Reincarnated into a Game As the Hero’s Friend

The next day, the 1st and 2nd divisions, the Mage Unit, Duke Grunding, and Marquis Norporth’s armies returned to the capital first, so I saw them off.
As for Mazell and his companions, I separated with them at the Great Temple.

 

Even though Mazell and his companions were worried about the capital, they decided not to return to it.
After all, if the hero’s party returned to the capital, the demons disguised as humans may become even more cautious.

 

“We’re going to leave now.
Welner, take care.”

 

“You too.
I will be waiting for the demon king’s head.”

 

I and Mazell bumped our fists, producing a crisp sound.
We often did this when we were still in the academy.

 

I shook hands with Luguentz, Elrich, Feli, and Laura, then mounted my horse.
From now on, Mazell and his companions would face even more difficulties.
I could only pray for their success and safety.

 

However, for some reason, I felt that since it was Mazell, everything would be fine.
Was this feeling caused by the game’s correction or because of Mazell’s character? I didn’t know.

 

By the way, after Laura talked privately with Duke Grunding, the Duke allowed her to accompany Mazell.
I was glad.

 

I heard the Duke couldn’t refuse because both Laura and the Supreme Priest insisted.
Laura said that she wanted to repay Mazell for saving her life while the Supreme Priest said that the temple would like Laura to help Mazell as the temple’s representative since Mazell had given them funds to restore the temple.

 

For some reason, the Supreme Priest also ended up supporting Laura, but that wasn’t my fault, right? It must be the result of the game’s correction.
Yeah, definitely not my fault.

 

As for the matter of Skywalks, Mazell would send them to the Zeavert house as soon as he got some surplus, so I would just wait.
I didn’t have the budget to buy them myself.

 

I also told Mazell that I could arrange a meeting with his family if he wanted to meet them, but he laughed while telling me that he wasn’t worried about his family, since he knew I would definitely keep them safe.
That guy was too good for his own sake.

 

By the way, I heard it was Feli who maintained the contact between the Great Temple and the Duke back when the Great Temple was stuck in the siege war.

 

I never thought that Feli was skilled enough to secretly go back and forth between the temple and our main camp without alerting the demons.
I might have underestimated his ability.

 

I also heard that the duke offered Feli to work for him.
I felt like my heart was going to jump out of my throat when I first heard about this, but fortunately, Feli refused.
With the Duke having to allow Laura to go on a dangerous journey and him being refused by Feli, I kind of felt like I forced him to draw the short end of the stick.
Sorry, Duke.

 

The majority of the nobles’ armies would be returning straight to their territories.
Some of the nobles brought all of their military personnel to this war, leaving their territories unguarded, so they wanted to return as fast as possible.
Plus, they would have kept eating the main army’s already thin food supply if they had stayed longer, so it was rather good that they chose to leave.

 

However, the ones who returned straight to their territories were only the nobles’ armies, while the nobles themselves accompanied us to the capital, along with several of their direct subordinates because they needed to greet and report to His Majesty.
This was an unwritten rule.

 

Returning to their territories without meeting His Majesty first would be considered extremely rude unless there were some emergencies in their territories.

 

A day later, the Zeavert’s army, along with Grand Duke Seyfart and Marquis Schramm, started our journey to return to the capital.
The journey to the capital would take around 10 days if we marched straight with no rest, but this time, we were pretty relaxed.
The injured people were left for treatment in the Great Temple, so we didn’t need to hurry.

 

Well, because I had some time to spare, I went to observe how the transport corp worked and I was pleasantly surprised.
They were properly organized and their work was really efficient.
According to the Duke, His Highness had made great reformations in how the transport corps worked in just a short time.
That prince was a real genius.

 

For this war, the budget for all military equipment and the salaries of knights and soldiers came from the country.
The country would entrust the money to nobles and the nobles would be the ones who would actually distribute that money to the knights and soldiers.
Of course, nobles could take some of this money for themselves, but Father and I would never do such a thing.
I heard in my world’s medieval period, some nobles got rich by doing that kind of thing.

 

It was also possible for the noble houses to use their own money to give additional rewards to excellent personnel.
I wanted to do this to the knights who accompanied me to the Alea Village and I also want to give a special bonus to Neurath and Schunzel.
I needed to get Father’s approval first.

 

On our way, we stopped to rest on Denhan and Valeritz, and held a memorial for the deceased.
A part of our group got a mission to clean up the 2 places, so they stayed behind.
All the members of the Zeavert’s army continued the journey to the capital though.

 

In any case, what I could do now was only to pray that all the victims could rest in peace.
At the same time, the terrifying thought that if I failed to save the capital, the palace might also become like Denhan and Valeritz haunted my mind.

 

However, I tried my best not to show that worry on my face.
I was forced to chase away that thought when I saw a cavalryman approach Neurath.
After Neurath and the man talked with each other for a while, Schunzel approached me.

 

“Welner-sama.”

 

“What happened?”

 

“The main army in front has received this from the Count.”

 

I sighed as I read the letter.
It was impressive that the investigation was being done this quickly, but it was still distressing to know that the suspicious people were really walking freely in the capital.
Even if we could take care of these suspicious people now, I doubt the demons would give up on their attack on the capital.
So, it was safe to assume that the attack on the capital would definitely happen.

 

To be fair, I was curious about the reason demons attacked the capital.
In the past, it was just a game event, so I didn’t bother to brood over it.

 

Still, I doubt I need to deal with suspicious people directly.
The capital was protected by royal knights and guards.
The royal family probably wouldn’t want to use any noble armies since they needed to provide additional rewards to make them move and not to mention they had just ordered the noble armies to take part in the Finnoi defense battle.

 

In any case, both His Highness and Duke Grunding were pretty impressive.
They could get this much information in such a short time and they even went into the trouble of sending it here from the capital.
The capital’s information department seemed to be also quite skilled.

 

“Neurath.
Can you please call Max and others here?”

 

“Yes.”

 

As I watched both of them leave on a horseback, I sorted out the things I needed to do when I arrived at the capital.
Fortunately, I got my hand on a skilled stonemason and carpenter back when I was guarding the aqueduct construction site.
The Grand Duke had also introduced me to skilled craftsmen, so I didn’t have to worry about producing the bows.

 

(T/N: Several chapters back, Welner talked about making craftsmen create composite bows)

 

What was left was to get skilled blacksmiths or metal casters.
Other than that, I needed to complete the document about the orphanage and observe the progress of the area’s magic countermeasures.
It looked like I had many jobs.

 

I’d just returned from the Finnoi defense battle, so I probably wouldn’t have any military-related job for a while.
The aqueduct construction site’s guarding mission would likely be handled by a different group.
The royal family had probably thought that they had overworked the Zeavert army, so for a while we wouldn’t get any mission.
Probably.
I hope so.

 

Alright! Let’s finish everything before the attack on the capital event! As I was thinking like that, Max and others arrived.
First of all, we have a lot of things to deal with after we return.