Chapter 99- Setting Out

Chapter 99- Setting Out

[Keeno POV]

After leaving the war room, we began preparing to depart. Once all preparations were finished, the commander issued orders on who attacked where. Sigurd’s squad along with three others were assigned the mountainous territory who’s main city was built into and on the sides of the mountain.

“...” (Keeno)

“Is something wrong, my Lady?” (Emma)

“I feel like we were assigned this city because stone doesn’t burn as easily.” (Keeno)

“Well, it would make sense, considering what happened last time you were involved in the attacking of a major place here.” (Freya)

“I’ll have you know I was completely justified in that.” (Keeno)

“I don’t see why you’d have a problem, also considering that fort was also mostly stone.” (Pram)

“I never said I had a problem, just that I felt like it was the reason we were assigned this target.” (Keeno)

“Well, I for one, am happy it’s this place. There are a lot of stairs there.” (Emma)

At that, the people around us that had been slowly making more space around us due to the topic of our conversation suddenly stopped being discreet about it.Finnd new chapters at novelhall.com

“That’s a weird reaction.” (Freya)

“It’s because Emma has become a bit infamous due to her penchant for pushing people down stairs or other similar things in urban combat.” (Selkie)

“Oh, when did you get here, little fox?” (Keeno)

“I’m not little!” (Selkie)

“Says the one shorter than all of us.” (Pram)

The little blonde kitsune poured at the teasing she received before going over and grabbing Emma’s hand.

“Emma, they’re bullying me.” (Selkie)

“And your reaction is just further enforcing your childish image.” (Emma)

Emma said this while using her free hand to pat the little fox’s head. If her tail was any indication, she was enjoying this quite a lot. It was then that Sigurd stepped to the front of the group and turned to all of us.

“It’s time. We set out for our mark now. If all goes to plan, we will arrive in two weeks. Prepare yourselves for anything that may happen on the way.” (Sigurd)

Once his little speech was finished, he turned around and started to walk away, followed by the rest of us. As we were leaving the city we were based in, several people lined the streets and waved off the soldiers. Some threw flowers in the way, others ran up and gave the soldiers some kind of small trinket, probably a kind of good luck charm or something similar.

“...” (Keeno)

“Yes, and I did bring it up with the commander before we departed, but he said that we need to continue pushing forward or else we will lose the momentum. At the time I understood him and I managed to power through these thoughts during preparation, but after marching all day, the thoughts have come up again.” (Sigurd)

“Hmmm.” (Keeno)

“Forgive me for intruding on the conversation, but I have some input on this topic.” (Freya)

“Feel free to give it.” (Sigurd)

“Things like that are normal when you are doing something like this, be it on the way to siege a city, or any other mission where stakes are high. Sure, repeated successes may seem like things are too easy or that some big, bad thing is going to happen soon, that isn’t always the case. If that doesn’t help, then attribute the successes as thanks to the strength of you and your subordinates, or poor planning or reaction from your opponent, or any other reason you can think of. Thinking in the way you are now is only going to cause you to mess up at some point, and that won’t end well.” (Freya)

“I see. That...that makes sense.” (Sigurd)

It seemed that Freya’s words helped Sigurd move past his doubts a little and he soon got up to leave.

“I would love to stay and chat, but I still need to finalize the plan for when we get to the target.” (Sigurd)

He walked away, leaving us three alone.

“...Keeno, I didn’t say anything earlier since we were surrounded by people and I didn’t trust using telepathy, but are you sure helping out that prince person is worth it? I mean, the way he just demanded you explain everything to him like it was wrong to hide any information from him just gives me a bad feeling.” (Pram)

“I agree. He gives me the same feeling I got when I dealt with Family leaders, which is to say, not trustworthy in the slightest.” (Freya)

“Don’t worry, I know that trusting him is only going to lead to trouble down the line, that’s why, once this is over and the Dead Zone is gone, we’re going to make Freyr the new ruler. He’s competent, and unlike the prince, his soul isn’t tainted. And hey, what’s a bit of regicide when we’re already enemies of the world?” (Keeno)

{Hehehe. A small step in righting the wrongs of this country’s leadership.}

The night continued on as we conversed over a topic that was anything but good for a certain prince.

Chaos Realm:

Order: ...And why am I now stuck with a sleeping Crisis in my lap?

Because your lap is very nice to sleep on.

Order: ...

You’re so cute when you blush like that.

Order: *blushes more*

*Begins patting Order’s head*

Order: Hmmmmm.

Hehe.