Chapter 72: Night in the capital




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We stay at the hotel which we used last time. Then, after Dianne’s breath and sighs, she regains her cool look as a 100-man commander.
ā€œWe will fight. Our policy as a crossbow corps won’t changeā€
The king’s plan for revitalizing his Trot, with or without the king, with the same outcome at the end. However, Dianne is in a position to be on time. I was exhausted.
ā€œAs far as possible, we can only go in the direction of the Sword Saint Brigade. ……As long as it is in the form of revolt, whatever the historical significance is, it’s a force that can’t be overlookedā€
ā€œVictory or defeat? There are no avant-garde troopsā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œThere is certainly no effect of crossbow and illusion against Bonaparte, but the other Great Sword Saints should be different. The danger is big, but dividing the corps into two platoon units and operate it as much as possible with tactics using the terrain. And Sir Bonaparte……I somehow will hold him backā€
ā€œDianne alone is the avant-garde?ā€
ā€œIt’s more of a diversion than that. I don’t think I can fight Sir Bonaparte aloneā€
Tentatively, Dianne seems to have a plan.
ā€œAnzerosĀ“s team will be in charge of protecting the front guard unit in a row. Even if they got old, they are still Great Sword Saints, giving priority to the support of friends while not overdoing it. It’s going to be an endurance fight. ……And Aurora will be your assistantā€
Dianne gives quick instructions and measures. Then she looked at me suddenly.
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Andy, you will rest this timeā€
ā€œEhā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œThere is also a provision. Exceptions are permitted to target specific areas or targets in combat missions and to remove the person from such missions if they have a significant impact on soldier moraleā€
ā€œEh, noā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œNow you’re going to interfere with the operation. Look in the mirrorā€
It is said by Dianne and I see my face in the mirror which was in the room. ……Certainly, I was far from being calm and tense to fight by any means.
ā€œBut……Iā€
ā€œI don’t care if the battle starts. The other party is strongā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œAnd it’s better not to be at risk of dying from the beginning on the battlefield. You will know which of the hundred soldiers who are not at a loss and those who have fallen from two hundred to one hundred are worth itā€
Soldiers who lost their allies in front of them lose their morale anyway. If you are ruled by fear, sadness, or anger, your ability to operate will be lost. Even if a soldier loses the role assignment originally expected due to such rubble, the combat power will be halved. That’s the way the patterns are overwhelmed by a few. If you have bearless soldiers or useless soldiers, you will only cut down your entire strength. It is better not to have a bad friend. And I was now like that classification.
ā€œHave a rest. ……And don’t worry about it. It’s not your faultā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Yesā€
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Dianne returned to Basson with Laila, when only the outline of the operation was given. I don’t know how many dragons can carry a troop at one time, but so many round trips won’t be necessary. The corps will probably gather in the capital city tomorrow. ……And I’m not participating.
ā€œHaaā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œDon’t be discouraged……is it impossible to say?ā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦If you can control yourself, you won’t be notified outside the fieldā€
I can’t help complaining to Anzeros, but I am sorry.
ā€œAndyā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œJust a little……I will go and drink somethingā€
I dropped my shoulder and left the hotel.
ā€œI, I will go tooā€
ā€œAndy-san!ā€
ā€œSorry. Just a little, leave me aloneā€
I refused to be accompanied by Apple and Selenium and I went out to the royal capital at night.
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The royal capital is my second home. I have been living here for 7 years. Reasonably I was aware of it. However, due to my age, there was no edge in the bar area. I notice it after I walked out of it. There is a certain level of knowledge that ā€œa bar is gathered around hereā€, but I didn’t know what nature, what kind of alcohol, what atmosphere, or what kind of bar.
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Well, fineā€
I felt like I was a little betrayed by this selfish city, but I still felt like drinking, so I entered a bar that I could see at hand. I don’t care otherwise. I only want to drink alcohol. Even if a woman was told to buy, by the way, I felt that I would buy now.
ā€œOh, an unknown faceā€
ā€œOne beer and a side dish to suit to itā€
Instead of being addicted to the bar-owner, I just sit back at the counter and say my order first. The barkeeper looks a little strange, but he does business with a lot of different customers, therefore he pours beer without hesitation.
ā€œHere for you, travelerā€
ā€œThank youā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œTake care. This is 怎Trotian’s areać€ā€
ā€œTrotian……area?ā€
The barkeeper sighed with his nose while serving hot fried potatoes.
ā€œAfter the previous war, we started the segregation in the place of the taverns without permission. The neighborhood where only the Trot people gather and the foreigners gather, the thugs began to draw a line. I’m doing a shop here and if the money is good and the drinking habit is not bad, anyone can come to my shop……well, segregation is a good way to drink alcoholā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦I’m a Trot personā€
The barkeeper shrugged. If I thought that it was bad, there were a couple of thugs behind me.
ā€œDo Trot people have a bad sense of clothes?ā€
ā€œYou’re from Celesta, get out of hereā€
……Uwaa. Seriously the worst.
ā€œIĀ“m from Trot. I grew up in Polka. ……I was pulled in by Celesta after the warā€
ā€œHaaā€
ā€œEven so you seem like a Celesta person. Anyway, last time there was a pseudo-beast companion who saved money by fraudingā€
Pseudo-beast means human beasts. It is a nickname for elves and ogres in a broad sense. ……Really the worst.
ā€œShut up…… I’m not a bratā€
ā€œYou, it’s your existence itself, that is botheringā€
ā€œYou’re out within three seconds or I’ll crush your noseā€
The thugs have been threatening me for a long time. ……I felt that I will be thrown out anyway, so I ignored them and picked up my beer. And, I was blown out in exactly three seconds as predicted.
ā€œGugaaā€
I just fall down with the chair. ……The taste of dry potato and blood is mixed.
ā€œI’m too familiar with the Celesta valve and I can’t even hear Trot’s dialect from youā€
ā€œMaybe he is drinking without any money, I will check insteadā€
The thugs reach out to my pocket while saying what they want. A stick was put in the hand.
ā€œIt hurts!ā€
ā€œWh, Whatā€¦ā€¦ā€
I also look up as the thugs look up. There is a middle-aged man in a cape dressed in a superior cloak, and……a swordsman with a beautiful breastplate. The swordsman is known at a glance. That person is…… Erik Randall. And the cloak’s uncle.
ā€œGood grief. So you’re telling me to put down the bouncer, barkeeperā€
Stunningly swinging the cane, putting it on his shoulder, the cloaked old man talks to the barkeeper.
ā€œOld man, don’t disturbā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œIt’s a polite manner for elders. ……You guys should get out!ā€
Suddenly a roar. The customers in the store shook their shoulders for a moment, also the thugs and me.
ā€œY, Youuu!ā€
It is shameful to be scared by it, so the thugs attacked the uncle at once. ……And, as Erik and the uncle nod to each other, they put their shoulders together and prepare for the attack.
ā€œIt’s time for a lectureā€
ā€œYesā€
And the thugs were beaten down by those two.
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The man in the cloak is 100-man commander Grants. Or rather.
ā€œAssistant professor Grants, I’m sorry for the troubleā€
ā€œIf you think so, hire some guards who can kick back such young people as soon as possibleā€
He was called assistant professor and I just couldn’t understand it because it was an intellectual person.
ā€œ100-man commander……Grants?ā€
ā€œTrainee Smithson……no, you’re now a 10-man captain. Come have a treat, this is my familiar shopā€
100-man commander Grants sit at the counter seat gallantly. Erik sat on the other side.
ā€œWe promise to have a drink togetherā€
ā€œWhat’s up, Smithson-san. How is, Angelina-sama?ā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€
I took a sip of the beer on the counter and frowned on the cuts in my mouth and stared at the two people who made an unexpected appearance.
ā€œā€¦ā€¦No, thatā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œWhat’s wrong? No way you already break up with Angelina-samaā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€
……Ah. What should I talk about?
ā€œā€¦ā€¦If you mean Anzeros, she is in the capital. Aurora and Dianne will come tomorrowā€
For now, I decided to answer the two people’s interests. Then.
ā€œHmm, is it true? If so, can I not meet her?ā€
Erik is overly pleased. And then, 100-man commander Grants stopped his movement to drink his Brandy.
ā€œā€¦ā€¦What?ā€
ā€œEhā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œWhat’s……no, I see. You haven’t heard itā€
Subtle reaction. I and Erik align our faces in ā€œ?ā€.
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Barkeeper, can I borrow a room?ā€
ā€œAssistant Professor Grants……ye, yes, it’s fine. Rooms 1 and 5-7 are openā€
ā€œLet’s borrow room number 1. ……Follow me, 10-man captain Randall and 10-man captain Smithsonā€
Suddenly, with a brandy bottle and a pottery cup, Grants stands up and take the stairs to the hotel room. I and Erik look at each other and follow him with each alcohol and side dish in our hands.
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ā€œAt this time, the crossbow corps is here and not even selling oilā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Grants-sensei?ā€
ā€œOn top of that, you were caught up in the monkey show of the king and Sir Bonaparteā€
ā€œWait……Grants-sensei, you’re disrespectfulā€
……Wa, Wait.
ā€œ100-man commander Grants, how much do you knowā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œI seem to know quite well when you think of me saying monkey show!ā€
ā€œEh, but……what?ā€
The king’s plan is……was it known to be so well known? I thought so, but apparently, it was obvious to this 100-man commander who has a decades-long career as a resident of the royal capital, as a Sword Saint.
ā€œThe engagement of the young noble Ruth and Princess Reina and when they were all together In Duke Gardner’s house, there was something I could see through, as I’m one of those who knew him well, such as Sir Bonaparte’s revolt against the king. Is exactly the same……when you understand the 600 years old history of Trot kingdom, it seems that there was a similar case beforeā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦In, In that way……what is itā€
ā€œWait, what do you mean? Bonaparte will defeat the king and makes a revolution, something elseā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œHaha, you don’t know it 10-man captain Randallā€
ā€œTh, Then what is the purposeā€¦ā€¦ā€
ā€œEverything is for the future of the kingdom and the political show for their children……which is foolishā€
100-man commander Grants gulps down his brandy and throws the bottle away as he says so. ……That’s true. It is a silly monkey show. A lot of alumni standouts kill each other with a smile and there is a soul and a mind that remain. There is no such thing that they have to sprinkle blood and leave on purpose.
ā€œAfter all, it’s foolish……the monkey show, isn’t it?ā€
ā€œYou also think so. ……I think that’s a normal nerveā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦But, I can’t stop it. I can’t stop the monkey show by any meansā€
Both winning and losing converge on one result. There is a way to dispel the plan itself to the people, but it can’t stop them simply by wasting their death. However, the 100-man commander Grants shrugged his shoulders before he poured alcohol into his cup.
ā€œI thought you were a supporter of the soul of Trot kingdom. But you say a lot of cowardly thingsā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Even if you say that, if you win or lose it, it is nothing……a futile situationā€
ā€œOh yes. If you kill Bonaparte or if you give up the king, the winner will be convicted and will be the foundation of the next era. Both sides are aware of it and it’s a fight they wantā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Yes. So this fight can’t be helped by interventionā€
ā€œSo you give up. The enemy is strong, there are no weapons to win, no stones and no sand, so are you satisfied that you have done well? So you can forgive yourself. Without standing on the battlefieldā€
ā€œThen what do you want me to do?ā€
ā€œWhat do you want to stop. What result do you want? Think about what is wrong and try to raise your justiceā€
Kan, 100-man commander Grants slammed his ceramic cup on the desk.
ā€œDon’t you leave everything alone? Do you think that with just a handful of help, everything is going to work, you just end up with the problem you want? You think you can save the person who really bet on life with just one arrow. Don’t give up, it’s nothing like a coincidenceā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦What should I do?ā€
100-man commander Grants murmurs a bit more and bears me.
ā€œWhat should you do? It depends on your justice. What does your justice want? What kind of future is good. Have you ever considered the means to do so?ā€
ā€œThat isā€¦ā€¦ā€
I don’t want the king, old man Bonaparte and the Sword Saints to die without permission. Parents have a duty to be respected until their death. They have an obligation to see the future of their children. They have a duty to be happy with the birth of their grandchildren. They have a duty to die peacefully, telling their children that they had a happy life. ……It should be so. It should have been so. My dad is an idiot who couldn’t do that, and old man Bonaparte is a fucking bastard trying to give up.
ā€œI don’t think you’ll be on time. ……All right, 10-man captain Smithson. Human hands aren’t attached to wield weapons. You can also make something. Holding someone’s hands. The voice can talk about any dream and love and the feet are able to go anywhere. You’re not so clumsy that you can’t understand itā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ā€
I watched 100-man commander Grants who continue to drink alcohol at a high pace. I felt awake.
ā€œYes, that’s rightā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Hahahaha. What did you forget?ā€
ā€œI forgot. ……Yes, that’s right. Iā€
……Not a human who is good at killing and solving, nor a nobleman who carries a nation. There was no need for such means and reason.
ā€œThank you, 100-man commander Grantsā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦Umuā€
I leave 100-man commander Grants who is about to close his eyes and Erik alone and hurry back to the inn.
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ā€œSelenium! Hilda-san!!ā€
ā€œWaaā€
ā€œAndy-kun!? ……Yo, You look revivedā€
I went back to the inn and hurried to talk to them
ā€œWhat?ā€
ā€œI want you to make poisonā€
ā€œWh, What poison!?ā€
ā€œYes. ……If possible, it’s easy to paint on arrows, not detoxify so easily and it numbs the target instead of being lethalā€
ā€œā€¦ā€¦What are you going to do……what is all this aboutā€
ā€œWill you use it for the Sword Saint Brigade?ā€
ā€œYesā€
I nodded strongly.
ā€œFirst of all, we will stop the Sword Saint Brigade without dyingā€
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