The Royal Hostage Has Vanished: The Black Wolf Knight Yearns for the Persecuted Princess Volume 2 [Complete] by Ajigozen

Author:Ajigozen
Language: eng
Format: epub

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“Just what I expected from Count Farlon. They’re following the battle plan perfectly,” I murmured, impressed, from a short distance away.

The foot soldiers had been sent forward to build the anti-cavalry palisades and retreated immediately after they finished. Then, the Sylvarian mercenaries’ charged on in, only to get overrun when their formations were broken. While it might’ve been easy to explain, getting several thousand foot soldiers to actually accomplish it was an incredible feat. And Count Farlon had done it brilliantly.

“If we mess up now, I could never show my face in front of the count again. I’d be way too humiliated.”

“Seriously. What are you gonna do about this, commander? You’ve raised the hurdle too high.”

“Don’t call me commander. I’m a viscount now. Or wait, I guess I am the captain right now, huh?”

I gave the knight beside me a wry smile as he sassed me. He was one of the members of His Highness Prince Alphonse’s Special Battalion that he had sent out to me for this battle, and had been one of my subordinates from back when I was company commander.

“Shouldn’t commander be fine, then? You’re not the type to be a full-on commander, and this is all on a much smaller scale, anyway.”

“Yeah, I guess you’re right. I wouldn’t be able to handle things if there were more people.”

I turned as I replied, and my eyes fell on the ten knights in armor, including this guy. I also saw the lines of stiff-faced soldiers lined up behind them. They’d all been equipped with the same spears and shields, but their equipment and physiques were all over the place. They were not Brigandian soldiers.

“Well then. You all can address me as commander as well.”

“My lord, such a thing is impossible!” screeched the man standing at the very front of the line.

He was the leader of the soldiers, but he was a commoner. And, as you might’ve guessed from his response, he was also one of the citizens of my territory. From his point of view, or rather, from all of their points of view, they could never bring themselves to be anything less than totally formal. The proof of that was how the men behind him all nodded, looking like they were about to die. I couldn’t blame them; they were all my citizens, after all. But for just this moment I needed them to loosen up a bit.

What do I do?

“Yeah, that’s true. For you guys, I’m your lord,” I said, sounding as understanding as I could be. They nodded all back, so I must have been right. It was good of them as citizens, but I’d need to get their hearts pointing a different way.

“But I’d like for you to forget that fact for the moment. After all!”

I upped the force in my tone before intentionally pausing as I looked at the soldiers. They all looked surprised into silence. But that was for only one or two seconds. Once I paused, their surprise seemed to lessen, and the look in their eyes changed, as if they were waiting for my words.

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