I Reincarnated as a Noble Girl Villainess But Why Did It Turn Out This Way? (WN)

There is no such thing as an accurate map in the group of countries of the South. Because of the expansion and shrinkage of the land of the nations that flourish day and night, and because of the increase and disappearance of the name of the country, we cannot make a map.

The Fletcher border ambassador appropriately plotted the current force map in perhaps only the major countries among them, and came to me.

"As for the South, it's like I'm collecting information personally, so this is something I've only shared with Luctofeld and the House of Lords..."

There are four country names written. Jenhans, Nazlik, Epadena, and then Paktushki.

... Seven years ago, Paktushki, who shared that name only with me in Kamil, was a country somewhat on the southern tip of the west. Jenhans is a country about southbound on the eastern edge of Arksia, and Epadena is quite large for a southern nation, occupying the southeastern edge of the continent. And there is no land in Nazlik.

"Nazlik lost his battle with Epadena at the end of this spring and became an expatriate. Epadena is multiplying its momentum to further expand its forces and continue to swallow the surrounding small nations."

Epadena's leader seems to be a pretty tough expansionist. In neighboring countries, they continue to incorporate cultural and ethnic differences into their territories if they are defeated without taking anything into account.

Since we are talking about the subordination of Lindar from the southeast, did this Epadena get Lindar's intervention?

"But to that extent, isn't it always happening in the South?

Otherwise, there can be no violent rise or fall of the country. It is a protracted feud because the expanding country does not retain its boundaries as a country, it is shrunk or divided, or a new country becomes independent.

And there, basically, the intervention of other countries is indirectly or directly involved.

"Exactly. But at the same time, this invasion of Epadena is heterogeneous. … the battle between Epadena and Nazlik was settled after four years"

Four years.... four years.

Claudia roared small next door and Berwaier wandered around. Each of them is a person who touches a narrower range but more specific flow of numbers than I do.

Retain and operate your power, for all the cost streams involved.

It takes national power to wage war. Even more so if you try to maintain the front.

Its power takes into account, for example, human resources for the maintenance of soldiers and armies, resources, materials for the maintenance of weapons, or the stockpiling of national treasuries for the maintenance of states disrupted by war.

And countries that are constantly exposed to the danger of invasion and pillage, and migrate to the point where they cannot make maps, basically cannot afford to increase their national power.

"Is that Lindar's intervention"

"Boulders, good guess. Rather than Lindar......, from Geograd, the two countries were both buying by trying to compete for weapons and supplies. It was bought, should I say."

To fight harder and longer, Geograd said he was selling weapons and food to both countries on loan.

"How were the liabilities paid"

There is a clear disparity between Geograd and Epadena that cannot even be desired, such as a decent deal. For four years, Epadena had stalled the nation in a dispute with Nazlik. Unlike Arksia, it is not a country that is allowed to develop its domestic economy beside the war on a scale that can be seen from the map.

What the hell can Epadena use to pay its debts? When I had a bad feeling and asked him that, Uncle Fletcher Borderline smiled sarcastically.

"... I do not believe that your daughter is a nasty person, as rumoured to be spreading throughout the King's City."

"Yes?"

Uncle Borderline shook his head sideways at me, surprised at what he was talking about.

"It seems certain that your daughter's idea cannot be born without knowing evil. I can't help but wonder why such a cruel thing comes to mind, and the incompetence of the tranquil interior."

"... ignorance is an unforgivable sin if you are aristocratic"

"I know perfectly well that everything is pathetic after degrees. Well, shall we get back to it? What Epadena paid Geograd as a liability is human."

Human...... A bad feeling struck me, and I only missed my gaze from Uncle Borderline for a moment.

But now it's clear. The goal of Geograd's intervention is to make the countries of the South slaves… the source of human resources (manpower).

Buying and selling people is a great evil in the teachings of the Earl Kusha Church and a sin under Arksian national law.

My father used to work outside the Territory as a public worker for the unemployed on the territory of Cardia, where all economic activity was devastated, and he covered national taxes with it.

I was clever enough to keep a line that didn't contravene the law because of my labor, but what I was doing was no different than a slave trader.

What Epadena is doing works just like my father. If I don't have anything to sell, I sell people.

How, then, will its sold goods be used?

"Denzel is the one who needs the most human resources in Lindar today..."

When he groaned, Fletcher's gaze was sharper and included pity.

But I can't afford to worry about it.

If geograd's collected slaves were to be put into the stalled Eastern front.

"... is that what you mean?"

Much to the detour, the situation in the group of countries of the South was finally connected to the defence of the eastern border.

The King's army is out in the war against Denzel.... I don't think they have any prior arrangements and can handle slave soldiers who are inhumane extremes. Awareness of humanity, strongly rooted in the Knights of the King's Army, is too fragile a weakness on the battlefield.

"Twenty days ago, Paktushki's envoy visited the border gates of our land for the first time in eleven years to share the jealous information he was getting over there. Epadena is now about to swallow Jenhans. Even in the developing world, which has allowed military traffic, quite a few people have disappeared."

"Paktushki was... a country with a trade permit, wasn't it? Are you friendly enough to send an envoy to give you information while you know the country you can't get in?

"Sounds like it. It seems that the Arksian Chamber of Commerce, which visited there more than a decade ago, devoted much of its contribution to the economic development of Paktuški. At that time, the teachings of the Church of Art Kusha were widespread in the country, and it was not known what would happen because the national territory was separated, but there was also a national book asking Arksia to protect it as a state of the Sovereign."

That would be more fateful in a national book, and it would be like a statement of reasons for it when it comes to a critical international situation.

... more than a decade ago, maybe that merchant I killed was in the club? I mean... Kamil's father.