Chapter 86.5 “Hey, Alex . Isn’t fine even if we don’t go visit?”
“Where to?”
Alexios and Melia’s elopement was splendidly successful .
After arriving at Trisquerria Island, they immediately left for and entered the Cretian colonies . From there, they moved to the Adernia Peninsula within three days .
Their pursuers from Povenia have completely scattered .
Because the Povenian government’s most anticipated general and sorcerer had eloped, they had set up dragnets with considerable seriousness . Despite this, however, everything ended up for naught .
The Povenians ended the search in a month .
They don’t have the time to forever search for people that had fled outside the country .
But then again, because the famous Povenian Clan of Barca is still searching for Alexios with all their might, the Povenians couldn’t let their guard down .
Their elopement had relatively gone well .
In the first place, the two are soldiers so they both have planning aptitude .
They had secretly bought land and slaves using private property they moved to Lezzad to manage a property of a considerable scope .
Naturally speaking, the level of lifestyle they now have had fallen several levels from when they were in the army . However, since these two had originally led very modest lifestyles, they developed no discontent .
“That new king Rosyth…To be coming to Lezzad… . . or rather the several Cretian colonies of his own accord…this is unprecedented in history, am I not correct?”
Rumors of the product called paper being exported by the Rosyth Kingdom is circulating in Lezzad .
Right now, for the merchants of Lezzad, the Rosyth Kingdom is quite the delicious market .
Since even the Lezzad citizens hold no bad feelings, there is a welcoming mood around the city .
“Ah, the rumored person, huh . Upon returning from war with a neighboring country, without disbanding the army, he immediately launched a surprised attack against the opposition, disposing of them thoroughly . Quite impressive, yes? Only few kings are capable of ending a civil war in one moment . Soldiers and Nobles alike would hesitate on killing their brethren after all . ”
However, this new King Rosyth had uplifted his soldiers through victory and made that possible .
With the soldiers crazily enthusiastic, he managed to make an atmosphere where the great clansmen would find it difficult to declare overkill and proclaim opposition .
Alexios assessed this king’s abilities .
“Is that so? I had thought things had gone awfully noisy . So it’s that day, huh . ”
“Yeah, so, shall we go visit?”
“No, it’s fine . I don’t have that much interest, see . ”
Alexios declares so and returns to reading his book . It’s a book about far-eastern art of war .
Melia’s heart is attacked by a pain much like being pricked by a needle .
Alexios’ reading of a book about war means that he still has lingering affection towards the army, towards war after all .
“Hey… . are you regretting it?”
Alexios looks up to Melia .
After making a doubious face momentarily, he hurriedly closed the book in confusion .
“Ah, no . I’m not regretting my life here with you, not even one bit . ”
“But, aren’t you regretting separating from the battlefield?”
“Ah, well… . yes, honestly speaking, you’re correct . I, somehow or another, seems to quite love the battlefield . ”
Humans are beings that notice only when it’s gone .
That said……
“Still, I don’t have any interest in returning to Povenia . I’ve had enough of fighting for that country . Parliament had always interrupted in battle . Because of that, victory had always escaped us . And yet despite that, they will, without hesitation, execute any general that fails even once . There’s no way I’d allow that to happen . ”
Alexios shrugs his shoulders . His patriotism for Povenia is exceedingly thin .
However, it’s easy to guess that the cause is his opposition to his discordant family .
Alexios has extremely bad relations with his family . His family is a clan than seemed to have offered their spirit to Povenia . As such any unpleasant feelings towards their house is probably directly tied to discontent towards the motherland .
Although Melia hasn’t heard of the reason of the discord between Alexios and his family, she thinks it’s about Alexio’s eyes .
Alexios is a so-called ‘odd-eye’… . . his eyes are heterochromic .
It’s folkore in Povenia that children with different eye-colors are cursed .
What happens regarding that is Melia’s guess .
However, from her point of view, she could care less about Alexios’ family .
Hasn’t met them since forever . It’s only natural for others to be the same .
Melia grew up in an orphanage… . . or, to be precise, in an institution nicknamed “the Orphanage” where children suitable to become sorcerers are trained to be loyal sorcerers to the country after being separated from their parents . As such, she doesn’t know her parents .
It’s not like she particularly doesn’t want to meet them . It’s just that it would trouble her for her parents come and appear after all this time and tell her they’re her parents .
As such she couldn’t sympathize to the general sentiment that parents are important . She also couldn’t sympathize with the emotion called hate that Alexios holds .
“How about becoming a general for Lezzad?”
“Well, I might oblige temporarily if they ask me . However, I won’t be having things like swearing loyalty or the like . ”
Alexios’ existence has become privy to the upper stratum of Lezzad .
In the first place, it’s thanks to their cooperation that Alexios couldn’t be found by the Povenians .
While it does depend on the country, Cretians are people that love big words like democracy, equality, justice, and the like . That’s why they were receptive to the two who had come to elope .
But then again, a big part of the reason why the upper stratum of Lezzad is showing a cooperative attitude to the two is that they would obtain an excellent general and a card against the influential Povenian noble house of Barca .
Lezzad is a country of merchants, so they don’t have any trouble gathering mercenaries . On the other hand, they are troubled with finding men to lead those mercenaries .
Should the time come… . this is probably what Lezzad’s upper stratum is thinking .
“Besides, for me, the most important is you . The second most important is in here, yes?”
Alexios caresses Melia’s belly .
Melia’s mouth relaxes .
The two share a kiss .
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