I, the Villain, Want to Save Myself, But the Yandere Heroines Disagree - Chapter 115

Orson listened to Elsa’s words, was stunned for a moment, then spoke uncertainly:

“Your Highness the Princess, did you just mean that you want to support me in becoming the next Duke of Napoli? If I didn’t mishear, that’s what you meant, right?”

“Mm,” Elsa nodded. “Currently, there is only one main factor preventing you, Orson, from becoming Duke.”

“One?”

“Mm, that is your family identity,” Elsa said this.

“In the history of the Empire, there has never been a situation where one family controlled two ducal territories. At that time, you, Orson, also cannot be the first to set this precedent. So if you want to become the Duke of Napoli, you can only first leave the Stranick family. Furthermore, you cannot leave on your own initiative. It must be because of an incident that causes the Stranick family to expel you, creating a feeling of a complete break.”

“Complete break…” Hearing Elsa say this, Orson lowered his head.

“Of course, Orson, you can put on a play, so that your family knows nothing, or you can tell them directly now and have them act with you.”

“Whether the acting is convincing is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that you cannot become the Duke of Napoli while still being a member of the Stranick family.”

Hearing Elsa finish speaking, Orson lowered his head and began to ponder.

Overall, this matter was more beneficial than harmful to Orson. After all, the Napoli Duchy was not poor. In fact, it was even wealthier than the Antica Duchy. Even if it was currently chaotic due to the war, as long as the war ended and the new Duke allowed it to recuperate, it could quickly recover its pre-war vitality.

However, in this way, Orson would need to leave his family and establish a new one.

Although he himself had no blood ties with Lucius, he had, after all, lived with them as family for nearly twenty years. Separating from them at this time was not much different from leaving his birth parents.

Either way was a difficult choice.

Ultimately, Orson raised his head, looked at Elsa, and spoke his thoughts.

“Your Highness Elsa, I agree. Tomorrow, I will contact my father and discuss this matter with him.”

“Alright,” Elsa knew that Orson would ultimately agree. Regarding this predictable matter, she nodded with satisfaction.

…

On the other side, Romulus City.

Since locking Donny in the basement, the matters of city defense and security had been entirely decided by Giovanni himself.

After the news of the suppression incident in the city spread, Giovanni continued to implement his high-pressure rule. Eventually, citizens began to flee the city. Many people took advantage of the night, quietly came to the city wall, or bribed acquaintances in the army to secretly open the gates. By the time Giovanni learned of this news, a total of over four thousand people had already escaped from the city.

These four thousand people, of course, spread the news of the suppressed protests in the city.

Scaloni heard that Giovanni was treating his own citizens so brutally and slammed the table in anger. Subsequently, he increased the intensity of daily attacks and aimed to rescue the citizens from their plight as soon as possible.

Time came to the eighth day after the first siege. The North wall of Romulus City was finally captured. Next, they would enter extremely bloody and brutal street fighting.

Romulus City, at the time of its initial design, had the function of a bridgehead for pacifying the separatist forces in the south at that time. Therefore, many areas within the city were also set up as defensive fortifications. During this period of being surrounded, Giovanni had mobilized all resources to strengthen Romulus City, determined to turn the city into a cold killing machine.

Giovanni’s plan was temporarily successful. At least for now, the losses inflicted on the enemy by the entire city had reached expectations.

To capture the North wall, the enemy had suffered twenty thousand casualties. And in the street fighting yesterday, the enemy had lost over four thousand people in a single day.

Although they had advanced a few streets, every step forward on average cost them over a dozen lives. This made the enemy’s advance extremely difficult.

If the fighting continued like this, the enemy’s losses would likely exceed fifty percent in the end.

Of course, things were not easy here in Napoli either.

This battle could almost be called the final battle of the south. Giovanni had gambled everything on this battle.

If he succeeded, he would continue to have a chance to linger on. If he lost this battle, he had left himself no retreat.

Currently, the number of defenders in Romulus City was less than thirty thousand, while the enemy they faced was at least eighty thousand.

It seemed that Giovanni’s defeat was only a matter of time.

But in reality, it was far from it.

In the allied army camp outside Romulus City.

Ten thousand soldiers from the Orleans Duchy had also arrived here three days ago. After two days of rest, they were thrown into the brutal siege battle yesterday, leaving behind nearly a thousand bodies.

“Everyone, although our losses are slightly greater than the enemy’s at the moment, according to intelligence, the enemy’s soldier count is less than thirty thousand. The area of Romulus City is very large. Tomorrow, we will cooperate with the soldiers on the East wall to control the eastern side. In this way, the number of soldiers we can commit to the battlefield can be doubled.”

At the battle meeting, Scaloni told the commanders of each legion his thoughts.

The reason why the attack on the North district yesterday only managed to capture a few streets was largely due to the limited battlefield. Even if more troops were committed, the actual number of soldiers engaging the enemy would not change.

After capturing the East wall, the engagement area would be further expanded. This would increase the defensive strength the enemy needed to commit, and the casualties inflicted on the enemy by their side would also increase.

The allied forces were not afraid of casualties now. The primary objective was to capture Romulus City as quickly as possible and send the criminal Giovanni to trial.

Just at this moment, a messenger ran in from outside the military tent, and then said:

“Bad news! Bad news! The enemy has deployed a very strange unit! Our position in the North district, which we just captured not long ago, has been taken back by the enemy!”

Upon hearing this news, Scaloni was stunned for a moment, then asked in disbelief, “How is that possible? We outnumber the enemy. We committed ten thousand men in the North district. With so many people, you’re telling me the position is lost?!”

“Yes, it’s true!” the messenger said anxiously.

“It is said that the people in that small unit are very strange. They are not afraid of death at all. Even when they are cut by swords, they don’t make a sound. They are exceptionally ferocious. Our brothers feel they are evil. Under their lead, our position was quickly taken back by the enemy!”