Ryouma muttered those words while watching Mikhail's back who is currently helping to nurse the injured people. 

"Indeed. As expected of a veteran mercenary. To think that he was able to cast magic arts with such wide range." 

"When I heard it at first, I was wondering what was going to happen." 

"It's good that everything went smoothly, yes?" 

"Indeed. After all, it would be bad to annihilate everyone, but demanding to decrease the opponent drastically while leaving one or two survive is in itself was quite unreasonable... So in actuality, Bolts-san did quite a good job." 

In order to grasp the situation, Ryouma absolutely needed survivors. 

In other words, he didn’t want to kill all of them, just because they had attacked. 

Of course, the means of achieving that is limited. 

"Ou! Did you call me? Young master. " 

Bolts who heard his name being mentioned moved his horse closer to the carriage. 

"Oh no. We're just saying that thanks to Bolts-san’s performance, we were able to survive somehow. " 

As he heard Ryouma's words, a smile appeared on Bolts' face. 

"If young master said that then I'm happy, however, the reason for all of us to survive this time is entirely due to young master, you know? My magic art is something trivial. " 

After saying those words, Bolts moved his horse away from the carriage once again. 

One might wonder if he said that because he felt embarra.s.sed. 

After he confirmed, that his name had not been called, he immediately returned to his original position. 

"But then, what are we going to do from now on?" 

Laura suddenly called out from his side. 

"What's wrong? You surprise me. Is the medical treatment for the injured people finished already?" 

"Yes. Mikhail-san is helping after all. More than I do..." 

Hearing Ryouma's question, Laura's face gets cloudy. 

Although it was for the sake of wound treatment, Laura still felt a considerable criticism from their gaze. 

To summarise what Laura had said, it's more like 'It is better for Mikhail to do it rather than me who they see as their enemy'. 

"It's fine... Also, how is the condition of the bunch from the 「Red Lion」" 

"For the most part, they only have slight injuries, so they should all recover quickly and completely…More importantly, Ryouma-sama's injuries are heavier, you know?!" 

Well even if she said that his wounds were heavy, all it was just scratches from the arrows raining down upon them, but due to the blood from all the minor scratches he got, resulted in him being all b.l.o.o.d.y, which make him looking heavily injured. 

In actuality, after he cleaned his wounds, it's was just a matter of him waiting for the sc.r.a.ps to disappear. 

After listening to Laura's words, a smile appears on Ryouma's face. 

"That's good then. ... Since the worst case scenario, we might have to fight again soon, after all. " 

The sisters' face tightened due to Ryouma's words. 

"Will the audience fail?" 

Ryouma nodded toward Sara's words. 

"Well, there's that possibility. " 

Actually, Ryouma is betting on this proposal. 

In Ryouma's eyes, it didn’t really matter much whether the Knight faction or the n.o.ble faction ended up controlling the country. 

However, getting rolled up into political strife against his will, he has no choice but to support one side. 

After all, if he didn’t support one side, then there was the possibility that Wallace might push all the blame and responsibility onto Ryouma, and then sent an a.s.sa.s.sin from the guild to kill him.

Right now the possibility for that to happen is quite high.

And currently, Ryouma didn’t have any means to counter such things.  

After all, the person that forced him into this mess to begin with was the very same person who would be the judge if they wanted to claim that they were wronged, which is Wallace the guild master himself.

They had thought about taking the issue to one of the other guild masters… but they deemed it to be quite dangerous to do that. 

One may be wondered who the guild masters would believe, Ryouma and Lione on one side, being adventurers and mercenaries or one of their colleagues, Wallace.

Also, it was quite likely that the guild masters simply won't concern themselves with this case, as it didn’t directly affect them. 

And even if Ryouma ended up talking with one of the other guild masters, there was a very good chance that they would simply think that Ryouma was trying to make excuses for failing and abandoning his quest.

In other words, Ryouma's only choice in regards to dealing with the problem was to first get someone influential to back him, all in order for them to judge him fairly. 

And currently, the Knight faction was the only option Ryouma had when selecting who to be his backers 

Whether they were a mere bystander or an influential person in some country, there would be no merit for them to help Ryouma.

Thus the only one that could actually offer him support was the Knight faction. 

In exchange for that, Ryouma would help them with their fights against the n.o.ble factions. 

However, that was just something Ryouma and the other conveniently thought.

After all, there was no reason for the Knight faction to help Ryouma and the others. 

In fact, many of their comrades had been killed by Ryouma, and if they were a bunch of muscle heads, they might just try to cut his heads off without listening to their words. 

That's why it was a bet.

A gamble that depended on whether or not the leader of the Knight faction was a reasonable person with a cool head.

As well as, that person being able to see the value of having Ryouma and the others on their side.

The carriages finally arrived in front of the castle gate. 

"Now then... What happen after this, depends on my speech. " 

Ryouma muttered those words while looking at the castle from the castle gate. 

This will be the third time he will play a game of life and death since the time he came to this world. 

From his eyes, a strong willpower can be seen.

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