145 CHAPTER X RESPONSE ON THE OTHER SIDE (1/2)

After eating and bathing, it was time to go to sleep, and I was in my bedroom watching the rat monitor with Belle to find out what the enemy was doing.

. yesterday.

Hey!　The dungeon in my territory has been destroyed!

Apparently, they're going to show me what happened when they heard I'd trudged through the Fog Dungeon.

The head of House Philibert came to the general in a hurry.

He must be very impatient to make a move on his own.

The general looks surprised.

''A dungeon?　What's up with the dungeon?

That's why I got crushed last night!

Who's this for?

I don't know what that is yet ......, but it must be him!

Well, we'll see.

Yeah. So, what's the problem?　If he's stepped through, he's going to get a new skill and it's going to be a pain in the ass, but ...... he was at school yesterday, right?　I don't think even a quirky guy can traverse a dungeon in a few hours. If you can do that, then you might as well give up fighting from now on .

Ooh, you're all right, but you're not right at all.

You forgot about the transference.

But I don't think it's possible to transfer into the dungeon.

Yeah, right. All right, let's find out who's been in the dungeon.

It's not our job. If you want to look for it, you can use your own troops to find it.

Why?

”Because we have no reason to look for you. We're knights of the realm, not your knights. And this dungeon thing is a matter for your realm.

Well, yeah.

'Can you say that?　I'm the one who's paying for it.

''So I'll say it again, but if you're going to say that, then you'll have to give me the money soon. At this rate, we'll have no choice but to report to His Majesty the King that the House of Philibert has no intention of fighting, won't we?

If that happened, what would happen?

First, the House of Philibert would have to deal with both the Empire and the Kingdom.

Then the Empire would either destroy it or the kingdom would invade it.

In either future, though, House Philibert will be finished.

”d*mn it!　All right. Just give me six months!　I'll raise the taxes more, until we can start the war by six months from now . Right now we don't have any money to spend on the war because of the fines we've paid.

Wow ...... This guy is going to take money from the already exhausted territories.

It's going to fail before we can start a war .

”Six months? ...... Okay. I'll give you six months as the deadline. If you haven't paid in after six months, I'll report to His Majesty.

So I'll just have to make the Philibert family's financial woes worse, so that they won't make it in six months .

This makes me feel like we can end the war without a fight.

2 HOURS AGO

Now the scene when we get the message that we've trudged through the mountain dungeon?

Oh my God!

What's going on?

'After the fog dungeons, you trudged through the mountain dungeons.

I knew it.

The video starts with a soldier reporting to the general and the master of House Philibert.

”What?　Who are you!

When the chubby father heard the report, he yelled at the soldier.

The soldier didn't do anything wrong, so he didn't have to yell at him .

''The fog dungeon is still under investigation, but we have learned that the mountain dungeon has been trampled by Léonce Muldean, Frank Baudelaire, and Hermann Caloon .

What?　He was at school the day before yesterday, right?　What's going on?　Explain it to me!

He heard the soldier's explanation, and then he turned to the general and yelled at him.

You've been busy.

”Do you?　I won't know without looking into it. But I think it's safe to assume he took the fog dungeon too. Then he's got two more skills. And in that case, we don't have a minute or a second to spare. We have no choice but to go to war now.

It's a quintessential ...... calm analysis without being rushed.

But the other side is incompetent: .......

'It can't be done.'

Why?　It's already going to get tougher from now on as time goes on, isn't it?