Wortenia Senki (WN)

On that day, the sound of an elegant and modest knock echoed in the aisle of the mansion of the Earl of Salzberg, which soars in the centre of the fortified city of Ipilos.

"You. I'm sorry to entertain you, but may I have a moment?

Yulia Salzberg speaks to the Lord of the Room as she hears the woman gasping from day to day through the door.

I guess I heard that voice. The woman's rough breath stopped for a moment and the sound of a guillotine and floor tingling, and the voice of a man filled with irritation echoed from inside.

"What is it, Julia? Because it's a good place now. If you're not in a hurry, come back later."

That is as arrogant and confident a voice as when my husband commands his servant.

I can't feel any hindsight in the voice of my husband, Count Thomas Salzberg, even though he was called by his own wife in the midst of pulling a young maid of childhood into his room from day to day into the affair.

If people who know the usual Earl of Salzberg heard the words and voices now, they would surely doubt their ears. Because the power relationship between the Earl and Lady of Salzberg is apparent and the Lady is thought to be stronger.

Besides, the attitude of the Earl of Salzberg today is a sight that can be described as unusual even in a peculiar world called aristocracy. I can understand well how the Count does not see Julia as his wife.

In modern society, this could also be described as a form of mental abuse.

If you have a decent nerve, you can take it for granted to think about divorce or separation.

But Julia has no right to choose that choice.

(I just work like a slave for this guy. I can't break up, I can't even separate... that's what I don't want in my position... but)

Julia herself does not consider herself otherwise to be a hygienist.

If my own husband wants to have a side room, I'm going to have enough weight to hear that wish, not to mention my heart. If it's more, it's even in view of getting off the seat of my real wife.

Originally only in the capacity of daughter of a leading merchant of Ipilos, Julia. No matter how economically wealthy they were, merchants are only civilians as perceived from the framework of the identity system.

Indeed, some merchants, called luxury merchants, have the power to fly around between nations and also shape a country's trends. It is also not true that even kings, whether they are civilians or not, must give their due thanks if they are to be such merchants. But how many such merchants would exist even if they looked around the world?

But that is also true if I am recognized by the Count as my wife.

What Yulia Salzberg was like for the Count was obvious just from looking at that attitude. It is formally she who is no different than a servant, even if she is in the formal room of the Count's house.

Even if it's something I've been prepared for since the beginning, my heart screams whenever I see my husband's heartless demeanor and attitude.

Emotions mixed with boiling disgust, frustration, and deep sadness. Julia quietly tells her what to do, suppressing her desire to cry out to her own too much.

"I have a letter from Baron Shiba of the Waltenia Peninsula."

I heard a loud tongue pounding from inside the room at the words.

Although we are enjoying ourselves, we are able to judge the situation on the boulder.

"Okay... wait a minute, I'll get dressed now"

Julia sighs small at the voice.

The prodigy of the current Earl of Salzberg, Lord of Ipilos, is now.

I guess it's a recoil that has been strictly raised from an early age and striving to qualitatively agree. He never hesitated to dissipate that suppressed desire from the day he kicked his father down and sat on the seat of the Earl of Salzberg homeowner. What's in his head right now is gastronomy and women making up the majority. And it is his wife, Julia's job, to carry out her work as a lord.

If you count, Julia, who is not of aristocratic origin, is nothing but a gardener who tends her garden. He said he would take care of the garden by the name of Ypiros. If you lose the value of your use, you'll just be rewarded with another human being...

Julia herself understands the matter best.

It was an unwanted marriage in the form of a half personal offering, but Julia tried to love her husband as much as she did, and in fact she had even spent more than a decade.

Count Salzberg's reputation and track record of steadily governing the border zone for many years. And military power as an alliance lord that binds the nobles of northern Roselia.

To support them, Julia has been responsible for the economy of this fortified city of Ipilos. The feat is by no means light.

But the reality was heartless.

(I'm only a tool to this guy...)

From all around us, I was seen as a brave woman manipulating the Earl of Salzberg behind my back, and this is the only truth.

Julia unwittingly turns away at the slutty, stinky smell that struck her the moment she opened the door to that room.

"What are you doing? If you need anything, just get in there."

Cold inorganic voice. I guess I'm upset that you're interrupting your enjoyment.

To Julia, who remains standing at the entrance to the room, the Earl of Salzberg orders her to go inside with his chin.

The moment I heard that voice, Julia's heart was determined.

"It's fine here. Don't let anyone near this room until I call you."

When ordered by the maid who opened the door so, Julia slowly stepped into the room.

"You think it's a letter from that young man? What the hell do you want?"

That being said, the Earl of Salzberg sticks his hand out in front of Julia with a surprised look on his face.

"It's a solid wax seal... it doesn't look good on that young man, it's a lot of stuff"

The sealed wax applied to the letter received represents a design with a two-headed snake tangled in the sword, and the sender of this letter is from Baron Goshiba.

When the Earl of Salzberg looks at the "Shiatsu" and the letter frequently, he takes out the small knife for opening from the desk placed in the corner of the room.

"Which... what the hell does that young man have to say?"

The Count's gaze slowly glances over the letter.

Eventually the Earl of Salzberg, having finished reading the letter, slowly folded the paper.

Eventually a tall laugh began to sound in the room dominated by severe silence.

"Kukukukuku...... hahahahaha! This is delightful. It's a real pleasure."

Covering his face with his right hand and releasing a laugh toward heaven is proof that he is making fun of his opponent from the bottom of his heart.

"What the hell does it say?

To Julia, who inquired very naturally as she pushed her heart away, the Count stuck out the letter in his hand.

It was Julia who had already been informed and grasped by her father, but there was no reason to speak of it on this occasion. She received the letter in silence.

"What do you think?

The laughing Earl Salzberg's eyes shoot sharply through Julia.

"Proclamation of war... I guess"

That's a lie free feeling. In fact, if you summarize the text written in this letter, there is no other way to interpret it. But the Earl of Salzberg laughed with his nose at such Yulia's words.

"An idiot. I haven't heard such a thing. All I asked was why that young man had openly stripped me of his fangs... and that's why"

Written in this letter are apologies and reparations for the fact that secret detectives have been sent in by the Earl of Salzberg in recent years to carry out sabotage activities in the territory. And it is two things to delegate full command of the army stationed in Ipilos to Baron Godzilla in order to restore security in the Kingdom of Roselia, where the devastation of the land is intense due to the revolt of the civilians.

But the Earl of Salzberg understands that both of these reasons are only in front of the building.

First of all, it is true that a secret detective was sent to the peninsula, but such a thing is done by any lord, and most importantly, it has never been ordered to destroy the territory.

There is also no reason for the Earl of Salzberg to honestly admit it, assuming that he ordered sabotage activities.

Even using words such as apology and compensation, it would be reasonable to see this as a declaration of war in anticipation of being denied from the outset.

It is also an unscrupulous demand to delegate command of the army in order to restore security in Roselia.

I wonder what world there is where people give others armies to defend their territory.

Not to mention the fact that the person you delegate is sending an interlocutor into the realm to set up sabotage. Hand over troops to men hostile to the Earl of Salzberg to defend their territory. Such comedy is not the case.

Whatever the big name you list, it would be good to affirm that there is no such thing as a lord who gives the military command in this situation.

If so, there are two possibilities. Whether the person who wrote this request is an idiot who can't understand the race of the powerful, or has written it intentionally after understanding that the request is unacceptable from the beginning?

But neither Julia nor the Earl of Salzberg are foolish enough to judge the man who says Ryo Shiba as a fool of creation.

"I think we've seen a recent wave of civilian insurgency as an opportunity to expand our forces."

"I see... in the current situation, there will be no cross spears coming in from Wang Du..."

In Julia's words, the Earl of Salzberg had a dark grin.

The position of the man who says Ryo Mitsuzai is really subtle within Roselia.

The Waltenia Peninsula, known as the Demonic Realm, was only an unexpected secluded area of little tax revenue. But the trade agreement between the three eastern countries and the kingdom of Ernesgoola changed the land. As a relay point for transactions that cannot be indispensable when using the Northern Route of the Continent.

In addition, many of the monsters living on the peninsula are traded at very high values as materials for medicines and weapons.

Those riches are in the hands of a single builder.

Naturally I find it uninteresting if I try it on the nobles around me. Well, as long as you try to be Queen Lupis, who tried to seal your son Ryo Shiba to the border, it will be bitter.

And those grievances are bound to start a war soon.

The neighboring lords will seek a share of the pie, which they say rights, and the queen will plot a territorial change.

And, naturally, there is no way that Ryo Misaki doesn't understand his precarious position. One of those countermeasures is this letter.

"It's hard to make the soil from scratch to feed a soldier. If so, we'll have to attack the surrounding territory."

"If that man wants to survive, there's only one option. It's the only way out south."

As an emerging builder, the aristocracy is limited in its desire to cooperate with the Baron Goshiba family, which is considered heretical by the aristocratic community.

In other words, it is overwhelmingly unfavourable to pressure from the surrounding aristocracy and royal interference.

Assuming there is authenticity in the Baron Goshiba family, it has no effect whatsoever.

Justice is always only a majority vote.

But at this point in time when the country is full of turmoil, the story changes.

Because even if Ryo Mitsuzai cuts the territory by force, the royal family doesn't have enough leeway to blame it.

"Hmm... well, I guess that's where his thoughts are"

Deeply nodding to Julia's words, the Earl of Salzberg put his arms together and silenced.

(At first glance, it seems like a reckless choice, but in that man's position, is there any other option... is this some kind of hit-and-run, or is there some kind of chance...)

Various predictions float behind the Count's brain and disappear.

"So, what are you going to do?

"I don't feel better than I don't know what's going on on on on the peninsula, but I'll have to speak up to the nobles around me..."

The Earl opened his heavy mouth to Julia's inquiry, which broke a long silence.

I haven't grasped the situation on the peninsula at all, while sending in many undercover detectives. I don't think it's possible, but against the backdrop of a wealth of financial resources, it's not possible to surpass the Salzberg Count's army.

While making fun of Liang Zhen as a builder, the judgment of Count Salzberg, a fierce warrior, is truly solid.

"You muster your soldiers and smash them in one breath in the field. Sure... the flavor is reduced, but I can't help it. I understand. Now get your letters ready..."

With that said, I gracefully thank you, and Julia leaves the room early enough.

At that time the Earl of Salzberg felt only slightly uncomfortable.

The Count keeps staring at Julia's back in silence. It's like trying to see through the depths of her mind.