The Hero Disciple Is Back

62. The Disciple Does It Thoroughly

Sarah devised a plan to save humanity and adjusted it appropriately. Because she had various experiences, trials, and failures through infinite regress, she was able to devise such a plan more rationally than anyone else.

Yeah, that made sense.

But that wasn’t enough.

No, I was mistaken.

They had forgotten that there was no such thing as rationality in war. War itself was irrational in and of itself.

Reasonably and appropriately…. It is an expression that makes you feel truly cautious and serious. It sounds so sweet. However, in the end, it doesn’t change the fact that you slow down while looking at the situation and the feelings of those around you. They say that greed is poisonous, but there is no battle that can be won without poison.

She was able to regain her hostility and venom at the same time, so Sarah completely abandoned the thought of being rational and appropriate anymore.

“Sword Ghost”

“Did you call?”

“Become a black knight.”

“… … .”

The swordsman could not answer that question right away. The sword master and the swordsman were definitely stronger, but the swordsman was not called the swordsman simply because of the difference in strength. The swordsman had been on the battlefield to become stronger, and his sword had been covered in blood, but he had never spilled the blood of an innocent person. On the other hand, the sword of the sword master did not care about such things at all.

He was clearly the strongest swordsman, but at the same time, he was no different from a fool’s sword. Therefore, the name “Geomseong” was more suitable for a swordsman than a swordsman. However, a swordsman could not obtain the name “Geomseong”.

The name Geomseong was ultimately reserved for the nobles.

The best swordsmen come from among the nobles.

The name of Geomseong was just a name created to make purebloods lose their minds. Of course, the name Geomseong was not given to people who were easygoing. It was given to those who were famous and skilled. And this time, Geomseong was definitely the strongest sword. However, if you ask if there was no best sword among the commoners, no one would be able to answer yes. When such a possibility arose, would the Geomseong of that time have remained silent?

In the end, the name Geomseong was a name that called for blood, a name that made people bleed.

Therefore, ordering a swordsman who was not even of noble birth to become a swordsman was no different from asking the swordsman to literally challenge the impossible.

“All right.”

But the swordsman replied that he understood.

It was because he had come to know, even if it was not for that long, that the person he had come to serve as his master was not someone he could entrust with a task he could not do.

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“… Are you really asking me to do that?”

“Do I look like someone who would talk nonsense?”

“… That’s not true.”

The crown prince couldn’t help but feel dizzy at the request of warrior Sarah.

‘Change your identity… and to a swordsman who was born a commoner… .’

The position of the Black Star was for the nobles. The nobles were mostly purebloods who wanted to think that they were special and great. But the reality was not like that. He knew very well that it was not like that. But even so, they wanted to believe that they were special.

One of the vicious cycles that was created in this way was the nickname ‘Geomseong.’

Only nobles can have it, and the swordsmanship comes only from nobles, so nobles are special.

There was no such thing as absurd nonsense. In the first place, since the swordsman was chosen from among the nobles, the swordsman had to come from among the nobles. However, whether it was absurd or not, it didn’t matter to the pureblood nobles. If you keep talking nonsense, it can seem like a plausible logical argument. It’s not for nothing that swindlers talk so much. They know that if you keep talking nonsense for so long, at some point it starts to sound plausible.

In the end, it was the nobles who did what a conman would do, but it was the truth.

That

The crown prince didn’t know either.

“… If it’s what you say, sir, I don’t dare to give a negative opinion… but the opposition from the nobles will be no joke.”

What if the dogs can’t do the same nonsense they’ve been babbling about until today? How shocking would that be to them? It’s so natural for dogs to do that. So they’ll bark so hard that they absolutely can’t do it. The crown prince’s ears already seemed to be hurting.

“A dog is just a dog no matter how much it barks. If a dog barks at the moon, nothing will happen to the moon.”

“The moon is in the sky, but we are on the ground.”

“I gave you power so that you could gag all those guys.”

That means

It was no different from a threat to tell them to be prepared if they don’t put muzzles on while those dogs bark so much.

The crown prince had no choice but to swallow his saliva.

The crown prince tried to speak as calmly as possible.

“… Don’t you know, sir? If you try to press down with too much force, you’re bound to get a backlash.”

“In war, there is no case where you are afraid of the enemy repelling you by pushing forward with overwhelming force and not using force.”

“This is not war, this is politics.”

“Was that meant something else?”

“… … .”

“Have you forgotten already? If I hadn’t been here a little while ago, you would have lived if you won, and died if you lost.”

“that….”

“If war isn’t about winning and living, and losing and dying, then what is it?”

There was a time when Sarah thought politics and war were different things. Politics was ultimately for the purpose of running a country, and she naively believed that the nobles had different intentions and that they would not be false in their intentions to serve the country.

But there was nothing like that.

Even in the face of a national crisis, they were busy wasting time blaming each other and blaming each other. The authors, who had learned and lived their entire lives as politics, could not possibly show a different side in a moment of crisis. In the end, just as their usual abilities become the results of tests, the nobles were no different.

Therefore, she thought that politics and war were no different. In the end, you have to win and trample on them thoroughly so that only your flag is waving. That was the only way for humanity to be less divided in the face of a crisis.

“I give them time because I’m afraid of backlash. That just gives them time to build up the strength to backlash. If you’re going to do something, do it thoroughly. Those who want to backlash will do so no matter what.”

“… That is correct.”

The crown prince nodded and admitted that he had been mistaken.

Just as they say that the feeling you have when trying to open a treasure chest and the feeling you have after opening it are different… . When I tried to open the treasure chest, I was so desperate and thorough, but once I actually opened it, all that desperation and thoroughness disappeared like a mirage. People ultimately like to be comfortable. People are the ones who can’t escape the temptation of laziness.

That I have become lazy

The Crown Prince could not help but admit that he had been letting his guard down, now that he was free from the life-threatening threat he had so desperately wanted.

“But why are you giving the name of the sword to the swordsman?”

“The name ‘Geomgwi’ suits the name ‘Geomseong’ better than ‘Geomseong’.”

“… That is correct.”

As he became the crown prince and practically managed the empire, he learned many things he had never known. Among them was the fact about Geomseong. He knew that Geomseong was a person who could not even be controlled by the emperor, but Geomseong’s actions were far more extreme than the crown prince had expected. Knowing this, he had no choice but to agree that Geomgwi was more worthy of the name Geomseong.

“First of all, the important issue is that the Sword Master was called in the name of the royal family, but the Sword Master did not come. Under this pretext, we can strip the Sword Master of his title and give it to the Sword Ghost. Can you do that much?”

“Of course.”

The crown prince answered with confidence, as if he was the only one who could be trusted.

He also has experience in politics in the empire.

Talking nonsense with a shameless face was a skill he had already mastered.

And he knew it.

What is more powerful is the one who keeps on barking louder and without stopping. That is why he was confident that he could suppress all the small complaints of the nobles by bragging endlessly and loudly while asserting his power.

“Besides, the people feel much more attracted to the idea of ​​a commoner who worked hard to obtain the title of swordsman, which only nobles had.”

War is not fought alone by a single warrior. Each and every soldier must fight with sincerity to save humanity in order to see a slight increase in the chances of victory. That is why heroes are needed. Heroes who can set soldiers’ hearts ablaze as they look at their backs.