A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

Chapter 326

326 – Siege of Orosol (3)

[The evening of January 7th of the Imperial Calendar, Orosol Academy in the Kingdom of Nostrum.]

There is a large amount of imperial goods in Orosol Academy.

For students who wish to spend their vacation in the academy’s dormitory, the academy has prepared facilities to accommodate lodging during the vacation, and of course, a large amount of food materials are prepared accordingly.

Of course, the quantity is limited.

Even if there are plenty of imperial snacks and drinks, you cannot eat them as a staple food three times a day.

This is absolutely absurd.

It is only a temporary provision to be given to refugees who suddenly arrive until a certain amount of bread is made using the flour delivered from Barcelona with the knights’ escort.

Does Nostrum have the ability to overcome this crisis immediately?

It does exist.

If Gibraltar is included in the nostrum, the physical crisis can somehow be overcome for now.

If it’s long, two months.

Maybe just a month or so.

‘I wonder if the emperor will stay still.’

The Emperor wants Nostrum’s land, not Nostrum’s people.

Even if the blood of many people flows into the land of Nostrum and seeps into the ground, the land power will be restored and used in some way through a land purification project over a dozen years.

In other words.

“Master. A report has arrived from Barcelona.”

“Tell me.”

“We’ve secured an Imperial soldier trying to set fire to a wheat field on the plains of Barcelona. What should we do?”

“I have to kill him.”

There are also attacks aimed at starving all the Nostrum people to death.

‘He looks like an emperor.’

Before returning, the emperor surrounded the royal capital where Saint Geonostrum fled and waited for the food inside to run out.

‘The emperor may not have known anything else, but the supply was thorough.’

The supply of military supplies obtained by raiding Ipheria Industries’ warehouse was constant, and I never saw the human soldiers of the Imperial Army starving or whining about hunger during a month.

‘If there’s a flaw, it’s that there were days when I ate biscuits for three meals a day?’

Although there were stories of people getting sick of food because their repertoire of food didn’t change, at least I ate rye bread mixed with sawdust and a watery soup made with burnt powder, so I never heard people say, ‘Will you have the strength to lift a musket after eating this?’

‘But what can I do? The emperor himself took the initiative and ate like that.’

In some cases, the body of a master who can survive for more than two weeks without eating anything should not be compared on the same level as the body of an ordinary soldier.

But still, people can’t live by eating only cookies.

You can fill your hungry stomach by sparingly eating already prepared food, but if you want to secure a new harvest in the fall and secure the future, you must farm.

That farming.

Will I be able to build it properly?

‘I can’t think of it right now. Everyone.’

Just over a week has passed since the war broke out.

The stage where you come to Orosol Academy and hear what happened in the County of Sirene and are thankful that you survived.

Seeing the academy student council centered around Princess Naria acting as de facto subjects of the kingdom, I am thankful that there is still hope in the Kingdom of Nostrum.

We are not yet at the stage where we are despairing and frustrated by a powerful enemy and a reality that is not getting better and is only getting worse.

Not yet.

“Gyeong.”

“Yes, Excellency Governor of Barcelona.”

The blonde man who came to report to me has a polite attitude.

“Why did you betray the emperor?”

“…”

The man in front of me.

“I know who you are. The Blonde of Room 201. You are an imperial citizen, a member of the student council, and at the same time a representative of the shadows sent as international students.”

“Thank you for remembering.”

He is the representative with the highest authority among those who came as scholarship students along with Astasia.

Senior knight.

Although he doesn’t seem to have become a master, he has stood out among the shadows of the empire since his first year.

“The uniform and armband you are wearing belong to the student council.”

“I have received a lot of help in many ways since Master Noir was there.”

“If Noir had received help, he would have, but I don’t think Noir would have helped.”

“I received a lot of help from my opponent in sparring.”

“Oh, that one.”

I put down the report.

“So why did you decide to betray the Empire and join Nostrum?”

“…”

“I hope you answer honestly rather than weighing things up.”

“Can I really be honest?”

“Of course. You have your own merits. Thanks to you, I no longer have to clean up foreign students at Orosol Academy.”

Just as Barcelona’s 200 administrators were removed, Orosol Academy also needed to reorganize itself.

“Half of it was Princess Astasia’s credit. Most of us decided to follow her.”

“Astasia.”

“Yes.”

“You held the line well.”

“In the first place, shouldn’t people like us be able to survive? Those who were sent to Nostrum as international students could have been taken hostage and used as outcasts.”

The blonde speaks calmly.

“I am truly grateful to His Excellency the Governor-General.”

“To me?”

“Thanks to the governor who cared for Princess Astasia more than anyone else, the Nostrum students’ gaze towards us was not so hostile. Thanks to that… We were able to have a fun school day.”

“It’s fun.”

I don’t have the sense to tell lies.

It seems like he’s hiding something.

“I could not believe that I saw hope in the people of this barbaric country, that if I returned to the empire, I would be pushed by the shadows and would not be able to aim for a high position, or that seeing such a massacre killing everyone so cruelly burned me with a sense of justice and I could not bear it. It’s not like that, is it?”

“…”

“You really think I would believe something like that?”

“Your Excellency the Governor.”

The blonde swallowed his saliva and put his hand her down his her throat her her her her.

“Rocket?”

A round golden locket attached to the end of a necklace.

“That’s my reason.”

There was a clicking sound, and inside was a plain-looking blonde female student smiling broadly.

“…Who is it?”

“My name is Trecia.”

“…”

Who is it?

First of all, I am not a traitor.

“I’m just a second-year student at the academy. One year my junior. An extremely ordinary academy student and commoner. He said he was interested in me when he saw me active in the student council. I politely declined, saying he couldn’t date someone from Nostrum, and that’s what he said…”

The blonde closed the rocket and laughed.

“The heir of Gibraltar is also in love with the princess, so he got angry and asked what that had to do with it.”

“Hmm.”

“That is the reason. This is the only reason I can give.”

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“If that’s the case, there’s nothing we can do.”

You will betray your country for the person you love.

From a country’s point of view, there are no rare traits, but from an individual’s point of view, one can become a rare lover.

“Good catch.”

In many ways.

“Even among the shadows of the empire, there must have been those who tried to stand on the emperor’s side.”

“…”

“Ah. So it doesn’t exist anymore.”

There may be some missing students or staff at the Academy, but that is not important right now.

“So, at least I don’t have to worry about a retaliation or civil unrest within Orosol Academy?”

“…At least among international students.”

“If that’s the case, I’m glad.”

Variables have decreased.

I am truly grateful.

“Do things that happened in places I didn’t touch help the present in this way?”

“You might not know it because I was in charge of running the academy, but the students at Orosol Academy became very close in many ways.”

“I see.”

Before returning, I attended the academy.

But I didn’t go to the academy in this life.

“I’m jealous.”

“…Yes?”

“In the future, I would like to attend the academy I created as a student.”

I heard a lot from Astasia, but what kind of place was Orosol Academy like?

As President Winchester declared at the first entrance ceremony, has a place of rest been created where kingdoms and empires end their strife and pursue peace and harmony?

In reality, even though we are at war.

Actually, I am the one who turned this educational site into a place to accommodate refugees.

“Have you decided on your career path after graduation?”

“Yes?”

“The question is, if there was no war, what would you have done after graduation?”

“… If it weren’t for the war, the princess would probably have formally married His Excellency the Governor-General after her graduation.”

“I guess so.”

“The mission has not been handed down yet. So, I will continue with the mission given to me when I entered school.”

“Digging into information inside the kingdom?”

“Isn’t getting married, living in a kingdom, and gathering information the most perfect disguise and espionage?”

“…”

If you think about it.

“Don’t you hate your father?”

Blonde is also the emperor’s child.

“I’m sorry. I was abandoned in the alchemy workshop since I was born.”

“Hmm.”

“I grew up too far away to feel that His Majesty the Emperor was my father, so to me, he just feels like a monarch.”

“I see.”

Perhaps all of those sent as international students have a similar texture to blondes.

These people were able to fit in with Nostrum because they were not like Habsburgs but had outstanding abilities.

“Oh, by the way. Did you know that? Orosol Academy’s graduation ceremony is just around the corner.”

“Yes. That day…”

“It was January 31st.”

The last day of January.

“We are given a month-long vacation called February, and we have time to prepare for the next semester. This event was originally supposed to take place in early January. Do you know why it was postponed?”

“…I understand it is because of the coronation ceremony of Her Majesty Queen Naria.”

“Okay.”

It was one of the pre-works for Queen Naria’s ascension.

There was a difference of opinion as to whether graduation or enthronement came first, but the consensus was that, regardless of his status as a student, the priority was to immediately defeat Saint Geo Nostrum and allow Naria to ascend to the throne. ＞

So, there was some time to spare.

“Today is January 7th, so there’s actually not much left.”

“Are you planning on holding a graduation ceremony…?”

“Even during war, you have to do what you have to do.”

“…”

“I’m just kidding. If we hold a graduation ceremony now, some kind of accident will happen.”

Just.

“Since the graduation ceremony is said to be on that day, it feels like there is a kind of ‘deadline’.”

There is just one thing: a purpose.

“…Can you tell me this?”

Hehe.”

A person who is competent and understands his / her subject is always welcome.

At the same time, I am even more welcome if it is someone who does not cause harm to me, whether it is my person or my colleague’s person.

“Tell the shadows. Don’t worry. I have no intention of prolonging this war.”

“…Yes?”

“It’s a war that shouldn’t last long in the first place.”

As time passes, we are the ones moving closer to defeat.

“If you can’t shoot every Nostrum, starve them all to death. That’s what I would do.”

“…”

“Every time you go to farm, you’ll have to farm with the fear of getting shot. You’ll have to watch the vampire soldiers set fire to the fields when you should be sleeping. In the first place, the vampire soldiers eat. “Can’t you endure a little longer without it?”

“Yeah, well.”

It seems like Blonde looks at me as something different, but I’m only speaking as a reversal – the choices I made when I was in the position of emperor.

The emperor’s position.

And the emperor must also be reading my movements from my perspective.

Thump thump thump.

A harsh knocking sound rings outside.

“Come in.”

“Gee, here’s an urgent report… !”

A young man wearing glasses and a student council armband came running.

“About 60 ships of the imperial army have landed behind the royal capital of Toledo, towards the coast…!”

“Ha.”

As expected.

“You came back around the continent.”

As expected.

“You flew over the sea.”

“The sea…?”

“If I crossed the continent, I would be caught by Morgania’s Drake Knights, so I actually kept pretending and tied up the feet of the dragon knights. To the north and south of the canyon.”

They went beyond surveillance to monitor the navigation of airships and even went so far as to encircle the sea and infiltrate the rear.

“Even the Kraken can’t catch it flying in the sky.”

Even the Golden Dragon would not have expected that the ship would fly through the sky and come to hit Nostrum in the back.

“Light. 60 ships of the imperial army. What models were they all?”

“Model? If you’re talking about the size of the ship, she it looked like a medium-sized ship! One ship was an ironclad as big as His Excellency the Governor’s Golden Ship!”

“If we assume that there are about 300 people per ship, and roughly everyone else is on the large ship.”

At first glance, the numbers are figured out.

“20,000.”

“…”

“There are 3,000 of us.”

Approximately 20,000 imperial troops land in the rear of the royal capital, Toledo.

“Your Excellency the Governor.”

“Why?”

“Aren’t you… Nervous?”

“If it’s confirmed, that’s it. Even if it’s not, it’s coming.”

I got up from my seat and grabbed the cane hanging next to me.

“It’s good if there’s an emperor, but if there’s no emperor, that’s the end of it.”