When I left the capital, the King seemed to have shut himself up in the castle with a hand full of guards... but I don't know the details or the current situation."
In a calm voice Ginger finished telling us everything she knew.
Apparently Pax is under siege.
It's been a few days since the revolt happened.
It won't be funny if Pax dies or even if the royal palace is occupied.
But the Death God is one of his troops.
It wouldn't be surprising if the rebels were annihilated instead.
Breaking through the siege shouldn't be hard if he intends to escape.
Why a siege?
There is a lot I don't understand.
This time we need to be careful of the situation.
"We need to immediately get to the capitol and see things for ourselves."
Zanoba said so as if it was just a walk to the general store then stood up. Ginger made a relieved expression.
However after hearing the next words her expression froze stiff.
"I will rescue His Majesty and help him escape here to Fort Karon. If that isn't possible then I will invade using a secret royal path and come to the aid of His Majesty."
"Please, please wait!"
Ginger's body shot up from her resting position.
She restrained Zanoba with a desperate look.
In regards to this girl, she was entrusted with Zanoba and that's exactly what her expression says.
"What now? Don't worry your little head, Ginger. Just stay here and rest your body."
"No, do you... Do you really have to go to King Pax as an ally?"
Ginger says this in a tone you wouldn't believe.
Zanoba turns back.
He's making an unspeakable expression.
"Naturally I will. To begin with, I don't even know the 11th Prince's face or anything other then he was born. It's suspicious, we can't truly even know if he has inherited the blood of my Father."
He has a point.
Finding Pax to be unbearable, the warlord Jade may have created the 11th prince as a puppet.
His younger sister may have been pulling a shell game on the King.
Ginger's eyebrows are bent like the character ハ.
It's an expression that is impossible to understand.
"Once you are committed to King Pax as an ally, what will you do then?"
"Things like that, I will leave to His Majesty. If he says so I will crush the rebels."
"How.... How can you come to the aid of a person like that?!"
Zanoba's eyebrows move, twitching.
It's an expression of anger.
" 'A person like that'? Ginger, you, just who do you think you are talking about?"
"I know it's disrespectful, but Zanoba, you surely know what Prince Pax did?"
"Just what did he do!?"
"I, my entire family, they were taken hostage!"
Zanoba's eyebrows move, fluttering.
Come to think of it I experienced the same thing.
I had nearly forgotten it was so long ago.
Well it's sure to be an unpleasant memory for anyone.
The side that was bullied will not forget the fact.
"I can't can't think much of a king who has to take his own bodyguards family as hostage... I do not think that king is worth being protected!"
It's the kind of line the feudal lords of the Edo period from my former life needed to hear.
But certainly, in this country, the ability to win royal guards was supposed to be a measure of power within the royal family.
The greater the number of royal guards, the closer to the throne you became; there was that kind of system.
They aren't just simple subordinates, they are vassals.
Forced to take hostages to keep them, that may be taboo.
"Haha, Ginger, allow me ask you the contraposition: This Zanoba Shirone... why do you serve him?"
"That is because..."
"I, in the past sold you. That isn't an act worthy of a member of the royal family. Why does Ginger still follow me?"
The reason why Ginger was in a situation where her family were taken hostage, it should have been because Zanoba sold her.
He traded her in exchange for the Roxy doll that Pax had bought.
Just why has this person stuck with Zanoba...
Ah, Zanoba's mother, it was a promise to her.