NOVEL NEXT Chapter 10: The Marquis is a Good Man, Isn't He~~~! / Treat with Respect, Lolita P-Cup!
[War’s End, Jean-Jacques von Shurehito]
“How can… such a ridiculous thing…!”
Marquis Jean-Jacques von Shurehito was speechless.
In his mind, the Alvatros side, with only about a thousand active troops, was supposed to face considerable hardship.
Indeed, a war hero. He wouldn’t be easily defeated, but an easy victory was unthinkable.
Surely, the situation would become dire, and the battlefield would become chaotic.
—And during that chaos. Jean-Jacques, claiming to be an ally and entering the territory, was supposed to harm him. Yet.
“Why is the kingdom’s army already annihilated…!?”
The outcome had already been decided within less than an hour since the battle started.
The result was a great victory for the Alvatros side.
The battlefield behind the territory had turned into a hellish landscape of mountains of corpses and rivers of blood, with all the pierced, skewered, and burned corpses belonging to the beastmen of the Urus Kingdom.
Not a single human corpse was to be seen.
“—Ah. This is the Marquis”
“Hi-!?”
And then.
A blond man approached leisurely.
He, with his imperial purple, Fenicia purple eyes, was none other than the empire’s supreme force and the despicable “Hero Alvatros.”
“This, this is Lord Alvatros! Upon hearing of the disturbance, I rushed over, only to find that it had already ended…!”
His voice inadvertently raised.
Because of the scattered pieces of flesh, the kingdom’s soldiers were sent by Jean-Jacques von Shurehito himself.
Oh, what would happen if that was exposed…? The beautiful man who had carried out the massacre in front of him now seemed terrifying with every move he made.
“Oh, you’re uninjured, that’s good…!”
“This is troubling indeed… However, it’s surprising. I never thought you would come to help.”
“Su-surprising, what do you mean!?”
His heart raced.
His legs trembled under the sinister gaze.
“A minor misunderstanding aside, we had a bit of a dispute. Yet, you came to help so readily?”
“Hig-!?”
“Moreover, quite swiftly. Against the kingdom’s complete surprise attack, it’s impressive how quickly you noticed…?”
“Ah, ah, ah…!”
—No doubt. This man, he knows…!?
Tension ran through Marquis Shurehito’s heart.
His heart shrunk, and a bad sweat broke out from his small back.
“Ah, that is, um…!”
“No need to say. As my relative, you’ve done your duty admirably, right? Truly a model nobleman.”
“!? (This guy…!)”
What does he mean by “model nobleman”…? His brain was a mess of fear, humiliation, and anger from that merciless sarcasm.
“I, I have…!”
I have made a secret pact with the Urus Kingdom.
Knowing it would expose me to the risk of being a traitor, he still calls me a model nobleman.
Oh, what a cold-blooded man he is—.
“Uh, uuuuuuuh…!”
“Oho? What’s wrong, Marquis Shurehito? You look almost like you’re about to cry. Are you that happy I’m safe? Hm?”
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuh!”
It’s the worst, the worst, the worst!
Knowing everything, the man in front of me started to torment me with his words without directly harming me.
Enjoying the sight of me suffering in humiliation…!
“Eh… I’m truly glad you’re safe, yes! Since I’m no longer needed, I’ll return to my territory!”
—In the end, Jean-Jacques von Shurehito chose to retreat in frustration.
Half in despair, he spat out his words and turned his back on the detestable beauty.
“Ah, wait, Marquis.”
“What, what is it, Lord Alvatros…!?”
Turning back at the beautiful voice calling out, he was terrified.
For on the hero’s face was a terrifying, full-faced smile, like a beast that had found its toy.
“Kukuku… We are planning to hold a victory ceremony soon. Perhaps you, too, would enjoy participating in our territory?”
“Hiieeee!?”
Reading between the lines, he trembled.
—Abduction and imprisonment followed by torture. It was clear he intended to make him confess the fact of their secret agreement and then make him suffer a living hell as retaliation…!
Therefore,
“No, thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!”
The Marquis fled in a panic.
He ran back to his territory with humiliation, anger, and, above all, utmost fear in his heart.
—From then on, Jean-Jacques von Shurehito would spend several days in bed, terrified of the hero monster’s revenge.
Meanwhile,
“Ah, what a shame. I was really happy the Marquis came to help, so I thought we’d have a blast together…”
…The man of unnecessary, sinister ultimate beauty had no idea…!
He hadn’t even realized that the Marquis was connected to the kingdom.
This shallow-thinking man named Alvatros simply took his words at face value, believing that “The Marquis came to help! He’s a good person!”.
“Well, whatever! Now I know the Marquis is a good person who probably only harassed me because his royal superiors reluctantly told him to! Alvatros is mature enough to understand such things~ Can’t be helped~!”
He understood nothing.
Being a coward, he would annihilate his enemies with all his might in battle, but in peaceful times, his fluffy thinking was his default.
Thus, he judged the malicious Marquis Shurehito “a hard-working, good person.”
Without a single doubt, he unilaterally raised his favorability towards him.
“Let’s go hang out next time.”
It was hell.
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[The Next Day, In the Morning Bedroom]
“Woahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Nina-chan hasn’t messed up the morning wood?! Yay, it’s a miracleeeeeeeeeee!”
The day after the war ended, I was moved from the morning…!
“Nina-chan, despite repeatedly being told to ‘behave yourself’ and ‘feel shame as a maiden of fifteen,’ you never learned. I always thought that those who gleefully engage in wars from a young age are no good.”
Finally, that lewd blanket has taken a step towards becoming a lady. Well, not engaging in morning assaults is fundamentally human so that it might be a step as a person rather than a lady, but good!
“No casualties in yesterday’s battle, so it’s all good. No need to worry about our side, so let’s go check on the enemies~”
—In a battle of approximately ten thousand, we annihilated more than ninety percent of them.
However, given the size of their forces, there seemed to be some who managed to return alive, and there were also those who were captured as prisoners.
“The Sofia Treaty Article 3, Clause 1 states, ‘During combat, those who throw away their weapons, kneel with both knees and raise both hands while shouting their surrender shall not be harmed unnecessarily. The same applies to those in a state of unconsciousness.'”
The opponents the other day were in such a panic that even those who cried out still held their weapons, or if they threw away their weapons, they just ran back to their lines.
That’s not acceptable. They have to be killed.
In the former case, there’s a possibility of deceit, and in the latter, running back to one’s lines is considered an attempt to resupply, not a surrender. So, we killed them all.
“And then, there was this one prisoner who caught my eye, having fainted from blood loss or shock.”
She was a beastman girl in her early teens.
I found that unusual.
“I was sent to the battlefield at twelve, but that was because the empire was in a pinch of extinction. And then there’s Nina-chan, who has been on the battlefield since her early teens but had a natural talent for magic.”
In that respect, this girl doesn’t seem to fit either example.
She charged into the vanguard without using magic, just getting shot at with a crossbow and falling. Normally, you’d expect her to be near death with her organs pierced.
“…Yeah, her chest saved her.”
That white-eared, white-tailed beastman girl, with a youthful face and a height of about 130cm, had a chest that… overwhelmingly surpassed even busty Nina.
According to my eyes, which can see through material structures due to my [Creation Magic Formula], her bust size is over 130cm.
Roughly speaking, a P-cup. Thanks to that, she’s left quite an impression.
“Hmm… that chest is dangerous.”
Not in a sexual sense but in a magical feeling.
While it’s currently more superstition than fact, it’s said that those with magical talent tend to have developed genitalia for men and breasts for women.
Since magicians absorb an invisible energy called “magic power” from the air into their flesh and blood, it makes sense that their storage or storage medium would grow more massive than others.
“On the battlefield, she was carelessly put on the front lines and easily defeated, confirming she’s not a magician. So, she might be a late bloomer like me.”
Typically, those with a talent for magic awaken around the time they become conscious of themselves, but some awaken later due to a strong shock.
That’s what happened to me. I awakened in my first battle out of sheer desperation.
“…In that sense, that Lolita P-cup is dangerous. Becoming half-dead and half-alive from a mysterious weapon like a crossbow is shock enough.”
Yes, yesterday I was too delighted to realize the neighboring Marquis is a good person, and we won.
“She’s a girl, so I put her in a different prisoner’s cell than the guys, but I didn’t set up proper surveillance. That might have been a mistake…!?”
“Alright! I’ll treat that Lolita P-cup with all due respect~!”
So, let’s visit her right away.
She was bleeding out and seemed done for yesterday, but she might have regained consciousness by now.
“To prevent her from awakening her magical talents… and even if she’s already awake, to keep her from going on a rampage, I’ll treat her with utmost kindness!”
Time to be a gentleman, Alvatros!
Ei ei, oh!
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[In the Detainment Room]
“Come on, Rahmu, spit out everything about the current situation and military strength of the Urus Kingdom.”
“Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!”
…When I entered the room, there was Nina-chan, having tied up the girl to a chair, covered in burns.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?