The Demon King Seems to Conquer the World

"Carol, come in"

Calling a little louder, Carol opened the door and came in, apparently waiting in the hallway.

He looks kind of non-floating.

"Your Highness, you are well... relieved"

Myalo turns around and says hello.

"Oh, oh... I'm glad Myalo looks good too"

Myalo looked at Carol with a strange face.

I guess I thought things were different than usual.

"Carol, Myalo, sit down"

"Yes."

When I said, I broke up with a chair and a couch all alone, and everyone sat down.

"I'm missing one, but it's an executive meeting"

"Mr. Lyao is currently grasping the squad. 'Cause if you're not alone, you'll be confused."

Hmm.

Well, can we please talk about the current situation of the squad?

More importantly, you'll need to tell them a few things before you hear the report.

"Earlier, when I returned, the King and his wife told me they wanted to talk to me. And then..."

I saw the clock.

"It's about three hours from now. Until then, I can't move from here. You can't just say no. In my capacity, I want Carol to be part of it."

Perhaps it will be my last chance to see the royal family of Kirchna.

From Carol's point of view, it's too disrespectful to say that you're in the castle at this time, but you just met the king and his wife, and you and the queen go home completely through without even meeting each other.

No matter how much it is, it is not.

"Really? Either way, it will take until tomorrow morning to prepare the team for withdrawal. We should leave early tomorrow morning."

"Right. You will return as soon as this meeting is over, and you will be ready."

Copy that, sir.

I guess for Myalo it doesn't have to be said.

"And me and Carol, we're both injured on one leg. I can't run."

"Injury, is it... It's not like you can't ride a bird or a horse."

"That's okay. I need to put a cane on it... and then I need help getting in and out."

"I'm relieved. It doesn't mean you're gonna have a disability, does it?

"Probably not."

"So, uh... light, can I ask you how it's been since the wreck?

"Do you care?

I don't think I need to talk about it now.

"It's not that important... because it's a topic of greatest interest to the crew. I think it makes sense to offer it."

That's right.

We executives think about what's ahead, but the soldiers are different.

When Myalo gets back, he'll be the most eager story to hear.

It's not good to spread boring delusions and fabrications.

"Well, I'll explain it briefly"

"Yes."

I don't know, I knew Myalo was intrigued, and his eyes are shining.

"When I crashed, Carol twisted her leg so badly that I couldn't walk, I walked to Nica Village carrying Carol. That's where I found the letter... about five days ago. Then I waited a few days and lured the horseback riding I came to scout into the house, crushed every house and stole the horse, then came the king sword who heard the noise and ran... like that"

That's a really embarrassing explanation.

"What about Yuri-kun's foot injury?

"They've come to Tosaka to be set ablaze by eagles. He was wounded while fighting after me."

"According to the story, it will be Uncle Drain's squad that was chasing Yuri. I heard it was troops from 200 men."

I doubted my ears.

The first piece of information I grabbed, imitated torture, had that name.

Uncle Drain.

Kanker's boss, rather than the president... is weird after all, but that's what it is.

Sounds familiar.

"How do you know that?"

"That much... I was going to report it later, but this one was also searching the sea. The scourge of the kingdom of Peninsula, which I captured at that time, was still a force looking for Yuri, and I heard from them."

Hi, like me, I heard from the prisoners I got from fighting... I don't know how much I hurt them, but they did.

"Was there a battle?"

"Yes."

"Did the dead come out?"

"No. But two birds lost and three injured"

"Severe illness?

"No. They are all about arrow wounds, bruises, and fractures. There are serious illnesses, but no one has lost their legs, arms, etc."

"Right..."

"... do you get angry?

Do you get angry? And, Myalo, who raised the odd question, did not see the colour of self-reproach or remorse.

I guess I'm not begging for forgiveness for failure.

You mean for Myalo, you don't feel burdened with that decision?

There must be a reason to convince me.

"No, if you didn't get a corpse or a cripple. I'd like to know what's going on."

"No gas. It wasn't what I expected."

I knew it.

Daimyo, I guess the guys who couldn't bear to just wait were on the run.

Even if I didn't go as far as a rampage, the rampage was getting intense... you think?

Such signs drifted subtly from before the showdown, especially among the cakedri people who couldn't get on the eagle.

If it was meant to be, it might offset the showdown with the cowardly (today) before, but this time the squad is all volunteers, plus all those who are proud of excellence.

I wish those guys were moving purely out of greed and ambition, but I guess justice is still something more inspiring in this situation.

"Is Lyao aware of that, too?

"Yes."

"That's good... That's what the Army needed."

A real army. That would be a fountain.

"Yes, thank you"

"I'll talk to you in detail later. Let's keep talking."

"Okay. So... how much chase did you get?

"You were actually following my legs... er, eleven in all... including the guy who came before that, thirteen?"

"You've escaped a lot."

"You can't get away with carrying each person..."

In the first place, I walked in the woods because I knew I couldn't escape.

If I could escape, I could have used the streets.

"What... did you defeat some people"

"Erm..."

I counted my fingers.

"Nine, ten... including whoever killed them before and after that..."

To the four scouts, he counted the Dragon Knight, and broke five more fingers.

Fifteen.

I killed him to kill him.

"Ju, are you fifteen... boulders"

"Exactly. Nothing."

Myalo has a mixed face of surprise and joy.

Don't feel the temperature difference.

"No, but..."

"You're the only one who's proud of the number of people you've killed."

That doesn't make me feel good.

Hate Kirchna if she was attached or patriotic, and if she did, she might feel refreshed, but more than not, killing her wasn't funny.

"But it's the war that makes it honorable."

I'm not proud of you.

"It doesn't matter. Others praise me, the Howe family has a high nose. That's the difference between a bad city and a fight that kills people."

"... well, yeah"

I know what Myalo is saying, but I don't really know how it feels.

Was it because he had himself in a world where killing people in war was not the honor of a samurai?

But what Myalo said was definitely true.

The fact that you killed fifteen people must be a compliment from the Howe family.

"But it's nice not to be proud. Even from others."

Does greatness for having committed violence seem like a lesser degree, like?

I don't care.

"Explain it appropriately. I hope my disgust with me doesn't intensify and my disgust doesn't happen."

Needless to say, if you were Myalo, you'd do well.

I don't know, a lot of guys seem pretty about me causing this to happen because of what I did extra.

It would have the effect of silencing them.

"I know. I think it would be easier with all this material."

"How about us around here? I'd like to hear more about the status quo."

"Yes, I'm sorry I missed the conversation"

"I'd like to start by talking about the enemy…"

"Please."

"Given the speed at which the enemy marches, it seems that it will take four more days for the enemy's main team to reach the reformation. As long as it takes a day to complete the siege and lay the line, the full-scale attack will be around six days from now."

Four days later, or...

"Where did you get that number?

"It's the Kirchna Army, the most densely flying eagle. Currently, up to three of Kirchina's four generals are in the form of reformulation, which is essentially under the command of the King's concubine. The last one was acting independently and went into Quanham"

"Did you go into Quanham? So, isn't the enemy going to need to slap that one first?

Quanham is a city on the north side of Reformation, and with a large army here, in some cases, you risk being attacked from your back during the offensive.

The neighborhood of Reformation is along the sea and the streets are crowded, so you won't be cut off from exits and supply lines, but you won't like having enemies on your back.

"Looks like you've sent a separate army over there. Euphos Federation troops are on their way. They just don't think they're going to fight aggressively because they're not big enough to attack Quanham."

Hmm.

The stance is that you don't fight a siege, you defeat it when you come out.

I often say that castle attacks require three times as many soldiers as those who defend them, but castles don't attack and don't come out. If that's just the case, that reasoning doesn't make sense.

Quanham is an inland city in the north, unlike the Great Fortress of Verdant, and is not present in a constant position across the supply line.

Dividing the number would disadvantage the reformatory offense, but it would not be a lethal burden for the enemy forces.

Even so, at best, there will be a thousand of them, and the remnants who destroyed them in the field in the first place.

Even the same thousand, a fully organized thousand and a thousand with a large number of vacancies are messed up, which makes a difference.

"Right. Either way, if we can leave tomorrow, we're going to be able to leave without getting involved. Follow Meshal to Honon along the sea, cross the Hot Bridge, and it's Rube territory."

The Hot Bridge is a commonly used bridge when travelling by road in Siyarta-Kirchna.

It has a wider road than the upstream Zuck Bridge and passes downstream with a wider river width.

Leaving Reformation and going down the street by the road looking at the sea, there is the estuary of the river that serves as the border between Siyarta and Kirchna, which rests a little upstream there.

"The Hot Bridge looks like heavy traffic, and we're talking about waiting in sequence for about three days. I was thinking upstream, the Zook Bridge."

"Three days? Why is that happening?"

Unlike the Zook Bridge, where one carriage can finally pass, the Hot Bridge is a little over three meters wide and the carriage is easy and different.

We can now use it on one way, so waiting for days seems like a big crowd.

"I heard stories about a former reinforcement unit in Ciarta that was withdrawing, waking up Gotagota with refugees, and the flow was stalling."

"Ah......"

Pathetic.

I guess the army is trying to push the evacuees over and rub them with which way to go first.

Melancholy.

"Well, let's think about that later. I just plugged it into the divide, and you can point the eagle at it and check it out."

A short while before you go from the road along the sea to the Hot Bridge, there is a divide heading upstream, and if you continue there is the Zuck Bridge.

It's such a gradient climbing path that it takes about a whole day, but it would be better than joining a member of the foolish noise.

There is resistance to pushing the evacuees across.

"Right. So, can we talk about the status of the unit next?"

"Oh."

"Troops were due to move into retreat, tomorrow or the day after. So I'm done packing, etc."

I guess so.

From what I've just heard, if the timing is delayed by three more days, I seem to be totally involved.

"The wounded in the battle we talked about earlier gave us the carriage and put it back on track. Together, we name three people with particularly severe morale loss. You may be stuck in traffic at Zuck Bridge right now, but you'll be able to go home first."

"Six fewer? Well, there are 24 cakedri."

"No, I have more than one. One of the wounded was injured only by the rider."

"Oh well"

Well, I guess I'll borrow that.

If it's true, I'd like to just put Carol on the eagle and let her just go home.

"So you mean 26 eagles, 25 cakedri, 24 eagles"

"That's right. Except the eagle was flying for a search, so there's a couple of bad ones."

"Well... uh, that's a hassle"

Eagles are just as quick to put them back across the strait as they were when they came.

However, if it is getting worse, there are risks involved in using it on the return strait crossing.

I left a few when I arrived, but if I couldn't fly on the way, the riders would all be drowning in the future.

"Well, okay. I don't know what's gonna happen around here."

Even if we get off the eagle, we can talk about it by land.

"That's it, the report is over. Do you have any questions or anything?

"No, not at the moment."

So that's it?

"Then the rest is called to the king's wife."

"Oh, did that happen"

I forgot.

I thought we'd hit it and smash it, or just meet and talk, but if you think about it, they might say something.

Myalo's opinion would be valuable.

You're a professional when it comes to politics and politics.

"When it comes to a meeting at this time, you may be able to place some nasty orders, but I honestly don't know what that is. Anyway, because the situation is like this, there is no point in thinking about the worst..."

"Which neighborhood do you think sucks?

For once, I wanted to ask.

"What? Erm... the thrust from Kirchina's general is intense, in fact, the king's mate is talking, and the general's demand is to" leave the spectator soldier behind "? Yeah, I'm taking your Highness hostage, demanding a big reinforcement from Siyarta, maybe."

Slightly unrealistic, but not impossible.

A person standing on a cliff can do something that's impossible if you think about it in common sense.

The cramped rat bites the cat.

It's dangerous to have a rule that rats don't bite cats.

"... that heck would suck. It's just that they didn't go nuts, even if they were in trouble. If you're going to get that far, you'll keep it tied up from now on so you don't run away. If we do that, you can imagine us running away."

"That's right. However, Yuri-kun's return was sudden, and it is possible that only a few things are going on nowadays..."

"Uh, maybe there is"

Just call it in, all kinds of idiots are currently talking about assholes, and while I'm relaxing, things are steadily getting worse back there.

Right now, or an hour later, soldiers are coming to get me and Carol.

Possible.

"But as a possibility, I'm not demanding anything big, or anything. I think it's the most expensive."

"I guess so. So I don't have the option to kick your invitation home.” Don't go home because I'm afraid of being threatened "in this situation, because you're just too frightened.

"Huh, that's, I don't know if I am either"

Myalo laughed.

He's a little wussy.

"But if you're going to ask me for something, I think I might be grateful that I gave you a hand in the search."

"I guess so. I don't really feel like I've been helped."

I came through the woods, so I couldn't help myself from the other side.

I got a doctor to get me a room, which is currently in progress and helpful.

"I don't think you've done anything to benefit Yuri's escape line, either directly or indirectly."

"I guess so."

In fact, I didn't see anyone but Wang Sword.

We could have partially stopped the chase, except that it wouldn't be there either.

"But if you insist that they owe you something, you'll be talking about giving it back."

"Right. Yakuza does it all the time."

"Yes, it's an M.O. my parents do a lot."

It's Witch XVIII.

"Phew... so, what's going on with the food in the troops? Are you out of reformation?"

"That's what the Rube family is allowed to use when they retreat"

"Right."

Exactly, if you were to supply me with food, there's no way I wouldn't be grateful.

But they're doing it on their own.

"As a matter of fact, Yuri's attack has delayed the march."

"... what? Really?

First ear.

Even so, it seems to have worked out to the point where the papal realm ran out of butch, so well, I guess I was somewhat late.

"Yeah. He said all the supplies he brought to the papal realm were burned, so you think he had a great deal of trouble with the construction? That broke his footprint, and he said there was a delay. If you don't have supplies, you can't replenish them, so you'll leave them, won't you? In other countries, it will still be difficult to leave the papal territory and go first."

"Well, I guess so."

At the same time, where the Pope's land's were burned, from the perspective of the whole crusade, the loss of supplies would be 10% or so.

It's a good story to carry and refill more by boat while getting accommodation from other countries, but coalition forces are not that flexible.

Each country that is the largest unit has a different sense of purpose.

It is dominated by the brain and is not like the hands and feet that live in the same heart.

There is also a problem with the national ments.

Bearing the country, it is not easy to bow your head and circle.

"Of course, buying time in these situations is a tremendous value. And there's also the view that even when we pulled out of the showdown, we created confusion, which slowed the pursuit down."

"Sounds like a thing. I don't like it when you say things around you that don't even know if they're true or not, because I'm proud of you."

It's kind of disgusting.

From the enemy's point of view, the siege of the Great Fortress took more than a week, causing some confusion during the pursuit to reach the Great Fortress, but the burnout of supplies would have been compensated for by the waiting time while the Fortress was surrounded.

There must have been mayhem as a whole, and I'm a useful actor in that achievement. Raising your voice, etc., doesn't seem like you've become some kind of trinket.

"It's a story if they push it. If you want to sell me a favor, I have paid for it. No matter how funny it is, if this one stays silent, it makes sense over there."

That certainly is.

In short, you have prepared objection material to avoid being pressurized when pressed?

"Right. Let me refer to it."

"Yes, well, good luck"

Myalo took a seat just to say that the conversation was over.

"Are you going now?"

You're in a hurry.

"Yes, because I'm here as a delegate, and everyone in the squad is waiting to hear the news from you two."

"You did...... well, over there, please"

"Yes."

Myalo nodded.

"Now, if you'll excuse me"