The Extra Strategist’s Royal Road Chapter 244
A shocking story that Ars had 83 children in the game.
But thinking about it carefully, it seemed possible.
‘If he had children with most of the female characters in the game, wouldn’t it add up to about that many?’
When you think about it that way, the number doesn’t seem strange.
Systematically in the game, there were personal relationship events with each character, so if they all led to marriage, it’s possible for Ars to have dozens of wives and babies.
Then having 83 children isn’t that difficult.
‘Though it’s an unrealistic number, maybe it’s not entirely impossible?’
After finishing my meeting with Altron and returning to Alreal, I found Leitin being cornered like a trapped mouse.
“This is why humans are barbaric and foolish!”
Queen Mother Beato was shouting at the top of her lungs after learning about the turbulence.
Leitin, who was naturally timid, could only sweat profusely without talking back.
Secretly joining them, I asked Elena.
“Where did Juras go?”
“He said he wanted to look around the area. He mentioned there wouldn’t be any meaningful conversation until you returned anyway.”
“Sigh, but to leave Leitin alone like this.”
“By the way, what did you talk about with the Queen Mother?”
“Well…”
I tentatively asked her.
“Elena, what would you think if I were to take about 70 more wives from now on?”
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“Just answer me. What if I suddenly became a playboy and started seducing women? For example, if I were to seduce Sophia or Lucretia and have them bear my children.”
“…”
Elena narrowed her eyes as if looking at something impure.
“If you do such things, I won’t forgive you. It would make Eo sad.”
“Y-yes, right?”
“Don’t tell me you’re actually thinking about such things? If so, I can give you a lecture right now?”
“I’m just saying hypothetically.”
To avoid Elena’s suspicious gaze, I stepped forward to shield Leitin.
“Step back, Leitin. I’ll handle this from now on.”
“Ah, please do! I’m not up to this…!”
As Leitin retreated while sobbing, I faced Beato for the first time.
The Queen Mother who governed this island. She was quite young. Even considering that elves have long youth, she looked young.
‘Is this what it means to be an elf?’
The expression ‘dazzlingly beautiful’ suited her perfectly. Even I was momentarily mesmerized.
Not just me, but all the men who came as part of the delegation were staring at her blankly.
“Nice to meet you, I’m Ars Elaine. I come here not as a representative of the Ellan Kingdom, but representing the Calliper Kingdom and the Kuravel Holy Nation.”
“The Kuravel Holy Nation…? Stop with such nonsense. I heard Kuravel was destroyed. It’s impossible to represent a non-existent nation.”
“Though the nation may have fallen, its people haven’t disappeared. I have prime minister Bisketa Kren under my command, who had the authority to govern in place of the king in emergencies. The Captain of the Royal Guard, Eonia Mirabel, also serves me. There seems to be no doubt about my position to represent Kurabel.”
“That’s quite a skillful stretch. Fine, I’ll acknowledge that you represent Kuravel. So? What changes?”
“I gain rights over the Kuravel elves you’re protecting. Strictly speaking, they are my citizens.”
“…!”
“So will you allow me to speak with them?”
Realizing she had given me grounds to meet the Kuravel elves, Beato frowned as if she had made a mistake.
Still, it didn’t seem too objectionable as she nodded.
“…Fine. I’ll let you meet them.”
“And one more thing, as Leitin Olcus, the representative of the Ellan Kingdom, mentioned earlier, a crisis is approaching the outside world. We seek help to overcome this crisis.”
“How brazen. Why should we help with a problem you foolish ones brought upon yourselves?”
“If you ask that… Well, because Altron said it was okay.”
“H-His Excellency did?”
“He said I could do whatever I wanted. He even said I could take you as my wife and leave with you.”
“How insolent…! How dare you speak such nonsense!”
“If you doubt it, why don’t you verify it?”
Fortunately, the elder who had gone with me was nearby.
The elder nodded calmly, confirming everything was true. Then he even pressed Beato.
“This is Altron’s will. Give your body and heart to this human at once.”
“That’s…!”
As things were taking a strange turn, I quickly intervened.
“That was just a figure of speech, not actually about making you my wife!”
Fearing the conversation would derail, I got straight to the point.
“I’d like to borrow some of your guardian forces. Elena, who was originally the guardian captain, will make appropriate selections, so don’t worry too much.”
“…”
Beato bit her lip and glared at me.
With Altron, the de facto ruler of the island, on my side, she had no way to refuse my words.
She reluctantly nodded and accepted my proposal.
* * *
Since time was limited, we couldn’t stay long on the elves’ island.
After leaving Juras and Leitin behind for research on the transfer magic circle, I returned with the elven guardian force selected by Elena.
There were ten guardians in total, and among them were some faces I knew.
First was Margarita, who had helped me before.
“The outside world… How exciting!”
It wasn’t strange that Rita was included this time, as she had wanted to follow me out before.
Next was Pion, one of the guardian force’s core powers.
He was the man I had thoroughly beaten during the previous Eonia rescue operation.
“Tch! Why do I have to go through this trouble?”
He kept complaining as if he was reluctant.
There were other capable elves on the ship as well.
‘This should be enough elite power.’
Even if we can’t deploy them for dungeon raids immediately, we can gradually develop them into core forces.
And besides the guardian force, there was one more guest aboard – Queen Mother Beato.
“Why am I…”
She still couldn’t accept reality, wearing a forlorn expression.
The whole story was simple. It was because of Dragon Altron’ orders.
When Altron learned that my goal was continental unification and peace between races, he took action saying that the elves’ island should now prepare to open up.
That action was reinstating Cailum, the leader of the open-door faction, as the nation’s father.
In the process, Beato, the leader of the isolation faction, was seen as an obstacle and was thus decided to be sent outside.
Her excellent skills as a magician were also a major reason.
Upon returning to Baien, we headed straight to Rosa. Rosa was surprised at the results that exceeded expectations.
“W-welcome. I shall grant you a mansion in Baien and a private office in the royal palace.”
Elena said she would guide the elves herself and led them out of the audience chamber.
Rosa sighed as if nervous.
“Just what did you do to bring even the elves’ leader?”
“Things worked out perfectly.”
“Just how perfectly did things work out for this to happen?”
Still, Rosa’s lips twitched as if pleased that things went well.
I decided to ask her while she was in a good mood.
After confirming no one was around, I said to her.
“Rosa, what would you think if I took dozens of new wives?”
“…Are you in your right mind? You’re joking, right?”
“I’m serious.”
Rosa responded with the same contemptuous look that Elena had shown.
“I won’t stop you. You’re going to become something like a king, after all. It’s natural for a king to want many descendants. However, as Erina’s friend, it’s not something I welcome.”
“I see.”
“Why are you suddenly asking this? And are there even that many women available in the first place?”
“Well, for example, what about you?”
“Wh-what!?”
It was a joke, but her reaction was interesting so I got carried away.
“It’s not strange, is it? There’s no easier way to smoothly integrate nations in the future. Kingdoms unite along with their kings forming bonds.”
“…”
Rosa hesitated before asking with wide eyes.
“Do you really mean that?”
“…Pardon?”
“If that’s what you’re thinking, I would gladly… I could get along well with Erina too…”
Rosa’s eyes were dead serious. Her expression was no longer joking.
Sensing something was off, I hurried to fix the situation.
“O-of course it was a joke. No need to take it seriously.”
“Ugh… Ugh!”
Rosa’s face turned bright red as she shouted at me to get out immediately.
* * *
I, who was banished from the palace, returned to my shabby mansion.
The reason I was asking about that part wasn’t particularly because I had greed for many wives.
Rather, it was because of the matter concerning children.
Altron said that among 83 children, a great figure who would cleanly solve all problems would emerge. And he said that could still be true even now that the revelation has gone astray.
He said that if they were my children, they would fulfill those conditions, so Ryuna and the twins who are born now would also satisfy the conditions.
However, while they satisfy the conditions, there’s no guarantee that Ryuna and the twins are the children of the revelation.
To put it extremely, the probability of one child being the child of the revelation is 1/83.
And in that sense, there is a way to definitely give birth to the child of the revelation.
All I need to do is have 83 children. Then among them, there will definitely be the child of the revelation.
Having children for such calculating reasons was certainly unsettling, but if that child would achieve a great deed that no one else could accomplish, I thought that maybe this much should naturally be done.
“Huh?”
While thinking such thoughts, upon returning to the mansion, I saw an odd combination of people drinking tea.
It was Rinoa and Master Ilya.
Curious about what this strange combination was talking about, I joined their table.
To get straight to the point, they weren’t having any particularly interesting conversation. Rinoa was consulting with Master about training the territory’s guard unit.
Since that conversation ended quickly, I decided to ask them about it.
“You’re going to take dozens of new wives?”
Rinoa asked back as if she had heard wrong.
“Let’s say hypothetically. It’s a ‘what if’ kind of discussion.”
“You, you’re asking this seriously.”
Indeed, Rinoa is sharp. She looks like she might tell Yumir right away.
“So… For example, what if you became my wife?”
“Did you really eat something wrong?”
Unlike Rosa, this one responds plainly.
Still, she gave an honest answer to my question.
“If the other wives don’t mind, there might not be a problem. Of course, there’s no way such a convenient thing would happen. You’ll probably end up stabbed to death soon.”
“I-I see. Master, what do you think?”
Master Ilya gave a bitter smile.
“It’s certainly not something I can welcome.”
“Why is that?”
“I once said something like that to Anton. I told him that since I was an unsightly woman, he could take more wives if he found better women. Do you know how Anton responded when I said that?”
Master speaks with gravity, as if giving a lesson.
“He said that would never happen. He promised to love only me for his entire life.”
“Ha, haha…”
In the end, Master was against it too.
“Thank you for the advice. I’ll go to my room now. Ah, and please keep this conversation secret from others.”
Their gazes were so intense that I fled to my room.
My room that I returned to after a week was kept clean, but the desk was a complete mess.
Documents had piled up over the week.
“Sigh, this isn’t something to think about right now. Let’s just work, work.”
Most of the materials on the desk were briefings about specific information on dungeons that would appear, methods to subjugate them, and appropriate numbers for subjugation parties.
“Did Sophia prepare this? It’s quite easy to understand.”
Among them, Sophia had assigned two dungeons to our party: a dungeon called ‘Cradle of the Swamp’ and another called ‘Life and Death Match’.
Both were Grade 1 dungeons that couldn’t be subjugated without elite forces.
‘Cradle of the Swamp and Life and Death Match… What eerie names.’
I didn’t know why, but my spine had been tingling since earlier.
Cold sweat was also trickling down.
‘No, this…’
Since this couldn’t be happening just from reading dungeon information, I hurriedly looked around.
“Gasp…”
That terrifying presence was coming up the stairs toward my room.
Knock knock! The composed knocking sound was clearly Yumir’s, but for some reason, it now sounded like something from a horror movie.
“…Young Master, are you in there? I heard from Lady Rinoa that you had returned.”
“Y-yes. I’m inside. What is it?”
“I’d like to have a conversation.”
“C-can’t we do it later?”
Then other voices are heard. The voices of Erina and Estelle.
“Sir Ars? We heard a very very very interesting story from Rosa, and would like to have a chat.”
“Just now, Ilya was saying something strange. It’s not true, right? Right?”
Next is Eonia.
“I heard the story from Master Elena, open the door quickly.”
For Eo to speak informally when others are present means this is a serious situation.
‘Why is everyone’s mouth so loose!?’
Even though I said it was a secret.
“Then I’m coming in.”
Since I hadn’t locked the door in the first place, I had no means to stop them.
Creeeak! The sound of the door opening felt like the gates of hell opening.
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