Chapter 30 (1/2)

A tribe’s death

「It’s my fault」

「No、it wasn’t Mukai-sama’s fault。 This is only bad luck。 」

Mukai sat down and observed the disastrous scene.

During the Great Movement, Mukai and co. encountered wolves.

Mukai, who became the new Patriarch, drew his sword and fought the wolves together with other new adults.

Normally, it’s the norm for the dogs and Guard Warriors to let go of women, sheeps and horses to fight, but they didn’t have enough Warriors to do that.

By leaving the women, the Warriors and Fighters could win against the wolves.

Then soon, when they returned to the sides of the women, another pack of wolves a.s.saulted the women.

The dog fought to protect the sheeps and horses.

The old woman wielded her wooden pole and acted as a wall for children and young women.

When Mukai arrived after his struggle, it already was a terrible situation.

Mukai and co. immediately broke through the group of wolves.

Mukai’s sword slew the last wolf, bringing the wolf a.s.sault to an end.

Warriors, Fighters, Slaves, Women, Sheeps, Horses, everything fell into disorder because of the wolves.

The only good was that, the corns weren’t damaged by the wolves

This one misfortune of s.h.i.+o tribe brought discord to Mukai and his brothers.

An older brother of Mukai was the successor and a splendid adult.

Still, Mukai has been training in the morning since he met Jumuka, so his talents for the sword bloomed. (TN: Yeah right…remember kids, pantsu help with sword talents)

Mukai’s older brother was more excellent than normal.

However, there were people who didn’t recognize Mukai’s sword talents, they opposed the the expectations of the tribe.

Gradually it became the faction of Mukai and the faction of his brother.

The adults had high hopes in Mukai, while the youth supported his brother.

Then came the day of the invasion, Mukai splendidly gained victory against the Empire people in personal combat. That happened.

His brother was fl.u.s.tered when Mukai personally got words of praise from Au patriarch.

At the battle at the Great river, Mukai was under direct command of Jumuka but his brother and his youth faction, 17 people, cheated and went to fight.

That time, Mukai gave a distinguished war service, and the experienced Wariors of s.h.i.+o overlooked the youth’s hot-blooded act.

The result, we all knew too well.

s.h.i.+o lost more 15~17 year olds than other tribes.

It also went more smoothly than other tribes when they decided the new Patriarch.

Mukai was in dire distresses, so he imitated Ronga’s way of organization.

Honestly speaking, another person aside from Mukai who excelled at meditation was wanted.

Somehow when everything ended, the Patriarch meeting was opened.

The respected Jumuka took over and explained the territories.

s.h.i.+o was surprisingly given a s.p.a.cious location.

Then there was a disaster during the Movement.

「This、the tribe can’t be maintained with this。 」

「Mukai-sama、that is not true。 」

A Fighter who was a close friend of Mukai said some strong words, but he couldn’t come up with anything for the territory war next year.

「If it’s like this then we have no choice but to request an absorption huh…」

Request of Absorption

A treaty to merge your own tribe with another tribe is possible.

That tribe will be lost. That tribe will exist as a new tribe.

It’s a shameful act in the Gra.s.sland, but it’s an even bigger shame for the tribe that stubbornly refused to do it and got destroyed.

Absorption request means leaving the people of the absorbed tribe to the tribe that absorbs.

There’s also the fear of being all dropped down to slave if the absorbed tribe is unskillful.

However, in this case if the absorb tribe’s Patriarch acts narrow-mindedly, he’ll be made fun of by other tribes, so this unlikely to happen normally.

They’ll be dropped down one rank at most.

Warriors become Fighters, Fighters become slaves, it’s that kind of dropping.

These are for the guys who don’t have enough to pa.s.s, but not terrible either.

「Is that so、it can’t be helped。 Then which tribe are we going to put out the request？ Au、Agu、s.h.i.+u？」

Mukai gave it some thoughts.

Au’s new Patriarch already showed his stupidity at the meeting.

Au is a No.

Then Agu, s.h.i.+u…

That’s right! How could I forgot about this!

「Ronga it is。 」

「Ronga you say？ Certainly Jumuka-sama and the current Patriarch Temuji-sama are famous、but will we receive recognition？」

「That I don’t know、but、Jumuka-dono has Loche as his slave wife。 And seems like he gave her affection and two children already。 Jumuka-dono is the man、he won’t do any bad right?。 」

「Is that so、I’ll obey Jumuka-sama’s instructions。 Then I’ll go call the Fighters to talk about this matter。 」

「Yeah、I’ll leave that to you」

After that, Mukai talked to the survivors about sending a request of absorption to Ronga tribe.

Many people shed tears because they had to request an absorption.

However, n.o.body criticized Mukai.

There were too few men, so the earlier fight wasn’t Mukai’s fault. The curses all went towards the previous Au patriarch, Mukai also stood firmly at the front line during the wolf attack and killed 15 of them with his sword.

He wasn’t alone, but he killed that many wolves on his own so it’s safe to say he qualified for the Wolf Hunt. (TN: Mind you, Warriors who succeeded in Wolf Hunt will be promoted to Great Warriors)

He dealt with the brethren of the dead wolves, then boarded the road they used for the Movement, and sent a messenger to Ronga.

The talk between Ronga and s.h.i.+o messenger began.

「We don’t oppose s.h.i.+o request of absorption。 However、how are we going to deal with this？」

Temuji asked me and Obudai.

These three people are the ones present for the discussion.

「Hmm、I certainly sympathize with s.h.i.+o’s disaster。 If possible I don’t want to give out too severe conditions。 」

Obudai folded his arms while saying so.

「That’s true、then shouldn’t we just keep their social status as is？」

I said so and waited for the other two. In that manner I had a cheerful face.

「Then let’s do that。 With Uchiran as the messenger、send him to s.h.i.+o。 Jumuka-dono please negotiate with Zun and have Zun and s.h.i.+o’s territories switched。 It’s better for the neighbor to manage it than to scatter it right?。 」

「Got it。 」

The three of us stood and left the house that’s used for Patriarch works.

My negotiation with Zun ended smoothly.

Thanks to s.h.i.+o’s territory being bigger than Zun.

Mukai and the people of s.h.i.+o tribe got on their knees and expressed their thanks.

「Your tolerance for this occasion、we can’t thank you enough。 」

「No、we’re of the same family from now on、we don’t mind it。 」