Chapter 83: Ghost Special Corps (3) (2/2)
“Do you intend to abandon the people? Where have your one?”
“For there to be the country’s people, there , the center that is her leadershi+p must take precedence”
“That is so Rest assured, our decision has prioritized the future of this nation above all”
Princess Leila feigned an enraged expression and shot up from her seat
“Cowards, the lot of you ot no desire to throw my lot in with ones who do not know honor!”
The nobles flinched at first, but they quickly aze ide open eyes
“It will be you, Princess, that will regret being swayed by shallow emotions to make such a silly decision – not us”
“We are not so foolish as to stay on a sinking shi+p until the very end”
They all spewed so those lines as they left
Once they returned to their estate, they would likely hurry to pack their belongings and seek asylun lands
When they all left the royal hall…
“Hoeariso and dance since this ?”
Viscount Sabian appeared froru well We ood from the bad”
Princess Leila smirked
“Hoh In the Southern continent, there exists a saying that one gains more every time he stumbles… you are exactly that kind of character, Viscount”
“I appreciate the praise”
“That being so – how long must this act continue? I aht schedule, are we not?”
“At present, all the nobles of the Capital will be atte to curry favor with you, Princess I believe… half a day more should suffice”
“How tiresome”
“I’m afraid it must be done”
“Very well Then I suppose I will continue…”
That day, just as Viscount Sabian advised, Princess Leila had an audience with the majority of the influential nobles in the Capital The exchanges were akin to the one held at the royal hall, with the nobles having two different final reactions
Somewhere within the realm of 80 percent of the nobles criticized, or in worse cases were infuriated, by Princess Leila’s actions For the ones that seethed with rage, the only reason that they did not commit treason there and then was because Duke Palan remained on standby where they could plainly see
On the other hand, the re 20 percent of the nobles joined Princess Leila Some of these held dear their honor as nobles and had a proper moral compass Others were fascinated or impressed by the capability and charisma that Princess Leila displayed in the short ti state affairs as a stand-in
Others still were yet wary and unsure, deciding to follow Princess Leila with the vague notion that she still held the reins of power
The reasons were many, but the fact was that 20 percent decided to remain loyal to Princess Leila
Princess Leila and these nobles together aided in preparing the evacuation of the citizens from the Capital Meanwhile, the other 80 percent hurriedly packed their assets and fled as fast as possible
A, King August King August, who had secluded hi fallen ill, departed from the Capital with the nobles still loyal to hi so, he took all the collective wealth of the royal fa to the very botto to defect to other lands
Even as she became aware of this, Princess Leila did not stop hiht the whole procession was sad
‘To think my father would only amount to this much…’
She merely shook her head, for she did not have the luxury of tiripe about it further Noas the time for theer to Milton to elaborate on their course of action
Next, she publicly announced her intentions to accoreatly encouraged by this statee
“To think that the Princess would join us…”
“So it is true that the Princess stands with us, when even His Majesty the King is said to have fled?”
“As far as I’ve heard, she lambasted the nobles who abandoned us and bolted”
“Those rottenthat they also abandoned the blood royal that is the Princess?”
“damn sons of bitches… they were always so far up their own asses, yet theyarrives”
Public sentiust and the nobles that had forsaken the sense of resentreatly faithful towards Princess Leila, who proclai the evacuation effort from her own coffers
One of Princess Leila’s specialties was spreading her st the masses to manipulate popular sentiment – but this ti the truth as it was, she achieved the results she wanted faster and more definitively than expected
‘That’s phase two of the plan coht away’
With that, Princess Leila joined hundreds of thousands of civilians on the path of evacuation
It was said that the procession of citizens that followed her stretched all the way to the horizon
After elifried swiftly reconsolidated his troops and monitored the enemy’s movements
He would have pro like usual, but the existence of Milton’s Southern arht that Captain Alfred would be so one-sidedly beaten?’
Just as the Lester Kingdofried did expect Alfred to be so unilaterally defeated either For someone as as cautious and meticulous as Alfred, it was presumed that he would be able to ht
The actual result was Milton’s landslide victory
Consequently, Siegfried prepared for the possibility of Milton and his ar and that attack never came
It was rather because Milton’s arfried could not move promptly and was forced to steadily monitor the situation It would spell trouble for them if the army of the South attacked them from the rear while they carried out their offensive on the Capital
While Siegfried was stuck, the first one to make a move was Princess Leila who evacuated all the civilians froe
When Siegfried received this news, he narrowed his eyes
“This has become rather bothersome”