Tsumi Kake Tensei Ryoushu no Kaikaku

After the meeting, the Sola ministerial delegation began to move busily.

I guess I'll get the work done on each morning, such as preparing breakfast.

In the meantime, Chaff speaks with a serious face against Sora, who took his seat.

"Sir Sola, there is one thing on the agenda earlier that is missing"

"What's missing?

Sora, who was about to walk away, inquired with a strange face.

Chaff took a quiet deep breath.

A group of ministers who were about to leave the room are all stopping to watch what happens.

Chaff gets ready and opens his mouth.

"You're supposed to give a final notice to the Zillah Chamber of Commerce Federation, right?

A final notice, arguably a half-declaration of war, showing the Zillah Chamber of Commerce Coalition that moderate negotiations are the last.

"Is that so? We're gonna pick people out of the flames later with Gorge."

Sora turns a masked face to Gorge.

Roger, Gorge returned the words.

But Chaff spoke differently.

I want you to let me handle the final announcement.

Chaff's words brought silence to the face of the conference room.

In the air stretched out in the blink of an eye, Lulu arms himself to represent the field.

"I'm not free enough to be listening to jokes"

Chaff looked around at Sora and the ministerial corps.

The air in the field clogs my breath.

─ ─ You can't give up.

Chaff holds his fist firmly inside.

"I didn't mean to make a joke"

"That's a funny joke."

Lulu said away from the bottom of his heart as if he were stuck, leaving his back on the wall.

In the meantime, Chaff reassured me that you'd just listen, and...

"Hey."

I can tell even over the mask. Had a cold voice, I turn my face to Sola.

What popped into Chaff's eyes was a fist.

Sola's fist approaching with sharpness that I don't think was rolled out of her thin arms.

Chaff closed his lid tightly to that fist, which was struck by surprise and could not be evaded in time.

But without sounding the expected blow, Sola's fist stopped at Chaff's nose tip.

"... Chaff, if I wave through this fist, it will only develop into a diplomatic issue with Count Trinen"

Sola, with her arms down, speaks like a teacher.

"Your body and your life aren't as cheap as Chaff thinks."

"... I know"

Chaff responded to squeeze it out.

Sora shakes her head.

"The Zira Federation of Chambers of Commerce employs a large number of mercenaries in the name of warehouse numbers. There's no way you can send Chaff to the home of a hostile force with force."

I have always paid close attention and delivered a letter to the Zillah Chamber of Commerce Federation.

Moreover, this is the final announcement, which also has the significance of declaring war.

"Not worthy of consideration"

Sora concludes, going through the side of Chaff to the door of the conference room.

The ministerial delegation, which accepted Sora's conclusions as a matter of course, also tried to leave the room without any particular objection.

─ ─ Can't you...

Chaff bites his lower lip.

Striking out his impatience with pain, Chaff reached for the letter he had made sneak in his nostalgia and stopped.

Give me the letter and Sora won't be able to turn down Chaff's offer.

But it is too cowardly to face the honored.

─ Yes, if you can't convince me with words, there's no way I can crack this thing open.

Chaff starts spinning his words out of his mind, where tension and impatience twist wildly.

"─ I respect Lord Sola!

Suddenly Sora looked over her shoulder wondering what she was going to say.

Feeling Sora's gaze on her back, Chaff continues.

"Having set up a duel on Sir Sola, I was a narrow-minded fool who wouldn't even listen to his opponent. He was a fool who judged people only by the words around him and didn't know what to do with himself."

I remember Sora taking the haters, called the Phantom Squad, with dignity and confronting them head-on.

That day, the rows of wooden swords were made clean, and no one could be ashamed of their humanity.

"When the shortage of firewood in the crossport, which Sir Sola took me to visit, was eliminated, I saw people smile and knew that the happiness of the inhabitants was the only justice"

At the time, I still couldn't afford to understand.

"I still think Sir Sola's means to contain the disturbance of the barley horns is evil. For a man should be judged only by the sins he has committed. But the result that led was undoubtedly just"

Facts that kept me out of sight until I competed with Felix.

Now I know.

The means of evil that leads to justice.

That 's--

"I guess it's hypocrisy. But it's a worthy hypocrisy. … is a worthy hypocrisy that needs to be prepared to exchange"

Chaff cuts the words and looks back slowly.

Soon, Sola was turning to chaff by body.

The ministerial corps also listens quietly with a serious face.

"She was talking when she met Yella in the king's capital"

Little by little, as he regains his calm, Chaff wraps a thread of memory and leans in with his thoughts.

"If you don't have money, you're not a guest, if you're not a customer, you're not a person... if you don't have money, you're not a person. A merchant told me."

And Yella had declared to rebel.

"Then let the gold be scattered among all men. In fact, Yellah builds a Zillah Chamber of Commerce coalition, collects gold and has a large number of workers"

Yella is getting results.

And Yella was talking to herself in mockery.

"He said he was a worshipper to spit on himself. Knowing that it was hypocrisy, Yellah formed the Zillah Chamber of Commerce Federation. I respect her, too."

"But Yella has gone too far."

Words were released so that Sola could bathe in cold water.

Chaff did not deny it.

Nod small and open your mouth.

"That's right. As it is, it will be a power struggle with nobility. That should conflict with Yellah's purpose. But Yella doesn't see the future. 'Cause no one's gonna put a toothpick on it."

Didn't Yellah say that few people see the goal and that the only one who leads the way is himself?

Yellah was reaching out for someone, someone who only looked to the goal, to stay by her side.

Driven by inferiority, Chaff ripped Yellah's hand off at that time.

"It may be now, but it shouldn't be too late. Sir Sola, I will definitely bring Yella. Just once, talk to me."

And Chaff bowed his head.

After a while of silence, Sora returns the answer briefly.

"─ No, no, no, no."