The Strategist Knows Everything

Thinking leads to everything. Saying so, looking at Yukito, who teaches himself knowledge and ways of thinking, whether in the military, diplomatic or internal affairs, or in the field, Kaguya remembered the old days and gave him a slightly sunken look.

Without missing it, Yukito stopped explaining once and called out as he looked at Kaguya's face.

"What is it?"

Noticed. That's what I think, Kaguya laughs bitterly. As always, a good looking man, I also felt glad that Yukito would react to his trivial changes.

"I'm sorry. A little... I remember the old days."

Yukito, a little interested in Kaguya, who lays down his eyes, asks Kaguya a question along with a break.

"You never heard of Master Kaguya's old days. If you don't like it, can I ask you something?

Kaguya smiles and nods slightly illuminated after looking a little surprised.

"You're not very funny, are you?

"Trying to make stories interesting that aren't funny is also a good study."

"That's another unscrupulous thing to say...? It's just an old story. It can't be funny."

Saying so, Kaguya began to speak in nostalgia.

"When I was a kid, Dio and I learned the same thing from the same teacher."

Kaguya's current year is eighteen. Dio is XVII. The year is close, but the other day, with Dio, who celebrated his birthday and is seventeen, and Kaguya, who is about to celebrate his birthday, years are about two years different. Together we learn the same thing from the same teacher, either one is significantly inferior or one is extraordinary.

Yukito, who knows that Kaguya's intelligence exceeds ninety in stats, recalls Dio's original talent and smiles bitterly.

"Has Master Dio been outstanding for a long time?"

"Very much so. I was always Dio's second, even though I was older. That's why I hated studying. I prefer to do sword arches outside, and most importantly... didn't fit with the teacher"

Kaguya, who became a little angry when she remembered, gives a slight expression of displeasure, but Yukito doesn't care about it and urges her to continue.

"So? What the hell does that have to do with now?

"... the teacher couldn't understand why I didn't. I didn't understand why teachers were so frustrated."

"I know the answer, but the process is always a mess. But Kaguya thought you were right because the answers fit, is that the place?

"Exactly. And it was a conflict waiting for me and my teacher like that. Teachers no longer praise me. I began to stop taking teacher classes. By that time, I had met Lior, who was guarding the Imperial Castle, and I was handcuffed."

That mercenary you met when attacking the royal castle? and Yukito awakens his memory, remembering the conversation then.

"He told me that he had let Master Kaguya out of the royal castle?

"Before his father could hold him, Liol was a traveling mercenary and had connections everywhere. Bade was one of them, and Liol sold me into Bade, who had just inherited Fern's house at the time. And it succeeded, and Bade took me to the border, drawing my father's consent."

"I see. I understand why Master Kaguya was away from the King's capital. But why are you remembering that now? You didn't overlap me with that teacher, did you?

When Yukito listened with his eyes so narrowed, Kaguya slammed his hands like he was in a hurry.

"Different!? I'm not! Uh, it's the other way around! At that time, I thought if a teacher like Yukito were here... I wouldn't have left the royal castle..."

Yukito sighs at Kaguya for a soggy look. I will not go back no matter how many thoughts I have had in the past. There is now, because there has been it in the past, and if maybe it has, there is no present present.

If a teacher has a similar sensibility and mindset to Yukito, and discerns the nature and talent of Kaguya, it will never be a happy thing. Anyway, if that were the case, Kaguya would have stayed in the royal castle and grown as it was.

There is no reason for that predecessor to leave the beautiful woman at the end of her eyes and nose alone for a second. Thinking that far, Yukito shakes his head.

Because that's not what we're talking about right now.

Yukito asks, grinning at Kaguya as she asks her complexion in front of her.

"Do you regret leaving the royal castle?

"… what do you think? Sometimes things are good and bad."

"Even if you stay in the royal castle, maybe that won't change. So if you think about the past, if that's what it is, you should think about making the present better."

"……… Is it possible that I am angry…………?

Don't think about anything extra while you're studying, concentrate.

Kaguya, who sounded like Yukito was saying that, with an anxious look, asks again the look of Yukito standing.

Yukito's neck was shaken beside him, but he heard Yukito's words and dropped his shoulder.

"No, I was scolding you."

"… is that so…… I was now being scolded………"

Looking at the dripping kaguya, Yukito smiles as he reflects on whether he made a little too much fun of him.

Kaguya's reaction was fresh and interesting for Yukito. Even though he thought he would react like this, Yukito often tried things against Kaguya because he was betrayed.

How do you react to words like this? How will I react to this behavior?

Yukito always enjoyed the look and reaction Kaguya gave him. I enjoy it too much and sometimes let it down like it is now, but Yukito had some rewards for that.

"It's a joke. I was just kidding."

"Mm. That's right, you bullied me again!?

Noticing the fact that it was the first time he was taught to tease him, Yukito fingers a single wooden board in the office as he smiles at Kaguya, who begins to complain.

"I don't know about bullying, etc., but, well, to apologize. Again, do you do that?

"... so that I can talk about what I like, you seem to think I'm distracted, but every time, every time, the same hand..."

"Shall I resume my studies now?"

"Ugh, it's a lie! Just do what you didn't ask! Do it! Do it!

Grabbing Yukito's arm with both hands trying to pick up new material, Kaguya says so, while holding Yukito back.

But seeing Kaguya like that, he laughs and tells Yukito.

"Do it, huh?

"... let me do it..."

While he slowly dropped his shoulders and was satisfied with Kaguya asking about his complexion, Yukito headed to pick up a plank of wood, feeling somewhat unsure of the fear he had recently begun to enjoy his reaction when he genuinely messed with him.

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The wooden boards are about fifty centimeters across and a little bigger than the chessboard.

There is a fine vertical and horizontal straight line drawn, which forms the mass. There are multiple pawns, large and small, lined up on top of it.

It's an on-board game called military command. The way you do it is similar to chess. I can't use a pawn taken like a chess pawn as my own.

In addition to pawns, there are terrain obstacles that mimic mountains, rivers, etc., which cannot be easily crossed because conditions will be required to break through them.

To faithfully reproduce the battle, the roles assigned to pawns are all real objects and very similar in nature. Winning or losing is the loss of those who take the Commander's pawn, and the point is to play how to hunt down this Commander's pawn.

Kaguya likes this military command, and if he has time, he thinks of new tactics, and his skill is considerable.

Kaguya was becoming unbeatable to Yukito, who had learned the basic rules and had begun to get used to them to some extent. So I apply to Yukito for a rematch, but when Kaguya does, Yukito says no. Instead, Yukito sometimes invites us to fight.

Kaguya always waited for the opportunity.

But.

"Ugh……………."

"Go ahead. It's Master Kaguya's turn."

Seeing the likeness of his army spreading in front of him, Kaguya wanted to cover his eyes.

The pawn that went into the enemy line as a vanguard was isolated, and the pawn that was poised to rescue it was destroyed by Yukito, who was waiting for it, and is now placed outside the board.

Yukito's pawn punched a large wedge into his position, split left to right, one not functioning. The other is desperately trying to protect the Commander's pawn, but due to the break-up and the loss of the pawn in the attack, Yukito's onslaught is becoming unprotected.

But if we can take Yukito's onslaught here, we still have a chance to reverse it. I think so, and Kaguya moves the pawn exactly as she had thought beforehand.

And then he tries to urge Yukito to his next hand, but before he does so, Yukito moves the pawn just as if he had decided from the beginning.

Another step, Yukito's pawn approached the commander's pawn. Earlier, Kaguya moved the pawn to create a gap.

When Kaguya looked on the board to see what to do, she knew immediately that she could not reverse it. Kaguya's head simulated some of the next moves and immediately began to answer them.

I didn't like to explain Kaguya to others because I flew the process and got to the answer right away. But right now, in this situation, I don't have to explain it to anyone else. Because I'm the only one who can tell I lost.

"…… my loss…………………."

"Yes. Shall we clean it up then?"

"Ma, wait! One more time! Give me another chance to rematch!

"It's the same no matter how many times we do it, so we're done for today. Put your head on to win again."

With that said, Yukito begins relentlessly to clean up the pawns of his army command. It was on the clerk's desk that it was spreading, where it turned into a study desk when studying. If we clean up, we can't study.

Yukito sees Kaguya getting hit and leaking words of mourning as he cleans up. Yukito is not a strong military commander. Moreover, it is not stronger than Kaguya in real life.

However, if limited to military command, Yukito was confident that Kaguya would not beat him. Yukito remembered some of Kaguya's tactics in remembering the rules of military command, and he watched and grasped Kaguya's habits and tendencies in subsequent matches. Yukito wasn't trying to make his army stronger, he was trying to figure out what to do to beat Kaguya.

In normal battles, commanders never sit in front of each other. But that's what we have to do with military command. So Yukito, who has a good grasp of Kaguya, generally knows what kind of hand to hit if he looks at Kaguya. Kaguya never notices that. Because I only see the surface of the plate.

I guess it's time to teach. And Yukito was thinking. However, only Yukito and so far has been able to defeat Kaguya on a confident mound. If we teach them now, Kaguya will observe Yukito's expressions and movements and incorporate them as information into his tactics. And Yukito loses.

I didn't think that was funny, and Yukito swallowed up the advice that sprung up and said this to Kaguya.

"If you get a good answer from this later study, you can deal with them if it's just one more time."

"Really!?

Seeing Kaguya rise gabba from the state she was stuck in, Yukito smiles with a nickel.

Yukito, motivated by Kaguya and pointing his consciousness toward his studies, cleaned up the board of military command and, now, began to rotate his head fully to figure out what difficult issues to raise