The Extra Prince Sets Out To Conquer The World

The red eye, whose arm was cut off by Precia, let out a scream filled with pain.

“Kya-aa-aa-aa!!”

Although murderous energy spewed out right in front of me, I didn’t suffer any internal injuries.

“How dare this lowly creature let out such a vulgar roar in front of me!”

It was thanks to Precia drawing out her energy to protect me.

As the murderous energy was suppressed by Precia, the red eye hesitated in bewilderment.

Behind it, seven named dolls, and in front, Precia and Gilbert blocked it.

Gilbert was still not very reliable, but he drew out his fighting spirit and stood proudly in front of the red eye.

Seeing him fulfill his duty as a guard knight, I thought it was good that I brought him along.

The red eye was conflicted between the murderous intent to kill me and the instinct to seek survival.

And that conflict determined the course of the red eye’s life.

Crack!

Suddenly, the red eye moved swiftly, and its upper right arm was cut off.

“Hoh, as expected of the red eye. I was going to take your head with a surprise attack.”

Demiway, who had arrived unnoticed, shook off the sticky black blood on his sword.

Then, belatedly, the subjugation unit surrounded the red eye.

It seemed Precia was late because she was coming together with them, slowing her down.

By the way, I didn’t expect the subjugation unit to come, so it was unexpected.

The subjugation unit members were shocked to see the red eye in such a miserable state.

“Did Sir Yuan reduce the red eye to this state?”

To the special forces captain’s question, I smiled and said.

“Let’s save the chatter for after the subjugation is over.”

At my words, Demiway shouted.

“Kill the red eye!”

At the shout, sixteen subjugation unit members took out chain flails to block the red eye’s movements, and twelve subjugation unit members drew their swords and attacked.

“Kya-aa! Kya-aa-aa!!”

Despite being severely injured and bound by chains, the red eye overwhelmed the subjugation unit members.

Those holding the chain flails did their utmost not to be dragged around by the red eye’s strength, and those wielding swords tried to pierce the thick hide with mana-clad blades.

The special forces captain, along with five subjugation unit members, shot arrows from a distance.

Only seven people, including the special forces captain, could inflict proper wounds on the red eye’s body.

“It’s a complete monster.”

It’s not that the subjugation unit selected by Demiway is weak.

Although the main role of the subjugation unit is to assist Demiway and clean up the surroundings, they were among the strongest in the kingdom.

The red eye was too strong a monster.

How on earth did Precia and Jade in the novel defeat the red eye that had recovered for 3 years?

Even though the Bastille Mountains were practically the same space as the Sage of the Winter Wood’s workshop, it was hard to understand.

Demiway evaluated the subjugation unit’s movements.

“It’s a pity that there’s no need to use the secret means we painstakingly trained and prepared, but it’s a good thing.”

Having said that, Demiway looked at me.

“Well, isn’t it all thanks to me?”

At my truthful words, Demiway clicked his tongue.

“If only you didn’t have that kind of personality.”

It sounded quite favorable.

When I grinned mischievously, Demiway turned his head as if he didn’t want to see it and disappeared from sight.

When Demiway reappeared, the red eye’s hideous head was hanging from his hand.

“Today! The legend of the red eye has ended!”

As the red eye, which had been talked about like a legend as a symbol of fear in the territories near the Bastille Mountains, died, the subjugation unit members cheered.

“Waa-aa-aa!”

Demiway, passing through their cheers and rejoicing, extended a handshake to me.

“Sir Yuan, as you said, it’s all thanks to you. As the commander of Blantzbarg and the overlord of this region’s territories, I express my deep gratitude to you.”

I shook his hand with a trembling hand. It wasn’t particularly trembling with emotion.

“You are a hero.”

“Thank you for that…”

As I tried to exchange formalities, my vision blurred and I felt dazed.

“Young master!”

“Young master!”

“Yuan oppa!”

Precia, Gilbert, and Silua ran to me with surprised eyes.

It feels like déjà vu somehow.

Something hot flowed from my nose.

Ah, a nosebleed…

“Ah, an unfamiliar ceiling.”

I recited a sentiment like a common introduction and sat up.

“Young master! Are you conscious!”

“Thank goodness you’re awake!”

“Yuan oppa! I was worried!”

As the three of them clung together, I was suffocating.

When I made a groaning sound and tapped the bed, the three of them backed away.

“How long was I unconscious for? Another week?”

If it had been a week, I would have woken up in the lodging, but this place was quite shabby.

A wooden hut?

“No. You were unconscious for about two hours. This is one of the ranger outposts.”

“Is that so? That’s a relief.”

When I was unconscious for a week, it was because my body was being modified, so it couldn’t be helped, but I didn’t want to waste a long time like now when there was no gain.

“Are you up?”

Demiway entered with a hot cup of coffee.

“Have a drink. I lit the stove, but it’s still cold. Even in midsummer, the mountain nights often drop below freezing.”

Outside the window, it was already dark. The subjugation unit seemed to have set up tents outside the outpost.

“Thank you, Commander.”

I gladly accepted the coffee cup and sipped it.

Drinking the hot coffee made my body feel relaxed.

Demiway also distributed coffee to my companions, saying,

“Even though the red eye was rampaging like that, there are few reports of monsters escaping down the mountains. It’s thanks to you wiping out the monsters in this area.”

“I only subjugated a little over 60 percent of the overall operation.”

At my modesty, Demiway chuckled.

I felt like I had only seen him frowning, so it was strange to see him laugh.

“The rest probably escaped to the upper parts of the mountains. It was like sweeping up from the bottom.”

“That minimizes the damage. I damaged quite a few dolls while catching the red eye.”

“It’s a small price to pay compared to the red eye’s head.”

That was true. If we had let the red eye go like this…. No, even if we had let it go, Precia and Jade would have subjugated it, so there wouldn’t have been much damage.

Whether he knew my thoughts or not, Demiway bowed his head and sincerely expressed his gratitude to me.

“I’m grateful to you. Honestly, it feels empty to have only dealt the final blow in killing my family’s nemesis, but thinking of the damage the soldiers and civilians would have suffered if we had let it go, it’s a greedy thing to say.”

He was a person who valued practicality over ambition. I didn’t dislike that attitude.

Demiway drank his coffee, thought for a moment, and then said to my companions,

“I have something to say to Sir Yuan in private, could you give us a moment?”

At Demiway’s request, Gilbert and Silua looked at me, but Precia didn’t seem to want to move.

No, she seemed somehow angry at Demiway.

I patted Precia’s head.

“Everyone, go out. Well, I think it’s obvious what the commander is going to say, so it doesn’t matter if you hear it, but it would be troublesome if others outside hear it, so please keep watch.”

At my instruction, Precia got up from her seat as if there was no other choice.

As my companions went outside, Demiway sat in the seat where Precia had been sitting.

“So what did you want to say? I won’t cut the doll repair costs and war merits.”

When I smiled playfully, Demiway let out a small sigh.

“That’s not it… No, it’s not entirely not it. I’ll ask you to cut it later, but that’s not what I want to talk about now.”

Is he going to ask me to cut it?

“You… Who exactly are you?”

At Demiway’s question, I smiled bitterly.

“You found out sooner than I thought. I thought you would receive the report around the time the subjugation operation ended.”

Demiway is not an easy person.

He’s not the kind of person to just accept it when someone suddenly comes and claims to be a royal knight.

He must have had his subordinates investigate my identity.

“I received the report two days ago. They said there were no knights or soldiers in the capital who knew your name. It’s strange, the royal knight badge was real.”

At his words, I whistled softly.

“Did you deploy someone with such an unidentified identity into the operation?”

“I deployed you into the operation not because you were a royal knight, but as the disciple of the Sage Geor. Putting aside other things, the named dolls Silua controlled belonged to the Sage of Ten Thousand Soldiers, and Zillian called you ‘Vice Master’.”

Originally, the only one called Vice Master was Geor’s wife, Jaeolin.

At that time, Geor must have thought that Jaeolin was the only one who could replace him.

I took out my knight badge under Demiway’s gaze.

“As you can see, the knight badge is real. The ones Precia and Gilbert have are also real. You didn’t just investigate my name when you conducted the investigation, right?”

Demiway nodded at my question.

“Yes, I also investigated the royal knights named Gilbert and Precia together. Like you, no one knew the name Gilbert.”

It made sense that no one knew Gilbert.

He was appointed as my guard knight on the day of departure, so it would have been strange if anyone knew him.

“But Precia was different.”

Precia is fifteen years old now, and will turn sixteen in a few months.

Although she hasn’t been a knight for long, her young age and being a woman were sufficiently eye-catching factors.

Moreover, the fact that Horazon was her guardian was a public secret known to those who knew, so Precia was a celebrity among the royal knights, whether they knew it or not.

“Who was the person Precia served?”

“The 1st Prince Yuan… The same name as you.”

At Demiway’s answer, I smiled wryly and introduced myself again.

“Originally, I was going to tell you lightly when the subjugation was completed, and we were leaving the territory, but I have no choice. I’ll introduce myself again, Marquis Blantzbarg. I am Yuan del Azdemian Duplion, the 1st Prince of this country.”

At my self-introduction, Demiway made a dumbfounded face as if he hadn’t expected it.

“…Really?”

“Really.”

“Are you really the 1st Prince?”

“Yes, I am truly the 1st Prince.”

I thought he would be expecting it since he said he conducted an investigation, but this reaction was unexpected.

“You’re not a magician sent by His Majesty using the 1st Prince’s name to deliberately win me over?”

“Aha, you could think that way too.”

Demiway’s guess was like this:

The king, upon hearing Horazon’s request for dispatch, decides to send a magician who can assist in a similar manner, even if he can’t send Horazon.

The magician to be dispatched was a disciple of the Sage of Ten Thousand Soldiers, a magician the king had hidden as a secret card. To avoid being noticed by the aristocratic faction’s surveillance, he deliberately sent him as a royal knight but used the names of the 1st Prince and his guards so that Demiway could notice.

He seemed to think it was natural for the messenger to arrive before the dispatch since magic dolls neither eat nor rest.

Demiway, who had been looking at me in disbelief, had no choice but to believe it when I took out the royal badge proving my status as a direct royal family member.

“I didn’t know Commander had such a rich imagination.”

It was a very political yet plausible guess.

“Don’t tease me too much… Have a drink. I’m feeling troubled right now because my top priority target for persuasion turned out to be an impossible target.”

Demiway used honorifics with me.

Whether a general or a marquis, status-wise, the only one who could speak down to a prince in this country was the king.

I chuckled and said to him,

“I’m not here as a prince right now, so please treat me comfortably. As you know, I’m currently missing.”

No matter how remote Blantzbarg was, their information network shouldn’t be lacking, so they would know my situation well.

“…I will do so.”

“And since I came here of my own will, if a situation arises where you need to support someone later, please support me rather than the king. Well, if you feel like it, that is.”

Although I had Demiway owe me a big debt through the red eye subjugation, it was not enough to demand loyalty.

For now, it was enough to have him owe me a debt and gain his favor.

At my words, Demiway let out a small fake cough and mumbled,

“If I support the Prince… Will you give me a discount?”

At his words, I burst into laughter.

“Puhahaha! Try negotiating!”

At my smile, Demiway swiped his face with his dry hand and sighed.

Somehow, he looked like he had thoroughly made the wrong choice.

But it was already too late.