Border Guardian Hal Akircius

Teito Central District, Senate Front Square

"... Due to the above upside, Northern Border Guardian Hal Akircius not only did the Northern Border exterminate a large army of 400,000 Barbarian Halemians on the banks of the Ineon River, taking over its tribal king, Bagan, and bringing peace and tranquillity to the Northern Border, but unified this. Emperor Magnus greatly commends this achievement, along with a new bounty to the Northern Border Guardian Officer…"

Citizens of the Imperial Capital were packed in the squares where the bulletin officials boasted loudly.

The anger of those who march imperial soldiers to carriages, luggage, people and horses that usually go to and from fiercely, and even sell goods and lawsuits, can be said aloud.

The noise on the construction site adds to the situation, but I can't hear one shudder on this day.

Citizens are admiring the content of the announcement about the activities of border guards.

After completing the notice, which was read twice as prescribed, the citizens of Imperial City did not move for a while when the official came down from the stage and bluffed its contents.

He then began to dwell on the content of the strangers he had come to hear with, the people he knew and the strangers who were next door.

The voice only became normal in size at times, and eventually the cheer exploded.

"We did it again!

"Wow, wow!

"A hero! A hero showed up in the empire!

"Nice!

"Long live the Empire!

There are men in front of the Senate who see citizens shouting joy.

That gaze comes from upstairs in the Senate, and you never have a good emotion until you see the look on your face.

The men came out of the Senate floor when they heard the noise, but they were dressed in white and formal oval coats indicating that they were senators.

"The common people... but they danced to the work of the young people pulled from the islands..."

Abandoned bitterly is Sir Tarnius, a high nobility, in the position of second noble nobleman.

The mouth, which accumulates short gray hair and white moustaches on the aristocratic lean, is drawn to the voice of popular joy.

It would be because of the years, but the blood vessels floating on his temples moved tingly to indicate the depth of that anger.

Several nobles are sighing equally bitterly at the joyful and noisy folk in the square.

There came another old senator with a smiling smile.

"Oh, if you try to get caught by the cheers of the citizens… are you all?

"Your Eminence... What can I do for you, civic nobleman? Get lost, you nobleman!

Neither did he move around Sir Tarnius, who cursed with defilement, but his nobility raised his brilliantly bald head and gently moaned his chin beard, narrowing his eyes and watching the citizens wrapped in joy.

"Shut up! Are you listening!!

The old senator finally opened his mouth when he glimpsed the aristocratic aristocrats who were so eager to see how it was.

"Oh, well, the civic exemplary aristocrats and the royalty of the Empire have fallen to the ground."

"What!? You."

"Respect for the elderly is a moral priority in the Empire, not just for the nobles… but it seems to have been forgotten, yet the savages of the North"

"Kisa well... so proud of us, the aristocrats of the North, and so on! Correct it!"

"... Hmm, is the debate a parallel line"

Its senators have an interesting atmosphere as opposed to the sudden aristocratic nobles.

There he pinched his words in the way Sir Tarnius had pioneered them.

"Shall I leave you around already, Elder? What do you mean you came all the way out to this balcony where we are? That would be provocation, wouldn't it?

Well, let's just say, "This is out-of-heart."

The senator, called an elder apart from the bitter Sir Tarnius, says without breaking the way he wants to amuse the intercession of words.

Finally there Sir Tarnius also smiled and returned his words.

"Heh heh, I'm not going to make this up here. Either way, it's a well-known fact that you and we are friends of the dog monkeys, and we dared to come out where we are, so we can't think of anything other than provocation."

"Well, I guess we didn't make it up to each other... but when we get older, it's a hundred million bucks to go far. When I came to the closest balcony, I knew you were there, but it's no match for weakness, and it's hard to go to another one now. So I came here without a choice."

Ser Tarnius sighs in disdain at the look of the elder, who has no evil appearance, even as he utters a lame excuse.

It is not necessary to see that the appearance of old age has nothing to do with decay, and even if it does not come with the speech of the elders in the Senate, it is so powerful and vocal that no one is alone, such as those who can sleep.

Sir Tarnius gave up and decided to give up the balcony, now that he realized he was completely pissed off.

We can't keep up with ourselves until we follow them.

"... well, let's just say we get older and move somewhere else"

"Oh, that helps, because I'm tired of staying with people I don't feel comfortable with for hours... oh, yeah, don't leave the balcony next door in good shape"

"... Muggle, come on, let's go!

For a moment, I endured that I was Sir Tarnius, whose anger hung out, but I could only interact where I said it back here anyway, and took my surroundings and walked away from the balcony.

The elder, who looked delightfully behind him, again shifts his gaze to the square in front of the Senate where he is no longer visible.

"Well, nobody expected a left-transfer official border guard to do it this far... hopefully tie it in the right direction... but do you think you can make it to the emperor's office?"

The Senate will be held shortly.

A bloodless, but fierce battle was about to begin.

Imperial Central Neighborhood/Emperor's Palace, Emperor's Office

"... why don't we add a little counterattack here..."

Listening to the joyous voices of the citizens coming from the square in front of the Senate, Magnus, with a grin, snaps one, yes.

In its hands is a letter from Julianus, entrusted to the Vice Emperor.

"... even though I entrusted you with the aftermath, this one is also distressing in the round throw... I have to relieve the burden of the next emperor at all. Woe to me"

Magnus quietly, but certainly prepared, slowly closing the letter and raising his face.

"Will you finally separate yourself from the aristocratic nobility today... hehe, we have to do it well..."

"The emperor, who has always been good at opportunism, wondered what he had lost… well, you found hope in the future?

A voice sounds like a snapping magnus with distant eyes.

Ahead of that voice stood a bald-headed nobleman who had earlier interacted with Sir Tarnius, sarcastically distorting his mouth.

Magnus was a little surprised, but remembered that he was calling the winner, smiling bitterly and calling to the chair, opening his mouth.

"Well, that's what it is... so, will you cooperate?

"... okay, if the military leadership is absent on an expedition, and the central government and aristocratic nobility are a negotiated decision, we have the means to do so."

Magnus sighed more relieved when the elder, who is also the president of the Senate, made a statement to accept Magnus' proposal while sitting in the chair.

It was informed by Magnus through his messenger that the policy coordination between the central official and the aristocratic nobility ended in failure and in farewell.

Magnus, who questioned Cassius somewhat with this information brought in by the Kingsguard and obtained confirmation of the accuracy of the information from his reaction, immediately informed Julianus of the situation through his children's men, while at the same time transferring to the presbyterian nobles, who were a little distant from the aristocratic nobility.

"So...?

"We shall cooperate on the nomination of His Highness Julianus as Vice Emperor."

"... thank you"

To the elder who responds to his words of encouragement, Magnus speaks frankly.

Hearing the thanksgiving, the elder leaked as if he had been frightened.

"... forty years from now, some of those words would have been changed sooner"

Words of the again.

Forty years ago at that time, Magnus, who ran to contain the nobility by force, lost much as a result.

Now known as the Elder, he is admired for his insight and high personality, but at that time this man, who rang as one of the best playboys in the Senate, also burned with ambition and offered to cooperate with Magnus as the culmination of his nobility.

Magnus rejected this offer because all he had in mind was suppressing the aristocracy, and as a result turned more aristocracy against his enemies, and the Senate was on the verge of dysfunction.

Thereafter, Magnus sealed his own policy and was forced to engage in factional equilibrium politics.

And as the years go by, the resulting dirt, starches, and smudges will tie Magnus to the curse.

"Regret ran out as early as possible... but it wasn't enough... but I could tell as much as I thought that was impossible to say. Time flies, there's not much time left for us. But if I didn't have a choice then, I wouldn't have had this chance right now... but I feel like I'm throwing a stone away..."

"It would be nice to throw away stones and serve, but there are many who die in vain without fulfilling what decays?

Magnus responded by lowering his voice a step lower to the elder who disputed immediately.

"... oh, even though my friend's death taught me that"

Silence surrounds the emperor's office, and its silence eventually drifts around Magnus with darkness and weight.

But Magnus stood up quietly as he was, urging the elders.

"Then it's time to head to the floor."

"... good, the opportunistic emperor's last readiness, let's see it through"

With that said, the elders followed Magnus on a firm footing to the Senate floor.

Teito Central neighborhood and Senate floor

The elegant floor made of white marble had now been transformed into a fiercely controversial place that did not resemble its elegance at all.

But since it was originally created as a forum for debate, this is probably what should be the Senate floor.

The senators who were listening thought so, the floor was so incandescent.

It was Sir Tarnius who had shown a quiet appearance on the balcony until earlier that bubbles were flown from the corner of his mouth.

"I am categorically opposed to it for the reason that...!! His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Gratius deserves the next emperor!

"Well, that's not what you're saying so violently, because I'm afraid a lot of it is the chosen personnel of His Majesty the Emperor, and I'm not going to say the next emperor yet, but to the deputy emperor, is it?

"Isn't it natural to be seen as the next emperor if you are also a deputy emperor!

Sir Tarnius cries out, without the appearance of listening to the words of the elder, who is also the embarrassing chancellor.

"... your mouth is overflowing, it's only a matter of whether or not to let the Vice Emperor take up His Highness Julianus"

"Say what! Isn't that all that's left?

Sir Tarnius, whose elder glowed his bald head, saying no more, including anger, but not frightened, and finally his elder blocked his speech.

"... Unfortunately, Sir Tarnius, your speaking time is over, so take your seats, anyone else who has an opinion"

"Speaker"

Cassius, the consul with his hands up, with Sir Tarnius sitting reluctantly on his ass.

The elder, who saw it, nodded and allowed himself to speak.

"I am in favor of His Highness Julianus' appointment as Vice Emperor."

"You!"

"Don't be ridiculous! But for the sake of government officials!

When Cassius stands up and gives his opinion, one yaj after the other flies from the aristocratic nobility.

But Cassius took over the words quietly, without being upset.

"Bandits and bandits are rampant in the East today, and people's hearts are upset. Pirates are also enlivening their activities in the Setria Inland Sea, and supplies to the Imperial Capital are lagging behind, it seems appropriate to entrust His Highness Julianus to the Vice Emperor with military and authoritarian powers to calm things down."

After finishing his remarks, Cassius immediately takes his seat.

It was then Sir Lucilius who requested permission to speak.

"Can't we stop the operation on the Southern continent?

"... it's impossible at the moment, the military has already made a great deal of moves towards this operation, and most importantly, we have no intention of suspending it to Commander-in-Chief Scipius"

Cassius supplemented it, too, when Longs, head of the First Legion Corps, who participates as acting commander-in-chief, replied.

"The formation of the frigate fleet has also been completed, as have the preparation of consumables, weapons and food and feed. All we have to do is transport it..."

"Really... I thought that if we stopped the operation on the Southern continent, we would be able to sprain our forces to deal with the chaos on the mainland of the Empire... don't the military or the imperial administration think so?

………

………

Longs and Cassius with the thought of what to say now, but I do not disprove it in particular.

Knowing its intentions in the silence of the two, Sir Lucilius, smiling satisfactorily, uttered the words.

"I propose to cancel the Southern operation and deal with it by calling back the army."

It is true that we can deal with pirates and bandits if we stop the Southern operation, but Skipius, who, as Longs said, holds military power, has no intention of doing so, and it is not easy in terms of procedure or reality to stop the plan that has been put in motion once, and even if it does, it will take too long.

Lucillius is well aware that it is almost impossible to stop and also lacks effectiveness, but daring to speak of this has another purpose with harassment.

"... is that good to say that I disagree with His Highness Julianus' appointment as Vice Emperor"

"That's not what I'm saying… if it means we need to leave it to the vice emperor to deal with bandits and pirates, then yes. If we can deal with it by the military, we won't dare to appoint a powerful deputy emperor."

Lord Lucilius, who decided that even the table was contrary to the will of the Emperor, could be ridden by another party and was not a good measure, answers that only in the elder inquiry.

Although the controversy continued for a while, the argument felt exhausted and the elders slowly rose and opened their mouths.

"Then... we shall take a vote..."