Chapter 303 – What Is This?
Wolfgang leaves Arien’s office with a hazy expression.
—Beetle… !
Wolfgang possessed the stamina and strength to run wild for three days and nights while surrounded in the middle of enemy lines.
If he couldn’t control his body properly, what the hell was going on inside? It can’t be that he is a figure that makes the viewer really imagine a lot.
Wolfgang quickly recovered after a few steps.
He paused in his place for a moment, slapping himself on the cheek and muttering.
“Whoa, you need to wake up.”
Then he glanced at the window on the corner of the hallway.
It was a really ugly look.
Reflected in the misty window of the castle, it reminded me of a drunken person. The tousled hair and the sunken eyes added to the ugliness. The well-dressed uniform was crumpled and tattered.
In particular, the feeling of looseness felt by the wind that the whole belt was ripped off is very low. If he had been just a little smaller, he would have been in trouble.
“…Master is too kind.”
Wolfgang muttered with a tired expression.
It is not possible to walk around the unified headquarters full of high-ranking officers of the empire like this. He was Wolfgang, who hurriedly headed to the bathroom to somehow rectify his appearance.
Upon seeing his familiar face as soon as he opened the door, Wolfgang closed his eyes tightly.
Alas, even the heavenly gods are careless.
Do we dare to pay the price of corrupting His daughter who descended on this earth in this way? Among the many, many generals of the empire, what is the point of meeting a superior, even second in the military ranks?
“…Hey, what the hell is that look like?”
The commander-in-chief of the Empire, standing awkwardly in the urinal compartment, glanced back at Wolfgang.
It was an expression that seemed to be openly pathetic. The commander-in-chief clicked his tongue and said very bitterly.
“Oh, that’s…”
“Are you just leaving because you’ve risen in rank? It’s good to show off your youth, but as a soldier, you should maintain the minimum level of dignity. What would the general say to you if he found out?”
For Wolfgang, it was an unfair situation indeed.
Needless to say, he was craving for it by mentioning the person who made him this way. The urge to protest was filled up to the throat, but it is all the more sad because I am in a position where I can never do that.
But, who to blame?
You should blame yourself for not winning over your desires. He could have refused if he had refused. In the end, it was obviously his own fault that he couldn’t overcome his atmosphere and rolled around with him.
From now on, I’ll have to refrain from public events. Wolfgang thought with his head bowed in a relaxed posture.
“Sorry, I’ll make it right.”
“You’re probably the only general in the Empire who doesn’t have tattoos and flaunts kiss marks. Heroes are said to be lecherous, but the princess is there too, so you should treat her lower body with some care.”
The commander-in-chief wiping off his hands in the washbasin.
Wolfgang was right next to him, adjusting his clothes and keeping an eye on him. Apparently, he didn’t say anything more and seemed to be finishing at this point.
They were close friends from the beginning, and it wasn’t such a big mistake, so it seems like they’re about to get over it.
However, apart from punishing him, it seems that the commander-in-chief still has business with Wolfgang.
“Well, at this point. Everything seems to be organized roughly. Come to my room for a while.”
What day was it today?
A personal meeting with the commander-in-chief following the general. It’s a relationship that you can run into at any time anyway, but the timing is too precise.
“Yes.”
“I don’t mean to call you something bad, so relax your expression.”
“My expression is always like this.”
Meanwhile, after stepping out of the bathroom door, the two men started bickering as if nothing had happened.
The relationship between the two was like this from the beginning.
In the past, we even blushed at each other a few times. No matter what the process was, comradeship that transcended ranks sprouted as comrades who came out of the rough battlefield together.
Rather than a boss and a subordinate, the relationship is reminiscent of a bad uncle and nephew.
“Then, so that I can correct that ‘original expression’. It’s tough to look at.”
Wolfgang stares at the commander-in-chief, who makes personal attacks without blinking an eye, with an evil expression.
“…”
“Why, pick it up? If you twist it, you care. It’s not long now. Just add two more stars.”
—Percussion!
Wolfgang, who entered the commander-in-chief’s office with a dissatisfied expression, looked directly at him and said,
“Well, today, the Marshal’s rank seems particularly desirable.”
“Is it a hypocrisy? Please bear with that. If we fight, I think I’ll lose.”
After exchanging heartfelt jokes, the two immediately sat down on the sofa. It was the same timing as if it was a promise.
“So, what’s going on?”
“It’s nothing special. It’s about the rewards and post-processing of the previous mission, and about the new mission.”
“…Where do you think that is not a big deal?”
—Chick, Chick!
Instead of answering, the commander-in-chief snaps his finger and lights a cigar.
Then he tipped the hip flask and took a sip, the smoke in his lungs. It was unbelievable that he had pointed out Wolfgang’s demeanor in the bathroom a moment ago, and he was so free-spirited.
No one is watching, so it doesn’t matter.
A truly shameless yet reasonable attitude. If that’s the case, that’s what it looked like.
“Sueueup, haha…! Hey, you take a sip too.”
“You know well that I’m not interested in the beginning of the year.”
“Kuha! Because he looks like he’ll smoke better than anyone else. Well, if he gets caught by the general, he won’t be able to recover his bones.”
“Would you condone him inhaling the smoke from burning the plants?”
“That’s right. Let’s see…”
After exchanging a few more words with Wolfgang sitting down, the commander-in-chief spoke in a very light voice.
“First, it’s about the Frosttooth tribe.”
“Did something happen in your neighborhood?”
“No. That’s not it.”
However, the content was of a kind that was by no means light.
“Speaking of that at the Great Council. I think you’ll have to take care of them.”
“…Yes?”
Wolfgang blinked a couple of times. It was as if understanding was delayed by a beat.
Responsibility, what the hell does that mean?
What kind of tribe is the Frosttooth tribe in the first place? Isn’t it the leader of the polar region that the old chieftain Bjorn and Astrid, who has one of the strongest warriors in the polar region, are holding on to?
Although their position in the Northern Immigrant Alliance was in jeopardy because they each went their own way for their own lives, they were by no means a tribe that would make others responsible for their own destiny.
If he had to take responsibility, it would be Astrid who took a virgin while Wolfgang was firmly establishing his rank.
No matter how much he twisted his head, there was nothing he could blame for the lack of frost teeth.
Besides, Wolfgang had already accomplished the task he was given admirably.
It was obvious neglect and violence to have to take on something more here. If it’s an order, I’ll follow it, but it’s the kind of thing that’s never welcomed.
The commander-in-chief chuckled as he looked at Wolfgang with a distraught expression.
“Hey, you can’t hide your expression again. Just in case, don’t even think about stepping into politics.”
“No… More than that, I need a more detailed explanation.
“Whoa whoa, seriously. Could they make you, the next sire and the empire’s biggest prospect, do something that would harm you? The superiors of the Great Council aren’t that stupid.”
Then Wolfgang cleared his throat and slightly lowered his expression, muttering in a low voice.
“Keuheum. But that’s the case, the word ‘responsibility’ itself has a bit of a connotation.”
In fact, as soon as he heard the word responsibility, the first thought that came to his mind was the face of Astrid, snarling like a female leopard, clutching at her swollen belly.
It is a story that can only come out of a novel that an enemy country’s mistress suddenly becomes pregnant because of just one night of playing with fire.
It wasn’t a very unlikely story, and if it was, I would have been in a very difficult position.
“No, you can’t…”
The commander-in-chief looked at Wolfgang with a strange expression.
He also knew the secret affair between Astrid and Wolfgang, so he seemed to have noticed what Wolfgang was thinking.
Soon after, the commander-in-chief glanced at him with a tired expression, shook his head and opened his mouth again.
“That’s why I’m making fun of my lower body… Anyway, it’s not what you think.”
“Then what is it?”
“Hey, are you not interested in the position of governor?”
Viceroy.
Isn’t that the position that refers to the head of the puppet government established in the colony? After the empire unified the continent, it was a position that could only be seen in history books.
When Wolfgang encountered that unfamiliar word, he simply opened his mouth.
