Incompatible Interspecies Wives

35 – Spreading Reputation (1)

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The sound of knocking in the office.

‘His Majesty the King. This is Gendry.’

“Come in.”

Rex Draigo watched as the scribe opened the door and entered.

“What happened?”

Rex asked Gendry, shining his sharp eyes unique to the Dragon race.

Clerk Gendry said, holding up the piles of papers in his hands.

“…A request for aid. It seems that the front offices come in every day.”

Rex asked in a tired voice as he touched his forehead.

Simultaneously sweep her hair as her gray hair grows.

“…Where else this time?”

Gendry walked over to Rex’s desk and slowly set the papers down.

Then, he listed the aristocratic families that requested aid one by one.

“…This time it’s House Tarth, House Otoa, and House Celebrien.”

“Didn’t the Tars family dispatch an army last time?”

“They say monsters have appeared again.”

“…How many bosses are there?”

“One dog-“

– Bang!

Rex shouted, slamming her desk with her fist.

“-You can subjugate yourself with just one!”

“…”

Silence fell in the office.

Rex calmed his anger.

“…How much these Lizardmen pups disrespect the royal family… Warn the Tars family. Just don’t ask for help with something like this.”

“…I see.”

Rex picked up the Tars family letter and blew flames from his mouth, completely consuming it.

It seemed that his stuffy feelings had subsided at least a little.

“…What next?”

“Autoa is pretty urgent. They are accepting requests from mercenaries as they are everywhere, but it seems that there is no place to accept them. It seems that we are not in a position to pay sufficient compensation.”

“Otoara. I’m not sure which family it was…”

“A family of gnomes who live by the river Thrad in the south.”

“Ah, there you are. So, the scale of the monster.”

“Two bosses are roaming around the territory. It’s hard to confirm even that, so I’m not sure.”

Rex nodded slowly.

He even said he would help with two. Even though Rex was deeply troubled as he was not from a prestigious aristocratic family.

Rex asks about the last family.

“Lastly, what about Celebrien?”

Celebrien was a rather surprising name. It also boasted the longest history among the families requesting aid today.

“The most serious. The entire territory was surrounded by monsters. The nearby trading roads have all become habitats for monsters… They are waiting for death.”

Rex let out a long sigh. In the first place, he did not have a good perception of the elves. Especially the Celebrien family.

As a long-lived species, they are stubborn and ignore other races with short life spans. At the same time, old customs are cherished like treasures.

So Rex always ignored such elves.

Because no group makes foolish choices like those who think they are wise.

“…You foolish elves. That’s why I’ve advised you several times to leave.”

“…You can’t throw away the world tree.”

The King snorted and leaned back in his chair.

“What is the World Tree? It’s just a big tree with meaning. It’s funny how kids who risk their own lives take care of as much as the world tree. If only that place had been abandoned, they would not have asked for help from us now.”

The secretary did not agree with the king’s sarcastic remarks. He already knew that letting him unwind was a much better option.

“…So what are you going to do?”

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When Gendry asked the sighing king, the king scratched his head and answered.

“…Throw away Celebrien. Help Otoa.”

“If Celebrien is left alone, it may perish.”

“I should have saved it. We wouldn’t even leave the battlefield to protect the World Tree anyway, so what can we do? I’m going to struggle with the same problem the same way. I don’t want to waste it. Help Otoa.”

“Okay.”

Which family could have more influence, if you think about it, it’s Celebrien… But Rex didn’t want to sacrifice his dragon warriors for the elves.

“In the first place, those elves wouldn’t even feel grateful if I helped them. You’re so smart, let’s solve it yourself.”

“…”

“Prepare excuses well for the Celebrien family. Be sure to insert the words that we are not in the middle of the day. There is already a family that has agreed to help.”

“Of course.”

After the choice was made, Rex let out another painful sigh.

Rex has recently been thinking about whether all these choices were right.

It was an aid that started because the war with the Demon King and the Demons would end soon, but as the war dragged on, the burden on the Draigo family was increasing exponentially.

Somehow, it might have been right to draw the line from the beginning and save only the allied families.

But the road I had walked so far was so far that I couldn’t go back.

In this way, aid had to be continued until the end of the war.

It was also a fight with demons in the first place.

I have to give aid like this even if I don’t want to, but when the war is over, the power of the royal family will be stronger.

…Even in order to protect one’s own kingdom, this kind of support was perhaps essential.

If the demons win, the one who runs away is the king, Rex Mok.

“…I want to rest. Go out.”

At Rex’s words, Gendry turned around.

Suddenly, a family with Rex’s head passed by.

“Oh, Gendry?”

“Yes, Your Majesty?”

“…So what happened to that family?”

“Which family do you mean…”

“The one I couldn’t help before… Blackwood.”

Blackwood once asked for help, but Rex declined the offer.

I expected to face more than 3 bosses, but that was a burden even from Rex’s point of view.

Subjugation was possible, but sharing that power with other families would have a greater benefit.

But deep down, it was bothering me. Blackwood was a family that had existed since the founding of the country.

“All right.”

Gendry replied.

“…Really?”

Rex doubted his ears. Because it was an impossible situation. The werewolves’ request for aid in the first place showed the seriousness of the situation.

“How are you all right?”

“A mercenary unit has finally received a request. I also solved it.”

“Huh…Remuneration? What Blackwood can offer to the mercenaries…”

“Blackwood’s youngest daughter was sold to a human mercenary.”

Rex stroked his chin.

“…That happened again.”

“Yes.”

“Let’s see, the youngest daughter of the Blackwood family…It must be the one who took the life of Blackwood, who was carried along with her birth.”

“Ner Blackwood.”

“Even from Blackwood’s point of view, it was an outstanding business. He sold his youngest daughter whom he hated in exchange for the fate of extinction. Anyway… That’s pitiful. Being sold to a human in a cross-species marriage… Wouldn’t that be an easy reality for a young lady to accept?”

Rex pondered the fact for a moment before bursting into laughter.

“…But a guy who is pretty smart is running that mercenary group.”

“That’s right.”

Rex was planning to deal with the exponentially growing mercenaries once the war was over.

But the mercenaries who took Blackwood’s daughter probably escaped that wrath.

As expected, Rex thought that humans were an interesting race.

Cruel, savage, promiscuous, and ignorant, but sometimes such unique talents appear one by one.

Pearls in the mud appear one by one.

Of course, it was not certain that the leader of the mercenary corps was such a person, but it was clear that he was not an ordinary person.

“Yes. Go.”

Rex, having heard enough, bit Gendry again.

But Gendry didn’t leave, as if he had remembered something from the previous conversation.

“…Your Majesty?”

“…?”

“…I just heard a strange rumor about that mercenary.”

“Tell me.”

“This is the story of Ner Blackwood’s husband, the vice-captain of the mercenary corps.”

Rex frowned. Asked, lightly scratching the horn on his head.

“Wait, the vice-captain is your husband? Aren’t you the captain?”

“Yes.”

“That’s why…Anyway. Keep talking.”

“Yes. It’s a story about the vice-captain… There is a story that the subjugation record is close to 200.”

“……”

Rex froze for a moment, examining Gendry’s expression.

I wondered if he was playing a joke.

But Gendry didn’t smile and kept a firm expression.

“…”

“…”

For a while, silence lingers in the office.

Rex said at last.

“…Isn’t that what the human said? I don’t believe it.”

“…”

“Anybody can post a record and talk. Close to 200, ha. Isn’t that the second highest subjugation record after the hero?”

If this is true, it would be surprising to see so many knights from so many families, so many nobles, so many soldiers, and so many heroes.

“Gail-sama is there too.”

“Ah. There’s Gail. In any case, it doesn’t make sense that such an eccentric would appear so suddenly.”

“Maybe.”

“Go, so.”

“Okay.”

Gendry turns.

Rex closed his eyes, annoyed.

He can’t even control his fluctuating emotions.

“Ha…”

“…Your Majesty?”

“…So what’s your name?”

No matter how rumors are, they are hard to ignore.

“Yes?”

“That human vice-captain. What’s your name No, tell me the name of the mercenary.”

Gendry responded with a straight expression to Rex’s whim.

“This is Red Yeomdan. The leader is Adam, and the vice-captain’s name is Berg.”

“…Okay. Go.”

Gendry lowered his head and turned him one last time.

As he leaves, closing the door, Rex is lost in long thoughts.

The number of subjugation records approaching 200.

Rex doesn’t believe it, but some evidence he sees makes him doubt himself.

You saved Blackwood from the boss. It is a mercenary corps with a leader who is quite smart.

Is there a vice-captain who raises his own value with such ugly lies in such a place?

Isn’t it right to believe that everything is true?

Perhaps even the record of 200 subjugation was a lie aimed at something.

For example, passing on rumors to the royal family like this.

Rex sighed and murmured, somehow putting the new information into his head.

“…It’s hard.”