Unmotivated Hero's Tale

"Yui, fight with this one!

"I don't care if they tell you to fight... it's like playing billiards with a magician or fighting to lose"

Billiards that used to be endemic to nobles and common people in the King's Capital.

In a modern era of full magic culture, then, the way it plays is different from the old one.

Previously it was a game of poking the ball with a stick called cue, but although somewhat limited in recent years, it was dominant to magically add or interfere with accents to the ball.

As a result, billiards were considered one of the most major plays for magicians, sometimes nicknamed magic balls, etc.

"Nothing. I don't think you'd change if you were the other guy... well, fine. So what kind of battle do you want?

"You know, Lute. Don't you have the idea that you won't compete?... well, if magic makes it an unrelated battle, whatever."

Lute's sense of confrontation with Yui dates from his admission to the cadet school.

Yui was totally used to being challenged to battle on something more than he was at the time.

And from that long past experience, it is readily conceivable that Yui will continue to be entangled during this later princess escort unless he is dealt here, making it clear that Yui will receive the battle only if it is unavoidable.

Meanwhile, Aynce, who was hearing such interaction between the two in the rear, suddenly peeked a little in the face between them, making them make one suggestion with a grin.

"How about a tramp? You can play with that without magic. Plus, there's three of us, so I can join you."

Upon that Eince's suggestion, and judging it to be a less troublesome battle later, Yui also shows a sense of tune.

"I wonder if Trump would mind. That's why I cut out the battle, Lute, so I was wondering if you could borrow some cards?

"... fine. By the time you get back, don't run away."

Lute, with one rough nose, walks straight out of the room to find a servant close to the Count's house.

Eince, who was thus left on the spot, turned to Yui and gave him a slightly nostalgic look.

"Again, Senior Yui, long time no see"

"Oh, it's been three years...... Have you grown a little taller?

"... I'm over twenty years old. Unlike when you met a senior, you don't grow taller."

"Ha, sure it is. But I never dreamed you'd come to Carlin. Come if you're coming, I wish you could drop by for one of my contacts."

Even teasing juniors in a slightly obstinate tone, nature and Yui's cheeks loose for a long reunion.

Then, Aynce shook her head left and right with a bitter smile.

"No matter how many seniors, you can't divulge confidential Royal inspection information to the outside world."

"Well you're right. But I didn't expect you to come here with the princess."

"I haven't wanted to ask you where your senior went before. But I didn't imagine it would come this way either."

"But you're in trouble, too. If I were accompanied by that princess, it would be a good time to break her stomach. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Aynce remembers what happened all day today and gently attaches her right hand to her forehead so as to reduce her headache.

"As for Elise's speech... guess what. I didn't know you were going to do anything about it, but I didn't know you were going to say that..."

"My guess, before I got here, it would mean I'd been doing some digging on them. I really don't want you to move now...... what the hell does she want?

I probably wanted to complain about the methodology.

But Elise, the young princess of the royal family, thinks Yui is also invaluable in her strong thoughts of taking the initiative to do all she can for her country.

But given the preparations that have been going on in this city for three years, it was very unfortunate in one word that horizontal spears would go into precisely this packing period.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know what that one's thinking. The mayor, the Count, seems to be the better one, but some people are overdoing it... because he was flown here three years ago, and that's a long way from it."

"Hmm, I mean, inside the army, we think their relationship with the Empire is an established fact."

"I won't deny it. But it was totally unexpected, even as an army, that Master Elise would be moved in this way, even though it was not under royal jurisdiction. In the meantime, I think my role this time is to successfully accommodate the confusion caused by Elise."

Eince answers that with a serious look on her face.

Seeing his expression like that, Yui unexpectedly laughed at him.

"Ha, you look like a proper successor to the Grand Duke, too. I was so fucked up when I first had it."

"Give me a break about the old story, seniors. Mostly I put myself in the army, and I grew up a little bit."

In response to Yui's words and actions as if he were pleased with the child's growth, Eince takes away the eau de vi he puts in his hands, including some of the protest implications.

And as I poured the contents into the nearby glass, I poured it down my throat all at once.

"Excuse me. Excuse me. The ranks were lined up in the same sixth place, and you shouldn't feel like a teacher forever. Actually, we might be overtaken by next year."

"Well, I have family circumstances… well, I was able to pass them because of family circumstances, so I am truly grateful to my father for this incident."

During this visit to the princess, initially the deputies were selected around the Kingsguard of the Ministry of Magic.

However, there were also external voices saying that balanced personnel from the provinces was desirable, and several would also be listed from the Ministry of Strategy, and Eince, who had hoped to reunite with Yui, wished to accompany him himself.

"But Lord Rhine often gave you permission. Isn't a mission to such a remote place something that would normally be opposed to?

"Of course you didn't look very good at first. But as soon as I said something about the seniors, I said," Well, I don't know. "

"Well... that one looks the same."

Hearing the story of Eince, the nostalgic Lord Rhine's face rises behind Yui's brain. Along with that, I remember when I was a tutor at Aince.

Sometimes he had lost his parents, and Professor Ahmad, his instructor in charge, introduced his own relatives as tutors to Yui during his cadet school years, where he was making a living with scholarships and short-term hiring.

Yes, it was its tutor counterpart, the eldest son of Grand Duke Rhine, Aynth von Rhine.

As Lord Rhine, who asked for a tutor referral, initially thought he could be introduced to a more proven figure, and initially he had little anxiety about Yui, who still had the boy's face.

But at the time, Aince, who had the difficulty of puberty, connected well to this teacher, who was intelligent in spite of being young and loose, and the tutor's contract was gradually extended.

By the time I realized it, Lord Rhine had become more fond of Yui than anyone else.

In the end, Yui's tutoring business will have the implications of assistance by Lord Rhine, and will continue for one year as is even if Aince enters as a first-year cadet.

After that, Lord Rhine strongly urged Yui to support the Grand Duke as Eince's right arm, and recommended to him officers to the Rhine family every once in a while.

However, thinking that he could not be looked after in any sweeter way, Yui solidified this offer.

That's why I keep swearing to my heart over and over that every time I still think back about the time, Yui will always repay this father of the Rhine family in some way.

"It seems like that guy still hasn't given up on his senior year. Well, I don't know how that feels either... but do you really think I can use my senior?

"You parents and children are buying up too much about me. I want to spend the rest of my life in the region."

"Senior...... you're kind of getting older than before"

"Not at all. Honestly, I don't think it's very synchronous."

Yui and Eince move their gaze at the voice hung to interrupt from the entrance to the room.

Then there was Lute, who held the cards in one hand, and threw them with his eyes in his hand.

When he takes an unopened tramp with a bitter smile on his face, Yui starts shuffling the card he took out as he sighs out.

"That's not true. Even you, Alex, are all getting older equally. That way one day I'll grow old. To Grandpa and Grandma. Hehe, this is a good opportunity. In the sense of deciding which one is old, you or me, I'm going to do it without Baba."

"Fine, fine."

Upon receiving Lute's reply, Yui leaned over a tripod chair around the nearby bar counter and seated the two of them there.

And Lute, Eince, and finally I started handing out cards one at a time in my own order.

"By the way, I wanted to ask you one thing. Why did you leave Wang Du?

"I don't care how you say it..."

Yui, having finished handing out the cards, gives a troubled look as he dumps the pair at hand in the center of the venue.

"That's right. Why did you get caught up in left-hand HR without consulting us?

Eince also asks Yui in a strong tone as he rearranges the cards at hand.

In response to their question like that, Yui slowly opened his mouth as he stuck his left hand out to Lute to pull his own card.

"Lute, wasn't there anybody around?

"Oh, I've been checking. No doubt we're the only ones around here."

Lute gives an unpleasant look and makes him affirm against the inquiry.

And where he held one card, Yui began to speak to the extent that only the two of them could hear him.

"Hmm, I wonder where you've talked from...... dare you, Courtman, you know the third place?

"When I say Courtman, are you referring to Courtman Third Place, who was the Director of the Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Strategy?

Drawing a single card from Lute's hand, Aynce remembers a bureaucratic, smelly, round-eyed little man who he saw far-flung as a student.

"Oh, that's the Courtman"

Yui nodded and pulled Aince's card, dumping the possible pair on the field and offering the card toward Lute.

"I know that one, too. He was bound to face a massive exercise at the Ministry of Magic. So what happened to that Courtman Third Place?

Lute, whose card he pulled, was just a hassle, pushes his card out to Eince as he tongues, prompting Yui to continue the story even further.

Then, pulling Aince's card, Yui spoke lightly of the military scandal, as if it were nothing.

"Oh... it's not a big deal, that's the one who tried to have a coup."

"Hey, what the hell!

When he accidentally slaps his hand holding the card against the table, Lute opens his surprise less eyes.

"He was originally a man to that extent, who makes change by spreading military intelligence across the Kelm Empire. But that's how Sharem found out, and he was threatened."

"When I say Shalem, it's the former Under-Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs."

Lute accidentally drinks by the name of an unexpected big man who popped out of Yui's mouth.

"Sharem was planning to move Courtman to get rid of his political enemies at the time. Anyway, the best way to do an inside job is to use the director of the Intelligence Agency, which centrally manages the information in the country. Well, that kind of crap didn't matter to me, but the problem was that it was Director Reinberg, who was my boss, who was considered one of the political enemies at the time."

Head of External Strategy, Strategic Bureau, Ministry of Strategy.

That was Yui's department at the time, and he was involved in drawing up military plans while analyzing information that would come mainly from the intelligence department.

Of course, I do not have the authority to draw up plans directly to the young Yui, whose main task is coordination between the various Ministries of Military Affairs and compromise with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Interior. And the head of the Strategic Bureau at that time was its Rheinberg third place.

"Director Reinberg was in that position, so there was some hindsight. But he was someone big enough to make up for it. Well, then there was some bitterness, and eventually the courtsmen were cornered, and they planned a coup against the royal family and the military to sell the country to the Empire."

"... is that true, seniors?

To the content of a story that goes too far beyond imagination, Aynce unexpectedly looks back at Yui.

With such Aince's half-hearted glance in his eyes, Yui nodded lightly in the sense of affirmation, thinking he didn't know but didn't want to doubt it.

"Oh, unfortunately. Either way, we managed to prevent their plans from happening, captured the officials in the case into a potato ceremony, and also successfully dismantled the faction. It's just that their resentment is deeper than I imagined, and unfortunately, the firepowder is starting to fly up to me. So, the director who showed me the way, let me go out of their reach."

"So that was Carlin..."

Upon Yui's explanation, Eince nods one as if convinced.

Lute, on the other hand, was reminiscent of the events that coincided with Yui's transfer three years ago and that several heads of military were suddenly forced to move left or leave office. He knows the man in front of him, which brings me to one suspicion.

"To a man who didn't do anything about the case, yes, I don't think the firepowder will fly."

"Well... it is true that I did some mischief and manipulation. For once, as a result, Courtman was imprisoned in secrecy as his insider into the empire brightened. Chalem himself doesn't let me grab his tail. The undersecretary just resigned and ran away, and he still seems to be living on his own territory."

Are you allowed to do that?

Ahead of the fact that he first found out, Eince, in his righteous rage, raises an angry voice.

Yui, on the other hand, let him shake his head slightly to the left and right.

"Unfortunately. It's just trivial, too. The biggest miscalculation for me was that Director Reinberg was taken to account for the disturbance. I didn't know you and your boss were going to make a friendly left-hand transition to the principalship of the cadet school, which is an idle position."

With a bitter laugh, Yui looks out of sight from both of them and looks straight at the ceiling.

Its gaze was beyond the ceiling wall and directed straight into the sky.

"Suppose what you told us was true... why didn't you say a word to us? I hate you, but I still think of you guys as rivals, including Alex's guy. Besides, don't you know how rough Aynce has been since you disappeared?

"Senior Lute... please forgive me for that."

Remembering the time, Aynce takes reprehensible words and actions against Lute when he comes up with a weakened look.

"Hmm. Anyway, he beat and ran away from me and left King's Capital. I owe him a debt today."

That said, Lute hung on to Yui's card at hand just to resume the game.

That's when Yui remembers Lute's habit since he was a student, poking up a bit of a centrally located card among five cards.

Then Lute unconsciously grabbed that slightly protruding card and pulled it off all at once.

"You're still the same, Lute."

As Yui grinned bitterly as she scratched her head, Lute, who had been pulled off the joker properly, gave a look of humiliation.

Then, in the end, Yui flirts with me but keeps pulling the unwanted cards, and Lute gets to the bottom of it.

Aince couldn't help but sneak a sneer in front of the sight that was repeated so many times during his cadet school years.