Unmotivated Hero’s Tale (WN)

The Crown Prince's executive detachment.

Two men with a harrowing look in that corner were dropping their gaze on the map they had spread on their desks.

"So... what do you think about the place of the showdown, Mr. Royce"

Next door he heads to the man peeking at the map with a crease between his eyebrows, and Noyne turns her gaze to inquire about that view.

"Right. Wrong would not be the option of an imperial showdown. The Empire is not originally designed to fight, and there are too many points to defend."

"I agree. Empire is easy to attack from the enemy and hard to protect from us. Don't you dare intercept them in Imperial Capital? There's no reason to lose to them."

"... you're right"

While Royce nods at Noyne's remarks, knowing the temperament of the former Crown Prince, he gives an unexpected look.

You noticed the thought of such a subordinate, Noyne opened her mouth to a sense of self-derision when she laughed bitterly.

"Hehe, I wouldn't have used the words involved in losing my own army before... If the others spoke, they would have been angry not to think about losing before they fought. Well, the neighborhood is just like you, and I learned from defeat, too."

"I have never heard of His Royal Highness's defeat in battle…"

Hearing the words of the next emperor in front of him and unaware of such an event, Royce turns his suspicious gaze to Noyne.

Noticing that gaze, Noyne mouthed one's name with an embarrassing look.

"No, I didn't fight directly, but I lost. Just like you, a man called Yui Istarz."

"Yui Istarz......"

Now rolled over his palm with his late superior officer, and hearing that name, which caused him to suffer total defeat, Royce bit his umbilical slightly.

"Oh. With that said, you've seen his face in person, haven't you?

"Yes, only once when he came down to our army under false pretenses..."

That's what Royce tells Noyne when she pulls a dark-haired sloppy, carefree man's face from a drawer of overly bitter memories.

"Hmm... so what do you think?

"I didn't think of anything at that point except that I thought I was just a cowardly traitor. Most of the time now, when I think about it, I'm stunned by my lack of vision."

As he gently grazed his lips, Royce leaned down and dropped his gaze to the map.

Thinking of his mood like that, Noyne showed a little hesitation, but after one breath he slowly opened his mouth.

"Well... then let me hope for one thing that your eyes have grown"

"... what does that mean?

To the unexpected words that popped out of the Crown Prince's mouth, Royce looks up surprised and turns to Noyne for further explanation.

"There's one man in your unit who wants me to use it. I want to leave the man with you."

"The man you want me to use......? So, where is the man?

"Actually, it's supposed to be time to come here. Instead, it's really time we should be here by now. He's in trouble because he's so roomy in time."

Royce is stunned that Noyne, who said so, gave him a soft grin that he rarely showed. The Crown Prince, whom he knew, was a royal but always rinsy and disciplined man, and precisely a mirror of military men, it was no exaggeration.

While he waited for himself, the next emperor, he did not show one grumpy appearance, let alone spoken with 'him' intimately about the person.

For a moment Lois aroused interest in the person, but at the same time hesitated to ask the person's name, as the possibility of one person passed through his brain from the flow of conversation from earlier.

"Dear Noyne, Example Customer Arrived"

In that space where the void of conversation arose, a voice announcing the arrival of the person Noine was looking for arrives from a subordinate who was waiting outside the room.

Noyne, who received the report, turned to his men outside the door to reply when he grinned.

"Oh, okay. Let me through here."

Using Noin's voice as a signal, the door to the room is slowly opened.

It was the sloppy brunette man who appeared through that door, it should be said, still present in Royce's memory.

"Yui Istarz!"

"Uh... oh, at General Lynn En's. Hi, it's been a while. Hey, you seem to remember me, ha-ha."

I couldn't remember for a moment who was across the street from Noin, but Yui realized he was one of the people he met when he acted backwards from a less favorable reaction to himself and a memory he had left in the corner of his brain.

Slight silence.

The subtle air clearly present in that space, when Noyne felt a bitter smile, seated Yui first in order to become a buffer himself.

"Yui. It's late, not at all. Well, stand talkin 'too. Hang it over here."

"Oh, excuse me."

When Noin recommended his neighbor's seat to Yui, he slowly walked over, scratching his head, and sat down without hesitation. Then, when Yui noticed the map being spread out in front of him, he shifted his gaze straight to its center.

"I see, a map of this neighborhood? Does that mean we're still putting field combat first?

"Oh. I'll keep drinking that unintelligible suggestion you've thrown at me. And for that, I've got Royce ready as your temporary superior officer."

Noyne turns his gaze toward Royce, he stifles his expression and is slightly silent. Once he breathed heavily, and Royce turned his sharp gaze to Yui ready.

"Your Highness. I mean, you're here. You want me to treat Clarice's diplomatic ambassador?

"Oops, I'm not Clarice's diplomatic ambassador right now...... I'm supposed to. I'm here to hear the wishes of the poor princess, just a bad merchant."

When Yui utters a story that Royce has no idea, Noyne, who was listening next door, stares at him with a jitty eye.

"Hmm. Which mouth says poor princess while keeping my sister sleeveless who snuck away"

"I didn't mean to put it on my sleeve... well, that's a difference of interpretation there"

Yui scratches her head twice when she comes up with a troubled look, wondering if she still knew.

Noyne, eyeing the trick, shook her neck left and right as she shrugged, regaining her mind and opening her mouth.

"You have something to say... well, let's do that after the fight. Tomorrow, next fight. Royce, as we move forward with the proposed operation meeting, I must first tell you something. This battle was preceded by the conclusion of one business deal between me and the merchant Lord Yui Istarz, who is here. It's also an astronomical business deal."

"Merchant or business deal?

Suddenly an unexpected word popped out of Noyne's mouth, so Royce wrinkles between his brows.

The person who turned to him like that and started explaining, once he nodded loudly, he opened his mouth again.

"Oh, it's a deal. Its contents, but my country buys a ton of stuff from the Omersen Chamber of Commerce that is needed for this military operation. And as an ancillary condition, please provide after-sales service to this Lord Yui Istarz. I mean, that's the deal."

"A thing? Can you tell me exactly what it is?"

"Mm-hmm. In short, the deal is that our army buys all the demon stones that are produced from Lemuriak and that they have as inventory."

As soon as he hears about the deal, Royce groans unexpectedly. Because he understood exactly the scale of the deal sent between Yui and Noine.

Meanwhile, Noyne, who saw that Royce reaction, once again confirmed that the youth in front of him was not a simple vessel of a military commander, and smiled at his expression.

"Demon Stone? Demon Stone...? But how could you get a fight ahead of you and do something like that? I'm also reluctant to put myself in front of you, and I once lost, to make a statement like this, that it's worth putting such a huge sum of money into this Lord Yui Istarz?

"Ha, that's hard to say clearly. But I see. I kind of figured out why Noine chose him."

"If you were just incompetent with a complete military brain, you'd be flying in the battle ahead. I don't care how much they let you deal with me."

To Noin's words, Royce freezes his expression for a moment.

With a bitter smile at such a reaction, Yui opened her mouth to the two of them.

"If I say no first, the Empire won't take on that kind of deal just for me. The Demon Stone is the liver of this operation, so I took this deal. Let me explain something about that area later. Can you move quickly on to an example where you're going to need to be ready in a hurry?

"Damn, stay late and hurry... if you're from our army, you're definitely flying somewhere"

When Noyne says so in a slightly frightened manner, Yui affirms his statement as he scratches his head.

"Ha. I've already been flown like this by Clarice. Well, anyway, a lot of things. I want you to be ready as soon as possible."

"You mean that civil engineering thing that you wrote in your letter? Don't worry, I've already arranged the matter. By the time we get to Filament, we're gonna be there in time."

Yui nodded one satisfactorily when Noyne, who had already finished all the arrangements, said so.

"That's just great. Then I just need to check one more thing before I move on to the draft operation, okay?

"What, change it. Say it."

"We're talking about post-war processing. After this battle..."

When Yui speaks the word clearly, Noyne gives a slightly more difficult look.

"Postwar processing......? It's hard to say what's definitive because my uncle's intentions are exactly the same. Unless you don't mind the most personal proposal."

"That doesn't matter"

Short Yui response.

Noyne, who received it, opens his mouth by tracing the thought of the brunette in front of him as he put his arms together in front of his chest.

"Of course we do the simulation if we win and if we lose. It's just that all you care about is if our country wins, right? Of course, the ideal is filament."

"... I mean, when you reverse invade?

Turning her gaze to Noyne as she peeks, Yui erases her grin from her expression.

"Only, the ideal is. Even if I could win, it's obvious that my army, exhausted in this battle anyway, will no longer have that kind of margin... oh, I finally see the story. I mean, as an ambassador to a third country, you want to hear the terms of arbitration if our country wins and loses?

"If my presence spreads, I won't be able to say it's a third country... well, I guess it's not far away without hitting it"

Yui finally smiles bitterly at Noin's cut back, scratching his head without affirmation or denial.

"Hmm? What do you mean?

"For a little private reasons. In return for our cooperation, let me make one more condition."

"Conditions?... well, just say it, whether you accept it or not."

I didn't expect to come here and mention additional conditions, etc., and Noyne asked that in a low voice when he sharpened his gaze slightly.

"Oh. Just before we talk about that, you brought one of my men here, shall we have her talk out of her mouth? Then come in."

Yui turned to the door of the entrance to the room and uttered words. After a few moments, the door to the room slowly opens.

Then it was the red-haired woman dressed in a herd blue dress who appeared from it.

"... Yui, who is it? This woman."

Overwhelmed by the elegance and beauty overflowing from the woman in front of her, Noyne slightly clogs the words.

"It's my men. I mean, I think you've seen it before."

"What? When?"

"At your birthday celebration. Dare you say hello?

When Yui prompts the red-haired lady to do so, the lady gracefully greets Noyne.

"Yes, I am truly sorry for the sudden visit. My name is Nanya Dioram and I work for His Excellency Istarz."

"Nanya...... so? Could it be that banned Nanya! No, I don't care about that. He said it was more Dioram than that!

Noyne knew in a report that Yui's men by the name of Nanya had a bad liquor habit and had been banned from a few Teito drinkers.

Therefore, the first time I heard the name Nanya, it did not match the elegance of the woman in front of me, and the first time I was surprised. And then he realized the last name Dioram, and he opened his eyes.

"Yes, the Dioram family owner is the eldest daughter, Nanya."

"Hey, Yui!

Noyne hurriedly turned his gaze to Yui, and he nodded one light with his usual bitter grin.

"It's real. I'm not going to lie to you, and I just put up a change of balls, and you'll find out as soon as you find out. More than that, that's the real deal from here. As you said earlier, the ideal is filament. [M] Can you stop that?

"... what are you going to do?

"She's been kicked out of the country, but I still don't want to lose her homeland. And as her boss, me, I don't want to see her men grieving. That's all."

Yui says so with a shrugged shoulder, against Noin, who is turning a deserving gaze.

"Hmm...... if you add, as Yui Istarz, Clarice's diplomatic ambassador, that it's dangerous for the Empire to ensure back safety, given the future?

"Hehe, I'm not denying anything."

Yui, who gave the teacher a look like when the flirtatious found out, scratches his head with a bitter smile.

"That's just ideal, as I said earlier. As things stand, Filament is definitely superior to our army. Whether our country wins after the battle, a reverse invasion is a dream story. But now, why do you think it's a problem to swallow a filament that you can't possibly do?

"That's because I'm going to crush the filament thoroughly and overwhelmingly."

In response to Noyne's inquiry, Yui says so in a light tone, as if it were nothing.

When Noyne heard the word solidified slightly on the spot, he exhaled to squeeze it slowly.

"What? Yui... you..."

"Noin. I will let you win this battle against the Imperial Army. That's close to complete victory, too. But instead, I want you to give up filament swallowing."

Having said that clearly, Yui smiles nicely and turns his gaze to Noyne.

With that grin in his eyes, Noyne slowly closes his eyes and exhales a loud sigh once. Then he turned to Yui and shook his head small and vertically.

"Fine. That condition… let's swallow."

"Your Highness!"

Hearing Noin's answer, Royce, sitting across the street unexpectedly, rode herself out and raised her voice.

"Easy, Royce. Stay calm and keep abreast of the status quo. Never a bad suggestion, I would rather say a condition of breaking. But if it happens..."

"but...... no, you're right indeed"

Royce is ashamed that his unconscious rebellion against Yui was in himself. Given the conditions calmly, the conditions presented by Yui were what could be described as a breakdown for the Empire if realized.

"I guess that explains it, huh? Filament army made up of all those magicians, dealing with 20,000 +, how to crush them completely and do it."

"Oh. Shall I try to explain one thing then? They believe in their superiority and they don't doubt how brittle they are and what they believe in."

Yui's smile, so mouthed, was the flirtatious grin itself floated by the adolescent boy.