Chapter 370: The Last Threshold of Wrath (4)
The crown prince and his people holed up in a small city, but this was more of an escape from reality. I surrounded the city with the Ducal Family of Ivansia’s knights, the imperial knights, and my own clan vassals. After that, I sent an envoy out of politeness.
“Well, let’s try sending an envoy to urge them to surrender first,” I said.
Of course, a crown prince who had fled from reality wouldn’t be polite to me in return. According to the envoy, the crown prince had said something like, “You all are just invaders from another world! I am the crown prince of this empire, and I’ll never bow to the thugs of the other world!”
I clicked my tongue at the news. “Idiot.”
A few of the empire’s nobles and commoners were unfriendly to people from the different world, so if I had just blindly intimidated the crown prince, I would have been treated like an invader from another world. If the crown prince had played his cards right, his claim to fight the other world invaders could have gained some support.
However, the emperor had given me the justification I needed. Even the clothes I was wearing now were in the empire style. Right now, I was the Duke Consort of Ivansia who was here to fight under the emperor’s orders. Checkmate.
“What do you plan to do now?” Sylvia asked, coming to stand beside me. She was aiding me on this matter with her profound knowledge of the empire’s matters. “As someone who has dated this guy, don’t expect him to surrender. He never goes back on his word once he’s made up his mind.”
“Well, it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t surrender.”
“Heh. That means...”
I gripped the hilt of my holy sword. “I’ll go get him.”
That night, I scaled the city wall alone. The crown prince’s forces seemed to have prepared to hold out within the city for a long time. It was pretty well guarded, but that was all. They would need to do a better darn job than that to stop me.
Less than an hour later, I broke into the crown prince’s bedroom. The blond ramen was deep asleep, snoring soundly. He couldn’t be more oblivious to what was happening around him; the knights standing guard outside were all passed out.