Academy Genius Commander

66 – Prom is War (2)

I repeated it in my head once again.

f*ck, asshole. A foal deserves to be run over by an unbridled horse on the road and die!

No matter how much I belong to the prince’s faction, the prince calls me, and as an aristocrat of the empire, I can’t help but go there.

Right now, I should be loyal to the crown prince, but before that, I was a nobleman with the title of the Reich Empire.

In the worst case, if I refuse the call of the imperial family, I could be forced to face the crime of ignoring His Majesty the Emperor.

At least, if I ask to see you at the ballroom, ‘Ah, I’m sorry I had to go see the crown prince. I’ll go.’ You can run away like this.

However, since His Highness, the 5th prince, even took care to come when it was convenient for you, there was no room for escape.

“It is an honour. Then, I’m sorry, but since you’ve been considerate, can I really visit you at a time that’s convenient for me?”

However, I am not an applicant going to an interview, and the one who wanted to meet me first was the other side, so I am the best in setting the time to meet.

His Highness, the 5th Prince, would be the first time a vassal treated him in this way… but what would he do?

Since I made such an offer first, you should at least wait.

At least the 2nd and 3rd princes were supported to some extent by several great nobles of counts or higher who belonged to the noble council and nobles with other titles, and had the power of about one state in the empire.

The 5th Prince’s forces were less than half of them, and he almost lost his presence after the Crown Prince occupied Visochia in the Czech Republic expedition.

Hearing that, the count smiled as if he expected me to come out like this.

Well, it’s more strange that I, who has grown up to this point thanks to the crown prince, responded with a quick bite to the proposal to convert.

“I can’t help it because I’m busy with public affairs. If possible, I would like you to come by next week or the week after at the latest. If you contact me the day before, Her Highness will personally make time for it.”

“Thank you for your consideration.”

“No. Also, my son, who attends the General Staff School, found the lecture you gave to be quite interesting, so I read it. Very new. I didn’t expect to lecture on strategy and supply so much. I would like to hear why you thought so.”

So we casually chatted for about 30 minutes about the Count’s time in the army and about my lecture.

To be honest, I can’t remember what the count said because the 5th prince called me to f*ck me.

Still, I thought it was fortunate that I continued the conversation without showing that I was embarrassed as much as possible.

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Laura, on the other hand, has never seen such a political trick in person, even though she has experienced it many times with me.

He made a much more flustered expression than me, the person in charge, and was flustered.

I put my hand on her shoulder and patted her, and said in a cold voice.

“Calm down, Lieutenant. His Highness, the 5th prince, didn’t mean to drag me to the imperial court, he just said that he wanted to subdue me. So it won’t be a big deal.”

In fact, it’s a very special thing.

That’s because if you can’t properly explain to the great crown prince, you’re in danger of losing your position within the faction.

Even within the Crown Prince’s faction, there are plenty of guys who belong to the lower end of the faction who are promoted much slower than me, and guys who are jealous because they seem to be much better than themselves.

Seriously, in the Battle of Visochia, there must have been a poor brigadier general whose promotion was stopped after talking nonsense in front of the crown prince to step on a major.

So I can bet on both wrists that those who want to impeach me will come out like crazy with this opportunity.

Besides, isn’t the 5th Prince famous as a pretty crazy nobleman in an empire with relatively many conceptual people?

At least, His Highness the Crown Prince is a wise person, so even if I shovel hard, he won’t betray me.

If you do, I’ll stop to the point of delaying my promotion to colonel to quell the displeasure of the others within the faction.

The degree of delay would be the level of a general lieutenant colonel being promoted to colonel.

It usually takes at least 5 to 10 years at the most, so it’s said that I will become a colonel in my late 20s, so there’s not much of an age problem.

It would be a terrible thing if late colonels who had nothing to do in the rear were assigned to divisions with deputy division commanders.

Wearing the rank of lieutenant colonel, he can roll without any subordinates while happily mopping with the servants assigned to the division headquarters.

The colonels who gave up promotion are fearless except for disgrace…

“But I wonder if the lieutenant colonel’s loyalty will be questioned.”

“No need to worry. No, the more you worry, the more you give your enemies an excuse. As long as I don’t openly betray His Highness, at best it will end in a delay in my promotion.”

That’s what I said, but who knows?

However, at times like this, if I show a panic for no reason, people like the 2nd and 3rd princes, who are trying to get me away from the crown prince by any means, will try to shake me with the same number.

Then they will try to catch me with the stars as bait.

‘Heh heh, this is really nothing. It’s real.’

That’s why you’re bluffing like this, pretending it’s nothing.

As evidence of that, the nobles of each faction, having witnessed the fact that the Count of the Fifth Prince had just proposed something to me, pretended to be chatting and glanced in my direction, weren’t they?

So I enjoyed the fine wine and food in the banquet hall until their interest faded.

Borrowed a pen and paper from a nearby servant and said, ‘The 5th Prince has called to capture me.’ After writing, I folded the paper into small pieces.

So, with Laura, I headed to the place where the prince and the faction were.

As befits the prince’s group, the prince, several generals and high-ranking officers, ministers of each department, department heads, and administrators were gathering in groups of two and three and having a conversation.

Unexpectedly, the brethren of families with titles belonging to the prince’s faction attended the banquet, probably because they had no contact except for the halo that depended on the family, but they did not fit in and stood at a distance.

“Clerk Blancz, I mean. If you increase the army supply, wouldn’t it be possible to feed the soldiers more?”

“Look, Major. So I already gave a report to Director Blanc. Supply will definitely improve in the future.”

“Ha… I’m afraid of my wife every night these days. How many times do you search for them every night when you go into central duty? As you know, if you serve as an officer in the military, doesn’t your body become toned? That’s what my wife likes…”

The topics that come and go are about half business and half personal.

Considering my position here, I could have put a steel plate on my face, handed a note to urgently deliver to the prince, and then left.

I dared to enter a place where guys belonging to a similar position in class would gather and have a conversation.

“I’m sorry during the conversation. Could you give me a seat here too?”

When I said that, the bodies of the lieutenant colonels at least 15 to 20 years older than me and of the same rank were chapped, and they looked at me saying they would be grateful if I didn’t wear them because it was burdensome.

However, he soon compared the white silver knight’s sword medal hanging on the necktie of my suit with the gold cross medal hanging around his neck.

“Lieutenant Colonel Jaeger is always welcome. But we are talking about our children right now… I think the lieutenant colonel will have a hard time getting along.”

In fact, I also have something to notice, so I don’t want to interfere with the conversations of one lieutenant colonel.

It was already believed that my position within the Crown Prince faction was higher than that of a decent colonel, and that I would soon rise to that level.

Besides, my age is at most 20 years older than the lieutenant colonels here, so it’s hard for me to get along with, and I came prepared for the fact that if I interfere, I’ll be criticized for not being rude.

So we had a really useless talk for about 5 minutes anyway, and as a result, the lieutenant colonels I was talking with disappeared one by one to drink wine and eat more spaghetti or steak.

Other small groups around me also started taking notice.

And the core group of this faction, to which the Crown Prince and Earl Benner belonged, also turned to me, feeling that something had happened in the factional gathering.

As expected, I sighed heavily and bowed to the crown prince.

“Stand up, Lieutenant Colonel Yeager. Don’t be too stiff at the ball. Aren’t everyone else feeling a little embarrassed?”

At the same time, he held out his right hand, and I stood up holding the prince’s hand with both hands while holding the note I had written in my right hand with my thumb.

Considering that he was the equivalent of a crown prince, even if a lieutenant colonel showed his respect, all he had to do was accept the bow and tell him to stand up.

“I envy you, I really envy you… When that bastard wears a star, will I be promoted to colonel…”

“Ha, is this life? At that age, a professor at the Staff College and even the crown prince’s favorite…”

I’ve heard a lot of complaining, but now it doesn’t matter at all.

Meanwhile, the prince read the note I gave him and frowned. After a while, he threw the note on the floor, smiled, and saw an insect crawling on the ground.

“You have to trample on bugs to catch them. These days, it seems like there are a lot of bugs around you, so take care of yourself.”