“I’m sorry, but it’s unreasonable.”
“I beg your pardon?”
A few weeks after the Demon King’s declaration of war was delivered to the Empire.
“Are you saying that… a horse?”
Serena, who was communicating with her face exhausted, jumped up from her seat.
“I can’t help it. It’s because our nose is too small.”
“Are you going to ignore the oath head-on?”
The person she was talking to was the representative of the monarchs of the Western Continent.
“You can’t send so many volunteers to believe in a thousand-year-old cobwebbed pact.”
“It’s a matter of the existence of the world at stake!!”
“It would be the honor of the empire.”
Serena gritted her teeth to him who responded with a low-pitched voice.
“If the empire falls, do you think you will be safe?”
“To tell the truth, yes.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Rather than mobilizing troops to meet the imperial demands and forming a large expedition to cross the continent, there is a higher chance of getting everyone together and preparing step by step while you resist.”
“What…!”
But, nevertheless, the sentence of the representative flying in relentlessly.
“That is the consensus opinion of the lords of the Western Continent.”
“…under.”
“Don’t be so heartbroken. Just as the Empire has ignored us until now, we are just ignoring the Empire.”
Perhaps he recognized that he was momentarily filled with emotions, and the CEO, who stopped talking for a while, ends the conversation in a flat tone again.
“Then, you’re welcome.”
“for a moment…!”
And immediately after that, the connection was cut off.
“…you idiots!”
Serena, who stood blankly for a while, throws a crystal ball on the floor and shouts, and her subordinates look at her with anxious expressions.
“You really don’t know that it’s their turn after us!?”
“Selena-sama…”
“…what the hell, what’s the matter?”
Noticing the gazes of such subordinates, Serena sat down helplessly and bowed her head.
“That’s how it happened…”
Everyone’s faces darkened at the desperate voice that leaked out of her mouth.
“Warrior…”
In such a heavy atmosphere, Serena muttered with her eyes tightly closed.
“Where the hell are you…”
Her requests for help, which she had written to the hero many times, were scattered all over the desk.
.
“ha…”
Clana, who was looking down at Frey’s diary in her room, took a deep breath.
– The warrior has disappeared.
– why? why? Is this really the time now?
– You promised to save us, hero…
Before breaking up with Frey, new pages were constantly appearing in his diary, which he had obtained for ejaculation.
“…it probably doesn’t show up.”
Clana stared blankly at Serena’s newly created writing, then muttered with a blank expression.
“Now the hero is imprisoned in the outskirts.”
It was a statement that would have made a flagship if the people of the Empire who were desperately waiting for Hero to appear again had heard it.
– Shrek, sheck…
Clana, who closed the page with a sigh, slowly turned the diary.
“……..”
Her face frowns more and more with each page of the diary.
“…eww.”
She, who had frowned until she reached the last page, bowed her head and muttered.
“The reason you gave me the diary was probably because you thought the last part of the diary wouldn’t change any more.”
The contents of the last page, clumsy with tape, were still wet with tears.
“…Stupid Frey.”
Clana chewed her lips and closed her diary, looking out the window.
“I can’t tolerate such an ending.”
When the wild, bright sunlight shines on her bloodshot eyes, she frowns and turns her head again, concentrating on the documents scattered on the desk.
“I must, you…”
“Princess!!”
So, even today, Clana was busy researching ancient magic to save Frey.
“…what?”
“Wow, that’s a big deal!”
“What’s going on?”
The maid who hurriedly opened her door and came in, reporting her face with a bluish face.
“Ma, the Demon King’s army has just crossed the border!”
“…Oh yeah.”
“This is not the time to be casual!! Now… huh.”
Nevertheless, as Clana calmly looked through the documents, the maid stomped her feet and tried to pour out the words, then catches her breath for a moment.
“…It’s the intelligence we’ve just received, but all requests for assistance sent to other countries have been rejected. Even the emperor and his family said they were trying to escape from the Imperial Palace yesterday and seek asylum in another country.”
“Twitch.”
“Princess, Princess, you must also leave the Empire quickly.”
When Clana wakes up with a cold expression on her face at the news that the emperor has left the palace, the maid hurriedly packs her things and continues the story.
“Right now, the only royal family left in the empire is the princess. It will surely become a target, either inside or outside…”
“Okay, let’s go.”
“Yeah, yeah! I’ve already packed all my stuff! Well then, where are we going? The West Continent? No, I’d rather go to the East Continent…”
Then she followed Clana, who had moved on, and began to ask questions about her destination in a hurry.
“I’m going to the Imperial Palace.”
“Okay, then, right now, the carriage… Yes?”
At Clana’s reply, she immediately lost her speech.
“I’m going to the Imperial Palace.”
“Wow, Princess?”
“It’s time to fulfill your duty as the last royal family left in the Empire.”
After saying that, she left the maid who had stopped blankly and left the room.
.
“Thank you for coming together even in difficult times.”
several hours after that.
“Then sir, please report the current situation.”
Clana, who sat at the top of the command room, gave orders while looking at the gathered servants.
“Report on the battle situation.”
Then, someone gets up first.
“The battle status up to now, it’s truly a miserable level.”
Irina, a witch of flames, who had a reputation as a disciple of the matopian master, begins to report with a bandage wrapped around her arm.
“Before the border was breached, there were several clashes with the Demon King’s forces… but they could not slow down their advance.”
“You mean you didn’t even have time?”
“The power of the Demon Lord at the forefront of the Demon Lord’s Army was that overwhelming.”
At Clana’s question, Irina closes her eyes and trembles in anger.
“With one gesture of her hand, half of the army was torn apart, and the other half with the next gesture.”
“……..”
“In such a situation, the only thing I could do was the magic that I had with myself, prepared for self-destruction.”
She lifts the bandage slightly, revealing her terrifying arm.
“…I lost some of my arm and combat ability, but fortunately I was able to inflict a significant blow to the Demon King.”
“That must be why the Demon King’s army camped in the border area.”
“Yes, of course, when you restore all your strength, it will come like a flood again.”
The servants, whose gaze was taken from her arm, bowed their heads at Irina’s desperate prophecy, avoiding each other’s gaze.
“First of all, I think I’ve earned the least amount of time.”
“”………””
In such a serious atmosphere, Irina worked hard to come to a positive conclusion.
“…just, that’s all.”
Although it was a small voice that could be easily heard, there were quite a few who heard her murmuring.
“The following is a report on the current Empire’s food and welfare.”
Thanks to that, as awkward silence flows into the conference hall, Perloche slowly gets up from her seat.
“…Actually, I have nothing to report.”
After muttering like that, Perloche looked at Clana and said.
“A few hours ago, the Pope left the Empire with the bishops.”
“her.”
“It’s ridiculous that I can’t speak.”
“There are some church members who stayed with me and chose Acts of the Order, but compared to the past, they cannot even be compared.”
With a sigh, Perloche’s hand was trembling from overuse.
“There is now a limit to healing wounded soldiers with our own strength.”
“……”
“Unless aid comes in or someone who can end this war does not appear, the death toll will increase.”
After finishing the brief but very impactful report, Perloche sat down.
“I’ll report on the situation of the support troops…”
The last one to wake up was none other than Serena, whose hair was sprawled.
“The lords and warlords from all over the empire are refusing to support Hansako’s troops.”
Serena’s report begins with her lips not even salivating from her dry, cracked lips.
“The reasons are various… A reaction against reform, a reaction against the legitimacy and legitimacy of the princess’s command, a battle that has no chance of winning, or even those who are already on the side of the Demon King’s army…”
Serena, who was reporting, pauses for a moment and stumbles from her seat.
“Sir Serena?”
“…sorry.”
The image of a confident reformer who had always been full of confidence had suddenly disappeared.
“…everyone is turning their backs on us like a lie.”
Instead, there was a girl with a broken heart, who had experienced a devastating failure for the first time in her life.
“…if you dare to add a comment.”
Let’s start the story with her trembling voice.
“I think you should get out of here right now.”
“Selena-san…?”
“No strategy or tactics work for the Demon King’s army. No matter what strategy they tried, the overwhelming difference in power was just useless.”
The servants lowered their heads one by one or began to shed a sigh of relief.
“Ha, but… I mean…”
“Don’t get me wrong. I’m not giving up.”
“Is that so?”
“…I will remain in the Imperial Palace.”
For them, the very moment when Serena devised her final plan.
“As long as the princess is alive, there are plenty of opportunities. I’ll make some time here, so you take the princess with you…”
– Bang…!!!
“…..!?!?”
The door to the conference room suddenly opened wide.
“Hey, it’s urgent!”
The messenger rushes inside and knelt down, and with a pale expression on his face, delivers the startling news.
“Ha, a nobleman has responded to the imperial request for support!”
“I beg your pardon?”
“Breaking news that at least thousands of enlisted men are following him!!”
It is absurd news that a single nobleman is bringing thousands of enlisted soldiers who may not know where they came from.
“Hey, that noble… Who the hell is that?”
Nevertheless, Serena asked the true identity of the nobleman with a feeling of nipping at straw.
“Well, that’s…”
“Come on, tell me. Who the hell is…?”
Hearing the name that came out of Pabal’s mouth, he had no choice but to freeze.
“…F, Frey.”
“yes?”
“Fray Raon Starlight, this is the acting duke.”
And then, a long silence began.
“In response to the imperial rescue signal, only he… is coming here now with the knights of the family, the servicemen, and all the enlisted men.”
“…ah?”
Serena heard Pabal’s voice resounding in the silence, and let out a groan.
“Really, stupid man.”
Clana, who had been bowing her head until then, was muttering with her eyes tightly closed.