Chapter 43

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I looked at the people kneeling in front of me. 

Well… Just from a single glance it’s clear to see that the bad men are the one who are surrounding the carriage though….

“Prince Aquilane?”

Alaine, who was standing beside me, muttered that as she stared at the boy who looked like a high class noble. 

…… Prince Aquilane. I think I’ve heard about him before. If I’m not wrong, he’s the first prince from Minea Kingdom, a neighboring kingdom of Arakia Principality, the country we are from. 

….. Oooh. So this boy is the first prince. 

“You are… Captain Alaine?!”

The boy who looked like a high-ranking noble, who turned out to be the First Prince Aquilane, looked surprised while still kneeling on the ground. 

“『You can do as you please.』”

As I thought, I decided that it wouldn’t be good to keep the first prince of a nation to kneel before me so I granted the privilege to move as he pleased only to him. 

“Tha-Thank you very much.”

First Prince Aquilane slowly stood up. 

“I’m not the captain of the knight anymore. I left the knight along with the vice captain over there and decided to become adventurers so we can move freely.”

“WHAAAAAAAAAAAT?! So right now the Principality of Arakia doesn’t have you anymore?!”

The First Prince Aquilane looked flabbergasted upon hearing Alaine’s answer.

Before I came to this world. 5 years ago, Alaine single handedly annihilated Oceania Empire’s armed forces, another neighboring kingdom of the Principality of Arakia and the Kingdom of Minea. She brought her own name into fame throughout the entire continent for that feat. Even though it was said that Oceania Empire had the strongest armed forces 

Well, she’s a very dangerous person. Of course he’d be surprised to hear someone like Alaine, who’s strong enough to go against the whole country… Or to be precise, strong enough to go against the whole of humanity and win with a landslide (except against me), decided to leave the knight and became a free adventurer. 

“Hm.”

“So-So the Principality of Arakia is…..”

I opened my mouth to answer the First Prince Aquilane’s hanging question.

“Ah, please rest assured. Because of the doctrine and the usage of magic I’ve spread, I’m sure the Principality of Arakia won’t lose against other countries even if war were to break out…. Not to mention our knight has become the elite of the elite thanks to the mock battle against Alaine that they had to undergo.”

“Do-Doctrine?”

The First Prince inclined his head to the side at my answer. 

“It is our kingdom’s trump card. I’m afraid I can give you the details.”

Doctrine. War plans. Combat doctrine. It was a simple thing but could demonstrate a powerful force in actual war. I believed even a weaker kingdom could fight a war to some extent with superior doctrine and an intelligence network. The fangs of the weak could actually reach the strong one. 

In this era without nuclear weapons or any super weapon, it might be too excessive…. Well, this world actually had a super weapon in the form of Alaine though. Although I said the doctrine was our secret trump card, it wouldn’t pose a problem for her. 

“I see.”

The First Prince Aquilane nodded his head, seemingly satisfied with my answer. 

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T/N: So both of them are like nuclear weapons… Or maybe worse since they could defy logic.