Otome Game Mob Villain

Chapter 632

"Seriously, things have gotten completely out of hand."

"Good work out there, Lidd."

Slumping back into the chair in the trailer house connected to the charcoal car, Amon gave a bitter smile, narrowing his eyes.

The tribal chief meeting held in Bestia, the capital of the Beast Kingdom Zveela, had concluded, and our group was now on our way back to the Foxman territory.

As I gazed out the window at the towering royal castle of Bestia, everything that had happened so far began to replay in my mind.

How did I even end up attending the tribal chief meeting in the first place?

It all started when the Beast King Sekmetos unexpectedly joined the talks between the Foxman and the Raccoonman territories. Not only did she forcefully decide on the political marriage between Prince Johan Bestia and Citri Granduke under the guise of a royal decree, but she also requested that I attend the tribal chief meeting, considering the future of both families and nations.

No, perhaps it would be more accurate to say I was summoned.

In any case, it was unprecedented for a noble from the Empire to be allowed to participate.

But in the end, it turned out to be an opportunity to reaffirm the relationship between Amon, the Foxman tribal chief, and the Baldia family to the other tribal chiefs.

Since Johan and Citri's engagement was also announced at the meeting, the Foxman tribe, with Amon as the new chief, gained the backing of the current Beast King.

Additionally, during the meeting, I proposed that if the Baldia family and the various tribes worked together, we could solve the many problems troubling Zveela.

The response was positive, and after the meeting, individual talks with the tribal chiefs were quickly scheduled.

However, I couldn't just bask in the joy of it all.

Sekmetos had presented me with an unreasonable demand: "In the Beast King  tourmanet to be held in two months, you and Johan will have a preliminary match. There, we want you to demonstrate the power that defeated Elba to us, who value martial prowess."

If I won, I could negotiate with Zuera from a position of advantage in trade. But if I lost, even by the slightest chance, not only would the negotiations be unfavorable to Baldia, but I was also presented with an outrageous proposal: a political marriage between my future child with Fara and Johan Bestia's child.

I wanted to refuse on the spot, but a marriage proposal from the Beast King would become a matter between two nations.

As a mere representative of my father, I couldn't refuse or accept such a proposal on my own. All I could do was take it back for further consideration.

Never before had I regretted my lack of position and political power more than at this moment.

Fortunately, this proposal was only applicable if Johan won and I lost.

If I defeated Johan in the preliminary match before the main Beast King Battle, all negotiations with Sekmetos and the Beast Kingdom Zveela would proceed in Baldia's favor.

But the odds of me defeating Johan were not high.

Johan Bestia—in my past life's memories of a game , which closely resembled this world, he was one of the strongest physical attack characters.

His strength was evident even in this life's reality.

I first met Johan when Sekmetos suddenly appeared in the Foxman territory.

Even then, he had demonstrated his swift movements several times, and combined with the information from my past life, I had inferred that his strength and potential were immeasurable.

And this inference was confirmed after the meeting during the "Rafa and Johan match."

How did Rafa and Johan end up having a match?

It all started when Johan visited us in the guest room after the tribal chief meeting.

While we were all chatting, Tis raised a question about the match between me and Johan.

"Regardless of the truth, information about Brother Lidd can be gathered beforehand. But information about Lord Johan doesn't come out. From the perspective of information warfare, isn't it unfair for the two of you to have a match?"

To resolve her doubt, Johan said, "Then, I'll demonstrate my strength against Rafa," and Rafa agreed, saying, "That sounds interesting." Thus, the match between the two was hastily arranged.

After some twists and turns, the match between Rafa and Johan took place on the martial stage within the castle.

The match ended without a winner after an angry Sekmetos intervened.

Needless to say, Johan was scolded by Sekmetos.

Looking at the match itself, Johan didn't back down an inch against Rafa, who was considered the second strongest after Elba.

In fact, towards the end of the match, he even showed us the high-level beast transformation of the Catman tribe, the "Lion," and for a brief moment, made Rafa get serious.

I knew her strength well, but I had never seen her serious before.

This alone was astonishing, but after the match, Rafa said something even more surprising: "Lidd. If you fight Johan as you are now, you will definitely lose."

Just as I knew Rafa's strength well, she also knew mine.

She said that while I was stronger in terms of overall magic and physical abilities, Johan surpassed me in physical abilities alone.

And in a one-on-one match between me and Johan, what would determine victory or defeat was "physical strength," Rafa asserted.

This wasn't entirely wrong.

Even without incantations, activating magic still required "a slight delay."

Though the delay was less than a second, that brief moment could decide the outcome in a battle.

I had the potential for all attributes and could handle a wide range of physical enhancements, including higher-level ones.

I had plenty of options in how to fight.

In terms of maneuvering, having more options was undoubtedly an advantage.

But having more options also meant needing to make decisions on the fly according to the situation.

Me, who fought using both magic and physical enhancements, and Johan, who specialized in physical enhancements and beast transformations.

It's hard to say definitively, but in a one-on-one preliminary match, Johan's fighting style would undoubtedly have the advantage.

And considering that the strength he showed in the match with Rafa wasn't his full power, the chances of me losing to Johan at this point were very high.

On top of that, I currently had no countermeasures.

According to Sekmetos, the Beast King Battle would be held in about two months.

By then, I had to become much stronger than I was now.

"But still..."

I sighed and took out the notebook I had tucked away, checking the schedule I had written down.

After arriving at the Foxman territory, I would immediately head to the Baldia territory.

After reporting to my father, I would have to rush back to the Foxman territory for individual talks with the tribal chiefs.

If everything went according to the schedule in my notebook, the talks would be over in less than a month, but I doubted things would go so smoothly.

Considering that, I probably had less than a month to train.

At this point, it seemed like the road ahead was fraught with difficulties—or rather, I was already in a tight spot.

But it wasn't just Johan countermeasures and training I had to think about.

There was also the matter of Horst Padgory, who had confronted me in the royal castle and cast magic at me.

The meeting with Horst was arranged not with him directly, but through his guard, Ibi Padgory.

According to her, Horst had urgent business and had already returned to his territory.

Whether he simply didn't want to face me, really had urgent business, or was plotting something, I couldn't tell.

In any case, it seemed best to gather as much information as possible before the talks with the Birdman tribe, so I scheduled them for last.

"Father... will he be angry when I report this? He probably will."

I sighed deeply as I gazed out the window in the direction of Baldia, but in my heart, I muttered, "But even so, I'm not the kind of person to lose over something like this."

I already had various plans in mind.

"Eidd, are you plotting something again?"

"Huh...?"

Turning around at the call, I saw Amon sitting next to me, his face twisted into a mischievous grin.

"You're making that face again."

"Haha. I don't have such a villainous face. If anything, I take after my mother and have a cute face."

I smiled brightly as I said this.