Sweet Reincarnation

One priest gets words as he looks at parchment.

"Ho."

It was a short, emotional word.

Recently, Count Cowenbar, a foreign affairs nobleman of the Kingdom of God, visited the Holy Nation. The letter is a souvenir of that time. He's a messenger from a country that hasn't been around since. Many were wary of what they had come to do, but the use of the messenger was an interesting one inside.

In the hands of Cardinal Adobyon, who governs the territory of Cardinal Grimoworth, was a letter deposited by its Earl of Cowenbar.

The sealed wax family crest that was pressed on the wrapped parchment was the Bombino family of the Kingdom of God. Funny, I also got a nigga for a reason.

"Below, is that a letter?

"Oh."

A man who was beside the Cardinal asks casually. The man's name is Bittertaste-Est-Hyenchant. He is also known as Cardinal Adobyon's katana, and it is occasional that he was beside him.

Sleek, stretched back, tight muscle armor while disappointed. Burning redhead hair with a stern face. It doesn't even look like a knight at first glance, but he is one of the best wizards in the Holy Land.

"Where did it come from?

"From the Kingdom of God."

"The Kingdom of God?

The Holy Nation and the Kingdom of God were at war until recently. Fortunately, the Holy Nation Navy, led by Cardinal Adobyon, succeeded in driving back the invaders and defending the country.

That, the other country of war is the Kingdom of God. Allied forces of nations, including the Ratesh family, have attacked with great armies. Bitter is also in the war at that time, fighting as an important part of the Holy Nation and contributing greatly to the Holy Nation's defensive success.

"Let the Earl of Cowenbar of the Kingdom of God come to deliver it. The sender of the letter is the Bombino family."

"Bombino...... oh, that"

Bitter searched his memory saying it was a family name he'd heard somewhere. Fortunately that wasn't so difficult, there was a house that came to mind.

"In the battle ahead, you were the only one who was moving the Navy decently. Without them, we could have destroyed the navy of the enemy."

"You were well-trained people. The ship was the best of the Army of the Kingdom of God."

"Hmm."

An objective analysis of the enemy's situation is not the same as an assessment of the enemy. Because analysis is merely a pile of facts, but evaluation is subjective.

Cardinals, too, are sons of men, albeit priests. There is no need to hide dissatisfaction on this occasion where I am uncomfortable with being forced to fight against disadvantage and only within me. With one snort, I represent my mood.

Your boss shouldn't keep talking about things that make you feel worse.

Bitter decided so and decided to listen to the real story.

"What the hell did those people say to you?

"That's hilarious."

That being said, the Cardinal gave Bitter a letter to show him.

Parchment is becoming a curly habit. When I looked carefully stretched out, it did say enough to describe it as interesting.

"... Engagement show with Mortairn?

The contents of the letter were that Viscount Uranta of Bombino and Josephine, the Mortaire family warrant lady, would make a disclosure as they engaged. And it says that if you can, you would also like to attend the Holy Nation. I want to laugh when it says "out of the way."

But the content itself. No, the name it says correctly had a weight that you couldn't possibly laugh off.

Baron Mortairn family.

In the war of more than twenty years ago, he contributed to the miraculous victory of the Kingdom of God. It is an abominable name, known in the Holy Nation for its neck hunting. It was Mortairn who helped determine the victory even in the naval battles ahead. In a way, the most alarming name in the Kingdom of God.

"Oh. The tough guys tied their hands. That's an abomination."

"Besides, are you inviting us to the banquet?"

"Celebrate their political marriage to us. Well, it'll be hilarious."

"Right."

was the Cardinal and Bitter who laughed haha, but the Cardinal's laughter had a self-derisive part. There have been a lot of hands over there, but we even have a suspicious situation of domestic unity of will. It would also do one of the self-ridicules.

If there is to be salvation, is it that political marriage is still a stage of being quick and announcing the engagement internally and externally? Announcing the engagement means that we are strongly willing to move on to each other's last marriage, but the engagement, for once, is an engagement, not a marriage. If there was someone who thought it was going to cover up, it would never be possible. This means that there is still a chance that this marriage between the two houses will not be concluded. Make it the Mortairn family. Make it the Bombino family, if you make it the Cardinal you feel abominable, it is a kind of salvation and a glimmer of hope that it is still at the stage of engagement.

But there is no doubt that both the Mortairn and Bombino houses will strengthen the ties, content that is too influential to just keep quiet without doing anything. Troublesome enemies, one or the other alone, tie strong together is dangerous through discomfort. Extremely obstructed information, whether as a position to assume a wing of the national government of the Holy Nation, as the person responsible for depositing a single precinct, or as a single saint.

"So, what do you want to do?

Bitter's question about what to do includes several options.

Naturally, the Cardinal knows everything about that option, but this is also troubling.

A powerful house in an enemy country is trying to increase its power. As a heavy town in the Holy Country, getting in the way is one option. A natural means to consider.

The toughest and most abusive option is to plot the assassination of one of the parties. If the bond between the two houses is such a critical situation as to involve the survival of the country that it will never be recognised as the Holy Nation, then there was also the possibility of choosing this means.

Political marriage requires a pair of pawning men and women. The number of people of marriageable age is limited, let alone direct. If only one of them had an accidental accident, it would destroy a political marriage or render it famously innocent.

Or even if you don't kill him, there's a way to poison him. There are also poisons in this world that destroy human reproductive function in an irreversible way, even though there are means of treatment if it is merely an inducement of ill-health. In other words, we can also make a woman's body more incapable of having children. If children are not born, even if they were strongly linked in contemporary times, ties weaken in times of generational change. Also, the more useful a political marriage is, that is, the more momentum your home will gain, the more it will stimulate an elephant desire to carry on the trail.

It is a useful ploy in the sense of endangering the survival of your home and spreading the seeds of future home disturbances.

If there is a problem, does a man named Bitter quite strongly dislike the insidious act of this hand, and from the standpoint of clergy, must it be carried out in absolute secrecy? Also like this one, there are very few people who can work in foreign countries. When captured or repelled, the amount of loss becomes immense.

The point is, high risk, high return.

It is also one of the means, even if not so abusive, to shed the wind or to work against the moderates of the Holy Nation within the Kingdom of God to get them to campaign against it. Though the Holy Nation and the Kingdom of God have fought, there is also some interaction during peacetime. There are several aristocrats who represent the interests of the Holy Nation within the Kingdom of God, whether they are lords who benefit from trade or nobles who receive bribes. If they move aggressively, it is also possible that they can interfere with the engagement of the two houses in the example.

If there is a problem, the indirect approach will reduce the success rate, and it is difficult to move as expected. Much better than not, but it's not good to expect too much either.

may also be a possibility to go directly to the parties and negotiate to blank this story with appropriate handicrafts. This is the most moderate and successful way to go, but if there is a problem, the Cardinal will suffer the hostility and loss in the negotiations directly, for the part of confronting the face to face. I mean, when you fail, you don't know, but it doesn't work. We will also bring out the bargaining materials ourselves. It is likely that the result will not be suitable for a lot of work and less effort.

A bond between powerful enemies. I don't have a hand to sit on. But the question is what means to counter it.

"... Bitter, will you step forward?

"Is that for negotiation?

"No, as a messenger of pure celebration."

"Well, are you the one on the left"

But the Cardinal said he would shelve all of those means of moving against engagement and take a stand in favor of engagement. It had also expressed its position that it would support it quite strongly.

So much for sending Bitter, the Cardinal's trump card.

"May I ask why?

"If this letter is true, the Bombino family's counterpart is the Mortairn family. I just want to avoid the fangs in that house coming towards us."

"I see."

Bitter remembered one boy in the words of the Cardinal. Silver-haired, busy boy. Just like myself, a prodigy endowed with the gift of magic by God. The martial arts are certain, and they are smart on top of it. If you're an enemy, you're a pretty tough opponent. Mortairn also has a father as well as a son. The Neck Hunter Divergent, who can fly around wherever he goes, has made him an enemy, but at the end of the day, he can't sleep. When you boil and fry irrational, you become a Mortairn parent and child.

Of course, it is not that the Holy Nation has no countermeasures against Mortairn. The Holy Nation is better equipped with magical warfare than it was before, and some have magic that goes well with the Mortairns. A bitter taste like no other is at its head.

I agree with you on the fact that you don't want to make a tough opponent an enemy, but you don't have to be bad (freshly) even though you have countermeasures. That was the point that seemed unnatural to Bitter.

"Besides, if this engagement were to be tied up until marriage, there would be a gap for us to intervene"

"Say? … No, I could imagine"

"Still good to guess."

The gap that Bitter came up with is the gap in the Kingdom of God that allows him to counter the most difficult Ratesh family in the southern part of the Kingdom of God. The territory of Ratesh is across the sea from the Grimoworth Pivotal Territory, the main enemy.

The more this Count family develops, the more Grimoworth Cardinal Territory, which exists in a mirrored fashion, will strengthen the degree of oppression and obstruction. In particular, I have had bitter juices in naval warfare recently, and my disadvantages are obvious militarily.

But in the south of the kingdom of God, if a confrontational axis was created: the union of Mortairn and Bombino, wouldn't it cut the power of the House of Ratesh if it was successfully incited? Both houses of the Union and the House of Uncle Ratesh should eat for the price if one stretches out, because it is a pattern that is counterproductive in many interests.

Alternatively, it may be possible to reverse the Mortairn-Bombino coalition and the House of Ratesh and weaken both factions at the same time. Hit enemies to make them fight each other. Enemy enemies are allies. It would be great if this happened. The position of Cardinal is not Dade, he is not entrusted to the front line with insanity. He is a reliable person in that he can be flexible in his ideas.

The key to the success of this measure lies in the Bombino family. It is unlikely that the Ratesh family, which has a well-equipped defense system, or the Mortairn family, which is an elite unit of intelligence, will work the way we want them to. But if it's the Bombino family, our Lord is still a young man. A house with many talents that are difficult to say grainy, although there is no such thing as jumping out of magnificence or out-of-the-box sage, not to mention poor quality. There are plenty of gaps to get into.

If you want to make a good move on the Bombino family, you've still never gotten acquainted with the face and made a handover. Seeing as this engagement is disruptive and painful, it would be a thought to use it to hit the fabric of the future.

Up to this point, it's what Bitter immediately broke through.

"Most of the people I can move, who see some reason, have important jobs."

"Right. Everyone who comes to mind is easily replaced and hard at work."

of the Holy Nation, a precinct on the front line against the Kingdom of God. It is for Cardinal Adobyon's sake (to be one) that he is one of the best militants in the country and that if he commands the navy, there will be no one left to the right.

There are many excellent men, and there are a few sage men with a glimpse of bitter, and extravaganza. But there's no way I'm letting that kind of good person play. He is also the one who still carries out difficult tasks.

It is clear that if anyone were to move it, it would take a lot of work to adjust it.

"You're the only one who's free to move now. Can you ask for it?"

A person who is brilliant and able to read, perceive and move the thoughts of the Cardinal without omission. The front line is not free enough to spare such a human being. Only one exception is Bitter, who serves as the Cardinal's escort.

If the guards are compensated by numbers and the Cardinals themselves are not allowed to move from a safe place, the biters will be free to move.

"I don't mind that. but do you want me to go alone?

"No. One more person, I'd like to have an assistant, anyway. Your magic is special. I'm in trouble when I can't come back."

"Right. Then who?

To the question of who to choose, the Cardinal looked a little reluctant. The current state of Gotagota in the country, there are terribly few handkerchiefs that can move it.

"I don't really want to create a debt elsewhere. If so, the options are limited. I know you don't mean it, but I'm going to put Lizzie on as an assistant."

"Is that the horse? Isn't it suitable for special assignments in foreign countries?

Lizzy-Lorenti. A wizard of a woman who is still young and regarded again by her innate temperament as turning back. The pattern that they are often set up with bitters because of compatibility problems with their abilities, and that they don't hate bitters either. I don't have any interest in bitter, but I have a little approach from Lizzie's side.

I'm in the mood, but the magic arm itself is certain. Rather than, a person who built his position in the Holy Nation with only his magical arms.

Bitter and the like are omnipotent enough to do most anything, but Lizzie is a magical craftsman. Bitter is right in pointing out to her that she can't possibly do diplomatic work on enemy land.

But I know a hundred things about that as a Cardinal.

"I know. But we have to go in smaller numbers than the messenger of celebration to the engagement show, or friendly goodwill, is the messenger of purpose. The magic of that girl will come in handy if I want to send you out without anxiety, even a few."

"It's very powerful magic in contention, so I know what you mean."

"I know it's gonna be tough, but you're gonna have to take care of it."

"I understand. Sincerely,"

It was then three days later that the Embassy of the Holy Nation travelled to Viscount Bombino territory.