Defamation Arc

**Defamation Arc** is the 6th story arc of Kou 1 Desu Ga Isekai De Joushu Hajimemashita series and 2nd arc of Hybride and Phyllis Saga. Despite Hiroto's contribution in saving Hybride by quelling Gezerkia's Vampire Army from Orsia and even having a peaceful neotiation with her, Panopticus, the Prime Minister of Hybride who also happens to be a prestigious member of the Privy Council of Emperia, tires to ruin Hiroto's career in order to solidify his Centralization Faction in the kingdom. Meanwhile, Phyllis Kingdom, Hybride's rival kingdom from the south, attempts to attack it's northern neighbor after King Moldias ignores King Eash's request of North Phyllis remnants' arrest for their assassination attempt on him, which ironically forces Emperia to bring Hiroto back

## Prologue

### **Emperia's Gossip About Hiroto & Gezerkia's Desire to "visit" Solum**

1 month has passed since the incident at Orsia, Emperia is abuzz with gossips about Hiroto after one ambassador informs the royal court a shocking in regards of his deeds in stopping Gezerkia's terror without mobilizing his army, as well as his friendship with Zeldis and his clan, with Quintilis's report enforces this news. Everyone is so astonished by Hiroto's amazing feat that they vows to defend the Ibrid System at all cost. Panopticus, however, deems this news will only elevate Sobrinus's influence even more while thinking that both Hybride and Ibrid System needs an "overhaul", mainly because he suspects that Quintilis's report about Hiroto's deed has some "holes" in it. In order to crush Hiroto, he tasks his aide Delegelis and Inferia, the latter of whom bypassed the nobles and aristocrats who were gossiping about Hiroto, to go to Orsia as "inspectors" in order to find some "evidence" to prove Hiroto's "violation" against the royal decree. Eventually, Sobrinus learns Panopticus's scheme plan via a messengers who arrives at the Emperia Spirit Cathedral and orders to spread a word to both Olsina and Salabria, hoping that he can stop his rival's plot for Centralization.

Meanwhile, at the Red-Winged Vampires' camp that is located at Hybride's northern wilderness, Gezerkia and her vampires are enjoying their hot spring bath and massage from young girls who help out to anoint them with massage oil. During their relaxation, some vampires are still fuming about Hiroto and calls him a "cheeky" and "rude" person for his triumphant return to Solum after his victory over their leader, all the while ranting about Zeldis for being friendly with the humans. These vampires' complains about both Hiroto and Zeldis intrigues Gezerkia so much that she opts to invites some of them to go to Solum and make a ruckus so they can "cool off" their furstrations.

## Plot

### **Hiroto's Triumph Return to Solum**

#### Part 1

At Solum, citizens of all species (from vampires to even human knights) are celebrating Hiroto and his allies' triumphant return by giving their heroes a warm welcome with cheers and ovation. After greeted by Sentelio, Hiroto begins his rousing speech by not only thanking his peers and allies especially Zeldis and his clans' glorious accomplishments in saving Salabria, he also thanking Solum for making the coexistence between humans and Other Species possible for the former letting the vampires to drink some of their blood. Ergo, he declares that vampires can be their allies too. With the crowd of residents' cheer after he ends his speech by thanking everyone, Hiroto believe that this will going to ensure the coexistence between humans and vampires.

Unbeknownst to Hiroto and his peers, however, there are three things are happening while they are at Solum: First, Gezerkia and her three subordinates snuck into Solum without getting defected via their cloak, with Gezerkia herself is curious about the town itself. Secondly, at Primaria, Excelis confronts Marcel Lord and his fellow South Salabria castle lords regarding the implementation of their uniformed Development Order but instantly rejects them as she reminds them about Hiroto's heroic deeds that saved Salabria while call them out for their plan that may heve severe ramifications for the human-vampire relationship; additionally, she is also shocked to hear that both Delegelis and Inferia are at Orsia and begin to worry about their schemes. Lastly, Marcel Lord, who returns to his castle with disappointment, meets up with Galsh the former secretary of North Phyllis and while he remarks about his business that going nowhere, .

#### Part 7

However, the party is interrupted by Baldos who reports to Hiroto and others about Gezerkia and her subordinates' infiltration into Solum.

### **Gezerkia's "Sightseeing" onto Solum**

Back at Solum, Baldos's report about Gezerkia's infiltration leads to the emergency meeting where eveyrone begins to wonder Gezerkia's motive at Solum. While most of them (including Valkyria and Zeldis) suspects that Gezekria comes to Solum with vile intentions, Hiroto is the only thinking that she just comes here for sightseeing. So Hiroto calls everyone to stay in the castle while orders Alvy to greet Gezerkia so he can meet her at the Spirit Church.

#### Part 3

At Solum's town square, Gezerkia and her 2 subordinates are astonished in disbelief when they see town's vibrant atmosphere where humans and Other Species coexist together, especially the sight of human residents offer some blood to the vampires-something amazes Gezerkia so much that she feels like a dream but refuses to believe that the coexistence between humans and vampires is possible. Whilst feeling dizzy for not having enough blood, Gezerkia sees an approaching human mother and child pair and try to intimidate them by removing her cloak  , only to resort to put an act by tripping onto the ground on purpose and pretend to be sick when the pair are not afraid of her. Rather than feeling apathetic about it, the parent and child pair offer Gezerkia some blood instead, much to her embarassment as sher apologizes for her trickery but mother kindly suggests her to find men's blood before leaving with her child. Gezerkia is so dumbfounded by such experience that she feels that Solum is different th cities she formerly conqurerd  whilst recalling Zeldis's scolding and understand why he was angry back then. Later, Alvy appears to greet Gezerkia and offers his protection which Gezerkia reluctantly accepts and she following Alvy to where Hiroto is waiting.

Back at Solum Castle, Valkyria is so worried about Hiroto that she wants to leave but Zeldis stops her as he claims that doing so will only ends up exacerbate the situation.

Meanhile, Alvy and Gezerkia eventually arrive to Solum's spirit church where Hiroto awaits them.

#### Part 7

Nevertheless, Gezerkia smiles and views both Hiroto and Solum are strange and feels flabbergasted by the Diferente's invitation for a drink. Before she leaves, Hiroto tells Gezerkia to contact him if she needs help but she doesn't reply and flies away with her 2 subordinates.

#### Part 8

After Gezerkia's departure from Solum, Alvy remarks Gerzerkia's haughtiness and smiles as Hiroto replies that her question has left him off guard and claims that he would be in trouble if he answered the wrong question. Elsewhere, Gezerkia returns to her tribe's camp orders her vassals not to attack Soulm and Hiroto as she declares that Solum is a town that needed to perserved, much to her vassal and retainers' confusion and they are baffled to learn about the human-vampire relationship via her 2 subordinates. At the same time, she lies on a bed while recalling her experience at Solum and feel envious for Zeldis and Valkyria to have such intresting ally like Hiroto.

### **Panopticus's Spies "Investogators" at Orsia**

#### Part 8

So, the two have to split in different direction: Inferia will visit the Red-Winged Vampire's forest while Delegelis go to Primaria instead

### **Kings of Phyllis and Hybride**

#### Part 1

At Phyllis's capital city, King Eash of Phyllis is having a morning foot massage with 2 female masseuse until his prime minister Abrahim comes in and reports that Hybride didn't respond o his request. This causes Eash so angry that he rants as if Moldias want him dead. Abrahim then as he rants about Moldias's intention to see him dead.

#### Part 3

At Marcel Castle, Galsh meets up with his two fellow North Phyllis remnants where he receives confirmation that they have managed to infiltrate into Phyllis and plan their next assassination attempt on Eesh.

### **Phyllis King's Near Assassination**

At the same time at Phyllis, Eash enjoys his morning massages and orders them to leave after they are finished but one of 3 female masseuse, who is revealed to be North Phyllis assassin in disguise, stays behind and attempts to assassinate him but ends up getting killed by Eash instead as retaliation. Th following incident enrages Eash so much that he summons Abrahim to his bedroom only to be dismayed by Hybride's letter and according to the letter, as Abrahim reads, Moldias demands Phyllis to get along with Hybride under the claim that those who didn't break the laws within either Phyllis or Hybride's boarders are free men and it is the king's duty to defend those freedoms. This prompt Eash to deduce that Hybride has no intention to arrest North Phyllis remnants and bring them back to Phyllis, so he vows to punish Hybride for it's insolence. To do so, Abrahim suggests a pincer attack onto Hybride by manipulating the vampires to keep Emperia occupied while they launch an invasion onto Salabria so they can flush out the North Phyllis Remnants there. Seeing this idea as a perfect revenge plan to crush Hybride, Eash leaves this plan to Abrahim.

### **Privy Council's Meeting about Hiroto's Dismissal**

#### Part 2

After much deliberation , Moldias declares that Hiroto will be officially dismissed from his governor position and he will be replaced by Excelis. However, Panopticus mentions about a possibility of Hiroto being appointed as Excelis's advisor and suggests to ban him from holding any important position, to which Sobrinus retorts as if his rival want to eliminate him forever but Panopticus replies it is only effective for one year and it is sufficient if they have "necessary" human resources.

#### Part 4

Later, Panopticus returns to his room and meet up with Delegelis and Inferia who are waiting for him. Delegelis remarks his lord's "generosity" about banning Hiroto from holding important positions for only 1 year instead of 5, to which Panopticus replies that as much as he want to do so, he fears that Sobrinus knows that too and the implementation against Hiroto will fail if Moldias finds out about it and protest against it. Viewing that the Diferente is troublesome, Delegelis proposes on assassinating Hiroto, followed by Inferia's silence. Contrary with his underlings' request, Panopticus opts to keep the cheese piece instead as he claims that he has use

### **Hiroto's Dismissal as Salabria's Governor**

#### Part 4

Hearing this announcement makes Zeldis, Valkyria and even Magnelis so angry that they scolds Krestel for Emperia's ungratefulness and almost pick a fight with the courier in spite of his threat of imprisonment and execution for their defiance, only for Hiroto's intervention that everyone stop whereas Hiroto himself whispers to Valkyria that his has a backup plan. Sadly, even that is foiled as the moment Exelis asks Krestel if she can at least keep Hiroto as her advisor, Krestel immediately denies her request by saying that Hiroto will not hold any important position-not even an advisor-within a year, which gives Hiroto a heavy blow and being rendered frozen. Chaos instantly ensues when his friends and allies are equally confused and demoralized by such announcement and to make matters from bad to worse, Zeldis opts to leave Salabria due to Emperia's betrayal and forcing both Valkyria and Curele to leave with him against their will-something shaken Excelis so much that she blames herself for it. Magnelis and Quintilis aren't happy either as the former is so angry to learn that even Emperia Elven Elder approved Emperia's decision that he refuses to forgives Panopticus for it, whereas the latter deduces that Panopticus has twisted his report to crush his opponents and laments that Emperia's decision will have detrimental consequences to not just Salabria, but also Hybride and it's future.

Suddenly, Hiroto collapses onto the ground due to despair and everyone is so worried about him that they immediately take him into the executive office for recovery. Kestel, being the only one who is apathetic towards Hiroto's collapse, exacerbate the situation by voicing his dismay about Hiroto resting at his former office which ends up garnering everyone's enmity against him instead. Not only Excelis chastises Kestel for his uncaring attitude towards Hiroto, Magnelis prohibits him from entering the office with them as he scornfully declares that Salabria's Elven Elder Council will not recognize him as is new parliamentary officer and they will not obey to even Emperia so long Hiroto's position is not restored. This news cause a commotion at Dominus' Hall where all the attendees are talking about it, especially the 4 South Salabria castle lords who views this as an opportunity to request Excelis to grant their uniformed Development Decree. Out of everyone, however, only Feuillet remain silent even when Torlan urges him to seize this opportunity to implement the uniformed Development Decree.

#### Part 8

At the executive office, everyone is so worried about Hiroto's condition that everyone are sobbing and plea him to stay alive until Hiroto opens his eyes and, to their surprise and joy

### **Excelis the Magistrate of Salabria**

#### Part 6

Nonetheless, Magnelis says that Hiroto's act has brought everyone together and informs Zeldis that he views him as a counsaultant despite he isn't one, mainly because he views that Salabria's future is belonged to everyone including the Vampires and Skeletons-something moves Zeldis's heart so much that he begins to cry. With that, Excelis, Sōichirō, Zeldis and Manelis are heading to the hall and meet everyrone-including Krestel who is still shaken by Magnelis's scolding-who are still gossiping even when a guard orders to be quiet.

#### Part 7

Excelis begins her speech by declare that she will follow Hiroto's ideas as she views that saying that she plans to follow Hiroto's ideals as she deems a heterogeneous society is Salabria's future due to the Diferente's contribution in fixing the human-vampires relation. So, she handpicks Sōichirō, Alvy and Valkyria as her consultants to avoid bias and despite it garners the crowd's disatisfaction for not dismissing the vampires, Krestel is unable to refute Excelis when he is asked if he has a problem with her decision; moreover, she declares that she will continues Hiroto's poliices (such as maintaining Air Mail and Ibrid System, as well as the decision in ) as she views that the con

#### Part 9

As for Hiroto, he is moving to Primaria and stay there for a while as guest, alongside with many others.

#### Part 7

Curele, on the other hand, is playing a ball until she stumbles upon Kestel who is so unpleasant by her presence that he berates his guards for it and tries to persuade her to leave Dominus Castle. To Krestel's panic, his words ends up making Curele upset instead and just as he tries to "explains" to her about the "new rules", Sōichiro calls him out for making Curele cry over his allegation against her, but the officer remains adamant about Curele being a "dangerous person" and uses his new position to warn Sōichiro to watch his tone. That is until both Magnelis and Artelis chime in and their defense of Curele renders Krestel speechless, with the latter states that she is his guests and even threaten the officer that Primaria Elven Elder Council will not interact with him if he continues his antagonism against her. Sōichiro and Curele then resume their ball game where the latter kick the ball at Krestel so hard that it causes him to squeal in pain and rants about her for being "dangerous", only to be mocked by Sōichiro's snarky remark about him being a weak hypocrite who preaches about military matters but being freaked out over a ball attack.

### **Gygas's Murder by Phyllis**

#### Part 1

At Dominus Castle on one following noon, Sōichiro and Curele continue their ball game until they see 2 Red-Winged Vampires flying by

#### Part 2

To the shock of Sōichiro and others, they learn that Gygas's murder was causing the Red-Winged Vampires' rampage across Sieuras for revenge, causing the former to assume that the cycle of hatred between vampires and humans ever ceases. Hiroto then arrives alongside Valkyria and Mimia, much to Krestel's dismay as he feels that he shouldn't be here due to his status but Excelis reprimands him by asking him if seeking the only person who understand the vampires is counted as "violating" the decree and she doesn't want to hear his own opinion about it, rendering Krestel to mubling his complain to himself which prompts Sōichiro view him as an idiotic coward. Nonetheless, Hiroto informs everyone that he heard this news from Valkyria and because Excelis informs that Gundongan's letters are unanswered, he plans to meet Gezerkia by himself via Air Carriage.

#### Part 3.2

Meanwhile, Gezerkia confronts and interrogates Shihar-farmer who was brought to her camp by force, courtesy to her subordinates-over Gygas's murder, to which the farmer tells her about everything and reveal that the murderers were already fled to the south. This leads to Gezerkia's frustration as she fears that her clan's dissatisfaction will only rise if they unable find the murderers. Suddenly , until a subordinate reports about Hiroto's appearance via air transport prompts her to greet him. Hiroto calls Gezerkia out for killing innocent people who were irrelevant to Gygas's murder and Gezerkia asks why due to confusion, he explains that the arrow that killed Gygas is the most suspicous one because he decudes that culprit must be a knight instead of civilians due to that kind of skill and accuracy. Seemly understands the situation, Gezerkia orders her subordinates to locate the these 2 escaping knights while telling Hiroto that he has garners her trust, but Hiroto urges that time is running out and they need to find the murderers quick before they can escape.

### **Reactions to Phyllis's Invasion Attempt onto Salabria**

The news of 10,000 strong Phyllis Army's march towards Terminus River has shaken Salabria, with Hybrdian scouts hastily rushes back to Excelis when they sees a massive army's march whereas Eesh's messenger, who arrives at Emperia earlier, gleefully anticipating Hybride's chaos as consequences for ignoring Eash's request. Zeldis, who is on his way to Dominus Castle with his subordinates, feels so sympathetic about Gezerkia's rampage due to Gygas's death that he blames Panopticus for it but when he arrives at Primaria, he learns from Excelis about Phyllis Army's march so he orders his men to survey the enemy's while he leaves for Secondaria in order to meet Manelis for reinforcement. Elsewhere, both South Salabria castle lords and North Phyllis Remnants (especially Galsh who is Marcel's guest) also mortified to learn Phyllis Army's march via a letter from Phyllis about it's invasion attempt onto Salabria, so much so that Marcel Lord immediately rush towards Primaria in order to seek Excelis's help while lamenting about the unexpected predicament that befell onto him.

At Dominus castle. Excelis is surrounded by panicked castle lords who frantically demands her progress but despite both the elves' effort try to calm the crowd by informing that a small army was preparing while the vampires were collecting intel as they speak, the castle lords rant viciously about the slow pace even when Excelis berates them for their selfishness and greed and only asks her help whenever they are in trouble. What really adds the castle lords' panic is Hiroto's absence that causes them to rant even more but Excelis retorts by reminding them that the Dilfrant was dismissed under Emperia decree, even though deep down she herself is wondering about Hiroto's plan of meeting Gezerkia. Even in their best efforts, the castle lords can only muster at least 200 soldiers as reinforcement and while most of them arguingover their battle against Phyllis Army, nearly all of them ranting about the battle but Alvy explains that ther mission is to hold off the enemy temporarily. At night, Excelis can only pray for Hiroto's return as soon she learns from Zeldis's letter that even his clan is not suffice enough to defeat the invaders and they can only move when Hiroto returns.

At Emperia, Moldius and the Privy Council are having an emergency meeting about Gezerkia's latest rampage at Orsia. Both Panopticus and Sobrinus are arguing over their solution to deal with her, with the Prime Minister suggests to dispatch 10,000 Imperial Army to eradicate the Red-Winged Vampires whereas the Archbishop suggests to reinstate Hiroto to negotiate with her instead-something Panopticus scoffs as "futile" as he views this will embolden the vampires in spite of Sobrinus's retort that defeating them by force will deteriorate the humans-vampires relationship. Suddenly, the meeting is interrupted by a guard who reports the arrival of Phyllis ambassador and everyone is rendered speechless by the visitor's message about Eash's ultimatum to Hybride: arrest the North Phyllis remnants and send them back to Phyllis or witness Salabria's annexation under Phyllis's rule. As soon as the Phyllis ambassador leaves, Moldias curses Eash for his coercion and berates Panopticus for not aware of Phyllis Army's march while bemoaning about unable to repel the invaders in time. Sobrinus suggests Moldias to prioritize on countering Phyllis's pincer attack by borrowing the vampires powers to repel the invaders, and then grants Hiroto an amnesty due to his importance to Salabria. Panopticus, whose opposition against Sobrinus's suggestion is rebuffed after Moldias mutters about Sobrinus's words in regards of Phyllis being a mastermind behind Gezerkia's rampage, deems that granting Hiroto's amnesty will affect Moldias' dignity but Sobrinus argues that a kingdom and subjects' lives are more important than dignity. Not knowing what to do, Moldius asks Univestel for his advice and latter also urges the king to prioritize on stopping the invaders out of fear of Hybride's losing prestige if Salabria falls. Ergo, Moldias declare a new decree: Hiroto will be given an amnesty and he will be to pardon Hiroto and have an ambassador to go to Salabria.

Elsewhere, Hiroto is still trying to figure out Gygas's murder  until Slara appears and reports about Phyllis Army's invasion onto Salabria. That causes Hiroto realizes the answer and immediately informs Gezerkia a shocking revelation: Phyllis was behind Gygas's murder as its plot for a pincer attack by manipulating the Red-Winged Vampires to attack Orsia just to keep Emperia occupied whilst trying to invade Salabria from the latter's back. This revelation shocks and angers Gezerkia so much that it raises her bloodlust much to Gezerkia's horror and anger. Just as Hiroto is thinking an counterattack, Desergues Clan Vampires enter into her camp and requests to attack Phyllis Army but she hesitates until Hiroto holds her hands and promises her that he will let her and her vampires to deal with Gygas's murderers themselves once they finds them. After mulling for a while, Gezerkia prepares for battle against the invading Phyllis Army and avenge Gygas, while Hiroto orders Slara to inform Zeldis and Salabria Alliance to rendezvous at Terminus River and hold their grounds against the invader.

### **Battle of Terminus River**

#### Part 1

At the Phyllis Army's main camp, the general orders his army to cross the river early

#### Part 2

As for the 2 Phyllis assassins who passed Secondaria while evading the vampires, they almost reach towards Terminus River's port until they see Galsh who is about to leave Dominus Castle, prompting one of them to approach and stab Galsh in front of Sorceire and Carabella but they immediately flee when the latter give chase. Luckily, Galsh narrowly survives his assassination but Excelis, Valkyria and others remain uneasy due to Salabria Army's indecisiveness even with the aid from Zeldis and his clany. To everyone's surprise and joy, Hiroto returns alongside Gezerkia and her clan via air transport and ensures Excelis that with the combined powers of Gezerkia, Zeldis and Salabria Alliance, they can still win the war. Just as Hiroto introduces Shihar the farmer to everyone, Sorceire informs him about Phyllis spies' assassination attempt onto Galsh, much to Gezerkia's shock as she now finds some hints about Gygas's murderers. To stop the spies' escape, Hiroto urges Sorceire and Shihar to go to Terminus River while orders Gezerkia to slay the enemy commander but just as he asks everyone where were Sōichiro and Curele, a vampire scout reports that Phyllis Army is now crossing Terminus River.

At Terminus River, Salabria Army is terrified to see the incoming Phyllis Army's boats that are sailing towards them, specifically Marcel Lord who begin to fell the despair when he sees the enemies' massive numbers in spite of his early bravado. That quickly changes when Hiroto arrives with 1,000 vampires and his stunning arrival shocks almost everyone, including Sōichiro who later hugs Hiroto and scolds him for being late. Alvy then inspires Salabria Alliance by announcing that Hiroto's return with Zeldis-Gezerkia Alliance as reinforcement shall lead them to victory over Phyllis Army. During his speech, Hiroto reveals that Phyllis tried to pit both humans and vampires into fighting against each other by killing an innocent vampire, and declares that Salabria will be Hybride's hero by defeating that despicable enemy, further boosting Salabria Alliance's morale. Afterwards, Hiroto turns to Curele for help but she hesitates at first until Sōichiro promises her to read more stories and play ball with her after the war, prompting her to flies off. Zeldis, who himself arrive at Terminus River after hearing Slara's news about Hiroto's return and Gezerkia's participation to the battle, commands his own vampires to follow suit once Curele is about to attack.

As for the Phyllis Army who are crossing the Terminus River, none of them expect the vampires arrival until Curele's swoops them down and decimate all the boats and drown several soldiers with them. To further demoralizing the invading Phyllis Army's morale, the vampires (led by Zeldis and Gezerkia) are next to attack as the Red-Winged Vampires slaughters the invaders in order to avenge Gygas's death, while Zeldis' vampires providing support alongside Alvy and Salabria soldiers by killing any surviving enemies. With the overwhelming prowess of the Salabria-Vampires Alliance, the Phyllis Army is severely decimated.

This shocking outcome reaches and stuns the remaining Phyllis forces including general named Zashur and to make matters from bad to worse for the invaders, Gezerkia leads the vampire's attack onto the main camp and she fights against Zashur in a duel and wins by killing him with one blow, courtesy to Curele's aid. With their leader dead, further demoralizing the surviving Phyllis soldiers' morale. As for the Phyllis spies, who are stunned to see this gruesome to the point one of them calling his fellow spy out for being distracted by Galsh during their escape, the duo are surrounded by 30 vampires when a couple recognize them as Gygas's killers. Condemning the spies as the "real" demons, Gezerkia finalizes her revenge by ordering the Desergues Clan to shoot 13 arrows at the killers as their execution. As the result, the Battle of Terminus River is over with Phyllis Army is defeated.

### **Aftermath of Phyllis Army's Defeat**

After the battle, Hiroto and his allies are greeted with ovation and applause by Primaria citizens for their triumph return. Out of everyone, however, only Krestel berates Hiroto for leading the army in spite of his suspension and condemns his triumph return as "outrageous" and "problematic", but this ends up enrages the Primaria citizens instead as they defend Hiroto by berates him for mocking their hero and drive him out from town by throwing things at him. Angelus, a bishop who was sent to Primaria as ambassador on Moldias's behest, is astonished by this phenomenal and informs Hiroto about Emperia's plans to pardon him and it's request for the vampires' cooperation to stop Phyllis's invasion, to . Rather than accepting the amnesty, Hiroto requests Angelus to fulfill his wish on his behalf.

At Babylos, Esh is appalled to hear the news about Phyllis Army's gruesome defeat by the vampires due to unexpected turns of events. Abrahim blames himself for this outcome and implores Eesh to punish him but the king refuses as he says that he had seen enough casualties. Emperia, meanwhile, is stunned to har Phyllis Army's defeat and Moldius is so joyful about this victory that he regrets about dismissing Hiroto's former position and plans to reward him for his heroic deeds. Angelus implores Moldius to fulfill Hiroto's 3 appeals but Panopticus opposes as he claims that the king was never wrong, only for him and other ministers (sans Sobrinus) to be rendered speechless by Moldius's question about removing the heroes (Hiroto and Curele) who saved Hybride from its enemy. Later, Sobrinus reports to Moldias' about Salabria Eleven Association's (specifically Primaria and Secondaria branch) petition to dismiss Kestel for repeatedly deviating his duties, all well as Hiroto's complain about his "violation" of the royal decree when h return from battle.

As for Panopticus, he returns to his room with disappointment while both Delegelis and Inferia are rendered speechless after hearing it. Still, Delegelis worries that Hiroto's return to power may poses a bigger threat to his lord, given his victory to crush Phyllis Army. Panopticus then asks Delegelis if he want to kill Hiroto but when Delegelis request his order, he warns him that killing Hiroto now  will only benefits Esh and he himself is not planning to become Phyllis's prisoner, much to Delegelis' silence. All Panopticus can say now is that his struggle against Sobrinus will going to get tougher since this outcome is favoring the Archbishop's side.

## Epilogue

### **Banquet and Gezerkia's Gratitude to Hiroto**

One week later, under Moldias's new decree, Hiroto, Excelis and Curele regain their original position and a banquet is held to celebrate this good news. During the banquet, all four South Salabria castle lords (namely Marcel, Gustave, Viktor, Glinka and others) bring gifts to both Hiroto and Zeldis as their gratitude for rescuing Salabria, though the latter suggests them to thank Curele and Gezerkia instead despite his suspicions about them spreading nasty rumors about her daughter, to which the castle lords nervously complies. While Sōichiro and Curele play ball where the latter traumatizes Kestel by "accidentally" kicks the ball at him again, Quintilis reunites with Hiroto as he becomes Salabria's preliminary official for Salabria again. As the banquet continues, Hiroto goes to the balcony to see the nightly sky only to confront Gezerkia and Dezerg Clan Vampires who thank him for helping them to avenge Gygasand as their gratitude, they bow down to him and Gezerkia pledges that her clan will not attack both him and Salabria again, then they fly away with Gezerkia bids him farewell and anticipating their next encounter. Hiroto's interaction with Gezerkia only make Valkyria, Mimia, Sorceire and even Excelis jealous, however, as they all press their breasts onto his face, prompting Hiroto to "savor" the "full course" and thinks that being the governor is actually fun.

## Characters

* Sōichirō Sōda
* Valkyria
* Curele
* Sorceire
* Gezerkia
* Excelis
* Panopticus
* Sobrinus
* Abrahim
* Moldius I
* Esh I
* Angelus
* Zeldis
* Feuillet
* Torlan
* Zeldis
* Feuillet
* Torlan

## Story Impact

* North Phyllis is introduced as a former kingdom that is annexed by Eash, who was a general during that time, betrayed it's king and waged a war agianst him and won, further unified both North and South of Phyllis as one huge kingdom. In the following after of Phyllis's unifincation, however, Eash mercilessly executed the former king and this led to most of the important figures to escape Phyllis and sought refuge from Emperia. Even since that day, Galsh and other plan to assassinate attempt onto Eash but the newly crowned king survived 10 attempts and even requests .
	+ Galsh is introduced as one of a few remaining North Phyllis survivors who planed. Eventually, Hiroto's victory in defeating Phyllis Army has garnered thier interest and . Unfortunately, Galsh and others do not aware that their 11 assassination attempt onto Eash has severe ramifications to their own people who lived at jugurtha om Jugurtha, who were formerly North Phyllians were taxed heavily by Babylos and they are forced to work harder to produce more food. As the result of this, famine spread across Jugurtha

* The aftermath of Hybride's harrowing victory against the invading Phyllis Army brings a profound impact to everyone who are involved in the story.
	+ Eash and Abrahim are so appalled to see Phyllis's Army horrendous defeat by the vampires that they view both Hiroto and the vampires as Phyllis's main threats. Ergo, this results Phyllis's hostility towards Hiroto and it willing to do anything to eliminate Hiroto in the next and last arc: from framing Hiroto into a "rebellion" to even have Phyllis's best generals (such as Metis and Gardel) to check on Hiroto's moves.
		- Even worse, Phyllis Army's nasty defeat along with
	+ Moldius feels so guilty about dismissing Hiroto from his governor position that he claims that without the Diferente's aid, whether he admits it or otherwise, Hybride will meet it's doom. However, this still doesn't mean the king himself trust Hiroto as much as Sobrinus due to his assumption that the Diferente's possible take over of the kingdom, courtesy to Emperia ministers (specifically Finnath and Univestel) supertitions. Nonetheless, Hiroto, Excelis and Curele regain their position under Moldius's decree and from this onwards, Hiroto's prominence will play a vital role to Hybride as he continues to achieve greatness as the story goes on.
	+ Panopticus, on the other hand, lament his failures to abolish Ibrid System when Moldius revokes Hiroto's punishment as his gratitude for the Diferente's and the vampires' timely rescue. In fact, rather than losing its influence, the Ibrid System is further enforced by the kingdom and they have accept it in spite of their irrational hatred and envy for Hirito. Of all ministers in Hybride, however, Panopticus chooses another plan for Hiroto as he doesn't want to see Hybride's downfall by Phyllis's hands.
	+ Aside from Hybride and Phyllis, other people from other kingdoms such as Magia and Regulus are also baffled to hear the vampires' victory over Phyllis, especially Urseus-the future King of Magia in several arcs later-condemns the vampires as a menace out of spite despite his father Nasar states that Phyllis attacked first, whereas both Cognidus and Dialogs become increasingly cynical due to their own pessimism against the vampires. This itself foreshadowing Hiroto's future rivalry with Magia and Regulus in another saga.

* Phyllis Kingdom is introduced as Hybride's southern neighboring kingdom and it is ruled by its' king Eash.

## Notes

1. ↑ Those aristocrats who are gossiping about preserving the Ibrid System are belonged to the Decentralization Faction led by Sobrinus.
2. ↑ Before she is taking off her cloak, Gezerkia specifically orders her suboridnates to not call her name and stand by.
3. ↑ Before she is taking off her cloak, Gezerkia specifically orders her subordinates to not call her name and stand by.
4. ↑ Her culture shock about Solum stems from her own experience at Az where she is called by a murderer ay a mother at Az despite saving both her and her child.
5. ↑ Gezerkia originally rejects Alvy's offer as she says that she can defend herself but ends up .
6. ↑ The only reason why Delegelis chose to go to Primaria because he doesn't want to become vampires' victim, mostly out of fear that he will be killed as food.
7. ↑ Eash's masseuse with their breasts to rub his sole.
8. ↑ Moldias himself isn't pleased to randomly punishing people as while he understands that those who breaks the law Panopticus uses the fire as a metaphor to the current situation: If the fire is small, he can at least finish it off with one strike.
9. ↑ According to Excelis, the Castle Lords (especially Southern Salabria) cared only about their interest and even demand her to implement the uniformed Plan uniformly in spite of Hiroto's rescue of Salabria from Gezerkia's invasion attempt. While they granted their wish about Hiroto's dismissal from his governor position courtesy to both Inferia and Delegelis, they're also ironically sought help from the same person when they are in trouble.
10. ↑ During the arguments between the castle lords, some are skeptical about battling against the invaders as they claims that regardless their effort, mustering approximately 1,500 soldiers is the best they can do and many of them want to battle on land instead. The other lords however insists on crushing the invaders at Terminus River since they view the river as their best defense. Regardless the options, unless the castle lord put themselves together, Salabria Alliance will facing its struggles against Phyllis Army.
11. ↑ Like Panopticus, Universtel also belittles the vampires because, in his view, owing the debt to the vampires was dangerous and they have to acknowledge them as hero once they rescue Hybride. As much as he dislikes the vampires, hower even he had to admit that Hiroto's relationship with the vampires was Hybride is crucial to repel Phyllis invader as he views that losing Salabria would put Hybride in a dangerous position.
12. ↑ According to Hiroto, he initially suspected that Panopticus was the one who provoked Gezerkia so he can extend his faction's influence and power over Sobrinus's, though he views that was impossible because this motive.
13. ↑ The very reason Gezerkia and her clan joining the battle now is not only avenging Gygas's death, they also yearned to make Phyllis pay for manipulating them into attacking Salabria blindly while mourning for the dead. This war was considered to be Gezerkia and her clan's redemption for their past atrocities in Salabria.
14. ↑ Whilst many of those who are rowing on the river, some of them have already landed on the shores of Terminus Rivers. Regardless, even they are not spared from Curele's attack.
15. ↑ Phyllis Army's pincer attack was Gezerkia and her clan stop attacking Hybride due to Hiroto words and attacked Phyllis instead after learned the truth behind the death of Gygas, one of the vampires from Dezerg Clan member.
16. ↑ For Esh, while seeing his army's unexpected defeat is already bad enough, the deaths of a minister are even worse as he needs them to guide him ruling Phyllis.
17. ↑ These 3 requests includes his innocence about defying royal order, Curele's rejection from the military and also Kestel's questionable report.
18. ↑ Panopticus uses the fire as a metaphor to the current situation: If the fire is small, he can at least finish it off with one strike.
19. ↑ According to Light Novel series' 7th volume, Glinka Lord's name is revealed as Zoch-a greedy and arrogant castle lord who still belittles Hiroto and the vampires even after they rescued Salabria from the invading Phyllis Army, usually due to his jealousy towards Hiroto's rise of fame. His jealousy eventually consumes him for he, and like Emperia minister and another governor by the name Lujud who rules Hagar, fell into Phyllis scheme of its (failed) assassination attempt onto Hiroto when he accepts many of Phyllis's gift in exchange of Hiroto's downfall-something ironically lead to his won demise.
20. ↑ As Gezerkia's ally, the common feature of these vampire clans are having red colored wings just like Gezerkia. Following behind her are nearly 30 vampires which comprises both male and female vampires.
21. ↑ Whilst both Gezerkia Alliances and Hiroto and co. managed to repel the Phyllis Army and dealt with the murderer who killed Gygas, what Hiroto and his allies did were only helping them to find the culprit and even let them dealt with the murderer by themselves. Regardless, Gezerkia was grateful for their aid.
22. ↑ Gezerkia also notes that because of his death, she believes that her fallen comrade has found his place at the other world.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Light Novel Volume 6 Chapter 20
2. ↑ Light Novel 7