Gezerkia Arc

**Gezerkia Arc** is the 5th story arc of Kou 1 Desu Ga Isekai De Joushu Hajimemashita series and the first arc of Hybride and Phyllis Saga.

The arc introduces Gezerkia, the leader of her Red-Winged Vampire Clan who terrorizes Orsia by conquering various towns as her clan's revenge against humans for the destruction of their homes that almost pushed them into near-satrvation, then planning to invade Salabria next. Hiroto, who has just elected as the new Governor of Salabria not too long ago, learn this information from Quintilis the parliamentary officer of Emperia and no only he makes early preperations against the upcoming invaders by fortifying Salabria's defense while liberating Orsia without moving his own miliitary, he also trying to find a middleground between humans and vampires before the ambassador reach both Salabria and Orcia.

## Prologue

### **Attack of the Red-Winged Vampires**

On one evening at Orcia, Sieuras Castle is under attack by the invading Red-Winged Vampires who slaughter all the defenders. As the result, Sieuras is fallen and the main army that is led by their chieftain Gezerkia enter the castle. After easily foils one surviving soldier's assassination attempt by deflecting his arrow shot back to him and, Gerzkia confronts a defeated yet defiant castle lord who gives her his last insult by spitting at her, and he is beheaded for it. Under her orders, the Red-Winged Vampires begins to make both surviving soldiers and citizens over as hostage and enslave them.

The fall of Sieuras eventually reaches to Hybride's capital city named Emperia and it sparks a debate from 2 factions: The Cetralization led by Panopticus argues to abolish the Ibrid System whilst theDecentralized Faction led by by Sobrinus argues to perserve it instead.

## Plot

### **Baldois's Pessimism Against Hiroto**

#### Part 5

At a plain, Zeldis is looking at the sky while thinking about his daughters who went with Hiroto and others to Primaria.

### **Quintilis the Parliamentary Officer from Emepria**

#### Part 1

At Primaria, Excelis is arguing with Lastio the castle steward over the change of plans because of Quintilis.

#### Part 4

Upon their arrival, Excelis informs everyone that she needs to talk with Hiroto alone which the latter complies and urges everyone to wait outside. In her office, both Hiroto and Excelis are having their discussion about Quintilis and the Royal Decree they receive and when reading one of it's article, Hiroto persists that he will not change his stace but Excelis warns him that Quintilis will unlikely going to approve his decision either. Their discussion then being interrupted by one messenger who reports about Quintilis's arrival and Hiroto orders him to let the latter in.

#### Part 5

After his introduction, Quintilis demands Hiroto to dismiss both Valkyria and Curele under a claim that having vampires as "garrison soldiers" for Salabria is a "violation" against the royal decree. Hiroto corrects him that they are actually his advisors, but Quintilis is so adamant of excluding the vampires that he deems them as the king's would-be "assassins", only to be rendered speechless when Hiroto debunks his claims by pointing at the decree's 2nd sentence and explains it's actual meaning that proves his contradiction, then demands him to speak the truth as he suspects the officer is hiding something from him. Under the pressure from both Hiroto and Excelis, Quintilis reluctantly informs them about Gezerkia and her terror at Orsia. Ergo, Quintilis views the vampires as "invaders" and presses Hiroto not to keep them, even going so far as assuming that Zeldis could "aid" Gezerkia's attack onto Salabria. Rather than following Quintilis's "advice", Hiroto persuades him to utilize the vampire sisters instead-something Quintilis views akin to "keeping animals" but ends up getting chastised by Hiroto for dehumanizing Zeldis's clan-because their position should be Zeldis's honor as the sisters are treated with both respect and care despite the mounting accusations against the vampires. In spite of Quintilis's spechlessness, Hiroto sense his stubborness so he advises him to apologize now and explains that the officer's appeal of the vampire's exclusion may cause a crisis of Zeldis's would-be defection for Gezerkia, which is a loss for Salabria. With Quintilis's eventual apology and Hiroto forgives him and says that he is looking forward to see their future corporation, the meeting ends with Quintilis congratulating Hiroto for his new position and leaves the room.

#### Part 6

Excelis, who is amazed by Hiroto's feat that managed to persuade Quintilis to change his mind, praises him and asks him about a plan to counter Gezerkia. Just as Hiroto is about to explain his plan, they are visited by everyone who are wrapped with Mimia's bandages, followed by Valkyria's teasing afterwards. Anyways, Hiroto asks Valkyria about Gezerkia and as soon as she asks why, he informs her about the Red-Winged Vampire's takeover of Sieuras via his conversation with Quintilis and requests her to scout Sieuras without meeting Gezerkia herself. Before she leaves, Valkyria gives Hiroto a kiss on his cheek and it causes a ruckus where everybody is tied up by binding and Hiroto calls Mimia for help. Quintilis, meanwhile, is at his room and remarks Hiroto's feats that are beyond his expectations but dspite his praise for the new governor's performance that briefly changed his mind, he is still pessimistic about the Diferente's solutions as he thinks that he wiil be forced to make a hard decision due to Gezerkia's impending invasion onto Salabria with superior numbers.

### **Hiroto's Governor Inauguration Day**

#### Part 1

At Dominus Castle's Knight Hall, all the castle lords across Salabria are attending Hiroto's Inauguration Day.

### **Valkyria's Unpleasant "Visit" of Sieuras**

At Chrysis the capital city of Orsia, Gundogan is mustering his subjugation army while chastises his steward for asking Hiroto for aid which he deems as his "humilliation", only to groan with frustration as the steward replies that it is an emergency. The other preliminary officer also urges Gundogan to consult with Hiroto since asking for help doesn't violate the royal degree, mostly due to the Diferente's close ties with Salabria vampires, but Gundogan derides his advice by laughing at it and hasting to muster the subjugation army. With the subjugation army depart for Sieuras whilst hasn't receive news from Emperia yet, all Gundogan can do is hoping is the Red-Wing Army's total annihilation.

Meanwhile, Valkyria arrives at Sieuras Castle and after informing the vampire guards that she is sent by Zeldis to "check"  on that captured town, she is taking her "tour" by walking around it. Sieuras's deteriorated scenery mortifies Valkyria so much that she is disgusted by the Red-Winged Vampires' amoral lifestyle: Not only she sees most of them are heavily drunk for overdrinking whilst gloating about their last victory with overconfidence, all the while mocking the humans as "weaklings", she also witnesses a murder scene at an empty town square where 2 vampires murder a female victim by biting her neck and suck her blood, but she is unable to do anything as the victims were already dead by the time she checks on them. Anyways, the guards asks Valkyria to join Gezerkia but she declines and replies that she is returning to Zeldis and report about this town alone, which is a lie as she just want to escape from this castle.

15 minutes later, Gezerkia learns Valkyria's "visit" from a guard and she is not happy to learn her escape, so she orders him to bring her in if she comes here again. Later, after scolding the 2 murderers for their murders but forgives them and let them go, not without a warning that they will be executed if they repeat their crimes though, she opts to invade Az next when via her underling's suggestion after hearing reports about both Sieuras's depleting supplies and Gundogan's inaction. At the same time, Valkyria returns just before the ball and reports to Hiroto about what she discovered during the scouting, specifically the Red-Wing Vampires' numbers of 200 and the town's depleting supplies, which raises Hiroto's concern as he predicts that this situation will only worsen due to Gezerkia's takeover of Sieuras that stopped the goods distribution. Nevertheless, the balls begins afterwards.

### **Dominus's Feast and Trip Preparations to Olsina**

Throughout the ball, Hiroto spends most of his time eating food and interacting with various attendees along the way: Frist, Zoch introduces his several cultivators to Hiroto and trying to persuade him into granting Glinka's Development Order, only to be rejected as Hiroto deems his request to be unreasonablefor expecting the administration's funding to support his project for profits. Then, Valkyria and Sorceire and Leslia are taking their turns to dance with Hiroto and during the dance, he agrees to take Sorceire as company in his trip to Olsina tomorrow. Later, a trio of Aldus Lord, Litteau Lord and Nolte Lord apologize to Hiroto for their past hostility against him, though he easily forgives them and urges an uneasy Nolte Lord to fortfy his castle sooner by preparing the bows and arrows, which Aldus Lord nod as his compliance whereas Litteau Lord snorts about the skeleton army they possessed-something gives Hiroto an idea. The party ends at midnight and Hiroto enters into his bedroom where Mimia awaits him after he carried a drunk Valkyria to her's own room, and then both of them dacing that makes Mimia sp blushed as if her dream of dancing with Hiroto a Primaria is coming true, with Hiroto's words about wanting her to come with him no matter what only making her happier and hugs Hiroto tighter.

#### Part 7

Meanwhile, Excelis writes a letter to Secondaria branch Elder Elven Association's reinforcement to deal with the vampires and requests Slara to send the letter to Magnelis, which the latter complies. Then, both Excelis and Slara talk about the latter's job which she explains that wants to repay the Diferentes' kindness for saving both her and son from starvation-something makes Excelis speechless as she hasn't heard that side of the story that seems to be reason behind Hiroto's bond with the vampires.

### **Privy Council's Debate About Vampires**

#### Part 1

Eventually, Sieuras's news reaches Panopticus via his aide Delegelis's report and he is heading towards the hall for the another Privy Council Summit.

#### Part 10

Nevertheless, Moldius asks everyone to send an amabassador to deal with this situation and Sobrinus suggets to appoint Hiroto as one due to his connections with the vampires, to which Moldius brushes it off as he views the Diferente "untrustworthy" for being a newcomer and want to choose other candidate instead.

### **Gezerkia's Takeover and Iron Rule of Az**

#### Part 1

Elsewhere, Az is engaging a losing battle against Gezerkia's army despite the defenders' best efforts, with most of them are forced to hide from the Red-Winged Vampires' arrows, followed by the castle lord's death as he is killed by an arrow shot to his throat for refusing Gezerkia's ultimatum to surrender. 30 minutes later after Gezerkia's Army's overwhelming brutality, Az is fallen. Henceforth, Gezerkia announces herself as the new "castle lord" and rule the town with iron fist by having the male civilians to be killed, causing the survivors cries with agony.

The citizens' agony doesn't fazed Gezerkia even a bit as she views that humans have reaped what they sown for destroying her clan's former habitat that led to so many suffering to her kind via death by starvation, from her own comrades to even her late siblings.

#### Part 7

Gezerkia then roams around Az and enters into a local Spirit Church and fell relief to see the spirit light still glowing. Suddenly, she hears a scream and she is furious to witness her fellow vampires-the same ones she scolded back from Sieuras-are attempting to rape a woman and immediately kill them before they plea mercy by snapping their neck in order to save the victim, Her timely rescue only get her brings terror to the woman, however, as she calls Gezerkia a murderer and leaves with her child just as she is checking heir injuries and trying to apologize for her men's behavior, making her sad in the progress.

Anyways, the news about the Fall of Az spreads across nearest towns Uruk and Oribe and chaos ensues when panicked townsfolks leave towns with their belonging, whereas the towns' respective lords-who also panicked as they rant about Olsina Subjugation Army's tardiness-becoming terrified after reading Gezerkia's threat letter about humans as "monsters" and they're given an ultimatum to either surrender their castle to her clan for die like those who trying to defy them like the former castle lord of both Sieuras and A before them. Zeldis, on the other hand, is enraged to read Gezerkia's request letter to aid her attack onto the humans and then castigates the messenger for his leader's crude attitude and shoo him out, all the while declares that his clan will not betray Hiroto and even threatens the Red-Winged Vampires clan that his clan will retaliate if they even try to harm Solum Alliance.

### **Orsia Subjugation Army's Defeat by the Red-Winged Vampires**

#### Part 1

Somewhere at Uruk's skies, the scout is navigating the area with confidence that he wil crush the humans and when he flies to the mountains, he witness the Olsina Subjugation Army is marching towards, promopting him to hurrily report to Gezerkia.

#### Part 5

With the Red-Winged Vampires' overwelming power, the Orsia Subjgation Army is annihilated entirely with only a dozen barely escape from battle, with most of the survivors got their blood sucked. In fact, the army's horrendous defeat demoralizes both Uruk and Oribe so much that the castle lords immediately abandon their castle and bestow them to the Red-Winged Vampires as their surrender. Therefore, the Red-Winged Vampires has conquered at least 4 Orsia towns in total and their easy victoy onto Orsia Subjugation Army make them seemly unstoppable.

#### Part 6

Gezerkia so proud to see her accomplishments that she wants capture more castles and Salabria's towns are her next targets, so she orders her men to send more threat letters to these aforementioned towns. Unfortunately for the Red-Winged Vampirres, they are stunned to learn Zeldis's rejection to aid them into attacking the humans.

###  **Hiroto's Non-Military Action Against the Red-Winged Vampires**

#### Part 1

At Chrysis, Gundogan is demoralized to hear about both Orsia Subjugation Army's defeat along with Uruk and Oribe's surrender to Gezerkia; to make matters from bad to worse, he receives Emperia's new decree that instructed him to stop engage the enemy and wait for an ambassador who will arrive in 1 week, which only fueling his panic as he rants that the Red-Winged Vampires will overtake Olsina before the ambassador arrive. Yet despite this, Gundogan still rejects the parliamentary officer's advice to seek Hiroto's aid as he rants that doing so will get him ridiculed for his incompetence. Outside. Hiroto's group (Valkyria, Mimia, Sorceire, Sōichirō and Quintilis) arrive at Chrysis and they are greeted with hostility by the guards who only stop under the steward's orders and let them in, causing Hiroto to deduct that this is due to Orsia Subjugated Army's defeat-something he predicted during his journey. So, the steward escorts Hiroto's group to meet Gundogan who is so astonished to meet both Hiroto and Valkyria in person that he nearly faints and apologizes to the Diferente for being too busy, but Hiroto replies that he understands his situation and even asks him to teach him how to deal with the parliamentary officer since he is a newcomer, to which Gundogan reluctantly complies and have his steward to escort th guests to the hall.

As the hall, the steward apologizes to Hiroto for his lord's stress over the Red-Vampire Army's havoc and after informing everyone about the current situation, Emperia's new decree included, he asks Hiroto if there is some way to counter the Red-Winged Vampires, to which Hiroto replies with his question about the skeletons in the garrison as he explains that only they and the elves are capable to drive the vampires out from Orsia. Just as the steward asks what to do now since Chrysis has no skeleton nor elves, Quintilis intervenes by reminding Hiroto that sending reinforcement to Orsia without permission means violation against the royal decree, only to be rendered speechless as Hiroto replies that decree doesn't applied to Salabria because collecting information for a province's safety doesn't count as violation. Anyways, Hiroto informs the steward that he has a plan to corner the Red-Winged Vampires and force them to retreat without fighting them: writing a lot of letters, mainly because he has a hunch that Gezerkia will send threat letters to Salabria's towns next. Sōichirō dismisses it as impossible only to be stunned by Hiroto's reminder that some towns are not part of Solum Alliance. Even so, Quintilis insists Hiroto to not mobilize his army without getting Gezerkia's threat letters but Hiroto counters that he doesn't need to because he predicts that Gezerkia has already entered a trap without even realizing it, much to both men's confusion only for Hiroto to reply that he will tell them the details after he finishes writing his letters.

So, Hiroto starts writing some letters and once he is finished, he asks Valkyria to sends these letters to Darmur which she complies with a smile and kisses his cheeks and leaves for Neka.

#### Part 5

Elsewhere, Zeldis receives another letter 30 minutes later and he is so furious to learn Gezerkia's plan to invade Salabria that he calls her a fool for taking liberties threatening it. Baldos, who doesn't intends to defend Gezerkia, feels that the towns of Aldus, Litteau and Nolte are irrelavant to them until Zeldis tells him to read the letter about all 3 towns that signed the air mail service and further exclaims that thanks to the air mail service, humans has begun to accept them and treat the vampries better. When Baldos just says that these towns have just signed the contract not too long ago, Zeldis tells him to read Hiroto's letter that explains the details. Nevertheless, Zeldis is going teach Gezerkia a lesso while orders Baldos to help Darmur to deliver more letters across Salabira.

### **Valkyria's Confrontation with Gezerkia**

#### Part 1

With Valkyria's report about the situation-including 3 lords' pact with the air mail service, Hiroto plans to meet Gezerkia in person and asks Quintilis if they can arrange that without permission. Quintilis perisists Hiroto to not doing anything until the ambassador arrives, only to become speechless when Hiroto replies that meeting an enemy on the towns' behalf due to threat doesn't counted as violating the royal decree. When everyone is indulging their wine, Sōichirō views Gezerkia as an unplesant person for her ridiculous demand for Salabria, to which Hiroto deduces that her reason to send threat letters was to show off the vampire's superiority over humans and when Sōichirō asks if she will retreat she is defeated, Hiroro replies that stopping her he true victory and, when Sōichirō then asks if having a negotiation is their only choice, he replies that Gezerkia may comes up with a ridiculous condition to get what she wants but he willing to ride along with it, so he writes another letter while describing his plan.

#### Part 3

There, Valkyria infroms Gezerkia that Hiroto is angry and vows not to forgives her for trying to harm him, to which Gezerkia responds with a vicious taunt and even warns her to watch her tone, with a threat that she will break l break her arm and capture her if she doesn't behave, only to feel impressed by the young vampire's glare as a sign of her bravery. Anyways, under Gezerkia's orders, Valkyria gives the letter to Gidget which Valkyria complies.

#### Part 7

Gerzkia then reads the letter and she is a little surprised by its content: According to the letter, Hiroto felt that her threat to Salabria's 3 castles were highly regretable. So, as Salabria's respect for the vampires, he wants to negotiate with her so the misundertanding between humans and vampires can be solved. After some thoughts, Gezerkia asks Vaklyria the time for this negotiation which the latter replies that Hiroto doesn't mind to mett her by tomorrow. However, because she has no intention to have a serious negotiation with Hirotoin spite of her deduction that Salabria side wasn't trying to fool her, Gezerkia instead wants to make Valkyria as her prisoner so the negotiation goes on her term. So, after informing Valkyria that she will "consult" her shortly, Gezerkia whispers to Guichet and orders him to subjugate her, which the latter gleefully complies and immediately pins Valyrira down and trying to have his way on her. Fortunately, just as Gezerkia is about to stop him, Zeldis barges into the room and saves his daughter by punching her 2 underlings-Guichet included-to a wall while calling her out for their hienous act onto his daughter.

Feeling that lying to Zeldis is futile at this point, Gezerkia reveals her agenda to him but Zeldis isn't easily fooled for it, and a heated argument ensures where Zeldis accuses Gezerkia for endangering the vampires' future whereas Gezerkia retorts by derides him for colliding with humans. The arguement only stops when Valkyria tells Zeldis about Hiroto's would-be meeting with Gezerkia by tomorrow and when Zeldis protests, Gezerkia provokes them by challenging Hiroto to meet her and mocks him as a "coward" if he doesn't; additionally, she also mocks Valkyria for her relationship with Hiroto despite the latter warns her not to belittle him, only to see Zeldis stops his daughter and both father and daughter leave Sieuras whilst ignoring her. The following aftermath only makes Gezerkia uneasy as she fears that her invasion ploy onto Salabria will fail due to Zeldis's intervention, and when Guichet recovers and request his retribution against Zeldis, she kicks him and blames him for Zeldis' accusation that made her losing her face.

### **Gezerkia's First Meeting with Hiroto and Defeat**

At Chrissis, almost everyone-from Alvy and Sōichirō to Valkyria and Zeldis and even Quintilis, the latter of whom only observes the conversation from the sidelines with confusion-disapprove Hiroto's meeting with Gezerkia out of their concern about he becoming her priosner. However despite knowing Gezerkia's trap, Hiroto replies that he will not become a prisoner because he plans to discuss with Gezerkia on an equal footing while looking at Curele, much to Sōichirō's shock as he seemly knows his friend's ploy until Hiroto himself winks and tells eveyrone his plan. Meanwhile, in one evening at Sieuras, Gezerkia is remarking about Hiroto's no show until she receives a visit from Zeldis who bitterly informs her that Hiroto has agreed to her terms and he is scheduled to meet her by tomorrow's noon, then leaves without a word after she affirms the meeting. When her underling trying to persue Zeldis, Gezerkia stops him because she doesn't want more vampire to die due to Zeldis's prowess. After being left alone, Gezerkia snickers about this sudden turns of events and begin to wonder what is Hiroto thinking but remains confident that she will have him as her prisoner and prevent his escape regardless of his plans.

At night, everyone besides Hiroto are unable to sleep due to their worries about his meeting with Gezerkia, with both Mimia and Valkyria are talking about their concern for Hiroto who sleeps soundly and recalling others' worries: Sorceire is so worried for Hiroto that she laments for her inability to help, whereas Sōichirō tells Curele that he is accompanying Hiroto tomorrow and tells her to go to sleep after reading a bed-time story. Gundogan, on the other hand, feels so grim by Gezerkia's havoc that rants bitterlyby not only about her clan's would-be takeover of Olsina if this trend keeps up, to the point feeling pessimistic about Hiroto's plot and fears that the Diferente will suffer the same fate and Salabria will that he even assume that he will suffer the same fate as him with the "fall" of Salabria-simply because he thinks beating Gezerkia is impossible. Meanwhile, at Secondaria, Magnelis holds a meeting with his fellow elves and all of them makes an unanimous decision to protest against Gezerkia and once he requests Slara to send letters to Hiroto, he orders his underlings to dispatch the elven soliders to Secodaria to prepare their battle against the incoming invaders.

#### Part 4

The next morning, the trio of Valyria, Mimi and Sorceire are washing their faces and chucles and discusss about Hiroto who slept soundly last night.

#### Part 6

Eventually, Hiroto's group arrives at Sieuras and after Hiroto's brief visit to the town's Spirit Church where he discovers Spiritual Light's shrinking size, they proceed to the castle courtyard on foot where Gezerkia awaits despie one Red-Winged Vampire guard's mocekry about Carabella. There, Gezerkia mocks Hiroto a brave fool in spite of her admiraion to his fortitute and orders her men  to capture him as prisoner, forcing Hiroto's group (except Zeldis and Valkyria) to hide at the cortyard's drain. However, the table quickly turns to Hiroto's favor as Curele appears on his cue (when he calls both Sōichirō and Quintilis to take cover) and blows both Gezerkia and her men to the courtyard's buildings before they can react, much to Gezerkia's flabbergasted reaction after witnessing the damage caused by Curele's supernatural power. With Gezerkia's injuries due to her crash to a wall by Curele's second shockwave, Hiroto's group seize the opportunity to escape and manages to reach Az courtersy to Zeldis's iad by throwing Gezerkia to midair just as she orders the pursuit. Still, the sight of both Sieuras's destruction and 30 injured vampires makes Gezerkia ignores her injuries and trying to capture Hiroto by whistling for reinforcements but Curele reappears and defeat the Az reinforcement effortly and even knocking Gezerkia unconscious to the ground. Then Curele returns to Valkyria who pats her head for defeating Gezerkia.

Elswhere, Blados is discussing with 5 vampire clan elders about Gezerkia's blackmail onto 3 Salabira Towns and opts to leave the negotiation to Zeldis after thinking that she has gone too far. Back to Hiroto, whose safe return shocks Gundogan and his steward and even his wife, he begins the next phase by having Slara to inform both Nolte and Secondaria about the Red-Wing Vampires' impending retaliation, then he writes another letter after receiving the first 2 letters from her. The following aftermath prompts both Quintilis (due to his own experience ) and Gundogan (who is briefly relief) can't help themselves to feel astonished by Hiroto's tactic that bring unexpected results. Gezerkia, on the other hand, wakes up from her recovery and when she is informed by her underling that her last opponent who knocked her out was Zeldis's second daughter Curele, she becomes so infuriated that she vows to avenge defeat and shows Hiroto her power by sispatching 2 platoon-comprised with 40 vampires in each platoon-from Uruk and Oribe to attack Nolte and Secondaria separately, just as Hiroto predicted.

Coincidentally, just before the Red-Winged Vampires Army reach both Nolte and Secondaria, Slara arrives to the former so she can a break after her letter delivery to Feuillet. Thanks to Slara, both Nolte and Secondaria manage to fortify their defense sooner, making the Red-Winged Vampires Army's invasion difficult for the first time as 2 platton are defeated under different circumstances: For Gidget's platoon, despite manage to scare off the humans, they are unable to take down Nortel Castle because of the skeleton army whose harden bones break their teeth and they were beaten for it; morever, with Baldos and Salabria vampires' presence who cover Salara's escape, Gidget's platoon begrudgingly retreats. The other platoon doesn't fare any better either as Secondaria's Elven Soldiers repels them by shooting volley of arrows at them, forcing them to retreat too, which shocks Feuillet so much that he remarks that Hiroto is one opponent cannot be triffled due to his foresight.

The report about her platoon's defeat shocks Gezerkia so much that she grits her teeth with frustration about Hiroto's insight that saw through her tactics. Then, she receives 3 letters from Hiroto that prompts her to assume as his "mockery" of her defeat, only to be speechless when these letters are 2 complains letters from Secondaria Elves Elven Association and 3 Salabria Castle Lords respectvely and Hiroto's one-the latter of which is a proposal in ending this battle via negotiation. Impressed by Hiroto's caliber and realizes that his objective has been aiming for aiming for negotiation from the beginning, she laugh and seemly begin to understand why both Valkyria and Zeldis liked him. So, she cancels her attack onto Chrissis Castle and agrees to Hiroto to have a negotiation.

### **Negotiation Between Hiroto and Gezerkia**

The next morning, Gundogan is having a good mood after having a dream about a white horse surpasses it's black counterpart-which implies Hiroto's victory over Gezerkia, whereas Valkyria pokes sleepy Hiroto's cheeks for his amazing tactic that defeated Gezerkia and vows to protect him no matter what. Before the group departure, everyone including Gundogan is sending Hiroto off and wish him luck, whereas Quintilis remarks how was Hiroto's unorthodox decision-specifically having the vampires sisters as his advosor where Curele's prowess truly displayed-saved Salabria for untilizing Curele's power to humble Gezerkia.

Hiroto's group arrive at a hill where Gezerkia is located and she praises the Differente for his tactics that outfoxed her. Anyways, the negotiation goes seemly well when Gezerkia agrees to Hiroto not to enter Salabria and harms it's city or people only to glare at Hiroto when he requests her to listen his proposal that indicating her clan's retreat from Olsina-something Quintilis that is out of Hiroto's power to do so due to the Royal Decree. Having a conversation with Gezerkia via his "monologue", Hiroto informs her that the Red-Winged Vampires' conquest is ineffective and it will ironically cost them since merchants are unlikely to by stop by and replenish the supplies at these occupied castles, which consequently starving eveyrone to starve everyone out in the progress. Gezerkia explains that it is her clan's only way to secure their survival due to scarce resources, but Hiroto replies that the Red-Winged Vampires' occupation of these towns while neglecting their basic functionality may ironically tainting their pride and homor because it ill garners the Holy Spirit's wrath and curses them for their atrocities, which motivating townsfolks across the provice to try and get rid of them. Therefore, Hioto proposes Gezerkia to sign a contract with Olsia's 4 castle lords that prevent them from cutting the forests in exchange for her retreat. Initially scoff at Hiroto's proposal as "unrelaiiable" due to her distrust for humans, after Hiroto tells her that humans were already too afraid to dishonor the contract after witnessing her clan's brutal takeover of Sieuras and Az, Gezerkia shakes Hiroto's hand as her agreement to his proposal.

After the end of the negotiation, Hiroto's group leaves the hill whilst Gezerkia remarks his amazing feat that piques her interest towards him and so long he is the Governor of Salabria, she will not attack Salabria. Some time later, with the lasts vampires leaving Urusk and Oribe, Gezerkia and her tribe officially leave Orsia as promised.

2 days later, the news about Gezerkia's tribe leaving Orsia's city spread across both Olsina and Salabria. Hiroto, who is relief for hearing such news, is visited by Gundogan and his steward who bow down to him and praises his strategy that was working. Later that night, Chrissis is holding a grandiose feasts for 2 days as celebration for Olsina's liberation from Gezerkia's tyranny. In the second and last day of the feast, almost everyone-from Olsina's various officers to soldiers and maids-are line up and sends Hiroto off. Before Hiroto leaves with his carriage, Gundogan thanking Hiroto again for aiding Olsina and prevent more casualties, and Hiroto then jokingly tells Gundogan to inform the upcoming ambassador that it's the elves that save the day. With everyone saying their last respects and farewell under the order of Gundogan's steward, Hiroto leaves Olsina with his horse carriage.

## Epilogue

### **Aftermath of Pacifying Gezerkia and Vampires**

One week later, the ambassador from Empeira eventually arrives only to be flabbergasted to learn from Gundogan about the Red-Winged Vampires' retreat from Olsina and when he asks Gundogan if he had negotiated with Gezerkia, to which the governor replies that it is the spirit's guidance instead. As for Quintilis, he is writing a report to Emperia about Hiroto and his deed that saved both Salrbia and Olsina egarding with Hiroto and due to his remarks the Diferente's commendable insight and judgement as well as his amazing charisma, he believes that this new young governor may usher a new era for Hybride and even being a linchpin for the Ibrid System.

#### Part 3

For Hiroto's his return is greeted by the trio of

## Characters

* Sōichirō Sōda
* Valkyria
* Zeldis
* Curele
* Gezerkia
* Sentelio
* Mimia
* Alvy
* Feuillet

## Story Impact

* Gezerkia is introduced as the leader of the Red-Winged Vampire Army and this arc's main antagonist. Unlike Zeldis, Gezerkia loathes humans due to her perception that they are the "evil" for destroying their home and vows to prove the vampire's superiority by taking over towns and supplies, then continue to conquer more cities when the supplies in their latest territory are depleting. Beneath her vengeful tendencies, however, Gezerkia at least holds some decent honor by making a rule of not killing women and children.
	+ Her hatred for humans was explored in her backstory: The destruction of her clan's habitat as the result of the Orsia's Development Order that reducing the wolves populations has drove her kind into the brink of starvation, which led to deaths of so many comrades and even her siblings with the latter's demise made her the only survivor of her family and orphan. Consequently, the aftermath nursed her grudge against humans to the point vowing to take back what they lost by taking over the cities and even making humans as hostage and prisoner.

* The Red-Winged Vampires are introduced as one of another vampires tribes led by Gezerkia whose red-colored wings make them distinguishable from Zeldis's own clan, which is the black one. Like Gezerkia, the clan desire to take revenge onto the humans for destroying their habitat but some exception to her notable underlings, most of them are lacked with discipline to the point committing atrocities such as looting, plundering, even murdering and almost raping a women.

* This arc also marks the first debut of Emperia and the Privy Council and its members such as Panopticus, Sobrinus and other ministers, the latter of whom have some very skeptical view towards the vampires as the result of Gezerkia's havoc across Orsia. Out of everyone, only Sobrinus voices his disapproval in Panopitucs's plan to crush the vampires as he claims that it will break the Ibrid System.

* Hiroto's successful's negotiation with Gezerkia that lead to her clan's reteat from changes Hybride drastically.
	+ Gundogan and his fellow castle lords in Orsia begin their respect and admiration for Hiroto after he rescues province without using an army.
	+ The trio of Aldus Lord, Litteau Lord and Nolte Lord
	+ Initially trying to get rid of the vampires at first, Quintilis's outlook towards Hiroto and the vampires changes as he not only witnessing the Diferente's caliber due to his insightful judgement and charisma, but also
	+ Emperia also receive the news about Hiroto's deeds via reports from both the amabssador and Quintilis

## Notes

1. ↑ In a strategy to combat Gezerkia and her clan, unlike Quintilis who keep thinking that all vampires are "evil", Hiroto will going to need the help of Valkyria and Curele to actually dispel the ongoing misunderstanding between humans and vampires; moreover sending both sisters back to Zeldis only ends up causing him defect to Gezerkia Clan instead because it will rub him the wrong way.
2. ↑ Due to his experience in witnessing Solum's ordeal with the vampires before his prior his rise as a castle lord, Hiroto somewhat understood Quintilis's wariness about the vampires, which he concluded that Hybride's prejudice and discrimination against the vampires persists even now. Nevertheless, he thinks that Quintilis and others were wrong for their misunderstanding about the vampire clans since both Zeldis and Gezerkia were different despite they both are vampires, and considering the Air Mail services popularity has just changed the humans' perspective towards the vampires not too long ago, he feared that what the officer. In fact, Hiroto angers stem from Quintilis's ongoing misunderstanding about the vampires while refuses to get help from Zeldis despite he explains that this is exactly why Valkyria and Curele are needed to fend off the other vampire clan. What actually irks Hiroto more is that Quintilis remains stubborn even after getting berated by for his insulting remark about Zeldis clan.
3. ↑ Apart from angering Zeldis to the point breaking his clan's alliance with Salabria, Hiroto also warns Quintilis that the worst thing could happen to Hybride is that even if Zeldis doesn't plan to defect for Gezerkia, it only worsen the vitriolic relationships between humans and vampires so long both humans and vampires coexist in Salabria. Therefore, an apology is needed because it at least minimizing the damage he inflicted to Salabria and the vampires.
4. ↑ The reason why Gundogan refused to get help from Hiroto was because he didn't want to be seen as an incompetent castle lord who can't handle the vampires, even though the reality is that he himself wasn't as experienced in dealing with them. Sadly for him, his impudence to crush the Red-Winged Vampires only worsen his humilliation as the Red-Winged Vampires easily annihilates them .
5. ↑ The real kicker is that Hiroto himself wanted to help Gundogan to quell the invaders but he had to hold back because he is aware that doing so will only hurt his pride, given the gap both men in age .
6. ↑ In reality, Hiroto was the one who ordered her to scout Sieuras and she herself cannot afford to expose him to the Red-Winged Vampires.
7. ↑ At one point, Valkyria intervened and called out the murderers for what they did only to get shouted at instead. The only reason why said murderers frantically fled away but getting captured for it is because Gezerkia made a rule that they cannot harmed women and children, and what the murderers did has broke that rule and brought to face Gezerkia and their excuse was the dwindling food supplies.
8. ↑ Both Gezerkia and Zeldis were old acquaintances since they met each other during the vampire meeting 2 years ago. Their relationship is rather vitriolic because unlike Zeldis, Gezerkia upholds a dogma about vampire's superiority over humans as the latter belittled the former and their Development Order were the ones pushed them into starvation, hence her hostility towards humans. In fact, she is so irritated by Zeldis's newfound friendship with the humans as well as Valkyria's crush onto one (Hiroto) that she assume her fellow vampire is trying to "flirt" with their mortal enemy and she criticized him for it, even though his friendship with Hiroto was the one that stopping the Development Order to begin with.
9. ↑ At one point, one of her underlings even calls his leader out for being too harsh to her underling, much to Gezerkia's annoyance. Unfortunately, her harsh "discipline" to her own underling only embolden the vampires to do more harm than good.
10. ↑ One of Zoch's "reason" for the development order is the rising populations and food sarcity-the same argument both Feuillet and Excelis used during the election from the arc that didn't worked against Hiroto. Not only that, he also exploiting the thrend of the Air Mail Service as well.
11. ↑ As excited as he was when wielding the position as a governor, Hiroto still had to be extremely vigilliant because of the possibility people like Zoch trying to manipulate him into doing their bidding
12. ↑ As much as he feels that Hiroto's meeting with Gezerkia is a waste of time, the mere fact that most the Diferente's prediction about Gezerkia's threats to towns of both Orsia and Salabria that came true stuns Quitlilis. Hiroto's latest decision to meet Gezerkia at her own base prompted Quintilis to think that he volunteeringly let himself to let himself to become a prisoner, though the reality says otherwise because he has a plan in.
13. ↑ According to Hiroto, he knows that the Red-Winged Vampires don't see humans as equals and willing to even lie to "set up" a negotiation in order to get a prisoner without even thinking .
14. ↑ What adding Gundogan's lamentation about the series of his misfortunes is that he was just elected as a governor not too long ago and he himself didn't do anything that garnered the wrath of Gezerkia and her tribe.
15. ↑ Theere at least 30 vampires at the courtyard first 10 vampires were flying above Hiroto while the rest of the dozens appears from the castle walls after hearing Gezerkia's whistle when she sees Sōichirō whistled.
16. ↑ Curele's attack onto Gezerkia was so strong that her voice is crackled and as much as she order them to give chase, she is unable to speak out loud
17. ↑  The following experience from battle caused Quintilis being so baffled by Curele's prowess that he wonders if he can report that to Emperia; what's even more surprising for Quintilis is that Hiroto didn't celebrate this victory immediately but making his next move by giving letters to Slara, which gives him an impression that only Hiroto can utilize Curele's power.
18. ↑ In Gundogan's case, he is so panicked by Hiroto's supposed demise that he feared that he will be hold accountable for Hiroto's supposed death had he perished on the spot, so he dispatched some of his soldiers to follow Hiroto before his departure so they can at least retrieve his body. What Gundogan doesn't expect, however, is that Hiroto did the impossible by defeating Gezerkia-something not even the Allied Army can do. Even so, Gundogan fears that Gezerkia will seek revenge but his steward reassures him that considering the situation now, even Gezerkia think that retaliation will only ends up being overwhelmed by the enemies that outnumber her clan.
19. ↑ Even if one of 3 elves is written by the Elves-the only person she doesn't dare to cross, Gezerkia still refuses to meet Hiroto because of him being human and she doesn't plan to retreat anytime soon. The only reason why she changes change her mind is not only because of the elves whose authority is absolute, it is also due to her fresh experience with her encounter with Hiroto who outwitted her before her plan comes to fruition.
20. ↑ Initially, one of Gezerkia's underling asks if they will continue to attack Chrissis but Gezerkia berates him for it by reminding him about Curele and attacking her till only making enemies with Zeldis and even the entirety of Salabria forces.
21. ↑ Hiroto's monolouging is because he himself isn't allowed to interfere Olsina's affair under the royal degree, so he has to use that as a hidden conversation. The truth behind that conversation reveals that Hiroto is trying to save Gezerkia from 1,000 strong Emperia Imperial Army-including elven archers-that may instantly annihilate the Red-Winged Vampires if they contront them head on, and reveaing the Imperial Army to her only streghten her resolve to crush the humans against her clan's handicaps. This is also part of Hiroto's care for Gezerkia as he views her death will be wasteful since all she did was fighting for her clan.
22. ↑ According to Hiroto, a healthy town require supplies to be functional for all residents. Gezerkia was rendered scilence because this never crossed to her or her fellow vmapires' mind when they conqured the towns without thinking the repercussion to them and even their victims.