Chapter 138: Mizukuni Mamorite

The King continued to lament his life decisions as well as those of his ancestors, yet the one who was causing him his recent agony (alongside others caused by Sophia) did not even wait for him to sort out his thoughts as the giant pair of doors of the council hall started to be slowly pried open, and behind it was a woman in golden-brown light armor, she has tanned skin and in her waist strapped a kampilan, a blade that is synonymous to calamity for-oh-so many nations.

Beside her was a blue-haired lady who had some strange lines all over her body, those are her eyes that are currently closed off as a symbol of her being the pinnacle of her race, but still, everyone found it strange that even her main two eyes located at her face was closed.

Roselle's gloomy feeling deepened upon seeing the two women before him.

_The strongest person in the kingdom and arguably the whole world together with the strongest Dodomeki..._

Such were the thoughts of Roselle and everyone in the room, of course except for Kampay who doesn't have any idea who Aoi is, they knew that Urduja was serious in this matter, and anyone who did not approve of their pursuit would surely be punished by the wrath of the both of them.

One can throw suns while sleepwalking while the other can...?

"King Roselle, as promised, I provided all of you copies of my proposal for the independence of the Land of Urduja, even though I do not mind being able to serve your monarchy, it is the wish of my people to be able to call me their queen, and in order to protect them from the criminal practice of treason, I have decided to take the shameless path and ask for their independence."

The moment Urduja said all those words, a rainbow-colored halo suddenly spread out of the room with Aoi as the epicenter, the nobles wanted to dodge, but afraid of offending the people in front of them, they let themselves be hit by the harmless ring of light, Kampay's illusion however was harmed, she widened her eyes as she saw her illusion being absorbed by the halo, Aoi saw this, read Kampay's mind and used her mysterious mind power to make all the people present believe that the one sitting alongside them is Midori.

_That was close... right, Lady Sophia's not aware that dodomekis fear no illusion._

As Aoi was thinking how amazing her race was, the eyes of the nobles suddenly lit up as a virtual book with the crest of a golden sun, the future symbol of Urduja was injected directly into their minds, they could flip it with their will alone and in them was a detailed description of the arguments for Urduja's independence.

Aoi nodded at Urduja when she saw that the minds of the people already had the virtual book, Urduja started to talk about her prospect that proved that Urduja could now stand on its own, well, Urduja is the biggest piece of land ruled by a noble, it has a lot of resources and has a very potent military force due to it being Urduja's sanctuary, so it's clear that it was ready to be another nation a decade after Urduja's reign.

Urduja told about Urduja's ability to protect itself, it's a culture that became a hybrid of her ideas and Gjallarhorn's own, she also did not forget the marriage alliance she just formed with Kamatayan when one of her children married Sophia as well as her products and other industries. Roselle remained smiling bitterly with this, after all, all the industries said by Urduja were just too small to be called a country that matched the pride and prestige of a being such as Urduja, and given that she had an alliance with Sophia, Roselle knew just where the hero of the sun will set her eyes.

_I need to dissuade her somehow... whether I succeed or I die trying._

Roselle might be having problems because of his crippled economy, but in the end, he was still a king and a king is someone who stood proudly steering the ship that is his kingdom, even if his steering derailed, he have to forcefully bring it back to the right path.

Even if such an attempt is nothing but mere futility.

King Roselle steeled his resolve at the same time when Urduja finally finished her speech, Aoi looked at him with her eyes still closed, but the pressure from the strongest spouse of Urduja could still be felt. The nobles watched with bated breath, even though they knew that the King was just like a clown sitting on a chair made of gold and had no power with this, they knew that the royals of Gjallarhorn would not go down without a fight.

"Hmm, I see, it is really impressive to be able to cultivate a land into that of a country status-worthy territory, however, let me remind you of this Urduja, you have just become close to Sophia and even let her marry your daughter, don't you think that some people will interpret this the wrong way and think that you were ordered around, or worse manipulated by her?"

King Roselle made a serious expression as he shamelessly attacked the supposed to be sky-high pride of strong people, Urduja however just shook her head.

"You seem to misunderstand our cooperation, King Roselle, the alliance is born out of mutual trust and respect, from me being her mother-in-law and from Sophia being my daughter-in-law, other leaders can think of what they want to think for all I care."

Urduja chuckled and shook her head, causing the nobles to be confused.

"And I mean, let's be honest, other than defamation what else can they do to me? Or in the entirety of Urduja in that regard?"

All of the nobles present were shocked, in all their lives, they were given books that sang praises of Urduja, about her feats of destroying armies alone as well as her conquest with the ladies, however they never heard Urduja declare that she was superior to anyone who exists under the heavens and above the earth, well Loki and Eris Darkbringer wanted to differ, but that is beyond the point.

In truth, Urduja has already declared her power numerous times, once as a reminder to troublesome people of who she really is, and the other when she was a teen because it sounded cool as hell.

Going back, the point of the noble's shock is that she never said it to the "powers" of Gjallarhorn as that would earn their ire normally, causing her orphanage to potentially have a hard time, however, this time, all of her orphanage will be pulled back from the territories of the King, of course without the children who acted as a double spy.

Hearing this Roselle frowned, not because of Urduja's arrogance, no, the arrogance of someone such as herself was justified, the king just crumpled his face due to the fact that he had no counter to the point given by Urduja, he could only risk defaming the daughter-in-law of Urduja in front of the hero of the sun without shame.

"Hm- hmm... fair point..."

King Roselle said, doing his very best to maintain the dignity of a person who was supposed to be in power, he then continued.

"However, let me remind you, Sophia has a history of using other people to do her bidding, and I as your soon-to-be former leader, don't want anything happening to you."

Roselle looked like he was worried about Urduja, but Aoi could see that he just wanted to make a desperate attempt to scare her wife into becoming independent, as someone who can read minds at the very base of her abilities, this earned her irk as the pair of eyes in her face opened up, Aoi might look like a beautiful onee-san, but she is sure as hell that her temperament is not like one, Urduja felt that the ground shake, she immediately slapped the hand of Aoi, causing her wife number 1 to calm down, though her eyes are still wide open.

"Thank you for your concern, but I'm positive that I can fend off any schemes coming my way, I did not lose count of my age after 300 for nothing, you know? I'm sure I can trek through her manipulations, if she will dare, that is."

Urduja was also quite annoyed by Roselle's lame attempt to win her over once again, so she went straight to the point.

"So, do you agree with Urduja's independence?"

Urduja has a smile on her face as if she did not just abandon the nation that once fostered her to greatness, and as if she does not plan to overtake it later on, the nobles, or at least those who are not from the Duchy, or now Queendom of Urduja already resigned themselves and started to think of what they will do from now on.

Roselle sighed, in the end, his desperation was ignored.

"... Of course,  I will, I hope for a continued cooperation, as the king of your former motherland."

Urduja was shocked hearing this before she smiled.

"Really? No, I mean, sure, well, thank you for all this time, King Roselle."

With that Urduja left the premises of the council hall back to her capital to announce the official independence of their land, not even minding the consequences of her actions to the country she once loved.

This announcement will be known by all countries in the world that have a spy on her territory before the said spies mysteriously cease to exist, causing the whole Gjallarhorn to be stared at by the greedy monsters that are in and out of Genesis, one of such monsters are making a move already, for the moment Urduja left the Royal Palace, a large blob of water suddenly appeared by the side of Roselle, causing him to activate his eyes that generates electricity, however when he saw the Hakama that was materialized by the blob as well as the man who is wearing it, all of his frustrations was swallowed through his throat once again.

"Shall I help you with your plight?"

Such were the words all of the nobles present heard, though they only had one word, or specifically name in their minds.

_Mizukuni Mamorite!_

[Sophia's POV]

In the bedroom of a certain clan leader, a lady with silver hair can be seen standing beside a lady, in the bed itself is a woman with vibrant green hair that is thrown about messily all over the bed case whilst the owner is lying down in the bed upside down, her eyes was rolled up and muddled whilst her tongue is still lolled out of her mouth and when you scanned further down her body, several hickies were visible.

In her ass that is exposed openly in the air were several lashes and handprints, finally in her butthole were three vibrating anal beads that Auntie Midori indignantly enjoyed.

I cannot help but continue admiring the masterpiece I have just made, I put on my clothes as I noticed Kampay approaching the door of the room and sat down on the bed, and then once again put my hand to the ass of Auntie Midori that once again clenched the bedsheets with her hands as she quivered hard.

"My Lady, the negotiations for independence is over."

I nodded at that and then started stroking the rump of my aunt, well I have put a lot of effort waiting for this ass to be mine, so I can do anything I want with it, but anyway, I listened to what Kampay has to say.

"The negotiations just went as expected, all of the nobles and the king himself was unable to do anything in the negotiation, however, there is someone who have intruded in the meeting right after Urduja went out of the council hall, he sent a clone of some sort made out of water, he has a hakama, some kind of gills at both sides of his neck and a katana by his waist and calls himself Mizukuni Mamorite, and from what I observed, the King conversed with him with the same fear and respect he gave to Urduja."

My hand suddenly stopped moving around the mountains as I looked at Kampay, now who the hell is Mizukuni? He sounds like a Naruto fanfic mc, and why is he being feared like Urduja? All of the spiders of Arachne is concentrated in Genises, probably because that is what the orders of her father, so I don't have access in the information of other continents, specially the Leviticus continent that is home for the Japanese-esque people of this world, with the people that I know here that is from that continent, 4/5 of them (including my other aunties who refused to interact with me) are not humans, and in a magical world, a non-human is usually stronger than humans, like the undeads, vampires, devils and elves.

I cannot help but frown at this, I don't want my plan to make one "illogical development" in the chaos of the next two wars to go awry because of some samurais, if worse comes to worse, they will have to face the same fate as their earthen counterpart, you know what I mean.

I was thinking all of that at a lightning fast speed, so I replied pretty fast to Kampay.

"I see... well, it seems like I have to meet with my mother-in-law to talk about this guy from her past."

I stood up and then looked at Auntie Midori, I then sighed.

_But I have to fix her up first._