Talk:Day 151-160/@comment-171.233.63.207-20150504192930

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day 151:

One day has passed since the minister got poisoned.

In that time, there were big movements by various factions and organizations, but it doesn't affect us greatly.

For now if I were to summarize the currently spreading information about the assassination of the cabinet minister, it would be as the following.

First, the kingdom side can't specify the culprit.

The investigation is being carried out in a frenzy by the excellent intelligence corps, but it's only stuff that anyone can easily understand if there were to check: [the cabinet minister was mudered in a private room in his private residence], [there's no trace of a fight], [no reaction from alarm device that magic item was spread out in the residence], [first witness is the chief butler that take along a maid], [murdered by poison], there's no progress at all.

Furthermore, the poison being used in the cabinet minister's assassination -- on the cabinet minister's corpse, purple pustule the size of a small bean and partially necrosis can be seen. It seems by the time he was discovered, there was already bad smell, the corpse was pretty grotesque -- is a new type, that's why the [magic pharmacist] and [alchemist] that serve in the royal court have to take the sample from the minister's corpse and use it to find the poison's cure with all their might, but as it's only been just a little time, the cure is unclear.

But according to the old man that has been serving as the chief of the medical department, even after some time, he wouldn't know if the cure for the poison can be found or not, such is the dangerous report that has been reported to the king.

To sum it up, for now, aside from the culprit, which has to have the antidote, everyone would have no choice but to die.

Aside from the culprit who can easily assassinate the cabinet minister even though he was protected by strong elites, there's no saving.

In that case, we, whom are being protected by bodyguards far inferior than the minister's, at the culprit's whim, will follow the minister without being allowed to resist.

Poisoned, bleached ugly corpse.

Maybe even one's whole clan will be massacred.

It seems that the conjecture, the conviction, "It will probably become like that", the seed of terror has been planted in most of the noble's heads.

Especially the head of the influential noble in the noble faction that was leaded by the cabinet minister, the number of nobles whom can't sleep last night is quite a lot.

One night passed, there are people with bags under eyes, hollow-cheeked, bad complexion, moving hurriedly in group inside the royal castle, avoid people's eyes, there are also people who use poor health as excuse and secluded inside their residence.

There are also people who go about with unchanged brazen attitude, but only because they are either orignally nobles in the [King faction], or noble officers with strong body which love to fight, or military general class, or ones that are cunning and sly like a snake, and they're just the minority.

Even if looking at just this, one can guess that the total number of the noble that fully support the king, or rather, the royalty, is still not that high.

One of the cause for that is, the tomboy princess doesn't resemble the king nor queen, but setting it aside. (*≪先祖返り≫ some googling tells me it's either atavism, or figuratively, it's obsolete technique, ideology being picked back up, or computer being rewritten by old data for whatever reason, in this context I guess that the they mean the tomboy princess doesn't resemble the king but her granpa or something*)

Lastly, there's one part of the minister's asset disappeared, just because of that.

While I'm at it, and the chance is just right, to sum up the minister's personal information simply, many decades ago while the minister is still young, he has been known as a brave general and called [quietly defeat general] and been on various battlefields. (*【討寂将軍】 feels free to translate this title into english, i have no fucking idea*)

His first campaign take place in May of the year 14, being known as powerful in the battle with the neighbouring country -- which is now the vassal state of the kingdom -- as he won the 1 vs 1 with the enemy's captain.

Since then he expand the kingdom's territory with his resourcefulness and military might.

Even though he has his win and loss, but on any battlefield, he only left the best result, and a lot of his valor.

Decades after his first campaign, he expanded the country's land, saved many soldier's lives, brought blessing to the people.

But about after the year 40, on the shared border with the Republic of Durrvan -- doesn't exist currently, was divided by half and absorbed by the kingdom and the empire -- he lost the battle in swamp which srurround the rare mineral Mark ore and received heavy injuries -- lost below the left knee, right thumb, ring finger, pinky and such -- which was the reason he resigned from the general position.

After that he became a tactician, thought to be not able to live his life away from the battlefield, he was expected, but he moved onto the politic ground.

And sometimes arrange important bill that control the kingdom's future, sometimes make contracts with other countries in which the kingdom hold the advantage, with that, even in politic, he also played an active role.

He layed ground work, get his activities acknownledged, and in just a very short time, he obtained his current position, his position was unshakeable for a long time.

His power didn't lose to, or even surpass the king's.

Like that, the cabinet minister left many achievements, he was the big shot that can make the Empire enter the alliance on equal term even though the Kingdom was slightly inferior.

Was, because he's dead.

The whole story about such capable minister become the tomboy princess's opposition, telling the detail would be a pain so I'll just abridge it, he had a change of heart because of many things.

Anyway, with the tomboy princess's strongest political enemy which is the minister is now dead, the kingdom is welcoming the turning point, although one might say is a good thing.

From us, you could say that our time to make money has come.

Now then, leaving that story aside, the minister had many hobbies like leaving name on the battlefield as the general, training, army commander advance -- army commander advance is a kind of board game like shogi or chess, soldier type and terrain effectiveness is also took into consideration, so it can be used as training for smooth, accurate command in real combat -- and one of it is a collection of magic item which has ability for combat.

Gathered up the number is close to 300, just think about how much a magic item which hold the fitting ability for the battle can sell for, is enough to tell about the minister's assets.

The collected magic item most rare grade is low but they start from [Rare] grade, dozens of [Unique] grade was lined up in a row, only a few but there are also [Ancient] grade stuffs mixed in.

It's a pity that there is no [Legendary] grade item, but there are complete set that are more than enough.

Handpicked by the minister overflowing with wisdom, they're all first-class.

And aside from those items, the handpicked gems being decorated in the minister's private room are being protected by anti-theft devices, layers upon layers, they were securely managed.

But everything disappeared, nothing left untouched, anti-theft devices destroyed, include the magic item.

Where did the close to 300 magic items go?

I'm very interested, but anyway, compare to the cabinet minister's assassination, or the political situation, it's not that much of an issue, it probably wouldn't become such an issue. Even if it were, it wouldn't come to be pursued anyway.

Actually, just as planned.

The item took nearly 300 slots in the item box displayed in my head, as I was smiling.

Aside from that there's nothing special, training, spent one day with no change.