The Strongest Dull Prince’s Secret Battle for the Throne

Chapter 393: the Prime Minister’s Shadows

Chapter 393: the Prime Minister’s Shadows

Your Highnesses, excuse my rudeness.

When I was discussing the supply for the invasion with Lize-aneue.

A man suddenly appeared in the room.

He is dressed in black and his face is covered by a black cloth.

Nothing he wears can tell us more about his identity.

Still, we know for sure who he is.

The Prime Ministers Shadow huh.

Lize-aneue muttered so and turned to the man.

The Shadows of the Prime Minister.

It is a term used to call the intelligence service employed by the Prime Minister.

11 years ago.

There used to be an intelligence agency in the Empire. It was an organization that reports directly to the Prime Minister. However, in the war with the Kingdom, the terms for the ceasefire agreement included the dismantling of the organization.

The reason was that the Prime Minister has used them to display his skills of sabotaging in full glory.

Since the Kingdom had been repeatedly sabotaged, they demanded the organization to be dismantled.

The Prime Minister easily accepted the condition and dismantled it back then.

However, it was not like he completely erased it from existence.

There are still those who remain until today and act as the Prime Ministers arms and legs. These are the Shadows of the Prime Minister.

However, they are small in number and all of them devoted themselves to information gathering so they dont appear much on the surface.

Assigning one of them to act as a liaison like this is very rare.

What happened?

The matter with the nobles of the Dominions is going well. A week from now, the Princess of the Dominion will defect to our side. The plan is for Your Highness to launch your attack after that.

So I can move at my own discretion?

The judgment on the scene will be entrusted to His Highness Arnold as His Majesty the Emperors representative.

I see. That means I will be under Als command right?

Formally, that would be the case, Your Highness.

Well, thats what he said?

Aneue speaks to me as if she finds this interesting.

I shrug my shoulders and answer.

If it is an order then I will accept. Please do not act on your own ok?

I will be careful.

Answering like that is very like Aneue.

From the point of view of someone who has to take responsibility for her action, Id love to hear her say that she wont do it though.

Well, I guess that is impossible huh.

Is it confirmed that the Princess will defect to us?

We are making our preparations to escort her. Please be ready to receive her, Your Highness

Got it. And in case of something unexpected?

Everything will be left to Your Highnesss judgment.

Good grief..so its all on me huh.

For example, if the princess died before she got here.

Or the Dominion noticed her movement and launched an attack.

I can see all kinds of possibilities.

He is saying that I dont have to go through the Imperial Capital to deal with the situation here.

The authority given to me this time is great.

However, the responsibility accompanying it is also great.

Do it however you want but if you fail, it will be your fault.

That is the ridiculous meaning behind it.

If I dont have the confidence then I should decline huh

If I have to go through the capital every time then Lize-aneue will end up acting on her own after all.

Thats rude. I can follow orders you know?

And in case I make a mistake?

I wouldnt call a mistaken order an order.

..and in case Im too slow?

An order that comes too late is not an order.

Haaa..

She wont take anything else besides an accurate instruction as an order.

This is probably the reason why they didnt entrust the authority to Lize-aneue.

Well, she has the ability and the other party is the Dominion.

She wont be pulling my legs for sure.

Okay. I will do things at my own discretion and I accept all responsibility.

Then please excuse me, Your Highness.

Saying so, the Shadow disappeared.

With this, whatever happens, everything will be my responsibility.

It is convenient but it is also troublesome.

With the Prime Minister mobilizing the Shadows like this, this battle will probably end immediately.

The Kingdom front is in a stalemate after all. Even with Leo replacing Traugott there, the situation still doesnt change.

If its Lize-aneue then what would you do?

The Kingdom made many preparations before they attacked us. It will be difficult to beat them back at the border. Thats why we should use a different route.

So we go through the Dominion?

Thats right.

So the reason that we are rushing the invasion of the Dominion is to not give the Kingdom a chance to fortify themselves huh.

If that is the case then-

Does Father intend to finish the Kingdom off?

That is probably the case. The Kingdom has attacked us during the succession war. If we let them off there might be another country that wants to try the same thing in the future. I understand that it will also send such a message but.our side has the Saint.

We might not be able to make them a puppet state like the Dominion but we should be able to install a king that is convenient for us. They did attack us because of their own convenience after all. We have the justification on our side.

However.the Kingdom has an alliance with the United Kingdom. We still havent received any ceasefire agreement from them. I dont think that launching an attack from the Dominion will work so well you know?

I think so too. But Father seems to think that we wont have a problem from the United Kingdom this time.

No problem from them? What do you mean?

It seems that he bought the Dragon Prince over to our side at a high price.

I immediately understood what she meant

William has returned to the United Kingdom as a defeated general.

I predicted that the United Kingdom would offer us his head for a ceasefire agreement.

Still, there is no movement from their side.

It seems that the United Kingdom is divided on whether to push everything to William.

As a country, the United Kingdom wants some land on the main continent.

If we robbed the Dominion away from them then even with a ceasefire in place, they wont overlook such a thing.

The best thing they can do now is to ally themselves with us.

However, I dont think that the ambitious king of the United Kingdom will do that.

At best he would choose to remain neutral. Even so, we wont know what he will do behind the scenes.

In such a situation, what can we expect William to do.

I dont think that William would start a coup himself though.

I wonder about that. You wont know what someone is capable of until they are cornered you know.?

He is a man who didnt betray Gordon even after we have cornered him that much in the previous war. Even if his father betrayed him, I dont think that he is the kind of person who is capable of betraying someone else. If there is a possibility for that then..it must have been Gordon-aniues advice.

So you are saying that it is impossible.

It is just my thought.

If there was something that could make William move in such a way then it would be a pleasant surprise.

Perhaps, Father knows something that I dont.

Well, it is not my place to think of that huh.

For the time being, lets start preparing our knights for the invasion.

Right. It seems the knights will have to prepare themselves for what to come after all.

Saying so, Lize-aneue left the room.