CH 400

Strategy Meeting

After my dinner with Graham, I quickly went to sleep.

The next day, since the day of our departure was quickly approaching, I needed to quickly come up with our plan of action now with all the info from graham in mind as well.

I had Ralf and Snow head out to do shopping, and meanwhile, I talked with Esta in our room to decide our plan.

“………And that, was all the info I got last night. Now, we have to come up with our course of action with all this in mind.”

“if what all you said is true, we really can’t just head there thoughtlessly anymore. If at least we could find out how many people they had gathered there, it’d make making plans much easier but………I doubt even Charlotte-san could help us with that, right?”

“I doubt it too. Charlotte believes that they have successfully cornered him in the ancient ruins so there’s a good chance she has no info regarding any of this. We’ll need to figure it out on our own but, with no real ways to do so, it’s borderline impossible to find out anything in just the remaining 2 days.”

I know we said we were going to make a plan but, honestly, our hands were tied right now.

Klaus had most certainly set up a web of traps at the capital, and we have no choice but to head into it all head on.

“There’s not enough info to make a decent plan. Best we can do is—–move cautiously with the pre-knowledge that church members are also going to be there and nothing more.”

“That may be that case after all. I did consider hiring adventurers to increase our manpower as well but, we don’t exactly have that much money and besides, considering the task at hand, I just wouldn’t feel comfortable bringing some random guy into our team at this point.”

“If that’s the idea, we’re better off bringing the royal knights that helped us fight [Under Eye] instead.”

“True, they are indeed trustworthy……but, we really only know the 3rd squad very well, and they are still recovering from the [Under Eye] assault. I don’t think they have the leeway to help us out.”

Alexandra was moving about normally but she had taken a lot of damage as well. I doubt we could take even her to battle.

The only other two who are decent at fighting, Gilmour and Bruce, were also gravely injured like Alexandra as well.

The rest of their squad were hurt badly too, so the 3rd squad was basically out of commission for now.

Of course, we could ask any other squad for help but…….in that case, they’d be no different than some random adventurers at that point.

“To be fair, anyone who had gone through a harsh battle like that and still move around normally so soon afterwards would be an exceptional case………by that, I’m talking about us, or rather you specifically, Chris-san. Speaking of, did you say this priest friend of yours father was the commander of the royal knights right? Would it be difficult to ask for their help?”

I did consider that as well.

Charlotte would probably cooperate as well, so together if we ask Graham’s father for help, he might agree to it but…….I didn’t feel right asking graham for another favour like that.

Especially because of our similar circumstances, I had a feeling Graham had a complicated relationship with his father as well and probably doesn’t want to beg him for help.

After all, if I was in his position, I’d absolutely hate to do so. Graham’s a kind, nice guy so if I requested it, he might agree to do so but, I’d don’t want to depend on him anymore than I already had.

“that could work but, I simply don’t want to do that. It’s not like we are that close friends or anything, plus he’s already helped me more than enough already.”

“Is that so………in that case, it’s going to be really tough to find anyone else to help us then.”

“So it would seem. We just have to think of way to handle it by ourselves.”

We were back to where we started but, now that we’re here, we just have to grit our teeth and push through it by ourselves.

Afterwards, we came up with all sorts of plans and schemes, and although none of those were truly worthwhile in the end, time passed regardless.

“that’s about all I can come up with……….well, it’s barely a plan though. And basically what we normally do anyway.”

“Yeah. There’s not much we can do other than be extra careful than usual.”

What we finally decided on was that we’ll have Snow be the scout and detect enemies up front, and I’ll also help with it.

It really was quite literally what we always did anyway, and even without all this thinking, this would have ended as our method but……..since we weren’t able to come up with something special, just sticking to the tried and tested formula honestly made me calmer.

“It does hurt not being able to create a good plan especially when we know they’re waiting for us to come.”

“Well, there’s still the matter of pure feeling as well so I think having this chat was worth it in the end. Getting ambushed, and knowingly getting ambushed are still two vastly different things after all.”

“That’s certainly true. We can use your skills to be extra vigilant as well Chris-san so I suppose you are right in that it was at least still worth talking about.”

I had Ralf head out just so we could have a smoother discussion about making plans but, considering the final result, maybe I should have had Ralf stay here and join us as well.

Ralf was an idiot but sometimes that idiocy allows him to come with some crazy shit as well.

While pondering over such things, we continued to wait in our room for Ralf and Snow to return so we can talk about all this, as well as compile all our info together in general.