Unmotivated Hero's Tale

The arrival of Yui and his two men in Eltobout, the king's capital, coincided almost to the evening.

Diving through the heavy main entrance provided to the south of the Wang capital, the cobbled boulevards lined with large shops and inns extend into their sight.

"Is this the king's capital… I heard rumors that the number of people standing on this street alone is more than the population of our village"

To that sight, which is distinctly different from Carlin's, Cains makes his eyes black and white and begins to count the countless carriages and people passing in front of him.

Meanwhile, Yui opened his mouth with a bitter laugh when he remembered that Cain was from a rural area near Carlin.

"I don't know if I can compare you to your village... for once, this is Eltbourg, the king's capital."

In the western region of the Farburg continent, the Kingdom of Claris is a somewhat smaller nation than its surroundings.

The Rhindle kingdoms of the north were of the same size, but there were large powers surrounding them named for the Kelm Empire to the south and the Kisletin Republic and the continent to the east, and unfortunately, as the size of the state, the Kingdom of Claris was not comparable to them.

But when it comes to whether this country is a small, weak country, it is mostly said that it is not. That was because Clarice is a very rich nation of natural resources.

cereals, water resources, and demonic stones produced abundantly.

These rich fruits were not only treated as daily food for the Clarice people, but also as effective merchandise in their commercial dealings with other countries.

For this reason, Eltbourg, the Wang capital with these luxurious trading materials, is arguably one of the leading commercial cities in the western part of the continent.

"Cain, I can't believe there's no stables in the military building, so why don't we just leave them there?"

Speaking to Cain, who is still seemingly unusual, Yui headed straight for the military stables along the walls and deposited the two horses with the army stables, they began walking toward the military building to receive the decree of transfer.

"Captain... this is an amazing building"

A building that is larger than the surrounding buildings by more than two turns.

As it shows into his sight, Cain opens his mouth with surprise.

"Yeah, Carlin's city hall was pretty good too, but this is a building with headquarters in the Army and Magic Departments and the three military departments that added the Strategy Departments."

Worried that she would lose her hips the day she saw the castle, Yui went to Cains to explain.

In fact. As Yui said, the Military Office building is precisely the central facility of the army occupied by the headquarters of the three provinces that make up the Royal Army.

A historic Army ministry with no magic infantry or horseback riders at its centre.

The Ministry of Magic, which has developed rapidly in recent years and is now magically at the centre of wartime.

And the Ministry of Strategy, which contemplates strategies in times of war and is primarily concerned with the operation of military departments.

Although these three provinces have been pushed by the Ministry of Magic in recent years, Yui's strategic ministry has become the culmination of the military ministry, the provision to produce a minister of military affairs, which is considered the floral shape of the military ministry.

For this reason, the structure of the military office building, which is four floors long, was created to reflect the respective power relations.

In other words, the Ministry of Strategy, which is considered to be the most prestigious, is headquartered on the third floor, with the Ministry of Magic on the second floor and the Ministry of the Army on the last floor, with the executive officers of the provinces and the office of the Minister of Military Affairs on the fourth floor of the top floor.

"Well, let's not just be surprised. Shall we go inside? We need to go to the Ministry of Strategy headquarters before sundown and receive the decree."

Encouraging Cain, who remained stunned, they entered the government building and headed to the third floor.

"Excuse me, I was in the strategy department of the city of Carlin, Yui Istarz... I actually got a transfer decree to this one"

Arriving at the reception at the Strategic Ministry headquarters, Yui spoke to a young woman with glasses sitting in front of the counter.

"Uh... you're Yui Isterz. One moment please."

That said, the glasses woman starts checking the instructions in the desk drawer from the top in turn. And when she takes the corresponding one out of a large number of orders, she checks the text and changes its expression.

And when she suddenly rose from her seat, she hurriedly saluted Yui.

"And I beg your pardon. Yui Istarz, you're in fourth place. Thank you for waiting."

Confused by the sudden change in the woman's response, Yui puts a question mark on its head.

But as he chewed on her words earlier in his brain, he remembered words that were so uncomfortable that they caught on.

"Four? Um... I think I'm fifth or sixth."

"No, I have a promotion order to fourth place dated yesterday. With regard to future tasks, the Director of the Bureau of Strategic Affairs is going to tell you directly to Istarts 4th, so could you please head to the Director's office on the 4th floor?

"Ha..."

Yui black-and-white his eyes at stories like he suddenly descended and sprung, with the hopeful observation that it might be some kind of mistake.

At present, however, there is sometimes too little information to judge, and Yui was unable to assemble as many hypotheses as he could convince himself.

I just remember how this transfer order was mailed in the name of the princess, not from the Ministry of Strategy, and a certain bad feeling begins to cover Yui's brain.

"Um... Istarts 4th? What have you done?

"No... excuse me. Uh, you should head to the Strategic Bureau Director's office. Thank you for everything."

When Yui tells her she has no problems, she rushes to bow her head and head straight for the stairwell to the fourth floor.

Then he turned to Yui, who started walking with his neck tilted, and Cain, who had refrained behind him, inquired with a serious look on his face.

"Captain...... what the hell does that mean?

"I don't know. I'd rather hear it..."

In response to that yui, Caince leans her neck in the same way.

As if he were a student in front of an unanswered test question, Yui headed out to the director's office.

"But when it comes to strategic bureaus, it's the department to which the captain used to belong, isn't it? In the end, does that mean we're going back to our original department again?

"I don't know... I don't think so. My previous supervisor, who took care of me, was dismissed from the position of Director at the same time as my transfer. Director Weiseld, who succeeded him, was very disciplined, and he hated me very much."

When I think back in the day when serious military bureaucrats like Wycerd blatantly hated me, Yui feels indescribable.

In fact, in tissue, gears in the form of so-called yui, which are slightly snobbish, function under certain circumstances.

Conversely, however, it was difficult to use outside certain circumstances, and it was just a heretic child for an organization made up of only theoretical gear like the Wycerds.

"Right here, Cain."

Moving forward with such a past in mind, he quickly arrives in front of the door of the director's office.

And Yui knocked modestly at the door of the room once he was ready and exhaled strongly.

"Yes, who is it?

A calm voice returns from the inside of the door as it reacts to his knock.

Yui felt uncomfortable with the kind of voice she'd heard somewhere in there.

I'm Yui Istarts and Cains-Wall.

"Oh, Yui, you guys, right? Please come in."

When Yui felt a greater sense of the softness of the word, a certain person floated behind her brain and opened the door without getting lost.

"Hi, Mr. Yui. Long time no see."

"Dr. Armad!

I see a man with mixed gray hair who feels like he's in his mid-forties standing in front of me, rapidly running around the back of the brain of a former memory yui.

And I drowned in that sea of memories, but I called it the same way I used to call it in cadet school for Armad in front of me.

"Ha, you didn't seem to know I was coming back to military headquarters to see how that was going. Actually, they called me back a year ago."

"Was it? Excuse me, Director Armad."

When Yui hurried to salute him, Armad shook his neck left and right with a bitter laugh.

"Please don't be the director. After eight years in cadet school, I'm completely familiar with the teaching profession. Two years later, I'm still uncomfortable with this position. So I was wondering if you could keep calling me that."

When Armad, who said so, advised him to sit in a chair for visitors, he sat opposite him.

"But I didn't know the teacher was being returned to military headquarters... I really had no idea. Besides, the director of the strategic bureau, he was promoted to third place, right? Congratulations."

"Ha, thanks. It's nothing bad about promotion, but the position of director is a bit. As far as I'm concerned, I just wanted to continue my professorship a little bit longer."

"Sure, the teacher looked good in his professorship... but when it comes to the position of director of the strategy department, isn't that exactly the birth course? What are you unhappy about?

Whereas Yui looks unexpected, Armad opens his mouth with his hands on his chin.

"Well, it sounds good to say that the director of the strategic bureau, but what he's actually doing is just a rat tightening up by the name of an intelligence officer. I mean, I can follow people who do things that aren't really on the table, and honestly, there's no such thing as a jerk. Around me now."

Saying so lonely, Armad exhales a deep sigh with his shoulders dropped.

Yui, who saw the appearance, hesitated to speak of a certain discomfort he had felt since entering this room.

"Doctor... have you lost a little weight?

Illuminating what Armad looks like in his memory and what he is now, his former mentor realizes that his cheeks are slightly thinner and his hair is getting more gray at a time.

"Oh, just a little bit. Well, as long as I'm doing this job, including dirty stuff, it's a lot. Compared to that, teachers were still good. Many of the cadets were innocent, and once in a while, like the rest of your generation, you meet interesting students."

"When it comes to the captain's generation, for example, he was a Kingsguard. Is that true of Lute 6th?

When Cain inquires from the side looking intriguing, Armad nods one thing when he smiles.

And as he tries to follow his memory, he mouths the names of his former godchildren.

"Cains, I think it was you, you're right. Mr. Lute, Mr. Alex, and Mr. Yui. Their generation is called the Eighty-Eight Periods of Gold, and it was just a special generation. It's not just about ability, of course, but it's also about causing problems. That's why our teachers called them the eighty-eighth issue of the nightmare."

Armad closes his eyelids to nostalgic for the old days as he floats behind his brain the figure of his former godchildren.

"Heh... the captain had such adolescence, didn't he? It's like this now."

Hearing his own captain's story as a student for the first time, Cains looks intrigued and turns his gaze to Yui.

"Hey, this is what this is all about. Like this."

"Ha, Cains, I'm sorry it seems to be against your expectations, but Yui, you've been like this since you were a student."

That's what Armad tells Cain as he points to Yui.

Yui then gave him a bitter look as if he had given up arguing.

"There was a lot going on back then, but isn't it good about me? More than that, how did you become the feather of being called back to the Ministry of Strategy when you liked cadet school so much?

"Oh, come on, you say that? Maybe you don't know, but the reason I had to take up my current position is to be honest with you."

"What, me?

Yui, who has no idea what Armad's mouth said, asks back with a strange look on his face.

"Yes, clearly, it's your fault. Hmmm...... apparently you really don't understand the look. I don't have a choice, shall I explain it in order? First of all, my predecessor, Wyserd, did you know he belonged to the Shalems?

"... no. The Shalem people were going to go through the whole thing when I was here, but I don't think they were included in that list. But speaking of former director Wysseld, you were once striving for the military chief of the city of Ushana in the south... I mean, is that what you mean?"

Yui, who mentions the city of Ushana, the central city of Count Shalem territory, is convinced by one person to the point there.

"Oh, you're right. As you know, the city of Ushana is the central city of Count Sharem territory. It's an undeniable fact that he's a Shalem, because it's been a Shalem nest for a long time."

As he lists in his brain the faces of the Ushana City tangled military personnel, Yui again realizes that most of them are Sharems.

Having seen Yui's reaction, Armad opened his mouth again to explain it further to him.

"Even though the Chalems have not been dismantled by you, Wycerd is a man who has returned to the centre with Conne and his abilities. I'd say you're a pretty good military bureaucrat. However, the position of director in the center without faction backup was not usually parallel, and gradually lost influence within the Ministry of Military Affairs, eventually becoming the wings of being driven to the province. Well, not just him, but the old Shalemist post has been turned into a lawn mower for the military secretaries, the Meplers."

Yui nods deeply as he is convinced by Armad's explanation.

And I asked him what bothered me, straight to him.

"So that's how it went...... but I wonder why your successor is Dr. Armad? I don't remember my teacher making out with the Maplers."

"That's because HR against me is one of those rooting manoeuvres for the four Dukes. The only thing that matters to them is my origins, Lord Rhine's relatives, and they don't seem to have originally accounted for my abilities."

Shaking his neck left and right, Yui turns to him with a serious look and opens his mouth as Armad smiles with a self-derisive grin.

"That's not true. If we were to talk about competence, how many people in this country deserve more than teachers? Honestly, nobody's here."

"Thank you, I'm glad you're flattering me."

"No, this is no compliment...... anyway, I understand the circumstances. But I'm glad my boss is Dr. Armad. Now I feel like I can do something about it here, too, Cain."

Yui, who said so, turns to Cain, who refrains from turning to his side and shifts his gaze.

Then Cain nodded forcefully, too, whether he felt something attracted to Armad's character.

Armad gives a slightly happy and somewhere sorry look to those two reactions.

"Oh, it's about that. The truth is, even for me, I was going to pull you guys into the strategic bureau... but there was an unscheduled cross spear on the way in."

"Unscheduled…? Speaking of which, I was told earlier at the reception that I was promoted to fourth place, but my ranking, I think, was definitely supposed to be fifth. Maybe that has something to do with HR this time too?

Yui hits Armad with the questions he had earlier at the Strategic Ministry reception.

Then, to the best of his knowledge, Armad began to talk about the answers to that question.

"Oh, you're right. To be honest, I still don't know what you're doing either. Whatever. Your HR is in the custody of the Royal Family, and your promotion to fourth place was also triggered by the Royal Family's direct commitment to the military... but it doesn't mean you have no idea why."

"Say?

Yui wrinkles slightly between her eyebrows in Armad's mouth as if she had taken it around.

On the other hand, when Armad gave a frightened look to Yui's reaction, he told her why, as he once did when he coached Yui.

"... are you sure you don't know? In short, you are the hero who saved Princess Elise from the despicable trap of the traitor. I mean, that's why."

Chewing the meaning of the words Armad spoke in his brain, Yui suddenly tastes as if his headache had run.

And when I immediately held my head with both hands, it solidified in the same position as it did, as if I refused to accept reality.

After spending some time doing so, the first action he took was a lecture to Armad.

"You know... isn't someone wrong with someone else that I'm a hero? All I did in that land was wipe the princess's ass of failure. That's why we're talking about heroes."

"Dude, even though we're the only ones around, don't make a bold statement, as always, you. The neighborhood hasn't changed since I was a student."

Armad is dismayed by Yui's remarks, which are not strange when taken for disrespect.

"Yeah, well, it doesn't change a person."

"I was hoping I'd grown up a little bit because they started calling me a hero... well, is that your funny place? Just..."

Armad gets slightly confused about saying what he tried to go on.

But when he returned to Yui with a gentle grin, he threw again the word he nearly erased once.

"It's just you, Yui. I think... I'm sure the world won't allow you to stay that way."