Betrayed by My Best Friend and Dumped by My Fiancée, I’ve Decided to Enjoy Life as I Please ~ For Some Reason, a Bunch of Crazy Fanatics Keep Pledging Their Loyalty to Me~
“”Thank you for your good work. Rex-sama.“”
Geez …… what’s with the atmosphere ……
I never told them to treat me like a king. ……
“J-Just sit down for now. Let’s get this meeting started.”
I want to get this thing over with as soon as possible.
I don’t know what kind of trouble you guys are going to bring, but as soon as this meeting is over, I’m going on vacation for a while!
I can’t have work brought to this meeting so that I can enjoy my holiday life to the fullest!
At my words, everyone sat down.
However, I noticed that one chair was empty.
I believe that seat is ……
“Iris. Is that person not here today?”
I asked Iris standing next to me, and she shook her head.
“Yes. That person has a mission he can’t miss today, so he’s not here today.”
Good!
Just having that guy around makes my heartache about 1.5 times worse. ……
He’s good, but he’s so good that everything he does is on such a large scale that it’s really heartbreaking. ……
“Oh, isn’t that crazy bastard here today? He does such a wasteful thing even though he was able to meet Rex-sama.”
The person smiling bitterly while folding her arms is Matilda Danvers, a dark-skinned, pointed-eared Dark Elf race who is also known as the Sixth Sword, “Annihilation,’
Her beautiful silver hair is tied in a side-tail and her body is toned like a warrior’s, but not overly muscular.
I have never seen her fight, so I don’t know her strength in detail, but she has a friendly, honest and straightforward personality, which I like in a person like her.
“I was able to get him to do it in a hurry, so I left it to him. There’s no way he would fail, right?”
“Hahaha! No doubt! He’s a crazy guy, but he’s got the ability to do it right.”
Matilda nodded with a big smile when Iris said the reason why she entrusted him with the job.
Well, the meeting will not go ahead if we keep talking like this, so I guess this is enough small talk.
“Iris. It’s time to get started.”
“I understand. We will now begin the Mitsurugi Conference. I know the details of the success or failure of the mission from the report, so if there is anything else that needs to be reported, please let me know.”
The Mitsurugis began to discuss various topics.
However, I was relieved to see that the topics of discussion this time were all very quiet.
I can’t tell you how much I wanted to cry a year ago when a report came in that we had inadvertently destroyed a mountain in a battle with the imperial army. ……
“Well then, Rex sama. We’ve got some things on the agenda, and this would normally be the end of the meeting, but …… I’d like to make a statement.”
When the meeting seems to have come to an end, Iris comes back to me.
I don’t want to ignore her, and I wouldn’t want her to act without asking and do something outrageous, so I tilt my head and prepare myself to listen.
“What’s wrong? Tell me.”
“Thank you. To put it bluntly, …… it’s time for the witching hour to end.”
“……… eh?”
Y-you’re trying to take away my once peaceful life!?
I’m going to cut your salary a little bit if you keep talking like that!
“Why should it end?”
“Our organization is already quite large. It’s getting harder and harder to operate while keeping ourselves hidden. Please take a look here.”
Iris handed me a piece of paper.
It seemed to be a document describing the current state of the organization.
What is it? hmmmm……. ha………?
After skimming through the document for a while, my eyes stopped at the “Members” column.
Inscribed there were the words ”2,000 combatants.”
If the number of non-combatants and collaborators were included, the number would be in the five-digit range.
Eh? I thought the number would be barely three or four digits at most,……?
I had not looked at the data carefully when I was handed them, thinking that I, who had no expertise in organizational management, could not possibly interfere.
“We may be small in number, but our quality is far superior to any army. We are recognized around the world as a country without territory, but we are vastly under-resourced and under-funded.”
W-What does this mean we are undernumbered? ……?
And what is a country without territory?
Is the Black and White Dragon called that now?
But I thought I understood that the quality is higher than anywhere else.
It seems that Mitsurugi in particular is so strong …… that even one person can become the country’s ultimate weapon.
Mitsurugi is not limited to a certain number of people, and only those whom Iris recognizes as strong can become a Mitsurugi
The fact that Iris, who does not allow any compromise in the service, approves means that they are very strong.
The current Mitsurugi is made up of nine members, and that many people are available to be recognized by Iris.
Incidentally, Iris’s current strength is strong enough to crush an S-class adventurer with a single hand at the same time.
The other day, she slaughtered a dragon in one blow with a smile on her face.
“I see. We are certainly short of resources and funds. But how are you going to solve this?”
“We are thinking of forming a full-fledged alliance with a country that has taken a favorable stance toward us.”
“An alliance……?”
It is true that by forming an alliance, we, who were only rumors among the people, will be involved in world affairs in earnest.
However, it is true that it will be difficult to run the organization any longer than this, so let’s go to war with someone and steal their supplies! It’s much more peaceful when someone says that
“I’m fine with that. What about the rest of you?”
“If Rex sama has made up his mind, we’ll just go along for the ride.”
“…. I see. Iris, do you have a list of potential allies?”
“Of course I do. Here you go.”
Iris gave me three sheets of paper again, which contained basic information about the country she had probably chosen.
I read through them. ……
(These are all small and poor countries. …… Can we get aid from these countries that have their hands full at home?)
Honestly, I couldn’t decide if I could really get aid from all these countries that could be called very poor.
From the perspective of these countries, a little less than 10,000 is quite a large number.
I guess it’s hard to expect that even in today’s world, most of the countries that accept refugees are wealthy.
“Rejected.”
“……! B-but ……”
“The people of these countries are living in considerable poverty. We can’t ask them to squeeze even more aid out of them. So …….”
I looked at the world map and pondered.
And then I spotted one country.
I am not familiar with world affairs, but I think this country might be able to help us.
“How about the beastman kingdom of Lionel?”
When I suggested this, they all looked reluctant.
Eh? Did I say something funny?!
I thought the beastmen are also a discriminated race and would be willing to help us!?
“Rex-sama. Lionel is currently in a standoff with the imperial army and will probably not give up his precious supplies. Besides, Lionel’s king is famous for being one of the most murderous misanthropists in the world, and I doubt he’ll sit down to negotiate with us in the first place. ……”
W-Well, I didn’t know that information!
If we were to negotiate with the country, it would be dishonest to the other party unless it was me or Iris, the head of the Black and White Dragon.
Even though there are many discriminated races belonging to the group, the top two are both human.
Isn’t that a helpless all-out situation ……!?
N-not good……
Because of the unnaturally high expectations, it’s more like, ‘Why doesn’t this guy know this stuff?’ Rather than ‘I’m sure he has an idea’, people are starting to think like that!
Now if they know I’m just ignorant…..
[What the hell. I didn’t know this guy was our leader.]
[I’m so disappointed. I shouldn’t have followed him.]
I bet they will be like that
I-I must avoid that. ……
While I was frantically moving my head and thinking of excuses, the door was suddenly opened and a soldier with a shortness of breath came in.
“A-a report!”
“Hey, we’re in the middle of the important Conference. Rex-sama’s plan is being given to us, and you’re ready for an intrusion ……?”
“B-But……”
Matilda threatened the incoming soldiers with a blue streak on her temple.
I soothed her and urged her to report to the soldiers.
“Matilda, calm down. More importantly, what do you want to report?”
“Ha! I received a report from the secret spy who had infiltrated the Empire and Lionel at the same time. According to them, there are signs of a monster flood in the suburbs of Lionel. And from the empire, …… [thousands of imperial troops have been dispatched to Lionel]……”
“””“?!!!??””””
At once the place is surprised and upset.
Ha-haha,…… what’s such a big news,……
Stop bringing trouble to me!!!!!
-Maiban