Chapter 278 – 17.15 Negotiation With Muramasa
“Thank you for taking your precious time today. General Muramasa.”
Eventually, the next day, Chairman Mizuki and Muramasa sat at the same table.
Muramasa’s contact information was stored because I received a call from the previous President Mizuki terror incident. Muramasa was like an unemployed man during the strike, so it wasn’t difficult to make an appointment.
“Haha. I can’t help it if it’s a request from ‘Mad Dog’. I don’t have much debt to a mad dog.”
“Hey. Don’t talk nonsense.”
I hope you don’t call me by my childhood nickname in front of other people’s girlfriends.
I can’t even break this one. He’s a pissed off guy
“Even a mad dog has become docile. Now you can call me a pet dog, not a mad dog.”
“Did you just call that a gag? Aren’t you having fun at all?”
He may be the charismatic Yodo Muramasa division commander standing in front of his subordinates, but in my eyes, Muramasa is just a screwed-up old man who is old enough to eat but still has two middle ailments.
That line is probably saying that it’s funny to other people. Although no one can laugh
“General Muramasa. Although it is an unofficial window, I will try to convey the conversation with me to the upper level of the government as much as possible.”
“Hoo. Is that believable?”
“Yes. I promise on the name of Mizuki.”
“Mizukira…”
Muramasa is also not acquainted with Ryoko Mizuki.
She will not be able to ignore her daughter, who inherited the legacy.
“General. What is the meaning of the Muramasa division going on strike?”
It was a pretty lame story.
To put it bluntly, the chairman might be asking, ‘What are you trying to do with such meaningless things when you know it’s going to be useless anyway?’
“I will be honest. We think there is a point in Muramasa’s demands, but we do not agree to a strike.”
Muramasa crossed his arms and closed his eyes, pretending to think.
There are only three of Muramasa’s subordinates in this position. Two lieutenant-level, one lieutenant-level.
It was an unofficial place and could be a threat to the opponent, so the number of people would have been minimized.
The faces of those men were not very good. From their point of view, a young girl in blue is talking about their strike. No matter how beautiful the president is, it won’t look good.
“Right now, the rune holder policy in this country is getting a new wind. The conditions you are asking for will be impossible in the near future, but I think they will be fulfilled gradually. However, if you try to force your demands through strikes, you may end up giving the opposition an excuse.”
Is Muramasa listening?
She still has her eyes closed and doesn’t move.
Aren’t you sleeping? Shall I stab you once?
“We are silent now because public opinion is on our side, but there are still opponents at every level of society, including politics, media, religion, and the economy. They’re still hiding under the surface, waiting for the opportunity to come. If this strike brings damage to the people, they will not miss the opportunity and raise their voices of opposition, and it will be a great crisis for us. This golden opportunity to elevate the rune holder’s social status may be wasted.”
There was an echo in the president’s speech.
In short, we were going to change the world, so you guys were told to stay calm and not scratch.
It wouldn’t have sounded good if I had said the same thing, but as expected, being a pretty girl is convenient.
Muramasa’s subordinates, who had been listening with a thick expression, also seemed to have softened their expressions as if he had been influenced a little by the chairman.
“So please, trust us and withdraw the strike. My father, me, and my future husband here are all working together to create a better future for rune holders. Please trust us.”
The president then held my hand tightly.
Eh? Me? I’m not really that serious.
Of course, if the president does it, he will follow it wherever he goes.
After the chairman’s talk, Muramasa, who had been listening quietly, finally opened his eyes.
And she opened her mouth slowly.
“KW.”
“… Ok? Me?”
Why me
Not the president?
“Okay. You. How is YK?”
“Eh? Who?”
“Remodeler YK. Your lover The emperor’s granddaughter.”
Shit.
I heard a crack in the atmosphere.
Perhaps it was from Muramasa’s men.
Bringing up another lover in front of a woman who just declared her future husband. It would have been a very difficult atmosphere if it had been a normal person instead of me.
Perhaps the subordinates thought so too. You guys are having a lot of trouble taking care of your boss who doesn’t care about others.
“Of course I’m fine… Rather Muramasa. Did you know that Yuuki is the emperor’s granddaughter? No How do you know Yuuki is a woman?”
It was relatively recent that Yuuki became a woman.
When we joined the army, Yuuki was a man. Child soldiers conscription is a story that only applies to boys. Both Yuuki and I were taken because they were men.
So, of course, Muramasa must also know Yuuki as a man.
However, Muramasa said with a leisurely smile.
“Heh. Did you think you could fool my eyes?”
“Cheat? What are you cheating on?”
“For some reason, he was dressed as a man, but I recognized at a glance that he was a woman. And the fact that the emperor’s blood flows through his body.”
“Swimming.”
That’s another strange story. From then on, you recognized that Yuuki was a woman?
If it were Muramasa, it would sound like ‘I can see the line’. Even though she had suspicious eyes, she wasn’t weird.
“At that time, I wondered why this guy was brought here… Indeed. Was it all planned from then on?”
Quit-quick. Muramasa laughed with an unlucky sound.
He still couldn’t understand what he was thinking or what was funny.
“Even if she’s the emperor’s granddaughter, she’s just the daughter of a former princess who descended as a god anyway. It has nothing to do with the emperor.”
When an emperor’s daughter gets married and descends divinely, she is removed from the imperial family.
In other words, Yuuki, the daughter born after Sana’s marriage after descending from the divine, also has nothing to do with the imperial family.
“But the subjects won’t accept it that way.”
Muramasa started talking smugly about something.
“A granddaughter of the emperor who was born with the power of a rune holder. Even though she was not obligated, she fought as a child soldier during the Great Disaster. Isn’t she a great story? At least a picture would be better than the daughter of a prime minister who did not participate in the war.”
“Laugh…”
Actually, Yuuki herself is feeling unfair about participating in the war. She’s still actively refusing to join the military with me.
And the president has nothing to be ashamed of. If you can drop out of the army, it’s better to drop out unconditionally.
“So, Mizuki. What are you going to do? Are you going to allow him to date multiple women?”
“Of course.”
The president responded without delay.
“A wife is a being who walks three steps behind her husband. She learned that her husband was the one who supported her in the shadows so that she could do her big job. And the person who will be my husband is going to do a lot of work, so it’s hard for me to support him alone. If necessary, I plan to take ten or twenty new wives.”
“Hoo. Does that mean you want to use other wives as well?”
“Of course. He is a young Japanese war hero. Seeing him succeed as a soldier and as a man, many young people will admire him. If so, there will surely be young men who will enlist and live with women. Wouldn’t that be a bad story for the military as well?”
“Haha. Every so.”
“In addition, marrying many wives and giving birth to many children will help solve the low birth rate of rune holders, which has been a major problem in Japan. This is a problem that must be addressed to create a better future. It won’t be possible for him alone, but it will be different if the young people who enlisted after him play an active part and get a wife. ‘Knives Harem’ will be an exemplary case in that sense. Some may criticize at first, but the cause is on our side.”
Mmm. The chairman seems to be drawing a big picture that I don’t know about.
Besides, I don’t understand well, but Muramasa seems to understand. I’m tearing apart what’s good for myself.
I’m feeling hot
Muramasa muttered with a smile on his face.
“The Prime Minister’s daughter. She is the emperor’s granddaughter. And she is the grandson of the Queen of England.”
“Ok? Me?”
“Is there anyone else in Japan besides you? Grandson of the Queen of England.”
Nope… Isn’t it?
Do you have a sister? My older sister is also a British princess.
Come to think of it, all three of them are my girls.
I wasn’t really aiming for it. It’s because I’m too good.
Muramasa looked up at the sky as if all her doubts had been answered, and she grinned.
“Right. Did that happen? Are you saying that when the rats were licking each other’s wounds in the gutter, you were drawing a new sky? Kuk-kuk-kuk.”
“Hey. Don’t say anything bad.”
He’s still a bad guy I don’t even know what you’re talking about. What is licking in the gutter?
Fortunately, the conversation with the chairman seems to have worked. It was fortunate that the stabbing did not happen.
“Is there a staff department?”
“Yes. This is Narusawa, Lieutenant of the General Staff.”
When Muramasa called, the lieutenant with the lowest rank came quickly to the side.
“How is it? Do you still think a strike is necessary?”
“No. I think it is advantageous to cooperate with these people now.”
The staff lieutenant agreed. Good good. It should come out like that
“But General.”
However, the other major seems to be the opposite.
“Tell me.”
“If we withdraw as it is, subordinates who will not understand will come out. I think we need a reward that can be left at least in form.”
“Form.”
Muramasa looked at me again.
“Why are you looking at me again?”
“KW. What are you going to do?”
“What do you want me to do? And why are you telling me The person in charge of this position is this one.”
I passed the baton to President Mizuki.
“Form… This is my opinion, but…”
The chairman, who was deep in thought, opened his mouth.
