"I want information on this place." I suddenly said to the pri minister and chancellor after returning to the eting room.
The others had been patiently waiting for us, but they were caught off guard by my sudden request.
So of them even had strange looks on their faces when they saw where I was pointing on the map.
That was because they ca from the kingdom that was near the place that I was pointing, so they were familiar with the place that I was referring to. Only, none of them could understand why I was pointing to that place.
After all, that place was considered a taboo zone for them.
The pri minister and chancellor also had confused looks on their faces as they didn't understand why I would suddenly ask about this place.
But in the end, the pri minister said, "It's a taboo zone on the border of the Vikal Kingdom known as the Land of Giants. It's a place where a small tribe of giants has settled and a place that is left alone because of said tribe of giants."
After a pause, he looked at with narrowed eyes and asked, "What are you planning to do?" He didn't even bother waiting until we were in private to ask this, he asked this in front of everyone because he wanted to use them to pressure .
If he had asked in private, I might have made so kind of excuse that would have stopped him from asking any further. But since we were in front of everyone, I had to at least give him a proper answer.
That was why he had done this.
I understood, so I said, "Now that we've taken over all of the surrounding countries and made our kingdom much stronger, there is no doubt that we will pose a threat to the giants. It's only a matter of ti before they co at us, either with words or with force."
Then after a pause, I continued by saying, "Though in the case of the giants, it's more likely that they will use force rather than words."
Everyone had serious looks on their faces when they heard this.
Eventually, the group from the Vikal Kingdom slowly nodded in agreent.
The Land of Giants was on the border between the Vikal Kingdom and another kingdom, so they were the ones that knew the giants best after being neighbours with them for so long. They knew that the giants weren't as keen on using negotiation when they could solve matters with force.
Or rather, it was better to say that their thod of negotiating was with force.
So it would be unlikely that they would co to build a relationship with the new Kite Kingdom.
It was very likely that they would even start harassing the borders of the new Kite Kingdom just to show that they weren't to be provoked. They would be waiting for us to send soone to talk to them so they would have the upper hand.
That was also why the pri minister was against this.
But first...
"Just what exactly are you planning on doing?" The pri minister asked with knitted brows. The way that he looked at was almost as if he was looking at a troublemaker.
Though with everything that he had been through, I guess that he deserved the right to look at like this. I had put him through quite a bit of trouble before this after all.
But this ti, I was doing this to solve the problem.
"It's very simple." A faint smile appeared on my face when I said this, "All I have to do is go and talk to them. I have a way of dealing with them."
The others in the room looked at with strange looks that had doubt in them when they heard this, but the pri minister and chancellor just narrowed their eyes to look at as if they were sizing up.
After a long silence, the pri minister asked, "Is it like the wyverns?"
At this, everyone's expression changed.
They all looked much more serious as they looked at .
There were even a few of them that looked like they really wanted to hear more about this. After all, the wyverns were the only reason that the Kite Kingdom was able to invade all of the other kingdoms. Naturally they wanted so information on how I had tad the wyverns.
Though they wouldn't be able to do much with this information, it would at least make them feel a bit better.
I just gave a small nod as I said, "It's sothing similar."
The pri minister narrowed his eyes even more to look at before slowly shaking his head, "Unless you explain to what you're planning to do, I won't agree to this. It's completely different from before, you are now the king of this kingdom, we can't let you put yourself at risk."
Though there were so people that looked like they wanted to hear my plan, they still nodded in agreent to the pri minister.
They recognized I was the king of the kingdom, so they had to at least show this kind of
loyalty.
But it was clear by the look in their eyes that they thought that whatever plan I had was certainly worth trying.
Even the chancellor seed like he thought this.
The only reason that he didn't say anything was because of the look that was on the pri minister's face.
This was a look that was completely different from the usual calm and collected pri
minister.
This was the look of soone who clearly was letting his emotions affect his thoughts.
But that wasn't strange since I was his brother in law.
I slowly shook my head in the end before saying, "I'm the only one that can do this, so there's
no other choice."
"No." The pri minister said in a firm voice.
It seed like neither side was about to back down.
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