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Inside The Tent
“This is quite a spectacle huh”
I see the sight that unfolds before my eyes and leak out a voice of admiration. Before my eyes, soldiers line up in rows. I’ve only ever participated in battles that are on the scale of hundreds or thousands until now, but it’s almost a hundred thousand this time around. The opponent also has their army, that has a number beyond that, lining up in a ruly manner.
“Indeed, this is amazing huh. To think that the ground shakes whenever the gathered soldiers take a step”
Mylene, who’s beside such me, also expresses her amazement similarly. Mylene, who clings to my left arm tightly. That figure of hers is very adorable so I stroke her head. As I’m looking at Mylene, who squints her eyes in pleasure, like a cat
“Looks like you’re having fun, Master”
, Liscia came along. Perhaps they’re helping her out, Mars and Tierra are following beside her. Mars sees the sight before his eyes and becomes nervous again, but it feels like it’s just another day for Tierra. As I thought, Tierra is the gutsier one. Mars needs to follow her example.
“Hey, Liscia. Yeah. It’s partially also because Mylene is around, but it just happens when I think about the matters from now on”
“Humph. Even back when I was the Paladin Captain, there wasn’t a war of this magnitude; since we had already suppressed the neighbouring countries to a certain extent back then. I’m also getting pumped up from seeing the files of troops before my eyes, you know”
“Don’t get too pumped up and forget the objective, alright”
When I say that with a grin, Liscia slightly puffs up her cheeks and angrily answers, ‘I know’.
Afterwards, when all of us return to the tent together, everybody had assembled inside. Seeing that I came in, Elise stands up and gets closer to me happily, but a shadow intercepts her. Mylene entered between Elise and me.
“……oh my, Mylene-sama, it’s dangerous to stand in front suddenly, isn’t it”
“Fufu, it is because there was danger approaching Hardt-sama”
Both of them glare at each other while laughing, ‘Ufufu’, at each other. Wha, what’s this. Somehow it’s scary though. As I was staring at the pair who laughed at each other motionlessly, my sleeve was tugged softly several times. When I look in the direction that I was tugged from, Fia, who’s dressed in her armour, was standing there.
“……Hardt, here, don’t just stand around, let’s take a seat”
Fia hugs my arm after saying just that and starts walking while pulling my arm. Her slightly blushing and embarrassed figure is, completely different from her dignified figure as the Queen normally, so it was very adorable.
And then, seeing me and Fia who walks, snuggling up to me, the pair, who were glaring at each other, froze with their eyes on us this time around.
“Fia-san, you……”
“Gununu, well played, Fia-sama. Who would’ve thought, a dark horse would appear here”
“Eh, wha, what? Eh?”
Fia, who doesn’t understand why she’s being looked at, was filled with nothing but confusion. As I found such a Fia adorable as well and unconsciously pat her head, the 2 of them look fixedly at me. Both of them then slowly move towards me, so I pat their heads as well.
If there are those who are looking at that sight with a sigh, like they’re used to seeing it, then there are also those who are glaring at me. I think it’s clear even without me saying it, but the former are the subordinates whom I resurrected, and the latter are the nobles from the Empire who bet on Elise and turned up.
I suppose there are also those who really yearned for Elise and came, but most of them are like……I forgot his name though, the guy that Mars killed, they all probably came, scheming to get on Elise’s good side like him.
It’s just that, I guess those nobles, who miscalculated because there’s me by her side, are directing their anger at me. Well, I’ll let them be for now. They’re on the same side even if they’re like this. After all, they’ll probably be useful as a wall at least.
If that’s all then I’ll still think of letting them live and putting them to good use, but those fellows amongst the nobles are no good. They don’t look at us warmly like my subordinates, and neither do they direct their hostility at me like the nobles. Those fellows, who simply observe us.
I move Dullahan, who stands in the corner of the tent. Dullahan, who heard my instructions, unsheathes its sword and swings it down at the two nobles who are observing us.
But, the two nobles dodged Dullahan’s attack and tried to exit from the tent. As might be expected from infiltrators, it looks like they’re slightly capable huh.
However, shadows stand in the way of the two of them, who try to exit from the tent. It’s Liscia and Elfion. The two of them suppress the two of them without any weapon.
Both of them kick and struggle, but they’re held down by Liscia and Elfion and are unable to move. I thought of interrogating them on how they entered and by whose orders as it is, but I suppose it’s a given that they won’t talk even if I ask them normally huh.
Well, there are numerous methods to force them to talk, so it’s okay though. However, before I interrogate and kill these fellows
“You’re watching using these fellows’ eyes, aren’t you, Imperial Prince-sama. Sit tight and prepare yourself. I’ll go over and receive that head of yours”
I have no grudges against you, but I’ll have you let me kill you.
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“……humph, even my intentions were easily exposed huh. Even though they ended up as such, those guys are considered remarkably competent in our country”
“You must not make light of those who possess God’s Power. I taught you how to use that power so that you can kill them without a doubt”
“Aah, I understand. It’s a power so enormous that I can tell even though it’s still incomplete. If I have this Yellow Dragon’s Power, I can probably kill him as well. But, before that, I’ve got to capture that Azure Dragon House’s daughter”
