Chapter 159
Ismalia Castle
I returned to the village before I had fully calmed down from the excitement. But I did not tell anyone that I had met General Hannibal.
Part of it was that I wanted it to be my secret, but it was also because I didn’t think that Jeanne or Toshizou would know who Hannibal was.
Jeanne was an uneducated daughter of a farmer, and Toshizou was from Japan, and wouldn’t know of Hannibal’s achievements.
The elder really was an amazing person, but only I needed to know about it, and about the worth of the book.
And so as soon as I got back, I began to read the book obsessively.
When eating breakfast, when leaving the village, even when riding the horse.
He wrote about the strategies he tested in the Iberian Peninsula and in Rome.
General Hannibal was fighting with an overwhelming disadvantage when it came to the number of soldiers, and he was fighting against the army of Rome, which was considered to be the strongest at the time.