Chapter 40
A prince and an order.
“Your Royal Highness, I will surely catch the beasts who escaped.”
“… oh, I left it to you”
A knight who bows his head respectfully in front of him.
The knight nods to my words and afterwards the spot.
I’m Hicked Migga. The seventh prince of the kingdom of Migga is in such a position, only worthy to the extent that he is royal. You bow your head to me, twelve years old, because a knight who lives more than twice as long as I do is royal.
Because I am the Prince. Being seen only as a ”prince” is cramped, but I live with it.
My father–in short, the king of the kingdom of Migga is in a hurry for the fact that the kingdom of Fairytrov has now acquired the Divine Son. If there had never been a godson in the Fairytroff kingdom, I wouldn’t have been here either.
What I am now is a city on the border with the Fairytroff kingdom. The unexplored forest located in the south, where the village of the beasts is located, allowed Father to say the securing of those beasts. I, to be honest, don’t feel good about the act of enslaving beastmen — no, non-human species. There were several beasts in the royal palace of the kingdom of Migga as slaves, but from me they were very much the same as humans.
Nevertheless, there is no way that I can give such an opinion to my father in the position of being the seventh prince. When it comes to what I can do, it’s about not treating the slaves at my disposal badly.
… but this side is raiding the village and enslaving the beasts, so I’m only the perpetrator, and from the beasts, I’m only the enemy.
I have no power. Because I don’t have the strength, I can’t move into action even if I have doubts about what my father is doing. Twelve years old, I’m not even an adult yet, and I’m moving as my father commands me.
Those who are currently sent with me to this land attacked the village of the Cat Beast Man. And they enslaved the vast majority of them who were in the village. He wears a slave collar, prevents him from being able to rebel, and deprives him of his will. The child is crying out in the name of his parents. In enslaving the beast man, some have died. From that fact, I must not turn a blind eye. I’m not the one who attacked the Beasts directly and enslaved them. But whoever was under me enslaved him by my command, which he obeyed. The crying voice, the hateful eye, must take it all.
The knights are following the cat beasts who escaped with the mercenaries they hired. I wish they hadn’t found me lucky enough to escape. That way, they will never fall into slavery. Don’t be a slave, you can spend it.
I think so, even though I’m the one giving the orders indirectly to enslave them. I find myself stupid to think that way.
But I still wish they hadn’t found me, even though I felt stupid.
I got a report that I don’t know where the cat beasts disappeared, even though I’m not supposed to have gone that far, whether that wish made sense or even worked in strange forces. He said he was grabbing the footsteps, but suddenly, he couldn’t find them. I don’t know, but you’d be more relieved if you tried from me.
If you are captured as a slave, you will be made a labor force, or if you become a war with the Fairytroff kingdom again, you will be made a disposable pawn, or something like that. I can’t be happy for sure. While I’m at hand, I can try not to be horrible, but sooner or later they enslave me, too, and leave my hand. Stay away, be unhappy. I’m not the one who dropped it on that misfortune.
“I’m sorry, Your Highness, I think we’re almost there, but we can’t get to the strange!
“Something strange happened to you. Well, good. If we don’t find him by the deadline Father said, let’s just say we give him the slaves we’ve caught so far.”
“Ha, I will definitely find it by then”
I snort at the knight who answers that, but don’t wish I hadn’t found him. Such seriousness, I thought as I saw the rear of a knight who could not possibly be said around but was willing to enslave the beast man.
But a beast man was caught when the deadline my father was telling me was approaching.
That was what excited the members who were on the expedition of the Kingdom of Migga other than me. It was not the cat beast man I was looking for that was the story of a wolf beast man with wolf ears and tails. Werewolf beasts are known to be highly combative. If we could enslave the Wolf Beast, Father would be pleased.
In a battle to capture that wolf beast man, this knight says as many as five have died. There are more injured people. Do we have to enslave the Beastman until we have made all those sacrifices? I can’t ask such questions in this room. I don’t know what would happen to me if I said something against the will of my father, the king.
The knights were willing to hear the location of the village from the man with his captured brown ears and tail. Probably torture you. Monkeys were followed and the captive werewolf beast man was worn out at the capture stage. He was staring at me when he went to see how things were going. I’m the one who created this horrible image of the Wolf Beast. You’re so worn out, you’re going to be tortured again…. I want you to stop, stop, I think. But again, I… can’t disobey your father’s orders.
The next day, the captured wolf beast man was reported dead. No matter how much you hurt, you didn’t tell me where the village was. You told me you’d save my life if I told you where it was, but you didn’t.
Because I love the village. Don’t harm the village. I guess I didn’t tell you, it broke my heart.
Please, he didn’t say, I hope the village he wanted to protect didn’t find us in the Kingdom of Migga.
– With the prince, an order.
(The prince has doubts about his father’s orders. I have doubts about enslaving the Beast Man. But the prince cannot disobey the order)