Hannoic War
Fear, Crying, Condemning (Part 8)

"Humans will quickly believe something they want and expect it to happen"

julius Caesar

Walk Glent in the middle of a busy camp.

Hundreds of iron sounds could be heard everywhere he walked.

The sound of bonfires and troops having fun is more noisy.

Troops were back and forth carrying weapons or items, hundreds of knights were preparing with their armours fined, their servants were helping the Knights to prepare.

Glent walked towards the most luxurious tent among the other camps.

Above the tent fluttered a flag with a crown and wind.

"Tell me who you are" said the guard in front of the luxurious tent to Glent who was approaching them.

"I'm Glent, Lord of the Wind Sword River" Glent said.

This time Glent could do better because of the teachings of Layare Balur and Vella.

Vella taught Glent a lot how to look down and polite words.

Honestly, Glent didn't like the noble style, but this time he had a friend of a king so he had to do something.

The bodyguards then put away their spears and let Glent into the tent.

When Glent enters, the fragrance of Dalmatia perfume can be smelled. While a man stood up with a servant preparing his armour.

"Glent..?" said Hasteinn while surrounded by 3 servants preparing his armour and clothes.

"Hmm.." , this room's smell Glent, "the fragrance of Dalmatia's perfume"

"Yes, given by Miss Layara Balur.he said the king's tent is not allowed to smell of mud, iron, and sweat" ' said Hasteinn while paired with his belt by the maid.

"Your highness.can turn around for a moment.." said the Servant quietly.

"Yes" said Hasteinn as he followed the servant's instructions.

For a moment Glent saw the young Hasteinn, not a king.

"Have you?" said Hasteinn strongly.

For a while the shadow of the young Hasteinn disappeared into a reigning king.

"S-It's my lord.your armour is ready.." said the waiter.

"Yes.then go.." said Hasteinn while wearing his armour which looks to have a bit of leather armour on his stomach.

The servants then passed Glent and exited the tent.

"Your army is one of the earliest to depart, not to prepare them first?" asked Hasteinn, taking a pot of wine, "you want some water to drink?"

"Heh, 'a king pours wine to the son of a blacksmith' ..if that's the title of the song it might be good" Glent said as he picked up the glass on the table.

"Hahahahahaha" , both of them laughed.

Again the two became fellow friends rather than a king and his subordinates.

"Ahh...so remember the city of Vurah.ada....there is his name? The child who thinks that if he walks with his 2 hands in front of him then he will be cooler?" said Hasteinn while there were sidelines giggling on his neck.

"The manara! Oh my God, that stupid kid! He used to drink horse piss because he thought it could cure his hand" Glent said.

"Puhhhk!" said Hasteinn, to the point of drawing wine from his mouth.

"Hahahahahaha!" ,laughs Glent.

"Don't remind me it's fucking" said Hasteinn.

"Emanglah.hahh.hahaha" ,giggle Glent to remember that.

"Who else is the idiot in the city of Vurah? What's that name? Girl whose body is good but bego to the bone.the son of the butcher shop owner..Zira..zera?" said Hasteinn, raising his eyebrows.

"Zara! Girl you know!" said Glent.

"Where is it, girl yours, how many times have you slept with her?" said Hasteinn.

"But you know shit? Her body is very good, very easy to invite her. Even om-om once asked to sleep with him as a nukar to wash dishes.." said Glent while giggling.

"Seriously you? I never knew" said Hasteinn.

"Yes, that om-om told me straight away. He also saw a mole on his forehead that I had seen in his sleep" Glent said.

"Damn it.we have many fools" Hasteinn said.

"Hahahahahaha" , Glent laughed at it.

Hasteinn only smiled and saw several laps of laughter coming out of his face.

"So? Why did you come here" said Hasteinn, wiping his table with some wine.

"Nothing I want to see a king" Glent said.

"Now you've seen it, so what else?" said Hasteinn.

"Come on, I heard you fighting Mr. Handam" Glent said.

"I'm fine, Glent" said Hasteinn, looking at his hand.

"Say you're a fool, you're a king, you'll be standing alone one day, but right now you have me" Glent said as he approached Hasteinn.

Hasteinn only smiled bitterly.

"Hahh, gentlemen and nobles of Geralda is a bad thing.I always forget that.." ' said Hasteinn while sitting in his chair.

This time he's back as a young man..

"Mr Handam is not the worst, only the most noisy while the most fighting Geralda nobles are many. Have you heard of Glent? How did he attack me directly at the party? Huhh...He looked like he was going to kill me. I was lucky not to die at that time.My hands shook a lot after the party" Hasteinn said as he looked at his young hands.

"Darling I wasn't there, I heard you hit him with your sword grip.It must be a good sight" Glent said, grinning.

"Yes.the nobles of Geralda are worse than I remember when they visited the castle of Has" Hasteinn said, massaging his forehead.

*Castle Has..* , thought Glent.

"Can I ask Hasteinn? Why don't you take our house yourself?" Glent said, looking at Hasteinn.

"I have to do it Glent.I'm the king now.there's more important business than Has Castle now.." ' said Hasteinn while looking at one of the pawns on his desk.

*I. I do not understand.I do not understand what he felt.I just think that I understand what he felt.* , Inner Glent realized something.

"I don't understand what it's like to be king" Glent said.

"What's important is that I have someone I can talk to." said Hasteinn with a small smile on his face.

Glent then stood up straighter and stepped out of this tent.

But Glent remembered something.

"Oh yes, Hasteinn.." said Glent in a more friendly voice, "you need to visit your sister before you go to the battlefield.."

"Vella? What happened to him?" said Hasteinn who suddenly turned into someone who wanted to wake up.

"Nothing, but even when a sister is surrounded by her friends but still a sister needs a strong brother beside her to take care of her" Glent said as she opened the tent door and walked out of the tent.

Hasteinn only smiled slightly hearing it while looking at Glent coming out of the tent...

Hasteinn's face looked half-tired..

* 'A blacksmith's son was talking and joking with a king.' if historians had just entered this into their history tome in the future hehehe.* , Glent thought with a smile.

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"Lord Taivarr" Vesius said from behind, calling out to Taivarr.

Taivarr was walking with a bodyguard soldier and some of his friends who were chatting with Taivarr.

Taivarr suddenly turned his head back and looked at Vesius.

"Young Garius family" Taivarr said with some of his other friends.

But there were also his bitter-faced friends who saw Vesius.

*Some of them hate me.*, Vesius thought as he approached Taivarr.

"Sir, your performance as a judge was really great" Vesius said with a smile.

It was seen Taivarr raising his eyebrows giving a mark to his friends.

His friends instantly moved away from Taivarr and Vesius, leaving only the two of them and Taivarr's army of bodyguard guards.

"No, my lord, it's just my day-to-day business since I first rose to political stature. It is also common for me to deal with fools who just bring a trial like this" Taivarr said in his old voice.

*Who doesn't know you as a judge.you made it up the political ladder because you're famous as a fair judge.* , thought Vesius.

"Don't lie Taivarr..everyone knows that Kasamarr is corrupt and likes to be bribed.." , said Vesius with a smile beside Taivarr, "why are you defending Kasamarr? As a judge, you can defend that stupid young man"

Taivarr immediately turned to Vesius, with a sharp look...

"We both know that a judge cannot immediately convict such a defendant without much evidence" Taivarr said.

"Heh" said Vesius, "you did that when you were a young judge, you beheaded one of the most corrupt officials"

"And I lost my office" Taivarr said with a sharp look ahead, "but I managed to get my position back by bribing the upper man"

"Nepotism always works" ' said Vesius, giggling at the end of his speech.

"We both know that not being corrupt and bribing is one way of being a politician that fails to be senated now" Taivarr said.

"There's another reason why you wouldn't defend that young man if I'd guess" Vesius said as he walked ahead with Taivarr beside him.

The sunlight began to appear as they walked out of the court building.

In front of the courthouse is seen the streets of the capital that is dirty and full of ordinary people who are busy.

The smell of salted fish, preserved beef, and the smell of raw chicken can be smelled as Vesius and Taivarr enter the streets of the capital.

It could be seen there were also senates and nobles seen walking the streets of the capital with their guard soldiers.

"There" said Taivarr.

"What?" said Vesius as he passed by hundreds of commoners.

Their legs can feel the streets of the capital made of stone but rickshaw due to rain.

"If the young faction is at war with the Optima Faction, the young faction will disappear and be dissolved" Taivarr said.

"The young faction is already at war with the Optima Faction because they are bringing one of their Optima members to trial" Vesius said.

"But the Optima faction did not take this too seriously because it thought the trial was just a failed attempt against them" Taivarr said, apparently hitting a simple beggar.

But Taivarr ignored him and wiped the dirt the beggar had used.

*So he saved that Young Boy Faction by making that Young Boy Faction lose? Unique way of helping*,in Vesius.

"It's not just that, if I punish Kamasarr in that trial, then many trials are about corruption and bribery cases that will arise.." ' Taivarr said while looking at the fathers who fell in sales.

And quickly Taivarr and Vesius passed through it.

"If I do that then many members of the senate will disappear due to corruption and bribery cases..when many senates disappear, farmers will replace them.Farmers who cannot read are sometimes worse than corruptors" Taivarr said.

"You know how it ended last time.You've passed the 'Bloody cleansing of the senate' right? I'm sure you've passed the bloody incident" Vesius said with a smile.

*'Senate Bleeding Cleansing'.I was still quite small at the time.I'm sure this old man had already passed the bloody incident.* ,in Vesius.

"I think people have forgotten it.it turns out there are still.the incident many people forget it.." Taivarr said.

"Yes, hundreds of senates and nobles were beheaded and executed. My father told me about it, you know how it started?" said Vesius.

*I was curious about the incident from another person's point of view*, Inner Vesius

"It began with a judge deciding to execute a senate for bribery, the person who brought the trial did not realize that he had just declared war with one of the strongest factions of the Senate" ,taivarr sighed.

*Former Victa had some limits on corruption and bribery that led some caught bribery and corruption to be executed.*, inner Vesius while looking at Taivarr.

For a moment Taivarr's eyes were like the eyes of a young survivor of his village who was plundered when Vesius saw in the Tyronian War.

"Then it made the faction of that person and the faction whose members were decapitated to fight, The faction fought by indiscriminately accusing someone from their enemy faction of treason, corruption, and corruption,and bribes up to hundreds of senates are accused of recklessly and hundreds of senates are subject to indiscriminate executions." Taivarr said with his dark brown eyes that have seen horror.

*That adds to the reason he didn't punish Kamasarr.*, thought Vesius.

"Even the families of the corrupt are also affected.Their innocent brothers are dragged to hang.their mothers..for fear of cultivating revenge.." Taivarr said with a sharp look.

Taivarr's eyes were not as fierce as Vespasian or as fearful as Vesius' father.but Taivarr's eyes were like old trees with leaves growing to cover a city.

It can't collapse even with hundreds of storms....

"Even one faction was destroyed and accused of being recklessly a traitor until all its members were not only destroyed but some members were raped....even one of the members was left behind and dragged out of the senate building among the rain and laughter followed behind." Taivarr said with a strong look.

"...Violet faction" , Vesius said.

Aunt Vesius had told me a few months before dying in bed from illness.There was a senate faction that fought for the rights of women in Victoria.

The faction consisted of senate wives who managed to control their husbands.

Until finally they are strong enough and make laws about women who can be made a member of the senate.

Later many women from that faction became members of the senate and got the Haralia medal.

But in the 'Bloody Cleansing of the Senate' the heyday of the Violet Faction as well as the women's heyday at Victa came to an end.

"Yes...The Violet Faction even today no one remembers the Faction so many people died.." ,taivarr said with his light brown eyes shining dimly among the market crowd as he walked, "Hundreds of their members were executed recklessly by other senates but some of them before being executed were even raped imprisoned for months"

*Taivarr has found out.how one of the Violet Faction women was tortured in prison seems..* ,Vesius realized that by looking at Taivarr's eyes.

Vesius recalls how his mother told him of his father Toran Garius after taking the post of Minister of Military directly occupying the capital with thousands of his troops.

And then his father threatened the senate to eliminate the death penalty to people of corruption, bribery, and treason.

Ending the 'Senate Bleeding Cleansing'.

Vesius' father was later considered a tyrant and a corrupt defender even though he saved the senate from slaughtering each other.

"Not all die from the Violet Faction I hear." - Vesius.

His father Vesius even fought with others who wanted the death penalty for corruptors not to be eliminated.

That's what people call the 'Ladirum Rebellion'.

But in the past it was more referred to as the 'Civil War Victa' and the Ladirum people considered themselves as anti-corruption heroes when they lost then they were called rebels.

"Yes there are 1 survivor of the Violet Faction. The person who was at once abandoned was then dragged out of the senate among the rain" ,taivarr said that looked like he was sorry.

*Heavy sure became one of the survivors of the bloody incident.*, Inner Vesius.

"What's her name? Joan? The jaine? Jeen.I think I remember the name of Vespasian's half-brother.." said Vesius while remembering his aunt's story.

He always remembered the story and remembered how his aunt's smiling face told it before dying of illness.

Vesius only remembers Charla, as Charla was very close to Vespasian while Jean was alone...Vesius had not seen him again in years...

Vespasian rarely talks about Jean...

"....Jean Berrau" said Vesius in a heavy voice.

And suddenly the sky turned dark.

Something cold suddenly fell on Vesius when he realized it was rain..

Then drizzle down over Vesius' body....

People used to run back and forth in panic with the rain, some took shelter, and some secured their sales.

It was as if the sky was terrified, crying as well as cursing that name....