183 – Tea time after the war
Just as you must wash the dishes after eating, you must report and have a meeting to clean up after the war.
If not, it will be difficult to prepare for the next battle.
So, even though the guys outside are playing around with s*x, alcohol, and meat…
As the leader of a mercenary army, I have to hold meetings with men with thick beards about the aftermath of the war and future policies.
“Count Dion, all of our soldiers are exhausted right now. So, whether you go to La Masana Castle or wherever you end up, make sure you get plenty of rest.”
“That’s right. However, we need to quickly take over the fortresses on the way to Lamasana Castle.”
“The soldiers will all collapse from exhaustion if they walk there.”
I am just quietly listening to the conversations going on, but everything the mercenary leaders say is true.
Even when marching normally, if you walk for 5-6 days, you are allowed to rest for a whole day, but we marched from the Sergei River for nearly 10 days without proper rest.
Furthermore, since the battle was fought, all of our allies would have lost all their strength.
So, I decided to add one more word to the rest.
“Count, rest here today. “How about taking over the Casa Castle closest to here tomorrow and then getting some proper rest there?”
“Let’s occupy Casa Castle and rest… Is there any reason to think so?”
“Currently, we are procuring most of our food locally, so we are short on food. However, the enemies here had originally assumed a water-based war, so they must have accumulated a huge amount of food.”
The soldiers, knights, and lords who were supposed to defend Casa Castle were foolishly caught up in our fishing strategy and were robbed.
A castle without a defense force is virtually empty, so if you persuade with appropriate threats, the castle gate will open on its own.
“If we do that, the urgent supply problem will be solved immediately. Other than that, I think it would be best to think about the rest after we take over Casa Castle.”
Count Dion nodded his head at those words, and other mercenary captains and nobles also expressed their agreement.
“Count, our unit’s depletion is quite severe. So now we need to give them some rest and regroup.”
“No matter how I and the command team hold out, the regular mercenaries might go on strike if we treat them more harshly here.”
“Please let me rest for just one week. “Anyway, the fortress on the road to Lamasana Castle has no defenders, so you can take it quickly, right?”
Count Dion also nodded at those words.
“There is a food problem, and in many ways, I think Martin Mayer’s proposal is timely. We will rest here today, and tomorrow we will move to Casa Castle, take over there, and rest for a week. You guys, go ahead and get some rest. “Thank you for your hard work today.”
Everyone left the meeting satisfied with the policy that compromised realistic issues and their demands.
I also got up and hurried back to my barracks.
“The post-battle handling meeting lasted 2 hours, so the other guys probably ate everything without paying attention to me and went on to the second round.”
Obviously, in a case like this, there was no sense of loyalty, so they would have gone for a second round, and the financial officer would have recognized their achievements and paid for all of the prostitutes’ expenses with public funds.
This is an order I gave in advance, so it’s not like the person in charge was embezzling it. It’s natural, so why do I have this strange feeling?
“I’m working and those guys are playing…”
But all that resentment did not last long and were all resolved.
“Martin, you had a hard time.”
“Thank you for your hard work, Captain.”
“Thank you for your hard work, my lord.”
Carin, Lucia, and Hilde welcomed me at the barracks.
“Yes, I went. Do you know what the other guys are doing now?”
“It looks like everyone went to the second party after drinking.”
“……Things without loyalty. “The captain came back after an intense meeting with his head wrapped around the post-war situation.”
“What kind of loyalty do you expect from guys around alcohol and women? Wouldn’t it be easier to say that mercenaries don’t disclose money?”
Just as people die without air, mercenaries wither and die without money.
Karin sneaked up next to me where I was sitting, and smiled as she gently stroked the area from the side of my knee to the top of my thigh.
“But Martin has me and Lucia, right?”
In the meantime, Karin also gave Hilde a glance.
Hilde looked at my face and then turned her head away, her face blushing.
“If you wish…”
Rather than showing dislike, he shows that he is looking forward to it, but he hesitates like that because he is embarrassed to confess it with his own mouth… It’s refreshing.
However, my personal wish is that she would like to see Hilde first say that she will serve me…
It would be a good idea to take your time and wait slowly.
As Karin showed her cuteness right next to me, Lucia came close enough to touch my arm.
Then she hummed and put her head under her chin.
“Until a few days ago, I felt like my magic power was depleted after using intermediate magic 8 times, but in this battle, I was able to use intermediate magic 10 times!”
Because Hildena Karin was watching, I understood what they wanted to say.
No, I wonder why you can’t say anything after showing it all with your actions…
Anyway, I raised her hand to praise Lucia.
However, the area that was stroked was not the head or ears, but the tail.
Lucia’s fox ears perked up as she lightly stroked her tail.
“What, boss?!”
Whether it is or not, I really liked the rich and cozy texture, which was different from touching a dog’s tail.
This is why you wonder why people bother to wear fox fur coats even though they are extremely expensive.
‘I’ve touched it thousands of times, but it feels new every time I touch it.’
Lucia I’m not sure if this word can be used for her tail, but it is so addictive that it can be called a drug tail.
Once you touch it, you want to keep touching it.
As I was engrossed in stroking Lucia’s tail, Karin waved me from next to her.
“Martin, Martin!”
When she came to her senses, Lucia’s face had already turned red.
“Captain, you can’t keep touching me like that…”
I didn’t even drink alcohol, but I never thought something like this would happen.
When he stopped stroking her tail, Lucia puffed out her cheeks slightly and grumbled.
“Turning the tail is an expression of affection among our beastman family, so Captain Martin or Sister Karin can touch it whenever they want. But if you touch it for too long, it gets itchy!”
No, if you’re tickled, isn’t it normal to make an expression like you’re holding back laughter?
But I wanted to ask her why her face was red, but…
‘There’s Hilde here too, so that’s probably why they say it.’
“I’m sorry.”
Despite my apology, Lucia slightly turned her head and distanced herself from me.
However, Lucia’s resistance, which followed me so well, stopped after only 5 minutes, and she came next to me again.
“If you do that again next time, I’m going to get really upset. “For a day or two, I couldn’t even talk to the captain…”
Usually, if you say you won’t talk to him, you just say you won’t talk to him, but it was really cute to set a deadline of one or two days.
That’s also true, even if a couple fights properly, there are all kinds of negative comments, including talk of divorce…
Lucia says that no matter how angry she gets at me, she gets upset for a day or two at most, which means she loves me.
“I understand, I’m sorry.”
Karin smiled at us.
“I and Hilde are here, isn’t that too much?”
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Hilde smiled shyly at those words and shook her hand.
“No. The fact that Lucia and the leader of the Karin archers are on good terms with her lord is a very happy thing as she serves her lord. After all, I am only a sword protecting my lord by his side, and I cannot support his heart…”
“Yes, you are still the same.”
“But other than that, I will do my best to repay the lord who took me in. “No matter what anyone says, my lord.”
Hilde looked at me and smiled softly.
“Someday, you will rise to a much higher place than you are now. Unlike other mercenary commanders, he is someone who may one day become a baron, a viscount, or perhaps even a count.”
The time is approaching when the emperor of the Rhine-Palatinate Empire will soon fall and a civil war will break out in earnest.
So now, I don’t know how I can get at least a baron title if I dig into the loopholes of the Rhine-Palatinate Empire.
If you start off as someone’s vassal, the limitations are clear, so for now, I plan to wait for a big opportunity while increasing my size and weight class.
“It is an honor as a knight to be able to serve such a person by my side. “I am sure my father in heaven will be happy.”
Karin sighed at those words.
“I heard Martin has a lot of luck with women. Me and Lucia, plus Hilde, who is extremely loyal. “I’m worried that if this continues, there will be so many women that I can’t count them on one hand.”
She was secretly saying that Hilde would be my woman in the future, but Lucia and Hilde did not refute those words.
Rather, when Lucia heard those words, she pricked up her fox ears and agreed.
“I think you can do that. “I’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing, but I’m afraid that if there are more and more people, the affection they give us will decrease.”
“That won’t happen.”
I can say one thing for sure.
Of course, both Lucia and Karin are beautiful, no, they are so beautiful, but does that mean the amount of affection I have for them is enough?
To me, the saying that mercenaries give up drinking and women seems a bit more realistic.
After the moment of confirming our affection for each other, Karin looked at me and asked.
“By the way, what do you think will happen in the future? “I feel reassured because Count Dion is a good person, but I’m worried about how the war will unfold…”
I shrugged my shoulders and answered her words.
“If it were me, I would go get Ramasana right away.”