Chapter 72: She-Devil (1) (1/2)
Chapter 72: She-Devil (1)
Milton shared the inforotten fro e number of troops only to capture one man?”
Princess Leila couldn’t believe this But Duke Palan, who had been next to Princess Leila, spoke up with a serious expression
“This hness”
“Now that I think about it, didn’t you say you confronted this fried, yourself, Duke Palan?”
“Yes, Your Highness”
Duke Palan took a
“After confronting hifried wasn’t a normal commander”
“In asn’t he norhness, your orders for that battle was for ht And didn’t you faithfully carry out that order, Duke Palan?”
“… To be honest, I was a bit greedy, Your Highness”
“You were greedy?”
“Yes, Your Highness When the eneht in front of my eyes, I couldn’t help but want to soundly defeat thely defeat the invaders in the battle, he would continue to doion But, he wasn’t able to do so because Duke Palan realized that the enemy wasn’t someone as easy to defeat
“Whatever h his defense And although I tried to break through by directly leading the troops…”
“You mean, you failed?”
“We suffered heavy losses, Your Highness Once I took a step back and looked at it again, I realized that not only was he counterattacking every single one ofmy own troops down”
“……”
“It felt as though I was playing chess with a chess- seemed to work So in the end, I could only focus on defense”
Princess Leila’s face turned serious as she listened to Duke Palan’s explanations
“Siegfried didn’t have a lot of troops, and even with you, a Master, you couldn’t gain the upper hand? Is that what you’re telling me, Duke Palan?”
“If there was a Master in that arhness”
Duke Palan’s words were the best cofried… Alright Fine”
Milton gave a sht things through
‘The only reason this she-devil of a princess is reacting like that is because she thought up soreat idea’
Milton planned to leave all the sh Duke Derek Brans was being treated with great hospitality in the Lester Kingdom, a part of his out too long”
Duke Brans hadn’t coe ar here was to fight and eject the Republican forces that were currently stationed in the northern part of Lester Kingdo further down south His second purpose was to kill Siegfried, the erous person Of course, Strabus Kingdootiations and deet paid, but that wasn’t a part of Duke Bran’s role His role was to lead the army into war, and defeat the Republicans
But the problen country and needed the cooperation of the Lester Kingdoe a justified war Of course, the Strabus Kingdodo reinforcement But, the First Prince who had issued the official document had committed suicide just before they had arrived In such a situation, Duke Bran couldn’t trust a single sheet of paper and ainst the Republicans
He had to obtain an official declaration of cooperation frodom but…
The probleent of this country, wouldn’t give hi with hi he would have to continue wasting time like this And so, he decided he would otiations, the person who started first would generally lose lessly waste time like this and decided to do for hiuest? Who is it?”
Duke Brans furrowed his brows
In this s, Duke Brans was considered a noble above all nobles, either by status or by skill And for that reason, the Lester Kingdom’s nobles had impatiently lined up to meet with him But to Duke Brans, those nobles had been no different fro around his head But this time, it was different
“It’s Claudia, the wife of His Highness Skyt von Lester”
“…I’ll meet with her”
This wasn’t someone he could reject The First Prince’s wife had been the one to give Strabus Kingdodom Since that’s the case, she would most likely be helpful
“Yes, Duke Brans”
Soon, the attendant appeared with a woman The beautiful wo her face She gracefully greeted him
“It’s a pleasure to meet you I am Claudia Lester”
Duke Brans calmly responded
“I am Duke Derek Brans”
Once the two sat face to face, Duke Brans spoke
“I heard about what recently happened Please accept my sincerest condolences”
“… Thank you”
As though she could barely speak, Claudia’s voice eak and tre
On the outside, she looked like a pitiful ho was pretending to be strong even though her husband’s death had shattered her Who would look at her and think that she had personally poisoned her husband?
“Why did you come to see me, My Lady?”
“I came to uphold an to explain her situation…
The deceased First Prince had originally requested reinforcedoion of Lester Kingdom, but ultimately fell into depression and had comdoainst them in order to fulfill her husband’s will
“That is… the only thing I can do to atone for not preventing my husband’s death”
Duke Brans nodded as Claudia spoke through her tears