Chapter 20 - Volume 3 (1/2)
Chapter 2 (Part 1)Chapter 2 – Winter (Part 1)
Warning: This chapter has violent and gory scenes
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“Try calling anized hout the winter
The tempers of the soldiers were fierce and violent They couldn’t stand the sight of a 16-year-old broad pretending to be a general Whenever I glared at them, the soldiers would quickly move to obey, but it was for thateyes, the military personnel criticized Miss Farnese Thanks to the witches having spread their familiars around, ere able to vividly listen in on the soldiers talking behind our backs
“Listen well”
Having recorded their words onto a Memory Play artifact, I allowed Farnese to listen to it in full The soldiers referred to Miss Farnese as ‘human harlot’
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— We’re de she’s going to command us? What kind of fresh bullshi+t is this?
— It’s raw bullshi+t That’s what it is
— But that young broad’s appearance is nice
— Who goes to war to look at soht to take the necks with those faces attached to ’em Even if that human harlot memorized a couple of lines from an art of war manual, I doubt even low fry officials would be inti that she read soo down after being pushed down by her hips and hearing her hed loudly We could also hear the objurgatory nagging fro to score a broad, one that his highness Deerous action However, it was not said in a way of speech where they were reproaching the tone surrounded by jest Listening up to that point, I closed the artifact
“What do you think?”
“It see whatever they hile not knowing anything about this young lady”
Farneselady has never shared a bed with your lordshi+p What troublesome people”
“Hey”
That part wasn’t the issue
A little bit more, how do you say it? Is there not adormant? If I were to point it out in more detail, then there’s the fact that yourof respect Despite having heard my comment, Farnese’s face was still devoid of eaze towards me, but instead, silently continued to read her history book While reading her book, Farnese muttered
“It is not possible to take apart and fix a proble unable to simply accept an outsider, in other words, ether on the inside Since they are sturdy on the inside, they will not lightly fall apart when facing the enemy They are elites”
“And so?”
“If this young lady were to slit the throats of the centurions and decani, then the sturdy ar alady would be cut down, and their positions will be filled by felloho are good at flattering this young lady Instead of captains with ability, captains who are good at bootlicking will end up receiving preferential treatment, and that is not correct An arether by both the inner and outer workings This young lady fears the foolishness of re the outer layer only to have the inner layer deteriorate”
I carefully exa heard the vulgar words spat out by the lowly privates, there were no signs of her showing any resistance towards it The only thing that was there was the sight of her conte to have to do in order to properlythem not as people, but as tools
Laura De Farnese was a psychopath
Nevertheless, she was a clever psychopath
“Would it be permissible to leave all of the military commands to you?”
“Did your lordshi+p not retrieve this young lady fron over your troops? It is fine for your lordshi+p to not worry Military affairs are this young lady’s task Since it is an issue confronting this young lady, this young lady shall e it herself”
I knew that my concern was unnecessary
With the intention of finishi+ng this conversation with a test, I repried just because someone like you says they can handle it?”
“Your lordshi+p’s words are rather aggressive Instead of using words to instill fear into this young lady, use a goal to light a path for her”
“I shall give you one month Within 30 days, have control of thetalk you have just now htlessly flapping your mouth”
“Understood”
Farnese still did not reaze from her book Since I had harshly opened the path in front of her, it was time to softly support the path behind her I asked her allusively
“Is there nothing I can help with?”
“Please assign the witches’ fa lady shall use the familiars as her eyes and ears, and utilize the lady cannot see or hear”
“An easy request”
“Ah, also—”
Farnese spoke
“Why did your lordshi+p say that you would becoarding you because you are a child of a huured that the contehter”
Farnese collected her gaze fro towards my direction, but for some reason, her eyes were full of suspicion It al me as food waste
“That is quite indecent Those words ht is pitiable In the entire world, what lord would try to solve alady has felt it before, but your lordshi+p is a bit insane You are at least not normal”
Why do you care!?
You’re the psychopath!
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Farnese subed herself into the inner layer ofat the side of the quarters where the soldiers rested and played The general resided wearing the uniforle set of ato live alongside the troops
The captains flocked to me and complained
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— It is uncoeneral had abruptly entered our area
— Since the general is nearby, even e’re receiving breakfast with our bowls, before we can get our portion of soup we end up glancing at the general once While peeking at the general, we end up chewing theet to chew, therefore, we have no energy after our meals and easily have upset stoe ht properly when the general is interfering with the meals of the subordinates? Please understand
— Please understand, your highness
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I scratched my forehead
I see these bastards are low- oats, I shall behave narrow-mindedly as well Let us see how you bastards cope witha deep breath, I unloaded words like a round of bullets
“Are you all discussing do? So be it then I shall inform you all of your domestics All of the food which you all shove into your faces everycomes from me The dinner you all stuff inside yourselves and the shi+t that comes out of your bodies, all of that coo to in order to request for them to be fixed? Who will seek for the blackson to load the weapons onto and send to the blacksmith, and ill provide the food and acco back and forth? I a you that I ahtly uncomfortable by the fact that you have to be a bit more mindful and chew a bit less, you carabbed the wooden pillohich I was using for my nap and threw it at the captains Once the wooden pillow hit the floor and bounced, the captains’ spines shi+vered The captains lowered their heads further
TheDe with military captains were distinctly different I did not allow thehty in front of the captainsInstead, I lowered myself to their level andunable to norant fools”
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— Your words are ihness!
— We are to blahts were short
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“Good Seeing that you all are able to apologize with such ease, I will noteneral Wherever I am not, she is your ht this instant is not because I have accepted your apology, but because I want you all to go to the acting general and finish your apology A eneral”
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— But, your highness
— We fight with the strength given to us by our food If we are unable to eat our meals properly, then
— We do not mean that, but
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These fuckers?
I dreord
“Should I personally assist in o down your throats with more ease?”
At that moment hen the captains finally fled Since their steps felt , I chased after them The captains were surprised and let out a scream I picked up the wooden pillow and tossed it once ifted as a pitcher, the wooden pillow hit the exact center of the back of a captain’s head The captains escaped And like so, I covered for Farnese
I trusted Laura De Farnese as destined to be the greatest coinal history
Sure enough, after 4 days, Farnese figured out the proble the military uniform meant for privates, Farnese came to inform me
“The irrationality within the troops is immense, lord”
“What kind of irrationality?”
“If there is a regimental commander, a centurion, and a decanus, then that is sufficient Despite that, the regiive their duties to the centurions, the centurions give their duties to the decani, and the decani give their duties to the privates In the end, the privates take care of everything within the aruish the high and low a for the higher privates and do their laundry”
“An issue that is proht like privates and centurions should fight like centurions, and yet, why are they ordering around others just for the sake of eneral, should be the one co the privates, but since there are so s, it is as if they have several generals at the same tiather together as one and pervade deeply within an army of this sort”
I spat on the floor My throat often felt parched because it inter
“Can you solve it?”
“This young lady shall crush it with ease”
I preferred to leave irrationality as it was and manipulate it appropriately, but it see irrationality or bearing with her alone, I considered which side would be more convenient
“Very well then Perfor lady shall perforoal”
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Farnese started to handle the military discipline more severely
Froardless of one’s rank or experience, Farnese established a rule where everyone e their own livelihood by themselves She stepped forward on her own Farnese washed her uniform by herself and personally cleaned her own ht her meal for her, Farnese told him off in a loud voice
“Put that away Do I not have my own arms and mouth?”
Farnese did not eat at all on that day Once the commander cast away the bowl, the soldiers did not knohat to do Fro meals for the veteran soldiers disappeared
However, at this point, it had only vanished on the outside
So that dissipated on the outside was bound to hide deeply on the inside
During an aathered the privates and abused the the familiars, ere able to listen in on this sound of violence flowing from the corner of the encaet your heads straight you bastards You think that hu to live in our quarters forever? She’s the type of bitch to leave in half a uys will die by my hands
— Think carefully about who is truly taking care of you guys That huhness and not people like us I’ll give you an honest advice, stay in line
— Yes, we understand!
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Be it here or there, the repertoire is quite the sa , Farneseme to see in”
Oh?
It ination, but that appeared like a slightly angered face Since it was rather rare for Farnese to show any e
Since that day, Farnese began to go on night patrols
She did not wander around openly but feigned it as a coincidence whenever possible For exao to the bathroo in on violence that was occurring in a warehouse, or pretending to wake up because of a presence and exa the backside of the quarters It was an obvious trick Of course, there was no tactic that worked as efficiently as an obvious trick Think about it It’s the co out of nowhere frohtened
“What are you all doing?”
The senior officers erethe privates could not respond
With an emotionless face, Farnese announced
“I see People who do not sleep when required to sleep ht I a army as one The senior officers over there, follow me”
Farnesethe Since the earth had hardened due to the cold, the ends of the pickaxe were unable to pierce the ground Looking at the impenetrable dirt, the soldiersthe fire, they dug down until a low mound was piled up in the barracks Farnese looked down at the soldiers and gave another order
“Well done Now fill it back up”
The officers poured the dirt, which they had dug up in vain, back into the pit It took a whole 4 hours to dig and refill the hole The ground had returned to being flat Towards the veteran officers who thought their as finally over and iping away their sweat, Farnese spoke coolly
“Dig again”
The faces of the veteran officers turned blue For half a day, the soldiers repetitively dug and filled in holes It was labor with no reason or goal Since there was no goal, the end could not be seen, and since the end could not be seen, they could not endure the current situation They most likely wanted to die It raves While keepingafar, I watched Farnese cheerfully tor truthfully, it was pleasant
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— Please kill eneral!
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The officers lowered their heads to the ground and bowed This must have been the first tieneral by the soldiers Farnese, with an expression as transparent as water, looked down at the soldiers
“Why would I end your lives? No one cherishes you all as ”
Farnese raised the edges of herfacial expressions, Farnese’s
“Or do you perhaps want ive you the hole on myself? Do all of you think you could satisfy me with those limp dicks of yours?”
The soldiers wailed out
After that day
Thea wicked harlot
In the past, the sound of voices saying ‘that harlot!’ in a ridiculing tone rose high into the air, but now, the voices uttered ‘that wicked harlot……’ in a vexed tone and sunk do Sounds that resonated high dissipated quickly, while the sounds that permeated low spread out wide
A joyous occasion this was, quite joyous
The captains ca to reatly intense An acute urgency could be felt All of the captains now referred to Farnese as Miss General Itattached to ‘General’, but there was overall a lot ofon the level of ‘that crazy bitch’ was inclined there Was this not iress?
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— Since Miss General interferes with the soldiers not only during the afternoon but during the night as well, the youngsters are unable to sleep properly Even if we lack energy after our ht with that eht without sleep?
— This does not come from an art of war manual, but from life itself People should read books based on life, but if someone were to live their life based on books, then would the world not be upside down? Even if Miss General’s knowledge is profound and she were to have read every book related to tactics in the nation, life is a separate matter Lowly people like us live in life and have no other choice but to continue living in life Please understand!
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Ifro, I went to the warehouse and brought a pickaxe It was the sa until they collapsed from exhaustion I then spoke
“I see your words are quite profound so they pierce an exquisite principle Let us test how deep your bodies can be buried in the ground”
The captains fled
The month after, irrationality was completely suppressed within the troops The custoes of the decani, and the decani taking the wages of the privates disappeared The tendency of loaning thewith outside peddlers and panders to sell items for an exorbitant price, also vanished
Farnese was a vicious girl Thethe troops, in contrast,her a wicked harlot shrink down At one point, instead of a wicked harlot, the voices of people praising her as a general who thought of the privates before others, flowed throughout the army This was most likely around the time that the 11th pit was created in the barracks
The captains reacted sensitively towards the mood of the privates Like how humans would automatically perceive the smell of flatulence, the captains understood the privates’ temper
The captains read the atmosphere and obeyed the commander Theyto me to co ‘Hooray for Miss General Farnese!’ Captains that behaved as if they would lick the soles of Farnese’s feet crawled around A them, one fellow actually did try to put saliva on Farnese’s toes and was kicked
Tsk tsk
What adorable fellows
Finally, the reroup of individuals known as decani and senior officers remained
These people were unable to throay the pleasure of extorting money from the people below them They were better than the privates but lower than the captains, so they were fellows sis These people lacked the political capability to react appropriately to the state of affairs like the captains had done The senior officers tried to protect their authority and territory
When the senior officers ed the privates out to one of the most remote warehouses in the encampment A mouse, that was the fa froaps on the wall
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— Hey, bastards Who’s the one that brought you bue and enlisted you to the aruys were born in the village first and not in the aruys should treat your seniors froe with respect!
— We ht now, but e die, we’ll do so back ho your seniors, then do you think a single mourner will show up to your funeral? Do you think that wicked harlot will go out of her way to arrange your funerals? She’s the bitch who’ll order you to die, not a bitch who’ll take care of you after you’ve died
— Hey, don’t ignore us We’re all saying this in consideration of you guys Besides, no matter how much you scream here, that harlot won’t come
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Farnese threw open the door
“Yes I am here because you called”
The soldiers screamed and fell to the floor I could hear the sound ofclamorously with a crash I asked Farnese later on, but apparently, the soldiers were gazing up at her as if she was a ghost
“It is fine to look forward to it, gentle holes properly today”
The senior officers were forced to unearth dirt for 2 days straight without sleep
At last, ht The soldiers took care of their own domestics by themselves If it wasn’t an official order frohtlessly
On the final day of the promised 1 month, Laura De Farnese discarded the uniform meant for privates and donned theherself, Farnese came to visit me with a clean body Farnese’s skin hiter than the snow that had just fallen onto the earth, and her voice was as clear as the sky which the snow had fallen from I was not unaware of her intention to appear like the snow and sky while before ardless of whether she knew that I understood her feelings or not, the sirl said shortly
“This young lady hereupon reports, that she has achieved your lordshi+p’s goal ”
So ness could be understood by that shortness of words
I wanted to coe the hard work she had gone through by staying up throughout the night chasing after senior officers, consoling the new recruits, and doing all of her laundries with her oo hands I gestured for Farnese to approach and softly brushed the hair of Farnese who had drawn near with an ivory comb
I smiled
“Well done Would you like a drink?”
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Farnese did not try to gain adoration from her troops Farnese desired for every individual soldier to fear her Instead of the courage to rush at the enearded the dread the soldiers would feel by disobeying the supreme comeable on thefear, Farnese ca lady do to make the soldiers fear her, lord?”
“Well You do have a rather pretty appearance, so that may be difficult”
“Would they be afraid if there was an unsee lady’s face?”
“danorant child How could you think so one-dimensionally? Think a bit more respectably”
“Only your lordshi+p and Miss Lazuli are the ones to call this young lady ignorant……”
Farnese beca education froht her irl, who lived her life believing that she was a genius, would be low-spirited if she were to be ill-treated frequently Feeling some sympathy, I spoke indirectly
“Should I inforood trick?”
The next day
Farnese purchased 15 hunting dogs The waists of the hunting dogs were slim so they appeared scrawny, but the color of their fur was marvelous They were a breed commonly raised by imperial families and royal fas did not leave their master’s side even for a second
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— I see Miss General adores dogs
— Raising hunting dogs is a good hobby They can smell the scent of the enemy and pursue them, so it’ll be convenient for us too