Chapter 334 – The Sick Princess’ Advice

Chapter 334: Advice from the sickly princess

“Where is Mercy?”

“Ah, today is a victory celebration, so there is a limit on the number of people inside…
I’m waiting in the room outside.”

“Is it okay to be alone?”

“Well, I think it will be all right if the general stays with us.”

“It is. Haha.”

When I stretch out my arm, Ann gently embraces my arm.
Escorted, we headed to the deserted terrace.
Today, with her pink hair up, she looks neat and glamorous.
The brown dress is as calm as her personality.
Considering her strength and stamina, her dress is made of light material with few accessories and not too much lace.

“Would you like a cup of hot tea?”

“No, thanks.
Actually, I just drank with her brother, Coke.”

Ann covers her mouth with her handkerchief and coughs softly.

“Here is the shawl you brought.”

“Thank you.
Her brother was meticulous and took care of it.”

She draped her checkered shawl in her brown and beige colors around her shoulders.

“Where is the queen…”

“There he is.”

Stella is having a chat with people from the Demon King’s Army with Lord Devot.

“Hmm… I’m glad you seem to be adjusting well.
Stella and you too.
Oh, how are you today?
Did you take all the medicine I gave you?”

“Yes, of course.
Thanks to you, it has improved a lot.”

“Can you talk to the guys?”

“It’s awkward, but… Little by little, though, I was able to do it.”

“Fortunately, the.
I was worried because I haven’t been able to get hypnosis treatment recently because of official duties.”

“Hehe, thanks to the picture you showed me writing your name on Stella’s butt, I made a lot of progress.”

Haha!
Nice to show you too.
I often watch it when I’m not feeling well.”

“Oh, that’s right.
Can you draw another one?”

“Because painting is a good drawing when you draw it when an image comes to mind…
Come and play in my office.
We’ll show you anytime.
They also serve delicious tea.”

“Hmm~
Can I go play tomorrow?
Aren’t you busy because you’re having a banquet?”

“Since the banquet isn’t going to be all day long, I think I’ll go to work tomorrow morning and attend the banquet in the afternoon.”

“Okay.
Where do you usually eat lunch?”

“Eat with the lieutenants in the office.”

“If you are an adjutant… Sir Jacques and Sir Ludwig?”

“Yes. They are friends who put their hands and feet together even when they saved the princess.”

“These are the people I owe a lot to.
But if you eat it in the office, doesn’t it smell there?”

“Ah, most of them are easily removed with sandwiches, so there is no problem.”

“Oh my god.
Surely you don’t eat it while working, do you?”

“Haha, that’s right.
I have a lot of work these days.”

“Oh, you must be working hard.”

“I was held hostage and suddenly joined the command, and I was also assigned the role of deputy commander of the field army…
There were many things to see in order to adapt, understand the current status of the unit, and operate.
It’s been a long time since I’ve been back to work, but it’s fun.”

“You must be frustrated if you stay in the office all the time.”

“I am often frustrated, so I go outside to inspect the site.”

Standing side by side on the terrace looking out, we watched the night view filled with the torches lit by the soldiers that stretched across the field.
A word she threw out as she looked at me worriedly.

“Then, how about eating outside with me tomorrow?”

Whoa.
Look at this

“Sure, good!
Big… However…”

“Yes, please.”

“I will make sure.
Meeting tomorrow, as the princess said last time, I agree because I’m interested.”

As Anne told me at Stella and my engagement ceremony.

[Okay.
Then do this.]

[How?]

[If we’re interested in each other after I’m healed, let’s meet.
Meet and walk, eat, drink tea.
Isn’t it grandiose and burdensome?]

As I whispered when I was drugged and down.

[Be sure to shake off your hair and get up… As promised, let’s go on a date.]

“Huh, you’re full of selfishness.”

“Yes.”

“Me too.”

“I know.”

“How did you know?”

“Because you didn’t call me ‘brother-in-law’ this time.”
Thanks for recommending it.”

“I’ll receive the thank you as a reaction tomorrow.”

“My nickname is Reaction Franz.
How about going to the meadow over there tomorrow?
It’s relatively safe because it’s a hinterland, and there’s a stream flowing in the meadow, but the scenery is nice.”

So tomorrow’s lunch was gradually turning into a picnic.

“At this rate, it looks like I will go out with the documents tomorrow morning and go to work.
I want to leave soon… Haha!”

“Can I take the payment documents and leave?”

“Although the approval is almost done, there are some things that need to be judged after reading the external report.
It is very difficult to make a decision.”

“Are you worried about the fairies?”

“How did you know… ?”

“It was a topic that came up at the alliance meeting.
The fairies remember that the demon king’s army intervened in the night elves’ war of independence, annexed the eastern territories of the fairies, and subjugated the night elves to the demon king’s army.
To them, the Night Elves are traitors, and the Blange family of the Demon Lords, who took the lead in the matter, are their mortal enemies.
That’s why there is no apology even though Bellondel is secretly inserted into the previous demon king assassination case.
It looks like Nene, the head of the Boulanger family, sent an emissary, but she requested that an emissary be sent in the name of Queen Stella as well.
He said that it would be a civil war between the demon army and humans, not a war between the demon army and humans, so he could send the message not to intervene recklessly.”

I was unable to attend the full-fledged alliance meeting at Ain Castle because I was on the battlefield commanding the manned strategy.
Fresh news.

“It’s a good way.
Apparently, military options are also needed to suppress the Elves, so His Majesty sought advice from the Field Command, which is being discussed with Commander Ezio.
I’m worried.”

“If the fairies attack from the west, it will be difficult in many ways.”

“That’s right.
A two-sided war should be avoided as much as possible.
You can’t split your army in two.
Fairies are good at both regular and non-regular warfare with their excellent spirit skills, archery, and sensing abilities.
And yet, it possesses a power that far exceeds that of any single tribe.”

“The fairies are also an alliance of many tribes.
Elves, nymphs, dryads, fairy dragons…
There are different elves, oak elves, night elves, and so on.
In that respect, it is similar to the demon king.”

“That’s right.
When the liberator demon king created the organization system of the current demon king army, he referred to the loose tribal system of the fairies.
The Demon King’s Army is more like a military alliance… Anyway.
Although it is a federal state, it is also difficult to defend only because it is strong, and it is ambiguous to withdraw power from the south now.”

It’s embarrassing, but Desdymona’s army hasn’t joined yet.
The power of the elder lich is also power, but two regular army corps of 14,000 is a really desperate force.
My heart sank because I wanted to see if this had gone political.
What does it mean that there is only one of the Four Heavenly Kings, Nene, who has directly joined the field army?
That’s why the alliance system of the Demon King’s army is loose.

Maintaining a double-sided front in this situation?
There’s no way.
The best is to reduce enemies.
The lane is to hold on to one side and push the other side quickly.
But the field army is already down in the south.
I can’t turn my back on an army of 200,000.
It was for defense, not for attack, that the western conscripts’ gathering place was designated as Boulanger’s Manor.
I hope it works out, but if it doesn’t…

While I was thinking about it, Ann calmly threw out a word.

“The fairies won’t step forward now.”

“Yes?”

“The fairies won’t start a war.
At least this year.”

“!”

Stars in the night sky that seem to pour down.
The profile of her looking at the stars with her back to the bright magic lanterns of the banquet hall is quite pathetic.

“Hmm… Princess, I am curious about the basis.”

“It is a political judgment.
The justification is weak.
The death of Bellondel, the niece of the Queen of Flowers, is just a justification, but the real purpose is to re-incorporate the Night Elves and regain their territory.
Belondel was a national leader assassin and a person to be caught by the Demon King army who lost the Demon King, but to the fairies, he was just one high-ranking elf.
It is difficult to gather an opinion to agree to a war internally.”

“But for practical purposes, isn’t one pretext all you need?
The situation of the Demon King’s Army, where the Second War to Defend the Fatherland is currently taking place in the south, is the best condition for the fairies to seek territorial recovery.”

“You are right.
I don’t know about war, but I do know one thing.
That I have to fight when my enemy is weak and I am strong.
The demon army is confused, but so is the inside of the fairies.
The Flower Queen, as a high elf, had an arranged marriage.
Her husband, Guk-seo, wants to gain political status.
Because her husband’s family had a lot of power at the time of marriage.
If you are an outsider, is it an outsider?
As far as I know, this war is not being claimed by the Flower Queen, but by her husband.
Her husband has always been a hardliner.
The ‘Queen of Flowers’, whose real niece died, doesn’t respond much.
No wonder.
Bellondel was a hard-line, free person who went outside the territory of the Elves at will and helped human warriors act like a mercenary.
When her aunt is not moved by her nephew’s death, there is no reason for her uncle to step in.
Especially if that’s something you’re afraid of.”

But.
It is difficult for indirect stakeholders to step up in a gamble on national luck.

“Wouldn’t it be possible to gather opinions that want to fight at this time?”

“A holy war was suddenly declared, and the fairies are a federal state.
Gathering opinions will take a long time.
And while the tribe to which the Queen of Flowers belongs is the most powerful, it is also the most cautious.
The high elves, the elders of the elves, rarely have hardliners.
Aren’t the fairy elders all conservative?
It is natural to hate change as you get older.”

“You know the inner circumstances of the fairies, right?
It’s close to the housework of a flower queen.”

“Belondel, I had a bit of a relationship with him.”

“Ah…”

I heard it from the person concerned, so it must have been clear.
Especially if it’s something that insults one’s own family or country.
For some reason, I believe in Anne’s analysis.
Is it because the calm tone and accurate and accurate analysis support it?
Or not… Is it just because of human charm?
The tone is calm and calm, and it is a voice that makes you want to believe more.

“Bellondell said that he came out because he was frustrated with the state of affairs in such a tribe and country.
Well, it’s a deviation often made by young elves.
Because there are many people who yearn for the short but sparkly life of humans when they are young.
Even when I stayed among the fairies, I sympathized more with my hardliner uncle than with my aunt who was more cautious.”

“Sometimes, when we talk, I feel that the princess feels like a high elf.”

“What do you mean?”

“It’s like a sage with a far-sighted feeling.”

“Poop, it’s embarrassing because it’s completely different from what I’m inside.”

She covers her mouth with her little fist and giggles.
I’m so glad.
Now I can see her smiling like this.

“What’s inside?”

“Hmm… Just an adolescent girl?”

She glances sideways at me for no reason, and the way she gently brushes my hair is so cute that I burst out laughing.

“Ahahaha!!”

“Hey, aren’t you laughing too much… ?”

“It wasn’t the image of her saying that with her own mouth, haha!
Princess, you are having fun. Cuuuuu… !
Hmm~ It definitely looks similar to the Queen.”

“What about it?”

“It’s a feeling that’s serious yet bouncy.
Oh, of course, the queen has 80 freshness and 20 seriousness, and the princess has 40 seriousness, 40 calm, and 20 freshness.”

“I don’t think that’s good…”

“That’s good.
Because they are sisters, they must influence each other.
Same yet different, different yet similar.
The queen’s dignity and seriousness that she shows these days is probably the princess’s influence.”

“…”

“Calm and serious is also the charm of a princess.”

“Oh, really?”

“Sure.”

I laugh so hard, but I hear heavy footsteps behind me.

“Excuse me.”

“Oh, Sir Devot.
Welcome.”

Slightly shorter than Adolf.
A wide-open physique.
If I were to make a bear in human form, it would look like this.
Even if you think about it without mentioning the magic weapon ‘moving castle’, it is understandable that this person’s nickname is ‘walking fortress’.

Nod

“I’ll see you when I go to the iron mask.”

The reaction… Strange?

“There will be many mistakes in the future.”

“What… ?”

He’s tall enough to see his face even when he lowers his head, so it seems like he knows that look in his eyes.
I’ve seen eyes like that before.
I never expected to see eyes like these on Sir Devot’s rocky face.

The eyes of Count Mido.
Eyes that sparked when I danced with Angela.
But subtly different
This is not a spark of jealousy…

“Wouldn’t the price of hypnotism be great?”

Ah…

“… When were you released?”

“It doesn’t matter when I was hypnotized.
The important thing is that you manipulated the ego of an intelligent body.”

Only the eyes shone on Devote’s rocky face, soft as lava, yet hot.