“What should we do?”
“I want to end this without shedding blood if we can.”
Everyone looks troubled when I report back.
Yes, this is difficult to handle. If it was just about winning, I honestly think we could work it out, but…
We don’t want to kill if we can, because we know that will harbor hatred.
People will be filled with sadness if people dear to them are killed. But… If it comes to that, we might have to take people’s lives.
This is difficult.
We think that in order to protect someone, we’ll hurt others on the other side.
The Kingdom of Lunid isn’t all the same. I think it’s hard to lump everyone together in a country in the first place. Even in Migha, it was people having different ideas that led to that happening to Mister Athos.
Gaius and I are king. We need to deal with them properly.
…They’re people we don’t know if they’ll be enemies or friends.
We know Lunid is looking for us. They’re using their force to do something. That’s why we think that if they know about us or that I’m the miko, they might come to conquer us.
…I don’t like that word conquer. I don’t want to use it. I don’t want to have anyone do it or do it myself. I know sometimes we just have to fight, but taking important things from others and making them do as we say just sounds wrong…
Taking important people from others is very sad. It’s not something I want to experience or cause.
“Honestly, I feel like they might give up if we let them be, but…”
Says Mister Nirushi with a troubled expression.
I agree with that, but that might cause problems too.
“That will take too long. I don’t like that we can’t do what we want in the meantime. Not being able to go to Lunid in the first place is a loss to us.”
“That’s true, but…”
“I would rather we faced them and solved this peacefully, but…”
“Wouldn’t that be hard? If they don’t want to listen, they won’t.”
Says Mister Nirushi to Miss Lan.
That’s true…
It would be easy if this problem just went away peacefully, but that might take a long time.
Will they give up without seeing our power, and that we can handle them?
It depends on the king’s character and the kingdom’s policy, but if they were peaceful, they wouldn’t be here in the forest looking for us, would they?
But it’s true, I don’t like feeling like I’m not free either. I’d much rather have a country where we can do what we want.
The problem might solve itself if we wait, but it might be better to take action so we won’t regret it later.
Talking, confronting them, I think they’re clearly necessary. But will they go well?
If they don’t listen at all… It’ll get complicated again.
In a way, it’s the same as always. Beast people, elves, winged people, Phyto’s people… And people from Migha. We met a lot of people, and found solutions.
But that said, this is the first time it might lead to a war between countries.
Migha was friendly with us by the time we got involved, so there wasn’t a problem. Mister Hicked and the others weren’t hostile to us, but Lunid might be different.
“That’s true. Even if we talk, we should show we have the power to fight. Otherwise people might become hostages or lose their lives.”
“…Exactly. If someone dies in negotiations, that guarantees this won’t end peacefully.”
…We want to settle this as peacefully as possible, but it might not be.
In the end, the more we take, the more hatred it creates, so I don’t want that.
We need to be careful with what we do. It definitely won’t be good if they look down on us, but we don’t want them to feel threatened either. It really is a complicated relationship.
—Girl and a big conflict – Part four
(The miko discusses a plan to deal with the people from Lunid looking for them.)
