Kuro no Senki (LN)

Elakis Marquis Mansion...... In the room of the former accounting officer, Chrono listens to the interaction between Elena and the general.

I'm just really listening, falling asleep on the couch and looking at a bunch of paper on the table.

Tilt your gaze and look at Elena.

The bruised skin restores a clear whiteness and the original color of the hair coated with blood and dust... dark blonde...

Don't lose weight rather than be smart, the sight looks busy and looks like a hated character appearing in a big old cartoon because of the sovacious around your nose.

Elena reads and fishes to devour the books in the morning in order to get an idea of the financial situation of the Marquis territory of Elakis.

Those eyes are just as glittering, blah, and scary as the general's when she seduced Chrono.

You must be thinking about revenge or something, and Chrono sighed heavily.

Together, it makes an evil push that Elena's spontaneously worn collar also has some intent.

"... What are these taxes and firewood taxes?

"Read it and it looks like a letter." Whether it's firewood, crossing bridges, or newlyweds celebrating their first night, there's taxes here. "

When Elena looked surprised and asked, the general replied with a face that just didn't say what was normal.

"You didn't rebel a lot like this. I'm sick of baskets to graveyards, taxes, taxes, taxes, lords here."

"It wasn't even that expensive, so it wasn't enough to start a revolt. But for some reason, the customer's legs are far away. You owe me a hundred gold coins."

You remembered the period leading up to debt repayment, the general sighed deeply.

"If you raise taxes, consumption will be dampened, and if consumption is dampened, producers' incomes will be reduced. If you can't afford everyone, your feet will be far away."

Remembering the sales tax and the increase in the price of tobacco, Krono told the dame.

"Am I... not, Master Chrono seems to like you, but you're not stupid. So, what are you going to do?

"I abolish taxes that I don't understand, and I lower other taxes if they're too expensive."

"Why didn't you become a lord soon?"

Chrono said, the general bit her teeth with regret.

"Then... your tax revenues will be reduced by 30,000 pieces of gold, and you'll have just over 60,000 pieces."

Elena stares at the books with a serious eye, but she doesn't seem so dissatisfied.

"Now that we're harvesting wheat in July, taxes will be paid in October, so we'll be fine as long as we don't have much left to do."

"I wonder if I can finish taking over by the end of the month if it works"

Chrono takes the paper prototype and tries to list it without meaning.

"... or is paper that rare?

"No. I made paper in our workshop, so I figured out how I could mass produce it."

What? and Elena approached Chrono early enough to take a piece of paper placed on the table.

"... and unbelievable!

"There's a lot of paper here, too."

Elena has a surprising, less eye-opening look, but the general doesn't seem so interested.

Still, curious as to the extent to which she walked over to Chrono, the general also took the paper placed on the table.

"I feel a subtle difference in shades, like touch."

"The paper method is supposed to be secret, but Dwarf made this?

"I gave you a very brief explanation... but it's not part of the explanation, so it's all in the hands of a hundred captains."

Squeeze the plant broth and the paper will form.

Chrono is not so shameless as to strain his handle and chest just by giving this explanation.

"But how?

"Captain Hundred says steam the skins of the trees, put them on the water, peel them, simmer them in water mixed with the ashes of the trees... do all sorts of things, mix the skins that have become like cotton with the water, and if I did zabzab in the frame of the tree, I could do it?

I have received detailed explanations from Dwarf's hundred captains, and I have stored their contents on paper, but only to this extent can Chrono explain them without looking at anything.

"Oh, I didn't know I could get paper out of the wooden skin."

"So, but it's expensive, right?

"I don't think so. If you can make two thousand or four hundred pieces of paper and hire ten people for one piece of Japanese silver coin, you can take the original with one piece of brass coin."

"Not a third of parchment"

"It's easier to rebuild even if you rewrite, so it's more convenient than parchment."

Side by side with an out-of-the-life Elena, Chrono took a piece of paper from the table.

Looks and feels just like Japanese paper.

No matter how much he said he came from Japan, Krono had no connection to Japanese paper.

Because I am making Japanese paper in different worlds, it is something with strange edges.

"Am I... not, what is Master Chrono thinking?

"He wants to enrich his territory as a lord, and he wants his men to be happy as his boss."

"Little old man...... Ouch!

When Elena said in a contemptuous voice, a pompous damsel smacked Elena in the head.

"Why, hit me!

"Don't ask Master Chrono what he looks like! Where are you dissatisfied with this decadent lord?

"This guy... I'm not dissatisfied with Master Chrono's lack of ambition! 'Paper', even though it's a hugely profitable substitute!

Elena pointed at Chrono and shouted.

For Elena, the avenger, I guess Chrono, who lacks ambition, is a difficult opponent to use.

If I had put some more clothes on my teeth and hidden my vengeance, I might well have been responsible for one stick of vengeance, but from Chrono's point of view, Elena is now a very easy servant to handle.

That was when Layla's voice echoed from the crystal for communication.

"Master Chrono!

"If it's about food, I'd like to leave it to Leila?

I guess I was smart from the beginning.

In just a month and a half, Leila is able to do simple reading and writing and first-grade arithmetic.

If we keep this up, we might be able to attain elementary school graduation level academic achievement in six months.

'No! A pedestrian was attacked by a bandit! It seems to have been done with shallow wounds, but now the princess Tilia's ministry is asking what's going on in the jar. "

I'll be right there.

Jumping up, Chrono popped out of the room.

Though I told him I'd be there soon, the stuffing on the outer edge of the city was too far away.

For whatever reason, there are no horses in the stables of the Marquis.

When Chrono arrived at the jar, it was where the merchant came out of the jar looking like he had run out of energy and roots.

"Oh, Master Chrono!

When he saw Chrono, the merchant knelt on the spot.

There are not many merchants who know Chrono's face.

He is a merchant who sold the property of Marquis Elakis, an associate of the Pics Chamber of Commerce, Miles, a whorehouse owner, and now a slave trader who squeezes Chrono's hand and weeps.

"Dear Chrono, Bandits have taken all my merchandise! Please, please, take the product back!

"Oh, yeah, I'll do good."

"The slaves taken..."

Chrono had no choice but to give vague answers to the slave traders who crossed gestures and explained the characteristics of the slaves taken. You have big tits, big butts, and you have trouble explaining that.

Still, Chrono can't handle it unhindered because slave traders are legitimate traders.

It is painful as someone to know Elena who has been worn out, but this man abides by the laws laid down in the Empire and also pays his taxes properly.

Please, please, the slave trader said many times before fluttering away from the spot.

"... Dear Chrono"

"Thanks for reporting, Layla"

"Yes, no, of course."

Leila narrowed her eyes comfortably as Chrono stroked her cheeks and whispered her pointy ears.

Cool look and deluded contents, I can't stand that gap.

I want to keep my ears shut forever, but Chrono took his hand off Leila's ear.

A twin elf looked at Leila from the shadow of the building.

Soon Leila turned back to me and leaned down embarrassed.

"Is there a lot of bandits around here?

"Since I was assigned to Marquis Elakis territory, there has only been one bandit crusade"

Krono put his arms around it, saying it was unusual for a merchant to be attacked outside the city.

As far as reputation is concerned, Marquis Elakis didn't seem to lay down good governance, and I guess there was some ground where the bandits would be born.

"After all, does the matter of the Holy Argo Kingdom also affect you?

"What does that mean?

The question was returned with a question, and Chrono smiled bitterly.

"For once, it's been crusaded, and I think the bandits didn't form an inmate until now because they were wary of the military. But at that time, the Marquis Elakis escaped, so the bandits' vigilance may have loosened."

It's only a prediction, but Chrono clapped his shoulders.

"It's late, Chrono!

"... I didn't have a horse."

Turning around with excuses, Tilia was putting her abundant breasts on the crude window frame of the stuffing and staring at Chrono.

"Did I look like I was talking to the half-elf there?

With a swordswallowing gaze at Tilia, Leila leaned down frightened.

"Leila, I'm sorry you stopped calling."

"Ha, excuse me"

When Chrono spoke gently, Leila graciously ran to the twin elves.

How can you hit Leila so hard? and Chrono tilted his neck.

"What are the details of the case?

"Not until we get inside."

Once in the jar, Tilia's men's gaze concentrates on Chrono.

Not in a friendly atmosphere, but besides, Chrono lowered his back to an empty chair pretending not to notice.

"Where my men interrogated me... the merchant was attacked by a cavalry. Yeah, when you say cavalry, you're not a heavy-duty cavalry. He was wearing thin, dirty leather armor."

Tilia strained her chest even though she didn't look into it herself.

Bullshit! I'm dazzled by self-asserting opinions.

"Mercenary collapse, or, disguise"

"Why do you need to fake it?

As Chrono shrugged, Tilia tilted her neck wonderfully.

"My colleague is gone. At worst, I thought you were dealing with bandits."

"Shouldn't we think we've been attacked by bandits than we think we're disguised as bandits?

"Yeah, but... maybe Tilia doesn't know what happened to my colleagues?

"I don't know. I was so full of my own ministry."

Tilia said like any other HR.

"Ha, I have to ask the Marquis Elakis"

"He's dead."

Huh? and Chrono asked back unexpectedly.

"That's why Marquis Elakis said he died of poison. He's a suicide addict."

"If it's enough to kill yourself, I shouldn't have embezzled the public money."

There was an unexpected brittle spot with that, and Chrono had to sigh.

"Not at all. Well, I'm glad I saved you the trouble of torture."

"... you might have been right to kill yourself."

Crawling his fingers at the wound in his right eye, Chrono muttered small.

When Chrono returned to his former accountant's room, Elena was fighting the books alone.

Are you preparing for lunch, there's no sign of the general.

"What happened to the bandits?

"Actually..."

When Chrono briefly explains the circumstances,

"Scatter, you hit the bee that punched me! Slave trader, zama!

That's Elena's reaction.

Zama! Zama! Chrono fell asleep on the couch looking sideways at Elena, who repeated.

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm not very happy."

"Why not?

Elena frowned in a grumpy manner and stared at Chrono.

"If there's a rumor that a bandit is going out on the street, the flow of things and money will be delayed."

"Huh."

Elena leaked her voice as impressed and sat on the couch where Chrono fell asleep.

"Are you really a nobleman?

He's a nobleman of history.

He's an adopted son, but Chrono added in his mind.

"Honestly, you don't think I'm noble, do you? It doesn't seem aristocratic to treat civilians or subhumans separately, and it's incredible to buy me that I was so lame to make half an elf mistress."

Elena embarked herself and stared at Chrono.

"I'm still grateful to you. So... you know what I mean?

As flattering, Elena whispered as tempting.

But Chrono didn't miss the moment Elena's eyes glowed.

"It's enough for you to do your accounting job."

"Huh? You got your hands on the half elf, and you don't want to be with me!

Elena grabs her chest and Chrono stretches her body.

"Even if the woman with the bottom sight tells you... you shrivel"

"Beh, that's not good! You can fuck me as a quasi nobleman without rotting!

The woman was scared, and Chrono held that feeling as she rocked back and forth.

Ha, ha, and Elena pauses briefly as she breathes on her shoulders.

Poking through that gap, Chrono wakes up his body and lays Elena together.

"... Huh! What, huh?

Elena has amazing less black and white eyes, but it's not that hard.

There are simply too many health differences between Chrono and Elena.

"What's the purpose?

"Beh, I'm just trying to show my gratitude."

"You said you could see the lower heart, didn't you?

Elena screamed small as Chrono gently pulled the collar.

"Kuh, pulling the collar is good, but please don't slap me. Right, huh?

Turning around, the colour of fright floats in Elena's eyes.

When this is also blatantly frightening, on the contrary, it stimulates sadistic desires.

"I'm not gonna hit you."

"... Hih!

As Chrono glances from neck to umbilical with his index finger, Elena screams in a daze, shaking her body.

"But I will. Olesama, Omae, Markaziri"

"Kaji...... piggyyyyyy!

When Chrono bit the neck muscle, Elena screamed without any shards of color.

It's to the extent of a sweet bite, but it's too overreactive because of the experience of being worn out by slave traders.

At first, Elena was trying to poke Chrono, but soon she lost her power from her arm.

When Chrono let go of her body, Elena was breathing rough and repeated.

"Don't be too provocative if you punish this"

"... Okay, I get it."

Here, you pervert! and Elena stood up so that she could push Chrono away, poking her ass cake within three steps.

"Are you okay?"

"Oh, you're gonna bite me, so I lost my hips!

Did I scare you too much? and Chrono fell asleep on the couch again and looked up at the ceiling.

"... a bandit, you're going to be in trouble"

Chrono's anxiety will be neutral.

A week after the slave traders were harmed...... three new traders had been harmed in the meantime.

If I had run down the street, I would have testified that I had been raided by a cavalry in thin dirty leather armor, so I would definitely see it as the same offense.

"Why! Why can't you catch a bandit!

Chrono, summoned to the office, shook his beautiful blonde hair and watched Tilia in a sigh reprimanding his men.

Tilia has a big vision and the ability to far surpass Chrono, but when she has to become a party, she suddenly narrows her horizons.

"Tilia, calm down"

"I am calm!

"Even though you're about to blow a fire now?

When Chrono tapped lightly, Tilia seemed to regain her calm.

"... that was a little too emotional, forgive me"

"Ha."

Tilia gave a flashing look and sat down deep in the chair.

"Krono, do you have an opinion?

I've been waiting for that word for a week.

"And you won't have a choice! The cavalry is my man, and you've been running around people busy!

I guess I'll say what's going on now that I'm going up the mountain with a lot of bow, and Krono sighed.

"Thanks to you, I'm ready to take over, and I think I can start a paper workshop."

"I don't know what you're talking about, but if it's Chrono, how does it work?

"First of all, I'd enhance my street view."

"I've already done that"

Tilia told me to throw up.

Well, you know you can't cover the whole street with a limited number of men.

"If that doesn't work, I'll find a base for the bandits."

"How?

"I know you do, but it's hard to take care of a horse. We need stables, we need food, we need clean water."

"Hmm, you mean the bandit base is limited"

That sort of thing, and Chrono grinned.

"As soon as we find out where the bandits are based, we'll put a piece on them all at once! Chrono, get ready now!

"I'm all set."

Huh? and Tilia blinked her eyes unexpectedly.

"I heard from an ancient Ginseng soldier, and he had a stare on him. I don't know where the bandit spies are, so getting ready was a hassle."

"Are you sure you're Chrono?

Incredible, Tilia stared at Chrono.

Crono's men and Tilia's ministerial corps were dispersed in the shade of night and left the city of Hachel.

The destination is an old fort about a hundred kilometers from Hachel.

According to the deputy's story, the fort was built on a tree-covered hill, with a small village at the foot.

There are two hundred crusaders...... Krono's men are deputy officers, Lizad, Leila, twin elves and fifty others serving as captains of a hundred in Lizardman, and fifty cavalry horsemen who are Tilia's men.

Combined with time reduction and health retention, Chrono's men are splitting into ten carriages.

"Well, if it's night, it's cold."

"I'm not cold."

"I'm cold! You're getting warm with half an elf!

Tilia called in a carriage carriage with a front.

"... Dear Chrono, I'm not cold either"

"" It's warm, but your heart's cold ""

Chrono and Leila twirl into a single blanket for both of us, and the twin elves twirl the same way.

Apart from the large Lizardman and Minotaur of the body, the human-sized subhuman uses a single blanket for two.

"... Dear Chrono, may I stop by a little more?

Faster than Chrono replied, Leila snuggled her body together.

"Ku, Chrono! Well, that half-elf looked at me and smiled!

Chrono confirmed Leila's expression, but she's just dyeing her cheeks in embarrassment.

Uh-oh! and Tilia roared regrettably, twirling to the blanket by herself.

"Chrono, isn't there too few people to attack the castle?

"... I'm not going to attack you. This time it's that there are no dead, and I'd recommend surrendering."

"You're too sweet!

Tilia screamed and poked her finger at Chrono.

"If no sinner is brought to justice, no one will abide by the law"

"Her Royal Highness"

"Half the elves shut the fuck up!

"Her Royal Highness, Master Krono has offered to surrender."

Leila took Tilia's gaze from the front without pulling a step.

"What does that mean?"

"If you don't surrender to me, I will attack you with food. According to my deputy, there seems to be only one gate in that fort. Of course, I'm ready to fight."

"Preparation means that bow?

Tilia sent her gaze to Leila and the bow held by the twin elves.

The bow is shaped like 'si' and has a pulley attached to the tip called the rim.

"That's a strange bow. I've never seen a bow with a pulley on it."

"I made a synthetic bow, but I couldn't pull the strings with my elf muscle strength."

The Dwarves were to be hunted down to the point of overworked death, but thanks to the pulley, a new bow was completed that combined great range and high power and could be squeezed even by the muscle strength of the elves.

"I'd call it a mechanical bow"

"Get one." No. "

Chrono grinned.

"How much do you think I've invested in building a mechanical bow?"

"Wow, I'm a princess. Give it to me."

"Even the Empress can't do anything she can't do"

Tilia roared and turned away as if she had rotted.

"Layla, get some sleep."

Holding Layla, stroking her hair and ears, her twin elves stared jealously at the Chronos.

"Eh, what is it?

"" My heart is cold, I could freeze to death like this ""

They hammered brilliantly, crawling on all fours and packing the distance with Chrono.

"So I want you to stroke me, too."

"If that's okay with you"

Chrono stretches out his free arm and gently strokes one's head.

"Mi, ears, stroke... name too"

"Shiru ~ i, Deneb! Oh, I'm Aridead! It's me next, me!

He's called Deneb if you're stroking him right now.

"... Deneb"

……

Speaking gently, and listening, Deneb strayed from tears.

"Next, me!

Aridead can push Deneb away.

"... Aridead"

"Eh heh."

Unlike Deneb, Aridead grinned ticklishly.

Once stroked, they returned to their original position satisfied.

"Master Chrono, my hands are stopped"

"Oh, sorry"

That evening, Chrono continued to stroke his hair and ears until Leila was satisfied.

Early the next morning, the crusaders arrived in the village.

It was a despicable village with just about fifty houses.

Behind you can see a tree-covered hill, a fortified silhouette at its top.

"Admiral, what are you going to do?

"Here Mr. Minot, Leila stands by, deal with the bandits ad hoc if they show up"

"Wouldn't that be a round throw?"

"That's what I'm saying. Lizad, Deneb, Aridead, come with me. Tilia doesn't think she's going to wait."

"Naturally."

Tilia, dressed in silver armor, nodded to Eagle Deep.

When Krono led the way into the village, the villagers rushed to close the doorboard.

Instantly no one was there and Chrono stopped in the middle of the village.

"What do we do?

"Chrono, didn't you have an idea?

The elder of the village came out with an RPG, but Krono looked around.

"Master Chrono, someone's approaching, right?

"Kill or catch alive?

"You don't have a choice to discuss it."

Controlling the two men with bows, Krono walked over to the old man.

"Where's the nobleman?" I've heard rumors of bandits coming around here?

When Chrono blocked the dialogue, the old man gave a blatantly surprising look.

"Will you let me talk to you?

"Go ahead, to my house"

The old man showed me. It was more like a cabin than a leaned house...

Lisado and the twin elves were put on standby outside, and Chrono and Tilia entered the house.

When Chrono and Tilia lowered their hips to a crude chair, the old man sat on the chair reluctantly, too.

"... it was two months ago that a bandit came to that fort"

When Chrono smiled, the old man began to tell him how he had been.

Soon after the bandits occupied the fort, the villagers were also apparently on guard.

Some villagers tried to sue the lord, but decided to be more static than pissed off and killed them all.

The robbers didn't take the food, they didn't take the village daughter away, so they thought they'd leave after a while.

A month has passed and changes have taken place.

A bandit on a horse joined us.

Even at this time the villagers did nothing.

Because there was nothing that could be called harm, and he paid properly to buy horse feed.

One day, the bandits brought in the young ladies.

This was the only time the villagers were upset later or earlier.

But the bandits asked me to put the women in the village.

If you ask me, I say it's my daughters who have been enslaved against their will.

I couldn't afford it, but the villagers decided to hide their daughter.

It is a despicable village.

Once, some villagers would have sold their daughters to slave traders.

That guilt made them hide their daughter.

"I know what's going on, but we have to crusade the bandits. In some cases, you may be guilty. [M] But I don't want to do that. So would you set up an opportunity to discuss it with the bandit's parents?

"... Yes"

The old man fell powerless.

"Will you set up an opportunity to discuss it? That's blackmail."

Out of the old man's house, Tilia said imitating Chrono's dialogue.

"Anything unusual?

"No, your daughter in this village has big breasts. And my butt."

"We got a little bigger, too, but, hey, you know, you lose confidence."

Hearing their thoughts, Chrono grinned bitterly.

An old man came out of the house after a while.

The old man turned his gaze on Chrono only for a moment and walked out toward the fort.

"Mr. Minot, Leila...... move your troops to the foot of the hill"

The crystal for communication was taken out and Chrono gave the order.

Chrono arranged to block the road connecting the gates of the fort from the foot of the hill.

The avant-garde is a sub-man led by Lizad, and the rear guard is a mixed unit of elves and half elves led by Leila.

Tilia's men are waiting further backwards in case they get pulled out.

It was around the time the old man returned from the fort after a brief lunch.

"... if you're coming in small numbers, listen to me."

"Chrono, it's a trap."

"If you go into a tiger hole, you don't get a tiger child."

Leila walked out when Chrono scouted her gaze.

"Master Krono, please take me with you"

Unexpectedly, Chrono almost pounded his tongue.

If this was a trap, it would be left inside the fort in small numbers.

Chrono, the man, will just have to be killed, but Leila won't have to be killed.

So the female soldier had decided not to take her.

"I know Master Chrono is worried, but I've been prepared since I left the city of Hachel"

Leila pulled out her dagger and addressed it to her neck muscle.

"This body belongs to Chrono-like to a single strand of hair. I choose to die if someone else dirties me enough."

Leila didn't even float the color of intoxication, she said faintly.

Chrono was desperate to contain his anger.

It wasn't anger at Layla, it was anger at my powerlessness, which makes me so prepared for her.

Layla, put the dagger away.

"Ha."

Chrono glanced at the wound in his right eye with his finger,

"Leila, Lizado, follow me."

"Ha."

"… I understand"

I led them both and climbed the hill.

The road that stretched to the fort was the width at which two horses could finally pass.

The slope is pretty tight, if they set up a reverse drop, even a large sub could be blown away.

When Chrono and the others arrived, the gate opened with a groan.

The interior of the gate was wide, with horses eating leaves in rough stables of about fifty.

Chrono and his gaze colored by animosity and excitement... the former to Chrono and Lizado, the latter piercing Leila.

I found the face I saw among the bandits, but Chrono ignored it.

"As promised, we're here in small numbers!

When Chrono raised his voice, a fort in the center... there was only one stone building... but the door of... opened and a man came out.

The man walked over to Chrono with a big crotch and had a wild-flavored grin.

Age can reach thirty or not.

The tall is one minute taller in the head than the chrono, and the muscles like steel cover the whole body.

The red copper skin was engraved with many scratches to tell the story of the number of training fields that had ever dived through.

I wonder what kind of vicious face you have, though sharp in sight, is an overall refreshing facade.

"I'm Kane, the leader of the Bandits. I actually do mercenaries too... I need to talk to you, get inside."

As Kane urged, the Chronos stepped into the fort.

The inside of the fort is not separated by walls, just a large table in the center, a bed at both ends.

Maybe he restored a abandoned fort in a pretty old age.

Kane pulled his men out of the table with a glance and slowly lowered his back.

"How did you get here?

Kane said hand in hand.

Suggested surrender.

"A concurrent nobleman attacks without saying anything. The little cunning nobleman tells you to come up because he's gonna miss you, but you're the first nobleman to say that."

Then Kane smiled.

"Why not?

"I don't want to kill anyone. So if you're going to surrender here, I don't think it's okay to lighten your sins."

"Ha, are you going to win already?

You're right, you lost.

Chrono said, his expression disappeared from Kane's face.

"All we have to do is watch the entrance and exit of the fort and wait for you to starve to death. I know that, so you responded to the discussion, didn't you?

"Maybe he tried to attract you by pretending to respond, huh?

Face to face, Chrono and Kane laughed.

"Wasn't it as stupid as I was asking? You're right, we're done when we're stuck at the foot."

Kane flaunted his shoulder with great admiration.

"But if I have to convince my people - will you give me time until tomorrow? Of course, I won't just keep you waiting. I'll make sure that's all the price."

"Okay, I get it."

Exhaled, Chrono took a seat.

"I'll be waiting at the fort gate tomorrow at this hour."

"Oh, I'll pick you up alone."

He saw Kane over his shoulder, and Chrono went out with Leila and Lizad.

"... Chrono"

"Oh, it's you"

Called his name, Chrono stopped his leg.

Man...... I forgot my name but I remember face-to-face at the Marquis Elakis mansion...... walked over to Chrono and slapped me on the shoulder in the closeness.

"You drove the Royal Argo Army away."

"You... how could you, to a bandit?

"I noticed when Marquis Elakis escaped. The nobles of the Kepheus Empire don't have the power to defend their country anymore."

You would be noble, too, Krono muttered in his heart.

"Hey, you realize Chrono, right? This country can't do this anymore. So we should rebuild it anew. to a country where those who strive will be rewarded."

"You want to raise money for that?

"It's a tiny bunch of bandits now, but if you'd cooperate... oh, no, you would have kept Marquis Elakis territory. But can you think about it?

"If you just think"

Outside the gate, Leila leaned against Chrono.

"Now, do you want to ride?

"I don't ride"

When Chrono answered, Leila exhaled as if relieved.

"What did Leila think?

"Compared to the story of that man, we can trust the story that Master Chrono came from different worlds"

"... I didn't believe you"

"Oh, because it was a story without too much clapping"

Leila leaned down sorry.

"Well, we need to get ready for tomorrow"

The next day, Chrono began to climb the slopes of the fort at the promised time.

The crusader formation remains yesterday, but we have decided how to deal with the emergency.

"Hey, I've been waiting."

When Chrono finished climbing the hill, Kane stood alone in front of the gate.

You've decided to be ready, shave your inert beard, and dress cleanly.

The gates were opened to show willingness to surrender, and many bandits stared at Kane with a strange face.

However, about twenty bandits had solidified themselves in heavy equipment and were riding horses.

"Don't worry about them riding horses. I'm prepared for when you don't keep your word."

"Well, if I break my promise,"

"Oh, if you're not satisfied with my neck, he's going to fight"

"That's what you said, you're ready to run, right?

"What... Huh!

Faster than I said, Chrono stood to shelter Kane.

At the next moment, the arrow unleashed by the cavalry stood against Chrono's chest.

Twenty cavalry arrive at the gate to signal it.

Without understanding the situation, Kane's men were jumped.

"Damn it! I didn't give you these orders!

Kane tried to stop the cavalry on his own, but weighed too differently.

The assault spear approaches Kane.

Chrono grabbed Kane's arm with an intermittent haircut and jumped into the box.

Together, they rolled down the slope.

After all, Master Chrono was right in his predictions.

"… Coming"

"Bastards, put up your shields! You're ready, Leila!

"Absolutely."

Layla stood in front of the shield...... front row and waited quietly for that time.

Bandit horses are military horses that are taught not to be frightened to hear loud noises.

From what I saw yesterday, they also take good care of you, and if you take advantage of the momentum down the hill, you'll be able to easily break down the enclosure that a large sub builds.

The cavalry ran down the hill,

"Dance!

A spell imprinted on the brain is thawed.

Letters slip down your sight like waterfalls, and the finished spell transforms Leila's magic into a physical phenomenon.

The explosion and red lotus flames blew out directly under the military horse.

Horses are horses no matter how much they are taught.

I panic with the noise and flames that I unintentionally create, and I just shake off the rider and go wild.

"Crush it!

"" "" "" Whoa!

As ordered by the deputy officer, the large sub-man advances with his shield in place.

Losing speed, the rambling mad horse is pushed by a shield and stood up.

As the large sub-man pushed the shield in, the horse fell off balance and with the rider on board.

But only the five horsemen defeated him.

The succeeding cavalry tried to rub through the disturbed enclosure, but at the next moment, some had their upper body blown up and some had their bones smashed from head to head of a horse.

Paul Axe, his deputy, and Lizard's hammer came directly from the front.

"Wind! '(Buba ~)

"... thunder"

Rip the cavalry with the blade of wind left from the pole ax, and thunder born from the hammer pierces the cavalry.

The ten horsemen instantly turned into corpses, and the five remaining horsemen even forgot what they had done, and ran up the hill.

"" Here you go!

Deneb and Aridead, rising out of the midst of the jaws, release arrows.

The cavalry took no evasive action and was shot straight through and fell to the ground.

If the two unleashed arrows weren't caused by a mechanical bow, the armor I wore would have prevented me.

The three remaining aircraft went up the hill...... and were blown away by countless barrels that rolled down the hill.

"... I thought you were gonna die."

"Oh, I'm sorry"

Chrono went down the hill with a shoulder loan to Kane, who hurt his leg.

They both rolled down their teeth and got all abrasions, but there's nothing else in their lives.

Down the hill, already fighting...... it's also ugly to call it that. The one-sided slaughter play closed the curtain and three men were surrounded by subhumans.

One felt like a man who spoke to Chrono, the other both face-to-face at the Marquis Elakis residence.

"Dear Chrono, Ya, the arrow!

"Oh, this?

Chrono pulled out an arrow that stood against his chest.

"I'm not hurt."

The arrow pierced the tip, but the chrono is intact thanks to the armor and the cladding underneath it.

"Crano Crawford! Fight with me! If I win, miss me!

"Lizad, get him."

Push Kane against Lizad, and when Chrono raises his hand, the enclosure breaks.

Chrono confronted the man and pulled his sword out of his waist.

"I need to ask you something before we duel. Was that yesterday for real?

"That's right. The day Marquis Elakis escaped, I realized. The aristocrats... the great senior aristocrats just exploit them and don't think about the people. I'm sorry to die for them like that!

"How far were you going to run with the money you stole?

"A group of free urban nations. As long as you have the money, you can enjoy a luxurious life there. The rest of them had the same idea!

"... Archers"

When Chrono raised his hand, the archers raised their bows simultaneously.

"Chrono, you made a different promise!

"... shoot him"

An unleashed arrow arrives at the three men.

The man turned himself in desperate shape and was nevertheless, impenetrably shot through by an arrow.

"... Chrono, you, you"

Chrono calmly looked down at the man spewing curse words in his bloodbath.

"... Chrono, I'll be waiting in hell"

"I'm a Buddhist. It's a hell of a different place from you."

Chrono put his sword in his sheath and stared at Kane.

"It's tight - but I'll give you my neck. So just help me with my men's lives. Those are pathetic people. I lost my home, my family, and they took it away from me... but I turned to take it away."

Away from Lizad, Kane knelt down and drowned her head.

"How did you become a bandit?

"It's a common story. My father and mother went to ask my lord to cut taxes when the murder made me unable to pay them."

"Is that... Marquis Elakis territory?

"No."

Kane shook her head.

"My father and mother were murdered. He was poked and killed with a spear shortly after he asked me to cut taxes. Me and my sister fled the village, my sister died on the way, and I was picked up by a mercenary regiment, and I gathered people from similar situations while I was mercenaries and bandits... and I knew they were fooling me."

"Kane, can you ride a horse?

"I told you mercenaries do it too."

Chrono untied his sword belt,

"Kane, look up"

"... Huh!

Threw a sword at Kane for every sword belt.

"Of what, mane?

"If you're going to die, come to me. I wanted someone who could ride a horse, and if you're in the backyard business, I'd like you to talk to me."

"... I'm a filthy bandit"

"He's already one of my men. You got the sword."

"This...... Huh!

Kane stared alternately at the Emperor's crest and chrono engraved on the sword pattern.

"Oh, it seems the first Marquis Elakis was given it by His Majesty the Emperor."

"Ordinary aristocrats treat you like a treasure, Chrono?

Soon he was stuck in the tyria that came, and Chrono clasped his shoulders.

"Can you let me get back to you right now?

A long, long time passed, and Kane nodded.

The next day, after the ex-post treatment, Chrono was pulling into his room and tilting the glass.

"Yes, Master Chrono. Your general is here to keep it with you."

"I'm in the mood for a drink alone?

"This stuff tastes better when you and I drink it."

The general poured wine into the glass in her hand and drank it deliciously.

"Pu Ha ~, boulders are nobles! You're drinking good wine!

The general poured wine into the glass and left her weight at her desk.

"Are you worried?

"... I know I can't help but worry."

"Which, this general will cheer you up. Look, come here... I'm telling you to come here!

Suddenly the beautiful general held Krono by her strength and laughed happily with Kerakera.

"... Could it be that you're drunk?

Just a little bit.

The general gently stroked Chrono's head to soften the child.

"There are times when you want to be sweet on a man, too, don't you? It's a good woman's condition to think about it and make it sweet."

"It seems endlessly sweet."

"It's a good woman's condition to slap a man in the ass like that."

"... Sometimes, it's not a bad night. Don't you?"

"Right."

Krono was plenty sweet to the general that night.