Chapter 161: Meetup ; Plans (1/2)
”Prince Wales!” a sweet voice calls out to me as soon as I exit the teleportation gateway.
Looking over, I find Kirche who's accompanied by Tabitha and Louise walking toward my direction.
”Kirche, how have you been doing?” I ask with a smile on my lips the moment that she's close enough to hear me.
”I've been doing well, thank you,” she responds.
”Hey, you went to war right?” Louise hastily says.
”If you're speaking about the battle that occurred two days ago, then yes, I did go to war,” I casually reply.
”Why did you go?!” she exclaims, ”Couldn't you have sent the soldiers to do everything?”
”No, Louise,” I respond in a serene tone, ”One must lead his men to glory to be accepted by his people.”
Or, so I say, but I just wanted to kill some men myself and see if there is anything worth looking into.
In the end, there was nothing interesting other than the contraptions that created the vines, which only appeared in three towns.
Of those three, I prevented the one in the town I was in to get activated, while another one got destroyed fairly quickly.
As for the last one, that's where the tragedy comes in.
It turned out that there was another town under attack, however, it was done indirectly.
Unlike the other towns, that town didn't have much security, so the enemy exploited that to stealthily place the contraption and activate it without anyone knowing.
This resulted in the whole town to get swallowed up in vines, with buildings crushed and the inhabitants killed.
Simply put, even if the contraption is to be destroyed, there is no saving grace for the town itself.
Anyway, what amazes me is the fact that I have no idea why the enemy would do this.
It's seemingly pointless to kill the people in a town and destroy the town itself.
Wouldn't it be more effective if they 'usurped' the current lord of the kingdom for their objective?
Speaking of which, the objective was something along the lines of taking back the Holy Land.
I wonder what this Holy Land is and why is it referred to as such.
Is there some religious structure there?
Leaving all that aside, I focus back on reality and say,
”Louise, I will soon become a king. Do you believe that the people will be willing to follow a king that isn't able to lead his men to battle?”
”But, it wasn't for your kingdom…”
”That's right. It wasn't for my kingdom. The whole point of what I did was to show off our military prowess.”
”That makes sense,” Kirche comments, ”I was wondering why you did that, but now it makes sense.”
Shrugging my shoulders, I say wryly,
”I can't do anything that won't be beneficial for my kingdom, now can I?”
”So, what's going to happen now?” Kirche asks me seriously.
”We're going to take down the Kingdom of Gallia,” I nonchalantly reply, ”They're the ones who declared the war, so we might as well bring it to their doorsteps.”
”You'd make a fine king,” Kirche remarks.
”And you'd make a fine queen,” I say while smirking.
”Stop that,” Louise says, clearly annoyed, ”Are you going to be leading again?”
I look at her in the eyes and say with confusion apparent on my face,
”Leading? I will be the one to take down the kingdom before having my soldiers take control of it.”
”You're insane!” Louise directly exclaims.
”And why is that?”
Just as Louise is about to reply, someone's voice resounds in the distance,
”Sir Wales!”
Looking over, I find an exasperated Jean running over.
”What's wrong?” I ask him while holding back from the temptation of patting Louise's head due to how cute she looks while pouting.
”The headmaster wishes to talk to you.”
Huh, it's about damn time.
”Very well,” I reply, ”I shall head over in a moment.”
Jean nods his head once before heading back inside the building.