Running Away From The Hero!

General Felstein is dead! No more!

What was he talking about from the start?

You stare at Astor's back head, but you don't seem to realize it.

“Your Majesty……. ”

Leah looks like she wants to say something, but she doesn't.

However, I could see what Leah wanted to say just by looking at that face.

‘Do you believe me? ’

I couldn't answer Leah's questions with just her eyes.

All the magic tools were already delivering Ast's words to the soldiers.

All I can do is stare at Ast's back head as hard as I can and hope he finishes well.

Ast's words continue among the noisy soldiers.

But on your backs, I will be one in your hearts and live on!

What's that sound?

General Felstein is dead, but his mind remains with the soldiers who served him?

I looked at Leah, but I didn't understand.

If you start a war, you will fight for victory! If you lose 10 battles and win only one war, you win!

“Ah… Lord Ast……. ”

Leah eventually covers her face with her hands.

Before Ast stepped out on his behalf, Leah told me about the situations she needed to take care of.

First, don't mention General Felstein as he can demoralize the soldiers.

Secondly, don't talk about defeat without reminding yourself that General Felstein was killed.

Finally, please don't get into trouble.

Ast nods, smiling at Leah's desperate request, and finally does everything she asks not to do.

However,

“Leah, I think it's working. ”

“Yes?”

When I stare at the astronaut, I see things I didn't see. The faces of the officers in the lead and the soldiers behind them.

“I'm serious. ”

“Well, yeah. ”

It was not a look of despair or frustration.

Everyone was looking at Ast with enthusiasm.

Who do you think you are? You are soldiers of General Felstein! I'm not a loser! Who do you think you are?

Ast takes a short breath and shouts out loud enough to hear you.

“You are you! An elite Felstein soldier, that is your name! ”

“Wooooooo!”

“Who are we! ”

“We are the soldiers of General Felstein! ”

There was a great shout.

The soldiers shout out the name of General Felstein.

“Something went well? ”

“I see. ”

Leah looks at Ast with a very complicated look, even though she did everything she was told not to do.

“Leah.”

“Yes, Your Majesty. ”

“Don't think too much. The opponent is Ast.”

“I think it's good for your mental health. ”

Ast comes to finish his speech in front of Leah, nodding, giving up his face.

“Isn't this enough? ”

It wasn't good enough. It was good enough to say it was a great success.

“Well done, Ast. I trusted you. ”

“I, too, believed. ”

It was Leah, who avoided gaze but lied openly.

Thanks to him, Leah grew up with many meanings, and I was proud of her and worried that I would have to isolate her to Leah.

“The next people are comforted. ”

I believed in the astronaut, but I told the people to prepare for the next speech, and it became useless.

“But Ast……. ”

After Astor's speech, the army generals stepped out in turn and began to boost soldiers' morale even more.

“Yes, Your Majesty. ”

“I had a question during your speech.... ”

Astor's speech made me think about it, and there was something very unusual about it.

“What is it? ”

“You've been writing about you, haven't you? ”

In these speeches, we don't usually use the expression "you." Together, you and I use the word "we."

He was a commander working in a safe place in the rear for command, but was always meant to show that he acted with the soldiers.

However, Ast continued to use the expression "you," not "us."

“Was there any particular reason? ”

Ast answered my question with a familiar face.

“No, I'm just saying, I don't want to fight, I just want you to fight. ”

“Huh?"

“Yes?”

Leah, who was listening quietly next to me, frowned.

That was absurd of Ast.

“Ast……. ”

“Lord Ast……. ”

Leah and I chant the name of Ast at the same time.

After that, the words did not come out of my mouth.

“I am your personal butler! You're not a soldier, so there's no reason to fight. ”

“Okay, I get it. ”

“Your Majesty……. ”

Leah looked at me with a complicated look, but she couldn't answer.

“But it worked, didn't it? ”

I just didn't have anything to say about it.

Until the end of the other generals' speeches, Leah and I listened to the speeches without saying anything.

And after all the speeches.

“All we have to do now is win the battle. ”

Before the battle began, I ordered the rest of the troops, except for the guard duty, to remain in the barracks, and only Leah and Asthman made one final check.

“The enemy numbers are similar to ours. But we're better at fighting. ”

“That's right."

The enemy is said to have troops of similar size to his allies, but clearly there is a difference in their combat strength.

Even though General Felstein was great, he stopped four or five times as many troops.

Leah and I, as well as other generals, were considering our troops to be superior to the soldiers in the warring Kingdom of Mercia.

So if we fight on the same terms, we win.

Let's end it with all-out war on a low-variable plain.

That was a common opinion.

“Yes? Why should we fight? ”

Except for Astrid.

“Thanks to Ast, the opponent is furious, right? But what if we don't fight? You're not suggesting surrender, are you? ”

“No way. The moment I surrendered, it was obvious that I was broken into 16 pieces. ”

“Then we have to fight. ”

“It doesn't have to be. ”

Ast's words are hard for ordinary people to understand.

It's not because Ast is a genius or a fool.

The difference between a genius and a fool is the difference between a genius and an idiot.

That is, neither genius nor foolish nor ordinary can understand the words of Ast.

“What would you do if you didn't fight? ”

Therefore, you must listen to the specifics. That way you can understand the bullshit of the Asts.

“Your Majesty, do you know who is best at fighting? ”

But Ast doesn't tell his own shit easily.

I often used a very annoying way to answer questions.

“I don't know.”

But I did a good job this time, so I decided to be patient once.

“So tell me. ”

“It is the person who annoys the other person. ”

“Annoyed? ”

“Yes. You're touching the rug. It doesn't seem like much, but it keeps them going through this annoying, dirty stuff. ”

“Why?”

“It looks weak. If you think it's nothing special, you can win. It makes you think you're doing useless things because you can't win if you stick together head-on. Haven't you ever been beaten before? ”

I felt like I was telling you something that gave me an unforgettable humiliation in three previous strategic chess strikes.

“Do you really have to bring up the past? ”

“There's no better way to describe the story right now. ”

“What looks good... …. ”

I feel frowned upon by the humiliation of the past.

It was a great humiliation to have been hit twice by the same strategy for the first time, and to have been manipulated by Leah.

“How did you feel then? ”

“Should I say it? ”

I wanted to call the soldiers around me and beat up Ast, who made me bring out my disgraceful past with a bad look on my face.

“Was I strong then? ”

“No. Same deal. ”

“But you lost, right? ”

“Ack...! Yes.”

“But I thought I could win next time, right? ”

“Yes. I thought I'd lost because I was careless. And then the same thing, and then the same thing. ”

“Yes, that's what I'm talking about. ”

“Yes... ”

Ast could now understand what he wanted.

It was nothing but a technique.

If you really stick together, it's nothing but a pathetic way.

If you make them think that, they will continue to challenge us.

However,

“Is there a reason why we should use that method? ”

It was a way we didn't have to use it under overwhelming circumstances.

“The enemy is the vanguard. The Kingdom of Mercia is a military kingdom compared to the Karean Empire. Wouldn't it be better to minimize the damage to your troops as much as possible? ”

This was an unthinkable word.

“I thought you didn't care about the damage to your friends. ”

"Fight," he said. I will not fight. ’It was an astronaut.

I didn't think such an astronaut would worry about the damage to his troops.

“If there are fewer allies, I might be able to fight in an emergency, right? That's why I have to get rid of my allies so I don't have to fight. ”

Of course. It was my fault for expecting something from Ast, even for a moment.

“Even though we're stronger? ”

“If you are strong, the enemy will be afraid. They'll just hide and defend themselves. Defenses are annoying.Even the most oppressive weaknesses are difficult to defend. ”

This will damage your allies. Then you have to fight back if you get hit.

So we need to keep them challenged with the hope that they can win.

in the form of taking advantage of it.

“Isn't that... how to catch favors at the gambling parlor? ”

“Everything is supposed to work as one. For gamblers, gambling den is like war. ”

So the logic was that you could use the gambling master's way of war on the real battlefield.

“This is ridiculous. ”

“But it makes sense, doesn't it? ”

“I see.”

I was angry, but there was a point to what Ast said.

“Yeah, give it a try. ”

I heard you don't need to mobilize too many troops.

Then giving Ast a chance won't hurt him too much.

If you succeed, you will gain, and if you fail, you will not lose much.

“I need something for my operation. ”

“What?”

Ast rarely said with a serious face.

“This is a drop ship.”

Drop... Easy?

“… what is that? Is it a boat?”

I tilted my head to the name I had never heard in my life.

“Oh, I was wrong. What we need now is a madosa. ”

Ast immediately shakes his head and asks for Madosa.

“Mados?”

“Yes, it would be better if the Magaws who bombed with us in the past. ”

“Is it just them? ”

“Yes. I wish I had more Marines, but it's not a good idea to send troops where they can't come back from." ”

I didn't hate Ast for saying things I couldn't understand, but I decided to believe him because he had succeeded so far.

“I'll lend you the Madosan, including Master Regas. That should be enough, right? ”

“Yes, Your Majesty. ”

Ast gave the satisfied smile permission to move the Madosans, and Ast used the Madosans...

“Your Majesty! The enemy has been annihilated! ”

“Huh?"

You wiped out the enemy.