Chapter 68

“Hey, did you win?”

“Hmm… … .”

“You won? You won, right?”

After lifting and dropping the black stone several times, the child finally put the stone down on the intaglio board.

Originally, it was a confiscation due to personality.

watched it

“I lost.”

“Wow!”

As soon as I put down the stone in my hand, the child jumped up with arms outstretched high into the sky and screamed.

“I won in 16 rounds!”

Losers don’t say anything.

With a bitter expression on my face, I put the stone on the intaglio in a barrel and arranged it.

The opponent is a child. My shallow notation memorization was only 15 times, and if I lost a game, I would probably just keep losing.

Even so, it lasted a long time.

“Congratulations, Your Highness. I didn’t even look at it this time. It’s a complete failure, this.”

From the 10th edition, I did my best.

It is said that if you know one, you know ten, and it was the first time seeing it in person.

When a player figured out the number of defeats in one mold, all the modified molds derived from it were blocked.

“I’m glad… … . I am not happy for some reason.”

“why?”

“Rox doesn’t disassemble at all. Yes, Rox must have known that I had an advantage from the middle.”

“Even if I lose to Her Highness, I won’t be angry.”

That’s normal.

It’s also funny when the guy who was running wild said he wasn’t happy. What a deal to be more happy about.

“And you shouldn’t take pleasure in seeing others disassemble, Your Highness.”

“But originally play is for fun!”

“That’s right.”

“Stop?”

“I have a job. Professor Kanin called me.”

I swept the stone I had been placing in the bottle and put it in a corner of the bookshelf.

There was an excuse because Kanin just asked me to come to the lab during lunchtime.

“I want to win even with a hundred.”

“You can win next time. I am not going anywhere.”

“Rox always looks busy. Just look here.”

Ainim said while looking around the cluttered scenery in the warehouse.

The spacious warehouse in the playground was cleaned, and the surplus desks and bookshelves were brought in one by one from the main building.

After school starts, information is received here in earnest, and cautions and instructions are delivered to the royal family through children.

It was difficult to tell them apart from one old bookshelf, so they were all stacked on the floor. As a result, all kinds of letters and documents were scattered here and there.

“Ah, you’re busy, didn’t I interrupt you?”

“Because I don’t just keep working. When I rest, I rest.”

“I’m glad.”

But it’s a problem that you come to me during break time and make me use my brain… … . I wanted to say that, but I held back.

I’ll go to the Professor’s Research Building after I cool down a bit.

“Maria, did you hear anything from Mashu?”

“First of all, 70% of the troops are evenly deployed along the coastline, and the remaining 30% are located inland and in the south. Nothing special.”

“A sea monster must have appeared by now. Seeing that Riden is quiet, he must be getting beaten up with excitement. good.”

Even though Rongurt’s troops lay down on Mash, there was no news from Riden.

It means that the situation in your country is not good. It’s going as expected.

“I thought of it because I was doing Mash.”

I was satisfied with the situation that flowed without any variable, but Ai suddenly asked.

“Rox, are you acquainted with the princess in the second year?”

“Euril?”

“yes.”

“Yeah, what… … . Friend, maybe something similar.”

“friend?”

There is no significant relationship between Ainim and Euril.

Well, Euril had no contact with anyone other than Aini.

So it was unfamiliar to have that name come up in the mouth of someone other than me.

“I heard it from a student in the first aid class. Lox had severe frostbite.”

“… … It was.”

“It’s autumn.”

“Now I’m fine with the healing magic.”

“Did he make it that way?”

The child’s voice was ferocious, like a growl.

It’s true that the two will fight later, but it’s difficult to become enemies already.

“no. It’s like I’ve dug my own grave. Princess Auril was still.”

“Did you fall and hit yourself?”

“It’s roughly the same.”

I can’t explain it in detail.

It’s best not to know each other until we’re in the second year, so I tried to gloss it over.

“I don’t think he was the kind of person who just cried and cried that Rox might die because of something like that.”

“… … Great.”

“Looks like you’re on good terms.”

It’s a rumor that only spread in the Freedom Tower where Frid was, and I didn’t expect it to reach the ears of the child.

The child let out a small sigh and continued.

“Yeah, I think I know a little bit now.”

“It’s not like I don’t have friends.”

“huh. I’m also good friends with Neil. You were right.”

“It is family. But is that what you mean?”

“done. I want to stop going back today Is age really that important?”

As for jealousy, he didn’t care much about being close to Hira.

Ai-nim left the warehouse with a pouting voice, not knowing why.

“I will come again tomorrow!”

Yes, I lightly bowed my head.

It’s fun to say in a pouting voice that you’ll be back tomorrow.

I leaned against the backrest thinking of getting up after taking a 5-minute break, but as soon as the child left, someone stepped into the warehouse.

“Hey, Rocktrin. I have a lot of trouble today. The rooms of our officers who were doing administrative work just looked like this.”

“what. Are you here already?”

“Heng, our road maintenance business is much better than the Empire.”

“It will be difficult.”

It was the 3rd Prince of Enpyrian, Broman Angelops, who showed up with a grin.

In the original work, he is a nasty guy who often looks down on people, but surprisingly, that aspect has almost disappeared. It seems to be because of the kidnapping case.

“You came just in time. Her Highness, Ainim, was there until just now.”

“know. That’s what I was waiting for outside. Why is the princess’ expression like that? You said about your age, maybe it’s because of what I said before.”

“What did you say?”

“I was gathering with the kids and he showed up out of nowhere and said, ‘Who says Rocks is his ideal type?’ I was asked like this why did you do that then Age is my preference.”

what.

I must have said that at the time. It was just a circumlocution of words to create a moderate consensus.

“… … Could it be that you told His Highness that?”

“I told you. Isn’t it annoying when someone who doesn’t even like you clings to you? Besides, if you’re not an ordinary woman, but a princess. How difficult is your family of counts?”

“Gosh.”

“I helped you this time. huh? I know you’re grateful.”

“okay. Thank you to the point of tears.”

I don’t know if there’s anything special.

I hope I don’t misunderstand you with that. But that’s not to say it’s wrong either.

I’ll have to tell you again tomorrow.

“For now, your court mages are blocking our northern front. It’s about 10,000, so there won’t be any big problems.”

“How about the coast?”

“The knights were deployed, but most of them were low-level monsters, so there was no damage.”

“That is good news. Still, it’s good to keep an eye on it for the time being. Don’t you have the time to apply with creditia?”

“Okay. I have room right now. You never know how long your court mage will stay. If you’re going back right after the air raid is over, you can’t use your hands.”

“It would be good to adjust that part.”

The Empire has little to no room to block the barriers, so in fact, Enfirian is the most relaxed.

I immediately picked up a pen and started writing a letter to be sent to the imperial family.

“Will it be okay if we send it by this year?”

“Oh, can you decide that?”

“For the time being.”

“There was a real person in this room, right?”

The Emperor of the Empire, Gawil von Longert, has promised to give priority to my proposal regarding this raid.

Since I said that I believe in the child who believes in me, I can’t help but be a hot emperor. I didn’t know it could be solved this easily.

‘Was it this easy?’

The imperial family has a child.

The central nobility has Shilin.

Berry has Lenny.

Enfirian has Broman.

After obtaining de facto decision-making power from the emperor, everything from financing, securing logistics, and support from other countries.

Everything was smooth like flowing water.

“But, the situation on Areas’ side is very bad.”

“You knew it would happen.”

“They say that Credia has absolutely no capacity to accommodate refugees.”

There is no way that Areas, where the original national power was tilted, could afford to defend against monsters.

By now, the cities near the coast of Areas must have been in ruins.

A large number of refugees occurred due to the monster’s air attack that was greeted without any preparation.

Creditia, a small country, has a small territory and lacks food to feed them, so it cannot accept tens of thousands of refugees.

“But again, our people tend to be like that, don’t they? It’s because the nobility who have a little bit of a nose stand up and oppose it with their mouths.”

Enpyrian is an orthodox kingdom with the longest history, and accordingly has strong nationalistic tendencies and such pride.

“Can’t you get it from the Empire?”

“We don’t have enough troops to escort that number of people through the Neutral Zone.”

“Oops. Then there is nothing you can do.”

So, the surviving refugees of Areas hide into the mountains of Credia and Enpyrian and become bandits.

As the number of monsters is enormous, they cause trouble just as much as the number of monsters increases.

It’s just a predetermined future.

Even the empire has no time to think about refugees because its nose is three years old.

“Ah, if you think about that, your dream is wild. how is there no way As long as you somehow cross the neutral zone, you won’t be safe inside the empire.”

“All the troops were mustered to the coast and the north, so what?”

“So… … .”

I think it’s fortunate that class A didn’t include the element of ‘carcinogenesis’. This guy also has a bit of an eccentric personality, but he’s a nice person.

I laughed lightly. I won’t be able to stretch my legs and sleep for a while. I’m sorry.

“Five! okay. That was it.”

But suddenly Broman exclaimed.

“You don’t have to be soldiers, do you?”

“What are you talking about?”

“At that time, the mercenaries who came to save us from Areas. I heard it has grown a lot since then.”

“Akil?”

“okay. A whopping 40 people received the title, right? Besides, he said he saved three people against Liden, including the princess Aini, the royal family, and one more person, including you. It must have been very popular.”

I had no use for it, so I didn’t even think to find out. Did Akil’s mercenary corps grow so strong?

“By setting up branches all over the empire, maybe 5,000 people together?”

“No, what? 5 thousand? Did the imperial family leave it alone?”

“I am an Enpyrian, so why do you ask me that? It must have been because they were scattered and there were many monsters inland.”

After the episode started, monsters were infested inland, and mercenary groups often appeared in the empire.

If you leave it alone, it will take care of itself, so I didn’t pay much attention to it.

Thanks to the popularity of Akil’s mercenary corps, it seems that their branch has grown into a huge power rather than other mercenary corps being established.

“Anyway, can’t we just call them and use them? I think I could escort tens of thousands of people with just a few round trips.”

Wizards are very rare, while outdated powers like mercenaries are of no use at all on the barriers.

So their movements are free within this episode.

“Then I’ll find out.”

“okay. If you put the name of the empire on it, you have to do that to save face. I am going to class.”

“… … Thank you. That’s the part I was missing.”

“What? thank you for everything Don’t make your life too complicated.”

As if his errands were over, Broman waved his hand moderately and left the warehouse.

I received unexpectedly great help from an unexpected guy. I was feeling a little bewildered.

‘Certainly, the mercenaries are free to move, and the empire has the capacity to accommodate refugees.’

The defense of the barriers and front lines completely depended on the magician’s performance.

If you can escort refugees and bring them into your empire, the benefits you can reap are certainly great.

‘Stabilization of Credia and Enpyrian.’

This time, it’s because the situation is special, so long as this body stays inside the academy, it’s hard to go into detail about overseas affairs. In particular, it is difficult to borrow the help of foreign powers for problems such as bandits.

If you give strength to not only the empire but also other kingdoms, later episodes will become considerably easier.

In the end, it would be a question of whether Akil would accept the request, but that’s what you need to do once you request it.

I was missing this simple thing.

“Anyway, everyone except me is doing well.”

The conclusion has always been.

I just need to do well.

As long as I don’t become weak, this episode will definitely end well.

“Huh.”

After writing the necessary letter, I got out of the messy spread of maps and documents and headed for the Professor’s Research Building.

Now all that was left was to convince Kanin Mage Artain.

To make a professor who cares about his students terribly sacrifice the students he cares about the most.