Editor: Thorrium.
Chapter 2 Episode 9
(Audience 1)
"This is Rozeria Kingdom’s royal capital, Piraeus."
Listening Mikhail's words, Ryouma opened his eyes wide and turned his line of sight toward the front.
"Hee... That is the royal capital huh?... It's pretty huge... "
"That is natural. After all, this is the royal capital of Rozeria Kingdom which can be regarded as one of the great nations within the western continent's eastern part! In the first place, Rozeria Kingdom is..."
Although they had just been acquaintances for six days, Ryouma had already grasped Mikhail militaristic character.
He didn’t like hard jobs nor did he enjoy failures, he hated when he had to redo everything from the beginning.
However, Ryouma's didn’t value such beliefs very highly.
"Not all knight put the same value in honour and pride like Mikhail-san, don't you agree? "
Listening to Ryouma's astonished tone of voice, Mikhail's face turned red.
"Are you making fun of Knight's pride!?"
"Those words are something a person who had attempted assassination shouldn’t say, no? "
Hearing that words, Mikhail's face became stiff again.
No matter how much he sugarcoated his words, he knew it wouldn’t change the fact, that he was planning an assassination.
Mikhail was wondering what he should prioritise, his knightly pride or the national crisis.
"Funn... Although I think there's no point for him to lament about such thing, after all, I never thought what he was doing was wrong. "
Sara heard Ryouma speak, while he was watching Mikhail's back, who was regretting what he had done… Sara then asked a question. ‘
"It was not wrong? "
However, Ryouma thought that if it could save many lives by just killing one person, and the possibility of suppressing a civil war that would surely ravage the land, such choice should not be excluded from the other options due to something as silly as an honour.
"In the end, an assassination is always just one among the many choices that existed. Where you hope that your choice will help you achieve your goals. "
For example, the knight faction’s goal is not to let the illegitimate princess from the noble faction become the Queen.
However, going down that route, required them having obtained the proper information.
It was foolish of the Knight’s faction not to have confirmed the information before setting their assassination plot into action.
Indeed looking at Mikhail subordinate that survived, whether because they are straightforward people or whatnot they seemed to be people that lacked in the brain department.
That day, Ryouma's proposal causes a great stir within Mikhail's heart, which all things considered was natural.
Furthermore, many of Mikhail’s subordinates had been killed by Ryouma's scheme.
Including Mikhail, six people survived.
And yet, Mikhail decided to accept Ryouma's proposal.
Even if he had refused Ryouma's proposal, Mikhail didn’t have any other alternatives.
However, even if Mikhail himself was convinced with that, his subordinates weren’t as understanding.
In the end, they accepted Mikhail's words; however, the flame of hatred still flickering within their eyes.
In other words, he didn’t want to kill all of them, just because they had attacked.
One might wonder if he said that because he felt embarrassed.
Although it was for the sake of wound treatment, Laura still felt a considerable criticism from their gaze.
In actuality, after he cleaned his wounds, it's was just a matter of him waiting for the scraps to disappear.
In Ryouma's eyes, it didn’t really matter much whether the Knight faction or the Noble faction ended up controlling the country.
After all, if he didn’t support one side, then there was the possibility that Wallace might push all the blame and responsibility onto Ryouma, and then sent an assassin from the guild to kill him.
And currently, Ryouma didn’t have any means to counter such things.
One may be wondered who the guild masters would believe, Ryouma and Lione on one side, being adventurers and mercenaries or one of their colleagues, Wallace.
And even if Ryouma ended up talking with one of the other guild masters, there was a very good chance that they would simply think that Ryouma was trying to make excuses for failing and abandoning his quest.
And currently, the Knight faction was the only option Ryouma had when selecting who to be his backers
Thus the only one that could actually offer him support was the Knight faction.
After all, there was no reason for the Knight faction to help Ryouma and the others.
That's why it was a bet.
As well as, that person being able to see the value of having Ryouma and the others on their side.
The carriages finally arrived in front of the castle gate.
"Now then... What happen after this, depends on my speech. "
Ryouma muttered those words while looking at the castle from the castle gate.
From his eyes, a strong willpower can be seen.
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