Kakei Senki Wo Kakageyo!
Episode 94: To Move a Moss Growing Stone
"Well, did Uncle Palvilla hurt himself..."
After reading the report in the Royal Castle's office, Johannes Ronkainen exhaled deeply and deeply. Leave yourself to meditate on your back. In the darkness where everyone could easily be caged, he immersed his spirit in solitude, made himself in the mood for irresponsible freedom, and thought of the appearance of a small old aristocrat's day.
He was a wise man. Though it was always lonely.
I was going to open my eyes immediately, but my thoughts sprang up later and I couldn't even stop them. Johannes saw a lot behind his lid. Tighten your mouth, too.
Ahamaniemi also passed away.
Behind the rear castle of Count Palvilla territory, in that room, white and beautifully prepared, the old man, called the monstrous old man of the south, said that he had finished his life in suffering. The death was caused by a cut to the face to the point of crushing both eyes. I lost a virus mixed with blood from my wound.
Looks like Uncle Palvilla followed him after he took it. It is poisoning. There was a tea party by the window in that room, and the cups, the plates, everything was for two people, and that was already arranged cutely?
Young people have also passed away. Uncle Eteramaki lost his life in battle.
Fast assaults by light cavalry easily tore apart the formation protecting him and besieged him. The wind of death swirled around his neck with just one knife. I didn't even give Uncle Eteramaki time to wave his proud iron rod.
But maybe that was also salvation. Johannes thinks so.
Princess Margareta, to whom Uncle Eteramaki would have dedicated his loyalty and… perhaps even his love, threw everything aside and fled to the south. She and her cavalry fled, abandoning both the surrendered Kalisalmi army and the defeated Etheramaki army and, on the contrary, even taking supplies.
The chaser was all shaken up. Is boulder like the strongest horseback riding army in the south? After entering Eteramaki territory, the whereabouts cannot be known.
Was it good or bad that you couldn't get her?
According to the testimony of the surrendered Uncle Kalisalmi, Princess Margareta has slaughtered Marquis Ahamaniemi. Pre-agreement raids on villages can also be said to have confused the civil unrest.
In the first place, she was also the one who created the spark of civil unrest in the kingdom by committing the crime of tremendous reversal by psychic drugs. Had it not been for that, Marquis Uliharsilla wouldn't have thought it through. Maybe I can even say that she's caused all the confusion since the war with the Empire.
If Princess Margareta had been captured by the North...
Johannes opened his eyes remembering his breathlessness. The position and the situation do not even allow me to silently pray. Again in his sight with color, a scroll on his desk is pressing Johannes to make a decision with the letters in black.
It is a dossier investigating the church's conspiracy in the kingdom.
Some descriptions were extracted from the testimony of Uncle Kalisalmi, while others were independently examined by the North. It also describes the material evidence submitted by the man of the Ahamaniemi Marquis, as well as the facts found by the entrance investigation of the Palvilla Territorial Castle. All of this is shocking.
Only the Eteramaki realm still has no bare gesture to accept Johannes and others' investigation by making it look like a closed shellfish even now that the sun is warming up on New Year's Eve. But that no longer only reinforces suspicion of the Church. It can only be shown as if the Church uses the Eteramaki territory as its last fortress in the kingdom.
Now the Church is about to be made known to the royal nobility as a being that exchanges revenge on the kingdom.
A serious problem that shapes the future of the kingdom… i.e. the pollution of human resources by the Church is the reason for this.
Johannes elbowed his desk knowing he was behaving badly. Hold your forehead with that hand. I have a headache. I took a cup to explore and drank water. Try to devour the coolness and breathe.
If we are indoctrinated with faith, we do not use the word "contamination" against churches. But it cannot be said that it is very normal for national army officers and state officials to appear to respect the will of the Church more than the interests of the kingdom. And if there's poison or a murder blade involved, it's even worse. Needless to say, your spiritual pills have eroded the life of King Wilhelm.
And the demon hand can never be extended to Johannes himself.
Because it turns out that some servants also had the breath of the Church. Especially those who come from church-run orphanages are at risk. It seems that a significant number of people are infiltrating society extensively, although this is not the case for everything. I found out that's what I lived in. My head hurts too.
The North forced the Church to take much action even during the three years of dominance.
And victory revealed the anti-kingdom nature of the Church.
"Decisions…? That's a heavy decision. It's too heavy for me to be a hero."
Johannes monologued and thought of one man in the back of his brain. You look like a hell of a man.
Marco Hahato.
Having become a special being, General Ryu, with his great battle merit in the war against the Empire, he raised a tremendous battle merit that would not allow any other followers in this kingdom civil unrest. There was no such thing as impossible for him who led the army.
First of all, it's the Bow Won match.
The battle, fought on a scale of ninety-one thousand between the North and the South, although antagonized only at its beginning, was combined with an all-out victory for the North by the disease of a left-wing army led by General Ryu. It's no coincidence. It is for this reason that the Northern Light Cavalry Unit has repeatedly conducted joint military exercises with the Cavalry Regiment of Fire.
The name of the method of warfare is the formation of flying birds.
It's a way of fighting outside the boundaries of understanding from Johannes, who knows only the forms of old warfare. Horse-riding assault that the Ahamaniemi Marquis did would still tell. The fundamentals of knocking enemies with the collaboration of infantry and cavalry are fundamental. I can't reproduce the whole right wing without coming up with a big tactic like using it in a way. It gives me a sigh.
In the great northern offensive after the war, he and his cavalry carried out a divorce of longitudinal Kalisalmi territory and entering Etheramaki territory. It is an unexplainable act of decisiveness simply because of the quality of the horse.
Nor is this reckless to expect good luck. The opposite is rather true, given that the large convoy was operated by the Third Princess SS. It was the first time it had been carried out with a vast horizon and close calculations. The North used him and the Cavalry of Fire as a pioneer to achieve decisive results.
He looks like a flying bird. Or is it a flying dragon as the name of the general? Fly through a world where Johannes perceives it as wide, narrow and powerless. The standard of a hero is far from that of an ordinary man.
And it is the battle of the Kalisalmi Territorial Castle.
The flow from the siege to the opening of the gate to the meeting with Uncle Kalisalmi in the Territorial Castle alone has a quiet war effort towards the bloodless opening of the castle, but the subsequent work is incredibly awesome, even if it gathers information from multiple parties.
Johannes thinks. Brave men and demons can't imitate all this.
And they fought against five thousand men so that they might be pushed into the flaming land, and destroyed it, and went out of the gate. It would have been a breakthrough while swinging swordspears in all directions, as a significant number of enemies believed to be Eberian mercenaries had also invaded the city. In fact, the damage to the Cavalry Regiment of Fire is concentrated there. It was a big fight. Though that is a particularly noteworthy martial arts.
The movement from there is off the regular track from Johannes. It's just the battle of heroes in the sense that they can't be exchanged for ordinary people.
Turning left around the capital, he struck a devastating blow at the end of the besieging army.
As fast as the wind, as sharp as the demon blade, as the heavenly thunder leads the earth to destroy and overwhelm. That's what everyone who witnessed said with their mouths together. That was the ultimate manoeuvre. There can be no faster battles than that, and all those cavalry groups are the only cavalry regiments with fire, let's say the continent is wide open.
Did the Cavalry of Fire become an army of thunderstorms in the light of the Fire Capital... Johannes put his hand on the hot chest I didn't know. Just tell him this is it. What if I saw it with that eye? Not to mention if you fought or something, what happens?
I guess that one answer is Princess Margareta's defeat.
The cavalry regiment, thought to be the southern trump card, was halved by the northern trump card cavalry, he said. Should we see as boulders where there was no total annihilation from there? Even after turning to escape if you ask, you think that the manoeuvre was sharp, rather even more ingenious than it was at the beginning of the confrontation?
There was an awesome confrontation when I thought of it... Johannes even remembered the cold. Not anymore.
When we traced back a series of battles with the sharpest collision between the North and the South: the Fire and the Cold Moon as the end point, there we can see the trail of two figures, Marco Hahato and Princess Margareta, contending with divine conspiracy.
Let's start with the Bow Changwon match. Maryaranta Marquis said. Marco Hahato just didn't think the civil unrest would end with the settlement of the meeting, or he weighed the south in that battle and gained the certainty that Uncle Eteramaki was aiming for his life more than winning or losing the meeting.
The existence of the Cold Moon Cavalry Regiment may also have been perceived to some extent. Lucas Uliharsilla, who had been garrisoned with five thousand lead troops at the makeshift fort, had been given a pre-emptive response to a powerful ambush. The same seems to be true of the Third Princess SS, which was stationed near Wang Du. It was from the beginning that the meeting was foreseen the ensuing turmoil.
And the run by the two cavalry regiments began. We must have taken measures to avoid creating a situation in our favor in a war scene of confusion while being symbolic of each other.
The advent of the Southern Prostitution Army is a clever hand in such a situation.
Though they use suspicious mercenaries, the brave army is effective. The North was in a position to reinforce its legitimacy by complying with prior agreements and to rebut breaches of agreements in the South. He was guilty of harming innocent people. I cannot carry out a thorough attack on the King's people who took spears in an attempt to protect their homeland.
It's the southern part of the form where we used it to the fullest to fill the force gap, but it would appear to be an effective and subordinate strategy for the choice of guerrilla warfare, which uses the Kalisalmi territory extensively and deeply. Because it's hard to get around to winning. It is arguably a self-inflicted battle for the south, which had been hit financially by the three-year blockade of the East Dragon River.
But if it was meant to be aimed at someone specific, it's not the story. The bigger the front and the rougher the battlefield, the more unexpected it will be. In the course of the meeting, one of the 10,000 soldiers will march with less than a few hundred escorts at a certain moment. The land surface in the former war against the Empire is a real example.
Not to mention that Marco Hahato is one of the best heroes of our time. We must show more bravery and mercy than anyone else. That is the duty and responsibility of those who gather the hearts and minds. It is the fate of those who live heroes. The more confusion the war situation deepens, the more heroes will be expected to work around them.
But he doesn't show up on the battlefield. Heroes were also out of common sense in not moving.
Words denouncing heroes began to emerge not only from the south, but also from the north. In the neutral territories of Ronkainen and Maryaranta, as well as in the Wang capital, the voice of doubt was raised with much more than that. Some developed radical criticism about it.
But Maryaranta Marquis, known for his fiercely poisonous tongue, kept silent. Johannes thinks that's what was telling the whole story. And the hero's measure was activated in full.
That was the southbound of the great convoy, the southern far-riding of the fire, and the great offensive in the north.
Southern forces were disrupted and manipulated, including the brave army. scratched, collapsed, and sealed. A defeat so inexorable that it beat the entire South. The mess of catching a hero has been wiped out.
It would be natural for the Kalisalmi leadership to have suffered the most than its stage is Kalisalmi territory. As a result of the total withdrawal of the Eteramaki army, where it was the trusted bureaucracy to support the front, the Kalisalmi army was reduced by the people and lost in defeat. Uncle Kalisalmi himself fled even desperately to sleep on the horse and rushed into the territorial castle.
And the Kalisalmi territorial capital was combined with being besieged... but Johannes can't help but have one question there. I wonder whether that was the result of either North or South measures.
From the north, pushing Uncle Kalisalmi around is a desirable situation, and let us even say the great results obtained as a result of the great offensive. Because the victory that settled the civil unrest became what it is today.
But if you think about the subsequent movement, or if Uncle Carisalmi was deliberately driven into distress by Princess Margareta, then you also have the suspicion. Led by more than 20,000 troops, it was not possible to arrive without advance preparation, and the arrival in the territorial capital was too early.
Johannes thought about it. I wonder what would have happened if I had been Marco Hahato's position.
It would have continued to call for surrender to Uncle Kalisalmi while besieging the territorial capital. Three days short must have been an attempt to negotiate. And they will be attacked by the Eteramaki army. The Kalisalmi army will also fly out of the mainland. The siege by triple force would have turned the situation around and wiped out by more than 10,000 heavily armed enemies.
The results will not change even if we hurry up and advance the army until we surround the Castle of Territorials. Because a castle is not something that can fall in two or three days. It will still be destroyed after involving the people of the territorial capital. Where I have demonstrated the desperation of those who have been cornered, enough that the precision can take Uncle Kalisalmi on the road? I don't see a future to survive.
At what stage, I wonder if Princess Margareta aimed to consider Marco Hahato at the expense of Uncle Carisalmi. It's a ploy against the Great Offensive of the North.
And can you tell me that Marco Hahato went on top of it even more? That's what happens from the results. Because he used himself as bait to lure the lurking Princess Margareta, and destroyed it, though he had escaped.
No, for a second, there may also be some hidden intent in allowing the escape... if you doubt it. All possibilities float realistically in areas that are incomprehensible.
Johannes took a deep, long breath. My lips trembled and my breath made a falling noise between them.
The siege of the Kalisalmi capital may have been like a demonic realm with a dead place overlaid on top of the dead. A ruthless plot scattered an invisible spark, but the city may have been set to blow up flames in the evening.
Waiting for a war-torn town. Johannes knows his vessel and knows how to handle his mind. It's forbidden to have emotions of any kind. Lack of calm is easily misjudged. It is barren to suppress upset rationally. You have to immerse yourself in time. Wait for the strong wind to pass with the roots of the great tree.
Be quiet. It's a ritual. Awaken the power that dwells in the blood. I'll take Johannes to Marquis Ronkainen.
"… the future of the kingdom was already entrusted to it. It's great to get lost in there."
I muttered to no one. My consciousness would not have made it to the future if I hadn't spoken of the separation.
One season has passed since the end of the civil unrest. The winter cold is now far away, and the sunlight, which gradually increases in warmth, seems to be announcing to the Kingdom the arrival of a new time of year.
Even now, history pays attention to the Kalisalmi territorial capital.
The capital of Kalisalmi has been managed by the north, but it has become a well-rounded rule, arguably the auspicious thing in the murders.
There are several reasons. For one thing, the north entered the territorial city bloodlessly, and did not commit any tyranny. For one thing, Marco Hahato and Uncle Kalisalmi had entered into a temporary ceasefire agreement due to the meeting.
And above all, there is the fact that the army in the north fought alongside the Kalisalmi army.
Because the armies of Princess Margareta, the Lord of the South, set fire to the territorial capital. There were also ramblings by the Everian mercenary forces. To prevent it and to protect the people, the generals, who were supposed to have fought against the North and the South, waved their spears together. Southern prostitutes, who had surrendered beforehand, also said they fought bravely again.
As one last thing, it is also significant that Uncle Kalisalmi was thoroughly descended. Without claiming any right, he forbade any resistance to ministers or to the inhabitants, in accordance with all orders of instruction.
"My life is already mine. You can do whatever you want."
The word was spoken with a terrible vain voice, he said.
Uncle Kalisalmi, who surrendered, became as if people were different from before that. It's vain, uncomfortable, and it's an impression of aging all at once. The familiarity also became thin and dirty. Had it been him before, he wouldn't have let the beard occupy his jaw. I wouldn't have let it smell even.
Would that look like a special victory? No. It is a weakness, although it has abandoned everything.
This spring, the Kalisalmi family will change their lord. Altogether, the inheritance of the countenance will also take place. If you don't do it, you will return your countenance with only two short lives. The man named Severi Kalisalmi loses what he was proud of.
"A title is not like a treasure... especially at this time."
Johannes laughed alone. I know that's a laugh that belongs carelessly. I can't show it to anyone, but I excuse myself that I would also need these breaths in order not to get stuck as depression.
The Ronkainen family has a special responsibility that no other great nobleman has. There is a role that can only be played in the lineage that is closest to the royal family and has had as much history as the royal family.
Johannes meditated again. Inhale quiet deeply and deeply. I think of the ancestors who had the same responsibility.
"Glory be to the Kingdom of Asuria"
Speaking of it without sound, Johannes breathed out momentum.
There was dust. Convection. I'm not going back.
Johannes Ronkainen made a big decision here.