Santairiku Eiyuuki

Episode 24: After the Bulgaron Killer

The return of all prisoners has been announced by the Lemurian Empire, and a week has passed...

Indeed, all prisoners were able to return to the Bulgaron Kingdom.

And at the same time all Bulgarians were to tremble.

That's...

"Yes, what the hell, what the hell is this!!

King Bulgaron said, turning his face bright blue.

It was the prisoners who returned from the Lemurian Empire who spread under the eyes of King Bulgaron.

The prisoners have a hundred people in one group, and that's about two hundred in total.

In other words, the number was twenty thousand.

That vast number of prisoners has been walked from the border of Lemuria to the border of Bulgaron...

It was their faces that were terrifying.

From the faces of the prisoners...

My eyeballs had been lost.

"Ahhh..."

King Bulgaron loses his hips.

A face that doesn't have the eyeballs it should be, is very grotesque, and that's 20,000 people walking in rows.

Not very much, but I can't be normal minded.

"Oh yeah...... and what about Telerig? Where's Telerig!!

King Bulgaron searches for his loving son, Telelig.

Fortunately, Telerig was found.

but...

"Father, is it..."

"Oh Telerig!!

King Bulgaron hugged Telelig.

Without exception, Telerig had his eyeballs choosen too.

The identity of the prisoners is then verified…

It was firmly established that all prisoners had been returned to the Bulgaron Kingdom.

But this wasn't very good news.

Because it means that the eyes of all prisoners have been chosen.

"Your Majesty, the confirmation is complete. Apparently only one in a hundred people is left with one eye."

"Right..."

Mercy, by no means.

I just let him show me the way.

"And, Your Majesty the King... I actually want you to see something..."

"What?"

"Yes, no... it's not a matter of urgency, and I don't mind after your heart has settled down..."

"Show me now."

When King Bulgaron says that to his men...

My men turned to a face drawn to fear and brought in a few prisoners.

These are the captives who were chosen only by one eye.

When the prisoners turned their backs on King Bulgaron, they undressed their worn clothes.

On its back was a Lemurian baking mark.

"I tell you both about our country and the enemies of God, and the bats that still do not reveal their position. You're next."

A sentence of such meaning was written.

"I checked, and all the prisoners in one eye had this letter on them. May I return them to their families at last... Your Majesty? Your Majesty?

King Bulgaron fell to much shock, peeling his white eyes.

Elquille's "Return of Prisoners” ran through the entire Bulgaron kingdom.

The burden of providing for more than 20,000 blind people also weighed heavily on the Kotormian clan and its allied tribes.

The preamble to the collapse of the Bulgaron kingdom is that the neutralists, mainly the Territorial clan, who had previously defended their neutrality, decided to join forces with the Lemurian Empire to launch an attack on the Kotormian clan and its allied tribes.

The military power of the Kotormia clan was still alive, but the decline in morale, and the absence of the Commander-in-Chief, prevented them from dealing with this in an aligned fashion, with successive defeats.

The defeat itself was a small one, not enough to diminish the power of the Kotormian clan…

The psychological impact was enormous, and the tribes of the Kotormian clans, anxious, rebelled one after the other, rubbing under Lemuria.

The Kotormian clan began to collapse so that its teeth could fall out.

And the Lemurian Imperial Army and the coalition of the Chromium clan invaded the Bulgaron kingdom again so as to stab a stop.

The Lemurian army approached the capital straight without stopping on this expedition, which built up its barracks with full capacity.

Sandwiched by the Lemuria and Teritel clans, betrayed by numerous allied tribes…

From that hard work King Bulgaron finally collapsed.

The blind Telelig could not succeed to the throne, and the second and third sons of the Bulgaron royal family were to contend for the throne.

The three men sought the cooperation of the Lemurian army to defeat the second son, and defeated the second son to take up the status of clan chief of the Kotormian clan.

but soon he was bought and imprisoned for Erkür's unhappiness and executed a few days later.

And his eldest son, Telerig, secretly escaped with his belly-hearted men.

The destruction of the royal family, the clan sect, virtually destroyed the Kotormian clan.

The kingdom of Bulgaron essentially collapsed and the Kotormian clan was placed under the control of the Lemurian Empire.

It was four years later that the war between the Bulgaron kingdom and the Lemurian Empire began.

A few remnants, mainly Telelig, then engaged in guerrilla activities within the Bulgarian kingdom, but already had no power to gather the aspirations of the Bulgarians in Telelig or the Kotormian clan.

With the work of Alicia, who knows better about Telelig, and the Bulgarons of the former Kotormian clan, who know even more of the handouts Telelig would be able to rely on, Nia and Jebe, who excel in guerrilla warfare, and Erkür's obstinate pursuit…

At last, Telelig was captured by Jebe's hand and executed after being taken by Nova Lemuria.

That was a year after the virtual collapse of the Bulgaron kingdom, and with the execution of Telelig the Bulgaron kingdom was annihilated, both in fame.

The Lemuria Bulgaron War, which lasted about five years, was closed.

"So now three and a half million people in the Bulgaron kingdom are newly under the control of our country"

Erkühl shrugged as he looked at the results of a census conducted in the Bulgaron Kingdom.

For each family, an exact population is assigned.

Erkühl ordered the heads of each clan that came under his control to report the population of their own clans.

So far, each of the clans has a sincere fear of Erkühl, so it may be assumed that the figures are fairly accurate.

Most people's memories fade.

One day there will also be a family that thinks, "Somewhat underreporting the population won't make you find out, Shimeshi" etc.

However, the measures may be taken later.

Now I was able to grasp the population of 3.5 million, which is significant.

"Much. Well, that's a lot. I didn't expect you to drink up a whole country, Master Erkühl."

It was Cecilia, who turned twenty-two, who praised Erkühl.

I have already graduated from the girl and become a fine woman.

but its appearance hasn't changed much since the age of eighteen.

Cecilia's physical peak was eighteen, and the inheritance magic of the princess witch (Medium) slowed her age.

For about a hundred years as it is, Cecilia will maintain this look.

By the way, my chest has grown, but my back hasn't gotten much bigger.

I cared about it plainly, and I measured my height every morning, but it never grew any longer.

The lack of exercise remains the same.

"'The Bulgaron Killer', they seem to call it."

"Sort of."

"I don't think it's a very good title..."

Cecilia accidentally laughed bitterly at Erkühl with a proud look on her face.

Cecilia doesn't care either, as these places are the same most.

"So, Master Erkühl, what are you talking about?

"The Bulgarons are going to govern in several subordinate states, but I want to set up an archbishop and a bishop. I need your help with that."

"That means preaching to the Bulgarians!

Cecilia gave a happy look.

The spread of Mesianism to the Bulgarians leads, of course, to the offensive of the Orthodox Mesian princess witch (Medium).

"Oh, I'm going to do a mass conversion of the Bulgarians' clan chiefs first"

"Little by little from the top and bottom, that means!

That's what I'm talking about.

Compulsory conversion from the top by Erkür and encouragement of conversion from the bottom by the preacher directed by Cecilia.

This is an attempt to turn the Bulgarians into Messians.

"Aside from religion, we plan to have a little assimilation policy. Well, at first, I want you to protect your traditional life."

I don't honestly change my lifestyle when I tell you to change all of a sudden.

Therefore, we intend to continue the assimilation policy one by one.

For a while, there will be a coexistence of arbitrary and civilized politics.

"Later we'll build some new cities, pass roads, build ports... well I'm thinking a lot"

"Please rule as moderately as possible and raise it. You don't have to hate each other anymore, do you?

When Cecilia said so, Elquille glanced over her shoulder.

"I can only say that depends on that attitude over there. but well, I'm not going to lay down a repression"

If they start a revolt again, it's out of hand.

Erkühr intended to worry about good governance because he thought so.

"But the problem is that their lifestyle and Mesianism don't match."

"Really?

"They move all the time, but the church can't. You can't just go out to churches in cities all the way to the Sabbath. Preaching can be difficult."

That was also why Mesianism had never been spread to the Bulgarian kingdom before.

Mesianism does not really apply to the Bulgarians because it is a religion that has developed according to the Lemurian lifestyle.

Elquille's in trouble...

Saying, Cecilia said with a Kyotong face.

"Then why don't we move the church too"

"... what are you talking about?

"Uh, sure... their mobile home was Yurt, was it? There is no reason why churches shouldn't move if houses move. Let's have one church for one tribe."

Erkühl didn't know what Cecilia was talking about for a moment...

After a little thought, I finally realized its sincerity.

A church for Erkühl was a building.

But the church for Cecilia is just an institution, and there's nothing wrong with it being a yurt.

"Ha, here he is... I didn't realize what I did was that simple"

Elquille laughed unexpectedly.