Coalasho

**Coalasho** is an investigator and interviewer of the First Foreign Affairs Department of the Parpaldia Empire.

## Chronology

### Japanese-Parpaldian War Arc

The First Foreign Affairs Department was in the worst of shapes due to chaos. The reason for this was the loss of Leifor, one of the two superpowers of the Second Civilization Area, to an unknown country known as the Gra Valkas Empire. First Foreign Affairs Department Director Elt also heard of the Third Foreign Affairs Department’s Imperial Oversight Army’s defeat when they conducted a punitive attack on Fenn to the east. She wondered if the Gra Valkas Empire had a hand in supporting the nation that defeated the Imperial Oversight Army. She summoned one of the staff members to gather more information on the Gra Valkas Empire from the Intelligence Bureau, the Strategy Against Other Nations Department, and the military. Another staff member came in with the reports in hand that Valhal from the Strategy Against Other Nations Department was an observer to the Lourians during the Great Naval Battle of Rodenius, which was defeated by a country called Japan. The result of a judgment was the loss of the Imperial Oversight Army to Japan. The Parpaldia Empire had finally begun its investigation into the identity of Japan.

Two weeks later, the First Foreign Affairs Department, as part of the investigation into Japan ordered by Department Director Elt, summoned several people from the uncivilized areas through the Third Foreign Affairs Department which had a brush with the country of Japan. Personnel Coalasho and Cosshe served as the interviewers.

At the conference room, Cosshe expected all of this information was worthless as to whether Japan was regulating the spread of information during the Rodenius war, they could only get weird and eccentric testimonies. One of them said that a force of over 20,000 soldiers was wiped out as a unit within 10 minutes. Another one said that three fortified gates were broken in a single attack. However, one statement seemed to back Valhall’s report, so their efforts don’t seem to be in vain. Furthermore, no matter who they asked among those in the Imperial Oversight Army, they would always offer stupid statements like “they warned them before they attacked” or “they hit every single shot.” It was bone-breakingly hard to scrutinize all of it. Coalasho believed it was information to be 99% worthless and then looked at the documents from the next interviewee.

Cosshe saw the name “Adem” written on the document. Adem was a former military commander of the Louria Kingdom who attacked and occupied the Qua-Toynian town of Gim during the invasion. He was also a ruthless man. After the Eastern Lords Force was wiped out and realizing the futility of his own force, he faked setting out to Hark Castle to request reinforcements when he only left the Eastern Subjugation Army Headquarters to get away from the bombing. After that, along with a small force of a few hundred people, he defected to the Parpaldia where he remains to this day. The one that sent him to the First Foreign Affairs Department was the General Staff Headquarters of the military. Having contacted the headquarters countless times, they found Adem a nuisance, but the Strategy Against Other Nations Department, fearing that his presence may expose their relationship with Louria, had him sent instead to Foreign Affairs.

While Adem was respectful, Coalasho and Cosshe shuddered since the man radiated foul energy everywhere else. He then sat down on the chair that was some distance away from the two, after which Cosshe began rapidly asking questions about what happened that Louria lost by the country of Japan before. Adem explained to them from Japan's attack on Gim to the annihilation of the Eastern Lords Force. He received reports that an iron winged insect appeared, and he advised them to retreat. Then, before they knew it, the forward-deployed unit was annihilated, then later the main unit. It was reasonable that he could not have known about them. Naturally, Coalasho and Cosshe dismissed the validity of Adem’s testimony, judging it to be useless information. As they sighed in disappointment, Adem then got to the problem at hand.

Adem didn't know how strong Japan was, but if it was Parpaldia, the superpower, then they might be able to do something against Japan. He asked Coalasho giving him a chance to vindicate his honor. Coalasho laughed as he looked down on Adem, but he also felt pity for the man. He explained to him the difference between an uncivilized nation and a superpower was too much in tactics, operations, material, and weapons. The difference extends to the dimensions of warfighting itself. Coalasho and Cosshe were Foreign Affairs personnel and not military men, but even if Adam had experience in commanding troops if their imperial military were to enlist someone from another nation, then they would have to be someone from a country that was the same level of civilization as the Parpaldia Empire. Moreover, they couldn’t let him, who has no abilities, be given state-of-the-art weaponry from their military.

As Adem strongly curled his hands into a fist, he understood after hearing directly from the men themselves that the empire did not need an incompetent person who couldn’t understand the operation of high-quality troops. Then he asked Coalasho his request to the General Staff Headquarters. Coalasho would try forwarding Adam's request to his superiors. Coalasho and Cosshe couldn’t decide this on their own. However, Adam would not be permitted to fight under the banner of the Parpaldia Empire. If perhaps he was indeed permitted, then Coalasho thought it would only be possible if Adam could raise his own flag. The request of Louria’s former commander, Adem, was forwarded to the General Staff Headquarters.

After this, there was no further action, and his subsequent treatment was unknown.

## Trivia

* Coalasho only appears as a character in the light novel. However, he does not appear in the manga version because the manga cut the scenes of the interview with Adem, which is the part story from the light novel.