Chapter 92 (1/2)

92 Foreign Kingdom's Royal Capital I calmed His Majesty down and had Sabine-chan explained to him and the Earl again that I will get in touch, not every day but occasionally instead and the King finally gave his consent. The Earl couldn't do anything except agreeing to His Majesty's consent. Especially, when His Majesty could hear him clearly.

or rather.., didn't I already explain this properly to both of you before!?

Well, the one who explained it this time was Sabine-chan, hence they can't refuse, even for His Majesty, who cannot lift his head towards Sabine-chan.

…don't tell me, Sabine-chan is the most powerful person in the kingdom…?

(Audyst) 『Well then, we will arrive at the Royal Capital Mathrica in three days, but we will contact you again with the 『Communicator』 the day before it just to be sure, so please be ready at that time.』

(Mitsuha) 「I understand. Well then, see you around noon in the next two days」

The conversation with the Earl had also finished and I ended the communication.

We won't know what will happen to the carriages along the travel. Broken axle, muddy roads due to rain, broken bridges, landslides which cause the roads to close, etc.

Therefore, despite there's the expected date, the schedule for the negotiation will be decided after the main unit arrives.

Hence, checking on the day before, has nothing to do with the talks at all. The Earl was probably just worried about whether I will be waiting in the royal capital  properly or not.

No, I always keep my promise, you know?

The first negotiation place, royal capital of the neighboring kingdom, Dalisson Kingdom, Mathrica.

We have a friendly relationship with them and we also have already notified officially about the encounter of a foreign ship. A lot of public information also probably have arrived there too, with the help from their spies who have obtained various information about our royal capital, Bozes Earldom, and Yamano Viscounty.

This negotiation trip doesn't mean that we have to go to every kingdoms.

The kingdoms that are too far away is a pa.s.s, meanwhile, the invited royalties and higher-ranked n.o.bles from the royal capital each becomes an emissary for the neighboring kingdoms.

We were tasked with the friendly or neutral kingdoms that are a bit distant and we don't need to tell the information of the new weapons to enemy kingdoms.

What if the foreign ships landed in that kingdom?

Yes, if the said kingdom gets battered and asks for help, we will invade with the multinational forces of the kingdoms that have signed the treaty.

After making a favorable treaty in here, that is.

Politics and war are not for playing and making friends, obviously.

And this time, coastal kingdoms are our priority. Inland kingdoms that is not facing the sea may not come to have such a talk because they have no impending danger coming their way, and it's also difficult to form a large organization in one time. There's a possibility that the big kingdoms may want to take the initiative themselves or even may hold the new weapons if we handled the negotiation poorly.

It will be fine after those kingdoms say, 『We will join by all means』.

In the first place, there's no meaning for inland kingdoms to build a ship and would refuse to provide a budget for that. We won't let them pa.s.s, if they're thinking selfishly such as acquiring the breech-loading rifles and other weapons engineering when they don't even want to contribute with the proper budget.

(TL Note: Breech-loading rifles) Yup, I had already advised about this subject to His Majesty.