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"What's that guy?　Do I know you, Alphonse?"

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　The battle in the main camp of the army of Elys is over.

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　The reason for this is that the other Elysian soldiers have stopped resisting after the three Ten Swordsmen in the main camp were defeated.

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　However, the battle is still going on in some parts.

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　It is late at night and dark, so the situation is not immediately clear and there are sporadic battles.

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　But now that things have settled down for the moment, Ian asks me about it.

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　Or rather, I asked him.

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　If I hadn't said something, Ian would have probably started fighting with Alondar's group.

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　Ian, a mercenary of many years' experience, would not have judged the attackers of his enemies to be his allies.

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　The enemy of his enemy is not his friend, and he usually regards them as a third force.

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　That is why I approached Ian in order to prevent him from attacking the Arondals.

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"That is Alondar. He is one of the Ten Swordsmen of the Kingdom of Eris who made a blood pact with me to serve the Orient.

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"Ten swordsmen?　What's that?"

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I heard that in the land of Eris, they call ten strong swordsmen like that and give them special treatment.

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"Hmm. But how can you trust a man who says he's on our side? Did you make a blood pact with all of them?"

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"No, just Alondar. The others are just following Alondar's lead."

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"...... Is that okay?　How can you call them allies? I don't think it's safe to work with them."

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"It's okay. I wouldn't be working with the Arondal group anyway."

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　Ian makes a perfectly valid point that the Arondal team is not to be trusted.

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　I explain to Ian about the future.

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　I explain to Ian about the future of the Arondal team.

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　I don't completely trust the Alondar team either.

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　I don't trust them completely either, but I think they could be of use to us.

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　That is because of the current situation in the Orient.

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　This battle, which originally started as a retaliation against the Hail Medium and the Glugaria who attacked me from behind when I fought against the Peria, is now an enduring war.

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　The Gulagarians are holed up with their capital surrounded by walls, and the Orientals have established a stronghold on the banks of the Gulu River.

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　As a means of counterattacking the Orientals, the Gulagarians have prepared reinforcements from other small nations.

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　The number of countries that have come to help them is more than a dozen.

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　My plan to deal with this was to reduce the amount of food from the Bulgarian and neighboring countries.

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　We have made some progress in this.

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　But I knew that this would become more difficult in the future.

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　If reinforcements arrived one after another in addition to the army of Iris, it was highly likely that the Orientals would stay in their strongholds and fight mainly on the defensive.

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　They would not be able to go out and raid food stores and strongholds.

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　Therefore, I would like to assign that role to Alondar's corps.

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　I think that the army of Iris, which has come to support the army of the Gulagarians, will be able to check the reinforcements from other small countries by going after foodstuffs instead of fighting aggressively against the Orientals.

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"In other words, a detachment. Or, it could be used as a reinforcement effect force for the Orientals."

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"That's what I mean. If we don't work together directly, the risk of betrayal is not so great.

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"But is it that easy?　The military is the only one that can receive orders from the head of state, right?　Won't they say it's too different from the operation that's been in place from the beginning?"

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"No, I don't think so. The army of Iris invaded the country of Gulgaria and fought against the Orientals, losing three of the Ten Swordsmen in command. But one of the surviving Ten Swordsmen, Alondar, has taken over the command of the army. However, since food was also lost in the battle, you can report that we are doing our best to procure it locally.

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"That's a very apt explanation, but will it work?"

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"Maybe. The military chain of command is more random than you might think, except in the Orient.

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　Ian is an atmos warrior.

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　He goes into battle as a mercenary and gets paid for fighting there.

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　Because of this life, he has had a lot of experience working with the military, but the Orientals are the first time he has been a member of a proper military.

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　Therefore, it can be said that Ian's common sense toward the military is that of the current Orient Army.

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　However, the Orientals are quite different from other small countries.

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　The army of the Iriz is quite different from the army of the Orient.

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　The Orient, where I became the Secretary of Defense and reformed the military system in the style of Barca, is a fairly well-organized army.

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　But the army of Iris is made up of the Ten Swordsmen, a special group of men who have gathered men from all over the country on the strength of their fame.

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　It can be said that the Ten Swordsmen are just using their own men to unite the people they have gathered.

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　Therefore, most of the soldiers do not understand exactly what the military is doing.

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　They simply follow orders and carry out the orders given to them on the spot.

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　In this case, many of them only know that they are heading for the country of Bulgaria while making tracks for the poor.

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　They do not know why they are fighting the Orientals, and some of them do not even know that they are fighting the Orientals.

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　Therefore, even if Alondar takes over the command of this army after the three Ten Swordsmen are gone, it will work to some extent.

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　Of course, there will be some soldiers and poor people who will flee from the place.

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　But the remaining Elysian soldiers can be allowed to wreak havoc in the interior of Bulgaria.

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　Then there is the problem of whether or not the home country can control the Elysian army, which makes decisions and acts on its own initiative.

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　I talked to Alondar before I talked to Ian, and he said that the situation would surely be overlooked for a while.

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　I mean, unlike the Orient, there is no such thing as a magical communication device.

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　Alondar could buy time by using a messenger to report that they had been attacked but that everything was all right.

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　And then he would buy time to conduct diplomacy.

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　In the Orient, Banagher is good at diplomacy, but there are other people who can do it.

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　The Orient, originally known as a weak country among small countries, is a country that has lived by diplomacy.

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　The weak country of Orient would not have been able to have an advantageous diplomacy against the strong country of Iris, which has the military power of the Ten Swordsmen.

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　But now it is different.

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　Because three of the Ten Swordsmen were lost at the same time.

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　They are powerful masters, but they are also involved in the factional strife within the country of Elys.

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　The Ten Swordsmen are said to be chosen from among the strongest ten in the country, but the selection process is also influenced by domestic politics.

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　The political significance of the Ten Swordsmen changes depending on who and how many of the ten are from the most prestigious families of the past generations.

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　With the loss of three members, Alondar said, it is inevitable that factions will fight.

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　In other words, the Eiris nation will be in political turmoil for some time to come.

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　It is my idea that the diplomats of the Orient might be able to talk them out of it and bring them officially to our side.

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　If we can turn over the country that gives reinforcements to the Gulagarians to our side, it would mean not only one less hostile country, but also a two force gap to be made up.

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　It would be worth a try.

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　And so, Alondar managed to gather most of the remaining Ilithians and resume his activities in Grougary, independent of the Orient.

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　Diplomats from the Orient were sent to Eeris to negotiate with the country to join them.

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