Chapter 503. Rest, and precursor (3)
“No sleep. I just stopped thinking about it.”
“…Isn’t that what it is?”
“Then let’s call it a night walk.”
“Are you lying down?”
“Since when did you think walking should be done on foot?”
“???? Ugh.”
Pena sat down in the remaining empty seat with a slight bewilderment.
In case someone comes anyway, we have set up two seats in advance.
“Are you Arna?”
“are you okay. because i’m sleeping And the nanny is watching.”
Arna fell asleep later than usual.
Maybe the environment has changed, so I’m a baby, but I’m not sure if I’m excited.
“So Arell? what’s the matter?”
“hmm?”
“Suddenly, a one-day vacation…
” “All of a sudden? I’m not doing this for a day or two, so what?”
A lot of whims and a lot of laziness.
That’s why the servants don’t question our actions too much.
However, there are things that feel a little different in her and others’ eyes.
“Is something wrong? I think I made it a little hastily.”
At Pena’s question, I was silent for a while and smiled bitterly.
It’s not a false statement.
“…Because it will take a while to rest next time.”
One time the job was finished.
There was also a moment to deliberately create a place to rest.
If it’s not today, it’ll take a while until the next time you come out to play.
Same with my schedule as a lord.
Other than that, there are things that should not be known to the world.
It will be the limit to be able to spend leisurely.
It gets noisy sooner or later, whether you like it or not.
After that, a comfortable life will follow again.
Until then, it’s going to be a bit of a headache.
“Pena.”
“huh?”
“Are you enjoying your current life?”
“…They’re talking about something all of a sudden.”
Well, even if I were in her shoes, suddenly saying this would sound odd.
“Um, isn’t it? If we don’t have fun living like this, no one in the world will be happy, right?”
It is a very luxurious word to say that we are happy.
There are no other people in the world who live like us.
“…Then I guess I’ll have to keep living this way.”
When you want to rest, you can create a time even if you force yourself.
This riotous and unruly life.
If there is someone who spends a leisurely, leisurely night.
On the other hand, there are people who don’t…
At this moment, Arel is leisurely looking up at the night sky.
Somewhere under such a sky, there were people who were just staring at the stuffy desk without even bothering to look up at the shiny things.
“…Shouldn’t we make a decision soon?”
In the stuffy atmosphere, the first to speak was a middle-aged man with a shaggy beard and a detached impression.
Chancellor Slepen Gefenster dispatched from the Felsen Kingdom.
Originally, he would be a man wielding great power even within the kingdom.
Now he only looks like a shabby middle-aged man throbbing with anguish and headaches.
There are a few other people here now.
Even now, there is no answer from them.
Srepen glared at them, then repeated the words earlier.
“I said I shouldn’t have to make a decision!”
Let’s shout out loud as if begging him to answer slowly.
Only then did a long thin breath burst out all at once.
“Something? What do you want to say?”
Srefen frowned at that blatant reaction.
It was misunderstood that he was considered funny.
As if to soothe him, the man sitting across from him spoke quietly.
“…I don’t know what Mr. Srefen means.”
“Duke of Getchen?”
An envoy from the kingdom of Damaniel, the Duke of Getchen.
He is a man who, for some reason, recently changed the positions of those in power in the kingdom, and then took advantage of the chaos to seize the family and power.
“What do you want to say?”
“I say it again. Nobody here knows. It doesn’t mean that there’s no point in rushing.
Isn’t that an important position?”
Srefen was displeased with his persuasion, but in the end the unpleasant atmosphere was tempered.
“Don’t forget that we all came together for the same purpose.”
“I never forgot….
True to the word, I never forgot.
Those gathered here now are envoys sent from different countries.
Each of them held this meeting in secret to discuss some countermeasure under the command of the lord…the crowned wearer of each country.
Three countries not invited to this meeting.
Kelia, the kingdom of the different races.
Merman Empire.
And…..
….the Kingdom of Ernesia.
At the point where their vacancy existed, the meaning of this meeting was clear.
Among those three, especially Ernesia Kingdom.
And even in that place, you should never know.
“Is it really true that there is no way to check the Ernesian kingdom…?”
Srepen openly stated the reason for this position.
The Kingdom of Ernesia, which has been maintaining its solo system for the past few years.
And the lord of Fahilia, Arell Ernesia, who is the cause of it.
How can I stop that poisoning?
To that end, they kept meeting secretly these days and putting their heads together.
I don’t really have a grudge against him or anything.
Of course, in the past, there were times when Ernesia Kingdom suffered painful treatment, but in the end, it was self-inflicted, and he wasn’t so stupid that he only blamed the results.
But that doesn’t mean you can accept everything and leave it alone.
They also have their own important things.
“If we leave it as it is, it won’t end to the extent of widening the gap.”
Isn’t it the only way to reduce the difference even a little bit for his homeland… and the people of the province and their families?
And I can’t stop thinking about distant descendants.
They have their own things to protect, so they have no choice but to gather like this even though they know that this is not a place where they can proudly talk about themselves.
that’s management
It is also the law that guides the country.
“It is not that we have been silent. At least, I studied repeatedly to try to stop Arnil’s solo run, but
merchants in other countries also struggled desperately in their own way, receiving support from the state.
It set a policy to surpass or improve the products handled by the existing Arnil store, and clung only to that goal.
It’s cowardly, but it can’t be said to be cowardly either.
For merchants, imitation is not necessarily wrong.
The Arnil Chamber did not particularly impose sanctions on it.
As if knowing it on purpose and leaving it alone.
That’s why they didn’t even hesitate.
I wasn’t in a position to look at it like that in the first place.
“Actually, only a few types of products were completed in a direction similar to or separate from theirs, but
the demand for products sold like that is not too bad.
“The problem is that each time they come up with something more.”
If this one is barely catching up with one, Arnil Firm will come up with five new ones.
It felt as if they were being ridiculed, so every time the merchants and the nobles who supported them had to shake their shoulders.
“Cosmetics…. They managed to catch up with one of the medicines used for beauty and developed them, so it wasn’t long ago that they released three new products at the same time.”
And the aristocrat of the country, who became the protagonist of the incident not long ago, covered his head and fell face down.
It seems that it was his family that led and supported the work again at the time.
It wasn’t a big loss, but it seemed that it was quite a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of
But no one in this room is laughing at him.
It’s nobody else’s business.
And it’s also a concern for everyone here.
“At least this is certain.”
“What is?”
“You won’t be able to catch up with him this way.”
There was a gloom in the air at Srefen’s words.
In fact, even if he didn’t point it out, they also felt it implicitly.
If you struggle to catch up, you can somehow survive.
But doesn’t that mean, in other words, that you can’t catch up?
What’s the point if you can’t overcome it even if you worry about it?
That deepens their anguish.
“….rather.”
Srefen groaned and tried to say something.
“Look.”
But one of those who understood his meaning interrupted and said,
“Don’t say that.”
It’s not that I’m worried that those words will leak out to someone.
The conversations that took place here are known only to them and they will carry them to the grave.
I am not so foolish as not to know the meaning and consequences of speaking out.
Even so, it’s because it’s meaningless to catch it.
“You know very well that it would be reckless to do so, right?”
What Srefen was about to say a moment ago must have continued like this.
He must have said, ‘…wouldn’t it be better to stop it by starting a war?’
But that’s the bottom line of the bottom line.
It’s a stupid way to win.
“What’s the odds of betting it on them now?”
The envoy from the kingdom of Damaniel sneered and said half mockingly.
But Srefen was not displeased.
Rather, everyone, including him, sees him with sympathetic eyes.
Isn’t the mockery just now the same as self-torture directed towards one’s own country?
In reality, when the kingdom of Ernesia rose to prominence, weren’t they the ones who tried to resolve it through war and reached the present state?
The envoys already dispatched from the Zelnian Kingdom just turned their heads and pretended not to hear.
Especially since they suffered badly from fever in the aftermath that followed.
The system is overthrown from castle to kingdom.
It is said that even the family that held power at least recently went through another uproar.
There is no day to catch your breath even though you are barely finding stability.
“War is such a thing. It doesn’t matter.
However, if that happens, those who know the consequences will withdraw their hands from your kingdom.”
It means that if you want to perish, only you should break.
When it came out so blatantly, Srefen also sighed when he realized that his words were a mistake.
Does this mean that there is no clear solution after all?
Gradually, the meeting began to slow down.
Above all, the tail can be caught only when it is continued for such a long time.
For now, it may be right to discontinue this meeting, organize countermeasures, and discuss them again.
I was trying to say something like that to clear things up.
“But there is no way you can surpass him by ordinary means.
Sometimes destructive methods can be the solution.”
Someone’s words resonated in the quiet conference hall.
Everyone who heard it was bewildered.
“Who said that now?”
Wasn’t that the first voice I heard in the first place?
Those in this room will never confuse voices because they have seen each other many times.
That’s what…..
“.!!”
The envoys stood up at the same time and were alert.
It means there are people who shouldn’t exist.
That, to them, is tantamount to ruin.
And what if the voices were from their enemies?
even more terrible
“What kind of guy are you!”
As Srefen shouts, the knights waiting outside rush inside.
