Chapter 188: Hurrying
Chapter 188: Hurrying
To the margrave’s wife who had come to see us off I requested,"If any information of movement from the capital arrives, would you please contact the Mainz Kingdom?"
"Of course. The margrave also places maintaining friendly relations with the Mainz Kingdom as the first priority. Therefore movements in the capital will be reported to the Mainz Kingdom as well, and we will inform Prince Robin one by one together with that."
The answer that returned from the margrave’s wife was exactly as expected. I conveyed my gratitude and boarded the carriage. We had decided to make the people of the mansion believe that I had boarded the carriage and departed. Just in case there might be a spy of Prince Maxim inside the margrave’s mansion.
I wanted to get outside the gate quickly, but inside the margraviate capital we had to advance slowly. As a noble, and especially as a prince, one must not show people the appearance of being in a hurry. While I fretted, we finally passed through the gate of the margraviate capital’s walls and went outside. Here the three of us changed to horses. As a prince I had of course been trained to ride. Lily and Stevie also said they could ride to some extent. As expected of those whose duty was escort, being able to ride a horse was only natural.
The margrave’s subordinates wore calm faces, but most of the attendants who had come with us from the capital wore suspicious expressions. I gave the order that since we three would go ahead to the Mainz Kingdom, the remaining people should follow the margrave’s subordinates and proceed at the usual speed later toward the Mainz Kingdom. In the worst case, even if these people were found and captured by Prince Maxim’s agents it would be fine. As long as the three of us entered the Mainz Kingdom it was enough. At this point the attendants who had been guarding the carriages clearly sensed that something had happened.
There I revealed what the margrave’s wife had told us. Of course great agitation was visible. Many had left their families behind in the capital. Therefore I told them that if they delivered the carriages as far as the border checkpoint of the Mainz Kingdom (there would be one, probably) they could return. I also told them that if Maxim’s agents came they could reveal exactly what they had heard. Even if we tried to make them say we had headed for the capital, if there was a pro-Maxim faction among them it would be meaningless. Moreover, if they were killed or harmed over something like that it would be pitiful.