I Returned As the Governor of the Country That Abandoned Me

32 – Change

The Governor’s Office. Today, as usual, I was receiving various reports from Serena.

“.. This?”

“Ah, news related to the resistance.”

Recently, the resistance that took advantage of the confusion in the empire started its activities. Since we received a report that some resistance members entered the kingdom, this report is probably the data that identified their base.

I started reading the materials about resistance that Serena gave me.

“… Does this make sense?”

While reading the report on the Resistance, I found something I couldn’t quite understand.

“In the resistance, there are arguments to maintain the monarchy?”

“That’s right. However, if there is a difference from a normal monarchy, it is that the monarch has no power.”

“.. Then, who makes the main decisions of the country?”

“It is said that the head of the cabinet they elect makes the key decisions.”

Is it a new political method that came out when the republic was not accepted? However, this is closer to the ideal.

To transfer the power of monarchs who have reigned for hundreds of years to someone else in an instant.

“.. When did these allegations come from?”

“Relatively recent. ‘Dominate, but do not rule.’ This is the slogan they claim.”

It reigns but does not rule. What kind of contradiction is this? The existence of a king and the existence of an emperor are those who reign in order to rule.

Raising the sword, but not swinging it. Isn’t it the same as saying this to a knight? I laughed out loud at such a ridiculous idea.

“The main officers of the Resistance must have figured it out already.”

“Yes, that is correct.”

“Are there any executives who make such ridiculous claims?”

“No. That claim started with an unknown mercenary, and it seems that it is still treated as a lie within the Resistance.”

Perhaps it’s something that can’t be taken for granted. The monarch is wary of the republic, and the republic hates the monarch. The two beings are beings that can never be mixed.

“I can’t agree with them.”

“Me too.”

The republic that the Resistance insists on. A world without a monarch ruling the country. They have the belief that in such a world, they should elect a person of their own choosing as a leader.

However, that would only intensify the country’s corruption. In order to make the person they support become a leader, all kinds of corruption can happen. If you don’t care, the country may be divided into groups with different political inclinations.

“Oh, additionally, I have specified the place where the resistance has been used as a garrison for the Kingdom of Hyran.”

“Where is it?”

“… “

At my question, Serena began to notice Ariel, who was sitting quietly next to her.

“.. Is it Johanna?”

“Yes, that is correct.”

The region where Ariel was born and raised. Even though she was banished from there, it doesn’t change the fact that she is from there.

“.. Yohana..”

Ariel’s expression became mysterious after hearing Serena’s words.

“Yohana is the most closed village in Hailan. That’s enough reason for the Resistance to use it as a base.”

The Resistance is an organization that moves secretly and unnoticed in the shadows. Due to the nature of such an organization, they must have needed a place out of sight of others.

In that sense, Ariel’s hometown, Johana, meets those conditions.

“How did you find it?”

“The person who insisted on a new political system in the Resistance. While we were tracking the person, we confirmed that they were heading to the Yohanna region.”

“I see.”

A nameless mercenary who claimed a new political system within the Resistance. I would like to express my sincere thanks to that mercenary. Thanks to him, in this way he was able to find the resistance’s stronghold.

“They did not simply settle down in Johana.”

“.. If not.”

“There will be a kingdom official from Johana.”

A closed village, Johana. How could such a village easily accept foreigners? Obviously, it is clear that someone from the Yohanna region is involved.

“Go to the inner castle.”

“Okay.”

An official from the kingdom who may be related to the resistance. If the kingdom’s officials are really involved in the resistance, this is not something that can be taken lightly.

“It’s quiet.”

I entered the palace, but the people walking around the palace are invisible. The Queen must have received the same report as me.

An official from the kingdom who may be related to the resistance. Because this fact alone would turn the whole kingdom upside down.

“Are you here, sir?”

“Were you waiting for me?”

“Yes, that’s right. I came here to meet you on Your Highness’s orders.”

The quick-witted queen. Did you know in advance that I would come?

“If that’s the case, it means that Your Highness has something to say to me about this, right?”

“That’s right.”

A situation where the kingdom could be accused of colluding with the resistance. In this situation, the queen seems to have completed her quick response to him.

“Your Highness, Governor-General Aran von Roberteyn and Commander-in-Chief Serena von Hernasia have come to visit us.”

In front of the inner castle that arrived like that. When Serena and I arrived in front of it, the bureaucrat who guided me to this place shouted.

“Come in.”

Kikik-

With a faint voice coming from inside, the huge door of introspection began to open.

A landscape of introspection that soon emerges.

‘There must have been a reason the palace was quiet.’

From low-level bureaucrats to ministers. Officials from all kingdoms gathered here.

In the midst of them, a man trembling alone came into sight.

“Meet Your Highness.”

Now that you have met the queen, bow her head and say hello. It was then that she, who had been greeted by a wave of her hand, began to stare at me.

“The governor of Aran.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

“Governor, do you think that a kingdom official is involved in this incident?”

“That’s right.”

Johana is a closed area. There is no way they would accept a foreigner without any reason. It must have been related to a bureaucrat from Yohana.

“..Unfortunately, none of the current officials are from Yohana.”

“If it’s not true, this person next to me…”

“I am a bureaucrat who manages the Yohana region. But not from Johana.”

However, you won’t know this until you check it yourself. Because issues related to the Resistance are sensitively accepted even by the Empire.

“Serena. That guy…”

“Guards, arrest him immediately.”

The moment I was about to tell Serena to arrest him as Viceroy, the Queen shouted one step ahead. He probably noticed that I was trying to arrest him.

However, that doesn’t mean that this has never happened. The Queen said the author was not involved in this case, so she will have to tell me who else is involved.

“Your Highness.”

“I know. We have already found out who he is.”

Is it because they noticed my thoughts? The Queen glared at me and said.

“I am a retired knight from Johana.”

The queen reluctantly opened her mouth. If you’re lucky, you’ll be fine. If he were an incumbent official, he would have investigated all the officials present in this position at the Governor General’s Office.

“Since his retirement, he has had no contact with any kingdom officials.”

Is it because I was thinking about it? The Queen urgently told me so.

“If that’s not the case, how are you going to do this, Your Highness?”

“.. We should send troops to Yohana right away and arrest all the people related to him.”

I’m glad. This time around, I think the Queen agrees with my thoughts.

“Your Highness. Can I add a word?”

And then it was. I heard the voice of a girl next to me.

‘Plos von Impello.’

The protagonist of the voice is Flos. Is it because I came here? She raised her hand with her confident expression on her face.

“Yes. Do.”

“We must take this opportunity to open up the Yohana region.”

Crisis turned into opportunity. This girl insists that this place, which has always been closed, should be opened at this opportunity.

Along with her assertion, the officials gathered here began to mumble.

“No.”

Contrary to Flos’ argument, Alfred opened his mouth.

“We must respect the traditions and characteristics of each region. If you forcefully open them up, you don’t know what kind of side effects they will come back to.”

“Could there be more side effects than what the resistance hides? This is the result of our lack of control over Yohana. And there is no law that says this won’t happen.”

This time, Flos confronts Alfred’s remarks.

However, I am not the type to listen to these stories quietly.

“Serena. Prepare the Imperial Army. Go to Johana.”

“Okay.”

If I don’t take any action even after knowing that the resistance is active here as the Governor General, I might be called back to the Empire again. Of course, in a bad way. In other words, I don’t have time to listen to their arguments.

“Governor of Aran! Wait!”

The moment I was about to leave this place, the Queen called me with an urgent voice.

“The kingdom’s officials and regular troops. Go with them.”

“.. I see.”

I didn’t really like it, but I agreed to her request. It seemed to me that it would be better to move together with the regular army and officials of the kingdom than to have the imperial army move alone in the kingdom.