THE AUTHOR REINCARNATED?! [Vol2] Chapter 9 – Secret Agreement (2/2)
“Hmpf, a faithful subject you say, but inwardly you think differently, right? You’re not thinking anything good about me either, do you?”
Uwah, this King is seriously warped
How did he become like this?⌈8⌋
……
……Mh it’s troublesome, let’s use a frontal attack!
“Even if it’s like this, Your Majesty”
“What? Speak”
“I know that His Majesty is aiht now”
“Fufu, nobody wants to hear the rest of those words”
“I heard that there are ree with His Majesty’s intentions About that I, Carlo de Medici, want to tell His Majesty so”
“Then just say it already”
The King was clearly irritated by this exchange
It also seeain
I spoke in such a roundabout way intentionally to irritate the king
I took a deep breath and continued to speak
“If His Majesty promises to let me keep my current position and power even after the reform, this Carlo wants to act as a shi+eld for His Majesty and approves of the realisation of this reform from the bottom of my heart”
When I kneeled and loweredremained silent for a while
“……Are you trying to tell me you want to support me?”
“Yes, of course, though just if you guarantee my social position and territory”
“Are you saying the other nobles don’t concern you?”
“I’ as the results are favourable for Franz Kingdom and myself”
“Hoh, You don’t care what happens to the other nobles?”
The King asked again with a surprised face
This is afor the throne in the future
It would be more than convenient for the number of nobles who could become my rivals to decrease
Using the King’s authority I’ll disperse the nobles who look like they’d become rivals and after the number of co and aim for the throne, but it’ll fail in the end because the Hero will stop me, that’s the scenario I wrote for Carlo
“I don’t care what happens to the noble I am not particularly close with the other nobles Rather it should have been obvious with this case that I’m on rather bad terms with Duke Rejum My true intention is it to borrow his Majesty’s power to oppose those nobles including Duke Rejum”
I intentionally grinned as I said this
I think it’s better to just show one’s ulterior motives rather than use useless deceptive tactics
It seemed like it went as well as I expected
“Interesting, if it’s like this I wouldn’thands Superficial flattery and pretty words do not deserve to be believed Carlo, do you have any conditions for lending me a hand?”⌈9⌋
“Yes, of course, I will send soldiers in case of an eanise a new arth and please let us pave the road between the Capital and Braham to promptly be able to move the military”
I heard that it was basically forbidden for nobles to organise an ar
The pavehasn’t permitted either for similar reasons
Even if a noble were to send out soldiers it would take a long time to reach the Capital on an unpaved road
I want to clear these two conditions by all ht against the nobles and also for Carlo’s coup d’état on the King in the future
The King believed that Carlo’s soldiers eak so it wouldn’t matter and he would also be troubled if they would take too et to the Capital so that was OK as well
“Fumu, that’s fine Discuss the details with Walles That’s fine, right, Walles?”
“Certainly”
With that said, I’ll leave the detailed negotiations with Minister Walles to the tactician Nals
Well then, there is another condition I haven’t said yet
“I fear I have another request, your Majesty”
“Let’s hear it”
I took a deep breath
Aah, I’m nervous⌈10⌋
“I would like to clarify my position and would need a title to be able to stand on His Majesty’s side and to oppose Duke Armandi”
“I see, a title, huh? What do you want?”
“I’hness Princess Charlotte’s hand”
“Are you telling ive you Charlotte as your wife?”
The King’s tone of voice became lower
Princess Charlotte was so surprised by this matter that her eyes became perfectly round and Minister Walles and General Dolus were also obviously astonished by this unexpected situation
OK, this is the crucial moment, Carlo