Chapter 180: The Alliance (Part 2)

John's perspective

Maybe I should analyze something, but I was so tired that I fell asleep while being escorted by the carriage to head to the Palace, having a nap at this time was quite good for me. Alright, according to the letter that Hoster sent me: The meeting was at first to be supposed to be held in Beastmen Kingdom but now the leaders chose to hold the meeting underground somewhere in No Man Zone.

This meeting was very simple, Hoster, Sarah, Hatano and I would have to meet the Kings of the four Kingdoms, talking about the choices from each side about forming the military alliance. If the talk went positive, each side would consider forming the alliance in a short time, but with the conditions the leaders from the Kingdoms but sit at a table to form the alliance.

Suddenly when I was sleeping, my right shoulder seemed to be tapped lightly by someone so I opened my eyes and realized that Shera was the one who woke me up. Wait a minute, we managed to get to the Palace in a short time because I fell asleep during the journey, alright...let's head inside and do my own job, sigh!

Sarah and Hatano were getting out of the carriage while Reimi and Shera were staying with me inside, could not believe that I slept in front of my girls, I was supposed to wake up. Well, Advisor was still silent to analyze the Tuku language so I ordered him to stop the translation and closed the book and stocked it in my handbag.

Maybe I would not bring my handbag with me, no need to use it this time, while I was thinking about getting outside, I saw Reimi looking outside of the carriage for some reason. Ohhh, now I knew what she was looking for, Reimi was concentrating on the sleepy guards who were pulling a wooden cart that carried stones outside of the Palace's entrance.

"Are you tired, John?" - Shera cuddled my face while asking me with her worried voice

"I'm fine, Shera! I'm fine, let's go inside." - Making love too much was also karma, maybe I had overworked my body so I got tired and fell asleep, must have a grip!

"I will go out first, Lord Rigen." - Reimi bowed to me and then walked out of the carriage and guarded the door alongside another woman soldier

After seeing Reimi had gotten outside, I looked around to see if I was missing something or not and then decided to head out of the carriage, this summer was quite hot. Shera walked outside after me while holding the wrapped meal box for our sister-in-law, Reimi and the woman soldier later closed the carriage door, quite discipline to me.

"Ahhhhh, it's so hot! Luckily that we didn't come here in the noon, sis!" - Sarah moaned tiredly because her body was sweating under the heat of the summer, quite cute!

"You two stay here to guard the carriage until we come back, got it?" - I ordered the women soldiers to guard the carriage

"Nod! Nod!" - Both soldiers nodded and then stood guard the carriage

As I could see that we were inside the Palace's entrance and the carriage was parked and guarded at an empty area on the right side which was used to keep the horses. Sarah was stretching while sweating under the heat of the summer while Hatano was behaving as if she didn't care about the heat but took off her military uniform and covered her little sister, quite strange!

"The summer this year is hotter than the previous years, isn't it John?" - Why did you ask me, my wife? You have been living in this world for 17 years while I just came here to live more than a year

"May I use something to cover you, my Highness?" - Reimi said to Shera while pulling out her dense coat and covering my wife's body from the heat

"No need, Reimi! Cover John...let me do it myself." - Shera slowly took the coat and used it to cover my body

"Let's head inside, everyone." - I slowly walked to the Palace's door alongside Shera and Reimi while Hatano and Sarah were talking about something outside of the Palace

The three of us headed inside the Palace and started walking in the hallways to find the Queen's room, we would visit Stella first before choosing to meet His Majesty. Alright, according to what I was seeing, the Palace hadn't changed so much after a year since we moved out to live in Veta and Stansa, this place hadn't changed at all.

"I still do not understand, my Highness! Why did the Queen decide to live separately from His Majesty but not share a room with him? They are the spouses, right?" - While walking along with us, Reimi asked Shera

"I'm not so sure, Reimi...maybe they have their own privacy so they cannot live together in a room."

"Sis Stella used to send me letters a few times and expressed that her relationship with my brother is not so good, but now they stopped it."

"But why they are still living separately...I hope I can understand." - Of course, you didn't know about this, Shera

I kept silent while walking in the hallways with Shera and Reimi, reaching the Royal zone and then looking around to find the Queen's room, I was wondering about its location. Suddenly, I saw Hoster and Sherry walking out of the library nearby, they were talking about something in their low conversation, I should use Advisor to eavesdrop on them.

Wait a minute, Hoster accidentally saw me and the others while talking to Sherry, he later pulled her inside the library once again, didn't care about greeting us, quite suspicious. Shera and Reimi were looking around to find the Queen's room but could not find it yet, they also didn't notice that His Majesty was behind them at the previous moment.

When the three of us were still looking around, I managed to see a figure moving in the hallway and heading toward us, that was a man who was holding a blue document. After a short time looking, I realized that this man was Dunkel - His Majesty's general, he was reading the document without noticing us, strangely that he didn't follow Hoster usually anymore.

"Ahhh, it's nice to see you here, Your Highness, Lord Rigen and Lady Reimi...please have a good time visiting the place." - Dunkel noticed us while reading the document so he bowed to us as he approached us

"No need to bow, Dunkel...what you were reading and why you didn't follow my brother?" - Shera questioned Dunkel

"Due to the Prime Minister's order, His Majesty had given me to him, now I'm the Prime Minister Alt's retainer." - Maybe that was why he didn't appear the previous time when I was summoned to the Palace 4 months ago

"My duty is to follow the Prime Minister but now he is away from this place so I have to stay here to write the report about the things in the court."

"So the thing you are holding is a report, Dunkel?"

"Yes, Lord Rigen." - I was wondering what kind of report he had to write, he said it was about the King's court things but his words could be lying to me

"Do you know where is the Queen, Sir Dunkel? We have been looking around here for minutes but couldn't find her room." - Reimi asked Dunkel

"The Queen's room is over there." - Dunkel pointed his finger to a small room which was next to Sherry's room - it seemed to be newly built or something, the room's door seemed to be well made than the other ones

"Healers would get to that room daily in the morning, the noon, afternoon and the evening to check for the Queen's antenatal."

"She is now staying alone in there, excuse me when I have to do my job, Your Highness, Lord Rigen." - Dunkel bowed to us once again and walked away from our sight

When Dunkel had gone away from our sight, Shera and Reimi pointed their directions to the room's door and walked there so I did it as them. Now the three of us were standing in front of the door, Shera slowly knocked on the door to call Stella to come out but had no response from the other side of the door.

"Eh? What is sis Stella doing? Knock! Knock! Knock!" - Shera was confused but later kept knocking on the door

"Knock! Knock! Knock! Sis Stella, are you there? Are you sleeping?" - Shera kept knocking on the door with her worried face

"Let me, Shera." - I told Shera to get out from the door and then I grabbed the door's handle and opened it, this door was not locked so we could get inside easily

In front of me when I headed inside was the Queen who wore a red skirt and seemed to be sleeping very well on the bed while her belly to her feet was covered with a very warm bedsheet, quite freely. Shera made a sigh and then slowly headed to the bed, sat on it and then tapped Stella's shoulder to wake her up, while Reimi closed the door and stood guard behind me.

"Sis Stella, please wake up." - Shera kept tapping Stella until she opened her eyes

"Uhhhh!" - Stella moaned in a low tone while closing and opening her sleepy eyes and got up slowly, she rubbed her eyes a few times and stared at Shera

"Hey, nice to see you, Shera...didn't know that you would come, sorry when I didn't see your arrival." - Stella slowly hugged Shera and looked up as if she was trying to look at me

"Sorry when letting you see me in this appearance...the healers told me to sleep more and reduce exercising for the stable antenatal, so sleepy." - Stella smiled at me for no reason, luckily that my affair hadn't been caught up by my wife

"I'm sorry for not greeting you, my Queen! Please accept my apology." - Reimi approached Stella and apologized to her, why did you act so seriously?

"No need to greet me that formal, Reimi...especially when I didn't know you people would come." - Stella tapped Shera's shoulders a few times and then stopped hugging her little sister in law

"Anyway, thanks for visiting me today, maybe I sleep again, hehe." - Stella later exposed her pregnant belly, the belly's size seemed to be increased a bit after 4 months, the baby was still growing so it could not be as big as the one was about to be born

"Ohhh, my baby is kicking again, it must be a boy for sure because its energetic." - Stella gently rubbed her pregnant belly as she heard the kicking sounds from the baby, this child was hers and I so it could be energetic like her, I guess

"Ohhhh, please let me hear it, sis!" - Shera was quite excited so she begged Stella to let her hear the kicking sounds from the baby

"Nod! Nod!" - Stella agreed so my wife pressed her ears to her sister-in-law's pregnant belly to hear the kicking sounds of the baby, I didn't want to be idle so I sat on the bed beside Shera

"Eh? I didn't hear any sounds from the baby anymore, sis Stella." - Shera was confused when she could not hear the kicking sounds from the baby so she stopped pressing on Stella's belly

"Strange, my baby is still kicking like normal...maybe it doesn't favor you, my little sister-in-law." - Stella later patted Shera's head to comfort her, this baby was mine and Stella so maybe it thought my wife was a rival

"Want to hear, John?" - Stella asked me if I wanted to hear the baby's kicking sounds or not

"Ummmm...if you say so, sis Stella." - I was curious about my illegitimate baby so I also made a try to hear its kicking sounds

"Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick!" - My baby kicked Stella's belly more energetically when it sensed my appearance, it reminded me of the time when Shera was pregnant with my first child - Eris

"Oh my, my baby seems very favorite you, my brother-in-law." - I must forget this child, remembering it would make me suffer, but I could not fool myself to forget about my illegitimate baby, what should I do?

"Get here, John..." - Stella pulled me away from Stella's pregnant belly and hugged my right hand as if she wanted to make me a far distance from Stella's child

"Don't worry, Shera! I will take care of this baby well to let it know to treat you well...you are quite active today, my child." - Stella happily patted her pregnant belly while feeling the baby's kicks

"Anyway, I came here today to gift you this meal box, sis Stella! It has many nutrition, very healthy for your pregnancy, my sister-in-law." - Shera later put the wrapped meal box on the bed to let Stella see

"Thank you very much, Shera...my baby will surely be proud and grateful to have a good aunt like you." - Stella grabbed the wrapped box and put it on a small table nearby the bed, she would eat the meal later, I guessed so

"You two are about to become an uncle and an aunt, remember to visit my baby's birthday to have presents."

I promised my wife that we would have kids after 2 years of marrying but maybe I should delay that plan due to the nearby war, so miserable. Shera while looking at Stella's pregnant belly, she stared at me as if to say to me that my wife was also wanting to have a child, maybe delaying the plan was a good idea.

"What's your feeling to have a baby in your belly, sis Stella?" - Shera seemed to want to know the feeling of becoming a pregnant mom

"My kid is quite heavy but I'm very happy to be able to fulfill my husband's wish to give birth to a child, Shera! I'm very happy, hehe." - Stella today was peaceful strangely, she used to beat me very much in my sex with her if I did not willing to have sex

"I want to have a baby too, sis Stella." - My wife pressed her face to my chest and sniffed me while hugging me tightly as if she wanted to have kids

"What do you think if we have kids sooner, John? I would like to see them grow up, we will raise them till our kids can live well and have their own happiness." - Now my wife was making a cute face as if to lure me

"We will have kids soon, Shera...but you need to work out for more in order to give me a healthy child." - Maybe this was the only excuse that I could bring here to tell Shera that I did not ready to have kids, especially when the war was about to come

"Okay..." - Shera hugged me tighter while showing her disappointed face, I hope my wife would not hate me

"Anyway, you said you would have to meet my brother, right? Is it late to meet him now?"

"Not really, Shera...maybe I will see him in the short time."

"Okay..." - Shera slowly pointed her eyes at Stella

"Maybe I will stay with you here for a few minutes and then go home, sis Stella! Please rest well, I would like to see your child to be born."

"Don't get home yet, Shera! Well...would you mind staying here to talk with me for longer? Long time no see so we have to heat our relationship, my little sister-in-law."

"If you say so, sis Stella."

"My husband said he and my brother-in-law and his subordinates would have a drink, they seem to be back here at late night." - Stella suddenly smiled at me while closing her eyes

"Well, why don't you and your servant stay here overnight with me to pick up your husband instead of going home, Shera? They would return here after drinking."

"Drinking?" - Shera asked Stella and slowly looked at me, Hoster must have lied to my sister-in-law that we would go to drink

"Yeah."

"John...sigh! I know, I understand that, but please don't drink with your subordinates." - Shera seemed to be very cautious about my previous joke to my subordinates, poor my wife!

"Yeah, yeah, of course."

"But how long would you go to drink, John?" - The meeting with the leaders would last till the night, maybe we would return home very late at night, I guess!

"Late at night, Shera! Don't worry, I will go home soon." - I would do my best to go home soon to stay with my wife, didn't want to be away from her

"Ummm...sorry when I have to leave now, Shera...please don't wait for me home, okay?"

"Kiss!" - I kissed my wife's forehead and stood up with the intention to leave the room

"Please stay here for a few minutes, John." - Shera suddenly grabbed my sleeves and didn't want to let me leave

Hoster didn't say to me when we would head to No Man Zone, maybe staying here with my wife for a few minutes would not be a big problem. After hearing that, I sat on the bed once again but later noticed that Reimi was also joined to sit, later I realized that Stella asked this servant to do that, you wanted to bury me?

"Sis Stella...hmmph!" - Shera was very frustrated when her rival was sitting beside me, my wife was the best of everything except for her jealousness

"I heard from Sherry that you love John too but my little sister-in-law did not allow you to do that...please don't be sad." - Stella slowly patted Reimi's head

"Anyway, would you like to hear the sounds of my baby, Reimi? If Shera gives up on forbidding you someday then you would be able to marry John."

"Hmmph!" - Maybe I should stay away from these young mothers to let them deal with the problems themselves

"As you wish, my Queen." - Reimi respectfully lowered her body, slowly pressing her ears to Stella's pregnant belly

"Ehhh...sorry, my Queen! I cannot hear the kicking sounds of your baby." - My baby truly wanted me to touch it or what?

"Hmmmm...strange, it was still kicking energetically earlier." - Stella rubbed her belly sweetly while staring at me

"Maybe my child only loves John or something, poor you and my little sister-in-law...please don't be sad." - Stella secretly glanced at me while Shera was hugging me, breathing hard while closing her eyes

"Why don't you stay here for a few more minutes, my brother-in-law? When you two intend to have kids, ask me to visit Shera, alright?" - Stella was quite suspicious, I hope I was wrong because I felt she was having feelings for me after having a baby in her belly or something

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Sigh...so lucky that after hours, I managed to get out of the Queen's room, Shera and Reimi had decided to stay here overnight with the purpose to wait for me to return here. This time was 4:34 PM, because of being rushed, I headed to the King's room to find Hoster but saw no guards guarding the door, maybe I was very late.

"Hey, John! I can spot two blue dots and one green dot outside of the Palace, maybe Hoster has gone out of this room, don't try to find him here."

"That's so, Advisor?"

"Yeah, but I can see a dot inside this room, someone is staying inside." - This room was the King's room, maybe the King's Advisor would stay here with him all the time to aid the King about the country's affairs

After thinking for a short time, I immediately headed inside the room, I saw it was bright by having the sunlit from the above windows combined with the candles. There was a figure of a woman who was sitting on the desk, the desk's surface had a map which was placed on it, now what should I do to shut Sherry's mouth off?

"You again? His Majesty is now outside...get out, don't cross me again." - Sherry glared at me scornfully while closing the map and later put it below the desk

"Huh? You dare to stay here without asking for my permission, huh? Get out, before I yell to call the guards." - Sherry slowly pulled out something from her blouse's pocket

"Don't you dare, woman!" - I immediately charged at Sherry, crushed her to the wall and squeezed her hands tight, an object later fell to the floor, it was a knife

"I will call the guards..."

"You won't...if I expose this video to Hoster, you will die after all."

"I won't...you will..."

"Then I have already escaped after that, should I touch your parents as your punishment for daring against me?"

"You cannot scare me this time, you will die today, you cunning."

"Ohh...that's so? Advisor, call Hatano here to me, let's pop some heads."

"Wait wait wait, please don't hurt my parents..."

"Then do not say out anything, your slightest punishment would be your tongue, next would be your hands, want me to chop them off?" - I roughly grabbed Sherry's lip in order to scare her, I could only scare this brat by using this way

"Shakes head!"

"Good..."

"Don't cross me again, woman...there are spies everywhere in this Palace, if you dare to open your mouth, the people you precious will die all."

"Yes, yes, I understood."

"Remember it well..." - Maybe I should ask Hatano to train a spy to send this person to the Palace to watch Sherry's movement, I didn't want to hurt her but she kept hating me

"Urrrghhhhhhhhh!" - I roughly overturned Sherry and pressed her face to the wall, I crushed her too hard, I didn't mean to do that

Sherry was resisting weakly because of thinking about her parents, I took off her white blouse and looted for the stuff inside it, later managed to find a magic stick and a money bag.

"Arrrghhhhhh!" - I broke Sherry's right middle and ring fingers, she screamed in pain but luckily that only I and she could hear the sounds

"Please wait!" - I pulled out Sherry's pink glasses and threw them to the floor

"Smash!" - I smashed the glasses, now broken glasses were everywhere on the floor, she could not see if she didn't have glasses

"Smash!" - I roughly smashed Sherry's face to the wall and later let her off, her face was swollen now, sorry

"Urrghhh! Urrghhhh!" - I shoved Sherry to the bed and she was raising her hand to me to ask me to forgive her

"Smash! Arrrghhhhhh!" - I punched her face very hard, now her nose was draining out some blood, I hope her nose would not be broken

After a short moment of torturing Sherry, I let her off and took her belongings and then made things on the desk fall all over the place, also opened all the cabinets and boxes. Later I opened the door and glared at Sherry, she was crawling on the floor while trying to find something, maybe she was hoping to see with her myopic vision without glasses.

"Urrrghhhhhhhhh!" - I kicked Sherry's belly and she held her belly while trying to not scream, it was good that you understand how to live among me, woman

"Don't cross me again, Sherry...got it? Remember to make a reasonable excuse if Your Majesty sees you in that battered appearance, or your parents and him...will die." - I threatened Sherry and then headed outside and closed the door

Sigh...so lucky that the King's room was built very well since it was made with thick walls for doing the soundproof, I later modified my uniform to make it normal again. Maybe I should not go out yet, I calmly walked around the hallways from each zone to find the crates which were used to store the wastes from the toilet in order to erase all the evidence against me.

After a short time walking, I luckily found a crate outside of a restroom for the servants so I opened the cover to dump the evidence, the smell was very stinky to smell, gross. I would not dump the money so I emptied Sherry's money bag by pouring her money coins inside my bag as much as possible, some coins fell inside the crate, forget it!

After opening the big round crate's cover, I lifted my sleeves and broke the magic stick in half, dropping it alongside the knife and the empty money bag to the waste under the crate...not deep enough.

"Shit...my hands must be washed for quite long now....sigh!" - I deepened the knife and the other evidence deeper into the wastes until they were invisible below there, good!

I later turned around and then walked away from the crate while noticing two clean keepers were dragging a crate outside of the restroom, so lucky to not be caught. It took me a lot of time to clean my hands in a bedroom, I had to walk with my stinky hands, had to hide them from the servants' glances to not let them find out.

I later walked outside of the Palace when I had made sure that all the evidence had been fully erased, now I must be patient to calm down. After calming down, I walked straight outside of the Palace and headed outside to see my subordinates, they and Hoster were waiting for me.

"Hey, John...remember me before doing anything." - While erasing the evidence, I accidentally made Advisor get covered with the poop wastes, maybe he was still very mad

"I know, Advisor."

I was trying to be calm but later bewildered when I saw the things in front of me as I walked outside of the Palace's door, Sarah was quite free to chat with soldiers and maids. Hatano was chatting with His Majesty while Sarah was sitting on the short brick stairs which were the things that we had to walk in before heading to the Palace's door, this silly girl was quite free to eat.

"Remember to share these candies with your kids, alright? I had spent hours with my sis to buy these things out there." - Sarah smiled widely while handing over the candies to the guards and maids who were sitting beside her

"Thank you very much, my Lord." - Those servants thanked Sarah while eating meat bread along with her, bread seemed to be the traditional food of Warsaw, wasn't it?

"Yawn! Commander is very heartless, he has been with his wife for hours and didn't care about seeing us, ehh...?" - While complaining about me, Sarah accidentally saw me standing beside her

"Ehhhh...good morning, John." - This time was afternoon, girl!

"Sorry for disturbing you and your leader, my Lord." - The servants who were sitting beside Sarah suddenly stood up and hid their bread as they saw my appearance

"Ehhhhhh! Please don't go, we haven't chatted anything big!" - Sarah powerlessly witnessed the people leaving her one to one while holding the meat bread in her hand

"Hmmph! Don't follow me, you hentai!" - Sarah frustratedly stood up and walked straight into the green carriage which was used to escort us earlier and sat in there, closed the door and ate the bread

I later noticed that His Majesty was pointing at me as if to order me to come closer so I walked toward him while Hatano bowed to me slightly. Later, she entered the carriage and enjoyed the shared bread with her little sister while Hoster was staring at me without saying a word, what did he want from me?

"I would be pleased to see my little sister stab you to death when she finds out whose father of the baby is...now follow me to the meeting." - Hoster mocked me with a low voice and then entered the carriage

I also walked inside the carriage and sat beside Sarah and Hatano, Hoster was sitting alone and was opposite us, I never wanted to sit with him. While looking around the carriage when I was checking my handbag, my eyes noticed 4 long crates were stored under the seats, what were those crates?

"Your Majesty, what are these crates?" - I pointed my finger down the carriage while looking at Hoster straightly

"Oh...those things would be used to bride the Kings of those barbarian lands, tribute them valuable things would run the alliance better."

When I was about to reply to His Majesty, Sarah suddenly leaned half of the meat bread at my face with a very cheerful expression, so pure. Now I must find a way out, escaping with my family and my subordinates would be the answer, but I wanted to know when I should escape officially, especially when Hoster must have sent spies to watch us.

"John, I think you should explain to your wife about Stella's pregnant belly when I see the time is good to talk."

"Shera would be angry at first but would forgive you soon when she knows the pregnant belly was not your fault but Hoster, confess to her when I see the time is right to tell."

"Also, in the perimeter of 500 meters, I cannot spot any dots that are suspicious even inside or outside your castle, John."

"This is just my theory but maybe one or more of the servants in your castle coul be His Majesty's spies."

"Even if they are not in your castle, they must be hiding under the servants' identities in Sarah's or Hatano's castle, you should tell your subordinates to watch out."

"Escaping at this time is quite dangerous, John! I suggest you and your people do that during the war, the chaos in wartime would bring you time to escape, that's all I can advise you."

"I'll keep that in mind, Advisor." - To make sure, I would chat with Reimi and Shera through Advisors to warn them, but not now, I would do it after this meeting

"Head to No Man Zone, soldiers." - Hatano ordered the women soldiers to ride the carriage

The carriage later rolled its wheels and fastly got out of the Palace's entrance and joined the other carriages on the streets, I turned off Advisor to let him charge the battery. I could see Hatano staring at me for a bit longer before looking away to look at the scenery outside of the carriage's window, she was very weird today, a bit more mysterious.

About His Majesty, he was sitting on the carriage with his eyes pointing to space as if he was thinking about something with his cruel blank eyes. I saw Hoster smile with a smug on his lip, I was hoping that I could get into his mind to know what he was thinking, he was broken and seemed to be dangerous more than ever.

"Hmmph! Do you want to eat, Commander?!" - Sarah kept pointing half of the mead bread to my mouth, she was in her period or what?

"No...I'm not hungry and your salivas have already covered in the bread." - Except if those were my wife's salivas, hehehehehe!

"I'm full, John...don't worry, I will split it in half, between the clean part and the eaten part." - Sarah slowly dripped the half of the bread once again, this time she pulled out a smaller one which seemed to be very clean according to my eyes

"Sigh..." - I tiredly grabbed the small piece of the bread and handed it to Hatano

"Bites! Chew! Chew! Chew! Chew!" - Hatano immediately bit the small piece of bread as she saw it, this big sister was very aggressive to eat her little sister's food

"Hmmph!" - Sarah was very frustrated so she looked away, now I managed to have time to analyze, must take this chance to think