Chapter 75 (1/2)

RATH 75

TL: Eevee

9 The others’ stories (4)

6 Their story: the anti-empire forces’ story

When a country is founded or ruined, it is a reat bloodshed is had in the process

And even a those, the history of the Karuan empire is particularly harsh

A famine the likes of which were unheralded in history

Where even the weeds were stripped bare from the earth in search of food, the corruption of the nobles grew by the day

Normally, it would not have been unreasonable for a rebellion to have broken out

But the nighth the entire continent denied the peasants even the strength to try

It was then A hero appeared

A youth that described hions

That youth took care of the commoners with a miraculous power, and miracles appeared wherever that youth walked

And so he took his followers, and declared war on the kingdodoms were founded

But the difference between the stories of other kingdoms and this one, was that this story did not end once he prevailed and beca

When he took the throne, this hat he allegedly said in his first public speech

“Behold, there are stillin the continent! There are still many rotten countries that bleed their people dry!”

And so the do nations, and in just three years, he annexed another six countries and founded an empire

A result that could only have been said to be a miracle of the famine that reduced both populations and war capabilities

The end result was that the Karuan Eht now it has become the center of the continent as a superpower nation

But, because of that the Karuan Eer, then there will be no ht noe are the strongest is the greatest opportunity We need to strike when they have let their guards down”

“Now is the chance!”

And aanization that acted within the eanization Howling, but after it was destroyed at the hands of the current Crown Prince, it becaanization hidden in the empire

It was the secret hideout of the anti-empire forces, established by the descendants of the royal families that had fallen to the empire!

In that secret hideout, scores of people were strongly pushi+ng their opinions onto a single person

“Howling has fallen In an extremely short period of time At most three days, no, in reality, it fell in just a couple of days”

“And in the Great War, the imperial army suffered very few losses as they ended the war”

“Yes, conificant setbacks to their ht despite their victory, the ereat general Ertea due to the adom’s army”

“Because of that they could concentrate on destroying Howling which was hiding inside their territory And that is the saesting opposite opinions, but today, each and every one of the the same conclusion

“Indeed, I believe that it is harder for us to go on any further as well”

At the s of the old man who stood at the head of the table, everyone else looked at the oldYes, even if it is strong, it is too strong”

No one objected to the old man’s words

Because like the old est nation that no one could touch

“Because of that, this is our last chance… indeed, it is a good chance But there is so that you are allat the follower that had been with hiaciously and said

“We are too old”

“What does that mean?”

“It is exactly as I say We are too old A thousand years We existed for that long purely for the sake of revenge against the empire”

“Exactly, it’s because of that!”

“No, that’s the weird thing Out of the nations that fell when the empire was founded, the oldest of them had a history of five hundred years But it has been over a thousand since that country fell To think ould hone our blades of revenge for twice as long as our countries existed…”

With a bitter s at hie for the fallen nations

Very good, it was a good ideal

Working to revive your fallen nation

That was also certainly a good ambition

But if that time had already passed over a thousand years then that was another story altogether

For the sake of a thousand years of history, many descendants lost their lives for a thousand years

Was this truly the right thing to do?

And was it right to pass that burden on to our successors?

“We have honed our blades for too long Our blades are sharp, but sharped so thinly we can no longer see our own blades”

“Then, does thatup on this opportunity as well?”

An education that bordered on brainwashi+ng

Froht why to destroy the eainst it

Howling’s first beginnings was as an anti-ianization and turned their hands to other work, but this organization did not, and remained purely as the eneet it hat our ancestors had in anization the anti-empire army

The history that was succeeded fro to end it

“I believe that all of you arethe empire

As he looked at the faces of his followers that were shocked once again, the old ave a powerful smile as he declared

“The reason why I say that you fellows are wrong is because you are leaving behind a path of retreat Retreat? Contingency plans? We don’t need those Our only objective is to end this war And for that, ill devote everything to this i?”

“Yes, the eer Because of that, we do not haveon this one chance and run with it This long and boring fight that has stretched on for a thousand years Even if we burn everything to ashes, should we not finish it here?”

At the old rin, the others could not respond

But they all knew

At the end of this imperial festival, between them and the empire, one of them would disappear

And the probability that the ones disappearing would be theh

“Yes, it has It has been too long”

“A thousand years, we’re bored of it It’s tier than yesterday’s

Any country would fall to ruin in time, but for the empire, that time was not now

No, that tier