Chapter 69.2 (2/2)
Kyle once again excused himself in front of Rishe.
“I’m sorry to speak to a woman like this…Besides, even if His Royal Highness Arnold is in fact a brutal man, the plan I must take remains the same.”
“Defend Koyor at all costs, even at the risk of your life.”
“!”
“…I’m sure you’ll say that, am I right?”
She looked up at Kyle, who looked up in surprise, and smiled sadly.
[“I want to protect this country. I will do everything I can to achieve that.”]
[“That’s probably the greatest duty I have ever had, having been born to die.”]
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He said so and joined the ranks of the unwanted war.
“I used to think that I should risk my life to protect what is important to me. But there’s no doubt that’s not good enough.”
Remembering what she told Fritz earlier as well, Rishe continued, “Because the life of the person you wanted to protect is going to last a long time after that.”
At that moment, she heard a gasp from Kyle.
“Adversities in life don’t come only once. They are just as much a danger as they are a blessing as you overcome the current hardships.”
As they talked, she recalled the royal family members she served as a knight.
They risked their lives to protect and defend their precious princes. They weren’t afraid to die for them. With that in mind, they stood on the battlefield and fought with their swords in their hands.
Rishe now knew better that that was a bad move.
Emperor Arnold might have caught up with the feeling carriage.
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Their allies, who had escaped, might have betrayed, and they eventually lost their lives.
If one of the knights, just one of them, survived, they might have been saved from such difficulties.
“I learned that Garkhain knights are strong because they fight with the spirit of ‘survive and protect at all costs’, rather than ‘die nobly there to protect’…They are taught to fight and live even if they lost a limb or can no longer hold a sword.”
And it was no other than the Crown Prince, Arnold, who devised such a training method.
“Please, Prince Kyle…”
Rishe looked into Kyle’s eyes and instead of ‘Your Highness Kyle,’ she called him that same way she once did.
This was how the people of Koyor addressed him. It was sort of a friendly nickname for the royalty. It might be somewhat impolite for Rishe of this world to call him this.
But Rishe dared to say it.
“First off, I hope Prince Kyle can strike a small alliance with me.”
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“Alliance, that’s…”
“To persuade His Royal Highness Arnold, I need your help like no other for the sake of the alliance between Garkhain and Koyor.”
Rishe said and spread a paper she hid on the desk.
She wrote it in a hurry after parting with Arnold on the balcony last night. Kyle gulped as he looked over the plan.
“Miss Rishe, what on earth are you…”
“I can’t provide you with any details. But I’m sure that with you, Prince Kyle, we can make this plan a reality.”
“But I don’t think this will convince His Highness Arnold. On the contrary, I’m afraid he won’t spare a glance at it.”
“No.”
Rishe denied resolutely.
“I don’t know if His Highness Arnold will nod his head…But if this plan works, he will definitely listen.”
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“How can you be so sure?”
“Of course because…”
She straightened her chest and smiled.
“…I am His Highness Arnold’s future wife.”