After winning against the Selseta Army, the Urgalia Army rested for three days, then sent half of the twenty thousand Horned Cavalry1 back to the Imperial Capital.
Me, Ney, and Mito, the captured little sister of the Selseta King, were part of this army too.
General Oswald stayed at the border, so the one leading the returning army was General Gordon, who commands the Second Army.
General Gordon is a giant of a warrior, big both tall and wide. They say if it’s just raw strength, he’s the best in the Empire. When General Gordon stands at the front and charges, enemy soldiers split apart like waves hitting a rock.
He shows fierce bravery on attack like this, but General Gordon is also great at defense, and even in danger he doesn’t move, like a boulder.
Long ago, when the previous Emperor was surrounded by enemy troops, General Gordon swung his halberd every which way, mowing down enemy soldiers while precisely commanding a few troops, and pulled off the great feat of protecting the previous Emperor. The previous Emperor found his calm and dignity so reliable that he called him “like a great tree,” so he’s also called the Great Tree General.
Just like I did with General Oswald on the way there, on the way back I left all command to General Gordon and didn’t say a word.
As a result, the Urgalia Army got back to the Imperial Capital without any trouble, and my first battle came to an end without any big upsets.
But of course, this battle had a pretty big effect inside and outside the Empire.
To explain quickly, first, the Kingdom of Kassia to the east and the Duchy of Arsgute to the south didn’t move. To be exact, both countries showed signs of moving once, but their movements slowed down fast after a certain point, and soon both countries completely stopped their military actions.
Probably the news of the Kingdom of Selseta’s defeat got to them. The lightning attack by the Horned Cavalry could be done against the east and south too if we wanted. Both countries were probably on guard against that and called off sending troops.
With this, the three-front plan the Holy Kingdom schemed fell apart. For the Urgalia Empire it’s all good, but we couldn’t just be happy.
That’s because one of the Holy Kingdom’s goals this time in egging on three countries to fight Urgalia was probably to measure how well the Urgalia Army could move under the new Emperor (me) who just took the throne.
The lightning attack done with only the Horned Cavalry probably gave other countries a threat, but this is a kind of trick warfare, and it can’t be done every single time.
The normal way of war is to gather more soldiers than the enemy. This time, the Empire’s army didn’t do that against the Selseta Army. The only thing moved was the regular army’s Horned Cavalry, and among the powerful nobles, only Duke Inselm joined.
The Holy Kingdom must have gotten this information and seen that the Urgalia Empire’s ruler and subjects are not one solid rock.
Probably next they’ll shake the Empire from the inside. Many of the Urgal People hate the Holy Kingdom, but if they’re told “let’s team up to beat the Chancellor,” some will nod yes. The Noble Clans are especially dangerous.
Thinking about all this, I can’t just be happy about winning and winning.
Shiron slept peacefully beside me as I whispered into the quiet room, “…But well, the Chancellor can’t have missed things I can think about. So there’s no point worrying too much.”
At night, lying on the bed in my bedroom, I muttered to myself. Shiron, who is my partner for tonight, fell asleep next to me a while ago, so there’s no worry of my muttering being heard. Still, just in case, I used Japanese.
Anyway, the Chancellor hasn’t taken any countermeasures against the Holy Kingdom’s scheming this time. I thought this was a weak response for the strong-armed Chancellor, but maybe the Chancellor is pretending not to notice the Holy Kingdom’s scheming on purpose.
The moment the Holy Kingdom teams up with the Noble Clans, he’ll wipe out the worms inside all at once for the crime of rebellion – I wouldn’t be surprised if the Chancellor had already finished preparing for that.
If everything is on the Chancellor’s palm, then I should just enjoy my puppet life as before, not standing out, not making noise, so I don’t get in the Chancellor’s way. Thinking that made me feel better.
”Yep, it’s better not to have real power. I can toss all the troublesome stuff to the Chancellor and just spoil the girls I like.”
I muttered in Japanese and laughed.
Ney became totally obedient after this whole thing, and Shiron was loyal to me from the start. On top of that, maybe because they’re worried about me after my first battle, since coming back to the Imperial Capital they’ve been spoiling me in all kinds of ways. Blowjobs, titjobs, paizuri, pafupafu2 – if I ask, they’ll do it all shyly.
Thanks to that, tonight’s bedtime fun was also full of hustle. I said earlier that Shiron fell asleep next to me, but to be exact, “she passed out while we were doing it” is correct. I wiped off the visible dirt on her face and body, but if you lift the sheets, a huge amount of my seed I poured into her is probably overflowing from her vagina and dirtying the sheets.
So lately my sex life is extremely fulfilling.
Maybe it’s about time I made a move on a third person after Shiron and Ney. There are tons of beautiful women and cute girls in the Imperial Palace, and as long as they’re not noble daughters, the Chancellor probably won’t complain.
While thinking that, it’s also true that I can’t really reach for anyone besides Shiron and the others. The two of them are different types, but their bodies and personalities are each my type. To put it simply, they’re a “super” strike for me. There aren’t many people I’d want to hold enough to push those two aside.
So I was also thinking maybe there’s no need to force a third person.
Maybe he saw through my feelings, but the next day, the Chancellor came to me, which is rare. And after clearing everyone out, the first thing he said was this.
The Chancellor approached without preamble and asked, “Your Majesty, asking directly-can you impregnate the captured Selseta King’s sister?”
I blinked, completely caught off guard. “…Huh? Sorry, Chancellor. Did you just say to get the Selseta King’s little sister pregnant?”
He remained entirely impassive. “As I stated. The method is up to Your Majesty. I will not set a deadline either. Love her, toy with her, do as you wish.”
After saying that, the Chancellor explained the reason.
Simply put, the Kingdom of Selseta refused to negotiate for Mito’s return. To the messenger the Chancellor sent, the King of Selseta got furious and said, “I will give up not only territory but also goods and food. My sister Mito Selsetia died in battle on the Dalai Plains. Dressing up a fake to get payment – that’s just the dirty behavior of Urgalia’s hungry wolves!”
From what I heard, in the current Kingdom of Selseta there’s apparently a group saying “Shouldn’t the King’s little sister be the next heir instead of the young Crown Prince?” and the King of Selseta probably plans to use the Urgalia Empire’s hand to kill off his sister at this chance.
Or maybe he’s calculating that by first strongly saying “I won’t negotiate!” he can pull concessions out of the Empire, but either way, from the King of Selseta I didn’t feel any spirit of wanting to save his sister no matter what.
The Chancellor apparently judged at the stage when the first negotiation ended that getting profit from negotiating with the King of Selseta would be hard, flipping his thinking entirely.
The Chancellor laid out his proposition: “If Your Majesty gets the King’s sister pregnant, the born child carries the blood of Urgalia, Selseta, and Silku. After annexing Selseta, allowing that child to rule will keep public unrest minimal.”
”…I see. Selseta’s national policy was friendship with Silku3. But I hear children between humans and Silku are hard to make. Who knows when a child will be born, and worst case, it might not be born at all,” I noted thoughtfully.
The Chancellor dismissed the concern with a slight wave of his hand. “That is irrelevant. Even without a child, word that Princess Mito is favored by Your Majesty will shake Selseta’s soldiers. Resentment toward their King will rise. Our nation loses nothing.”
After hearing the whole story, in my heart I gave thanks to Mother Urgal.
I prayed half-jokingly that Mito would become mine, but I never thought a miracle would really happen. I have to say “good job” to the King of Selseta who threw away his sister.
While being happy that a third person came to me without me planning it, I agreed to the Chancellor’s suggestion.
-Then I thought.
The Chancellor, who the moment he judged Mito useless as a hostage, immediately tried to get the Emperor to impregnate her, would surely immediately throw me away too if he judged me useless.
That’s something I was ready for from the start. But actually seeing the Chancellor’s coldness right in front of me, I can’t help but feel a faint chill down my spine.
Though, being happy that I got an elf girl by riding on that coldness, I must look plenty cold to others too.
In the office after the Chancellor left, I let out a sigh without thinking. What the sigh was for, even I didn’t know.
Trivia:
1. The Emperor’s prayer to Mother Urgal half-jokingly wishing for Mito to become his, and it actually coming true, hints that the gods or fate may be listening to him in ways he does not fully realize, suggesting a subtle divine favor or cosmic irony at play.
2. The Chancellor’s willingness to impregnate Mito for political gain, and the Emperor’s recognition that he too could be discarded, reveals the Emperor’s self-awareness of his own expendability despite his title, deepening the theme of power as an illusion.
3. The detail that the Emperor uses Japanese when muttering to himself, even when alone with Shiron, shows that his past life identity remains his most private refuge and that he still does not fully trust his new world, even in intimacy.
Translation Notes:
1 ↩ A elite military unit of the Urgalia Empire, distinguished by their lightning-fast attack tactics. The source uses the English term alongside the romaji “Rongāra” in parentheses, suggesting the unit’s name carries cultural weight and is not simply a descriptive term. The translation preserves both to maintain the dual reference.
2 ↩ A Japanese onomatopoeic term referring to the act of burying one’s face between a woman’s breasts. It is a slang term in Japanese pop culture with no direct English equivalent, and the translation preserves the romaji to maintain the playful, euphemistic tone of the original.
3 ↩ A non-human race in the story’s world. The term is kept in romaji as it refers to a fictional species with no English equivalent, and its cultural and political significance in the narrative (Selseta’s friendship with Silku, and the rarity of human-Silku children) requires preserving the original term for consistency.