Disappointing Teleportation Magic ~ Even Though The Movement Distance Is Only 1 Millimeter, I Will Rise Through Ingenuity ~ - Chapter 58.1

During dinner, I was scolded by Umino and the others.

Well, it was my fault for not closing the door, but I was caught up in the moment, so I’d like to be forgiven.

“You’re absolutely unforgivable!”

“Well… yeah, I guess…”

“I can’t forgive them for kicking out Kirikaze-kun after he worked so hard and fought the wyvern until he was in such a sorry state!”

Indeed, Umino-san’s words were true, but after I came back from the meeting and cried out all my frustrations, then shared that moment with Araseli, I felt a sense of relief.

Plus, seeing someone else angrier than me somehow made me feel calm.

“But honestly, there’s not much I can do on my own, and even if I killed the entire royal family, I don’t think the situation would improve.”

“Well, that might be true, but… still, their treatment of you was too cruel. Ugh…”

Umino-san started to tremble as she covered her face with her hands.

Seeing her cry for my sake touched me deeply.

“I’m sorry, Umino-san. But I still think I have no choice but to go to Fulmelinta.”

“I’m going too. I’ll go with you to Fulmelinta, Kirikaze-kun. I hate this country already…”

“Me too…”

“If Kazumi’s going, I’m going too.”

Following Umino-san, Kikui-san and Hasunuma-san also declared they would go to Fulmelinta.

“Wait a second. We don’t know what kind of country Fulmelinta is or how they’ll treat us. Since they were at war with Yurefelt, we might be treated horribly.”

“That’s fine. I’d rather become a slave than stay in this country playing politics.”

“No, that’s absurd. We’ve finally managed to live decently; becoming slaves would be ridiculous.”

“But we could be discarded at any moment, just like what’s happening to you, Kirikaze-kun.”

“I don’t think that’ll happen. You’ve already gained favor with the noblewomen here. You won’t be cast aside like me.”

I knew Umino-san meant no harm, but hearing the word “discarded” still stung a little.

“You say that, but Kirikaze-kun is a national hero! Even he’s being cast aside!”

“In my case, it’s just more convenient for them if I go to Fulmelinta.”

“Why?”

“They don’t have to give me any land, and by granting the recovered Eberwein territory to the first prince’s faction, they can secure the foundation for the next generation.”

“No way… So, they never planned to make you a noble in the first place?”

“I don’t think that’s the case. It’s more likely that the second prince’s faction took advantage of the delay in determining my land until Eberwein territory was reclaimed.”

The king had said that Fulmelinta had asked for the hero who slew the wyvern, but I suspected that the second prince’s faction had made the offer to Fulmelinta themselves.

By establishing this as a condition of the peace agreement, they must have assumed I couldn’t refuse or that it would interrupt the removal of Alberic’s scar.

Given the timing when the conditions for peace were finalized and the time it would take to communicate between the capital and the battlefield, the negotiations must have taken place while Alberic’s scar removal was still incomplete.

They probably thought that if I was exiled as the hero who killed the wyvern, the procedure would be left unfinished.

“If that’s the case, then the first prince should protect you all the more, Kirikaze-kun!”

“If they can restore the land without shedding unnecessary blood by sending me, and they don’t have to reward me with extra land… It’s a reasonable action for the benefit of the country now that Alberic’s scar is removed.”

“That’s not true! If they can’t protect you, Kirikaze-kun, Yurefelt will be known as a heartless nation!”

“No, I don’t think that’ll happen.”