Chapter 725 : Banban Kingdom

Chapter 0725 Banban Kingdom

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“Ichiban ‍​‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‍Island? Ichiban Port?”

Ryo ‍​‌​​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​‌‌‌​‍tilted his head.

As a former Japanese person, they were a familiar string of sounds.

“Ichiban, as in ‘number one’?”

No one answered that question.

No, wait, there was!

“Abel, in the Banban Kingdom report you were reading earlier, did it say the names of the islands?”

“There were three big islands.”

“What were the names besides Ichiban Island?”

“I think they were Niban Island and Sanban Island.”

“What the...?”

Ryo was stunned.

No matter how you looked at it, first, second, third...

“I can feel the shadow of a reincarnator.”

Ryo’s mutter was too soft for Abel to hear.

Still, he could tell Ryo was muttering about something.

“Ryo, is there something on your mind?”

“Huh? No, nothing. There is just something that is bothering me.”

“There is something bothering you, then. What is it?”

“Nah, I’ll report it after I look into it and confirm it...”

“Look into it?”

Abel tilted his head at Ryo’s answer.

Look into it in a country he was visiting for the first time?

How?

Abel had that question, but he pushed it to the back of his mind, assuming it would not be solved anyway.

Skidbladnir docked at Ichiban Island.

From there, Abel would disembark via the gangway.

On the port, Banban Kingdom soldiers were lined up in formation.

“Information is being passed around freely.”

“Hm?”

“They knew we were arriving, as if they had been expecting us.”

“They probably did. For the Banban Kingdom, the only country they normally have dealings with is Pishkan. Since that’s the case, they would naturally have built a system to obtain information from the core of the Pishkan government, would they not?”

“Spies...”

“Naturally.”

At Ryo’s words, Abel shrugged.

About twenty knights from the Knightley Kingdom were also lined up below the gangway.

They were there to provide protection so that no disturbance like the one in Pishkan would occur.

Abel had said it was excessive, but the two company captains, Zack and Scotty, had objected.

And when Captain Paulina also hinted at it... he had no choice but to accept the knights standing in formation.

By the way, as before, Ryo followed right behind Abel, holding up Abel’s beloved sword.

But the two company captains had also told Ryo, “Please, you absolutely have to protect him!” and under that pressure, he had nodded...

Protecting the king was hard in a lot of ways...

Abel descended the gangway.

Once he stepped onto the port, a man from the Banban Kingdom approached him.

Of course, there was no attack this time.

“Your Majesty Abel, we have been awaiting you. I am Lakkan XX, King of the Banban Kingdom.”

“Your Majesty Lakkan, a pleasure to meet you. I am Abel the First, King of the Knightley Kingdom.”

And so, the meeting between the two kings was completed without issue.

After that, the Knightley Kingdom party was guided to a place called the Government First Hall.

“As I mentioned earlier, our country does not have a facility for receiving state guests. Well, it did in the past, but for the past hundred years we have only dealt with our neighboring country Pishkan, so we have not maintained it.”

“I see.”

King Lakkan explained this to Abel as he led the way.

“If your guards also wish to stay overnight, this auditorium is the only place available.”

“No problem. Having the guards with me was something we requested, after all. Please do not worry about the location.”

King Lakkan said apologetically, and Abel nodded magnanimously.

“A gymnasium...”

Ryo’s mutter went unnoticed by anyone.

The First Hall they were shown to was, in fact, a gymnasium.

It was a large open space with no pillars.

Probably everyone would sleep there.

The Skidbladnir’s crew, along with the twenty-five Knightley Kingdom knights led by Zack and the civil officials, remained on the Skidbladnir.

That was because they had been told in advance that there was no place where so many people could stay together.

For that reason, only Abel and Ryo, along with the twenty-five knights led by Scotty, had disembarked.

Even in the Banban Kingdom, this was not going to be a formal negotiation.

It was only a courtesy visit by Abel...

They would simply convey the same message they had given to Chief Marta in Pishkan.

Still, since arrival was in the evening, they had no choice but to spend one night there.

What was more, the Banban Kingdom side wanted to hold a garden party to welcome King Abel.

Things like this were part of diplomacy.

They could not refuse.

However, due to Abel’s wish to keep the group small, it became a dinner at the royal palace rather than a garden party.

From the Knightley Kingdom side, King Abel and Knights’ Company Captain Scotty Cobuk were the two participants.

Yes, the premier duke, Ryo, was not attending.

Naturally, Abel had asked Ryo to come.

But...

“M-my stomach and head and hands and feet hurt...”

Ryo threw a fit like a child.

Normally, Abel would have dragged him along by force, but he realized that Ryo was acting strangely this time.

Even while he was throwing his fit, it was as if his mind was elsewhere... as if he was doing something else inside his head...

For that reason, Abel did not force him, and Scotty ended up attending with him.

Ryo stayed behind in the First Hall with the other Knightley Kingdom knights.

Then he sat by himself in a corner with his eyes closed...

Nine o’clock at night.

The dinner was over, and Abel and Scotty had returned to the First Hall.

Many candles were lit in the auditorium, but it was by no means bright.

In the midst of that, Abel looked around.

Ryo, who had been sitting in the corner, suddenly stood up.

Then he walked toward Abel.

There was something not normal about the way he looked.

“What is it?”

“To be honest, I don’t know what is happening, but...”

“Hm?”

“Armed people are coming to the island.”

“...Huh?”

At Ryo’s explanation, Abel let out a startled exclaim.

But that cry caused the knights who had been talking to clamp their mouths shut.

In that silence, Ryo’s words rang out.

“Armed people are heading toward this island in small boats from Niban Island and Sanban Island.”

Naturally, Abel also wondered why Ryo had that information.

But that was not what mattered right now.

“You don’t know what those armed men are after, do you?”

“No, I do not. I think they are probably regular soldiers. Their equipment is similar to the soldiers lined up at the port, in this country...”

“Are they attacking us, or are they rebelling against the government on this island...”

Abel muttered.

That mutter sent tension through the knights who were straining to listen.

Some put their armor back on after taking it off.

Some brought their beloved swords close at hand.

Others still listened closely to the conversation between Ryo and Abel...

“Scotty, what do you think we should do?”

Abel asked Company Captain Scotty.

It was a question asking him to state, from a guard’s perspective, what he thought should be done.

“I think we should all move to the Skidbladnir and anchor outside the port while we watch how things unfold.”

Scotty answered without hesitation.

His highest priority was ensuring King Abel’s safety.

If that was the case, there was no other answer.

“Understood. We’ll move immediately.”

Abel decided at once.

There was nothing to be gained by wasting time.

First, they needed to break out of this situation, where they were split from their allies.

After that, they needed to secure an escape route.

If they could clear those two things, then they could deal with whatever came next.

Abel hurriedly wrote out a statement.

Scotty took the document, put it in an envelope, and handed it to a subordinate.

The subordinate who received it ran off.

“What was that?”

“I wrote that, due to circumstances, we would be sleeping on the Skidbladnir tonight. There are Banban Kingdom soldiers outside, so I want them to deliver it to King Lakkan from there.”

Abel answered Ryo’s question.

While he answered, everyone had already begun moving.

While they were moving on foot, the knight who had taken the letter also came back.

Scotty confirmed that.

“Your Majesty, everyone is together.”

“Good, let’s pick up the pace a little.”

When Abel said that, everyone increased to just short of a run.

Running would have looked bad, after all... but they wanted to get back to the ship before anything happened.

Of course, one knight had already returned to the ship ahead of them and explained the situation.

So that they could depart immediately once they boarded.

Ryo walked beside Abel as usual.

But Abel had noticed it.

He noticed that Ryo was still concentrating on something else.

So he did not ask anything.

The group quietly moved to the port.

They went up the gangway and boarded the Skidbladnir without incident.

“Everyone has boarded.”

Scotty reported to Captain Paulina.

Paulina gave one nod in response, then signaled wordlessly.

The Skidbladnir moved out with almost no sound.

Without hoisting its square sails, the Skidbladnir slipped out of the port using only a few fore-and-aft sails.

After confirming that, Abel looked at Ryo.

Ryo had kept his eyes completely closed after going up onto the deck, but he opened them when he sensed Abel approaching.

“The people who landed on Ichiban Island surrounded the auditorium where we were, and the royal palace.”

“So moving early was the right call.”

Abel nodded at Ryo’s report.

Then he asked.

“Ryo has been... probing with magic all this time?”

Abel had also realized that Ryo had been doing something.

He thought that the reason Ryo had turned down the invited dinner was that he had been doing that same ‘something’ the whole time.

“Yeah... It’s about the right distance for sonar now. I should retrieve them.”

“...Retrieve?”

“Niban Island and Sanban Island are pretty far away, you know. There’s water in between, even if the strait is narrow. So even my sonar cannot reach them.”

“Hm.”

“So I sent them instead.”

Thump.

As Ryo spoke, something landed on the deck.

It landed, but was invisible... only a glint of reflected light showed itself.

To Abel, they were the sort of beings he was already somewhat familiar with.

“Oniwaban?”

“Yes, exactly. Oniwaban, First Squad.”

As Ryo answered, color returned to the transparent ice golems.

“So with transparent ice, you really cannot see them at night.”

“That’s right. Even in the evening, if they are in the shade, the human eye can hardly recognize them.”

In other words, Ryo had sent the First Squad of the Oniwaban to Niban Island and Sanban Island.

“All the way to those islands... you had been controlling them the whole time?”

“Yes. I sent them in groups of three, but controlling six at once was pretty difficult.”

Ryo’s expression was full of satisfaction.

It had been difficult, but because he had obtained information early, they had been able to withdraw from the auditorium unharmed.

If they had learned about it too late, there was a high chance the group would have been caught up in the clash that was about to break out.

“You did not send the golems in because you thought this attack might happen in the first place, did you?”

“Of course not. I told you, ‘I’ll report it after I look into it and confirm it,’ remember?”

“I see. So that was what you meant by looking into it.”

“After looking into it a little, both on Niban Island and Sanban Island, the soldiers there were acting pretty suspiciously, so I started investigating that side, and then... the attack happened.”

Ryo shrugged, seemingly considering it a nuisance.

“In the end, I couldn’t investigate what I actually wanted to.”

Ryo was convinced that a reincarnator had been involved in the Banban Kingdom’s past, and he had wanted to look for evidence of it.

But before he could search, this happened...

“Ah...”

“What is it?”

Ryo cried out before he could stop himself, and Abel asked.

“A large clash has started near the entrance to the royal palace.”

Ryo conveyed the information he had read through <Passive Sonar>.

After thinking for a moment, Abel turned around and asked.

“Zack, Scotty, you would both be against intervening, right?”

“Yes, strongly against it.”

“Yes, we should definitely remain observers.”

In response to Abel’s question, both Zack and Scotty advised against intervening.

Abel also called out to the person standing behind the two of them.

“Captain Paulina.”

“Yes, Your Majesty?”

“I read the Banban Kingdom report that the captain and the others compiled. Is there any additional information beyond that?”

“It is mostly already in there, but...”

As she spoke, Paulina tilted her head slightly upward.

It looked like she was recalling the contents.

“If I were to add a point based on this incident, it would be that Niban Island and Sanban Island are currently controlled by the younger brothers of the present King Lakkan the Twentieth as island lords.”

“Island lords?”

“I was not able to investigate the exact details, but they seem to be the rulers of the islands. Compared with the king... they would be something like viceroys.”

Compared with the king... they would be something like vice kings.”

“I see. That means it’s highly likely this attack was led by those viceroys, the king’s younger brothers.”

Abel nodded at Paulina’s explanation.

“We will not interfere in Banban Kingdom’s domestic affairs. We do not have enough information to know which side we should support. We’ll observe the situation from here.”

Abel announced their policy.

The two company captains and Captain Paulina nodded in silence.

And so, the Skidbladnir spent the night outside Ichiban Port.

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