Port Toluca Arc

**Port Toluca Arc** is the twelfth story arc of Kou 1 Desu Ga Isekai De Joushu Hajimemashita series and the first story arc of Western Kingdoms Saga.

At the western boarders, two kingdoms namely Agnica and Gasel are feuding against each other over price dispute that eventually gotten the attention from both Hybride and Phyllis respectively. This prompts Hiroto and his allies sneak into Port Toluca in order to understand the situation while trying to pacify the two kingdoms' feud. In the midst of this affair, Leonidas suddenly returns to Hybride from Regulus but his returns ends up garnering displeassure from even his own fellow countrymen, including his uncle Hybdran the Duke who is also antagonizing Hiroto due to his status.

This arc marks the feud between Agnica and Gassel that going to impact Hiroto's career in the future.

## Prologue

### **Prince's Return to Hybride and The Duke's Strange Dream**

#### Part 1

At Regulus, Leonidas is awaken by two ladies but rejects their flirting as he is now bored by it and he is heading back to Hybride.

## Plot

### **Sanctions Against Agnica and Gasel**

#### Part 6

Upon meeting both Agnika and Gasel Factions, Hiroto , now reveals himself as the Margrave that stuns almost everyone, (as Margrave) implements his sanctions against both factions: Not only sailors and merchants from both sides are forced to pay at least 200 Vint for their ruckus at Salabria's harbor, they are also barred from entering that port within 3 months.

Elsewhere, news about Hiroto's sanctions against Agnica has spread across the continent:

### **Nobles' Reaction to Leonidas's Return**

#### Part 6

Upon meeting both Agnika and Gasel Factions, Hiroto , now reveals himself as the Margrave that stuns almost everyone, (as Margrave) implements his sanctions against both factions: Not only sailors and merchants from both sides are forced to pay at least 200 Vint for their ruckus at Salabria's harbor, they are also barred from entering that port within 3 months.

The news about Hiroto's sanctions against Agnica has spread across the continent:

### **Aftermath Sanctions Against Salabria**

#### Part 1

Elsewhere, news about Hiroto's sanctions against Agnica has spread across the continent: Zeldis declares that Agnica is their enemy after he hears from a messenger about one Agnician merchant's insult of Valkyria.

### **The Ominous Return of a Tyrant**

#### Part 1

Three days later at Agnica's capital, the banned Agnician merchant complains to Lyndrus about Hiroto's sanctions while lied . Elsewhere, Panopticus learns what had happened at Salabria from Hiroto's letter, from

### **Leonidas's Meeting With Privy Council**

#### Part 1

At Emperia, the Privy Council's meeting begins with Leonidas joining the meeting and his first suggestion is to lift the ban of Belphegor and Rasmus.

#### Part 3

This causes both Leonidas and Hydran to insult each other that neither of one of them should be serving the Privy Council which causes Sobrinus to stop the meeting and declares that only two of them stay behind in order to, to which everyone agrees by nodding their heads whereas Leonidas grumbling

#### Part 4

Anyways, Sobrinus declares that this meeting will end and only Leonidas and Hydran stays The meeting ends with everyone except Leonidas agrees under Sobribus's decree and everyone except Leonidas nod their heads as to agree. Leonidas, who is grumbling over his proposal being interrupted

### *Hiroto's First Meeting With Hydran and Lyndrus*

#### Part 1

Elsewhere, Hiroto and his friends stop by at Felkina's mansion during their trip to Emperia. Felkina informs Hiroto about what Leonidas did behind his absence and his desire to meet

### **Eash's Hesitation to Aid Gasel**

#### Part 1

At Babylos, both Eash and Jessel reads Metis's letter that confirmed Hiroto's involvement of Tzedeck's assasination and the news about what happened at Salabria prompts the Phyllian King remarks that Agnician are fools for angering the vampires

#### Part 3

Nonetheless, as much as he doesn't want to meddle both kingdoms' affairs, Eash reassures Dorzel that he will dispatch Metis to aid Gasel if Agnica attack them and it prompts Dorzel to lower his head to the ground as his gratitude. Afterwards, Dorzel leaves Phyllis for Hybride instead of Gassel, all the while thinking about rumors Dorzel remarks Eash's hesitation of helping Gasel even after brings up Ismir's name but while he assumes that this is due to a rumor about Hiroto the Margrave, he is relief that he has obtained an assurance of Metis's aid to beat

### **Ambassadors' Visitation to Hybride**

#### Part 1

Elsewhere, Hiroto's carriage arrives at Emperia Royal Palace and when Hiroto and his friends leave the carriage, Leonidas berates him for being

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#### Part 2

However, just as Moldias informs Hiroto about Leonidas's audacious proposal of reviving North Phyllis and demanding Magia's compensation, a guard informs him that Dorzel want to have an audience with him

### **Ambassadors' Visitation to Hybride**

#### Part 1

Elsewhere, Hiroto's carriage arrives at Emperia Royal Palace and just when Hiroto and his friends are about to exit the carriage, Leonidas berates him for being

### **Gassel Ambassador's Audience**

#### Part 2

However, just as Moldias informs Hiroto about Leonidas's audacious proposal of reviving North Phyllis and demanding Magia's compensation, a guard informs him that Dorzel want to have an audience with him

###  **Leonidas's Dismissal From the Privy Council**

#### Part 1

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#### Part 2

However, just as Moldias informs Hiroto about Leonidas's audacious proposal of reviving North Phyllis and demanding Magia's compensation, a guard informs him that Dorzel want to have an audience with him

### **Lyndrus's Insincere Apology**

#### Part 3

Elsewhere, Sōichirō and Curele are looking at the butterflies.

### **Metis's Advice to Dorzel About The Vampires**

#### Part 2

Meanwhile, Metis greets Dorzel at Terchevelle Castle and after their small talk about Ismir, he informs her that Hybride has decided to aid Agnica after Lyndrus's rrival despite was reluctant to answer his request until Lyndrus arrived which prompted him to think that Hybride had decided to aid Agnica and cau causing him to have concerns about the vampires. However, Metis assures him that he should worry about the vampires, however, because

#### Part 2

So, Metis gives Dorzel some tips about how to keep the vampires which he immediately understands. In the meantime, she also ruges

### **Prelude to the War**

#### Part 1

Meanwhile, Dorzel visits Salabria before Hiroto and Valkyria return from Emperia and apologizes to Excelis again for the Gaselian merchant's commotion at Salabria.

#### Part 2

Dorzel and his men also encounter Baldos and other vampires during their way back to Gasel but rather than showing hostility, mostly because Dorzel orders his men to do anything harm, he thank the Count for

### **The Battle of Port Toluca**

#### Part 3

With Lyndrus's surrender, Port Toluca is officially fallen to the Phyllis-Gasel Allied Army and the news about that incident shaken Hybride and Agnica in the following aftermath.

#### Part 4

Excelis, who is so shocked to read the news about via a letter from Phyllian elves that she regrets for not heeding Hiroto's worries about the war between Agnica and Gassel, seeks the vampires and requests them to investigate both Toluca and Lyndrus only to be denied immediately because they still haven't forgotten nor forgiven the Agnicans for insulting Valkyria and Zeldis has ordered them not to help them. At Agnica's capital, Astorica is agitated when a Gaselian messenger informs her about what happened at Toluca and she is given an ultimatum to comply with Gasel's demand of the rectification of both port taxes and reparations if , whereas Leonidas murmurs that he was right about this predicament when he over hears this urgent news about Toluca that spreading across Emperia and further says that both his father and Panopticus should be ashamed of themselves for not heeding his warning and comments that this situation will be worsen.

### **Privy Council's Reaction About Fall of Port Toluca**

#### Part 1

At the king's office where the Privy Council's emergency meeting is taking place, everyone including Hiroto are speechless when Agnican ambassador report to them about what happened at Toluca and their plea to provide support to Agnica in order to retake Toluca and save Lyndrus from the Gassel-Phyllis Allied Army and save Lyndrus. While Not only the visiting Agnican ambassador is requesting for support to quell the on Astorica's behalf, the news about the vampires 's plea for support on Moldias and the combination of both Agnican Ambassador's plea for support on Astorica's behalf and Excelis's letter about vampires' rejection to cooperate to aid Agnica putting

#### Part 4

The enemy forces numbered perhaps a thousand. Gassel demanded that if Lindrus was to be released, the port tax should be corrected and that a ransom for Lindrus should be paid. Our queen replied that the invasion of Toluca was an act of barbarism that did not fear the spirit of the bridge, and that the spirit would surely bring down the hammer on them. However, she replied that if Lindrus agreed to correct the port tax, and if the Gasserian army withdrew from Turka immediately, she would be willing to consider the matter, and that compensation should be demanded from Lindrus. The Marquis of Lindors immediately refused.
The Duke of Hydran, who had close relations with the Marquis, was silent.
The Marquis of Lindors took the initiative to raise the port tax. We need the Marquis' cooperation to resolve the issue. But above all, there will be no solution without the support of Hübride. I would like to ask for your generous support right now.
Mordias I looked down at an angle. His expression was hard. His gaze is swimming. Ha!
The bad news was overlaid with bad news. Exelis, the Song Secretary of Sarabria, had sent a report that the Vambaians had been asked to inspect the port of Toluca, but they had refused.
This was the worst possible situation. If Gassel's army alone had occupied the port of Toluca, it would have been enough, but the Puris army had also occupied Toluca, and that too by Métis, one of Puris's most famous generals. Even now, Métis is said to be stationed in Toluca. Moreover, the vampire tribe refuses to cooperate in any way.
Refuse to cooperate with Agnica's ambassador?
No way.
Even though they are right in front of us.
We just confirmed the military reciprocity agreement between Hybride and Agnica the other day.
But what support can we offer?
What can our army do against the wise general Métis?
If we were to send an army, it would undoubtedly be led by Hiroto. But Hiroto will not have the support of the vampire tribe.
Without it, he will not be able to get the support of the Vampire Tribe. Without it, he will go to the port of Toluca to retake it.
Mordias I turned his attention to Hiroto. Hiroto was staring forward in thought. What is he thinking about?
Mordias I does not know what he is thinking. What he does know is that he has made another mistake.
Hiroto had advised him to break the agreement and keep his distance. He had warned that the vampire tribe would not cooperate.
But -.
Mordias I recalled his son who had yelled at him. He was covered in black vitriol, but his son was right (again, he was going to get Hiroto in trouble because of him ......).
He was right.
(Sorry ......)

It is my fault, Panobutis thought. Hiroto had written in his report after the disturbances between Tolka and Nemed that Métis had said he would lead the army. But he assumed that Métis was just pretending, that he was saying it as a check.
Hiroto also warned that the vampires would not cooperate.
The Vampires are still monks about the Agnicans, especially those of the Zeldis clan. The Zeldis clan, in particular, are furious that Valkyria was named a monster of a woman in front of the public. I am told that the other clans in the Saburian Confederation are in agreement. When the time comes for Agnica to start war with Gassel, it will be my role to go to the war zone. In that case, I believe it is highly unlikely that the vampire clans will side with us.
However, I threw myself away, saying that I would leave it to Hiroto. I was naive to think that if I left the matter to Hiroto, it would eventually be resolved. That is why I gave Agnica my word.
My own naivete and inaccurate grasp of the situation is now being used against this country. With the agreement in place, reinforcements must be sent.
Who to send?
Panobtikos looked at Hiroto.
There is no one else to send but Hiroto. Hiroto is the military and political head of the Sarapurian Frontier Province, the province closest to Agnica.
（I did not think that he would take over Métis with him. My fault. ......)
Hydran, on the other hand, doesn't feel anything despite his own surprise by such turns of events and the with the vampires refused to cooperate

The Duke of Hydran was surprised by this sudden turn of events, but he did not feel self-pity, regret, or despair, as did the king and the prime minister.
The Duke of Hydran looked at Hiroto. Even Hiroto did not smile. He was looking at an angle of five degrees downward, pondering. His expression seemed to say that he had no plan.
（The frontier count cannot be touched. The Vampire Tribe itself refused to cooperate. The vampire tribe itself refuses to cooperate. There is nothing he can do.)
And I have deep connections with the Marquis of Lindrus. I don't have a good idea how to repel the forces of Gassel and Pyrrhus that are occupying the port of Toluca, but I might be able to rescue the Marquis of Lindrus. At the very least, I might be able to rescue the Marquis of Lindrus. At the very least, I am the one who can best persuade the Marquis of Lindrus.

### **The Pride of A Duke**

#### Part 3

At Gassel, both Ismir and Pashan are confronting

#### Part 4

Dorzel then

* Gasel and Agnica shall immediately

Unfortunately, not even these agreements able to force Lyndrus to yield as the Marquis is so defiant that he willingly to accept his fate of getting executed by hanging despite Dorzel's, leaving both Dorzel and even Metis troubled for failing to persuade the stubborn nobleman .

### **The Flower and Vase**

#### Part 1

At the evening, two elven ships arrive at Port Toluca and the visitor is none other than Hiroto who tells the guards that he comes here to "doing business'" with ith a visitor who later revealed to be Hiroto and he says that is doing "business". This causes the guard to go to both Metis and Dorzel and report

#### Part 2

Back at Hybride, everyone is worried about Hiroto's solo mission to Toluca: Despite her delight to know that she was originally nominated to go to Toluca, Felkina also sorrowly feels that Hiroto will lose-be it by becoming Phyllis's prisoner or being killed by Phyllian soland fears that his demise will cause Hybride to meet it's decline. Both Leonidas and Moldias also have their respective regrets about Leonidas feels so sad and lonely and Moldias feels regret with the prince feels so sad and lonely that he lies on the bed all day even after his mistress leave the room whereas the king can only sigh and thinks that the Margrave's death will be his irrevocable mistake. Hydran, on the other hand, feels that he should have going to Toluca and persuade Lyndrus instead of Hiroto and fears that the youngster's failure to be Hybride's horrific blow to it's downfall. At Dominus Castle, Sōichirō is panicking about Hiroto went there without reinforcements despite Excelis .

## Epilogue

### Part 1

The news about Hiroto's successful mission Toluca spreads to all four kingdoms. At Gasel, both Ismir and Pashan are so impressed by Dorzel's report about Hiroto's proposal-one that of which including guaranteeing Gasel Army's safe withdrawal after Lyndrus had agreed to pay the tax -that the queen herself thanking the Count . Meanwhile, at Agnica, Lyndrus not only reports to Astorica about some news in regards of Hiroto's proposal about trade agreement that preserved Agnica's dignity, to the point even shouting at Lokroi for his skepticism, he also . Elsewhere, Moldias and the Privy Council are so amazed by all except Hydran who is so disbelief to hear about Hiroto's successful

## Characters

* Valkyria
* Zeldis
* Sōichirō Sōda
* Curele
* Metis
* Panopticus
* Sobrinus
* Universtel
* Felkina do Lalente
* Finnath
* Eesh I
* Joachim
* Belffergo
* Rasmus

## Story Impact

* With the addition of Agnica and Gasel, who are allies to both Hybride and Phyllis respectively via pacts between their respective rulers, the world map is now showing 6 main kingdoms that are close to the Terminus River extended beyond the initial 4 kingdoms (Hybride, Phyllis, Magia and Regulus) as it has now has 6 main kingdoms.
	+ Agnica is located at the west of Hybride and it is introduced as Hybride's longtime ally due to the alliance between 2 respective king, mostly to due the former queen of Hybrdide with one of them was Moldius's father who vowed to protect its western ally if any threats befall onto it. It
	+ Gasel, on the other hand, hails from south west of Hybride and an ally to Phyllis due to the political marriage between King Pashan the Second and Queen Ismir, the latter of the two is Eesh's younger sister.

* Leonidas's true personality beyond his flamboyant personality from the surface is further explored in this arc. Not only he want to become Hybride, of which resulting him, is further explored where he suffered a inferiority complex for being overshadowed by his late brother Jullius.

* Hydran is debuted as the Duke who happens to be Moldias's cousin and Leonidas's uncle, making him a member of the Hybride royal family. However, Hydran despises Leonidas due to this uncouth behavior that made him seemely "unfit" for the crown and he himself has an ambition to replace his cousin as the new king of Hybride and just like most of Hiroto's enemies, he too belittles Hiroto due to his status that is not but growing more caution due to his bond with the vampires. Hiroto's involvement and success in pacifying the feud between Agnica and Gasel in just 3 hours without incident shocks Hydran so much Hydran's hostility towards the Diferente as he only views him as a "threat" to Hybride and willing to use any schemes to stop his rise, making him as one of Hiroto's vilest enemy in the series.

* Some new characters are introduced in this arc, specifically aristocrats and royalty from both Agnica and Gasel.
* Pashan II and Ismir are introduced as the rulers of Gasel, with the latter is Eash's biological younger sister. In fact, both couples are so compatible that even the local husbands are envious for the pair.

* The aftermath of Hiroto's successful negotiation with both Gasel-Phyllis Arlliance and Agnica that finally pacify the are involved.
	+ Due to the
	+ Lyndrus is eternally grateful to Hiroto for rescuing him from being executed and he respects him so much that he praises the youngster as Hybride's valuable minister for proposing , further elevating Hiroto's fame and influences.
	+ Emperia is celebrating Hiroto's success with Moldius plan to host a feast as his gratitude to the Dilfrant's latest accomplishments, while Leonidas laughs as if . Of all people, however, only Hydran is baffled by baffled by Hiroto's latest success and Lyndrus's praises about the Diferente in the following arc ends up fueling his rivalry against the Diferente because he views his young rivla's unexpected success may be a threat to him for the crown.