Tearmoon Empire Story

Episode 84: Ludwig, Scout

“I apologize for calling you, Captain Dion”

“No, if it is revealed to His Highness, our end soldier, at any time, it is only natural”

Dion on one knee and drooling his head. It was a rare and special victory attitude for His Highness the Princess, who saved the lives of his own men.

Even so, it doesn’t have the same atmosphere that makes me want to be “disrespectful” after that.

“Oh, really? I don’t know, it’s a little creepy to be told that by you… but, well, fine. Actually, I’d like to ask you a favor.”

Why, it was Meer staring at me with a vigilant face when I did it, but I coughed it up once and spoke it out like I had been relieved.

“Do you want to go to the woods to get Kanzashi back…”

Dion, listening to the circumstances, tilted his neck unexpectedly.

– How expensive, you mean? But you don’t even look too adamant about that kind of value…… or is it a gift from someone special?

Dion presumed to be, for example, but he was to hear more and deepen the confusion even further.

“Did you get it from a kid in a ghetto…”

No matter how much the child’s mother’s shapes, I couldn’t understand going all the way back to the woods for something like that.

“I know you’re selfish. But.”

“I don’t mind.”

“… to?

“Her Royal Highness owes you for creating an incentive to pull soldiers. If you’re as selfish as this, I’ll ask.”

And anyway, it’s not just selfish, is it? and added in his heart, Dion said without hesitation.

“Well, I can’t move the soldiers, but if you’ll excuse me, I’ll take you.”

“Oh, just you and me, huh!?

Meer, for a moment, turned her face bright blue…,

“I can’t do it…”

I told him to squeeze it out.

The voice, for some reason, was trembling like it was about to cry.

“Captain Dion.”

I just left the room, and there was a caller.

Oh, Lord Ludwig.

It was Ludwig, Meer’s belly, who stood.

“Please, but I’d like to ask about Master Meer. Master Meer is the one who needs it for the future empire.”

“Well, I’ll do my best. Her Royal Highness owes you a favor.”

Dion tries to give back his heel gently…

“There’s one more thing I’d like you to do.”

To that somewhere determined gaze, Dion squeezes his expression slightly.

“What is it? Lord Ludwig.”

“When this thing is cleared up, I want you to be a princess’s collaborator.”

“Collaborators? That’s another thoughtful thing to say. I didn’t really think Her Royal Highness liked me…”

I guess that’s not happening more than my belly-hearted men have come.

“But I didn’t say cooperation. Should I join the Kingsguard Corps and protect His Highness? Well, that sounds fun, too.”

“With the arms of your sword, you’ll be a more dependable protector than anyone else. That is certainly an attractive suggestion, but it is not”

After shaking his head small, Ludwig said something unexpected.

“I want you to be a general.”

“What? Me? Shit, General?

That’s Dion, too, pounding, opens his mouth and solidifies.

“I can work for the Golden Moon and Home Affairs Departments. Some acquaintances. But the military, or Black Moon Province, unfortunately has no tsutes. For what Master Meer wants to do, he can’t just be a civilian like me. The military will also need collaborators. It also has the strength, someone who knows what’s inside His Highness’s chest…”

“To that end, you want me to come out in the army and cooperate on it?

It was, in a way, more difficult than being a Kingsguard and risking your life to protect it. For Dion, who has no interest in being born, it is also a troublesome story.

So,

“Right. That might be fun, too.”

I was surprised that I answered that.

But it seemed to him, at least if he waved his sword under Meer’s instructions, that he could get a better place to die than be sent to a place of death at the behest of an incomprehensible nobleman.

“Well, anyway, whatever you say now is pointless. There is no guarantee that you will return safely from the woods, and that you will do well…… so what are you laughing at?

“No, what. It’s no big deal.”

“Your Highness would certainly do well, so lose as much as you worry, maybe, that’s what you think?

“There’s that, too. More importantly, it looked like Lord Dion was the only one who thought so.”

Pointed out, Dion was just a little surprised.

I see, I’m certainly not feeling anxious. Though I always thought it was because I believed in my own sword arm.

– You think it wouldn’t be so bad if I left it to Her Royal Highness, myself?

That was Dion, I think, kind of, a business belly, etc.

The secret conversation this evening will be an event in the history books of future generations.

Later, Ludwig, the namesake Chancellor known as the Meer Four Heavens King, and General Dion Alaia, who will also be responsible for the corner of the Four Heavens King.

It was my first encounter with the men who would make me an ally and dedicate my life to Meer.