The Cave King will live a Paradise Life -Becoming the strongest with the mining skill?-

"Are you okay...?

When I speak, Ciel reaches out a little bit like a hand from her body and waves it.

As soon as Ciel stretched out, I did the healing magic.

Apparently, consuming magic had strained my body.

And now... as always, he's in the hot springs with me.

"Shouldn't you be resting...?

Ciel still shakes his body and ruins my back.

I talked to Barris and Riena before about who would flush my body, but after that, I talked about how Ciel in Slime would be easy.

So Ciel is washing her body...

I guess it's because of what happened today that I feel ashamed of this unusual behavior.

You were a beautiful man...

I see it in the cemetery, it reminds me of Sierra, a woman with long golden hair.

Beautiful men and beautiful women in court are meant to be seen as sesame seeds.

But I felt divine from all of it, acting like I was standing and talking.

I wash my body in a slime with the soul of such a person...

Although Sierra says that Sierra of Slime seems to have a properly independent soul.

"And Ciel?

When I said it, Ciel twisted her body strangely.

It's the usual adorable, innocent feeling.

"Hey, it's nothing. Tomorrow, thank you."

Ciel shook her body vertically and began washing her body again.

He doesn't seem to care about the other side, okay... but if he does something today, his body seems to be moving heavily. Besides, around the waist...... close to the face is as thoughtful today......

No, I'm just too conscious...

I slept with Ciel that day for a long time.

Having a pleasant dream for a long time...

The next time I woke up, there was a bell honking in my ear.

This is the sound of a bell set up in a cave to reward someone when they come from the sea.

I'll be in the bedroom set up in the cave, heading straight to land.

On land, we could already see the armed demons and the Golem.

And at the end of that line of sight...... there is a ship docked there.

No way, Camus is back already...?

No, it hasn't been a week. Besides, Camus' ship shouldn't be flying a flag.

However, docked ships have splendid flags on their sterns and columns (masts).

Is that the flag of the kingdom...? No, I don't know from here. We need to get closer...

"Lord Heel, we will take you to the tower! Lord Yerevan will be there too!

"Oh, oh, please!

Barris from behind grabbed me and flew high in the sky.

I don't like high places, but I can't say that right now.

Barris dropped me off there when he got to the top of the tower.

Then there was Yerevan, already waiting with an axe.

"Admiral, it's not easy to wake him up. But I was sure it wasn't Camus'."

"Oh, the ship is smaller than Camus's... and that flag"

The country of the continent of Burleon, where the Kingdom of San Phares is located, knows it all.

Even in countries on the continent other than Barleon, the flags of the major countries are meant to be remembered for once.

"... that is, indeed, the flag of the Principality of Burleon"

A golden tree in the redlands...... a flag of a country formerly known as the Barleon Empire, which has fought for years for the hegemony of the continent with the Kingdom.

The Principality is a country west of the Kingdom of San Fares and west of the continent.

Barris heard my voice and squealed like this.

"Oh. If that's the surviving ship of the Burleon Empire,"

The Principality of Burleon is a nation that once united the Burleon continent.

"I thought it was already part of the kingdom, but it still existed."

"Oh... well, it's like the kingdom says"

It was a long time ago that the Principality was a hegemonic state of the continent.

It is now the rise of the Kingdom of San Fares, whose national territory and power are greatly retreating. He was also not allowed to name the Empire, and was forced to rename it the Principality.

Now there is no shadow that was a superpower on the continent, a country that merely governs one city along the sea and its surroundings. It is the current situation that surrounds the kingdom with most of the surrounding borders and the sea, and that politics, the economy and diplomacy must ask the Kingdom.

So to speak, it's a country... how come there's a Duchy ship?

Since we do not have the power to fight the kingdom, we may have given up the expansion of our forces on the continent and invested in the exploration of the sea.

New traders, new colonizable land… to find it.

That's when Barris opened his mouth.

"I was also going to remember the flags of the countries that are currently on the continent, but you well knew that."

"Huh? Well... I don't think many kingdoms know that either."

Mostly the kingdoms recognize that the empire is doomed.

So more or less one in ten kingdoms knows that country.

I'm talking about an engagement, too, so much so that I know that the Principality is a wreck of the Empire.

"Ho. Lord Boulder Heels, you're diligent. But thank you. There seems to be no sign of an attack."

"Oh. I don't even see a lot of arming... well, there are no military ships in the Principality"

Ships that can be owned by the Principality of Barleon are restricted by the Kingdom.

Yerevan just gave me the look of a clap.

"Does that mean they're not enough to take... oh, I thought it was a long time ago"

"General... I haven't decided not to fight yet."

"... Huh? So, what do you mean?

"It doesn't change that that ship is dangerous... isn't it, Lord Heel?

Barris turned his serious face to me.

"This one has the option to sink..."

"Yes. If it is the saying of the kingdom, your father's ear may also leak the development of this island. If that happens..."

"The Hand of the Kingdom is coming to this island..."

I don't know what my father will do when he finds out what's happening on this island... it's likely that he will execute everyone on this island and order their deportation, as if my treatment doesn't matter.

Sooner or later, I was afraid this would happen.

So far it has become a big island, a world tree that soars high in the sky... there is no way it can go unnoticed.

It was surprising that the first discovery was not a Kingdom ship, but a Duchy ship…

What will the government of the Principality do when information about this island is brought to the Principality?

Perhaps it is up to the government of the Principality to decide how much information to disclose to citizens, even within the Principality.

To fear that the information obtained will be leaked outside the country…

The Principality will not want to divulge information to the Kingdom as much as it can.

But that's just a hopeful observation.

Moreover, even assuming the government is silent about this island, it is visible that the principality nobility, close to the kingdom nobility, will smooth its mouth.

Then sink that ship and I won't let you bring back information on this island in the first place...

If you do, you can avoid the war. That's what Barris is trying to say.

But he said he sank the ship here, and the ship should be here again.

Let it sink again...

If you repeat that, it can also lead to further interest that there is something near this island that a large number of ships have lost track of.

In the first place, as an absolute condition, I'm not going to argue with anyone, and I don't want to kill them.

"... though it might be sweet. I'm not going to sink."

"... Are you sure?

"If my father's use comes, I'll pay quite a bit of taxes. If that doesn't settle... then it's time to resist."

When I said it, Barris, who was making his expression strong, exhaled in relief.

"... after all, Lord Heel is Lord Heel"

"Huh?"

"No, that's Lord Heel. Lord Heel, whom I know, will never wage unnecessary battles."

"Huh? No, well, that's... yeah"

Nothing amazing, nothing to be praised for.

Conversely, this kind of personality also caused me to be scorned for being weak in the kingdom.

"Until the eagles obeyed such Lord Heel... and you raised the sail"

On the way Barris spoke, the Duchy ship began to spread its bright white sails all over it.

Then lift up the pickaxe and take the path north.

"Go home..."

What will the Principality do with the information that comes from that ship?

And if it enters the ears of the Father of the Kingdom...

How to convince my father then...

The face of that tough man was on my head.