconsciously clenched his fist.

More than one hour had passed since the battle began.

And here a fresh troops came to reinforce his side. The timing was
really good to break through the deadlock and grasped victory
immediately.

He could see the frontline of Trystovy Kingdom army crumbling

already.

It couldn’t be helped. They were showered by grenades and rocket

arrows. Soldiers who had gone through continuation of battles
without any pause until now wouldn’t be able to endure the
pressure of fresh reinforcement.

However Vladimir’s victory proclamation was smashed to pieces at

the next moment.

「Bullet type, scatter shot, quick firing, horizontal, fire!」

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「FIREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!」

It was a misunderstanding that the frontline was crumbling.

Trystovy Kingdom army’s frontline was merely backing off

temporarily in order to switch with the firing line of cannons that
advanced from the rear.

The nose of Answerer Kingdom army that carelessly charged forward

was showered with super close range fire support from the cannons
that were loaded with countless small shells.

The cannon shells that were fired from thirty cannons scattered a
shower of iron balls with immense kinetic energy. The charging
soldiers of Answerer Kingdom were instantly turned into hole-riddled
pieces of meat.

Furthermore grenades were also thrown and the field of vision was
blocked for the moment. And then a shower of cannonballs rained
down from the cannons again.

The damage that Answerer Kingdom army received in less than a

minute had reached 2000.

「I-I never heard about that kind of weapon before!」

Vladimir was bewildered.

No matter the era, infantries that were placed under the direct fire
support of cannons with grapeshot would find it difficult to maintain
their fighting strength.

It was all the more so when the attack came completely abruptly like
this.

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The addition of his main force that he thought as his trump card was
completely stopped in its track. At the same time Trystovy Kingdom
army was resuming their advance again.

He had no more trump card to stop that.

「Shit! Shit!」

Due to his intelligence, Vladimir was able to see the outcome of this
battle already.

He was inferior in number, inferior in weapon, and then even his

fresh reserve soldiers were stopped in their track. Answerer Kingdom
didn’t have any chance left to overturn the situation.

「Chernenko, I entrust the rearguard to you. The main force, follow

me.」

Now that his defeat was all but certain, Vladimir’s duty switched to
keeping the damage as small as possible.

For that he didn’t even hesitate to sacrifice the adjutant who had
accompanied him for many years.

After all as long as he was still in control of the surviving soldiers, he

would have a chance to take revenge.

「Too bad for you. I too won’t be able to show my face if I don’t get
any achievements.」

「W-who?」

It was already too late when Vladimir turned around.

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Gina’s sword passed through like a wind that was completely outside
the capability of his kinetic vision to perceive. Vladimir’s cervical
vertebrae was cut off from his torso.

Answerer Kingdom army that lost its commander was reduced until
less than half of its number and surrendered around four hours after
that.

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Part 7
A few days later, the land army under Baldr’s command arrived at
the capital Hazuz.

The subjugation army that departed from the capital based on

mistaken information was helplessly toyed by the two King’s Gate
owners Baldr and Satsuki. The army of 5000 was beaten up and lost
in less than an hour.

Currently the surrounding nobles were declaring their submission to

Baldr one after another. Half of Nedras Kingdom was falling into
Baldr’s hand without fighting.

Baldr’s victory had been almost certain from the moment he

defeated Horntbeck Kingdom navy and landed on Ninliver.

In front of the palace, Lagunitas and his subordinates were kneeling

with their heads bowed to welcome Baldr.

The king Radka III was restrained. While it was said that the queen
dowager Barbara had drunk poisoned alcohol.

「We have eagerly awaited your arrival, my lord──your majesty the

beast king.」

In the end Lagunitas only said that with a trembling voice that was
filled with a flood of emotions.

The history was changing.

Law, economy, war, diplomacy, anything and everything wouldn’t be

able to stay the same. Such world was going to come.

The fact that he was able to be present at the thick of it made

Lagunitas felt unbearably happy.

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「I have made you wait for long Lagunitas. However your time of
waiting is already over. From here on the time of change is coming.
」

「……By your will!」

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Part 8
「Cursed god’s enemy! Cursed animal! I shall hand down the god’s
judgment!」

Machiavelli, the commander of the church’s expeditionary force that

was composed of the hardcore Europa believers was blazing with
fighting spirit. The soldiers under his command were also more or
less in the same state.

For them, rather than Trystovy Kingdom army that was commanded
by Ramillies, facing beastmen like Baldr and Lagunitas would spur on
their fighting spirit even more.

However General Noches who was in command of Nedras Kingdom

army couldn’t be as simple as Machiavelli.

If the information was correct, the young king was already fallen to
the hand of Baldr’s side. The possibility that he would be used as
hostage was high.

Also if the battle dragged on, his treasured birthplace──the capital

would be exposed to the flame of war.

Although the soldiers were maintaining high moral in order to

protect their homeland, their loyalty toward the king wasn’t
particularly high.

Noches couldn’t predict how would the soldiers choose if in the end
they were pressed with the choices between their homeland or the
king.

And even more than that, Noches himself was at a lost.

Would he be able to protect his homeland in this situation where he

was accompanied by the fanatics under Machiavelli’s command?

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Wouldn’t he just invite disaster instead if he led them to his
birthplace? He was unable to erase such doubt.

In the worst case, the capital’s guards who were his comrades until
just the other day could possibly attack Noches and others because
of the hostages taken.

If that happened, would he be able to fight with his life on the line
without any hesitation?

Even though he wouldn’t have to worry like this if his task was only
repelling Trystovy Kingdom army at Posada Village…….

That worry of Noches came true in an expected shape.

「──I almost got captured by that bunch from the church.」

「To think that someone like you are in this kind of place……your
excellency Marquis Dornebrass」

This person looked worn out from fatigue the dirt of his travel, but
he was actually an authority of Nedras Kingdom. There was no way
Noches would mistake him.

His age was already more than 60. It could be said that he was the
only big shot of the neutral faction that still remained in the
kingdom. His existence was far more important than the regent
Vassily in order for the kingdom’s bureaucratic organization to
operate normally.

「How wonderful that your excellency is here. We have too little

information so this must be a divine grace that we are able to meet
here.」

「Umu, I risked my life to come here for that.」

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Although there was a risk that his absent would cause the kingdom’s
bureaucratic organization to malfunction, there was nobody else
than him who could possibly persuade Noches.

Dornebrass whipped his old bones and personally came here was
because of such reason.

「Let me be blunt, excluding the dogs of Answerer Kingdom, all the

nobles and his majesty the king himself has already surrendered to
King Baldr. The capital is overflowing with their supplies aid, and
there is also no problem at all about the public order. Far from that,
there is also an edict that anyone who surrender will be exempted
from paying this year’s tax, so even the citizens are welcoming them
with open arms. You have no reason at all to fight anymore──no,
there is a different reason for fighting.」

「What is that?」

Dornebrass took out a single decree from his pocket. Seeing the royal
seal of the king that was stamped on it, Noches reflexively kneeled
immediately as a trained military officer.

「If you sir general is concerned about the future of Nedras

Kingdom, if you wish to regain the peace without exposing the
capital to the flame of war, then attack the soldiers of Europa Church
and annihilate them! This is the royal will of his majesty the king
Radka III!」

The formal decree of the king, and then the information from
Marquis Dornebrass.

Either of them was a sufficient reason that was hard for Ncches to
oppose. Dornebrass also put his own life at risk and visited Noches
was also to place his weigh on this decree.

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「If it’s for the sake of Nedras Kingdom’s peace, then I shall carry it
out without fail.」

His feeling that this was for the sake of his country was genuine. His
loyalty to the king was also without change. However, Noches was
aware that he was hiding a single dark thought inside him.

He actually wanted to be liberated from the yoke of Answerer

Kingdom who acted like they were the master who owned this
country.

For that, slaying the fanatics of the church wasn’t something that
weighed his conscience at all.

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Part 9
Deep at night at 2 AM.

No matter how much they were brimming with fighting spirit, the
church’s soldiers were still extremely exhausted from the forced
march.

To say nothing of how unlike when they were facing a large enemy
army at the border, the enemy right now was still at the capital that
was far away from here. Furthermore the enemy’s number there was
overwhelmingly fewer than their side.

They couldn’t be unconditionally blamed that the degree of their

vigilance had been lowered.

「Good work with the patrol.」

「Aa, what’s the matter? Nedras Kingdom army’s camp is a bit away
from here isn’t it……」

Just as he was saying that, the church’s sentry got his mouth covered
and he fell silent without being able to make any voice.

His guard being completely down in front of an ally from Nedras

Kingdom army had backfired on him. Similar scenes were happening
everywhere, opening large holes in the church’s security.

「──Set the fire.」

Fire arrows rained down like meteor shower. The tents where the
soldiers were sleeping in were transformed into flaming coffins.

The soldiers who finally woke up were also unable to grasp the
situation right away. They became the prey of the arrows that were
falling from the sky.

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「Night attack! What a shallow thinking of those savages this is!」

「Bishop-sama! The enemy isn’t the beastman! It’s Nedras Kingdom

army!」

「I-impossible! They are allying themselves with those animals who

betrayed the god!?」

Wasn’t Trystovy Kingdom army the villains that took the capital
Hazuz and captured or executed the king? Did Nedras Kingdom army
get cold feet at this point?

When Machiavelli rushed out from his tent, he witnessed the hellish
pandemonium where more than half of his army was already
rendered unable to fight.

The chain of command had crumbled. It became impossible to

command the soldiers, and their number was rapidly dwindling.

「Oi gather the church knights under my direct command. We will

break through the encirclement and return home.」

Machiavelli’s decision was fast.

Fighting to the death and persisted in his faith to his god was one of
his thinking, but at the same time he felt that he shouldn’t die
pointlessly here while danger was approaching his religion. The latter
feeling won here.

Destroying the ambition of god’s enemy Baldr. That was the only
reason why Machiavelli came until Nedras Kingdom.

「Praise the great name of the god! One day I will make up for the
death of all of you here in the purgatory!」

Machiavelli used the figures of his subordinates who were running

around like headless chicken as camouflage to approach the enemy

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as close as possible before attempting to breakthrough and escape
swiftly.

Machiavelli’s plan completely took Noches by surprise.

He thought that Machiavelli would act like a cornered mouse that bit
at the cat, but he never expected him to sacrifice his own comrades
to retreat.

「Smash them! Don’t stop no matter what! Keep living until we can
destroy the god’s enemy! If you can’t survive, then at least bring
down three people together with you!」

The elites that Machiavelli was leading immediately beat Nedras

Kingdom army hands down and opened up a path of survival.

It was a terrifying breakthrough power that made Noches realized his

army would definitely lose if they fought head on with the same
number.

「There is no need to chase them too far! Just focus on cleaning up

the remaining enemies here!」

In the end the fighting strength of the church’s force that broke
through the encirclement was around 1 thousand people.

The expeditionary army of Europa Church was mostly annihilated

when the dawn arrived. Even Machiavelli who just barely escaped
further lost half of his force before he reached the pope territory.

With the unprecedented loss of 95% of the troops failing to return

home, the pope’s expectation for dispatching soldiers to Nedras
Kingdom was greatly betrayed.

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Like this, Baldr seized Nedras Kingdom without any significant
difficulty. That news immediately spread throughout the continent
and gave the people the sign of the arrival of the new era──.

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