Record of Wortenia War: Volume 24 [Complete] by Ryota Hori

Author:Ryota Hori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 3 — Under the Flag

A few days went by since Leonard Orglen had visited Viscount Romaine. The sun shined its warm rays on the land around midday. Even the public square in the royal capital was packed with people, almost as if it directly resulted from the good weather.

Knights approached the location and climbed on a platform that had been prepared and spoke up.

“Listen up! To the people of the royal capital! Seven days from now, the House of Lords will hold a hearing against the leader of the Mikoshiba Grand Duchy for the death of Viscount Romaine’s son, Mario Romaine! The hearing will occur under the queen, Radine Rhoadserians. Any outcome of the hearing is not to be challenged, and this hearing will show how our great kingdom deals with justice!”

The announcement rang throughout the streets, reaching everyone’s ears, with its range undoubtedly the work of martial thaumaturgy. Afterward, the knights put a notice on the bulletin board in the public square. The populace looked on at the knights, their eyes filled with curiosity, suspicion, and some despair. Many people stopped beside the bulletin board, looked at it for a while, and hurriedly left the area. It was clear to see how they felt about the announcement.

Ryoma Mikoshiba, the hero who stopped the noble’s tyranny, was to go to a hearing. The atmosphere in the public square had changed as if the once bright afternoon had suddenly turned to night. Viscount Romaine watched from his horse-drawn carriage in an alley that branched off the main street as the knights put the bulletin on the board. He chuckled at the civilians’ reactions to the news, smiling with the arrogant confidence of a man who had already claimed victory.

“To think this day actually came... When Viscount Leonard first approached me with this proposition, I deemed it a trap. But seeing it announced to the public like this, I no longer have any reason to doubt him.”

At the very least, it was a done deal. The House of Lords would summon Ryoma Mikoshiba to a hearing, and no one could stop it from proceeding. After all, knights had announced it to the public and posted it on a bulletin board to make the information offcial. Since the House of Lords had made their suspicion public, retracting from it would put their reputation and that of the Kingdom of Rhoadseria.

It would also be a serious blow to the newly appointed Queen Radine. I can’t imagine Diggle McMaster or Helena Steiner doing anything stupid like stopping it from going ahead, thought Viscount Romaine.

Things would differ if a clear indication they would do something like that existed. But Viscount Romaine had done his research and hadn’t found hints they were planning something. Everything was progressing exactly like Viscount Orglen said that night when he visited Viscount Romaine, so he did not doubt that what he said was the truth.

But... I had no idea Viscount Orglen had that side to him. I thought he was

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