無双命令
「よく来てくれた、余の千呪公よ」
王宮の謁見の間、おれは久しぶりに国王にココに呼び出された。
「お久しぶりです、王様」
「うむうむ、余の千呪公よ、変わりはなかったか? なにか生活に不便はないか? そうじゃ、これから寒くなる、王宮が所蔵している暖石半分ほどわけてやろう」
「陛下、王宮が所蔵している量の半分ですと、公爵様のお屋敷がまるまる埋まってしまいます」
横にいる大臣がツッコミを入れて、国王の暴走を止めてくれた。
相変わらず良いコンビだ、と思いつつ話を進める。
「ありがとう王様。ちょっとだけもらって良いかな。みんなと使ってみて、良かったらまたもらいに来るね」
「そうかそうか。うんむ、いつでも待ってるぞ」
「陛下、そろそろ......」
横から大臣が国王をせっついた。
いつも通り目尻下がりっぱなしの国王と違って、大臣はちょっと......いやかなりの真顔だ。
何を頼まれるんだろう、おれは気を引き締めた。
「さて、余の千呪公よ。卿を呼び出したのは他でもない、是非ともやって欲しい事があるのだ」
「うん、王様の頼みなら。何をすればいいの?」
「討伐じゃ」
「討伐?」
「そうだ。ゲルニカの事を覚えているか」
「うん、もちろん」
ベロニカの出身だ、忘れる訳がない。
小国ゲルニカ。財政難を原因に、ちょっと前に王国に臣従してきた国だ。
臣従してきた直後、その財政を立て直すため、国王はおれを派遣した。
いろいろあって、おれは地上じゃなくて海にも鉱脈が埋まってるという当たり前の事を思い出して、魔法で100トンもの金を採掘して、ゲルニカにおいてきた。
ちなみに金の値段はこの世界でも同じくらいのもので、帰った後に思い出して計算してみたら、四兆から五兆円くらいの価値があることが分かった。
それはまあ、余談。
おれにとって一番重要なのはそこでベロニカと出会ったこと。
おれの大事な大事な、可愛い嫁のベロニカ。
彼女と出会って、連れ戻ったのがあのゲルニカで一番の収穫だ。
金の採掘なんて、彼女と海底の散歩デートの副産物でしかない。
「そのゲルニカがどうしたの?」
「先日ゲルニカ領内にあるミ・アミールという街に賊が現われた、ゲルニカ王は2000の兵を差し向けて、これを鎮圧したのだ」
「2000人も? そんなにすごい賊だったの? ......ってちょっと待って、違うよねそれ」
「うむ、流石余の千呪公、よくぞ気づいた。そう。ゲルニカは我が属国、臣従してきたときに兵権は全て剥奪しておる。余の許しがない限り兵を持つことは許されぬ、ましてや動かすなど言語道断」
「もちろん、許しはないよね」
あったらこんな話をしてない。
国王は頷いた。
「うむ。すべて独断だ」
「なるほど」
「しかも賊の討伐後、そのままミ・アミールに駐在していると聞く」
「......それもまずいよね」
「実質反乱でございます」
大臣が横から口をだした。
だよな。兵権がないくせに兵を集めて動かして、その上街を「占拠」してるんだ。
大臣の言うとおり、実質反乱だぞ、それ。
「というわけで余の千呪公よ。ミ・アミールに出向いてゲルニカ兵を殲滅してくれまいか」
国王はおれをそこで言葉を切って、おれを見つめた。
いつになく、真面目な顔で。
「単身で赴き、余の千呪公の力を見せつけてやるのだ」
ものすごい無茶ぶりをされた。
1人で2000人の兵に無双してこいって命令された。
普通に考えたらあり得ない命令、死んでこい、って言われた方がマシだけど。
おれの場合、そして国王の場合。
無茶ぶりでも死んで来いでもない、言葉通り、おれという人間を自慢したくて、あえて一人で行って来いという命令だ。
「うん、わかった」
だからおれは頷いた。国王の言うとおり一人で行くことを承諾した。
さて、2000人か。
どういう魔法がいいかな? と、おれははやくも頭の中で魔法の検索をはじめたのだった。
Chapter 99 - Musou Order
[It is great that you have come, my Senjukou] 
In the palace's audience hall, I was called here by the King this time for the first time after a while.
[It's been a while, Ou-sama] 
[Umu, umu, my Senjukou, did anything happened? Do you feel inconvenience with your lifestyle? I know, it will become colder from now on, I should give you have of the heatstones that the palace keeps] 
[Your Majesty, if it is half of those that is kept in the palace, Duke-sama's mansion would become buried] 
The minister on the side pointed that out, and stopped the outrage of the King.
"It's the usual combi", I thought, and continued the conversation.
[Thanks, Ou-sama. Can I get just some of it. I'll try using it with everyone, and just ask later on if it's good] 
[I see, I see. Umu, you can take them anytime] 
[Your Majesty, please hurry......] 
The minister made the King hurry up from the side.
Unlike the King whose eyes were always drooping to the side, the minister is somewhat......no, quite serious.
I would probably be asked to do something, so I prepared myself.
[Well then, my Senjukou. The reason that I called you sir, is because, I want you to do something] 
[Un, if it's Ou-sama who asks. What should I do?] 
[It's subjugation] 
[Subjugation?] 
[That is right. Do you remember about Guernica] 
[Un, of course] 
Veronica came from there, there's no way that I could forget about it.
The small kingdom Guernica. A country that became a vassal of the Kingdom because of financial difficulties.
Soon after it became a vassal state, the King sent me there to rebuild their economy.
A lot of things had happened, I remembered a simple thing that veins of gold not only exists in land but also under the sea, so I mined 100 tons of gold using magic, and left it in Guernica.
By the way, the value of gold is just the same here compared to the gold in the world I was before, so when I computed how much its value is when I went home, I found out that it was between 4 trillion and 5 trillion.
That is well, off the subject.
The most important thing for me was that I met Veronica.
My very, very important lovely wife, Veronica.
The best thing that happened to me in Guernica was meeting her, and taking her with me.
Something like mining gold, it is only the by-product of our date under the sea.
[What happened to Guernica?] 
[A few days ago, insurgents appeared in the town called Mi Amir in Guernica's territory, and King Guernica sent 2000 soldiers to suppress them] 
[2000 of them? Were they such amazing insurgents? ......wait a second, isn't that a bit, weird] 
[Umu, as expected of my Senjukou, it is great that you have noticed. That's right. Guernica is our vassal state, they are deprived of their military rights when they commended to us. As long as I do not permit it, they shall not be able to have soldiers, let alone mobilizing, it is preposterous] 
[Of course, you didn't permit them right] 
If he did, he wouldn't be talking about this right now.
The King nodded.
[Umu. They did it all on their own] 
[I see] 
[On top of that, I have heard that after subjugating the insurgents, they continued to stay at Mi Amir] 
[......that is also bad, right] 
[It is substantially a rebellion] 
The minister said from the side.
I guessed so. They mobilized soldiers without having military rights, on top of that, they're "holding" a town.
Just like the minster has said, it is substantially a rebellion.
[And so, my Senjukou. Can you go to Mi Amir for a bit and annihilate the Guernica's soldiers] 
The King paused there, and stared at me.
It was an unusually serious face.
[Go on your own, and show them the might of my Senjukou] 
He gave me such an unreasonable thing to do.
I was ordered to go beat 2000 enemies completely by myself.
Normally thinking, it's an absurd order, and it's better to be told to "go die".
In my case, and in the King's case.
It wasn't absurd nor telling me to go die, he literally wants me to go there by myself intentionally, so that he can brag about me.
[Un, I got it] 
That's why, I nodded. I accepted what the King said, and accepted to go by myself.
Well then, 2000 people huh.
"I wonder what magic would be good?", from early on, I already started to search for the magic I should use inside my head.
Manga wo Yomeru Ore ga Sekai Saikyou ~Yometachi to Sugosu Ki mama na Seikatsu~
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