Armed Summoners - Black Spears and the Brave Men of the Other World

Episode One Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Seven: The True Victor (2)

The remains of Sonia-Rendar, the lady knight of Giselcoat and Lucion, disappeared with flames along with the remains of the burning Giselcoat mansion.

As a traitor from Mizu, Gisele Court, who wished to be considered a great sinner, would refuse to be politely buried as a royal person - a lonely word from Leongand led him to be cremated as he was. Along with the remains of a woman who was said to be half-bodied on Gisele Court.

"It was for this country that he committed the conspiracy"

Leongand went, looking out for the flames that burned toward heaven. What was in the wreckage of the Gisele Court mansion, the momentum of the flames surrounding the ruins only grew somewhat.

"It was his idea that we should stop here once and adjust over time to solve the problem this Gandhia has embraced in continuing to inflate. I guess he, who was at the heart of Gandia's politics, saw more of the problems this country would enclose than I did. Enlargement of the country means an increase in population, and it also means more problems to carry. So far I've been doing well because there were good politicians like him, but still I guess I had all sorts of problems just not surfacing"

He watches the burning flames as he listens firmly to every word Leongand speaks. I guess there are the remains of Giselcoat in the red lotus and the burning flames, but that must also burn quickly and run out. Of course, not everything gets burned down. Bones and such will remain.

Gisele Court's words and actions were often incomprehensible to Setuna.

"I know what he thinks. With me, if you even allow time, I want to. I want to focus on national politics and grow Gandia strong and ambitious. But."

Hot air strokes my cheeks.

"That's not how it works."

Leongand shook his head hard.

"We cannot put ahead the problems faced by this group of small nations, for example. I don't even know how much time I have left. That's it if the three main forces move out while we're in the middle of internal affairs. The moment it moves, the group of small nations ends. Nothing. So we have to hurry. Fight for a moment."

Again and again, it has been said.

There are three major forces in this Wargrain continent. One is the Vashtarian community sweeping the northern part of the continent, one is the Kingdom of the Holy Deal, which dominates the western part of the continent, and one is the Zion Empire, which dominates the eastern part of the continent. Each said to have the same territory as a group of small continental States and boast the corresponding national, military power. No one knows when that silence will be broken, although it has remained silent for hundreds of years.

"If we do not unite the group of small nations as soon as possible, not only Gandhia, but a number of small nations will be swallowed up by the three major forces and will sink into the shadows of history"

Neither can the two remaining forces remain silent if one of the three major forces moves to dominate a small group of nations. Naturally. If they get out and develop their forces first, that's the only thing that's going to be troublesome. I can't take lag or anything. If the three major forces wage a great war over a small group of nations, that's it. We might be able to counter any country if we raise the total power of the small group of countries. But there's no way we can contain all three forces.

"He knew it, too. So I realized that it was pointless to advance the matter to me. He also knew that I would not have ears to hear. There's no point in flattering me. I take it for granted that the unity of small groups of nations is the only way to save small groups of nations. He knew very well."

"So what happens when you start a rebellion?"

"Right. I wonder what happened."

Leongand looked up at the sky as he smiled bitterly.

"I wonder what would have happened to the country he could have done, if he had won"

Distant eyes.

Don't Leongand know what Gisele Court thinks either?

"He would have immediately withdrawn small group reunification and worked for the development within Gandhia. Perhaps he was just thinking of cleaning up the messy problems in the country and, on top of that, building up history as one country. He is a politician. I might have stopped thinking about going out. In that sense, it could have become a livable country"

Regardless, he added.

"Only until the three forces set in motion."

Most importantly, it is not possible that the three forces will remain silent for hundreds of years to come. I've been asleep for hundreds of years. It is also conceivable to stay asleep so as not to upset the equilibrium. Nevertheless, its potential is not great. The Kingdom of the Holy Deal is pushing for the development of Demonic Crystal weapons such as Demonic Crystal Dolls, and the Zaion Empire is preparing its strategy with a training period for armed summoners. I don't know what Vashtaria looks like, but Vashtaria wouldn't be silent either if there were something like riding out into a small group of nations with those two forces in place.

Vara, the divine son at the apex of the Vashtarian community, was the same presence of Quon, who wrote in a letter that such things as integrating with Vara, but it is hard to imagine that Quon (Vara), who fulfilled the unification, would leave the expansion of the two forces unattended. Vashtalia is also responsible for one of the three forces. We need at least the same amount of force to maintain equilibrium, and if we are going to multiply that war to become the greatest force, we have to put our backs in. Even if Vara was a quon, it was hard to imagine that Vashtaria's intentions could be determined.

"... but he was defeated. Before me, he was defeated. I won. I made a lot of sacrifices, nothing to gain... but I did win."

Leongand snapped, many times, that he had won. It was a mouthful as if I was telling you to convince myself even if I couldn't.

"But... if even my victory was as he thought it would be, how about that?"

"Huh?"

Setsuna was surprised by Leongando's words, which she did not anticipate.

"He would have been there. He said this country could come together."

"But losing..."

"That's true... but it's true that he brought my enemies together in one. Whether it is natural to gather my enemies because they conspire against me, his political power could unite the anti-Leonganists throughout Gandhia. I guess it was also with that achievement that this conspiracy was successful to the halfway point. After all, his political power wasn't always the same."

As for the awesomeness of Gisele Court's arms as a politician, even the warrior Nares was enough to wrap his tongue around it, and it was also he who continued to support Gandhia as the shadow king between the fall of his predecessor, Siuscloud, to the point where Leongando came to the throne, and Gandhia since the Zalwarn War. Gandhia would have taken a slightly different form without him, is the word of Nares. So many prayed that he was not the enemy. As Leongand himself seems to be.

"And because of it, I was able to eliminate my enemies from this country perfectly close. I could have swept it away. Neither that nor this, but thanks to Giselle Court. Thanks to General Deion and Julius Nahless."

"Mr. Nares?

"Oh... we'll talk about that later"

Leongand shakes his head slowly. And he turned his gaze back to the burning ruins. Everything is burning down, and there are no longer any burning things. The only thing that's burning is on the premises, and I don't see anything that's going to burn outside the premises. The Gisele Court mansion is a house nestled on a plateau. There were no houses around and there was less danger of extending the burning. It is possible to burn to the grasshoppers of the plateau, but at that time it is only necessary for Setuna to use a black spear.

Black spears can absorb flames.

"Anyway, he said, Gisele Court meant that his uncle... was also thinking about if he was defeated. He called it a loss - a loss or something."

Leongand's eyes looked into the flames.

"He's also a winner. You served your purpose by convicting Mizu."

Maybe he was looking at Gisele Coat, which would have burned out in the flames.