Kuro no Senki (LN)

Leonhardt puts his arm through the sleeve of his military uniform.

The white military uniform is a testament to the Kingsguard knight.

The new 13th Kingsguard Knights uniform can be black, but anyway, Leonhardt has striven to be the person the Kingsguard Knights deserve.

No, should I say I've been distressed to get a way to move my men?

Leonhardt doesn't know how others feel.

You can guess from the circumstances what emotions you have, and you can read the air.

Let Leela say, Leonhardt's words seem white.

Even though it is particularly pronounced with words of comfort and sympathy.

There was a verse that came to mind.

Leonhardt is blessed with his family and talents and is less capable of empathizing with others because he has never experienced great failures or setbacks.

If Leonhardt were merely a knight, his low empathy would not have been an issue.

But it's a fatal drawback for the Knights Commander.

An element of understanding is indispensable in order to elicit the abilities of subordinates.

Well, hopefully Leonhardt's predictions are correct.

Leonhardt made up for his low empathy by carefully observing his men and listening to them.

So far, no problems have arisen.

Exquisitely, if Leonhardt's joke is not funny, is it enough to be flabbergasted?

Lord Chrono laughed bitterly... that was a difficult quality to obtain with that one.

Looking at Chrono, I'm concerned that the commander may be supported by his men.

Leonhardt took his sword and stepped out of his chamber.

I'm going to climb the castle and have to meet with Chancellor Alcor.

I don't have a very good feeling about the Knights of Kingsguard, given their repositioning and Count Pisce's tweaking.

As Leonhardt left the mansion, Leela rushed over.

Leela is as pompous as ever.

"Dear Leonhardt! Ola, you're going back to the country!

"Leela, am I going to work?

Leela said she was coming to breathe in the new city this morning, but the outing didn't seem to catch her breath.

"The knight's job is to protect the weak!

"I don't deny it."

If the weak mean the people of the Empire, Leonhardt must be protected within his powers and abilities.

"Leela, what happened?"

"Ola, I went shopping in the new town. If I did, I'd be tangled up in a drunk! Some of them are fighting, and you can't shop in peace!

Hmm, and Leonhardt stroked his jaw.

Perhaps the drunk involved in Leela is a masonry involved in the construction of the temple.

The construction of the temple is a business to be left to the trusted.

Secure your budget and entrust your work to those you trust.

It's a simple theory.

But reality doesn't go according to reason.

Baron Bowties sold Minotaurs who worked in the stone quarry, so the price of the marble used as the building material for the temple was soaring.

It was impossible to entrust the building of the temple to the trustworthy while ensuring the required amount of marble in this situation.

If the officials at the Treasury had insisted on negotiating, the story might have been different.

However, officials at the Finance Bureau solved the problem by cutting the cost of building the temple… labor.

The quality of the husband who can be hired with the end money is known.

That glitch appears in the form of a deterioration in security.

"Hmm, I'll talk to the department in charge about the deterioration of security."

"Really? If you lie to me, Ola's going back to the country, right? When Ola's in the country, Leonhardt won't be able to sleep, will he?

Hmm, Leonhardt nodded.

Honestly, Leonhardt can sleep without Leela.

It's not that Leela is absolutely necessary when it comes to eliminating libido.

In the first place, Leonhardt is not sexually aggressive.

But if Leonhardt says here, 'I don't mind going back to the country,' Leela would be offended.

Lies are necessary for smooth relationships.

"Leela needs it for my sleep"

"Dear Leonhardt, dammit, you don't have to lie"

Mm, and Leonhardt groaned.

"It's a joke, a joke. I told him to go back to the country, and I told him to go home. Anyway, there's no place to go back to Ora."

……

Leonhardt couldn't say anything.

Leela is the daughter of a poor farmer.

My father took Leela as a servant.

It's a superficial story.

My father mocked Leela, whom he had taken as a servant, and when he was bored, gave Leonhardt.

Leonhardt doesn't know what my father thought and gave Leela to herself.

Were you worried about your son, who would never show interest in a woman, or were you going to take the lead to keep her out of poor quality women, or both?

Either way, it's not a story.

Leonhardt mocked himself that it was me who wasn't even Roku.

I don't even know what words to hang him.

"It's a joke. I just wanted to keep Master Leonhardt out of trouble."

"Poor quality, just kidding"

"Right. Ola is also reflecting. I'm not gonna tell you again."

Well, Leonhardt stroked Leela's head.

After all, the absence of Lord Rio was significant, and Leonhardt had such an emotion as he turned to Chancellor Alcor's office.

The Ninth Kingsguard Knights are in charge of castle security.

Rio, the chief of the knighthood, could not enter the castle when a nobleman came who had no plans to climb.

That is to ensure the safety of nobles, women officers and royalty working in the castle.

But even the nobles who have not completed the procedure of climbing the castle now will be allowed in if they do not spare some effort.

Even if the Ninth Kingsguard Knights observe discipline, not all nobles working in the castle will weigh the discipline.

Chancellor Alcor's office was guarded by two Kingsguard knights.

"This is Leonhardt, the leader of the First Kingsguard Knights. I've been called by Chancellor Alcor."

"Ha, come in!

Leonhardt entered Chancellor Alcor's office and opened his eyes gently.

Because there was a client in Chancellor Alcor's office.

Count Pisce.

It would be due to hard work.

The look on the face of Count Pisce is indescribable.

As Leonhardt stood in the center of the room, Chancellor Alcor interrupted reading the paperwork and raised his face.

I need to talk to you today about the Kingdom of Holy Argo.

Gu, and Count Pisce held his belly.

"Last year, my country signed a pact of reconciliation with the Kingdom of Holy Argo"

"I know, sir."

Leonhardt replied pale.

I now know that Prime Minister Alcor had moved for harmony since before parental recruitment, and that parental recruitment was only a means of negotiation.

If we were to say that we had reduced the damage foreseen by the Treaty of Reconciliation, I guess that was the right choice for the Empire.

"Stay in personal contact with King Magnus of the Kingdom of Holy Argo. Anything, King Magnus is worried about his relationship with the Temple."

Chancellor Alcor sighed deliberately.

Now, even if it is not explained, I know as much as the royal family and 'temple' of the Kingdom of Holy Argo are engaged in a power struggle.

"The eagle wants to solve King Magnus' problems."

Leonhardt was in the mood to laugh bitterly at the outspoken nature of Chancellor Alcor.

Do not use the term us or the Kepheus Empire.

I mean, I'm telling King Magnus to cooperate from an informal standpoint.

"Why, to me?

"Because Lord Leonhardt thinks he is the most capable of combat among the Kingsguard knights and has a serious loyalty to the Empire."

"I am honored to have received an overrated"

Prime Minister Alcor's point is true when it comes to the former.

However, it is slightly off when it comes to the latter.

The Kepheus Empire has a high priority within Leonhardt.

However, it is not caused by patriotism or loyalty, but by one's position.

Leonhardt is the next head of the Palatium family.

Stability of the Kepheus Empire is indispensable in order to protect one's clan and territory.

That is why Leonhardt did not move when he found out that Empress Tilia had been deprived of her right to inherit the throne.

At that time, if Leonhardt had given Empress Tilia, the country would have been broken.

Whether the Empress Tilia would have won if it had been a civil war or Chancellor Alcor would have won, the land would have been desolate and there would have been numerous dead.

If Chancellor Alcor is evaluating Leonhardt's loyalty on that basis, he may be right.

"But I'm not alone..."

"We have a candidate."

I see, Leonhardt nodded, saying he's already got people he doesn't have a problem with using.

……

"Lord Leonhardt?

Chancellor Alcor inquired suspiciously as Leonhardt shut up.

"It will be difficult for the commander to live up to expectations on my own. If you can put a few people you can trust in support."

"Hmm, it's not stingy to respond to Lord Leonhardt's wishes"

"First, Count Rio Cairon, who is in the Marquis of Elakis."

Chancellor Alcor laughed bitterly when he heard Rio's name.

"Let's be good. I want you to tell the Empire to return after this mission."

Next, the 13th Kingsguard Knights.

"That's not human resources."

"Required Talent"

Chancellor Alcor slapped the corner of his desk with his fingers as he thought.

The sound of a concon and a tap on the desk echoes in the office room.

"... let's be good"

"Thank you for your concern. You will now be able to achieve the Prime Minister's true purpose."

"What's the real purpose?

Chancellor Alcor's one-eyebrow rises.

"It will not be in our country's interest if the problems of the Kingdom of Holy Argo are resolved"

If the problem of the 'Temple' is resolved, the Kingdom of Sacred Argo will destroy the Treaty of Reconciliation and will once again be hostile to the Empire of Kepheus. It may not be hostile, but it should not be based on optimistic judgment.

"What does Lord Leonhardt think?

"It causes civil war in the Kingdom of Holy Argo. I was wondering if that would be in the best interest of the Empire."

"You're right, I know very well"

Chancellor Alcor laughed delightfully.

Most likely, Chancellor Alcor thought Leonhardt would make the most advantageous choice for the Empire.

"But, Lord Leonhardt. I do not believe that King Magnus and I are offering to cooperate in good faith. I'm saying that from an informal standpoint, we accept cooperation."

Leonhardt nodded, either because he chose me not to cut me off easily.

"Count Pisce will explain the outline of the operation"

"Ha, we will do our best to meet your expectations!

Leonhardt stretched his spine.

The description of the operation was to take place in Count Pisce's office.

Leonhardt was led by Count Pisce, who held his belly, to Count Pisce's office.

When he reached the office, Count Pisce lowered his back to his seat to collapse.

Leonhardt sits on a chair that was nearby and glances at the material.

Most importantly, half of the material was the history of the knights participating in the operation.

The operation focuses on diminishing the national power of the Kingdom of Holy Argo.

antagonize the royal family of the Holy Argo kingdom and the forces of the 'Temple'.

To that end, you send a knight dressed as a bandit to raid merchants through the East-West streets of the Kingdom of Holy Argo.

"Again, this is what happens"

"Just in case, they're applicants"

Count Pisce said in a tone of excuse.

Leonhardt pointed out about the knights involved in this mission.

The number is thirty, all less than three men of lower aristocracy...... I guess you're going to be a candidate with no problems in death.

"Count Pisce, I'm not gonna let them die."

"I'm not thinking about letting them die with me"

Count Pisce said in a grumpy manner.

"Why did they volunteer?

"They don't inherit the governor, they're the Kingsguard knights. If you promise an episcopal title without territory, you'll be happy to volunteer."

Count Pisce said in a tone that just didn't tell me not to ask what I understood.

"I see why they volunteered. Then we'll have to train them to survive."

"... am I a non-training part"

Count Pisce said in a sigh.

"By the way, why did Lord Leonhardt take Marquis Elakis?

"Because I'm buying him."

"Well, I think there's something to see."

When Leonhardt replied, Count Pisce had a subtle look on his face.

"Of course, that's not the only reason. We need Lord Chrono's help to reinforce the operation. King Magnus would also not be convinced to just raid merchants through the east and west streets. We need to secure a new trading route to convince them."

"... I see"

Count Pisce also nodded honestly, apparently noticing the hole in the operation.

I just want you to tell me where the real landing spot is, Leonhardt added in his heart.

"Sir, please wake up. My husband."

"Ange, give me a little more sleep."

That said, Duran hit a turnaround.

As the old bed protests.

This old bed doesn't just turn upside down, it just makes a rattling noise from sitting down.

Duran was raw as the fourth man in the Baron Landedge family with territory north of the southern border.

There was little chance that Duran would succeed the governor at birth.

It's not a time of war, because the three brothers were healthy themselves.

Duran was enrolled in the military school in Imperial City, just like his three brothers.

It is close to aristocratic custom to admit children to military schools.

It just seems to me that my father enrolled Duran in a military school to put a job in his hands rather than following convention.

Duran became an Imperial Guard after graduating from military school.

Imperial security is a less dangerous place to work and less appreciated.

Duran scratched his feet.

This is my life, and I couldn't have been tolerated at eighteen.

I had confidence in the arm of the sword.

I believed that I could cut my life open with the arms of a sword because my swordsmanship grades always kept me at the top in military school.

No, I dreamed I'd cut it open.

Duran felt unsubstantiated confidence and took the Kingsguard Knights' entrance exam.

The result was no hiring, but Duran did not snag.

The first year was able to feed on remorse.

The second year seemed like the next one.

It broke my heart in the third year.

That was when Duran met Ange.

No, meeting wasn't superior.

Duran drank enough to take a bath, quarreled for no reason, and Ange picked him up where he had been slapped and sat down on the ground.

Ange looked quite neat.

Beautiful enough to seem a little better.

However, the poor smell is hard to wipe.

Brown's hair, which is all the way to his shoulder, was damaged because he saw it, and rough because of his hands and water work.

Ange's job was to serve in a tavern and lodging house in Twelfth Street.

Twelfth Street is a pleasant neighborhood.

That's not what the store where Ange worked was, but the store owner didn't blame me for what the pay did.

Salaries are cheap.

Even the owner doesn't want to leave the empty room intact.

That's what I mean.

When was it, wasn't Duran better off being a hooker? I've heard of it.

Ange's answer was, "I don't like it and I didn't sell my body."

Duran rented a room in the new town and started living with Ange.

It's a day without any weird philosophy.

Duran devotes himself to security work, while Ange devotes himself to chores.

Duran overheard Chrono's name a few months after he started living with Ange.

According to Ange, they've been talking about it in the liquor store since last year or so.

Duran didn't feel like he could be congratulated when he heard about Chrono's work.

Duran never even talked to Chrono, but he knew Chrono was falling zero.

Conversely, Chrono was a famous zero fall, as much as Duran knew without contact.

Duran felt sorry for his junior (Chrono) who had never even spoken.

Everyone would feel sorry for Chrono because he had a reputation for not being fruitful no matter how hard he tried.

Once, a poor man is far ahead of himself.

Duran was overthrown by that fact.

I couldn't help but think I was miserable.

So, this story... I volunteered for an informal operation.

I could die.

But there is a chance that we can get out of this situation.

"I don't mind that, though. Isn't my husband going to be late?

"... Huh!

That's right.

It's training day.

Duran jumps up and changes his clothes.

Wear trousers and weave your jacket.

"How could you not wake me up!

"I've woken you up many times."

When Duran blamed him, Ange pointed his lips as if he were obstinate.

"... sir"

"Ah?"

Duran answered Ange, wearing his boots.

"That's enough for my life right now."

As Duran raised his face, Ange wrapped her hair around her fingers in her absence.

"Dude, if I were born, I could live in a better place, and I could buy you better clothes, right?

Duran stood up and looked over at the room.

Furniture is old, not just beds.

The amphibious rooms have a gap breeze coming in the winter, and the doors are poorly erected.

"Home and clothes aren't enough to risk your life."

Before, Ange talked about a whore who had been bewitched by a great nobleman... I think it was like a Yotai story... so I thought she longed for that kind of life, but the woman's heart seems complicated.

Maybe, and Duran realized why Ange wouldn't support him, and he grinned.

"What's the matter, sir?

"Ha-ha. Ange, you think I'm gonna dump you and leave?

He's cute, Duran stroked his jaw.

"It's not like that. I just don't want my husband to die. I don't like it. To be reunited with my dead husband."

Ange groaned sadly.

"I'll do fine. Be sure to come back alive."

"Sir, that's what Reapers like to say, isn't it?

Duran pounded his tongue and jumped out of the room.

When Duran went to the squad field on the outer edge of the imperial capital, one man stood there.

A man in a white military uniform.

You look good when you say a good man, but under his feet more than twenty men have fallen.

Some of the men who fell to the ground saw faces.

One of them is Bruno.

Bruno is a big subhuman giant.

Due to its wide width, the movement is blunt but hard to hit anyway.

He's got a lot of arm strength.

A man in white military uniform slammed more than twenty men down.

No matter how many men are Kingsguard knights, it's an incredible story for Russia.

But the man in white military uniform is Leonhardt... the most powerful knight in the empire.

It might be possible if the empire's most powerful knight.

"... what's your name?

"Huh?"

Duran couldn't answer Leonhardt's question.

"Ah, so, Duran. My name is Duran."

"... Duran? You're the four men in Baron Landedge's house."

"What's my name?

"Even if I knew. For a short time, we're fighting together. I remember about his name."

Leonhardt pointed to the temple with his index finger.

"Being late is supposed to be the subject of punishment, but let's not ask today. Now, lay down your sword."

"Why?"

"Hmm, other people asked me. You are too unreliable for informal assignments. [M] Fortunately, we have time to start the operation. I want you to be a little stronger by then."

Duran became angry at Leonhardt's words.

Duran hasn't been made human enough to be cocked so far and laughed at naggingly.

I'll do it, and I picked up the wooden sword that was falling.

Duran set up a wooden sword and thrust into Leonhardt.

Leonhardt was in front of him when he noticed his sight.

"Sir, that's what Reapers like to say, isn't it?

Duran lost consciousness, not knowing what had been done.

Leonhardt's special training lasted a month.

The special training was demanding, but Leonhardt was a competent teacher.

Anyway, it tells me things theoretically.

Thanks to Leonhardt, Duran became stronger than he was a month ago.

I think so.

Duran was sitting in the chair, receiving Ange's allowance.

"Sir, will you stop sniffing around?

"Oh, bad, bad"

Though I answered that, Duran couldn't get rid of the grin.

The special training is tough, but there is a feeling that it is getting stronger.

"What makes you so happy with all the wounds?

"I was able to prevent Master Leonhardt from striking again today. That's not all. After I prevented a blow, I was able to fight back. I couldn't prevent a second blow."

It's getting stronger.

I'm so glad to hear that.

Duran went for the Kingsguard knight and spared no effort.

Efforts were not rewarded and my heart broke once.

That's because I've realized my limitations.

"Are you still training tomorrow?

"Oh, no, tomorrow... I'm off"

As Duran caged his mouth, Ange moved to the front of Duran, where he seemed to have guessed the situation, kneeling.

"Sir?"

"I'm leaving Empire tomorrow night"

"No!"

Ange raised her screaming voice.

Keep breaking up with your loved ones...... I mean, that's what happened.

The next night...... Duran picked an unpopular path and headed to the squad yard.

Along the way Duran looked at his right wrist.

The ring was shaking on my right wrist.

It was a ring knitted with Ange's hair.

This could be the break up of a lifetime.

Moved by such thoughts, Duran held Ange.

I've never encouraged you so much.

Ange put the ring on my wrist when Duran left the room.

When Duran arrived at the practice field, all ten of his companions had already gathered.

Naturally, there's also Leonhardt.

"Hmm, you're on time today"

"Master Leonhardt?

"What is it?

Leonhardt has questioned Duran.

Leonhardt was not a white military uniform, but an old travel outfit bundle.

"No, it's nothing"

"Oh, I see."

Duran was pleased with Leonhardt's care.

I felt that they were showing me that they were their bosses.

"Duran, have you finished breaking up with your loved one?

"Yeah, well."

No more juice, Duran couldn't say, clouding the words.

"What about Master Leonhardt?

"Hate, there's no one like that. As usual, I spent time with a maid."

"You must be beautiful."

The maid of the House of the Duke of Palatium.

It is not surprising that the aristocratic maid is a maid of honor as an apprentice.

Yes, Duran thought, but Leonhardt stroked his jaw as he thought.

"It's not ugly, but it's not beautiful. It's hard to say that the language is sophisticated, and there's no upbringing. And you're a little fat."

Leonhardt painted the maid's body line in the void with both hands.

Duran was happy to know if this guy would do this, too.

"Well, it looks like we've all gathered. From now on, we will go for the Marquis of Elakis. So we will meet with Lord Chrono and carry out our mission."

……

Duran heard Chrono's name and made himself strong.

I'm also going to understand that I have feelings similar to inferiority and that this is an emotion that, if I try to chrono, equals resentment.

"You don't have to get up to it. Lord Chrono is a man of trust."

Leonhardt's words were off-target, but Duran did not speak.

I knew it was a shameful emotion myself, and I didn't want Leonhardt to despise me.

More than ten days after leaving the Imperial capital, the Durans arrived in the castle city of Hashel, Marquis of Elakis, without lacking a single one.

Duran thought when he saw the fortress that it was well maintained.

Duran advanced his horse, and when he had advanced for a while, he wandered his gaze with Kyorokyoro.

The others were similar.

He opens his mouth like Bruno and other abalones.

The Marquis of Elakis is a country.

No, I thought it was rural, so I was surprised by the crowd.

As we approach the center of the city, more people grow.

The busiest part was the outdoor section.

After that, it becomes slightly less popular.

Still, the shops were busy with a lot of customers, and there were quite a few rounds of carriage.

That's not all.

There is no unpleasant smell.

Evidence that garbage and manure are being handled well.

Despite all the bustling of the city, there is no such thing as a street whore or a floater.

Whatever the vagabond is, there are street hookers in the bustling city.

At least in Duran's common sense.

I was also amazed at the equipment of the soldiers patrolling.

It's better equipped than the Imperial Guard.

That's what the subpeople wear.

Moreover, all the soldiers of the subpeople wear the same level of equipment.

It's an incredible sight.

Wasn't the rumor you were lying about falling apart? and Duran had doubts.

It maintains so many cities.

It is more convincing to think that Chrono did not receive the correct assessment due to some circumstances.

In the heart of the city there was a mansion with four towers.

Duran and the others lead Leonhardt through the Mansion Gate.

One of the four towers was a blacksmith and the other had the subpeople gathered to do something.

There were other buildings where humans worked in the mansion's garden.

A man stood at the entrance to the mansion.

A man dressed in black military uniform.

Perhaps this man is Chrono.

Leonhardt stepped down from the horse and walked over to Chrono.

Long time no see, Lord Chrono.

"Right."

That being said, Leonhardt exchanged hands with Chrono.