Little Tyrant Doesn't Want to Meet with a Bad End Chapter 188: As Long As It’s the Ascarts

Rosa’s military was an extremely unusual organization.

Typically speaking, a country’s military would adopt policies aligned with the country’s foreign policies. Take for example, if the Saint Mesit Theocracy was on bad terms with the Austine Empire, it could be expected that their military would be hostile to one another as well. But here in Rosa, the country’s military policy was oddly independent of the country’s foreign policies.

Rosa had been founded on commerce, and the Sorofya Merchant Association had expanded all over the Sia Continent. Merchants were all about peace and harmony. In fact, Bruce Sorofya’s marriage with Adelicia Milton was a diplomatic measure as well as a business strategy. They wanted to break into Austine’s enormous market without having to face the empire’s hostility.

Rosa’s military, on the other hand, couldn’t care a whit about compromise. Merchants had to lower their heads at times in order to maximize their profits, but military men were far more short-tempered. Many of their soldiers and generals remembered the suffering of their people under the tyranny of the Austine Empire and took it deeply to heart. If they had the means to pull it off, they would gladly destroy Austine then and there.

That created a rather interesting phenomenon.

On the diplomatic side, while Rosa wasn’t particularly close to Austine, they were still somewhat okay with one another. Tepid, one might call their relationship.

On the military side, however, they were often conducting simulation battles against the Austine Empire for training. From time to time, there would be all sorts of ‘commemoration days’ to remind the soldiers about the tragedies their ancestors had to go through. They even went to the extent of mass producing target dummies modeled after Austine generals for the soldiers to practice their swordsmanship on, all under the name of ‘motivating the soldiers’. 

When it came to Charlotte, Ugin, in his role as the Chief of Staff for the Rosaian Military, had spared no effort dragging her name through the mu

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