Volume 2 Chapter 9 (1/2)
Editor: Thorrium.
Chapter 2 Episode 9
(Audience 1)
Day 96th after being summoned to the new world.
”This is Rozeria Kingdom’s royal capital, Piraeus.”
Listening Mikhail's words, Ryouma opened his eyes wide and turned his line of sight toward the front.
”Hee... That is the royal capital huh?... It's pretty huge... ”
”That is natural. After all, this is the royal capital of Rozeria Kingdom which can be regarded as one of the great nations within the western continent's eastern part! In the first place, Rozeria Kingdom is...”
Ryouma observed the royal capital that began to appear in the distance while smiling wryly due to Mikhail explaining the kingdom's history filled with pride due to his strong sense of nationalism.
”First of all, it was good that we could safely arrive here. After all, we expected the n.o.ble faction to have planned ambushes along the way…”
Mikhail who was feeling relieved, said those words, and Ryouma who heard them showed a smiling face.
”Indeed, the possibility was there after all. Maybe because we found out about their disguises, they began to feel cautious when it’s come to the matter of pursuing us...”
”Are they going to give up just like that...?”
Ryouma answered him with an expression as if asking him 'dissatisfied?', which in turn make Mikhail's expression became stiff.
Although they had just been acquaintances for six days, Ryouma had already grasped Mikhail militaristic character.
He got an unpleasant feeling finding out the enemy had given up on pursuing them just like that.
He didn’t like hard jobs nor did he enjoy failures, he hated when he had to redo everything from the beginning.
If one had to say, it was also in his nature, to not stop doing something, until it was finished, and he was the winner...
”Well, everything depends on who takes the command. They might have chosen someone who gives up and prioritised safety after their plan had failed. ”
”A military man is someone, who when they fail at something, will stand up, stronger and more determined than before, and conquer what they previously had difficulty with, or do you disagree?”
Mikhail's words were filled with a sense of belief in strength and bravery.
However, Ryouma's didn’t value such beliefs very highly.
”Not all knight put the same value in honour and pride like Mikhail-san, don't you agree? ”
Listening to Ryouma's astonished tone of voice, Mikhail's face turned red.
”Are you making fun of Knight's pride!?”
”Those words are something a person who had attempted a.s.sa.s.sination shouldn’t say, no? ”
Hearing that words, Mikhail's face became stiff again.
Because that was the words, he doesn't want to hear the most right now.
”Gununununu... T-That was... Something that it couldn’t be helped...”
Barely able to say that much, Mikhail moved towards the back where the injured people was sitting and receive potions from Laura.
No matter how much he sugarcoated his words, he knew it wouldn’t change the fact, that he was planning an a.s.sa.s.sination.
Even though he understood that, Mikhail still felt worried.
Mikhail was wondering what he should prioritise, his knightly pride or the national crisis.
”Funn... Although I think there's no point for him to lament about such thing, after all, I never thought what he was doing was wrong. ”
Sara heard Ryouma speak, while he was watching Mikhail's back, who was regretting what he had done… Sara then asked a question. ‘
”It was not wrong? ”
”Hmm? Well yes... there's nothing wrong with planning an a.s.sa.s.sination. Had I been in the same position as him, I might have chosen to take the same action after all. ”
An a.s.sa.s.sination is something that can not be said as something admirable.
However, Ryouma thought that if it could save many lives by just killing one person, and the possibility of suppressing a civil war that would surely ravage the land, such choice should not be excluded from the other options due to something as silly as an honour.
”In the end, an a.s.sa.s.sination is always just one among the many choices that existed. Where you hope that your choice will help you achieve your goals. ”
For example, the knight faction’s goal is not to let the illegitimate princess from the n.o.ble faction become the Queen.
And when thinking the efficiency of doing things, choosing to a.s.sa.s.sinate the illegitimate princess would certainly cause, the least amount of damage compared to engage the n.o.ble faction in a b.l.o.o.d.y civil war.
However, going down that route, required them having obtained the proper information.
And that was why Ryouma thought the knight's actions was idiotic.
It was foolish of the Knight’s faction not to have confirmed the information before setting their a.s.sa.s.sination plot into action.
The reason why the a.s.sa.s.sination didn’t go as planned, might have been due to them hesitating.
”Well, looking at Mikhail, it seems like the knight faction is filled with muscle heads.”
”Muscle-heads? What is that?”
At the end of Ryouma's explanation, Sara heard words that she does not know the meaning of it.
”Ah... In other words, it’s those people whose only focus are getting stronger and prioritise the use of force, which means that when they are doing anything that requires brain activity, they mess up.”
”Ah... I see. So that's muscle head...”
In these past six days he had been acted together with Sara but, to suddenly understand each other behaviour and speech is still rather hard.
Indeed looking at Mikhail subordinate that survived, whether because they are straightforward people or whatnot they seemed to be people that lacked in the brain department.
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That day, Ryouma's proposal causes a great stir within Mikhail's heart, which all things considered was natural.
After all, no one would think that right after being enemies; he would suddenly propose them becoming allies.
Furthermore, many of Mikhail’s subordinates had been killed by Ryouma's scheme.
At the time when Mikhail was starting the a.s.sa.s.sination plan, he had 50 people under him. And now, among them, only five had survived.
Including Mikhail, six people survived.
Naturally, their hatred is strong.
And yet, Mikhail decided to accept Ryouma's proposal.
No, opposite to that, it's more like he had no other choice other than to accept.
Even if he had refused Ryouma's proposal, Mikhail didn’t have any other alternatives.
Not only had his a.s.sa.s.sination attempt failed, but he also lost many of his men.
Even if they excuse it, by saying it for the sake of supplementing their forces, and it was definitely a plus for the knight faction to become allies with Ryouma and the mercenaries.
However, even if Mikhail himself was convinced with that, his subordinates weren’t as understanding.
Even when they were being set free from the ropes, they prepared themselves to go up against Ryouma once again, even though that meant ignoring their bleeding wounds.