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"Please check here."

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"...... Let's check it out."

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　A messenger from the country of Glugaria came to the Orientals at their base.

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　The messenger came before me to inspect what I had brought with me.

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　A number of vats.

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　The vats contained round objects.

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　I looked into some of the vats and looked at the others.

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　It seems that it is the anti-medium faction that has won the internal struggle in Glugaria.

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　And the Medium faction, which had been at odds with them, has naturally been defeated.

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　The defeated Medium faction, especially Hale Medium, lost their lives and are now exposed before my eyes.

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　In other words, they were brought to me as evidence.

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　In short, it was a man's head in a vat.

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　It's not very pleasant.

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　It's not like fighting in a war and winning.

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　But it is what it is, and we must be sure of it.

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　Oliva and the other Orientals who know the physiognomy of the people of Gulagaria will be the ones to make sure.

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　They did so for a while, and were confirmed to be the main group of people known as the Medium faction.

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"It is truly regrettable that our two countries, the Bulgarian and the Orientals, have fought each other in this way. Those who foolishly brought their personal grudges to bear on the war have been dealt with by us. Therefore, we would like to make peace."

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"Okay. But not for free. We have incurred a certain amount of damage. We must be compensated accordingly."

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"...... understand. I will grant you the right to cut down the Juma tree as well as compensation."

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"Are you licking my chops?　That's not even close."

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　Of course.

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　Because those were my terms when I declared war.

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　But those terms were intended to avoid a war with the Bulgarian state, and they are too weak to be the terms of a peace after an engagement.

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　We already hold the province of Chuzhou, where the lumberyard is located, so let's try to get more conditions out of them.

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　After that, we will discuss with the messenger for a while.

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　We will not let them escape.

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　We will squeeze them thoroughly.

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　With the vat with the heads on the side, we negotiated for a long time.

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　We had a long time to negotiate.

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"You're right, Mr. Banagher. Well, I guess the emissaries sent out by the Glugaria were not chosen well."

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"Yes. Grougalia has sent me a man of his word to negotiate with me. Probably to keep me in good humor. I think their first priority was to conclude the negotiations without further fighting. But it turned out to be a mistake. If you were going to take me on, I think you should have brought someone stronger or more experienced."

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　Negotiations with Glugaria went well.

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　We kept negotiating until the messenger accepted our arguments and shook his head.

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　And at that time, as Banagher said, "intimidation" played a major role.

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　While talking, when he wanted to make his point, he would aim his spear of magical power sharply at the chest of the other party.

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　In this way, he kept pressuring the other party throughout the negotiation.

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　Of course, the other party was from Grougalia.

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　They must have been trained in archery since they were young and have a certain amount of skill.

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　So I was able to withstand some of their pressure, but that was all.

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　Perhaps because they were selected for negotiations with me based on their skill or lack thereof, those who were a few levels below Hale were unable to resist the [pressure] and gave in to our demands.

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　As a result, we had to take away much of the territory of the Gulagarians.

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　Not all of it.

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　If we had tried to take all of it, we would have had no choice but to shake our heads no matter how much pressure we were put under.

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　So, we went as far as we could take from them, and settled the case where we could reach a compromise.

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"I knew it?　Banerji thinks so, too. But that would mean, on the contrary, that there is no intervention at the moment, right?"

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　Intervention of a major power.

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　This is one of the reasons why the small states have not been swallowed up by the major powers and have remained divided into several states.

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　When a large nation invades a group of small states, the small states may fight together even if they have been fighting each other before.

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　In a sense, this is similar to the case of the Glugarids, who gathered more than ten reinforcements to fight against the Orient.

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　This has allowed the smaller nations to fend off the evil hands of the major powers.

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　However, no group of small states has ever been united as a single country.

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　This is because the major powers have secretly intervened whenever one of them stood out from the rest.

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　It's what we call a proxy war.

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　The intervention of the major powers in the form of aid to some small country that has become stronger than the small country it is in conflict with, has kept the group of small states in a state of disarray forever.

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　The small states are independent, but they are strongly influenced by the big powers.

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　However, the day will soon come when this delicate balance will be broken.

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　Because the Orient has defeated the Bulgarian state.

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　I, as the leader of the Orient, am to marry a nobleman of the Bryllian Magical State.

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　This meant that the small nation of Orient would rise to power as the ally of the Bryllian Magus.

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　Such a country won a victory over the Bulgarian state with reinforcements from several countries.

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　Some of the major powers would not be amused by that.

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　So, it was necessary to end the battle before those countries could make any unnecessary moves.

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　Thus, in the winter of the 14th year of the Gallaudian calendar, the Orient ended the year with a victory over the Bulgarian Empire and an increase in land area.

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