A Famous Traitor and Treacherous Genius

205 – At That Time, the Imperial Ironclad Ship Appeared (2)

Although it is called a golden carriage, it is not actually a carriage gold painted.

The color painted on the outside is a yellow color close to gold for visibility, but in reality, it is a dye close to yellow brown.

However, from the viewer’s point of view, it appears to be shining somewhere golden.

It’s actually shining.

Magic fluorescent lights are installed, so whenever mana flows within the magic filament, it emits light that softly illuminates the surroundings.

Does it shine simply because it shines?

No.

It is not because they are displaying a flag, which is a symbol of Aiferia, or because they are displaying national flags as if the kingdom and empire are crossing each other.

[Ah, ah.]

The voice resonates.

It may be the first time the people of the kingdom have heard it, but it is a familiar voice to some.

[Hello everyone. I am from Iperia Industries…]

The woman’s voice, which spread throughout the camp through the magic voice amplifier, was momentarily speechless, as if frightened.

She is the [Chairman], Serves as ‘Chief’ of the Orosol Academy Off-campus Director, and is the representative of the funders of the Lembury Camp… Hmm, I guess it would be quick to introduce her to you like this. Could you please look at the sky?]

She soon revealed her identity and immediately made everyone look to the sky.

“That is…”

“Video magic?”

A huge barrier of magic floating in the sky.

The flow of mana, swaying like a curtain, began to reveal the appearance of someone, and some imperialists who soon realized its identity

“That person…!”

“Princess Astacia?!”

“No!”

The woman who appeared in a gigantic form through magic images resembled Astasia, but she was not Princess Astasia.

Her appearance and appearance are very similar to her, but she is a woman with thinner body lines than that.

At the same time, it feels like the beauty of a slightly mature woman is revealed.

“Oh, that’s right.”

Everyone forgot the introduction.

“It was so similar, I was mistaken.”

[My name is Erwin, the Empress of the Empire.]

The very sudden appearance of the empress.

I couldn’t understand why the Empress of the Empire had brought such a huge, unidentified ship shining with gold to Camp Lembury and not anywhere else-

[I didn’t know it would end up like this, but um, it seems like things have gotten complicated…]

Empress Erwin smiled softly and raised her hand to her face.

[…I brought some castella and strawberry milk, would you like some?]

“Woowaaa!!”

Some of the students cheered without even realizing it.

* * *

[A moment later, Golden Carriage Unit 1. The captain’s private parlor of the flagship Ipheria.]

A few days ago.

To be exact, long before the Lemberi camp.

“I thought that even if Viscount Balzac was miraculously good at preparing food, there would inevitably be dissatisfaction with the mass-cooked food he prepared.”

I prepared countermeasures for various situations in order to somehow destroy Viscount Balzac at Camp Lemberg.

“Adults tend to forget easily, but students who are not yet adults tend to remember the benefits of meals for longer than expected. And in fact, at this Lemberi camp, students began to complain about a lot of meals.”

“How much?”

“It is said that a son of a noble family told his parents and made a fuss that they should report Viscount Balzac. He suffered from an upset stomach and suffered humiliation beyond humiliation in a public restroom.”

“Ahaha…”

Empress Erwin smiles with a humble smile and scratches her cheek.

“Maybe you should have come a day earlier?”

“No. You came at the perfect timing. It was truly miraculous timing.”

“Wouldn’t people later think, ‘I did the timing right on purpose?'”

“Only the conspiracy theorists would say such things. Who would have predicted that the entire Lemberi camp would suddenly catch fire, and who would have thought that the golden chariot ‘from the Empire’ would arrive just in time?”＜ Br＞

“I think conspiracy theorists believe that to be orthodoxy.”

“If there is such a person, it is better to give up the idea of curing the suspected disease early as it is incurable. Fortunately, I am confident that at least the students here will not do that.”

I pointed to the students sitting spread out on the unburned grassland floor, devouring the castella and strawberry milk that had been taken out from the golden carriage.

“Look at their expressions. They look like they are eating food that is more delicious than any other mountain delicacy with food that would not cost a total of 20 thalers.”

“…I can’t believe how much I haven’t eaten, to the point where I feel sorry for everything.”

“What is the reason for you to be sorry? The one who gave the budget. It was Viscount Balzac who neglected the preparations and made a mistake.”

“Wouldn’t the blame spread to those in charge of Orosol Academy?”

“It will be okay because they are also trash that needs to be cleaned up this time. If they had managed and monitored it well in the first place without taking bribes from Viscount Balzac, there would not have been students eating a lump of castella like that, shedding tears.”

“Tears are an exaggeration… Oh my, are you really crying?”

“I’m not crying because it’s delicious, but I’m probably crying because I found hope in this hellish place.”

The tent I built while being scolded by the instructors burned down.

The train to go home was also burned down.

However, there would not be a suitable place to accommodate 600 people in the Viscounty of Lembourg Gunther, and in the worst case scenario, several people may have to sleep in a prison cell for one night.

“Will the Empress make the announcement? In the name of the Thersian Empire, each team will be provided with a ‘guest room’ in the Golden Carriage.”

“If I do that, won’t anyone feel like I prepared?”

“How do you feel? The students who will be relieving their fatigue by experiencing 4-star imperial hotel-class accommodations here will remember this day and this event until the end of Camp Lembury.”

The incompetence of the kingdom.

The Empire’s capabilities.

With the perfect arrangement of contrasting light and dark, many students will cherish the blessings they received from Iperia as a debt of gratitude in their hearts.

Even if it does not spread to favor or loyalty towards the empire, it is true that if given the freedom to choose between the two, the proportion of people who will choose the kingdom will decrease.

“This Lemberi camp itself revealed the comprehensive incompetence of the Kingdom of Nostrum, and the empire was showing the gap by guaranteeing students’ minimum dietary requirements as insurance. Yes, it is reality.”

“If we had tried to prepare the kingdom in advance, we would have been able to prepare to this extent?”

“But not to this extent, right?”

I pointed inside the room.

“There is a bed in each room, so one person can lie down, and the temperature in the room can be adjusted using a magic stone that stores temperature detection and heat generation magic. Above all, you can wash your body with hot water in the bathroom installed separately in each room.”

“It has to be that way.”

Empress Erwin came towards me and tapped my arm with her fist and laughed.

“You were the one who asked me to bring the ‘Imperial Passenger Ship’ in the first place in the name of distributing consolation supplies for the students, right? You were planning on letting them sleep overnight from the beginning, right?”

“Yes. I didn’t know it would become such an extreme situation.”

It was planned from the beginning.

Empress Erwin decided to lead the magic ship to a space where students could sleep and stay.

It was also planned to load all kinds of imperial food into the food warehouse and distribute fresh food that, compared to any other food, was far more delicious and healthy than the food that Viscount Gunther of Lembourg could prepare, and above all, not spoiled .

There’s just one thing that wasn’t planned.

“The train burned down. I’m sorry.”

I had no idea that those who came to kill people would suddenly carry out this level of terrorism.

“No. You can just build a new train. The internal materials will burn and there will be a lot of loss, but the frame of the train remains, right? You can melt it down and recycle it.”

Chairman Erwin lightly tapped the wall of the magic automatic ship with his hand

“In the first place, this was made by melting down various miscellaneous irons from the empire.”

“Arrowheads, swords, or something like that?”

“As a symbol of peace, I guess. They take swords and armor from traitors, melt them down, and recycle them into a very special passenger ship that travels between kingdoms and empires. That sounds great.”

“It would be even better if it was actually used that way.”

Soon, it was time for the students to finish the castella and empty the strawberry milk cartons.

“I’m sorry for causing you trouble. I’ll just cause you trouble a little more.”

“Are you talking to me or to His Majesty?”

“You could say both.”

Chairman Erwin and I glanced at each other’s ears.

“Anyway, what’s going on? It looks like terrorism isn’t just terrorism.”

“This matter is a secret from His Majesty the Habsburgs.”

“…I guess I’ll find out anyway.”

“Still, I think it would be better for the person involved to not know if possible.”

You may be listening.

“Terrorists. I wondered if they were secretly raising heroes somewhere.”

“…Raise a hero?”

“Yes.”

With this, I hope you can relax a little.

Is not it. Should I say things differently to make them let down their guard instead of making them nervous?

“Other than that, what kind of guts do you have to do such a crazy thing?”

However, I would like to complain about this.

“They say all their pawns are eaten up and they lose their knights, but don’t they act as if they have dozens or hundreds of unused knights and rooks behind them?”

It’s not like they’ve set up dozens of heroes of the Earl of Gibraltar’s level somewhere I don’t know.

“No matter how unfavorable it is, they say he is a person who flips the chessboard over and overturns it, but isn’t there a degree? There is a degree.”

If only the train hadn’t caught fire.

Even if someone had died right in front of the train, Astasia and I would have been able to spend the night quietly in a place without Empress Erwin.

‘No matter how much I do, it’s a bit difficult to be with Astasia in Empress Erwin’s presence her her her her.’

It was a slightly irritating moment.

“I don’t know what you believe and why you’re acting like this. Really.”

* * *

“Perhaps there is no way to really rebel. That’s what you think.”

The Habsburg Emperor sat with his legs crossed in his office chair and mumbled while fiddling with the magic device he had inserted into his ear.

“Hidden heroes? There is no such thing. There were many hidden heroes who failed to stand out for their talents. And they have already crossed over to the empire to some extent.”

Those who may have become heroes.

They are currently undergoing ‘selection’, but this much was clear to the Habsburg emperor.

“Saint Geo Nostrum is not fooling around because he has power. He has no regrets about the present. His subordinates are just idiots. Huh.”

As annoyed as Gray was, Habsburg was also not very happy.

“Nostrum, nostrum, nostrum… Loyalists who live solely on heroism…”

Habsburg quietly brushed his beard with one hand.

“If I leave it alone, it will continue to harass my next, so should I just wipe it out? …Ah, I see. Is this what my father had in mind?”

Grinning.

“I remove the trash that I see on my platform without causing inconvenience to the next one. Well, okay. It’s good to overcome adversity, but it’s not a bad idea to relieve it first and move on.”

The Habsburg emperor stood up.

“We have to clean up all the bed bugs, so that there aren’t any left. Hmm.”