Chapter 57 – Queen’s Duty ( side Rica ) (1/2)

CHAPTER 57 – QUEEN’S DUTY （SIDE RICA）

Inside the dark and damp prison cell.

One of the eunuchs that controlled the Calamba Kingdom for a period in the past, in front of Oros, one man appeared.

Wearing black clothes, placed the guards to sleep, and sneaked inside.

「I have been waiting. Now then, hurry up and let me out of here」

「……」

「What, you came to save me right. Then, hurryーー」

「Here’s a message. You’re done with. 」

「What!ーー」

Oros was very surprised.

The one who he thought someone who would save him, it was an assassin.

「Wait, the scenarioーーthe promise is different」

「Don’t worry」

The assassin silently said.

With a voice that seemed chill cold, it declared without mercy.

「Rarouka and Sukinaris, I already sent them」

「Wha!ーーW-Wait! Reconsider it」

「……」

Oros begs for his life, but the assassin’s heart wouldn’t be moved.

The three eunuchs that were punished by imprisonment, they had a「Mysterious Death」in the same day.

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Capital city Meteora, inside the palace.

I, Rica Calamba, am discussing with the ministers I gathered.

「About Saria’s situation」

One of the ministers, Acheron who was the oldest said.

「We have reports on the military situation that it is very decent. General Oshif will surely recapture the stolen Saria within a few days」

「Will the war with Comotoria end with that」

「Let me think, if it reaches there, it would be fine proposing for an armistice. Saria is originally our country’s land, and that was stolen with a surprise attack of the outbreak of war」

「If I am correct, it is the strategic point of the borders……I have heard」

I took out the knowledge that I desperately filled to my head recently.

Saria. It is originally the territory of Calamba, and it is a place that is easy to defend but hard to attack.

The first work that I have decided to do after regaining the authority from the eunuchs, it was to put an end to the war with Comotoria.

「Yes, even if we will have an armistice, it should be done after we have recaptured it. If we had an armistice while that is still taken by Comotoria, it is like having a blade being pointed to our throat」

Acheron said, I nodded with no words.

It is as he says, Saria is such an important land.

I researched about it thinking how much of an importance it have after hearing the word key point, and it often came out within the Kingdom’s history.

I do not know much about military affairs that much yet, but the history is saying that that place is important.

“That is why it is needed to be recaptured”, that is what I think.

「If the military situation is going well, then that should be fine」

「I humbly speak」

Instead of Acheron, this time, Statis opened his mouth.

He is a middle-aged man who is familiar with domestic affairs, and his face was highly strung.

「What is it?」

「About the war expenditure. The national treasury is getting very low, it would be fine if it reaches a conclusion for a few days, but there is a risk of having bankruptcy if the war extends more than this」

「Is it that terrible? During the outbreak of war, Oros and the rest told me that we could fight for 5 years even 10 years?」

I already not believe in what they are saying, but even so, the gap is very wide.

「About that case, there are two things I need to report. First is, concerning that, there are traces where the money was being laundered through Oros and the other two. Most probably, they have been filling their pockets in the pretext of war」

「The other one is?」

I hold down my anger.

「Oros, Rarouka, Sukinaris, the three of them died last night」

「Died? Yesterday? All three of them?」

「Yes」

Statis quietly nodded.

「What is the meaning of that?」

「It is under investigation, but……」

「It is not a coincidence huh」

Even I would be able to understand that at least. I know at least, that the three who were caught in prison dying in the same day is strange.

At the same time, I also knew about the other thing, that it is not the time to be worrying about that.

「The money……can nothing be done with it?」

「If the war ends within a few daysーー」

「Think about the time if it extends」

「As you wish」

Statis made a bow, and said.