Chapter 90: A great man is troublesome
Akisame’s POV:
Far away, I was watching a bat flying to the moon, using a telescope.
A oni girl who is watching the same thing as myself with the naked eye sight, not with a telescope, she talks to me uneasy.
“Akisame-sama, are you think it okay about that Vampire Princess?“ (Habotan) (meaning: Arge’s group already defeat that moving disaster for you)
“Well, well, why not?” (Akisame)
“… aren’t you take it lightly?” (Habotan)
“Well, it will be a confusing story if we go out …” (Akisame)
Kingdom’s knight, travelers, and peddler. In other words four outsiders saved the land of the republic.
It would be better to leave it alone than go out now and to say something.
… Especially for the peddler, it will be troubled because thing can be pushed back to me.
As I saw it, he used merchant magic. That probably scattered enough coins to buy a small house.
Commercial guild peddlers who must make a pledge not to belong to any country, and they prioritize the profit. Because they are completely neutral, they are allowed to come and go to any country.
They are forbidden to invole in country affair (like spy and destruction activities to other countries) and they are also important existences and subtle existences that difficult for any country to opposite.
They make goods and money circulation, even the nation would hesitate to cause trouble for them.
Regardless of the reason, he’s using the magic to help our country just now, talking to him right now mean a lot of trouble and work.
I was just looking at the situation, I thought it would be okay to let people clean up without putting out my hands. There shouldn’t be problem with that.
However, it seems my excellent Oni wa banshu is somewhat frustrated.
“If you ask, in the name of Oni wa banshu, we will gladly fight for your sake even to death“
“Well, I want to keep our strength.”
“Our strength … what do you need it for?”
“Nothing at the moment … just precaution … I worry about the movement of the empire.”
“The empire … certainly, their recent movements are strange”
“Yeah, the empire doesn’t have any move yet. They don’t attack the kingdom, but they keep the state of war … I think that there is something happen in there.”
“… No matter how much military power of the empire is, I think that they never win a war against the Republic and the Kingdom”
“I don’t think so, if the empire is only as we know…”
Yes. If it is the empire that I know, I don’t see the situation to that extent. I don’t think they can have a chance to win against two major powers.
But the empire that I knew in the past isn’t supposed to have a tedious war like the information we gathered recently.
Several years ago, we had gathered the info of the kingdom and the empire’s war with the Oni wa Banshu’s network. Obviously, the empire is behaved strange in recent years.
It looks like they’re waiting an opportunity make an eerie move.
Even if they don’t start war with us yet, but when the kingdom is destroyed, it is no wonder that the empire will aim at the Republic next.
…I also consider to lend a hand to the kingdom.
But it depends on what three leader other than me in Yotsuba council. We still consider what side to take. There is royalty over there but that is not absolute reign. And It seems that the lord of each place is quite favor to ally with the Kingdom.
“Well, there’s no harm in prepare, Habotan. Whatever may happen …we will protect our country and its citizen”
“Yes, all member of Oni wa Banshu will obey you. Our life is your.”
“Well, it really helps. Please continue collecting information.”
“Understood”
After showing her intention of submission, Habotan disappear in the darkness.
As usual, it is an amazing concealment ability that doesn’t suit her size.
“Well, I guess I should go back … Really, this’s a troublesome world”
Although this is a role that has been handed down from generation to generation, maintaining the country is quite difficult.
I only hope to spend my days in peace, but it doesn’t work.
The world is always moving, and we must move along with it.
I don’t think myself as a wise man, but I will do what I can do.
Because I have patriotism and something I want to protect.
I determined the future policy within myself, and I left this place.