Chapter 258 – 258. Duke’s Twelfth Sabotage (10)
– One –
“First,”
Gulp.
Robert swallows.
It is unclear whether it is mouth saliva or dry saliva.
But it was clear that he was nervous.
“Don’t gather the alliance members in one place, scatter them all over the continent.”
“Why?”
“What you lack the most are eyes and ears that collect important information about the continental situation. So, the most urgent task is to scatter them all over the continent and build an information network.”
Mondavi shakes his head.
“But… They didn’t have anything, didn’t they learn anything?”
“That’s right. To use them as informants, the rate of illiteracy is too high. Even what is important and the discernment of the situation is not enough. How can we trust them and use them as our informants?”
Shit.
Daniel smiles generously.
Somehow his smile seemed to convey an all-embracing benevolence.
“No one is born with all the knowledge. You just have to learn one by one, so don’t worry too much.”
“We will show you all the respect of the Blood Alliance. From all over the continent, we will arrange for your alliance members and our informants to form a team together. Our informants are quite capable, and you It won’t be too difficult to train the members of the Alliance to become competent informants. If necessary, I will help all the members of the Alliance under you learn how to read and write text, collect and sort information.”
“Ah…”
“Uh, why are you so gracious to us?”
Swoop.
Jack tilts his head.
He looked at Robert with eyes as if he really didn’t know why.
“Didn’t you rescue our brother?”
“Ahhh…”
“You saved Sinatra’s life for nothing in return, so how can you go through with nothing in return?”
“Still, I think it’s too much.”
Smirnoff looks at the Tennessee brothers with concern.
Jack immediately shakes his head.
“No, it’s not. A reward is a reward, but we also feel the limits of opposing Regal. It is unconditionally beneficial for us to form a blood alliance with people we can relate to and trust.”
“Um…”
Smirnoff nodded.
He still seemed to be having a hard time accepting.
“Take it easy. Whether you give each other one by one or continue your relationship in the future can be judged by looking at the future situation. Didn’t the head of Mondavi also say that?”
“Okay. Then, I’ll gladly accept your favor.”
He finally agrees.
There were no more dissenting opinions, no more reservations.
“Second, you need to find a source of funds to finance the running of your organization.”
“Ah…”
Mondavi nods his head.
She seemed to feel the need for it too.
“Surely, it seems like passion is replacing everything now… Isn’t it?”
“Yes… Embarrassingly, I don’t have much to share with my comrades. I’d like to feed them at least a full meal, but it’s not easy with people living day by day living together…”
“In that case, it’s not a bad idea to pay membership fees to the members of the Free Federation.”
“But…”
“Are you saying that they won’t be able to keep up in the long run, since they’re not all well-financed?”
“Yes.”
Daniel’s smile deepens.
“Fortunately, I’m on the bright side of the world, so I can teach you how to make money.”
“Huh. This guy is my younger brother, but he’s really a money bug.”
“Ahhh…”
Mondavi looks at the two with blank eyes.
Even though the Tennessee brothers were shabby, as they were bigwigs who ran a huge media company in the past, they probably don’t have a lot of wealth.
For people like her, such as slash-and-burn farmers and mine workers, it was clear that it would be difficult even in her dreams to be called out with such huge capital.
“When are you going to make a lot of money by collecting the dust and rolling only a bunch of dust? You can use it to fund it, collect some of it, and repay it to me quarterly in installments. Of course, I’ll charge you well below market rate.”
“Payment in installments…”
“Yes. You can pay me back by dividing the principal amount with some interest added. Isn’t the Freedom League an organization that will collapse overnight?”
“Yes yes…”
“Well, if the Freedom League disbands or the debtor dies in the middle of repayment, there is a risk that I won’t be able to recover the principal. However, every investment is made at its own risk, so it’s nothing that I can’t bear. . Even after investing, I will be directly involved in fund management, so there is virtually no risk for me to bear. So you don’t have to be so burdened.”
“Yes…”
The three members of the League of Freedom seemed to be dreaming.
It was because the advice and promises of aid that the Tennessee brothers casually threw out were things they had not hoped for.
“Really… I really heard that the sage gave advice, but just by rescuing my brother, is it worth giving us this much support? I can’t believe it at all…”
“This is my personal theory, but it is up to you to create value. You are currently just a fledgling organization that has no foundation yet, but it may grow into a giant organization that will bring a blast to the empire in the near future. In the meantime, there are many challenges. There might be, but as companions, isn’t there something we can’t overcome together?”
“Besides, we are also in a very precarious position, so we may have to abandon our existing organization, launder our identities, and infiltrate into another organization at any time. In preparation for such a situation, linking up with various organizations will not hurt us either.”
“I guess so…”
Smirnoff shakes his head.
He certainly understood the nature of the goodwill shown by his brothers.
It was not a vague favor, but literally a preparation for the future, and an investment that took risks.
Its purpose is only survival.
“In the end, you are in a position no different from us in that you suffered great damage from Regal.”
“It’s like that.”
Pat, pat.
Jack turned his head and looked at Sinatra with pity.
Through those eyes, he reminded others that she was in the same situation.
Daniel put her last words of advice into her mouth to cut off her pitying glances from following her.
“Third, I hope that only a small number of elites, including the commander, will accompany us toward the system.”
“Hmm? Didn’t the rituals held in Jedo have been abolished?”
Robert tilts his head and opens his mouth.
Daniel shakes his head.
“It only changes the direction of the giant, but there is no need to completely abandon the plan.”
“Are there any other good means?”
“Originally, we were”
Daniel reveals step by step how he tried to implement the bar they were planning to the members of the Freedom Alliance.
Based on the information Monohorn and his colleagues obtained, he wrapped his head and confessed his worries about how to make fun of Regal and how to give them a blow.
The three men and women of the League of Freedom raise their eyes.
“…It is.”
“Sah, I couldn’t even imagine…”
“Oh my god…”
“Really, really, do you think you could have hit Regal that way…?”
The three men and women pour out disbelief close to astonishment.
Daniel smiles softly.
“Actually, we thought we had little hope of achieving what we had planned.”
“But after hearing Sinatra’s story, I came up with a way to utilize the commander’s ability. If the plan is carried out with the commander, the possibility of achieving the goal will greatly increase.”
Mondavi opens her eyes wide and looks back and forth between Jack and Daniel.
Raising her right hand, she points her index finger at her own face.
“Me, me?”
“Exactly.”
“I-how do I…?”
Hehe. Would you like to listen?”
Whip, Whip!
Mondavi nods her head so hastily that you can hear her wind.
Reminds me of her face
“Let’s go to Jedo together. You,”
Jack and Daniel give them a revision to the plan they originally conceived.
They listen to their plans with a nod or a blink of an eye.
Sometimes I even exclaim in admiration.
Before they knew it, all of them were moving their hips with flushed faces.
“It seems possible.”
“In my judgment, this is going to be a no-brainer.”
“I will. No, I will. I absolutely will. Don’t say anything else later.”
The brothers also vowed to teach them how not to be scammed.
That’s how naive they were.
No, it was pure.
– 2 –
“Sinatra.”
“Frank… Baby…”
Throughout the meeting, Sinatra quietly swallowed tears, calling her husband and child in a low voice.
Her tear ducts seemed unwilling to dry up at all.
“Sinatra.”
When Jack calls her name several times,
Swoop.
She raises her red, bloodshot, swollen eyes and looks at his face.
All eyes on her are focused on her.
“What do you want to do now?”
“… I want to die…”
“…”
“I want to follow Frank, hehe… My baby who never saw the light properly, my baby, my, my baby… I want to meet him…”
“Um…”
Jack groans.
He couldn’t possibly fathom the shock she received.
That’s why I couldn’t easily spit out the words to shake off and stand up.
Because he was a complete stranger to her pain.
“But…”
Sigh.
She goes for it
He looked up at Jack with bright red eyes.
Her pupils were full of madness.
“If you follow me without even taking revenge… Maybe… Maybe… I don’t think you’ll be familiar with seeing Frank and Aga… Yes, maybe…”
She murmured, chewing and spitting.
A bitter resentment lingered in her voice.
A shady but hot rage burns her heart.
Its color was black and red.
And it was turbid.
“Then will you act with us?”
Swoop, Swoop.
She wipes her tears with the sleeve of her own dress.
Squeak.
Finally free from Jack’s arms.
I turn my head and look at the three members of the League of Freedom.
“Thank you for saving me.”
“No, no. Neither the husband nor the children,”
“You couldn’t save it, but it’s not your fault. It’s my husband’s fault for being caught by Regal’s hounds, it’s the bastard’s fault for direct harm, and it’s Regal’s fault for letting them go.”
“…”
“Yes?”
“…”
Mondavi could not bear to answer Sinatra’s question.
Aside from anything else, it was because she didn’t want to sympathize with her as much as blaming herself for being caught by the Regal’s hounds.
Because it was so sad and so cruel to hold the victim of abuse accountable.
“You, Commander Mondavi, you are a very kind person.”
“That…”
Even Sinatra noticed her heart.
Sinatra looks into Mondavi’s eyes.
“You… Why do you feel indebted to me?”
“Yes…?”
“Why are you looking at me like that? Are you sorry you couldn’t save your husband and our baby? Or, is it just that you feel sorry for me?”
“That…”
Mondavi shuts her mouth.
Robert and Smirnoff turn away from them.
After hesitating for a while, Mondavi opens her mouth with difficulty.
“… I was in the same situation as my wife.”
“Yes…?”
“I was in danger of being gang-raped and killed by Regal soldiers just because I was a sub-species with the ability to create water. At that moment, this power,”
Shudder.
Gurgling.
Chalang, chalang, chalang.
Small droplets of water appear in the air.
As if gravity does not act only on water droplets, they float in the air.
They absorbed the light from the candles and created a dreamy atmosphere.
“Awakening this power, I tore them all to death.”
“Ah…”
“If I hadn’t awakened to this power, I would probably have become a corpse there. There was no one to save me, so my life would surely have ended there.”
“That, like that…”
“So will it?”
Mondavi smiles.
But her smile was somehow sad.
“I don’t feel like anyone else what her wife went through.”
“…”
A small furrow cuts across Sinatra’s chin.
It increases one by one
She purses her lips thinly, and quivers her chin.
“Huh…”
However, she couldn’t stop the crying that leaked out to the end.
“Why…”
“…”
“Why do we…”
“…”
“Why do we have to suffer so much…?”
Whoa…
Everyone who looks at her sighs in unison.
All at once, they turned their heads away from them.
They didn’t have the confidence to face their sad monologues.
“I don’t know, neither do I.”
“Huh…”
“But…”
Mondavi looks up at her ceiling.
Dew also formed around her eyes.
“If we fight only for that, to create a world where no one suffers unjustly like we do, won’t the day come when things will be better than now?”
“Huh, huh…”
“I don’t want much. If we can reduce the number of people who suffer even one less than before we acted, I think that alone will increase the value of my extra life after that day.”
“Yes, hehe…”
Sinatra wept bitterly for a long time.
It wasn’t wailing, but the soft, leaking tears contained enough sadness.
Whoops, whoops.
She wipes the tears with her sleeve.
The hot breath gradually subsides.
Feign coolness and serenity.
Woo woo…
Take a long sigh and calm your mind.
“Captain Mondavi.”
“Yes, Mrs. Sinatra.”
“Just call me Sinatra.”
“Yes, Sinatra.”
Swoop.
Chuck.
She rises from her seat and bows her back deeply toward her Mondavi.
Mondavi blinks her eyes and looks at the top of her head.
“Please take me.”
“Yes…?”
“I’m more competent than I look.”
“No, so, all of a sudden…?”
Food.
Jack and Daniel laugh.
Ando seemed to have the most share in their laughter.
Somehow, there was also a slight sadness mixed in, but the content itself was not that great.
“It’s a thing of the past now, but I was also the head of a media company that represented a region in my own way.”
“Ah…”
Surprise flashes in the eyes of the three members of the Freedom League.
Because of her vague acquaintance with the head of her press, they vaguely assumed that she was an ordinary reporter.
It was because she was too young to assume that she was a person of greater status.
“You’ll be much better off than self-appointed experts who are only shrewd in accounting, money management, and theory.”
“That’s it, that-“
“Don’t you need a trumpeter? I’m confident that I can incite numerous subjects of the empire by skillfully wrapping up your propaganda. Even so, my writing skills are to the point that even among the representatives of the old press, I’m competing for the top spot.”
“Oh, no, so-“
Mondavi wanted to say something of her, but she cut her off and Sinatra went on to introduce herself.
“I don’t even need a salary. Thank you for saving my life.”
“Pass!”
“Repay, yes?”
“Passed! Welcome, Sinatra!”
Tup!
Wow!
Mondavi hugs her.
She seemed to want to explain her inability to afford her wages for the time being.
However, the moment Sinatra announced that she would accept her unpaid labor, Mondavi’s worries turned to nothing.
After she resolved that one concern, she decided to hire Sinatra without hesitation.
“I’ll take good care of you from now on, Sinatra-sama.”
“Yes…?”
“Sister is now a member of the Free League. What title do you want? There is no sensible structure yet, so you just have to take whatever you want. In my power, I will accept that as your sister’s position.”
“That…”
“Come on! Just talk!”
Mondavi was overexcited.
Looking at her, Smirnoff and Robert shook their heads.
Still, their faces were pleasant.
It is because it became clear that their meeting was only dominated by good luck.