Tearmoon Empire: Volume 3 [Complete] by Nozomu Mochitsuki

Author:Nozomu Mochitsuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

“Well, let’s hear it then. What’s the matter?” asked Mia.

“I’m here to inform Your Highness,” answered Sapphias with a friendly smile, “that the Bluemoons offer you our full support during this election. We are at your service.”

“My, what promising news this is. Did you come all this way just to tell me in person?”

“Not quite. I also bring a scheme, with which Your Highness may claim victory.”

“...Really?”

Mia leaned forward a little. A way to win against Rafina was exactly what she was missing right now.

“Do you really have such a thing?”

“I do, and it’s simple. Find Miss Rafina’s shortcomings and hammer away at them.”

“Her shortcomings, you say?”

In short, he proposed a method politely known as negative campaigning. Rather than highlighting the benefits of her own policies, Mia would find flaws in her opponent and use those as fodder for political attacks. It was doubtlessly an effective tactic, but...

“That’s certainly doable against your average noble, but does Miss Rafina actually possess the kind of shortcomings required?”

“Who cares? If she doesn’t, then we can just invent some.”

“What?”

“Rafina Orca Belluga is a saint of most virtuous character. Because of that, even the slightest flaw will become a conspicuous stain on her reputation. All that’s required is a little behind the scenes preparation. Hardly a challenge. If it pleases you, Your Highness, I’ll be more than happy to take on this task personally,” Sapphias said with a cunning grin.

She stared at him and found herself...

S-Sweet moons! I hadn’t thought of that!

...Genuinely impressed by his idea!

For Mia, who’d been thoroughly intimidated by the flawlessness of Rafina’s policies, the realization that she could just make up flaws was a real eye-opener — a groundbreaking discovery of epiphanous proportions.

You know what? Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I had this done to me tons of times during the revolution... Four out of every five rumors that said bad things about me weren’t true.

As a matter of fact, at least three out of every five had been factual criticism, but... well, that meant a good forty percent of the rumors were false, so she arguably still had a point.

What made those kinds of rumors especially pesky was that even when I personally proclaimed them false, lots of people wouldn’t believe me...

Personal experience made Sapphias’s logic seem all the more convincing, and she found herself on the verge of buying into his scheme. Something, however, held her back. Be it intuition or perception, alarms were sounding in her head.

It really gets on your nerves when someone does that to you, though.

In other words, showering someone with insults for something they never did is a great way to piss them off, and you can be sure they’ll hold a grudge for a long time.

I’m a pretty tolerant person, if I do say so myself, and even I got pretty angry. If I try a stunt like that on Rafina, she’s going to blow her top. And when she does...

Scenes of Rafina staring daggers of pure, unadulterated wrath

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