Otherworld Adventure - Chapter 383

Quinn didn’t reply to Bastille’s question, he only looked over at Katya coldly.

When Katya saw Quinn, she immediately paled in fright. When she saw his face, Katya recognized him instantly as Cecil’s butler. She couldn’t understand why he was here, but remembering his words, Katya knew that Quinn had overheard their conversation.

She immediately stepped forward and said, “M-Mr. Quinn, i-it’s not like this. What you heard—”

“Lady Katya, it’s a little too late to deny it.”

“Y-You’re going to take his word over mine?! He’s the enemy—”

“You’re both my family’s enemy…” Quinn coldly stated.

Bastille heard Quinn’s words and involuntarily let out an amused look, “Oh? And which family are you from?”

Quinn once again didn’t respond to him and only stared back at Katya.

“…I-I didn’t want it to be like that! My father—”

“Unfortunately, your family still did it… and you stood by and watched. You were fortunate up until now since my Master still wasn’t quite sure how your family did us wrong, but now that I know… things won’t end well for you…”

“P-Please… Right now I’m just trying to—”

“Listen first, Katya Goldenia…although I don’t approve of you, I do find that your efforts in finding a different solution for your family, other than relying on my Master’s family to take care of your problems, rather admirable.”

“…”

“I’ll give you a chance. It seems that this wretched thing wanted you to betray my Master. Which side will you choose?”

“…I never had any intention of betraying Cecil… I’d be stupid and crazy if I tried to…”

Quinn applauded amusingly at her words. Over on the side, Bastille was beginning to grow more and more impatient with him. After Quinn had taken off his cloak, Bastille was finally able to see the mysterious newcomer’s visage.

He immediately began frowning when he saw that Quinn was wearing the attire of a lowly servant. He was but a lowly servant yet he dared to ignore him. This was already the second time Quinn had ignored him and he was indignant.

“Hey you, can’t you see that I asked you a question?!” Bastille shouted.

Seeing as their young lord had grown angry dealing with the newcomer, the 3 others who had come with Bastille began walking over to Quinn.

“Teach that lowly servant a lesson. Not just anyone can ignore me!”

Seeing Bastille’s bodyguards moving towards Quinn, Katya immediately tried to warn them, “W-wait, don’t—”

However, it was too late. Once Quinn felt the slight tinge of bloodl.u.s.t coming from the people walking towards him, he immediately reacted by flicking his wrist and sending a few of his hidden needles flying at their necks.

His movement was so subtle that everyone around didn’t think that he had attacked or done anything. It was only after the 3 people collapsed onto the ground did everyone become much more alert.

“You should have stayed quiet, fool,” Quinn coldly said to Bastille.

The young man himself wasn’t even sure what had happened. He had just ordered his men to deal with the rude fellow but they had all suddenly collapsed.

“W-what did you do?!”

Quinn ignored him once again and asked Katya, “Now he’s alone. What will you do to redeem yourself? No matter what, I am going to inform my Master about the scheme your family pulled against his, so the question here is, how are you going to make up for it?”

“…I… I’ll do anything, alright?! Just please tell him to not touch my family… you have to understand, my father, he just wanted—”

“It doesn’t matter what your father wanted. What’s done is done and there’s no turning back from it all. Touching my Master’s family… I’m very afraid that you’ve just successfully crossed his bottom line… When my Master is angered…he wouldn’t hesitate to fight against an empire.”

“W-what can I do then?!”

“Think about that yourself. I’ll be leaving now. Do expect a visit from my Master sometime soon…”

“W-wait!”

Quinn didn’t listen to her and quickly disappeared from the spot. Katya panicked and she quickly went out of the warehouse to try and chase after him.

Before leaving, she quickly told the people who were with her, “Take Bastille as a captive! When Cecil does come over, he’ll definitely be angry with us! The least we can do is present him over to Cecil as a means that we’re trying to make amends!”

“Y-Yes… but is this seriously a good idea? What happens if the—”

“Would you rather fight a war against the Faustus Archduchy or be completely annihilated by that monster who’s going to come, hm?” Her words left everyone present speechless. Katya let out a tired sigh and continued, “Personally, I’d rather fight that war instead! If we play our cards right, we might have a chance of winning, but if we were to face against that monster and his family, then we’re all going to die!”

After leaving behind those words, she quickly sent a magic spell flying at Bastille who wasn’t sure what they were talking about since they were speaking in English. He was just about to go check on his men but he was immediately knocked out cold by the spell Katya had sent at him.

“Quickly take him! Suppress everything that’s transpired here. We can at least buy time and not let the Faustus bastards know that we’ve taken their prince as a hostage. I’ll immediately go back to Silvaria and try to explain things and apologize to them.”

“Okay…”

“Also, inform father about what’s happened. I told him that stupid schemes like this would come back to bite us on our asses…”

The young man who had been answering her from earlier immediately spoke up when he heard this, “Katya… your father left for the Silvaria Kingdom, remember?”

“Ah, I forgot about that… father went with those representatives from the United Federation and the New World Republic.”

“Heh, our world’s former superpowers… Honestly, what could they want with the Silvaria Kingdom…”

“If you still haven’t figured that out yet then you’re being pretty stupid right now. Sheesh, it’s no wonder why you don’t have any ambition to fight for the family’s head seat,” Katya leered at her cousin who only shrugged in response.

“Please, don’t question my intelligence, Katya. I only said that for the sake of it. You know full how I am—”

“Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I have to set out now. I have to chase after my father and inform him of this…”

“Well, you should get going then. I’m pretty sure that butler is probably already on the road by now.”

“Ugh… don’t remind me…”

Katya quickly made her preparations and set off from the city. Bastille was quickly taken into custody and was imprisoned in the city’s prison. Everyone present made sure to suppress all news of this since they didn’t want to enter into a preemptive war with the Faustus Archduchy just yet.

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When these events over at the Goldenia Family’s territory had transpired, Augustus was currently on his way to the Silvaria Kingdom with the representatives from the UF and the NWR.

He was on his toes the whole time. These two nations were at odds with each other due to problems from back on Earth. Now that their territories were in close proximity to each other, things only became even worse.

Of course, things weren’t as severe as it sounded since the two nations had to worry more about the monsters that were attacking their territory and their people than they did to each other.

The President of the UF and the Sovereign Leader of the NWR were both present. So whatever it was they wanted to negotiate with the King of Silvaria seemed to be important. Although these two people were really important figures, whether or not they’d be able to get what they wanted from Kaiser was another thing.

They were about to confront the leader of the most powerful Earthling nation present in the No-Man’s Land. This was something that Augustus himself could confirm. These two superpowers of their previous world were no longer the strongest. Instead, it was the newfound kingdom that had risen only after Earth’s populace had been transported into this new world.

“Well, Mr. Augustus, I’m really glad that you took time off your busy schedule to accompany us to the Silvaria Kingdom,” The UF President, Tristan Reginold Umphrey said heartily.

He had a somewhat round belly and was rather languid. The man looked to be in his 40s and was wearing some pretty presentable attire. Augustus was a little unsettled talking to him because his beady green eyes made it look like he was always scheming about something.

He did hear from his subordinates that the United Federation had been doing pretty well lately unlike the first time when a whole bunch of their people fell prey to the monsters that had attacked them.

Things had been turning out great for them but there was a piece of news going around that the current leader was a little…incompetent. Maybe not incompetent but more like selfish. Instead of acting like a president, he was acting more like a merchant lately. Doing things and handing down policies that only benefited him and his circle of people.

Augustus still wasn’t sure how bad things were, but apparently, the motive behind the UF President coming to Silvaria once again had something to do with his circle of people’s benefit.

As for the other man who had stayed quiet this entire time, Viktor Livadia, the leader of the NWR. He was here because he wanted to acquire some help from the Silvaria Kingdom.

Their lands were constantly under attack by monsters lately and when Viktor heard about the walls and cannons that the Silvaria Kingdom possessed, he naturally wanted a few for his nation and since he wanted to build a wall as well, he needed materials for that.

Naturally, the Silvaria Kingdom had a pretty good edge on raw materials such as ores and the like since they were in a valley situated very close to the Sky Piercing Mountains. They already had opened up many mines by the side of the mountains and around the borders of the large valley they occupied.

The UF and NWR were naturally envious of this, but they couldn’t do anything about it since they currently had their hands full with their own problems. Their initial objectives were supposed to be that, but after hearing that the Silvaria Kingdom had just gone out and claimed more territory for themselves, what more, this time’s territory was by the large lake that had a plentiful amount of water, marine resources, and foods, the two nations naturally wanted a bite from it.

The Silvaria Kingdom had so many advantages and this made them feel vulnerable. Of course, it wasn’t like the Silvaria Kingdom had any notions of attacking them but things might change in the future.

The two nations had already acknowledged that they were behind so they needed to step up their game and somehow gain some benefits from the Silvaria Kingdom while also sacrificing minimally on their part.

The Silvaria Kingdom naturally wasn’t stupid so they had to play their cards right. For the UF, they had a pretty hard time coming up with something while the NWR already had something prepared.