Chapter 1: New Domain, New Enemies
On the southwest edge of the former territory of Brijit was the Bertaquin Domain. With mountains to the north, and the sea to the south, the area was a natural fortress, but the trade-off was that the region consisted mostly of mountains. Because of the expanse of ranges, it only had half the land that the Eintorian Domain did for cultivating and inhabiting.
With so little usable land, we would have to do slash-and-burn farming on the mountains to use them for agriculture. That would give us more room to work with.
I had chosen to restart from the west side of Brijit, including Bertaquin; the neighboring domain, Ryhein; and the former capital of Brijit, Brinhill. At the moment, it was impossible to rule over any more than that. Even setting aside the issue of our insufficient population, I had a shortage of capable administrators.
It took a lot of people to maintain just one city. If I let just anyone have the job, then they’d only make things worse. If that led to a drop in popular opinion, degrading the strength of my nation, then I’d be ruined. That’s why I’d given up on the territories east of the Brijitian capital currently occupied by Runanese forces. I planned to get myself set up first, then take over the rest of Brijit later.
“As you were saying, Your Excellency, after the Naruyan invasion began, our forces in the southeast of Brijit headed back home to Runan. When that happened, I remained in Bertaquin as you ordered, before occupying Brinhill and Ryhein.”
Of the forces led by Fihatori, some twenty thousand men had retreated to Runan. They would likely join up with Ronan, who’d made his escape to southern Runan. Well, I’d left one more ember of strife with the man. If that ember didn’t do its job, I’d find another way, but for now, I intended to sit back and watch things burn.
That ember had a name—former advisor to the Runanese Army, Heina Berhin.
She had been seeking power in order to avenge her father’s death. At one point, she even sent assassins after me over a misplaced grudge, but I’d made her see that Ronan was the root cause of everything. Knowing her, she wouldn’t spare any effort to save the dying Runan, and would instead work to take revenge on Ronan.
“What happened to the people of southwestern Brijit?”
“They were originally citizens of Brijit, so...while I did recommend that they come join us in the west, I was unsuccessful.”
“Well, I can’t blame you for that. If anyone in the Ryhein or Brinhill Domain wants to leave, don’t stop them. If we restrict the people now, it could have a devastating effect on public sentiment.”
“Understood, Your Excellency!”
To the people of Brijit, I was still no more than an enemy. An invader. But I didn’t need to go out of my way to win them over. If I just ruled well, they would come rushing to me of their own accord.
For now, I’ll focus all of my power in one place. This is where things truly begin.
There was a load of things to be done, but I decided my first order of business would be to investigate all the checkpoints between Brinhill, the old capital of Brijit, and the east of the country.
I had to be cautious of the east.
The roads eastbound were open now, but they weren’t all through valleys; some small mountains dotted the route too. Those mountainous areas had strategic checkpoints meant to thwart any enemy attack on Brinhill.
“This way, Your Excellency.”
However, the checkpoint Fihatori brought me to was in an even sorrier state than I’d anticipated.
Brinhill Checkpoint
Durability: 50
“There are a number of checkpoints east of this one, but they’re generally not in very good condition either. The country stretches a long way from east to west, and the mountain stopped most of their enemies, so I suspect they became lax in maintaining them.”
In the end, I had to pay for repairs.
While I’d been able to bring all the gold that was once hidden beneath Eintorian with me, there were still limits to how much funding I had. Fresh gold wasn’t going to come pouring in on its own. If I grew overdependent on that gold, I was in for big trouble later, especially since, as I was currently forced into a zero-taxation policy, my treasury was only dwindling.
Still, I couldn’t leave what might be the critical border of my realm undefended.
“Release whatever food we can afford to from the storehouses at Brijit’s palace and use it to round up some labor. We’re going to need to not only repair but also start some new construction, after all.”
“Understood, Your Excellency!”
There’s no other faction that would invade this region anytime soon, but as they say, a stitch in time saves nine. I plan to deal with our finances through trade and commerce in the future, so that’s going to have to make up for it. The important thing for now is to focus on these gatehouses at strategic passes that will protect us.
After prioritizing them, I moved on to distributing the population.
To confront the King of Naruya, who’d invaded Runan and killed the king, and to unify the continent, I was going to announce the foundation of the New Eintorian Kingdom.
Obviously, the capital would be here in Brinhill. It wasn’t a bad pick. After all, as the former capital of the Brijit Kingdom, it had a reasonably good castle.
Eintorian Domain
Total Population: 1,050,000
I hadn’t proclaimed the foundation of the state just yet, so the system still showed the three regions of the Eintorian Domain and their total population.
The original Eintorian region had a population of twenty-five thousand.
That was a lot for a mere count’s lands, but then again, I had actively been encouraging people to settle down in my domain.
The existing populations of Brinhill, Ryhein, and Bertaquin came to another fifty thousand. When you consider that Brinhill was once the capital of a sovereign country, that number was actually on the low end. Granted, that was because the war I had fought here before had caused an outflow of people to other regions.
The rest of our population was made up of the refugees who’d followed me here from other regions of Runan.
The existing residents of Brijit’s most important stat was their Opinion, and currently sat at a measly 43. But the people I had brought here in advance from the Eintorian Domain, the ones who were already loyal only to me, boasted a high 92. As for the refugees I led here after smashing the Naruyan Army, their sentiment toward me sat at a reasonably stable 85.
Still, when you looked at the entire population, their average Opinion score came to 66. Not a very good number at all. Such a score wouldn’t cause an immediate explosion of discontent with disastrous results, but it was also going to be hard to raise it. If I pursued policies that favored the former Brijitians, then I would probably face strong pushback from the rest of my people. That’d defeat the entire purpose of doing it.
I had to wait for the Brijitians’ opinion of me to slowly rise on its own.
I divided the population so that there were sixty thousand people in Brinhill, thirty thousand in Ryhein, and fifteen thousand in Bertaquin, based on the relative size of each territory. Now the issue was who I should make lord of each region. To be perfectly honest, I sorely lacked the number of qualified personnel needed to govern them.
Hadin Meruya
Martial: 60
Intelligence: 57
Command: 70
Bente
Martial: 49
Intelligence: 38
Command: 82
Jint
Martial: 93(+2)
Intelligence: 41
Command: 52
Yusen
Martial 82
Intelligence 60
Command 90(+2)
Gibun
Martial: 70
Intelligence: 34
Command: 76
Mirinae
Martial: 5
Intelligence: 74
Command: 10
Euracia Rozern
Martial: 87(+3)
Intelligence: 57
Command: 95(+2)
Erheet Demacine
Martial: 96
Intelligence: 70
Command: 92
Fihatori Delhina
Martial: 81
Intelligence: 85
Command: 89
Ganid Voltaire
Martial: 30
Intelligence: 60
Command: 61
Bertalman
Martial: 80
Intelligence: 50
Command: 78
Erheet hadn’t fully become one of my retainers just yet, but he was still doing good work for me as a sort of assistant. I was hoping he’d become my retainer in the future, but I felt no need to rush it. I planned to wait until he came to me to speak about it himself.
He probably had a lot to think about.
One positive development so far was that all of Erheet’s retainers were now firmly opposed to Duke Ronan. They knew what kind of country Runan had been better than anyone, so they weren’t going to talk about trying to restore it. So long as Erheet didn’t aspire to become king of a nation of his own, he’d officially become my retainer in due time.
Also, Count Voltaire ended up sticking around. He didn’t seem to plan on going anywhere, seeing as he constantly kissed up to me. He was timid and had low ability scores, but that in turn meant he didn’t have the guts to betray me, which made him a safe choice in that regard.
But as far as Erheet’s retainers, Voltaire’s retainers, and the retainers of those Runanese lords who chose to accompany me went, none of them had ability scores high enough to be worth taking note of. I could let them manage the administration of the regions I had for now, but I’d eventually run up against the limits of what they could each accomplish. Erheet’s retainers in particular were specialized toward the military, so I intended to make him the head of my armed forces eventually.
For now, I needed to manage each region of my domain up until the wars of conquest formally began.
To that end, I put Yusen in charge of Bertaquin, since he’d already made contact with the mountain folk and learned various things about the area, and put Hadin in charge of Ryhein.
They’re the two I trust most.
When it came to pure ability, Fihatori was superior in some ways, but he already had a lot of tasks on his plate.
As for Mirinae, her Intelligence score had begun rising as she studied, but I planned to put her in charge of government affairs when the time came.
Lord of Bertaquin
Yusen
The Opinion of Bertaquin has increased by 5.
When I assigned Yusen as Lord of Bertaquin, there was a surprising change. Did that happen because of his high Command, or because of what Yusen had already done in the Bertaquin Domain?
Maybe it was both.
Either way, Yusen was a talented guy—a fact further demonstrated by the absence of any similar change when I assigned Hadin to Ryhein.
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I headed to Ryhein Domain. My goal was to raise the people’s opinion of me there ahead of encouraging agricultural development and the fishing industry.
The Ryhein Domain was larger than the Bertaquin Domain. Of course, in terms of overall importance, the iron in Bertaquin was going to be massively more vital to my cause. There was no way to carry out the expansions to the military I needed to prepare for war without first activating the Bertaquin Domain’s mining industry. But the Ryhein Domain had more flat land than the other territories, as well as a number of fishing ports.
Ryhein
Population: 325,031
Opinion: 74
The low opinions of the former Brijitians had mixed with those of the new settlers for a combined score of 74. While the new settlers had already been told about my tax policy, the native Ryheinites hadn’t heard about it yet.
And so I went there myself.
As far as they were concerned, I was just an invader, and the settlers’ enemies who came to steal their land and jobs. I needed to make them see it wasn’t like that. I was their new ruler, and these people, their comrades. That meant I needed to make a personal visit as soon as possible.
“I am sure you must all be bewildered to see so many new residents. But have no fear! I won’t do anything to harm your current lifestyle. In fact, I promise you a better future!”
I gave speeches at the different villages as I toured the area. My tax policy had a great effect, of course. Being exempted from taxes for a whole year meant a significant amount to the people, and it was really nothing to sneeze at. My tax strategy helped lower the discontent among the former Brijitians, raising the Opinion score to 85.
That only left Brinhill.
Brinhill
Population: 624,501
Opinion: 54
This was the territory with the lowest Opinion. Not that there was any helping that, considering that the vast majority of the people were former Brijitians. More than anything, they were afraid of being displaced by settlers. Of course, I had no intention of doing that to them.
In both the Brinhill and Ryhein Domains, the land I was giving the settlers was undeveloped.
This did nothing to harm the existing residents of the domain, and I was even making life easier for them by exempting them from taxes for a year. I planned to conscript them to fight in later wars, so I needed to rule benevolently now in order to improve popular sentiment as much as possible.
“...and that’s why, through my tax policy, I intend to help the existing residents and the settlers come together!”
Obviously, no one objected to a tax exemption.
The Opinion of Bertaquin has increased from 54 to 76.
A bonus effect has increased Opinion from 76 to 91.
For some reason, an unusual bonus effect raised the Opinion score of the Brinhill Domain even further. That didn’t happen in Ryhein. I pulled up the system, trying to figure out what it was. Bonuses didn’t just happen without some sort of cause.
“Is something the matter?” Euracia asked innocently, tilting her head to the side. She had become a lot more expressive recently. “If you stare so hard, your eyes are going to fall right out of your head. Would you mind if I keep them if they do?”
Now she was saying horrifying things and making strange requests.
“Uh, I just had something on my mind.”
There was only one thing that made Ryhein and Brinhill different: the presence of Euracia. Her Command score of 97 shouldn’t have had this much of an effect on its own. Euracia’s high Charisma had also gone up along with her Command, so perhaps that was what was responsible for this kind of Opinion bonus. If I were to put a score on her Charisma, it was probably close to 100.
That’s why just having her at my side when giving speeches could make the people’s Opinion rise by a whole 15 points.
It was one hell of an effect.
Maybe I should bring Euracia with me on another speech tour in Ryhein?
It was certainly worth giving it a try.
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“Ohhhhh! So this is Bertaquin Castle, huh!” Gibun cried out in delight when he saw the lord’s castle in Bertaquin.
“This is going to be ours? Whew, I sure have moved up in the world! Nice work, Gibun! I always knew it was important to have connections. If I’d been in another unit and never met His Excellency, I might already have died in the war with Naruya,” Gibun murmured, patting himself on the head.
Of course, Gibun’s advancement wasn’t solely down to luck. His abilities were a part of it too. If Yusen and Gibun hadn’t been there during the battle at Lynon Castle, there was a good possibility that Erhin wouldn’t have been able to coordinate things so well.
“Anyway, the important thing is what comes after this. Go to the mountain folk’s headquarters and fetch Bertalman right away. His Excellency has summoned him.”
Yusen chided Gibun for getting so giddy, but on closer inspection the corners of his own lips were upturned too.
“Sure, sure, I’ll get right on it.”
The mountain folk patrolled the peaks under the command of Bertalman. Because most of the domain was rocky terrain, it would be incredibly difficult for any unit to traverse the ranges without their help.
That’s why Erhin meant to expand the scale of their activity to Brinhill.
“What will you be doing, Captain Yusen?”
“I need to focus on developing the farmland in this domain. I also have orders to encourage the fishermen and grow the port towns. I’ll need to increase the number of privately owned fishing ships too.”
The people of this domain were more amicable to their new rulers thanks to Yusen’s efforts, so the area didn’t merit any special concern.
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“Mirinae.”
“Yes, my lord!”
“Why did you bring him along? Jint, you don’t trust me calling her?”
“That’s right. I told him to stay in the house...” Mirinae said, still holding Jint’s hand.
Uh, that’s not really something you should say while holding hands.
“It’s not that I’m tagging along. I just had business in the palace too.”
“Oh, yeah? Well, I didn’t call you here.”
“What? What do you mean you didn’t call me?”
Now he’s just talking nonsense.
“See! I told you he wasn’t calling you! It was just me! Get away from me!”
Save the arguments for after you stop holding hands so tightly. No, wait. Are they going out of their way to flaunt how close they are? Well, whatever.
I was always having Jint come along with me, so I could understand it was important for them to be together when it was peaceful like this.
In fact, this was the perfect time for it.
That’s why I hadn’t given Jint another assignment. Well, not that I could count on Jint to do anything that didn’t involve fighting.
“Oh, forget it. It’s not like I’m telling you to go home.”
I’d summoned Mirinae to try giving her a job. She’d always been very smart, but her passion for her studies had caused her Intelligence score to rise considerably.
Looking at the system’s domain management screen, Brinhill currently had a score of 46 for Agriculture. That number represented production efficiency, basically meaning the domain was only at 46 percent of its potential output.
The Brijitian king’s almost total disinterest in domestic policy was probably to blame for that. For now, I needed to boost the territory’s Agriculture score. I didn’t need it to be 100, but if we were only harvesting 46 percent of what we could be, then people were going to starve.
Brinhill
Opinion: 91
Agriculture: 46
Fishing: 52
Forestry: 45
Despite the significant area the region covered, the numbers weren’t very good. I needed these scores raised as high as they could be by a year from now, when the tax exemption policy ended.
So I’ll start with Agriculture.
Fishing and forestry both required someone more knowledgeable in that field.
“There are a lot of books on agriculture. Mirinae, you have farming experience, right? You must know more about it than someone who used to be a nobleman or a soldier. Could you meet with the farmers, hear what they have to say, and then carry out agricultural reforms based on the books in the palace library?”
“Me? You’d trust me with such an important job...?” Mirinae asked, her eyes wide with surprise as they went from me, to Jint, and then back to me again.
“Euracia, how would you feel about helping Mirinae with her task?”
Just having her around would probably give some kind of bonus like she had before. The way that her Charisma gave boosts to internal administration just by having her around made it feel like cheating to have her.
Obviously, I’m not expecting too much. But with Mirinae’s smarts, I’m sure she can come up with something. She’s got the highest Intelligence next to Fihatori.
“Very well,” Euracia said, quickly nodding. “I’m always for anything that helps the people. It’s a pleasure to work with you, Mirinae.”
“You want me to work with the princess?!” Mirinae jumped into the air in shock.
When Euracia cast a dubious glance in her direction, Mirinae started trembling.
“Um... Someone like me...shouldn’t be working with a princess...”
“Have some confidence, Mirinae. That’s an order. As is the job I just gave you.”
It was something that she needed to do to build her self-confidence. I needed her to be more audacious, like Jint.
On second thought, maybe “like Jint” was taking it a bit too far?
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Public opinion, policy, and agricultural reforms are all looking good. But in the end, military power is going to be the most important thing. These are troubled times we live in. I’m going to need to prepare a military not just so that I can unify the continent, but for defense as well.
Having not yet announced the foundation of a new country, the Runanese forces that I’d brought with me and my own forces that I’d raised in Eintorian were both referred to as the Eintorian Domain Army in the system.
They numbered roughly sixty-two thousand men.
The existing Eintorian Domain Army had been twenty-two thousand men, and their Morale was obviously sky-high. On average, they had a high degree of Training too. Honestly, they were fine as is, as long as I could maintain the status quo.
As for the Runanese troops led by Fihatori, they had an incredible Morale of 98. That wasn’t far from the Eintorian Domain Army, which had just tasted victory.
“Fihatori, I wanted to talk about the unit you’ve been leading. Why is their morale so high when they haven’t fought in any major battles?”
They had a Training of 72, but a Morale of 98. I didn’t understand what could have caused that.
“Oh, the reason’s as plain as day. These men have been following you since your defense of Rozern.”
While, yes, that was true, was he suggesting that it was enough, on its own, to explain them maintaining such a high morale?
“They’re thrilled to be able to fight under you again, Your Excellency. Because they know that, with you in command, they’re unlikely to lose, and the odds of them dying are much lower.”
He certainly had a point there.
“Of course... There’s another, larger reason for it. These men crossed the mountains with you and gained victory. You kept your promise to them then, and convinced them you were different from the other lords. I hear some of the men stayed up all night, crying for joy, after they were able to send the reward money back to their families.”
While this was something I had deliberately engineered, it had only worked out this way because Fihatori communicated things to them in such a way that it was thanks to me, and not the King of Runan. As I started to think in earnest about a plan for how to train my army, Erheet approached from behind Fihatori.
“Is Erhin here?”
“Can I help you, Your Excellency?”
We really needed to do something about styles of address soon. Just how many excellencies did we have walking around here? But it was best to save the proclamation of a new country for when public sentiment had moved more in my favor.
It would seem more justified if, rather than just declare “I’m going to be king!” I seemed to be doing it at the urging of those around me.
Obviously, I had a legitimate claim as a descendant of the Eintorians. Anyway, I decided to take a wait and see approach for a little longer.
“I had a proposal to make. Would you consider training lancers? If you would, then I am prepared to spend my life training and managing them for you!”
“Lancers, you say?”
“That’s right. I proposed the idea several times in Runan, but was always rebuffed because we lacked iron and they wouldn’t give me the budget for it.”
Yeah, I can’t see that king ever approving a costly proposal. Lancers, huh?
This might have seemed obvious, but lancers were cavalrymen who fought using lances. It was a somewhat rare troop type in this world for various reasons. The first of which being they were hard to train. It took a lot of talent to be able to control a lance freely while in an unstable position like on the back of a horse. Also, lancers needed a lot of iron. Their job was to charge into the enemy’s formations with their lances. That required sturdy lances and armor in case they got surrounded.
But it was also true that if we could train a large number of them, they’d be a force to be reckoned with. They were a charging unit with long reach and superior mobility. That on its own was already enough to make them scary. Range dominated the battlefield. So long as it didn’t devolve into one-on-one combat, the soldier with the longer weapon had an overwhelming advantage.
If I combined them with my existing iron cavalry, then I could trample over my enemies with that overwhelming destructive power. I had an iron mine now, and Erheet’s skills with a spear had earned him the nickname The Fiendish Spear.
With someone as suited to teaching spear techniques as Erheet, and the iron to construct the equipment needed for him to arm his new recruits with, there was no reason not to go for it.
“I ought to be asking you if you’d do it for me, Your Excellency. I will do everything within my power to help. Please lend us your strength!”
“You mean it?! Good! Then I’ll begin preparing at once!” Erheet sounded like a giddy child.
After that, Fihatori, Erheet, and I had a meeting about military preparations.
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Just as I was getting things on the rails internally, an incident broke out.
The mountains protected us to the north, but the coast was wide open. It was true that the sea had stopped an invasion, and that was why I had chosen this territory, but if any nation in the vicinity had a war fleet, that changed things.
“So, one issue I have with Brijit,” I said to Fihatori.
“Yes?” he asked.
“Why did they only have a grand total of four warships?”
“There is a reason for that. I believe that, under the king two reigns before the last King of Brijit, they lost a major naval battle against the Luaranz Kingdom. From what I’ve been told, they lost all control of the sea after that, and they had no means of fighting back. The Luaranz Kingdom has been famous for their formidable navy ever since the time when the Eintorian Kingdom still reigned supreme. In the time of the Ancient Kingdom, Luaranz had a massive port and a grand fleet, which they used to expand across the continent. It was the House of Luaranz from the Ancient Kingdom that built that great fleet, and who founded the country, so they had been a naval power for generations.”
Oh, yeah, that’s right. There’s a coastal port city called Luaranz. It’s a naval country.
The kings of Brijit must have decided that, rather than half-heartedly build a new fleet only to get it crushed by Luaranz, they were better off focusing on their land forces.
“That only makes the problem worse. Look at this,” I said, pointing at a map.
The sea routes from the Luaranz Kingdom to the Brinhill Domain, Ryhein Domain, and Bertaquin Domain were far too close.
If the Luaranz Kingdom attacks us by sea, we’re in trouble.
There were mountains to the north, and we could defend the west side with the army, but we were completely exposed to an attack from the sea. Especially if the Luaranz Kingdom were to ally themselves with another country and attack on two fronts. That could be fatal to us.
At the very least, I don’t want this area to end up getting turned into a battlefield when we’re going to be spending more than a year recovering.
If my domain got invaded before I could attack anywhere else, then that would make it impossible to unify the continent.
Besides, who wants to live on the coast when they don’t know when enemies might attack it?
“That’s certainly an issue, but... There is a reason the Luaranz Kingdom hasn’t made a move, even after all this chaos.”
“Why is that?”
“King Luaranz is old, so he is avoiding war. He also lacks a successor, and the factional strife between different nobles vying for the throne is growing more intense.”
I see. They’re all desperate to seize power.
“So there’s little chance of them starting a war, then. Is that it?”
“It is as you have surmised,” Fihatori said with a nod, but I remained wary of the Luaranz Kingdom.
That’s because, while I didn’t remember the succession crisis, I did clearly remember an important character from the game was in Luaranz.
There’s going to be a coup d’état there soon.
The usurper would then immediately go on to start a war of conquest, and accomplish a whole lot with their superior abilities and grand fleet. Later, they would grow to become one of the people vying for supremacy on this continent.
The coup d’état took place after the fall of Runan. If it hadn’t happened yet, then that meant it would soon.
“Excellent. So, what do you think of making the Luaranz Kingdom’s grand fleet our own?”
“The grand fleet?” Fihatori looked at me as if he didn’t understand what I was saying.
What I was saying had to sound like a total non sequitur when I’d been worried about them invading just a moment ago, so it was a perfectly natural reaction.
“I’m just asking what you’d think about getting our hands on their fleet. The mountains keep our enemies at bay, but they also make it hard to head outside ourselves. But with a fleet, we could invade anywhere on the continent easily.”
“I suppose we could. It is true that a fleet would be a considerable addition to our war power.”
“Send a messenger to Luaranz. Tell them we want to send a delegation to request an alliance.”
Of course, I would never form an alliance that didn’t benefit me. The alliance was only a pretext. How to fully remove the threat to our exposed south—that was the real issue at hand.
If I could build an army of around a hundred and fifty thousand men, with popular opinion and our agricultural base stable, then I would finally be ready to declare the foundation of my country and head out into the continent at large. There was no way to train that many men while I was in a situation where it was impossible to know when an enemy might strike. I had to increase my population to be able to raise that many troops.
And the solution to that population issue was actually in Luaranz too.
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Mirinae busily rushed around, talking to farmers who had worked the fields of the Brinhill region for generations. She scoured through every book she could get her hands on, approaching the task she had been given with total seriousness. Euracia followed her around as she worked, and the effects of her Charisma made the farmers considerably more cooperative.
On top of this, Euracia also had been given some work training the military, so she had loads of things to do.
I visited Euracia and told her, “I’m going to the Luaranz Kingdom.”
“The Luaranz Kingdom? Why?”
“To protect our backs...you might say.”
“I don’t really understand, but I’ll get ready.”
Euracia planned to come with me as if that were the obvious thing to do.
But this time, I couldn’t let her.
Right now, the internal situation in Brinhill was completely reliant on her. Our military training would be more effective with her here too. On top of that, I couldn’t exactly take someone who stood out so much when I was trying to keep a low profile. Euracia stuck out by her very nature, so she was a poor fit for an infiltration.
“I’ll go by myself. In the meantime, you take care of training the army and managing the domain. I’d be in real trouble without you here.”
“...”
Euracia puffed her cheeks up at this. She was not amused. It was scary seeing those pretty, golden eyebrows of hers arch like that.
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