Leishe, approaching the balcony, explored the signs and made sure there were only two Arnold and Kyle on the spot.

(Somehow, that sounds like a serious conversation)

If it was meant to be, it would be careless to exchange words on such a balcony. But if it's Arnold, if there's even one person approaching inadvertently, you'll soon realize it.

Because we know that, Leishe kills the signs to the fullest. Even with high heels, you can walk away from making shoe noises.

Clear your ears from the shadows of the pillars, paying careful attention and also paying attention to the trends of Rovine.

"Garchein is a really great country. It is also in the hands of His Majesty the Emperor and His Royal Highness Arnold that the country has flourished so far."

Kyle's voice sounded stiff.

Maybe I'm trying to cut you out of a frivolous conversation, but that's no good. Arnold cannot tolerate that voice, which seeps through tension and readiness.

"I don't need a roundabout foreboding or a clear compliment from the Social Dictionary"

As I thought, Arnold cut it off lightly.

"Let me tell you the truth. Why did you come all the way to this country to push your sick body?"

"... His Royal Highness Arnold"

When I hear that word, Kyle takes a shallow, deep breath.

"It's not a social dictionary or anything like that. I sincerely respect your achievements as Crown Prince. It is the weak people who take into account your politics and take measures to reach out. … I thought you would understand my thoughts, and this is how I talk to you, not to your father."

……

"Please, could you help my country, Coyol? - Not financial or medical support."

Kyle tells Arnold afterwards.

"On top of the military, I want Garchhein to support me"

To the words, Liesche breathed.

(How the hell did the country of Koyor do that?)

Snow country Coyol is by no means an active country in war.

The reason for this is obvious, because it lacks military power.

Coyol, in an extremely cold land and yet surrounded by great powers, has carried out national traffic by means of diplomacy and abundant financial resources.

"As you know, Coyol has very little military power.... but it's not like I didn't raise soldiers because I wanted to. It is the result of a long history of continued pressure from neighbouring countries not to have military power. They are allowed to remain uninvasive, provided they do not have the power to fight and continue to provide jewelry to the surrounding countries"

There were times when Kyle seemed to regret the same words.

How many times in my life was that?

"The royal family has been held by other nations by the fate of the country and has been threatened with 'I can destroy you whenever I feel like it'. … I want to make every effort to get out of that situation, to decide my own destiny in my own country and to protect my people. Could you help me get there?"

Arnold asked this with a slightly lower voice than usual.

"In other words, Coyol wants to break up his alliance with neighbouring countries and make a pact with Garchhein instead?

"You're right."

……

The balcony was wrapped in a little silence.

The silence on this occasion is accentuated by the stillness of the night club right next door. Along with that, Kyle's tension came through.

"... I wonder what the hell you're going to say..."

After a while, I hear Arnold's cold voice.

"I doubt a peaceful royalty is worth it."

"Eh."

At that moment, the air strained for a moment.

Even the leashes you're just listening to are so instinctively tense. Arnold continued with a voice that did not hide the scorn and mockery.

"Though it is foolish in itself to ask this country across the sea for the strength to fight its neighbors. Assuming we move on, what is Coyol going to bring in exchange for our country providing military power?

"… let us promise to export the gems and gold and silver that we have previously exported to our allies, with the highest priority to Garchein. We take our profits lightly and offer them cheaper than mining in our own country."

Hearing the words, Liesche understands.

(... that's what you did)

What Kyle said is that if you only look at the surface, you can act as if you think of defense as your top priority.

But it was clear that it wasn't.

(No, Prince Kyle)

Liesche leans down and speaks in his heart.

(You are a very serious person....... to lie, not suitable)

"Don't make me laugh."

Arnold didn't miss the glitch in Kyle's statement.

"If I am in your position and make such an offer to another country, there will always be a period of application for the conditions for the export of jewellery. It's only moderate self-harm, such as continuing to offer jewelry, the greatest financial resource, in disregard of profits."

"... it's..."

"You apparently know you don't have to bother separating periods. It seemed to seep unconsciously."

Arnold is right.

And some leashes have the knowledge to support that guess. From now until a few years later, I thought and understood what the export situation of the Coyote country was like.

"Is it becoming impossible to mine as many gems as possible in the Coyote Country at the earliest?

……

There are signs that Kyle has stuffed his breath.

(Yes, you were)

So far Kyle and I have been involved in different lives.

Although he had intended to bond at that time, the major problems he and the country of Coyol had were kept secret by Liesche, who was only a merchant or a pharmacist.

(Naturally. This can only be revealed to those responsible for the core of the country)

The State of Coyol has defended its existence as a nation solely by means of financial means and the power of diplomacy through political marriage.

The fact that financial power can disappear from that coyote leads directly to the demise of the nation as it is.

If there is nothing left to offer Coyol, the surrounding countries will contend over Coyol and the winning countries will end up making the territory their own.

(... something close to it was happening in the future)

That was when Arnold, who became emperor, waged war on the world.

A country as powerless as Coyol to fight, surrendering before the battle was supposed to be the least damaging way to go.

But the surrounding countries did not allow it.

Anyway, all routes from Garchhein lead to the port of Koyor.

If the country of Coyol is taken by Garchhein, it would be a great pain for the countries of the northern continent.

That is why the Allies were strong on Coyol to fight together. If Koyor refuses to do so, he declares that he will enter Koyor before Garchhein.

Coyol had no choice but to respond to the war.

He said he scratched the knights, who were only a few in the country, and threw them on the battlefield, and most of them were killed in the end.

Leishe still remembers what happened in the life of the pharmacist.

"Wertzner. I want to protect this country."

That is no longer under the circumstances of surviving a decent knight or anything like that in Coyol. Kyle, who held the sword himself, said without even hearing Liesche stop.

'For that matter, I am not going to choose the means. … that would be the greatest responsibility imposed on me when I was born dead'

Leishe doesn't know what happened to Kyle after that.

Because Leishe herself lost her life in a battlefield she went to as a pharmacist.

But I can't figure it out.

Arnold, who said so, asks, as a matter of fact, how uninterested he seems.

"Your actions are nothing short of foolishness. Why did you come to this country in a state of reckless equivalence"

The inquiry will receive an immediate response.

"My life, I'm sure, won't be that long"

Kyle's voice, with a kind of sad readiness, speaks slowly.

"My royal family will soon have a new life. I must do what I can now for the future of my child and for the sake of my own people"

"... is"

Arnold had one, zero mockery.

I'd say we're not gonna talk about it, but it's eloquent.

Then Arnold turned to Kyle and told him what was unexpected.

Let me show you how to win a war.

"... what did you just say?

Like Kyle, Leishe is surprised to hear him hiding. But Arnold doesn't go through with it.

"- In kings, doing politics that has grasped the hearts and minds of the people from time to time. to place in the General of the Army those who have excellent intelligence and command and control"

Sticky and hard shoe sounds.

"Soldiers are to select skilled people and to make them thoroughly observe orders and discipline. Both prizes and punishments for soldiers shall be fair and strict. mastering the terrain of the battlefield and proceeding, whenever possible, in favourable weather, climate for their own forces;... there are other things, but the basics would be like this"

Speaking in his hand to Kyle, Arnold continued this as well.

"But the country of Koyor will not win the war, whether you have the knowledge I have just told you. That's because you don't have the power to transfer this knowledge to execution. Can your people stop cracking firewood to get past winter and encourage training? Do you have time to spend on ideas about fattening the land, on disputes with other countries?

"It's..."

"I guess the royal family once found a way into diplomacy because they decided they couldn't"

Towards Kyle, Arnold turns his words relentlessly.

"A person who is capable is someone who can put the knowledge he has acquired into practice. And I'm not interested in incompetent people. … that would be the royalty of a neighboring country."

"Please wait, Your Highness Arnold"

"I refuse. I tell you, I seem to be making a mistake in the first place, but the emperor of this country and I are alike"

At that moment, the air in the field was even cooler.

"It suits my sexuality better to invade and put me under control than to join hands with another country"

"... eh"

The sound of Arnold's shoes echoes from the balcony. Leishe left the scene immediately before he noticed.

Leaving the hall early, noting the signs of Rovine. A large number of people fled to the corner of the hallway within the main castle with their discourse behind their backs.

And think in shade.

Swirling in my head is, of course, what happened earlier.

- This is one turning point.

Liesche exhales briefly.

(Prince Kyle proposed to His Highness Arnold the conclusion of an alliance. In the history of Garchhein, though it may be only a trivial event...... it will be a major turning point in history for the country of Coyol to change the tragedy that will happen in five years' time)

Anyway, once Coyol had no choice but to be destroyed by Garchhein or by the surrounding countries.

But if we can build friendship with Garchhein here.

If we could use that as an opportunity to gain enough power not to be frightened of the neighbouring countries, would that change the fate of Coyol?

(Absolutely, you can't go wrong here)

Liesche ties the crease together.

(Prince Kyle should be prepared to do anything to form an alliance with Garchhein. But that's pointless. With Coyol remaining in a subordinate position, Coyol's rulers will simply change from allies to Garchhein)

In that case, there is only one thing we should aim for.

(- In other words, we need to ask the Coyotic nation, which will never have great power, to enter into a reciprocal relationship with the powerful country Garchhein...?

Liesche nearly squatted on the spot.

Is there such a way to fulfill it? If Leishe can do anything more than not see the emperor of Garchhein, that's the only way to change Arnold's mind.

"It suits my sexuality better to invade and put me under control than to join hands with other countries"

That's what I said. I meant the sound.

Leishe squeezes her hands tight all the way down the road she has to grab.