Chapter 38 – 04. Gold House (錦衣還鄕).
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“Aran, I have something to do before I go.”
After the meeting, Illyana caught Aran.
“What to do?”
“Yes. It’s very important.”
She held out one of her brochures her.
“I’ve learned a lot during the war over the past three years. But that’s not enough. The enemy duke is being held prisoner, so I want you to find out.”
Indeed.
What she gave her was a list of things to know.
“You can do it right now, or you can find out while marching.”
“Is this an interrogation?”
“Okay.”
She received the booklet once, but it was embarrassing.
It’s because Aran doesn’t know how to interrogate.
Perhaps noticing Aran’s feelings of her, she smiled.
No, it was a slightly sinister smile.
“There’s nothing to worry about, Aran. Don’t you have what women are most afraid of and ashamed of?”
“…Stand, no way…”
She patted her on the shoulder.
“There’s nothing to overdo it, but you’ve got a taste for it now. I think you’ll do a great job.”
“Ha, but…”
“If you can’t do it, you don’t have to do it that way. Earl Hancock will be with you, so go with her. Even if it looks like that, she’s an advisor.”
“Is that so?”
She seemed innocent, but she was a torturer…
“Well, I don’t think a person like a duke would open his mouth to the extent of torture.”
“…”
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Aran headed to the dungeon of the castle to see the captured duke.
Just in case, she was with Count Hancock.
“Your Highness. You have received a windfall. After all, is war an opportunity for male commanders?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Yeah, there’s a lot of food…”
“Eat it…”
“She’s a beauty! Soldiers in particular know how to use mana even a little, so their beauty and physique support them to some extent. Not to mention the knights. Isn’t it a blessed environment? Although there are no male commanders.”
“It’s not much of a blessing.”
“Ah~ Your Highness. Being honest is good for your body.”
On the way to the prison she continued to talk.
She seemed to be the typical talkative woman.
“Rather than that, I heard you’re from an advisor?”
“Yes. Even so, most of the information obtained from the enemy over the past three years has passed through my hands.”
“Wow…That’s great. Then help me today…”
“Ah, but lately I’ve been suffering from hemophobia and I’m afraid of torture.”
“…Are you lying?”
“Oh, how safe would you dare to lie to Your Highness? Absolutely not.”
“Your expression is smiling…”
“Because I haven’t seen any blood yet.”
“Then how did the battle go? Until yesterday, there was a lot of blood.”
“I got it this morning.”
“…”
Aran had a strong conviction that her own sister had taken possession of this woman.
With her hard face her, she put her hand on her shoulder her.
“Oh, oh my… I already…”
“What instructions did you receive from your sister?”
“Of course, I received a supreme order to assist His Highness His.”
“Other than that, pretending you can’t torture me…Were you not ordered to induce me to do it anyway?”
“Please tell me in detail. Your Highness the Prince. Girl, I’m deaf, so I can’t understand with that level of words.”
“You know everything! Roughly!”
“I don’t know. Your Highness.”
Alan frowned.
This woman,
It was definitely a class similar to Illyana.
After all, realizing that it was useless to speak, he lowered his hand from his shoulder.
“Shall I take it off?”
“Why do you talk like that?”
I had a feeling that it would be a difficult expedition.
The prison I finally arrived at was quite a dingy place.
Basically, it was very unpleasant because it was hot and full of moisture, and the water droplets dripping from the ceiling raised questions about hygiene.
As a bonus, there were centipedes or something crawling on the floor.
“You must have been very angry to have put the duke in a place like this.”
“Heh. This is perfect for arrogant bitches who think we are barbarians.”
“That’s true, but…”
Inside, about ten women were imprisoned in each room. Most were nobles or knights.
“Are you here, Your Highness the Crown Prince?”
Two soldiers guarding the prison approached Aran and saluted him.
“Uh… Good job. In such an unpleasant place.”
“No. I just do what I have to do.”
“Yes. Guide me to Duke Elles.”
“Yes. Your Highness. Please follow me.”
Aran speaks awkward Hao body language.
The women in the prison put their faces out of the cage.
“Huh. A man coming to the sacred battlefield. It’s the end of the world.”
“Otherwise, he’s not a barbarian.”
“Whoops. Come here~ I will make you look pretty.”
“These bitches! You know what kind of person this is!”
Of course, the soldiers who were guiding him were angry like fire.
Even if I wasn’t angry, I had to pay it out of courtesy.
“It’s okay. How can I live without this kind of paradise in prison?”
“Your Highness, that’s just looking down on you.”
“There is no reason to look strong. Because our goal is Duke Elles.”
“….”
In the end, I just let it go, but it’s just what I said, it was obvious that after Aran passed away, the treatment would be worse than now.
Elles was an important figure, so he was imprisoned in a fairly deep place. Even in solitary.
“This is Duke Elles.”
Perhaps because he heard a voice, the Duke, who had been lowering his head, lifted his face.
“… Man?”
It seems strange that there are no men on the battlefield.
Hancock came out about a step ahead of Aran.
“This is His Highness His, Prince of Aran Persia of the Persian Empire. Set an example.”
“Under….”
Elles sneered and turned his head away.
It’s not enough to be on the battlefield for a man subject, so it turns out that he’s a prince.
What will the prince do when he comes to this place full of women?
Being a man, he wouldn’t even be able to wage war.
Naturally, the impression of Aran was not good.
“Since when did the barbarians become an empire? You seem to be out of your mind.”
The words she uttered were, in the end, similar to those of other Throdian nobles.
It’s like how you barbarians are doing a title.
“You are the Duke of Elles. I heard that he was removed from office a few years ago.”
“Huh. I don’t know.”
“This year! Are you talking nonsense in exchange for money!”
“It doesn’t matter if that guy is a prince or a beggar. A barbaric guy anyway. There is no courtesy to provide.”
A blood vessel mark was embedded in Hancock’s forehead on his.
As expected, Throdia guys are stubborn and irritating.
Talking itself is a loss.
“As expected, these bitches gouge out their eyes….Ah! It was that blood phobia. Will Your Highness do it?”
“… Why don’t you stop doing clumsy acting?”
“Oh, it’s a clumsy performance. Even so, the top rank in the acting department at the knight school….Ah, no, I’m not acting.”
“….”
Something reminded him of his adoptive mother his, Cornelia.
“You guys are playing well. No matter how wild the four years were, in the end, they would fall in front of Throdia and the Mei Empire.
Even if the Mei Empire doesn’t come in, the clever servant will take care of it. Until then, please preserve your neck.”
“You talk a lot about prisoners of war. These bitches stick a heated stick in and open the womb… Ah! I…”
“Blood phobia? That’s done now.”
“Hehe….”
Duke Elles looked at me as if he was dumbfounded.
“Then, that is what follows. Yes. There’s nothing like that for a woman. Ruler! Open the door!! His Highness His personally…”
“No, it’s okay. I just came to see your face today.”
“Eh? Then, as expected, today I….”
“What can I do with that delusion?”
“The interrogation will be conducted while moving.”
“Okay. All right.”
Hancock thrust his hand through the bars of his grate.
Then, the body of Duke Elles, who was far away, fell unsightly and was sucked up while sweeping the floor.
Kwak.
Hancock grabbed her by the hair.
“This is confidential, but since there is no place for you to go out anyway, I will tell you. From now on, we will lead an army of 200,000 and advance to the capital. You can never stop these four weak bitches. If that happens, the year of deterioration, which the four years old boasted about, will be like this. Whoop whoop.”
At the 200,000 army line, Elles’ eyes fluttered slightly, but she soon maintained her poker face.
“Go. Count Hancock.”
“Yes, Your Highness. You are finally interested in my body.”
“Because it’s not….”
* * *
“Viscount Milkis. You don’t seem to be in a good mood.”
“… Count Millia.”
Another woman approached the woman who was looking at her star her alone.
“It’s nothing.”
“Is your expression hardened?”
“Your face is like this.”
“Is that so,haha.”
Cold.
And it doesn’t seem to be interested in anything.
That was her first impression of her.
Millia laughed hard.
“Hey, that was too bad.”
“… What do you mean?”
“You mean when I told Your Highness to stop farming.”
“Ah.”
It was dangerous.
Since she was Illyana, she just let it go, but if Juana had been there, she would have been angry.
“Isn’t that true? It is the place where you plan your military strategy. Your Highness was too lazy.”
“It’s not that what you’re saying is n’t right. I’m just saying it’s dangerous. She thinks that Her Highness her Juana was there. How do you think it turned out?”
“….”
Milia held out one of her cans her to her who could n’t keep up with her words.
“Thank you.”
“Take some strength off your shoulders. It’s as if this war has been won anyway.”
“Aren’t you being too assertive?”
“Not really. Throdia no longer has the strength to stop 450,000 troops. You know, don’t you?”
“… But behind Throdia is the Mei Empire. We don’t know what will happen if they enter the war.”
“It is unknown whether the Mei Empire will come, but even if it does, our army will be 450,000. I bet they don’t want a head-on collision either. So don’t be too nervous. People like you who are nervous and pop out on your own are always stoned.”
“….”
