TN: The recovery people just got back to me about my hard drive. Said it was a lost cause. Platter scratches, apparently. Anyway, without further ado, here’s the chapter… AN: Side story (But definitely not short) This may be a little late, but I’ve decided on the currency units Currency Unit 1G (Gorudo1) = ￥1… Continue reading Interlude 4 – Ginger the Slave Trader and Sandria the Slave

TN: Sorry for the wait, here you go… AN: Last chapter ended at the year’s end, but let’s rewind the time one and a half months back. It happened a little while after the Amidonia Merger had concluded. That morning, I was woken up by the loud BANG of the door being slammed shut, and… Continue reading Chapter 0 – Round Table (Kotatsu) Conference

I walked down the corridor with Hakuya. Looking through the window, I can see it was already completely dark outside. The time is, around eight PM by my guess, and I recalled the situation at the banquet hall. If such a perfect situation happened at this kind of hour … we’d have been going to… Continue reading Epilogue – Amid the Snow B

“Hold on a moment!” As I froze upon hearing Roroa’s sudden marriage proposal, a flustered Liscia ran down and pressed on to Roroa. “You’re Amidonia’s princess, right! What are you saying!” “Whut do ye mean whut? The same as you, big sis” “Big sis!?” On the other hand, Roroa was still at ease. “Big sister… Continue reading Chapter 6 – In Which I was Baiting Sea Bream with a Shrimp but Caught a Shark D

If you ask why I was blindsided, then I’d have to say because my outlook was too narrow. The eyes of the Black Cats and the Kingdom of Elfrieden were only trained on Vannes itself. With the relief for the people of Vannes and its environs as justification, we regained Vannes in a way that… Continue reading Chapter 6 – In Which I was Baiting Sea Bream with a Shrimp but Caught a Shark C

After the judging was over, Soma, Aisha, and I returned together to the government office. Along the way, Soma suddenly staggered. “Soma!” “Your Highness!” Aisha and I went to steady him, but Soma leaned his hand on the wall and said, “I’m alright, just a little unsteady,” while stopping us with his free hand. “But… Continue reading Chapter 5 – As The Lord: After

TN: Apologies for going missing for a month. I had three projects thrust at me all of a sudden, and they all wanted deliverables by Christmas. THEN I had to help my dad move house, which happened to be somewhere with bad 3G reception. As for the licensing, I’m taking down the first volume and… Continue reading Chapter 5 – As the Lord D: Punishment

AN: This is a Soma-style musing on The Prince, presented as a light report. Readers who think, “I don’t care about theory, gimme the story!” may skip it over. Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’ was called the Devil’s Book and for several hundred years was censured by the Christian Church, particularly the descriptions contained in Chapter VIII:… Continue reading Chapter 5 – As The Lord C/D: An Inquiry on Cruelty as Defined by Machiavelli

In a certain great noble’s residence, twelve shadows were having a secret conversation. “What do you think of this assembly” “Fourteen of us have been gathered from so many nobles. Probably … the kingdom’s side had noticed as well” “There are reports of the black hand’s dogs sniffing around us” “Then the goal of this… Continue reading Chapter 5 – As the Lord C: Crime