The Time Stop Breeding Uncle Wants To Retire

37 – Do you know why I am strong? It’s because they just escaped!(7)

The support money sent by the kingdom has arrived.

I couldn’t say it was a huge amount. For those of us who have no clue whatsoever, it could be said to be the sweet rain of a drought. But I couldn’t use it carelessly.

Because you don’t know what will happen when and where. Now, thanks to selling off all the junk in Lionheart Fortress, I had some money to spare. And that’s only for a little while.

It was clear that the funds would run out quickly once they started managing the funds in earnest. About two months after I took office as the general manager, I delayed and postponed it as much as possible. I couldn’t postpone it any longer.

“I’ll have to restart the Royal Knights.”

Originally, the Royal Knights had been working by dispatching a small number of knights to where they were needed. From the beginning, only knights who could deal with demons were allowed to join the Royal Knights.

In the past, that is, before the annihilation, the Royal Knights enjoyed the best of the best at a level equivalent to that of a normal knights order. It could be called the golden generation.

Of course, it was the Royal Knights. Regardless of race or country, he sponsored the Royal Knights and received their support. But what about now that the golden generation has been wiped out?

“It only flies. No request, no support.”

“It can’t be helped. The trust of the Royal Knights has been broken.”

“…Now I have no choice but to be patient and admit it.”

I’m looking at work in the office. Requests from other places did not exist. I let out a sigh at the words of Cluna, who was working alongside me as an adjutant.

Things were not very good right now.

As the Royal Knights were annihilated, the sense of crisis that they could no longer rely on outside manpower increased. Thanks to this, each country strictly prohibited the outflow of human resources and instead increased its military power.

That in itself is definitely a good thing. But the problem is that the opponent is bad. In the first place, the reason why they were pushed so badly before the establishment of the Royal Knights was because they did not form an alliance.

It was in the past that the problem was somehow solved under the pretext of being the Royal Knights. Now, even that pretext has disappeared, and the current situation is that we are returning to the original point in the past.

“In order to publicize the health of the Royal Knights, we have no choice but to rebuild our reputation from scratch through commissions.”

“But it’s not a hopeless situation at all. If we wake up to this incident and each country builds up its military power.”

“It’s unfortunate… but the ending won’t be very good.”

“yes?”

In fact, I understand. All the Royal Knights I trusted and entrusted to me burned down. All that remains now is ashes. How could he trust the Royal Knights again?

Even in the past, the Royal Knights were the golden generation called the strongest Royal Knights in history. Rather than rebuilding, it’s a good choice to care about your own defense.

The problem is that I already know the ending. More than 80% of the continent was occupied. Even some countries or races, such as the Dwarf Principality, were completely destroyed.

I turned my head. Cluna was looking this way. If you say one word wrong, this is what happens. Because she has a lot of experience. I said while holding out my palm.

“No, it was a slip of the tongue. Never mind, more than that, how is Bayard now?”

“Fortunately, it’s in a stable state. It’s still showing signs of instability…”

“Is there?”

“Uh, over there, the leader…”

“huh?”

From nob le mt l dot com

Madam i’m surprised Only the head was sticking out of the door, so I thought it was a decapitated head for a moment. The bear’s ears above the auburn hair trembled anxiously. I said with a sigh.

“Bayard, what’s going on?”

“That, that’s… that’s why…”

“Bayard is still experiencing severe anxiety. Even when he’s doing well, he suddenly gets anxious, or if he does something wrong, he even goes into a seizure.”

“I understand. After going through that much hell… how can I solve it?”

“That’s the captain.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Bayard charged at me like a wild boar. Quaaa!! Fortunately, I slowed down before the crash and was not hurt. The problem was what happened next.

Her arms hugged my body. I might be able to tell you what the problem is. Imagine getting a bear hug from a bear. Maybe the intestines will come out of the mouth.

It is said that this painful act can alleviate Bayard’s anxiety to some extent. It’s gotten better now. Because I came without even trying before.

“Yeah, but it’s definitely better than two months ago.”

“You came over 40 times a day back then, right?”

“Even now, it comes about 7 times.”

“It’s decreased a lot.”

do you mean that My heart breaks every time I come. Not once or twice did I even feel like I was dying like this because Bayard hugged me with all my might every day.

[I, there… … Will I become a nuisance?]

[If that was the case, the captain would have avoided it himself.]

[That’s right! Then, until then… … !!]

[…] … .]

It’s not that I didn’t avoid it, it’s that I couldn’t avoid it. There were times when I thought of using time stop to avoid it. all failed My time stop has two functions.

One is an active time stop that I activate with my own consciousness. And the other has a passive time stop that is used when my life is in danger. The problem was active.

Anyway, because I have to trigger it myself. It was of no use if my reaction was delayed. And when I tried to respond to Bayard, she always hugged me first.

indeed… … This is the strength of a mid-tier Royal Knights member. Certainly, she was on a different level from the lower class like Clara and Ruby. The problem is that this isn’t an attack roll, it’s that the passive doesn’t activate.

From nob le mt l dot com

Moreover, thanks to what Cluna said to Bayard, even the option to evade with time stop disappeared. If I avoid Bayard, how do I deal with that anxiety?

“It’s always here, Mr. Bayard.”

“Hey, Helia is here.”

“Let’s go back quickly. Shouldn’t we be training?”

“……Helia?”

“It’s okay, sir. I’m not angry.”

Despite that, tendons grew on my forehead. Even her red hair was rising upward like a ghost. Helia is biting her lip and forcing herself to smile.

I was more frightened to see. But Bayard sniffed and approached her casually. Blood flowed from Helya’s bitten lip.

“Mi-I’m sorry. Helya, stop without knowing…”

“It’s okay, Mr. Bayard. We can pay it off with training.”

“Yeah! That’s right! I’ll do my best too!”

“profit……!!”

Bayard’s words made Helya even more resentful. It was like this two months ago. Seeing Bayard hugging me, Helya poured out her anger into sparring.

I wonder if even Clara and Ruby, who were watching, were astonished. But Bayard didn’t mind. Wouldn’t it rather accept everything with a refreshing expression?

As I was looking at it, it suddenly came to my mind. A long time ago, there was a video on the Internet of a martial artist and a bear sparring. Dalian is a good word. In fact, the bear played with it.

“It’s such a funny combination.”

“But thanks to you, Bayyard has become much brighter.”

“That’s the ironic part again.”

Although Helya was serious about fighting. Bayard accepted it in moderation in a playful way. To that extent, there is still an overwhelming difference in power between the two.

Thanks to that, however, Helya’s skills are improving remarkably. Clara and Ruby, who were stimulated by him, are also training hard. In the end, it could be called a virtuous cycle.

It would be nice if things worked out just like this. That time when I was looking at work while thinking that way. I found a letter on my desk. I said while looking at Cluna.

“What is this letter?”

“It’s a letter that just arrived this morning. Judging from the pattern on the seal, it looks like it’s from the Dwarven Principality.”

“The Dwarf Principality… is there still something left to say?”

broken like that before Thinking that I was still unconscious, I opened the seal and read the letter. Something completely unexpected was written in the letter.

“……Cluna, the first request has come.”

“The first request? Did you come from the Dwarven Principality?!”

“Yes. It’s half a request, half a fault.”

To sum up the contents of the letter, we cannot trust your skills as the new leader. It was written to prove your skills by solving this quest alone. That’s not wrong.

It’s not just some lame knights. He is the leader of the Royal Knights. Being tackled in this way was, in a way, natural. It was a problem because the other party was a Dwarven duchy.

No matter how you look at it, it only seemed to catch the pod because of what had happened before. However, a request is a request anyway. Because we weren’t in a position to pee and sh*t right now.

“Captain, I will formally decline this request.”

“Is it really necessary?”

“It is very dangerous to deal with the demons alone. Even the Royal Knights that were there before dealt with the demons in groups of at least two.”

“So that’s the good part.”

I’d rather go alone and somehow solve it. Because there is a time stop. even if it can’t be done. You can survive using time stop.

Right now, the Royal Knights are too unstable to be dispatched.

So, I’d rather go alone and do something.