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Chapter 3: Heading North

Two months had already passed since I requested the power to go on the expedition to the Galis lands, at that time 10,000 infantry soldiers and 2,000 cavalry gathered, since it was a border conflict, a large-scale invasion was not going to happen, however I sent letters to the various slavers and mine owners asking them to send support in exchange for enough slaves to start the company we had discussed with Count Canus, thanks to that my forces increased to 23 thousand infantry and 6 thousand cavalry.

"Thinking about the Gali conflict... Maybe the empire lost miserably, I wouldn't be surprised, the empire was so desperate for slaves that the emperor decided to open the Gate to try to get them from there, plus he was looking for more influence, So maybe my theory is true, if they are able to conquer the nations of your world, then why don't you do it? Most likely they couldn't."

While thinking of all this, I was using Medusa girl's thighs as a pillow while she patted my head, I must admit it was very comfortable, I've always been curious to use a girl's lap as a pillow ever since I saw it so much in animes.

"Master Zorzal~ Who are you going to call tonight?~ Or which?~" She asked with a flirtatious tone, although I could still notice how the snakes she had for hair were still distrustful.

Although it is progress, none of them are scared anymore, the fact that I treated them with dignity helped them feel comfortable, also that in bed I didn't do weird things like whiping or hitting them... in fact, when it comes to sex, it even gives me chills to choke my partner even if it is at a point where they are not in danger...

"Not tonight, Zilfy, tomorrow I have to leave for the Inland Sea in the morning." I answered enjoying the caresses, the thin and transparent tunic that was more like a pajama let me see her big breasts. "How are you and the others doing in the palace? I hope they are adjusting."

"Well... Everything is great, I love this new life you gave us!" She said, although it sounded lame.

"Zilfy, can you tell me what's going on." I said worrying that she didn't feel comfortable here.

"It's nothing... You don't have to worry, master!" She said a little nervous to make me angry.

"Zilfy... It's an order, tell me what's going on." I asked seriously.

She looked resigned to obey. "It's... More than anything how others see demi-humans... It's not something you should worry about, after all, you gave us a better life than we could expect as slaves!"

That's right... I almost forgot about the treatment of demi-humans in this world, being in this palace surrounded by nobles is affecting my ability to see the real world.

In that, the door of my room opens without knocking, entering a small Piña.

"Brother! Is it true that you are going to go to the w... She stopped when she saw the half-naked girl i was using as a pillow. "What are you doing with that girl?! Pervert!" She exclaimed shocked.

"Things you shouldn't know until you're of age! And knock on the door! "I said throwing a pillow in her face, Zilfy hurriedly covered himself.

Trainig fields.

I was in the training camp with the future members of the Rose-Order, apparently my little sister had told them that I am going to war.

"Are you seriously going to war? Poor thing, you can't even defeat me." The drill girl said with the intention of annoying me.

"Or maybe I'll come back with more experience and finally be able to defeat you." I said following her game and smiling.

"Bozes! Don't fall for that smile. He's a pervert!" My sister warned her friend.

Hearing the word pervert, all the girls went on guard, pointing their training swords.

"Back you pervert!" They all repeated. That a lot of girls from 6 to 8 years old tell me that did not make me look good.

"H-Hey! That's no way to say goodbye to your teacher! I could die and that will be the last words you say to me!"

"hmph! You deserve it for pervert. " Answered Piña still upset because the brother she idolized thinks with the "horn".

"I see..." Discouraged, I turned around and began to speak sadly in a melodramatic tone. "If my little sister hates me then there is no reason for me to return to this palace, I will have no reason to return alive, and if I survive as Maybe I should exile myself."

Piña was worried when she heard those words, the performance was paying off. "But... you still have Diabo"

"He doesn't want to see me either... He's been avoiding me for more than a month, more or less when I started training you ... And now my little sister hates me too! what a misfortune! Maybe it's better to fall under the swords of the barbarians than to go back to a place where they don't want me!" I said dramatically, overacting sadness, but a child would fall for that.

"I... Forgive me, brother!" She said crying and hugging me." Promise me you'll come back!

Returning her hug and with an evil smile inside me because my performance worked, I nodded. "I'll be back... I promise.

Library.

A couple of hours later, I was in the library, looking for my brother Diabo, who has been avoiding me recently.

"... Aren't you going to say goodbye to your older brother?" I asked sitting next to him.

"...I know you're going to return safely," he said despondently, avoiding looking at me.

"Are you mad at me?" I asked directly, I wanted to know if I did something wrong.

"No... It's just that I'm tired... Father always calls you and praises you for everything and they only scold me, when the other boys come to visit us they all want to play with you... Every time we are together, my teachers say I'm a failure." he answered after giving a sigh of exhaustion.

"I see... So you're jealous..."

"Yes... I am... You are always surrounded by people, instead I tried to talk to Panache after one of her training sessions... And she doesn't even know I was a prince! You don't know the shame that they don't even know who you are."

I thought for a few moments, trying to think of a way to ease this heavy atmosphere.

"...So... Are you jealous that Panache doesn't pay attention to you and spend more time with me?"

"I already told you that... What?!-" That heavy atmosphere was relieved when seeing Diabo with a surprised and blushing face. "W-Why do you say that suddenly?!"

"It's simple, you stopped talking to me when I started training her... So something tells me it's another kind of jealousy~" I said, laughing slightly. "And it seems I'm right."

"T-That's not true!" He looked at me angry and embarrassed, he looked very cute.

"And tell me, what did you tell him when he didn't recognize you?" I asked amused by his reaction.

"Well... I just left...-" He answered looking down.

"Well then, no girl will know you, you should learn to talk to them or you will suffer a lot when you grow up." I said jokingly.

"I-I don't want to hear that from someone who buys slaves to be close to a woman!" he said angrily.

That was a completely unexpected low blow for me and I must admit that it had bothered me a bit. "A woman is a woman, whether she is a slave, noble or free, it should not make a difference."

"Of course there is, it's like talking to puppies, they can't be compared." He said repeating one of our tutor's words, although his tutor used the phrase "mangy dogs" to describe them.

"Oh! puppies? So we have those!" I said taking him by the arm to drag him out.

"W-where are we going?!" He asked, afraid that he had made me angry.

"You'll see little brother... you'll see...

Palace gardens

While this happened, Zorzal's slaves were resting in the interior gardens of the palace, next to a fountain in the middle of it.

The 7 slaves were talking to each other, the three humans of the harem were: Saskia the Gali, Thalassa of the Hellenic Polis, and Fent-kaus of the desert nomads. then there was Zilfy themedusa, Luserina the high elf, Nuriel the harpy, and Moon the catgirl.

"And... How are you doing with our master? "Asked the desert nomad curiously as she washed her arms in the fountain, draining the water on her dark skin that highlighted her straight blue hair."

"Well, I must say it's not that bad..." Nuriel said checking her black feathers as well as her hair, which matched her pale skin.

"Well, I still distrust him." said the elf. "Yes, he treats us well, but we are sexual slaves, as soon as he get bored with us he will sell us, so don't get used to it.

"Well, I don't think that's the case with him." Zilfy replied. "A few moons ago my little ones bit him in... a very painful area for him..." She said, looking annoyed at the snakes on her head. "I thought that he was going to punish me but he didn't."

"Wow, that explains why there was a week where he didn't call anyone." Said the harpy with a giggle on her lips.

"Maybe he just felt like an idiot for wanting to have an oral knowing that your hair is literally alive and that's why he didn't punish you." The elf answered.

"Well... I think it's someone good." Moon the cat girl answered. "When he called me for the first time... I was completely scared and nervous, I couldn't do anything but tremble... And when he saw me he just pet my head and my ears delicately... He didn't try to force me, he just pet me and hugged me all night until we fell asleep... And so it was every night Until I wasn't scared anymore."

"hmm... I don't know what the meaning of "good" is for you, but for elves someone good wouldn't have slaves." argued Luserina. "Thalassa, do you agree with me? That he only uses us and then discards us?"

"Lusi, I am a woman from the Hellenic Polis, a place where men kidnap the girls they like to marry them, literally almost all our historical heroes did that." she answered while drinking a glass of wine "If you ask me, To me, I live better here than in my native polis.

The elf was getting irritated that her companions settled for a few nice words and pats on the head instead of thinking of being free. "Saskia, you spent more time here with us. Has Zorzal done something bad to you?"

"Well... No... in fact, he has never touched me..." She said somewhat discouraged. Was she ugly so as not to arouse interest in her master? At first she thought maybe the prince was batting the other way, but that was disproved when he brought them in.

"See, Luserina?" said the Medusa girl with a smile "he won't abandon us even if he gets tired of us ~"

"shhh! The master is coming!" Fent-kaus said making them shut up once and for all.

Here I came, bringing my little brother holding his arm.

"Very well! Diabo, since you think that talking to slaves is something less than talking to other women, why don't you try to talk to them? " I said smiling, seeing how he got more nervous when he saw the beautiful girls.

"Girls! I want to introduce my little brother Diabo." I said holding him by the shoulders to put him in front of them

"H... Hello... i-it's nice to meet you." He said nervous and blushing, he had put him right in the middle of them so he could see the beauty of those girls, not to mention how they were sunbathing they were light of clothes, which made him even more nervous.

"How cute~" they all said when they saw my little brother, who got closer to him, even Luserina who strongly distrusted the nobles could not help but be touched by little Diabo.

"If you want to hug him and give him love, go ahead~." I said smiling, making my brother turn to see me with a pleading face, while the girls' eyes shone.

What happened next was that they started hugging him, playing with his cheeks, rubbing their cheeks against his among other things, making his head burst from embarrassment and how red he was.

After they finished playing with my little brother, I simply said goodbye to her to accompany Diabo to his room.

"So... It was like being with puppies, wasn't it? ~" I said mockingly.

"It's not funny!"

"I would say yes, but well, since you were able to survive all of them, I think you'd be able to have a conversation with Panache, don't you?

"...I don't think that's how it works..."

"I know you're insecure, those girls think you're cute, so what does it matter if she doesn't even know who you are? Go and talk to her" Patting his head.

"Okay..." He was still insecure but he already had a little more confidence.

"By the way, I'm going to need you to take care of them when I leave," I said casually.

"Hey?! W-Why me?!" He asked blushing remembering what he experienced a few moments ago.

"It's simple, you must learn to take care of women It is the moral duty of men before women, they are fragile and delicate that need to be protected... With some exceptions like your sister or her friends... or the mages... or All the warrior bunnies... or the medusas, or the elves..."

"That doesn't sound like fragile and delicate.

"That doesn't matter, what I mean is... that they will see how you treat others of theirs. nobles, slaves, commoners, if you simply ignore them then they will ignore you..."

"Okay...okay...-"He said giving a sigh to calm down." Good luck with the campaign, brother."

"Thank you! I'll be back safe and sound, you'll see!" I said with a smile.

During the times I was away, my little brother worked up the courage to talk to Panache and ask if they could play together... He was rejected, she had seen him before near my slaves and called him a pervert.

Sadera streets.

It was already the other day, I was dressed in my battle armor, listening to the trumpets sound, I was on top of a horse, parading through the streets of Sadera under the cheers of the citizens who saw how his invincible army marched to go to the north.

"Prince Zorzal El Caesar will lead our armies to victory! It is time to face those Galis barbarians who dared to provoke our wrath! Now is the time for revenge! Long live Emperor Molt Sol Augustus! Long live the empire!

With those words given by spokesmen who were located in different parts of the city where we would parade, we left the city. I was nervous, this would be my first battle, but I knew this was something I had to do.

Around the Inland Sea.

10 days after a long march, we reached the southern Inland Sea, where we camped and began to strategize.

"Your highness, you do not have to bother with these cumbersome procedures, I am more than sure that when those Gali barbarians see our soldiers they will surrender, and those who do not, will die." said General Servius, who was originally chosen to carry out this expedition but was meant to advise me anyway, the general simply hoped that I would leave all the decisions to him and in the end I would take the credit, nope.

"General, this is my expedition, so I must at least be present to see what the plan consists of that I must approve." I replied. "Captain Cornelius, show us the map."

"To order." He answered, extending the map. " Right now we are in the south of the Inland Sea, so we have two paths to choose from, the first is to advance to the east, where the Edna Mountains are, for so the only way to get through there is to advance in a line along the coast.

"hmm... If we go through that place we will be at a great disadvantage, they can use the mountains as a refuge for a guerrilla war while we will not have room to maneuver." I said while looking at the map.

"Then you just have to go to the west side of the Inland Sea, in the open field they don't stand a chance!" Said Servius convinced of the course of action, but I still wasn't sure about that.

"Only a few kilometers further west are the forests below the mountain range of ice and snow... they could hide an Army there but...How come only four small tribes managed to stop the empire? That would be impossible unless..."

In that, I began to remember a conversation with Saskia, from the first one we had:

"

"I thought that the tribes would be united, I didn't think they would make war between them having the empire below." I said curious.

"Even though we are often at war with each other... Each tribe signed the iron treatythat in case the empire attacks, all the Gali tribes would unite to stop them."

"

That was why the empire lost, they only thought they were fighting with a few isolated tribes, but it seems that there were whole armies hiding in the forests and mountains... And the empire fell into the trap, we are not at war with only four small tribes we are at war with all of them!

"We're not going west," I said firmly. "We're going east."

"But sir... you just said yourself that we would be at a disadvantage going up the coast." The captain was confused.

"We are not going to advance along the coast, nor through the mountains, we will go through the free passage between Knappnai and the Edna mountains to attack them unawares."

"Prince! In that direction are the Helvetian tribe! We are not at war with them!" The general was scandalized.

"Maybe you don't know, but between the Galis tribes they signed a defense treaty so that everyone helps if we attack someone... clearly we are at war with all of Gali, so their forces must be in the mountains right now watching the coast while the others are probably already in the woods, hidden to ambush us."

"Damn barbarians! Their combined armies would easily reach a hundred thousand!" The captain pounded on the table.

And it is probable that in the original line they only sent 12,000, but even so we are 29,000 we could not face them, if they ambush us it would be our end, also since this was treated as a border conflict and not a war itself we don't have battle mages or wyverns, ballistae or catapults.

"That is why I propose that while their armies are in the mountains and forests, we go to the Helvetic lands and take them. They are currently unprotected and would be a good foothold while we wait for reinforcements and continue north."

And so the course of action was decided.