A fleet of four hundred ships led by Alexios and a fleet of three hundred ships led by Azul Hanno were to face each other in the open sea.

　The Pofenian Navy lined up their ships to the south of Licata to protect the city of Licata, the southern tip of Sicily...　
　The Romarian Navy lined up its ships further south of the Poffenian Navy to invade the city of Licata.

　The Pofenia Navy to the north.
　The Pofenia Navy to the north and the Romalian Navy to the south facing each other.

　At first.....
　The wind blew from the north.

　'All fleets, charge!

　Azul Hanno gave the order to attack the entire fleet.
　The Pofenian Navy increased its speed at once and charged the Romarian Navy.

　In response, Alexios........

　The right wing turns to the right and the left wing turns wide to the left. ....and leave no stone unturned in the face of enemy fire.

　The Romarian Navy will split up to windward on either side to escape the Pofenia Navy.
　Alexios' objective ... is to move behind and to the windward side of the Pofenia Navy.

　However.........
　After all, the Pofenia Navy on the windward side of the ship was faster than the Pofenia Navy on the windward side.

　Before the Romarian Navy could get away, the Pofenia Navy charged into the center of the Romarian Navy.
　Ships and ships of the Romarian and Pofenia navy collide with each other.

　And.........

　Haha, you were right.
　Well, you're not going to...

　Alexios laughed unsuccessfully, and Azul Hanno's eyes widened.


　Pophenia was a maritime power.　
　And it had the strongest navy in the Teutonic Sea.

　That's right, they had it (...).

　In the past, the elite of the Pofenia Navy, which had sunk many ships in an impulse assault, had.......
　All were turned into fish bait by Alexios in last year's naval battle.

　Now the Pofenia Navy is all new recruits.

　And the impulse assault is a tactic that requires a high level of skill.
　It was too advanced a tactic for the new recruits to take.

　On the other hand, the Romarian Navy Central was also mostly new recruits.
　However........all of the ships in the center were fitted with crow devices.

　In a battle on board a ship using the crow device.......
　The Romalian army is strong.
　They may be new recruits on the sea but on land they are elite!

　Thus, the central one hundred ships of the Romarian Navy and the three hundred ships of the Pofenia Navy clash violently.

　Nevertheless, even though they used the crow device, they still had an overwhelming difference in numbers and the advantage of being upwind of the wind.......
　The three hundred ships of the Pofenia Navy are steadily pushing the central hundred ships of the Romarian Navy.

　But in the meantime........
　Both Romalian naval wings turned slowly and moved to windward.

　Of course, Azul Hanno would not be silenced.

　''The Central Hundred ships will continue their attack as is!　Both wings must stop the Romali Navy from moving!

　Using the windward momentum, while trying to break through the center with a hundred ships....
　The plan is to buy time by attacking the Romarian Navy with two hundred ships on both wings.

　Thus, with the Pofenia Navy trying to break through the center while holding the Romarian Navy at bay on both wings...
　While holding out in the center, it became a battle for the Romarian Navy to somehow extend both wings to the back of the Poffenian Navy and move to the windward side, trying to pin the Poffenian Navy down.

　When it came to this........
　It is the skill, morale and numbers that determine victory or defeat.

　In numbers, of course, the Romalian navy is overwhelmed.

　Moreover, in terms of morale, the Romalian marines are far better prepared for war than the Pofenian marines, who rely on mercenaries and are unaccustomed to warfare.
　The former is unwilling to enter the war, the latter to defend their country, for honor and for wealth.

　And the skill level.....
　The Romarian Navy was superior.

　Because unlike the Pofenia Navy, which was mostly new recruits due to the effects of its destruction last year....
　This was because the Romarian Navy had many people with experience from last year's naval battles.

　And Alexios had deployed last year's experience, or the elite, on both wings.

　In addition.........
　The Pofenian Navy, which had rushed to Belshazzar for relief, had a lot of supplies on board their ships.
　The Romarian Navy, on the other hand, had come to interfere so the ships were light and swift.

　Both wings of the Romarian navy were downwind, yet they maneuvered their ships skillfully.......
　Some of the ships broke through the Poffenian Navy and finally moved to windward.

　Moving to windward, the ships of the Romarian Navy turned one by one and attacked the rear of the Pofenia Navy.
　Of course, their tactics, which had become skilled through the accumulation of experience, were....

　It was an impulse angle assault.


　"Bah, that's ridiculous the Pofenia Navy would be defeated by the improvised Romalian navy in an impulse assault with skill...

　Azul Hanno's face paled....

　"The proud have been around a long time. The Pofenia Navy is the name of the box. What's important is not the box, but what's inside. In a world where a name alone increases the value of a business you can't win a war with a name. So the Pofenia brand has completely fallen to the ground with this. Haha..........We are superior in quality and numbers, so there's no way we can lose. ........It was a boring battle.

　Alexios said proudly.


　Thus, the Romany Navy had defeated the Poffenian Navy head-on without requiring any chicanery.
　That was how the Poffenian Navy had fallen from its position as queen of the Teutonic Sea....
　It meant that a new queen was on the throne.








　'Bah, that's ridiculous ... the Pofenia Navy was destroyed ... oh, that Azul Hanno!

　When Belshazzar heard the news of the defeat of the Poffenian Navy, he stood on the ground.
　The Poffenian Navy, the strongest in the Teutonic Sea, had been defeated by the Romalian Navy.

　That shows Azul Hanno's incompetence.
　........it seemed to Belshazzar.

　More so, since his father was also defeated.......
　In reality, it's not about the skill of the commander, it's purely a weakening of the Pofenia Navy and a strengthening of the Romalian Navy...
　Belshazzar wouldn't admit it, even if he meant to.

　Although he had a faint hunch........
　There is no way they can admit that.

　Because it would indicate the decline of Pofenia.

　'Father, did you lose, Hanno?
　'Hannah!　There's no need to put a 'san' on that Hanno a**h*le!　You're a mouthful, but you're an idiot who lost the most important battle of all!
　Isn't that the same for your grandfather... no, it's nothing.

　Belshazzar's only daughter, Hannah, almost said midway through....
　I closed my mouth.

　Then, away from his furious father...
　He went back to the tent that had been addressed to him and sighed.

　'Oh, how could I not understand...this isn't just a colonial war. It's a war for the fate of Romalia and Pofenia. Those people don't get it. They all think of it as a colonial war. ...How many people besides me have noticed?

　Hannah muttered to herself.
　The figure was not a five-year-old little girl it looked like a great general of the past.

　'At least Azul Hanno and your father haven't noticed. No Pofenians have noticed it. If there is, it's Romalia. Well the only one I can think of is King Armes. I don't know.......do you think he's aware of it?　But we're spending so much government money on the war, and I'm sure he's aware of it. Slightly........as expected of a king who has made Romalia grow rapidly in a short period of time.

　Then Hannah looks up at the sky and asks.

　'Hey, fairy. What do you think?
　-What?　I don't understand. You see, as far as people are concerned.

　Hannah!
　'Father?　How can I help you?

　The next thing you know, Belshazzar is approaching us.

　''What's wrong with you, you're gone all of a sudden. You must have been worried...
　Your father is a worrier, isn't he? ....What will you do, by the way?
　What do you mean?
　Do you want to fight?

　When Hannah asked me what I was doing...
　Belshazzar thought for a moment, then replied.

　'I would say fight, but... .... Even if we win, there's nothing we can do now that our supplies are standing. We'll have no choice but to surrender we're sorry, Hannah.
　No, Father. It was cool.

　Hannah said, and gave Belshazzar a labored kiss on his cheek.


　Thus..........
　Belshazzar applied to Bartolo for a ceasefire, and then to the Pofenia Senate for a recommendation of surrender.

　Belshazzar, the leader of the main warring faction, asked the Pofenia Senate to end the war, and ironically, it was here that Pofenia, for the first time, agreed with national opinion to 'accept defeat'.


　Later, Azul Hanno returned to Pofenia and took control of the Pofenia Senate.
　He formally asked the Kingdom of Romalia to negotiate peace.

　All that remained was for the Kingdom of Romalia to come to the table for peace negotiations.

　Now the war would finally come together.
　Or so it seemed.

　But here.....
　There was a new problem.

　Because.....
　Here, in contrast to Pofenia's unanimity of national opinion in the direction of peace, the national opinion of the Kingdom of Romalia was divided.

　In other words.....

　The end of the war or a succession of wars?