Ch.217Child Civil War (5)

# Chapter 217: Civil War Among Children (5)

During the marine infiltration of the space fortress…

“UGOOOHHHH!”

Contrary to expectations, some of the fortress’s anti-aircraft batteries successfully detected the Prosnack marines.

As a result of the crossfire from the deployed air defense network…

“Arggghhhh!”

“Those bastards… Giyeol!”

Some evolved into marine skewers or marine donuts with holes punched through them front and back.

“Get lost, you monster bastards!”

“Ababababat!”

Even after entering the space fortress, a few Giyeol marines failed to break through the defense line and became minced marine meat—minor setbacks, but…

For the Prosnack marines who were fighting spirit incarnate, such cute resistance from the arrogant Security Commander’s forces posed no real problem.

Before long, what had been the Security Commander’s Giyeol space fortress was newly occupied by the marines.

It began a new life as the New-Marine Fortress—how could this not be a good thing?

Heypapparippa, rairaichchachcha!

…Upon receiving such a report, the revolutionary leadership was reportedly bewildered for quite some time.

Nevertheless, thanks to the marines’ exploits, the space fortress was captured and forcibly renamed the New-Marine Fortress.

As a result, the fleet that had been dispatched in response to the space fortress’s distress call found itself trapped between the New-Marine Fortress and the revolutionary fleet.

“We will not tolerate the Security Commander who neglects the chaos in our homeland Prosnack.”

After confirming that Samiya’s revolutionary forces had effectively seized control of Prosnack’s capital region by capturing the space fortress and neutralizing the fleet…

Even the neutral factions that had been observing the situation quietly joined Samiya’s revolutionary forces.

“…I’ll give up all power, everything. I surrender!”

The eldest son faction, led by the Security Commander, finally surrendered after seeing the large ion cannon mounted on the space fortress pointing at the surface.

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After a grand victory ceremony, the first thing Samiya did upon reaching the Prosnack capital city like a triumphant general was…

Naturally, to throw Jangpos—no, the eldest son—and all members of his faction into prison after “appropriate examination.”

Of course, she also quickly proceeded with internal purges.

“Thank you all for your hard work, but you’re completely useless now, so why don’t you just retire to the countryside and live as ordinary citizens?”

“What? How dare you stab us in the back, you bitch!”

Even being discarded like hunting dogs after a hunt at least earns you some cursing.

These faction leaders, with excessive power hunger disproportionate to their abilities, had only caused trouble.

During the civil war, they had only been defeated by the Security Commander.

They had abandoned their comrades during the escape.

Afterward, they had been thoroughly manipulated by Samiya—no sympathy was given to them.

“I’ll give you power and capital, just spare my life!”

“I’m going to take those two things anyway.”

“Oh.”

Even the little power and military force they had were completely stripped away by Samiya.

Except for a small amount of money, they were expelled from all key positions in both the Prosnack government and military.

“You think we’ll just take this?”

“Damn bitch, you couldn’t have beaten your eldest brother without our help!”

Of course, there were resistance movements…

“Marine Commander?”

“Yes, Ambassador Samiya… no, Your Excellency.”

“Those who are resisting now—let the marines handle them as they see fit.”

“You mean…?”

“I have no intention of showing any mercy to those who dare to defy me in these turbulent times.”

“I see.”

Having barely suppressed the chaotic situation in the capital city, Samiya had no intention of leaving new threats unchecked.

“We will now commence ‘playing’ with the Giyeol resistance forces!”

“Kiyooooot!”

The resistance forces that didn’t choose to quietly step down soon regretted their decision.

“Bastard… voluntary enlistment!”

“Sob.”

They began a new life as human resources for the marines and, simultaneously, as emergency rations with the “delicious” attribute.

After successfully crushing or imprisoning all resistance forces…

The next thing Samiya did was to find someone who could prove her legitimacy.

That is, the “real” Fern’dus.

However, the intelligence agents from the former central government were completely unreliable for this task.

And as for using the marines…

“Bastard… voluntary enlistment!”

“No, please don’t, stop it!”

“…Hmm.”

…They were clearly not trustworthy for this kind of mission.

So Samiya was deeply contemplating how to solve this problem.

But her concerns were resolved from an unexpected direction.

“I heard you needed help.”

“Hmm?”

When the marines entered Samiya’s room…

No, when the purge unit members who had been disguised in suits that looked like giant marine bodies revealed themselves…

“Perfect timing. I’ve heard you’re the best in the universe when it comes to intelligence work.”

“That’s true, but…?”

Samiya immediately deployed the purge unit (marines) that Arto had handed over to the capital city.

She issued search orders to find the “real Fern’dus”—her father—who was believed to be somewhere on this planet.

Of course, while issuing the orders, Samiya didn’t think her father would be found so easily.

She began to quickly process all the work that had piled up due to the civil war, gradually regaining control over the capital city and the entire capital region.

Moreover, according to Arto and Samiya’s plan, when news spread that Samiya had successfully seized power in Prosnack…

“Now let’s head back!”

“…?”

The marines and purge units that had been causing constant “disruption” stopped operating the jamming devices and returned to their waiting mothership.

As a result, most Prosnack forces who had believed the mental control wave blackout was due to a space storm rather than an “unidentified assault ship”…

“Since Ambassador Samiya… no, Commander Samiya took command of the capital city, the space storm stopped?”

“Hey, isn’t this basically the universe telling us that Samiya is truly the legitimate successor of the great Supreme Commander Fern’dus?”

“Agreed.”

Thanks to the efforts of the instigators Samiya had deployed in advance, loyalty toward Samiya as an individual grew tremendously.

She was making thorough preparations to ascend as leader at any time, even without her father Fern’dus.

But while she was making these preparations and steadily consolidating her rule through large-scale purges…

“Ambassador Samiya, here is the item you wanted.”

“…?”

The purge unit members disguised as marines casually handed Samiya some kind of jar.

They appeared so ominously, and for some reason, dark red liquid was dripping down the surface of the jar.

‘Father… why have you come as just a head?’

Samiya, suppressing her bewilderment and anger, took the jar without minding the dark red liquid staining her hands.

She took a deep breath and opened the jar, but…

Inside the cleanly emptied jar was not Fern’dus’s head as Samiya had thought.

“…What’s this?”

There was only a small terminal device.

When Samiya took out the device and looked at them questioningly…

One of the purge unit members stepped forward to explain the situation.

“Actually, we originally planned to bring your father directly to you, Ambassador Samiya…”

“…?”

“But in the process, your father—the real Fern’dus—and our Director Arto colluded.”

“???”

Upon hearing about this unexpected collusion, Samiya’s face immediately contorted.

“As a result, they both judged that rather than us simply bringing your father to you, it would look better if you ‘personally’ found and rescued your father through that terminal device.”

“…Hmm.”

After the purge unit member’s explanation, Samiya took some time to contemplate.

After a moment…

“So this is Director Arto’s gift of sorts?”

“We would be grateful if you saw it that way.”

Samiya faced reality and nodded at their words, taking out the terminal device from the jar.

But once she took out the device, she wondered why they had brought the jar in the first place…

“Oh, that’s because your marines said that rather than just delivering something normally, it’s more appropriate to put it in a jar.”

“They said adding dark red liquid makes it look like the marines carried out a ‘purge’ on your orders.”

“…”

After receiving this report from the purge unit, Samiya had to contact the Marine Commander and lecture him for three hours, telling him never to do such things again.