Vol 3 Chapter 56 (2/2)
Her God of war’s sight devices detected plenty of Hashi+ba personnel brought in for support They were not separated between men and women, but unlike Satomi which did the same due to limited personnel, these warriors simply had no division between the two
…There are a lot of female Far Eastern name-inheritors because the sex difference allows for easier intervention and thus easier support from the Testament Union
But PA Oda’s case was a little different They looked at one’s skill and nothing else, so they had a higher percentage of non-hu positions than most That hy their main force was known as the Six Heavenly Demon Armies, but…
“What is it?”
“Testa to look at the Palais-Cardinal “It’s nothing”
…This is an unusual situation for irl on the silver God of war’s shoulder, had divine blood, had briefly ruled the great nation of Hexagone Française, and had handed it off to the next generation
She had been the one to choose Yoshi+yasu for this tour/rehabilitation and she had been the one to grab Yoshi+yasu’s hand
Yoshi+yasu sensed her own deficiencies, but also found comfort in the fact that there were others above her
She knew she was still inexperienced as a student council president and she felt she had only been given that position due to her sister’s influence
But…
“Anne”
Thisto ask now, she knew
“How difficult was it to prepare for Louis Exiv’s generation?”
“Are you already thinking about passing things off to the next generation, Satomi Student Council President?”
No
“I can no longer ask my sister that question”
“What about the chancellor? Wouldn’t he be the best one to ask? Or is there so that?”
She felt like agreeing or answering at all was the sa to that man, so she chose silence and Anne spoke with bitter smile in her voice
“I sis off to my brother, so that’s what I did And it wasn’t difficult at all After all, I was only doing what I wanted”
“Is that hoorks?”
“It is At least for h, the silver God of war took a step down the road The step was still stronger than necessary, but it no longer wavered when it turned back toward Righteousness
“Hey, Satomi Student Council President”
“What?”
“Make sure you reainst an action, an attitude, or a situation, but never fight against your own heart”
…My own heart?
She was fairly certain her heart was telling her to avoid thatit isn’t?
She was still confused when Anne extended the Palais-Cardinal’s hand toward her She reached Righteousness’s hand back and felt a stronger grip than she expected A groan escaped her throat
“Testament Make sure you remeth I a in your hand”
“You…”
Yoshi+yasu had heard this girl knew she was dying soon, but…
“Just callbut the previous ruler now This is your generation and I am happy I can be involved in it at all So don’t think of us like we’re the same From now on, I will always be Anne I will be the Anne of Austria orries for and roots for my brother, his wife, the Reine des Garous, Luynes, and the rest of Hexagone Française”
She looked up into the sky as another blast of cannon fire filled it
“Noonder what the Reine des Garous is doing She always has things her way, so I’m not worried about her herself I’ toounicorns for transportation be a probleht a hand to her mouth and whispered the rest “Unicorns won’t let you ride theirl …I suppose she’ll threaten thean to set over the forest, people in black uniforms faced some round white lumps
At the lead of the uniformed people was the silver-haired Reine des Garous who smiled and clapped her hands
“Okay, everyone These are the rare spirit beasts known as unicorns and they are going to rush us across the MHRR border The unicorns can hide the …In exchange for carrying us, I will agree not to touch their herd for half a year Is that okay?”
The Musashi+ group was disguised in MHRR unifor up and down in excite to ride the unicorns and Tenzou stepped forward to view the called unicorns had one fatal flaw
…They look nothing like horses
They looked like short daikon radishes or potatoes with a horn attached and wires stuck into theplant cowslike the unicorns from the stories I’ve heard …Are you really unicorns?”
“During the destruction of the Har up our spirit forms to survive the ether disturbance-orrrrn”
“And like this, we don’t need to eat as hter-orrrrn”
“So this form has been the trendy style ever since-orrrrn”
“Don’t tell me that ‘orn’ is because you’re unicorns”
The unicorns exchanged a glance, looked back at Tenzou, and tilted their entire bodies
“You got a problem with that?”
“That! That was an honest complaint, wasn’t it!?”
“Not at all-orrrrn All unicorns have pure hearts-orrrrn”
“Really?” he asked the Reine des Garous who smiled and nodded
“If they talk back to me, I just hunt them down I’m a Loup-Garou after all”
“Is that hoorks?” he asked Mitotsudaira who averted her gaze
Being her daughter can’t be easy, he thought while counting the unicorns
There were four in all, but…
…Only a virgin girl can ride theht?
“Um, what are Toori-dono and I supposed to do?”
“Unicorns only allow pure girls to ride theirls-orrrrn”
“Th-that was blunt! That was aly blunt!”
“Calentle shadow and wind moved from behind him
“Me first!”
Naito sat sidesaddle on one of the unicorns That was fast, thought Tenzou, but a moment later…
“Eh?”
“What is it, Master Tenzou? What’s wrong with Lady Naito?”
“Well, uirl could… huh? Ehhhhh!? But, wait Based on the story I once heard about Naruze-dono’s birthday…ehhh!?”
“Oh? Master Tenzou, are you referring to when Lady Naito and Lady Naruze ate a tart in bed together? What’s wrong with that? Don’t tell h to make you impure”
“Do you have a question-orrrrn? My unicorn senses say she’s pure-orrrrn There’s no proble at the end there is one hell of a problem!!”
“Calm down,” said Mary as she placed her coat over a unicorn’s back and sat on top of it “This way, I won’t hurt your back, right? I learned that in England When riding without a saddle, you can hurt the horse’s back if it isn’t used to carrying people”
“Wh-what a disappointment-orrrrn”
Once Mitotsudaira sat on one as well, all of the girls except the Reine des Garous had their steed
…I can just run alongside them, so…
He turned around to call for Toori and found the idiot was crossdressing
“Um, Toori-dono?”
The idiot turned around in an MHRR girl’s uniforood in this!?”
…How am I supposed to anshen he asks so forcefully?
At any rate, the Reine des Garous, as dressed the saht a hand to her cheek
“I had those sent here like you asked, but it looks far better on you than I expected”
“Uet it, Tenzou!? This is so they’ll carry me as a pure maiden!”
“Perverts are impure at the most fundamental level, so no thank you-orrrrn”
“Y-your plan has failed already!”
“Calm down,” cut in the Reine des Garous as she looked back and forth between Tenzou and the unicorn “As vice chancellor of Hexagone Française, I will courteously carry Musashi+’s king If I’ht?”
She picked up the idiot in a princess carry “Umm,” said Toori as he scratched at his head, but he did not actually protest Tenzou decided to leave that to the Reine des Garous, but then…
“Over here, ”
Mitotsudaira closed her eyes, raised her nose, and turned away before swiping Toori with a piece of divinely-protected ivy she had secretly kept with her “Oh!” cried Toori as he ung through the air With his torso wrapped in the ivy, he lightly landed in her lap as she sat on the unicorn
“Nate, I really feel like a piece of luggage right now”
“If I leftwith another nation’s vice chancellor, I would never hear the end of it froht wants her king all to herself, doesn’t she?”
Tenzou saw Mitotsudaira briefly bare her teeth at her mother’s provocation
He truly wanted to avoid another fight between nore Naito’s shouts of “Get her! Get her!”
The Reine des Garous shrugged as if to say there was no helping it
…Is she enjoying this?
I don’t understand woht as the Reine des Garous cli unicorn The other unicorns shouted “orrrn!” in surprise and the one finally reacted
“Uuh…”
It began to cry
“M-irls before! But now…!”
“Friend! The orrrrn! Don’t forget the orrrrn!”
“Mother, I think this plan was dooot it! I do!”
“And I think they’re looking at the whole purity issue frole,” added Tenzou
After a quick discussion, they co her coat over the unicorn’s back as a dividing line
“Well, that’s everyone I can just…”
Tenzou trailed off as he noticed Mary staring intently at Mitotsudaira who carried Toori in her lap
After a few breaths, she slowly turned toward him with her eyebrows a bit raised and her cheeks flushed She then brought her legs together and spread her arms
“Now, p-please”
…Ehhhhh?
The two Excaliburs floated next to Mary as steps up to her, but he could predict a living hell in the future frour with a businesslike expression
“Master Tenzou, this situation dee breasts are definitely worth some sacrifices And if my future wife says so, it must be true
Not even Tenzou entirely understood his reasoning there, but he obeyed the guidance of his faith in large breasts
Once he stepped on the Excaliburs, they floated up
“Oh”
They provided footing for him on either side of the unicorn’s back, so he could stand behind Mary without actually riding the unicorn It required so, but that was a simple task for a ninja Also…
“Master Tenzou, I think you have this backwards”
He lifted Mary in his arms She smiled as her hips rose from the unicorn and Naito whistled behind the out just how many stealth techniques he would need to use to weather the storm once he returned to the Musashi+, but Mary spoke with a smile in her voice
“I had always drea it in a story This is the dashi+ng prince carrying you away on his white horse, isn’t it?”
“That burning passion! I’ to nored that and their suspicious actions He had clearly already reached overkill levels, so he had nothing left to lose
“But I i, Musashi+, and KPA Italia right about now”
“What are we gonna do, shi+bata? Don’t you think it’s too ?”
On the eastern bank of the Elbe River, Nari line fall into the river near their tent He sat still, waiting for the fishi+ng rod tofishi+ng rod of his own Katsuie suddenly raised a hand behind hiht ripples covered the river’s surface, and he tugged on his fishi+ng rod
“Oh! Here we go! That really does get the fish ! There’s no way this won’t turn into a big business! You handle the advertisee all the inco net, how about you hand over half the rights to that inco, you idiot! There’s no way I’d actually tea a business now, it’d be with Lady Oichi!”
“God, you’re annoying”
A fish struck the side of his face, so Nariround and put it in his basket
“What the hell do you think you’re doing!?” he shouted back
“You’re freakingthis so seriously”
Katsuie backed away a little and went on to look into the northern sky
“You can’t see the Musashi+ any you? …Ah, don’t throw rocks at erous!!”
“They’re not even hitting you, so quit coone, but so, aren’t they?”
Nari Two Gods of ere undergoing co’s western wall One was Satoone Française’s Palais-Cardinal
“Neither of those are Musashi+’s”
“Old Tomoe’s there, Anne of Whatever’s there, and that chestnut-headed vacuuuy’s there, so so with Musashi+’s vice president…as her nairl’s naht away! You pervert …Hirl you’re into? Are you in L-O-V-… Oh? You wanna fight? You wanna fight!?”
“God, could you be anyhis fishi+ng line back into the river “Musashi+’s vice president’s definitely there Probably souards I bet we could take her out if we attacked now”
“What would you do about Tomoe Gozen?”
“She can only use that Testamenta Arma once a day, so that doesn’t matter now”
“No, I meant her attack power”
“What? I’m vice chancellor of MHHR and PA Oda …And she’s an old lady Her stamina’s dropped, so I could beat her now”
“Could you not before?”
“I fought her two or three ti a bad day and ran I was only five at the tih”
“Oh, so you were arocks and Nari rocks back, but they finally took a break once Katsuie’s fishi+ng rod moved
“Well, there’s Musashi+’s vice chancellor too, but I’ve seen most of what she can do The Gods of ill raise morale, but they’d need thirty of thee force before we destroyed the city At best, they could ht They would probably try to defend the city, but Magdeburg doesn’t have any walls on the Elbe side to promote trade by river”
“But they dropped the harbor themselves and set up a defense spell device to deflect any attacks There’s no easy way of attacking, but the plan given at that strategy ht in Are you sure that’ll work?”
“It’ll be fine If things aren’t looking good, we can use a cannon to fire you into the city!!”
“Please don’t strike a pose when you say that And you’ve got all that solid aran the exchange of thrown stones, but they agreed to a truce once Katsuie’s fishi+ng rod ht If we don’t earn a win for Hashi+ba here, MHRR will probably get tougher on her”
“She really pushes herself too hard”
“We’ve gotta do this” Katsuie s rod “Once ourany more I’ll be driven into my own castle where I killup our schedules so we could enjoy every day until then I don’t knohen that’s going to happen, but I need to make sure Hashi+ba can continue on in my place”
“There’s no real reason for you to die, you know? You can always retire”
“We’ve gotta play along And it’s not much different for you,” said Katsuie “Afteryourself And at the urging of Hashi+ba and Toshi+e’s warriors …Toshi+e has a way of brooding on things, so keep that in mind when you do it Or as much as a small fry like you can, anyway”
“Sometimes it seems like death wouldn’t be so bad”
So…
“I’ve told Toshi+ to onna come for me I’ve told him to take me on with the kind of excitement he wouldn’t show Hashi+ba or any of the others”
“Kah! Would you look at that youth? I can almost smell how inexperienced you are …Especially that ‘take ot a bite …Yay! Just kiiiidding! You really are stupid, aren’t you? Hot a bite”
“Whaaaat!? Why are you lying again? Hulasses!”
Katsuie’s fishi+ng rod aled into the river He could only say “ah” before Narimasa cut in
“Hah! You idiot!”
“What!? That was your fault for not being convincing enough! Your words lacked sincerity! …Honestly, as I cursed with such an awful underclass”
But Naried the subject
“Anyway, I wonder how Kuki and the others are doing They should be fighting in KPA Italia right about now”
“Well, Magoichi’s with theainst KPA Italia, so it isn’t going to be easy”
As Katsuie looked to the southern sky, MHRR’s iron-clad shi+ps were finally beginning to corner KPA Italia’s Murakami Navy in the skies south of MHRR and west of the Seto Inland Sea
The Muraka back, but they had not destroyed any of the iron-clad shi+ps co the critical point for stopping the Itsukushi+ma
And at 3:17 PM, the Murakami Navy’s fleet of san firing repeatedly
Both sides of the naval battle between KPA Italia and MHRR had finally begun to fight in earnest