Academy Slave Instructor

43 – Joshua knows the Devil of the World well

Joshua knows the Devil of the World well

Joshua slumps as if exhausted in the carriage back to the intelligence department.

On the outside, she is always dignified, but when she comes to a place where she can avoid prying eyes, she shows a defenseless side. Cale said, looking at Joshua, who was almost lying on her couch, feeling even more weary today.

“You look more tired today.”

“Because I was scared. If that person gets angry, I’ll really go crazy.”

“You’re friendly. And you seem really friendly with Joshua.”

“That’s the scary thing. Elliott doesn’t care as much for human affection as for the trash on the floor. If he had to kill even the closest of people, he would pull out his heart with his bare hands without hesitation.”

Keil knew the inside story of Joshua’s relationship with Rai as an imperial spy, but from his point of view, the conversation between the two of them seemed to be reminiscent of old comrades gathering together.

Both of them have unique personalities, so they made jokes that disparaged each other, but they understood each other well, so it was nice to see them enjoying themselves.

She may think that her conscience is pricked by her betrayal, but Cale is well aware of how tough her superiors are. And he knows the Devil of the Nations much better than he does.

Aware that more than half of what he was joking about was serious, Cale’s spine shuddered at Rai’s coolness hidden behind an innocent smile.

“Anyway, since he’s that kind of person, don’t even think about getting close.”

“Is there anything I can do to make friends with the devils of the world?”

“Well, that human’s affinity is terrifying. Would the Marquis Edelian fervently pursue him? We’ve even exchanged arms with each other. Edelian, Person, Selfit, and Georg all like him.” . Even His Majesty the Emperor doesn’t say anything about it, but he’s a big fan of him.”

Not to mention the emperor, all the people he talked about were major figures in the empire. Those who risked their lives dozens of times adore Rai. Joshua’s way of speaking was different to simply think of it as respect as a military man.

Keil shuts up when he is told that even the emperor of the empire is a fan. His position was too low to speak carelessly of the emperor, but it was because Joshua’s words were too hard to believe.

Joshua, who doesn’t care about Cale’s reaction, lies down on the seat and looks up at the ceiling, pondering for a while before saying.

“Schedule a meeting with Melanie.”

“You mean Sir Melanie Fielburg?”

“Is there another Melanie besides her?”

“I was just wondering if there was anyone else because he was always avoiding me.”

As Cale said, Joshua was reluctant to meet demon lieutenants from all over the world who entered the empire after the kingdom was destroyed.

Because he was a traitor, his lieutenants did not hide their anger as soon as they saw him, even though he was on the side of the Empire, and Joshua responded with a laugh, but he did not deliberately meet them because he was reluctant to provoke those who were on the same side.

It’s been seven years since I surrendered, but Joshua and the devil’s lieutenants from all over the world have met only a handful of times, including one in the hallway while passing by.

Keil wrote down the schedule in a notebook and tore up the paper and burned it. It was a down habit belonging to the intelligence department to keep records to a minimum, although he records them to remember.

“May I ask why you are seeing Sir Melanie all of a sudden?”

“She’ll be tracking me by the tail by now. Things get bigger when she goes all the way to her academy.”

“Intelligence predicted and diverted Sir Melanie’s attention.”

Joshua giggles at Cale’s words.

“Do you really think he cheated?”

Although she was smiling, Cale shut her mouth again at the sharp gaze that seemed to be accusing her.

“Elliot, no, I should call you Rai now. All of his lieutenants are excellent. You know it when you look at me, right? Rai has an eye for talents that are often neglected, and the ability to nurture them. And surrender. The lieutenants who survived until the end have monstrous skills in at least one field.”

“I know he excels, but I’ve never heard of Sir Melanie being good at tracking.”

All of the devil’s lieutenants belonging to the empire have excellent skills. However, except for Joshua, who was on the side of the Empire from the beginning, all of them were port generals, so they could not sit in important positions and moved various units.

The Ministry of Information keeps all the port generals under surveillance, and their data is constantly coming in.

I know that Melanie has excellent military strength as a raid leader and has excellent mercenary skills in coordinating troops on the battlefield, but she has no information about tracking.

“I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

“……”

Seeing Joshua shrug her shoulders, Cale quietly shuts her mouth. She had many things she wanted to say, but the truth came out only when she listened to her boss, who couldn’t figure out what she was thinking.

“But she has a talent similar to Rai.”

“A talent similar to the Devil of the World… What is it? Tactics? Victory?”

“No, talent to produce desired results.”

“Would that be different from winning and desired results?”

Joshua raises a finger to Cale, who is frowning and worrying because she doesn’t understand.

“For example, the Battle of Dukan Plains.”

“It’s not a draw… It’s not a battle won by the demons of all nations.”

The Demon of the World, which made a suicide attack by setting fire to the Dukan Plain, defeated the Imperial Army. In the Empire, they say it’s a draw because they pulled each other back, but in reality, the Imperial army inflicted a terrible blow and the war could not continue.

Of course, the Kaylan kingdom army also suffered a lot of damage, but it was a victory for Rai who overcame an unfavorable battle in the end.

“Captain… Oh, watch your mouth. Out of habit, I’m speechless. Do you know what Rai said as soon as he went to Dukan Plains?”

“f*cked?”

“Oh, I did say that too. f*cking to be exact. Anyway, when Rai arrived, what he said was that he didn’t need this land.”

“You mean Dukan Plain?”

The Dukan Plain is the area right in front of the gateway to Ketranca. It is the best place to produce food, with wide plains, fertile land, and abundant water. Even if you search the entire continent, there are few areas that are as good as this.

Moreover, it was a strategically important point as it was the point where the Kaylan Kingdom and the Empire met.

But the devil of all nations said that as soon as he saw Dukan Plain, it was useless. When Cale, who doesn’t understand any more, waits quietly, Joshua continues to talk.

“Lai thought that the kingdom of Kaylan did not have the power to protect the plains of Dukan. Well, it was a natural expectation. A guy who thinks that he will continue to defend it against the empire that is outnumbered and qualitatively in an empty plain without knowing if it is the gateway to Ketranka. There won’t be.”

“But Cailen Kingdom was different.”

“Yeah, I thought I could stop it with Rai. They’re very carefree. Of course, I’ve blocked them a few times, but Rai can’t just block the Imperial Army. The kingdom is enemies on all sides. In the end, Rai gave up. While I was empty, Marquis Adelian attacked.”

From that point on, Kale knew. The demons of all nations returned late and drove the imperial army from the plains of Dukan with a dialogue-based suicide tactic.

It was too reckless, but even after hearing stories of tactical victories, Cale couldn’t understand what talent was for producing the desired results. In the end, isn’t it the talent of victory or tactics?

The corners of Joshua’s mouth grow longer as he sees Cale’s face, which is still confused.

“What did the empire do after the battle?”

“The devastated lands are considered worthless for the next few years and are left blank.”

“That’s right, the same goes for Cailen Kingdom.”

Seeing Joshua smile meaningfully, Cale has a terrible imagination. He is an intelligence department that has to analyze all information and predict the opponent’s actions, but it was hard to imagine for him as an Imperial Army who is loyal to the ruler of the country and values his beliefs.

Empires and kingdoms want Dukan Plain and keep fighting, so let’s get rid of it!

For some reason, I felt like I could hear Rai’s lines that I had never heard before. Rai, who has an evil smile similar to Joshua’s, burns the plain as it is.

The emperor, or rather, the king, coveted the land that the general single-handedly destroyed. It was not something a soldier with no loyalty would do.

“No matter what the king said, he decided that Rai was an unnecessary land and turned it into an unwanted land. As a result, he did not fight with the empire except for small-scale local wars for two years as he wished. Stabilized.”

“What did the King of Cailen say?”

“What can be said of a hero who appeared in a desperate situation and drove out the imperial army? It was destroyed in the fight. Perhaps the land is useless now. Ketranca ended up being well guarded.”

Kayle knows very well how desperate the kingdom of Kaylan was at the end of the Age of War. Of course, behind the scenes was that the intelligence department was working properly, but the intelligence department did not expect that they would be so damaged that they could not even touch it.

The war is in full swing at the border, and the devil of all nations, the only guardian of the kingdom of Callen, who is lost in luxury and pleasure, sees the overall great nation and destroys the land without the king’s permission.

I don’t have any information, but probably because of his personality, he would have spoken mantras to the king several times and the king would not have listened.

Is that so? Then what do I destroy?

Also, Cale, who seemed to be hearing hallucinations, decided to go back and look at the report on the Battle of Dukan Plains once more.

“Coming back to the original story, Melanie has the same talent. Perhaps if it had been another general rather than an adjutant, our great empire’s dangerous spectator operation might have failed.”

‘Dangerous spectator’ is the name of the operation to keep Rai tied up at the gates of Ketranca. If all of Joshua’s comments were true, Melanie would have blocked the swamp and the operation would have failed.

The kingdom of Kaylan, which has a huge difference in weight class from the Empire, was able to withstand the existence of the devil of all nations, but the border connecting the two was also a tough area where the defenders had an advantage.

The easiest one is the gateway to Ketranca, but the rest is a terrible place where you have to prepare for great damage just by marching there.

If there were generals similar to the demons of all nations in such a place, they would never be able to penetrate it.

“So what does she want most that produces the results she wants?”

“Is it to find the demons of the nations and rebuild the kingdom?”

“What? What are you talking about. When the kingdom is rebuilt, she’ll probably be the first to smash it? She’ll probably break the heads of the kingdom’s army with an ecstatic smile.”

Keil knew the information that the devil troops of all countries harbored considerable antipathy to the Kaylan Kingdom, but he was a member of the Imperial Army and could not easily admit it.

Although there is resentment, his troops faithfully follow the king’s words and go back and forth between unfair treatment and terrible battlefields. Rather, I thought it was false information to confuse this side.

“Then what do you want?”

“That’s great love.”

Joshua draws a heart with both hands and smiles. It’s not as unsightly as a middle-aged man posing cute, but Cale, who can’t say anything to his boss, endures it with firm patience.

“Were you two in a relationship?”

“No, Rai is a playboy, so she never dated anyone. I think they slept together a few times, but I’m not sure. But it’s true that Melanie loves Rai very much. Sometimes I was frighteningly obsessed with her too.”

“…… As Joshua said, when Sir Melanie hears that there are demons of all nations, she will go straight to the academy.”

“That’s right. And if she leaves all her work behind and moves, many people’s attention will be attracted. Then, naturally, Rai will rise to the surface.”

It’s a headache when another unpredictable element comes out when Jungkook is still dizzy.

Keil organizes the information so far in his head and draws up a scenario to predict how this will change.

“Oh, that’s why I said I won’t go, but the hard-headed guys don’t listen.”

Seeing Joshua sigh as she speaks, Cale looks around.

The hard-headed guys he refers to are the ministers and deputy ministers of the Ministry of Information. Swearing at his superiors is severely punished, but Joshua always speaks out without hesitation. In particular, due to the nature of the clandestine intelligence service, remarks with questionable loyalty are even more dangerous.

“What does this look like because of the requested b*tch?”

“What is the head of the academy thinking?”

“Whatever the idea. It was meant to summon me.”

“Joshua?”

At Cale’s question, Joshua picks up a document piled up in the corner of the wagon and reads it. Busy intelligence departments have to work even when they are on the move.

“I honestly don’t know how much, but I think I ate a hundred snakes.”

“What do you get by calling Joshua?”

When Cale asks Joshua, who made him curious but doesn’t answer the question, he replies by writing something down on a document.

“Should I roughly call out the scenario she expects? First, keep throwing demons from all over the world that need to be hidden. Expand the area of activity with Legandia, Zodiac? Zodis?”

“It’s Paniac.”

“Uh, that. No matter how expensive it is, even if you adjust 0.1% Of the academy’s budget, you have enough alchemy materials to get and send Lai out. Meet people. You even brag that you have it! Even when you’re still, you’re eager to show off to people that you’re a person who stands out.”

Joshua throws the checked papers on the floor and picks up other papers. He continues talking as Cale organizes the scattered papers.

“Secondly, the intelligence department, feeling uneasy, is sending me. Why? Because I am closest to Rai and know him well. Go find out what he’s thinking, how he’s doing, and give the snarky b*tch a warning. I’m sure he will never I didn’t think about it, so I told them to send someone else. In the age of war, they only did stupid things, so everything seems dangerous, right? I’m too scared.”

At the words of Joshua, who curses the intelligence department again, Cale looks around and examines the coachman.

“Third, if I go, Melanie moves. She will be loyal to the empire, but she openly said that I can’t forgive her, and she keeps an eye on me. Fourth, Melanie, who has eyes turned over to Rai, goes to the academy. Fifth, Melanie’s sudden action causes the world to I know all the demons of the Conclusion. Thanks to the academy, which has become a hot place, the empire is in an uproar.”

“……”

As Joshua said, this is not something to be overlooked. Those who cause chaos in the Empire are matters that must be dealt with quickly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Information.

Looking at Cale, whose eyes have changed, Joshua shakes his head.

“Don’t think strangely. If you kill that b*tch, demons from all over the world will rampage. You don’t think that b*tch didn’t even have that kind of safety device in place? Besides, our handsome Lai-san has a lot of servile spirit, so the person above him is extremely I’ll follow through. If she dies, I’ll at least get my revenge. Then I’ll quickly say goodbye to the intelligence department.”

His words imply that if Rai went on a rampage, the Intelligence Department would be completely destroyed. No matter how much he is the devil of the world, he doesn’t think he has that ability, but when Cale sees him being so cautious, he feels uneasy for some reason.

If what he said is true, what were the thoughts above to bring such a person out? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it. There was an emperor of the empire on top of him, so he couldn’t speak, but if it wasn’t for that, it was a decision that he would have been able to swear at.

Even though he hides his expression, Joshua notices the dissatisfied eyes and throws the papers back on the floor.

“That’s why I’m having a hard time. I’ll keep Melanie, so don’t worry. I can’t stand it because I can’t stand the girl who wants it to go as she wants.”

“…… Can I ask you one blasphemous question?”

“Why did you take out the rye?”

“……Yes…”

Cale cautiously asks about a matter she can’t understand. After receiving his question, Joshua looks up at the ceiling again and speaks in a faint voice.

“Respect. And a gift…?”

“……”

“I can’t tell you more.”

Rather, Cale frowned at the words that plunged further into the labyrinth, but he kept his mouth shut, unable to ask Joshua’s lonely smile.