Price of Management

“What if I saw a dragon flapping its wings at the sky? If you hold that tail and fly with it, your dreams will come true. Isn't that right?"

It made me feel like my breasts were cold. He was using a parable of the dragon that summoned Emperor Kars. You want to fly with me with that tail?

“What are you going to do, fly like that? ”

“Well, I don't know what to do with flying. You ask the ultimate question of life. I'm not sure yet. You'll see when you fly.”

“Is that so?”

“ ……. ”

“Flying dragons don't just hang by their tails and get in the way. They shake their tails, they shave them off, they fly. ”

“Huff.”

Earl Antares laughed as if my metaphor was funny.

The conversation pauses and silence comes.

I made two cups of clay out of gnome. And I had Wounded follow the cool water. I gave a glass to Earl Antares, and he drank it and said it tastes good. The water made by Wounded had a healing ingredient that was good for older people.

He drenches his neck with water, and Earl Antares opens his mouth again.

“Do you remember Wolfgang Ranzhel? ”

“How could I forget? ”

“Yes. What a great friend. A master of insight and wisdom. ”

“Yes, I agree. ”

“Even Emperor Kars was a worthy advisor. It was proven during the Baden River toll negotiations. ”

I nodded.

At that time, the insight of two people reading each other's numbers was truly great.

“Later, Wolfgang Lanzhel battled Emperor Kars as a candle burned the last wick. I laid down with a heavy soldier and gave him my final advice. If it had been the way it is, the Horn Empire would have been divided. ”

Earl Antares sighs and sighs.

“But Emperor Kars did not respond with the same tactics in response to such tactics. ”

“ ……. ”

“The emperor was just showing off his skills. They marched on the battlefield and wiped out the rebels completely. Wolfgang Ranzhel has trampled the plot from the battlefield. ”

Literally.

The true strength of Emperor Kars was not a plot.

It was when he came to the battlefield that he became truly fearful. The continent has yet to see his fear.

“I call it real strength. He's a true strongman, not a serpent who glowed in the city of peace like Wolfgang Ranzhel. ”

“What are you trying to say? ”

“Don't you see? Dragon. He's saying the dragon is rising. If you see a dragon like that, you have to hold its tail. Even if you try to shake your tail, you have to stick together and fly the sky. ”

I realized it was too late to restore Earl Antares' mind.

What's in the sky...?

Why do Humans want to fly so badly? Life isn't in the sky.

There is no need for such a classy conversation anymore. This kind of human makes the world dizzy and miserable. I get angry every time I think about it.

I told you.

“You seem to think you can be a conquest companion. ”

In my own words, Earl Antares has lost his words for a moment.

“The Baden River Basin will be the main supply base for the Conquest War on Continents. Do you think Emperor Kars would leave this place like the artery of war to others? If you like the dragon so much, think of the old Duke Bezalius. When he conquered Orients, who did he leave to the Basin of the Baden? ”

Queen Isabella.

I entrusted the Baden River Basin to her and her guards, who valued her more than her own life. So that I could be at peace in the Conquest War.

There is no way that a landscape for Earl Antares is as trustworthy as Queen Isabella to Emperor Kars.

“I'll impersonate a prophet. If King Kars were to fall, he would lead a great army into the Baden River. And they will demand of you. I'm going to pass through the Orion Kingdom. Get out of my way. Open the gate. At that time, either choice will be the end. ”

In fact, you were so devastated.

I was wary of the Emperor and did not open the gates, so I declared him a traitor and conquered him. At that time, my father became a vassal of King Kars.

“You heard the prophecy. ”

Earl Antares said.

“You're absolutely right. I think so, too. ”

“And yet you want to grab the dragon's tail? ”

“I don't think I ever thought of that, young man. ”

Don't be young. Don't be young.

I've lived a lot longer than you.

“I know how to hold on. ”

“I won't ask you what the method is. But I want you to think about whether that approach, like Earl Wolfgang Lanchel, is not a kind of collapse in the presence of the physical strength of Kars. ”

“Heave-ho!”

Earl Antares bursts into laughter again.

It's getting annoying.You old man, don't you always laugh when you have nothing to say?

Earl Antares said in a laughing voice.

“It makes me feel better to see a young man as smart as you, being old. I guess I'm old, too. ”

That's funny.

That's what I said.

“Humans don't age when they're old. ”

“Well, what does it mean to age? ”

“We call them old people who are used to avoiding the right things. ”

“…… Is that so? ”

The laughter disappears from Earl Antares' face for the first time.

I kept saying.

“You said you didn't know what to do after flying? ”

“That's right.”

“I'll let you know. There's nothing up there. ”

That's life.

“ ……. ”

“I'll go first. ”

After speaking, I turned around and left the terrace.

Earl Antares stares back at me silently for a while.

I couldn't shake the feeling of depression.

I went back to the bedroom and lay on the bed.

Emperor Kars is a flying dragon? Yeah, that's a fair analogy.

But you know what?

I don't think that's what Emperor Kars really looks like.

A fiction created to catch yourself collapsing from a fatal wound. There must be a hidden entity behind the face of an emotionless doll.

A parable: A small bird egg that has not hatched yet, decorated like a dragon egg. A dangerous egg that will break in a heartbeat.

I know it.

Emperor Kars will also be unconsciously aware that I am looking at his reality.

That's why he treats me with an unprecedented kindness, such as saying it's okay to say the last word.

Only I know who I am.

When people see Emperor Kars, I'm the only one who sees the real Kars Horn.

Is it too hard to deal with Earl Antares?

I felt tired and closed my eyes.

The Choice of Earl Antares, the Book of the Divisions of King Kars, the future of the Kingdom of Leaden, my family…….

Numerous thoughts have touched my mind.

But as I disappeared, I fell asleep.