Rebirth in a Ruined Nation! The Life of a New Strategist Starting From Now - Chapter 84

The King’s Sons (5) – Feeling

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Translator: Nisarah

Editor:Nisarah

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After returning from the training ground, we gathered again in front of the King in the audience room.

The people here were King Zeurasia and his two sons, Prince Zeland and Prince Ural. There was also the King’s secretary, Nelfia, me, Wickharlt, Frein, and Luzel.

The prince’s aides had already been dismissed at the training ground and so they were not here.

Once the situation had calmed down a little, the King called out to his sons.

“Now, is there anything you want to say?”

Those words were probably mainly aimed at Ural, who had his head down and was biting his lip. However, Ural didn’t say anything, so the King urged Prince Zeland to speak first.

“I had a lot of fun. Roa-dono taught me that on a real battlefield, the most important thing is observing your opponent, trying to read their movement, and physiological battle.”

While saying that, he turned his sparkling eyes towards me.

His eyes made me a bit uncomfortable.

Because actually, more than half of this battle was under Rays-sama’s arrangement.

Of course, I didn’t receive any advice from him beforehand. All I received from Rays-sama was his instruction to finish the battle quickly.

Since our opponents were Granz-sama and Lapilia-sama, if we fought head-on, even if the commander was incompetent there was no way we could finish the battle quickly,

In other words, Rays-sama’s essentially told me to ‘finish him with a surprise attack’

In front of everyone, I’ve mentioned various reasons why I think Ural would set up his camp on the eastern side, but the real reason I was so sure was that I believed that no matter what happened, Rays-sama would make the Prince set up his camp on the eastern side.

So all I had to do was to make everyone believe in my reasoning and instruct them to launch a surprise attack from behind. There was no way I could know the personality of Prince Ural whom I just met for the first time. All my reasoning was just based on my first impression of Prince Ural.

However, if I revealed that here, Prince Ural would probably cause some trouble again, so I’d just keep quiet and receive his gaze of envy.

Still, Prince Zeland seemed to have gained a little more confidence. His expression was brighter than when we first met.

Anyway, the most important thing in a real battlefield was the physiological battle…huh? That was pretty spot-on. For Prince Zeland to realize that on his very first battle, maybe the Prince was quite talented?

The King looked satisfied by Prince Zeland’s answer so he turned his gaze to the Prince’s younger brother.

“What about you, Ural?”

Ural’s shoulders tremble.

A tense atmosphere enveloped the room for a while.

“…general?”

“What? Speak clearly.”

“Do I…not have the talent to become a general?”

Tears roll down Ural’s cheeks as he squeezes out the words.

“Rays, what do you think?”

“I can’t say for sure.”

“I don’t want to hear that kind of answer!” Ural glared at General Rays, and General Rays calmly replied.

“If you don’t learn anything from your defeat and just continue to listen to the praises of the people around you, then in the future, you will be no more than a small fry. But, if you can learn from your defeat and start to surround yourself with talented people who can temper you, then you can become a great general.”

“So, there is still a chance for me to become a general?”

“Ural, why are you so fixated on becoming a general? Why do you seem to be in a rush?”

“If I show my military might as a general and pledge my allegiance to elder brother then no one will dare to look down on elder brother…”

Everyone present held their breath at these words.

I had no idea that he was thinking about something like that…

“Ural…Because I was too incompetent…” Zeland looked at his younger brother with a tearful face.

“I see. Your Majesty, to think the Prince’s aides have cornered them to this extent…I think merely dismissing them is too light of punishment,” Rays-sama said.

“Mm. I’m a little angry too. Zeland, Ural, I understand how you feel. Zeland, study more so Ural can stop worrying about you. Ural, you shouldn’t be in a rush. This incident is my fault as I have failed to provide good aide for you two. Ural, I believe you can become a great general, so just focus on growing up well.”

After that, the two princes left the audience room.

After the two princes have left…

“Roa, Wickharlt, Frein, Luzel. Good work for today.” (The King)

“So today’s incident was to get rid of the princes’ current aides?” I asked

“Yeah,” Rays-sama answered

The role of a prince’s aide was highly sought after by the high-ranked nobles. The aides were chosen by the high-ranked nobles while also maintaining the power balance between the various noble houses.

This time, the various powerful noble houses used their own fund to gather people who had good reputations, then sent those people to the palace to become the princes’ aides. Unfortunately, the result was well, clear to see.

The King was actually aware that these aides were scheming something, but on the surface, they were doing a good job of educating the princes. For example, with Prince Ural, their education was so good that he kept defeating others in tactical board battles. What actually happened was that they involved Prince Zeland’s followers so Prince Zeland would lose, creating an impression that Prince Ural was competent while Prince Zeland was incompetent.

Firing these aides would be easy, but the nobles who sent them wouldn’t remain silent unless there was a proper reason for their dismissal. Now that our country has enemies on all sides, The King and Rays-sama were waiting for an opportunity to create a proper reason to get rid of these aides.

“I thought I could settle things peacefully, but they are much more vicious than I expected. That house seems to want to draw their sword against the royal family. Rays, think about what methods are effective against them. Nelfia, find out their weakness.”

“As you wish!”

I thought this back when I was still in charge of the canned food project, but our King was more fierce than I thought

In this way, the prince’s quarrel ended with me being able to take a glimpse of warm brotherly love and the muddy nobility world.

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T/N: 5/6 chapters