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Chapter 38: Hot-spring conversation! Part 2
Chapter 38: Hot-spring conversation! Part 2
Chapter 38: Hot-spring conversation! Part 2
I finished scrubbing but for some reason the girls went back in the bathtub with a entranced look. And then, I heard the affairs from Laara.
“I see, basically the demon king country Ishtar was overrun by the forces of Whikram.”
At my words, the demon Laara nodded by shaking her silver hair up and down.
“Umu. Concisely saying it was a united force with the Balk empire. They took advantage of the demon emperors scattering in the front. Well, now that I think about it that may have been the diversion. At any rate we were outnumbered and while I was leaving the castle I met with Mira who told me to find Masatsugu-dono and seek help from him, so I ran till here. During my escape I exhausted my magic power, at the end the right hand of the Demon calling himself Alham the great sorcerer assaulted me and I thought that was the end, but then you showed up out of nowhere like a knight to save me!”
She said that while looking at me and faintly blushing.
Fumu, did she get bathtub fever?
Well, more than that the Balk empire again, huh. If I’m right that empire is the same one that burned the forest Elin was residing in.
Something smells wrong here.
“So, what do you intend to do from now on?”
“Please, Masatsugu-san! With me somehow please come and save my demon country!”
I asked her with a serious expression and she replied back with a gaze that she was depending upon me.
“Oi, what are you going on about from nowhere?”
About her sudden request I just lightly brushed it off.
But despite of my attitude towards her she was heading towards me with a serious look on her.
“Please I beg you! I have no one to rely except Masatsugu-dono! Whikram’s forces are strong! Especially his spirit techniques where he manipulates the dead. The one who can defy the dreadful power of the undead forces is Masatsugu-dono only!”
And she pleaded desperately to me.
“I have to manage the orphanage. That’s why I cannot separate myself from here. I’m sorry but I cannot accept Laara’s request.”
I shook my head and refused her.
“That can’t be… Can’t you help somehow?”
She despairingly dropped her shoulders and tears began to well up on her eyes and came to cling herself on me.
Un, at this rate she’s pitiable.
Is there some other good way?
Aaah, there’s that!
“Then, Laara would you like to live here?”
“Eh!? Me in the orphanage? Certainly I don’t have parents, so you could say I’m a orphan…”
Laara tilted her head in confusion due her not understanding it well.
“As expected, Master! It’s an amazing strategy! Being near Master she will be absolutely safe!”
“That’s right. If she’s near Masatsugu-sama she’ll never be in danger. And while gaining time here, the rest of the scattered demon survivors will gather.”
“It’s exactly as Masatsugu-san says~ Going back there alone is suicidal~ There’s the concern about the country but you can spend the time here in obscurity~ The great demon king Lala-chan can be completely protected here and prepare her counter attack. It’s like hitting two birds with one stone.”
Usually I would teach tactics to Lucia and the other girls but this time they said and guessed my intentions.
“Fumu, it seems everyone has been learning from me various things. That’s correct, well understood.”
When I praised the girls they had huge smiles and were glad.
“Amazing. I was only thinking about counter-attacking immediately but I would’ve been caught by the enemy and my country would’ve been over. Right now I should make some place into a safehold and start to rally the scattered forces in the world. Thank you, Masatsugu-dono. I was not in my best mind.”
Laara looking at our exchange and was also able to understand and looked at me with respect and gave her full gratitude.
“There’s no need for gratitude. I just simply proposed a proper idea based from history’s military annals. It’s not a big deal.”
I shook my head.
“No, to think of an strategy in an instant, is not ordinary at all. Even in the demon king’s country there were no strategists to the level of Masatsugu-dono. If we had you then our country wouldn’t have been defeated…”
With a profound respect she was looking at me and said that.
Sigh, I just told it as I thought about it.
I received no special training, it’s just the uncommon innovation.
That’s why I would be troubled if somebody praises me. I just naturally said what I had came to mind, it wasn’t an particular idea.
“Then, is this really okay Masatsugu-dono? You probably knows this, but the Warmmes country here is hostile to the demon people country Ishtar. There was a period of friendliness but for the past 30 years there has been an continual war for water resources. This country also brought back the ritual for summoning heroes from another world to counter my country. I understand that you are different from the other heroes. But the people from that country and it’s heroes look upon the demons with hostility. It’s’ not like there aren’t any demons living in Warmmes, but I’m still ashamed from you listening to me. Even with such affairs you’ll still take me in the orphanage?”
“Of course.”
I gave an immediate reply without worry.
“Wwha”
The demon king herself was surprised and her mouth was opening and closing.
“Fufufu, oi, why is Laara so surprised about it?”
I found her state amusing and reflexively let it out.
“Masatsugu-dono! Is it alright to decide such important things like going hostile against countries so fast!? Will you not regret it?”
She said that and with loud splashes she was coming closer to me.
“Laara-chan is misunderstanding. Master cannot be limited by something like countries.”
“That’s right, Laara-chan. Masatsugu-san looks at the world with a perspective of how things can be. Whether you are hostile to this or not countries it won’t influence Masatsugu-sama’s decision.”
“Sometime ago he defeated the Warmmes elite force in an instant~ In the first place Masatsugu-san is at the very peak.~ So if the country takes action that warrants violation then Masatsugu-san would have no other choice but to punish them~”
Before I could answer her the girls around me opened their mouths and answered.
Well, that should be just right.
“Warmmes laws and political policies have too many problems that I have not addressed them yet. I was intending to give a lecture for the king and the nobles so that they can learn. But the ones who will not follow along should be dismissed from their position.”
I shook my head and replied.
“Amazing… To see everything on a larger scale. I think I understand now why Mira was speaking of Masatsugu-dono with adoration. It’s not only about power. The huge tolerance towards others, the character of a ruler, open-mindedness and overflowing talent. Masatsugu-sama is fillied with all of these.”
I could sense a deep respect in her eyes when she was saying that.
“Well, yeah that’s right. That’s why there’s no problem for you to live here.”
“Yes, thank you!”
She was deeply moved by my words and gave a healthy reply resembling of a young girl and clung herself to me.
I was thinking about something else while petting the head of Laara and the other girls who were enviously clinging to me.
Balk Empire.
The country that boasts the continents strongest spy’s and who aimed for Elin’s life.
Those guys were people that I once defeated, them attacking the demon people’s country with Balk empire are disquieting movements.
I’ll talk to Silvy a bit and have her examine.
Afterwards, I’m a little worried about Mira’s whereabouts.
She departed to the front of a battle against foreign country and hasn’t been heard ever since.
Laara might pretend like it’s okay, but deep down she’s worried.
I’ll have to include for Silvy to search the whereabouts of the demon emperors.
Sigh, I only want to concentrate on managing the orphanage, yet I am getting enrolled in the upheavals of this world. This is truly troublesome.
While thinking about it, I let out a sigh.