Vol 14 Chapter 266 (1/2)
Obligation
… Near the border of Beim and Zayin, Zayin’s side had sent out forces
The one left to the command of over a thousand troops was Creit Benini With a neatly set hairstyle, he rode his horse on standby at the border It was because of predictions that Bahnsei
But they weren’t deployed to protect Beies They were there to protext Zayin territory… the people of Zayin
Creit’s subordinate rode his horse up close
“Captain Creit!”
“What’s wrong?”
“There arein from Beim Seems they want safe haven”
And they were also there to block the flow of people fro them But the treatment of people in Bei Beim’s side didn’t understand
“Turn them back! We cannot move any further from our station”
Seeing Creit’s mortified face, the subordinate raced his horse off At first, Zayin had tried to offer relief to the people flowing in from Beim But Beim had a particular national color Ruled by the merchants, its armaments made of adventurers… their sense of values were too different
The safe haven they spoke of was a request for the ar as they paid the reward, they thought they would help
“… We are already knights of Zayin Why can’t they understand that?”
Unlike Creit who yearned of knighthood, the people of Beihts or the affairs of other lands…
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… Zayin’s temple
There, Aura Zayin sat in an extravagant chair as the Holy Maiden On one side sat forh Priest Gastone Bonini It was a -room like space with a table in the center, and before thee shop in a town of Beim
He also had a role of so like a town chief, and he was a e town to the north With Beim’s city sector the further of the tay, he had come to seek help from Zayin
Thinking he didn’t want his status to fall below any merchant who did business with this so-called Holy Maiden, and having never traded anywhere outside of Beim, there was a problem with his attitude
“Why is it!? We’ll pay the reward The surrounding villages have already been attacked, and there are even sohtered entirely! I won’t ask for thousands Even five hundred is enough I would like you to put out troops!”
Desperate as he was to protect his life and fortune, Aura stuck her elbow into the armrest, and rested her face on her hand Her posture crunored
Aura thought that disrespect should be repaid in kind, that was all
“I understand the severity of your situation We have dispatched troops to our border and prepared ourselves That’s how our situation is, so we cannot spare troops for you And… there’s no fin’ way in hell we’re arbitrarily dispatching troops to Beim’s territory! And bruh… why is there a need for me to send troops for your sake?”
There, Thelma beside her came in to stop it
“Aura! …the border of our own accord will be to Zayin’s disadvantage People who’ve lost their homes have flowed into Zayin, and our situation is one where we can accept your village as well But that’s the most we can do”
The merchant unsatisfied with Thelround, and explained the situation
“Why can’t you understand!? Once Bei the barbarity of Bahnseim the will of your Goddess!?”
There was some sense to his words
If Bahnseier But would saving the a town and e that? It would not
Gastone opened his mouth
“I understand your sentinore that er was Bei us into the ainst an army that numbers over three hundred thousand? We don’t want to make any needless attacks on Bahnseim Please understand”
The ht red
“Then what should I do! Say you I just wait to be killed!? While singing praise to your Goddess, you’ll tell us to die off!?”
Aura snorted at theout of her hteousness that h
“… You sure are assertive AfterZayin your battlefield and cash cow for so many years, it sure is different when it coht in a battle without any prospects of victory When you’re that arrogant, it crosses into the real, let me tell you”
Thethey’d done to Zayin had just crossed through his head
There, Thelma threw out a life boat
“… But we cannot continue ignoring Bahnseim’s brutality like this Then let me offer a condition”
“A condition? What is it!? If it’s money, the amount we can prepare at a moment’s notice is…”
Thelma kept up her smile as she spoke
“Accept the rule of Zayin If you do, it will create a reason for Zayin’s soldiers to move It will be to protect their homeland”
Hearing Thelma’s words, the merchant found himself unable to open his mouth…
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… Before the town the pillaging force set as its next destination, the un
A tent was prepared, and the ones talking were a Baron and his vassal A ade chief was called out to verify the situation
“Wasn’t that part of Bei, you know?”
The mercenary shook his head
“Until just a while ago, it was undoubtedly Bei it after so long is just strange!”
Hearing those words, the Baron heard out his vassal
“Now then, that’s how it seems to be, but… if they’re really part of Zayin, it will beco”
The vassal knight gave a belligerent opinion
“We need only attack the three hundred thousand There’s no need for us to mind a small country like Zayin”
However, a different vassal… an elderly knight advised the opposite
“We should step down We’ve country’s soldiers there If we fight, on top of facing casualty, Zayin is a country that’s tied a pact called the Four-Country-Alliance, it seems And e have here isn’t an army of three hundred thousand, we only have ourselves”
The hts
“It’s a bluff Just attack it And with how close that town is to Zayin’s border, it’s sure to have made a fortune”
But the answer the Baron gave was a safe one