Okiraku Ryoushu no Tanoshii Ryouchi Bouei - Ch. 35.1

[GreC_89]

Time to fire off a long range ballista warning shot.

 

[ciera]

Thanks for the update

 

[Psychronia]

Oooh. An 8th prince is probably quite useful as a political hostage. Assuming neither Panamera nor the ballista kill him. I can sympathize with the urge to purge incompetent commanders too.

Though in his defense, I'm sure this prince is deeply confused and more than a little desperate. Like, strategically, the best move is obviously to either back off and report this gap in intel or defect to this superior power. But on a personal level, he's screwed if he goes back empty-handed, set up to fail, and common sense dictates that what he's seeing is impossible.

Rather than just arrogance (not that he's that smart anyway), I think betting on the assumption that you're looking at a bluff isn't necessarily wrong.

 

[Kathartes]

The prince's intelligence aside, don't they have any spy in the kingdom to inform about the king's tour to frontier region? It's not like he made the trip a secret anyway, there's a huge entourage following him around.