"Your Grace! You must punish them! They are enemies to the kingdom, and you have a duty to Her Majesty, your lord and sovereign." Leslie, who couldn't care less about the dhans, not knowing them. Was quick to voice his opinion. From his point of view, if Asai simply allowed them to walk away freely, the kingdom might just see him as an accomplice for doing nothing. Thus, he felt his voice and statement was mandatory.
Robin observed Asai's expression. One that was suffering from confliction.
Discord struck his mind, as he questioned whether he cared more about following his duty, his oath to the kingdom. Or more about Kozumi, someone who had been working within the shadows, like a guardian angel, helping him since his days as a kid.
However much he wanted to let bygones be bygones. As he no longer desired anymore pointless death of the people he thought of as friends or companions. His mind wandered back towards the people of his territory. The people under his protection. Mary, Annie, Clam and Gary. If he made a decision that was treasonous, not only would he be punished, but possibly even all the people under his umbrella would follow his fate.
Thus, he made his decision not in accordance to his personal desires and emotions, but for the sake of his people.
Duke Trichia stood. Towering over the kneeling party.
"Kozumi, Mizumi.
As the human Asai, I would like to have you join me in my quest to obtain peace and prosperity, but sadly even I, with all the powers and authority afforded upon me. Can not make this decision.
As Duke Trichia of the kingdom of Del Lagos. In loyal service to Her Majesty, I will sentence you two, to be punished according to the kingdom of humanity's laws. As for the ten children under your care, I will take them into my fold. I will ensure their safety, care for them, feed them and provide them education. You have my word."
The duke turned to Leslie, the sole third party. An agent of the crown, a man loyal to none other than Queen Victoria.
"Knight Leslie.
Here are my orders to you. You will personally take the dhans back to my duchy. Pass the message to my vassal Mary, the 10 are to be treated as if they were my own. After securing their safety, according to royal law, do what you must with Kozumi and Mizumi. Take them to Her Majesty, and in respect to her authority. Queen Victoria shall have the last word on their fate."
Leslie the elf saluted as he had heard exactly what he wanted. Rather than give the credits to capturing the kingdom's enemies to some random captain at some random castle. Asai had basically given Leslie merits within the kingdom's eyes. To personally be able to present the Queen with two of their enemy nation's princesses as prisoners would no doubt mark his name in the passages of history.
With enough merit, perhaps his rewards would increase.
"Kozumi. As thanks for saving my life more than I would know. I will allow you to personally assist Leslie, in guarding and protecting the children until you reach Trichia Duchy. There, Clam, Gary and their knights will join Leslie in escorting you to Einhoren to ensure that you do not run. And if you do make any attempts of escape, then you may consider my kindness forfeit.
I desire nothing more than to sheathe my blade. So, do not force my hand."
After handing over numerous rations, and smaller variants of the uniform to kit up all 12 dhans in Asai's military designs. Leslie promptly left with the girls. The elf was overeager to already be heading home. He couldn't believe his luck, to be dismissed by the duke so early on. He was afraid the duke would charge headfirst into enemy kingdoms, forcing him along.
Thus, now having disguised everyone in a single uniform that was recognised by the kingdom as the Duke's. And also with his royal insignia as an agent who directly serves Her Majesty. Leslie would easily bypass all security, and even if anyone did bother to check their appearances. The dhans appeared more human than the elf did to begin with.
As happy as Leslie was, to be able to gift his Queen and Master, with two enemy princesses. He did feel somewhat apologetic towards the younger 10.
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Yes Votes: 36 33.6%
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No Votes: 71 66.4%
I don’t think Kozumi and mizumi should be killed. I think they should be given some form of punishment, maybe bein branded to never negative thoughts towards the kingdom, Asai, or even the queen, or maybe serve prison time. But after that punishment they should be forced to work for Mary’s organization and given missions at a rate where they barely get to see Asai, and when they do come back and Asai isn’t there Annie and Mary whip them into shape. Much longer comment than I expected to type. I just don’t think they should be killed for fightin for their nation and in some respects asai, especially since Asai is basically humanities strongest force rn outside of the queen herself and maybe prince victor
The best solution honestly.
Ye 1 problamo, dat would probably be considered slavery.
write as u wish author. I was interested in reading ur story, not the comments. though i would occation rant in the comments section if one changes a story midway due to outside influence the entire storyline gets fu**ed and it either becomes bland or it gets dropped entirely. if u dont have a solid img it gets very difficult to continue. anyways thanks for the continous chapters till now
Thank you bro.
Honestly I'm quite torn myself. I want to read the comments and reviews, because I care about you guys and your enjoyability. But I find myself so easily influenced that I probably shouldn't.
@kophzi I actually find myself not reading comments on a lot of novels because of how much people whine.
I think that while not killing them is also an option they cant be mc women by the reasons i have said in last chapter not to mention that the karma they have acumulated is too big for them to have a happy ending, while they just follow orders those orders destroyed the live of many innocents and made humans be slaves of the elves by no reason( if mc care of the ones on his side then robin was one of the people that suffered the most because of the dahn actions and in a world where gods are part i would think that they also know and would be happy to point it out given the chance), not to mention they have not come clean with the things they did as the helped the elves
I like the character growth. I only think the prince is confusing to me.
I don't agree with some of the writing choices of this novel, but I do agree that writing something completely black/white or good/evil does make it boring, and op main characters that never receive a challenge are even worse.
Dragon age 1 is still one of my fav games, I didn't like inquisition as much though, the story was good but most of the classes were boring.
I'm not happy with Asai's choice on Kozumi and Mizumi, they have helped him quite a lot and while he is paying them back by taking care of the 10 kids it still leaves me dissatisfied.
Agreed, and on another note, humanity doesn't know he isn't fully human either. He is primarily Dhan, and when it becomes known Dhans invasion becomming full on, they will think he was in on it. Just like Victor and his knights keep putting stupid thoughts in their head about Asai as is
God, glad he didn't forgive them. I don't know why I have such a strong dislike to them
Know who else thought his race above all others? Hitler. The queen rima is elf hitler
I like the current atmosphere of the story. Life isn't black and white and this isn't shonen jump. The smut and harem are great but without trials and conflicts long stories become bland.
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I've had a blast reading this and it had been a great thing to fill my free time personally. I like that you are listening to the comments even with how confusing we may be. We are all many different people reading a story from the mind of one. We unfortunately do have different interpretations, assumptions, and hopes from the story. But, I apologize if the is for us, but u less it is, this is your story written for you. I can sympathize with wanting to make it satisfying to those who mention things to you. After all, who wants there little bit of them they shared to not live up to expectations you wouldn't mind.
I just think that if you like those parts of the story, maybe still put them in. Please don't delete them. While if some might not like them and leave they wouldn't get to read the rest. I don't think it would feel alright to "get rid of" such things. I have tried to start writing stories but I always get confused with what I want. I think you would be able to look back more positively on your work if you make it more sympathetic to your own self and your own interests now and the reasonable future. I also do not mean to imply that getting as many people to read or to tickle as many fancies as you like to not be a self interest. I would love to be able to later hear in general that you also loved the story. As hearing that the author of a boom or creation you liked regretted it in some way. I would feel guilty If I learned you unfortunately had to really change things to satisfy one person.
Deeply apologize for the wall I just built.please have a wonderful time of day it is 4 tou
Vast majority of readers are silent lurkers.
The most important thing is to write the story you've thought of and planned out, because pandering to whiny commenters will just make things meandering and less impactful in the long run.
Giving into the whims of the loud, few commenters is giving them quite a bit of power over the story that you're supposed to be writing.
And like you mentioned in your author's note, yes, people will bit*h and complain no matter what you do, whether the story is casual or if it becomes too serious (too serious for them...)
Therefore, do what you want.