Thinking he heard enough of the bullshit, Milton placed a hand on the sword at his waist. But before he could unsheathe his sword, Siegfried began to talk.

“If you accept my terms, I’ll agree to a permanent peace treaty between the Republic and the Lester Kingdom.”

“......”

Milton’s hand stopped pulling out his sword from its sheath as he looked at Siegfried in disbelief.

“Wasn’t your goal to conquer the entire continent?”

“I don’t think I ever said that?”

“It’s obvious even if you didn’t say it. Just look at what you’ve been doing.”

Siegfried had started out as an officer in the Hildes Republic, and now, he had risen to the position of an absolute leader as the first Fuhrer of the unified Republic. That process consisted of war and conquest and that had bothered the Empire; that was why all this was currently happening.

“You’re no different, are you?”

Siegfried spoke to Milton as if he thought they were the same. In fact, Milton was the same; they were both war heroes. 

“I’m different.”

“How?”

“I’m not as greedy or ambitious as you. I would have been satisfied if I could’ve lived peacefully as a lord in the countryside.”

“Ha… what a joke.”

“......”

Siegfried wrote it off as a joke, but Milton just continued to stare at...