Orc Harem Vol 3 Chapter 16

Chapter 16: Almost All Great Kings Had Problems in Their Personality And in Their Family

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I had investigated the scheme of the first prince Falta during the several days of my stsay in Forland Kingdom. I also did that while assuming the worst situation.

The members of the Wise Council were brainwashed while the wise king and Moulin weren’t because they were very vigilant. They constantly acted together with guards that possessed super first class skill while they themselves were also super first rate fighter.

In addition, his plan to win in a war against the demon king army that was regarded as most dangerous was also a letdown.

He simply believed in fantastic dream of the hero conveniently appearing to win the war for him.

My objective of holding the conference this time was also to learn about his plan to win, but this was just a disappointment.

No, perhaps it was that person who instigated the first prince Falta.

If his objective was simply to break the peace treaty, it wouldn’t be strange that Forland Kingdom’s side didn’t have any prospect of victory. After all what was important for him was just to make Forland Kingdom started a war.

「Ahaha, ahahahahahahaha, ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!」

The first prince Falta laughed loudly.

It sounded like he had also gone insane.

「Aa, what’s this. This is a joke, it’s completely a joke. What the hell, you, just what the hell with you! You are the son of the demon king and the hero, you are blessed with all kind of talent, you received the affection and education of the wise king Vareo, you are the disciple of the merchant god and the fighter king and the great sage, you are super first class no matter what field it is, and on top of all that you are also the hero huh! You bastard have everything, everything that I wanted. Just what the hell is it with you!」

There was hostility and anger toward me in Falta’s eyes.

His expression changed. It wasn’t a condescending expression like before. Rather there was something like longing and jealousy filling his expression.

Rather than saying that he was changing, it was more like this was his true face.

「You know, I always looked up at the wise king Vareo. I idolized him and worked hard before I was finally able to meet him. What do you think that man said to me at that time? 『I’m not interested, he is just a mediocre person who is born as a royalty』……aa, it’s exactly as he said. My lack of talent was passed down from my father. Do you know? My father, everyone is speaking behind his back that he became king just because his little sister was gone. His name isn’t that well known even though he is the king.」

The current king Fabrice wasn’t a talented person.

He was the type of person who would just safely follow the rail that had been laid out by his predecessor.

That wasn’t a bad thing. He had led this country without any serious trouble before he fell sick.

「I’ll just end up the same like Tou-san if I become the king. I’ll just do the same thing every day, every day, without doing anything different and not staying in the memory of anyone. I’ll simply finish my duty safely and vanish. Even in the history book, I’ll end with only my name being placed in the list of the successive generations of kings. That is the limit of Falta Forland, the mediocre person who was born as a royalty……there is no way I can’t accept such thing!」

It was at this point that I finally realized what the first prince Falta was thinking that he perpetrated this kind of transgression.

「Don’t tell me, you are doing something like this just to engrave your name in history?」

「Yeah, that’s right. You see, I’ll smash apart everything that the wise king Vareo and the hero of azure thunder has built up until now and engrave a new history on top of that. In order to do that war and overwhelming result are necessary! I’ll crush the demon king army and spread out my name as the great king. ……It should be like that.」

「Such future won’t come. You will definitely lose if you fight the demon king army. If you actually succeed in destroying the peace, your name won’t be engraved in history as a great king, but as a criminal, or perhaps a fool who drive this country into ruin.」

Falta grinned and laughed.

「That’s also fine. Compared to not being remembered by anyone and simply vanishing like my father, being a criminal or a foolish king or whatever, anything will be better than that. No way in hell I’ll accept being just one unrecognizable face among many. The army has already started advancing! Too bad for you. Ahaha, the peace treaty doesn’t matter anymore, it will be war after the elf village is burned to the ground! Yes, it’s a war that I’m causing!」

There was no resignation inside his eyes. There was only the blazing light of ambition.

The prospect of annulling the peace treaty was despairingly low now that the decision of the Wise Council had been overturned.

It was impossible for the army to be dispatched when the peace treaty was still held up.

And yet, the army was still dispatched. There was only one reason for that.

「So the army’s commander is also brainwashed.」

「Yeah, that’s right. Furthermore there are three fortress commanders who are brainwashed. You see, I evaluated you highly and feared you as someone who is recognized by the wise king Vareo. I thought that you might be able to stop the peace treaty from being annulled with you appearing before me like this. That was why I prepared this countermeasure. This is the obstinacy of mediocre person.」

That was logical. But, this wasn’t checkmate.

The war could still be prevented.

I inhaled and averted my gaze from Falta. I looked over the faces of everyone here.

「I have a proposition for everyone here. The first prince Falta has confessed of committing the brainwashing. Restrain him. Information has to be drawn out from him even if torture has to be used. Make him spew out the targets of the brainwashing and the people cooperating with him in this case!」

People with fighting capability including the royalty’s attendants moved.

The situation had been mostly decided.

With the confession from first prince Falta, his faction had no way of making a move anymore.

……The problem was what to do with the marching armies.

If his words were true, armies from three fortresses were advancing simultaneously.

All of them had to be stopped.

(I can do this.)

Considering the time period when brainwashing magic started to be used in the palace and other factors, the people in the armies who got brainwashed would only be the commander and vice commander at most. It would be impossible to brainwash every single soldier.

After all that forbidden magic had super high difficulty and its magic power consumption was also harsh. Even if the mastermind taught the magic to several people, the casters would only be able to use the magic once or twice per day at most.

In that case, if high class nobles or perhaps royalties with higher right of command than the commander was sent out and gave the order to the armies, the soldiers’ marching could be stopped.

「Listen everyone. The armies can be stopped. Even if the commanders are brainwashed, the soldiers will stop moving if someone with higher right of command go to their location directly and strip the commander of his right of command. Select the appropriate people for that role right away and prepare to depart immediately!」

Originally I had no authority to order something like this, but everyone obeyed me because of the atmosphere and the flow of event.

They understood that this was an emergency.

Also, the people here had the strength and initiative to take action in this situation.

Rurine who had been keeping quiet all this time opened her mouth.

「What will you do Ork-niisama?」

「I’ll go to the elf village directly. Not as Forland’s royalty but as the demon king’s son. If I’m in the village than I will be able to deal with the situation even if something unexpected happen. The armies can be stopped based on my calculation. ……But, I have a bad premonition.」

I said that I had bad premonition, but actually I had seen the possibility of such thing from the information that I gathered using the method that I couldn’t disclose.

And, if it was really that person who instigated Prince Falta, he would be able to easily surpass my expectation.

I needed this much insurance.

If he was blending in the three armies, things would become really troublesome.

「I understand.」(Rurine)

The conference was over.

I pointed the people in this place who were brainwashed and dispelled it before leaving the room.

It took around two hours to dispel the brainwashing because doing it needed delicate magic formula. I did this work even though it took so much time because the risk would be too high to leave this place while there were still high ranked noble who were under the brainwashing magic.

Rurine chased after me.

Everyone already went out in order to stop the marching armies, so we were alone with each other.

「Please allow me to come to the elf village too!」

「Tell me your reason. Right now we are in a race against time. I don’t need any dead weight.」

「There are three reasons. If Ork-niisama is heading to the elf village as the demon king’s son, a royalty of Forland Kingdom need to come along too to express our apology.」

「I’m also a royalty.」

「But the country’s sincerity will be conveyed more if a pure human like me is there.」

That logic was correct. Rurine would be better for that role rather than a half-breed like me.

Especially at this situation where I was heading to elf village as the demon king’s son to reinforce them.

If I said that I was also the royalty of the enemy’s side at such situation, the elves might get confused.

「The second reason?」

「Excluding Ork-niisama, I’m the strongest person among the royal family. The elf village is the place where a royalty’s presence is needed and also the most dangerous place right now. I’m the ideal person for that.」

「Certainly.」

「Ork-niisama isn’t doubting my strength?」

Rurine was a lovely girl.

She looked more suitable holding flower or jewels rather than sword.

If someone without any training in martial art saw her, they would surely think that I’m joking if I said she was strong.

「You can use ki really well, and your swordsmanship is obviously considerable just from a glance. Furthermore your sword trainer in the palace is similar with Kaa-san.」

「Ah, so Ork-niisama understand. Mireille-sama is my idol. I asked to have the same teachers like Mireille-sama and asked them to give me the same training like her!」

No wonder she was strong. A large part of Kaa-san’s strength was the hero’s power, but her skill was something that she cultivated through effort.

「And the third reason?」

「Because I like Ork-niisama.」

I laughed.

「I’m seriously taking a liking to Rurine, but Rurine is just pretending to like me right?」

「Now is different. I have been watching Ork-niisama all this time since you arrived here. I can say it confidently. I’m in love with you. The way you cornered Falta in the conference just now……it made me wet. My love to Ork-niisama this time is genuine. I want to become like Ork-niisama.」

I honestly wanted to be happy hearing that, but in this case it was simply her mixing up between admiration and love.

It was a sickness that a girl her age often got.

She didn’t really love me.

「I get it. I’ll take you with me. But you know, stop trying to become like me.」

「Is that, because I don’t have any talent?」

「You have talent Rurine. There is a reason you caught the wise king Vareo’s eyes. The problem is with me. Although I have the talent, I don’t have the qualification to become king. I can’t become a king……I’ll recommend Rurine to become the next king after everything is over. If you call back the wise king Vareo, reinstate Moulin into his post, and added with my support, your crowning will definitely get accepted. If even all those are still not enough, I’ll also call Kaa-san and the great sage here.」

That was what I decided after spending time in the castle and observed all the royalties including Rurine. She had the greatest aptitude among them.

「Why is that? There is nobody more worthy to be king than Ork-niisama. Are you bothered about being an orc?」

「That’s not a problem at all for me. Think of the answer by yourself. It’s something necessary if you’re aiming to be the king.」

「I understand.」

Perhaps it wouldn’t take that long for Rurine to realize the meaning of my words.

「Also, umm, after everything is over, can Ork-niisama embrace me? Since that day, after Ork-niisama caressed me, my body has been feeling this ache……it feels like I’m going to turn crazy.」

What should I do?

Right now Rurine was only misunderstanding admiration with love.

It would go against my policy to lay my hands on her despite knowing that.

「If you can’t endure the aching of your body, there is no need to wait until we get back, I’ll give you a tender care right away. But as for embracing you, that will be the reward for when you finished your homework.」

「Geez, Ork-niisama you bully. But, I’ll take you up on your offer. Please treat me tenderly.」

Sure kill technique, delay, delay, delay!

During that time, I’d teach her the difference between love and admiration properly.

I’d also teach her about true love on top of that.

Now, I was going to get busy to prevent the war between human and monster and securing a new harem member.

I swore I’d accomplish both perfectly.

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