Posted on September 20, 2019 by fujimaru — 1 Comment ↓


  The army that appeared together with the sound of a horn was none other than the Istel Kingdom Army.

  “Ah……”


  Aaron let out a quiet exclamation.

  He hadn’t thought that perhaps, at this very moment, at this very place the Istel Kingdom Army would appear.

  “I, Istel Kingdom Army……”


  “Has the East already gone over to their hands……”


  “Kuuk.”


  Numerous adjutants and the soldiers who were fiercely continuing their battle all creased their brows with despairing looks.

  In contrast, the Byron Kingdom Army that was struggling more than they had thought struck their drums and gongs and cheered.

  Dum! Dum! Dum! Jing! Jing! Jing!

  “It’s the reinforcements!”


  “It’s the Istel Kingdom Army!”


  “Waaaaaah!”


  Spirits rose as if to stab the sky.

  “This is rather troubling.”


  Viscount Reil Baker who was freely roaming the battlefield too made a bitter smile.

  However much an outstanding warrior he himself was, it wasn’t to a level of being capable of facing two kingdoms at once.

  However, it wasn’t a situation he could move back either.

  ‘Retreat is in short of a defeat.’


  A situation where up to even the Lancephil County would become endangered if the Eastern Regional Corps collapsed here,

  In the end, they could only fight with their lives on the line.

  Kkwaddck.

  Reil put strength into his grasps holding the spear.

  In that time, the Istel Kingdom Army put forwards their kingdom flag and legion flags and started a ferocious charge.

  Vvuuuuuu!

  Sounds of horn were repeatedly heard.

  “Thicken the right-wing! Prepare for the enemy army’s attack!”


  Aaron quickly gave out an order and then personally led his troops and headed towards the southeast.

  Although they were a small number, he planned to stop the Istel Kingdom Army’s charge in any way.

  ‘I wanted to have a drink with Sir Count Lancephil, but.’


  A bitter smile hung on his mouth.

  Aaron was resolved to give up his life.

  Uddck.

  He tightly clenched his teeth.

  At that very moment.

  Vvuu! Vvuu! Vvuu!

  The Istel Kingdom Army’s sounds of horn oddly changed.

  Simultaneously, the charging direction of the Istel Kingdom Army that was running straight towards the Eastern Regional Corps twisted.

  The horseheads turned towards the North.

  Dudududududu!

  The sounds of horse hooves were heard even rougher.

  Their charging speed increased a little more.

  “Um?”


  Aaron looked at the Istel Kingdom Army that suddenly turned their direction and creased his forehead.

  The Eastern Regional Corps’ other adjutants were also the same.

  Everyone stared at the Istel Kingdom Army with confused eyes.

  “Eh?”


  “What the?”


  “Why are they coming this way?”


  The Byron Kingdom Army too was dumbfounded at the Istel Kingdom Army’s charge.

  Their eyes sharply shook.

  An unknown fear brushed past their necks.

  And finally.

  “Charge!”


  A resounding voice exploded out from the Istel Kingdom Army’s formation.

  Simultaneously, the cavalry troop at the head charged not towards the Eastern Regional Corps but towards the Byron Kingdom Army.

  Kwang!

  A heavy sound exploded out.

  “Kuuk!”


  “Kuk!”


  The Byron Kingdom Army’s soldiers struck by the sturdy warhorses exploded out in every direction.

  “You, you stupid bastards! We’re the Byron Kingdom Army! We are you bastards’ allies!”


  “The enemy’s that way! That way! It’s the opposite side!”


  Sounds of screams and angry shouts burst out one after another.

  Especially Baron Hank Villun who was leading the Byron Kingdom Army’s vanguard let out a roar with a face burning with red.

  “You stupid Istel bastards! It’s because you bastards are that stupid you’re always getting defeated by the Rinse……”


  The moment his words continued to about that point.

  “How noisy.”


  A sharp longsword appeared together with a quietly sunken voice.

  Ssskuk.

  With a chilling sound, Hank’s head was cleanly cut off.

  A completely unexpected and empty death.

  “Huph!”


  “Co, commander!”


  “Sir Baron Villun!”


  The nearby adjutants raced up with shocked expressions.

  “Who, who are you bastard!”


  One amongst the adjutants shouted towards the longsword’s owner.

  The warrior who cut off Hank’s head showed off his giant stature and shouted in a resounding voice.

  “I am Istel Kingdom’s Viscount Guy Raymond!”


  Simultaneously, the longsword once again split the air.

  Ssskuk! Sssguk!

  Each time, the heads of the adjutants and knights flew off with a horrid sound.

  “Hmph!”


  Guy snorted and subtly looked back.

  “Byron brats flap and flap only have a lot of words, and their skills are a mess, sir.”


  A disappointed expression.

  “That’s because Viscount Raymond is so great, sir.”


  The one softly reasoning with him was Viscount Peid Neil.

  The Istel Kingdom Army’s supreme commanders had finally shown themselves.

  Peid faintly smiled and turned his head and looked at Aaron.

  “Hhm.”


  Aaron, who was watching the situation without even knowing the whys, let out a quiet exclamation the moment he saw Peid’s eyes.

  “Huu.”


  A long sigh naturally flowed out.

  The face that was completely stiffened slowly relaxed.

  Finally, he could understand the words of the letter Roan had sent.

  ‘So the words we don’t have to worry about the Istel Kingdom Army was talking about this.’


  This wasn’t a level of not needing to be worried.

  Aaron muttered with an awestruck expression.

  “In fact, the side that had to worry about the Istel Kingdom Army was the Byron Kingdom.”


  A laugh naturally came out.

  A situation where he could only shake his head.

  Aaron deeply breathed in and raised up his sword high.

  “Attack! Drive the Byron Kingdom Army away!”


  A resounding voice echoed through the battlefield.

  The Eastern Regional Corps’ soldiers still merely blinked their eyes with flustered expressions.

  Aaron pointed at the Byron Kingdom Army with the tip of his longsword.

  “The Istel Kingdom Army will fight with us!”


  A shout that finally resolved all questions.

  “Ah!”


  “The Istel Kingdom Army is?!”


  The Eastern Regional Corps’ soldiers as well as commanders, and even Reil Baker made shocked expressions.

  “Attack!”


  Aaron spurred his horse as he commanded.

  To break his soldiers’ doubts, he started charging towards the Istel Kingdom Army alone.

  Suddenly.

  Pbat!

  The Istel Kingdom Army stepped back to the sides and opened up a path.

  “Ah……”


  “I, it’s true! It’s true!”


  “The Istel Kingdom Army is our side’s reinforcements!”


  The Eastern Regional Corps’ soldiers raised their weapons high and cheered.

  In contrast, the Byron Kingdom Army that was exuberant faltering moved back with solidly stiffened expressions.

  “Ho, how did such……”


  “Ri, ridiculous!”


  “Thi, this is impossible!”


  An incomprehensible event unfolded right before their eyes.

  At that moment, Aaron, who arrived in no time before their noses, swung his sword and shouted at the top of his lungs.

  “The very sir who makes the impossible possible is Sir Count Lancephil!”


  That shout shook the battlefield.

  “Waaaaah!”


  A moment behind, the Eastern Regional Corps’ soldiers burst out in cheers and went up in counterattack.

  The battle situation tilted in an instant.

  Everything happened as Roan has intended.

  A military meeting opened with Roan Lancephil and Ian Phillips as the chair.

  It was to ask the suggestions for how to face the fifty thousand Rinse Liberation Army with Mills Voisa as its head.

  “I think……”


  “That too is a good thought, but in my case I would……”


  Numerous commanders freely revealed the schemes within their heads.

  Ian leaned his ears to all stories and meticulously recorded its contents.

  The military meeting continued on for quite a long time.

  However, a military strategy that could clearly be called it did not come out.

  A situation where the Lancephil Fief Regiment had its number of soldiers reduced to about twenty thousand strong while the enemy army, in contrast, had increased to fifty thousand strong.

  Even though the enemy army’s majority are conscripts, the difference in numbers was much too big to blindly ignore.

  “Hhm.”


  Ian once again read the contents of his memo and fell into contemplation.

  A moment later.

  His gaze headed towards Roan.

  No, to be exact, it headed towards above Roan’s head.

  “Can you perhaps make the rain of fire fall down one more time, miss?”


  A gentle voice.

  At the end of his gaze was a girl whose crimson lighted hair and violet skin were otherworldly, Kinis.

  She round and around flew above Roan’s head.

  After coming back from the Spirit World, not only Roan but other people too could see Kinis.

  <It’s impossible for me alone to make the rain of fire fall down.>

  Kinis shrugged her shoulders and shook her head.

  “I see. Then that can’t be helped.”


  Ian exhaled a short sigh with a disappointed expression.

  If they could make the rain of fire fall down just one more time, they could annihilate the enemy army with Roan alone.

  They could have ended this tiresome war in an instant.

  ‘We’ll have to find a different way.’


  It was the moment Ian again looked at his memos.

  “Hm? What do you mean, miss?”


  Ian asked back with a surprised expression.

  Kinis shook her head with an expression asking if he didn’t even understand that.

  <I can’t make the rain of fire fall down in the first place, but I can turn a falling rain into fire. Miss Elaim gave me a present when I was returning to the human world, you see. I used that present once the instant I returned, and now there’s just one more left.>

  “Ah……”


  Ian let out a quiet exclamation.

  The other commanders too floated anticipations fully on their faces.

  “You mean just once is possible……”


  Ian thinly closed his eyes and sank into contemplation.

  All sorts of intelligence and strategies whirled like a storm within his head.

  “Good. That’s good.”


  Words murmured alone.

  He abruptly jumped up from his seat and looked at Roan.

  “There is something to check, my lord. I will head for a moment to the capital, Miller, sir. It won’t be long.”


  Somehow a slightly elated expression.

  No, it was an expression full of certainty.

  Roan nodded his head.

  “Go. I will send you ten taemusas along.”


  “Thank you, sir.”


  Ian instantly said his goodbye and then exited out of the meeting room.

  Thanks to that, the military meeting couldn’t continue on further and ended.

  Numerous commanders exited the meeting room one after another.

  The ones who stayed until the end were Roan and Kinis, just the two.

  “Finally, we can talk.”


  At those words, Kinis who was flying around inside the meeting room brightly smiled and sat down on top of the table.

  <It’s really been a long time.>

  Greeting passed once more.

  “How have you been until now? You didn’t answer even when I called.”


  Roan faintly smiled and creased his forehead.

  Kinis merely smiled wordlessly.

  Roan didn’t press her and quietly awaited.

  A moment later.

  She raised up her two arms.

  Her violet skin was fully displayed.

  <Since I’m not an ordinary water spirit however you see it.>

  Kinis’s story began like that.

  That was a rather long and boring story.

  *****

  The capital, Miller, was of festive mood.

  Because the news that Roan and the Lancephil Fief Regiment had defeated the South Rinse Kingdom and were winning every battle in the war with the North Rinse Kingdom was delivered.

  To the Rinse Kingdom citizens, this war wasn’t simply a Rinse Kingdom’s civil war.

  The South Rinse Kingdom carried on Diez Kingdom’s back, the North Rinse Kingdom carried on Estia Empire’s back.

  Now the war wasn’t a throne succession war but a patriotic war fighting against a foreign invasion.

  Due to that, Roan began to be lauded not as one noble but a hero of the kingdom and the world.

  “Aha! Really, he’s really great! To think he’s chasing away all the South Rinse Kingdom and the Diez Kingdom, North Rinse Kingdom and the Estia Imperial Army.”


  “Sir Count Lancephil is a hero. A hero.”


  Men sat around in a circle and raised their voices.

  They all like one heated up their praise of Roan and the Count Lancephil House.

  “I just knew it from the moment that sir helped the Miller Castle’s slums. That he’ll someday become a really big man.”


  “Huff. I on the other hand. I knew since the time he was a Eastern Regional Corps’ commander.”


  “I knew since Sir Count Lancephil was the Rose Troop’s vice commander……”


  “Nah. Stop with your lies. Just how would you know a bottom rank troop’s vice commander at the end of the East?”


  “Cough. Cough. Well, that’s not important. What’s important is that Sir Count Lancephil was that much a man to become big since a long time ago.”


  “Right. Right. That I agree.”


  The young men recalled Roan’s stories and his paths and burst out a laugh.

  At that moment, a simple looking young man spoke up in a low voice.

  “By the way……”


  At his extremely cautious look, the other men too instinctively lowered their heads.

  The men’s heads gathered in the center.

  The man who had spoken up spoke in a small voice as if to whisper.

  “If the war ends like this, then who’s……”


  He couldn’t easily continue on the words.

  “Huu.”


  The man exhaled a short sigh.

  And then added on in a voice much smaller than before.

  “Who’s climbing onto the throne?”


  Instantly, the faces of the men who were leaning their ears stiffly hardened.

  They pointlessly searched each other’s faces and formed awkward smiles.

  A silence continued on for a moment.

  However, they had no thoughts of ending the conversation like that.

  “There’s no man in the Rinse Royalty to continue the throne, no?”


  “Right. Only the princesses are alive.”


  Soon, a heated debate unfolded.

  “Then one of the princesses as expected is climbing to the throne?”


  “If so, then Princess Katy should be the most likely.”


  Everyone nodded at those words.

  Katy Rinse was the direct sister of the dead Simon Rinse and her dead mother too was the first queen.

  Looking just by the bloodline, she was the purest bloodline of the royalty.

  “But Princess Katy is the sister of that very Prince Simon.”


  The fiend that turned the Rinse Kingdom into a ruin together with the hexers and simultaneously drove innocent citizens of the kingdom to death.

  Rather, in the current situation the fact that she was Simon’s direct sister held back her ankle.

  Everyone nodded their heads.

  “Then how ‘bout Princess Aily? She even raised a clear achievement in the current war.”


  “Right. She raised a big achievement in the Conquest of the Capital, Miller.”


  “From the rumors heard, she also added in on beating away the Diez Kingdom Army.”


  “Even more, her actions too had nowhere to nitpick……”


  The men’s voices slightly elated.

  At that moment.

  “By the way, would the senate and the many nobles recognize not a prince but a princess climbing to the throne?”


  “Hhm. That too is right.”


  Few echoed the words and nodded their heads.

  Since the Rinse Kingdom was founded, there was not even once when a princess or a woman climbed to the throne.

  “Will they have to find someone from the relative houses chased out from the palace?”


  “Nah. You think those people are still alive? They’ve all already died.”


  “Right, children were rather rare until the previous his majesty the king too.”


  The men once again fell into thought.

  At that moment, the simple-looking man once again cautiously spoke up.

  “Then what about instead leaving the throne to the man who marries the princess?”


  “To the husband?”


  “Is that possible?”


  Everyone’s eyes roundly widened.

  The simple-looking man instantly nodded his head.

  “Think about it. Just who’s Princess Aily’s lover……”