Chapter 308: Festival Preparations

Chapter 308: Festival Preparations

Chapter 308: Festival Preparations

Five minutes after all my leaders left the war council, I called three people back.

-Yataro, Kotetsu, Rina, come back to the meeting room

"I'm back. What is the matter?"

"Hmm, just Rina, Yataro and me, huh?"

"What's up?"

"You're the only ones whom I will tell the full details of the upcoming operation."

"Hoh."

"Will the others have a different mission?"

"The details of the operation...?"

The two old men cheerfully smiled at my comment while Rina looked rather puzzled.

"This time's operation is-

I told the three about the secret agreement us upper class demon kings reached in the thread.

"I see. That's why you're going to leave the defense short of hands, huh?"

"So, are those other demon kings people that can be trusted?"

"A united front of the Thirteen Evil Stars?"

"In regards to the question whether they can be trusted, I can only admit that it's unclear. We've been in contact on the forum for more than a year, but we never met in person.

"That's a fairly risky operation then, isn't it?"

"It might be risky, but we cannot afford to keep twiddling our fingers and just watch the situation getting worse, right?" I told them my honest view.

"Okay, but what's the reason for you telling only us three and not all the leaders?"

"It's because I can trust you three in various meanings...I suppose," I answered Rina's question.

"In various meanings, eh...? What a fitting phrase."

"Takaharu, Sarah, and their surroundings will wreak havoc without caring whether there's something going on in the back. And I doubt that there's no need to worry about the other leaders betraying us either. But, it's possible ins that they let something slip by accident."

"Hoh...the upcoming operations sounds like it'll become a major crossroad."

"That's how it is."

If the operation goes smoothly, the demon kings will become allies or the enemies of your enemy...but not enemies themselves. This time's rule change favors the humans way too much. It's probably about time for us demon kings to alter the way we do things.

"Getting back to the main topic, when we enter Plan B, the idea will be to offer several sectors to the humans, I guess? As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to secure a certain foothold in Itoigawa."

"In other words, you're not going to ease up on the invasions even if we become isolated?"

"A complete take-over of Itoigawa will likely be impossible, but the question will be how far we invade...how many of our sectors we

offer...and when Rina and Kotetsu's corps would come back to reinforce the defenses."

"No casualties among the leaders, right?"

"That's the plan."

"In that case, we should abandon a sector if the enemy reaches the 30th floor, I suppose."

Right now I'm level 32. In short, the deepest floor of each sector is the 32nd floor.

"I'll set up 【Transfer Gates】 to our headquarters on the 32nd floor of all sectors adjacent to Gifu. Everyone will retreat at the same time as we abandon it. Afterwards, I'll delete the 【Transfer Gate】 at headquarters. ...Would that be alright?"

"I think that's a safe approach. The number of sectors we'll offer will be all the domains that were invaded simultaneously at the start, right?"

"The sectors of Nanto and Toyama City, huh...? There's quite a lot of sectors neighboring Gifu."

"Going by numbers, it'd be 21."

"I believe the humans won't attack 21 places at the same time....."

"going by the trends so far, it'd be ten at most."

"If we lose ten sectors, it'd hurt, but...I guess it'll be an unavoidable price to pay."

"Staying alive is all that matters, yep."

"For the time being, Rina, Kotetsu, pull back your troops urgently if this situation should occur."

"You have my word."

"Roger."

"Okay, please resume your preparations for the attack."

A Plan B to make double sure. Even while praying that I wouldn't need to put it into practice, I prepared for the worst-case scenario.