Survive on a Deserted Island With the Villainous Young Lady

97 – Shining Lake (4)

“It is a hair-thick crack that breaks through the thick layer of ice frozen deep below the mirror-smooth surface of the water through a long winter. The ice with small cracks cannot overcome the warm spring day and the moment it melts, it cannot overcome its own weight and cracks and breaks along the cracks the thickness of a hair.”

The duke spoke quietly in the commander’s tent, which was situated in the thick defensive line, slightly behind the battlefield where the war had stopped for a while.

“It is the same to destroy a country. Our ducal family has never done anything great to make the country like this.”

Didn’t you do something big?

The aristocrats gathered at the table and the commoners who were recognized for their skills and were promoted to the position of conductor looked at them incredulously.

“All it takes is a small crack. Gap of status. gap between rich and poor. A minor quarrel between nobles. Compared to the huge object called country, it is a crack thinner than a hair.”

What the ducal family did was simple.

“We constantly knocked on that microscopic crack. And at the same time, I pulled, very lightly, the ankles of those who found the crack and tried to plug it in advance.”

The existence of the Revolutionary Army incited civil dissatisfaction.

The nobles, who tried to stop it, interfered a little and turned the anger of the citizens into firewood.

Using the power of dukes, he created an invisible gap between the rich and the poor.

In the gap between the rich and the poor created in this way, ‘weak defense areas’ were created and planted.

At the end of a long and slow work, the place was abandoned as it turned into ‘a place that needs to be solved, but it is troublesome to touch’.

Using his position as a duke, he instigated discord among nobles with just a few words or actions.

Because dukes have great authority and power, and nobles wagging their tails at the sight of power and power are sensitive to minor differences in attitude.

Through that, the nobility had a territory war with each other.

Thanks to the nobles who were willing to burn the lives of commoners for their own pride, there were many lesser nobles whose power did not grow.

Through the lesser nobility, ‘a place where the influence of the royal family is weak’ was created, and it was possible to avoid the eyes of the royal family and stock up on supplies and troops.

At the same time, it was very easy to build supply lines and bases necessary for war by speaking to the ‘weak nobles’.

And the beginning of the Revolutionary Army.

The reason for starting with the Revolutionary Army was to lower the morale of the entire Kingdom Army by exploding ‘citizen complaints’.

at the same time.

“The reason for destroying the academy is simple. I didn’t break the academy.”

The duke tilted his wine glass and said.

“They broke the ground the king built.”

The academy was created by the royal family.

“It will break down the ‘wall’ between commoners and nobles.”

Despite being located in the royal capital, the academy was covered by tall, thick walls, and it was openly known that it was a ‘different world’.

However, on the surface, the wall that divided the commoners and the nobles was destroyed by the power of the Revolutionary Army, which was a ‘community of commoners’.

Nobles and royalty, who seemed to be in that high place, had to run away ugly in front of the blades of commoners.

“You broke the authority of the royal family. At the same time, it also destroyed the authority of nobles and royal families.”

destruction of symbolism.

it has great power

He was able to create a brave army that would not be intimidated even if the opponent was aristocrats or royalty.

At the same time, far more nobles than expected came under the duke, considering war against the royal family ‘worthy’.

“You couldn’t even protect your own children, and you couldn’t even protect the academy, which should be the second most fortified after the palace, right?”

Saying that, the duke happily tilted his wine glass again.

The red-faced Duke looked like he was drunk no matter how much he looked, but the wine in his glass was very low in alcohol.

Not to mention the cheap beer with a light scent and taste that soldiers secretly brought in among their supplies to enjoy, as well as the crude ale that adventurers drank after a bout with a crude taste like animal urine and mixed with water to sell cheaply. .

But the duke, drunk to the point of blushing even with such wine, was talking about the start of the founding war as if he was very happy.

Of course, since all the people gathered here are subordinates whom the duke trusts more than anyone else, there was no way that these words would leak out or cause a crack in the duke’s army due to the loss of the duke’s authority.

“You see? What happened was a truly grand and splendid war of founding, but the beginning was really small and insignificant.”

It is because the duke has so much power and authority that he can say that it is not a big deal that he secretly beat up a country to create a crack and grow it, but those who heard the story did not say anything.

The moment I point out by telling the truth, it was not like that when I was what older adults usually do, and it is obvious that young people these days will say what they are doing.

“Now then, what do I want to say now?”

“Are you saying that we can also collapse through a small crack?”

“Yes, it is.”

Hearing a satisfactory answer at once, the duke smiled and nodded.

“When you say rift, are you referring to Prince Jordi?”

Prince Jordi’s attempted usurpation of the throne. As a result, a civil war broke out between the King’s faction and the Prince’s faction in the capital.

Whatever happened in the enemy camp, the duke seemed to think that it could be a ‘crack’ engraved on them.

“The civil war is getting too long.”

The Duke was still drunk, but nonetheless spoke with penetrating eyes.

“If the civil war is prolonged like this and the break period of the war is prolonged, the tension will be relaxed. And at the same time, the memory of running all the way here with the momentum of a crushing force will add to it, and you will look down on the kingdom army.”

crack. The rift the duke was talking about was the easy-going atmosphere created throughout the duke’s army.

“Perhaps the nobles who are in a difficult position to get the ball in this war will use this time to do useless things to get the ball.”

“exactly… … .”

The duke quietly looked somewhere.

“Take the fastest and strongest horses and send dispatches to each place. Reorganize the army.”

“All right!”

The civil war lasted too long… .

‘Is it going to be this long?’

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Little question.

and anxiety.

The instinct of a born general felt the change in the war.

What if, indeed, what if the king or prince had already ended the civil war and was still ‘pretending to start a civil war’?

‘Is there any benefit to anything there?’

If you are a king, what kind of profit do you want to see? If you are a prince, what kind of profit do you want to see?

‘… … .’

After a short break, I had a feeling that the war would be greatly shaken.

Ominous dark clouds began to gather in the sky of the kingdom.

* * *

“Is Rottin-nim here by any chance? Mr. Rotin! Do you have any? Mr. Rotin! Your letter has arrived!”

After going through many countries by various means and through difficult regions, he finally arrived with a letter, and the man looked for someone in a bar where rough sailors stayed.

“What is he talking about? Where is that?”

“I don’t know either. do you know hey!”

“… … .”

“You bastard, the taste is gone.”

“He must have a wallet in his back pocket. Let’s pay for it.”

“I don’t like touching a guy’s ass.”

“Let’s tear open the pocket with a knife.”

In a corner of a bar where people from all countries and seas are mixed, a sunburnt hand rises like a fish from a sea of races.

And the raised hand spoke the same distant foreign language as the man waving the letter.

“Hey, here! I’m here.”

“Rottin! Here is the letter.”

The one who jumped up was a man with a smooth and elegant face that didn’t go well with his rugged body.

He, who had been arm wrestling with the man sitting across from him a while ago and enjoying rum, accepted the letter and handed the rum he was holding as if exchanging it to the pabal who had brought the letter.

“Oh, thank you. Good work. How about a drink?”

“no. Because I have to go back right away. By any chance, do you have something to tell me?”

“Mmm.”

Taking a sharp knife out of his pocket, Rottin roughly tore up the letter, read what was written inside, and nodded as he accepted the letter and the paper from Pabal.

“Hey master! I want to write something, do you have a quill and ink here?”

And speaking very fluently with a dialect and accent from the western part of the country, he asked the proprietor for a pen and ink.

Unfortunately, Rotin lost the quill and ink he had a while ago during a drinking party.

“ha ha ha. If you want to find something like that, walk past the restaurant run by that stupid kid over there, pass the Changgwan run by a red-haired proprietress who is as hot in bed as her hair, and walk about 10 minutes to the bookstore. It’s the only place in this town that lives on paper and ink.”

“Thank you for letting me know. Here, what is left is a gift, so drink it.”

Rotin, who gave the rum to the tavern owner, who had no intention of drinking any more, left the tavern with Parbal.

The moment they left the tavern, a new customer shouted.

“Master! Give me a drink first!”

“Here, I knew you would come and spread it in advance.”

“Oh, how good is the service? huh? Does it seem small?”

“Stop talking nonsense and give me the money.”

Rottin went to the place the owner told him to and borrowed ink and a quill and wrote a letter.

Then he went to the wharf and laughed at the sea tossing in the raging storm and the boat making a noise that sounded like it was about to break.

“Okay, then we’ll have to get a butler and a maid before the weather gets better.”

Watching the white foam of the crashing waves, which rose for a moment and then crashed to the surface, Rottin kissed the name of a woman in a letter from his father.

“I’m on my way to pick up the woman I love, but I can’t take only filthy and ignorant sailors with me.”

The name of the ‘lady he loves’ he had spoken was crumpled with the paper from the greasy kisses of rum and meat, but he could read it well enough.

Of course, the language is too far away for the locals to read.

At the spot where he kissed, the name ‘Monia’ was written with a long modifier and the surname of the duke’s family consisting of eight words.

“Ah, dear Monia. It will be the first time in 10 years that I have seen it in person.”

As a child, when Rottin was still a teenager, she was beautiful.

It was lofty and beautiful like a lofty flower that bloomed on a sheer cliff, and at the same time, it was delicate as if it would collapse the moment it touched it.

At that time, he couldn’t come close to him because he was the daughter of the duke’s family, but the beauty that he engraved with his eyes at that time never left his head.

“You must have become even more beautiful. On that island where there is nothing but harsh nature, you must be trembling in fear and waiting for someone to help you.”

I’m going to meet you now.

* * *

“That, over there, the wind seems a bit strong, doesn’t it?”

“Uh, um, that, that’s right.”

“I-I mean, excuse me.”

On the fourth night after coming to Shining Lake, Monia gave the excuse of the wind not blowing and clung to Chester not only her face but also her body.

“Ehehehehe.”

“Why, why are you laughing?”

“Just.”