The silent yet tense atmosphere inside the room was enough to drive everyone to their edges, except Ramirez who keep glaring at the faces of his enemy.
Not long, the princess of Yggdrasil starts the conversation.
"As the princess of our kingdom, I held a number of power within our country. If we negotiate now, mister Ramirez, I can order my man to retreat from the other land. Of course, it will not be for free. To do that, we need certain conditions..."
"I believe I didn't tell you to speak, invaders." the tense atmosphere grew worse after Ramirez turn his cold glaring eyes toward the princess which made the rest of her retainer act accordingly.
"Yes, perhaps."
"And who said we can't take back our lands? Since the time we landed here, it's only been a month yet we're getting closer to our goals. Shouldn't you ask me for forgiveness and beg?"
"You bastard, how dare you speak to the royal princess, you lowly being!"
*Bang!*
Julius was shot by one of the guards and drop to the ground without any life on his eyes.
"You're currently at our mercy once you enter our soil, who do you think you are?" Chilling atmosphere around Ramirez flow as his cold voice echoed through the room making the already terrified princess more frightened.
"T-then, if possible, we would like to take some of our prisoner of war in exchange of peace and return of lands. It's a small price to redeem your honor." once again, another absurd suggestion was given by Irellet as sweat flow down their faces.
However...
"Prisoners? We don't take prisoners."
"T-then where do you bring them?"
"We burn them, alive."
"T-that's absurd.... You monsters, we never did such thing to your people, how could you?!"
"You enslaved our people, which in our society is a taboo. An especially forbidden one. Yet, here you are thinking it's normal. We are simply doing what we commonly do to our enemy before, like you all do."
"T-then..." Irellet look at her retainer once more as they prepare for the statement of her.
"We surrender. The Yggdrasil Army surrender and will be within your hands." Now, only one person can decide the entire Yggdrasil Army, and that is the man right in front of them who have a wicked smile in his face.
"Surrender? Does that mean you accept your fate, no matter what happen?" The eyes of Ramirez that Irellet once admire was nowhere to be seen and instead a burning eye replaced it.
"Yes."
"Hear that, Gonzales?" He smirk as if mocking his enemy.
"Yes, as of now, the Yggdrasil Army will be Hereby under the command of the Armed Force of The Philippines."
"Wait wait... I thought we were fighting Japan?!" Irellet hurriedly shout as the declaration finish.
"Ah yes, we declared war against your country after annexing Japan... Now, order all your men to rally up even those in the other land you called."
"W-what are you going to do?" Irellet said, now paled due to the current situation.
"Well, I will decide."
After that day, Irellet regret surrending her army to the hands of the Philippines after seeing the lives of her men being taken.
Estimated death:
30,000,000+ Yggdrasil army.
Of course, voices of the mass around the world didn't accept this. However, once again, they can never do anything as it is the people of the Philippines that decided such thing within their land.
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'I-I did this... I killed them all.' the blank expression of Irellet in her room can never be so obvious. She regretted everything.
Now, no one knows when the portal will close, but she's pretty sure that her brother is having his feast about the news.
*click*
The door unlock and the figure of Ramirez appear as he walk through the corner where he sat.
"You monster, how could you do such thing?!"
"Oh, I never know that killing a pest makes you a monster. I thought enslaving someone who have free will are the one that should be called monsters, though?" He laugh.
"Tchh... What do you want?" Irellet stand up from the ground and sat on her bed.
"We're entering the portal. We want you to guide us."
"And why do you think I will agree? You've done so much worse than us and even let me see one of them. So why the hell do you think I will cooperate?" Right after she said that, a girl suddenly appear in front of the door held by two men while in chain.
"Christine!! You,! What are you planning to do?!!" Glaring at Ramirez, she asked.
Ramirez stand and approach the girl. He then raise her face which reveal marks that tell she was being tortured.
"Making you agree of course." He said while holding the chin of the girl.
"You think you will get away with this? She's s also the sister of the king, don't you think he will get his revenge?!" She said with full of hatred.
"Then that would be favorable to us, we will just have to cut his head off and show it to your people so they can see how powerless you all are!
Now then, I'll wait for your answer until tomorrow. Please choose wisely."
The door was then locked once more after Ramirez left, leaving the already depressed Irellet to her own problem.