Strongest Onmyouji's Isekai Adventure ~ The Monsters are too weak compared to my Youkai Servant's~

"Dear Seika, Would you like some tea? Ugh."

"Dear Seika, Were you here? Why don't we talk about it?

"Master Seika? Where are you -? Dear Seika..."

****

"Ha..."

I laid my back on the barn wall and sighed.

From the mansion, it is a dead end, and the sun does not shine, so it is limp.

After that day, they really liked me a lot, and I've been stuck with Fiona.

On the arrow tip I decided not to get involved...... I wish I hadn't been so kind.

It's just that those days are the last today.

Tomorrow is the day of departure.

After the delivery to the Imperial City, there are times when Fiona and I are involved.

With that in mind, a shadow passes nearby.

"Wow, Seika!? What are you doing here..."

Amu, who noticed me, said surprised.

He has a simulated sword in his hand and seems to be sweating a little.

I ask.

"You're the one. Were you even auditioning?

"Kind of. I was dealing with your brother."

"Huh!? What's your brother, Glee?

"That's how it's decided."

"Why would you do that..."

"Why... become? When I went out in the morning, I was swinging my sword in the garden."

"Heh..."

Is he swinging his sword at night and in the morning? That's a lot of enthusiasm.

It is my intention to beat me up. [M]

It's just... I ask.

"... you okay? He might be mean, so watch out, all right? Didn't they touch you?

"Huh? I'm gonna ask you something disgusting. No, I don't think so. It's just a mock fight."

Amu sighs, ha.

"I just couldn't win. That's just your brother... Wow, that disgusting face."

I don't want them to think that and my brothers.

No... but did Glai get any better than he used to?

It became serious, caring and remembering, with strength.

There is still something strange about the unusual burning of enemies towards me, and speaking of which, I hate women.

Just while.

There was a different thought in my brain.

Why (...), Amu cannot win (...) (...)?

She is a brave woman. There is definitely talent too.

The gly is too strong.

Normally... Amu is weak. At least not at this stage. Worldly, anyway, it is far from the strength told in legend.

He said he was almost fifteen at his age. Why the hell......,

And so, to me in silence, I open my mouth as Amu shuddered.

"I'm thinking... Hey, what were you doing? In the shadow of this storage."

"... I was hiding from His Highness."

"Uh..."

Interrupting thoughts and answering, Amu speaks like he understands.

"You're something I've always liked."

"Give me a break. Damn... I'm not good at dying with a great guy or anything"

"Really? Weren't you used to that? Well... there's no way he's good at being an adventurer."

Amu smiles bitterly, then says, slightly loosening his tone.

"But... this is the last day? We're leaving tomorrow."

……

"About the last time, why don't you be the one to talk to him?

"... Amu"

"I was moving my chess pawn by myself at the mansion window earlier. Looks lonely. Because that's all I'll tell you. Bye."

I sighed as I watched Amu leave behind me.

I don't have a choice, do you want to go?

Besides... it might be a good idea to talk a little bit.

****

In this world, too, there was an on-board game called chess, big chess, chess (Shiyanchi) and Western chess (Chess), where the two of us moved pawns imitating soldiers.

Window desk on the second floor of the Ramprogue residence.

Looking down at the playing board for the game chess placed on the table, Fiona moves one, the 'Infantry' pawn forward.

There is no one in person. The other hand, too, seemed to be Fiona moving on.

"Aren't you going to ask someone for you?

Speaking, Fiona looked up and smiled at me.

"No one will ever sit before me again. Because I'm not going to be your opponent. Master Seika, do you know what chess is?

"If it's about how the pawn moves,"

"Well, you can"

With that said, Fiona returns the pawn on the board to its initial position.

While I sit face to face with Fiona, I say with a sinister look.

"If no one is going to deal with His Highness, there's no reason for me to be a beginner."

"Ugh. Whatever, I'll drop the pawn for you."

So Fiona removes the pawns of her own formation.

"Sage" to "Mage"...... all that or even dropping powerful pawns like "Tank" to "Dragon Knight" and eventually only "Infantry" and "Knight" on Fiona's board, and "King" who is himself.

"... is it going to be that much of a drop and a battle? I can't use the pawns I took, so I just swap them one-on-one to win."

"Ugh, right, on logic. But the winning condition of chess is not the total annihilation of the opponent... but it's funny that you can use the pawn you took. You might want to add rules like that...... go ahead, Master Seika"

As I was told, I move forward with an 'infantry' pawn.

Then whine small.

"In order to give way, I'm sure it would be more advantageous to go ahead... okay? I'm not strong enough to help, so I'm really going to win."

"Ugh, go ahead. If you can.... right. If that's all you're saying, why don't you bet?

"Bet?"

"Yeah. If you lose, you listen to one thing the winner says."

"Pretty tough bet!?

"Ugh. Of course it's a play, so you can refuse if you really can't do it. How about that?"

"... ok. Fine."

"Ugh, I took Saika's word for it"

"I'm scared."

"I'll tell you what, I'll win."

Fiona says in a good mood as she moves her own 'knight'.

"As surprising as it may seem, I am still strong."

"No… it's no surprise."

I say.

"These tactical eyes are also important when doing politics."

"Well, that's too much."

Fiona moves the 'King'.

"This is just a hobby. When there was no freedom, there was limited entertainment. And... my battlefield is not such a blood-smelling place."

"So where is it? What is a politician's battlefield?"

"Ugh......"

Not answering my question, Fiona smiles as she advances her pawn.

"Dear Seika, What do you think is the most powerful pawn in the world?

"... it's not about chess, is it?"

"No, that's right. Because of this, try to indicate where it is on this occasion. I don't mind if I don't."

"Fine."

Answer that - I point to Fiona.

"If I may speak on this occasion... I am the strongest pawn, and it is you, Your Highness Fiona. All soldiers and even kings can be manipulated from behind, and never picked up on the battlefield. Politicians are the strongest pawns in the world."

"Well. Please give me a nice answer, Master Seika"

Fiona laughs sunny.

"Perhaps if you were a regular person, you would have answered 'Dragon Knight' or 'King'. I asked for an answer like this."

"Is that correct, then?

"No one knows the right answer. But... my thoughts are different."

"So, which pawn does Your Highness think is the strongest?

"Ugh... the strongest thing in the world is those who are here."

With that said, Fiona pointed behind the formation, wide and round with her fingers.

There's nothing there.

The table ceiling on the playboard just spreads.

"There's nothing here right now. But in reality, there are many people around soldiers, kings and politicians - people who live in this country."

"You think the unnamed folk are the strongest?

"Yes."

Fiona nodded without getting lost.

But I'm not convinced of one thing right now.

"Indeed, institutions can fall by popular revolt… that would be the exception. Most of the time, the people are just powerless to be robbed."

"Yeah, you're right. But still, the people are the strongest."

Fiona smiles at me, frowning.

"Kings and politicians produce nothing. The crops and resources produced by the people are just twitched in the name of taxes. The reality is close to fleas (only) living parasitically in the beast."

"Assuming you're in the position of Empress, you say a lot of things"

"Ugh, fleas can't be fools either. First of all, the jumping power is amazing."

"I just sound like I'm making a fool of myself."

"And by breathing blood and mediating disease, you can suffer hosts that are many times bigger than you. Maybe it's actually even easy to kill. As the people are to the king."

……

"But Ugh. Fleas can never, ever kill a host. That option hasn't existed since the beginning. Because… at the same time, it also means its own ruin. Fleas can't live without hosts."

……

"Without tax revenues, politicians cannot exist. Without the barracks, the army cannot be maintained. The people are exactly the lifeline for us, the giant host. We can't destroy them, never."

Fiona continues as she takes my pawn.

"In addition, they have tremendous power. Overwhelming, overwhelming power. If they could unite in unison... there would be no way to exchange the Imperial Army before that difference in quantity. That's very difficult, but if you undermine their mood, it can happen one day. Never to be destroyed, as long as you have the attribute of immortality... you know, Dear Seika"

I just listen to Fiona.

"People are immortals, giant beasts with uninterrupted power. Once you wake up from the mold and strip your fangs, we fleas and so on will not have a single pile. They are the most powerful pawns in the world."

That was an unexpected way of thinking for me.

The people in the previous life were only the weak ones deprived by the bandits and nobles and only dying of hunger, cold and epidemics. In Japan, in Song, in Islam, in the West.

But Fiona's claim has a rationale that goes through in her previous life.

Or maybe you have a national pattern.

In the Uldwight Empire, which has the anecdote of a hero standing from the people becoming the first emperor, there is still a fold in the succession to the throne, a ritual in which people approve a new emperor in the squares of the Empire.

Even as an exchanger, I guess the people can't ignore it.

I say.

"So Your Highness... to the people, is he actively spreading his presence?

"Yep. My handkerchief has no 'king' or 'dragon knight'. So I use even pawns that nobody pays attention to. If that's the strongest thing, even more so."

Fiona laughs small there.

"I guess this kind of thing is just a compliment right now. But I'm sure in the distant future… all politicians will be able to trust the people. Because one day, in all countries, the people will have kings in their hands."

"The people take the throne? No way."

"Ugh, is that crazy? It will be natural for the greatest authority to fit into the hands of the strongest. The water flows low, but I'm sure you'll visit someday. The people choose the exchangers, and the people rebuke their injustice, such a world."

Seeing Fiona talking like a girl I tend to dream about, I think.

After all, this princess is a politician.

Even without a back shield or real power. Even if she's just a young girl.

Mechanics and scenery that I don't see are visible to me.

Open your mouth quietly.

"I'm sure... even if it's just a view of His Highness's future, can't you see that far ahead"

"Well, I wonder if it's Grye."

When I nod, Fiona says in an unexpectedly relieved tone.

"You have to thank me. I've been worried about how to talk to Seika."

"So it's still true, then"

"Ugh."

Fiona says as she moans the pawn she drops off the board.

"When I was young, I didn't know what this power was. The visible future and the memories that accompany it are all like the possibility of wandering. Together, it's something that changes with one butterfly feather. It was when I realized that there was a stream of destiny in a storm that could not be changed to the extent of wings, that came to my mind with this daydream identity that didn't materialize or happen. And when she asked me who my mother was, it turned to certainty, and at the same time… I learned what I meant by being born."

"Meaning of birth, is it? It's like, with the power of futuristic vision, it's good for the Empire?

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Fiona tells him with a grin somewhere.

"There's no point in a person's life, Master Seika."

Fiona keeps pushing me.

"The future is wandering, something that can change easily. The flow of fate is also just that it is the most realizable future in probability. Man's life has no defined meaning over heaven… When I realized it, I decided to live as I please. Instead of being placed under house arrest for an adult, on the contrary, relying on no one's thoughts, trying to live of my own free will."

When I am silent, Fiona completes her turn and tells me. [M]

"You seem to be getting a lot disadvantaged. Do you still want to continue, Master Seika?

"... I won't give up until the end. The number of pawns is still mutual."

"Well, nice. But on this plate, it's actually seven handcuffs."

"............ I'll throw it. By the way, how do you get stuffed from here?

"Ugh. When this happens here..."

Fiona's white, thin fingers move the pawn.

Apparently it was a really stuffed plate, and I exhaled the words with a heavy breath.

"It's a complete defeat. You were really strong, Your Highness."

"Ugh... didn't you say that the future is cunning?

"It won't be that convenient to use."

I say.

"Even if you were looking at it hypothetically, chess is a play that's all about the position of the pawn and how it moves. Anyone can predict the future if they want to. Futuristic vision has nothing to do with chess. Your Highness, I'm sure this play is strong."

"Ugh, I'm kind of glad. He said you could tell Master Seika that."

Fiona smiles and says she looks in a good mood.

"But if you say greed... there's no way I'm such a cowardly imitator, it's just so sweet."

"Ha, you can't be sure that's just about it. I still can't tell you that Your Highness doesn't have a different side to your current personality."

"... then how can you trust me"

Well, I keep my mouth shut.

Though smiling, from Fiona's tone and expression, seriousness is all over the place.

This is a little... maybe not against me personally, but about how to increase my allies in politics or something like that.

Was it a mistake to joke back the first time...... With that in mind, I say it in a serious tone, too.

"It's a general theory... that you should tell the truth or show weakness,"

"Are you really weak?"

"You trust them first, and you reveal yourself. That way, they open their minds themselves up too... they seem to. In His Highness's position, it may be difficult."

"Hmmm......"

Fiona roars with a sinister look.

"Uh, okay. So... we're going, right?

…… Yes. "

"I don't like pigeons."

"Heh? Dove...? How come again? Any bad memories?

"No, I don't have that...... I'm scared anyway. Especially those eyes. Has Master Seika ever seen pigeon eyes up close?

"Probably not..."

"If you get a chance, you should take a look. Because he has red white eyes, small black eyes and a round eye anyway, and an abnormal eye who has no idea what he's thinking. Of all the animals, only doves would never have a heart. I think it's close to bugs. I used to cry a lot when there were pigeons out the window."

"You talk quite a bit. I've never seen anyone so afraid of pigeons."

"And then, when I was little, I was afraid of stew"

"Shh, stew? Of cooking? Does that mean you didn't like it?

"No, I liked it. But I was scared. Especially in winter, eating in a room with a fireplace."

"What do you mean…"

"I learned at one point that wheat is used for stew."

"Yes, sir"

"I was young but knowledgeable, and I knew that bread was also made from wheat."

"Yes......"

"Bread is made by baking wheat. If you eat stew, you have wheat in your stomach, right? So... I thought if I hit the fireplace like that, the wheat would swell in my stomach, it would become bread, and it would flood out of my mouth."

"Hahaha! Huh? Look, are you serious?

"I mean it. So when I finished eating the stew, I fled to the cold room, put on a blanket, and confused the people with me."

"Ha-ha-ha!

I laughed.

I laugh, like this.

"Ngu, heh, heh, no, excuse me. Your Highness, too, and you must have been seriously troubled...... hehe"

"To make the royal family laugh must be a terrible sin on Master Seika. It's sad......"

"No, no, no! Any loyalist would laugh now!

"Ugh, is that right? I feel so good. You've never laughed at me before... Oh, yeah. There was another one. This one is not weak, but genuine."

Fiona speaks quietly with a gentle grin.

"I... want to help, if I may."

"Help?"

"Suppose a child is playing in the meadows. But there's a big hole near it, and the kid hasn't noticed it. As it is, it will fall off sooner or later… I want to help it. I'm the only one who realizes the hole, because this is the only thing I can do."

I open my mouth a little bit.

"By that child, do you mean the Empire?

To my question, Fiona only laughs vaguely.

"I'm sorry, I can't tell you the details. Because the future could turn unexpected."

"You said that meeting Amu was also part of it?

"That's... yes, you may think so"

"Are those all things that Your Highness desires of your own free will?

Now Fiona nodded firmly, and I laughed back.

"Then I'll be there for you. Let me know what you can do to help."

"Ugh. Glad to hear it."

After I said it, I realized I was about to stick my neck in the extra thing again...... it's even too late now.

Yuki is going to give me another novel later. Let's not think about it now.

"That's right. I don't like carriages."

"The carriage? I'm surprised."

"Hi, I'm drunk. I've been feeling a lot better lately."

"I'm fine with stew."

"Do you want to hang out there?

"Ugh... that was fun, Master Seika"

Fiona takes a seat.

Think about it, we were talking a lot.

"Thank you for speaking up"

"No. Welcome."

"Ugh."

Fiona looks down at me and says:

"I'll think about what kind of favor you're going to ask."

"Uh, ha..."

I turned away from Fiona and spilled a dry laugh.

Damn... didn't you forget...