Chapter 69.2 (1/2)

Kyle’s eyes widened then slowly calmed down.

“I’ve shown you something embarrassing.”

His silvery eyelashes were delicate, as if they were made of ice, and they looked exquisite in his pale light blue eyes.

“I think it’s only polite to return home quietly after His Royal Highness Arnold rejected me, but I can’t just give up here.”

“…Didn’t you think that was dangerous? Even though we aren’t at war now, a victorious nation like Garkhain can overturn the situation. I’m sure Prince Kyle has heard of the battle in which His Highness Arnold, during the war, beheaded all the royalty of the hostile country, right?”

“That’s…”

Kyle caught a glimpse of Kamil, the knight guard, standing at a distance.

Realizing Kyle’s reservations, Rishe said, “Don’t worry. Even if that knight overhears our conversation, His Highness Arnold won’t hear it.”

The knight guard, Kamil, was from the favelas.

He was a knight of Arnold’s knight guards and was normally obligated to report to Arnold everything that happened to Rishe.

But Kamil was the only exception.

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He was so impressed with the measures Rishe had recently taken for the favelas that he offered to help her.

Even Rishe’s kidnapping by Theodore instigation, Kamil and her handmaid, Elise, worked together to help her.

As someone with a fiancé, Rishe shouldn’t talk to Kyle alone.

But if he were an ordinary knight guard, the report would have reached Arnold.

Therefore, she’s been waiting for Kamil to come as her knight guard after the shift in guards. Unexpectedly, he came around earlier than expected.

When Rishe glanced at Kamil, he bowed and stood as far away from Rishe as possible.

Kyle waited for it and then spoke.

“I’ve read about the national affairs that His Highness Arnold got involved in, and it is clear that he put the people first in his measures. There’s no doubt that he’s a wise ruler…I suspect that his mercy is even extended toward the enemies during the war.”

“…Please enlighten me.”

Even Kyle was aware of it. Although he had such certainty, Rishe waited for his words.

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“I’m a royal who is supposed to protect his people, but I know nothing about the battlefield — So that’s all in my imagination. However, a battlefield is supposed to be much harder to move around on if there are more wounded than dead.”

“…”

Kyle was right.

If your comrades have died, you have no choice but to leave them behind and move on.

It was traumatic and heartbreaking, but it wouldn’t really lead to a decline in strength.

However, this wasn’t the case with the wounded.

Once a comrade was injured on the battlefield, the knights would help, rescue, and protect him.

That was less power devoted to the battle. As a result, their troops might be wiped out to protect their wounded comrades.

“Perhaps that’s why His Highness Arnold was so ‘effective’ on the battlefield, when he brutally killed enemy soldiers. One look at a soldier and you know he’s doomed; few would less likely to stand up to him to save him. Even less is willing to fight for the survivors. Killing the royals rather than capturing them could also be seen as an attempt to reduce the sacrifices of the knights who’re willing to risk their lives to take them back, in addition to putting an end to the war…”

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Rishe nodded at Kyle’s thoughts, who should know nothing about the battlefield.

Prince Kyle is still brilliant. The way he stands by a mere merchant and scholar, and his current battlefield theory…He has an accurate analysis and concept for situations that he hasn’t experienced himself.

If only he hadn’t been so sickly.

And if the world wasn’t at war so often, he would surely be known as a wise ruler.

“I agree with you.”

“Rishe-dono…”

His Highness Arnold’s brutal killing of his enemies in the past wars has a purpose. It’s not surprising to save the majority at the expense of extreme sacrifices.――……And because of that, he said it would be better for him to invade Koyor before his father, Emperor Garkhain, catches wind of it.

Arnold was kind.

And because of his kindness, he didn’t have qualms in choosing war and murder.

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That was why she thought she had to stop it.