Chapter 25
Then for a little while, I also was able to spend some days at leisure.
Just that, the peddlers come from that side are all vampires, but if they don’t cause any trouble here then it can be overlooked.
The palace guards also resumed their duties, and they are diligently protecting the order in street corners and main street.
They still make grim faces while looking at us, but once in awhile one can see that they are chatting with the werewolf squads.
On one such day, finally the thing I am waiting for has arrived.
I was greeting the group arrived at the north gate.
It’s a ryujin squad. A lot of water proof barrels were stacked on the cart.
The leader-like ryujin stepped forward, and saluted me.
“Roger that.”
Looking at his blue scales, I suddenly realized.
“Yes. Bartz is my younger brother. To have such an excellent younger brother makes me very proud.”
“Since my younger brother had always praised Vaito-dono, I was looking forward to meet you.”
Kurtz has not received any titles from the demon king, hence he is treated as any other soldier.
If he fights with Dogg from the shishioni troops, then he would be flattened in one punch.
Perhaps, he is equal to me, possibly even higher.
Technical officer Kurtz, while drinking the treasured green tea in my office, explained about the gunpowder the demon army had produced.
Well, I want to prepare a gun squad using that gunpowder… I wanted to say that but if I say too much then it would look suspicious again. Perhaps it may be under development, let me remain silent.
Oh, is there a gun too? Is it a matchlock?
When I leaned forward, technical officer Kurtz brought out a tiny ball. It’s different from what I expected, but it seems like a bomb.
“I see.”
It’s a type which kills using splinters. Terrifying.
“Wait, what’s the story?”
“If you burn the metal, Various coloured flame can be produced. With this, we can produce multicolored explosion.”
The new weapon of the Damon Army was just fireworks.
I have not been disappointed like this before, but I understood that Kurtz is an excellent technical officer.
“If it is launched, orders and reports can be delivered in a wide area.”
“I agree. How do you know?”
“These personnel and equipment were sent by the Demon King himself, so I thought that there would be a way to use them. It is all but a guess.”
The dog whistles can get through to only inujin and werewolves, but if it’s the signal balls, the ryujins or humans can also be conveyed. It’s faster than the signal fire and can also be used at night.
“It’s a wonderful invention, Kurtz-dono. As expected of the elder brother of Bartz-dono.”
I am not really a famous commander, but I am happy to hear compliments.
“By the way Vaito-dono, there were armored humans in front of the castle gates.”
“They are the Mirarudia alliance army’s palace guards stationed in Ryun Height.”
I heard a ryujin shouting in a loud voice for the first time.
“So,sorry to be rude. But aren’t they the enemies!?”
Ah, is that so, the typical perception of a demon race.
“After they have surrendered, currently they are independently acting to maintain the public order in Ryun Height. It’s a neutral standpoint.”
Kurtz, still being in a state of disbelief, looked down the palace guards in the street corner from the window.
The palace guards are armed with short spears, and if they feel like, they can easily harm the inujins or the ryujins.
“Is it really fine?”
“Even if they offer their swords to the Mirarudia senate, they’re not the god they believe. It’s the citizens of Ryun Height. That’s why they won’t cause unnecessary disputes.”
Kurtz looked impatient with worry, but I think he will get used to it.
Like this, Ryun Height became a place, where werewolf, inujin, ryujin and vampires can come and go.
Looking at the town where humans and demons pass by, somehow I felt like healing from the tiredness of the days.
Viceroy Airia seems very busy with more and more cases at disposal, but taxes would also increase, so let her keep at it.
Apart from that, the problem at hand is conquering Tuban.
The demon king himself boasts of strength to the extent of a demigod, but if the demon army is not strong, the soldiers will be alienated. That’s the way it is.
Since it’s already the time teacher would come to pick me up, let me go to report the demon king.
“What a bad luck, again another city was recaptured.”
Bartz is greatly perplexed. Today also, picking the fragrant grasshopper fry, heaved a sigh.
Well, since in this place he can’t be seen by the soldiers, this is probably his true face.
“The second division without coordination among the races, each pursuing their own achievements, are separately marching forward. Because they also don’t maintain the supply line, one after another troops are being crushed after getting isolated.”
But, because the orders don’t spread through the front line, as the war progressed, second division’s selfish conducts stood out.
“The second division has its hands full with maintaining the war front, it seems there is even no one to come back for a report. Instead I am the one reporting his highness, the demon king, but it’s very bitter to read out loud the pathetic letter….”
After the meal, Bartz took out a small cloth bag in the cafeteria and gulped down a tablet similar to a small stone.
This thing looks like stomach medicine.
Although his face is like a lizard, I feel like I’m rapidly getting familiar with this person.
For the sake of the nervous temperament of a co-worker, I have to work hard.
Then Bartz grabbed my hand from across the table.
This person is also really a handful.