Chapter 207: Catch ‘em by Surprise (3) (2/2)
Milton raised an eyebrow after looking over the document
<ol class="lst-kix_a7s4jho03bdv-0 start" start="1"><li>The territories currently occupied by the Republicans will be recognized as the Republic’s</li><li>Theto defect to the Republic will not be stopped</li><li>5 old will be paid to the Republic as reparations</li></ol>
There were many more conditions than just these three, but they were all unreasonable deht think that the Republic had won the war
‘Do they think we’re pushovers?’
Milton showed the docu Nicholas tre at the Republicans
“There’s no way I’ll accept these conditions!”
King Nicholas fried never looked at hiaze was only focused on Milton And Milton took no notice of King Nicholas as well and only thought about the Lester Kingdo as we’re able to take in the western part of the Valene Kingdodom wanted at this tifried do whatever he wanted
This truce agreedo their share But, if they accepted Siegfried’s conditions, then the Republic would be taking much more than their fair share
‘I can’t tolerate that’
Milton looked Siegfried straight in the eye
“We cannot accept these conditions”
“That’s right”
King Nicholas added his bit frofried leaned back against his chair and spoke with a relaxed expression
“Then what’re your conditions?”
“Return all the territory you occupied and withdraw Naturally, on’t agree to the peoplewar reparations either”
Milton’s conditions were the total opposite of Siegfried’s conditions
“You think we’ll agree to that?”
“You won’t agree to theain?”
“You sure? Even though General Barron would just raze your country’s mainland?”
Milton frowned at those words He had heard that Duke Palan had been severely injured and suffered defeat Because of that, it had becoarding whether they’d win if they fought against Siegfried, if the two of theain, it wouldn’t end quickly And if that happened, then he’d have to be away fro time…
Now that Barron of the Republic had started hting But those were Milton’s inner thoughts and couldn't be revealed at the table while they were still negotiating
“I don’t care, so why don’t we try?”
“Hoo… Such confidence”
“Maybe the confidence co beaten you halfway to a pulp?”
Instead of Siegfried, it was Jake who frowned at Milton’s provocation He was exuding a murderous intent like he wanted to cut Milton in half for disrespecting his lord like that Seeing that, Jerome took half a step forward as he spoke to Jake
“Don’t try to play any of your tricks”
“You wanna test whether I’ a trick or not?”
Jake spoke as if it didn’t matter whether he cut down either Jeroenuine, but Milton knew
‘He’s just bluffing’
The only reason the four of theuards was that all four of the Nicholas, all four people at thiswere Masters But even if they were all Masters, currently, Siegfried had sustained an injury He ht have polished himself up and tried to hide the fact that he was injured, but there was no way a wound caused by Milton and Jerome would have healed already
‘He amble with his life’
Milton was only able to stay so composed because he was sure of that He continued to stare straight into Siegfried’s eyes without showing an ounce of agitation
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The two continued to look at each other without words The atot heavier as they looked at each other as if the first person to look aould lose
‘He’s definitely not sofried was the one to let out a sigh and speak first
“Don’t you think it’d be a waste to continue to say unreasonable demands to each other?”
“If you knew that, then why’d you start off with preposterous deive it a shot, didn’t I?”
Siegfried reached into his breast pocket and withdrew another document
The conditions written on the new document were much more reasonable
<ol class="lst-kix_59nsy0lv13ed-0 start" start="1"><li>The northern and northeastern regions of the Valence Kingdoed as the Republic’s territory</li><li>The faiven the freedom to move</li></ol>
The condition to pay war reparation had disappeared and many of the other conditions had becoions would have been difficult for us to e anyway And we kept the families of the ones who already defected to the Republic would just turn us into villains’
These conditions weren’t iree to